On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 4:07 pm, Russ wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have decided to install Adobe Acrobat to view and print pdf files. So
> I downloaded the newest version for Linux. It is a tar.gz. I figured "no
> problem" I've done a couple of those :-) (ya right).
>
> I extracted it but can't seem to g
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 2:42 pm, Russ wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to print a document (pdf) in landscape mode but it doesn't
> seem to be cooperating.
>
> I am running MD9.1 with a Canon s750 printer with TurboPrint up and
> running. I have tried xpdf, Ghostview, & kghostview and all seem to c
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
>SNIP
> >
> > Open a terminal window enter
> > su followed by your root password.
> > (This makes you root user)
> > Now type
> >
> > urpmi.addmedia Club
> > http://user_name:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads2/comm/9.2
> > with ./hdlist.cz
> >
> > (th
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 9:08 pm, Scott Naylor wrote:
> I have recently been trying to use KMid, but I have run into a problem.
> KMid uses a device called sequencer. I've looked in my /dev folder where it
> said it was, but it isn't there. The commands "locate" and "which" also
> can't find it. I h
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:23:30 -0700, S. Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Thanks a bunch.
Everything worked out fine.
Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i
d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no "download link"
Secondly when i come across a .run
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 1:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all, I'm a little new at Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I'm having trouble
> installing my ESS 2838/2839 PCI 56k modem. Can anyone help me? I also
> have another computer with a USRobotics/3Com PCI 56k modem with Linux
> Mandrake 9.1 and
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 10:42 am, Sendak, John wrote:
> I have just installed Mandrake 9.2.
>
> I tried to copy and paste - using the shortcut "ctr+V" into Xterm (which
> seems to be the only terminal available
> although I thought I had more with Mandrake 9.1).
> The paste did not work.
>
> I che
On Monday 20 Oct 2003 2:03 pm, Thinker wrote:
> 2nd try...
>
>
> I am currently using SuSE 8.2 (ftp version). I have Mandrake 9.0(MDK)
> installed on one box and Windows 2000 Professional (W2K)on another.
>
> The ultimate goal is to use the SuSE 8.2 box for work and such until
> SuSE 9.0 gets here.
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 10:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why is it that after I start aMSN via the terminal the terminal session
> that I used to start aMSN is dead. Meaning, I can't do anything with
> that terminal session unless I close out aMSN.
>
> Is there a way to launch aMSN through the
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 7:22 pm, Ken Walker wrote:
> I want to set up a series of folders such as Cad1, Cad2 and Cad3 that will
> be set up as shares in samba. These will be used for three classes. And
> there's an average of 30 students per class. Access to the folders will be
> done by mapping the
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 11:03 am, h w blackwell wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Am part of a V.large distrubuted university network which gives me 10Mps
> download speeds (yeah!) but no control over network settings... I want
> to do a fresh install of Mnadrake 9.2 off the uk mirror ftp server.
> Therefore la
h' before.
Thanks
derek
> > From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 2003/10/20 Mon PM 03:47:49 EDT
> > To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients
> >
> >
> > Anne was asking recently about
Anne was asking recently about having trouble using her kopote IM client with
MSN.
Since Oct 15th Microsoft have changed the protocol for MSN which has locked
out 3rd party clients.
I had read reports that Gaim 0.71 would still work with MSN, and the latest
version of the Jabber transport for
On Monday 20 Oct 2003 12:40 pm, Dale Kosan wrote:
> Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Friday 17 October 2003 08:13 am, Dale Kosan wrote:
> >>I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like
> >>the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and
> >>yum, now I guess I need
On Monday 20 Oct 2003 8:50 am, Dum Dum wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am very new to linux, though i have attempted to install mandrake
> previously. My question is very simple, in order to install the driver for
> the modem i am using which is Ham V92 from intel, i need to have the KERNEL
> source insta
On Monday 20 Oct 2003 4:46 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Sunday 19 October 2003 07:56 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> > Don't know if anyone else is running this, but I just upgraded to the 2.6
> > version of SpamAssassin. My message processing time has dropped from an
> > avg of about 30 seconds to an
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 12:44 pm, ed tharp wrote:
> I just installed 9.2 first time, clean new partitions.
> X starts fine, sound right out of the box
>
> I find this time I have no menus, and no consoles in X.
> in Gnome, I can open a term by selecting run appliacation, but running
> menudrake seg
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 1:56 pm, Drew Martin wrote:
> Hi All,
> Does anyone know of a free and reliable POP3/SMTP e-mail
> account,which I can use with KMail?
> Lycos in their wisdom have gone Hotmail,and as far as I can see can not to
> made to work with Linux.My ISP has given a useless use
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 4:15 am, Thinker wrote:
SNIP
> >
> > You can do it by hand easily enough
> > As root
> >
> > ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -C '' -N ''
> > (Note: that is two single quote characters. Not 1 double quote )
>
> I typed this one and got the message:
> bash: ssh
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 5:05 am, Eric Huff wrote:
> every once in awhile, if i go to webmin (which i have bookmarked as
>
> https://localhost:1/
> or
>
> https://127.0.0.1:1/
>
> i get
>
> http://www.netbreakthroughs.com/
>
> instead which is some insidious spam promoting site (don't click
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:38, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > On Friday 17 Oct 2003 5:48 pm, Thinker wrote:
> > > From what I can tell, ssh is installed. I just cant figure out how to
> > > start it.
> > >
> > > In the Mandrake Control Center->System-&
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:59 am, C Tresenriter wrote:
> This morning I downloaded and ran memtest86 - it was added as a boot choice
> when lilo started.
> When I came home tonight I was unable to boot into 9.1
> I got the L 99 error.
>
> Lilo was installed in the mbr and lilo.conf showed /dev/hdd1. I
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 2:47 am, Chris wrote:
> On Thursday 16 October 2003 07:36 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > Whoops
> > That "urpmi.removemedia -a" command you executed will have removed *all*
> > your software sources including your CDs
> >
> > You had
On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 3:25 pm, Chris Blake wrote:
> Greetings MDK users,
>
> Is Pandasoft a reliable virus package to install...there appears to be a
> new virus out that affects ALL systems..
>
> http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?lst=vis&;
>idvirus=41263
>
> Or i
On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 6:14 am, emim limam wrote:
> Hi how could i change the ownership of usr/share
> folders everyone?
> I actually need to copy a folder to share but it
> doesn't accet it because of permission.
> I tried as su from command line but couldn't do it.
> And i don't know how could i
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 11:55 pm, Lucio_Costa wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I´m experimenting download 3 mdk 9.2 iso using
> torrent, I don't know why but it's too slow. I
> accessed this link:
> http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969 and I saw my
> infos below. Is it normal?
>
> BitTorrent download info
>
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 8:06 pm, Graham Watkins wrote:
> Jamie Taylor wrote:
>
> Oh, and don't bother with Crossover - it takes forever to install
> anything and then it doesn't work anyway. I put it on one day and took
> it off in disgust the day after.
I disagree with that statement.
Crossover
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 11:51 am, ed tharp wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 04:48, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > Just a heads up.
> > Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that
> > 9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror
> &
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 10:44 am, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:28:19 -0400
>
> Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > yes & it *did* update...
> >
> > I watched it go.
> >
> > so?
>
> Okay, try this (should've thought of this sooner):
>
> urpmi --texstar gaim
Just a heads up.
Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that
9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror
(rediris.es)
If anyone has trouble installing packages then check your mirror.
I have also noticed that on rediris.es 9.2/contrib does not hav
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Aight, but what does this do. Specifically the codepage on
> to the end of the line part.
>
> -A
>
Type 'man mount' in a terminal and you will see listings of all the options
for all file system types.
Quote
---
umask=value
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 10:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (Man, half the e-Mails I'm getting today are bounces from
> the list. Sheesh. Some of these people prob. need to be
> unsub'd)
>
> Yea, if you haven't followed the latest banter on the list,
> I have been trying to get my user account to
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 4:24 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
> Anyone know how to print to pdf (from all programs, well
> specifically mozilla) w/o using kprinter?
>
> kprinter (which is also where qtcups links to) is s slow to
> start up...
>
> I know i can print to ps, then ps2pdf. Hmmm i wonder if
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 2:13 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:14, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > On Monday 13 Oct 2003 6:10 pm, Thinker wrote:
> > > Could someone please point me in the right direction on how to
> > > accomplish this?
> > >
> > > As
On Monday 13 Oct 2003 11:54 pm, Russ wrote:
> John Wilson wrote:
> >>As a second example, I downloaded a really nice wallpaper and when
> >>attempting to copy the wallpaper to the /usr/share/wallpapers directory
> >>I get another access denied message.
> >
> > As someone else has pointed out it's b
On Monday 13 Oct 2003 10:24 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Monday 13 October 2003 05:14 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > I could tell you how to get NFS working, but I would have to stretch my
> > memory to do it and NFS sucks so bad I will tell you a better way.
>
> Derek, I kno
On Monday 13 Oct 2003 6:10 pm, Thinker wrote:
> Could someone please point me in the right direction on how to accomplish
> this?
>
> As I said, I finally got my old hard drive with mandrake 9.0 in a new
> machine and back on the network. Now, I need to take most of the files in
> my home director
On Monday 13 Oct 2003 12:24 pm, Flávio Henrique wrote:
> > If you have mozilla installed, but not in your path, you could (as root)
> > issue a ln mozilla /path to where mozilla is installed/mozilla
> > /usr/bin/mozilla. So, if your mozilla was installed under
> > /usr/local/bin/mozilla, you woul
On Monday 13 Oct 2003 4:08 am, Guy Rouillier wrote:
SNIP
> >
> > Now for Gaim-0.70
> > There are packages on Texstars download repository
> > Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php
> > and declare a urpmi source for Texstar and you will then be able to see
> > hos packahes in your Mandrake
On Saturday 11 Oct 2003 9:32 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
> in windows i used zonealarm pro.
>
> in linux what can i do? sides stopping popups, i got used to surfing
> w/out those damn annoying ads right in my face.
>
> i hate it.
>
> Femme
Privoxy
www.privoxy.org
RPM is in contrib. Just set your bro
On Saturday 11 Oct 2003 10:23 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
SNIP
>
> Thanks again for the information, Derek.
> it brings up a couple of interesting points:
> first, I only have two CDs; I got them with APC magazine in Australia.
>
> Anyway, you're right I looked in Konquerer and dia-0.90 *is* on CD2 -
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 6:04 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
> Anyone have some tips on this?
>
> It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
> will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake
> specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other distros that place the
> conf
On Saturday 11 Oct 2003 1:38 am, Tsyko wrote:
> How can i schedule my machine to automatically syncronise with a time
> server over the internet?
>
> The machine looses about an hour a day. And would like it to update every
> hour.
>
> Thanks
You mean your computer loses time?
This will help you.
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 5:21 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote:
> I've recently added scsi emulation for my ATAPI CDROM, would this be the
> reason I see, "unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium" for all
> CDs when I try urpmi?... and if so where do I change the path to scd1
> for the sources?
> Tha
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 9:12 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:35, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > [...snip]
> >
> > Merlin
> > If you want to install dia just Open your Mandrake Control
> > Centre>Software>Management>Software Install
> > a
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 12:57 am, John wrote:
> Thanks for the quick responses. Tried to find files but not successful.
> When using konsole as root I get the following response "bash:
> /etc/ptmp: permission denied". I also used gui search in kde. Have only
> been using md for about 2 months. I may
On Thursday 09 Oct 2003 11:50 pm, John wrote:
> I tried to add a new user to md 9.1 home computer. I used an upper case
> letter which md said I couldn't use. When I clicked ok on the notice,
> user drake locked up. I ending up rebooting. When trying to open user
> drake up after reboot, I get the
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 11:37 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but
> just right now I can't seem to find it. Not looking in the right help
> file or man page, I guess. I did google on "install" and "install
> problems" and such,
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 2:45 pm, Igor Couto wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just wondered if Mandrake Linux 9.2 is going to be available in a PPC
> distribution as well, or whether only Intel will be supported... Has
> there been any official word?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Igor de Oliveira Couto
>
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 12:59 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
SNIP
>
> There seems to be a bug in /etc/sbin/draksec which is stopping the
> MAIL_WARN and MAIL_USER parameters from being written to file.
> I have raised Bug 6103 to report it. If you want its visibility raised with
> the d
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 10:47 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> I'll jump into the thread without having followed it, just to add
> confusion :-)
>
> My security.comf is empty, my level.local (same directory) reads:
>
>from mseclib import *
>enable_log_strange_packets(0)
>set_security_conf
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 5:03 am, stormjumper wrote:
SNIP
> i did as instructed, and inserted the MAIL_USER= line in
> /etc/security/msec/security.conf.
>
> now if i return to mcc, it shows the correct email address, but the check
> box for Security Alerts in Mandrake Control Center -> Security ->
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 5:03 am, stormjumper wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 18:00
> Subject: Re: [newbie] mcc - security: options dun stick
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 1:31 am, Jamie Taylor wrote:
> I'm having a spot of bother with playing CD's on my DIY special Athlon 1100
> beast.
> I've just installed 9.1 on a dual boot with winXP and all is cool except I
> can't hear audio cd's played in my DVD-ROM drive.
> It's hooked up to a SB-Live
On Tuesday 07 Oct 2003 2:18 pm, Clevenger, Dave wrote:
> How can I check to see if my hard drives are running in UDMA mode 5?
> Also, I don't believe that they are being turned off by ACPI. Thanks
Install hdparm RPM. Then in a root terminal
hdparm -i /dev/hda
derek
--
--
On Tuesday 07 Oct 2003 2:55 am, Mark wrote:
> Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my
> email downloads and the
> server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a
> cron job from root, the messages
> are NOT purged off the server. As far as I ca
On Tuesday 07 Oct 2003 6:05 am, Stormjumper wrote:
> referring to Derek's post on 27 Sep 2003, regarding exploits, i
> attempted to follow advice on putting an email address and clicking
> the check box for Security Alerts in Mandrake Control Center ->
> Security -> Basic
>
> however, the check box
On Monday 06 Oct 2003 1:06 am, Angus Auld wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
>
> > On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 4:06 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > > I'm running M
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 8:09 pm, Johan wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:55:44 +0200, Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Kindly explain to me the difference between the 2 lists
> I noticed that hdlist is megabytes & synt..hdlist is kilobytes
> OK, what I would like to know what is the trade
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 1:37 pm, RichardA wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:37:18 +0100, Ronan O'Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > Can anyone recomend a SCP program simular to WinSCP please.
>
> You mean secure copy? It's part of ssh (secure shell). Install that, and
> you can scp at the comand li
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 3:25 am, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> I recently installed version 9.1 both in a desktop computer and in my
> laptop. Do you think it is all right to just erase and install 9.2 in both
> machines? I am specially concerned with my wireless access to Internet. Are
> there any improv
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 9:19 pm, Burrows, Scott wrote:
> Derek,
> I can seek the Linux box on the lan from windows. Yet when I bring up MCC
> to see what samba packages I have available to install it shows Samba
> server, Samba client. And to make it even more wierd Web Admin shows
> Samba serve
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 7:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Derek Jennings wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 6:25 pm, Burrows, Scott wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I have my MDK 9.1 box connected to our Windows network here at work using
> >>Samba. Fro
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 1:57 am, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > SNIP
> Huff, Derek, I don't know what I am doing wrong because I do not succeed in
> connecting to Internet.
>
> My encryption key is a ten digit number, so I wrote in the corresp
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 5:30 am, Todd Slater wrote:
> I have a script that sends mail to a list, but I need to specify the
> "from" in the mail. I can't figure out how to do this with the mail
> command. Possible?
>
> Todd
Try using the sendmail command (even if you use Postfix) There is the -F a
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 1:13 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I get following error.
> Sep 30 05:29:02 lvghomepc anacron[1507]: Job `cron.daily' started
> Sep 30 05:29:02 lvghomepc anacron[1770]: Updated timestamp for job
> `cron.daily' to 2003-09-30
> Sep 30 05:29:51 lvghomepc anacron[1507]: Job `cron.dai
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:43 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
SNIP
> Thank you Derek. I am a bit confused. SMC has a driver for Linux. I already
> installed it, and although in the installation some kind of file is not
> found, I get the confirmation: "setup ok" in the end. What I do not know is
> what to
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
SNIP
>
> > And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you
> > to fill in?
>
> Yes, I do not know what to write in those parameters. I cannot write
> anything in the field for the IP address, not in the one for subnet ma
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 7:24 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > The 2Wire cards are, in fact, Orinoco cards, an
>
> Mandrake 9.1 should
>
> > recognize it natively...it did with mine at the very least...
>
> Thank you. I'll try to get going the PCMCIA card in the laptop, but if you
> have some advise fo
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 5:06 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
>
> > O
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 11:54 am, Michael Lothian wrote:
> Hi
>
> Could someone please tell me how to configure shorewall to allow a
> windows pc to use the linux net connection and also keep port 4662 (tcp)
> and 4672 (udp) for aMule
>
> If I use DrakGw it knocks off aMule
>
> Thanks for any advice
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 10:39 am, Carlos Dias wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please tell me where can I see the compatibility lists for this type of
> hardware, or, please tell me which of them are the less problematic in
> what means configuration.
>
> Thanks a lot,
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhe
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:58 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
> lspci is missing on my new install.
>
> Needed by VMware.
>
> Any ideas about about what might have been different on the install
> on this box than the last three I did over the weekend?
>
> Just found it in pciutils with a google and installed
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > One of those jobs tidies up your log files.
> > Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:48 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Dear all,
> I've just found out that my /var partition is extremly low on free space.
> Mostly used by log files that getting bigger beyond my expectation. Is
> there any way that I can perio
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the desk
> in front of me in a regular room) wireless router. I have the drivers to
> make the USB device which receives, and although the installer looks for a
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 3:27 am, John Drouhard wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:40:45 -0400
>
> HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:37:43 -0400
> >
> > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > > Nice Joe! how'd ya do that? And what is Pek?
> >
> > Pekwm, it's a really
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 11:46 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:37, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > On Monday 29 Sep 2003 1:43 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 23:35, Derek wrote:
> > > > [...snip snip]
> > > >
> > &g
On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 8:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 5:35 pm, Derek wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 1:13 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
> > > y> Bad idea, If your computer connected to the Internet. Even
> > > though, the number y> of viruses/trojans for LINUX is miniscule
>
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 1:43 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 23:35, Derek wrote:
> > [...snip snip]
> >
> > 3/ Make sure you enter an email address in the Mandrake control Centre
> > Security window. That way you will be alerted to security attacks.
>
> Is this a new thing in 9.1?
> I
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 12:06 am, mike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> running Mandrake 9.1 :
>
> Can my Windows computers be easily networked with the Linux box for file
> and printer sharing through my router?
>
> sharing a linux printer with the win boxes and win files with linux.
>
> If so is there a good resou
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 1:12 am, K. Spress wrote:
> I have managed to install Mandrake 8.2 and I am running evolution for my
> mail program. Probably gonna get another netzero.net account for my
> linux mail setup. But a question I have for you. I installed ftp server
> and www server on my linux box
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 2:33 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > [...snip]
> >
> > Install Acrobat. It's on the disks, and it gives you very good
> > control of printing, including scaled printing.
>
> what do I do when rpmdrake doesn't find it?
> I searched
On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 4:47 am, Richard Hackwith wrote:
> I finally got around to moving from 8.1 to 9.1 this weekend (I know 9.2 is
> just around the corner). It all went off without a hitch, except, I can't
> seem to play music cd's. It is not a sound issue, all other audio devices
> work. It ju
On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 6:20 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
SNIP
>
> > 6/ Do your Mandrake Security updates regularly, either by the GUI,
> > or from an automated cron job
> > The command
> > urpmi.update updates && urpmi --update --auto-select
> > will do the updates for you.
> > (That assumes you have d
On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 11:02 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 10:12 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
> > SK> After viewing the page source, I am of the opinion that the
> > page was SK> done in FP2000 or XP...but I could be wrong...
> >
> > Okay, I well understand I think, but right or wrong
On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 6:33 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
>
> Looking forward to doing that and reporting. Say what one will about
> MS (and oh yes, a lot can be said), the fonts are not an issue.
> Stuff is very readable and clean right out of the box.
>
Historically fonts have always been an issue f
On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 11:29 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:15:12 +0100
>
> Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:19 pm, dlwiggers wrote:
> > > I know someone told me how to do this a couple of weeks ago, but
> > > I just can't find my notes.
> > >
>
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 1:06 pm, Sharrea Day wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:46, Joe Janzen wrote:
> > I've searched the archives and tried some suggestions for similar
> > problems, but without success. Mandrake 9.1 was just installed. I
> > launch KPPP and everything seems to work as the connecti
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 9:40 am, Franki wrote:
> Lance Cummings wrote:
> >Anyone know if it is possible to 'park' a message in KMail?
> >
> >(means setting a cannot-delete flag on a particular message so that
> >it cannot accidentally be nuked via the delete key, nor can a folder
> >containing a thus
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
> File manager su mode and Mandrake Control Center both prompt for
> root's secret of course. And both have a check box to keep the
> password. My experience is that this check box don't mean a thing.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Lance
It does not k
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:00 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
> Does this (not) work for anyone else?
>
> 1) Open your mail client (hopefully KMail so we can test this
> properly).
>
> 2) Copy the URL for the MS critic article to the clipboard.
>
> 3) Now open Mozilla and try to paste this clipboard item i
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 5:47 am, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> At 11:21 PM 9/25/2003, Miark said something remarkably like (but somehow
>
> subtly different from):
> >On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:04:53 -0400, "Kevin B. O'Brien"
> >
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Thank you again for the help.
> >
> >Yer we
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 4:24 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
> Richard, Derek & others,
>
> I did decide to experiment with the modelines, per advice. The first
> one of the three seems to be the best, almost without need of
> adjustment. The second one needs much more adjustment, and the
> third produ
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 11:21 am, Maureen L. Thomas wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a comprehensive article, book, etc. for Linux and
> DHCP. It seems that my computer, when conected to my DSL changes the
> host name on my computer. When I disconnect it returns to normal. Any
> ideas on how I c
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 11:53 am, Peter Watson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority.
> >
> > But just to calm you down a bit :
> >
> > Those of you who liv
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 2:31 pm, Eko Budiharto wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to ask is it possible that Linux can be attacked by w32
> klez-h? I am looking forward to a favorable reply from you. Thank you.
>
No
Linux is not susceptible to any Windows virus.
You do not need any anti virus protection
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 8:14 pm, Johan wrote:
> Hi Derek,
> Kindly the full link for club internet if possible please
> Johan
ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/9.1/./i586/
SNIP
--
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www.jennings.homelinux.net
http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
Want to buy yo
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 4:39 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
>
> One thing that might help me decide if I want to take a chance on one
> of these modelines: Can anyone reading this input your own numbers
> to any of the three generators and get a modeline that matches the
> one that you are using in X
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 10:02 am, Johan wrote:
> Hi,
> MDK 9.1
> 1) Have done updating via MCC
> 2) Urpmi - sites from EASY urpmi
> 3) Downloaded the lot from site including /base/hdlist.cz - written to CD.
> This saved me a lot of grief - drive crashed and had reinstall - update now
> easy to tha
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