Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-05 Thread Alberto Omar Rodrigues
On Apr 5, 2005 8:42 PM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is working fine? Thanks in advance, Paul Try this http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml -- Bye Alberto Omar Rodrigues

[newbie] KIOSlave and Bluetooth phone

2005-04-05 Thread WauloK
Has anyone set up KIOSlave to connect to a Bluetooth phone? I have a Motorola A1000 which I'd like to upload/download images, documents and other files with. My KDEBluetooth can detect the phone and connect to it, but I only get the options of OBEX-Push and a couple other things, but not

[newbie] source build problem

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Kaplan
I am not an expert in rebuilding rpms from src.rpms, but I have done it from time to time.  I am now trying to build rpms for firefox 1.0.2 using the src rpm from cooker.  However the process aborts after about 20 minutes with the following message: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77790: line 96: fg: no job

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2005-04-05 Thread mandrake
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Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-05 Thread Andras Keszei
and run at 1152x864 I get about 70Hz when the maximum is 75Hz. Any cluebats? I also have an LG studioworks 700S, I did nothing out of the ordinary (not actually having the skills), and I have the desktop at 1152x864 @ 75Hz as per the OSD display on the monitor. I have Mdk10.0 and a Geforce2

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-05 Thread Elwyn York
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 20:46, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:55:24 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: In that case, the whole /home directory, including mail and any saved

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-05 Thread Elwyn York
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 12:04, Lee Wiggers wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. I've got a MS wireless optical mouse. It used to be plugged into the PS2 port then I needed

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Thread frengoGorgia
Il mer, 2005-04-06 alle 04:11, jdow ha scritto: From: frengoGorgia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Il mar, 2005-04-05 alle 21:05, Anne Wilson ha scritto: On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 19:37, jdow wrote: The cute problem is when you want to read a pdf file in your browser. It is probably better to

[newbie] Re: KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Thread Russell Butler
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 13:59, Russell Butler wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent re-install I had

Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-05 Thread WauloK
Yes! Definitely! Thanks :) On Apr 6, 2005 2:40 PM, Andras Keszei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and run at 1152x864 I get about 70Hz when the maximum is 75Hz. Any cluebats? I also have an LG studioworks 700S, I did nothing out of the ordinary (not actually having the skills), and I have the

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-04-05 Thread WauloK
oh ok. on top like we used to do with windows way back On Apr 3, 2005 5:35 AM, Ivo Perich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try installing without formatting anything... it works El Sábado, 2 de Abril de 2005 01:50, WauloK escribió: Ack! Too much configuring since installation to go back to the

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread SnapafunFrank
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick.

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: AW No man page matching to iptables found. Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google, too.

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 08:36, SnapafunFrank wrote: Someone might have already answered to this later in the thread but I think want you need is: Open a new tab or page in konqueror and in the address bar type: Man:iptables That's what didn't work for me, but man:/iptables does work. Others

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 03:44, RickSisler wrote: Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my things to remember book that the syntax is man:/manpage name man: also works for me .. but it shows this man:/ in the konqueror handbook subject: Viewing Help, Man and Info Pages

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 3, 2005 6:03 PM, Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for storing my own web-page. Oh you mean hosting there are lots of them

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:15:01 +0100 Dear All Is there some

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 3, 2005 9:02 PM, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some firewall (working through iptables) able to open selectively a port for a specific program and not to all programs installed? (Shorewall is not suitable for that purpose.)

[newbie] amaroK does not see xine

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have just installed amaroK 1.2.3, but it does not list xine as an usable engine, contrarily to the previous version. Is this normal? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Re: amaroK does not see xine

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 11:01 AM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed amaroK 1.2.3, but it does not list xine as an usable engine, contrarily to the previous version. Is this normal? Well, it does see xine if one installs amarok-xine Paul

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 10:55, Paul Smith wrote: Actually, what I am wanting it is a site for publishing a HOWTO pass/forward ports for my modem/router. Since my modem/router has not any manual and there is no available HOWTO, I thought that writing myself the HOWTO would help some people.

[newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. Win 2k, mdk through 9.2 worked fine, and the other three boxes continue to work properly. The 10.1 mdk uses a different driver and the mouse goes

Re: [newbie] IRC channel, Mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:36, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been asked to remind everyone that there is an IRC channel for Mandrake, on Freenode. It was #mandrake, but is now ##mandrake. I haven't tried it myself, but I'm told it is a good place to try when you need urgent help. Anne Thank

[newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
Hello friends, I am experiencing a very weird thing when I try to make urpmi.update, because I am at work I cannot make an update with the CD's in the drive, anyway, I have commented those rows out and just have Charles site left as a media, but when I do the urpmi.update I get the errormessage:

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:52, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am experiencing a very weird thing when I try to make urpmi.update, because I am at work I cannot make an update with the CD's in the drive, anyway, I have commented those rows out and just have Charles site left as a media,

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
Why not remove ALL media, then re-add Charles site...?? Thanks Stephen, it could have worked LOL, now I get this error...when Charles have the time, maybe you could help me [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.elsrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz added medium eslrahc

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:03, Anders Lind wrote: Why not remove ALL media, then re-add Charles site...?? Thanks Stephen, it could have worked LOL, now I get this error...when Charles have the time, maybe you could help me [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# urpmi.addmedia eslrahc

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
Could be that his site is down? Have you tried to manually connect to his site and get the list? (either via web or ftp)? I can download the file manually via http. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:03:26 +1000 Stephen Kühn wrote: urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.elsrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz You spell my name worse than I do urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz Charles -- A black cat crossing your path signifies that

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Margot
Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am experiencing a very weird thing when I try to make urpmi.update, because I am at work I cannot make an update with the CD's in the drive, anyway, I have commented those rows out and just have Charles site left as a media, but when I do the urpmi.update I get

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
LOL now that would explain it *crawls into a hole* but then again nobody else noticed eitherhowever the adding worked but not the updating, I get the same stupid message *mumbels* Thanks a bunch - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
You can't just do urpmi.update - you have to tell it *what* to update. Either urpmi.update -a (which will update all the media you have enabled), or urpmi.update eslrahc (which will update only the medium named eslrahc) Now that would explain itthanks Margot *hugs* /Anders

Re: [newbie] Boot manager

2005-04-04 Thread poogle
On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:09, Teilhard Knight wrote: Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together with a Drive Overlay. Teilhard. Grub ?

[newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgphB2W5ZfDmQ.pgp

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: AW No man page matching to iptables found. Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google,

Re: [newbie] IRC channel, Mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 April 2005 14:13, Stephen Kühn wrote: Hope to see some of y'all drop on by! Trouble is, I wanna go to sleep when you wake up;) Hah, you could've had us a day earlier with April-fool..now there's a missed oportunity!:) -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 17:07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing you may want to do is take a look at some of the options in /etc/man.conf and deside if you want to broaden the search path for man pages. If you use the man command to look at man pages, you may also want to look at some of the

Re: [newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Thread John Michael Schneiderman
On Monday 04 April 2005 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. Anne Go to Configure your desktop-Security-Launch Wallet Manager Double click on your wallet. Then you can

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 11:41 AM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, what I am wanting it is a site for publishing a HOWTO pass/forward ports for my modem/router. Since my modem/router has not any manual and there is no available HOWTO, I thought that writing myself the HOWTO would help

[newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Display problem

2005-04-04 Thread Michael Hahn
I've been working on setting up a new system at work, using an older Linux box. The only trouble is the display settings for xwindows are not correct for the new monotor, and as a result, when I run startx, I get nothing but lots of moving horozontal lines. I found xorg.conf, but I'm not sure

Re: [newbie] Display problem

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Michael Hahn wrote: I've been working on setting up a new system at work, using an older Linux box. The only trouble is the display settings for xwindows are not correct for the new monotor, and as a result, when I run startx, I get nothing but lots of moving horozontal lines. I found xorg.conf,

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 20:40, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select Thanks in advance, Paul Put the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

[newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Isak Lyberth
I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy server, with some new onboard graphics chipset. It has a

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 9:25 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select To always skip it, enter the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list. There doesn't apear to be a command line way to specify a

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Mr. Geek
Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy server, with some new onboard

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Isak Lyberth
I have not found out what card it is, maybe someone else here knows which it is? it is anoying as the installation was the graphical one, and it looked fine. regards H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card

Re: [newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 19:17, John Michael Schneiderman wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. Anne Go to Configure your

RE: [newbie] Boot manager

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Furlong
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake.com] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 April 2005 16:35 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot manager On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:09, Teilhard Knight wrote: Could you

RE: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Furlong
Is it an actual server or just a desktop machine? Either way, some indication as to what motherboard it contains should point us/you in the right direction for graphics card. Open the side panel off (if feasible) and look for any model numbers on the board. Best of luck!

RE: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Furlong
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Angus Auld Sent: 04 April 2005 11:10 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively - Original Message - From: Angus Auld

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 10:21 PM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:25 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select To always skip it, enter the package name in

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:24, Isak Lyberth wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Isak Lyberth
The server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Econel50, from the economic series of their server on their homepage they just state it as a integrated graphics card :( the chipset-chip on the server has a cooling unit on, so i am unable to tell you which chipset it is. Also i can't see any

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 10:44 PM, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select To always skip it, enter the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list. There doesn't apear to be a command line way to

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:21, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:25 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select To always skip it, enter the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list.

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 11:01 PM, Stephen Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some firewall (working through iptables) able to open selectively a port for a specific program and not to all programs installed? (Shorewall is not suitable for that purpose.)

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:25, Isak Lyberth wrote: The server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Econel50, from the economic series of their server on their homepage they just state it as a integrated graphics card :( the chipset-chip on the server has a cooling unit on, so i am unable to tell

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 04 April 2005 05:22 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Isaak, Get your hands on the latest version of webmin at www.webmin.com I thought that Mandrake changed the location of so much stuff that the default webmin was basically unusable for server administration. Am I wrong about that? -- /g

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. | | Dan OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - $1650, which is probably

[newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread Cameron MacDonald
Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to my list of Remember this!. Thanks Cam -- Closing the

Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Ashmore
Cameron MacDonald wrote: Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to my list of Remember this!.

Re: [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 04 April 2005 20:05, Cameron MacDonald wrote: Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to

Re: [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread mike
Cameron MacDonald wrote: Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to my list of Remember this!.

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 04 April 2005 04:47 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. | | Dan OMG! I had one

Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread Cameron MacDonald
Dave Ashmore wrote: Cameron MacDonald wrote: Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to my list of

[newbie] To su or not to su

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Yu
If I try to install a WIndows program with Wine, should I su to root before doing so? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 04 April 2005 18:32, Paul Smith wrote: I do belive this is being discussed in some context in the expert list as well? Might be worth joining to follow the thread. Since nobody answered suggesting a firewall with that feature, it may be very complicated to achieve that, in case

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. | | Dan OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - $1650,

[newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, but got the error No man page matching to iptables found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE. I tried to set the variable - probably doing it completely wrong, but

Re: [newbie] Using the sources of http://www.zarb.org

2005-04-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:28, Duncan Anderson wrote: Robert Yu wrote: Is it possible to save the packages downloaded from this site onto a cache folder for later use? You can download the packages using ftp or something similar, and then, when they are all sitting in a directory, call up a

Re: [newbie] Urpmi update problem.

2005-04-03 Thread Simon
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:52, Mr. Geek wrote: Simon; You have to uninstall libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf and possibly ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf before you can install the newer version of both packages using; urpme ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf which should also remove the

pdf browser plugins (Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (was: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-03 Thread Philippe Landau
Derek Jennings wrote: Seriously though, I could live without acroread apart from the browser plugin. Anyone knows of an opensource solution for embedded browser viewing of pdf docs? what is the advantage of reading a pdf in a browser window ? i personally did not like that, as the browser has a

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-03 Thread Philippe Landau
how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, and how to disable their snooping system: http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, don't it? Actually, from what I read, it is not Adobe that is doing this. A third party has written an app to use a

[newbie] dell d610 and 10.2 /10.1

2005-04-03 Thread Andre LABBE
HI After a trying kernel form CD1 and CD2 with or without options, from ftp for more boot floppy img, the only way I have found to install 10.1 or 10.2 on a d610 is: 10.1 boot the cd (no option, just enter) then select ftp (I did copy the content of the CD1,2,3 on my desktop's ftp, then run the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: Supposed to be released on the 6th, but they have not hit a date yet so it will be soon after.Cooker is the incubator that they develop the next OS release. It is very much cutting edge and could as easy as not have bugs in individual

Re: [newbie] SMC Barricade

2005-04-03 Thread Mr. Geek
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:31:13 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The

Re: [newbie] Urpmi update problem.

2005-04-03 Thread Mr. Geek
Simon wrote: On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:52, Mr. Geek wrote: Simon; You have to uninstall libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf and possibly ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf before you can install the newer version of both packages using; urpme ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf which should also

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-03 Thread Margot
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 10:25, Derek Jennings wrote: I gave up spying on you when you started sitting at your terminal naked. Now if only Anne and Margot would stop... Sorry, I can't stop - I'd have to *start* first ;-) -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100%

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Apr 3, 2005 6:52 AM, Elwyn York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 I would install 10.1. I tried out the beta for 10.2 and there were some definite issues. Granted, I did an upgrade and

[newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-03 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some firewall (working through iptables) able to open selectively a port for a specific program and not to all programs installed? (Shorewall is not suitable for that purpose.) Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-03 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some site for free web-publishing? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-03 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 03 April 2005 08:16 am, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some site for free web-publishing? Thanks in advance, If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 3, 2005 4:28 PM, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for storing my own web-page. Paul

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-03 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 03 April 2005 08:37 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 4:28 PM, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for storing my own

[newbie] Mozilla segmentation fault.

2005-04-03 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Hi , Can anyone tell me why I get a return of 'segmentation fault' when I try to run mozilla from konsole. If I try to run Mozilla otherwise it dies after a few seconds. I have reinstalled it but there is no change. Any ideas please? Malcolm Candlish.

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, but got the error No man page matching to iptables found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE. I tried to set the variable - probably doing it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 15:30, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 6:52 AM, Elwyn York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 I would install 10.1. I tried out the beta for 10.2 and there

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 3, 2005 4:44 PM, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for storing my own web-page. Oh you mean hosting there are lots

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Oooohh, wait for 10.2. It'll only be a few days and it is very nice. hal + dbus == hardware that works better Very stable KDE 3.3.2, you will only get 3.2.3 with 10.1 OO.o 1.1.4

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-03 Thread Philippe Landau
Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for storing my own web-page. Oh you mean hosting there are lots of them

[newbie] skype file transfer causes IP address loss

2005-04-03 Thread JR
Whenever I transmit a large file (~20MB) over skype, the transmission stalls and I get kicked off my network. I have to restart the wireless lan, then restart the network service on my machine. Has anyone else had this problem? Want to buy

[newbie] Boot manager

2005-04-03 Thread Teilhard Knight
Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together with a Drive Overlay. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Oooohh, wait for 10.2. It'll only be a few days and it is very nice. hal + dbus == hardware that works better Very stable KDE

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-03 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:52 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 4:44 PM, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread RickSisler
Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, but got the error No man page matching to iptables found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE.

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from the

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick.

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