[newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Elwyn York
Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /home/elwyn

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-05 Thread Elwyn York
... They've just moved and have no gas or hot water... Was quite surprised to find Mdk10 on Amd1300 more responsive and quicker than XP on a 2400 :) A convert I think... :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-05 Thread Elwyn York
the adapter for the notebook, so it's now in USB. Changeover was fine and great, no problems. The difference is that I do not use a KVM switch... Are you able to try the USB option to see if that cures it?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
release. ( opinion expressed here is not necessarily based on scientific fact or analysis, It is just a opion.) HTH I see, thanks for that :) I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 15:30, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 6:52 AM, Elwyn York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 I would install 10.1. I tried out the beta for 10.2

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Oooohh, wait for 10.2. It'll only be a few days and it is very nice. hal + dbus == hardware that works better Very stable KDE

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 20:38, Mr. Geek wrote: Elwyn York wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: Well, other than the fact that you just answered your own question Elwyn, you need to transfer your mail to another machine

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:35, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: 80 gig of mp3s ??!! I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... Yeah, I look after my Dad and Sisters collection too. My Sister doesn't have a PC but every now and again she

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 00:49, Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:35 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: 80 gig of mp3s ??!! I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... 80 Gig ?? Me thinks dedicated music server BTW joe

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:52, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:42 pm, Elwyn York wrote: What do I need to do to get it ?? You can freely interchange the cooker and 10.2 branches of the devel tree on the mirrors at this point. They are the same until 10.2 goes gold in few days

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 02:34, Aron Smith wrote: I'm setting up a mini-itx eden m6000 (600Mhz) fanless boots off a CF card (256Mb) 20G notebook drive adding Streamtuner streamripper and xmms-diskwriter and audacity it's already got rox dillo and firefox on it Ooh, I wondered who was getting

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Elwyn York
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 02:39, Elwyn York wrote: Time flies when you play with computers :( Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-02 Thread Elwyn York
this morning!) Thanks Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Linux riskier than Windows study says

2005-03-23 Thread Elwyn
://ct.zdnet.com.com/clicks?c=90480-571387brand=zdnetds=5 Well they would say that wouldn't they? After all, it is the competition. They could say that about Macs but no doubt Apple would turn it around and use it to sell more things including an aadd like that... Elwyn

Re: [newbie] Linux riskier than Windows study says

2005-03-23 Thread Elwyn
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 03:38, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 07:28 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 03:03, Chris wrote: And I thought I was mad to be going to work this time in the morning, but I am, once again, mistaken :) Elwyn

[newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
with one ID cannot be moved/deleted with another ID, or have I missed something fundemental out?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
modify the network to suit. Thank you Anne for your description. Having also spoken to anther network freind here I think it'll be easier to stick to a shared user ID and password. Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
Hiya Following on from my Samba Server question... I've fitted the drive, it's declared as hdb and I'd like to set it up for just files. I've tried to chose Journalised Etc3, ReiserFS, JFS or XFS. Which do I chose?? It would be nice if I can put it all as one partition?! Er, Thanks :) Elwyn

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
folder in there that is the Samba drive. Close on 60gb there. I'd like to run it side by side with the new 80gb and stuff. Does that help?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
going to be moving the current data to the new drive, then I would use the current shared directory as the mount point. Mikkel Ahh yes, that makes a lot more sense now! I didn't know how much I could change the mount point and stuff!!! :) You are a Gem! Thank you :) Elwyn

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
Thanks, I'll keep looking into options... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

2005-02-08 Thread Elwyn
: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: leftFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arialo:pnbsp;/o:p/SPAN/FONT/P/DIV/DIV/DIV/HTML Could you possibly switch your html off please :) Thanks Elwyn

Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane

2005-01-31 Thread Elwyn
policy to have this switched on and they cannot touch his mail system. If it's getting a problem then you can either bounce back, perhaps to the admin. Ignore it until he gets back or get the admin here to disable his mail. Cheers, Elwyn Want

Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem

2005-01-31 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 31 Jan 2005 08:20, Cyber Killer wrote: Cyber Killer wrote: Elwyn wrote: The later versions might have new drivers that are causing problems. When I've been trying to sort these little problems out with PCs I try changing the hardware around just in case... OK I'll try

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-31 Thread Elwyn
on at all? Will any other version work, such as 10.0? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Program to keep track of passwords

2005-01-30 Thread Elwyn
KWallet do most of it for you 2. Create a database with your passwords in. Most people have PDAs these days, I keep mine on that :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane

2005-01-30 Thread Elwyn
bounce the reply to his company and ask them politely to turn it off? Its UK isn't it?! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-25 Thread Elwyn
Oh ;) :) Thanks Anne Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
able to try a different video card? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] konqueror help

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
and timescales are you getting for these sites that are slow ?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 17:14, Cyber Killer wrote: Elwyn wrote: Are you able to try a different video card? I don't see the point of using a different gfx card, cause mandrake 7.0, 8.2, 9.0, 9.2 worked just fine with my current card I had this problem only with 10.0 and 10.1 (so far

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
and have a look Cheers, Elwyn Trying... Very Trying :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] konqueror help

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
it and then in the address bar type in a web address... As they're the same application effectively... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] re konqueror

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 21:39, Dave Needham wrote: hi elwyn dont mater what i use browser wise,just takes for ages to load.now i no you can speed up firefox with settings in about config but i tryed dwnloadin firefox but couldnt get it to work.same with plugins like flash.i suppose its getting

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 19:13, Elwyn wrote: Right. I've done all of that, however. It's gone a little, erm, odd. In Network Neighborhood on both windows machines what was the machine name within the group MDKGroup has now changed into my workgroup (YorkCov) with the machine name changed

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 23:30, Elwyn wrote: I've now got two shared folders elwyn and ELWYN SHARED. The first one is my /home/elwyn directory, the second is a directory within home folder Right. The Elwyn Shared is the right one. However, the Elwyn entry relates to the login ID that's

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
there?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7320page=3 This chap has written a review on Mandrake 10 and has stated he's had problems with the Hotplug feature... Usb Devices?? Cheers, Elwyn

[newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
Hiya Of my 80gb Hdd I've got 65gb set up as my /home partition. What I'd like to do is setup 40gb or so of that as a Samba thing. I'm off for a look on the web, is the above feasable etc? I'd like the drive to be used for storage inside the network (behind a NAT Router). TIA Elwyn

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 18:35, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 18:26, Elwyn wrote: Hiya Of my 80gb Hdd I've got 65gb set up as my /home partition. What I'd like to do is setup 40gb or so of that as a Samba thing. I'm off for a look on the web, is the above feasable etc

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
Thanks, thats handy. I've 2 x 98se, 1 x xppro and this machine that connects to our intra network that would need to have access. I've managed it for the 98se machines, now just to get XP to manage it! Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Test -- ignore

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 21:12, Mike Adolf wrote: Blah Blah You passed! Welcome to the list :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Kmenu

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
out and back in again and all is well, should have tried that before I sent the message I guess. Is anyone else getting OO Replies from Chris Lane? Yes, but it's only if you post to the list Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth

2005-01-18 Thread Elwyn
it time :) Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software

2005-01-18 Thread Elwyn
software I'm not sure. It's usually engineered for a Windows environment. You might manage with Cross Office... But I don't have that installed anymore as it was effectively a small security hole :( Among other things Elwyn Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter

2005-01-17 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 17 Jan 2005 02:32, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 01:27 pm, Elwyn wrote: Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... I have gone for Gkrellm and it seems to the job and a few others as well

Re: [newbie] Wireless Mouse

2005-01-17 Thread Elwyn
. Thanks! I've got one working here on 10 ok, just treats it like a normal mouse. Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter

2005-01-16 Thread Elwyn
Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... I have gone for Gkrellm and it seems to the job and a few others as well :) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter

2005-01-16 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 19:44, you wrote: Elwyn wrote: Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... You need to remove your ReplyTo in your email or change it to newbie@linux-mandrake.com Then all the replys go to list

Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??

2005-01-15 Thread Elwyn
of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Mail Archiving

2005-01-15 Thread Elwyn
Hi Folks I use Kontact for all my email at the moment, but some of the mailing lists I am on I would like to keep the messages of rather than finding the information on the web again. What I want is a way to access the mail without the use of Kontact, do you see what I mean?? Cheers, Elwyn

Re: [newbie] Mail Archiving

2005-01-15 Thread Elwyn
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 22:43, Lorin Pino wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 16:24 +, Elwyn wrote: Hi Folks I use Kontact for all my email at the moment, but some of the mailing lists I am on I would like to keep the messages of rather than finding the information on the web again

[newbie] Network Traffic Meter

2005-01-15 Thread Elwyn
Looking for a program that can show a meter on the screen about the throughput of the network card selected (ie eth0) On Windows I have the use of a program called DU Meter but I can't find anything for Mandrake (10) Cheers Elwyn Want