Re: [newbie] Weird things in 9.2

2003-11-12 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 21:40, John Wilson wrote: kdesu -c konqueror What is the difference between kdesu and su? Thank you. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S.

[newbie] Display is one pixel in top left of screen

2003-10-28 Thread Bryan Tyson
I have a system running Mandrake 9.0 which was working fine, then for no apparent reason, began this strange behavior: When booting, everything is normal through lilo. It sits there for a few seconds with Linux selected, then when you would expect Linux to launch, the whole screen goes blank

Re: [newbie] webcam recommendations needed

2003-10-07 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 02:55, Damian Gatabria wrote: Yesterday i started working at a small business that is interested in using PC's with webcams as security cameras .. you know, to monitor customers, that kind of thing. Logitech 3000 Pro or 4000 Pro works easily with the built in pwc

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-01 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 19:17, Heather/Femme wrote: I wish to *make* an ISO image file. NOT burn one that is already present on my hard drive. Consider mkisofs. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This

Re: [newbie] 4 speakers linux

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 05 September 2003 15:26, Anarky wrote: kmixer couldn't crack it at all ... alsamixer knew more ... but none of them gave voice to the rear speakers I recommend gamix. The playback slider controls the front, surround controls the back.

Re: [newbie] NEC 1100A DVD+R burner

2003-09-03 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 19:59, Russ Rollins wrote: When I do that I can identify the device (/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0), but I can't mount it--I get the error mount: you must specify the filesystem type. There is a blank DVD+R disc inside. That's your problem right there. You

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Being Shut Down?

2003-09-01 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 31 August 2003 12:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What exactly is going on with the European Union? Are they going to shut mplayer down or what? Who's trying to stop them, if anybody? Many sites are doing this right now as a protest. On September 1st, the plenary of the European

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 15 August 2003 17:29, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hmm... I think I'll give up. Maybe I can buy an old Windows-box for my daughter just to run that app, because the info says it'll run on everything (winders, that is) from 9.x to XP (whatever that is). Have you considered VMWare or Win4Lin?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Apache

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 15:41, bob parker wrote: I heard that there are compatability problems with PHP and Apache V2 I am far from an expert on PHP and Apache. However, I can tell you I could not get php to work with Apache 2. When I went back to Apache 1 it all worked great.

Re: [newbie] Video capture card for linux

2003-08-08 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 07 August 2003 08:22, ed tharp wrote: xawtv does OK capture Do you get sound, because all I ever get is silent video. If you do get sound with your captures, would you mind explaining how you do it? Thank you. Powered by

Re: [newbie] RE: Lexmark Z52 Printing

2003-07-09 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 21:38, Kevin J Citron wrote: I forgot. What port is Webmin on 1, and remember to use https not http Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan

Re: [newbie] dummies books

2003-07-06 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 05 July 2003 21:17, Todd Slater wrote: I'll go farther than saying I'm not a big fan--I despise them. Check out Linux Administration for Dummies, it's great. I have Using Linux, Linux in a Nutshell, Running Linux, Linux Desk Reference, Linux Essential Reference, etc. and I often

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-30 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:19, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Wow it's almost like we live in different worlds but I suppose that in some regards we do. Yes, I was talking with two guys yesterday who are pretty computer literate. At least they had heard of Linux, but they knew absolutely nothing

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 16:52, Brian wrote: Appears to be just be serving your lan. I got into the site just fine (http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/) *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free

Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux

2003-03-28 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 28 March 2003 07:21, Jerry Barton wrote: My ATI TV-Wonder VE works great and was only $40 (US) where the wintv card was $129 It depends on which WinTV you get. The one that is on about the same level as TV-Wonder VE is the WinTV Go, which usually costs around $50.

Re: [newbie] using a camcorder in Mandrake

2003-03-14 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 14 March 2003 18:07, Jim Snyder wrote: Can I use this card with my camcorder to play back the tape and capture individual frames to edit the tape or save a still image? I don't know about the aspect of editing a tape. However, I can tell you in Linux I sometimes watch tapes and

Re: [newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?

2003-02-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 16 February 2003 00:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Anyone got the Logitech 3000 actually working? I can testify that it works great for me and I did not have to do anything to get it working. Since I did not have to do anything (it worked automatically) I do not have any tips on how to

Re: [newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?

2003-02-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 16 February 2003 00:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: It looks like the modules that are needed are there: bttv cqcam pwc usb You don't need cqcam. Pwc is the correct module for this cam. I am not saying having cqcam loaded is the cause of your problem, but I would try unloading it

[newbie] Strange message when posting to newbie list

2003-02-11 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 20:34, David Reynolds wrote: What the heck is this? I get it for the last couple weeks when sending to this list. Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been

Re: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-02 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 02 February 2003 22:55, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Can anyone recommend a good webcam for use under Mandrake 9.0? Logitech Quicam Pro 3000 or 4000 work easily with the built in pwc module. Picture quality is very nice. My favorite linux webcam application is camstream. Lots of helpful

Re: [newbie] v4l/camstream/apache/ftp question

2003-01-22 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 14:03, Jerry wrote: I might have to wait on it to use it say when I re-install I've never been successful at a kernel recompile If you have a relatively recent distro you should not need to recompile. With your present setup, type modprobe pwc and see what

Re: [newbie] vhs to mpg

2003-01-17 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 17 January 2003 16:55, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I used a BT878 card to transpose VHS of equestrian events into AVI If this was in Linux, what software did you use? Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail

Re: [newbie] CD

2003-01-09 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 09 January 2003 12:21, Gil Katz wrote: When i enter a music cd into the cdrom i get no cd loaded or when i try to browse the cd from mnt i get premission denied ( i root) what should i do? A partial answer: Don't mount audio cds. Just put the cd in the drive and open a cd player

Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 11:04, ET wrote: BTW, they changed the login from a ELN/username to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still login fine with ELN/username. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free

Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 12:15, John wrote: May I ask whether your Haupauge Win tv card can handle digital tv ? Is it analogue only / It is analog. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 18:03, Robin Turner wrote: What??! You have to pay a subscription fee to use Free Software? This is an insult to the people who wrote the stuff. It's not a subscription fee to use it. The subscription is for what they call a download warehouse that is set up to

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 23 December 2002 06:35 am, Richard wrote: I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? Check out Bill Machrone's column in the January 2003 PC Magazine, Living with Lindows, p. 65.

Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera

2002-12-18 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 22:03, Steve Jeppesen wrote: CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i think) with mount $CAM Is this correct? Seems like it is missing this; -t vfat

[newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure

2002-12-13 Thread Bryan Tyson
I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and ultimately it did not

Re: [newbie] Webcam won't connect to remote host.

2002-12-13 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 13 December 2002 23:41, Brian Trainor wrote: ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec Basically just scrolls that. with increments of sleep time going up each time. When I try to connect via SSH or FTP from the command line I don't have any problem I don't know how this fits into the

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1

2002-12-12 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 12 December 2002 23:26, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Depending on how your system is setup, you might have to check the aRTS controls and system mixers... Yes, in my case I had no sound in the rear speakers, but I found gamix, which solved my problem. I opened gamix and found the surround

Re: [newbie] USB hubs

2002-12-11 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 00:12, Jonathan wrote: I'm using LM 9. Has anyone had any experience using those USB hubs to add more USB ports to your system? Any experience would be helpful, also whether or not you used an external power supply or got by with the power from the USB port. I

Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera

2002-12-11 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:35, Ralph Slooten wrote: I think you are shit outta luck here if you are looking of an easy way to do this In that case I suggest getting a usb compact flash reader (I have San Disk, which I got for about $23 at Best Buy - works great in Linux). Be sure you

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation

2002-12-11 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 16:11, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux Actually, a surprising number can work in Linux, although my personal preference is to just get an external hardware modem so I always know it will work.

Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?

2002-12-09 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 09 December 2002 19:49, magnet wrote: Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? At a command prompt type rec -s w -c 2 -r 44100 myfile.wav Learn more with man rec.

[newbie] Text in OOo and Gimp

2002-12-08 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:13, Jan Wilson wrote: I do a lot of work with OOo Draw and The GIMP together ... using Draw to create the vector stuff, like text, and then pull it into The Gimp for fine tuning on the bitmap background, etc. Works great! I was wondering if you could explain in

[newbie] xbarcode or bar

2002-11-21 Thread Bryan Tyson
Has anyone out there experimented with xbarcode or its non-gui version, bar? I was trying them last night and did not succeed in creating any barcodes. All it says is barcode konnte nicht erzeugt werden, with no hint of what the problem is. Are other options available in Linux for printing

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:59, Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. Have you noticed more and more women are using Linux? I remember just a couple years ago it was rare to encounter a female Linux user. To me this

Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage

Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:53, Technoslick wrote: I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by

Re: [newbie] RPM Difficulties.

2002-10-29 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:44, Langsley wrote: Yesterday I downloaded and installed Amaya HTML editor and browser. I used the Mandrake RPM for version 6.1. Even though my system tells me the installation is complete, I am unable to find it anywhere. Sometimes I open the rpm in kpackage and

Re: [newbie] No rear sound, SBLive!

2002-10-27 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 27 October 2002 17:40, Miark wrote: Now, running 9.0, I have no rear sound, and none of the KMixer controls is helping. Ditto with Aumix. I can't comment on 9.0 as I am still running 8.1 and not with a SB Live. However, I can tell you on my SuSE system gamix lets me adjust the rear

Re: [newbie] volume control

2002-10-09 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:28, Joe wrote: is there an overall volume control for the speakers, such as that other OS has? some of the sounds with flash, etc. can be a bit loud for an office environment *g*. it shouldn't be relevant for this, but i'm using 9.0. I can tell you in KDE 3

Re: [newbie] Recommend Program for Recording Cassette Tapes

2002-10-09 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 13:45, Chris wrote: I am currently using Mandrake 8.1. Does anyone have a recommendation for a program I could use to record my audio cassettes to the hard drive and then encode as MP3's? Plug your cassette player into the line-in of your sound card. Then in a

Re: [newbie] New Modem

2002-10-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 05 October 2002 15:33, Erylon wrote: I think you've got a problematic modem, even though it is hardware based, it uses a high serial port number by default, and has no jumpers. You might want to check out this thread, or someone on this list may actually have one of these things

Re: [newbie] image filenames, was chcase

2002-09-27 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 27 September 2002 05:24, John wrote: I've spent many hours trying to get my camera mounted by mandrake 8.2 as a mass storage device without success,read everything I can find,but whereas I can get other makes of camera to work this one does not Why not get a Compact Flash (or

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-09 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 07 September 2002 09:36, Peregrinf wrote: As I say, I haven't used Gimp much yet, but unless it offers a browse that gives me a catalogue of thumbnails in a directory for me to choose from, sort, move, delete, etc., it won't be of much use to me. Try gqview.

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 06 September 2002 12:04, Peregrinf wrote: I do miss a couple of my Windoze apps -- notably Pegasus for e-mail and PaintShop Pro. KMail and Gimp! *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a

Re: [newbie] High speed web access

2002-08-29 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 29 August 2002 21:18, Carroll wrote: 3. One source of concern is that BellSouth will supply the lines and Earthlink will handle the rest of it. Hmmm... at least twice as many calls to Customer Resistance. Or do I worry too much? I've had Earthlink DSL for close to a year, and the

[newbie] Ripping DVD audio track

2002-08-14 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 18:10, John wrote: What would be the best way of ripping an audio track from a DVD I looked into ripping and it sounded pretty complicated, so I decided to just plug the analog output (headphone jack) into my sound card line in. The results were satisfactory.

Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion

2002-07-31 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:06, Anand wrote: I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions (like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any problems. I did

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Webcam - How Cool

2002-07-23 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 22 July 2002 14:50, Sevatio wrote: I clicked it and there was my webcam. What webcam are you using? Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-10 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 20:54, Femme wrote: I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag. If I can't boot the CD

Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.

2002-07-03 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: I tried to visit this site. http://www.bet365.com The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. - Subject: Create

[newbie] Linux and Non-Free Software

2002-06-08 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 08 June 2002 02:16, D. Olson wrote: However, he wasn't asking about if there was a free program (which there was and both had been mentioned already), but why a company would charge money for LINUX software... At least that's how I read it... But I guess I am the only one. I

Re: [newbie] Gui for MySQL!!!

2002-06-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 00:08, Dimitris wrote: I've been wondering if there is any gui for use with MySQL client. PHP MyAdmin runs in a web browser: http://phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE

[newbie] Desktop Linux

2002-05-30 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:30, Michael wrote: As you said Linux has come a long way, but I do not think that it is that far away from being an option for the desktop. I would go further and say not only is it not far away from being an option, it *is* an option, and it is the *best* option.

[newbie] Sound Card Rear Speakers

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan Tyson
I have several Creative PCI128 sound cards that have two speaker jacks: a main and a secondary or rear jack. I've noticed that I never seem to get any sound from the second jack. I was wondering if this is normal. Does the second speaker output only work in certain games with surround

Re: [newbie] making a script runnable

2002-05-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:08, Brian 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? chmod +x filename

Re: [newbie] Gimp

2002-05-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 05 May 2002 17:31, Klemm wrote: 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). Right click on the image itself. You will get a menu that lets you save.

Re: [newbie] Digital camera

2002-05-01 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 06:44, Bart wrote: But i can not seem to download the pictures with gPhoto 0.4.3 or 2.0 . I think this camera is not supported by gphoto . Are there anternatives or is there a workaround ?? If you have a compact flash reader, stick the card in there and type:

Re: [newbie] How to eliminate the Kmail sprinkler head graphic (and) where is Bcc:

2002-04-30 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 21:51, Josef wrote: And is there a Bcc option available with Kmail? Open a new mail message and click the view menu. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD

2002-04-21 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 21 April 2002 14:14, Damian wrote: ( i actually didn't know they ever had a DVD version. i only knew about SuSe doing this, but since their distro is 7 CD's... ) The Mandrake set that sells at about the same price point as SuSE Professional is the Mandrake Power Pack. It does not

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD

2002-04-21 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 21 April 2002 21:09, you wrote: I have seen in the past a Mandrake set priced a notch higher (around $130, as I recall) that does include a DVD. I forget the exact name, but I know the word server is in the name. Someone possibly noticed this already, but server is not in the name

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia card reader

2002-04-17 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 03:31, Walter wrote: See what happens if you do modprobe usb-storage before trying to mount the card. I still have no /dev/sda1... how do they appear? There is no sd* device at all in the /dev directory. Unfortunately I do not know. All I can tell you is in my

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia card reader

2002-04-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 07:33, Walter wrote: Make a directory under mount called smedia (or whatever you'd like). Then with the smart media card in the reader, try typing the following as root: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia There is no /dev/sda1, there is nothing much like it

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-06 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:06, Paul wrote: Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? How about the 8.2 Power Pack, is it in there? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan

Re: [newbie] New USR External modem

2002-04-06 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 06 April 2002 18:32, Larry wrote: I have been trying to get my brand new external USER modem working, it dials up but (in Mandrake 8.1) waits at expecting ogin as part of my connect script. It couldn't be so easy that it's really expecting login instead, could it?

Re: [newbie] More list weirdness

2002-04-01 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 01 April 2002 18:10, Robin wrote: People have mentioned that they're getting some mails several days late. I'm now getting old mails which I deleted from the server some time back. Yes, I am getting old mails from this list also! ***

Re: [newbie] Some packages are missing in Mandrake 8.2

2002-04-01 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 01 April 2002 21:16, Civilme wrote: Someone had to make decisions, and we have had to correct problems caused in other packages by Abiword fonts quite a few times, so it rated as less desirable than OpenOffice. You know, just a year ago we got everything onto two CDs, and now

Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:28, Damian wrote: well.. this is a newbie list, it's supposed to be a place where you ask questions, get answers, read questions, and give answers. criticism is out of order here I see no reason why criticism should be considered out of order (not that I have any,

Re: [newbie] two systems

2002-03-20 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 20:10, Ron Grace wrote: does anybody run both linux and windows on the same machine? how much trouboe was it to get to work. I have done this on several systems, dual-booting Win98/Caldera, Win98/Red Hat, Win98/SuSE, Win98/Mandrake, Win2k/SuSE, Win2k/Mandrake. It

Re: [newbie] Numlock turns on by itself

2002-03-17 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:15, Tom wrote: I found Mandrake 6.0 ;) But, IIRC (and i often don't), with RH I never found a way to turn numlock on either, even when it was set on in bios. Since I reckon RH has progressed a little since 5.2 ;) check your bios setting for numlock

Re: [newbie] a good jpeg veiwer

2002-03-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 16 March 2002 10:28, Donald wrote: What is a good Jpeg viewer, similar to ACDSee for use with Linux. I am not interested so much in manipulation as I am in ease of viewing. With ACDSee I can view in full screen and also use the space bar to go through pictures in a directory.

[newbie] Missing Locate Command

2002-03-15 Thread Bryan Tyson
I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed on 1 laptop and 1 desktop. In both cases, when I type locate somefile, i get bash: locate: command not found. This happens both as user and as root. If I do which locate I get which: no locate in (numerous paths given in parentheses). Is there such a

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...

2002-03-14 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:05, FemmeFatale wrote: If I may add my 2 cdn cents (worth bout .5 cent on the open market), Hauppage tv cards AFAIK right now are not a very good buy. At least this is what I've read. Only because they seem to have issues with certain types of installations.

Re: [newbie] laptop

2002-03-13 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:25, you wrote: does anyone know a good place to buy older/used laptops online? Ebay. Lots and lots to choose from at a wide variety of price points. any recommendations as to what to get? I have a Sager laptop with 500 MHz AMD that I got from Ebay. Mandrake 8.1

[newbie] FTP thru Linksys Router - Solved

2002-03-08 Thread Bryan Tyson
FTP thru Linksys Router - Solved First I would like to thank each of you who offered advice and comments on this problem. I learned plenty from your posts. Here's what solved the problem in my case. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about networking and FTP can explain why this solution

Re: [newbie] Change Permissions??

2002-02-23 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 23 February 2002 15:08, James wrote: As root I copied a directory from an old hard drive to a new drive. The files are now owned by root, and I am unable to change the permissions to allow me to use them. As user you can't change them, but as root you should be able to.

Re: [newbie] Anti-virus

2002-02-21 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:32, Derek wrote: I read in a review of the Lindows.com pre-release version. One of the 'achievements' of Lindows is that it is able to run Microsoft Outlook under Linux. (Why anybody would go to the trouble of running Linux, and then use Microsoft

Re: [newbie] tv card problems

2002-02-21 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 21 February 2002 17:28, Paul wrote: I have a AverMedia TV-Studio TV card and the video worked fine under 8.1 and 8.2 Beta but the only problem is there is no sound! I use the card in windows so I know that the cables are hooked up corectly and I can get sound when playing MP3's

Re: [newbie] Email

2002-02-20 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 09:53, Paul wrote: I have sent like 5 messages to the server over the last two days and have yet to see any of them show up. If anyone gets this message please send me a response. Looks like your message went through this time.

Re: [newbie] zip

2002-02-18 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 18 February 2002 03:54, Paul wrote: How do you windows/zip a file? I can unzip using the unzip command but there doesn't seem to be a zip conterpart. I need to zip a file to send to a assocaite running windows. Thanks. There is a zip counterpart. On this box (SuSE) it is in

[newbie] Modem Continually Dials

2002-02-18 Thread Bryan Tyson
I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. As soon as it boots, the modem dials my ISP. If I kill pppd, it disconnects, but within a few seconds it dials again. Can anyone tell me what might be running that is trying to keep the modem constantly connected?

Re: [newbie] Printing problems

2002-02-12 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:00, you wrote: By the way, what is the difference between Cups and lpr ? Sorry for the stupid question : ), but I am a little bit confused with them. For me they seem to be totally different printing systems. Why do some programs use one instead of another ?

Re: [newbie] Linux with a PCI modem

2002-02-10 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 09 February 2002 12:06, Ravi wrote: All: is it fact that a PCI modem can't be used to dial and connect to the Internet? The modem I have is a 3Com 56K V.90 Mini PCI Modem. Many PCI modems do not work in Linux because they are Winmodems, relying on software drivers to do most of

Re: [newbie] wvdial

2002-02-10 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 09 February 2002 12:55, Tim wrote: Having never used the app, the best thing I can suggest would be to kill the process that's running. kill -9 `ps auxw | grep wvdial | awk '{print $2}' | sort` How does the above compare to killall wvidial? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] FrontPage like applicatiopn for Linux ?

2002-02-10 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 10 February 2002 13:41, Hanan wrote: Does anybody know of any visual web building application for linux such as Front Page ?? Quanta. http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1

Re: [newbie] wvdial

2002-02-09 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 09 February 2002 10:13, Denkar wrote: Hi folks, a dumb question, I set up wvdial and it dials up just dandy but now I can't get it to shut off, and if I unplug the external modem it just redials when plugged back in. How do you turn the dumb thing off when you don't need it, I

Re: [newbie] Test - Disregard please

2002-01-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 24 January 2002 10:59, you wrote: Could we please have this poster removed from the list, please? There's no excuse for permitting this religious fanatic to post his religous view on a world-wide list, under the pretex of: oh just a test... It is not a pretext. That is his sig

Re: [newbie] ISO image viewer

2002-01-23 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 15:26, Todd wrote: Do you have a favorite image viewer that will show thumbs of an entire directory? Compupic. http://www.photodex.com/downloads/platforms/linux.html *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE

Re: [newbie] no sound with xawtv

2002-01-20 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 20 January 2002 13:24, you wrote: I can't seem to get any sound out of xawtv with my wintv card. I'm using mandrake 8.1. The picture looks fine but no sound at all. I don't seem to have any problems with sound with any other applications. Also, everything works just fine in

Re: [newbie] OT: VB on Linux???

2002-01-18 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 17 January 2002 23:53, Nicolas wrote: If exists any Visual language that runs on linux, I'd like to know it!!! Phoenix Object Basic http://www.janus-software.com/ *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail

[newbie] Video Capture Suggestions Sought

2002-01-11 Thread Bryan Tyson
Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7267-1008635620-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mime-Autoconverted: from

Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.

2002-01-03 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 03 January 2002 10:13, g.sanders wrote: 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? 30 2. What is your age? 37 3. Sex? M/F M 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? 56k modem 5. How many computers do you own? 4 (3 desktop, 1 laptop)

Re: [newbie] Copy Paste

2002-01-03 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 04 January 2002 00:37, SKLIM wrote: I need help to know the key how to copy and paste in vi command ? If you are in insert mode, you can highlight a block of text, then click your middle mouse button to paste at cursor location. Another way is with yank and put. For example, you

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2002-01-01 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 30 December 2001 23:27, Terry C wrote: This is the response I get when attempting to mount this device: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/camera mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems Try sda1, not just sda. It's like mounting a

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2002-01-01 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 31 December 2001 00:06, Terry C wrote: and received this response: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Be sure you do modprobe usb-storage before trying to mount the CF reader. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2002-01-01 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 31 December 2001 00:38, Terry C wrote: MAKDEV, or makdev, or mkdev don't seem to be the correct commands. I just keep getting command not found. See if you can do it as root. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2

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