Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-10 Thread John Richard Smith
smal enough script that I can still read and yet means the script is before your eyes long enough to have a chance to appreciate what it is saying. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LaTex

2003-12-10 Thread John Richard Smith
is a superior word processor with many of the features of klyx, but you don't need to know latex to create your own templates. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
? That is without installing or altering anything else, the upgrade route ? In any case it won't have nvida driver will it ? I think I still have a boot floppy, but never tried it, sometimes they don't work. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
from /boot directory and need to replace it, and not initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img can that be done from desktop ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
so are there any options left ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:48, John Richard Smith wrote: If you're on desktop and accidentally deleted your kernel from /boot directory is there any way to put one back other than reinstall everything from the beginning. Can you rebuild a replacement while on desktop ? Can I

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
it . The question still remaining in my mind is, Will my nvidia drivers be there ? do they get installed in vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk or are they stored some place else ? I don't know ? Anyone know ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
them as well ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
all up to that final option. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 03:27 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom, will my nvidia drivers be there as well ? or will I have ro reinstall them as well ? John I don't use 'em. Tho I have a GeF4, I use the XFree driver, better 2d performance no imported bug

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table or is it something else. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
can navigate to /usr/bin and left mouse click either kwrite or konsole that will bring them up and with those two features there aint much you cannot do in linux one way or another. By the way do you have MCC and KDE CC in the kstart menu. John /usr/bin/kwrite -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread John Richard Smith
to allow for an UPS John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
ring main garage power each are seperately fused and that protects the ring main circuit. So I have a circuit in the attic where many of our computers sit, called ring main attic power. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 08:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Seems to be the power supply , so I'm after a new one, hopefully more reliable one, but maybe I'm going to have to think more seriously about surge protectors if they are any good.Either that or buy a spare

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 9:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: No problem there it seems , so far all of those available in UK seem to be identicle. John - just a thought. Overclockers tend to need to be ultracareful. Have you tried looking at overclockers.com to see

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
into the UPS. So ought I to seek an UPS that can handle 3 computers(physically awkward) , or should I buy 3 individual UPS , or more particularly one to start with so that I can figure out how it all works. I wonder what power supply size is minimal for one computer ? John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
, they just do, take it from me, I've 25 years of it to know) but I do sometimes. So It's a quest to find the best piece of value for money UPS, UK source. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
I would sort of figure have anything to do with the character spacing. If I am wrong , by all means correct me I want to learn what to do as much as the next man. I'm guessing it's a kde setup problem , but what ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: It seems like I will be joining you with OO if I cannot fix my kword print problem. I have a choice of 4 drivers for my Z53 printers(of which we have 3) and I make a practice of setting up all 4 every time. 3

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 09:06, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John Can't answer specifically about the C84, but if it helps I'm using the C82 model and it works great. Great print

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
For Business Networks **Online Price £387.75*£455.61 Including VAT at 17.5% Now I wonder what I would need for my requirements ? John* -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 08:06 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John John, look here, it says it works mostly. HTH http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 4:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: This printer cannot be tested by sending plain text to it, as the printer may or may not respond to the text. The recommended way to test the connection is by checking the ink level with the escputil command

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 9:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. John I don;t think you

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
. Unfortunately, word processors (across the spectrum) seem to have dropped the ability to adjust this. Mark Have they dropped this spacing feature, that's odd , I wonder how you are supposed to cope. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot screen. I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away leaving d4x downloading a file. When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched a key, and a mandrake boot script appears, hung at fsck,

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Robin Turner wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot screen. I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away leaving d4x downloading a file. When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched a key

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Robin Turner wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot screen. I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away leaving d4x downloading a file. When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you mean reset the bios and make it redetect ? John I might add that I do have power supply , it seems like everything that needs it is getting power,though since I cannot get into bios I cannot tell what may be dead. If I had

Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:43:18PM -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:30:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viagra! Penis DON'T LOSE ANY MORE MONEY ON YOUR EXISTING HOME LOAN! Todd Paris Hilton video - why do people keep offering

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you mean reset the bios and make it redetect ? John I might add that I do have power supply , it seems like everything that needs it is getting power,though since I cannot get into bios I cannot tell what may be dead. If I had

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
My graphics card , gforce3 has a small fan on it and it's hardly turning at all. I bet that is the problem, can one buy replacements? John yes. send us a picture of the fan you get for it. however, while I ain't sure about your particular card, I do know some fans have a control circuit that

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Sharrea Day wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote: et wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you mean reset the bios and make it redetect ? John I might add that I do have

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Dimitar Haralanov wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:59:44 +1300 Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote: et wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess

[newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] scrolling in mozilla/firebird eats up cpu

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
mainly helvetica in mozilla if that makes any difference. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - that resource hog!

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
/(x) bs=2048 count=(xx) | md5sum - where (x) is your device(eg. hdc, or scd0), where (xx) is the number of sectors They should agree.If they do you have good ISO's and CD's John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - that resource hog!

2003-12-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - that resource hog!

2003-12-03 Thread John Richard Smith
in use. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - that resource hog!

2003-12-03 Thread John Richard Smith
, but OK thereafter, or so it seems. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Uninstall

2003-12-02 Thread John Richard Smith
and remove and reformat everything as administrator with the second HD plugged in the IDE line as slave. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] uninstall

2003-12-02 Thread John Richard Smith
the drive clean. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts

2003-12-01 Thread John Richard Smith
, as it is mine. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problems getting mail from this list

2003-12-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello Mandrake group, I haven't got a single message from this list for about a week or so. Is something wrong on my side? We have all had to resubscribe John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Re:[OT] Dr Who

2003-11-30 Thread John Richard Smith
that they ran out of good story lines. The acting became a bit flippant and uncommitted. Still I'm sure a new series would be well received. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] NTFS and Lilo in MBR

2003-11-30 Thread John Richard Smith
to an NTFS drive? Roger Of course it will work. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re:[OT] Dr Who

2003-11-30 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I'll always love the BBC for bringing The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Anywhere one would be able to find that in archives or DVD somewhere? Good luck, HarM See me off list. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] mozilla-1.4.1

2003-11-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:28:35 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you list that which constitutes a full list of mozilla-1.4.1 If you are viewing the site in a browser all the mozilla rpms are grouped together. They begin with libnspr4 and ends

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread John Richard Smith
not the only one to of noticed this. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mozilla-1.4.1

2003-11-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:43:40 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/mozilla-enigmime-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm no message, file just gets deleted, http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/mozilla-enigmail-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm message,http

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
it is in kde parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on /dev/usb/lp0 But thern again Pup see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is wrong, and it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter it here takes. So I don't know ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to zero, and running printerdrake again? I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested before. No I haven't , I didn't

Re: [newbie] mozilla-1.4.1

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
-1.4.1 including all options and dependencies, thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53, JRmaybe it is in kde

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-27 Thread John Richard Smith
the various aspects, attempt to solve them. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem

2003-11-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Mike Adolf wrote: Anybody know of a modem that works with XP and linux? mike Type harware controlled modeminto google and let it suggest a few local suppliers,then ask them by email what models they have available, or buy a local magazine and do the same. John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem

2003-11-27 Thread John Richard Smith
in both OS's and any future OS you may wish to change to. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Dark video with xv driver, ok with xshm

2003-11-27 Thread John Richard Smith
/hue/and saturation, only last the video session, don't know how to make it permanent. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem

2003-11-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 27 November 2003 17:58, John Richard Smith wrote: robin wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Thursday 27 November 2003 03:07 pm, robin wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: Anybody know of a modem that works with XP and linux

Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem

2003-11-24 Thread John Richard Smith
party driver exists for your XP OS then it's curtains for that device. You will need a new modem. Buy a hardware controlled modem, they work in all OS's, no driver needed, and they don't cost that much either. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] England

2003-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
I agree, the all blacks are the best. but I think this has to end now. No more please. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] mplayer

2003-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
andrew, Tom Brinkman is right about sound sync. Use the + / - keys to advance or retard the sound. It seems to work. I found the cigs note, cheque on way to you. Father -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Checking md5som of iso created from burnt CD

2003-11-22 Thread John Richard Smith
-gnu) Scanning /mnt/cdrom/doc Scanning /mnt/cdrom/doc/install Scanning /mnt/cdrom/doc/install/af Scanning /mnt/cdrom/doc/install/ar Later It seems the answer is to , mkisofs -v -o temp.iso /mnt/cdrom/* but whether this is a true iso file in the same vein as the original ? John -- John Richard

[newbie] England

2003-11-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Hey, England won the world cup John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Checking md5som of iso created from burnt CD

2003-11-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 22 November 2003 11:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Having burnt iso to CD I wish to check the result by remaking an iso file of the CD and running md5sum against on that iso file, but, I seem to have a problem with the mkisofs part of it, Man, I can

Re: [newbie] Checking md5som of iso created from burnt CD

2003-11-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie Mahan wrote: Saturday 22 November 2003 4:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Having burnt iso to CD I wish to check the result by remaking an iso file of the CD and running md5sum against on that iso file, but, I seem to have a problem with the mkisofs part of it, You can check whether

Re: [newbie] Is the list down ?

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] resub

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
to confirm identity, which is fair enough, no, I guess and that is all it is some time yesterday around 11.00GMT something removed an entire list membership of all the sympa lists. Human error or virus ??? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Testing, test test test!

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
John Wilson wrote: H..anyone seeing this? Is there anyone out there? :-) ttfn John (singing the unsubbed blues!) This is an announcement from the resub club. Will all patrons please ensure that all resubs are done on a cron job once a day . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] test

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: Had to resubscribe. Testing if my post make it. Charles You made it, now join the resub club. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Is the list down ?

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Poogle wrote: Received no posts since yesterday morning (and the archives show no updates since 15 Nov) so I re-subbed and still nothing, if this hits the list can somebody reply to me please? Yes you made it to me via newbie, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] Resubbed?

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: Test You're now an official member of the rsub club. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Test v2.0

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Tango Echo wrote: did everyone just get unsubbed? Yep, big time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Is the list down ?

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
an official member of the rsub club now. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thank you, Eric

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
thanks , John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES **

2003-11-21 Thread John Richard Smith
to resub: resubmit your membership by sending an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] with , subscribe newbie in the subject, and body -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
installation CD and start all over again? Of course you can start all over again, and maybe you ought to, just for experience, but linux offers you many solutions, you can run XFdrake from that root terminal instead, to configure your monitor and video card, and startX on bootup. John -- John Richard

Re: [newbie] Image Viewer

2003-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
. If you are not in Xwindows, type startx first. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
instead of the USB, but until I get that sorted out, I'm feeling a bit stuck. Oh well. I'll keep trying. :-) Cann't help the ethernet cards, no previous experience, nor cable modems. What sort of dialup modem do you have ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
in reply so I guessing you have a commer of full stop in the wrong place or something similar ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error

2003-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Scott Naylor wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 10:34 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Scott Naylor wrote: I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. It's supposed to be my reader device in K3B, but right now it doesn't work. It isn't currently set to scsi, but I don't know how

Re: [newbie] Be prepared for ignorant questions

2003-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
lasting damage, take the plunge. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Modem Question

2003-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
PROTECTED] Buy a hardware controlled modem, they work well in both linux and windblows. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error

2003-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Scott Naylor wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 10:34 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Scott Naylor wrote: I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. It's supposed to be my reader device in K3B, but right now it doesn't work. It isn't currently set to scsi, but I don't know how

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
in there ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie M. wrote: Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:51 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Melissa Reese wrote: As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error myself, because if all I mess up is the fresh drive

Re: [newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error

2003-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
to not need scsi-emulation, I think you ought to post your /etc/fstab here and lets see what it's got for you cdrom. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Freezing under 9.2 installation

2003-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
it). John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-14 Thread John Richard Smith
do understand where the degative trait is coming from. All I can say though is if we seem that to you , more is the pitty on us. For as you say Linux is not an elitist user club, you are free to join and be one or leave as you wish. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

[newbie] KDE3.1.0 and my printer in M9.1

2003-11-14 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] video file conversions

2003-11-13 Thread John Richard Smith
sure mencoder, part of mplayer can do that , though I haven't actually done it myself. I believe it can convert audio to og vorbis. Is this a home movie, most DVD's are already mp3. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] DivX player ?

2003-11-13 Thread John Richard Smith
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/BB0A4H/saledep-21?dev-t=DJQUA1R Is this Yamada DVX-6100 MPEG4 Multi-region DVD Player - Umax, electronics going to be any good for playing .avi format do you think ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-13 Thread John Richard Smith
but I do understand where the degative trait is coming from. All I can say though is if we seem that to you , more is the pitty on us. For as you say Linux is not an elitist user club, you are free to join and be one or leave as you wish. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] post-install 9.2 issues with mozilla and openoffice

2003-11-12 Thread John Richard Smith
OpenOffice kill -9 20325 or, kill -9 20232 that should kill it, what you do after than ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
someone has to download and while they may not be a perfect hardware fit they are good enough to do a lilo delete. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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