Re: [newbie] Task Manager

2005-02-09 Thread Margot
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Task Manager Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:28:00 -0500 On February 8, 2005 10:03 pm, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: As a old Windows user, I find really useful the

Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read

2005-02-09 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Well - I have an install - did not get GUI up so obviously have a couple of things to sort out. LILO worked great - so thank you to those who helped. I'll reboot to Mdk and see what I can work out. Printer is perfect! Thanks Rosemary Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 February 2005 23:25, you

[newbie] Mandrake 10.1 install

2005-02-09 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Well I am delighted I have an install, but obviously some issue to sort out. I am *very* inexperienced re command line etc but have used it with explicit instructions! Problem - boot to linux and get the usual lines of info about stuff loading, when I expect/hope/am used a GUI getting lines

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 install

2005-02-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 10:43, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Well I am delighted I have an install, but obviously some issue to sort out. I am *very* inexperienced re command line etc but have used it with explicit instructions! Problem - boot

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 install

2005-02-09 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Okay thanks Anne - will try that on next boot. Actually - one thing I did notice was - boot sort of froze on first install attempts. Then when install actualy happened, by accident ii had printer and scanner disconnected. - install went ahead - seems too co-incidental. Thanks Rosemary Anne

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 install

2005-02-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 12:22, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay thanks Anne - will try that on next boot. Actually - one thing I did notice was - boot sort of froze on first install attempts. Then when install actualy happened, by accident ii

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with Linux on it in the machine when you

[newbie] graphics question

2005-02-09 Thread Omar
Hi all, Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is there a way to do this in Mandrake 10.1. I recall having this kind of

[newbie] Data Base Help

2005-02-09 Thread SOTL
Hi All I have a problem with what I am trying to accomplish which begans with I have no idea of what I need to do technically to accomplish my objective so hence this posting. Basic objective is a data base of clients along with their address phone numbers, contact names, and preferences plus

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to

[newbie] A touch of humour

2005-02-09 Thread Lanman
http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/102722.html Enjoy! -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner

2005-02-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:38 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another 'engine' in Audacity it

Re: [newbie] graphics question

2005-02-09 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 14:28, Omar wrote: Hi all, Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is there a way to do this in

[newbie] Too True!

2005-02-09 Thread Lanman
http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/24861.html Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] A touch of humour

2005-02-09 Thread Miark
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:48:35 -0500, Lanman wrote: http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/102722.html Enjoy! Very funny! Now how do I get a copy? I can get the video with the following URL: http://www.novell.com/img/flash/n_fader.swf?streamIn=/video/win_nt/win_nt.flv But I dunno how to

Re: [newbie] Task Manager

2005-02-09 Thread Miark
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:03:34 -0800, Fernando wrote: ...this email is for asking if some already knows of an application as the Task manager, so I don't waste time programming such application... gps (kinda like top, but graphical) Miark

Re: [newbie] Data Base Help

2005-02-09 Thread David G Stevenson
SOTL wrote: Hi All I have a problem with what I am trying to accomplish which begans with I have no idea of what I need to do technically to accomplish my objective so hence this posting. Basic objective is a data base of clients along with their address phone numbers, contact names, and

Re: [newbie] graphics question - semi HiJack

2005-02-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 15:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 09 February 2005 14:28, Omar wrote: Hi all, Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want

[newbie] GTK+ 2x pixbuf

2005-02-09 Thread Paul
Hi folks, Can someone point me to the right package(s) to install GTK2 pixbuf? I have gtk2+ installed (Mandrake 10.0), but I need forementioned package(s) to compile Sylpheed 1.9.x sources... Paul -- Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your

Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner

2005-02-09 Thread rikona
Hello Aron, Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 7:00:13 AM, Aron wrote: AS On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:38 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, but xmms and

[newbie] Program to manage an archive of books

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list.

Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books

2005-02-09 Thread Dan Gordon
On February 9, 2005 03:56 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that

Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner

2005-02-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:53 am, rikona wrote: Hello Aron, Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 7:00:13 AM, Aron wrote: AS On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:38 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3

[newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-09 Thread Mike Adolf
After installing 10.1 my zip was not recognized, no entry in fstab. Tried to create device using Create New/Device/Zip Device from the desktop (right click). An icon appeared but it won't mount (as root). Tried to create a device using makedev /dev/hdd4 (4 since I want vfat and windows uses

Re: [newbie] Life............

2005-02-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 22:10, Charlie wrote: I'm actually pleased that you did Anne, because it was a wrong click of the mouse that sent it to the list. I was in a bit of a rush. Got a shock when I saw it returned to me, then thought that

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 20:02, Mike Adolf wrote: After installing 10.1 my zip was not recognized, no entry in fstab. Tried to create device using Create New/Device/Zip Device from the desktop (right click). An icon appeared but it won't mount

Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:24:23 -0500, Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Tellico is the program you want. Just type in a terminal as

[newbie] Amarok not starting.

2005-02-09 Thread Simon
Hi, I am on Mdk 10.1 and had got Amarok running OK. But after trying out Xmms and installing and uninstalling other sound programs I can't get Amarok to run. This is the output from a terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ amarok [amaroK loader] connecting to

Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?

2005-02-09 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 8, 2005 16:25, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 21:09, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 8, 2005 00:30, Anne Wilson wrote: ... I meant the Community TWiki :-) Look at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes. That page is a child page of

[newbie] Hard disk partitioning detection

2005-02-09 Thread Melkisedec
Hi to you all, Have recently add a 80 GB hard disk on my PC. Have windows 98 SE intalled on it and Linux Mandrake 10.0 installed on my old 10 GB hard disk. Because my Bios is old I had to use a Dinamic drive overlay so the computer doesn't halt at the POST and to recognise all the partitions on

Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books

2005-02-09 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 03:24 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On February 9, 2005 03:56 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Thanks in

Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books

2005-02-09 Thread Dan Gordon
On February 9, 2005 08:50 pm, Chris wrote: I agreen Dan, Tellico is fantastic, does books, and others as well. Do you know why the author changed the name from Bookcase to Tellico? I think it is because the person(s) maintaining it changed hands. Regardless it does not matter it is a great

Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books

2005-02-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:50:20 -0600 Chris wrote: I agreen Dan, Tellico is fantastic, does books, and others as well. Do you know why the author changed the name from Bookcase to Tellico? * Tue Oct 19 2004 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0.12-1mdk - Renamed to Tellico because of trademark

Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books

2005-02-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:50:20 -0600 Chris wrote: I agreen Dan, Tellico is fantastic, does books, and others as well. Do you know why the author changed the name from Bookcase to Tellico? * Tue Oct 19 2004 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0.12-1mdk - Renamed to Tellico because of trademark

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 install checking for new hardware

2005-02-09 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I didn't have this problem myself, but I know some others have had, and I think they were cured by adding peripherals back after install. I'm not sure whether ohci, uhci and hotplug were all installed at initial installation, or whether they had to be added as well. Keep us informed of your

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel Big SNIP to focus on problem- made by Frank #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 # label=linux90 # table=/dev/hdb # image=/boot/vmlinuz #

Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?

2005-02-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 23:01, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Know what I'd like to see? A script or wizard that would extract all known hardware info and bring up a list for you to check off worked first time, worked with tweaking (and a place to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 install checking for new hardware

2005-02-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 05:35, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: The other thing I forgot to say, was that on the first boot after install I received a message saying 'Welcome to first boot' but mouse wouldn't work. I thought it was detected correctly