Freshly installed, But with one problem.
Every application opens way too big.
I know there is an easy fix, But I can't remember what it is.
Help
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Hello folks,
Since just acquiring this fine thing I was wondering if anyone has had an
experience installing Mandrake onto one ?
400 Mhz
128 meg RAM
3com cardbus fast ethernet
texas instruments pci 1225 cardbus controller
neomagicmagic graph 256 AV display
neomagic magic media 256 AV sound /audio
Whenever I post, or reply to this list, My messages appear on this list (
atleast to me).
But, When sending the list messages I get a failure notice from attbi :
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:27 am, you wrote:
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was
What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that
they're not spying on your system
I may be niaive, but how can they offer you updates for the software you
have installed, without looking to see what is one your computer?
That, I wouldn't have a problem with. Provided
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:18 am, Robert Wideman wrote:
now, if only i can wean myself off Outlook Express for my email.
I am with you on this one except i am using Outlook. I cant find any way
to move data over.
However i havent setup an IMAP server, then moved my email to that and
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:22 am, Adolfo ortiz wrote:
It's good you're attempting to do something constructive, and that's all fine
and well Adolfo.
I just don't think this list is the place for it.
I might be the only one who thinks this, and if so, Well then I guess I'll go
ahead and
On Monday 17 February 2003 07:57 pm, Miark wrote:
Which Java is installed? I think you need the j2re for it to work,
which you can download from MandrakeClub.
Miark
Yeah, Or go to www.sun.com and download it. But if you already have it ( j2re
) installed, Then it just isn't in your path.
Personally, I agree with the french. More inspectors are necessary.
And Mr. Bush, although has not publicly announced his agreement, None the less
continues to demonstrate it by sending more and more inspectors to iraq.
Within 30 days, There will be approximately 250,000 inspectors milling
Here is a copy of my reply to Fred Langa.
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [langalist] LangaList Standard Edition 2003-01-27
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 04:53:03 -0500
From: Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Fred,
Been a reader for years, I like your
On Thursday 16 January 2003 09:55 am, et wrote:
I would also ask if someone on newbie with a 24/7 connection and a mail
server might be willing to start a backup newbie mail listserver, on the
off chance that oneday we wake up and find this one gone to the way of the
courts. Does anyone know
I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the list for posting as
I have.
Not because I feel that my opinions are wrong, I don't. But because this
really isn't the proper forum to vent them.
I waited for as long as I was going to before posting. Waiting for this to die
off.
I'm
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 04:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Our Prime minister Tony Blair is way out on a limb.There is little support
for an Iraqi war.
I have patiently waited for this ridiculous diatribe to die off. I have
listened as you people have insulted MY country, MY President, My
~Brandon
I think this would be a good point to end this thread, there are many who
hold strong views about this subject and I fear that to continue to express
them here could lead to a falling out of members.
Yeah, Count me as one.
It goes without saying that it is a very emotive
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 08:26 am, Hesham Khonji wrote:
What if along with that one terrorist supporter, your tax money destroys
innocent civilians
That would be a sad, and unfortunate colatteral effect. Most certain to
happen, unavoidable since the Arabs use civilians as shields. But then
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 07:07 pm, Robin Turner wrote:
Dennis Sue wrote:
~Brandon
I think this would be a good point to end this thread, there are many
who hold strong views about this subject and I fear that to continue to
express them here could lead to a falling out of members
Which is better KDE, or Gnome ?
Whichever one you like the most, and find to be the best for you.
That's the one that's better.
How about these questions instead :
Which is better:
1- Linux with the ability to use different desktops. Or windows with no such
ability?
2- Linux with the ability to
I have been trying to install and run Wine. So far, To no avail.
Here is the error message I get :
Warning:
The Wine launcher is unable to find the xmessage program,
which it needs to properly notify you of Wine execution status
or problems.
This launcher script relies heavily on
On Monday 30 December 2002 07:14 pm, Pilagá wrote:
El Lun 30 Dic 2002 18:56, Dennis Sue escribió:
I have been trying to install and run Wine. So far, To no avail.
Here is the error message I get :
Warning:
The Wine launcher is unable to find the xmessage program,
which
Merry Christmas All.
Here is my situation :
I have loaded Windows 2000 on 20 gigs, And Mandrake 9 on 20 gigs. ( One
Harddrive ). The Windows setup went South ( trashed itself almost immediately
). The Mandrake setup is solid ( surprise, surprise ).
I've decided that I want to dump Windows 2000,
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 10:55 am, Michel Clasquin wrote:
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 17:11, Dennis Sue wrote:
I've decided that I want to dump Windows 2000, and replace it with
Windows 98. When I do this, It will ( probably, I don't know for
sure ) rewrite the boot record and I
So I formatted, and got rid of windows 2000, Loaded Windows 98, And
reinstalled my boot loader. Here is the tale of woe :
Windows 98 required too many reboots to count. It took me over 2 hours to load
the O.S., install the video driver, the sound card driver, antivirus
,firewall, camera
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 02:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 06:41, Dennis Sue wrote:
So I formatted, and got rid of windows 2000, Loaded Windows 98, And
reinstalled my boot loader. Here is the tale of woe :
Windows 98 required too many reboots to count. It took me
Mandrake have made a huge step forward with bugzilla in the last week or
two. I would suggest to everyone who has an interest in the
stability/excellence of 9.1 to make an account at
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com. The feature that would be most useful to
newbies is voting for bugs. If you are
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:25 pm, you wrote:
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 06:12 pm, Dennis Sue wrote:
Ok, I looked around a bit, screwed around some, And added these lines to
fstab and mtab.
Adding these lines caused the camera to appear in /mnt as camera
directory
I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ).
Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as
well.
Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work.
It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of some
kind / type, virtua,l
Ok, I looked around a bit, screwed around some, And added these lines to fstab
and mtab.
Adding these lines caused the camera to appear in /mnt as camera directory.
And on the desktop as dynamic_mnt camera link. Which was cool.
In Root, clicking the desktop link produced this error message :
On Monday 09 December 2002 04:52 am, you wrote:
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:01, Dennis Sue wrote:
For some reason, xroast does not recognize the .mp3 format..
gnome toaster / cdrecord seems to default to tao, rather than dao. Even
when I set it for dao. I don't think it's closing the session
Hello Peoples,
I would like to convert, and record mp3's to a cdr so that they can be played
on a regular cd player.
I've made 3 coasters trying.
this is one of two reasons why windows still resides on this harddrive.
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Hello Folks, I thought I'd give you an update on my final decision, How it
worked out, and my opinions.
Having purchased a new harddrive yesterday, I partitioned it and loaded
Win2000 for any unsupported devices ( such as the HP 315 camera ), And also
so that I could download Mandrake 9.0, (
On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500
There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't
configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola.
LM9.0 doesn't configure ISA soundcards, you have to
On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:47 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:34:47 -0500
Well, I guess you can always buy a supported soundcard, but to get your
current sound hardware working I think you should supply a few more
details like what card do you have, what happened when
- Original Message -
From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Fresh Install Advice
Just thought I would mention this as a future aid maybe. Whenever I do an
install I install from scratch, but, I always
- Original Message -
From: Windwalker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: [newbie] info needed
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 12:38, you wrote:
Gentlemen
Can anyone tell me how to go on digest mode or unsub from this list?
I love the
learnt that there were a lot of things I
did wrong!!
All is smooth now..much slicker!
Richard Mollel
--- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 10:48 am, Dennis Sue wrote:
Hello folks,
My harddrive is finally dying, and due to be
replaced this weekend
On Thursday 07 November 2002 11:05 pm, you wrote:
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:00:28 -0500
Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 07 November 2002 08:15 am, you wrote:
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:58, Dennis Sue wrote:
Hello Folks.
Wanting more space, and having screwed something
Hello Folks.
Wanting more space, and having screwed something up sufficently to warrant a
reload, I decided to repartition my harddrive.
It all went well, Except.
I had a storage drive that I created at /storage.
When I repartitioned, I didn't realize that I would have to create a mount
Hello, I have tried every possible thing I can find, read, and install to get
this supported printer working.
The best I have yet to achieve is garbage character printout, and even that
isn't consistent.
I am tired of editing, searching, reading, installing, removing, and looking.
I've had
Thank you Derek, I am on my way there as I type this
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On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:18 pm, you wrote:
I have not been following this thread, but anytime someone has difficulty
with printer drivers it is worth giving TurboPrint a try (apologies if it
has already been suggested)
http://www.turboprint.de/english.html
Turbo print is not free and
I am running Mandrake 8.2, K desktop.
I have looked high and low for a way to change what browser opens e-mail (
K-Mail ) links.
Currently Konqueror does so, But I would like Netscape to instead, ( I find
the tabbed interface very convienent ).
I have tried the browser preferences, to no
Thank you for the help.
I can't believe that I overlook the simple things, I guess I expected it to
be more difficult than this. ( Doh )
But, after editing to get a CDR and a printer working, I expected to have to
do it again.
As for Mozilla, yeah, I think I'm going with that.
I haven't
Whenever I use locate to search for files, It doesn't matter what file, I get
the following message at the end of it's search :
fatal error : locate : decode_db : 'pathlen == -5 ' ! Corrupt Database !
For some programs, Like netscape, It will list all the files before ending
with this
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