[newbie] urpmi

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Needham
just out of curiosity when you set up urpmi for updates do i have to check once a wekk or does it do it itself automaticali.ive set it up and works 100% but what next please. dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] antivirus

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Needham
do i need antivirus checker and can any one suggest which one to run and is easy to install. dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 Jan 2005 23:30, Elwyn wrote: And, if that wasn't enough the web interface for Samba doesn't work. I don't know if it didn't work before though because I hadn't been there. http://localhost:901/ gives An error occurred while

Re: [newbie] antivirus

2005-01-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Dave Needham wrote: do i need antivirus checker and can any one suggest which one to run and is easy to install. dave On Linux no anti virus is needed. The one and only reason to run an anti virus app on Linux is this situation : You use a Linux box as a mail server or relay to Windows

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Setting up urpmi sources]

2005-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:01, Charles Lee Ying wrote: I've recently joined the list and noted in the past few days a lot of references to setting up urpmi sources. So I tried it as well and was not successful SNIP If you have trouble with an online source the problem is quite often the

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2005-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:45, Dave Needham wrote: just out of curiosity when you set up urpmi for updates do i have to check once a wekk or does it do it itself automaticali.ive set it up and works 100% but what next please. dave If you are using 10.1 every time you open the

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:01, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 06:43 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 23:31, Andy Yankovich wrote: SNIP I have tried to install Opera from The Club and failed miserably - undoubtedly due to my lack of know-how.

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-25 Thread SOTL
On Monday 24 January 2005 10:39 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 07:41 pm, SOTL wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 06:31 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Please, do not assume this is apostasy. What are the main differences between SUSE Pro 9.2 and Mandrake 10.1? 9.2 is

[newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-25 Thread Lanman
Hi Gang. I've been trying to find out how to permanently modify the KDE3.2 and 3.3 menus and I'm not getting anywhere. For instance, if I add/delete entries in the KDE menu using menudrake, (selecting the System Menu option), those changes are saved, however, as soon as I re-open menudrake, it

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-25 Thread Elwyn
Oh ;) :) Thanks Anne Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Re: re konqueror

2005-01-25 Thread J. David Boyd
Dave Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thanks for the info ann and for every one else that has supplyed me with info.nothing is ever easy in life and you have to start some where.oh well i supose it will be like going to school again dave.. How much memory do you have in your

[newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Andy Yankovich
Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated. Maybe in a few months

[newbie] Opera and Konqueror

2005-01-25 Thread Andy Yankovich
Am I correct in thinking that, even tho I use Opera (or Firefox) as my primary web browser, Konqueror remains my primary (only?) file manager? Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:51 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step)

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Andy Yankovich
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:58 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:51 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install

Re: [newbie] Opera and Konqueror

2005-01-25 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:54:54 -0500 Andy Yankovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct in thinking that, even tho I use Opera (or Firefox) as my primary web browser, Konqueror remains my primary (only?) file manager? If you have KDE installed that is the filemanager that KDE installs, but

[newbie] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread Julie Sloan
suddenly I have a padlock icon on my/root directory. The contents of the directory are as follows: # ls -a ./ .cshrc .gnome/ .qt/ .xauthNME5mc ../drakx/ .gnome2/ .rnd .xauthoAxEUc .bash_history .fonts.cache-1

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Avi Schwartz
Andy Yankovich wrote: Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated.

Re: [newbie] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread Julie Sloan
-Original Message- From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 25, 2005 5:31 PM To: Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] locked directory On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:19, Julie Sloan wrote: suddenly I have a padlock icon on my/root directory. The contents of the

Re: [newbie] Opera and Konqueror

2005-01-25 Thread Andrewd
Or if you open your console and type MC you will open a program called midnight commander, which is a great file manager Andrew D On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 06:54, Andy Yankovich wrote: Am I correct in thinking that, even tho I use Opera (or Firefox) as my primary web browser, Konqueror remains my

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. Greed, Huh? Andy There is Evolution 2.0, Sylpheed-Claws, Balsa, Mozilla-Mail, Netscape-Mail - and actually a slew of

[newbie] Re: [Newchix] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie wrote: Mozilla won't let itself be uninstalled either - - I urpmi'd Mozilla and got the old 1.6 browser instead of the new 1.7.5 which is why I'm making this new mess today. I'll just complete the mess by instlling the new one despite the old one still in residence

[newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. It does not seem to matter what condition the disc is in (i.e. scratched vs. new) or whether I have paused a movie or just let it

Re: [newbie] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 25, 2005 5:31 PM To: Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] locked directory On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:19, Julie Sloan wrote: suddenly I have a padlock icon on my/root directory. The contents of

Re: [newbie] Opera and Konqueror

2005-01-25 Thread Andrewd
ooops big nite drinking, that should be mc not MC - happy Australia day On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:59, Andrewd wrote: Or if you open your console and type MC you will open a program called midnight commander, which is a great file manager Andrew D On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 06:54, Andy Yankovich

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. It does not seem to matter what condition the disc is in (i.e. scratched

Re: [newbie] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 21:19, Julie Sloan wrote: suddenly I have a padlock icon on my/root directory. The contents of the directory are as follows: # ls -a ./ .cshrc .gnome/ .qt/ .xauthNME5mc ../drakx/ .gnome2/ .rnd

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. It does not seem

Re: [newbie] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread Julie Sloan
I disabled my reply to option in webmail but it's magically re-enabled itself. Please adjust your replies, since I can't seem to... -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 25, 2005 5:26 PM To: Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] locked

Re: [newbie] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 00:07, Julie Sloan wrote: snip If you want the 1.7.3 version go to Charles' site : http://www.eslrahc.com/ and download it to some directory. Then, change into that directory, become root and type urpmi moz and hit tab, then enter. - Or you could add Charles'

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:58, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading

Re: [newbie] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread RickSisler
Julie Sloan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I disabled my reply to option in webmail but it's magically re-enabled itself. Please adjust your replies, since I can't seem to... Hi Julie, You can just add a note in your signature or something about making sure they reply to the list rather than you

Re: [newbie] locked directory

2005-01-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 00:07, Julie Sloan wrote: snip I disabled my reply to option in webmail but it's magically re-enabled itself. Please adjust your replies, since I can't seem to... /snip Julie, why are you using webmail ??? While you are in the process of installing Mozilla, just

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:33, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:58, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:43, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:33, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:58, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Andy Yankovich
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: huge snip 2) Install thundirbird urpmi mozilla-thunderbird http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1md k.i586.rpm snip Avi When I typed step 2 as root I typed as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# urpmi

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:17, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: huge snip 2) Install thundirbird urpmi mozilla-thunderbird http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1md k.i586.rpm snip Avi When I typed step 2 as

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:15, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:43, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:33, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:58, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Andy Yankovich
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. There is Evolution 2.0, Sylpheed-Claws, Balsa, Mozilla-Mail,

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. There

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Andy Yankovich
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: It should already be in your system menus - under Internet = Email; but

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread RickSisler
Andy Yankovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. There is

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Avi Schwartz
Andy Yankovich wrote: Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Samba Newbie!

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Adolf
On Monday 24 January 2005 06:09 am, et wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:22 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 02:19 pm, Siposs Attila wrote: 2005. január 23. 17.12 dátummal Mike Adolf ezt írta: I recently went to 10.1 and now would like to set up a simple home network

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 24 January 2005 04:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Thanks, will do.  I like to leave this puter in linux at night anyway.   The screensaver gives off more light to see my way to the john.  It is also a nice level to wake your eyes up to.  I use the linux slide show as screensaver.

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:14:42 + On Monday 24 January 2005 05:32, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP There are instruction on compiling new kernels

[newbie] 10.1 missing icons

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Adolf
I was doing the QT designer tutorial, it directed me to browse to locate an icon called tabwidget.png. This icon and others used in the tutorial are not in my installation of 10.1, which includes the development packages. All autoupdates were also run during installation. Is this an oversite

Re: [newbie] 10.1 missing icons

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:21, Mike Adolf wrote: I was doing the QT designer tutorial, it directed me to browse to locate an icon called tabwidget.png. This icon and others used in the tutorial are not in my installation of 10.1, which includes the development packages. All autoupdates were

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: It should already

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2005-01-25 Thread mandrake
This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. = In This Message = 1. General Mailing list info 2. List Archives 3. Leaving the list 4. List news 5. List Etiquette 6. Twiki

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-25 Thread Erylon Hines
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:28 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Tuesday 25 Jan 2005 14:57, Lanman wrote: | Hi Gang. I've been trying to find out how to permanently modify the | KDE3.2 and 3.3 menus and I'm not getting anywhere. | | When things

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-25 Thread Margot
Lanman wrote: Hi Gang. I've been trying to find out how to permanently modify the KDE3.2 and 3.3 menus and I'm not getting anywhere. For instance, if I add/delete entries in the KDE menu using menudrake, (selecting the System Menu option), those changes are saved, however, as soon as I re-open