[newbie] Linux Praise

Back when i was a windows user and would use a Mac ever once in a while i would love it. Just couldn't get over how good and well though out the OS was. Well after havering been using linux for a while i played around with Mac OS X and though to my self this OS sucks. I almost bought a Mac

[newbie] XMMS - Fast Play - SOS - (funny must read)

Linux is up to the same tricks as winders is 'mysteriously changing things' The senario: I wake up this morning and play some mp3s while i'm getting ready. (nothing harmful so far). Before i leave i lock my KDE screen. I get back tonight and fire up XMMS and push play and the chipmonks is

Re: Yahoo idea was:Re: [newbie] XMMS - Fast Play...

On Thursday 02 May 2002 2:44 pm, s wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 01:53 am, Brian York wrote: On a side note: Does anyone know of a free email that gives free pop/smtp? I hate web interfaces, g. Thanks Brian Lookie what I discovered today. Apparently it's been around a while

Re: Yahoo idea was:Re: [newbie] XMMS - Fast Play...

Did anyone get the first part of this message about xmms playing songs fast and how to fix it? On Thursday 02 May 2002 4:21 pm, s wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 03:06 pm, Brian York wrote: http://web.mit.edu/ravir/fetchyahoo/index.html -s So that will still let you get yahoo mail

Re: [newbie] SuSe 8 Good/Bad

May 2002 8:29 pm, shane wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 00:08, Brian York opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: 1) I am considering giveing Suse a try any positive or negative thoughts that Suse 8 (Only suse 8) users may have. i have _not_ used 8 yet

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

I havent been following all the messages for this nor care to read them all but here is what works for me: First off i use Kmail and use its mail filter 1) i made a bunch of folders under one called 'Linux lists' such as hardware, install, kde, kernal, network, other, programming, security,

[newbie] Samba Referance

Does anyone know a good webpage resource that has all of the samba commands and different options and explanation or a combination of any of the 3? Thanks Brian __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness

RE: [newbie] Samba Referance

] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian York |Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:05 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Samba Referance | | |Does anyone know a good webpage resource that has all |of the samba commands and different options

[newbie] Servce file

Stupid question Whats the file that defines the services that start on boot? Thanks Brian __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Gnapster

How do you use the Gnapster software? Are you supposed to search idiviaual users files? If so how are yousupposed to know what users are onine? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Security level config

When you install a fresh copy of LM 8.2 and you set it to 'higher' security through the installation you can get different sequrity options for the users and for the system. When i tried this a few weeks back i could not login directly as root (sure that was because of the configuration) so

[newbie] SAMBA

Is thier a way to have Samba read the smb.conf file without restarting SMBD? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Restricting resource usage

Is their a way to restrict the amount of network and other resource usage that a user on a remote computer can use? Reason: I am on a lan at my college and i share 30 GB of music and 10 GB fo software. During a typical day i can be sending 500KB/s of data. I would rather this be around

[newbie] MP3 Download

Is their a good progam that can be used to download music in linux? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Restaring Samba

How do you restart the samba server with CLI? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Xine

Has anyone had the a problem with Xine closing when you take a screen shot? If so do you know how to fix it? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] quick pause

When i watch movies with Xine their is a quick pause about every 15 seconds. I though maybe just reinstall Xine but just now i notice it doing it on web animations so its nothing wrong with xine but the OS its self maybe. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Dell Dimension 8200,

[newbie] Suse vs Mandrake

In October i started my exploration of Linux with Redhat wanting to try the major distrobutions in the span of a year to see which i liked the best. I have been running Mandrake for 3 months now and find it better than redhat. Suse is the last distro that i want to try before i go back to

[newbie] Xine- No Sound,

When i play avi files with Xine i get the picture but no sound _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Stopping X

Do i need to repeat my self i want my computer to start up normaly with graphical login. Downloading the xstat would be more trouble than just using the terminal login and typing xstart. On Friday 12 April 2002 23:27, civileme wrote: Brian York wrote: Does anyone know how to shutdown x

Re: [newbie] I've Got Mail!!!! :-( can't answer it.

I use yahoo pop and smtp for my yahoo account and it works fine. I have used it on Kmail and Evolution. I could never get it to work with outlook or outlook express back in the day when i had to fool with low quality M$ products but thats in the past. I also have an E-Omninet account

[newbie] Stopping X

Does anyone know how to shutdown x windows after it is started. I can change the login in but 98 percent of the time i want to start x anyway Thanks Brian _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want

Re: [newbie] Stopping X

control alt backspace force fully logs me out to the X windows login i want to completely quit X Thanks Brian On Thursday 11 April 2002 22:24, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Brian York wrote: Does anyone know how to shutdown x windows after it is started. I can change the login in but 98 percent

[newbie] KDE 3 Menu

I changed something but don't remember where i did it at. I have the KDE menu for my K button instead of the Mandrake menu which has a lot more programs. I tried deleting and adding the K button again but that didn't help does anyone know what i did. Thanks Brian

Re: Re: [newbie] KDE 3 Menu

2002 17:32, shane wrote: On Tuesday 09 April 2002 05:50, Brian York opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I changed something but don't remember where i did it at. I have the KDE menu for my K button instead of the Mandrake menu which has a lot more

[newbie] Login

How do you keep users from showing up at the login screen for mandrake 8.2? Thanks Brian _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA RPMs

I have a nVidia G2 32mb card and got it to work with the install of the driver fine on Mandrake 8.2. But i had a fresh install of Mandrake if that makes a difference. Brian On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 07:34, Greg Smitih wrote: I am having a heck of a time trying to get the new Nvidia RPMs for

[newbie] KDE 3.0

I have Mandrake 8.2 and when i installed the RPMs to upgrade KDE they screwed up KDE it was 3.0 but nothing worked. I lost most of the menus (k button and right click menu links were dead) and no telling what i didn't know. Can anyone help me? Thanks Brian

[newbie] KDE 3.0

Has anyone installed KDE 3.0 on Mandrake 8.2 and gotten KDE 3 to work. If so what RPMs did you install? I installed all of the RPMs under the RPM dir of Mandrake on the KDE ftp site. Thanks Brian _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free