Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download

2005-02-15 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Rosemary, perhaps it is time you learned the find command. Open a command line window (konsole or Eterm or xterm or rxvt or gnuterm or whatever), and type the following: find /home/rosemary -name \*thunderbird\* -print This will show you the location of anything containing the string

Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download

2005-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 06:28, riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 05:00 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Which download manager did you use? Mike The one in mozilla a look at the default settings, might

Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download

2005-02-15 Thread SnapafunFrank
riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 03:45 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? ___ ~ perhaps, it is handy to install : findutils-locate . . . that way, you could command : updatedb and,

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-15 Thread SnapafunFrank
RickSisler wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all, Decided to have a look at this and see if I could figure it out. Now I'm stuck. This is the last few lines of my terminal ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.plf-free.cz]

[newbie] EU software patents : Blackmail

2005-02-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
From today's Danish newspapers : Bill Gates threatens to close Navision in Denmark http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=2891396/ Kaj haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8*

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting

2005-02-15 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:32:42 -0800 Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. Maybe this is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting

2005-02-15 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:56:59 - Noel McG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been following this thread with interest. ' host the domains yourself ' just how would one do this please? By using the DNS-server (Bind) that is coming with Mandrake. /Anders

Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download

2005-02-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:45, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? Thanks Rosemary In Linux

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting

2005-02-15 Thread David G Stevenson
Noel McG. wrote: - Original Message - From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:32:42 -0800 Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all.

Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 14 February 2005 20:55, Melissa Allen wrote: I have located the download page for the driver for my particular Intel PCI modem and for Mandrake 10 and up. I'll guess that I need the version for the default configured Mandrake 10.0 system, but what is the SMP configured system?

Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download

2005-02-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:25 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Installing from RPM packages is much easier ~ ___ ~ to install, prolly as root, command :- rpm -Uvh /path/package-name.rpm . If, later, you wish to see what version you have installed,

Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download

2005-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 11:17, riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:25 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Installing from RPM packages is much easier ~ ___ ~ to install, prolly as root, command :- rpm -Uvh

[newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Here is what you can expect when the EU directive gets approved : quote Working closely with the patent office Mr Holland eventually settled for his now granted patent on methods of inserting food or beverage into the mouth for chewing, in order to be later swallowed and digested by the

RE: [newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-15 Thread Hugh Dixon
-Original Message- From: Bryan Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 15-Feb-05 22:07 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Cc: Subject:Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!) On Monday 14 February 2005 20:55, Melissa Allen wrote: I have located the download page for

Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:57, Hugh Dixon wrote: Just a remark for others to comment on. My understanding (very preliminary) is that the Intel Hyper Threading technology (Pentium 4 3.2 GHz for example) uses the SMP kernel. The Hyper Threading Technology (copyright etc?) makes the

RE: [newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-15 Thread Hugh Dixon
-Original Message- From: Bryan Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 15-Feb-05 23:44 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Cc: Subject:Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!) On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:57, Hugh Dixon wrote: Just a remark for others to comment on.

[newbie] Re: Error in autoinstall Oops, no root partition

2005-02-15 Thread Anthony Brooks
Bambang A. B. Sarif wrote: I followed the instruction in the following web site: http://members.shaw.ca/mandrake/drakx/HTML/index.html However, the installation failed at the partitioning steps with error message: Oops, no root partition at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps.pm line 204

[newbie] [Installation] Error on booting from cd - Unable to mount root fs

2005-02-15 Thread James Nunnerley
Hi all, Ive just tried to install Mandrake 10.1, but it keeps coming up with the following: (this is the last three lines of the output) RAMDISK: Compress image found at block 0 Invalid compressed format (err=2) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,3)

Re: [newbie] [Installation] Error on booting from cd - Unable to mount root fs

2005-02-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:01 pm, James Nunnerley wrote: Can anyone assist with what the problem is likely to be? ___ ~ maybe a module. such as Reiser file system is not loading? best rgds Want to buy your Pack or

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 19:50, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Yes - if I'm not to be red-faced for evermore I need to write a bit for the TWiki. There are good install instructions specifically for Mandrake, which should be perfect if

[newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-15 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off list please.) 1st come 1st served. Ta, Jamie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] [Installation] Error on booting from cd - Unable to mount root fs

2005-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:52 am, riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:01 pm, James Nunnerley wrote: Can anyone assist with what the problem is likely to be? ___ ~ maybe a module. such as Reiser file system is not loading? best rgds More likely

Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:07 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 14 February 2005 20:55, Melissa Allen wrote: I have located the download page for the driver for my particular Intel PCI modem and for Mandrake 10 and up. snip g Just because I might learn something, I'll try installing

[newbie] OpenOffice - Database Section

2005-02-15 Thread linuxgirlie
Hi, Some of you may of heard of this via other mailing lists, but we need help raising money for the database section of OpenOffice in version 2.0. This may not be that important for end users, but is a major function needed for UK schools as most will not leave Microsoft Office without it.

Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:29 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here is what you can expect when the EU directive gets approved : quote Working closely with the patent office Mr Holland eventually settled for his now granted patent on methods of inserting food or beverage into the mouth for

[newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, After a bit of a break from the Linux world, I'd like to start looking into real world implementations again =). So here's the senario at the moment. I have an old box I'd like use as an experemental intranet server. I installed Mandrake 10.1 w/Apache, ssh, ftp, and webmin. My goal is

Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 16:53, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:29 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here is what you can expect when the EU directive gets approved : quote Working closely with the patent office Mr Holland eventually settled for his now granted patent

Re: [newbie] Norton Ghost

2005-02-15 Thread Cdrack
There is a command line option called dd find about it at the man... man dd El sb, 08-01-2005 a las 23:54 +1300, Al Yaemes escribi: Hi all, Is there a freeware app similar to Norton Ghost? TIA Shaz Documento texto plano adjunto (message.footer)

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello all, Decided to have a look at this and see if I could figure it out. Now I'm stuck. This is the last few lines of my terminal ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.plf-free.cz]

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, After a bit of a break from the Linux world, I'd like to start looking into real world implementations again =). So here's the senario at the moment. I have an old box I'd like use as an experemental intranet server. I installed Mandrake 10.1 w/Apache, ssh, ftp, and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Thread et
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, After a bit of a break from the Linux world, I'd like to start looking into real world implementations again =). So here's the senario at the moment. I have an old box I'd like use as an experemental intranet server. I installed Mandrake 10.1

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Adolf wrote: Mike, Don't worry about it. It sound like the driver is doing something for you that I wasn't expecting. In the long run, it will make things less complicated for people. It will make things interesting for people with both 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels, but things are interesting for

[newbie] Re: Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Thread Anthony Brooks
Tango Echo wrote: Install went fine using the Higher security level. However, I am unable to ssh into the box even though the service is running.  A quick look into the hosts.deny and it's set for ALL.  Changes to this file only seem to be reverted back thanks to msec. Make the changes to

[newbie] file recovery tools

2005-02-15 Thread Q.H. Wang
Hi folks, Could any one please tell me a nice file or data recovery tools? I have installed testdisk but I found it 's not very much easy to use. What I want is some kind tools which can, e.g., recovery files deleted unintentionally. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Bests,

Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:48, Carroll Grigsby wrote: While I agree that an external serial modem is the best solution for a desktop, I'm not sure that it is a realistic solution for a laptop. I differ. A lot of people carry around a bag for a laptop, especially since most power supplies

[newbie] minicom

2005-02-15 Thread jallan6977
Can anyone suggest a simple route for downloading minicom suitable for use in ML 8.2. What I found left me wondering if I was looking at the right thing. I have little to no knowledge in linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Thunderbird preview pane

2005-02-15 Thread Julie Sloan
Now I have a Thunderbird question. When this happened this morning I remembered it was why I quit using TB last time and went back to Kontact: In the preview pane of messages I don't get the whole message. If I open the message separate (like, double-click it) then in the new window I

[newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread h k ball
... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition with Partition

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-15 Thread Michel Leunen
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Okay, if you've already done an urpme kdebase, then double-check that your urpmi sources are correct (make sure you're not pointing at cooker or something like that), and do an urpmi kdebase. Theoretically, that should make all your KDE stuff usable again. Actually,

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-15 Thread dduffner
This is a text file and is not executable. If you want to look at it, type the following: more /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg Dennis Hello all, Decided to have a look at this and see if I could figure it out. Now I'm stuck. This is the last few lines of my terminal ...retrieving done

Re: [newbie] Norton Ghost

2005-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 10:54, Al Yaemes wrote: Hi all, Is there a freeware app similar to Norton Ghost? Look for PartImage Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Thread Lanman
Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, After a bit of a break from the Linux world, I'd like to start looking into real world implementations again =). So here's the senario at the moment. I have an old box I'd like use as an experemental intranet server. I installed Mandrake 10.1 w/Apache, ssh, ftp, and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Thread H. Crissman
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:15 am, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, After a bit of a break from the Linux world, I'd like to start looking into real world implementations again =). So here's the senario at the moment. I have an old box I'd like use as an experemental intranet server. I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 15, 2005 09:15, Tango Echo wrote: ... Install went fine using the Higher security level. However, I am unable to ssh into the box even though the service is running. A quick look into the hosts.deny and it's set for ALL. Changes to this file only seem to be reverted back thanks

Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:07 pm, h k ball wrote: have not been able to get out of the dos mode and into the windows mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?? __ ~ maybe, log-on as User [ your personal user name ] [ not as root ] then, as User, execute command :-

Re: [newbie] minicom

2005-02-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suggest a simple route for downloading minicom suitable for use in ML 8.2 _ ~ maybe, go to www.google.com then, insert in Search Box :- Minicom + download best rgds ___

Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
h k ball wrote: ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition with

Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 19:07, h k ball wrote: ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place Hi, hk, and welcome! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... ---

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird preview pane

2005-02-15 Thread Julie Sloan
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:53 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Now I have a Thunderbird question. In the preview pane of messages I don't get the whole message. If I open the message separate (like, double-click it) then in the new window I can scroll and see the whole message, but not in the

Re: [unclassified] Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 19:33, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne, I have a definite weakness for unusual hardware. I am definitely interested, but the shipping costs may make it impractical. It would be different if we were in the same country. But

[newbie] minicom

2005-02-15 Thread jallan6977
Can anyone suggest a simple route for downloading minicom suitable for use in ML 8.2. What I found left me wondering if I was looking at the right thing. I have little to no knowledge in linux. Forget it. I found it not installed, did install it, but something is not kosher.

Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 20:07, h k ball wrote: ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... - --- so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2

Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:46 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 16:53, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:29 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here is what you can expect when the EU directive gets approved quote Working closely with the patent

Re: [newbie] minicom

2005-02-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you never hear from me again it means the darn thing blew up and I was killed in the explosion:) please, be careful:-O ~ maybe you need minicom for a special reason . . . wvdial works a charm, and

Re: [newbie] minicom

2005-02-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something flashes on the screen and dissappears before I see it, almost. __ ~ maybe if you give the run command in a Console window, then you will be able to read that elusive message? or, maybe, try run-command

Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread hkball
Hi Anne ... ... nice to be here, I'm really really green, nothing but MS windows experience ... ... no don't need any game stuff ... ... typed XFDrake, got command not found ... ... nosing around, found the following KDE files in /usr/bin (number is filoe size): kde* 24bytes kdecode*

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 13:00, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 15, 2005 09:15, Tango Echo wrote: ... Install went fine using the Higher security level. However, I am unable to ssh into the box even though the service is running. A quick look into the hosts.deny and it's set for

Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread hkball
Hi Kaj ... ... typed startx (no quotes), got xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority ... then ... fatal server error: . ... etc etc, a bunch of other error messages ... tried again from /root, same result .. ... on your booting directly approach, I don't know yet how to

Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:16 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:46 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 16:53, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:29 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here is what you can expect when the EU directive

Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority ___- ~ try deleting that .Xauthority file best not to use KDE to log on to Internet Log on to internet only as User. Have you yet set up X-windows using XF86 ,

Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread hkball
Hello Ricardo ... ... how do I delete a file ? (I am very newbie) ... ... how log on to internet as User ? ... no, have not set up anything, don't no how ... have only logged in and nosed around a bit using ls, cd, etc HK -Original Message- From: riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 21:16, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:46 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 16:53, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:29 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here is what you can expect when the EU directive gets

[newbie] Internet connection

2005-02-15 Thread SOTL
Hi All Have a new issue for the developers. I performed the following action: Physically connected computer to Internet by eathernet on RJ45 port, booted computer, browsed web, disconnected physicall eathernet at RJ45 to connect to hub, and lost internet connection ability. Attempted to

[newbie] laptop batteries

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Kaplan
Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable, inexpensive source of replacement laptop batteries? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-15 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Well my plans are moving ahead and I need to know if there is a user friendly web page design software package for linux that those of you have used and like. I'm using Mandrake 10.0. TIA B.J. Tracy Registered Linux User 364157 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] minicom

2005-02-15 Thread SOTL
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 13:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest a simple route for downloading minicom suitable for use in ML 8.2. What I found left me wondering if I was looking at the right thing. I have little to no knowledge in linux. Would strongly suggest you

RE: [newbie] laptop batteries

2005-02-15 Thread Martell, Larry
Title: [newbie] laptop batteries Paul Kaplan wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable, inexpensive source of replacement laptop batteries? I've been very happy with: http://www.notebook-battery-for-less.com/ -larry

[newbie] Desktop Background program

2005-02-15 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, Quick question: when I try and manage my desktop background I get the following error message. The diagnostics is: Possible reasons: An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module You have old third party modules lying around. Check these points

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-15 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:33 -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well my plans are moving ahead and I need to know if there is a user friendly web page design software package for linux that those of you have used and like. I'm using Mandrake 10.0. TIA B.J. Tracy You might like NVU

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-15 Thread Mike Adolf
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:19 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: Mike, Don't worry about it. It sound like the driver is doing something for you that I wasn't expecting. In the long run, it will make things less complicated for people. It will make things interesting for

Re: [newbie] minicom

2005-02-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest a simple route for downloading minicom suitable for use in ML 8.2. What I found left me wondering if I was looking at the right thing. I have little to no knowledge in linux. Forget it. I found it not installed, did install it, but something is

Re: [newbie] minicom

2005-02-15 Thread Bill Spatz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to setup a symlink:rm-f /dev/modemp 1n-s /dev/ttysx ;x in my

Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download

2005-02-15 Thread mike
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:27, mike wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has

Re: [newbie] Internet connection

2005-02-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: Hi All Have a new issue for the developers. I performed the following action: Physically connected computer to Internet by eathernet on RJ45 port, booted computer, browsed web, disconnected physicall eathernet at RJ45 to connect to hub, and lost internet connection ability.

Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-15 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:12:31 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Anyway, the EU doesn't have a head (=brain) Apparently some of them do: Quote: The Commission regrets very much that the software patent will not be on the agenda. It has been removed, Commission spokesman Olivier

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-15 Thread Kenneth Rhodes
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:33 -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well my plans are moving ahead and I need to know if there is a user friendly web page design software package for linux that those of you have used and like. I'm using Mandrake 10.0. TIA B.J. Tracy I am a novice at

[newbie] You probably already know this

2005-02-15 Thread Aron Smith
In 10.1 if you hit the left Win$ux key you will bring up the Srar menu in KDE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] You probably already know this

2005-02-15 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:45:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: In 10.1 if you hit the left Win$ux key you will bring up the Srar menu in KDE Heh. Soon people won't even be able to tell whether they're using Win or Lin. 'Cept for the crashin' and burnin' and viruses and worms and

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-15 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:02:39 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've added a section to the PopFile page on the TWiki at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PopFile#Using_upgrade_to_change_to_an_orthodox_install Wonderful. Thanks. I'll try it out soon. :-) -- Chuck MATTSEN /

Re: [newbie] You probably already know this

2005-02-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 05:29 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:45:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: In 10.1 if you hit the left Win$ux key you will bring up the Srar menu in KDE Heh. Soon people won't even be able to tell whether they're using Win or Lin.

Re: [newbie] You probably already know this

2005-02-15 Thread David
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:45:56 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #In 10.1 if you hit the left Win$ux key you will bring up the Srar menu in KDE # No I didn't, cool, but I discovered by accident the other day that if i use the 'menu' key (ie the one to the right of the rh M$ key) in a

Re: [newbie] You probably already know this

2005-02-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:05 pm, David wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:45:56 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #In 10.1 if you hit the left Win$ux key you will bring up the Srar menu in KDE # No I didn't, cool, but I discovered by accident the other day that if i use the 'menu'

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-15 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Rosemary, it is not telling you to write the config file, it is saying that it has written the config file for you. Now if you want a file like ksetiwatch for instance, all you do is type as su a command urpmi ksetiwatch and if you have that file on one of your urpmi mirrors it will start

Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download

2005-02-15 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:23, mike wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:27, mike wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download manager says

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2005-02-15 Thread mandrake
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Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:46 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Rosemary, it is not telling you to write the config file, it is saying that it has written the config file for you. Now if you want a file like ksetiwatch for instance, all you do is type as su a command urpmi ksetiwatch

[newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-15 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, I just downloaded Firefox 1.0 and placed the tar.gz in my home directory, did the tar and installed it. However during the install it was placed in my directory. Where should all the files go so my gui will know where it is? TIA, B.J. Tracy Registered Linux User 364157

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-15 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Your welcome, after I sent it I thought it was either to simple or to harsh sounding, and I did not mean for it to be either. Once you get the hang of all this you will find that it is much more satisfying because you have control and can do as you want with your computer and know why

[newbie] keyboard problem

2005-02-15 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hello listers, Sorry to have so many questions. I noticed that keys aren't producing the letters/symbols that I am used to. e.g. @ is not in it's usual place as indicated on the keyboard, seems to have swapped with . There are others also. I think I must have selected UK keyboard instead

Re: [newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:21 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, I just downloaded Firefox 1.0 and placed the tar.gz in my home directory, did the tar and installed it. However during the install it was placed in my directory. Where should all the files go so my gui will know where it is?

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:46 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Your welcome, after I sent it I thought it was either to simple or to harsh sounding, and I did not mean for it to be either. Once you get the hang of all this you will find that it is much more satisfying because you

Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-15 Thread Duncan Anderson
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:48, Carroll Grigsby wrote: While I agree that an external serial modem is the best solution for a desktop, I'm not sure that it is a realistic solution for a laptop. I differ. A lot of people carry around a bag for a laptop, especially

RE: [newbie] Re: Error in autoinstall Oops, no root partition

2005-02-15 Thread Bambang A. B. Sarif
Thank you for your reply. I have 80G harddrive and 1G memory. I need to install two operating systems (two linux distros) in the workstation. So, 60G will be allocated for mandrake while the rest for the the other. I tried to remove the partitions part and put the following:

Re: [newbie] keyboard problem

2005-02-15 Thread Duncan Anderson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello listers, Sorry to have so many questions. I noticed that keys aren't producing the letters/symbols that I am used to. e.g. @ is not in it's usual place as indicated on the keyboard, seems to have swapped with . There are others also. I think I must have

[newbie] Creative Muvo player works great in 10.1

2005-02-15 Thread rikona
Just had a chance to plug in a USB Muvo player. Mounts fine, and looks like disk files -- except Konq knows they're mp3 files and displays all the info about the song - author, album, year, etc. Very nice! -- Best regards, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] keyboard problem

2005-02-15 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:06, Duncan Anderson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello listers, Sorry to have so many questions. I noticed that keys aren't producing the letters/symbols that I am used to. e.g. @ is not in it's usual place as indicated on the keyboard, seems to have swapped