[newbie] Convert OGM to MPG?

2004-08-08 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Hi, I was wondering if anyone is aware of software that runs on Mandrake 10.0 that will convert OGM files to MPG? TIA, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive

2004-07-19 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 July 2004 01:32 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: -Well, thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt, but I'm pretty sure -I just didn't get all of the little wires from the case hooked up to the -right pins on the board. The case cable for the front USB slots has

Re: [newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive

2004-07-18 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 01:56 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: -Okay, this is in the Boy, do I feel stupid category. I was plugging -it into a front-of-the-case USB slot and I guess I didn't hook it up -correctly when I installed the mobo in this case. After reading your

Re: [newbie] Setting up CPAN

2004-07-18 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, the site tells me that I should do this: cpan makepl_arg: LIB=/path/to/my/site_perl but I don't know what Mandrake 10's /path/to/my/site_perl should be. You should be able to determine the path to your installations site_perl directory by issuing the

[newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive

2004-07-17 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I've got a feeling I know the answer to this already but has anybody had any success getting Mandrake 10.0 Official to recognize and use a SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive? TIA, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive

2004-07-17 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl J. Bauman wrote: I've got a feeling I know the answer to this already but has anybody had any success getting Mandrake 10.0 Official to recognize and use a SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive? TIA, Carl Yes, Just plugged it and went to /mnt/removeale

[newbie] GAIM 0.78 RPM

2004-06-13 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Hi, I was wondering if anybody on the list knows where I could find a MDK 10.0 rpm of GAIM 0.78. TIA, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] GAIM 0.78 RPM

2004-06-13 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anybody on the list knows where I could find a MDK 10.0 rpm of GAIM 0.78. Probably, the rpm for MDK 9.2 also works for MDK 10.0. Am I talking nonsense? Paul I was reluctant to try it because the MDK 9.2 rpm for 0.77 didn't work for my 10.0

Re: [newbie] GAIM 0.78 RPM

2004-06-13 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 08:08, Carl J. Bauman wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody on the list knows where I could find a MDK 10.0 rpm of GAIM 0.78. TIA, Carl Charles Edwards' site has it http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ Follow the instructions

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-11 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 23:45:09 -0400 Todd Slater disseminated the following: If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. -- cmg

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-28 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right-click on the Xfce4 panel, slide up to 'Add new item', and select 'Mini Command Line'. It'll put a little textbox in your panel for issuing commands. Thanks, Marv. Unfortunately the Mini Command Line selection that you mentioned does not seem to exist on my

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Linux on the Desktop Is Good For Redmond, Argues Microsoftee

2004-04-25 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/23/1957200 So, what MS is saying is that they can't think of innovations unless someone else thinks of them first? didn't we already know that? Carl Want to buy

Re: {Spam?} [newbie] Seti

2004-04-19 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, What does 0 mean? Also, can you explain the meaning of the whole syntax? TIA type man 5 crontab in a console and hit enter... HTH, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

2004-04-19 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you been able to do version upgrades (e.g., 9.2 to 10) and everything continue to work properly? To be honest, I had a great deal of trouble several years ago and haven't tried recently - I just format and install the new version clean. I have seen several posts

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? No, I use it also. It a pretty good viewer. Fairly intuitive UI with some nice configurable options. Carl Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] package name? - HIJACKED THREAD TIME PROBLEM

2004-03-29 Thread Carl J. Bauman
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html HTH, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 March 2004 06:21, Bill Spatz wrote: Uh..DST is next weekend! Bill Uh... the rest of the world doesn't necessarily switch over on the same day we do! g

Re: [newbie] xml and grep

2004-03-22 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:53:50PM +, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-26 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I can't remember if I saw this on this list or somewhere else, but what has been working well for me in the situation that you're describing is to su to root and run "update-menus -v" from the command line. HTH, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I brought this subject up before but the

Re: [newbie] A very sweet victory indeed! - OT

2003-01-07 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I guess what bugged me about Reuters coverage of the verdict was the apparent bias that they displayed with quotes like: A Norwegian teen-ager who created a computer program to copy Hollywood movies and he helped unlock a code and distribute a program enabling unauthorized copying of

Re: [newbie] HELP

2003-01-06 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I get by with a little from my friends... Damian Gatabria wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 07:55, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP - i need somebody! HELP! not just anybody! HELP! you know i need someone! HEEELP! ... Damian

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's operating as a DHCP server and I'm not having any problems accessing the internet at all. But then, I also have dhcpcd version 1.3.22pl1-3mdk installed.

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA revisited

2002-11-25 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I don't know if this will help but it's all I got; an excerpt from the FAQ section of the README file that comes with the NVidia driver for Linux: #** Begin excerpt *** Q: My X server fails to start, and my XFree86 log file contains the error: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Carl J. Bauman
No. Got 2 different results, though. The first one popped up a message box that said the document was empty. The second one said that the connection was refused. I don't know if it's important but I'm using Netscape 7.0. When I use the localhost hostname for both of those ports, it pulls

[newbie] localhost?

2002-11-22 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I know I should know this, but, what do I need to do if localhost isn't being resolved correctly by my web browser? I'm running LM 9.0. I can't seem to use any of the browser based admin tools because Netscape 7.0 can't resolve localhost and dumps me into search.netscape.com which is of

Re: [newbie] Quick chmod question

2002-11-22 Thread Carl J. Bauman
That will chmod any sub-directories as well -- not just the files within those directories -- which may not be what you want. You might want to use the find command to be a little more selective: find your_directory -type f -exec chmod your_mod {} \; villoing wrote: chmod your_mod -R

Re: [newbie] Mandrake PowerPack 9.0 at BestBuy

2002-11-22 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Actually, Best Buy in Texas has been carrying various RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE versions for at least 3 or 4 years. I've been here for a little over 5 years and it wasn't too long after I moved down here that I noticed they were actually carrying Linux! Most people would think Texas is

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Hi, Can you tell me how to correct this. I tried running: urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz and got: added medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u).cz]

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Thanks, Derek. That worked. Derek Jennings wrote: Whoops.. sorry my mistake. I cannot even cut and paste properly it should be urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz I do recommend that rediris

Re: [newbie] CUPS Help

2002-11-12 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I'm using Mandrake 9.0, having recently upgraded from 8.2 where I had a working print system. My printer is attached to a different computer (WinXP) on my home network. In 8.2 I just used komba2 to find shared printers and everything just worked once I had located it. When I upgraded to

Re: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?

2002-11-11 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I just wanted to say thanks to Harm, Craig, and Ronald for the Crossover suggestion. I've since installed it and it really does work well. I'm off to check out some movie trailers my son's been nagging me to look at. Carl Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 04:44 pm, you wrote:

[newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?

2002-11-03 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully, I can be forgiven for such a slight transgression...

[newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?

2002-11-03 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 about a week ago and am really loving the new version. Kudos to all who contributed to it. I didn't have any of the issues that I've seen from others on the list. I had to re-install my Nvidia drivers but other than that the only issues are relatively

Re: [newbie] Torvalds on Microsoft

2002-10-11 Thread Carl J. Bauman
All I got at that link was a login screen for RealNetworks that I didn't have login information for. What did I do wrong? Thanks, Carl s wrote: On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:15 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Thought provoking stuff! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27512.html Here's

Re: [newbie] Display problems and LILO question

1999-09-06 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Matt Stegman wrote: 3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error. I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT. Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to

Re: [newbie] Howd to determine version of Tcl/Tk ?

1999-09-06 Thread Carl J. Bauman
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: Howdy all. I am going to need to install BRU2000, the tape backup software on a server. The software requires Tcl/Tk v7.6 and 4.2 respectively. How do I found out what version each currently is ? try "rpm -qa | grep tcl" and "rpm

Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files

1999-08-31 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Ken Wilson wrote: Run the linux fdisk command on each of your harddrives, i.e. 'fdisk /dev/hda', 'fdisk /dev/hdb', etc. Don't use a partition number with the command. You will get a menu asking what you want to do next. Use the 'l' menu item to get a list of each partition and it's type

Re: [newbie] ntfs partition

1999-08-30 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Aug, Toshiro Viera Stalker wrote: A little question: I want to mount a NTFS partition at boot time, can you tell me syntax of the line I need to add in fstab? Toshiro. Sure- it's just like the other lines in /etc/fstab, except: fs type is ntfs, and

Re: [newbie] Diamond Fire GL 1000 AGP Xfree??

1999-07-28 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I'm not sure what the "AGP version" is but I'm definitely using a Diamond Fire GL 1000 with X-windows. You'd want to use the XF86_3DLabs server with it if you're using a fairly recent version of XFree86. Otherwise, there used to be a good 3DLabs server available from XSuSE that you may be able

[newbie] Re:

1999-07-28 Thread Carl J. Bauman
If you're using lilo you can change it at the boot prompt. For example, I enter "linux mem=128M". Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard htathat linux can only use 64MB of memory by deafault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioinn?