Re: [newbie] newgrp

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 02:57, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 1:28 am, Dan Jones wrote: For example, I have a web server. I don't want my web pages to be world writable. However, I do want multiple people (say, a development team) to be able to modify the files. So I create

[newbie] newgrp

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
How does one go about using newgrp in an xwindows environment? Executing the command in a shell only effects that shell. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using ./popfile.pl , it requires an ENTER press before you get your command prompt back. What causes this, and how do I fix

Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:20, Miark wrote: On 11 Aug 2003 17:15:18 -0400, Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using

RE: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Jones
C'mmon guys, Fosters, Tooheys, Rickards - pour it down the drain and use the containers for ballasting. STEINLAGER - the real drink !! Lanman - I STILL haven't touched that email server - it just works ! Cheers Peter Guess I'll understand it when they stop saying that Foster's is Australian

Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-12 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:57, Miark wrote: On 11 Aug 2003 20:27:43 -0400, Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but I'm aware of that. However, I'd prefer to create a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d that allows me to start, stop and restart the server. (I'm hacking on the perl source

Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:49, Richard Jones wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:31, Richard Jones wrote: Wow, thanks for the quick reply! On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: You might want to check and modify your /etc/ld.so.conf to include some of the lib dirs found in your

Re: [newbie] installing 9.1...now! Is it normal to have long lulls?

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:38, eric huff wrote: Hi folks, I was just about to go to bed, but then though Ah, i'll just toss the cd in and see if it boots ok... Well, now i'm installing it. I am using my old 200MHz Pentium, 4Gig hard drive, So, is it because i am using an old slow

Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 20:31, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:56 am, Richard Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ konsole Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0

Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:44, Greg Meyer wrote: There was a revision (the final one) to libqt that turned anti-aliasing on by default that caused problems when the render extension was missing. This prevents qt apps from running in virtual sewssions like vnc and on video cards that do not

Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 07:03, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:05, Richard Jones wrote: Nope, fresh install, following all the rules. KDE still breaks. Any more ideas? Richard Fresh install - hmmmwell, something is obviously wrong here...have you reset your

Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:44, Greg Meyer wrote: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rpms uppercase RPMS: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/RPMS/ Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:55 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 05:06 pm, Richard Jones wrote: I recompilked the qt3 without that patch and it solved the problem for me. If you want to try the rpms, get them from here http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rpms Sorry, I get file

Re: [newbie] Installing Optushome on Mdk 9

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:55 am, Ronald Kuwawi wrote: Hi all, I'm very newbie in Linux, and got dualboot Win2000 and Mdk 9. Does anyone has any success installing Optushome on Mdk 9? [Optushome is a cable modem service in Australia - I live in Sydney]. It did recognize my Motorola SB 4100 cable

[newbie] shorewall pain and agony

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
I've got a machine that I use as a firewall and server. It has two ethernet cards: eth0 - cable modem to the internet eth1 - local LAN I set up the connections fine to access the internet and share the connection. The connection sharing seems to always want to set up ppp+, even though I don't

[newbie] Woo! MDK 9.1 and KDE problems all better

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Jones
I've just installed my AU$100 GF4 card (oo, 850FPS in gears :) and all the problems I was having before have magically gone away. Too bad MDK 9.1 doesn't support the crappier video cards of the world out of the box though :( Thanks everyone here for your help in getting me going! Richard

[newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Jones
I've installed 9.1 from the ISOs that I downloaded and burnt to CD. The install went flawlessly, but once I rebooted I found that no KDE application would work. I've had to startx xdm manually to even get X11 to start up. Any KDE app I try to run once X11 is going just quits out as soon as it

Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Jones
Wow, thanks for the quick reply! On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: You might want to check and modify your /etc/ld.so.conf to include some of the lib dirs found in your /usr/lib - including /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib as well - and make sure you run ldconfig to rebuild the

Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:31, Richard Jones wrote: Wow, thanks for the quick reply! On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: You might want to check and modify your /etc/ld.so.conf to include some of the lib dirs found in your /usr/lib - including /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib

[newbie] four shots into his Dell laptop Sunday (3/2) morning

2003-03-14 Thread David Jones
this cpu had to be running windoz caz linux would have fought back LOL http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/georgedoughty1.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-11 Thread David Jones
hello all i have a question i need to set up a ftp server for friends/users and fix it to where all need a user name and password before they can log on to only there folders/files and not be able to see other users folders/files My Setup i have mandrake 9.0 full install power pack edition with

Re: [newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-11 Thread David Jones
David Jones wrote: hello all i have a question i need to set up a ftp server for friends/users and fix it to where all need a user name and password before they can log on to only there folders/files and not be able to see other users folders/files My Setup i have mandrake 9.0 full

Re: [newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-11 Thread David Jones
the user to a group or what please help thank you all - Original Message - From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0 David Jones wrote: ok so i donot need to configure anythink other than adding a user

RE: [newbie] Hams on the list

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Jones
Me too ZL1BVJ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Márkus Béla Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:57 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hams on the list Hi Guys, one more. 73/DX de HA5DI, Béla Chris

[newbie] help!!! ftp server troubles

2003-02-26 Thread David Jones
up box any help would be greatly apreacated Thank You David Jones Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode

2002-12-09 Thread Jones, Robert
Title: ML9 boots only in text mode I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every

RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode

2002-12-09 Thread Jones, Robert
in text mode File: message.footer On Monday 09 December 2002 10:23 am, Jones, Robert wrote: I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried

RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode

2002-12-09 Thread Jones, Robert
in text mode File: message.footer login as root, (in a text console since you don't want to have X running (and you cann't get X to run)), without the quotes, type XFdrake On Monday 09 December 2002 03:02 pm, Jones, Robert wrote: XFDrake? I'm a brand-new-to-this-newbie... where the heck do I find

RE: [newbie] alcatel speed touch pro Mand9

2002-11-29 Thread Peter Jones
If your router is working for windows already and has run OK on RH8 the it MUST be your MD9 TCP/IP settings that are incorrect. I assume you can ping the router or access the WEB STYLE config page ... Suggest you have a close hard look at the TCP/IP settings , in particular the Gateway IP and the

[newbie] networking - I can get into my box but not back out

2002-02-04 Thread Elizabeth Jones
on how I would determine what that should be? thanks - Ebeth Jones Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] networking - I can get into my box but not back out

2002-02-04 Thread Elizabeth Jones
This worked, I changed the broadcast address as Gerald said and now it is working. Thanks alot! On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, Elizabeth Jones wrote: %_Hi - I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new box. I am trying to duplicate a box that died last week

[newbie] Where is the kernel configuration?

2001-12-03 Thread Jones, Alan
I am using Mandrake Linux 8.1 Standard edition on my PC. I have only been using Linux for about two weeks. I want to modify my kernal. According to my Linux for Dummies book, there is supposed to be a /usr/src/linux directory, but I don't see it. I appreciate help on this subject because I want

[newbie] Mandrake Security Question/Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Brent Jones
! Brent Jones ++Systems Administrator http://www.servuhome.net ++Network Technician http://www.inetarena.com

[newbie] Installing blackbox

2001-03-27 Thread bill jones
I'm sure there are loads on sources online to tell me how to do this, but i can't find a one that works for me, for whatever reason. I'm running Mandrake 7.2 with kernel 2.2.18 on a compaq LTE 5380 laptop. I've got a pent133 with 80 meg of ram and a 2 gig hdd. My problem is that KDE 2 that

Re: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-09 Thread Paul Jones
soory to e-mail you but how the hell do i stop all these linux e-mail's - Original Message - From: Blomquist; "Niklas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:30 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel questions What is the difference between kernel-source-xxx

[newbie] unsubscibe me

2001-02-09 Thread Paul Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks

Fw: [newbie] Remove!!!!!!!!

2001-02-05 Thread Paul Jones
- Original Message - From: "Henk Buwalda" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Remove Hi, Please remove me Henk Buwalda

Re: [newbie] Ethernet setup

2001-01-25 Thread Gerald A. Jones
John, The 3c509B card can run in three modes EISA, PNP, and ISA. Mandrake can only use this card in ISA mode. Here is what you need to do to get the card working. Go to ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/NIC/3c509/ and down load 3c509x2.exe to a DOS/WIN system in to

Re: [newbie] 3com NIC

2001-01-18 Thread Gerald A. Jones
At 1/18/2001 17:51, you wrote: I have just installed Mandrake on a P60 with 2 3Com 3c509b Ethernet cards. The system doesn't recognise the cards, what command can I use to add the correct device drivers ?? Rob Hi Rob! The 3c509B card can run in three modes EISA, PNP, and ISA. Mandrake can

[newbie] MALE or MAIL

2001-01-12 Thread GARRY JONES
Hi guys just letting you know that mail that people are sending to newbie is all coming to me.Can you tell me how i can stop all this mail coming to me. Desperate - WANT A NEW JOB? THEN LET THE JOB FIND YOU Visit

[newbie] Security check.

2001-01-10 Thread GARRY JONES
At thursday 11 Jan 15:10 AEST. Australia Can you help me,people are sending you e-mails and then the e-mails are being sent to me. HELP HELP GAGDE - WANT A NEW JOB? THEN LET THE JOB FIND YOU Visit www.ecruit.com.au and

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What`s all this stuff i am receiving - WANT A NEW JOB? THEN LET THE JOB FIND YOU Visit www.ecruit.com.au and register your profile. Then the headhunters can find you. - Get your own free email account

Re: [newbie] Windows help

2000-12-05 Thread Gerald A. Jones
Hi Walter, Believe me your English is far better than my Spanish don't worry I go the message. I know you will get replies about other mail programs but here is how to use Netscape to access the Exchange Mail. Start Netscape Select edit Select preferences Select Mail Newsgroups Select Mail

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on an old system - Firewall

2000-11-27 Thread Gerald A. Jones
At 11/27/2000 06:53, you wrote: I got Mandrake 6 from a friend to install it on an old system. He figured it would work. I'm talking about an : I486 40DX, upgraded with an Evergreen overdrive to 120MHz, and 32 MB RAM Hard disk of 500 MB (bios doesn't support any larger drives) Trident 8900

Re: [newbie] Problem with ethernet card 3COM 509B

2000-10-25 Thread Gerald A. Jones
Peter, I am sending this to you and the list for this reason. I saw your question about the ethernet card on the list and I know a lot about that card. I do not know a lot about linux and memory and I hope someone on the list will see and help you. Now here is what I know about this

Re: [newbie] Problem with ethernet card 3COM 509B

2000-10-23 Thread Gerald A. Jones
Hi, The 3COM 509B card can run in three modes ISA, PNP, and EISA. Mandrake 7.0 doesn't play nice with this card in PNP mode. Here's what you need to do. Go to ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c509 and get the file 3c509x2.exe this is a self expanding compressed file. Place this file in an empty

[newbie] Help with Intel PRO/DSL 2100 modem

2000-09-26 Thread Rich Jones
Has anyone successfully installed an Intel PRO/DSL 2100 modem on their linux system? I got it as part of a DSL package from US West (now Qwest), our local telephone company. It works great in Windows 98, but there are no Linux drivers that I can find. Mandrake Linux does not find it when

Re: [newbie] .src.rpm

2000-06-09 Thread Tony Jones
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:36:34 mrc wrote: Tried to install an .src.rpm and failed. Does this mean that on Linux-Mandrake such rpms will not work? Try as root: rpm --rebuild filename.src.rpm Then look in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/arch for the binary RPM. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Xfree86 Programming resources

2000-05-26 Thread George Jones
I'd like to port a few dos video game emulators (Nintendo, Sega Master System, and a few arcade machines) over to Linux and would like to know where I can get some Xfree86 programming info from. I need it to port the video functions over.

[newbie] Homemade Router/Switch... Being cheap.

2000-04-27 Thread George Jones
Ok... I have a question for all of you network geniuses out there. I have been contemplating the purchase of a switch for my home network. I have 3 PC's that need to be connected to the internet with my cable connection. I had thought to buy that Linksys Cable router, but I realized that I

My take on all of this... (was [newbie] Linux Partition)

2000-04-20 Thread George Jones
Ok, so I had my little fun with this. Let's be real here. I've been using computers since I was 8 years old (I'm now 28), I've seen 'em come and go. This little debate over Linux vs Windows reminds me of the ST vs Amiga or Atari800 vs Commodore64 bbs flame wars. I've owned the following:

Re: My take on all of this... (was [newbie] Linux Partition)

2000-04-20 Thread George Jones
Ok, so I had my little fun with this. Let's be real here. I've been using computers since I was 8 years old (I'm now 28), I've seen 'em come and go. This little debate over Linux vs Windows reminds me of the ST vs Amiga or Atari800 vs Commodore64 bbs flame wars. I've owned the following:

Re: [newbie] cable modem

2000-04-20 Thread bryn jones
Why am I getting your email ?? -Original Message- From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Do you have a static IP or a dynamic IP? If you have a dynamic IP address, mandrake should set

Re: [newbie] cable modem

2000-04-20 Thread bryn jones
Why am I getting your email?? -Original Message- From: Bruce Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 3:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem I use Linux with a cable modem on RoadRunner, and it works great. Why don't you try

Re: [newbie] cable modem

2000-04-20 Thread bryn jones
Why am I getting your email -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem well I called them again..and they said that they could not give them to me

Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1

2000-04-20 Thread bryn jones
I appear to be getting all the email from your forum/discussion group. Like 100's a day. What is the forum called so that I can try to get it fixed ?? Bryn Jones -Original Message- From: Jim Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2

Re: [newbie] Linux Partition

2000-04-19 Thread George Jones
: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] Linux Partition How come when you are in Linux, you can see your Windows partition, but not the other way around?? Andy

Re: [newbie] Loging on

2000-04-18 Thread George Jones
(bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] Loging on I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and login out from user... Thanks for the help

Re: [newbie] path

2000-04-17 Thread David Hugh-Jones
I read this and tried to create a symlink from /usr/bin to my Mozilla directory. But when I run mozilla I get the message 'run-mozilla.sh: no such file or directory'. This happens even if I create symlinks to run-mozilla.sh as well. What have I done wrong? Dave Jan Wilson wrote: * rich

Re: [newbie] take off your mailing list

2000-04-15 Thread David Hugh-Jones
ROTFL yeah right wrote: you want me to what why you dirty little thing you sorry i don't take off my mailing list in front of strangers which i could help though here try this try mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to take off there mailing lists for you - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???

2000-04-15 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Get the M14 milestone build of Mozilla from www.mozilla.org. It's much faster than Netscape and really pretty stable. Then if you're feeling really cool, download the Sullivan skin from www.mozillazine.org Woohoo! dave andy barnes wrote: snip Are there any options to Netscape for

Re: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....

2000-04-14 Thread David Hugh-Jones
If you have a custom boot disk for mandrake, the simplest thing is probably to load DOS from a floppy and type fdisk /mbr. This will reformat your master boot record DOS style, which means that you won't be able to boot linux. But you should be able to get into windows, and you can boot linux

Re: [newbie] Booting Up Multiple OS's

2000-04-14 Thread David Hugh-Jones
The floppy disk should do the trick. Just boot from it. Then rerun lilo from within linux. This will overwrite W98. You may need to edit your lilo.conf file first, to make sure it has windows as an option, on the correct partition. cheers dave andy wrote: Here's the deal.. I

Re: [newbie] Problems

2000-04-13 Thread David Hugh-Jones
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: The culprit is the linux.ld.so file. It somehow either leaks memory, or mismanages the resources. Is there a fix?

Re: [newbie] HELP!!!!!

2000-04-11 Thread David Hugh-Jones
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Gustavo Halperin wrote: also from the command line: shutdown -h now for the shutdown command you can try: Ctrl+Alt+Delete+F9 Robin wrote: OK. Worked with NT for a while, and was just won over to the

Re: [newbie] Virtual Desktop

2000-04-11 Thread David Hugh-Jones
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Gustavo Halperin wrote: Hi. My virtual Desktop is jump from a virtualt desktop '1' to virtual desktop '2' when I go to dawn with a mouse or from the '2' to the '1' when I go to up with the mouse, haw I stop this , can any one help me. Is possible add to the

Re: [newbie] amd chip

2000-04-11 Thread George Jones
Overclock it to 400MHz or 450MHz(careful with that one!) first. If the performance still doesn't suit your needs then pick up a 500 (and run it at 550MHz!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/11/2000 10:31:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:Re

Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdownon stability!!

2000-04-10 Thread George Jones
paul haine wrote: Funny how when Windows doesn't work it's Windows fault, but when Linux doesn't work it MUST be the hardware. Not true, look at all of the S3 Savage 3, 4, and 2000 owners out there (I have a Diamond Stealth s540 Savage4) complaining on a regular basis about their hardware

Re: [newbie] amd chip

2000-04-10 Thread George Jones
PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] amd chip This may be a little off topic, but I thought I'd ask anyway. I have been given an AMD K62 333MHz and MB by a friend. Has anyone had any problems with these CPU's. I have heard rumors about them overheating

[newbie] modifying a shell script

2000-04-10 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Just started taking a few first steps into the shallow water... I modified my xinitrc script to start a program. At the end of the script I added /usr/X11R6/bin/xlassie (plus various commandline options) to run xlassie, an email checker. X started fine but xlassie didn't show up.

Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!

2000-04-10 Thread George Jones IV
I have too in the past, Andy. George Jones (now at home) - Original Message - From: "andy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!! In Windows,

Re: [newbie] BeOS for music?

2000-04-10 Thread Jones
I have heard a couple of posts elluding to the fact that BeOS is a good OS for dealing with music Well consider that BeOS was in fact designed to be a mustimedia OS. So i would imageni that in whatever youre doing it will at sleast be more efficient, probably less resource hogging, etc.

RE: [newbie] Thank you.

2000-04-09 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Another problem with web-based email is reliability: my mail.com account is down as they 'upgrade the website'. Probably best to have both web-based and normal email. dave On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Rial Juan wrote: On Apr 9 Mike Perry wrote: 1. Generally less secure Not when done with

RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!!

2000-04-09 Thread David Hugh-Jones
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of the hardware in the machine that your using. (snip) Hey, don't go blaming it on the hardware now. It's pretty clear that Linux is not an easy ride to install, no matter how stable it may be afterwards.

[newbie] pointer display problem Pine problem

2000-04-08 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Just reinstalled and am having 2 problems. (1) I have a Trio3D/2X video card. MThis works fine, but normally I have to add a line to my XF86Config file saying Option "SWCursor" in the Device section This prevents my mouse pointer displaying as a big white square. I have reinstalled with black

Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

2000-04-06 Thread David Hugh-Jones
according to this magazine I've got here, most music applications are porting to BeOS rather than Linux. (Better at multimedia.) Dave On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Ernie mewed: Use Cooledit and wavelab in win2k or windows NT, I run both progs in win2k and have never locked it up. As far as hard

[newbie] 7.0 killed my FAT drive!

2000-04-06 Thread David Hugh-Jones
I installed 7.0 without seeing this: http://www.pcplus.co.uk/discs/163a.asp or this: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3 Result: my FAT filesystem is a mess. Everything directly under my C: drive is OK, but everything in subdirectories is scrambled (files, directories, the lot)

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 standard install, Windows filesystem probs

2000-04-05 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Dear all, I recently installed Mandrake 7.0 in a dual-boot setup with Windows. All worked fine, but my MS-DOS filesystem seeems to be messed up. File names have been replaced with nonsense, and the partition table is in a mess. cfdisk gives: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends

Re: [newbie] How to configure the network?

2000-04-05 Thread David Hugh-Jones
"Rodriguez Jimenez, Luis" wrote: I am new using linux Mandrake anh i have troubles to configure my network. I don{t know where and how must i do. Please help me. Luis. Okay, I _think_ I can help a little. First, you will need to know: -your IP number, which looks like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]

2000-04-05 Thread George Jones
O.K Breathe deeply dude. Calm down... Personally I don't like WinDoze much, but since all of my games, Sequencing and Audio, 3D Animation apps, and other software exists as windows ONLY applications, then I have to use it still. I think many of us out there are in the same boat. "Some of

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6.0

2000-04-05 Thread George Jones
It's already up, you have to look for it on the download page.

[newbie] NT client with Linux

2000-03-28 Thread George Jones
to run User Manager for NT and a couple of WinNT apps (Lotus Notes, Airsource Pro Workstation, ect...). Any ideas? George Jones IV ABN AMRO ITSC North America End User Support.

[newbie] NT login's and Mandrake7

2000-03-27 Thread George Jones
to be able to run User Manager for NT and a couple of WinNT apps (Lotus Notes, Airsource Pro Workstation, ect...). Any ideas? George Jones IV ABN AMRO ITSC North America End User Support.

Re: [newbie] How can I read Macintosh disks?

2000-03-15 Thread George Jones IV
U Jeremy, could you please refrain from using any racial slurs here? Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How can I read Macintosh disks? Hershel S Robinson wrote:

Re: [newbie] S3 Savage3D

2000-03-03 Thread George Jones
That's a good one, it should detect it properly, if not, grab a Savage4 for cheap. I'm using one just fine.

[newbie] Boot problem

2000-02-23 Thread bryn jones
please. Regards Bryn Jones

Re: [newbie] X window Trouble

2000-02-21 Thread George Jones
logic7 here... Hmmm... You should be good. I would, however, recommend upgrading to 64Mb at least. Also, drop your color depth to 16bit. I have quite a bit of slowdown in Gnome at 32bit color and my system has 96mb memory, Permedia2 video card, and a 366Mhz Celeron. If you think that it's

[newbie] Can't read from CD writer anymore!

2000-02-21 Thread George Jones
Ok, I'm pretty fed up here. I have a Mitsumi 4x/2x/8x CDRW(slave) unit in my machine along with a Creative Labs 24x(primary). When I initially installed Air, I could read from both drives (good, because I could play mp3's from the CDRW and install packages or anything else at the same time).

Re: [newbie] FW: Installing from hard drive using lnx4win

2000-02-21 Thread George Jones
I'm not really sure if this'll help, but if you have a CD burned handy, then d/l the iso image of 7.0 and boot directly to it. That's how I got mine setup.

Re: [newbie] X window Trouble

2000-02-20 Thread george jones
How fast is your processor and how much system mem do you have? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 11:10 PM Subject: [newbie] X window Trouble I'm using 8MB SIS 6326 graphics card on mandrake 6.1, i have my card type

Re: How about Roadrunner? Re: [newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-16 Thread george jones
I have MediaOne's One-Way RoadRunner. Uses a 56k modem and a General Instruments SB1000 Surf Board. Can't use it in linux yet though. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 6:39 AM Subject: Re: How about Roadrunner? Re:

Re: [newbie] Sound Card, graphic card

2000-02-14 Thread George Jones
: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] Sound Card, graphic card Hi all, Pretty bad at managing a Linux. Here's my questions : 1.How do you go about to configure ur sound card?? 2.I select a generic graphic card (S3 3D Trio), when I start my netscape, a error msg stating

Re: [newbie] Install Guide

2000-02-08 Thread george jones
Email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll give you a solution. - Original Message - From: Ben Freeman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Install Guide While attempting to install Mandrake 7.0 (in

Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!

2000-02-07 Thread George Jones
Anyone have the dirt on the Evergreen AMD K6-2 upgrade? I'm running a P133 also, and have seen the 333-400mhz AMD upgrades for $100-200US w/ BIOS upgrade. And then there's SO MANY motherboards around, I'm having a difficult time choosing one. With all the graphics cards moving from PCI

Re: [newbie] problems

2000-02-06 Thread george jones
H. You could try updating from the 7.0 CD (which takes forever!). That should get it going. - Original Message - From: "Kyle Filipski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 12:01 AM Subject: [newbie] problems I have the 6.1 version, tried to

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive?

2000-02-05 Thread george jones
- Original Message - From: "Greg Bell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 3:12 AM Subject: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive? I've been reading all the good reviews on Mandrake 7. I'm interested in giving it a try due to

Re: [Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]]

2000-02-05 Thread george jones
Paul, Try www.compgeeks.com or www.advancedvision.net . I buy stuff from them all of the time C.O.D. because, like you, I don't have a credit card. BTW ComputerGeeks has this nifty Dual Pentium (Socket7) mobo that I'm going to order this weekend, grab one for yourself while you're there. -

Re: [Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]]

2000-02-05 Thread george jones
mobo= MotherBoard. Yes, I though that there would never be such a thing as COD on the net, but I have spent many a dollar with the two vendors I listed. Paul, Try www.compgeeks.com or www.advancedvision.net . I buy stuff from them all of the time C.O.D Cash on delivery?! Over the Net?

Re: [newbie] graphic accel drivers

2000-02-05 Thread george jones
Permedia2 based cards are solid video cards for Linux. check out www.pricewatch.com to see who has them. Creative Graphics Blaster Extreme 4meg cards are around $30. Another chipset to look for is any intel740 based card, again they're pretty cheap. - Original Message - From: "Andrew

[newbie] Free ISP's and Linux

2000-02-04 Thread George Jones
Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux?

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