Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: 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 ;-) I guess he's just like the Delphic oracle, he

Re: [newbie] 9.1 and XP dual boot failure = another problem

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
et wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:21 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... 2) what is MBR? thanks Thigao The fdisk/mbr command is a DOS switch command

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

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
et wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:21 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... 2) what is MBR? thanks Thigao The fdisk/mbr command is a DOS switch command

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader.

2003-11-09 Thread John Richard Smith
to configure it to boot linux. Personally , I've tried both methods and would still elect to chain boot load with lilo. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Rezound

2003-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] source rpms

2003-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
If it's a big one and you want the errors messages pumped to a text file, rpm -rebuild package.src.rpm 2 pathtotextfile.txt you don't have to make a text file ,just name it and it will create the text file where you tell it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] source rpms

2003-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Anarky wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Anarky wrote: can anybody plz tell me what source rpms are about? is there a special procedure to installing them? Source code , SRC.rpms are just that. you have to create a directory place package.src.rpmin it, and in a terminl, cd directory

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??

2003-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
fix things for you. I think your file system must be fried to such an extent that it cannot find an init script to run. I don't know though. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound

2003-11-06 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-05 Thread John Richard Smith
I don't believe you answered the question:- Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound

2003-11-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 03:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: By means of employing gramofile I have created a set of .wav files from an audio tape. When I come to load the .wav files into Rezound I get an error message, error reading audio data from /tmp/track01.wav

Re: [newbie] USB V.90 Modem Problem

2003-11-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Hardware controlled modem, which has built in control chips , so all you have to do is get your OS to recognise it's existance. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
desktop.Once kde has been selected once it adopts it as default until you change it again.Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] 9.2 questions

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
and running them. The installer will not hurt your machine, and it's pretty straight forward. Then just ask here if you have anyquestions. Good luck. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Download Managers

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:47:03 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John? I'm sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about here? Are my messages bouncing, or are your e-mails bouncing, or is someone elses e-mail bouncing? Noticed nothing here... Greetings

[newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
them in rezound. The short bit of .wav that resound has accepted plays badly, very garbled, rough, as though half the audio stream has been clipped away. Is there anything I can do about it , does anyone have the experience to advise me. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] Audio streams

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
an audio analogue cable, that is via the IDE cable, but then I do have my DVD scsi-emulated, possibly that is the reason ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
in rezound. The short bit of .wav that resound has accepted plays badly, very garbled, rough, as though half the audio stream has been clipped away. Is there anything I can do about it , does anyone have the experience to advise me. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
rights, which are subordinate. Or so Novell claims, and SCO is reluctant to admit. And now, what's next ? - IBM buys Mandrake ? Kaj Haulrich. And go closed source ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Installation help with partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
install configuration is required. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Download Managers

2003-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:30 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:01, John Richard Smith wrote: In practicle reallity, and over some time, I have proved to my own satisfaction that it does nothing for you. It's

Re: [newbie] scsi emulation

2003-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:46:41 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: I don't know how to set the scsi emulation. snip Thank you for the help, but I have tried altering fstab to the point where I now get an error on boot

Re: [newbie] Download Managers

2003-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
** To find rpm packages use www.rpmfind.net type the general package name in and search and it will give you all the avaiable sites. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels

2003-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
feeling my way . So at the moment, I can cache the tape to HD and play them as .wav files , but the sound levels are poor and I need to learn how best to use the apps to repair and restore . Hints and suggestions welcomed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels

2003-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
player is clipping the range of the output too. Does that sound right ? I will then play with the other apps to see what sound levels I can increase too. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Download Managers

2003-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
of such a facility is minimal.I'm restricted to the minimal band width the ISP allows me, never more than 4kb/sec, and usually far below that. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
to boot the new kernel. You still retain your old one, and the boot script . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels

2003-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
of various pieces where the sources are all quite different requires at least a semblance of equalisation in order to make listening to them a joy. So at the moment I need to up the general sound levels equally without distortion and throughout the set of .wav files. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Download Managers

2003-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:01, John Richard Smith wrote: In practicle reallity, and over some time, I have proved to my own satisfaction that it does nothing for you. It's an illusion. Looks clever and swish but actually does nothing to accellerate the download

Re: [newbie] Raw tree installation of mdk 9.2

2003-10-31 Thread John Richard Smith
clearer than the Mandrake download page :) Are these the finished thing ? MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD1.i586.iso MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD2.i586.iso MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD3.i586.iso John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Raw tree installation of mdk 9.2

2003-10-31 Thread John Richard Smith
is bundled and sold in the boxes ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] scsi emulation

2003-10-31 Thread John Richard Smith
Lee Wiggers wrote: I don't know how to set the scsi emulation. After the install, there is no scsi drive found. Lee Add to append line in /etc/lilo.conf append= hdc=ide-scsi The /etc/fstab may need altering if you want to mount it . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] Audio recording levels

2003-10-31 Thread John Richard Smith
OK so your've cached up a collection of .wav files and you find that upon review your've got the general recording levels a tad on the quiet side. Is there a programme that you can run to incrase the audio level a bit more ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-30 Thread John Richard Smith
. Just my view. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2003-10-30 Thread John Richard Smith
chance know the executable name so I can run it without those menus? kcmshell mouse any good ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96R compare to yours: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R For packet writing there's 3 ingredients, kernel support

[newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-tmb-source-2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk.i586.rpm I've never had 3 kernels before, do you install all 3, and if so will it produce one set of kernel and initrc files or 3 of each. I guess you only install , kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm but ? John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
is held in case you need it, then ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
cannot be expected to know the difference. It is all too damn easy to buy the wrong equipement. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: 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... ;-) Who can remember dragnet John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
case I felt curious.I just thought I'd give it a whirl to see what it does. No harm in that. Still , M9.2 will be out soon. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
of the unwritten disc free for more additions at a later time. If I understand this properly packet writing enables this process better. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
fast ram timings will do far more than compiling for K7. Either can cause a loss of system stability tho. On that, I have proved myself too often right ; OK, well lets leave the compile asside a moment. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Gramofile

2003-10-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 27 October 2003 3:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK , so that looks good. I gave the files song names to see if it would give me the same songs titiles in a CD player, it doesn't, so that will not work, next time I'll stick to track1 etc. Obviously I really

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-28 Thread John Richard Smith
person to log in as ? well, I get to boot successfully usually after the third or fourth try. Form login, or the whole thing ? How much memory ? Sounds to me like maybe xwindows is failing maybe ? Are you booting ked ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Gcombust Question

2003-10-28 Thread John Richard Smith
senility? good question , I don't know, but I can say it has happened to me before, some permission changes don't seem to hold in gui route. Destined to die a newbie. Join the club Thanks for the help. Lee John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

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

2003-10-28 Thread John Richard Smith
doing, but if it's some process running in a shell, you can maybe output the script to a text file like this, pathtotextfile.txt if you only want the errors, then 2 pathtotextfile.txt that will at least save it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Gramofile

2003-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 26 October 2003 12:46, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone some thoughts and ideas ? First off, I find KMix to be too confusing. I use Aumix. Indeed so it turns out to be , my verion seems to work on one of the aumix lines, I have all kmix set 100

Re: [newbie] Gramofile

2003-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 26 October 2003 12:46, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone some thoughts and ideas ? First off, I find KMix to be too confusing. I use Aumix. Indeed so it turns out to be , my verion seems to work on one of the aumix lines, I have all kmix set 100

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

2003-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
I doing wrong. TIA You need to provide more information. What emailer and version are you using ? When you give the send command does it give you a progress slider bar ? Then someone may be able to help you. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Gramofile

2003-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
to the mobo. Will this blow things up, or is it OK to have two seperate devices on the same socket? Anyone got any experience with this problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Mandrake more in the long run.If there is risk, name it, let people take the decision,and advise them of better equipement, so that they are empowered to make better decissions. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Audio Jackplug wiring

2003-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
channel to left imput channel right output channel to right imput channel It just sounds OK How can I check up to make sure. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Audio Jackplug wiring

2003-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul M. Bucalo wrote: On Sunday 26 October 2003 10:33 am, John Richard Smith graced me with: I'm told Mobo audio connection is, Red= Right channel Wt = Left channel Blk = Common or ground but, Stereo Jackplug ? Diagram === | body | shank1 |shank2 | tip therefore , body = blk

Re: [newbie] Audio Jackplug wiring

2003-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 4:25 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 07:33, John Richard Smith wrote: I'm told Mobo audio connection is, Red= Right channel Wt = Left channel Blk = Common or ground but, Stereo Jackplug ? Diagram === | body

[newbie] Audio Jackplug wiring

2003-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
I'm told Mobo audio connection is, Red= Right channel Wt = Left channel Blk = Common or ground but, Stereo Jackplug ? Diagram === | body | shank1 |shank2 | tip therefore , body = blk but is red (right channel) shank2 or tip ? Can anyone help? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Audio Jackplug wiring

2003-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 07:33, John Richard Smith wrote: I'm told Mobo audio connection is, Red= Right channel Wt = Left channel Blk = Common or ground but, Stereo Jackplug ? Diagram === | body | shank1 |shank2 | tip therefore , body = blk but is red (right channel

Re: [newbie] Audio Jackplug wiring

2003-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
and that the plug has the same numbering on it so it would seem important to get it back the right way round, ie 1 to 4 matching each other. John John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] pppd dies

2003-10-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Warren Post wrote: El mié, 22-10-2003 a las 13:01, John Richard Smith escribió: Other factors, Line quality, Well, that's probably it then. The problem is more acute when it's raining, and I'm dialing in over phone lines that our government telco splices with masking tape. Guess I'm just

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Thread John Richard Smith
of the boot script. If you choose to reinstall , then lilo will be renewed completely. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] caching up audio files from and external source

2003-10-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Can you cache up audio files from an external source like an audio CD player ? I think I could rig up some sort of audio line from the audio output socket of my main highfy CD player to the audio imput on my mobo. But would it work, and can you blow something up ? John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Thread John Richard Smith
. Splitting your drive up into spare partitions enables easier flexibility for the future. You can further split each partition, or amalgomate some together as you wish without having to redo everything all from the very beginning again. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Each to their own, but I would not have so much space devoted to one task. Much more convenient to measure out your hard drive into practicable spare partitions, with seperate mount points.Then

Re: [newbie] caching up audio files from and external source

2003-10-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 12:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Can you cache up audio files from an external source like an audio CD player ? I think I could rig up some sort of audio line from the audio output socket of my main highfy CD player to the audio imput on my mobo

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-23 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-23 Thread John Richard Smith
or bumping through CD1 install disc. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-23 Thread John Richard Smith
text editor, not VI , otherwise not fussy, possible internet connection. Genuine Root status John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul M. Bucalo wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:17 am, John Richard Smith graced me with: Paul, I have an optical mouse, My XF86Config(-4) doesn't have Option Resolution 200 in it at all, Does this mean that where the system doesn't find a resolution set here it adopts a default

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
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[newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
What package installs diskdrake ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
have a Packard bell optical mouse which can be either ps2 or usb and mine works well in mandrake on ps2 setting. I don't think there is any reason why opticals should not work just as well as the old types. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Sharrea Day wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:24, John Richard Smith wrote: What package installs diskdrake ? [root]default# which diskdrake /usr/sbin/diskdrake [root]default# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/diskdrake drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk Sharrea Hey that's a useful little command

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] Soyo KT400 Motherboard

2003-10-21 Thread John Richard Smith
a good idea to post the solution anyway as other will find it using a search engine and solve their problems thereby. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How may I redirect the ls -l command

2003-10-19 Thread John Richard Smith
interesting to know why the % character is so often used . I think there is more to the use of the % character than has yet come out, am I wrong ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problems accessing hard/removeable drives

2003-10-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 14:20, John Richard Smith wrote: Well, I'm not wishng to be a wet blanket, but I have exactly the same Desktop Icon setup problem with Supermount, and gave up , in favour of automount in the end. I tried getting the supermount desktop Icons

Re: [newbie] Problems accessing hard/removeable drives

2003-10-19 Thread John Richard Smith
frequently used apps, so much so that together with the dictionary and other things , at times I would like a second taskbar at the bottom. If I could have that I would do away with the desktop icons altogether. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] CDParanoia read error

2003-10-18 Thread John Richard Smith
I can supply the disc info off list if required but prefer not to list here. Can anyone suggest the reasons why both cdparanoia and KsCD failed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problems accessing hard/removeable drives

2003-10-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 08:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 06:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 05:23 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I am getting error message 'Could not enter /mnt/zip

Re: [newbie] How may I redirect the ls -l command

2003-10-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Tony S. Sykes wrote: ls -l output.file Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:27 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] How may I redirect the ls -l command How may I redirect the ls -l command to pump the output

Re: [newbie] Texstar's break

2003-10-16 Thread John Richard Smith
with all of you sometime after the first of | the year. Regards, Texstar | '--- Thank you, Texstar. Thorsten We shall miss you. Hope all works out fine for you. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Partitioning (was Installing Mandrake)

2003-10-16 Thread John Richard Smith
than just / and swap? For example... /, /home, and swap I use my computer as a desktop system only and have used a few different distrobutions before but am currently installing mandrake 9.2 */ /* -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake

2003-10-16 Thread John Richard Smith
. The size of my second hard drive is a bit more than 8GB and it has two partitions, one of them(D) is 4.04GB and has WinXP on it and the other one(E) is 4.03GB and it is empty.that is where I would like to install Mandrake. Thanks for the help -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D / 3d artwork / Blender

2003-10-13 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I installed blender on M9.0 and took a close look at it , and frankly , to a complete beginner it seemed a bit too much to understand. They assume you already know a lot of the terms, but if you are like me you have never ever seen a 3d modeling

Re: [newbie] Phoenix bios

2003-10-13 Thread John Richard Smith
as in Windows. Supports moving partitions entirely over to alternate drives, resizing partitions (Reiser included), etc. If you have to use a Windows partition manager, I would get that one over Partition Magic. Anyone know when partimage will support Reiser ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D / 3d artwork / Blender

2003-10-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Anarky wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: modelling, animation, texturing, workflow rendering. Could you kindly define for this rank newbie 3d modeler, what each of the 5 subject headings mean. okie :P Modelling, I guess making a 3d outline. well ... this is about making the shape

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread John Richard Smith
entry, go to, MCC-System-Menudrake and add an entry in Kstartmenu, or call menudrake like this, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# menudrake best to make entries in menudrake for system wide use as root. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] rpm --rebuild querry

2003-10-10 Thread John Richard Smith
]# ls packagemdk.src.rpm ]# rpm --rebuild packagemdk.src.rpm /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb: No such file or directory So what is wrong ? Clearly the package is there. what's with this /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb message ? Am I missing some component ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry

2003-10-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:19:57 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb Hiya John, Install rpm-build ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux D, so right

Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry

2003-10-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:01:00 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D, so right , and obvious. I would also offer a safety suggestion. Created an rpm build environment in /home/you so that it is not necessary to build/rebuild rpms as root. When you

Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry

2003-10-10 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 10 October 2003 16:01, John Richard Smith wrote: D, so right , and obvious. Say, since when has rpm-build not been included in a standard initial OS install ? It never ocured to me it wouldn't automatically be installed. John Since a certain distro

Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry

2003-10-10 Thread John Richard Smith
-- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux But you still get kernel S+H on your discs , yes/no , but not automatically installed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-10 Thread John Richard Smith
, I suppose this is about colouring in the 3d outline ? Workflow, ? rendering , ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Patenting of Software Code

2003-10-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi Dick, John, Anne and all, On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:30, Dick Gevers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John and all others, On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:41:52 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Patenting of Software

[newbie] Patenting of Software Code

2003-10-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Tiffany Venning Parliamentary Assistant to Bill Newton Dunn MEP Tel: +32 (0) 228 47712 Fax: +32 (0) 228 49712 www.newton-dunn.com http://www.newton-dunn.com John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Patenting of Software Code]

2003-10-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: whack Incidentally, I just know at some stage we are going to have the arguement for patenting code thrown at us because they will say the Americans allow it. Is that really true

Re: [newbie] Compacting folders in Mozilla

2003-10-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:01, John Richard Smith wrote: So the reason is simple the visual delete is just that , it's not physically removed until the compaction is complete. So the obvious next question, in that case suppose you accidentally visually delete a message can you

[newbie] [Fwd: Patenting of Software Code]

2003-10-03 Thread John Richard Smith
I forward to this list , for members perusal, a copy of an email I have just sent to all my local East Midlands UK MEP's (Member of the European Parliament) concering the patenting of software code. I will let you know what if any reply I get. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

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