Dear friends:
My SoundBlaster Awe64 card is apparently dead or dying. I happen to have a
Pine Crystal Chipset PCI Sound Card (CS4281, 3D Spatialization, AC '97
Codec). It came with my new IBM 667 NetVista computer. Is this supported by
LM 8.0?
Please remember that I am still using LM 8.0.
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
Dear W.C. Baker:
Correction below. My apologies.
You are right. To connect to the Internet you need to click on the MANDRAKE
CONTROL CENTER icon, Network and Internet, Connection. Don't touch the
Internet Sharing button unless youa re connecting two computers. The
Connection interface is
be good to go in a couple
of minuites.
-- Jamie
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From: Benjamin Sher[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:22 August 2001 20:23
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Internet Connection -- Correction
File
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
Dear W.C. Baker:
You are right. To connect to the Internet you need to click on the Mandrake
Software Manager icon, Network and Internet, Connection. Don't touch the
Internet Sharing button unless youa re connecting two computers. The
Connection interface is quite confusing. Use the Configure
Dear friends:
I recently tried to copy a directory from LM 8.0 to /mnt/windows.
Unfortunately, my Windows (on my dual-boot) uses the NTFS file system and,
worse, I forgot this fact when I decided to copy the directory. Konqueror
proceeded to copy them. But when I went to /mnt/windows, the
Dear friends:
This should be a pretty simple question. I think I know the answer but would
appreciate an expert's confirmation:
I have a dual-boot LM 8.0/Win2000Pro system. My Win2000Pro uses the NTFS File
System. That means, of course, that Linux can READ NTFS files on my Win2000
partition
Dear friends:
I would appreciate your help (precise instructions, please) with the
following message I just got when trying to install the tgz version of Galeon
0.11.3. When installing it in the home directory (home/sher), it creates a
/home/sher/opt directory. It then tells me to set
Dear friends:
I can't figure out how to create a printscreen. I've been asked by Mozilla to
send a printscreen of a certain page. I click on the printscreen /SysRq
button above the Insert button on the keyboard. But nothing seems to happen.
I don't see a printscreen file in my home directory.
Dear friends:
I've recently downloaded the IBM Websphere HomePage Builder v. 4 for Linux
(60-day trial version). I would very much appreciate your opinions on this
program.
First, you can get the program from:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/linux/download.html
Here are
Dear Civilme:
Just wanted to report a minor but critical bug in the Internet Connection
Configuration. It happens both during Install and when trying to configure
Internet Connection from scratch in the Mandrake Control Center. This little
bug caused me no end of confusion and agony when I
Dear Joan:
Dear friends:
There are two plugins that you should have:
You can get them (and other plugins) from Netscape by going to About Plugins
under Netscape, then at the very top click on
Installed plug-ins
For more information on Netscape plug-ins, click here.
Then select Linux as
Dear friends:
I have a problem with Mozzila and Galeon that's driving me batty: run that
run on from one column to the next or letters on a single lines that overlap
each other (as if they were piled up on each other). I have just reinstalled
LM 8.0 and I had used Mozilla 0.9.2/Galeon 0.11.1
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
Dear friends:
Using Mozilla 0.9.2/Galeon 0.11.1 on LM 8.0.
I have spent the past several hours trying to troubleshoot the mangled text
problem in Mozilla and Galeon and have come up with only one clue:
Both Mozilla and Galeon have an option for using your own fonts EXLUSIVELY
(just as
Dear Joan:
You are right! There is a bug in Mozilla 0.9.2 that will not allow direct
playing of RealPlayer even if you install the audio/x-pn-realaudio and
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin and all the other mime types correctly.
You have one of two options:
1) You can access RealPlayer
Dear friends:
This may seem like a trivial question, but it's been driving me crazy. I
have to reinstall LM 8.0, and, for the life of me, I can't find any
option to INSTALL EVERYTHING. One click of the mouse and you just
install everything on LM 8.0 (at least the 2 CD version, which totals
Dear Dennis and friends:
I did a thorough search for this libkdeprint.so.0 file using Google. I
am quite familiar with this process and have done this before. In this
case, it turns out that the answer in on KDE's site: the file is part
of libkdeprint, and this library is only available as
Dear friends:
If Microsoft were to cook up a plan to cause Linux to disappear in a virtual
Tower of Babel it could scarcely be more effective than that which has been
adopted by distributions on their own, voluntarily.
This is from an article by Dennis E. Powell in Linuxtoday (June 27, 2001)
Dear friends:
My deep thanks for participating in my informal survey of opinions on
Kword. Looks like there is quite a diversity of opinion here. Either way, I
do look forward to Koffice 1.1 with the new Kword. Then, we'll be in a better
position to judge where Kword is going and how
Dear friends:
Am I missing something or is it not the case that the same True Type fonts
that look (and print) so beautifully in Netscape 4.x and Mozilla (I have a
dual-boot LM 8.0/Win98) fail in Konqueror? I have tried every trick in the
book (increasing the size of all the Konqueror browser
Dear friends:
Just taking an informal survey as I consider switching from StarOffice to
Kword (the current Kword 1.0 version in LM 8.0, NOT the latest Koffice 1.1
beta). What's your verdict? Is Kword 1.0 reliable? Solid? feature-rich? Are
you happy with it? If so, did you switch from
Dear friends:
I have a dual-boot LM 8.0/Win98 SE. Thanks to Mandrake, I've been using True
Type fonts in Netscape and Mozilla since LM 7.1.
Question: Is there any way to use these True Type fonts in StarOffice 5.2?
StarOffice's print fonts are fine. They look very good indeed. But its screen
Dear s:
I used to be a Bellsouth ADSL customer -- for 2 years. They are
extremely unreliable.
Forget Bellsouth and switch to Earthlink/Mindspring's Covad ADSL. Covad
is available through their affiliates (Mindspring/Covad, Juno/Covad,
etc.). I highly, no, VERY HIGHLY recommend Covad, especially
Dear friends:
Let's say I have the following files:
File1
File2
File3
etc.
Now, normally to make a backup copy of each, I would do the following:
cp File1 File1.bk
cp File2 File2.bk
cp File3 file3.bk
etc.
My question: Is there a SINGLE command that would allow me to create backups
for
Dear friends:
Any news as yet of when Mandrake will release their version of the
latest Mozilla 0.9?
Benjamin
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
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Dear friens:
Thanks to the great troubleshooting efforts of Pierre Fortin, we have a
new halt file to replace the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file IN CASE YOU
HAVE HAD A PROBLEM SHUTTING DOWN YOUR SYSTEM.
If your shutdown works fine, i.e. without any error messages, with all
OK check marks and
Dear Klar:
My thanks to a fellow list member for this.
Someone wrote me to tell me how to do it.
You have to activate xscreensaver by typing in the console:
xscreensaver-demo
This activates the screensaver demon. Now select your screensaver. Close
console. Go to KDE Control Center, Look n
Dear friends:
I've tried the new Software Manager in LM 8.0 with the intention of
updating (the old MandrakeUpdate). My apologies if I am just blind, but
repeated attempts at updating have failed. I do not see any FTP
addresses or any instructions on how to perform the update. Could
someone
Dear Charles and friends:
Thanks a million, Charles!!! You've done a good deed in giving us the
instructions for using the new LM 8.0 Sofware Manager (icon on desktop).
I've been using Linux for three years now and have lots of experience
running Linux, beginning with Red Hat 5.2 and then
Dear friends:
Where in the world is MandrakeUpdate in LM 8.0, please? And Drakfont?
Thanks so much.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear friends:
I seem to have hit a minor snag, but I have no idea how to get out it. I
would really appreciate your help.
I am using LM 7.2 with KDE 2.1.1.
I tried to download Ximiam Gnome 1.4 (which allows for installation on
LM 7.2).
After downloading and configuration, I encountered a host
Dear friends:
Just checked. I can't get startx to work either as root or user.
Thanks so much.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear friends:
Unfortunately, when I type the command
#service xfs restart
I get FAILED.
Similarly, when I type
#/etc/rc.d/init.d/./xfs restart
I also get FAILED.
Same thing happens whether I type the command as user or root.
And the same also for the command startx as user or root.
When
Dear friends:
Simple question:
What is a replicated CD and what is it contrasted with
or opposed to?
Thank you.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear friends:
Simple question:
What is a "replicated CD" and what is it contrasted with or opposed to?
Thank you.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear friends:
I recently installed the RealPlayer 8 .bin version for Linux. I also
installed all the plugins and mimetypes (sh mimetypes.sh and sh
plugins.sh). Everything installed perfectly. However, I've noticed
problems with RealPlayer 8. The broadband screen is half the size it
should be
Dear friends:
The RH6 RPMS for Mozilla 0.8.1 have just been released. I just installed
them. they are for the i386 build, NOT the i586 build, but they
installed PERFECTLY, without any error messages, and Mozilla 0.8.1 is so
far working very, very well. So, for us LM72 users, at least until LM
Dear Mark and friends:
Forgot to mention:
[After you have rebuilt your rpms from your src.rpm, just use them as you
would any RPMS. You might wish to uninstall any other rpms that are built for
a different category and then install your new, customized RPMS. -- Benjamin]
Rebuilding an
Dear friends:
I recently heard that Red Hat has produced a special RPM package that will
allow Red Hat 6 users (who use rpm version 3 to upgrade packages that are
built with rpm version 4). If so, does anyone know where I can find this
information, and, more importantly, what is the opinion
Dear friends:
If you would like to download the Red Hat 6 src.rpm file for the recent
Mozilla 0.8.1 of March 26 (compatible with LM72), go to:
http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/RH6/SRPMS/
The exact name of the file is:
mozilla-0.8.1-1.src.rpm 06-Apr-2001 02:10 29.9M
This will
Dear David:
Thanks so much for writing. Well, I tried to rebuild the RH6 mozilla 0.8.1
src.rpm again, this time with a --target=i586 and failed again at exactly the
same point
JSHTMLPreElement.pp nsJSHTMLPreElement.cpp
make[3]: *** [nsJSHTMLPreElement.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
Dear friends:
I like Kmail a lot, but, as is often the case, a simple feature or lack of
it, can be an insurmountable obstacle. And, in this case, it may be that I am
just missing something.
I have been learning how to configure Kmail (and KDE 2.1.1 in general).
Amazing what you can do. For
Dear friends:
Just wanted to pass on the good news that KDE 2.1.1 (the upgrade from KDE
2.1) is now available in i586 rpm format from:
http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org
All of these i586 rpms (just issued on April 7) have been built from the
Cooker site and made available on LM72 (i.e. using our
Dear friends:
My deep apologies. I assumed that the KDE 2.1.1 files (and the Mozilla 0.8.1
files) at Texstar (http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org), which claims be an
exclusively LM72 rpm site, would have produced rpms that work with LM72's rpm
version 3.0 and that they would also supply rpms for all
wrote:
I just installed the KDE 2.1.1 rpms from texstar without a hitch on 7.2.
Works fine here.
Stan
- Original Message -
From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: [newbie] WARNI
Dear friends:
Well, looks like I was wrong again. But this time it's a pleasant surprise.
Let's go back to the KDE 2.1.1 upgrade for LM72 site from Texstar at:
http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org
This site has i586 rpms for LM72 that will allow you to upgrade your current
KDE to the final version
Dear friends:
Thanks to Peter Schram, I discovered a real goldmine for LM72 rpms. Here
is the address:
http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org/
You will find here the latest Mozilla 0.8.1, the latest galeon (and all
required dependencies -- one of which, the libdst++ .so.3 or something
like that included
Dear friends:
Just for the record:
The Mozilla 0.8.1 LM72 rpm available at Texttar's LM72 site is still the
old Feb 17, 2001 version. However, I expect soon to see the latest 0.8.1
LM72 rpm available on their site. URL:
http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org/
I do not believe that you can use the Cooker
Dear Jeff:
Best way to see Word documents in Linux is to download StarOffice, which
is not only a great office suite in its own right, but is known for its
superlative conversion of MSWord documents. To get StarOffice, go to
www.sun.com, more specifically
http://www.sun.com/staroffice/
and
Dera Altoine:
I am NOT an expert or a programmer, just a user.
However, I DID try to install RealPlayer8.rpm with the --ignorearch
option after being reassured by many members and after being reassured
by my expert friend that it was safe (I sent him the original
correspondence on the issue).
Dera Pato:
See my full instructions on downloading, installing and using the
RealPlayer 8.bin version, which will work perfectly in LM72. Learn to
use the Mandrake archives:
See Mandrake's home page (http://www.mandrake.com). Look on the left.
You'll see Support, Mailing lists, Archives. I
Dear Pato:
Just found my instructions attached to someone else's message.
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
You can get RealPlayer 8 from RealPlayer home page at
http://www.real.com by selecting the free RealPlayer 8 Basic and then
choosing under OS "Unix". This will take yo
Dear friends:
You can get RealPlayer 8 from RealPlayer home page at
http://www.real.com by selecting the free RealPlayer 8 Basic and then
choosing under OS "Unix". This will take you directly to the Unix
Community Supported RealPlayer page at:
Dear Phil:
I think the message means that you have been disconnected from the
Internet. I imagine you are using broadband (ADSL or Cable). You need to
first do a cold reboot (shut down, disconnect your power cord from the
wall and disconnect the power cord to your modem), reconnect, wait 15
Dear Marcia:
You need to install it as root:
$su
root password
then install it as follows:
#./nameoffile.bin
Then go back as user and install it as user:
$realplay
This will bring up the RealPlay dialogue box for you as user. I think I
am right. I may be wrong since I am still using Real
Dear Stefaans:
Thanks a million! Will do.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear friends:
Someone on our list or on the Mandrake Newbie list asked a good
question: How do you overlap windows so you can click on them and bring
each one to the fore as you need it. I didn't at first understand the
issue until my wife, who has also come to like XFCE, asked me precisely
the
Dear friends:
As the owner of the new xfce-new mailing-list (actually a Yahoo group)
for us ordinary users, I have received a number of messages from newbies
and even from experienced users asking for help with XFCE's Setup,
Palette color scheme (the eight color rectangles). Each of these
Dear friends:
Using XFCE.
How in the world do you close down an application in XFCE that is
frozen? I have tried Cnt +F4. I have tried to click on the X in the
right hand corner. Etc. Etc. Cn+Alt+ Esc does NOT work in XFCE. Only in
KDE. Every time an application like Netscape freezes up, I have
Dear friends:
Just spent a little time exploring XFCE's xscreensaver. I looked
through the online documentation, tried out many of the screensavers and
tried out some of the options. Xscreensaver certainly works in the sense
that if you set it for such and such a time, it will come on at that
Dear friends:
I just noticed that on my LM72, typing any of the following login
commands at the console:
$startx kde
$startx gnome
$startx xfce
will automatically take you ICEWM instead of to their respective
desktops or window managers.
This is obviously a bug of some sort. I hope
Dear friends:
We all know about KDE and Gnome. Some have even heard of Window Maker,
Sawfish, Enlightenment, Icewm and Blackbox, all of which are listed on
Mandrake's graphical login menu and all of which are installed by
default.
Realizing that the days of my AMD k6-2 400 mhrtz with 128 megs
Dear Roman:
Thank you so very much for your instructions on configuring RealPlayer
8. I am sure I am speaking for many when I say that we really appreciate
it.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear friends:
For the record, the mozilla .8 rpms in Mandrake Cooker/unsupported are
for i686. They will not install in LM7.2. When I tried to install them
in LM7.2 I got the error message: "for a different architecture." That
was that.
I finally found a version of Mozilla .8 with a Preferences
Dear Bill:
Oh, how I wish I knew this before reinstalling Linux 7.2 two days ago!
Thanks so much for reassuring me about this. Will upgrade to KDE 2.1
again.
My apology to the list for "panicking," as you say. And I agree. It's
much better to open another window than another instance of
Dear friends:
The IBM Java Virtual Machine is working flawlessly, so far, in KDE 2.1's
Konqueror. As good and as fast as in Netscape 4.76.
I have one question, for which I believe there is an answer. But, being
a newbie, I think I bet let an expert comment on this and on whether any
of us users
Dear friends:
Well, the Java madness in Konqueror is finally over!
I never could get KDE 2.0.1 to work with any of the Java Virtual
Machines that I installed. This doesn't mean that it won't on other
people's systems. It's just that they failed on mine. So...
I upgraded to KDE 2.1 and tried
Dear friends:
The JSSE message that comes up in the Virtual console in NO way retards
or obstructs or affects in any way the performance of the java applet.
Thank God! If you UNCHECK the box for "Virtual console" under Settings,
Konqueror, Browser, Java, you will be blissfully unaware of this
Dear Oder:
The instructions for upgrading from KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.1 in Lm7.2 are as
simple as can be because Mandrake went out of their way to make it so:
1) Go to any Mandrake ftp site using your ftp application (gftp, Igloo
or whatever) and type in the exact name of the ftp host site, e.g.
Dear friends:
I had forgotten how difficult it was for me to find the IBM JRE. I knew
it existed because KDE lists it on their www.konqueror.org page (even
though they claim it doesn't work) and because of the note by Zeljko
Vukman, who said that he had replaced Sun's Java with IBM's and that
Dear Roman and friends:
Using LM72.
I tried installing the .bin version of RealPlayer 8. Yes, it installed
without a hitch. But, unless I am mistaken, it would not install the
plugins and I could never view or listen to any embedded instances of
RealPlayer on the Web.
What's your experience?
Dear Pat:
Just found the solution in one of my old messages:
As user (or root) do the following:
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/minicom
That should do it.
Assuming that minicom is at /usr/bin/minicom.
All my best.
Benjamin
Dear Pat:
I am really sorry that I don't have the answer to the "can't create lock
file" issue. However, using Minicom as root is not better and no worse
than using your modem as root, i.e. it leaves you wide open to security
breaches. If you have sensitive data or don't want others snooping on
David:
I remember this error precisely. Just IGNORE it. Yes, ignore it and go
ahead and open a file in Aktion. It will work, never mind the error
message. Believe me. Play with it and you'll see.
Benjamin
Dear Pat:
I think I know a solution. I once played with Minicom just for the fun
of it and ran into the same root/user problem. The solution is, if I
recall, very simple:
First in a console type:
whereis minicom
If I recall, the rpm usually installs into /usr/local
Now, using Konqueror as
Dear Coy:
Unfortunately not. Gates won't give us Windows Media Player and has
patented its file associations, so Linux cannot create a player to play
WMP files. Same for Quicktime, I think. At least we have RealPlayer
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna
Dear Bill:
To uncompress a tar.gz file, simply do the following:
As user, type tar -xzf xxx.tar.gz
For example, to untar (uncompress) the mozilla browser suite, do as follows:
tar -xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-MathML-SVG-XSLT.tar.gz
It is sometimes preferable to put your tar.gz file
Dear friends:
1) My system is an AMD K6-2 400 with 128 megs of real RAM (and a 256
swap file on LM72).
2) I am using the new Netscape 6.01, which just came out a few days ago.
This 6.01 version is based on the stable Mozilla .7, which came out in
January, while Netscape 6.0, which came out in
Dear friends:
1) Installation:
I reinstalled Netscape 6.01 as ROOT, instead of user. I finally found
the netscape directory. See below. I was able to activate Netscape 6 and
launch it. However, since the initial launch, all I've been getting are
segmentation faults. Besides, I would like to run
Dear friends:
I installed the brand-new Netscape 6.01 in a separate directory so I now
have both Netscape 4.76 and Netscape 6. My problem is with Flash. I
downloaded the latest Macromedia Flash 5.0 when instructed to do so in
Netscape 6. I installed it in /home/sher/.netscape/plugins as well as
Dear Travis:
Quite simple:
Close all netscape instances.
Open your xterm or konsole in KDE:
cd to /home/user/.netscape
Then,
rm lock
That's it.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Carlos:
Yes, get the new Netscape 6.01, which has just come out
(http://www.netscape.com). It is based on the very stable and far
improved Mozilla .7 which came out in January. Netscape 6.00 came out in
November and was based on the very unstable Mozilla Milestone 17, which
came out in
Dear Mike and friends:
OK, here is the lowdown on Netscape 6.01:
I initially installed it in /usr/local/netscape. But after installation,
when I tried to run it by typing in xterm "netscape", it would
invariably bring up Netscape 4.76 (which is located in
/usr/bin/netscape). So, I uninstalled
Dear Corrado and friends:
I have removed Netscape 6.01 and reinstalled it, this time to the
default /usr/local/netscape directory. OK, I still have Netscape 4.76 on
my system. But how do I find and launch Netscape6. When I type
"netscape" (without the quotes) in xterm, it launches Netscape 4.76,
Dear friends:
Just installed the new Netscape 6.01 into the default directory
/usr/local/netscape. How do I launch Netscape 6. When I type "netscape"
in xterm, it launches Netscape 4.76, which I also have on my system.
Would very much appreciate your help.
Thank you.
Benjamin
--
Sher's
Dear Carlos and friends:
There's the rub. Installed Netscape 6 in /usr/local/netscape but there
is no netscape6 executable.
Would really appreciate your help:
[sher@sher sher]$ /usr/local/netscape/netscape
bash: /usr/local/netscape/netscape: No such file or directory
[sher@sher sher]$
Dear Lanman and friends:
I HIGHLY recommend Okidata's Okipage 10e LASER PRINTER. I got it from
http://www.buy.com for nearly half price ($260 instead of $400).
Brand-new. Toners are also only half-price, around $16 (sixteen
dollars!) and last 2,000 pages (that's two thousand except the first
Dear Jason and friends:
Here is my configuration of /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow. Please
not that it's in all caps and make sure you configure the right file.
And, of course, you have to be root to configure it.
1)
[sher@sher sher]$ cat /etc/hosts.deny
#
# hosts.denyThis file
Dear David:
Thanks so much. Will do. Will back up my /home/sher/.netscape directory
in its entirety
Thanks again.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Neville:
1) Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding.
If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save
the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I
really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages
to a file and
Dear friends:
Here is something for you to chew over. I wonder if any of you have had
this problem:
The last two times that I reinstalled LM72, I discovered that when I
clicked on my /home directory, LM72 would NOT install any files from the
second CD. I had formatted only hda, NOT hdb (/home)
Dear Neville and friends:
Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding.
If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save
the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I
really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages
to a
Dear Dave:
Thanks so much for the advice!
I like your suggestion because even though I have a separate /home
partition (and on a separate drive all unto itself), LM72 will not
properly install unless I completely reformat everything, i.e both hard
drives including /home (see my earlier message
Dear Chris:
The KDE 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of LM7.2 is the
FINAL version. However, KDE 2.0 does NOT have a thememanager. That will
come with KDE 2.1 now available in beta 1.
Benjamin
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Sher's Russian Web
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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Dear friends:
This would seem to be a no-brainer: one should certainly prefer
RealPlayer 8 to RealPlayer 7. However, what puzzles me is the size of
the file. The Real 7 for Linux rpm is 6.5 megs in size, while the Real 8
Linux rpm is only 4.8 megs in size. Both are for Red Hat glibc 2.1 and
both
Dear friends:
Thanks to all of you who responded.
Here is what I did: I created an icon on the desktop with the executable
reading: "kdesu -c /usr/bin/konqueror" (no quotes) and then selected the
konqueror icon from the system list. This automatically brings up a
dialogue box that asks me for
Dear friends:
I have a dual-boot Linux/Win98 system. In Windows use Juno as my ISP,
that is, Juno Premium, the commercial version without the banner ads.
I would very much like to use Juno as my dial-up in Linux. Is there any
way to do this? Currently, I use Bellsouth dial-up, which doesn't
Dear friends:
I would like to add my two cents' worth to this matter of applications.
[Preliminary Note: I love Linux and especially Mandrake and have been
supporting it by purchasing its official versions since version LM 6.1
and continue to do so (in spite of Macmillain's recent LM
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