Re: [newbie] K3b not burning CDs (Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack)

2004-12-17 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Friday 17 December 2004 00:59, Tony Finnis wrote: . Hi Just thought I would add my experience re problems with K3B in MD10.1 K3B worked OK for me with MD10.0 After changing to MD10.1, I had similar problems that have been mentioned previously including my burner only being recognised as a

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread jdow
Glad I proved helpful once I had time to write an extended reply. {^_-} - Original Message - From: Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi OK I've read with interest some of your replies. It would seem that what I have actually been doing is rejecting any emails sent to me whereby

Re: [newbie] Problems with ./configure [success]

2004-12-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo wrote: I'm trying to install abiword. When it's the moment to do ./configure, I get the following output: checking for glib12-config... no checking for glib-config... no configure: error: * * * unable to find glib12-config or glib-config in path! * * * , however I installed all the

Re: [newbie] Problems with ./configure

2004-12-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm trying to install abiword. Greg Meyer wrote: Why compile from source? Chalres Edwards has updated abiword packages on eslrahc.com. http://www.eslrahc.com Thanks indeed. I downloaded abiword 2.2.1 from the site you suggested. But I had already installed from

[newbie] About the 'urpmf' command

2004-12-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
In two recent messages on this mailing list it came out the importance of the linux command 'urpmf' to find out what package a certain missing file belongs to: when, during an installation, I get a message that complains about the absence of a certain file, let's call it my_file, all I have to do

Re: [newbie] Problems with ./configure

2004-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 17 December 2004 11:00, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm trying to install abiword. Greg Meyer wrote: Why compile from source? Chalres Edwards has updated abiword packages on eslrahc.com. http://www.eslrahc.com Thanks indeed. I downloaded abiword 2.2.1 from

Re: [newbie] About the 'urpmf' command

2004-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 17 December 2004 11:01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In two recent messages on this mailing list it came out the importance of the linux command 'urpmf' to find out what package a certain missing file belongs to: when, during an installation, I get a message that complains about the

Re: [newbie] Problems with ./configure

2004-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 17 December 2004 11:07, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 17 December 2004 11:00, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm trying to install abiword. Greg Meyer wrote: Why compile from source? Chalres Edwards has updated abiword packages on eslrahc.com.

Re: [newbie] About the 'urpmf' command

2004-12-17 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 Dec 2004 11:01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In two recent messages on this mailing list it came out the importance of the linux command 'urpmf' to find out what package a certain missing file belongs to: Rodolfo, if you haven't already done

Re: [newbie] Problem in Mdk 10.1 Boot-Up (cd call)

2004-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 17 December 2004 04:48, Edward Wijaya wrote: Hi, I have a problem while booting on Mdk 10.1 (GRUB). It keeps giving this message whenever I boot: Installing Packages... Please insert CD1.. When I inserted my CD it can't recognize anyway. I need to get rid of this message, so I

[newbie] Two Shorewall questions

2004-12-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
When checking my ports at Shields Up (www.grc.com), my port 113 shows blocked. I would prefer stealthed. Now, I know that somewhere in /etc/shorewall/foo it should be possible to change REJECT to DROP, but I can't locate the entry (policy ?) and - what's worse - can't figure out the syntax.

Re: [newbie] Two Shorewall questions

2004-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 17 December 2004 12:09, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When checking my ports at Shields Up (www.grc.com), my port 113 shows blocked. I would prefer stealthed. Now, I know that somewhere in /etc/shorewall/foo it should be possible to change REJECT to DROP, but I can't locate the entry

Re: [newbie] Problem in Mdk 10.1 Boot-Up (cd call)

2004-12-17 Thread Edward Wijaya
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:56:09 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beforehand. Hope to hear from you again. In MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices untick the box to stop the harddrake service starting at boot. That should stop it asking to install a package at boot time and will

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 16 December 2004 23:27, jdow wrote: Humble (moi! humble?) request, please be careful with terminology, even if AOL and Microsoft are sloppy as hell. Bounce sends a message back to the purported sender, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rejects simply reject it from the server forwarding the email

Re: [newbie] Two Shorewall questions

2004-12-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 17 December 2004 13:18, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 17 December 2004 12:09, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When checking my ports at Shields Up (www.grc.com), my port 113 shows blocked. I would prefer stealthed. Now, I know that somewhere in /etc/shorewall/foo it should be possible

Re: [newbie] K3b not burning CDs (Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack)

2004-12-17 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Thursday 16 December 2004 18:25, Tom Brinkman wrote: You wouldn't believe how many CD's I burn. I've got more than a half dozen to do today. Long ago I gave up on GUI's an learned to burn iso's, data, audio CD's on the CL. It's actually easier than with a GUI, but it's not always

Re: [newbie] MPAA goes after BitTorrent

2004-12-17 Thread Russ Kepler
On Thursday 16 December 2004 11:47 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 12:13 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: | Sorry, but I have to call you on this one. Coffee makers make coffee by | boiling water and putting the boiling water through the coffee grounds. | The boiling point of water

Re: [newbie] About the 'urpmf' command

2004-12-17 Thread mikkel
In two recent messages on this mailing list it came out the importance of the linux command 'urpmf' to find out what package a certain missing file belongs to: when, during an installation, I get a message that complains about the absence of a certain file, let's call it my_file, all I have

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread J
JoeHill wrote: Actually, I've found several times that AVG catches malware that Norton doesn't, and it's free, and got a *way* smaller footprint than Norton's bloatware. I use Avast! antivirus for Windoze. seems to be quicker than AVG, and it's free! They also offer a version for Linux

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread J
JoeHill wrote Takes more time, but in the long run, if everyone did this, well, it would totally destroy the cost/benefit ratio for spammers. I do this religiously, using SpamCop... Trouble is, virtually all the pharmacy/porn sites are either on Brazilian or Chinese servers. they have abuse

[newbie] New Computer

2004-12-17 Thread Kenneth
I am thinking about buying a new computer and I want to make sure I get one that is highly Linux compatible. The only dedicated Linux computers I see for sale are usually failry low end or comparatively expensive workstations. This model HP from Best Buy costs about about $650 with 512MB PC2700

RE: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

2004-12-17 Thread care free
From: Ayn Newin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Driver Error Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:22:31 -0500 I've just install Mandrake 10.1 and i've been receiving an error message saying there is a problem with my sound card/driver. I've seen

RE: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

2004-12-17 Thread care free
Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292 for nForce 2 driver J.T. From: Ayn Newin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Driver Error Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:22:31 -0500 I've just install Mandrake 10.1 and i've been

Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

2004-12-17 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 Dec 2004 19:32, care free wrote: Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292 for nForce 2 driver Could you please add that tidbit to the TWiki? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd Anne - -- Registered

Re: [newbie] New Computer

2004-12-17 Thread paul
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 20:50, Kenneth wrote: I am thinking about buying a new computer and I want to make sure I get one that is highly Linux compatible. The only dedicated Linux computers I see for sale are usually failry low end or comparatively expensive workstations. This model HP from

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread jdow
From: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] JoeHill wrote I have resorted to doing a WHOIS on the domain name, and if any info is found to be false, taking it up with the registrar... at least the site gets pulled, if only to pop up elsewhere a day or so later. Hey, Dude, where's your sense of fun? Every once

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread J
Hey, Dude, where's your sense of fun? Every once and awhile I'll send an email to the Chinese ISPs that forward spam to me thanking them for the order for 10,000 Bibles telling them they'll be forwarded as soon as we can get them onto the shipping container. Heh Every time I try to mail a

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 11:35 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:32:54PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for

[newbie] How to compare two files?

2004-12-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. Suppose that a large text file has been slightly modified by another person, and I want to find out 'a posteriori' what changes were done. Is there a linux command (or set of commands) that can compare the two files and tell what lines are different from one another? Thanks, Rodolfo

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-17 Thread jallan6977
I spent two hours looking thru umpteen pages to find a torent site to dld the live cd for knoppix so I might see a demo or something to try learning about linux. I live in NY state so a site nearby would be nice if anyone knows of one. On 16 Dec 2004 at 18:43, Anders Lind wrote: On Thu,

Re: [newbie] How to compare two files?

2004-12-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:33:18PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Suppose that a large text file has been slightly modified by another person, and I want to find out 'a posteriori' what changes were done. Is there a linux command (or set of commands) that can compare the two files and

Re: [newbie] How to compare two files?

2004-12-17 Thread Simon Roberts
diff compares text files, cmp compares binaries. Cheers, Simon -Original Message- From: Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 17, 2004 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to compare two files? Hi. Suppose that a large text file has been slightly modified by

Re: [newbie] How to compare two files?

2004-12-17 Thread yankl
On Friday 17 December 2004 17:33, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Suppose that a large text file has been slightly modified by another person, and I want to find out 'a posteriori' what changes were done. Is there a linux command (or set of commands) that can compare the two files and tell what

Re: [newbie] Installed perl modules list

2004-12-17 Thread yankl
On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:24, Chris wrote: I've installed all my perl modules via webmin. I'm going to be upgrading to 10.1 during the holidays and want to have a list available of what I've installed already. Is there a file that has these listed? I'd rather print out a file than do

[newbie] nearly newbie - problem installing 10.1

2004-12-17 Thread Rick Beton
Hi all, I've used Mandrake on and off for a while, and I decided to use it more. So I joined the Mandrake Club and downloaded 10.1 ISOs. I also upgraded my PC hardware - new hard disk, new mobo/processor (Asus A7N8X Athlon processor). It runs Windows XP very well. When I came to re-install

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 17 December 2004 23:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent two hours looking thru umpteen pages to find a torent site to dld the live cd for knoppix so I might see a demo or something to try learning about linux. I live in NY state so a site nearby would be nice if anyone knows of

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-17 Thread paul
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 00:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent two hours looking thru umpteen pages to find a torent site to dld the live cd for knoppix so I might see a demo or something to try learning about linux. I live in NY state so a site nearby would be nice if anyone knows of

Re: [newbie] nearly newbie - problem installing 10.1

2004-12-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Friday 17 December 2004 03:15 pm, Rick Beton wrote: Hi all, I've used Mandrake on and off for a while, and I decided to use it more. So I joined the Mandrake Club and downloaded 10.1 ISOs. I also upgraded my PC hardware - new hard disk, new mobo/processor (Asus A7N8X Athlon processor).

Re: [newbie] Installed perl modules list

2004-12-17 Thread RickSisler
yankl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:24, Chris wrote: I've installed all my perl modules via webmin. I'm going to be upgrading to 10.1 during the holidays and want to have a list available of what I've installed already. Is there a file that has these listed?

Re: [newbie] Installed perl modules list

2004-12-17 Thread yankl
On Friday 17 December 2004 18:36, RickSisler wrote: yankl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:24, Chris wrote: I've installed all my perl modules via webmin. I'm going to be upgrading to 10.1 during the holidays and want to have a list available of what I've

[newbie] Re: How to configure plugins in Firefox?

2004-12-17 Thread Jonesy
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:53:33 -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote: Q.H. Wang wrote: I guess it might be Edit-Preferences-Helper Applications. You could modify something there. HTH. Ooops, it's Edit-Preferences-NavigatorHelper Applications Actually it is not, you are confusing firefox with mozilla.

Re: [newbie] Installed perl modules list

2004-12-17 Thread Chris
On Friday 17 December 2004 05:39 pm, yankl wrote: On Friday 17 December 2004 18:36, RickSisler wrote: yankl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:24, Chris wrote: I've installed all my perl modules via webmin. I'm going to be upgrading to 10.1 during the

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-17 Thread Kenneth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent two hours looking thru umpteen pages to find a torent site to dld the live cd for knoppix so I might see a demo or something to try learning about linux. I live in NY state so a site nearby would be nice if anyone knows of one. I live in S.E.GA USA and

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread jdow
I figure the damage is already done by the time it gets to that mailbox over quota message. The Chinese government probably raises heck with the ISP Word is that they snoop EVERYTHING. {^_-} - Original Message - From: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, Dude, where's your sense of fun? Every

[newbie] How to call Firefox from command-line (after installing)

2004-12-17 Thread Edward Wijaya
Hi, I have just installed Firefox into my Mdk 10.1 and the it is stored under /usr/share/firefox. However I can't access Firefox from command line (also no shown) in menu. I've tried this command: export PATH:$PATH:/usr/share/firefox but won't work (gives not valid identifier error). How can I

Re: [newbie] New Computer

2004-12-17 Thread Kenneth
paul wrote: Does anyone have any experience with the specic HP model mentioned above, or have any comments about the Linux compatibilty of the HP mass market computers? I'd imagine that they're fairly low-end because the XP user need higher spec - saw an email yesterday from a guy who's running

Re: [newbie] Installed perl modules list

2004-12-17 Thread RickSisler
Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday 17 December 2004 05:39 pm, yankl wrote: On Friday 17 December 2004 18:36, RickSisler wrote: yankl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:24, Chris wrote: I've installed all my perl modules via webmin. I'm going to be

Re: [newbie] Installed perl modules list

2004-12-17 Thread Chris
On Friday 17 December 2004 09:09 pm, RickSisler wrote: Thanks both of you, however thats not the output I'm really looking for. It shows perl modules installed, yes, but, not the ones I've installed via cpan using webmin. For instance, I'm running SpamAssassin 3.0.1, all that is shown

Re: [newbie] How to call Firefox from command-line (after installing)

2004-12-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 17 December 2004 04:45 am, Edward Wijaya wrote: Hi, I have just installed Firefox into my Mdk 10.1 and the it is stored under /usr/share/firefox. However I can't access Firefox from command line (also no shown) in menu. I've tried this command: export

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail (mailfilter)

2004-12-17 Thread Marek Pawinski
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:32:49 + Inhabitant of Zion disseminated the following: I have set up so they all go straight to the trash but it sure is a pain in the neck as I am having to remove from the trash about 1800 every hour. So zap them before they even hit your machine:

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-17 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free program available to sample linux on a winxp system. I thought winaxe might but it is for networked systems. This being a Mandrake list I can't believe that no one suggested Mandrake Move: our very own Live CD.

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-17 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 16:09, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free program available to sample linux on a winxp system. I thought winaxe might but it is for networked systems. This being a Mandrake list I can't believe that no one suggested Mandrake

[newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL

2004-12-17 Thread Eric Scott
Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change a user's password in PostGreSQL manually on my Mandrake 9.2 Server? Thanx,

Re: [newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL

2004-12-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Saturday 18 December 2004 01:12 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change a user's password in

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread Eric Huff
According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at:   [220.244.219.186]   linux-mandrake.com (220-244-219-186-qld.tpgi.com.au [220.244.219.186]) I have gotten 3-4 from the same IP range, all tpgi.com.au. I usually warn users but no one ever pay attention so I figured I