RE: [newbie] Proview LCD Monitors - Feedback?

2002-02-22 Thread Johnson, David
I don't have any information on this brand specifically, but I can give you some things to look for in an LCD monitor if you need help there: There are 3 things that one should look for in a desktop LCD monitor: 1) Contrast ratio - Should be at least 350:1. 400:1 or better is preferable 2)

[newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread Johnson, David
How do people get their current uptime info into their e-mail signature? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread Johnson, David
or script to determine the contents of the sig. Which email reader do you use? -Original Message- From: Johnson, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:12 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig How do people get

RE: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to]

2002-01-14 Thread Johnson, David
? -Original Message- From: skinky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Johnson, David; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to] On Saturday 12 January 2002 10:01, Johnson, David wrote: | You've all been

[newbie] KMail install?

2002-01-11 Thread Johnson, David
I recently install LM8.1 and opted to install only Gnome and not KDE, but I want to use KMail. I cannot seem to find a package that will allow me to install only KMail. Must I install KDE to get KMail? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Kernel update question [How to]

2002-01-11 Thread Johnson, David
You've all been so helpful today...Here's another question: I'm going through the process of updating my kernel as detailed in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-079-1.php3 and my question comes from this snippet of text where I'm supposed to add something to lilo so I can

RE: [newbie] clock on dual boot system

2001-12-27 Thread Johnson, David
My guess would be that you have an incorrect time zone set on one of the OS's... -Original Message- From: Kenn Murrah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] clock on dual boot system okay, i know this is a trivial

RE: [newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake 8.2?

2001-12-21 Thread Johnson, David
You might just give 8.1 a try. I had substantial difficulties with 8.0, but they all went away with 8.1... -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Thread Johnson, David
This bring up a good point, though. How SHOULD one upgrade their kernel? -Original Message- From: Ed Tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake NO Mandrake says do NOT

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Thread Johnson, David
using. Before you do reboot. Make sure you have a bootdisk and you have read the steps I had to take. Because once you reboot, your not going anywhere until you install the kernel the correct way. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Thread Johnson, David
old kernel installing the new one.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Johnson, David Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001 3:42 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake This bring up

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Thread Johnson, David
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake I hope you took my word and made a bootdisk From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Johnson, David
Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you have a

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Johnson, David
and thats when the problems started. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:11:46 -0500 Hmm. I did this update some time ago via

[newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...

2001-11-13 Thread Johnson, David
Folks, I'd love to ditch Windows completely, but there is still some good software that I hang on to that I think is only available for Windows. Somebody prove me wrong: Outlook with Exchange server - I run an Exchange server at the house and want to maintain the Outlook functionality. Is

[newbie] Is this program installed?

2001-10-31 Thread Johnson, David
I just finished re-installing LM8.1 and am beginning to build the machine into a Snort machine. One of the software pieces that I want to install for this purpose is OPEN SSH. When I issue a rpm -qa openssh I get the output: openssh-2.9p2-4mdk Does this mean that I installed the package

RE: [newbie] startx and kde

2001-10-30 Thread Johnson, David
Sridhar, When I installed my LM8.1, I chose Gnome as my default window manager, but since rebooting, I am thrust into KDE by default. When I execute startx gnome I only get a blue screen with a terminal window open and nothing else. Is there something I'm doing wrong or something I need to

RE: [newbie] Category 5 cable question

2001-10-30 Thread Johnson, David
I don't know about the UL specifications, but CAT5 is not rated at 1,000mbps. It may work, but there will be no guarantee. CAT5 is designed to be rock-solid at up to 100mbps. If you want 1000baseT, you'll need to bump up to CAT5e or CAT6 (the latter is VERY expensive) otherwise, you take your

RE: [newbie] Circular dependencies?

2001-10-23 Thread Johnson, David
Dave, Thanks for the tip. There's now a TON of dependencies on mozilla that I don't yet have installed, but your trick DID work. I am thinking I may just attempt to make a network boot disk and use that to do an upgrade to 8.1, to help avoid some of this frustration... -Original

[newbie] Postfix config problem?

2001-10-18 Thread Johnson, David
Ok, so I'm starting to get the hang of this Linux thing. I'm now running Postfix to act as my SMTP service to get e-mail out from my machine. I do this because I'm using the POP3 account from my home DSL provider and they don't allow relaying from machines not on there network for SMTP traffic.

RE: [newbie] Changing window managers

2001-10-18 Thread Johnson, David
tell me how to initiate this? Thanks for the advice! -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:45 PM To: 'Johnson, David' Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers It sounds like you did not perform a full installation

[newbie] Changing window managers

2001-10-18 Thread Johnson, David
I'm running LM8.0 and have been using KDE since I installed, but I have been playing with Gnome on another machine I have and would like to switch this machine over. How can I change from KDE to Gnome? Thanks David Johnson RLU# 236992 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] Source tarballs and directories...

2001-10-05 Thread Johnson, David
Sorry for the COMPELTE newbie-ness here, but is it safe to remove the tarball and subsequent directories for a piece of software once I install it? E.G. I just downloaded the tarball for Flex and decompressed it into the directory structure, then went through the configure/make/install process