Re: [newbie] Web Service or What

2005-02-22 Thread BJ Tracy
Thanks to all who gave direction. Mikkel, I have signed up per your direction and never knew there were so many to choose from. BJ BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Going thru a career change here and it looks like I'm going to need a web page. After I research all the answers you kind

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-21 Thread BJ Tracy
SNIP Thanks to all of you for answering my question on web software. I have a lot of research to do now. All the best, BJ On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 20:51, John Wilson wrote: On February 21, 2005 04:54 am, John Layt wrote: snip You might like to check out the following dedicated Realty web

[newbie] Web Service or What

2005-02-21 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Going thru a career change here and it looks like I'm going to need a web page. After I research all the answers you kind folks replied with, I'm sure I can layout and design a web page (s). Here is my question: - should I just buy space on someones server like www.register.com for

Re: [newbie] Web Service or What

2005-02-21 Thread BJ Tracy
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:42, et wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 09:23 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Going thru a career change here and it looks like I'm going to need a web page. After I research all the answers you kind folks replied with, I'm sure I can layout and design a web

Re: [newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-19 Thread BJ Tracy
This is what you told me. Thanks, BJ On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 08:55, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 13:27, BJ Tracy wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:53, Aron Smith wrote: Where should all the files go so my gui will know where

Re: [newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-16 Thread BJ Tracy
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:53, Aron Smith wrote: Where should all the files go so my gui will know where it is? Why don't you just get the rpm package throuh urpmi ? SNIP Where do you go for that? BJ Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread BJ Tracy
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 06:34, John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:31, David G Stevenson wrote: Slighty OT: Yes, your original poster simply wanted GUI editor. I just wanted to suggest an alternative to PHP which people tend to forget in favour of the current 'popular' choice. I do

[newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-15 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Well my plans are moving ahead and I need to know if there is a user friendly web page design software package for linux that those of you have used and like. I'm using Mandrake 10.0. TIA B.J. Tracy Registered Linux User 364157 http://counter.li.org

[newbie] a TAR OOPS

2005-02-15 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, I just downloaded Firefox 1.0 and placed the tar.gz in my home directory, did the tar and installed it. However during the install it was placed in my directory. Where should all the files go so my gui will know where it is? TIA, B.J. Tracy Registered Linux User 364157

[newbie] PC Crash

2005-01-05 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Not sure what happened to my PC today. Being a newbie to Linux, I need help. At first my mouse froze then the PC, so I hit the restart button after nothing would work. On the start up the boot loader came up and then I got a warning that there was a file missing on start up, then it

[newbie] Wireless Lan Help Needed

2005-01-01 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Let me start by wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR and I hope your year is prosperous. I have been using Mandrake 10.0 in my home office on a Linksys LAN(hardware is Linksys router and Hub) with no problems. I also have a Linksys 802.11 wireless card and access point that I now want

Re: [newbie] CD-RW Problem

2004-12-01 Thread BJ Tracy
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 05:20, Poogle wrote: On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 23:09, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Well I have been trying to copy a couple of Cmas CD's to play in my vehicle and don't seem to be having any luck(running MDK 10.0). SNIP Sorry using K3b. BJ Every time it gets 91% done

[newbie] Compatible Software

2004-12-01 Thread BJ Tracy
Hi All, I'm looking for a compatible software package to replace Voxwire which is an MS OS package. REF: Voxwire is the premier provider of web conferencing technology for online meetings, online seminars and webinars. Standing by. TIA, B.J. Tracy Registered Linux User 364157

[newbie] DVD Burners

2004-11-30 Thread BJ Tracy
Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. Also I have tried to burn CD's using K3b and it gets to about 93% done and has an

Re: [newbie] DVD Burners

2004-11-30 Thread BJ Tracy
SNIP I have looked for NEC but can not find any. I can get a Sony Model DW-U18A(8X speed). BJ Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new

[newbie] CD-RW Problem

2004-11-30 Thread BJ Tracy
Hi All, Well I have been trying to copy a couple of Cmas CD's to play in my vehicle and don't seem to be having any luck(running MDK 10.0). Every time it gets 91% done and gives the following: unknow error 254 listed below is the copy of the failure. Track 10: 30 of 37 MB written (fifo

[newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server or will it work on a LAN? This is probably way elementary to a lot of you, sorry about that. Thanks for any reply, bj

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Thread BJ Tracy
On Monday 13 September 2004 11:31 am, Ryan Steffes wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:33:50 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-10 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 10 September 2004 09:24 am, Ryan Steffes wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:05:31 -0700, Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 Sorry, I left out that the above

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-10 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 09 September 2004 11:05 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 Sorry, I left out that the above line should be in your /etc/hosts.allow Thanks for your help. Still not

[newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, This is strange. In my office I still have 2 pc's with MS on them. My laptop and my pc have Mandrake 10.0 and all are set up on my LAN. Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 09 September 2004 09:45 am, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. They use to see each other. I have gone thru all the settings and

[newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, This is strange.  In my office I still have 2 pc's with MS on them.  My laptop and my pc have Mandrake 10.0 and all are set up on my LAN. Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's,  however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 09 September 2004 02:15 pm, Ryan Steffes wrote: Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. They use to see each other. and to clarify, when you mean see which tool do you

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 09 September 2004 02:15 pm, Ryan Steffes wrote: Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. They use to see each other. SNIP NO Firewall Sorry. and to clarify, when you

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 09 September 2004 04:18 pm, Ryan Steffes wrote: SNIP What does the following give you: 1) cat /etc/hosts.allow cat /etc/hosts.deny SNIP hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided #

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 27 August 2004 07:28 am, Lanman wrote: snip Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! Lanman Question: Being from

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Snip Thanks Hoyt, I'm still a little confused. By reading your partitions you have one large hard drive. I have Three (3) and one is working great. Here is what I have then I will ask for advice / help. My new hard drive has /

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: SNIP Thanks Hoyt but I'm still a little confused. From your response you have one large hard drive ( I think that is what I see ). I have three large hard drives - I is perfect and the other two well not sure. My question is: If I go

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have never had any problems with Kmail. Can anyone

[newbie] Kmail going Nuts

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 27 August 2004 05:26 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have never had any problems with Kmail. Can anyone help

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 27 August 2004 09:57 pm, Peter Davis wrote: I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Quick question, I know someone has asked this before and I thought I saved it but do not seem to find it. I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? I hope do get around to making it a dual boot system but have not had

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:36 pm, frankieh wrote: BJ Tracy wrote: I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? ps is there documentation for emacs in mdk10,if so where? Snip In the control panel, click on System

[newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Well I finally had to reboot my system because of something I did in the console and it froze up. On the reboot I was watching the screen and there was a bunch of hd errors so I went into Mandrake Mount Points and here is what I found. My desktop has three hard drives and I can

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 04:51 pm, Lanman wrote: BJ Tracy wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:36 pm, frankieh wrote: BJ Tracy wrote: I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? ps is there documentation for emacs in mdk10

Re: [newbie] KDE-reply to all

2004-08-19 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 19 August 2004 08:58 am, M.Schild wrote: Is there a ´reply to all´ option on Kmail? I cannot find it TIA Maryse In Kmail just right click and see your choices. bj Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Mandrake Club

2004-08-16 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Well my time is running out on the free stuff with the purchase of Mandrake 10.0. I really love Linux and setting up my office has not been that tough. Thank you to all who have answered my pleas for help, you have done a great job of KISS (keep it simple stupid). You know who you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club

2004-08-16 Thread BJ Tracy
On Monday 16 August 2004 05:51 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Here's the question: I have been bitten by the Linux bug and want to know which level of the Mandrake Club would give me the most benefits and the Club too (win - win). All comments are very much appreciated. bj Linux is

Re: [newbie] Downloads and Installs

2004-08-16 Thread BJ Tracy
On Monday 16 August 2004 12:28 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: SNIP A couple of NEWBIE questions: 1) When you download a program such as clamav, where should you down load to? A temp file in the usr file? I would either: Open Mandrake Control Centre, go to the Software Management section and

[newbie] Downloads and Installs

2004-08-15 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, I have a number of books on Linux and find them to be a wealth of knowledge but they are really vague when it comes to downloads and installations. Can someone suggest a good book that will walk me thru a download and installation. I may be making this harder than it is, but I have

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-14 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 13 August 2004 10:13 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:49, JoeHill wrote: Is Microsoft's Firewall Secure? SNIP Hello All, Question for the group. With Linux, do you need a firewall on every PC?? In my office I have a LAN set up and with that I have a (hard wired)

Re: [newbie] Linux / LAN Help

2004-08-14 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 13 August 2004 07:38 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 13 August 2004 12:05 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: | Hello All, | | Slowly getting my office up and running on Linux. Using Mandrake 10.0 | Power Pack. MDK 10.0 is loaded and running well on my PC and laptop. I | have established LAN

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-13 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 13 August 2004 03:28 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:20:39 -0400 BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) I'm having the same problem that Stephen

Re: [newbie] Linux / LAN Help

2004-08-13 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 13 August 2004 04:58 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: On Friday 13 Aug 2004 20:05, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Slowly getting my office up and running on Linux. Using Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack. MDK 10.0 is loaded and running well on my PC and laptop. I have established LAN

[newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-12 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my laptop so I will be watching the responses. Question: With all the software that came with Mdk 10

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-12 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 12 August 2004 05:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: SNIP I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my laptop so I will be watching the responses. Question: With all the software that came with Mdk 10 is there a contact management package like ACT or

Re: [newbie] OT: F@H/BOINC was: Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie

2004-08-11 Thread BJ Tracy
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 04:02 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2004 13:51:01, C. Tresenriter wrote: whack Charlie SNIP Hey Charlie, Thanks for all your help. Got Mandrake re-installed and think everything is ok. Had to do it a couple of times due to all my hard disk

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread BJ Tracy
On Saturday 07 August 2004 05:04 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2004 14:28:02, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All (again), I'm gonna chop this up to respond to specific points. Hope that doesn't mess with anyone's mind. Thanks for your help,I don't mind chopping What do you mean

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread BJ Tracy
On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:05 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 08:22:08, BJ Tracy wrote: snip, chop, whack, and mutilate SNIP Thanks for all your help. If you want a clean slate I _strongly_ recommend that you use the custom partitioning mode but first do a Google search

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread BJ Tracy
On Sunday 08 August 2004 06:42 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 15:47:03, BJ Tracy wrote: SNIP SNIP Thanks and I really appreciate the humor, we just don't laugh enough. I'll let you know if I smoke my system or not. (: Take care, bj You are a very appreciated resource

Re: [newbie] Re: OpenOffice

2004-08-07 Thread BJ Tracy
Thanks for your help. bj On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03:58 am, Russell Butler wrote: BJ Tracy wrote: While trying to register my Open Office to get upgrades, it tells me an error occured while trying to start the web browser. Please check the OpenOffice.org and web browser settings. I

[newbie] Wallpaper and JPG

2004-08-07 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, For everyone who helped me with OfficeOrg, thank you. I'm up and going. Now I'm stuck again. I have been in the books for days now and really overwhelmed with all the things one has control over. I have been going step by step and making my desktop personalized, hince downloading

[newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-07 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All (again), Let me make this as straight forward and short as possible but I need to give you Linux/Mandrake brains some history. After much research on my part about switching to Linux and then with all the security issues with Exposer(Explorer) I was fed up and made the move. However

Re: [newbie] Wallpaper and JPG

2004-08-07 Thread BJ Tracy
On Saturday 07 August 2004 03:36 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: It is probably best to create your own wallpapers directory under your home - or even in your Documents directory - then save the wallpapers there. When you are logged in as a normal user, you cannot write to a system-wide directory -

Re: [newbie] Wallpaper and JPG

2004-08-07 Thread BJ Tracy
On Saturday 07 August 2004 11:26 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Thanks, That did the trick, I have looked at so many settings boxes here lately, I was just drawing a blank. bj BJ: In KMail, select: Settings Configure KMail Identities Advanced -- and empty the Reply-To Address field.

[newbie] OpenOffice

2004-08-02 Thread BJ Tracy
While trying to register my Open Office to get upgrades, it tells me an error occured while trying to start the web browser. Please check the OpenOffice.org and web browser settings. I have done that several times and find nothing wrong. Can someone give me an example of how the