Re: [newbie] suggestion

2000-02-21 Thread David van Balen
I think a lot of the people that actually answer the messages won't go there... just a thought. DvB On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Kit wrote: Man, this is getting ridiculous... everytime I check my mailI get tons of linux newbie list mailings... I think we should ask for a private chatroom

Re: [newbie] Real Player

2000-02-21 Thread David van Balen
A lot of people (including me) have found that, after they installed LM7, the c++ headers (libg++) wasn't installed. You should be able to get that rpm off your installation disk or off any of the LM ftp mirrors and install it. DvB On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Craig R Jameson wrote: Hi You may

[newbie] StarOffice install

2000-02-20 Thread David van Balen
I just attempted to install StarOffice and it complained about not being able to find "libc6" (or "libc5"?) which it thinks glibc2 is going to be named... will making a symlink from glibc2 to libc5 fix this? Or do I need to install libc5? DvB

Re: [newbie] Yellow ?bomb? marked core in user folder

2000-02-20 Thread David van Balen
Ignore it. Programs often generate those files when they crash... they're sometimes useful to developers but not to regular users. DvB On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, ken wrote: I have a new item in my user folders marked "core" that looks like a yellow bomb with a fuse and its "face" is sticking its

[newbie] libc6 library install

2000-02-20 Thread David van Balen
I just looked in my /lib directory and there already is a libc.so.6 file symlinked to glibc2 but, for some reason the StarOffice install can't find it. Is this a bug in 7.0? I remember there being a program that would look for new libraries and update the system but I can't remember what it is.

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor Recommendations

2000-02-19 Thread David van Balen
I use emacs... DvB On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Lance Borden wrote: Hey y'all, I'm looking for an HTML Editor for Linux. I used Page Mill in 'doze, but if I could learn to use a Linux html editor, I might just be able to remove all traces of M$ from my machine. I would like to know what y'all

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-02-19 Thread David van Balen
Nope. Of the most common distros, Mandrake tends to have the newest versions of everything... furthermore, the Netscape that comes with Mandrake tends to crash less than the one that comes with Red Hat (has to do with the fact that it's compiled with glibc, I think). DvB On Sun, 20 Feb 2000,

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-02-19 Thread David van Balen
It's actually 4.7 DvB On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: Latest one I believe that ships with Mandrake 7 is 4.6. If you think it's ugly there's not much you can do about it since the current Communicator is not skinnable. :3)~~ Sean Geoghegan wrote: Is there a

Re: [newbie] Can you set up linux to let people dial in and gain access to your network?

2000-02-18 Thread David van Balen
Yeah, as long as you have the proper hardware and it's configured right. DvB On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, rharvey wrote: Can you set up linux to let people dial in and gain access to your network?

[newbie] DHCP problem

2000-02-18 Thread David van Balen
The network my computer's on was down for a while earlier. It's now up, but I can't get a stable connection under Linux. If I run dhcpcd -k and then restart the daemon, it works for a while and then dies (i.e. my telnet sessions freeze and netscape can't connect to any server). Windows under

Re: [newbie] random 'find' process

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
. On the 14th of the month, it empies this backup directory. Cron controls the running of these scripts. It's really very useful Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 02:06:21 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc

Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
I believe there's a copy of LILO on the boot disk... at least a file that says where to boot from. Try changing that. DvB On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: well, I reinstalled The entire OS; made sure I included all the necessary packages for kernel recompilation. I was able

Re: [newbie] xcdroast

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
As a side note, xcdroast should run as root so that cdrecord can run with a more favorable nice value, reducing the possibility of buffer underruns. Hence running as suid root and not changing the ownership of the file... DvB On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never used

Re: [newbie] irq's

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
Did you type 'cat /proc/interrupts' or 'cat proc/interrupts'? This is a common mistake for people new to unix. The first will look in the 'proc' directory located in the root dir while the second will try to find a 'proc' directory in the current directory and result in a "no such dir/file"

Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Denis Havlik wrote: snip after making all the necessary changes to the kernel ( i.e. scsi emulation for the cdr drive and cd romdrive) making a new boot disk, when i try to mount the drives i'm still receiving the same message " mount:

Re: [newbie] Programming C

2000-02-15 Thread David van Balen
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Dan Ferris wrote: Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: snip http://www.kdevelop.org There is another programming IDE for KDE as well, but I can't remember the name, or the web page. Code Crusader? dunno if it's kde specific though... DvB

Re: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-15 Thread David van Balen
I don't believe it's advisable to create a partition within space that's "physically situated within an extended Windows partition." Partitions inside partitions are a no-no... if I'm understanding the situation correctly, that is. I'm surprised Disk Drake let you do that. I'd consider that a

Re: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-15 Thread David van Balen
Here's a message that was sent to this list a while back and which I used to get my cdrw working (the URL included in the message should help you to get scsi working). DvB Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:13:38 -0500 From: Paul Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[newbie] random 'find' process

2000-02-15 Thread David van Balen
I have noticed that my computer will often go into periods of furious disk access at very odd hours so, last time it happened, I decided to take a look and see what was going on (I also wanted to get to sleep). My search turned up a find process running as root for no apparent reason at all so I

Re: [newbie] Programming C

2000-02-15 Thread David van Balen
emacs with menus... DvB On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: JED is a good programming editor. Very simple looking, but packs a nice punch. On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:30:07 Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm 3 days old in linux. Using ver 7.02 of mandrake

Re: [newbie] Rebuilding Kernel

2000-02-15 Thread David van Balen
For a newbie, something by zdnet might help... like this one, maybe: http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2213066,00.html DvB On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Erik Skapple wrote: Can anyone explain how you rebuild the kernel. I don't have access to the net through linux without my NIC

Re: [newbie] Programming C

2000-02-14 Thread David van Balen
emacs and gcc? :) DvB On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm 3 days old in linux. Using ver 7.02 of mandrake (GOD THAT WAS A LONG DLOAD!). Heh, anyway my question is a simple one, what is the best programming envinronmet for coding c in linux? I'm just

Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy

2000-02-13 Thread David van Balen
t even see it if I don't have it set to pnp, but then again that's windows for you. - Original Message ----- From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" It did for me. I

Re: [newbie] Network in a window?

2000-02-13 Thread David van Balen
First you need to get Samba working (which it usually is by default under Mandrake). Then you have two choices, that I'm aware of: Gnomba under Gnome (which will also run under KDE) and LinNeighborhood which you can download from linuxberg.com or freshmeat.net, among other places. DvB On

[translation] Re: [newbie] No consigo instalar Linux Mandrake 6.1

2000-02-13 Thread David van Balen
He says his install of LM6.1 hangs while installing a package called "Glib.1_2.rpm." Any ideas? Jesus, trata de que no instale ese paquete que cuelga la instalacion (el glib) e instalalo luego cuando allas complatado la instalacion del sistema operativo. Eso es todo lo que se me ocurre pero he

[OT] Re: [newbie]

2000-02-13 Thread David van Balen
I very rarely read messages without subjects and so those posters usually don't get any help from me... if my suggestions can be considered help :) I just happened to look at this one cuz there aren't many others in my inbox this time around. DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:

Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy

2000-02-13 Thread David van Balen
s, it's usually good to run "add new hardware" from control pannel. DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: for some reason my windows won't even see it if I don't have it set to pnp, but then again that's windows for you. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Urgent -- how to get back to KDE

2000-02-12 Thread David van Balen
Hmmm... now sure how to do it from the console but, if you're desperate, you can try booting in level 5 (type linux 5 at the lilo boot) and choose it from there. DvB On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote: Using Mandrake 6.1 I am typing to you from Pine in the Console. I have

Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy

2000-02-12 Thread David van Balen
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote: Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and minicom . I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy . Please help me .

Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy

2000-02-12 Thread David van Balen
Message - From: "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote: Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and

[OT] Re: [newbie] RE: your mail

2000-02-11 Thread David van Balen
vi is probably more powerful than pico (as is emacs, my editor of choice), you just have to know the right commands. Pico, in my experience is enough for most, and best for newbies. vi has two modes: command mode ("read only" mode), the function of which is self explanatory and insert mode which

Re: [newbie] kmix and /dev/mixer* properties

2000-02-11 Thread David van Balen
Have you gotten the OS to recognize your sound card? This is a possible cause for the error you got (I had the same problem a while back). Run 'sndconfig' (I think that's the correct command) to configure your soundcard. DvB On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ingo Bauer wrote: Good afternoon all I

Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success

2000-02-11 Thread David van Balen
Welcome to the internet... no, it doesn't happen very often on this list (at least not that I've noticed). DvB On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe it. I've been on this list for 4 hours and got the first piece of Spam. Please tell me this isn't a regular

Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success

2000-02-11 Thread David van Balen
, 11 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: What are some of the ways you can get back at this idiot? Seve -Original Message- From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom

Re: [newbie] Junk OS

2000-02-11 Thread David van Balen
This is blatant flamebait and doesn't deserve any more of a response than what I'm now giving it. Everyone please stop replying to it and let's get back to answering people's real questions. DvB On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Vincent Dickerson wrote: Hello; First of all, When you ADVERTISE "free

Re: [newbie] FAT Bread failed???

2000-02-10 Thread David van Balen
, does it happen when you try to ftp to that machine ? do you have uata controller or/and harddrive in your system? - Original Message - From: "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] FAT Br

Re: [newbie] RE: your mail

2000-02-09 Thread David van Balen
your favorite text editor /etc/fstab (e.g. emacs fstab or vi fstab). fstab is just a text file which mount reads when you give it a command and which, I presume, the kernel reads on bootup and issues mount commands for your main partitions. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: How

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-09 Thread David van Balen
Netscape for Windows does it. I haven't seen NS for Linux do it though and don't think it does... DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Vic wrote: It does?!?!?!?!?? I have not ever seen nutscrape do that, it just exits and my unix box sits there like---uhh ok. On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Paul

Re: [newbie] vmware-networking

2000-02-09 Thread David van Balen
I think I read somewhere (VMWare faq?) that vmware can't participate on a samba network when in host-only mode. I believe that included the host OS too... DvB On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Simon Robertson wrote: Hi, Under a Mandrake 6.1 O/S, I have VMware 1.1.2 running with samba installed.

Re: [newbie] Question on compiling the kernel

2000-02-09 Thread David van Balen
Yes, in the /boot dir. Should be a sym link to a vmlinuz-kernel-version. I'd reccomend that you name your new kernel in the same way and redirect the sym link to this new file, then add an entry in your lilo.conf so it can boot from the old kernel in case something went wrong. DvB On Wed, 9

Re: [newbie] FAT Bread failed???

2000-02-09 Thread David van Balen
I get the same error, except about isofs. I don't know what it is and my system works find also. I asked about it a while back and no one seemed to know. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Lenny Shovsky wrote: any idea what "FAT Bread failed" message means. The system seems to work fine

Re: [newbie] USB to Serial Mouse

2000-02-09 Thread David van Balen
I guess you'll either have to edit the config file or run XF86Config (my spelling and/or capitalization may be off) which has a command line interface, as oposed to Xconfigurator which is graphical. DvB On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Julian Debby Warren wrote: Dear All I have installed Mandrake

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2000-02-08 Thread David van Balen
d/l from www.vmware.com (or from their ftp server, anyway. whatever it is). DvB On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Vic wrote: How did you get VMWare? On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, David van Balen mewed: I had it installed on a seperate partition under 6.1. I installed 7.0 from scratch, ran vmware

Re: [newbie] vmware

2000-02-08 Thread David van Balen
You're supposed to dump it (unchanged) into your ~/.vmware directory. DvB On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Elizabeth Dolan wrote: how did u go with the license as iam having problems with it i got one and says that it find it comes up with hash error can anyone help me out with this problem its

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-08 Thread David van Balen
MS _software_ isn't all bad, it's the fact that they're still using clunky DOS code in their operating system that makes it suck. Win NT isn't too bad. It's pretty stable in most cases... drivers tend to mess up the kernel and network apps that are "part of the os" have the potential to crash

Re: [newbie] Mozilla M12

2000-02-08 Thread David van Balen
If you want to try Mozilla, you might as well get Milestone 14 which was just released... it's supposed to be better than 12 (notice the bigger number :) However, Mozilla is just reaching Alpha stage so you might want to stick with netscrape until a more useable version is available. Unless, of

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-08 Thread David van Balen
Notice, of course, that you're comparing IE running on WINDOWS (which, by the way, is a Microsoft product) to Netscape running on LINUX. How do you know that Microsoft won't screw their browser up when they port it just like Netscape did? Is anyone out there running IE on Solaris or HP-UX? If

Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Lothar Mandrake wrote: From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] lsd appears to be an alias and not a file since "find" turned up nil when I ran a search for it. You can probably put your script in the bindir without screwing up the system but you may n

[newbie] interesting read

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
Thought some might find this an interesting read. I just learned about a couple apps for linux I didn't know about myself... http://linuxguiden.linpro.no/experience.php DvB

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
Yes, it's been discussed before, Netscape for Linux blows and there's not much else if you want to view flash or javascript content. I often end up using Windows to view web pages that make Netscape crash. As to alternatives that may be available in the future, there's Mozilla which is entering

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
Yeah, it does sound good. They don't have a release date though... I think it's important not to stop supporting the open source browsers out there while we wait for Microsoft's vaporware. If Microsoft does release IE for Linux and it's a good product, great, but meanwhile I plan to assume that

Re: [newbie] CVS

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
In simple language, CVS is where you keep your code when lots of people are working on it at the same time. When one person makes changes to the code, he/she submits them to the cvs repository so everyone else can see them/modify them. Obviously, this helps open source by making it easier for

re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
6.5 is MacMillan's repackaging of 6.1... it's supposed to be exactly the same. DvB On 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friend bought a genuine Mandrake 6.5 boxed release .. and inside we found the cd was labeled 6.1 (as is the install wiz) Perhaps this is the release # of the fixed

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
I had it installed on a seperate partition under 6.1. I installed 7.0 from scratch, ran vmware-config.pl and... voila, it worked. DvB On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, James W. Brodack wrote: Has anyone tried installing VMWare 1.1.2 under Mandrake 7.0?

Re: [newbie] Re: Hola acabo de visitar tu pagina

2000-02-06 Thread David van Balen
Todo lo que necesitas para aprender a crear paginas de web o para usar linux lo puedes conseguir en el web. Para crear paginas de web, lo mejor es aprender HTML. Tambien se pueden crear usando netscape o internet explorer, pero el producto no va a ser exactamente lo que esperas (al menos en my

Re: [newbie] anyone see my question?

2000-02-05 Thread David van Balen
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Carrie wrote: I don't have enough information to know what's going on. It sounds to me like something went wrong when you made the boot disk or maybe it's the CD you're installing from... if you're installing from a cd. You might try making your boot disk over again or

Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-04 Thread David van Balen
lsd appears to be an alias and not a file since "find" turned up nil when I ran a search for it. You can probably put your script in the bindir without screwing up the system but you may not be able to invoke it except through with the full path if aliases have precedence over executables on

[newbie] isofs read problem

2000-02-02 Thread David van Balen
I'm getting a message every now and then that says "isofs_read_super:bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32" and I'm not sure what it means, let alone what bread has to do with reading from my cdrom drive. There's usually not a cd in the drive at the times when I notice the message (in

Re: [newbie] new user - new installation

2000-01-29 Thread David van Balen
Xconfigurator or xf86config should fix the display problem. To exit either kde or gnome, you click on the "logout" button which looks like a padlock under kde and, I believe, is under the "foot" menu in gnome and is labeled simply "log out" or something of the sort. To reboot your computer, you

Re: [newbie] typing in licq

2000-01-29 Thread David van Balen
8 Jan 2000, Randall Randall wrote: David van Balen wrote: Thanks for the help. It would've taken me forever to figure out about that env variable with the new qt path if you hadn't mentioned it! Even though I have licq working now, it's complaining about my config files... I'm gettin

Re: [newbie] typing in licq

2000-01-28 Thread David van Balen
Thanks for the help. It would've taken me forever to figure out about that env variable with the new qt path if you hadn't mentioned it! Even though I have licq working now, it's complaining about my config files... I'm getting messages like [WRN] Inifile: Warning, failed to find key.

[newbie] typing in licq

2000-01-27 Thread David van Balen
Has anyone else had trouble typing in licq? Whenever I type anything that goes over a line in length, everything I've typed until that point disapears and is replaced with junk. I have to hit enter every time I get to the end of the line which is quite annoying. Any known way to fix this? DvB

RE: [newbie] typing in licq

2000-01-27 Thread David van Balen
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ross Slade wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have exactly the same problem with licq... Haven't found a workaround/fix yet.bet someone else has though :-) I'm waiting for the final version of kxicq. I'd rather not use a snapshot. Besides, it doesn't

[newbie] supermount

2000-01-23 Thread David van Balen
I installed LM7.0 and enabled supermount. Everything's was fine thus far. However, I proceeded to forget I had supermount enabled and umounted my floppy drive. When I tried to mount it again, it didn't complain but wouldn't give me a directory listing citing an "Input/Output error." Nothing I

Re: [newbie] vmware

1999-12-13 Thread David van Balen
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ralph | byte-runner | wrote: Did you upgrade to the 22-mdk kernel? If so, vmware doesn't like its headers and you'll probably have to recompile it... haven't gotten around to doing that myself so I don't know if it works or not though I don't see any reason why it

Re: [newbie] The FREE In Linux

1999-12-12 Thread David van Balen
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, root wrote: Ok, Iv been Trying to Download Mandrake 6.1, I make a boot disk, for bootnet.img, And Start it up, I put in the FTP server, and it Starts Downloading, Then All of a sudden it starts downloading a new file and

Re: [newbie] OT - uptime

1999-12-10 Thread David van Balen
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, you wrote: Maybe off topic, I don't know. I'll respond anyway cuz I find the subject interesting. I tend to leave mine on all the time. When you turn your computer on and off, the hardware heats up and cools down (expands

Re: [newbie] Host only network in VMware

1999-12-10 Thread David van Balen
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Antoniou, Stylianos wrote: Hi guys, I installed VMware and I am running Windows98 in the virtual machine. I tried to configure the network between the real and the virtual machine as host only. I added the interface line in the samba.conf with the IP address of the real

Re: [newbie] OTWAY OT WinNT Explorer won't refresh the diskette

1999-12-09 Thread David van Balen
Yeah, this really is OT but I'll take a shot anyway... what happens when you hit F5? Does the directory listing go blank and then reappear? This would indicate that it actually is refreshing. If it's not doing this, you probably need to go to the view menu and select the refresh choice from

Re: [newbie] VMWare

1999-12-08 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 1999, you wrote: I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 powerpack from Singapore.and i have 6 CD's on it. I install mandrake. I find vmware in application 1st CD.And i going to install it by MC and i found :

Re: [newbie] Network problems...

1999-12-08 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: Joe Brault wrote: snip Hi, Joe, To network your Linux machines so that they can access each other's directories and files, you need a kernel with nfs (network file system) support. Select nfs support in the kernel configuration when you

Re: [newbie] kernel header files - where?

1999-12-07 Thread David van Balen
click the + by system to expand the tree - *bingo* click kernal headers, click files tab above big window, it will tell you where the files are (all 1485 of them!) -Warren. On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Peter Heckert wrote: David van Balen wrote

Re: [newbie] kernel header files - where?

1999-12-04 Thread David van Balen
Oops, forgot to mention that vmware didn't like the headers in /usr/src/linux/include (where the linux directory is synlinked to linux-2.2.13) which is where it got the headers from when I first installed. Also, I did install the "kernel source" package when I did the update, in case that has

Re: [newbie] kernel header files - where?

1999-12-04 Thread David van Balen
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Peter Heckert wrote: David van Balen wrote: installed. Also, I did install the "kernel source" package when I did the update, in case that has any effect on what's in the include dir. Sorry for replying to my own thread... There is also a package "

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder

1999-12-03 Thread David van Balen
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: snip Open up the preferences and pick discwriter output plugin.. wav's will end up in $HOME as default but you can change that by

[newbie] kernel upgrade without rebooting?

1999-12-02 Thread David van Balen
I just upgraded to kernel 2.2.13-22 from -7 and wondered if there's any way to switch to the new kernel without rebooting. I don't figure there is but I've got 22 days of uptime under my belt and had been hoping to keep it up as long as possible :) DvB

[newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder

1999-12-01 Thread David van Balen
I'm finally getting around to messing with mp3 enconding/decoding (already figured out how to rip tracks and put stuff on a cdr) and wondered if anyone has a fav that they'd recommend. I found several on freshmeat but would appreciate some opinions before proceeding. thanx, DvB

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-28 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Took a look at Mozilla. Liked it. Haven't heard of Konqueror though. Is it any smaller than Mozilla? Can you point me to a page where I get get it? thanks :) It's KDE's browser which should ship with KDE 2.0 (it's not out yet). From what I hear it's

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread David van Balen
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent ICQ client? The one I just installed locked everything up for me. The good news is that it did a real good job of it :) thanks -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count,

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-23 Thread David van Balen
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. Probably won't be out until MainSoft's MainWin IDE for Linux is released, if ever. Last I heard, MainWin was scheduled for next year. Pesonally, I'm hoping for Mozilla or

Re: [newbie] M$ windows finally Y2K safe (joke)

1999-11-21 Thread David van Balen
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Carsten M. Larsen wrote: Hi! Check this one out. Some of you might get at giggle out of this :o). Try clicking on "my computer", and "start". Also try right-click :o) You'll find something something about Linux there too (perhaps Bill's secret dream :o) By the

Re: [newbie] A little OT- Memory

1999-11-21 Thread David van Balen
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Eric Mings wrote: If anyone has suggestions for places to find the best prices on memory upgrades that I can use for my PIII 450 linux box I would appreciate it. I am going to be using it as a server and need at least PC100 128 meg chips (though I would like to buy

Re: [newbie] A little OT- Memory

1999-11-21 Thread David van Balen
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, pete moss wrote: Eric Mings wrote: If anyone has suggestions for places to find the best prices on memory upgrades that I can use for my PIII 450 linux box I would appreciate it. I am going to be using it as a server and need at least PC100 128 meg chips (though

Re: [newbie] Netscape Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 - Is it worth it?

1999-11-20 Thread David van Balen
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm curious as to how much of an improvement Netscape 4.7 is over 4.6. For all of you that upgraded, was it worth the time? Did it fix the problems of it suddenly shutting down and all the other annoying stuff? Seve Not really. If you've

Re: [newbie] Words Of Wisdom

1999-11-20 Thread David van Balen
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Hey, is it just me? Or do you experience a renewed sense of excitement when messing with Linux that you haven't had since the early days of DOS? I know M$ will remain as a player of some sorts but the question has now evolved from "which is the

Re: [newbie] test (OT)

1999-11-16 Thread David van Balen
Check the "rejection" message, if it's a "undeliverable" message from mindspring then it wasn't the list rejecting it, it's due to whatever trouble mindspring is having and should be ignored... it is quite annoying though. DvB On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Simon Norris wrote: My last message was

Re: [newbie] PRINTING

1999-11-16 Thread David van Balen
lprm job# where job# can be obtained with lpq If this is what you are doing, then the printer may be printing buffered data over which the OS has no control... other than that, I don't know. DvB On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello All, Now that I have got my printer

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-13 Thread David van Balen
tin does threads really well, if only I could get it working... no hyperlinks though but there's always cut and paste into netscape which is what I usually do anyway. DvB On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: the problem with most of the newsreaders is that one they don't thread well

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-12 Thread David van Balen
Since someone brought the subject up, my favorite newsreader has always been tin. However, I can't seem to get it workin under Linux... when I run it it clears the screen, prints a message too fast for me to read it, and dies. Any ideas? DvB On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: Joe

Re: [newbie] Printing problem

1999-11-11 Thread David van Balen
I get the same error when trying to print to an HP LaserJet through its JetDirect card (... connection refused jobs queued...). Been trying to get it working for quite a while. Tried configuring it as both Win/SMB and Netware and no dice... DvB On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Karen Heiby wrote: I have

Re: [newbie] Monitor Trouble

1999-11-10 Thread David van Balen
run Xconfigurator or xf86config On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Christian Charles Opp wrote: When I first installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 I didn't know what the resolutions were. I know now and would like to change it. How do I do this? Thanks, chris

Re: [newbie] downloading

1999-11-10 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, jeremy wrote: I am wondering about downloading from netscape. I click on a thing to download and the next page is a grey page with goobly-guk writing on it . is that the code? j It's opening the binary file in your browser. Netscape doesn't seem to be able to

Re: [newbie] alternative browser?

1999-11-09 Thread David van Balen
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote: "Brian K. Garel" wrote: "Karen M. Heiby" wrote: snip I do have Netscape 4.7 and it crashes a lot less. But I am still getting this weird bookmark error. "Bookmarks have changed on disk and are being reloaded". I have to click "OK" to

Re: [newbie] Opening Windows in Virtual Consoles

1999-11-07 Thread David van Balen
That pictue's caption (at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fscreenshots.php3) says "'Helios' running Enlightenment, Eterm and Win98 under VMWare (VMWare is inluded in the PowerPack edition of Mandrake)" So, it looks like vmware is the culprit. VMware can also be downloaded from

Re: [newbie] Opening Windows in Virtual Consoles

1999-11-06 Thread David van Balen
You could use vmware (www.vmware.com) to boot either windows from linux or linux from windows (depending what version you get). I use it to run winNT under linux and I definitely recommend it. On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Dreja Julag wrote: Perhaps I should simplify a bit. I would certainly

Re: [newbie] zip files?

1999-11-03 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll. If you're using

Re: [newbie] plugger's not cooperating

1999-11-03 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, alann wrote: David van Balen wrote: I tried to install plugger under netscape 4.61 (libc5 version of both). I first tried the rpm and it appeared to install fine but then whenever I went to a page with audio files, netscape would die. Since then I have uninstalled

[newbie] plugger's not cooperating

1999-11-02 Thread David van Balen
I tried to install plugger under netscape 4.61 (libc5 version of both). I first tried the rpm and it appeared to install fine but then whenever I went to a page with audio files, netscape would die. Since then I have uninstalled the rpm, installed the tarball by placing the plugger.so and

[newbie] problems mounting floppy

1999-10-31 Thread David van Balen
I just tried to save something to my floppy drive for the first time since I reinstalled 6.1 and when I try to mount it I get the message: mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy I'm pretty sure that fd0 isn't mounted. Catting /proc/mounts yields: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 /proc

[newbie] Re: problems mounting floppy

1999-10-31 Thread David van Balen
It works now (I rebooted). I don't know what the problem was though. DvB

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