Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Thursday 03 Mar 2005 21:16, Dennis wrote: Thanks Kasper --- Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #382526 - Original Message - From: Kasper Thunoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, March 03,

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Thursday 03 Mar 2005 23:02, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: How necessary is virus protection in linux _ Ones purpose may be prophylactic [ greek word for 'preventive' ]~ to prevent accidental transmission of virus,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: nice not to have to re-install and loose all  the data. _ ~ guess it is un-neccessary to lose any Data . . . ever :-O . . . have CRON Daemon do frequent backups

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 17:54, SigmaX wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: How necessary is virus protection in linux Not very. There are very few viruses or worms that are out there (That work) for UNIX-based systems. It's reported that there has never

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:57:13 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:40 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Sinux? Hmmm. porno

[newbie] Strange error when booting

2005-03-04 Thread Henriette Holm
Hi. I have a laptop running Mandrake 10.1. When I boot the computer I get the following error message: Mounting loopback filesystems: mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any

Re: [newbie] various issues - apology

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 20:54, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:36 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: you all do know that as root urpmi rute will install rute,, adn just typing 'rute' in a cli will start rute

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread Margot
Mr. Geek wrote: Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:20:28 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Hmmm - That could work! We could even add videos of Pamela

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: nice not to have to re-install and loose all  the data. _ ~ guess it is un-neccessary to lose any

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:04, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: SNIP Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line

[newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices

2005-03-04 Thread Paul Kaplan
I have a laptop that is normally connected throught a dock to an external monitor and keyboard. I can suspend it, disconnect from the dock, awaken, work, resuspend, return to my desk, re-connect to the dock and re-awaken. After re-awakening at the dock, none of my USB devices are reactivated

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 22:29, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 09:04, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: SNIP Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to

Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable

2005-03-04 Thread SnapafunFrank
SnapafunFrank wrote: Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable I have read the threads at k3b on this matter but am still unable to use k3b with confidence. Have 4 dvd-r coasters already. So hopefully someone here can assist in getting me to burn dvd's ? I'm running Mandrake 10 official

Re: [newbie] printer - yext not printing as preview shows

2005-03-04 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Printing out the Rute tutorial is about 1000 pages idf you must have a dead tree copy it would be cheaper to buy it http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-2635319-6707917 I am in NZ so postage costs negate that option. Also I only need a couple

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-04 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: nice not to have to re-install and loose all the data. _ ~

RE: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread Stefan Tulak
All thanks for you JoeHILL. But I'm not lookig for porn solutions. I'm looking for answer to my question. You're alone, who didn't write answer about GPRS modem. Do yuo know what is it. Where are you from? Are you from cave??? -Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Quotas :o(

2005-03-04 Thread Ken Walker
So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, so why are there two different groups. Why not just have one called mandrake-users Isn't it better to ask all groups relative to the same subject the same question, just in case one of those

Re: [newbie] printer - yext not printing as preview shows

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 23:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Printing out the Rute tutorial is about 1000 pages idf you must have a dead tree copy it would be cheaper to buy it http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-2635319-6707917 I am in NZ so postage

Re: [newbie] Strange error when booting

2005-03-04 Thread Dick Gevers
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:32:21 +0100, Henriette Holm wrote about [newbie] Strange error when booting: I have a laptop running Mandrake 10.1. When I boot the computer I get the following error message: Mounting loopback filesystems: mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread et
On Friday 04 March 2005 03:30 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:57:13 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:40 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro

Re: [newbie] Quotas :o(

2005-03-04 Thread et
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:20 am, Ken Walker wrote: So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, I am saying that the folks around both lists with the correct opinions are usaually on both lists. I am also saying that a search of the

Re: [newbie] Quotas :o(

2005-03-04 Thread Margot
Ken Walker wrote: So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, so why are there two different groups. Why not just have one called mandrake-users Isn't it better to ask all groups relative to the same subject the same question, just in case

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 02:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread Tom
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:18, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. Very funny comment indeed, Joe :-(

[newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Dan Gordon
On March 4, 2005 09:48 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it

[newbie] Matrox Mystique on 10.0

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Williams
I've been running a second monitor off a Matrox Mystique card for the last few weeks. I've been running M10.0/Official. After installing M10.1/Official, I'm getting some funky behavior on the screen the Matrox is driving. When I scroll in Konqueror, lines get doubled, images get corrupted, and

Re: [newbie] vim error

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Williams
Aron Smith wrote: Where should I look for a problem? try a reinstall of vim # That's such a... windowy solution. True but it do work and is easy to do Hmm... I just found out something interesting. Vi works fine in single monitor mode, but it gives me that odd message when I'm running both

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread SigmaX
et wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 03:30 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:57:13 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:40 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? Hmm, I thought that I did - maybe I got in a hurry and missed it (multiple times - shaking head at self). I'll

Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices

2005-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Kaplan wrote: I have a laptop that is normally connected throught a dock to an external monitor and keyboard. I can suspend it, disconnect from the dock, awaken, work, resuspend, return to my desk, re-connect to the dock and re-awaken. After re-awakening at the dock, none of my USB

Re: [newbie] Strange error when booting

2005-03-04 Thread Henriette Holm
Hi. I've attached two fstab files. The following commands executed as root gives: # chkconfig --list | grep dev rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off udev 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off # cat /etc/mtab | grep loop

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to

Re: [newbie] Strange error when booting

2005-03-04 Thread Dick Gevers
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:47:46 +0100, Henriette Holm wrote about Re: [newbie] Strange error when booting: /mnt/win_d/Mandrake10/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso /mnt/Mandrake10_cd1 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0 Comment the 4 lines containing loop (by preceding them with a # ) and

Re: [newbie] No sound suddenly

2005-03-04 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Friday 04 March 2005 08:46, Alejandro R. Estrada wrote: I have MDK 10.1 Community and I love it. Just recently, actually today I tried to play my reggae streams from http://www.bigupradio.com as usual with amarok, and it played fine, but with no sound. I tried opening Kmix to checked if

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

2005-03-04 Thread h k ball
... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make ... ... back in 1999 I bought Mandrake 6.0 ($35), tried putting it

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

2005-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
h k ball wrote: ... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make ... ... back in 1999 I bought Mandrake 6.0 ($35),

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread frengoGorgia
Il ven, 2005-03-04 alle 00:42, frengoGorgia ha scritto: Il gio, 2005-03-03 alle 15:34, Stefan Tulak ha scritto: Ive installed mandrakelinux for one month and Im very pleasured. Ive got mobilphone with GPRS and I dont know how to join it with PC, because software for my phone is made for

[newbie] VMware on a old computer

2005-03-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All A computer with 512MB of RAM, 80GB of free space in the hard disk, and a CPU Pentium III at the frequency of 600 MHz, can reasonably run VMware? If so, is VMware easy of installing? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] VMware on a old computer

2005-03-04 Thread Paul
Op Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:47:20 + schreef Paul Smith: A computer with 512MB of RAM, 80GB of free space in the hard disk, and a CPU Pentium III at the frequency of 600 MHz, can reasonably run VMware? If so, is VMware easy of installing? I ran it on a P-II 450Mhz with 10Gb, several years ago. So

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Thread rikona
Hello Derek, Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:29:09 AM, Derek wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, DJ

Re: [newbie] VMware on a old computer

2005-03-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:59:27 +0100, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A computer with 512MB of RAM, 80GB of free space in the hard disk, and a CPU Pentium III at the frequency of 600 MHz, can reasonably run VMware? If so, is VMware easy of installing? I ran it on a P-II 450Mhz with 10Gb, several

[newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files

2005-03-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am trying to install VMware 4.5.2, but I am getting this problem: «What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory.» Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 20:30, rikona wrote: Hello Derek, Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:29:09 AM, Derek wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up

Re: [newbie] No sound suddenly

2005-03-04 Thread Q.H. Wang
I almost was the the same situation as yours. You can reconfigure ALSA by alsactrl as a root. HTH. Q.H.Wang Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files

2005-03-04 Thread Paul
Op Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:25:08 + schreef Paul Smith: Dear All I am trying to install VMware 4.5.2, but I am getting this problem: «What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an

Re: [newbie] No sound suddenly

2005-03-04 Thread Q.H. Wang
I almost was the the same situation as yours. You can reconfigure ALSA by alsaconf as a root. HTH. Q.H.Wang Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] ADSL Dynamode USB Modem, HOW ???

2005-03-04 Thread Yoav Kleinberger
Hello there. How do I make my Dynamode M-ADSL-USB-C50 modem work on mandrake 10.1 ? Thanks very much Yoav. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files

2005-03-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:37:45 +0100, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install VMware 4.5.2, but I am getting this problem: «What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an

Re: [newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files

2005-03-04 Thread riccardo
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:25 pm, Paul Smith wrote: The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory _ ~ maybe, you need to install the kernel source + headers? best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices

2005-03-04 Thread Paul Kaplan
Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set to your address.

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

2005-03-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 04 March 2005 19:47, h k ball wrote: snip (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more

Re: [newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files

2005-03-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:50:28 +, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory _ ~ maybe, you need to install the kernel source + headers? Thanks, Riccardo. VMware is now installed on my computer. Paul

Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 23:07, Paul Kaplan wrote: Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set

Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices

2005-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Kaplan wrote: Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set to your address. It would depend on

Re: [newbie] Quotas :o(

2005-03-04 Thread yankl
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:20, Ken Walker wrote: So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, so why are there two different groups. Why not just have one called mandrake-users It how you try to answer in newbie one probably try to give

[newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all, Recently, while attempting to 'urpmi' a new program, I got the following message at the command line: unable to access hdlist file of eslrahc, medium ignored I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? cheers, -- Graham