Re: [newbie] Problem with detecting modem, ScanModem

2004-10-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 October 2004 00:09, Vlada wrote: Mandrake 9.1 cannot detect my modem intel(r) 536EP V.92 I downloaded ScanModem, to detect what modem I have. After unpacking and addint +x permition when run from console ./ScanModem there is a massage: WARNING: lscpi not found - exiting Please

Re: [newbie] Problem with installing Apollon

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 October 2004 21:19, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to install Apollon with the all-in-one installer. However, I get the error below. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Compiling arkollon cd src make -f Makefile

Re: [newbie] Updating the system after install

2004-10-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 September 2004 23:22, Andrew Konosky wrote: Hello, I just downloaded the 1st install CD of Mandrake 10.1 community because I wanted to try out this distro. I have an old computer that some other distros seemed to have some trouble with, but MandrakeMove booted fine from CD, so

Re: [newbie] netpbm

2004-10-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 01 October 2004 08:01, David wrote: Guys Gals, This question is asked by a newbie with enough knowledge to be dangerous. Not enough to be really dangerous but heading that way. When I download the security or other notified updates I check to see it the particular app is loaded

Re: [newbie] mounting windows filesystem

2004-09-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 12:34, javier garcia wrote: Hi all; (thanks Charlie and Angus for the last mail, now I can login as root in case I need it) I've got another doubt. I've just installed samba and shared some folders. I can see them in a seamless way from Windows Explorer, this

Re: [newbie] MKD 10.1

2004-09-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 17:36, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, I've just done a fresh install of 10.1 Com.It when very well,but I have a few questions. 1 Does anyone know off any update mirrors that are working? 2 Does anyone know off any base

Re: [newbie] MKD 10.1

2004-09-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 19:17, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 28 September 2004 17:36, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, I've just done a fresh install of 10.1 Com.It when very well,but I have a few questions. 1 Does anyone know off any update

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Can't go to https site with either Netscape, Firefox, Opera

2004-09-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 24 September 2004 05:00, MyEE wrote: Dears, Netscape, Firefox and Opera can't read any site that starts with HTTPS. They say The operation is timed out: This is true for Linux and Windows version of the above browsers. Unfortunately, IE has not problem to get HTTPS site. Can any

Re: [newbie] Strange diff check ?

2004-09-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 24 September 2004 05:25, Dan Gordon wrote: I got this tonight when the nightly security check was done. Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed, maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor...   

Re: [newbie] Permissions

2004-09-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:31, Vincent Voois wrote: How about trying chmod +2666 /windows/* -R And then try azureus again? Alan wrote: Can somebody please advice me with this problem? I have three fat32 partitions mounted in /windows/c /windows/d and /windows/e directories i

Re: [newbie] 17inch Widescreen TFT Monitor

2004-09-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 19:03, Azrael wrote: I've just been given a 17th inch widescreen TFT monitor (Kiss Technologies, Coolview) and I am having problems setting it up correctly under mandrake 10. The monitor supports 1280x768, yet I only get the standard non-widescreen resolutions

Re: [newbie] TightVNC Server... wassup??

2004-09-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 12:18, Bill Shirley wrote: Any clues as to what is going on in ~/.xsession-errors? Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Scott Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 14:09, Lanman wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:27, Lanman wrote: Just out of curiosity, how do I determine which USB device port it's attached to? USBview had lots of info about the unit, but doesn't clearly state the device settings to

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 14:36, Lanman wrote: SNIP Thanks Derek. All this time I thought I had to look for a USB device, and there it was right in front of me. Can you say Dufus? DoH! Now for the big question,...How do I associate that with a program for data transfers? Do I mount it like

Re: [newbie] Adding media to MCC Media Manager.

2004-09-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 20:34, Simon Utley wrote: Hi, I am trying to add the 5 CD's of my mdk10.0 Distro into the media manager. With a CD1 in the drive this is the output from terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]# urpmi.addmedia -h -c -f CD1 removeable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS added

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC. The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although it

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 03:41, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB]

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:47, Lanman wrote: Quick update for you Derek. The stir4200 driver module is now installed after a quick reboot, but I still don't know which usb device-port it's connected to. Right now, usbview says that it's connected to /proc/bus/usb/devices which I believe

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB]

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:54, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:47, Lanman wrote: Quick update for you Derek. The stir4200 driver module is now installed after a quick reboot, but I still don't know which usb device-port it's connected to. Right now, usbview says

Re: [newbie] questions on 10.1

2004-09-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 18 September 2004 21:32, Chris wrote: I'm currently running 9.0 and thinking about upgrading to 10.1. I noticed that in the 10.0 release there was a community and then an official release, will there be the same with 10.1? Looking at the Mdk Store I only see the 10.1 community

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated soundcard, using nvaudio drivers. I have no sound now, and KDE crashes on startup. I'm not really sure why it stopped working. If your kdm login manager

Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase

2004-09-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 13 September 2004 09:38, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:13, Derek Jennings wrote: Marvellous new for all HitchHiker fans is the broadcast of a new radio series based on the last three books starting on 21st Sept http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/ Now

Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

2004-09-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 12 September 2004 07:17, Johan Sch wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:35:04 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 23:04, Johan Sch wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:13:09 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September

Re: [newbie] download and install MDK 10

2004-09-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 12 September 2004 20:32, othman El Moulat wrote: Hi guys; I have the Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed in my computer and i want to upgrade to mandrake 10... can i download it from internet ? I have an Internet ADSL connection configured to work with a Sagem Modem working on the windows

Re: [newbie] download and install MDK 10

2004-09-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 12 September 2004 22:16, othman El Moulat wrote: Hi dereck; how can i in fact copy all the contants of the link into a folder ? shall i sellect all and right click and choose copy ? thanks SNIP The preferred way would be with an ftp client, they can handle networking problems much

Re: [newbie] download and install MDK 10

2004-09-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 12 September 2004 22:49, othman El Moulat wrote: Hi derek and thanks a lot for helping; Actually i have the Core Ftp lite program that servs for file transport but i have problems to connect to the site for distributions what are the informations i should input to connect to this

Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

2004-09-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0. Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found. Thanks They are on the Mandrake update mirrors, but will not be installed automatically by Mandrake Update.

Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

2004-09-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0. Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found. Thanks I just realised you are looking for kernels later than 2.6.5 The update mirrors will not have anything

Re: [newbie] Accessing MySQL

2004-09-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 12 September 2004 17:04, Bobby wrote: When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server, everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated. I build websites for the fun of it, but I'm

Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

2004-09-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 11 September 2004 23:04, Johan Sch wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:13:09 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0. Please any site where latest kernels

Re: [newbie] Adding New Stuff

2004-09-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 10 September 2004 22:32, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, If a newbie to Mandrake Linux wants to look for software for linux, what is the best way? Google? Thanks, bj You can search for Linux projects at http://freshmeat.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/ and Google has a dedicated

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 09 September 2004 13:56, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, This is strange. In my office I still have 2 pc's with MS on them. My laptop and my pc have Mandrake 10.0 and all are set up on my LAN. Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however

Re: [newbie] enable sendmail/postfix without official domain name

2004-09-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 09 September 2004 12:50, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: ... To declare an alias for root edit /etc/postfix/aliases and at the bottom it tells you to define the local user to be an alias for root. Insert your user name there and then as root run 'newaliases' and restart postfix with

Re: [newbie] Sending AT commands programmatically

2004-09-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 13:52, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have been tasked with figuring out how to send a series of AT commands using a script to a modem plugged into our Linux server. Can someone give me some clues on how I might go about this ?? The background to this is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:20, warren wrote: Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root mcc if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type updatedb update-menus Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]#

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 September 2004 13:19, warren wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME - the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that installing anything that involves taking the case off the box is beyond my

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 September 2004 22:10, PM wrote: On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:05, Derek Jennings wrote: Margot I can confirm the Alcatel Speedtouch does work with Mandrake. I do not have one myself, but I have set one up for a friend. It IS more complicated to get a USB Speedtouch working

Re: [newbie] Strange message

2004-09-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 11:37, Ralph Utbult wrote: Anyone have any idea what this message means? I run 10.0 as a mailserver, with Postfix and Spamassassin. Sending HUP to httpd2: Regards, Ralph It is a message from your cron.monthly job which restarts apache2 (httpd2) Any cron

Re: [newbie] Problem with MandrakeUpdate

2004-08-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 August 2004 08:45, John Wilson wrote: On August 28, 2004 12:43 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I removed all the media and, afterwards, I added all of them. Surprisingly, now, whenever I run MandrakeUpdate, all hdlists are updated at startup, which is not very convenient,

Re: [newbie] host name changes (sometimes...?)

2004-08-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 August 2004 09:23, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: I am still not happy with my mdk-boxes for they sometimes chnange their hostnames provided during install process to something like '172' or similar (=eg that's just the beginning of the internal LAN adresses when the nic gets

Re: [newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP

2004-08-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 28 August 2004 19:17, Steve wrote: I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to

Re: [newbie] permission changes

2004-08-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 August 2004 01:32, john wrote: Hello After reinstalling md10, several folders now show locked. Security settings are standard and I 'm not sure what happened to change these folders. Any advice on how to change them to normal settings would be appreciated. Thanks John When

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Small Network at Home

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:00, MyEE wrote: Dears, I am trying to setup a small network at home consisting of MDK10 and Win98 connected together through by two Ethernet card and a cable using Samba. I setup my network as shown below. I wonder if I am missing anything. Can anyone help

Re: [newbie] kde dead and gone

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:11, Frank wrote: Right now I am unable to use kde or any of its apps. SNIP During my last session I installed QTCurve, a couple of session ago I installed nVidia for OpenGL. Also during the last session I did urpmi kdelibs and kdebase after seeing a security

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:33, M.Schild wrote: Hello, A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. From what I found out on the

Re: [newbie] Printing

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 27 August 2004 00:23, Steve wrote: I have two linux PCs connected to a wireless router. One of the PCs has a printer, the other does not. Is it difficult to get the one PC to send print jobs to the other PC? It would make printing homework alot easier Thank you, Steve It is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake/WIndows file sharing, etc.

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 27 August 2004 00:59, Peter Davis wrote: I thought I sent this message this morning, but it doesn't seem to have shown up. I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out

Re: [newbie] Real newbie stuff

2004-08-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 15:30, Peter Davis wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Dell XPS T500 last week. I've used various flavors of *n*x in the past, but this is my first experience with Linux. So far, I'm very pleased, but I have a few questions. 1) Is there a way to get the

Re: [newbie] Real newbie stuff

2004-08-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 23:48, Peter Davis wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 11:08, Derek Jennings wrote: Welcome I hope you have fun with your new experience. Thanks! I'm having fun so far. Pull up userdrake from the Mandrake ControlCentreSystem to choose the login shell for your user

Re: [newbie] Need definitive help in building installing from source

2004-08-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 23 August 2004 01:24, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. Some of you may recall my whining in earlier posts about how I've never been able to build and install anything from source on my Mandrake 9.2 system. Until now, I've been content to use RPMs to install older versions of the

Re: [newbie] rescue disk probs

2004-08-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 23 August 2004 21:18, Scott wrote: Hello I'm trying to use my 10.0 rescue disk to re-write lilo in hda. The problem is I have an improperly named kernel image in /etc/lilo.conf, so the rewrite fails when it runs lilo. I don't seem to be able to open lilo.conf with vi to change it

Re: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site?

2004-08-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 22 August 2004 15:28, Steve Jeppesen wrote: this relates to the link Todd S. posted to which I cannot connect to; http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png the message that appears states clevername.homeip.net could not be found. Please check the name and try again. I

Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.1 and hostname change with dhcp ?

2004-08-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 22 August 2004 17:37, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, Recently I discovered that a system of mine, running Mdk 9.1 is likely to change its own hostname - somehow after it gets IP data by dhcp server. In fact, with using netconf, I gave it a name like xybox for example, but

Re: [newbie] Notebook X Problem

2004-08-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 19 August 2004 13:49, Mark Ayares wrote: I have Mandrake 10 installed on my 760XD.  Does anyone know where I can find the hardware graphics setting for X?  My current settings are: Graphics Card: Trident Cyber 9325 (Generic) Monitor: 1024x768 @ 60 Hz Resolution: 1024x768 8bpp X

Re: [newbie] Strange samba problem

2004-08-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 06:42, Dan Gordon wrote: Hello all, Well it has taken me about a year to get samba to the point where two boxes can see each others shares. The problem is on box a i can see the share on box b but cant mount it the error is bad password. on box b i can see the share

Re: [newbie] Downloads and Installs

2004-08-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 03:56, BJ Tracy wrote: On Monday 16 August 2004 12:28 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: SNIP Thanks for your help..however, I installed clamav and sql from the Mandrake Control Center and checked and they are installed. I rebooted(habit) and still cannot find the

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 08:44, Kaj Haulrich wrote: In GIMP 1.2 one could invoke xsane from the menu : File -- Acquire That option is missing in my GIMP2. Solutions ? Regards Kaj Haulrich. urpmi xsane-gimp derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club

2004-08-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 12:19, Thomas Ewald wrote: Even for old dudes in our fifties and working full-time, $60 is not insignificant. What commercial software is available via these memberships? I am looking primarily for answering machine/voice mail/fax software, but am interested in what

Re: [newbie] .mov sound

2004-08-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 13:35, C. Tresenriter wrote: I'm getting no sound while playing .mov files in Totem. What should I be looking for to resolve this issue? Is it just .mov files? Possible causes may be :- Your mixer control is muted :- Play with all the sliders. Try a different sound

Re: [newbie] Spell-checking in Thunderbird

2004-08-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:06, Keith Powell wrote: I have been trying Thunderbird - a very nice program, and the spam filter works well. However, I can't get it to spell check in GB English, only American English. I have downloaded the correct dictionary from

Re: [newbie] Spell-checking in Thunderbird

2004-08-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:06, Keith Powell wrote: I have been trying Thunderbird - a very nice program, and the spam filter works well. However, I can't get it to spell check in GB English, only American English. I have downloaded

Re: [newbie] My last attempt at pixieplus...

2004-08-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:55, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I've been having a heck of a time getting pixieplus to work on my system (Mdk 9.2). It's the one 'must-have' (for me) app that I haven't been able to use in some form or another. Compiling from source didn't work (I forget why,

Re: [newbie] Spell-checking in Thunderbird

2004-08-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 21:01, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 15:07, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:06, Keith Powell wrote: I have been trying Thunderbird - a very nice program, and the spam filter works well

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club

2004-08-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 22:09, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well my time is running out on the free stuff with the purchase of Mandrake 10.0. I really love Linux and setting up my office has not been that tough. Thank you to all who have answered my pleas for help, you have done a great job

Re: [newbie] Spell-checking in Thunderbird

2004-08-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 22:46, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 23:06, Keith Powell wrote: I have been trying Thunderbird - a very nice program, and the spam filter works well. However, I can't get it to spell check in GB English, only American English. I have downloaded the

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 from 9.1-done it

2004-07-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 10:35, M.Schild wrote: so far so good. I find I still have a black border around my screen. I have tried different resolutions but it is still there. I find everything is very small too. Where have my Cd and DVD icons gone on my KDE desktop??? how do I find them?

Re: [newbie] MP3 to WAV in K3b?

2004-07-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 12:16, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I seem to remember that I read on this list that it is possible to convert mp3 files to wav with K3b. In K3b I don't see anything in the menu's that indicates that it does. Can anyone tell me how to do this? If it can't be done,

Re: [newbie] MP3 to WAV in K3b?

2004-07-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 13:16, Marco Verheul wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 13:33, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 12:16, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I seem to remember that I read on this list that it is possible to convert mp3 files to wav with K3b. In K3b I don't see

Re: [newbie] How does one print man pages.

2004-07-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 19:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Jul 2004 at 12:56, Hoyt Bailey wrote: There has to be a better way to print man pages than to use copy/paste. Please give me a clue? -- Regards; Hoyt for the man page

Re: [newbie] How does one print man pages.

2004-07-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 22:19, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2004 14:17, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 19:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Jul 2004 at 12:56, Hoyt Bailey wrote: There has to be a better way

Re: [newbie] Ogle RPM not installing

2004-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jul 2004 08:42, Craig Bowyer wrote: I've been trying to install Ogle for viewing DVD's. However, whenever I've tried to install of the RPM PLF lists, I get the following from Rpmdrake: The following packages have bad signatures: libdvdcontrol9-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid

Re: [newbie] ms messenger

2004-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jul 2004 09:23, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a friend in Pretoria bugging me about getting on messenger. What's the easiest answer besides bug off? I've been using that one for a year now. Lee If he is a friend, then he will not mind installing Gaim or Psi for Windows so he can

Re: [newbie] Semi-Off Topic: Spam Assassin marks list emails as spam!

2004-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 12 Jul 2004 06:08, Amy wrote: I have Spam Assassin installed on the server my friend is hosting my domains on, and due to the high levels of spam I was receiving for a while, I currently have it set at a somewhat low 5.0. Occasionally it'll mark a random email from someone on this

Re: [newbie] Fw: mailserver

2004-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jul 2004 09:20, Lee Wiggers wrote: Usually I feel pretty dumb around here. I've been serving aeis.tv on Apache2 for about a year and just now grasp the concept. I'm going the next step with a mailserver and it'll probably be another year before I grok that. I have 7 users on

Re: [newbie] Postfix - Mail Sending Relay Problem.

2004-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 10 Jul 2004 00:52, mark rogers wrote: Hi Team SNIP Problem 2) The PC that downloads POP mail from the ML10 PC Is having trouble sending mail to the ML10 box. Keep in mind that people from the outside world (internet) are currently sending mail to it - just the internal network

Re: [newbie] Port 113

2004-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 10 Jul 2004 21:11, Simon wrote: D Can somebody tell me how to stealth this port using Shorewall? - Assumptions: You're using the default zones of loc (inside), net (outside), and fw (firewall/computer). You want to stealth this port on your

Re: [newbie] Problem login mandrake 10.0 offical Power Pack

2004-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jul 2004 03:38, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: Hallo, stephen. When the monitor turns black I do Alt_Ctrl_F2 and I cant get a console or terminal to login. I do not have Ideas. Thanks stephen Does your video card have more than 1 output? I have seen cases where the card switches

Re: [newbie] ETH01 Failure

2004-07-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 11:27, Thomas Ewald wrote: When I boot up Mandrake 10 in the verbose mode,it states that ETH01 fails. My card is networked to a Gigafast Ethernet E440-R router. Now, I am connected currently within Mandrake 10, so the ethernet connection is working, but it is EXTREMELY

Re: [newbie] Need to change desktop manager from KDE at startup/command line

2004-07-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jul 2004 12:26, cbowyer wrote: Hi guys, I've just updated KDE and crashed it (it seems to be missing something when running - I might have missed something when upgrading KDE). When I start up it tries to run KDE and can't find certain files/folders then drops me back to the

Re: [newbie] ip id

2004-07-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jul 2004 10:03, Lee Wiggers wrote: In my lan can I assign a fixed ip to one box and leave the others on dhcp? Lee Yes, but make sure that IP is outside the range being offered by the dhcp server. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Changing hostname without cardiac arrest

2004-07-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 04:19, Lee Wiggers wrote: I was blindly (what's new?)following Derek's step by step instructions for setting up my mailserver, realized I had never set a qualified hostname. localhost has been my hostname on this box since installation. I went to mcc network internet

Re: [newbie] DNS Server

2004-07-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 04 Jul 2004 18:29, Mark Rogers wrote: Hi Team Im new to Linux and Mandrake and was wondering what you would reccomend for a DNS service (BIND for example), just to host 3 domains we have (and just the main internet accessable systems - i.e. 3 IPs/Names). Prefer to have a GUI if

Re: [newbie] Best POP Server?

2004-07-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 04 Jul 2004 18:27, Mark Rogers wrote: Hi Team Im new to Linux and Mandrake and need to ask what is the best email Post Office deamon/program that you would recomend? Im looking for something thats easy to setup (i.e. with a GUI), secure, can handle IMAP, and maybe even a web

Re: [newbie] Postfix crashed, Have I been hacked?

2004-07-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 04 Jul 2004 15:40, Terence Golightly wrote: List, Postfix has quit working and I suspect someone has broken in, but I don't know where to begin looking on my system. Below is an attempt to start postfix: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# postfix start postfix: fatal: parameter

Re: [newbie] Displaying certain resolution @ certain frequency

2004-07-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 03 Jul 2004 00:17, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I have a Panasonic E15 monitor attatched to an old Pentium 1 box running Mandrake 9.1. The default setup in the Mandrake Control Center for this particular monitor doesn't function right, so I have it set at a generic 800x600 screen @

Re: [newbie] Switching from Postfix to Sendmail

2004-07-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 03 Jul 2004 10:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: SNIP Flames I just wanted to know the command line arguments that switched postfix as the default MTA to sendmail...and now I'm getting flamed... NUKE WA! stephen kuhn - proprietor update-alternatives --display mta will display the

Re: [newbie] Club Downloads

2004-07-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 03 Jul 2004 08:25, Lee Wiggers wrote: Is there a secret to using club mirrors? I added the mirror to my urpmi media Then I did a urpmi.update -a --wget urpmi -v --auto-select --wget Several rpms were listed, including the oo pkg that started this quest. I entered y Files

Re: [newbie] Menudrake config file(s)?

2004-07-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 03 Jul 2004 22:18, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I'm in the middle of writing a small Python program designed to more-or-less replace my KDE/GNOME start-type menus (as I'm no longer using either KDE or GNOME). I need to know where I ought to look in order to get the

Re: [newbie] Opera 7.51 Menu font is tiny

2004-07-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 02 Jul 2004 13:54, EE wrote: Guys/Gals The opera menu font such File, etc is super tiny and hard to read. Anybody? BRgd ToolsPreferencesFontsInterfaceMenusChoose Make sure the font you select is present on the computer derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net

Re: [newbie] Help: serial port on thinkpad ultrabay

2004-07-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 01 Jul 2004 13:34, nut megger wrote: Continued Problem: Cannot detect the serial modem located on serial port on the Ultrabay, so I am unable to connect to my ISP through the external modem. I have the latest BIOS update installed and the serial port is ENABLED. ** How do I get

Re: [newbie] Acerfirm installed OK

2004-06-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 Jun 2004 09:50, Frank wrote: Having a devels own time of getting my scanner up and running. I have a Prisa Acer 640u which is recognised, albeit with an acerfim file, by sane .92 [ ex Mandrake 9.1 days ], but under Mandrake 10 Official and using MCC, no go! Oh, MCC goes through

Re: [newbie] Privoxy service won't start on reboot/startup

2004-06-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 01:03, Terence Golightly wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 17:44, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 21:57, Terence Golightly wrote: snip Privoxy runs as user daemon, but your log file is owned by root, so privoxy can only access the log file when you run

Re: [newbie] x-windows based encryption software

2004-06-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 05:05, Pete Doak wrote: Hi: I'm looking for a nice gui based encryption software program. Preferably something that will run under KDE, and perform on the fly encryption of the files in a directory. But I'm willing to encrypt the files one at a time too. I've been

Re: [newbie] Menu

2004-06-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 01:27, Lee Wiggers wrote: Lost my kmenus on one box out of 5 upgrading yesterday. It's my brother's box (computerphobe) so he probably won't notice, but it offends my sense of right. Of course I haven't kept notes on the many posts with this problem because I've never

Re: [newbie] Privoxy service won't start on reboot/startup

2004-06-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 21:57, Terence Golightly wrote: List, This is annoying little problem that one of you may have encountered using privoxy. It won't start on startup/reboot or from a service start under mcc or from the su commandline. I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Proxim Orinoco gold a/b/g card

2004-06-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 20 Jun 2004 21:35, Brandon Rife wrote: Does anyone have this wireless card working with mdk? Orinoco is sold under a gazillion brand names. I use it under the 'Buffalo' brand. Mandrake supports it with the 'orinoco' driver. Install the wireless-tools package, reboot and it should

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver and 10.0

2004-06-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 01:04, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I tried to install the nVidia driver, but it failed. The kernel I have here is 2.6.3-7mdk. Any help appreciated. TIA You do not say what is going wrong, but here are a few steps you could check out. 1/ Is your kernel-source the

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 08:12, OOzy wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? For a newbie RPM for sure. That way you will not have to post when compiling does not work. Seriously. While compiling from source can be fun. There is a down side. It is

Re: [newbie] Good Mandrake Linux Book

2004-06-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 09:49, OOzy wrote: Anybody can recommend a good Mandrake Linux Book or at least a good general Linux book? You can always start with the manuals http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 Never used it, but there is an official Mandrake book

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