[newbie] No Sound in Kaffeine with Mary Gauthier video

2005-04-09 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi folks, This music video (which is Quicktime - I think) gives me pictures but no sound when played in Kaffeine. Sound is OK with other music vids and CDs. Is there some add-on that I need to download, or any way of tweaking the program? Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Graham Watkins

[newbie] Problems with streaming audio/video in Xine

2005-04-09 Thread Graham Watkins
/graham/codecs along with all the others. What, if anything, can I do about these problems? -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Problems with streaming audio/video in Xine

2005-04-09 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi again, Just installed Xine in the hopes of overcoming the limitations i seem to have with Kaffeine. However still no sound with .mov files. Also, when I try to connect to radio stations, I get the following error: Error loading library: cook.so.6.0 These libraries

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Watkins
blank spaces, you have to type it like this: /home/rosemary/Linux\ Stuff/rpms Alternatively, you could rename the folder as LinuxStuff. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want

Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad

2005-03-20 Thread Graham Watkins
hidden files in your file manager in order to see it though. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Amorok - Behaving Strangely

2005-03-11 Thread Graham Watkins
tried taking it off and re-installing but this makes no difference. Xmms will still play my mp3s but damn it, I liked Amorok :-( Ideas anyone? Cheers, -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others

Re: [newbie] Amorok - Behaving Strangely

2005-03-11 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Morning All, There's been a strange turn of events with Amorok in the last couple of days. Every time I try to add a track to the playlist it won't accept it. There is a message in the bottom left hand corner Some URLs could not be added. Of course this means that I can't

Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install

2005-03-07 Thread Graham Watkins
mine) if he connects to it via an ethernet cable rather than USB, as the modem has facilities for both. When I have installed subsequent versions of Mandrake, the modem has been picked up automatically with no problems whatsoever. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life

Re: [newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-06 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:35:28 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? Well, this may not be the 'best' sol'n, but try removing and adding the source again. I had

[newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all, Recently, while attempting to 'urpmi' a new program, I got the following message at the command line: unable to access hdlist file of eslrahc, medium ignored I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? cheers, -- Graham

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-17 Thread Graham Watkins
html, Mozilla Composer may suit you better. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware

2005-02-13 Thread Graham Watkins
had it happen to me very occasionally. When I get fed up with waiting (generally not very long) I hit the reboot switch and then the system boots up properly. It doesn't happen to me often enough to feel like a real problem. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life

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

2005-02-03 Thread Graham Watkins
JR wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 04:40 am, teguh wrote: Hi all, I have some questions and do need your help since I'm really,really,really new in Linux. 1. on booting my comp shows this status Bringing up interface loopback eth0 FAILED. But the rest are OK. What does it mean? and

Re: [newbie] j2re-1_4_1_01 where to get it?

2005-01-30 Thread Graham Watkins
black starfish wrote: I keep getting 1.5 and it always crashes my browsres Try www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status. It's where I got mine. Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] java

2005-01-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Dave Needham wrote: hi all.ive just dwnloaded java j2re-1_4_1_01 linux i586-rpm.bin how do install it please.ive double clicked on it but nothing. This may help (quoted from the readme file that helped with my own installation). Change details to match your own version no. of course. - Make

Re: [newbie] re java

2005-01-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Dave Needham wrote: -- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. Hi Dave -don't have time for detailed instructions as I have to go out. I'd probably get them wrong anyway. Assuming you are in KDE, there is a little icon

Re: [newbie] re java

2005-01-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Dave Needham wrote: -- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. Hi Dave -don't have time for detailed instructions as I have to go out. I'd probably get them wrong anyway. Assuming you are in KDE, there is a little icon

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote: Nooo! I think we'd better transfer any further 'goat' discussion to the OT list... Yup, before you get everybody's goat :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??

2005-01-20 Thread Graham Watkins
Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? Snipped Thanks, Andy Hi, There may be better ways but this worked for me. Right-click on the KDE desktop, select create newfilelink to location (url). In the dialogue box

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

2005-01-12 Thread Graham Watkins
eric jackson wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:11:20 -0400, Ronald Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am pretty new to burning CD's. I was wondering if there is a way to use k3b (or some other tool) to append files to a cd-rw. I thought this would be easy, but if I drag and drop a new file

Re: [newbie] Gates: 'Yer a bunch o' Commies'

2005-01-11 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote: Quote: Bill Gates is an intelligent man [wha?] who has done a great deal of good in the world. So when he gets caught out in a bare-faced lie this should matter to all of us; and last week, when he called the opponents of American intellectual property law a communist movement he

Re: [newbie] Gates: 'Yer a bunch o' Commies'

2005-01-11 Thread Graham Watkins
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 20:52, Graham Watkins wrote: Well done Poland. Indeed. We can all show our gratitude here : http://thankpoland.info/ Kaj Haulrich. Done. Thanks for the info. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Graham Watkins
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Anne Wilson wrote: I don't use Evo, but IIRC it uses mdir format, which means that each message is in a separate file (mbox puts a whole mail folder into one file). This being so, if you can identify which messages are the infected ones you can safely delete them, leaving all others.

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 09:39, Graham Watkins wrote: Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as little as possible.) Do

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
deedee E wrote: I confess to some confusion about your problem. Is there some reason you are forced to execute the worm-infested e-mail while running Windows? Why not just treat it like junk mail and delete it? Isn't it junk mail? I'm not executing anything. I'm not doing anything with mail in

[newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all and a happy new year, My first crisis of the year began this morning. I finally got round to installing clam anti virus and Klamav. My first scan brought up about half a dozen worms hiding out in my mailboxes. I quarantined the mail files which cost me all the mail I had stored on

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Graham Watkins
JR wrote: Hi Graham, I have yet to install clam av, but I just wanted to point out that the viruses being detected are most likely windows viruses that would pass through a linux system without being able to cause any harm. The reason clam av detects these is because linux is often used as a

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Do the names Worm.bagle.AP, Worm.Somefool.P, SCO.A mean anything here? As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? I've just done a search

[newbie] Xfce4 settings question

2004-12-27 Thread Graham Watkins
This ought to be easy but I can't figure it out. How do I get the iconbox to launch with xfce4 instead of having to start it from the command line? Is there anywhere I should put a script for this and any other program I want launched on startup? The xfce manual can only be described as

Re: [newbie] Installed Webmin but can't access it.

2004-12-15 Thread Graham Watkins
SnapafunFrank wrote: Try adding another zero to your url === http://localhost:1 I did, that was just sloppy copy/pasting on my part. If that fails check your /etc/hosts file. If you are not sure then post a copy of the file here. Like I said, when I rebooted the problem was fixed. People here

Re: [newbie] Installed Webmin but can't access it.

2004-12-14 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Good morning all, Graham here with the dumb question of the day. I've just installed Webmin and when I try to access http://localhost:1000, the connection is refused. A permissions thing perhaps. Or is the firewall getting in the way? I'm using 10.1 Community. Previously I

[newbie] Acrobat Reader Install Problem

2004-12-13 Thread Graham Watkins
Greetings, I tried to install the Acrobat Reader yesterday, something that worked perfectly under 9.2. However the install only proceeded to the point where I got the following error message: Installing platform dependent files ... Done ./INSTALL: line 219: ed: command not found ERROR

Re: [newbie] CD-burning

2004-12-12 Thread Graham Watkins
Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:44 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have experienced something strange, after upgrading to 10.0 from 9.1 my CD/DVD-writer has stopped being reckognised as a SCSI-device, cdrecord -scanbus gives me this info: scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus:

Re: [newbie] CD-burning

2004-12-12 Thread Graham Watkins
RickSisler wrote: Hi Graham, k3b works for me, both DVD and CD's and the RPM's are from Charles. http://www.eslrahc.com/ Hope it works for ya. Tried it, worked. Thanks Rick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
Duncan Anderson wrote: Hello Graham Anyhow, what I want to know is what is the best way to recover data from a hard drive that is about to fail, but contains part of my Mandrake installation (usr home) when I get a new box up and running. Can I install it as a slave disk an access it through

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:35:31 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be No, no, it's just pining for the fjords... If you hadn't screwed it to the case it would be pushing up the daisies by now

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
Duncan Anderson wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: It may be a while before I get a new linux box up and running as I'm pretty busy just now. But when I do, I shall be moving up from 9.2 to 10.1 Community. I'm looking forward to it. Cheers, Graham When you do get around to it, have fun! cheers

[newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-11-27 Thread Graham Watkins
I hope you can steer me right. Thanks, Graham Watkins Newbie, man and boy - for about 5 years now. - Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Graham Watkins
Richard Urwin wrote: Actually ABBA music is technically highly complex. Which only goes to prove it ain't real Rock'n'Roll. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-06 Thread Graham Watkins
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-31 Thread Graham Watkins
Alexander Ruoff wrote: I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-29 Thread Graham Watkins
Miark wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice

[newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Oh, and I

Re: [newbie] Free space

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Alan wrote: Could anybody tell what is the easiest way to monitor the free space on my partitions. In Mandrake 9.1 I used kdiskfree (I think that was the right name) but I can find it on Mandrake 10. Thanks Alan From the command line, type df (without the quotes of course). There's generally

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Alexander Ruoff wrote: Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (Snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope

[newbie] OT: A Virus Plague

2004-10-23 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi guys, This past week or so, I have been mailed a number of virus attachments. Usually with only a smiley face in the message body. These have caused no problem as they are Windows viruses (viri?) and I only ever download my mail under Linux - learnt the necessity for that the hard way a few

[newbie] Printer Install Problem with Samsung ML 1755

2004-10-17 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi guys, My old printer died last week so after a suitable period of mourning, I went out and bought a Samsung ML 1755 as it said on the box that it would work with Linux. Following the instructions contained in the README.TXT file on the installation cdrom, I attempted to run the setup.sh

Re: [newbie] Printer Install Problem with Samsung ML 1755

2004-10-17 Thread Graham Watkins
Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 09:39 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi guys, My old printer died last week so after a suitable period of mourning, I went out and bought a Samsung ML 1755 as it said on the box that it would work with Linux. Following the instructions contained

Re: [newbie] Printer causes KDE to crash

2004-10-16 Thread Graham Watkins
David Trethewey wrote: For some reason if my printer is connected to the computer and switched on during boot, it causes KDE to crash at the peripherals stage. The printer is an Epson C40UX, I'm using Mandrake 10.0. Anyone know anything about this problem? David Don't have an answer, but I've

Re: [newbie] Security Updates

2004-10-08 Thread Graham Watkins
them as when they appear, in easily-digestible chunks. Hi Y'all, This is a bit of topic, but thought you might like to know that all the messages with this header went straight into my trash bin. Nice to know that my customised Mozilla mail filters are working. -- Graham Watkins Don't

[newbie] Audio Query

2004-10-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Morning All, Anybody here know which, if any, Linux media program will play a file with an .asx extension? Cheers, -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http

Re: [newbie] Audio Query

2004-10-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 02:12, Graham Watkins wrote: Morning All, Anybody here know which, if any, Linux media program will play a file with an .asx extension? Have you tried the PLF version of mplayer? LX No, but then I can't get the version of Mplayer that I have to play

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-22 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 19:42, Graham Watkins wrote: Why is everyone suddenly having a go at Joe? Because he's there? Carry on like this and he may not be. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person

Re: [newbie] UDF format cd-writer for Linux

2004-09-22 Thread Graham Watkins
-write ability is about the only reason I need to continue using Windows. Addressed this to Paul first by mistake - sorry:-( -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254

Re: [newbie] archiving to multi volumes

2004-09-22 Thread Graham Watkins
and daily backup. Have a look at the following: http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 It deals with making cd backups but you may be able to tweak it. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-21 Thread Graham Watkins
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 22:55, Lanman wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Why is everyone suddenly having a go at Joe? -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Graham Watkins
. This would explain why it boots up when you swap the drives. (Interesting experiment: - swap the drives then try to boot 98SE. If it fails then I'm probably right about this.) Never heard of a way round this although there are smarter people than me on this list so you never know. -- Graham

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
this or do I just have to wait until it it is updated? Also, does anybody know how I can save the output of a scan to a text file as the output is not completely visible in the terminal window. -- Graham Watkins Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]# clamscan -r / LibClamAV Error: cl_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: 633a5c312e6261743a2a3a456e6162 (length: 97

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 05:17, Graham Watkins wrote: Also, does anybody know how I can save the output of a scan to a text file as the output is not completely visible in the terminal window. Usually this works 'command filename.txt' if not of if yhou want to see the output

[newbie] Shorewall VMWare

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
of Mandrake (8.2, I think) but it's not on 9.2 which I'm using. This of course would be very much the second best option. Any input gratefully received. I'm surprised this problem isn't better documented. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
again but I'm still getting the same result. Mine are updated from clamav.sourceforge.net. Is it possible to get them from anywhere else? -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Shorewall VMWare

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 08:27 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all I've had this problem for some time and nothing I try seems to fix it. Whenever I run VMware, unless I switch off Shorewall and reboot first, I am unable to access the virtual network and consequently can't save

[newbie] OT - Big plc adopts Linux - Guardian Article

2004-07-29 Thread Graham Watkins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1270834,00.html -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection upgrade. Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-29 Thread Graham Watkins
to help -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Graham Watkins
would be most grateful -- Graham Watkins Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her. (Kinky Friedman - When The Cat's Away) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi guys, A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way clear

Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Graham Watkins
http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!

2004-07-26 Thread Graham Watkins
) and the other after about 3 years. In my experience a ticking sound is an indication that the final appeal has failed and it is not long for this world. You'd better make regular backups while you still can. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you

Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player

2004-07-18 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Are you trying to install it as root, or as yourself? My earlier reply appears not to have been delivered. Installing as root - as always. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus

Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player

2004-07-14 Thread Graham Watkins
it already playing on my computer. Thanks to everybody who have tried to help me! I tried to do just that but it didn't seem to want to install. Does RP8 get in the way? I'm running 9.2 (it ain't broke - mostly - so I ain't gonna fix it just yet). -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic

Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player

2004-07-14 Thread Graham Watkins
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Have you tried 'urpmi RealPlayer'? [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]# urpmi RealPlayer no package named RealPlayer I have now :-) -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user

[newbie] xfce4 Realplayer

2004-07-06 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi guys, Whenever I start Realplayer under the xfce4 window manager, it runs but I get no sound. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm running Mandrake 9.2 and Realplayer 8. Thanks, -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person

Re: [newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies

2004-07-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:52:14 +0100 Graham Watkins wrote: Yep, but it doesn't deal with the dependency question. It will, but you will need to have as sources 1) My site 2) 10.0 Main 3) 10.0 Contrib 4) PLF The easiest way is to use http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/, there you

[newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies

2004-07-01 Thread Graham Watkins
for me. Is there a way round this or should I resign myself to an xfce4less existence? -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2

2004-07-01 Thread Graham Watkins
HIJACKED ME BLEEDIN THREAD!! -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies

2004-07-01 Thread Graham Watkins
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Have you tried added Charles Edwards list to your URPMI and using his Xfce4 RPM's? I have them installed here and they work fine for me. http://www.eslrahc.com Yep, but it doesn't deal with the dependency question. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people

[newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? Also the settings icon produces no activity. Trying to open settings from the command line with usr/bin/xfce-setting-show gets me No such

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: And finally (for now) the terminal icon doesn't work (although I can get a terminal by opening the manual and starting another shell). I had the same problem - it seems to try to call up a type of terminal I didn't have installed! Solution was to right-click

Re: [newbie] soundcard woes

2004-04-17 Thread Graham Watkins
in kmix. If you open it up you'll find a number of sliding controlls labelled 0100 1001. I got good sound by switching the third and the fifth ones off (click on green light at top so it's dark). I have no idea why this works or whether it will work in the same way for you. -- Graham Watkins

Re: [newbie] soundcard woes

2004-04-17 Thread Graham Watkins
). I have no idea why this works or whether it will work in the same way for you. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http

Re: [newbie] Shorewall VMware

2004-04-14 Thread Graham Watkins
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:23, Graham Watkins wrote: Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall

Re: [newbie] Shorewall VMware

2004-04-14 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:23, Graham Watkins wrote: Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down. You should be able to share the internet

[newbie] Shorewall VMware

2004-04-10 Thread Graham Watkins
Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship

Re: [newbie] Anyone else get this ?

2004-04-09 Thread Graham Watkins
of goverment servers is a favourite spammer technique these days. Maybe it's a good way to infect a lot of computers Then again perhaps it's just coincidence. I don't really know what I'm talking about anyway. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Graham Watkins
if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:02:15 +0100 Graham Watkins disseminated the following: Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when

Re: [newbie] Mozilla desktop icon dosent work

2004-04-03 Thread Graham Watkins
wrong? At last a question that I actually know the answer to - I think mozilla 1.6 is installed in a different part of the folder forest to 1.4. Change the execute properties of the link to : /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla and all should be well thereafter. Cheers, Graham Watkins

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:18, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's about it for booze. Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. C'mon - I can think of a few better than Bushies

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Graham Watkins
your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:39, Graham Watkins wrote: There may be some as good ... but better? You'd better tell me in case I'm missing something. Glenfiddich, Glenmorangie, Balvenie, Bowmore... stephen kuhn - owner If we're looking at scotch, I'd have to disagree regarding

[newbie] Firewall blocks off virtual network

2004-03-08 Thread Graham Watkins
of little beyond the ability to switch it on and off. Could some of you good folks suggest what I need to do to enable the network without letting any intruders in from elsewhere. Thank y'all. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT: CD Writer Drive Failure: Hardware Problem or Software Glitch?

2004-03-07 Thread Graham Watkins
John Richard Smith wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, My CD writer cannot read Data CDs any more. It either causes Konqueror to freeze or the entire system to lock up (with Num Lock and Caps Lock lights flashin) requiring a hard reboot. What has changed lately ? Did you change anything

[newbie] Possibly OT: CD Writer Drive Failure: Hardware Problem or Software Glitch?

2004-03-04 Thread Graham Watkins
. I'm running 9.2 -- Graham Watkins Penguins are so sensitive to my needs Lyle Lovett Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT: CD Writer Drive Failure: Hardware Problem or Software Glitch?

2004-03-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 17:25, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, My CD writer cannot read Data CDs any more. It either causes Konqueror to freeze or the entire system to lock up (with Num Lock and Caps Lock lights flashin) requiring a hard reboot. Please notice

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