[newbie] RE: /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts

2004-11-24 Thread darragh . power3
Hi everyone, Sorry about this - complete newb to linux. I changed network settings trying to install a wireless network card, and another lan connection using the gui interface in KDE, now I can't access the system at all. I think the problem is that the files /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts

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

2004-11-24 Thread Gilligan
Motherboard ^^^^ MoBo Me -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Mudry Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru At 06:40 PM 11/23/04 +, you wrote: FWIW I have

[newbie] Postfix do not delivers mails

2004-11-24 Thread Bela Markus
I have a new POSTFIX installation on a LAN. All mails sent with SMTP locally are temporary deferred, they are waiting a long time in the queue before they are delivered. If I flush them, they get delivered. Where can I configure POSTFIX (2.1.2) to deliver mails immediately? Regards... Bla

[newbie] Testing Mail setup

2004-11-24 Thread JoeHill
Just makin' sure I'm still able to post with my new setup, pls ignore... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:45:09 up 3 days, 54 min, 9 users, load average: 0.36, 0.14, 0.10 +++ Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do

RE: [newbie] Help

2004-11-24 Thread Gilligan
The only card I have is an ATI 7500 AIW. Hopefully I will be able to find a fix so I can use the 9800. I got it so I can play UT2004. Or is using the 9800 a lost cause? Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of care free Sent: Tuesday,

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

2004-11-24 Thread Eric Scott
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 6:39 pm, Bill Mudry wrote: I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo?? Lol, motherboard. It can get even more confusing if you switch to a Mac list... then MB, Motherboard, Mobo, AND LB, LoBo, Logic Board are all used interchangeably ;-).

Re: [newbie] RE: /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts

2004-11-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Sorry about this - complete newb to linux. I changed network settings trying to install a wireless network card, and another lan connection using the gui interface in KDE, now I can't access the system at all. I think the problem is that the files

Re: [newbie] Testing Mail setup

2004-11-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 06:46 am, JoeHill wrote: Just makin' sure I'm still able to post with my new setup, pls ignore... We're trying to ignore you but :-D -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Help

2004-11-24 Thread care free
Have you tried the old card yet? I really wonder if ATI has released drivers for 9800 pro AIW under linux yet. IMHO, I think you are better off with an NVdia card if you want to play UT2004. J.T. From: Gilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: [newbie] RE: /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts

2004-11-24 Thread care free
in /etc/hosts you can put the following entry at the very first line 127.0.0.1locahost.localdomain localhost J.T. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RE: /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:38:28 + Hi

[newbie] Forcing application to use SSH tunnel

2004-11-24 Thread Ryan Steffes
As the subject reads, is there anyway to force an application to use an SSH tunnel if the application doesn't know how to use proxies? I'd like to be able to use some chat software from behind a firewall at work. The software doesn't allow for a proxy, and the address it needs to connect to is

Re: [newbie] Testing Mail setup

2004-11-24 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:57:36 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Just makin' sure I'm still able to post with my new setup, pls ignore... We're trying to ignore you but :-D I'm on my way to setting up a dedicated mail and web server! Soon I will be all powerful and impossible to

Re: [newbie] Testing Mail setup

2004-11-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 01:46, JoeHill wrote: Just makin' sure I'm still able to post with my new setup, pls ignore... Always more than happy to ignore you JoeHill...(g) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales ---

Re: [newbie] Testing Mail setup

2004-11-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 06:09, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:57:36 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Just makin' sure I'm still able to post with my new setup, pls ignore... We're trying to ignore you but :-D I'm on my way to setting up a dedicated mail and web

Re: [newbie] Testing Mail setup

2004-11-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 11:09 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:57:36 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Just makin' sure I'm still able to post with my new setup, pls ignore... We're trying to ignore you but :-D I'm on my way to setting up a

[newbie] java vulnerability

2004-11-24 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi everyone, I'm sure many have already reacted to this news but for those that haven't heard; there is a cross platform (linux included) java vulnerability that could compromise your machine to the user level. It has been address in the latest java jre. Info is here

[newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread Dan Gordon
Greetings, I just updated Xorg and I would like to know the command to tell which version is running on my system. TIA Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Nov 24 15:27:08 EST 2004 15:27:08 up 13 min, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.25, 0.19 Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow?

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Anders Lind
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:31:20 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders, I think you're going to hit the wall with the GTK-2 libraries mate. Might as well finish your download of 10 and THEN get the installer (for GTK-2, XFce and the XFce toys). I am hitting the wall with 10.0 as

Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 12:36 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Greetings, I just updated Xorg and I would like to know the command to tell which version is running on my system. TIA Regards, Dan Gordon $ X -version -- Alan Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 07:36, Dan Gordon wrote: Greetings, I just updated Xorg and I would like to know the command to tell which version is running on my system. TIA Regards, Dan Gordon If you run kcontrol, it should tell you what's the version, eh? kcontrol = Information = X-Server --

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 07:53, Anders Lind wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:31:20 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders, I think you're going to hit the wall with the GTK-2 libraries mate. Might as well finish your download of 10 and THEN get the installer (for GTK-2, XFce and

Re: [newbie] Need help passing params while starting my pc

2004-11-24 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
Are changes made by this method permenent after writing the command in the prompt as you said, or do they anly aply for this boot? Regards Vegard On Tuesday 23 November 2004 07:03 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: In www.mandrakeexpert.com I got this hint to fix a problem I am experiencing.

Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 03:47 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: If you run kcontrol, it should tell you what's the version, eh? kcontrol = Information = X-Server Thanks Alan and Stephen, humph never would have guessed to look there as I don't use kde very much exept when I want to show off

[newbie] Re: Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-24 Thread Björn Lundin
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:33:00 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: mp32wav i think ...are you thinking of mp32ogg? Unless I'm missing something way back here on 9.2 ;-) No I think he's thinking of a script, I think found somewhere in Debian -land.

Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 04:04 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Thanks Alan and Stephen, humph never would have guessed to look there as I don't use kde very much exept when I want to show off linux to someone. Any way I could have swore the update said Xorg 6.8.x but im not seeing that at all ?

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:51:12 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange that. I'm running 4.2 on 10.0 Or are those called 4.1.99? I tried to download the tar-balls but it complains that it can't find the GTK+-libraries /Anders

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:53:55 +0100 Anders Lind wrote: I am hitting the wall with 10.0 as well...hmm...are there any rpm's of 4.2 out there...I couldn't find any on Charles Edwards site.but I might be blind LOL They are there. xfce-4.1.99.1 (Xfce-4.2 RC 1) I did only the base pkgs for

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:38, Anders Lind wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:51:12 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange that. I'm running 4.2 on 10.0 Or are those called 4.1.99? I tried to download the tar-balls but it complains that it can't find the GTK+-libraries

Re: [newbie] Need help passing params while starting my pc

2004-11-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 Nov 2004 20:54, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Are changes made by this method permenent after writing the command in the prompt as you said, or do they anly aply for this boot? If you pass them at bootup like that they only apply to

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:47:40 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders - on the download page for XFce4.2rc1, you will see a link for the Graphical Installers - you need to get those. Install the GTK one first, then when that is completed, install the XFce installer, then the

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 09:14, Anders Lind wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:47:40 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders - on the download page for XFce4.2rc1, you will see a link for the Graphical Installers - you need to get those. Install the GTK one first, then when that is

[newbie] no eth0 when I do ifconfig

2004-11-24 Thread lefreak
Hi I recently installed Mandrakelinux on a PPC Beige G3 (Mac). When I installed it the installer detected the ethernet card and allowed me to configure it. The computer is inside a small network behind a router with a DSL connection. I gave it a static IP, entered subnet, gateway, and DNS

Re: [newbie] Testing Mail setup

2004-11-24 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:55:29 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Just makin' sure I'm still able to post with my new setup, pls ignore... We're trying to ignore you but :-D I'm on my way to setting up a dedicated mail and web server! Soon I will be all powerful

Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:12:41 -0500 Dan Gordon disseminated the following: so I will put my gasses back on now. ...that may cause more problems than it solves ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:05:18 up 3 days, 10:14, 8 users, load average: 0.14, 0.07, 0.02

Re: [newbie] Testing Mail setup

2004-11-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 11:04, JoeHill wrote: Dang. Give a Canuck a millimetre and they take a kilometre. Oh, you bet. Someday, every server on the Web will be under my control, and they will all start like this: ?php if (eregi(MSIE,getenv(HTTP_USER_AGENT)) || eregi(Internet

Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 07:05 pm, JoeHill wrote: ...that may cause more problems than it solves ;-) Ryely i cna se nwo thsi si colo Regdars Gan Dordon -- Wed Nov 24 21:11:37 EST 2004 21:11:37 up 5:58, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 War spares not the brave, but the

Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 08:14 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 07:05 pm, JoeHill wrote: ...that may cause more problems than it solves ;-) Ryely i cna se nwo thsi si colo Regdars Gan Dordon Whooo! it is not the gasses it is the drink you be drinken -- Dennis M.

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:10:18 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mate - seriously - get the graphical installers - they're heaps easier to deal with...and you might want to double check what GTK-2 libs and whatnot ARE or ARE NOT installed on yer box... Seriously, I have downloaded the

[newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio

2004-11-24 Thread Amy
FYI, I'M USING GMAIL, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK THAT REPLIES ARE GOING TO THE LIST, AND NOT DIRECTLY TO ME. THANKS! Okay guys, here's what I'm trying to do. I have Sirius Satellite radio, and they're airing an interview on Friday night I want to catch. The trouble is, I'll be at work for at least

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:07:23 +0100 Anders Lind wrote: Seriously, I have downloaded the installers from this page Seriously, if you are running either Mdk 10.0 or 10.1 dl the rpms from my site and you need not worry about the fucking installer. Stephen, I have to pay for both my site and its

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:34:51 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, if you are running either Mdk 10.0 or 10.1 dl the rpms from my site and you need not worry about the fucking installer. Stephen, I have to pay for both my site and its bandwidth usage. Unless I stay at

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:00:50 +0100 Anders Lind wrote: you are correct there I suppose...the buildorder for the rpm's are the same as the buildorder for 4.0.6? If you are installing via rpm the build order has nothing to do with it. If you are speaking of the Order in which I build the rpms, I

Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio

2004-11-24 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 05:25 pm, Amy wrote: FYI, I'M USING GMAIL, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK THAT REPLIES ARE GOING TO THE LIST, AND NOT DIRECTLY TO ME. THANKS! Okay guys, here's what I'm trying to do. I have Sirius Satellite radio, and they're airing an interview on Friday night I want to

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-24 Thread Anders Lind
If you are installing via rpm the build order has nothing to do with it. If you are speaking of the Order in which I build the rpms, I have done it so many times I could do it in my sleep. If you are running 4.0.6, whether you are using rpms from my site or those from a Mdk mirror you are still