Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users

2004-04-08 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:40:56 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too bad you got it too Marv. Well, I'm firing up two IBM xseries servers with Mdk and nothing's gonna stop them. One to be placed in public, and the other in LAN. On

Re: [newbie] 10CE Updates -- Broken?

2004-04-06 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:25:53 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just have to manually check the mirrors until you find one that has been updated to the new structure. Try here

Re: [newbie] Taskbar in Pekwm

2004-04-04 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:41:10 + Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed and am using pekwm. I really like the grouped windows feature; a big smile came over my face when I grouped my first windows together. I would like to have a

Re: [newbie] Run remote gnome-session on local gnome

2004-04-01 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:23:36 -0500 Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under Windows, I can run cygwin and create a X session running in a single window, inside which I can run gnome-session on a remote Linux. I like that usage model. I know

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:19:49 +0100 martin brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to .rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the compression commands. Anyone

Re: [newbie] kdeinit and starting X

2004-03-18 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:56:19 + (GMT) J.I. Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -What exactly does startx do? it starts your default desktop essentialy what it dows is start the X server and run ~/.xinitrc if ~/.xinitrc does not exist it starts

Re: [newbie] urpmi command question

2004-03-18 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:33:44 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 04:33 pm, Florian Ahlers wrote: Hi everybody: Which command option do I have to use to get more information on a package using urpmi?

Re: [newbie] kdeinit and starting X

2004-03-18 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:56:19 + (GMT) J.I. Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -What exactly does startx do? it starts your default desktop essentialy what it dows is start the X server and run ~/.xinitrc if ~/.xinitrc does not exist it starts

Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch

2004-03-18 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. checking for gcc... no checking for cc...no

Re: [newbie] urpmi command question

2004-03-18 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:33:44 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 04:33 pm, Florian Ahlers wrote: Hi everybody: Which command option do I have to use to get more information on a package using urpmi?

Re: [newbie] Kmix setting doesn't stick?

2004-03-17 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:30:23 -0800 (PST) Mandrake User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Anne, I want to try tweaking aumix settings because my audigy 2 LS sound card won't work. but I got the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ aumix -q bash:

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-17 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:32:06 -0500 (EST) David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its normal for the directory to remain even after you remove the partition, the directory where you mount partitions is stored at the parent partition (on the

Re: [newbie] howdy! solving problems this list,.....

2004-03-16 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:10:51 -0800 Asa Rossoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just to isolate the problem and make sure if its the driver or not, I suggest you try the vesa driver (should work on practically all cards). and boot in non framebuffer mode for

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-16 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:35:14 -0500 (EST) David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive that I wanted to see

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:02:35 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people, There is an abundance of software available for Linux, which is great, but I don't have time to look through it all at the moment. So I was hoping you could recommend me

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:53:58 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I foresee 52 responses to this post. ...we should be okay, he didn't mention 'text editors' ;-) you trying to say HTML is not written in text editors?? next you'll be

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:20:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pissed he didn't ask about WM's...no opportunity to point out, for example, that KDE is developed by Maoists and uses baby seals as test subjects. actually I was surprised

Re: [newbie] one software missing...

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:35:58 -0700 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 15, 2004 10:11 am, Thinker wrote: Hello All, I was just reading the post on software recommendations and I

Re: [newbie] Using BitTorrent for first time

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:40:49 -0700 Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to use BitTorrent for the first time - and I'm relatively/completely lost. I don't even know where to start! I installed the rpms from the CD's

Re: [newbie] one software missing...

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:28:07 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alaa The Great wrote: I got this error after trying to start the giFT daemon. I went through the config and all that: *** GIFT-FATAL: couldn't load protocol in file

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:37:35 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should open a shell as root, browse to the folder with the ISO files and run the command for each ISO as follows; I don't think root is needed for such a simple operation.

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-13 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:05:34 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I joined Mandrake Club and as part of the bennies tried to download the Power CD's I got a bit torrent file which isn't an rpm or a sh executable and cant be read with less.

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-13 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:38:29 + Patrick Dempster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Can anyone point me in the direction of a linux clone on winamp5, I've been using xmms for years to play my mp3's and such. But the other day while working

Re: [newbie] RPM Package Installation Issue

2004-03-12 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:13:57 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, However, when I try to install some of the packages on the list it gives me an error like The following packages... ... have bad signatures, continue to install? Is there any

Re: [newbie] No manual entry for XXXX for non-root users

2004-03-12 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:04:31 -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: msec will probably change it back so I will probably have to figure out again (for the 3rd or 4th time) how to manipulate the msec tables :-) to get it to

Re: [newbie] How to upgrade versions with CLI?

2004-03-12 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:08:36 -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is another newbie question: My friend's machine I am helping with is running Mandrake 9.0. I have done some security updates and stuff through the GUI.

Re: [newbie] Directory Sizes

2002-02-19 Thread Alaa The Great
On 18 Feb 2002 04:35:37 -0500 Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to determin the the size of a directory? totaly file size? Perferably with command line. Thanks. try du -h this will show you the size of current directory and all subdirectories, if you don't want subdirectories

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?

2002-02-14 Thread Alaa The Great
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:35:35 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your assistance! I've got a couple of questions for you... In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, I've got the following in Section Module: # This loads the NVIDIA GLX extension module. # IT IS

Re: [newbie] File size/partition search question?

2002-02-13 Thread Alaa The Great
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:13:59 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: du -h /usr /home/darklord/usr-filesize.txt Now, I've got a huge (300k) text file, which is better but what I want to do is filter or narrow the search down to filesizes of say, 512k or 1 meg or bigger...can I do

Re: [newbie] uhm.. new cd-rw

2002-02-13 Thread Alaa The Great
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:05:09 + Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, i've got a new one. ;o) i've been borrowed a cd-rw, so when i add it to my PC it's recognised OK and i can mount cd's on it, as /dev/hdd . to use the CD you need SCSI emulation (this is when you make your

Re: [newbie] kernel sources

2002-02-13 Thread Alaa The Great
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:14:27 +0100 Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW: They are not on the installation CDs. And I tried kernel-2.4.8-26mdk.src.rpm but I guess that's not what I am looking for). the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the second

Re: [newbie] Buss speed

2002-02-13 Thread Alaa The Great
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:04:53 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question comes up every so often. The 33mhz listing you see is related to your FSB and your PCI devices. 33 is the normal and Only setting for all new/newer MOBOs. Older system using only either/or

Re: [newbie] DelTree

2002-02-12 Thread Alaa The Great
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:29:19 -0500 John Alex Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rm -rf top-level derectory going to be deleted This could be very dangerously if carelessly. you could also use mc for all your file management needs mc is a console file manager that resembles the old DOS