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2005-01-04 Thread mandrake
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[newbie] KDE 3.3.2 for Mandrake!

2005-01-04 Thread Hemal Detroja
Hi Folks, Where can I download the RPMs of KDE 3.3.2 for Mandrake ??? Raj. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy y

Re: [newbie] Pls disregard

2005-01-04 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:21 pm, Glenn wrote: > My bonehead hosting service unjustifiably suspended my account, and I want > to make sure that I didn't get dropped from the list, due to a bounce. I > haven't gotten anything since yesterday, and I'm missing you folks . > > Glenn OK, I'm disrega

Re: [newbie] Kmail question

2005-01-04 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:38 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:40 pm, Chris wrote: > > I asked this in the kdepim-users list but no reply yet, possibly someone > > here can assist me, below is what I sent: > > > > When forwarding a message either in-line or as an attachment,

Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-04 Thread julie
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:59 am, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:44:37 +0530 > Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :: > ::Does anyone know a software that can open ".cdr" files created by > ::CorelDRAW? I'm interested in printing them. Editing and all > Curt responded

Re: [newbie] Kmail question

2005-01-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:40 pm, Chris wrote: > I asked this in the kdepim-users list but no reply yet, possibly someone > here can assist me, below is what I sent: > > When forwarding a message either in-line or as an attachment, the full > headers are sometimes shown and sometimes not, most t

[newbie] Pls disregard

2005-01-04 Thread Glenn
My bonehead hosting service unjustifiably suspended my account, and I want to make sure that I didn't get dropped from the list, due to a bounce. I haven't gotten anything since yesterday, and I'm missing you folks . Glenn -- 17:18:11 up 7 days, 25 min, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Of

Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo

2005-01-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:46, David Reynolds wrote: > Actually that seems to be exactly what I've done, but it still has the > /boot partition (former "C:") as the "active" primary partition, according > to my partition table. Linux doesn't care, but Windows runs into the > "blinking cursor on

[newbie] Kmail question

2005-01-04 Thread Chris
I asked this in the kdepim-users list but no reply yet, possibly someone here can assist me, below is what I sent: When forwarding a message either in-line or as an attachment, the full headers are sometimes shown and sometimes not, most times not.  Since I mostly use this to forward phishing m

Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo

2005-01-04 Thread David Reynolds
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:10 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Sounds to me like you have simply overwritten the MBR bootloader with LILO > from Mandrake which did not detect the Win installation and create a LILO > boot option for it. You should be able to go into /etc/lilo.conf and > create an opti

Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding

2005-01-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
OOzy Pal wrote: Kaj, The language is Arabic. The reason I am using utf-8 is because google.com does that. I usualy try to look at other guru's code and learn from it. Check out some other Arabic written web sites. I just took a look at http://www.ahram.org.eg/ and the code uses The web page

Re: [newbie] Bandwidth limiting...

2005-01-04 Thread obu
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:43:59 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have LAN n/w here. The internet connection comes off a computer running Mandrake 10. The connection is via PPPoE on eth0. eth1 connects to the rest of the clients (10 of them) running Windows 98 (wish i could bur

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

2005-01-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:27:16PM +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: > 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 so

Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding

2005-01-04 Thread OOzy Pal
Kaj, The language is Arabic. The reason I am using utf-8 is because google.com does that. I usualy try to look at other guru's code and learn from it. Thank you --- Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 18:24, OOzy Pal wrote: > > > > I can not write my complete s

[newbie] Bandwidth limiting...

2005-01-04 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hi, I have LAN n/w here. The internet connection comes off a computer running Mandrake 10. The connection is via PPPoE on eth0. eth1 connects to the rest of the clients (10 of them) running Windows 98 (wish i could burn them down) via a switch. So there's the whole setup of the network. I g

Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-04 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Curt Tresenriter wrote: On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:44:37 +0530 Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ::Hi, :: ::Does anyone know a software that can open ".cdr" files created by ::CorelDRAW? I'm interested in printing them. Editing and all doesn't ::matter. I need sort of a viewer for the CorelDRA

Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-04 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:44:37 +0530 Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ::Hi, :: ::Does anyone know a software that can open ".cdr" files created by ::CorelDRAW? I'm interested in printing them. Editing and all doesn't ::matter. I need sort of a viewer for the CorelDRAW graphics files under

Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding

2005-01-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 18:24, OOzy Pal wrote: > I can not write my complete site in ASCII as " > etc. The site is not in english. > > Can any one help What language then ? - My guess is that one of the iso-8859-x will cover it. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstat

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: > > In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, > > I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American > > friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be > > ab

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Installation Error

2005-01-04 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Michael Hahn wrote: 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 Ins

[newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-04 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hi, Does anyone know a software that can open ".cdr" files created by CorelDRAW? I'm interested in printing them. Editing and all doesn't matter. I need sort of a viewer for the CorelDRAW graphics files under Mandrake 10.0 or even 10.1. If anyone knows anything about such a software, please rep

Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding

2005-01-04 Thread OOzy Pal
--- Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-04 Thread Miark
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: > In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I > don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American friends > here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be able to read > Scandinavian characters like æ, ø and å or

Re: [newbie] spam

2005-01-04 Thread jdow
From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 08:47, Martin Hardie wrote: > Hi All > > I have been getting a load of mail with docs attached such as: > > xx.pif > > It is prompting me to consider some spam filter like spamassassin but i > have no idea where to start > > any sugges

Re: [newbie] spam

2005-01-04 Thread jdow
From: "Martin Hardie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi All > > I have been getting a load of mail with docs attached such as: > > xx.pif > > It is prompting me to consider some spam filter like spamassassin but i have > no idea where to start > > any suggestions? Martin, for that kind of spam you need to

Re: [newbie] Rootkit ?

2005-01-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 16:38, Avi Schwartz wrote: > >Thanks Bryan and Avi, but I'm running snort or portsentry or > >anything. So where does this "sniffer" come from ? - To me it > >sounds pretty much like one of those thousands of > > Windows-spyware malignancies. Never thought a Linux syst

Re: [newbie] Rootkit ?

2005-01-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 15:07, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:20, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When doing a chkrootkit everything looks fine except this : Checking `asp'... not infected Checking `bindshell'... not infected Checking `lkm'... Checking `rexedc

Re: [newbie] Rootkit ?

2005-01-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 15:07, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:20, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > When doing a chkrootkit everything looks fine except this : > > > > Checking `asp'... not infected > > Checking `bindshell'... not infected > > Checking `lkm'... Checking `rexedcs'...

Re: [newbie] Rootkit ?

2005-01-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
Kaj Haulrich wrote: When doing a chkrootkit everything looks fine except this : Checking `asp'... not infected Checking `bindshell'... not infected Checking `lkm'... Checking `rexedcs'... not found Checking `sniffer'... eth0: PF_PACKET(/sbin/dhclient) Checking `w55808'... not infected Checking `wte

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

2005-01-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 03 January 2005 19:50, David Reynolds wrote: > So my question is, how badly have I screwed up? Assuming I *can* get a > bootdisk to run on Linux, is it possible to do a Windows rescue, overwrite > that first section with FAT32 again, then copy/edit the /boot sector over > it? Can your /b

Re: [newbie] Rootkit ?

2005-01-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:20, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > When doing a chkrootkit everything looks fine except this : > > Checking `asp'... not infected > Checking `bindshell'... not infected > Checking `lkm'... Checking `rexedcs'... not found > Checking `sniffer'... eth0: PF_PACKET(/sbin/dhclient) >

[newbie] MrPostman : server connection prob!

2005-01-04 Thread Hemal Detroja
Hi Folks, I installed MrPostman on my Mandrake 10.1 official with java version "1.4.2_06". I think whenever, my email client is trying to connect to the MrPostman at 127.0.0.1, it gives some kinda error! I set it up so, it wouldn't show me GUI (Ain't I smart!!!) But now I want GUI, I do not know

[newbie] Rootkit ?

2005-01-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
When doing a chkrootkit everything looks fine except this : Checking `asp'... not infected Checking `bindshell'... not infected Checking `lkm'... Checking `rexedcs'... not found Checking `sniffer'... eth0: PF_PACKET(/sbin/dhclient) Checking `w55808'... not infected Checking `wted'... nothing delet

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 23:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > 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 kwor

Re: [newbie] spam

2005-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 08:47, Martin Hardie wrote: > Hi All > > I have been getting a load of mail with docs attached such as: > > xx.pif > > It is prompting me to consider some spam filter like spamassassin but i > have no idea where to start > > any

[newbie] spam

2005-01-04 Thread Martin Hardie
Hi All I have been getting a load of mail with docs attached such as: xx.pif It is prompting me to consider some spam filter like spamassassin but i have no idea where to start any suggestions? Martin -- :

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-04 Thread John Layt
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:44, John Layt wrote: > 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'