Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-28 Thread eric jackson
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:36 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 26, 2005 09:42 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip No, that's all it says. Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? Eric

[newbie] disable automatic sleep mode

2005-03-27 Thread Eric Pante
be greatly appreciated !!! (I really have to get results pretty soon, this is for my thesis)thanks a lot for your time, eric pante Eric Pante Graduate Student in Marine Biology Grice Marine Laboratory 205 Fort Johnson, Charleston SC 29412 On ne force pas la curiosité, on l'éveille. Daniel Pennac

[newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread eric jackson
be appreciated. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread eric jackson
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program

[newbie] Tux Magazine

2005-03-17 Thread eric jackson
articles. The first issue is on the website now. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread eric jackson
a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? I lost KDE once and I think that's what I did to get it back although I admit, I'm not sure. Eric -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-12 Thread Eric Huff
is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Same way for my Powershot A80. And as far as i can tell, it won't mount as a hard drive. So i wrote a few gphoto2 scripts and tied them to keys. I'm pretty happy with the way they work. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-12 Thread Eric Huff
Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I hope that my next question won't seem as strange. Is there some software that will allow me to erase pictures which are stored on the camera? I have a delete script I wrote that I tied to a menu (watch for email line feeds): #!/bin/sh #gphoto2

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-12 Thread Eric Huff
In theory it's a storage device, so you should be able to. OTOH, I'd rather play safe and let the camera do it. Mr Geek, have you been able to mount it as a storage device? I haven't on my A80. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] wmv to vcd converter

2005-03-08 Thread Eric Huff
, but I'll give it a shot. It turns out a friend has nero, so i was able to do it there. Now i need to do it with .mov files. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

2005-03-03 Thread Eric Huff
sympa, but some listservers don't even allow attachments. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-03 Thread Eric Huff
if you do try to submit or use it, and run into trouble, let us know. I'm sometimes a little slow on my list reading these days, so feel free to cc me directly when you post. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2005-03-03 Thread Eric Huff
ON: I usually ignore them). That sounds fine by me. Unless anyone objects, we can change it. It's a Twiki, though, so feel free if i don't get over there soon enough. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want

Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk

2005-03-02 Thread Eric Huff
it. CC me if you ask, though, because my list-ing is spotty these days. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk

2005-03-01 Thread Eric Huff
Thanks, Duncan and Eric. How can I disable/disconnect the old drive? Have I to unplug it? Yeah, unplug the ide ribbon cable. I'm not sure if just unplugging the power is enough. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] various issues

2005-03-01 Thread Eric Huff
of them, too. But i never broke the OS on my Timex Sinclair 2068 :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root

2005-02-28 Thread Eric Huff
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:36:46 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2005 16:23, Eric Huff wrote: I can burn using cdrecord just fine, but i need to be root for k3b to burn. Here are the perms: -rws--x--- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x

Re: [newbie] Sympa!!! What the ....

2005-02-28 Thread Eric Huff
, but then you'll get two copies of each message. Email me directly if you want help unsubbing or subbing the various addresses. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk

2005-02-28 Thread Eric Huff
-mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Not necessarily the easiest, but it worked. You might want to print it out unless you have another computer running. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] wmv to vcd converter

2005-02-27 Thread Eric Huff
I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. K3b needs mpegs to make a vcd. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http

[newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Huff
correct (and it didn't work). I googled, and just found things saying to set the use burning group option. I don't have a burning group, though, unless users is the burning group. Thanks for any leads. I assume this is a simple settings issue, but i haven't been able to figure it out. eric

Re: [newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Huff
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2005 16:23, Eric Huff wrote: I can burn using cdrecord just fine, but i need to be root for k3b to burn. Here are the perms: -rws--x--- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18

Re: [newbie] ACPI, POWER DOWN not working

2005-02-23 Thread Eric Huff
. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Huff
and make a bunch of columns bigger, or i just get ### in many cels, even though they are visible in normal view. I'm back to openoffice now. Blech. I like most of it's functionality, but it's just sooo slow to start (since i am a rebooter). eric

Re: [newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar

2005-02-19 Thread Eric Huff
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 18 Feb 2005 18:30, Eric Huff wrote: Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? Don't know But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... They're easy. Click in the label part

[newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar

2005-02-18 Thread Eric Huff
for delete and adding rows that i miss them... Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] USB Card Reader

2005-02-18 Thread eric jackson
I just bought a USB Multi-card reader. I plugged it in, expecting Mandrake to find it but it didn't. What do I have to do to get my computer to recognize my card reader? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-13 Thread Eric Huff
will be asked to pay for the service. I may do that next year. I wonder if you can import a file from the computer version into the web version... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-13 Thread Eric Huff
installed. I guess i'll try to install win98 1st, and see if xp will go in after that. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-02-03 Thread Eric Huff
I get the eth0 internet connection failure thing.It works OK though.It just annoying... A couple solutions: - Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. One poster mentioned you could get the same

Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Huff
. But he'll still see this HUGE thread with his name in it. :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Mandrakelinux Mailing List Etiquette

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Huff
on that. Like i said though, what Anne said is really the answer to your question. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Huff
with his name in it. :) eric, I don't feel it was a big problem, I only received the out of office reply one time. Not worth unsubbing him. IMHO Ok. Sounds good to me. I didn't get it at all, so i didn't know if people were being flooded... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http

Re: [newbie] bash: urpmi.addmedia not found

2005-01-23 Thread eric jackson
, Andy Are you doing this as root? I think you get that error if you run that command and you aren't root. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] GPG

2005-01-23 Thread eric jackson
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:24:15 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 Jan 2005 19:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 20:12, eric jackson wrote: Forgive me but after reading through the archives I can't seem to find

Re: [newbie] turn off computer?

2005-01-22 Thread Eric Huff
how well your present spam filter does. If you still get too much spam (or too many false positives) for your liking, then you could try other ones. I like popfile, myself. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl HTH, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] turn off computer?

2005-01-22 Thread Eric Huff
am not really sure myself. I have been planning for years to make a little AC chord splitter so i can measure the current. But i do know that the fan stays on and makes a lot of noise. At the moment, i am not even sure my hard drives shut down properly. But i haven't tried yet, either... eric

Re: [newbie] turn off computer?

2005-01-22 Thread Eric Huff
the capacitors charging and discharging. A reason *not* to leave them on is that when you do finally shut down, and the disk drives park the heads all the way, they might run into a big dust bunny that would have otherwise been cleaned on previous shut downs. I think that info came from Stephen Kuhn. eric

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Huff
/scanmodem.gz eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] GPG

2005-01-21 Thread eric jackson
is missing but I don't know what to do to correct the problem. Thanks for your help. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Huff
What is this a:scanmodem.gz stuff? I just tried it on mine and as expected, linux doesn't do anything with a: Mine would be /mnt/floppy/scanmodem.gz When running properly I believe it is supposed to read and print out what chip set you have in a winmodem. Very helpful in

[newbie] turbotax?

2005-01-17 Thread Eric Huff
still feel the sting of not being able to do it on my machine... Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

[newbie] DVD Burner not recognized

2005-01-11 Thread eric jackson
Hi, When I installed 10.1, my computer no longer recognized my Sony DVD burner. Any one know what I should do to get this drive working? I believe it's a Sony DRU-530a Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] How to get right ALT key to work.

2005-01-11 Thread Eric Huff
113 = Alt_R add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R Hope this helps, eric ~/.xmodmap ! see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xmodmap.std ! /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us_i.xmodm ntl !clearshift !clearlock !clearcontrol clearmod1 !clearmod2 !clear

Re: [newbie] using k3b to append files to a cd -rw

2005-01-10 Thread eric jackson
linux. I installed something called UDF Tools but I've never been able to figure out what to do with it. I'm pretty sure I remember someone posting saying the same thing and I don't recall them getting an informative response on how to use UDF Tools. Eric Jackson Thanks, R Haynes Dr

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles

2005-01-09 Thread Eric Huff
account. :-/ I wonder where the config file controling the boot order of eth0 and ppp0 resides? It's in the subdir here that corresponds to your init level: /etc/rc.d In my case: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d Since i boot into init level (runlevel) 3 eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http

Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity

2005-01-09 Thread Eric Huff
digikam. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity

2005-01-09 Thread Eric Huff
(or any device) that mounts as a directory (usu under /mnt) ? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity

2005-01-09 Thread Eric Huff
) that mounts as a directory (usu under /mnt) ? That's what I would think of as a mass storage device, Eric. Did you mean something else? Nope, that is what i meant. Just making sure i didn't have it wrong. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity

2005-01-09 Thread Eric Huff
downloaded, go up a directory. They may have fixed it, but when i tried it awhile back, it had that bug. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity

2005-01-09 Thread Eric Huff
was deleting individual pics from the camera, so keep that in mind. It works out very well (for me). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] batch res reduction

2005-01-07 Thread Eric Huff
maintaining aspect ratio. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2005-01-03 Thread eric jackson
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:31:58 +1300, SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2004 07:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Huff
is clicked? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Huff
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1581.05 eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Huff
/proc/cpuinfo eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Huff
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Huff disseminated the following: It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-31 Thread eric jackson
out for me. Thank you. Eric Jackson On Thursday 30 December 2004 08:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-31 Thread eric jackson
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:45:42 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2004 07:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-31 Thread eric jackson
fighting windows as this is the type of problem I left windows for. Any other ideas anyone? Did you try adding myrpms using the Software Media Manager? Try that and see if things work better. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] No hdlists found during installation

2004-12-30 Thread eric jackson
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:04:22 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 10:38 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just tried to do a clean install of 10.1 official. The installation gets as far as the partioning section with no problem. However no matter if I choose Use

[newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-30 Thread eric jackson
the prompt back even after 6 hours. Anybody know how I can straighten this out? Thanks for your help! Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] No hdlists found during installation

2004-12-27 Thread eric jackson
, it then gives me the same partioning options I had before. Any ideas what the problem might be or how I can fix this? Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again! :-) I'm not sure if you want to do that. If it's anything like

Re: [newbie] upgrade 9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I guess I'd better ask for help here too. On Thursday 16 December 2004 09:12 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 08:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, Can I upgrade my mdk9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi? The reason is because I haven't got the time to

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent two hours looking thru umpteen pages to find a torent site to dld the live cd for knoppix so I might see a demo or something to try learning about linux. I live in NY state so a site nearby would be nice if anyone knows of one. On 16 Dec 2004 at 18:43,

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
amalasingh wrote: Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also confirmed with the router vendor. The vendor

Re: [newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 01:12 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change

[newbie] Mail server setup 9.2?

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Okay, I tried this a while back with no success. Basically, I need a basic, step-by-step explanation of how to set up a sendmail server and courier-pop server on Mandrake 9.2, and how to add oodles of pop3 clients. I'm setting this up for a medium-large buisness, as they've had no success

Re: [newbie] Burning problem

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Huff
get a good burn: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BurningCDsFromISOs eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

[newbie] hard drive thread

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Huff
Can anyone point me to he hard drive thread we had awhile ago? I've searched the archives, but can't find it. It's the one where everyone piped in with their experiences with hard drives. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

[newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL

2004-12-17 Thread Eric Scott
Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change a user's password in PostGreSQL manually on my Mandrake 9.2 Server? Thanx,

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread Eric Huff
a message to tpgi. And just now i got a rejection (or maybe a spoofed rejection) as if i had sent a mail from that ip address. I do get it at a different address that i don't use on mandrake lists, so it must be using the spam database as well. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http

Re: [newbie] Linux on the rise

2004-12-08 Thread Eric Scott
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:06:53 -0800 (PST) Thomas Wilkowski disseminated the following: I found this article interesting and thought it would be good to share. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2577377,00.html This inspired me to redo an old wallpaper I'd abandoned

Re: [newbie] Manuals?

2004-11-28 Thread eric jackson
to Staples and had them bind them. They would only bind 200 pages in one binding so I ended up with 3 or 4 books but I'm pretty sure it cost me less than $10 US dollars to get them bound. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Manuals?

2004-11-28 Thread eric jackson
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:30:37 +1000, Scott Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: eric jackson When I first started using Mandrake I printed out Mandrake's online documentation. The only on-line documentation is basicly the install manual... not the user manual

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-24 Thread Eric Scott
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 6:39 pm, Bill Mudry wrote: I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo?? Lol, motherboard. It can get even more confusing if you switch to a Mac list... then MB, Motherboard, Mobo, AND LB, LoBo, Logic Board are all used interchangeably ;-).

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Eric Scott
'real' software... I may not have ethernet on the mobo, but the graphics and sounds works. cheers, Scotti -- Sarki Gwaggo/Little Dude/Little Bear/Shorty/Dory/Sigma Dude/SigmaChi/Scotchz/Doorhelp2/Pigme/Erikimo/Neilleo/Scotti A.K.A Eric Registered Linux user #: 366862

Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-20 Thread Eric Scott
On Friday 19 November 2004 11:42 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 10:16 pm, John Layt wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen Khn wrote: But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-20 Thread Eric Scott
On Friday 19 November 2004 2:55 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 21:18, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Nov 2004 15:17, Eric Scott wrote: Am I supposed to define a mail.mydomain.org or something? I tried what I could find in the TWiki, the only thing that looked like

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Scott
In an earlier post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server Wizard, I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I have Postfix, ProcMail, and Courrier-IMAP/POP3 installed... but

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Scott
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:00, Eric Scott wrote: In an earlier post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server Wizard, I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I have

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-18 Thread Eric Scott
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:35, Rene Borchers wrote: Hi, I think you should have a look at the courier site http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html it looks like it could be the solution to you problem. mandrake has: Name: courier-imap-pop Version : 2.1.2 Release :

[newbie] What's on port 32768?

2004-11-18 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; Me and my MDK 9.2 server are back... but it's not a tuffy on this string. This evening I noticed a connection from the internet to port 32768 on my server. What's this port used for? Can this be a security threat? I tried google, but all I found was something about some trojan peeps

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-18 Thread Eric Scott
Okay, so I got the Courier POP3 server installed. Now what? Lol, I was raised on Mac, and have only been using Linux for a couple years... when there's no webmin module I'm stuck. Who/what/wen/where/how do I configure it? Thanx, SigmaChi Courier requires mail to be

Re: [newbie] Digital camera Mandrake?

2004-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
with gphoto2, but was never able to get it to show up as a drive. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Scott
On Sunday 14 November 2004 22:22, Carroll Grigsby wrote: BUT, (a) few users install Windows themselves, Perhaps not, but sooner or later they do reformat and reinstall -- sometimes frequently -- often at the suggestion of MS tech support. Perhaps 2000 and XP are better in this regard, but it

[newbie] Kernal not booting in 10.1

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got 10.1 PPC, and am trying to install it on a PowerMac 7300/180. I'm trying to boot up w/ BootX to the kernal, which then launches the installer off CD, but with no luck. The mandrake icon appears in the upper left-hand corner, but everything else stalls and stays black, with none

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Scott
On Thursday 11 November 2004 08:00, David Feldman wrote: I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Scott
It's supposed to be equivalent to 10.1 x86 download edition. Is that the Community or the Official? Basically official, except PPC is not a supported platform, so you probably won't see it being referred to as an official edition anywhere. The PPC port was a community driven project,

[newbie] Netbios-ssn connections?

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; Once again, another question to be applied on my Mandrake 9.2 server box, which you're probably starting to become friends with. I leave KDE System Guard open at times on my SuSE box monitoring the Mandrake server remotely. I've noticed that a TCP connection opens occasionally,

[newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server.  As time passes the available memory steadily goes down.  For example: I rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB of free memory.  Now KDE System Guard tells me it has ~50 MB of free

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Move CD?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
; SigmaChi On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23:25, Bill Mudry wrote: At 10:14 PM 11/9/04 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 09 November 2004 08:42 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth

[newbie] 10.1 PPC?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I just downloaded Mandrake 10.1 PPC and am trying to install it on my PowerMac 7300/180. It seems chipper; I've got Yellow Dog on it and want to try Mandrake. BootX is configured with the ramdisk and kernal specified in the documentation for the install... it seems chipper here, kills

[newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the ammount of free memory goes down, at roughly 3MB/hour.

[newbie] Starband on Linux?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got Starband's basic satellite internet package/modem/dish/whatever. The don't officially support Linux with this hardware and have taken great pains to create their own protocal to make sure that you have to have a Windows boxconnected to their modem. Neway, anybody know of an

[newbie] Faster mirrors?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. Anybody know of a particularly good mirror? Or a bittorrent/jigbo download like there is for Debian? I tried to download 10 earlier with no success (20KB/s download didn't cut it for me),

[newbie] TCP logging?

2004-11-09 Thread Eric Scott
Yo peeps; I'm trying to set up some simple TCP connection's logging on my Mandrake 9.2 box.  Is there a simple script or something I can write and execute that will do something like execute date html_logs/ssh.log netstat -a | grep tcp html_logs/ssh.log every ten seconds or so? I'm sure

[newbie] 9.2 Move CD?

2004-11-09 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth burning? He's brand new to Linux, I'll actually probably start him with SuSE 'fore MDK 9.2, it seems more Windows-user-friendly. (I dunno 'bout MDK 10, it's not done

[newbie] Download HTTP?

2004-11-09 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; does anybody know where I can download Mandrake 10.1 PPC via http instead of FTP? On the FTP mirrors I'm getting an average of about 9KB/s. That just won't do when download 2100MB of data. My satellite broadband has roughly a 600k down/4k up connection... .Yes, I said four up, not forty.

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