[newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread John Zoetebier
JR wrote: Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install fine, but I really want to know if it will 'work'. I dont know enough about the package to test it

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

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 01:55, John Zoetebier wrote: I'm stabbing in the dark, but if this were me I'd go now to Mandrake Control Center Hardware and have it re-read the hardware list. I would guess that it will now configure your ethernet

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

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne, It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target Wine, I don't see that happening. The

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

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:59, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 + Anne Wilson disseminated the following: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then,

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 05:47, John Zoetebier wrote: JR wrote: Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official New Install

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 05:25, Chris wrote: Just finished a complete install of 10.1 official, my backup of /etc for some reason was corrupted, anyway, I had hard copies of most config files except for hosts.conf.  What is supposed to be in that

[newbie] Java VM Problems

2004-12-26 Thread J
Hi All, I've just installed J2RE 1.4.2_06 on my machine. Trouble is, I'm trying to install LimeWire (the P2P program), and I keep getting told that there is no VM on my machine. Thats crap! I know full well there is! :-) Now, It's installed to /usr/java (where I always used to install it),

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread Edward Holcroft
Have you tried Cubit Accounting? It's a South African product that has accounting and payroll function and is GPL. See www.cubit.co.za. Google shows quite a few experiences with Quickbooks running under wine and Crossover Office. CXOffice 4 has native support for Quickbooks 2000, a status they

Re: [newbie] Java VM Problems

2004-12-26 Thread Edward Holcroft
I had this problem with Limewire when I upgraded to j2re1.4.2_05 with Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack DVD. My .bashprofile does not have the lines you refer to, it is just the default, but /etc/profile has the following lines which I added, which fixed the problem to which you refer:

[newbie] Re: New Computer

2004-12-26 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Kenneth 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 don't know eaxactly what do you mean by HP 'mass market' computers, but anyway - a couple of year's old model HP Vectra

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official New Install

2004-12-26 Thread Chris
On Sunday 26 December 2004 04:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 05:25, Chris wrote: Just finished a complete install of 10.1 official, my backup of /etc for some reason was corrupted, anyway, I had hard copies of most config files except for hosts.conf.  What is supposed to be

Re: [newbie] Java VM Problems

2004-12-26 Thread J
Edward Holcroft wrote: As you can see I changed the reference in JAVA_HOME to point to /usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_05/jre/bin/ instead of at the symbolic link (/user/java/j2re1.4.2_05). This is probably not the most elegant solution and I am not even sure why there were symbolic links used in the first

Re: [newbie] Java VM Problems

2004-12-26 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 10:52 +, J wrote: Hi All, I've just installed J2RE 1.4.2_06 on my machine. Trouble is, I'm trying to install LimeWire (the P2P program), and I keep getting told that there is no VM on my machine. Thats crap! I know full well there is! :-) Now, It's

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

2004-12-26 Thread Martin
a first question on Wine - do i just install the windows programs i want into a folder in eg my home directory and then when starting wine in my shell point it there? I have been confused about this simple little point to start with!! will most programs using windows code work or only those

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

2004-12-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne, It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target Wine, I don't see that

Re: [newbie] Internet connection issue.

2004-12-26 Thread Collin White
On Saturday 25 December 2004 01:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does /etc/resolv.conf look like? Did you by chance install tmdns when you were adding packages? This sounds like a DNS problem. It may be that one of the name servers in resolv.conf is not returning valid IP addresses, but

Re: [newbie] Internet connection issue.

2004-12-26 Thread Simon Roberts
/etc/resolv.conf is a configuration file, not an exectutable. What is in it? -Original Message- From: Collin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 26, 2004 9:31 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet connection issue. On Saturday 25 December 2004 01:20 pm, [EMAIL

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

2004-12-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:59, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 + Anne Wilson disseminated the following: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is

Re: [newbie] Internet connection issue.

2004-12-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Collin White wrote: On Saturday 25 December 2004 01:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does /etc/resolv.conf look like? Did you by chance install tmdns when you were adding packages? This sounds like a DNS problem. It may be that one of the name servers in resolv.conf is not returning valid

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

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 16:27, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: This is easy. Set the group ownership of the directory to wine, and set the SGID bit on the directory. I usualy do this in Midnight Commander (mc), and there is a check box for it. When

[newbie] 'nother 10.1 question

2004-12-26 Thread Chris
Where is the konqueror file manager for root located? Its getting to be a pain to pull it up su'd to root in Eterm. Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Copy 2 Floppy

2004-12-26 Thread John Bowden
Hi can any one tell me why I can't copy some directories containing files onto a floppy disk. The disk was formatted with ext2 from within mdk10.1 on, a second machine. I am trying to install mdk onto a new machine and I need to use a driver for the on board ide raid chip.

Re: [newbie] Internet connection issue.

2004-12-26 Thread Dennis Duffner
At 10:31 AM 12/26/2004, you wrote: On Saturday 25 December 2004 01:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does /etc/resolv.conf look like? Did you by chance install tmdns when you were adding packages? This sounds like a DNS problem. It may be that one of the name servers in resolv.conf is not

Re: [newbie] Java VM Problems

2004-12-26 Thread Simon Roberts
in a terminal: cd to the directory that has your java install; change to the subdirectory bin; type ./java -version If that doesn't run java and tell you stuff about it, it's either not executable (which suggests you did the install wrong, or not as root perhaps) or really screwed up. Having

Re: [newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
For any interested. I was not able to improve my own script any further but I was able to get BFD by R-fx networks working on my system. http://rfxnetworks.com/bfd.php BFD is a modular shell script for parsing applicable logs and checking for authentication failures. There is not much

Re: [newbie] Java VM Problems

2004-12-26 Thread J
Simon Roberts wrote: in a terminal: cd to the directory that has your java install; change to the subdirectory bin; type ./java -version If that doesn't run java and tell you stuff about it, it's either not executable (which suggests you did the install wrong, or not as root perhaps) or really

Re: [newbie] 'nother 10.1 question

2004-12-26 Thread mike
Chris wrote: Where is the konqueror file manager for root located? Its getting to be a pain to pull it up su'd to root in Eterm. Chris I dont know if this is the right way or not but I right-clicked the konqueror icon in the taskbar and selected properties---Application---Advanced Options

Re: [newbie] 'nother 10.1 question

2004-12-26 Thread Chris
On Sunday 26 December 2004 12:47 pm, mike wrote: Chris wrote: Where is the konqueror file manager for root located? Its getting to be a pain to pull it up su'd to root in Eterm. Chris I dont know if this is the right way or not but I right-clicked the konqueror icon in the taskbar and

Re: [newbie] 'nother 10.1 question

2004-12-26 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:07 am, Chris wrote: | Where is the konqueror file manager for root located? Its getting to be a | pain to pull it up su'd to root in Eterm. | | Chris It was removed for security reasons. On a personal machine, I fail to see the point. As you have discovered, the

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread JR
Thankyou for your suggestions John, Anne and Ed. I do know that as he is a sole trader, a payroll feature is not required. However his computer skills are quite limited, and he is old so he doesnt (or 'can't' to use his own words) learn a new system. He had to be taught to use Quickbooks. I

Re: [newbie] Internet connection issue.

2004-12-26 Thread mikkel
At 10:31 AM 12/26/2004, you wrote: On Saturday 25 December 2004 01:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does /etc/resolv.conf look like? Did you by chance install tmdns when you were adding packages? This sounds like a DNS problem. It may be that one of the name servers in resolv.conf

[newbie] Sound on 10.1

2004-12-26 Thread Chris
I had sound for a few minutes this morning, now its gone. When going to MCCSystem Alsa is shown as stopped, when trying to restart I get this error: Doing alsactl to store mixer settings..OK Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.6): /dev/snd/controlC0:no (sound is being used by pid ))

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

2004-12-26 Thread SteveGoodey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: 24 December 2004 16:07 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad signatures when trying to update via Rpmdrake. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been updating 10.1