[newbie] mkisofs - data cd's with directories

2005-04-08 Thread David E. Fox
. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

[newbie] Command-line updates

2005-04-02 Thread David Anderson
I know how to update software using the Control Centre and Software update, but how would I go about doing this from the command-line? -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] reading Troff document

2005-04-02 Thread David E. Fox
to view postscript output, such as gv. Normally something like: $ groff -T ps filename | lpr would print one of these documents out. --Angus -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re[2]: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype

2005-03-23 Thread David Anderson
eurocents/min -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] When the Computer is winning

2005-03-23 Thread David
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:40:40 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #go here ;-) #http://www.desktop-linux.net/ # # Yepsounds like me E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source

Re: [newbie] Help Compiling C++ with Emacs

2005-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
, more or less. So it's not really an emacs vs. c++ issue. What you'll need to do is to urpmi (install) the g++ compiler. ~ Ayn -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

2005-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
:) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

2005-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
bornes :). Julie -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] How big is a block ?

2005-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
. :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

[newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition

2005-03-22 Thread David Anderson
and sda1 and copy files from one to the other. Can some kind soul provide some incantations to enable me to do this please. My Mandrake machine has no Windows partitions or usb disks so I can't look in fstab to get some clues. And yes, I am a real newbie! -- Best regards, David

Re: [newbie] K3B - Multi Session Burning

2005-03-13 Thread David
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:12:49 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #On Saturday 12 March 2005 03:47 pm, David wrote: # Is it me or does K3B not like to undertake multisession burning. I thought # that I was burning the downloaded update RPM's (in multisession mode) only # to find out after I'd loaned

[newbie] K3B - Multi Session Burning

2005-03-12 Thread David
. Luckily for me that I'd not deleted the files after having burnt them so was able to burn them onto a CD-RW. Anyone with any ideas on this? E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds

2005-03-01 Thread David G Stevenson
The only one I have found for Linux is Liferea, and it works well. rob gdesklets-rssgrab -- Thanks, David Skype: dgsatimdb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread David Anderson
in a later posting. -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread David Anderson
a status of all services. -d|--debug: Launch with debug. -h|--help: This help. -v|--version: Print version. version 1.14 -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread David Anderson
Saul, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 3:18:49 PM, you wrote: You may need to install additional packages: spamassassin-spamc-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk spamassassin-spamd-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk Thanks very much - that did the trick! -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread David Anderson
for SpamAssassin. . Can anyone give an incantation to get it there (or even visible in Webmin)? The RPM is SpamAssassin-3.0.2-0.1010.lmdk.i586.rpm. Regards David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] MySQL

2005-02-18 Thread David G Stevenson
SOTL wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 15:04, David G Stevenson wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: SOTL wrote: Hi All As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data base using MySQL. I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions that are not answered

Re: [newbie] MySQL

2005-02-17 Thread David G Stevenson
database) then restart mysql server -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread David G Stevenson
). :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread David G Stevenson
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting

2005-02-15 Thread David G Stevenson
by url or add to hosts on firewall if available. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] You probably already know this

2005-02-15 Thread David
) in a terminal you get a '~' which works in my machine where as if I use the tilde key I get told I'm a silly bugger there's no such file or directory. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer

Re: [newbie] modem problem

2005-02-14 Thread David G Stevenson
as the browser needs DNS to resolve web URL's. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-12 Thread David E. Fox
of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found (it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen would come up and then it would go to sleep. -- David E. Fox

[newbie] Viavoice Scripts

2005-02-11 Thread David
the problem of finding java. It then has a seg default on the following line which starts java com.ibm.speechapps.userwizard Could someone who has successfully got this programme to run post the lines from their scripts for me please. TIA E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea

Re: [newbie] alternative programs

2005-02-10 Thread David G Stevenson
There's QCad, http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html Never used it beyond starting it up in knoppix just to see what it does. Seconded - very good intuitive 2D package which I would liken to AutoSketch. Comes with all the dxf exporters etc. -- Thanks, David

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

2005-02-10 Thread David G Stevenson
on standby in case my DSL goes down. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Script for burning DVD images

2005-02-10 Thread David G Stevenson
://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm Added to the TWiki on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DvD Anne HTH. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Data Base Help

2005-02-09 Thread David G Stevenson
to do is define the rules for which the data should comply. And then convert these to code. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
info as to what sort of data is on there (I have never used MacOS). HTH David. OK, that doesn't seem right ay, but .. hmm, what was the permissions for the macos before you changed it? If you used to be able to read, write and execute on it then, the owner root, should have rwx, and r-x

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
' (as root) show it has loaded? If not, try: % depmod -a % modprobe sm56 From the docs, I see the device should be loaded as /dev/modem which should be linked to /dev/sm56. So in kppp use /dev/modem. depmod -a -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
system implementation on linux which I am missing (as I mentioned before, I have no experience with MacOS) You cannot revert/forget file permissions as this is not historically recorded. Not sure what to suggest next. -- Thanks, David Want

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:52 am, David

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
2005 10:47 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
Mohammed Badran wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David G Stevenson Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:41 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem Mohammed Badran wrote: Hi all I have a SM56

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-07 Thread David G Stevenson
dirname Have a play with the option on a dummy directory so see the effect. Remember, some files need to be executable and readonly for a reason! HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Bootloader

2005-02-07 Thread David G Stevenson
in the short term, but I think it is fun in a sad sort of way to see Windows booting my laptop into Linux :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT

2005-02-04 Thread David G Stevenson
of diff types of disk until they find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the equipment :-( HTH PS: http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk this is my supplier for what its worth. -- Thanks, David

Re: [newbie] telnet connection problems

2005-02-04 Thread David G Stevenson
in it? Try adding the ip/hosts of the connecting clients? HTH - just a list of random things I would check. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Print server setup

2005-02-04 Thread David G Stevenson
thru Samba. Either way you connect remotely, you will have needed to configured cupsd on the server machine. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] application development suggestion

2005-02-04 Thread David G Stevenson
the http.consf files and .htaccess to provide group security to scripts etc. I am sure you can do all this in php or any other language, but thats what make programming so much fun eh! HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice

2005-02-01 Thread David
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:00:52 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #On Monday 31 January 2005 11:29 pm, David wrote: # On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:36:31 +1300 # David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # # a big snip #no bother, just hoping you keep us informed as to how it all works, and what #you did (and what

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice

2005-01-31 Thread David
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:57:25 +1300 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #Back in Nov 04 a thread titled Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime #discussed amoungst other things Voice Recognition and ViaVoice in particular. #Jack did you try Viavoice and if so did you get it sorted. # #I've just

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice

2005-01-31 Thread David
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:36:31 +1300 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:57:25 +1300 #David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ##Back in Nov 04 a thread titled Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime ##discussed amoungst other things Voice Recognition and ViaVoice in particular

[newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice

2005-01-30 Thread David
problems that I should be aware of? Any clues as to what to look for would be appreciated. Thanks E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official

[newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM

2005-01-28 Thread J. David Boyd
Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working

[newbie] Re: re konqueror

2005-01-25 Thread J. David Boyd
Dave Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thanks for the info ann and for every one else that has supplyed me with info.nothing is ever easy in life and you have to start some where.oh well i supose it will be like going to school again dave.. How much memory do you have in your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Tungsten T5

2005-01-22 Thread David Little
on 10.1 on a toshiba. pilot-xfer works fine provided you hit hot sync and the cable button on the T5 before running it. I think hotplug maps it to /dev/pilot automatically. To backup: pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot --backup $HOME/palm/xbackup David Little [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything

2005-01-22 Thread David E. Fox
these files? Michael, linux day one Welcome.. ! -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread J. David Boyd
So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the verbose startup report

[newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread J. David Boyd
My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap space? Is there some

Re: [newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?

2005-01-16 Thread David Reynolds
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:30 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 08:30 am, David Reynolds wrote: Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error my machine developed on the last install

[newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?

2005-01-12 Thread David Reynolds
) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Any ideas? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread David Reynolds
=181931 Anne David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] How to get right ALT key to work.

2005-01-10 Thread David A. Ferguson
The left Alt key works fine but the right Alt key is ignored. It is like the system doesn't recgonize it as a shifting key. Mdk 10.0 Thanks...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] using k3b to append files to a cd -rw

2005-01-10 Thread David
that if you want to add to it. # #Anne #- -- From my experience with K3B you cannot do a multisession with a cd rw disc, you have to use an ordinary cd disc. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open

Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup

2005-01-09 Thread David Reynolds
On Friday 07 January 2005 04:53 pm, Miark wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:44:12 -0600, David wrote: I've tried it for about a week now, and honestly, I can't tell any difference. Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request to a server in order to get one page. There's enough

Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup

2005-01-06 Thread David Reynolds
to almost universal condemnation. There are pieces in it that are worthwhile (like #3), but as Kaj mentioned, there's a lot that's unethical as well: http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/1065384.html Kaj Haulrich. David Want to buy

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread David Reynolds
(using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be able to read Scandinavian characters like , and or even the Euro-symbol ___. I've got no problems seeing them in Kmail. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread David Reynolds
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:55 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:25, David Reynolds wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've

Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo

2005-01-04 Thread David Reynolds
would be nice... David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)

2005-01-03 Thread David Reynolds
with this thing, and I'm willing to reinstall if that's what it takes, but I don't want to screw it up another time (this'll be my 4th 5th OS install in 10 days)... Thanks, David $h = [ { 'info' = undef, 'normal

[newbie] libgcc?

2005-01-02 Thread David Reynolds
(GCC_3.0). What's going on here? Do I need to reinstall because they weren't available during the original install, and therefore aren't in the kernel? Newbie question I know, but this is really throwing a monkeywrench in my computer... Thanks, David

Re: [newbie] Internet Radio on Linux Mandrake

2004-12-28 Thread David
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:18:14 +1300 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:35:47 -0500 #Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ## ##Why don't you look into streamtuner. A great little app for listening to ##Internet radio on Linux. 'urpmi streamtuner' or use rpmdrake

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-22 Thread J. David Boyd
Benjamin Pflugmann writes: Another thing I would change is to avoid changing host.deny directly. You can make hosts.deny look into other files like this: sshd: /etc/host.deny.foo This is a great idea, and thanks. I much prefer this. Dave

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is a script I wrote to work around SSH probes. It is NOT elegant, very quick and dirtyish but it does seem to work and it can be run from a cron job fairly often without problems. Hi Bryan, pretty cool, the only thing I would suggest is using

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, my little script is very quick and dirty but after about a week of being hit multiple times every night, I haven't yet found it parsing logs wrong on my system but that doesn't mean much beyond my system. I just had some different text in mine

Re: [newbie] Internet Radio on Linux Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-21 Thread David
into streamtuner. A great little app for listening to #Internet radio on Linux. 'urpmi streamtuner' or use rpmdrake thanks for the tip Greg, loaded and listening E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100

Re: [newbie] Hardware Questions

2004-12-19 Thread David E. Fox
for testing, or for other uses. Amy -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

[newbie] Kpilot Palm Tungsten T5

2004-12-05 Thread David Little
Hi, Can't access my T5 with KPilot. Messages shows it's on /dev/ttyUSBn but KPilot can't link to it. When HotSync on the T5 times out or is cancelled, the next time the T5 attempts to connect it's on a different port. Anyone got this working on 10.1? David Output from tail -f /var/log

Re: [newbie] Kpilot Palm Tungsten T5

2004-12-05 Thread David Little
is created when you press the hotsync button. I am not sure about 10.x, but it is worth a try. Mikkel YEESS -Works perfectly with /dev/pilot. Thanks, david Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mdk 8.2 + Cedega 4.1.1 = ?

2004-11-27 Thread David Reynolds
release 8.2) Anyone have any ideas? I'm willing to upgrade this machine to 10.1 OE if it seems like it'll help, although at this point I may just try to get them to convert to NWN Thanks in advance, David -- Three followers of wisdom: imagination; purpose; endeavor

[newbie] e2fsck library version out of date?

2004-11-27 Thread David Reynolds
after it gets this message, which strikes me as a Really Bad Thing. But I can't find anywhere what the procedure is to get it straightened out... David -- Three operations of wisdom: taming savagery; spreading peace; improving laws. Want

Re: [newbie] what to do with non-contiguous files?

2004-11-26 Thread David E. Fox
want to switch to an even better filesystem, such as reiserfs. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-21 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:00:04 -0500 David Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. Speaking

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-21 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:50 -0500 David Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my concern about Live CDs: In older machines with slower CD drives, they're awful. It takes about 10 minutes for the distros I've True enough. And larger distros like Knoppix tend to try and cram a great deal

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-21 Thread David E. Fox
with it. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-21 Thread David E. Fox
Windows machines at work sometimes :(. And why are .com files even supported anyway? Those things are holdovers from CP/M, for god's sake. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup?

2004-11-16 Thread David Johnson
-- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread David Feldman
Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all. On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:34, M.Schild wrote: : I'm still searching for that perfect distro to recommend, but this isn't an experience I would want to impose on a novice

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread David Feldman
Gee, my Linux installations work right out of the box. Even when some tweaking is required, I've been able to get onto the web and go looking for help. And I've never had to dive around in drawers looking for old CDs and floppies. By and large my experience has been the same. Perhaps not, but

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-14 Thread David Feldman
of the box. Am I missing something obvious here that would solve my problems? --Dave -- David A. Feldman User Interface Designer http://InterfaceThis.com Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-14 Thread David Feldman
I repair/reconfig/support all kinds of MS Windows machines - in home and corporate environments - I can't begin to tell you how many times I've experienced the exact same thing - but with MS Windows (all versions). Believe me, I know. Installing a clean copy of Win XP on the same machine is no

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-12 Thread David Cormier
Wow, $170 paid for endless thousands of dollars of equivalent software, friendly support (evidence below) and admission into what in any other conceivable discipline would be a select group of longtimers who would not have the slightest thing to do with you. You offer them $170 bucks (I say

[newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-12 Thread J. David Boyd
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing Queen' and the like. Is this safe? The more important question would be is it legal? If you are speaking of going to one of the commercial download services, and purchasing copies of

Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?

2004-11-12 Thread David Feldman
I'm confused. Is there something especially risky about Abba for a computer that wouldn't be a problem with other artists? --Dave On Nov 12, 2004, at 11:16, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 11:06 am, JoeHill wrote: My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-12 Thread David E. Fox
? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

[newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-11 Thread David Feldman
to the various Intel versions? Thanks, Dave -- David A. Feldman User Interface Designer http://InterfaceThis.com Public PGP key at http://interfacethis.com/misc/pgpkey.txt Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-11 Thread David Feldman
Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there isn't enough RAM. Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19 monitor...can normally run 1600x1200 at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. The monitor is connected through a KVM switch, though. - If 10.1 Official

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-11 Thread David Feldman
Mandrake would definately be one of the top ones for novice users, in my experience. I can sympathize with your installation problems, however, though I've never had the same with Linux. I had similar problems installing RedHat 8 on a certain box, but on others it installs flawlessly. I've

Re: [newbie] Ping gamers

2004-11-09 Thread David Johnson
://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- David Johnson http

Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-01 Thread David Johnson
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:40:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users To: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether

[newbie] Uptime question

2004-10-22 Thread David Johnson
times that are different from reality (usually shorter than actual uptime) when I know that they have not rebooted (a check of the logs will verify). Certainly not a major problem, but I'm curious... Thanks -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org

Re: [newbie] Uptime question

2004-10-22 Thread David Johnson
that ALL the Linux boxes out there are suffering from not being able to update their clocks...? On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:26:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Today at 08:39, David Johnson wrote: For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
. I seem to recall others mentioned the same thing when 10 came out. Are you sure that it isn't just slow to initialize? ED BTW: your reply:to address is set and so any answers you get don't post to the news list David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just

[newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Paul Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any suggestion? I've stopped using Evolution for the same reason.

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
the reply:to address bl;ank. By default it will reply to your email address except for when you send to mailing lists, then it will reply to the list ED David Johnson wrote: Maybe I should qualify my previous statements. After boot, ifconfig indeed, shows that ETH0 is UP, however it does

[newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:41 am, J. David Boyd wrote: Paul Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try

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