Re: [newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-22 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
the file atomically while with cp other processes could see a half-copied file. Bye, Benjamin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] list etiquette - please, this is a question, so don't get any ideas about flames...:-)

2004-01-08 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Reply-to address (which is empty in my case) on the right. Bye, Benjamin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds

2003-09-13 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
read the FSF side of the story here (warning: it is heavily biased by idiology): http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why Bye, Benjamin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds

2003-09-13 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
, GNU software has been created purely for ideologic reasons. Already the name GNU (GNU's Not Unix) gives it away: it was set out to be a replacement for the proprietary Unixes. Regards, Benjamin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] HP wireless mouse

2003-09-13 Thread Benjamin Hiller
Hi I have a HP wireless mouse and keyboard the keyboard works but you can't left click with the mouse. Please help. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: The SCO UNIX Lawsuit (from Windows .NET M agazine)

2003-06-11 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
I think it was ATT who try Berkley and win and developer had to change about 10 lines of code so thing like that. On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 1:47 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Interesting to note that SCO states the code stolen is from sys V. If I rememeber correctly system V could only run on a

[newbie] Need Help

2003-06-09 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
was hoping for so help from you people might be able to help on this problem. Thank You Benjamin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Need Help

2003-06-09 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Get it working by using my usb cdwriter and 9.1 hdcdrom_usb.img looks likey things are looking up and learn abit about the booting and kernel of linux On Monday 09 Jun 2003 1:09 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:30:23 + Benjamin Jeeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Had my Laptop

[newbie] mp3 to wav

2003-05-31 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Hi all is there a tool for converting mp3 to wav format ? Thank You Benjamin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OPINION

2003-05-30 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Think his bank account what up by a few 0 in the last few days. On Thursday 29 May 2003 2:47 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 03:58 pm, barting wrote: http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11261 Outrageaously shameless sick motherf*ckers over there at the european

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-30 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
, Michael Lothian wrote: Blimey what uni do you go to. Here at Edinbugh we have Windows for the arts students and Linux for us Infomatics students, LOL. Any way that my 2 pennies. Mike Benjamin Jeeves wrote: I my finishing my degree in computer science in the UK and have finished writing

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-30 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
I like setting in are Lab with my laptop and watching the people think should I talk to him to find out what that desktop is on that that laptop (desktop WindowMaker) someone say ones is that a new Mac and his mate said no apple on the front of the laptop. Benjamin On Friday 30 May 2003 10

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
I have the ASUS A7N8X MB and have no problems but did have to patch the kernel for the onbroad lan but that was easy as installing a driver in windows. On Wednesday 28 May 2003 4:53 pm, John Drouhard wrote: I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and processor. I was

[newbie] pdf to KSpread format

2003-05-28 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Hi all Does any one know how I can convert a pdf file to a Kpread format for editing. Thank you benjamin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ADSL again

2003-04-02 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
I assumed, only worse: a 9.1/other mixup. I'll get back to ya people when I have tried that Yes, always nice to hear, if a suggestion helped. Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] ADSL again

2003-04-01 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
to install rp-pppoe-3.5-2mdk without ppp-2.4.1 at least. I am not sure what your problem is, but one possible explanation would be some mixed 9.0/9.1 install. HTH, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connection?

2003-03-30 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
:) is that they are less ambigious. Bye, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Neverwinter Nights

2003-03-29 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
breaking everything else on a setup? Try 9.1? ;-) Sorry, don't have any solution for this. Never cared about SDL. Only noticed that it already existed in my install when I followed the install instructions. Bye, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connection?

2003-03-29 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
on DrakXServices. Look for adsl and press stop. Alternatively, look for internet and also press stop. If you look at this description you now know, why people prefer to refer to the shorter shell commands for giving advice. ;) HTH, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] email showing up as attachments

2003-03-28 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
using lookout express, so if that's the problem, it'll be fixxed as soon as i get my installation done... Jupp. It's the problem and you will fix it that way. ;-) HTH, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[newbie] Icon View

2003-03-28 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Konqueror Icon view cause the CPU to ran at never 97% has any one see this to. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.1 install problems

2003-03-27 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
What is the graphic card in your system e.g. Matrox G450 On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 10:54 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: I've dug myself into a hole and hope someone here can guide me out. 1st try: Upgrade (from 9.0) install seemed to work ok, but after rebooting, couldn't start graphical desktop and

Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?

2003-03-24 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
-rc3-CD3.i586.iso 682164224 = 650.6MB 681279488 = 649.8MB 681574400 = 650.0MB They all fit well on my 74min CD-RW without overburning. Bye, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] supermount

2003-03-21 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Thank You Benjamin Jeeves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] duplicating hard disk

2003-03-19 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
to permissions. The Question: How should I migrate partions (/var, /usr, /home) onto the new disk and grow the remaining ones (/, SWAP). Thanks in advance. -- Thank You Benjamin Jeeves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Procmail Recipes

2003-03-16 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
of it back - cuz I'm hustling to get my system back to specREALLY APPRECIATE! Stephen, is this what you want (attached file) ? Hehe. As Linus said, backup are for wimps. Real men let just the public mirror important stuff. :-) Bye, Benjamin: PS: The original quote is: Only

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-16 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
, less than 3 months old. HTH, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] problem upgrading to new usermode package?

2003-03-15 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
how that could happen with the given script. HTH, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Tar tumbling?

2003-03-08 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
100.000KB. One obvious way to change it is to use ulimit itself, although non-root users are limited in the ways changing the limits. From the top of my head, I am not sure where to change the system wide defaults. /etc/security/limits.conf might be one place to look at. HTH, Benjamin. pgp0

Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

2003-03-07 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
, but nothing else). HTH, Benjamin. PS: I did approach the issue from the side of what happens if I take away that bit. Doing the tests when only one is set is left as an excersise for the reader. ;-) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Installing RC2, never asked for CD2 or CD3

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
:-). Did you sucessfully pass this step? If so, apparently you managed to only select programs that are on CD1.[1] HTH, Benjamin. [1] Although it is unusual, it is not too hard to accomplish... the packages are distributed on the CDs in a way that makes CD2 and CD3 less needed (e.g

Re: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-01 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
. *lol* Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] What is sourcing?

2003-02-21 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
don't know what this sourcing is. That means to read in a file and interpret it as commands as if you had typed them yourself. Something like an include. HTH, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
. With physical access to a standard PC, everything is possible (within about 15-30 mins), except if you encrypt your filesystems. The only new thing is, that you now have such a rescue disk for MS Windows XP by using a MS Windows 2000 CD, instead of having to make your own one. Benjamin

Re: [newbie] automatic filtering in Mozilla mail

2003-02-14 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
/mozilla1.3a/: Mozilla Mail's junk-mail classification is mostly complete. Users can now automatically move junk mail to a spam folder. HTH, Benjamin. msg119592/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Apache and PHP variables

2003-02-12 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
? It is the recommended way to find out about (the local part) of the URL. HTH, Benjamin. msg119261/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] C++ question.

2003-02-12 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
HTH, Benjamin. [... reduced example to the relevant part ...] class C; class D { C cb; }; class C { int foo; }; int main() { } msg119264/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-12 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
be brought back with reasonable effort. Read the cooker list archives for why. Regards, Benjamin. [1] You are on the cooker list since at least October... Even if you had no opportunity to read the discussion about rpmdrake, you should know where to look for it by now. msg119271

Re: [newbie] unkillable process?

2003-02-12 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
understand i didn't use them ALL but it seems like sigkill should kill just about anything :-/ Correct. If it does not, there is nothing a mere user (or admin) can do about it. HTH, Benjamin. [1] AFAIK, a killed process which currently happens to be somewhere in the kernel space

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-12 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/Apache-ASP-2.37-3mdk.noarch.rpm Learned that myself only this week. :-) HTH, Benjamin. msg119281/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
/version/etc/refcard.tex). It's written in TeX and you would have to call tex refcard.tex and dvips refcard.dvi, but there are already made PDF's out there, e.g. http://faculty.uml.edu/mbumble/courses/16.342/help/refcard.pdf HTH, Benjamin. [1] That is, meta-key with x goto-line RETURN 4893

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-08 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
tried sending an e-mail to MandrakeSoft to get an explanation for this and no one responded, so this is what I have surmised from the evidence I have. Well, they are kind of over-worked all the time and it is not a problem they can do much about anyhow, I think. HTH, Benjamin

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-08 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-02-08 at 21:17:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:59 pm, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: [...] Well, not exactly quietly. You did get a bounce, didn't you? The reason it takes 4-5 days to bounce is because your mail server (@adelphia.net) handles

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-08 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Please trim what you quote to the relevant part. On Sat 2003-02-08 at 22:58:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:59:42AM +0100, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: [...] Although they made the effort to list all the reverse lookups, they missed www.nic.de in their list. So

Re: [newbie] OT: Shorthand

2003-02-07 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
imagine how all the people have to struggle, who are not native English speakers and therefore miss to know even more words. :) Bye, Benjamin. PS: AFAICT, for any down here LOL is known as Loughing Out Loud, a variant of ROTFL (Rolling On The Floor, Loughing). And, btw, I never heard

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-07 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
(and not accidently those for PC or whatever)? Do you still have the URLs from where you got the images? HTH, Benjamin. msg118611/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will

2003-02-06 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
, everyone should know the basics. ;-) HTH, Benjamin, now goes trolling elsewhere. PS: I know, that one could use grep -i '^h' instead, but no need to get my example more complicated. Figuring out why this does the same is left as exercise to the reader. ;) msg118489

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-06 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
this: df -h /boot and it will only display the relevant partition. HTH, Benjamin. msg118493/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
files in a way or another. This only pays of, if you need to use them regularly (I do). If you want something with a short learning curve, nedit, kedit and friends are more suitable, but will show their limits somewhen. Bye, Benjamin. msg118203/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
if you are going to be read by people that are not familiar with your way to express things (i.e. they don't know you). Damian -- Thank You Benjamin Jeeves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sun 2003-02-02 at 21:03:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, thx Benjamin. On the bright side we've got a router up running. Well, a router doesn't protect against downloaded, trojaned applications. I'll work on him hopefully get him to see the error of his way. Tho that is hard

Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-03 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
... 403 * 1168 bytes = ~460KB to each subscriber ...] ...would you mind stripping your signature a bit? Netiquette recommends 4, but even getting it down to the half would be a advancement. Bye, Benjamin. PS: Take that with a grain of salt... although I really prefer the signature

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution? Thanks :) -- Thank You Benjamin Jeeves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RE: ACCOUNT REMOVAL

2003-02-02 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
fine with Spamassassin's rating. Either way, if you want to be sure to not miss any real mail, you can simply increase the threshold a bit (7 should be fine, 10 is for the paranoids). Regards, Benjamin. msg117935/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] mutt fetchmail

2003-02-02 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
re-fetching of mails (all). It may mean that you get some mail multiple times, but it assures that you do not lose any. HTH, Benjamin. msg117941/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-02 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
stranger - because maybe it is, and he doesn't seem to care enough. Bye, Benjamin. msg117949/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to Powerdown/Off the computer a =?iso-8859-1?q?la Winsucks=20with=20a=20cmd=20on=20the=20CLI=20or?= Gui?

2003-02-02 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
, but today...? At least for multi-user systems you should still use shutdown, because of the timeout and message before rebooting. (Yes, you should give other users time to save. Yes, really.). Regards, Benjamin. PS: And, which should be clear by now, which one you use has nothing to do

Re: [newbie] Cheap, Sensible UK ISP?

2003-01-31 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
not to criticise your current ISP in public! TIA Margot -- Thank You Benjamin Jeeves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-01-31 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Thank You Benjamin Jeeves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] mysql

2003-01-31 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Hi all For some reason mysql does not boot up on my system in the Control Center it is marked on boot but stopped can any one help on why Thank You Benjamin Jeeves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
is not necessarily the one which is fastest for real applications. Regards, Benjamin. msg117460/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-28 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
customers if they asked, if it would be okay to install Linux instead). HAND, Benjamin. msg117141/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[newbie] Firewire e.g. 1394

2003-01-25 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Hi all Has anyone get firewire to work on mdk9.0 I have look at and read www.linux1394.org and done what it says to do but still not work anyone help sorry for the spelling have a problem and can not spell what it is Cheers Ben Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Toshiba laptop installation problems

2003-01-23 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
The L99 99 99 99 99 99 might be lilo or what you use as a boot manager Have you try http://www.linux-laptop.net to see if anyone has had this problem to. On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 4:25 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: I submitted a question to the list earyler today, THANKS for the helpfull

Re: [newbie] Toshiba Laptop installation ?

2003-01-22 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 7:03 pm, Marc wrote: I just installed 9.0 on a old toshiba tecra 510cdt laptop 133mhz P1 20GB HDD 80MB ram It acts like way too much operating system for this old dog. It is Slow and instable to say the least. Almost impossible to go more than a miniute or 2

Re: [newbie] Toshiba Laptop installation ?

2003-01-22 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 9:05 pm, Marc wrote: 1/22/03 1:17:40 PM, Benjamin Jeeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 7:03 pm, Marc wrote: I just installed 9.0 on a old toshiba tecra 510cdt laptop 133mhz P1 20GB HDD 80MB ram It acts like way too much operating system

Re: [newbie] MySQL users DB corrupted

2003-01-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
. Bye, Benjamin. msg114910/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie mozilla question about tabs

2002-12-30 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
shortcuts. Bye, Benjamin. msg113163/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie mozilla question about tabs

2002-12-29 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
#tabbed_browsing HTH, Benjamin. msg113096/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] When is root not root?

2002-12-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
, except perhaps, if it is a Rolex. ;) OTOH, you lock your doors when you go out, and you do not have valuable jewelry lying around openly, do you? HTH, Benjamin. PS: Ah, and because it cannot be said often enough: Most important is that you keep your computer up-to-date with security

Re: [newbie] When is root not root?

2002-12-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Fri 2002-12-27 at 19:03:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 6:47 pm, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: [...] sudo is a nice way to make root access safer and its use is quite standard in Linux production environments. It allows to execute a single command as root like

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-09 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
. Thanks. HTH, Benjamin. msg111099/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake

2002-12-09 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
the CDs and not support or whatever else may be contained in the official packages. They also mention where you can download it for free (well, except your online costs, of course ;-). Bye, Benjamin. msg04/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page

2002-09-19 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
might have security relevance (e.g. all crashes related to variables and function calls). Then reconsider the Mozilla list you forwarded. /rant off ;-) Bye, Benjamin. msg104536/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[newbie] new installation

2002-01-29 Thread Benjamin Ng
, when I select Linux, the screen gives me a bunch of scrolling 0 and 1. I think it is not booting the loader correctly, how do I correct this problem ?? Thanks. Benjamin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Pine Crystal Sound Card on LM 8.0?

2001-11-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
. Thanks so much in advance. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] [Fwd: Re: Windows Media Player???]

2001-08-28 Thread Benjamin Sher
Original Message Subject: Re: Windows Media Player??? Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:25:30 -0500 From: Jeremy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: CodeWeavers, Inc. To: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Benjamin, Forgive the quick and non public

[newbie] Internet Connection -- Correction

2001-08-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
is quite confusing. Use the Configure wizard at the bottom right. I hope LM 8.1 will feature a more streamlined, accessible interface for all this. Benjamin On Wednesday 22 August 2001 18:50, you wrote: Hi! I very recently installed Mandrake 8.0. The internet desktop icon in KDE (and I think

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection -- Correction

2001-08-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Jamie: Yes, KPPP is fine for dial-up but to configure Cable/ADSL you need to use the Network and Internet tool. Benjamin On Thursday 23 August 2001 04:09, you wrote: Sorry, i might be missing a bit of this story, but couldnt you use KPPP? its pretty simple to configure and you should

Re: [newbie] Re: Benjamin: Thanks! Mandrake 8.0 internet desktop iconproblem cleared up

2001-08-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Sevega: Be glad to help, but please be more specific. Exactly what is it that you need help with. State it clearly and I'll try to help you. Benjamin On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:54, you wrote: Can you share your experience with us. How to resolve this problem? sevega -- Sher's

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 8.0 internet desktop icon does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . .

2001-08-22 Thread Benjamin Sher
wizard at the bottom right. I hope LM 8.1 will feature a more streamlined, accessible interface for all this. Benjamin On Wednesday 22 August 2001 18:50, you wrote: Hi! I very recently installed Mandrake 8.0. The internet desktop icon in KDE (and I think, in Gnome, too) does not give me

[newbie] Writing from Linux to Win-NTFS

2001-08-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
essentially cancelled by Konqueror? Just wondering. Thanks so much for your help. Benjamin Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Linux-Win -- Where have my backups gone?

2001-08-19 Thread Benjamin Sher
air? Or was the whole operation essentially cancelled by Konqueror? Just wondering. Thanks so much for your help. Benjamin Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME?

2001-08-02 Thread Benjamin Sher
/ nsmail/ office52/ opera-static-5.0-1.i386.rpm opt/ plugin130_02.trace plugin131.trace plugininstall.results projects/ public_html/ seej.html ter.html tmp/ usr/ [sher@localhost sher]$ Confused. Thank you all so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher

[newbie] Printscreen -- How, please?

2001-07-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
. Just how do you do this and what kind of file are you supposed to see? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] IBM Websphere HomePage Builder for Linux -- Opinions?

2001-07-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
a neutral tool that can handle all platforms. I think the IBM Websphere program may be just what I need. But I need confirmation from experts and users who have actually used it extensively. Thank you very much for listening and I hope to hear from you all. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http

[newbie] Internet Configuration bug

2001-07-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
to the configuration of Internet Connection AT THIS CRITICAL JUNCTURE of the Install. That's it. All my thanks for a great job and a great distro. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Plugins for Linux -- Acrobat and ATT DjVu image plugin

2001-07-13 Thread Benjamin Sher
, then copying them to Mozilla (remembering NOT to overwrite any plugins already in Mozilla (e.g. the Java plugins), then checking the Scan for Netscape plugins in Konqueror's Settings. OK, that's it for now. Best wishes. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna

[newbie] Run-on lines, overlap of text -- footnote

2001-07-12 Thread Benjamin Sher
, which looks horrid. This is essentially ruining my web experience. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. What is going on here or what am I doing wrong or how can I fix this? Thanks so very much. Benjamin

[newbie] Run-on lines, overlap of text -- II

2001-07-12 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: For the record, I have tried to change and manipulate fonts in Mozilla and Galeon. Switched from Mozilla TT to Adobe for all fonts and nothing works. Exact same distortion occurs in all cases. Just can't figure this out. Thanks so much. Benjamin

[newbie] Mozilla/Galeon font mess report -- Need help

2001-07-12 Thread Benjamin Sher
folders from my home directory, etc. However, other than the clue above, I have no idea what's going on. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer8 Mozilla ?

2001-07-12 Thread Benjamin Sher
from Cooker). It will allow you to set the mime types and play them automatically. Besides, Galeon is a fabulous browser. See http://galeon.sourceforge.net Benjamin On Thursday 12 July 2001 20:18, you wrote: Hi! I haven't been able to run RealPlayer8 from Mozilla 0.9-2... i've installed mime

[newbie] How to install EVERYTHING on LM 8.0?

2001-07-09 Thread Benjamin Sher
hope I am wrong. I sure could use such an option right now before I go really batty. Thanks so much for listening. Looking forward to your answers. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

[newbie] koffice 1.1/KDE 2.1.1 must be rebuilt from src.rpm!

2001-07-04 Thread Benjamin Sher
could be rebuilt. I think I'll just wait for KDE 2.2 to come out in the fall. Thanks so much. Benjamin On Wednesday 04 July 2001 19:16, you wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2001 08:23 pm, you wrote: Dear friends: [root@localhost sher]# rpm -Uvh koffice-1.1-0.beta3.3mdk.i586.rpm error: failed

[newbie] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?

2001-06-27 Thread Benjamin Sher
of Babel it could scarcely be more effective than that which has been adopted by distributions on their own, voluntarily. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Thanks for input on Kword

2001-06-26 Thread Benjamin Sher
successful it is. Thanks so much again. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] TT fonts in Konqueror -- Failure?

2001-06-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
good, while Konqueror, from my experience, fails at this key function? I hope a Konqueror developer is listening. If I am wrong, I would like to be corrected. If I am right, I hope this problem is resolved soon. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher

[newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
StarOffice or another word processing to Kword? I personally like it a great deal but have had little experience with it. So, before I make any commitment to it, it would be good to know what you folks think of it. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin

[newbie] True Type Fonts in StarOffice5.2?

2001-06-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
fonts are atrocious. Can anything be done about this? Thank you. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Network Card

2001-06-14 Thread Benjamin De Troch
Hi! I've got a cable connection to connect to the Internet, but Mandrake (version 8) doesn't find my network card (NE2000 compatible) while windows recognizes it immediately :-( How do I solve this? Desperately waiting for someone to help me out, Ben

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