[newbie] Linux on School Network

2002-09-17 Thread Brian Koppe
Hello, I'm trying to get a Mandrake Linux 8.1 server that my friend had set up running on my school's network, but unfortunately it is not getting an IP address. I've taken the network card and plugged it into my Windows box, activated it on the network, and placed it back in the server

Re: [newbie] WTF?????

2002-06-07 Thread Brian Koppe
Are you trying to send from your home when you weren't before? I've found that I get that error when using my school's smtp when not actually connected to the school's network. I'm preparing to set up my own sendmail for when I'm home this summer. Nope... I got two incoming POP3 accounts,

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Koppe
I don't understand the concept behind a United Linux distribution, BUT I do think it would be wonderful if all the Linux distros would get together in concert and decide on unified standards. There are too many differences with how they work. Granted, there will always be things that each

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Koppe
Well, I was talking about Unreal. If I had been talking about Unreal Tournament, I would have said UT or Unreal Tournament. Ok, that's what I thought - I was thrown off by your mention of the UT_GOTY CD's Thanks -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs! v

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-30 Thread Brian Koppe
Are we talking about Unreal or Unreal Tournament here?? :) believe me when I tell you it is the best $10 dollars you will have ever spent on a game to run in Linux. Provided you're not going to try and run on a machine less then a PII with at least 128MB of RAM and a vid card with less then

Re: [newbie] Quake 3...again

2002-05-27 Thread Brian Koppe
are reading the drives differently? Thanks Brian Brian Koppe wrote: Hello everyone, I just reinstalled Linux this past weekend using ext3 and just began to reinstall Quake 3 Arena. So, I open up the manual and so as it says - go to /mnt/cdrom and then sh setup.sh Now, I know this works because

[newbie] Quake 3...again

2002-05-27 Thread Brian Koppe
Hello everyone, I just reinstalled Linux this past weekend using ext3 and just began to reinstall Quake 3 Arena. So, I open up the manual and so as it says - go to /mnt/cdrom and then sh setup.sh Now, I know this works because, well, I've done it twice before - using ext2 - and I've

Re: [newbie] Quake 3...again

2002-05-27 Thread Brian Koppe
hmm i think you forgot about the ./ perhaps? go to /mnt/cdrom and type sh ./setup.sh HTH Damian Thanks, but that's not it - I tried all those different variations. I sent an e-mail that apparently hasn't reached the listserv yet that I was able to read it with my DVD drive.

Re: [newbie] Console Emulators

2002-05-24 Thread Brian Koppe
I don't remember off-hand where to find it, but if I'm not mistaken, ZSNES comes for Linux. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Fussy Panel...

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Koppe
I'm trying to set my panel up with a background image, but for some reason the background doesn't show up and instead I can't get the color to go away. It is the same color setting I have for push buttons, but for some reason I can't get it to be the color for puch buttons and not the panel.

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Koppe
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Ummm, Miark, in august 1999, cryptonym corporation was examining a Service pack release of NT4 from which microsoft had inadvertantly forgotten to strip the data tags. Civileme snip Since the NSA is able to spy on citizens by virtue of the NSA backdoor so

Re: [newbie] DivX Player

2002-05-20 Thread Brian Koppe
... and player? What player do you mean? There are probably about 15 different player for Linux for DivX films, and I can't seem to find any reference to divxPlayer anywhere? Sorry, I thought I had been clear on this but I guess not. The player I'm speaking of is the The Playa, referred to

Re: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-20 Thread Brian Koppe
Thanks a lot Ralph! I'll be sure to check out MPlayer too, but I decided to go with the player from divx.com since I've had so much trouble getting any of the other programs to recognize the codec - namely Xine. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Koppe
Ever hear of MS- DOS? That wasn't Gates' brainchild, it was IBM's. Only because they forgot to secure their rights to it. Know of any sources to support this? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] =-O NO TEXT!!!

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Koppe
EEK! Unfortunately, I haven't been in Gnome for awhile so I'm not sure what may have caused this, but I see no text! On the desktop there are icons but no text under them and in Nautilus there is no text for the file names/folders/etc Anyone have a clue what I'm missing? I could have

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-16 Thread Brian Koppe
WOW. I'm actually writing a research paper on M$ right now. If you know and could tell me your sources for these things it would be GREATLY appreciated Thanks! Brian Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too.

[newbie] KSplashML

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Koppe
I'm trying to get KSplashML running, but I couldn't install the packages off of my D's - a dependency on kdebase2.2.2 - I'm running KDE3. I searched in the KDE RPMs and could not find one for KSplashML - am I correct in assuming it's just not available as of yet, or does someone know of a

[newbie] Flash + Konqueror revisited...

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Koppe
I installed Flash in Konqueror - and it works! But Konqueror freezes every time I visit a page with it now :( Any suggestions? Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OT: MS v. Caldera concerning DR-DOS

2002-05-14 Thread Brian Koppe
Hey everyone, I'm writing a paper concerning the current MS trial and why the DOJ's proposal should not be accepted, and I am working on creating a historical understanding of the situation in the first few pages of my paper. I remember reading somewhere that it was proven that MS

[newbie] Logoff Sound

2002-05-13 Thread Brian Koppe
Is there any way to make the KDE exit wait for the logoff sound to be played before exiting? When I exit KDE, I barely ever hear the sound because it exits so fast. (I suppose this is a good problem to have compared to Windows taking forever :-P) Nonetheless, I've looked around and cannot

[newbie] Nautilus

2002-05-10 Thread Brian Koppe
Having a small problem here After removing the old KDE3 and installing the Texstar CVS RPMs I guess I forgot to install some package having to do with nautilus. I HAVE Nautilus but it has no text and a few other problems. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] AbiWord 1.0.1

2002-05-10 Thread Brian Koppe
Hey folks, me again. :-[ I'm having two problems with AbiWord 1.0.1 - the first has to do with fonts. When I start it up, I get this message: AbiWord was not able to add its fonts to the X font path. This does not mean that there is anything wrong with your system, but you will need to

Re: [newbie] q3 warning and question

2002-05-10 Thread Brian Koppe
ok, so after all the quake 3 talk i decide i should at least run the demo, right? Um... why? That download is _much_ larger that the one to just install the regular game. Or do you not have Q3 yet? (Shame on you if you don't ;-) Yeah, in case you didn't know, you can get the

[newbie] Format Floppy

2002-05-09 Thread Brian Koppe
Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-07 Thread Brian Koppe
Read the book More Guns, Less Crime There was a LOT of research put into that book and it shows, quite well, that what you just claimed is not true. I submit to you the case of Switzerland. Every male in Switzerland is REQUIRED to own a gun - yet they have incredibely low crime there too.

[newbie] Converting Mozilla Bookmarks

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
Hi everyone, I have used Mozilla quite extensively in WinXP (I know, I know - I gotta play my games SOMEWHERE) and I have a TON of bookmarks in it. However, I just reinstalled 8.2 and KDE3 so I have no bookmarks in Linux. I was wondering if and how I could import my WinXP Mozilla bookmarks

[newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
First off, thank you for the help copying my Mozilla bookmarks - I didn't realize it was so easy. Two other things: 1) How do I import my Mozilla bookmarks in Konqueror and 2) I have a friend who use(d) IE and I just got him to try Linux - how would he import the IE bookmarks into either

Re: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
that the bookmarks are pretty much the same in both Mozilla and Netscape. The above worked well for me. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Brian Koppe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks... First

[newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
I'm looking to download some Texstar RPM's but I don't know the difference between i586 and i686. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
Well, I have an Athlon T-Bird - am I correct in assuming that means to equeate it to over a PII? Also, what if there is only one option i.e. it comes in i586 but not i686 - will the i586 work for me? Thanks a lot! :) Brian Kirtis B wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 08:08 pm, you wrote: I'm

[newbie] Audio issues...

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
I have KDE3.0 set up to automatically preview files. When I leave the mouse over an mp3 file, it plays until I move the mouse away. However, after I have done that, I can't play mp3's in XMMS - I get this message: Couldn't open audio Plaese check that: 1. You have the correct output plugin

Re: [newbie] making a script runnable

2002-05-05 Thread Brian Koppe
Thanks, that did the trick Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 04 May 2002 20:27:53 -0500 Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. Now that I've been able to get it to run, I get the error kinstalltheme: command not found I'm running Mandrake 8.2 and KDE 3. Anyone know what to do here

Re: [newbie] Gimp

2002-05-05 Thread Brian Koppe
right click on the image - it's in the menus there Klemm wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am

[newbie] making a script runnable

2002-05-04 Thread Brian Koppe
Hi, I have a .sh script that I ned to run to install a theme, but it doesn't run when I type ./ before it Last time this happened I had to type some command to make it so ./ worked. Any suggestion? Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] making a script runnable

2002-05-04 Thread Brian Koppe
-05-05 at 11:08, Brian Koppe wrote: Hi, I have a .sh script that I ned to run to install a theme, but it doesn't run when I type ./ before it Last time this happened I had to type some command to make it so ./ worked. Any suggestion? Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-03 Thread Brian Koppe
That would be XP - I read the e-mail after playing Jedi Knight II which I have not had time to figure out how to get working in Linux yet. civileme wrote: Brian Koppe wrote: Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: View=Headers=All and look at User-Agent

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-02 Thread Brian Koppe
Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 20:24, Brian Koppe opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: How do you sort by thread? That'd be really cool what is your mail client? wait looks

Re: [newbie] Music from the window

2002-04-29 Thread Brian Koppe
Christian, I'm a fairly new newbie as well, but I *can* tell you that NTFS + Linux are not good together. I don't remember which, but Linux cannot read or write to it, and the one of those which it CAN do it cannot do well. My suggestion, if you can, is to reformat/reinstall Windows using

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread Brian Koppe
I've upgraded to KDE 3 and I'd say it's most likely worth it. There are DEFINITELY some bugs though so if you want something that's gonna work just right, I'd wait a little longer. Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: Anyone here upgrade to KDE 3.0? Is it worth theupgrade or is it like

Re: [newbie] Suse vs Mandrake

2002-04-15 Thread Brian Koppe
I remember hearins somewhere that Linux can sync up with Pam devices. Anyone know if this can work with Mandrake 8.2 and a Sony Clie and how? Thanks, Brian -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs! v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org Want to

Re: [newbie] click in KDE

2002-04-15 Thread Brian Koppe
Go into the KDE Control Center (command: kcontrol)--Peripherals--Mouse and you'll see it in there. Li Tan wrote: HI, guys, I am just wondering how I could change launching an application from one click to double click in KDE. Thanks Li -- Brian

Re: [newbie] Can not install LM8.2 from CD ROM

2002-04-15 Thread Brian Koppe
did you check the md5 sums before burning? Ongkie Singgih wrote: Dear friend(s), I can not boot from CD #1, do I have to run the LM8.1 first and update from it ? Thanks and regards, Ongkie _ Send and receive