Re: [newbie] New Computer

2004-12-18 Thread paul
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 05:04, Kenneth wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] New Computer

2004-12-18 Thread Paul
I can use. The HP system has 10/100 ethernet. Which is what I have now. Not sure what that means though. Nead to read up on it. 10/100 Ethernet means that the card will automaticall sense and switch to the speed of the ethernet signal that comes in. So that will be 10Mbit or 100Mbit. Paul

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-18 Thread J
Continuing this Thread.. I have just been hit with a netsky laden email, and the from address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guess what? I have parsed the header, and it originates from tpg.com.au I have sent the TPG abuse department a nice little email, along with a copy of the headers, asking them

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

2004-12-18 Thread Duncan Anderson
Edward Wijaya wrote: I've tried this command: export PATH:$PATH:/usr/share/firefox but won't work (gives not valid identifier error). How can I enable it? Thanks so much beforehand. Regards, Edward WIJAYA SINGAPORE Hello Edward You need to type the following: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/firefox

[newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread amalasingh
Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also confirmed with the router vendor. The vendor says we need

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread jdow
From: amalasingh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also confirmed with the

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-18 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 5:15 am, Stephen Khn wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-18 Thread J
Oh yes... Works so well we forget all about it Mandrake has something going for it.. Try subbing to the Fedora mailing list. :-) Lets just say you need bandwidth to cope with the sheer volume of mail from people wanting assistance! JRH - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-18 Thread Ian
On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 13:07, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 5:15 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: 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

[newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Chris
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues and the hassle isn't worth it even after I complain and ask for a better way to sync. This is the 4 th time in a week there site has been un-reachable. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for complaints

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues and the hassle isn't worth it even after I complain and ask for a better way to sync. just seen it myself and am trying

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread mikkel
Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also confirmed with the router vendor. The vendor says we

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Dennis Duffner
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues and the hassle isn't worth it even after I complain and ask for a better way to sync. just seen it

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 18 December 2004 17:23, amalasingh wrote: Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 14:41, Chris wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ It's an important resource, and between the fact that they seem to keep changing urls and the fact that it has been down frequently lately it is most frustrating. Anne - --

[newbie] hard drive thread

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Huff
Can anyone point me to he hard drive thread we had awhile ago? I've searched the archives, but can't find it. It's the one where everyone piped in with their experiences with hard drives. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread amalasingh
Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 17:23, amalasingh wrote: Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 21:47, amalasingh wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head meta content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type title/title /head body bgcolor=#ff text=#00

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Dennis Duffner
Boy did I hose THAT post up. Try http://urpmi-addmedia.org At 09:57 AM 12/18/2004, you wrote: Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues and the

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 18 December 2004 16:47, amalasingh wrote: I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. Wrong way. In order to access a localhost you need to be using your machine IP address or localhost ip address, not the WAN IP address. But it just

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 18 December 2004 21:47, amalasingh wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 17:23, amalasingh wrote: Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread Vincent Voois
Derek Jennings wrote: Well if you are using the same IP address you sent this mail from (213.40.155.128 ), then I have already tried it. The response is no reply. The good news is that I do not get your router admin page. The bad news is I do not get your web server either. Before you ask. The

[newbie] How to give different permissions to different users?

2004-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: how can the administrator give permissions of a certain file or directory say, to user Paul but not to user Peter? E.g., suppose I'm the superuser and want to give Paul but not Peter the permission to read the directory '/'. With

Re: [newbie] How to give different permissions to different users?

2004-12-18 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:45:55 +0100 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: how can the administrator give permissions of a certain file or directory say, to user Paul but not to user Peter? E.g., suppose I'm the superuser and want to give

Re: [newbie] How to give different permissions to different users?

2004-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 18:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: how can the administrator give permissions of a certain file or directory say, to user Paul but not to user Peter? E.g.,

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:36:34 -0600 Dennis Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy did I hose THAT post up. Try http://urpmi-addmedia.org Thanks Dennis I was thinking there had to be another site because they called it a mirror - just didn't know how to find out what site they mirrored. --

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-18 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Saturday 18 December 2004 08:50 pm, Ian wrote: I like the PCLinuxOS live Cd myself. Nice Mandrake feel to it...and it works wonderfully :-) Nicer than Knoppix for Mandrake users, I suppose. I stumbled on http://www.colinux.org It will run linux on windowez without special commercial

[newbie] Fw: Xfce 4.2 RC2

2004-12-18 Thread Anders Lind
Hello friends, this was posted also to the Xfce-list but somebody here might have an idea as well I upgraded Mandrake 10.0 to 10.1, on 10.0 I used RC1 and now I wanted to urpmi RC2 and did so, but when I did so, I cannot log in to Xfce at all. I wonder if anyone have had this happening

Re: [newbie] Fw: Xfce 4.2 RC2

2004-12-18 Thread Kenneth
Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, this was posted also to the Xfce-list but somebody here might have an idea as well I upgraded Mandrake 10.0 to 10.1, on 10.0 I used RC1 and now I wanted to urpmi RC2 and did so, but when I did so, I cannot log in to Xfce at all. I wonder if anyone have had

Re: [newbie] Fw: Xfce 4.2 RC2

2004-12-18 Thread Anders Lind
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:58:16 -0500 Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders, I upgraded from XFCE 4.2rc1 to rc2 on Mandrake 10.1 CE edition with no problem. I'd suggest that you uninstall XFCE completely and then try reinstalling again. Good luck. :) Thanks, it worked, I am back in Xfce

[newbie] XFCE, mdk10.0, www.eslrahc.com

2004-12-18 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
The link on http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ to download xfce xfce-4.1.91-0.1000.2cae.i586.rpm seems to be dead. So my question is: Where can I find a xfce install file I can use to add XFCE to my mdk 10.0 system? In charles rpm page there are several rpm- packages. Do I need all these, or wich is

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread care free
Is your webserver on the same internal network as your localhost or on DMZ, which means on a separate network? If it is on a separate network you have to bridge the 2 networks. I am using IPCop as firewall and my servers are on DMZ, so I have to put the internal IP addresses and hostnames of

[newbie] CheckInstall works with 10.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Has someone here been able to use successfully CheckInstall on Mandrake 10.1 Official? I have not been able of using it on Mandrake 10.1 Official. Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list.

Re: [newbie] XFCE, mdk10.0, www.eslrahc.com

2004-12-18 Thread Anders Lind
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:03:53 +0100 (CET) Vegard Lundby Rekaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The link on http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ to download xfce xfce-4.1.91-0.1000.2cae.i586.rpm seems to be dead. So my question is: Where can I find a xfce install file I can use to add XFCE to my mdk 10.0

[newbie] Output of 'ls -l ...'

2004-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I do ,e.g., $ ls -l / , I get: total 52 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:44 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 18 21:32 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3800 Dec 18 21:32 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 71 root root 4096 Dec 18 21:32 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:45 home/

Re: [newbie] XFCE, mdk10.0, www.eslrahc.com

2004-12-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 08:03, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: The link on http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ to download xfce xfce-4.1.91-0.1000.2cae.i586.rpm seems to be dead. So my question is: Where can I find a xfce install file I can use to add XFCE to my mdk 10.0 system? In charles rpm page

Re: [newbie] XFCE, mdk10.0, www.eslrahc.com

2004-12-18 Thread Anders Lind
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:18:03 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For as much as I love Charles Edwards RPM archive, I still have preferred to use the graphical installers for XFCE that are available here: http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=42 They are just bloody brilliant

RE: [newbie] Output of 'ls -l ...'

2004-12-18 Thread care free
Do a google search and you will see the info for yourself. But I'll include an explanation from http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/ls-l.html. If you would like more information about each file, use the -l option. Here is an example: % ls -l total 3 -rw-rw-rw- 1 john 1659

Re: [newbie] CheckInstall works with 10.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 18 December 2004 21:12, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Has someone here been able to use successfully CheckInstall on Mandrake 10.1 Official? I have not been able of using it on Mandrake 10.1 Official. Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you

Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

2004-12-18 Thread care free
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:45:32 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 Dec 2004 19:32, care free wrote: Go here

Re: [newbie] CheckInstall works with 10.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:29:45 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has someone here been able to use successfully CheckInstall on Mandrake 10.1 Official? I have not been able of using it on Mandrake 10.1 Official. I have not tried it with 10.1 yet, but if you look on the

[newbie] Re: How to give different permissions to different users?

2004-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rodolfo wrote: In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: how can the administrator give permission of a certain file or directory say, to user Paul but not to user Peter? E.g., suppose I'm the superuser and want to give Paul but not Peter the permission to read the

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-18 Thread mikkel
On Saturday 18 December 2004 17:23, amalasingh wrote: Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also

Re: [newbie] Re: How to give different permissions to different users?

2004-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 22:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rodolfo wrote: In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: how can the administrator give permission of a certain file or directory say, to user Paul but not to user

Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

2004-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 21:43, care free wrote: From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's done, Anne. Thanks Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP

[newbie] More about file permissions

2004-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By clicking onto a file's icon with the mouse's right button and entering 'Properties', it is possible to change at pleasure and in detail all the possible options about permissions: wether the owner, group and others can read, read and write or neither that file or directory. is it possible to

Re: [newbie] More about file permissions

2004-12-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 19 December 2004 00:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By clicking onto a file's icon with the mouse's right button and entering 'Properties', it is possible to change at pleasure and in detail all the possible options about permissions: wether the owner, group and others can read, read

[newbie] attachments

2004-12-18 Thread jallan6977
Why is it every post I get, from this list only, is a multipart mime mess. Including my own when they bounce back. All My options are set against the fancy stuff because it so easily can contain a virus. Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3

2004-12-18 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I am running 10.1 Official on a Dell Inspiron 9100. When I try to 'make' xdesktopwaves 1.3 I get a screen full of errors. The first dozen lines follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] xdesktopwaves-1.3]$ make gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -DXDW_MAX_OPTIMIZATION=2 -c

[newbie] Tying down to one only email client

2004-12-18 Thread SnapafunFrank
Hi The following appears to be off topic a little, but with no response from the mozilla forum and it being mandrake I'm trying to get my company to run with, I'm hoping some kind soul here might take some time out to assist. The following is a direct copy of my posting on the other site: I

Re: [newbie] Tying down to one only email client

2004-12-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 12:11, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi The following appears to be off topic a little whack Any helpful suggestions will be greatly appreciated. What would be wrong with setting up an IMAP server so that you could use whatever mail client you so desire? -- stephen kuhn

Re: [newbie] Tying down to one only email client

2004-12-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:11:49PM +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi The following appears to be off topic a little, but with no response from the mozilla forum and it being mandrake I'm trying to get my company to run with, I'm hoping some kind soul here might take some time out to assist.

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 18 December 2004 07:57 am, Dennis Duffner wrote: Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues and the hassle isn't worth it even

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Dennis Duffner
No problem. Once in a while, I do get something right. ;-) At 01:26 PM 12/18/2004, you wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:36:34 -0600 Dennis Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy did I hose THAT post up. Try http://urpmi-addmedia.org Thanks Dennis I was thinking there had to be another site because

[newbie] CPAN and Webmin

2004-12-18 Thread Chris
Has anyone experienced any problems with CPAN via Webmin. I can install modules just fine, if I know the module name, however trying to update my module list nets nothing. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 10:28pm up 20 days, 7:47, 1 user, load average: 0.52, 0.32,

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Dennis Duffner
At 08:44 PM 12/18/2004, you wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 07:57 am, Dennis Duffner wrote: Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 18 December 2004 08:32 pm, Dennis Duffner wrote: At 08:44 PM 12/18/2004, you wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 07:57 am, Dennis Duffner wrote: Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

[newbie] Help for Yahoopops Installation on Mandrake 10.1 Official !!!

2004-12-18 Thread Hemal Detroja
Hi, Can anyone please help me to set up Yahoopops on Mandrake 10.1 Official ? Here is code, see if you have anything to offer! Thanks in advance. Raj. Code Start [EMAIL PROTECTED] yahoopops]$ ./ypcompile This script will set the necessary parameters for compilation Use this script for

Re: [newbie] Help for Yahoopops Installation on Mandrake 10.1 Official !!!

2004-12-18 Thread John Layt
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:53, Hemal Detroja wrote: Hi, Can anyone please help me to set up Yahoopops on Mandrake 10.1 Official ? Here is code, see if you have anything to offer! Thanks in advance. Raj. Dunno about that, but I've had better success with MrPostman at

Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3

2004-12-18 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:07:07 + Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running 10.1 Official on a Dell Inspiron 9100. When I try to 'make' xdesktopwaves 1.3 I get a screen full of errors. The first dozen lines follow [EMAIL PROTECTED]