Re: [newbie] 56k modem

2003-03-22 Thread et
I see your modem and your video and share an IRQ, (11) have you considered that might be the problem? are you installing these modems in the same PCI slot? I have a usr 5610 model modem, and it requires an added init string of ATS32=66, you might try looking at the USrobitics website and see

Re: [newbie] Modem hanging on connection

2003-03-22 Thread et
On Friday 21 March 2003 09:11 am, Chris wrote: Hi All, I have recently joined the many fleeing from M$ to Linux and have chosen Mandrake 9.0 to try out. The install was simple and flawless and similar success to working my way around the desktop etc... I have come unstuck however on

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-22 Thread et
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:51 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 12:49 AM 3/22/03, David E. Fox wrote: That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 command : chmod 777 * . That's because FAT32 doesn't implement

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread et
On Friday 21 March 2003 05:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is

Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?

2003-03-20 Thread et
On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:10 am, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest

Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?

2003-03-20 Thread et
On Thursday 20 March 2003 06:34 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday March 20 2003 04:33 pm, robin wrote: By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Xtra Proprietary XPectorate as in to spit -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] New installation

2003-03-19 Thread et
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 11:48 am, Albert Charron wrote: I'd like to have your advice on a new installation. For this installation, I plan to use 3 hard disk (IDE). This machine will be use as a file server for my Windoze machines. Additionnal services will be CVS, HTTP, MySQL 3 HD are:

Re: [newbie] 56k modem

2003-03-19 Thread et
a cheep computer you have,,, (just joking about the teasing, a bunch of us have just fine old computers) ET Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] thought this might interest some folks Fwd: Linux

2003-03-18 Thread et
Nationwide Truck Stop Wireless Internet Access 17 Mar 2003, 3:53pm ET E-mail or Print this story - - - - - 1,000 Truck Stops to Be Transformed to Offer Transportation Industry e-Business on Demand IBM and Rocksteady Networks today announced that the companies will provide the infrastructure for Columbia

Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning

2003-03-18 Thread et
On Monday 17 March 2003 10:14 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Using cdrdao, with the --eject flag, sometimes after burning the green light on the cd burner flashes, but I am unable to eject it. But sometimes it does eject. This is annoying because right now the only way I know to get the CD out is to

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 01:22 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot Winblows don't support any Linux

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 07:35 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:20, et wrote: I KNOW that there are 3rd party utilities to allow win2k/xp to use EXT2 filesystems, but I would not trust them as much as I trust linus on any filesystem, and sure would HATE to loose important

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:38 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:30, et wrote: this is correct, however I believe Civileme is refering to the boot-up record, not the ability to see and read files. I have WINme, Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2K installed all over my drives here

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info

2003-03-09 Thread et
On Sunday 09 March 2003 08:23 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:52:49AM -0600, Robert Wideman wrote: Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if

Re: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread et
On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from

Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!

2003-03-09 Thread et
On Sunday 09 March 2003 04:08 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:51:10 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way round this? Recently I also opted in for Online banking here in Holland. I was worried about the possible Window$-only thing, so I searched and searched,

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-08 Thread et
On Saturday 08 March 2003 09:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Chris wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 11:57 pm, David Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had

[newbie] howto for setting up a digital audio workstation with Mandrake 9.1

2003-03-08 Thread et
I would like to reprint something from cooker, since I know Austin does not possibly have the time to have monitored newbie as well as put this together for us and many many THANKS to Austin, Well, since 9.1 should be out next week, and most of the kernel/alsa/jack problems seem to be

Re: [newbie] streaming server

2003-03-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 March 2003 08:51 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:04:12PM +, Jozef Riha wrote: hi is there a simple (for newbie) how-to for establishing streaming server (audio)? the streaming format which winamp or wpm uses is enough. thanks. cheers, --joe

Re: [newbie] Partition Failure. PLEASE HELP!!!

2003-03-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 March 2003 10:09 am, Christopher Steimer wrote: I have recently purchased a book, SAMS Teach Yourself LINUX In 24 Hours, in order to inroduce myself to LINUX and all it has to offer. It comes with Linux-Mandrake 7.1, GPL Edition. I also just purchased a used Dell Pentium II,

Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

2003-03-07 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:54 pm, cervixcouch wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 09:38 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi it

Fwd: RE: [newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read

2003-03-06 Thread et
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: RE: [newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 05:04:06 -0600 From: Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh ye, i forgot about that. My bad. Rob -Original Message- From: et [mailto

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
can you boot from a floppy? On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:50 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you!

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:14 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both right now. I will post back to the list with the

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:36 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-06 Thread et
if you could install linx on it got you a litle note in the warrenty records, and would void the warrenty by installing Linux. - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:36 PM so sorry I jumped in late and did not read

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - install with onboard video

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:51 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi et, The can't find Cd-ROM drive message appears on a blud screen, with text only, and this happens after the computer reboots. It is definitley being generated by Linux. And, Yes - as a matter of fact, it does have a onboard

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:59 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Et, I've loaded linux on Gateway servers, and laptops with little to no problems, was unaware that it would void the warranty, interesting... -Jonathan give Gateway a call, maybe it has changed. I did not say it does

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 04:21 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Oh yeah, just as a follow-up. The reason I'm able to install Windows 95 is because I can run the setup file from DOS (I'm booting right now with a Win98 boot disk). And for whatever reason the computer doesn't reboot itself during

Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:32 pm, Passing Memory wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another

Re: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop

2003-03-02 Thread et
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:38 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Problem solved I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart or at least to restart some service after configuring... that

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread et
what this is is either the default gateway or the DNS is wrongly configured. On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:37 am, Margot wrote: Hello All Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back now, and have got a bit further, but not much! Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread et
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:24 pm, james Mellema wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:17, Robert Wideman wrote: I'll agree on that point. Too bad the bastard lives in Alaska. Else I'd ask him to come on down here to Aussie for a tour...(g) Alaska? WTF is up there other than dry cold weather?

Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread et
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX and

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread et
easier. et Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] worried

2003-03-01 Thread et
On Friday 28 February 2003 07:24 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I believe that as far as the end user is concerned speed is the most important factor. Only to geeks. For the other 99.9 percent of computer users, functionality is most important - can I do what I want with minimum hassle? The

[newbie] test

2003-03-01 Thread et
sorry no traffic in a while Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Redirecting in KMail

2003-03-01 Thread et
On Friday 28 February 2003 01:53 pm, Robert Golovniov wrote: On Friday, February 28, 2003, 7:27:35 PM, et wrote: Does the KMail support redirecting messages or can I only forward them? e in the main (KDE Mail Client window) setting, configure filters, As far as I understand, it will allow

Re: [newbie] worried

2003-03-01 Thread et
. /Anders or install anyway,,, no more feeding the trolls, says the wife,,, little does she know she married an alpha troll. et Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] /net and /misc

2003-03-01 Thread et
On Friday 28 February 2003 04:17 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 15:25, et wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 10:09 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 01:45 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Anyone know what /net and /misc are? They automount under m9

Re: [newbie] /net and /misc

2003-03-01 Thread et
mtab= Mount TABle fstab= File System TABle On Saturday 01 March 2003 08:12 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Nope, just /etc/mtab. I know what fstab is used for. What is mtab used for? Paul On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:26, et wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 04:17 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote

Re: [newbie] Random X crashes and freezes

2003-03-01 Thread et
On Saturday 01 March 2003 01:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I'm still having problems with v9.0 (Powerpack) and X freezing up or quitting back to the desktop during games. I installed memtest last night, ran it for almost 12 hours, it gave no errors with 24 passes. (512 megs of DDR Ram - PNY

Re: [newbie] video [VCD] editing on ML9.0?

2003-02-28 Thread et
I have not tried Kino, but will soon, seems to me that Cinelerra is broadcast 2003 for Nvidia cards with at least 64 megs mem, while it works for me I have heard of folks that did not have a GeForce card not being able to use it, and it really looks like a rework of bcast2000 for a little more

Re: [newbie] Newbie with Dual Window

2003-02-28 Thread et
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Feb 2003 3:29 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello.. I am getting really close to switch my system from Windoze to Linux and I am wondering if there is a way that I can get my dual monitor to work with Linux? So I would

Re: [newbie] Redirecting in KMail

2003-02-28 Thread et
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:20 am, Robert Golovnyov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello, group! Does the KMail support redirecting messages or can I only forward them? in the main (KDE Mail Client window) setting, configure filters, Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and short wash. I never tried it.

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:39 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Go on, then! - you will have the webcam set up won't you? g Anne Hehehehe, I might want to wait a bit - I'm using one of the older IBM model keyboards (clickety-clack!).

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?

2003-02-26 Thread et
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 4:09 am, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:35 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:04 pm, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:14 pm, Jerry Barton wrote:

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-26 Thread et
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:03 pm, David McGlone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed a lot of people want to have OT discussions, so I created a mailing list for off topic discussions for anyone here to join. if you would like to join here is the URL:

Re: [newbie] dead pppd (was OT: M$: Bugs are cool)

2003-02-24 Thread et
On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:49 am, robin wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:49:46 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the hope that the bug

Re: [newbie] Leaving the list for a while

2003-02-20 Thread et
On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:57 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: I am unable, at the present moment, capable of coping with the numbr of emails on this list. Mostly because I am stoned 24/7 I don't have the strength to read answer them. For the most part I've lately been deleting a lot of threads

Re: [newbie] Can you help me with my NIC?

2003-02-19 Thread et
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 02:22 am, Michael Kostis wrote: hey, i got your email of mandrake posting. I was wondering if you could help me figure out how to install my netgear FA311 NIC. I saw it listed in your specs. Any help would be most grateful.

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability (Thungggg sound from the monitor)

2003-02-19 Thread et
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Mudder wrote: Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor switching modes. I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors. Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound every day when I

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability (Thungggg sound from the monitor)

2003-02-19 Thread et
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:11 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 07:07 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote: Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor switching modes. I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors. Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound

Re: Re: [newbie] Ethernet Interface

2003-02-18 Thread et
From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/02/18 Tue PM 02:15:59 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Ethernet Interface what does /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/host.deny say? On Tuesday 18 February 2003 07:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i ran the mandrake

Re: [newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live

2003-02-17 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 09:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:15 pm, Andrew Robert wrote: Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI

Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-17 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:24 pm, Miark wrote: I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark my experience with the

Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.1 beta3 network problem

2003-02-17 Thread et
what does (in a text console without the quotes) hostname report? On Monday 17 February 2003 03:53 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, I reinstalled beta 3 and it did not work again. Seems like there is a bit of a problem with Realtek network cards. Mine is a RTL 8139 but there is a guy on the

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I don't know much about digital

Re: [newbie] Kmail config for sending

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:49 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to get kmail sending to work again and I keep getting Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: Sender address is missing a domain The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:40 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:27 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear

Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:18 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim you might check out the visualziation plugins in xmmms, and

Re: [newbie] sendmail question person, look at this, OT Thread hijack... mail server @ home?

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 10:32 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:31 AM 2/14/2003 -0600, you wrote: And yes i deleted all my email and NO i didnt want to look up the subject on the archives...deal with it, :) I see some ppl n the list setup mail servers in their home... Whats the reason for

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and

Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1----STOP USING MY LINK I KNOW IT DOESNT WORK

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:19 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Did anyone read my emial a few hours ago??? STOP USING MY LINK WITH THE HTTP:// IN THERE, CHANGE IT TO FTP:// FIRST. Rob we are not going to read anything from RW that is using so many caps. so there. PPPPpppthst. and my child

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs...

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs...

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:50 pm, Glenn wrote: Please fill me in. What support did the U.S. government provide to the IRA? Not disputing it, but this is the first I've heard of government support to the IRA. Individual Irish ex-patriates in the U.S., yes, but not government support.

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 04:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 14 Feb 2003 12:51 am, et wrote: well really I think it was Anne that made the statement in question; OK - if we don't agree, we don't exist if you made that statement, perhaps you would like to explain it. I don't agree

Re: [newbie] webmin

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 01:55 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 01:47, et wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:39 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 10:41 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:57 pm, Ryan Moe wrote: Hmm, it appears my drive is using 16-bit IO mode. Is this a large factor in HD performance? ahhh yes 16 is half of 32 so it is about 1/2 speed /dev/hde: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:18 am, Chuck Burns wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 3:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you stop asking questions like this on the mandrake-newbie list. :) when

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 08:17 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. No joke. I am personally going to be taking a newbie learning course (not a course, just a self taught action) in Apache/Perl/Python/SQL programming here soon. So i totally understand

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 08:05 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. Sir Robin Notme I sware that after the all the critters die, and the

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-13 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:43 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I have not seen one posting to Newbie OR Expert stating they like the separate programs for RPM installation. Its a hassle switching between the different progs. OK - if we don't agree, we don't exist. Not

Re: [newbie] webmin

2003-02-13 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:39 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 10:41 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:49 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi when i

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-13 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 11:06 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:52, et wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:43 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I have not seen one posting to Newbie OR Expert stating they like the separate programs for RPM installation. Its a hassle

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-13 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:59 am, Robert Wideman wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:43 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I have not seen one posting to Newbie OR Expert stating they like the separate programs for RPM installation. Its a hassle switching between the

Re: [newbie] Aargh: Internet Explorer HTTPS = DNS fail

2003-02-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 04:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 9:46 am, Michael Adams wrote: Does somebody recognize a strange error a friend is having while making HTTPS attempts to connect to his bank with IE (Never thought i'd be asking this one here). IE returns an

Re: [newbie] Stoopid question from a soon to be newbie

2003-02-12 Thread et
install. HTH et Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mdk installation

2003-02-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 04:03 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi my friend try to install mdk 9.0 he got Matrox G200 8MB and unknown monitor the installation recognize the Matrox and sets the monitor as generic 1024x768 65milion colors when the installation ends and the computer restarts when

Re: [newbie] digest

2003-02-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:01 am, Weber wrote: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 5:10 really??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] webmin

2003-02-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 10:41 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:49 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi when i try to enter to webmin i only get the user password

Re: [newbie] digest

2003-02-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 08:40 am, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:23:04 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:01 am, Weber wrote: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 5:10 really??? well it beats 192.168.0.1:139 =)~ lol (ok its late and i'm getting loopy) I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 PNY GeForce4 MX 440-SE

2003-02-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 08:38 am, John S. Chalice wrote: Hey there.. I just upgraded my video card to a new PNY PCI GeForce4 MX 440-SE, from my previous of a Radeon 7000. Unfortunately, I am still having a problem getting XWindows to work for Mandrake 9.0. I tried installing the I32

Re: [newbie] Strange problem with my 8.2-box

2003-02-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 03:50 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Anders, I can't comment about command lines but I've seen this with other pieces of software. Usually, when I lose something here, and it won't restart its because its not completely dead. You can do a top or controlesc to bring up

Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:18 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Tom, Got mine as well. Thanks. Dual boot time coming up. hehe The beta CD's have arrived - and anyone in NZ or Australia that needs copies of the 3 x CD's - gimme yer details and I'll post'em off to ya mates! Stephen,

Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:42 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:13, civileme wrote: Large snip But if you have used 9.1 Beta3, you may have already discovered that bleeding edge can send a wind from your terminal screen to blow your hair back. I wish

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 09:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll start by stating that I'm a newly converted Windows user. I know.. flame me if you must. no flames for that here,,, you are in the correct place. Anyway, I am trying to get SAMBA running and I need a little help. Where do

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:31 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an easy to use HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 11:19 am, Franki wrote: huh?? you are gonna reinsall to get samba and webmin??? don't do that.. open a terminal (like a linux dos prompt.. and in the menu) type the following: might wanna su and login with the root password about right here.. urpmi webmin

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:51 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:14 PM 2/11/2003 +, you wrote: On a side note how can I tell which version of any window manager I'm using? Whats teh CLI cmd or Gui place to look? - FemmeFatale umm.. like this? [root@localhost

Re: [newbie] quick and dirty local mail server

2003-02-10 Thread et
On Monday 10 February 2003 07:47 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:36, Brian Parish wrote: I need to set up a mail server based on Mdk 9.0 tomorrow to serve local mail only. i.e. Just to be a pop server for W$ client machines on the LAN. No relaying outside the network.

Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question

2003-02-10 Thread et
On Monday 10 February 2003 09:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question Trust me:

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-10 Thread et
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:14 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:36, Robert Wideman wrote: OK... so whats the real diff between those 2 editors which one is more newb friendly? If neither is newbie friendly, well name something that is and is more or

Re: [newbie] RE: Problem Running 9.0...

2003-02-10 Thread et
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:07 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:27, Richard Urwin wrote: Julian Templeman wrote: amputate irrelevancy here You will end up with a 1024x768 desktop though, so you'll have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (digression - why are there two files?

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-10 Thread et
On Monday 10 February 2003 07:23 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:25, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:56, Russ wrote: Hi All, Snipped out prev post IF what you want is to have quick access to data in a drive, you can symlink to the mount point, like: ln

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