Re: [newbie] leaving linux again

2003-11-25 Thread HaywireMac
Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects Where imagination is sucked out of children by a cathode ray nipple T.V. is the only wet nurse that would create a cripple Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation On Television . . ."

Re: [newbie] haywire's (joehill) bounce

2003-11-25 Thread HaywireMac
K, I'm unsubbing and re-subbing back to the good ol' Joe :-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org +

Re: [newbie] haywire's (joehill) bounce

2003-11-25 Thread HaywireMac
try to > cut out a bunch of spam ya, I got a bounce, but as long as my post reaches the list, all is well... uh, for me at least ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandra

Re: [newbie] Re: Wine (or others)

2003-11-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:45:18 +0200 Erix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (W)ine (I)s (N)ot an (E)mulator. Ya, just like (L)AME is not (A)n (M)p3 (E)ncoder... ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderin

Re: [newbie] Syncing Pilot With Evolution

2003-11-24 Thread HaywireMac
e-Pilot, so I am sorry I cannot give you more specific info. if you *do* have all the appropriate software installed already, one thing to try, before you sync, is: export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB1 or whatever USB port it is plugged into. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registe

Re: [newbie] bash argument

2003-11-23 Thread HaywireMac
lling an app from a terminal. > > > example: > > ...prompt]$ kcalc > ...prompt]$ > > > instead of: > > ...prompt]$ kcalc > loading blah blah > loading blah blah > ...running... > > > It's been a while since I've used Linux untill a few days a

Re: [newbie] Eek! Am I really connected?!

2003-11-23 Thread HaywireMac
ndrake and don't get an IP, you should be able to get it going with (as root): service network restart what does it show in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? you should have something like this: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes -- HaywireMac ++

Re: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up

2003-11-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:25:41 -0800 Melissa Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eek! Which "media" am I removing? The CD's. Everything on the CD's is also in "main", which you added. So instead of it constantly prompting you for the CD's, it will just

Re: [newbie] Local SMTP server?

2003-11-23 Thread HaywireMac
find you do not have a valid MX record or that you are coming from a block of dynamic (consumer) IP's, your mail will come back as undeliverable. ...and, ya, it may also violate your Terms of Service, but who gives a rat's ass about that ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458

Re: [newbie] MS Fonts?

2003-11-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:40:05 + Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Happy Birthday > http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ Thanks, but even easier: http://ben.reser.org/corefonts/ I always forget, google.com/linux is my best friend... ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 27951845

[newbie] SCO is on the ball!

2003-11-19 Thread HaywireMac
Thank god, SCO fixed a nasty vulnerability in Sendmail, it could have been a very serious issue! Waitaminnit... http://lwn.net/Articles/58911/ -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake

Re: [newbie] website test, please

2003-11-16 Thread HaywireMac
l code, but want to make sure. > > And, on that note, what's your favorite mailing list site? I have > been on and adminned groups at topica, and it's easy to use, but it > won't be it i can't get it to show up. > > At the moment I am not up for running one at home..

Re: [newbie] sylpheed and gtk2

2003-11-16 Thread HaywireMac
ter at all, the app would have to be completely recoded to use the GTK2 widget set. There is a Sylpheed GTK2 project on Sourceforge, that's what I use, but I don't know about Claws. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #28

[newbie] Inner Peace

2003-11-14 Thread HaywireMac
I have a feeling this is kind of old, but I thought for a Friday it would be a nice morning guffaw. " I am passing this on to you people because it has definitely worked for me. By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found Inner peace The article read: "The

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-14 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:34:24 -0800 John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I'm still trying to figure out why someone from Ontario would name > himself after a labour activist who did his thing in the Kootenay's > of BC, Eastern Washington and Montana. :-) cuz the class struggle crosses all b

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-12 Thread HaywireMac
one else encountered the same error, i might test it later, just to see. Many thanks to our new friend Melissa for pointing me to the errata page. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mand

Re: [newbie] Weird things in 9.2

2003-11-12 Thread HaywireMac
na disappoint, now would I? It's only a problem with KDE. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++

Re: [newbie] upgrading glibc? possible?

2003-11-12 Thread HaywireMac
ackages, but the whole enchilada. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ "I gained n

Re: [newbie] another network.img install issue (HELP)

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
nd am somewhat reassured that I am in no danger, finding that the make and model and firmware version have been tested as "Ok". -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's &am

Re: [newbie] another network.img install issue (HELP)

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
on the Mandrake site, in the > past three weeks. >From the Mandrake site: "NOTE: Based on information we have received from LG Electronics' technicians, only CD-ROM models are affected by this bug. DVD-ROM/R/RW and CD-RW devices are not affected." -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ #

Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
thical thing to do is to resist the system and put an end to it." -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org +

Re: [newbie] Weird things in 9.2

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
weird stuff since its > issue. I do believe that is limited to KDE, no? Otherwise, I have heard very few complaints... -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More

[newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
e&sid=260 Can FS users be "apolitical", can we separate politics from our choice of an OS? Or maybe the question should be, can we *risk* being apolitical when our choice of OS is "under attack" so to speak? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #2820

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
r/firewall, or maybe I'm way off base on that? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ A

Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake and make discs

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 20:52:50 -0600 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > You need to wait a few more days. They said that more than a few days ago! LOL! Ah, well, what can ya do, it's free right? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.or

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
elieve my problem is that the network.img is expecting my DHCP server to hand out a hostname or something, which it doesn't. I'm just gonna wait for the ISO's, unless someone knows a way around this error. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-11 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:06:38 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > First let us say it's OK to be new to the world of Linux, we all were > new once. Well, except of course Linus Torvalds, he was never new ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered L

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
ggesting it.. :-) could it be that it's just all us trying to hit it at the same time? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org +

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
I am running it now as my > primary web server. I tried that before, it keeps timing out. I'll keep trying, thanks! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:43:21 -0500 HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The > > trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image > > and that would cause a conflict since the image you

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
x27;re using was likely > from the original. I just snagged the img about an hour ago, but I'l try one from a different mirror, thanks! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo&

[newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
ne can point me to an FTP with the ISO's, I'd ray appreciate it, save me this hassle. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo

Re: [newbie] installing Pekwm

2003-11-07 Thread HaywireMac
Submenu = "Themes" { Entry { Actions = "Dynamic ~/.pekwm/pekwm_themeset.pl ~/.pekwm/themes " }} -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] installing Pekwm

2003-11-07 Thread HaywireMac
What do you think of the bluecurve-k theme? Check out the Pekwm CVS docs here: http://www.surffi.net/~shared/pekwm/docs/nochunks/pekwmdocs.html There's some cool stuff you can do with autogrouping of browser windows and such, if you ever have any questions, feel free to ask! --

Re: [newbie] installing Pekwm

2003-11-07 Thread HaywireMac
encies for you. Lemme know how it goes. I would, however, recommend installing all of the tools in MCC Software Manager under Development anyway, you should have those around you ever want to build anything from source. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #2

Re: [newbie] web radio broadcasts

2003-11-07 Thread HaywireMac
x27;s a matter of cost. one thing you might want to try is Streamtuner, which is available from urpmi. many, many, many varieties of broadcasts available through the Shoutcast network, music, talk, etc. Very easy to install and use. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux

[newbie] Kernel 2.6 *almost* trojaned

2003-11-07 Thread HaywireMac
ne thing that occurred to me, thinking about Eric's adage, there are really *no* eyes on the Windows "kernel" (or whatever you call it). How many unknown/deliberate backdoors could be in *there*? Link: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/1532223 -- HaywireMac ++ I

Re: [newbie] web radio broadcasts

2003-11-06 Thread HaywireMac
me this: http://www.google.ca/linux?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Failed+to+create+AF_INET6+socket&btnG=Google+Search&meta= I'm not sure if mplayer can even deal with IPV6 connections, if that's something you have to compile into mplayer of your kernel... -- Hay

Re: [newbie] web radio broadcasts

2003-11-06 Thread HaywireMac
for the web broadcasts? strictly sound, > don't care about video. mplayer should do it. get it from PLF sources and it should come with the necessary codecs. urpmi --media plf mplayer -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-06 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:42:11 -0800 "E. Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > But Mac, I do have a life and don't want to spend all day (or 2 days) > configuring my Deb install. One word: webmin -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 21:49:11 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Haywire makes a good point I made a good point?! Drugs must be wearing off... -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderin

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Thread HaywireMac
ss so you get 5 more FPS in Quake... ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Here is a test to find

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Thread HaywireMac
part of the community, whether it wants me or not and I plan to make it part of my "business plan" to wipe out the use of Windows in the Greater Toronto Area, later the world , and I ain't gonna do that with Debian (yet). -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Regist

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-04 Thread HaywireMac
comes from the kernel, which has very little, if anything at all, to do with Suse. Biig deal. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo&

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread HaywireMac
esn't violate people's privacy rights and render the internet almost unusable at times. A better day awaits us when Windows is forever banished into the garbage heap of history where it belongs. If Linux is too hard for someone to understand and use, which is difficult to believe, the

Re: [newbie] Can't start X, "No Devices"

2003-11-03 Thread HaywireMac
y it would default to device :0, but it's not finding anything there. It could be a hardware prob, but it's more likely software. Post your XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log, there might be something in there that will point to why it's not connecting. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 27

Re: [newbie] Can't start X, "No Devices"

2003-11-03 Thread HaywireMac
e. They have floppy images which will give you access to the BIOS to turn off "features" such as anti-virus, PNP, or whatever. The BIOS has probably overwritten some part of the boot or other sector of the drive, and this may be what is causing the prob. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458

Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about?

2003-11-03 Thread HaywireMac
y cost. Unfortunately, that cuts out the middlemen in the Marketing and Distribution side 'o things, so they're intent on preserving a model that is no longer feasible or relevant. To hell with 'em all, it's fair game now. -- Hay

Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about?

2003-11-03 Thread HaywireMac
t least have a basic WM over VNC, lean and mean. Run MLDonkey and Ralph Slooten's Direct Connect stuff, I'll really be stickin' it to the MPAA! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++

Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about?

2003-11-02 Thread HaywireMac
to Mandrake. Such > things are unacceptable. Well, don't let the door hitcha on the ass on the way out ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo&#x

Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about?

2003-11-02 Thread HaywireMac
lion times already, you can just make a boot floppy and do a net install. Got one right here actually... But it is *nice* of them to do it, you know, in the spirit of Free Software and all that. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #

Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about?

2003-11-02 Thread HaywireMac
w LG. Doing it this way only leaves the impression in some people's minds that Mandrake made a mistake, and not LG. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo'

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Thread HaywireMac
up their driver development, it would be better for *everybody*, including Nvidia. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Thread HaywireMac
oprietary driver, IIRC, has said as much. As long as you have the kernel sources, the Nvidia driver should install fine, no matter which kernel you are running. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++

Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about?

2003-11-02 Thread HaywireMac
make some valid points about Mandrake maybe being more aggressive on the Enterprise front, but what the hell do I know about that side of the business... I'm shocked that the public release of the ISO's will be pushed back to December, tha's fer sher. -- HaywireMa

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-11-01 Thread HaywireMac
s, and to be perfectly honest, I find your tone disrespectful, arrogant, and condescending. If you want to voice your opinion, fine, but keep your characterizations of other's to yourself. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels

2003-11-01 Thread HaywireMac
you keep the original .wav files as a backup, you can play with this ad infinitum 'til you get the result you want, and not have to keep grabbing the audio from a deteriorating cassette. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Home

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
community, the 'net, and leaving the parasites and legal priests out of it. I will never sit down with MPAA or RIAA or MS lawyers and work out a "compromise". When you choose the lesser of two evils, you choose evil. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 27951

Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
that you can run to incrase the audio level a bit > > more ? For existing .wav files, if you want to increase the "volume", do: normalize -g x where x is a multiplier, like say 2 to double the volume. see "man normalize" for more info. -- HaywireMac

Re: [newbie] left start menu kaboomed

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
wo items in > each submenu, all of the others have finished for some reason! check the archives, this has come up numerous times, and there is a simple command line fix, which escapes me for the moment, which will rebuild the KDE menu. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
ee it anyway, and it's the one I'm more willing to side with. Relying on politicians and lawyers to protect us has never served us well in the past, I see no reason to expect anything different for the future. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Home

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:17:25 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I would suggest that you look into the > legality of having an operating network tarpit in your > state. Tarpit? What tarpit? Oh, was my computer doing that? I had n idea! LOL! -- Ha

Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
ge. I wonder if something was changed in 9.2 to do with either the global /etc/bashrc config or network settings... Anyone have any thoughts on this? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
who called the cops to report that someone had stolen his weed! LOL! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org +

Re: [newbie] OT - We should help this guy find another job

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
986750.asp?0si=-&cp1=1 It's a good sign. It just means that MS is retreating more and more into a position of reactionary paranoia. Don't worry about Hanscom, he'll get his 15 minutes of fame and probably a job offer from Apple ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 27

Re: [newbie] reason to upgrade to 9.2?

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
prietary specs, while in the meantime they go bowing and scraping to MS to make sure their hardware will *not* get fried by Windows. If you are having difficulties, I understand your frustration, and certainly am willing to try to help, as is anyone here. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ #

Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2

2003-10-31 Thread HaywireMac
w enough about that network-scripts setup to advise what to change, except maybe try putting "yes" for NEEDHOSTNAME, but I would seriously recommend putting something between your ISP and your wkstn, like a router firewall that would negotiate the connection for you. How are you connect

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

2003-10-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:09:37 +1100 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > This could be determined by the number of newbies left bewildered > with heads spinning by the answer to their question. :-) Problem is, I would win that one every time ;-) -- Haywire

Re: [newbie] compiling openldap source

2003-10-30 Thread HaywireMac
you are getting? You are probably just missing some development libraries, openldap-devel would be my 1st guess. Again, just urpmi openldap-devel, depends on what version you are building though as well. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2003-10-30 Thread HaywireMac
at's pretty fast, the way I like it. See "man xset" for how those values work, I can't remember offhand. Reducing the "50" would mean less acceleration, I'm pretty sure of that. If you run Fluxbox from a GUI login, I believe in that case you would want to add the

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
ed at every turn. Making personal choices is one part, but it's not the whole answer. In other words, ignoring Microsoft's monopoly will not make it go away, and if it doesn't go away, you will not have the choices you now have. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:45:03 -0800 "Mark Kirschner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Cuz it cost <= 20 dollars ;-) > > Since when was price indicative of quality? > Compare price and quality in the software market (specifically desktop > OS) Plea

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
, any hardware, go online, see what other people's experiences were/are, ask on these lists, when you buy something and it turns out it's garbage, tell everybody you know. We got tha powah! LOL! Oh, and as to your main point, ya, stay away as far as you can from prepackaged cookie-cutter sys

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:32:07 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I think you're being a little unfair to the people who bought LG - how > > were they to know it was junk hardware? Cuz it cost <= 20 dollars ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linu

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

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:41:07 + Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Half an hour? You think it would take me that long to do with him what > > he's done with the rest of the computing world? ;-) No, but who's to say you would only do it once? -- H

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:36:10 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > And if someone doesn't want a user-friendly Linux, I say, let them use > Debian. But as I said, this isn't the issue here. http://lwn.net/Articles/49967/ I think you should have used a better ex

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

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:09:45 -0800 (PST) Sam Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > FAGGOT SPAMMER QUIT SPAMMING ME WTF?! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:41:53 +0200 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > how do I set my mouse movement speed? I didn't find it at the > mouse > ocnfiguration in mcc :-( what desktop you runnin'? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Li

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

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:40:23 -0800 aronsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > It would involve a catheter a blender and the Cds from Win$ux 2000 > and a soundproof room ROTFLMAO! Oh, what you and I have in common, it's a very BAD THING. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Regi

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:07:40 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I guess now they'll > have to add a little bomb icon for hardware that blows up when used > with Mandrake ;-) Hows this: http://www.orderinchaos.org/bomb.png -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registere

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

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:18:26 -0500 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week? This week's topic: What would you do with Steve Ballmer if you could be alone with him for a half hour and no legal consequences? -- HaywireMac ++ I

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

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:11:47 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I do remember Wilma, though... Oh, ya, I was gettin' to 13 then, so you can imagine the response to those satin tights... ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #2

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
other tools, but I've never done it myself, so I can't advise you on that, good or bad. IIRC, it was either Vincent or somebody who mentioned they always remove msec on a new install. Check the archives, there was a short thread about it. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 R

Re: [newbie] Moving Home partition

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
only let me resize swap, which makes sense, how can I resize a mounted and running partition. > if not doing it that way, boot with cd1 & go thru the install to the > partitionging tool point. This would be more likely to work. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registere

Re: [newbie] Where to post on reply

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
hange the reply option to bottom > post. Speaking of personal preference, I prefer the bottom post for > general reply, inline for multiple point replies. Of course, you are also supposed to set your line wrap at less than 72 chars as well ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Re

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
will then look at that and override it's usual "activities" with what it sees there. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfa

Re: [newbie] Very basic question, don't shoot me please

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
s it exit with any kind of error? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The more you complain,

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
you might want to consider lowering your security level. *Some* people uninstall msec altogether. Unless you make it a habit of running around changing perms on random directories, it's not really necessary, esp if your machine is not running servers that need to be secured. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ

[newbie] MPAA and your computer

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
or digital innovation." Link: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/27/broadcast_flag/index.html -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http

Re: [newbie] downloadable 9.2 & LG cdroms

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
k-floppy install? Since the updated kernels will be on the mirrors, but not on the ISO's? I'm pretty sure I'm not affected anyway, since my LG is a burner, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ #

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT - procmail question, and a few tips

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
r those? It would be nice to watch out for those in a tail window using grep for the ="" contents like I do with mailfilter. Cheers matey! Oh, and your sig is driving me nuts, though I suppose it's been serving it's purpose, it got me reading about Chomsky and Topolog

Re: [newbie] shell prompt

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:01:51 -0400 Paul Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Found all the answers at: > www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/index.html yup, that's where I figgered out how to make mine yellow :-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux u

Re: [newbie] My posts don't show up in my mail

2003-10-27 Thread HaywireMac
ted that's all that matters :-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ You can't ta

Re: [newbie] downloadable 9.2 & LG cdroms

2003-10-27 Thread HaywireMac
for another few days anyway, no? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ He knows not how to k

Re: [newbie] My posts don't show up in my mail

2003-10-27 Thread HaywireMac
On 27 Oct 2003 15:32:14 -0500 Maurice O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > The original was addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just as this > one is. Sorry, no, I mean what was the subject? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www

Re: [newbie] My posts don't show up in my mail

2003-10-27 Thread HaywireMac
On 27 Oct 2003 13:35:29 -0500 Maurice O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > When I post a new message or answer a message they don't show up in my > mailbox. I receive other messages from the list but not my own. I > tried to thank Tom Brink and Haywiremac for th

Re: [newbie] Hi, I cant boot up my mandrake 91

2003-10-27 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:53:25 -0800 Aronsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > most of this group can't read anyway. speak fer yerself, hayseed! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +

[newbie] Mandrake Package Mngmnt 2nd only to Debian!

2003-10-27 Thread HaywireMac
We all knew it anyway, but just to confirm: http://lwn.net/Articles/49967/ Credit for the link goes to Tom Karmo from my local LUG. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's &

Re: [newbie] Hi, I cant boot up my mandrake 91

2003-10-27 Thread HaywireMac
f > initializing comands, and all fail. i have alredy set no for plug and > play bios M best guess is a bad install CD. Try burning a fresh ISO of the install CD and see if that doesn't help. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Dual display on GeForce 4 mx

2003-10-26 Thread HaywireMac
ME, if you have copy, I would appreciate it if you'd fire it off to me :-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

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