Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-06 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Dienstag 5. April 2005 16:37 schrieb Miark: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not

[newbie] 2 Questions regarding evolution

2005-02-08 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Hi all, I do have two questions regarding the evolution 2.0.3 and I haven't found an answer on the mailinglist or faqs yet. 1. Kmail has the option to set up various smtp settings independently for the mail accounts. Pmail (Pegasus) offers the same option but in evolution I have to change the

[newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-08 Thread Alexander Ruoff
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:00, geoff wrote: Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Me too, I recently installed MD 10.0 on an Acer Aspire

[newbie] Problems updating mozilla

2004-11-02 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Europenne des Associations de Petites et Moyennes Entreprises CEA-PME Alexander Ruoff Advisor Avenue de la Renaissance 1 1000 Bruxelles Tel: +32 (0) 27 39 62 60 Fax: +32 (0) 27 39 62 79 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ceapme.org Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich und ausschliesslich fr den

Re: [newbie] Problems updating mozilla

2004-11-02 Thread Alexander Ruoff
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 13:44, SnapafunFrank wrote: Alexander Ruoff wrote: Hi all, I just tried to update my mdk 10.0 and had the following problem with mozilla and libnss3: [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# urpmi mozilla To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed

Re: [newbie] Always ending up IceWM

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Erylon Hines um 4:02: On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:16 am, emir limar wrote: | Hi people, | I installed MDK 10.1 to my HP Vectra Pentium 133 MH. 64 RAM, 1.2 Gig Box. | Problem is i am not able to see any program except IceWM and some useles | 3-4 programs what

Re: [newbie] For all with usb problems

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
10.1 official is out, bittorrent is running reasonably fast, have fun. Don't know, I always have troubles using bittorrent. I really do prefer ftp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Hardware Question... broken Laptop case

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Dennis Myers um 2:24: On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:03 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote: Hi all the laptop of my mum suffered a bit and now the case is broken in the back where the screen is attached to the case. Since the hardware is still fine I just want

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until very recently with

[newbie] experience with booting from an external USB HDD

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Hi all, I think of getting an external HD and use it to 'test' and 'play' with other distributions or to play around with an unstable version without loosing the running system on my laptop. I checked if my Inspiron can boot from USB but when I changed the bios option to USB all which turns up in

Re: [newbie] How to save a KDE session?

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
__ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Confdration Europenne des Associations de Petites et Moyennes Entreprises CEA-PME Alexander Ruoff

Re: [newbie] How to save a KDE session?

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Thanks, Alex: I know that option, but just for that I'm asking the question of how to save a KDE session. I mean, suppose I choose the second possibility, i.e. to restore manually a saved session: suppose I want to save the present session to start with it at the next login: how do I

[newbie] Hardware Question... broken Laptop case

2004-10-28 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Hi all the laptop of my mum suffered a bit and now the case is broken in the back where the screen is attached to the case. Since the hardware is still fine I just want to know if it's possible to exchange the laptop cases of a Toshiba Satelite 2650 or if someone has experience doing this? Alex

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Alexander Ruoff
How can you know exactly who it came from? I realize that such mostly comes from infected windoze boxes, and I'm thinking that someone out there who has my email in their address book has a virus which has been spoofing my address, like the one Tom Karen Pino got. The question is who? I

Re: [newbie] ordered new laptop

2004-10-26 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Angus Auld um 23:21: Greetings, I just ordered a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1150. Is there anyone on the list who has experience with this model and Mandrake Linux?? As best as I could determine, Dell laptops are relatively Linux compatible/friendly. Any

[newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)

2004-10-25 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Hi all, sorry if I bother you with an old topic but so fare I haven't found anything which really helped me with my problem in the mailing list. I have an Dell Inspiron 510m with a Pentium M. The PC is fine apart for the wireless. 10.1 detects my card but apparently I had to download and install

Re: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)

2004-10-25 Thread Alexander Ruoff
You need to install the wireless-tools package from your CD and then run through the network connection Wizard in Mandrake Control Centre and configure it as a wireless connection. You could also configure it with iwconfig from the command line. derek Hi Derek Well... I did have

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-22 Thread Alexander Ruoff
John, I think you did a great job of summing it up. But one thing I have never seen talked about as a way to get a virus into a Linux system is to include it in an RPM. Lets face it, how many people actualy check the scripts that are run when an rpm is installed? Do you check that

[newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Isos

2004-10-06 Thread Alexander Ruoff
I have a problem with the Iso-Images I have for 10.1. I downloaded them with Linux and burned them with K3B. However, when updating the 2nd CD failed. First I thought that it must be something related to the update from 10.0 to 10.1 and made a clean install but than the 2nd as well as the 3rd CD

[newbie] Permissions in a network

2004-10-06 Thread Alexander Ruoff
I got a question regarding file sharing with a network drive and permissions. We have a small network with 5 PCs connected to a server. /home is placed on the server with all the user accounts as well as a shared account for data storage. The problem is the file sharing... is there a function