[Solved!! Nevermind!] Re: Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM

2004-11-19 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
Sorry to bother you twice. I got java VM running. Thanks for the help!! Best regards vegard > I know this is asking alot, but could you write down in more details how > you did the prosedure you described below. I'm not so good at this. > Anyway, thanks for the tips. > > Regards Vegard > >>

Re: Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM

2004-11-19 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
I know this is asking alot, but could you write down in more details how you did the prosedure you described below. I'm not so good at this. Anyway, thanks for the tips. Regards Vegard > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 07:29, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: >> I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with

Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-19 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 19 November 2004 10:16 pm, John Layt wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties > > to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons > > roving around in THEIR own closet... >

Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-19 Thread John Layt
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen Kühn wrote: > But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties > to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons > roving around in THEIR own closet... Heard their latest patent claim? They reckon they invented the

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru'

2004-11-19 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 22:17 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> Lanman wrote: > >> > > > > Mikkel; Fdisk showed that the first partition (/dev/hda1) was the boot > > partition and everything looked fine. This is very strange since the > > system was fine before I had

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru'

2004-11-19 Thread mikkel
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Lanman wrote: >> > > Mikkel; Fdisk showed that the first partition (/dev/hda1) was the boot > partition and everything looked fine. This is very strange since the > system was fine before I had to change the drive. Even after updating > the BIOS a few times the prob

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 19 November 2004 06:08 pm, Lanman wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > > On Friday 19 November 2004 05:38 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > >>On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote: > That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot > partition "ACTIVE' using Par

[newbie] Updates for Mdk 10.1

2004-11-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
New updated rpm for Mdk 10.1 All are now available using urpmi/rpmdrake. It will be sometime tomorrow before I update the webpage itself. blender-2.35-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm endeavour-2.4.6-1.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm gaim-1.0.3-0.1010.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-devel-1.0.3-0.1010.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encr

[newbie] how to config the plugins in TOTEM

2004-11-19 Thread rabellan
hi guys, problem playing movie in totem. scenario: insert CD (probably a video CD), mount the CDrom then locate the movie file (i.e. movie.dat) then open it with TOTEM then an error msg display that "cannot open this file no plugins to handle it" what should i do to this? more info: mdk10 OS gnom

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Robert A Larson
Bootdisk.com, download a win98 boot disk. Get your self a blank floppy, execute the image which will write to the floppy, it should have fdisk on it, from the command line type fdisk /mbr   That will wipe the mbrStephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:31, Lanman wrote:

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:31, Lanman wrote: > Thanks Stephen but I've never used Partition Magic, so I don't have it > lying around to try your suggestion. It would be nice if there was a > utility I could use to completely reformat or erase the MBR, especially > if it actually worked! None of t

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Lanman
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 05:38 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote: That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot partition "ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all downhill (er, uphill) -- stephen ku

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:38 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote: > > > That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot > > > partition "ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all > > > downhill (er, uphill) > > > > > >

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote: > > That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot > > partition "ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all > > downhill (er, uphill) > > > > -- > > stephen kuhn > > Thanks Stephen but I've never used Partition M

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Lanman
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:52, Lanman wrote: Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's. One of my systems ha

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Lanman
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Lanman wrote: Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's. One of my systems has an Asus P4S800 moth

Re: [newbie] What's on port 32768?

2004-11-19 Thread Adil Hindistan
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 23:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; Me and my MDK 9.2 server are back... but it's not a tuffy on this string. This evening I noticed a connection from the internet to port 32768 on my server. What's this port used for? Can this be a security threat?

RE: [newbie] What's on port 32768?

2004-11-19 Thread Manaxus
xinetd is listening on my port 32768 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What's on port 32768? On Thursday 18 November 2004 23:47, Eric Scott w

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:52, Lanman wrote: > Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the > list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written > a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's. > > One of my systems has an Asus

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once more thank you for your answers (for all who contributed). I do appreciate them, but I have not been able solve this. Let me try to be more clearer what the problem seems to be: I have the verbose mode on (or I think so) by default. I see lots of stuff rolling through

Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-19 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 19 November 2004 04:07 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 09:27, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Friday 19 November 2004 01:49 pm, Miark wrote: > > > http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html > > > > Oh thats good:-D > > No matter how many times I read it or hear it,

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Lanman wrote: Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's. One of my systems has an Asus P4S800 motherboard running an Intel P4

[newbie] Flightgear - How to use how Aircraft?

2004-11-19 Thread Sevatio
How do get Flightgear to use another aircraft? Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __

[newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Lanman
Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's. One of my systems has an Asus P4S800 motherboard running an Intel P4-2.8Ghz HT CPU

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread mikkel
> On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 07:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ok, been reading this thread way too long and am getting more confused. > Why not start at the bottom and work your way up? > > 1.) Turn off all unnecessary services (especially Shorewall) > > 2.) Change the default runlevel in the /etc

Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 09:27, Aron Smith wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 01:49 pm, Miark wrote: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html > Oh thats good:-D No matter how many times I read it or hear it, I laugh. Imagine how many other files - graphics files, audio files, ev

Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM

2004-11-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 07:29, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get > the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I > browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several > times and googled for

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 07:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once more thank you for your answers (for all who contributed). I do > appreciate > them, but I have not been able solve this. Let me try to be more clearer what > the problem seems to be: > > I have the verbose mode on (or I think so) by d

Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-19 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:49:47 -0500 Miark disseminated the following: > This is good for a chuckle: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html Well, every piece of software they've ever come out with has been 'pirated' to some extent, so why should this come as a surprise? I w

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 19 November 2004 13:00, Eric Scott wrote: > > In an earlier > > post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server > > Wizard, > > I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to > search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I

Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-19 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 19 November 2004 01:49 pm, Miark wrote: > http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html Oh thats good:-D -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http:/

[newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-19 Thread Miark
This is good for a chuckle: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __

[newbie] Ping Mark Watts

2004-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
There is a broken link in your section of http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MaiL Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM

2004-11-19 Thread Lanman
Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several times and googled for the answer. is there anybody out the

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Nov 2004 15:17, Eric Scott wrote: > Am I supposed to define a "mail.mydomain.org" or something? I tried what I > could find in the TWiki, the only thing that looked like it might be very > useful to me was a dead link (Or Konqueror was just being pesky again). > BTW, what's the Mandr

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Scott
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:00, Eric Scott wrote: > > In an earlier > > post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server > > Wizard, > > I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to > search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I

Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 19, 2004 13:29, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get > the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I > browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several > times and googled for

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread s . aura
[SNIP] > > > On Friday 19 Nov 2004 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >[SNIP] > > > 1. The blue screen with mandrake logo and an hourglass comes up > > Do you have the graphical interface set to automatically start? If so, > turn it off and see what happens. It has given me fits before. >

[newbie] Installing Java VM

2004-11-19 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several times and googled for the answer. is there anybody out there who made java vm work?

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread Travis Crook
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Friday 19 Nov 2004 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >[SNIP] > 1. The blue screen with mandrake logo and an hourglass comes up Do you have the graphical interface set to automatically start? If so, turn it off and see what happens.

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread s . aura
> On Friday 19 Nov 2004 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Thanks: Tried that. Actually, hitting Escape after login does not do > > anything (strange, I also thought it should do something). Tried disabling > > services, disabling harddrake does not help. I tried disabling sshd too, > > becaus

[newbie] TWiki recovery update

2004-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
Over the past few days some of us have worked very hard to get the TWiki back. There's still some to do, but most pages will be there. Files that I have not been able to source are WatchDog GeneralAdministration FormattingFloppyDisks DrakTermServ - under MandrakeSpecific ApachelogManagement -

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Nov 2004 13:00, Eric Scott wrote: > > In an earlier > > post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server > > Wizard, > > I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to > search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I have

[newbie] Missing Evolution plugin in multisync???

2004-11-19 Thread Marcio Cordero
Hi everyone I installed multisync from MDK 10.1 and there doesn't seem to be any evolution plugin there. Neither are they in /usr/lib/multisync/ nor anywhere else. I have contrib, plf and the Official DVD as sources but still get no evolution-multisync stuff. Anyone has a clue? Any advice greatly

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Scott
> In an earlier > post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server > Wizard, I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I have Postfix, ProcMail, and Courrier-IMAP/POP3 installed... b

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Nov 2004 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks: Tried that. Actually, hitting Escape after login does not do > anything (strange, I also thought it should do something). Tried disabling > services, disabling harddrake does not help. I tried disabling sshd too, > because every time

[newbie] Problem with kino and /dev/raw1394

2004-11-19 Thread Peter Watson
I'm trying to set up kino using 10.1 OE and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk but it won't go into capture mode and shows error message "WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394!" Under /dev there is no device /d

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Friday 19 November 2004 08:25 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > This is also exactly where I would look first. Make sure the first line of > you /etc/hosts file looks like this > > 127.0.0.1 hostname.domain.com localhost Yes, try that. I had the same problem. And it's gone after I apply that. My /et

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread s . aura
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 02:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > This is my first post: I am turning to you for help for a minor > > inconvenience. I have two linux boxes, a home dual-boot machine (it also > > has XP for my kid's games) and a uniquely Linux box at work. Both

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-19 Thread s . aura
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There are variations to this theme: I can open a TTY-window (alt-ctl-f1 > > > etc). > > > The first login will hang there too, but opening a second tty-window will > > > let > > > you login immeadiately. So if I want to login q

Re: [newbie] anyone have a dwl122 working with 10.1 ppc?

2004-11-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 19 November 2004 15:10, lincr wrote: > So now I am running a network install as before but using the mirrors > already listed in the installer, rather than my local source.  None of > the mirrors have my 2.6 kernel modules!  The module tarballs on the > mirrors are all for the 2.4 kernels

Re: [newbie] anyone have a dwl122 working with 10.1 ppc?

2004-11-19 Thread lincr
Hi Folks, Okay, I decided to reinstall 10.1 PPC via ftp, as the 1st iso image does not have everything on it that I want available at first boot. I installed the first time by changing the yaboot.conf file to load the kernel and ramdisk from an hfs partition on hda2, and then I installed the syste

Re: [newbie] Lost Mandrake Omline Service Update Icon

2004-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Nov 2004 02:57, Phil Savoie wrote: > Hi All, > > How do I restore this icon in the system tray? I used to be able to > determine when updates were available by the icon changing colors. Now I > don't have an icon. Not sure what I did to lose it but it is not there > anymore and I wo

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 November 2004 23:48, Eric Scott wrote: SNIP > I take it that, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a message with his SMTP > server to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Postfix or something recieves it, and plops > it into my "myaddy's" "~/Maildir" directory?  Forgive me for my ignorance, > but I h

Re: [newbie] What's on port 32768?

2004-11-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 November 2004 23:47, Eric Scott wrote: > Yo; > Me and my MDK 9.2 server are back... but it's not a tuffy on this string. > This evening I noticed a connection from the internet to port 32768 on my > server. What's this port used for? Can this be a security threat? I > tried google

Re: [newbie] bandwidth management tool.

2004-11-19 Thread SnapafunFrank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, Can you help me to get simple network management tool i have tried MRTG but is complicated to set it up. Regards Don't suppose webmin is what you're looking for? [ A newbie response on a newbie forum - but it might help ] -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a ch

[newbie] Silent games

2004-11-19 Thread SnapafunFrank
Playing any game from the /usr/games/ directory I get the following: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Anyone out there care to assist me with this? Running MDK10 and sound seems to be working fine o