Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-02-18 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 05:54, Tonton wrote: > How do I use perl programming language in linux? In a console, 'man perl' (without the quotes). I know this is a newbie list, but don't people even bother reading documentation anymore? Even a Windows user should know enough to check the readme's...

Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager

2002-02-17 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:38, JSheble wrote: > Just out of curiosity I thought I'd take a look at some of the other > WindowManagers that come with LM8.1. I did not originally install them when > I installed LM though. > > So using the Software Manager in the Mandrake Control Center I installed >

Re: [newbie] Fragmentation of filesystem

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 17:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Hello list ! > Now, of course, they asked me : how often do > you do this defrag-thing ? > > My answer : Never, 'cause I don't have to : I use linux on my desktop > and OS/2 on my laptop ! > And here's my very unimportant question to you : was

Re: [newbie] Which Services to Keep/Stop ?

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 13:23, Hanan Z. Shargi wrote: > Hi All, > > Every once in a while somebody recommends that Services that aren't used > should be stopped ... > ever since I started using Linux, everytime I'm asked during the installation: > should I start these services at startup? ... I

Re: [newbie] Host access

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 11:49, JSheble wrote: > thanx... you were a tremendous help... I guess I need to figure out the > xinetd.conf file since I don't seem to have indetd running... I'd offer to help, but my xinetd experience is practically zero. I have used inetd, but they are quite different

Re: [newbie] Memory(Again)

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:41, Marcia wrote: > Dear All, > > Thanks very much for your input and suggestions. Since memory is inexpensive > right now I am leaning towards increasing it. I have a program that asks for > 256 megs of ram. It is a SAP program. My hard drive is new anyway and it is >

Re: [newbie] Host access

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:52, JSheble wrote: > Couldn't I add the sshd service to the xinetd or inetd config files to open > and start those services, thus forcing access rules in hosts.* files to be > enforced? Yes, as long as the server is fairly low-traffic (which it sounds like it will be, s

Re: [newbie] Running slow.

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 08:16, Dave Sherman wrote: > I actually used to run RedHat 5.1 on an old 486 (100 MHz, so it was a > "fast" 486) with 16 MB RAM. Using an older version of X (3.3.6 I think) > and the AfterStep window manager, it was quite peppy -- wy > faster t

Re: [newbie] Running slow.

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 21:50, Jeffrey Madore wrote: > > Greetings: > > I recently installed Mandrake 8.1 on my son's machine which consists of a > 120Mhz processor and 84meg of ram. It now operates deadly slow. My > understanding has been that one advantage of linux is that it runs fine on > o

Re: [newbie] Linux on an NT network - and more

2002-02-13 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 08:22, George Pitcher wrote: > They are 'shared' printers without ip addresses, so please advise on how to > activate them. You will need to set up your printers as Samba (or SMB) printers, where Samba is the application that allows your system to talk to Windows PCs and ser

Re: [newbie] Linux on an NT network - and more

2002-02-13 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 07:27, George Pitcher wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first post. > > I have Mandrake 7.0 installed on my 'docked' Dell laptop. I want to be able > to print via ethernet to either of my network printers. Ethernet is working > as I internet access and Apache is serving up th

Re: [newbie] Samba

2002-02-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:55, Paul Kraus wrote: > i start the demon. I can smbclient -L any windows pc on the network. I > can see my machine in all the windows network neighborhoods. But when I > try to attch from anywhere I am rejected. When I even try to do an > smbclient -L as root I get this

Re: [newbie] redhat programs on mandrake

2002-02-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 11:31, Stojs wrote: > can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? > > Thanks in advance, > Stojs Generally speaking, yes. RedHat compiles their RPMs for a lower CPU platform (i386 instead of i586), and occasionally RedHat's filesystem layout is different enough from

Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition

2002-02-09 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 02:43, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > I wanted to go with ReiserFS originally for the software root-raid > configuration that I have on my system, but I was shocked to discover that > the FS did not support filesystems less than 32 meg in size. Just out of curiosity, why would y

Re: [newbie] Operating Systems and Ram

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 08:46, Randy Kramer wrote: > Linux has some problems. To get the performance of IE5 and Word97 on > Win95 with 48 MB and a 233 MHz processor, I needed 256 MB on a 700 MHz > processor (running Konqueror, primarily). (I run AbiWord on Windows, > when I'm not running Word97.)

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:24, Walter Logeman wrote: > > > Use Gnome Control Center (gnomecc) to set your fonts and font > > sizes for Gnome apps. You can run GnomeCC in KDE, no problem. > > Have been trying this for a while but there are problems. Using > Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 2.2.1 Gnome contr

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: > I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my > 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i > cant change them. It seems they are set in another program > sawfish? Use Gnome Control Center (gnomecc) to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1, VMWare and Networking

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 06:27, Greg Smith wrote: > I would like to attach to a network share on a MSWindows machine. > I'm stumped!! > > Even just a referral as to where I can read up on this. I have found lots of > info on Samba and how to connect to a Linux share from an MSWindows machine, > b

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 17:29, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: > When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of the linux > computer and it shows this: > > Name Folder Comment > 192.168.1.3 unknown > > If I double-click the IP address shown above I get a login prompt and I typ

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

2002-02-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 13:33, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:08 am, ed tharp wrote: > > this is code red or nimda worms (or some worm close to it) and the solution > > is to run linux. then, if you care, block the IP sending the requests. > > since you don't run IIS, you will no

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

2002-02-02 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 12:47, Todd Slater wrote: > Checking the webalizer stats for Apache, I see that I have a huge amount of > 404 errors. I looked in the error log and found a single IP address > requesting all sorts of Windows programs and directories. For example: > /winnt/system32/cmd.exe

Re: [newbie] Network Resources

2002-01-31 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 07:57, Paul Kraus wrote: > How do I access network resources in a windows workgroup? How do I share > a folder? Paul, To integrate Linux networking with Windows, you need the Samba suite of applications for Linux. These generally include 3 packages (rpm's) called samba-comm

Re: [newbie] trashing messages in Evolution

2002-01-30 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 11:51, Todd Slater wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2002 12:15 pm, Andy Gay wrote: > > Go to Actions menu, then punch "Empty Trash". > > Is there a way to send the message to the trash without permanently deleting > it? > T Here is how Evolution works: 1. When you "delete"

Re: [newbie] Galeon

2002-01-30 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:16, Marcia wrote: > Dear All, > > I really like Galeon as a web browser however I have not figured out how to > get my java, realplayer, and flash to work in Galeon. These all work fine in > Netscape but not in Galeon and I prefer to use Galeon. Would any one be able

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 07:03, poogle wrote: > I have a network card in my PC and a pcmcia network card in my laptop, both > are recognised/configured , I have crossover RJ45 cable and now I want them > to talk to each other. (both running 8.1, Windows not involved here) > I have read the books an

Re: [newbie] partitions

2002-01-18 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 03:57, Nick wrote: > Does anyone know of a partition tool in Linux that can resize a partition > with losing the data? Thanks > -- Mandrake's own diskdrake can do it. I've successfully re-sized my Windows partition (made it smaller, to give more room for Linux) without lo

Re: [newbie] Domain hosting--how to?

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 15:30, Todd Slater wrote: > > I've been playing with Apache and am able to access my machine by typing in > the IP address in a browser. I am connected to RoadRunner by a cable modem. > RR uses DHCP, so my IP could theoretically change. I named the machine > NAME.columbus.rr

Re: [newbie] libcurl and cURL conflict ...

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 11:27, Kenn Yahoo wrote: > Greetings > > I want to install a program (LinuxTrade) ... when I tried to install it, i > received a message that "failed dependencies: curl is needed" ... > > so i downloaded curl and attempted to install it but received a message, > "file

Re: [newbie] Case Sensativity on web pages

2002-01-14 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 21:37, Dragon . wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to take off the case sensativity for the > httpd. I want to be able to browse to http:///test and > http:///TeSt for the same directory. Currently, > http:///TeSt doesn't work but http:///test does. > > --Drago

Re: [newbie] Menu of KDE or GNOME

2002-01-14 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 09:00, Tomek Nowinski wrote: > Hi, > > > Anybody could help me to find out how to put new programs on menu of KDE or > GNOME so I can run them from there? Run menudrake. Dave -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. Want

Re: [newbie] question about security

2002-01-13 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 11:05, Todd Slater wrote: > I just got my cable modem running under 8.1. I set up a firewall (Tiny > firewall) via the Control Center. I'm not running a web or mail server > or anything. Is this adequate? > > Also, what is good for virus scanning? I didn't find any virus sca

Re: [newbie] School related question again

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherman
I'm all for helping out a guy in school, and I might even be interested in the results of the poll, but could we possibly just reply to the student himself, rather than to the list? There was a lot of unnecessary traffic generated by the last poll, all of which really should have just been sent t

RE: [newbie] what to use for hostname

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 10:09, Eric Budinger wrote: > Ok. Im using a router here Can I have a hostname or do I have to use > the localhost.localhost one? > > Eric *Everyone* is using a router somewhere ;-) You still want a hostname. Are you behind a DSL router or cable modem/router that does N

Re: [newbie] what to use for hostname

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 08:36, kenn@yahoo wrote: > well, i guess i was too late ... i just went to www.dyndns.com and > discovered that they no longer offer free accounts ... $50 a year is not an > outrageous amount, but i'd still prefer a free service ... > > does anyone have any other recommendat

Re: [newbie] Environment variables, evolution and bonobo

2002-01-06 Thread Dave Sherman
You would be better off modifying the .bash_profile in your home directory. Otherwise, you are correct in your understanding of environment variables, how to set them, and how to export them. Dave On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 12:21, Terry Smith wrote: > I think this is a prety basic question, but that'

Re: [newbie] named configuration

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Sherman
I have written up the necessary config files for your dns, Julian. They may need some tweaking, but they should match the setup you describe below. The named.conf goes in /etc. The other two files go in /var/named, and are the actual files which named (dns) uses to keep track on computers and IP

Re: [newbie] lost drive?

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:47, Eric Budinger wrote: > Hi, > > I just re-installed Linux on my 4 gig hard drive. I have a 4 gig, My > Cdrom and a 1.2 gig. On my 1.2gig is my OLD linux system with my old > HOME directory. Well I don't see my old drive. My 4 gig is my Pri > Master, My CDrom is my Pr

Re: [newbie] named configuration

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 16:16, Julian Opificius wrote: > Is there some willing chap who can help me configure named.conf? > > julian. I could help, although you might be better served just reading the DNS howto. That's how I learned, anyway... Dave -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for

Re: [newbie] what to use for hostname

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 13:58, Randy Kramer wrote: > > > Do some more reading of the docs, and if you have more questions, just > > > post them. > > (I'm not the original poster.) I've read some documents (on the order > of a year ago) and still have not set up my mail server. I believe (and > I'

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-01 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 08:51, robin wrote: > Dave Sherman wrote: > > [cut] > > >I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in > >Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be > >able to make a minor change to their

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 17:52, Doug Lerner wrote: > I wouldn't mind doing that myself, and encouraging our company to do > that. I have no particular love for Microsoft proprietary products. But I > can't force our customers to change. As we say here in Japan, "the > customer is God." If the client

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-30 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 20:32, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:17:59 +0900 > Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sunday, December 30, 2001): > > > > >One of the things that _no_one_ should be concerned about any lon

Re: [newbie] Default Browser

2001-12-29 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 07:48, Rich wrote: > Not too long ago I made some changes to my Mandrake 8.1 desktop and now > have a couple of minor problems with my Galeon browser: > > Galeon now wants to be on top all the time and it doesn't respond to any > setting changes to let something else be on t

Re: [newbie] linux networking

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Sherman
OK, at least with Evolution I can read html email. But you will notice how many people (rightly) complained. Your network setup looks good on first glance. You have a nice non-routing IP address, and your default gateway is on the same network. Questions: What are the IP addresses of your other

Re: [newbie] ifconfig

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 02:28, Paul Rodríguez wrote: > How come I have *both* eth0 and ppp apparently running when I type > ifconfig? > > I connect to the internet via adsl. Some types of DSL require ppp (specifically, 'pppoe', or Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet) to connect and authenticate

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:14, Julian Opificius wrote: > With dexterous use of chmod and the smbpasswd file I can control access to > various shares, but how do I prevent shares from even appearing for logins > who are not permitted to access them? I'd rather those shares not even > appear, so as

Re: [newbie] linux networking

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 19:15, bugs FIX wrote: i have windows xp running a internet sharring and my linux machine wont connect to my network any ideas y We're gonna need some more info to help you out... What exactly isn't working? Can you ping the various machines? Tell us what's wrong. Also, te

Re: [newbie] DNS problems

2001-12-09 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 18:09, NDPTAL85 wrote: > After about a week of taking my Mandrake 8.1 box off of DHCP and giving > it its own permanent IP it can no longer resolve domain names when using > that IP. When I switch it back to DHCP it starts working fine again. I > am using kernel 2.4.13-12m

[newbie] Building Source RPMs?

2001-12-09 Thread Dave Sherman
OK, I am feeling a bit stupid right now! How do I build a source RPM? I have been trying 'rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm', but I keep getting the message 'package.src.rpm: no such file or directory'. The package *does* exist. I "installed" it, and the tarball went into /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES, and th

Re: [newbie] hostname

2001-12-09 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 03:22, Stojs wrote: > When running the server wizard from wizdrake I get stuck on hostname. > The text sais if you will only have intranet any valid name is ok, like > company.net. I tried using that name but it was not correct. Do I have > to pick a host name from somewhere

[newbie] kill a zombie process?

2001-12-07 Thread Dave Sherman
I should know this, but I am too lazy to look it up when the answer is probably just an email away... How do I kill a zombie process? I have tried kill -9 as root, I have tried rebooting, and neither one worked. The process is still there. Dave -- marriage, n.: An old, established insti

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 09:20, Lanman wrote: > Absolutley! It's actually StarOffice without the desktop, browser, or Email > client. Which means it's a little faster, and a more conventional Office > Suite. Even handles M$ Office XP stuff! Current release is 641b (not a beta > version). > Here'

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 04:38, Allen Herndz wrote: > I have a pretty old version of Galeon on my mdk 8.0 (0.10.2), and I just > wanted to know how to get Java working. > > I have a very slow connection and I can't make the rpms work coz I don't > have the Mozilla srces. > Just looking for any quick

Re: [newbie] Root exploit in SSH

2001-12-01 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 13:34, dfox wrote: > > >Attachment converted: Big Foot:Untitled 9 (/) (0003801F) > > Can you shut off the attachments that go out with your posts to the > > Mandrake Newbie list? My drive is getting littered with these files I have stopped putting my digital signa

Re: [newbie] How to upgrade to ext3?

2001-11-30 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 14:30, civileme wrote: > > Hmmm, well it seems you did the partition thing the hard way. If you open a > terminal, su to root and run > > diskdrake > > You can change the partitions from ext2 to ext3 in place and it also changes > the /etc/fstab entries so they say ext

Re: [newbie] How to upgrade to ext3?

2001-11-30 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 13:57, NDPTAL85 wrote: > Ok I followed your instructions and I saw the journals being created on > my partitions but when I power cycle the box its still running fcsk. > There's no change it keeps running fcsk each time I cycle the box. Any > ideas? Thanks. Here's where I

[newbie] Root exploit in SSH

2001-11-30 Thread Dave Sherman
793&w=2 I CC'd the security address for Mandrake ... if this was a faux pas, please forgive. Dave Sherman -- Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see. msg83706/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Evolution RC2 problem

2001-11-28 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 10:10, Jim Dawson wrote: > I finally managed to get Evolution RC2 installed on my LM 8.1 system, but now the >'Contacts' and 'Mail' portions don't work, Does anyone know how to fix this? > > Thanks in advance. > When I upgraded to Evo RC1, I found that I had to log out an

Re: [newbie] Servers

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 20:32, Robert Boggs wrote: > In windows I have a small network set up. I use netbeui, and I wish to do the > same in linux using Samba, with netbeui. Can anyone tell me how to set these > up. I really like the new Mandrake. I think I may go to it as my full time > system.

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 05:50, Mark D'voo wrote: > i agree, galeon is better than any browser to date, the only reason i have > wine on my computer right now is for return to castle wolfenstein, but when > the linux binaries come out in a week, bye bye wine > > On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:40,

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 13:25, E Estes wrote: > I have seen screen shots of people running this on linux and was wondering where I >could find it. Any and all help would be appreciated. You will need to use either Win4Lin or VMWare to run Windows under Linux, in order to use MSIE. MS will not r

Re: [newbie] Importing Fonts

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 03:36, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Ah.. the new generation of Linux users... Y'all can't do anything > without a GUI. > > Want to know what's going on "under the covers"? Then when you want to > add fonts, you can.. any time, any type. :) > > Ok... Here goes: > [big snip] Ric,

Re: [newbie] Installing Evolution under Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 21:57, Jim Dawson wrote: > Does anyone know of an easy way to install the latest Ximian Evolution > under Mandrake 8.1? I keep getting dependancy errors when I try to > install. Unless you really want all of Ximian Gnome, you are better off installing the version of Evolutio

Re: [newbie] Accounting software for Linux

2001-11-23 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 18:04, Nelson Bartley wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm currently looking for accounting software for linux. Does anyone know of any? or >any open source groups currently attempting to develop these types of products? > > Thanks, > Nelson AppGen has free Quicken and Quickbooks cl

Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares

2001-11-22 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 08:22, Frank McKenna wrote: > I would like to try to share the application itself across the LAN as > opposed to just files and documents. > I have never done this, but... You should be able to just map a network drive in your Windows box, to the Samba share, and then inst

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-22 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:57, Randy Kramer wrote: > Dave Sherman wrote: > > My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE & TINA TURNER!! > > OK, so what's "the rest of the story"? I run fortune in a cron job, to generate my signature file. I really don

Re: [newbie] Question about installing PHP 4.0

2001-11-21 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 05:58, E Estes wrote: > I downloaded a file "php-4.0.6.tar.gz" and I opened it with Archiver and extracted >it to a directory "PHP". I tried doing the ./configure and I got errors. Here is >what happened: > > [root@192 PHP]# ./configure > loading cache ./configure.cache

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-21 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 06:48, AOL Systems wrote: > Pls help me how to configure simple Samba configuration.Pls give at > least a brief config using the source.Pls Thanks! Samba includes a simple smb.conf file that is self-documented. I based three of my Samba setups on that file, with a few modifi

Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions

2001-11-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > Two questions about Evolution: > > First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I > hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, > but not at all in Evolution. Tab works fine for me, so I

Re: [newbie] Web page design

2001-11-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> > IMHO you are miles ahead if you go ahead and take the short time it takes to > learn to code by hand.it is much easier to code to w3c specs if you are > able to make the changes quickly. Most WYSWYG editors do not code nearly as > well

Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy

2001-11-13 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:24, Carl Lafferty wrote: > it occured to me the other day to try mounting > a floppy on which I had created an EXT2 file system. > > I can mount the floppy with > > mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2 > > as root and things work OK but under no circumstances > can I mount it

RE: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy

2001-11-13 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:13, Carl Lafferty wrote: > > You are on the right track. By fedault, Mandrake creates an fstab entry > > for the floppy with the fat (DOS) filesystem. You can create another > > fstab entry for the same device (using the ext2 filesystem), just give > > it a different name

Re: [newbie] problems with staroffice6beta

2001-11-10 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 20:56, tek1 wrote: > i installed staroffice6beta in /usr/bin/staroffice6beta/ when logged in as root. > > when i log in using my (non-root) normal user account to try to run > staroffice, i get the following message: > > "the program cannot be started. the configuration f

Re: [newbie] good clear home networking documentation?

2001-11-10 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 17:56, Paul Rodríguez wrote: > anybody know of any good, easy to understand home networking > documentation? Specifically for connecting two Linux computers through > a hub or router? The networking HOWTO? Dave -- An expert is one who knows more and more about less and le

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 16:37, Paul Rodríguez wrote: > Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs > computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new modem) a > computer downstairs to the same connection. Can I send a cat5 cable > down throught the wall from the r

Re: [newbie] re: staroffice

2001-11-09 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 23:15, Harry Ablejoy wrote: > Dave i did default install and clicked on soffice still will not open like > linux but installing software will take a little time for me. >Thanks Can you run it from the command line? Open a console, and type in th

Re: [newbie] Star office ?

2001-11-08 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 21:09, Harry Ablejoy wrote: > Hi need a little help. Installed star office 6.0 but not anywhere on my > desktop kde . I can't make it work at all any help please Harry, If you did a default install of StarOffice 6.0, then it is installed into /usr/local/st

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 9.5

2001-11-08 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 16:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 10:38 am, Dave Sherman wrote: > > > One thing with upgrading Mozilla, be aware that Mandrake installs > > it in a non-standard location. > >I beg to differ > > Mozilla want

[newbie] gdm broken in 8.1?

2001-11-03 Thread Dave Sherman
Hello everyone, I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem: I switched from using kdm to gdm for my login manager, since I prefer the Gnome desktop. However, gdm fails to remember my last session, and also resets the default session to kde every time I reboot (it's a laptop, so I re

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga SOLVED!

2001-10-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul, comments below... On Wednesday 24 October 2001 00:05, Paul Schwebel spouted off about "Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga SOLVED!": > Dave and Paul, > > I'm not sure what fixed things. I reinstalled Mandrake > last night because I have played

Re: [newbie] Circular dependancies?

2001-10-23 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 October 2001 16:53, David Johnson spouted off about "[newbie] Circular dependancies?": > Here begins my problem: > > When I try to install the Galeon rpm, I get: > > [root@pengo packages]# rpm -i galeon-0.12.1-2mdk.i586.rpm > error: fa

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues

2001-10-22 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 October 2001 10:13, Paul Schwebel opined on the topic: Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues > Dave, > > Thanks for the clarification on my questions. > Earthlink/Mindspring has 3 nameservers for their > Mindspring customers (of w

Re: [newbie] File/Printer Sharing with Windows

2001-10-22 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 October 2001 23:37, Ron Allen opined on the topic: [newbie] File/Printer Sharing with Windows > I need to be able to have two-way file access with Windows machines on > the same network as my Linux box. I also must be able to print from

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues

2001-10-21 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 October 2001 21:24, Paul Schwebel opined on the topic: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues > I'm using the rp-pppoe gui. When I start the link, > the gui appears to connect, that is, it goes 'green'. > However, I can't connect with

Re: [newbie] Upgrade from Professional 8.0 to 8.1?

2001-10-20 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 October 2001 13:09, Andrew Dinnie opined on the topic: [newbie] Upgrade from Professional 8.0 to 8.1? > Qns: > > a. I am not clear on how simple/complex the 8.1 from 8.0 upgrade will be > (assuming i select the appropriate options from

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 October 2001 15:08, Paul Schwebel opined on the topic: Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1 > --- Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 19 October 2001 12:17, Paul Schwebel > > I'm > > > > &

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 October 2001 12:17, Paul Schwebel opined on the topic: [newbie] DSL and 8.1 > I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and thouroughly enjoy it. I'm > trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware > connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on

Re: [newbie] No sound in MDK 8.1?

2001-10-18 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 October 2001 11:56, Marco Paúl Mancheno Herrera. opined on the topic: Re: [newbie] No sound in MDK 8.1? > Hi... > I was in the same problem with my CMI8330, I used "sndconfig" and this > app detects very well my card, but I don not

Re: [newbie] did anybody test staroffice 6.0 beta?

2001-10-05 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 October 2001 03:47 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > While I'm here, here's a freebie :) > > Both StarOffice and OpenOffice ship with a limited set of true-type > fonts, but you can get them to use your drakfont-imported fonts by > making t

Re: [newbie] mozilla and gftp

2001-09-27 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 September 2001 02:06 am, Kevin Fonner wrote: > I have found that I have problems from time to time when downloading > files with mozilla... especially big files and also iso files. However > I have found gFTP to be reletivly reliable

Re: [newbie] Trouble understanding

2001-09-27 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 September 2001 11:47 pm, CHEY wrote: > Mandrake 7.2 don't know what exact kernel version. The stock kernel, included on the CD, is 2.2.17. There is an update available (using Mandrake Update) to 2.2.19. Dave - -- "Nihil tam munitum

Re: [newbie] browse directories with appache?

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 04:00 pm, Jon Doe wrote: > Ok, how do I let my visitors browse files in a directory, so I don't > have to build an html page for each directory and file? > As of right now it keeps saying you don't have permission to accces

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 03:35 pm, Dave Naylor wrote: > Hi > > On Monday 24 September 2001 21:24, you wrote: > > > Its annoying me that I cant figure this out, but how does one change > > > from the default KDM Login Manager to say GDM? > > > > 1.

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 03:12 pm, Dave Naylor wrote: > Hi > > Its annoying me that I cant figure this out, but how does one change > from the default KDM Login Manager to say GDM? 1. Make sure that gdm is installed (it probably is). 2. Edit the f

Re: [newbie] Running W$/DOS Apps on Samba

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 01:34 pm, Nicolás Gómez wrote: > Hi ... i have a question for you > > I have 4 windows 9x machines connected to a Mandrake 8.1 Release > Candidate Server running samba > > The question is. Can the Windows Users run

Re: [newbie] Samba Clients Passwords

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 01:11 pm, Nicolás Gómez wrote: > Windows 95. I wish that the 9x Machine enter to the Samba Machine > like if it were entering in another Windows Machine.. OK, then as someone else said (Michael?), you will need t

RE: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 04:16, Franki wrote: > I think two other things would help,. a gui and console tool that does smart > tarball installs and updates the rpm database for that app, and one that can > get dependencies for you,, (goes to a mandrake update site list...etc etc. > or asks for the CD

[newbie] KOffice

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Sherman
Hello everyone, Just wondering if anyone here is using KOffice 1.1 in a business environment. Specifically, how well does it get along with MS Word and Excel? I would *really* like to migrate away from StarOffice 5.2, and it looks to me like KOffice is more mature than OpenOffice at this time. A

Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 21:41, Lin wrote: > > hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of > buffering under KDE, but when I do open a new program such as netscape I > eventually ran out of memory and need to use disk swap - which the buffer > really doesn't help... could

Re: [newbie] apache question

2001-09-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:02, Jon Doe wrote: > Ok, at one time I had apache up and running and serving pages. For some > reason now I always just get a: > > Forbidden > You don't have permission to access /index.htm on this server. > Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 4

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