Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-22 Thread Brandon Rife
John Wilson wrote: On October 21, 2004 04:11 pm, Elliot Somers wrote: This is a pretty general question, I've heard it said by one party that linux/unix is virus proof, other's say it's that virus authors go after the big guys, so MS, wintel servers, etc. What I want to know is what's true and

Re: [newbie] Problem with my web site

2004-10-19 Thread Brandon Rife
Bryan Phinney wrote: I have just noticed a very troublesome problem with my web site and was hoping that someone here could point me in the right direction. I am using Postnuke CMS version .750 Gold, MySQL server and PHP 4.3.8. The site displays in IE, Opera fine but whenever I hit it from a

Re: [newbie] 802.11G support

2004-10-17 Thread Brandon Rife
Ken Sieving wrote: I have purchased a new HP model ZE4805 which has a Broadcom 94306 chipset. Does anyone know if 10.1 supports this out of the box? Thanks. I had to use ndiswrapper to wrap the Window's drivers for the 94306 chipset (PCMCIA) in MDK 10.0 and 10.1. Br

Re: [newbie] Conférence à Bordeaux.

2004-10-17 Thread Brandon Rife
Warly wrote: Je serai sur Bordeaux Mardi 19 octobre pour une conférence à l'ENSEIRB de 11h à 12h30 sur le thème de l'économie du libre et Mandrakesoft. Si des gens sont intéressés pour passer et discuter un peu. I ran this through a French->English translation robot: "I will be on Bordeaux Tues

Re: [newbie] Using Midnight Commander

2004-10-15 Thread Brandon Rife
a waste of bandwidth. Please refrain from posting unless you've got something useful to contribute. This *is* the newbie list. Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 07:09, Brandon Rife wrote: Nope, I was starting from run level 3. I created a .xinitrc file in ~ to launch Gnome. Install Xtart and don't muck around with your .xinitrc unless you truly know what you're doing - at least it allows you

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 22:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome c

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 07:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome c

[newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
hanks, Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Setting wlan0 connection timeout

2004-10-08 Thread Brandon Rife
On Friday 08 October 2004 07:21 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 08 October 2004 05:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have wired and wireless PCMCIA cards in my laptop. At home I connect > > wireless, at work, I am wired. The wired interface, eth0, fa

[newbie] Setting wlan0 connection timeout

2004-10-08 Thread Brandon Rife
do to make the wireless interface fail more quickly? Thanks, Brandon (currently wired at work:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem

2004-10-08 Thread Brandon Rife
On Thursday 07 October 2004 08:27 pm, Chris wrote: > On Thursday 07 October 2004 09:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? > > I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE

Re: [newbie] Security Updates

2004-10-08 Thread Brandon Rife
7;t gotten any updates from main or contrib for quite a while. Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem - SOLVED

2004-10-07 Thread Brandon Rife
On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? > I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE > integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: >

[newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem

2004-10-07 Thread Brandon Rife
m probably mindlessly missing something Thanks! Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Konqueror/toolbar persistence

2004-10-04 Thread Brandon Rife
Brandon Rife wrote: This isn't a big deal but it is getting annoying. Everytime I run Konq I have to reconfigure the toolbars the way I lke them. It appears that the toolbar state is not being persisted when Konq is closed. Anyone else seeing this on 10.1CE? Anyone have a fix? T

[newbie] Konqueror/toolbar persistence

2004-10-04 Thread Brandon Rife
This isn't a big deal but it is getting annoying. Everytime I run Konq I have to reconfigure the toolbars the way I lke them. It appears that the toolbar state is not being persisted when Konq is closed. Anyone else seeing this on 10.1CE? Anyone have a fix? Thanks, Br

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Brandon Rife
aron Smith wrote: BTW .zip files are for windows That's a ridiculous statement. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __

Re: [newbie] 10.1CE

2004-10-01 Thread Brandon Rife
Paul Kaplan wrote: My initial impression is that 10.1CE is faster than 10.0 Official. Can anyone confirm or would people like a sample of what I've been smokin'? Paul I don't see too much difference. I does seem to me though that XFree was faster then Xorg. _

Re: [newbie] Calling Firefox from Thunderbird

2004-09-30 Thread Brandon Rife
col inside of Firefox. In the $HOME/.mozilla/thunderbird/.default directory I created a user.js file and added the following line: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird"); Good luck! Brandon _

Re: [newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver

2004-09-17 Thread Brandon Rife
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:27:36 -0600 "Scott Mazur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:18:09 +, Lee Wiggers wrote Hello list Recently my test box in 10.0 Official noted "new hardware" on boot. With vast stupidity, I followed along and it changed my mouse d

[newbie] Synatics Touchpad

2004-08-07 Thread Brandon Rife
chpad functions without the synaptic driver, no scrolling, double-clicking, etc. I'm using Xorg but I experience the same behaviour under XF. Any ideas? Thanks! Brandon Section "InputDevice" Identifier "synaptic" Driver "synaptics" Option "Protoc

Re: [newbie] Wireless PCMCIA Card

2004-06-23 Thread Brandon Rife
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Brandon Rife wrote: I'm looking for a wireless PCMCIA card that works 'out of the box' with MDK 10 and XP. Can someone suggest such a card? Thanks! I will probably get flamed for saying this, but the Microsoft MN-520 works with Mandrake 9.2, and I woul

[newbie] Wireless PCMCIA Card

2004-06-22 Thread Brandon Rife
I'm looking for a wireless PCMCIA card that works 'out of the box' with MDK 10 and XP. Can someone suggest such a card? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www

[newbie] Proxim Orinoco gold a/b/g card

2004-06-20 Thread Brandon Rife
Does anyone have this wireless card working with mdk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped

2004-06-16 Thread Brandon Rife
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: "Johan Sch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:46:42 -0400 "eric jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Brandon Rife
Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I tried to use Kbear for the first. I have no problem connecting to a website. After connecting, I see that the login and password was accepted followed by this message: "229 Entering Extended Passive Mode." But, after I connect I can see no directories and files at th

Re: [newbie] DrakeConf is uninstalled

2004-02-23 Thread Brandon Rife
Brandon Rife wrote: I absently mindedly uninstalled drakconf, at least that's what I think its called. It's the Mandrake app that corresponds to the "Configuration/Configure your computer" menuitem. At this point I'm still very dependent of the GUI to get things d

Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

2004-02-20 Thread Brandon Rife
Amichai Rotman wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 05:01, Brandon Rife wrote: The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron Transpo

Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

2004-02-19 Thread Brandon Rife
Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 09:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: Hello, I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error message. Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can'

[newbie] Sound is kaput

2004-02-19 Thread Brandon Rife
tinue, using the null output device. I get a similar error when loading Gnome.  I'm running MDK 9.2.  Thanks for any help you can offer! Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Evolution mail client mail folders and saved email

2004-02-18 Thread Brandon Rife
Has anyone else experienced the Evolution mail client losing their email addresses and saved email? This has happened to me twice. Funny thing is that Evo did not lose my mail account info so its not like my whole config was lost. At this point I've switched to Thunderbird. Thanks, Br

[newbie] Konsole Logs? Is there another way to view the details of root sessions... and if so? Where are the elusive little buggers!

2003-12-11 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
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Re: [newbie] Buying notebook: tough decision. Help.

2003-12-11 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
I was about to ask the same thing. I'm using a Dell 1100 el cheapo with great satisfaction with mdk 9.2 and win2k in VMware. Love it. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakes

Re: [newbie] Urpmi database locked

2003-12-11 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
Lee Wiggers wrote: I closed a shell in the middle of an urpmi update. (Don't ask) Now I get 'urpmi database locked' when I attempt to update. How do I get myself out of this one? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?

2003-12-10 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
ove. The profiles work and act _ALMOST_ exactly the same between the two operating systems. So if you have a dual booting system you can share the same profile if needed. So it should work if the messages are actually there. Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Missing Screensavers

2003-12-06 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
Patrick Coffey wrote: Hello, I just installed a fresh copy Mandrake 9.2 with KDE, when I go to Configure Desktop and go under screensavers there are none listed. I've installed just about every KDE rpm I could find and I couldn't find a solution that worked in the archives. Does anybody have an

Re: [newbie] Resetting media sources to the original ISO's mdk9.2

2003-12-06 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
Worked like a charm thanks! Johan wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 21:43, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote: How would one go about setting up the urpmi sources as that of what was originally offered through the mandrake ISO's, you see, I'm having issues with the Easy URPM site, and

[newbie] Resetting media sources to the original ISO's mdk9.2

2003-12-06 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
wonderful urpmi.removemedia -a However, now when I try to 'addmedia' it tells me that 'it cannot update medium 'whicheveroneIwastryingtoupdate' Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
Whoa... your doing homework... 'some' people are really anal about the reply-to settings. Deal, I look before I post so should you ;) If the guy says he can't do it, "HE CAN'T DO IT" stop harrasing the poor man. JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:26:48 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [newbie] Are you ready for a MOVE?

2003-12-01 Thread Brandon Bertelsen
Wow, is all I can say... I'm trying it tonight -- Original Message -- From: Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 05:43:53 +0100 >[from Mandrake-Linux Dot Com] > >http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/m

[newbie] Mandrake 9.2. Many proprietary apps gone...

2003-11-30 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
the entire control panel... and all applications that came with the disks... Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How do I cause all activated hyperlinks to be opened with the same browser?

2003-11-24 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
al with hyper links in a manner that would be expectable? Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Connecting From 9.2

2003-11-23 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
s point my only choice is to open the Mandrake Control Center> select Networking> and click on the connect/disconnect button. There just has to be an easier way. Thanks again for the help. LTR  }}:{( [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 23 November 2003 11:05 am, Brandon

[newbie] using a shortcut to gain access to a PPOE connection to the internet

2003-11-23 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
Does anyone know of a way to create a shortcut to a specific connection profile on the desktop, without having to use root access and without loading the connection at boot. Regards and Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen www.Bertelsen.ca - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Distribution: Mandrake L

RE: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake

2003-09-04 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Actually, I stay for steve's sigs ;) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Inhabitant of Zion > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake > > > I think the main r

RE: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake

2003-09-03 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
nd plan to make that slackware. But for my home/business server, Mdk just does the trick. My desktop is still W2K Pro, and will be till I find something better. (No flames please 1999-today and no blue screens or major issues) Brandon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake

2003-09-03 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
he individual settings that make up each level) are so easy to customize afterward, that I don't see it as a major problem. Obviously, it's up to your friend/company to decide which distro is best and why. Best wishes, Brandon > 1. We're sick of RPM. We've hard RPM break on

RE: [newbie] Firewall Oddities

2003-08-29 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
ment. HTH Brandon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Sheltra > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 7:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Firewall Oddities > > > I'm having some interesting happenings

RE: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-16 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Stirred up a hornet's nest didn't I? ;) > > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:26:47 -0700 > "Brandon Vanderberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Anyone dumb enough to leave a PC wide open with no protection, and got > > hit by this worm deserves it -

RE: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-16 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
> On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 10:26, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: > > > > > Anyone dumb enough to leave a PC wide open with no protection, > and got hit > > by this worm deserves it - Just as much as someone who runs > linux with no > > security deserves to have their

RE: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-16 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
h handy keys like "Play Solitaire" >and "Visit Microsoft.com". > > D. Visual BatchFile(tm) - An IDE and compiler for the MS-DOS batch file >language. MSNBC calls it "better than Perl". Anyone dumb enough to leave a PC wide open w

RE: [newbie] Installing on a SCSI system

2003-07-25 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Same setup here. IDE CDROM and SCSI disks. Try getting into the SCSI BIOS. (With Adaptec, you'll see a Ctrl A prompt after your PC BIOS loads.) There, you should be able to find the option that makes it work. If it's not Adaptec, there should be something similar. HTH, ~Brandon ---

Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.1- how to upgrade??

2003-03-26 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
osing network settings, and having to run drakconf after the install to get X to start. (Screen resolution) Other than that, it's exactly like it was before, but with newer stuff. My home machine was another story. After one upgrade attempt and two fresh installs, I'm back to 9.0. Your

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

2003-02-03 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
l---to put it mildly, there was a disturbance on the > > system as all the files on the machine ALL went away. > > > > > > Civileme > > As far as I remember Civileme, so did the cat. Didn't you > have it for dinner ? > ARGH, cats! rm -rf /

RE: [newbie] Memoryleakage in 8.2?

2003-01-23 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
I'm using XFCE on a 9.0 box, but have run it on 8.2 and never noticed any mem issues. It's always seemed very light. This machine only has 48MB RAM, so it has to be for me. Have you run 'top' and then sorted by mem usage? That'll tell ya what's sucking

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-20 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
a Jega. I'd be willing to part with one if you've got something different. Mint condition! ;) http://www.quatloos.com/cm-niger/nigerian_scam_letter_museum.htm -- ~Brandon http://www.vanderberg.net Linux 2.4.19-16mdk - Love is being stupid together.

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-20 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
ght. I use xfce, cuz i'm a cde dork. ;) -- ~Brandon http://www.vanderberg.net Linux 2.4.19-16mdk - Neutrinos have bad breadth. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications

2003-01-19 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
how to > get the wheel working? > > Rob Same setup, had the same issue. Happens every time I install mdk. Press down on the wheel and then scroll a little. Might take a few times. If that doesn't do it (it should), hit ALT F7 and ALT F1. (or vice versa, can't remembe

Re: [newbie] Evolution default browser

2003-01-19 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:50, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: > K, this has to be the most asked (and answered) question about > Evolution. > > I click on a link in an email and it opens Mozilla. I'd rather it open a > new tab in Galeon. > I've read about 312 messages I f

Re: [newbie] Time Setting in KDE

2003-01-16 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 18:27, Adolfo Bello wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:28, Rich wrote: you can change time settings in mcc. -- ~Brandon http://www.vanderberg.net Linux 2.4.19-16mdk - "I'd

Re: [newbie] Sharing bandwidth

2003-01-16 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
appreciated. > -- > Dennis M. linux user # 180842 That would be tough to dynamically balance bandwidth between two systems without some type of extra device. What you can do tho, is throttle your bandwidth. Check out larc.org. -- ~Brandon http://www.vanderberg.net Linux 2.4.19-16mdk

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2003-01-16 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Outport is one I know of. A google search should get you going. ~Brandon On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 12:58, George Baker wrote: > I've just installed MDK 8.2 and was really pleased to find Evolution. Is it > possible to import Outlook 2000 info into Evolution. > > George Baker >

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-16 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
see them isolate the distro from the company in some way. Otherwise, we'll have to have a big giant bake sale. We could make like little penguin and star cookies and stuff. ;) ~Brandon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [newbie] [OT] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-15 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:28, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:52, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: > > But, obviously, HTML should be avoided. > > > > Yes, and I want to download 9.1 with Xmodem. Anybody got mandrake's > > modem number? > > &

Re: [newbie] [OT] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-15 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
or avi. We have a dancing ASCII cursor! I swear, we should just move this list to FIDO. I think I still have a copy of WildCat! BBS lying around here somewhere. Then we can be done with all this new fangled mumbo-jumbo. TradeWars 2002 anyone? ;) ~Brandon signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-15 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
w tcp - - DROP net:169.208.0.0/12 fw tcp - - ~Brandon On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 18:09, Mark Weaver wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:29 am, Robin Turner scribbled incoherently: >

Re: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use

2003-01-14 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
eed a second nic (and cable) to go from the firewall to the hub. If you plan to use only one nic in the firewall, you'll have what's known as a 'one arm firewall'. It would require a second IP on the nic, and is a more complex setup. Hope some of this helps, ~Brandon On

RE: [newbie] possible to synchronize users with Windows?

2003-01-14 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
. Hope this helps, Feel free to contact me if you need further information. ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 06:49, Jody Cleveland wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > > That's not going to do what I think you want. Let's get you a > > solution. > > I

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
edia Player? I'm using > > >latest http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html We got QTs and WMV/WMA. New Mplayer v0.90rc2. Loaded it today and it works great. This pages shows all the new formats. Yeehaw! (that's Oi! for the Brits and Crikey! for the Aussies) ;) ~Brandon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which isbetter:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-09 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
ur heart's content. I'm also on the #Mandrake-offtopic IRC channel at freenode.net. ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Regarding off-toppic chit-chats: IRC

2003-01-09 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
ve just noticed that some servers require it. As for the security risk, you can always run the fakeident. ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DHCP/net-up script

2003-01-09 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
me to look at dhcpcd.exe. Turns out it is only a script, and even has a place for me to put in my update command. Looks like it's going to work. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. Thanks, ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Regarding off-toppic chit-chats: IRC

2003-01-09 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Some servers require an ident response (see pidentd) for access. But before looking at that, I'd try a different server. If you still have trouble, feel free to contact me via email directly, and I'll do whatever I can to help. ~Brandon On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 12:30, Terry She

[newbie] DHCP/net-up script

2003-01-08 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
t's executed when the computer gets a new lease. I don't see a dhcpc script, just an exe. Any help is greatly appreciated. (And it'll significantly help remove unneeded entries in my log.) ;) TIA ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Regarding off-toppic chit-chats: IRC

2003-01-08 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
retty small too, but they've already got an established mandrake-ot channel. (lot of other good stuff there too.) http://www.freenode.org/irc_servers.shtml ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [OT]: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Whichi s better:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-07 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
-strike stuff working, I can get back to fighting terrorism instead of reading/writing about it here. ;) Have a good one, ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [OT]: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Whichi s better:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-07 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
sounds good to me. I've got a gas-lovin Camaro and could use some cheap oil. ;) Seriously, we've got our problems like any other country, and it's a wonderful thing to discus them. But if this war destroys just one terrorist supporter, I'll consider my tax money well spent. And if it destr

RE: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0

2003-01-05 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Me too, but I tried it again later and it's working now. I'm sorry I read it though. The best part for me was reading the responses to his article. ;) ~Brandon Kernel Version 5.00.2195 DOGBOY has been up for: 8 day(s), 10 hour(s), 59 minute(s), 5 second(s) -Original Message

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade

2003-01-02 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
0 650MB CDs to do this, and then figuring out that how much time that would take. But that answer doesn't mean anything until it's compared to the time of recreating that 50GB worth of data from scratch.    Anyway, hope it goes well for you.   .02 ~Brandon      -Original Message---

RE: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Straight, hot coffee and a command line. ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pilagá Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome? El Jue 02 Ene 2003 21:49, Todd

RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse

2003-01-02 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
help. Hope some of this might get you going. p.s. I don't know how to navigate through the install screens on keyboard alone, sorry. ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ross Bleakney Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:36 AM

RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse

2003-01-01 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
I've got the same setup and haven't noticed any issues. Did you install linux with the kvm attached? If so, could the os see the mouse during install? If you didn't, you might wanna go into the control center and see if you can try different mouse types/settings. HTH ~Brandon

RE: [newbie] mandrake 9.0 never asks for another CD during installation

2002-12-28 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
each (in turn) inserted and mounted. If you edit the cd source that's already there, you'll see how to do the others. ~Brandon > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > Sent: Friday, December 27, 200

RE: [newbie] mandrake 9.0 never asks for another CD during installation

2002-12-27 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
old 4 speed, so since then I've changed the urpmi sources to one of the ftp mirrors. But I've loaded stuff from the 2nd and 3rd cd without issue. ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom Sent: Friday, December 27

RE: [newbie] blocked ports?

2002-12-25 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Hi, To enable DCC through a firewall, I did the following: Configure Xchat to use 2 ports (say 1087 and 1088) for dcc. You can use more, but not less. Configure my firewall to allow 2 ports for dcc. ~brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

RE: [newbie] Too much like winblows? What?

2002-12-24 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
nlightenment, fvwm, or whatever. I agree that having a windows-like desktop when you first install IS a good idea for people just starting with Linux. As they learn they'll start to customize, and make it their own. Merry Christmas ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] alternatives

2002-12-18 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
ber. Don't get me wrong, I can draw a decent network diagram in any of these. I just can't pass these documents back and forth to customers, management, and co-workers with ease. lol Aaron ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] alternatives

2002-12-18 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
l day long without missing my apps. I guess it's sorta like working on a car, make sure you got a second one that runs before you tear the first apart. Hmmm... now I'm gonna have a whole new batch of hardware issues to sort out. Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

[newbie] alternatives

2002-12-18 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
porting/Importing via HTML or whatnot is neat but not good enough.) I'm considering the purchase of VMware Workstation, but it's a $300 decision. So I thought I check here first. This has to be a common issue. Are there any other options - recommendations? Thanks in advance, -- ~Bra

Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files,cable connection between two boxes

2002-12-15 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
for decent ones) that it's pretty much a wash as far as price is concerned. HTH, ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 19:08, joe wrote: > On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 16:42, FemmeFatale wrote: > > At 03:00 PM 12/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > >. Stephen, can you sh

[newbie] CDROM troubles

2002-12-15 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * more /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 non

Re: [newbie] nevermind i got my sound working

2002-10-11 Thread Brandon
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 17:28, Marcia wrote: > Brandon wrote: > > >it works! im a happy man > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] ISO with no burner

2002-10-11 Thread Brandon
How do you extract the ISO? my burner is borken as a mentioned earlier. Im new so i need every detail on how to get these ISO unpacked and working, Thanks alot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Only CD sound works in linux

2002-10-11 Thread Brandon
I cannot play MP3's no system sound or programs sounds work, just CD's what can i do to fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Using ISO's without burner?

2002-10-10 Thread Brandon
y the installation, of course. > > Miark > > > > Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > > > Hello, I was wonder if there was a way to use ISO's without a burner, > > my burner just recently broke, right after i got CD1 for mandrake and > > insta

[newbie] Using ISO's without burner? rewrite

2002-10-10 Thread Brandon
Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to use ISO's without a burner,my burner just recently broke, right after i got CD1 for mandrake and installed it. Now i have downloaded the other CD's ( 2 and 3 ) but i have nothing to burn it with, is there a way I can use these ISO's without the

[newbie] Using ISO's without burner?

2002-10-10 Thread Brandon
Hello, I was wonder if there was a way to use ISO's without a burner, my burner just recently broke, right after i got CD1 for mandrake and installed it. Now i have downloaded the other CD's ( 1 and 2 ) but i have nothing to burn it with, is there a way I can use these ISO's without the bu

Re: [newbie] XMMS

2002-10-10 Thread Brandon
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 20:58, Jason Guidry wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:28, Brandon wrote: > > Yes ! I got my sound working! thanks you guys for helping, but i > > just have one problem, i cant play mp3s with XMMS, what can be causing > > this? When i try to pl

Re: [newbie] XMMS

2002-10-10 Thread Brandon
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 20:58, Jason Guidry wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:28, Brandon wrote: > > Yes ! I got my sound working! thanks you guys for helping, but i > > just have one problem, i cant play mp3s with XMMS, what can be causing > > this? When i try to pl

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