Re: [newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 05:21, 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] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 01:27, JoeHill wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 16:46, 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

Re: [newbie] Desktop Background program

2005-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 23:44, Travis Crook wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, 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 Depends on what you are trying to

Re: [newbie] You probably already know this

2005-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 03:05, 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

Re: [newbie] Creative Muvo player works great in 10.1

2005-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 06:24, rikona wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread David G Stevenson
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One of the biggest sites on the web is driven by Perl (IMDb.com).

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi

2005-02-16 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Yes it does thank you. I looked for an explanation of urpmi worked (googled) but got sites with mirrors without explanation. I had hoped I would learn by doing! So thanks for the explanation - it clarifies things for me. Rosemary, have you read

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One of

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-Claws

2005-02-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
Thanks all. I switched from manual only to never on the error notification and the problem went away. Lee On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:41:53 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List I have one annoying problem with Sylpheed-Claws after months of usage. When it goes out to

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread David G Stevenson
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around.

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

2005-02-16 Thread M.Schild
Thirdly, the present Patent issue is just delayed, not removed.   No matter what the various parliaments (including the EU Parliament) decides, the Politburo doesn't care one bit.   Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia etc..  still owns the Commissars, the Eurocrats and  politicians. Yes but parts of

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

2005-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 11:53, M.Schild wrote: Thirdly, the present Patent issue is just delayed, not removed.   No matter what the various parliaments (including the EU Parliament) decides, the Politburo doesn't care one bit. Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia etc..  still owns the

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:31, David G Stevenson wrote: Slighty OT: Yes, your original poster simply wanted GUI editor. I just wanted to suggest an alternative to PHP which people tend to forget in favour of the current 'popular' choice. I do feel that while languages come and go and others

Re: [newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 05:21, 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

RE: [newbie] Norton Ghost

2005-02-16 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:06 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Norton Ghost -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 10:54, Al Yaemes wrote: Hi all,

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

2005-02-16 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
While I agree that this is an important issue and that you are all on the right side, I think that you cannot deny that talking about the EU-politburo is FUD as well. Giving examples of patents on sandwiches, one-click ordering systems or browser-plugins is not the way to go either, however stupid

Re: [newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-16 Thread BJ Tracy
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:53, Aron Smith wrote: Where should all the files go so my gui will know where it is? Why don't you just get the rpm package throuh urpmi ? SNIP Where do you go for that? BJ Want to buy your Pack or Services

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

2005-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 13:53, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: While I agree that this is an important issue and that you are all on the right side, I think that you cannot deny that talking about the EU-politburo is FUD as well. Giving examples of patents on sandwiches, one-click ordering

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread BJ Tracy
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 06:34, John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:31, David G Stevenson wrote: Slighty OT: Yes, your original poster simply wanted GUI editor. I just wanted to suggest an alternative to PHP which people tend to forget in favour of the current 'popular' choice. I do

Re: [newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 13:27, BJ Tracy wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:53, Aron Smith wrote: Where should all the files go so my gui will know where it is? Why don't you just get the rpm package throuh urpmi ? SNIP Where do you go for

[newbie] login in to shell as default

2005-02-16 Thread Michael Hahn
Sorry for such a basic question - but I installed Mandrake 10.1 last night ona server I'm setting up, and I wanted it to default to the shell, rather than KDE, on boot. I can't seem to figure out how to bypass the very pretty, but unnessary, to even get it to just the shell.

Re: [newbie] login in to shell as default

2005-02-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Michael Hahn wrote: Sorry for such a basic question - but I installed Mandrake 10.1 last night on a server I'm setting up, and I wanted it to default to the shell, rather than KDE, on boot. I can't seem to figure out how to bypass the very pretty, but unnessary, to even get it to just the

Re: [newbie] login in to shell as default

2005-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 15:31, Michael Hahn wrote: Sorry for such a basic question - but I installed Mandrake 10.1 last night on a server I'm setting up, and I wanted it to default to the shell, rather than KDE, on boot. I can't seem to figure out how to bypass the very pretty, but

Re: [newbie] Scientific Citation Manager software?

2005-02-16 Thread Q.H. Wang
http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ I have used the latest version of JabRef 1.7beta for some time. It's very powerful to manage your bibliography! Have a try! Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] MySQL

2005-02-16 Thread SOTL
Hi All As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data base using MySQL. I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions that are not answered in the book. This computer is set up with all data located on a separate partition called

Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-16 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:41 pm, 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

[newbie] winmodem problems

2005-02-16 Thread jallan6977
I just tried the following commands and got these results. Minicom is installed. echo atz1/dev/ttys3echo atz1/dev/ttys3 ;it seems the modem answered correct? rm-f/dev/modemp===command not found? in-s/dev/ttys3=command not found

Re: [newbie] winmodem problems

2005-02-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried the following commands and got these results. Minicom is installed. echo atz1/dev/ttys3echo atz1/dev/ttys3 ;it seems the modem answered correct? rm-f/dev/modemp===command not found? in-s/dev/ttys3=command

Re: [newbie] winmodem problems

2005-02-16 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 01:51 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried the following commands and got these results. Minicom is installed. echo atz1/dev/ttys3echo atz1/dev/ttys3 ;it seems the modem answered correct?

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

2005-02-16 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Bryan Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:23 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access On Tuesday 15 February 2005 13:00, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 15,

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

2005-02-16 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:52:22 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: It ain't all bad, a united Europe has more of a chance of standing up to this sort of corporate extortion, IMO. Well Joe, first and foremost : EUrabia will never be united. On the contrary, it is decaying

[newbie] Maintenance, what if any?

2005-02-16 Thread Tim
Hi all, I noticed a few days ago somebody mentioned deleting log files tmp files, is this necessary? If so what else should i be doing? If i don't will it have an adverse affect on my system? The reason i ask is i,ve noticed Firefox Thunderbird are taking longer to load, only a few seconds

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

2005-02-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 03:56 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:52:22 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: It ain't all bad, a united Europe has more of a chance of standing up to this sort of corporate extortion, IMO. Well Joe, first and foremost : EUrabia

Re: [newbie] Maintenance, what if any?

2005-02-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 05:06 pm, Tim wrote: Hi all, I noticed a few days ago somebody mentioned deleting log files tmp files, is this necessary? If so what else should i be doing? If i don't will it have an adverse affect on my system? The reason i ask is i,ve noticed Firefox

[newbie] mandrake 10.1 fresh install color depth problem

2005-02-16 Thread song
Hi all, I have this in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Virtual 1280

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

2005-02-16 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:34:13 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: And *he * says that the OT list is opinionated. No, no, I said it was a 'shithole'. Don't misquote me ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:58:55 up 45 days, 9:40, 8 users, load average: 0.57, 0.17,

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

2005-02-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:02 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:34:13 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: And *he * says that the OT list is opinionated. No, no, I said it was a 'shithole'. Don't misquote me ;-) like I said ;-)

Re: [newbie] winmodem problems

2005-02-16 Thread jallan6977
On 16 Feb 2005 at 14:48, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 01:51 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried the following commands and got these results. Minicom is installed. echo atz1/dev/ttys3echo atz1/dev/ttys3 ;it

Re: [newbie] mandrake 10.1 fresh install color depth problem

2005-02-16 Thread et
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:41 pm, song wrote: Hi all, I have this in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection

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

2005-02-16 Thread et
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:02 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:34:13 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: And *he * says that the OT list is opinionated. No, no, I said it was a 'shithole'. Don't misquote me ;-) you can't buy advertising like that,,, I tell ya,,,

[newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux

2005-02-16 Thread Michael Hahn
First, thanks for the advice about how to get a shell instead of a KDE session. Worked like a charm. Second, the box I'm planning to use as a server is a HP pavilion 503n, which has a RTL8139 Nic included in the motherboard. I've been trying to get the machine up on the network, but each time I

Re: [newbie] Maintenance, what if any?

2005-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 February 2005 01:06, Tim wrote: Hi all, I noticed a few days ago somebody mentioned deleting log files tmp files, is this necessary? If so what else should i be doing? If i don't will it have an adverse affect on my system? The reason i ask is i,ve noticed Firefox

Re: [newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux

2005-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:59, Michael Hahn wrote: First, thanks for the advice about how to get a shell instead of a KDE session. Worked like a charm. Second, the box I'm planning to use as a server is a HP pavilion 503n, which has a RTL8139 Nic included in the motherboard. I've been

Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:03 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: 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. Those things are gettng harder and harder to give away. -- /g

Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-16 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:11, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:03 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: 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. Those things are gettng harder and harder to give

Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-16 Thread Amy
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:09:57 +1300, Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:11, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:03 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread SnapafunFrank
BJ Tracy wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 06:34, John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:31, David G Stevenson wrote: Slighty OT: Yes, your original poster simply wanted GUI editor. I just wanted to suggest an alternative to PHP which people tend to forget in favour of the current 'popular'