[newbie] Bad signatures when trying to update via Rpmdrake.

2004-12-24 Thread steve.goodey
Hello, I have been updating 10.1 OE via the rpmdrake tool with no problems till now. On several packages I am now getting bad signature errors. For example:- The following packages have bad signatures: kdebase-common-3.2.3-134.3.101mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Unable to read rpm

Re: [newbie] Yay Poland! Booooo Ballmer!!

2004-12-24 Thread Cezary Morga
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:00:51 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quote: Undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asks for additional time to prepare aconstructive declaration -- Software patent debate is wide open-- Software patent critics: The Polish government deserves greatest

[newbie] Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-24 Thread John Zoetebier
John Zoetebier wrote: My USB mouse (infrared Microsoft mouse) was working properly under Mandrake 10.0 After installing Mandrake 10.1 it is not working anymore. Any ideas ? This is my dmesg output: = [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore:

Re: [newbie] Yay Poland! Booooo Ballmer!!

2004-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 09:19, Cezary Morga wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:00:51 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quote: Undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asks for additional time to prepare aconstructive declaration -- Software

Re: [newbie] Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote: John Zoetebier wrote: In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time. That sounds like a shared interrupt. You may need

[newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since *unfortunately* in job applications it

Re: [newbie] firefox not robust as mozilla?

2004-12-24 Thread Q.H. Wang
I installed .08 no problems but icant seem yo get 1.0 via urpmi If you mean Firefox, you're right. Mine is 1.0 the rpm. I look at pdf's all the time and never had a problem. Both the Win version and the Mandrake version have never crashed, and both have several plugins. I also have no

[newbie] Quanta Fonts

2004-12-24 Thread Keith Powell
I have been looking at Quanta for the first time. Clicking on the Fonts tag, shows the Face box empty. Should it be, or should there be a selection of fonts listed from which to chose, or do I have to insert the font names manually? If there should be fonts listed, how do I get Quanta to see

Re: [newbie] winsite torrent

2004-12-24 Thread RickSisler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: OK that is good information there i loaded gaim and when i try to install it i ran it under the run command but i could find where i can put an icon on my desk or i didn't see it under the menu bar i just wanted to know what i need to do to have

[newbie] unable to add installation cd's as sources

2004-12-24 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I wonder if anyone can help me? I notice that cd's 3 4 are not available as software sources for urpmi. I have tried in vain to add them, at the cl and with Software Manager gui. I am using Mandrake 10.1. I get the following error: Unable to add medium, errors reported: copy failed

[newbie] Just installed 10.1 official from 3 ftp'd isos

2004-12-24 Thread Deep Thinker
Hello everyone, Happy Holidays. I have just installed Mandrake 10.1 official from 3 iso discs downloaded. Question 1. The machine is a Gateway profile. The only network/Internet connection will be through a 3Com PCMCIA Card (3CRPAG175). What steps do I need to take to make this work, or should

Re: [newbie] Yay Poland! Booooo Ballmer!!

2004-12-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:19:14 +0100 Cezary Morga disseminated the following: On November 18th, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had warned Asian governments that they would face patent litigation if using the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft's Windows product. Fu**ing Micro$oft!!

Re: [newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-24 Thread RickSisler
Bryan Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:35, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Brian, I would like a copy, as my system has just been hacked by an ssh user (or at least I think it has) a few days ago 100%, but was busy so disregarded it at the time, then came back to

Re: [newbie] Bad signatures when trying to update via Rpmdrake.

2004-12-24 Thread Dennis Myers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been updating 10.1 OE via the rpmdrake tool with no problems till now. On several packages I am now getting bad signature errors. For example:- The following packages have bad signatures: kdebase-common-3.2.3-134.3.101mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Kenneth
I decided to submit this query again. I think that if someone can tell me what there setting is for this mime type, I can re-enter it into my settings. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Kenneth wrote: Recently, when I run several programs, most notably Kate and Kmess, I receive an error

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread RickSisler
Kenneth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I decided to submit this query again. I think that if someone can tell me what there setting is for this mime type, I can re-enter it into my settings. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Kenneth wrote: Recently, when I run several programs,

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Kenneth
A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick! Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet), I feel that the info you provided is a certain lead. Interestingly, though I am still getting the same error report when I run Kate and for that matter when I start KDE, I get the same results that you sent me

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread RickSisler
Kenneth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick! Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet), I feel that the info you provided is a certain lead. Interestingly, though I am still getting the same error report when I run Kate and for that matter when I start

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Kenneth
Kenneth wrote: A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick! Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet), I feel that the info you provided is a certain lead. Interestingly, though I am still getting the same error report when I run Kate and for that matter when I start KDE, I get the same results that

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Bill Winegarden
On Friday 24 Dec 2004 19:16, Kenneth wrote: Kenneth wrote: A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick! Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet), I feel that the info you provided is a certain lead. Interestingly, though I am still getting the same error report when I run Kate and

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:29 am, Kenneth wrote: | A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick! | | Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet), | I feel that the info you provided is a certain | lead. | | Interestingly, though I am still getting the | same error report when I run Kate and for that

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 10:37 AM Subject: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? Hi. Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with

[newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

2004-12-24 Thread job evers
smb4k automatically goes into the KDE taskbar when it is run, which is fine if you are using KDE, but I am using pekwm and so I don't know how to access the program. Anybody have any ideas on how to run smb4k with pekwm? Thanks in advance, Job

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 19:48, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 10:29 am, Kenneth wrote: Have you tried deleting your #~/.kde Better still, rename it, You will lose ALL of your kde settings (back up your address book if you use

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Kenneth
Thanks again to all who have replied to my inquiry. I haven't yet tried the removing or renaming #~/.KDE option. Over the hollidays I will work on this problem. I think I do have a serious KDE problem. I might, in the end, just back up the files I want to save to a CD and reinstall reformat my HD

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo wrote: Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since *unfortunately* in job

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Bart Simons
Op vrijdag 24 december 2004 17:16, schreef Kenneth: I decided to submit this query again. I think that if someone can tell me what there setting is for this mime type, I can re-enter it into my settings. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Kenneth wrote: Recently, when I run

Re: [newbie] firefox not robust as mozilla?

2004-12-24 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 12:24 +, Q.H. Wang wrote: I installed .08 no problems but icant seem yo get 1.0 via urpmi If you mean Firefox, you're right. Mine is 1.0 the rpm. I look at pdf's all the time and never had a problem. Both the Win version and the Mandrake version have never

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 20:32, Kenneth wrote: Thanks again to all who have replied to my inquiry. I haven't yet tried the removing or renaming #~/.KDE option. Over the hollidays I will work on this problem. I think I do have a serious KDE problem.

[newbie] Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-24 Thread John Zoetebier
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote: John Zoetebier wrote: In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time. That sounds like a shared

[newbie] Re: Just installed 10.1 official from 3 ftp'd isos

2004-12-24 Thread John Zoetebier
Deep Thinker wrote: Hello everyone, Happy Holidays. I have just installed Mandrake 10.1 official from 3 iso discs downloaded. Question 1. The machine is a Gateway profile. The only network/Internet connection will be through a 3Com PCMCIA Card (3CRPAG175). What steps do I need to

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Kenneth
Anne Wilson wrote: Kenneth - I've not really understood clearly. Are you saying this is a message box when Kate fails, or a message that you see in Konsole when you launch Kate from the command line? Anne Hi Anne, It was a message box with the text Sorry, can't find mime type

[newbie] Changing desktop

2004-12-24 Thread George N. Conover
I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up. How do I change the Desktops from the command line? I want to try GNOME. George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Changing desktop

2004-12-24 Thread Kenneth
George N. Conover wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up. How do I change the Desktops from the command line? I want to try GNOME. George $ startx- usually invokes KDE or $ startx KDE $ startx GNOME - usually invokes GNOME. HTH, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100%

[newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0

2004-12-24 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Hello all, I have been trying for the past week to install Java on my linux box but I have not yet had any luck. Is there something I am missing? I went to java.com and downloaded the latest version of Java. Followed there directions for installing the .bin file (pretty straight forward).

Re: [newbie] Changing desktop

2004-12-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:41:09 -0500 Kenneth disseminated the following: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up. How do I change the Desktops from the command line? I want to try GNOME. George $ startx- usually invokes KDE or $ startx KDE $ startx GNOME

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo wrote: Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread mike
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo wrote: Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since

Re: [newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

2004-12-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:56:52 -0500 job evers disseminated the following: smb4k automatically goes into the KDE taskbar when it is run, which is fine if you are using KDE, but I am using pekwm and so I don't know how to access the program. Anybody have any ideas on how to run smb4k with

Re: [newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

2004-12-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:56:52 -0500 job evers disseminated the following: smb4k automatically goes into the KDE taskbar when it is run, which is fine if you are using KDE, but I am using pekwm and so I don't know how to access the program. Anybody have any ideas on how to run smb4k with

Re: [newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0

2004-12-24 Thread job evers
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:48:20 -0500, Lovell Mcilwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there another way that I can install it or is there a directory that I need to reference with my firefox browser? From: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux If you installed the JRE 5.0 RPM, this plugin

Re: [newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

2004-12-24 Thread job evers
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:05:03 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:56:52 -0500 Anybody have any ideas on how to run smb4k with pekwm? ***fsckin' GMail!!!*** Yeah, sorry about that. Okay, just checked out smb4k, that is *way* overkill for Samba shares *if* that's

Re: [newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

2004-12-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:51:26 -0500 job evers disseminated the following: Okay, just checked out smb4k, that is *way* overkill for Samba shares *if* that's all yer doin'. Thanks for the script/key command suggestion. I will definately implement that for some of the more common shares that

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 22:57, John Zoetebier wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote: John Zoetebier wrote: In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer OR my USB mouse, but

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 23:31, Kenneth wrote: It was a message box with the text Sorry, can't find mime type application/octet-stream. But I haven't had the problem since I defined a type - application - octet-stream in kcontrol - and left the

Re: [newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0

2004-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 02:48, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I have been trying for the past week to install Java on my linux box but I have not yet had any luck. Is there something I am missing? I went to java.com and downloaded the latest

[newbie] Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-24 Thread John Zoetebier
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 22:57, John Zoetebier wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote: John Zoetebier wrote: In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread deedee E
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:49:46 +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I'm not an expert because I've never really had any problems using wine. However, I did notice a couple of things in your