Re: [newbie] workgroup

2005-03-07 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:28, Duncan Anderson wrote: The other newbie way is to install the drakwizard package and then use the Configure Samba wizard from MCC. cheers Duncan Erg...that's WAY too easy...gotta be more cryptic than that...(grin) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389

[newbie] TV Card picture ok as root, black and white as user.

2005-03-07 Thread steve.goodey
Hello, I have a TV card, Pinnacle PCTV with a PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 PCI graphics card. If I log on as root the TV card works a treat. If I logon as user everythiing again is ok apart from the picture being black and white. To me this is obviouusly a permissions problem. But I've tried

[newbie] Script for iptables

2005-03-07 Thread Dennis
How do I create a script for iptables? ---Dennis "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"Registered Linux User #382526

[newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install

2005-03-07 Thread Marcus Davage
Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the internet. He has an NTL cable modem. I've never had a problem

Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install

2005-03-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 07 March 2005 10:53, Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the

Re: [newbie] Script for iptables

2005-03-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 07 March 2005 11:09, Dennis wrote: How do I create a script for iptables? You can google for one. But is not the sort of thing a newbie needs to do. There are perfectly good front ends for iptables such as the shorewall firewall built into Mandrake that makes writing your own

[newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software Patent from an A-item to a B-item. So friends, that was it : forget

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software Patent from an

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 07 March 2005 13:20, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request

[newbie] Problem installing modem with intel 536PE chipset

2005-03-07 Thread emnej
I've been trying to install a PCI modem with an Intel 536ep chipset. Intel provides a driver for Mandrake 10.1 (which I'm running). This is what I did: 1. I downloaded the following package from Intel's website: Intel-536ep-4.69.1-mdk10.1-up.tgz 2. I installed the 2.6 kernel-source from CD2 3.

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well Stephen, the on-line communities here are glowing with rage already and the upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution faces even harder resistance. Kaj Haulrich. I think a BIG STINK is about to hit the world - especially with good

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

2005-03-07 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 Mar 2005 09:54, SnapafunFrank wrote: Just a possibility I've found while vivisimo~ing ( another other than google ), Apparently, I need to turn off all the goodies I got running on my system - that is, supermount, hotplug and the like.

Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

2005-03-07 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:26:10 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:27, Christopher Taylor wrote: If you have already edited it, post a copy here. Have you added samba users yet? Again, ask if you need help.

Re: [newbie] After mounting a USB flash disk, Konqueror won't open

2005-03-07 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 19:06, Prem Vilas Fortran Rara wrote: I am using Mandrake 10.1 Official Download version. This is a fresh install. I've already tested this in two different machines (all running mdk10.1). After inserting my USB flash

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread M.Schild
So friends, that was it :  forget about software development in Europe. Is there anything the good people can do? Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] TV Card picture ok as root, black and white as user.

2005-03-07 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Mar 2005 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a TV card, Pinnacle PCTV with a PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 PCI graphics card. If I log on as root the TV card works a treat. If I logon as user everythiing again is ok apart from

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 07 March 2005 15:17, M.Schild wrote: So friends, that was it :  forget about software development in Europe. Is there anything the good people can do? Maryse Maryse, it seems you live in France. If so, at the referendum, vote NON to the Constitution. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent

Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

2005-03-07 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Mar 2005 13:59, Christopher Taylor wrote: Anne, Thanks for getting back. I had a problem last night and had to re-install 10.1. Unlike windows, you probably didn't need to. However, there are times when, as a newbie, it's

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread M.Schild
Maryse, it seems you live in France.  If so, at the referendum, vote NON to the Constitution. I live in France but I don´t vote here. That wouldn´t change anything about software development. Can´t we make a big Euro-stink? Maryse Want

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Duncan Anderson
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software

Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

2005-03-07 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:45:07 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Mar 2005 13:59, Christopher Taylor wrote: Anne, Thanks for getting back. I had a problem last night and had to re-install 10.1. Unlike windows, you

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:17, M.Schild wrote: So friends, that was it : forget about software development in Europe. Is there anything the good people can do? Maryse Write to the right-wing papers, expressing your outrage about how Europe is taking over your country, about how

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread M.Schild
Write to the right-wing papers, expressing your outrage about how Europe is taking over your country, about how Luxembourg is over-ruling the wishes of other governments, how can this happen, etc. I have sent emails to a bunch of political parties...from both sides. I don´t think one side

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread et
M.Schild wrote: Write to the right-wing papers, expressing your outrage about how Europe is taking over your country, about how Luxembourg is over-ruling the wishes of other governments, how can this happen, etc. I have sent emails to a bunch of political parties...from both sides. I don´t

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Miark
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:46:22 +1100, Stephen wrote: Bear in mind that once the media gets a hold of Microsoft swaying government/courts again, it's going to be a media circus. That's _if_ they can connect the dots. Miark Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores
- Original Message - From: Duncan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 6:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread M.Schild
I have sent emails to a bunch of political parties...from both sides. I don´t think one side is better than another Maryse   but one side's position may not be the one you want to change here, the extreme right and the extreme left are for the NO. The socialists are split but

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread rikona
Hello Stephen, Monday, March 7, 2005, 4:46:22 AM, Stephen wrote: SK On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well Stephen, the on-line communities here are glowing with rage already and the upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution faces even harder resistance. Kaj Haulrich.

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:29, M.Schild wrote: Write to the right-wing papers, expressing your outrage about how Europe is taking over your country, about how Luxembourg is over-ruling the wishes of other governments, how can this happen, etc. I have sent emails to a bunch of political

Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install

2005-03-07 Thread Graham Watkins
Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the internet. He has an NTL cable modem. I've

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 07 March 2005 15:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Isaac Hummel
Duncan Anderson wrote: Huh, this is the kind of dictatorial fascism that Europe is so good at. They have proved it over and over again in the past, so why should this be any different? Greed rather than justice, for ever! Bunch of Nazis! http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/Godwins-Law.html

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 07 March 2005 02:01 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 15:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state

Re: [newbie] workgroup

2005-03-07 Thread Shera
As root edit this file: /etc/samba/smb.conf At this section enter your windows workgroup name # 1. Server Naming Options: # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = TECHS -sHERA Michel Leunen wrote: I've shook up my little network at home and changed the workgroup name my

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Margot
Isaac Hummel wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: Huh, this is the kind of dictatorial fascism that Europe is so good at. They have proved it over and over again in the past, so why should this be any different? Greed rather than justice, for ever! Bunch of Nazis!

Re: [newbie] pagemaker like program???

2005-03-07 Thread Hugh Crissman
On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:48 am, julie wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 08:02 am, H Crissman wrote: I am going to be doing a newsletter for a local organization on a volunteer basis. Is there a good opensource(free) tool that will work for basic page layout and design, ie. pagemakerish?

[newbie] Problem with MdkKDM

2005-03-07 Thread Michel Leunen
Hi, I use the mdkKDM as desktop manager and one of the users just disappeared from the list today. To be clear, the user exists, the problem is that mdkKDM just didn't show it in the desktop manager window. An idea? Michel Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Script for iptables

2005-03-07 Thread Kasper Thunoe
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:09 +0800, Dennis wrote: How do I create a script for iptables? --- Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #382526 Add a contrib source then do urpmi ipkungfu. Thats an awesome iptables script. Thats what I think

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Kasper Thunoe
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:01 +0100, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 15:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state

Re: [newbie] Problem with MdkKDM

2005-03-07 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Mar 2005 20:05, Michel Leunen wrote: Hi, I use the mdkKDM as desktop manager and one of the users just disappeared from the list today. To be clear, the user exists, the problem is that mdkKDM just didn't show it in the desktop

Re: [newbie] Problem with MdkKDM

2005-03-07 Thread Michel Leunen
Anne Wilson wrote: Try kcontrol System Login Manager and check whether the user is enabled there. Thanks Anne, that was the problem. The user was disabled but now the question is what disabled it? Michel -- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage.

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread jdow
From: Duncan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread jdow
From: Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Duncan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short :

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-03-07 Thread SOTL
Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log of fish's connection to the other computer. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this? Thanks Frank

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-03-07 Thread SOTL
Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log of fish's connection to the other computer. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this? Thanks Frank Spelling Correction The bad

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-03-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 07 March 2005 22:21, SOTL wrote: Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log of fish's connection to the other computer. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this?

[newbie] One step forward, two backward ...

2005-03-07 Thread h k Ball
Guys ... .. well, was getting pretty comfortable with my VMware installation of 10.1 on my AMD64 laptop (256m3g ram 60gb hd, 2.0gH), was booting into CLI, then startx (from root) into KDE, 1024x768, installed Firefox, all going well ... decided it was time to change the 3 to a 5 in the

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 07 March 2005 13:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software Patent from an

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Glenn
On Mon March 7 2005 12:00, Isaac Hummel wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: Huh, this is the kind of dictatorial fascism that Europe is so good at. They have proved it over and over again in the past, so why should this be any different? Greed rather than justice, for ever! Bunch of Nazis!

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 01:21:52 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: So friends, that was it : forget about software development in Europe. Kaj Haulrich. I'm not surprised at all, it would have been at this meeting or the next meeting or the next or the next.Politicians can be

Re: [newbie] One step forward, two backward ...

2005-03-07 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:00 am, h k Ball wrote: gotten me back to KDE ___ ~ just guessing . . . had one Hit: Ctrl+Alt+F4 . . . one might have Logged-In as Root the, Edited /etc/inittab to change level 5 to level 3 ? best rgds ___

[newbie] O/T Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:21 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Dutch EU politician Bolkestein up front taking care of their rights... __ ~ corrupt as Hell? . . . Frits 'Bolkers' helped UK Govt cover up Pounds 8 Billion Insurance Fraud? [ he also betrayed sold Dutch Victims down the

Re: [newbie] CD sound

2005-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:24 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Windows does not need the analogue cable since it reads audio CDs using the IDE interface. So to save money many computer manufacturers omit the audio cable. The advice Kaj gave is good install xmms-cdread and configure xmms to read