Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-12 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:39:39 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution [snip] Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they

[newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-11 Thread John Rye
Hi all, Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can only be described as an interesting discovery There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst several others: glibc-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-build-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm,

Re: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]

2004-10-09 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:30:45 +0200 Robert Lucencic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, John. Still nothing. KPPP started PPPD, which now actually does something (receives!!!): Ok, [large snip] Let's go back to basics with a few questions. Why did you change from the external modem? They are

Re: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]

2004-10-08 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:15:06 +0200 Robert Lucencic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all! I've installed Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition recently. I'm having problems with my modem connection to the Net. Modem dials and connects, pppd terminates 10-20 secs later, saying Oct 6 22:59:32 case

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Can't go to https site with either Netscape, Firefox, Opera

2004-09-24 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:17:21 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 September 2004 05:00, MyEE wrote: Dears, Netscape, Firefox and Opera can't read any site that starts with HTTPS. They say The operation is timed out: This is true for Linux and Windows version of

[newbie] USB cardreader problems

2004-08-29 Thread John Rye
This message is crossposted. Opsys: Mandrake 10.0 Official Here's the situation: We have a Kodak DC3200 digital camera which ises a conventional compactflash module for storage. Because we cannot connect the camera directly to computer, there seems to be now way of reading from the camera.

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-12 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Richard Smith wrote: | Martin Foster wrote: | | On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, | | Dear John, | | Thank you for your email. |

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-12 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Richard Smith wrote: | Martin Foster wrote: | | On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, | | Dear John, | | Thank you for your email. |

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-09 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele BELARDI wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How to decypher dialupscript Where can I get a list of explanation of the messages the dial up window gives you in kppp ? John Not sure of

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-08 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:54:00 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:17 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jul 2004 3:16 am, Justin Grote wrote: RU That's true if you're deciding between C, Java and Ada, but many RU languages are very different.

Re: [newbie] Rights issue in ML10

2004-07-07 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:08:36 -0600 Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 12:23, hackhound wrote: I had to reinstall ML10 due to hard drive crash over the weekend. Now I am experiencing tighter security than I used to when it comes to browsing directories in Konqueror or

Re: [newbie] Packages Installer

2004-07-06 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:32:28 +0300 EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys/Gals I Installed freetype-1.3.1-20mdk.i586.rpm* I got few error but later I lost my menu System|Configuration|Packages|Install Package Any idea 'update-menus -v -n' (without the quotes) as root and user Cheers John nz

Re: [newbie] Packages Installer

2004-07-06 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 13:22:03 -0400 Matt Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'update-menus -v -n' (without the quotes) as root and user Out of curiosity, what is the -n switch for? I did not see anything in the manpage. While trying it out, it seemed to create some different output to stdout,

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-07-03 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 08:16:25 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I think I made all the changes that were recommended. I still dont understand although I was able to contact my bank and access my account which is what really started all this. It appears that everything is now

Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2

2004-07-01 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:50:42 +0200 RAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-07-01 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:15:42 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: As far as resolv.conf, if you are running DCHD, then the file should get rebuilt with the information from your DSL modem. But it is

Re: [newbie] router up Now?

2004-07-01 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:33:54 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:11 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Okie Dokie I by brute force threats and vast quantities of beer have gotten my network up (partially) so far both units can connect to the net but not to each other.

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:03:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:44, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:47 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have random resolver problems sometimes it works fine and others it times out unable to find the site I'm

[newbie] OT - music lovers beware

2004-06-23 Thread John Rye
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/beastie_boy_cd_virus/ Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] What port scanning software is in use on the list?

2004-06-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:57:37 -0400 Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I'm thinking about installing portsentry on my box to augment my shorewall firewall. I downloaded the gzipped source and got some compile errors. Before I try to post to the developer, does anybody know of

Re: [newbie] Loads of new ROX goodness...

2004-05-16 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 16 May 2004 08:06:34 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004 15:21:09 +1200 John Rye disseminated the following: ...saw someone in my logs using their noodle, though ;-) For once the noodle was in gear :-))) But ... I was really going after

Re: [newbie] Loads of new ROX goodness...

2004-05-15 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 15 May 2004 21:21:17 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.orderinchaos.org/MakISO.tar.gz Whoops, that is of course: http://www.orderinchaos.org/MakeISO.tar.gz ...saw someone in my logs using their noodle, though ;-) For once the noodle was in gear :-))) But ... I

Re: [newbie] Checksumming CDs

2004-04-19 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:33:08 -0400 Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:20:10 +1200 John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone remind me ? I need to compute the md5sum of a cd before I duplicate it If you are doing this from Linux, then dd if=/dev

[newbie] Checksumming CDs

2004-04-18 Thread John Rye
Could someone remind me ? I need to compute the md5sum of a cd before I duplicate it Thx John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] File Recovery Utilites

2004-04-05 Thread John Rye
Could someone recommend a (preferably Linux-based) file recovery utility? I have 1.2mb of data on a damaged vfat floppy I desparately need to get back. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Installing Second Parallel Port

2004-03-02 Thread John Rye
I have need of a second parallel port to use my old parallel Epson GT5000 scanner. I've installed a Dolphin 2-port card which Harddrake lists as follows: Vendor: Timedia Technology Co Ltd Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1409:7268:1409:104 Location on the bus: 0:c:0 Description: SUN1888 Simple

Re: [newbie] LCP timeout sending Config-Requests

2004-02-13 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:21:52 + Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Rye wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:13:16 + Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I have everything configured on my computer to connect to the Internetthrough Mandrake 9.2. However, I always get

Re: [newbie] LCP timeout sending Config-Requests

2004-02-12 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:13:16 + Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I have everything configured on my computer to connect to the Internet through Mandrake 9.2. However, I always get the following message (in /var/log/messages): LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests The

Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-02-01 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:27:55 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 03:22 pm, Margot wrote: IIRC, the easy urpmi site has moved, no longer hosted at zarb. But urpmi.setup should list a bunch of mirrors (?). It won't list plf sites for

Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP modem

2004-01-23 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:47:54 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:22:27 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:39:42 +1300 John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:16:45 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] PCMCIA Problems on Acer Travelmate 653LCi Laptop

2004-01-18 Thread John Rye
Hi Folks, I'm at the end of my tether with this thing :-)) Having been through (and through and through) the PCMCIA howto untold times and Googled for hours, I'm no further ahead in getting this thing to stick on a stock Mdk9.1 install The problem is getting the modules to load at boot, I can

Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP modem

2004-01-18 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:16:45 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone offer insight into this situation: I am using MDK 9.1 and have an external modem on ttyS0 (com 1). 1. With KPPP I can connect as the user, but I keep losing my connection and it returns an error code 16 (the

Re: [newbie] 9.1 boo hoo blues.

2003-06-04 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 03:16:24 -0400 James Henry Maiewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thank you so much! Making the change in Mandrake Control center let Kasper the friendly dragon (does He have an official name?) come back, as well as stopping the automatic login. I

Re: [newbie] kppp questions

2003-06-04 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 01:55:27 +0100 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been playing around with kppp. Two questions: 1. Are my frequent Mozilla crashes anything to do with the fact that I now have it opening on connect rather than manually? Are these 'crashes' or disconnects? If

Re: [newbie] I think I found a bug..

2003-06-04 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 00:49:24 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:46, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I think most of us have already seen this, mate. After you've completed your installation, you're supposed to update your software sources - some of us have chosen to

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:32:02 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But really I have always felt trapped in these discussions. I don't Me too!! believe there is really enough common ground to compare them. emacs is easier to get started with thanks to the tutorial built in, and vi is

Re: [newbie] GLX gears

2003-02-05 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:38:31 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a post a few days ago got me to thinking, I would like to see what scores different video cards and chipsets and mem give on glx gears Athlon-xp 1800, 256mb ram, Geforce2 Mx 400 32mb, Solteck SL-KT400-A4 (VIA KT333) Stock ML9.0,

Re: [newbie] C/L question

2003-02-01 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:31:21 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 02:15, Anne Wilson wrote: I see the following: chown [-R] [user][.][group] files from which I gather that a space goes after the -R, but not between the other components? What does

Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Soltek mobo?

2003-01-31 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:19:54 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 Jan 2003 1:50 am, John Rye wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/7 Socket A board, Via KT133 series, running an Athlon-XP 1800 with no problems. Thanks for that. For your interest

Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Soltek mobo?

2003-01-30 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:54:18 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read that there have been problems installing RH on Soltek mobos. Is anyone using one with Mandrake? Anne I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/7 Socket A board, Via KT133 series, running an Athlon-XP

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

2003-01-20 Thread John Rye
:50:00 +1300 John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While on the subject of trojans etc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] PCI Parallel Card

2003-01-12 Thread John Rye
Anyone had experience with these devices? I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit). Works find when configured as a GT-5000) So I obtained a Netmos

Re: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis

2003-01-07 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:37:50 -0600 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 January 2003 1:18 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: And just for the record...I love Deanna's large, brown eyes. Haven't noticed any change in her bust size, but those eyes are a winner! hope it don't break your heart to

Re: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which isbetter:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-07 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 14:22:19 -0600 Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What gets me is that the whole Iraq thing is over the oil. There's still no conclusive proof that they have weapons of mass destruction, but we know for sure they have vast amounts of oil. In fact, the Bush

Re: [newbie] Where is network?

2003-01-07 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 01:22:31 +0200 Can Baytan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best list ever seen, Thanks Charles, Stephen, Jason, etharp, mousedrake with alt-F1 menu - run like charm. Now, I installed 9.0 with a single CD, a magazine promotion, I didn't see kppp, thinking kppp is in other CD's

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all AND Geek vswhatever

2002-03-13 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:33:14 -0500 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trimmed somewhat Take a look at /etc/security/limits.conf As I recall there is a parameter in there with has something to do with the problem you describe. Mind you this is from the land which holds the Americas Cup -

[newbie] Capturing audio

2001-12-31 Thread John Rye
Hi all, I'm looking for a usable program for capturing audio from my soundcard. I've hunted all over Freshmeat and Google but don't seem to be abble to find anything which compiles let alone works!! If it's of any help I'm running Mandrake 8.1, kernel 2.4.16. Biggest problem is locating the

Re: [newbie] driver for Dell Trinitron

2001-12-09 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 02:10:48 -0500 Elijah Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Hi all, # # Does anyone know where I can find the driver for a Dell trinitron monitor? Driver?? I suspect you actually want the specifications - Yes?? Try looking at http://www.monitorworld.com They have a pretty

Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem

2001-09-13 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:29:07 +0100 Mark Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm running LM 7.2 (usually with KDE). I've tried using DrakConf - Change Screen Resolution with no success. My hardware is listed in the dropdowns for both graphics card and monitor so I select them both Cirrus

Re: [newbie]Dialling out problem

2001-09-13 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Adam Cripps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed and am looking forward to getting on the net with Linux. My modem - (COM2) seems to be working fine, but when it dials the ISP number I get a woman on the network (recorded voice) saying that

Re: [newbie] LILO and welcome screen

2001-09-13 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:32:15 -0400 Valerie Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I also want to get rid of the blue welcome bitmap. If you find a solution off-list, could you please tell me? Thanx. Simplest way of doing that is uninstall aurora. As root: rpm -e aurora Should fix that bit.

Re: [newbie] Webmail Thingo for Apache and Mandrake. OT

2001-09-07 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:15:24 -0400 Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett wrote: I need a webmail type of access program for a server running Mandrake. It needs to be able to handle IMAP accounts. Also, it needs to work as thus. Someone logs in as- username - user

Re: [newbie] downloaded packages stored where?

2001-08-30 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:57:29 +1200 skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var/cache/grpmi Hi all, Could some kind person please enlighten me as to where Software Manager stores downloaded update packages? I want to reinstall LM8.0 so I'm backing everything up to another drive but I can't for

Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:04:48 -0500 Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snip (ps: this thread could go south really fast, we should be careful not to translate religion to mean Catholicism or Protestantism or etc... religio means to link back and there is a reason why the word religion is

Re: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-14 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:18:34 +0200 Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, nobody knows of a program that will install .tar automatically? Take a look at kconfigure you should be able to locate via freshmeat It's a nice GUI Cheers John - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Realplayer sound defaults

2001-08-07 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:25:30 -0400 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My realplayer (basic v.8) keeps loading with the volume all the way down. In itself I can move that up to something audible when I load realplay, but the plugin for netscape and mozilla don't have a volume control.

Re: [newbie] Monitor LG Studiworks 441

2001-07-31 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:22:17 -0400 Aldo Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.monitorworld.com/ There you'll find specs for most monitors Cheers Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 8 and I've a monitor LG Studioworks 441. Mandrake correctly detects the card (Intel 810), but when it

Re: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:18:22 -0400 Tom Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, First off - Welcome to Linux OK then, a couple of points to start with.. You need to give us rather more information.. What kind of system do you have?? What kind of modem? (You are dual booting with Windows - I

Re: [newbie] Dial-up error pppd daemon died expectedly modem settings

2001-07-15 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:05:25 +0100 Minhaz at Telco4u [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --- John, thanks for sending me your

Re: [newbie] Switch between LAN and Modem Connection (2)?

2001-07-12 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:44:09 -0400 Van Winssen Ramaakers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op woensdag 11 juli 2001 12:13, schreef u: It looks like I was too optimistic. I am still having problems with both LAN and modem based Internet connections. The modem has the priority at the moment. It is

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-04 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 21:57:44 -0400 Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S'ok - we've all been here at some point GGrin that had something to do with mail transport. So okay, some progress. At sdesign.com I had fewer ports open than I did before, but I'm still seeing open ports at 631

[newbie] Re: [expert] modem connection woes

2001-06-26 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:38:18 +1200 syed irfan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have used this isp in NZ with mandrake 7.2 with a hardware internal modem, it woked like a breeze, now when i have switched to mandrake 8.0, snip Add the following in your /etc/ppp/options for a start:

[newbie] Commandline for diff or similar function

2001-06-25 Thread John Rye
I have two text files, one of around 900 lines and another of about 1600 lines. Both files have duplicated lines. I'm trying a get a third file which contains ONLY the unique lines from these two files. Initially it seemed that 'diff' would be the answer but for the life of me I cannot work

Re: [newbie] True Type Fonts in StarOffice5.2?

2001-06-24 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:12:47 -0500 Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot LM 8.0/Win98 SE. Thanks to Mandrake, I've been using True Type fonts in Netscape and Mozilla since LM 7.1. Question: Is there any way to use these True Type fonts in StarOffice 5.2? StarOffice's

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-06-24 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:24:37 +0300 ivan miranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed a power pack version of LM8.Staroffice works fine,java okay,but the fonts...awafullhow can i correct this.Earlier,i have corrected the fonts problem in LM8 and the browsers,by

Re: [newbie] Problem with su

2001-06-24 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 04:17:35 +0200 Amien Salie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm having a problem using the su command, this is the error i'm getting: File size limit exceeded This message is to do with user space quotas. edit /etc/security/limits.conf there is a line near the end which

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:48:51 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, Those 'can't be moved' clusters always gave me trouble when I attempted skrinking. For the past few Linux installs where dual-booting was going to be used, I found it a better option to remove and reinstall

Re: [newbie] kpppd exit status 16

2001-06-16 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:05:07 +0300 MinOtAVrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i m totally newbie with Linux (1 week) when i try to connect with my Netmode modem i get this error message kpppd fails Exit Status 16 type man pppd for help Finally this message means Modem terminate the

Re: [newbie] upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0

2001-06-05 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:08:16 -0700 (PDT) Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done this? Were there any problems encountered, such as when upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2? I want to upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0, but I'm wondering if it will be a headache to do without having to wipe my

Re: [newbie] OT: A strange one...

2001-06-01 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:57:49 +0200 Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 June 2001 22:12, poogle wrote: I have just replaced my PC case, a baby AT motherboard into an ATX case. Now because of the difference between AT and ATX power supplies my PC powers down when I issue the

Re: [newbie] Network printing problem

2001-05-20 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 18 May 2001 14:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried setting the printers up with kups? That makes it super easy. Configuration-Printers-Kups Thanks Tom, that was the clue I'd been seeking. I bounced around for several days looking all over the

Re: [newbie] Problem booting up with LILO

2001-05-16 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 16 May 2001 14:58:22 +0200 f d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boot from your floppy and check that /etc/lilo.conf is in fact pointing to the correct partition of the hard disk. it should point to the partition you assigned to /boot. Cheers Hi there all! I have a problem when booting

Re: [newbie] how to make boot disks

2001-05-11 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 11 May 2001 16:01:43 +0200 Alan Rolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question... How do i make a boot disk for my machine in case something goes wrong? i.e. from the console.. From a console as root (su, password) mkbootdisk (uname -r) dead easy Cheers John -- The number of

Re: [newbie] how to make boot disks

2001-05-11 Thread John Rye
the windows option to run the CD on insertion, I will start up a little graphical program which makes a Mandrake bootdisk. Does this help? Cheers John El Ciro - Original Message - From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Rolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

2001-05-03 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 2 May 2001 14:46:06 -0400 Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most shells have what I like to call dumby aliases. In the .shellrc, and when I say .shellrc I mean .YOUR_SHELLrc file. So if you are using bash, in your .bashrc you will find various dumby aliases. Just to add to

[newbie] Just Couldn't Resist!!

2001-04-24 Thread John Rye
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK Researchers Shocked Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email

[newbie] 7.2 install problem - Cdrom X-server

2001-04-21 Thread John Rye
I finally took the plunge and installed 7.2. Installation was uneventful other than the soundcard not being found. that was fixed without hassle. However. there are two problems .. Problem A) Cdrom is inaccessible despite running through the Cdburner tutorial pages. Error message as user

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Getting online

2001-03-30 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:08:06 -0800 phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone help me with this error message: "warning the following hosts are unknown. It indicates that Netscape cannot find a nameserver. I shall assume you haven't yet setup a dialer.. Activate Kppp (the Internet Icon

Re: [newbie] Kppp

2001-03-15 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:43:33 -0500 "Robert F. Trettel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All I just had callwaiting put on my phoneline. My Question is how and where do I tell Kppp about it?? I have touch-tone ,so the *70, will work in Windoze. My ISP doesn't have a script. All I had to do

[newbie] RPM Updating

2001-03-09 Thread John Rye
Sometime ago there was a series of posting regarding upgradeing/updating RPM to current versioning (4.???). I haven't been able to locate those posting. Could someone point me in the right direction, I remember there was a progression involved. I'm currently running L-M7.1 and rpm-3.0.4 and

Re: [newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them

2001-02-28 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:55:57 +1300 "Robert Fleming" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately after them when a directory listing is performed. What does this indicate? That their 'executable' bit is set. In most cases that will mean

Re: [newbie] untar commands?

2001-02-28 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:24:46 -0500 Bill Barto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar -zxvf 'wholecompletefilename' Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it work. My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I

Re: [newbie] Impossible question?

2001-02-26 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:57:24 +0100 DRX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as_png.c:41: X11/xpm.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [as_png.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/AfterStep-1.8.0/asimagelib' make[1]: *** [../../asimagelib/libasimage.a] Error 2 make[1]:

Re: [newbie] Impossible question?

2001-02-25 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 01:39:37 +0100 DRX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VERY large snip of totally useless information Have you attempted to compile this afterstep 'upgrade' yet. ? The first step in the process is to run './configure' in the top directory (without the quotes). If the configure works

Re: [newbie] New install - Xwindows

2001-02-24 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:01:32 -0500 "Owens, Blaine C" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody who is not a smartass can give me a clue as to how to correct my Xwindows problem then I think I can figure the rest out for myself. The card according to Windows Device Manager is Trident

Re: [newbie] Installing WinXows again

2001-02-19 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 06:40:50 -0300 John David Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El S_bado 17 Febrero 2001 15:18, escribiste: Boot into Linux and make a boot disk. Make sure the boot disk works. Then reinstall windows. Afterward, use the botdisk to get back into Linux. Then go into

Re: [newbie] Reinstalled Windows 98, how to get Linux to boot again?

2001-02-19 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:39:21 -0800 (PST) Keith Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have an 8 gig hard disk with Windows 98 on the primary partition. Installed Mandrake 7.0, no problems, could boot to either Windows 98 or Mandrake 7.0 with no problems. I had to reinstall Windows 98 a

Re: [newbie] Finding monitor specifications.

2001-02-18 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:47:29 -0800 "April" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip.. So, does anyone know of an -intelligent- way to go about guessing my monitor specifications? And, is there a way to change the configuration for the monitor without completely re-installing? An hour between

Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking

2001-02-17 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:09:25 - "carjam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably, but some people (like me) are stuck with html. I use outlook express. I have set all the options to plain text. In 5 places I have set the options to plain text. And it still sends html. I am makeing my own

Re: [newbie] Disappeared Internet access

2001-02-17 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:33:08 +0100 DRX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The modem beeps the way it's supposed to, and the little window tells me that it is connecting me to the Internet, but when it is finished I can't get to anywhere in Netscape. It tells me that every address is

Re: [newbie] Installing WinXows again

2001-02-17 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:27:18 -0600 Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this involves booting with the boot disk, but just not sure what cammands I need to run to get Linux back in control. at your floppy boot prompt type: linux 3 hit enter Login as root cd /etc If you need to edit

Re: [newbie] partitions on text linux install mode

2001-02-07 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:46:59 , AcidShell *-.-* said: Im trying to install Mandrake 7.0, how i have only 32 ram, im using the text mode, but in this mode, when i must select the partitions only appears the /hda2 (such that i dont create) and i cant choose anythng else.

Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..

2001-01-26 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:36:47 -0500, Tim Holmes said: When I got through the install, it askes me if I want to use Lilo/GRUB. I say yes, goes through and askes what partition the MBR would be on, and then does something. Takes a minute, harddrve light goes off, and then it

Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..

2001-01-22 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:29:22 -0500, Tim Holmes said: When I get a grub prompt it doesn't give me any option to log in as root. I've tried to su - root several times and I get nothing. I just slap in a Winbloze98 floppy in there, and do a fdisk /mbr. So how do I log in as root?

Re: [newbie] Two little problems

2001-01-20 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:01:15 +0800, L. H. LOO said: At 19-01-2001 -0500, you wrote: Question 2. My computer came with a winmodem installed but I have an external USR modem that I connected to one of the ports on the back (COMM1). The problem is that ML7.2 does not know there is a

Re: [newbie] drakxtools

2001-01-20 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:49:00 -0500 (EST), Mark Weaver said: I would think that it would be one of two things that cause this. 1) plain old American arrogance NO comment !! 2) a very "small" world view caused mainly by spending too much time in ones own back yard

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

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