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

2005-03-08 Thread Tim
Graham Watkins wrote: 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

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

2005-03-08 Thread SnapafunFrank
Anne Wilson wrote: -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,

Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations

2005-03-08 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:08, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to organize the quotations I am getting from my readings. Is there such a software? Thanks in advance, Paul Hmmm, not really my area of expertise, but would this be something a bibliographic or citation

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

2005-03-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 10:42, SnapafunFrank wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-03-08 Thread SOTL
On Monday 07 March 2005 19:05, Derek Jennings wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Networking - OpenOffice

2005-03-08 Thread SOTL
Hi All Well the positive news is that I am able to connect the two computers and transfer files by fish even though I am unable to log off the computer I am SSH into without rebooting that computer so I have fish working with a slight issues. Next item on the Network agenda is to access the

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:27, SOTL wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 19:05, Derek Jennings wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Networking - OpenOffice

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:02, SOTL wrote: Hi All Well the positive news is that I am able to connect the two computers and transfer files by fish even though I am unable to log off the computer I am SSH into without rebooting that computer so I have fish working with a slight issues.

[newbie] Problems with ipw2200 and MDK 10.1

2005-03-08 Thread Henriette Holm
Hi. I have a laptop running MDK 10.1. After looking through several howto's/forums/etc. I did the following trying to get my ipw2200 to work: 1) Download and install kernel source 2) $ su # mkdir /lib/hotplug/firmware /etc/firmware # tar zxvf ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz # cp *.fw /etc/firmware # cp *.fw

Re: [newbie] various issues

2005-03-08 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:54 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:17 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: Editing text files is particularly irritating because my fingers operate in vi mode reflexively. I am looking forward to some day soon being able to say the same thing. :)

Re: [newbie] Networking - OpenOffice

2005-03-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 15:12, SOTL wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 08:10, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:02, SOTL wrote: To set up NFS in Mandrake install portmapper, nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients. On the server edit the file /etc/exports and add lines in the

[newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Thread Christopher Taylor
I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:44, Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:06:35 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:44, Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread Miark
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:58 -0800, Fernando wrote: Pardon me? Are you blamming Europe? Haha, wasn't U.$. who allowed Microsoft to become such a huge beast? The US made M$ a beast in the US. Europeans are responsible for what happens in Europe. (News flash: The US is not responsible for every

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:58 -0800, Fernando wrote: Pardon me? Are you blamming Europe? Haha, wasn't U.$. who

[newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread M.Schild
Hi, someone just sent me this question. I, (of course) couldn´t answer but no doubt one of you will.  Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? Maryse Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:08:56 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway.

Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Dan Gordon
On March 8, 2005 11:46 am, M.Schild wrote:  Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? Well this is something i have been looking into but not done yet. Answer is yes but with an emulator. Problem is, you need a mac rom

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread rikona
Hello Fernando, Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 10:27:15 AM, Fernando wrote: FAGF Anyway, this is not the forum for this discution. And it seems FAGF that I made a storm in a glass of water; I apologize. My point FAGF is that is excessive to call Nazis to Europe when not even FAGF U.S. can fight their

Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:07:42 +1100, John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a program to organize the quotations I am getting from my readings. Is there such a software? Hmmm, not really my area of expertise, but would this be something a bibliographic or citation program would

Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Greene
If it's a Mac program written for Mac OSX, it should be pretty easy to run on Linux because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood (well, Unix-like; the guts of OSX is a version of BSD). A lot of Mac OSX programs have Linux equivalents; others that come in source code format can usually be compiled

Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations

2005-03-08 Thread Paul
Op Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:20:26 + schreef Paul Smith: Something like MySQL is way overkill for something like this, if you do want to go for a DIY database, try Rekall or Kexi. Thanks, John. I am going to have a look at Rekall and Kexi. I have never used a database; let us see whether it is

Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:28 pm, Paul Greene wrote: because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood ___ the web page : http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html has stuff about: Running Mac OS on other Platforms .. the emulator BOCHS may be

Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:28 am, Paul Greene wrote: If it's a Mac program written for Mac OSX, it should be pretty easy to run on Linux because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood (well, Unix-like; the guts of OSX is a version of BSD). A lot of Mac OSX programs have Linux equivalents; others that

Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations

2005-03-08 Thread Dan Gordon
On March 8, 2005 02:29 pm, Paul wrote: And if you cannot get the hang of that: OpenOffice 2.0 Beta is out and that has a database system in it too. I have not played with it but is should be easy enough to use. I am having a look at the beta of OpenOffice 2 now but beware there are some

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Christopher Taylor wrote: Mikkel, My ISP is Verizon Online. I will have to check to see if they are blocking, but I don't think so as you will see below. The Westell modem is also a router with one port. I tried having the modem handling the PPoE and the router set to a static IP in the range

[newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface

2005-03-08 Thread Ivo Perich
I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IP Bytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734 192.168.1.5 1354235 eth1: 10.1.1.3

Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread SigmaX
Aron Smith wrote: I think that there is a version of linux fo macs http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ There are dozens of distros for Mac. Yellowdog is exclusively Mac (It's basically Fedora ported to PPC), while other Distros like Debian, and even Mandrake if you hadn't heard, have builds for

Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread SigmaX
riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:28 pm, Paul Greene wrote: because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood ___ the web page : http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html has stuff about: Running Mac OS on other Platforms .. the emulator

Re: [newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface

2005-03-08 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 04:45, Ivo Perich wrote: I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IPBytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734 192.168.1.5

Re: [newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface

2005-03-08 Thread Kasper Thunoe
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 18:45 +0100, Ivo Perich wrote: I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IPBytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734

Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Ayn Newin
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:28 am, Paul Greene wrote: I think that there is a version of linux fo macs http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ Ha! your very own Mandrake 10.1 runs on macs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface

2005-03-08 Thread Ivo Perich
I checked iptraf out and it is great, IMO., but the problem is that i need to export the data (the total traffic until now from each IP) to a file. (to a script, actually) and the log file doesn't help me because iptraf logs every packet, not the summary that i need to proccess. Can I do this

Re: [newbie] wmv to vcd converter

2005-03-08 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 15:22 -0800, Eric Huff wrote: I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. K3b needs mpegs to make a vcd.

[newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)

2005-03-08 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, For those of you who are interested in installing Linux on extended partition (or in MS terms we call it logical drive), I've successfully do it on installing Suse92 on hda10, where there is already MS Windows, and Mandrake. Here's the brief steps: 1. Install Windows (with 2 partitions

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)

2005-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, For those of you who are interested in installing Linux on extended partition (or in MS terms we call it logical drive), I've successfully do it on installing Suse92 on hda10, where there is already MS Windows, and Mandrake. Here's the brief steps: 1. Install

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2005-03-08 Thread mandrake
This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. = In This Message = 1. General Mailing list info 2. List Archives 3. Leaving the list 4. List news 5. List Etiquette 6. Twiki

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)

2005-03-08 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:22 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: other=/dev/hda10 lable=Suse92 When you pick this option, it will transfere control over to the new version of lilo. I tried it first, but lilo complained about 'no root partition found' The way you have it set up, if you

[newbie] scribus users, pls help. pasting text longer than 1 page.

2005-03-08 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, I tried to make an article using Scribus. First I typed the article in text editor, then copy paste it in scribus. The article is kind of longer than 1 page, so the rest of the article isn't visible. The second page is blank. Can I make scribus to automatically put the rest of the

[newbie] When the Computer is winning

2005-03-08 Thread Aron Smith
go here ;-) http://www.desktop-linux.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

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

2005-03-08 Thread SnapafunFrank
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 10:42, SnapafunFrank wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] When the Computer is winning

2005-03-08 Thread SigmaX
Aron Smith wrote: go here ;-) http://www.desktop-linux.net/ Haha; nice. I know some people that need to see that link... but they also think of me as annoyingly pro-Linux, so 'desktop-linux.com isn't a link they'd visit

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread SigmaX
Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:58 -0800, Fernando wrote: Pardon me? Are you

Re: [newbie] CD sound

2005-03-08 Thread Teilhard Knight
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound On Monday 07 March 2005 00:03, Teilhard Knight wrote: The wiring is OK in the three computers. I can listen to CD music in other OSs. Teilhard That is not

Re: [newbie] CD sound

2005-03-08 Thread Teilhard Knight
From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound 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

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread rikona
Hello SigmaX, Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 9:54:45 PM, SigmaX wrote: S Anyway, this is more suitable for the OT list, so I'll leave it be S at that. This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you

[newbie] It can't just be me

2005-03-08 Thread Teilhard Knight
I have installed Mandrake 10.1 in several computers and I NEVER get into X. I am left with a blue screen with Mandrake 10.1 in the lower right hand corner of the screen and that's it. Someone told me to add the line ServerVTs=-7 to the General section of the /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc file, but is

Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux

2005-03-08 Thread M.Schild
Thank you for all the answers. I passed them on Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Migrating W2K web to MDK 9.1

2005-03-08 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Dennis Myers wrote: Misko, it has been a while since I did this, but, you should be able to take all of the html pages, such as index.html, page1xx.html etc and all .png, .gif, .jpg, etc save them to a CD or DVD and then install them all in /var/www/html. Then start httpd and Apache should pick

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread Philippe Landau
This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you like to volunteer? unfortunately, the off-topic list is dominated by people with sectarian views proud of using foul language. also, when people

Re: [newbie] wmv to vcd converter

2005-03-08 Thread Eric Huff
I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. Have you tried mencoder or one of its front-ends like Gmencoder ? I haven't,

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 06:54, SigmaX wrote: snip Back to the original title, Microsoft overrules EU Council, is there really any evidence that Microsoft had anything resembling a direct influence in the matter? Or was it just the assumtion of an M$-dispising soule that anything