Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)

2005-01-03 Thread mikkel
> I'm pretty sure I'm buggered this time around, but maybe someone here can > help > me spot my error for next time: > > Situation: Needed Windows on my computer to run some commercial games with > my > family; Cedega isn't cutting it. So fine; my 3-year-old Linux only system > is > going to be du

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Installation Error

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Hahn
I found the problem. The Md5 checksums of the files I downloaded don't match up the correct checksums. >< Back to waiting for a download. - Original Message - From: "Michael Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:54 PM Subject: [newbie] 10.1 Installation Error >

Re: [newbie] KsCD

2005-01-03 Thread Chris
On Monday 03 January 2005 12:08 am, John Layt wrote: > > KsCD pops up because Hotplug/Magicdev tells it to when you insert the CD. > To quote in part from an earlier e-mail of mine (soon to be appearing in > the Twiki): > > -

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread Chris
On Monday 03 January 2005 03:29 am, John Layt wrote: > So, in short for a digital camera: > 1) Plug in camera > 2) Look camera up in /etc/hotplg/usb.usermap > 3) Run init script /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to create /dev/usb entry and > call 4 4) Run /etc/dynamic/scripts/camera.script with the /dev/u

Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)

2005-01-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:50, David Reynolds wrote: > I'm pretty sure I'm buggered this time around, but maybe someone here can > help > me spot my error for next time: > > Situation: Needed Windows on my computer to run some commercial games with my > family Ok. Here's how I would plot/plan t

[newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)

2005-01-03 Thread David Reynolds
I'm pretty sure I'm buggered this time around, but maybe someone here can help me spot my error for next time: Situation: Needed Windows on my computer to run some commercial games with my family; Cedega isn't cutting it. So fine; my 3-year-old Linux only system is going to be dual-boot *melodr

[newbie] konqueror and info

2005-01-03 Thread Richard Urwin
>From time to time here people pop up and say "Wow, Konqueror understands man pages!" That's neat, and it's a bit easier than trying to read the page in a console window. It isn't the best way to print a man page; "man -t subject | lpr" is much better for that, but it is easier on the eyes. A

[newbie] 10.1 Installation Error

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Hahn
Ok, on the advice of several people from this list, I downloaded the 10.1 ISO files, and burned them to CD. Initially the installation seemed to be working fine, until I reached the end of Partitioning step. I set up the partitioning, and selected next. I then received an Internal Error: no kernal

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 03 January 2005 17:30, SnapafunFrank wrote: > > If you run a local copy of an MTA like Postfix, > >and route your ISP mail through that local MTA, you can push mail through > > a virus checker prior to local delivery. > > Exactly what I believe ought to be available always. Let the more

Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-03 Thread jallan6977
That's about how I did it. After I ignored the need to be bootable it just burned and upon restart was definitely Mandrake. So far I have only looked at the games, but I will get into things tomorrow. On 3 Jan 2005 at 16:44, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 03 January 2005 22:06, Anne Wilson wrote: > For that matter, how did you get the symbol into this > message, as well as the code? If I type '£' into either > text editor or kword I just get the literal string. In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I don't us

Re: [newbie] Firefox only lauches on first instance with mdk kde

2005-01-03 Thread JR
Ok, this is the file as I have it at the moment browserPath="/home/unholy/firefox-installer/" Fox="firefox" Client="mozilla-xremote-client" if [ "${1:0:1}" = "/" ] then url="file://"$@ else url="$@" fi if [ $(ps aux | grep firefox | wc -l) -ge 4 ]; then exec $browserPath$Client -a firefox openUR

Re: [newbie] Firefox only lauches on first instance with mdk kde

2005-01-03 Thread Russ Kepler
On Monday 03 January 2005 01:55 pm, Paul wrote: > browserPath="/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox" > Fox="firefox" > Client="mozilla-xremote-client" > if [ "${1:0:1}" = "/" ] > then url="file://"$@ > else url="$@" > fi > > if [ $(ps aux | grep firefox | wc -l) -ge 4 ]; then > exec $browserPath$Clien

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-03 Thread SnapafunFrank
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 20:01, SnapafunFrank wrote: What I had in mind is that a " onboard " mail client be established that would allow any email client to get the email via it, appoint klamav to check the email coming through and going out at this point - basically all e

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 21:35, Paul wrote: > Op Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:06:50 + schreef Anne Wilson: > >- From time to time, though, it is necessary to insert words from > >other languages, so acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut and that > >Spanish thingy t

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 21:24, Steve Goodey wrote: > On Monday 03 Jan 2005 20:56, Anne Wilson wrote: > > My one hardware failure is my CanoScan FS2710 film scanner. I understand > > that it is now possible to get it working - presumably with the latest

Re: [newbie] Firefox only lauches on first instance with mdk kde

2005-01-03 Thread JR
Hi Paul, Thanks for replying, but that didnt work I'm afraid. The results were the same. I had firefox located in /home/unholy/firefox-installer so I changed the path in the script and it didn't work. Actually it didnt work regardless of whether or not there was a previous instance of the prog

Re: [newbie] Firefox only lauches on first instance with mdk kde

2005-01-03 Thread JR
I only noticed this now, but oddly, the script works when called with no arguments, and no previous instance. With a previous instance I get the message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox-installer]$ ./launcheme.sh /home/unholy/firefox-installer/mozilla-xremote-client: error while loading shared librar

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread Steve Goodey
On Monday 03 Jan 2005 20:56, Anne Wilson wrote: > My one hardware failure is my CanoScan FS2710 film scanner. I understand > that it is now possible to get it working - presumably with the latest > kernels - but I haven't had time recently to take another shot at it. I > really would like to try

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Paul
Op Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:06:50 + schreef Anne Wilson: >- From time to time, though, it is necessary to insert words from >other languages, so acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut and that >Spanish thingy that I can never remember the name for - the various >chars that use them come in very handy.

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 20:15, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Anne, as a native English-speaker, you don't have to remember that > many ASCII escape-sequences. But a few, nevertheless, come in handy > like ½ (½), @ (@), £ (£) and a few more. > > As a "foreigne

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 20:33, John Layt wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:09, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I read your other post with interest, and am looking forward to seeing > > this. In this last mail I was just asking for a simple 'it works > > with' e

Re: [newbie] Firefox only lauches on first instance with mdk kde

2005-01-03 Thread Paul
Op Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:19:20 -0500 schreef JR: >Now when I click a link from anywhere, firefox is lauched - but only >if another firefox instance isn't already running. > >If firefox is already running, I get the bouncing icon for a few >seconds and then nothing. There is a trick to it in shape

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

2005-01-03 Thread SnapafunFrank
deedee E wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo Writ

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:13, Steve Goodey wrote: > > John, > > Thanks for your suggestion. However, big problems with Digikam 0.7, > although 0.6.2 was installed and worked OK. Are you running KDE 3.3 by any > chance? Ooops. Yes, I am. I didn't realise Thac had compiled them against 3.3 rather tha

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:09, Anne Wilson wrote: > I read your other post with interest, and am looking forward to seeing > this. In this last mail I was just asking for a simple 'it works with' > entry on the HardwareCompatibility page. Canon get a hard ride sometimes, > so it's good to note some

[newbie] Firefox only lauches on first instance with mdk kde

2005-01-03 Thread JR
I've gone into KDE->configure desktop -> components -> file associations -> html, and added /home/unholy/firefox-installer/firefox as the executable. Now when I click a link from anywhere, firefox is lauched - but only if another firefox instance isn't already running. If firefox is already runn

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 03 January 2005 20:13, Anne Wilson wrote: > Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment > reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special > characters all that often, but when I do I have to use > kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used to be >

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Graham Watkins
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used

[newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used to be able to mem

Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding

2005-01-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 03 January 2005 19:38, OOzy Pal wrote: > Dears, > > I am using UTF-8 Encoding. My site chars looks good > and nice on Linux (Firefox) but it looks ugly and > unreadable on Windows browsers (Firefox for win and > IE6) > Can anyone help? Why use UTF-8, iso-85xx, windows charsets etc.. in h

[newbie] Browser Encoding

2005-01-03 Thread OOzy Pal
Dears, I am using UTF-8 Encoding. My site chars looks good and nice on Linux (Firefox) but it looks ugly and unreadable on Windows browsers (Firefox for win and IE6) Can anyone help? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do you Y

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

2005-01-03 Thread deedee E
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the > > only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo Writer does >

Re: [newbie] KsCD

2005-01-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 January 2005 01:08 am, John Layt wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:49, Chris wrote: > > How in the heck do I keep KsCD from popping up when I load a cd? I > > untagged "Autoplay when cd insterted" but it still pops up. I prefer to > > use xmms and its a PITA to keep closing out KsCD. I

Re: [newbie] KsCD

2005-01-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:49 pm, Chris wrote: > How in the heck do I keep KsCD from popping up when I load a cd? I > untagged "Autoplay when cd insterted" but it still pops up. I prefer to > use xmms and its a PITA to keep closing out KsCD. I've set all audio file > associations, .mp3, .wav f

Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sounds interesting. I checked it but had doubts due to the need > bootable cd part. Could you e-mail the step by step for a dummy like me. > Send off list if you wish. I couldn't find my ver

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-03 Thread Julius Suarez
You can also try JAlbum, its java based. http://jalbum.net/ On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:13:07 +, Kevin Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Goodey wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm running 10.1O with KDE. > > > >Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe > >Phot

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2005-01-03 Thread eric jackson
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:31:58 +1300, SnapafunFrank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2004 07:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi w

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 02 January 2005 20:01, SnapafunFrank wrote: > What I had in mind is that a " onboard " mail client be established that > would allow any email client to get the email via it, appoint klamav to > check the email coming through and going out at this point - basically > all email passes " t

Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-03 Thread jallan6977
Sounds interesting. I checked it but had doubts due to the need bootable cd part. Could you e-mail the step by step for a dummy like me. Send off list if you wish. I couldn't find my version number. Probably had my eyes closed:>) On 3 Jan 2005 at 9:51, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PG

[newbie] WOW

2005-01-03 Thread jallan6977
HOLY ! It works. After two weeks trying I finaly am getting somewhere. Mandrake move is up and running. To bad I have so much to do today. I would love to start exploring. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-03 Thread Steve Goodey
On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 22:01, John Layt wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:58, Steve Goodey wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running 10.1O with KDE. > > > > Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe > > Photoshop Album? > > > > A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any bo

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Ferguson
Steve Goodey wrote: Hello, I'm running 10.1O with KDE. Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any body any experience with these? Thanks. ---

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 11:51, John Layt wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:24, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 03 Jan 2005 10:55, Edward Holcroft wrote: > > > John > > > > > > This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. > > > > Add that c

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:24, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 03 Jan 2005 10:55, Edward Holcroft wrote: > > John > > > > This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. > > Add that camera to the TWiki page, please? > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CaMerasHW > > Anne Anne, I'm

Re: [newbie] Unable to find packages (qt, qt-devel, freetype2-devel, XFree86-devel etc.) using RPMdrake

2005-01-03 Thread Cezary Morga
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:35:17 + (GMT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for the devel package names, XFree86-devel is no > longer needed (use xorg-x11-devel), freetype2-devel is > now libfreetype6-devel and qt-devel is actually > libqt3-devel. They were called that at least since 10.0off :) -- C

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:55, Edward Holcroft wrote: > John > > This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. > > Thank you. > > ed Cool. That's one less little mystery to solve, one more fix to document in the TWiki :-) Now, back to that KsCD problem... John.

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 10:55, Edward Holcroft wrote: > John > > This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. > Add that camera to the TWiki page, please? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CaMerasHW Anne - -- Registered Linux Us

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread Edward Holcroft
John This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. Thank you. ed On Monday, 3 January 2005 11:29, John Layt wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:14, John Layt wrote: > > Making some progress on LinuxQuestions there's this page: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?pro

Re: [newbie] Unable to find packages (qt, qt-devel, freetype2-devel, XFree86-devel etc.) using RPMdrake

2005-01-03 Thread romevenicemilan-misc
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to install MythTV on my Mandrake 10.1 > setup and the following packages are prerequisites > for > that. > > freetype2-devel > XFree86-devel > qt-devel > lame > > I am trying to install these packages using RPMdrake > and I cannot find the

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

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 00:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on > > practicalities ;-) > > > > Anne > > Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticatin

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

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > I hope they don't do this -- at least not using VBS. If they can > convert the VBS to something else, that might work. MS groupies > make a big deal

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:14, John Layt wrote: > > Making some progress on LinuxQuestions there's this page: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=560 > which points to > http://digikam.free.fr/hotplug/howto.html > but it appears a little outdated in places. I'll see what I can l

Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 00:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. > Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me. > I used to use Nero 5 and the method there was called Burn an Image. Anne