Recently, my monitor died and the process of finding a suitable replacement
led to a series of new problems. Someone at Mandrake told me that I really
needed to update my 8.1 system (which had been working just fine), and the
process of installing the updates royally messed everything up.
How can I get CD Player to work?
Got the following error message:
CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive).
Please make sure you have access permissions to
/dev/cdrom
There is a music CD in the CD drive
There is no file /dev/cdrom file on my system,
but I do have a Sony
How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already
recorded or burned just a few files?
After reading volumes of messages on this list, plus the recommend HOWTO on
this subject, I finally figured out how to burn a CD under Mandrake 8.1.
It's regrettable that there
I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes,
but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD.
How does one install Open Office from this CD?
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On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:52, you wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote:
I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes,
but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD.
How does one install Open Office from this CD?
Josef,
can list for me the contents of the CD
Thanks for the tips.
I'm sticking with 8.1 for now because I've heard/read of so many problems
with 8.2 and kde 3 and I can't take the risk of messing up my stable
install. ;))
On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:33, you wrote:
Extract the files from this tarball and you'll likely find a file
You're absolutely right, Todd.
Everyone deserves to be reasonably compensated for the creative and
productive value-added work that they do. Sadly, there seem to be three
extremes that get in the way: 1) Greed -- some (like monopolistic,
anti-trustworthy Microsoft and grossly over-paid
The protest message I send to offending websites:
Do you realize that limitations you have built into your website
cut off more than half the world from being able to access your website?
How savvy is that?
Why in the world would you design your website to
Thanks for all the helpful tips.
I'm just looking for the most efficient way to do things with Linux.
Joe
Todd Slater wrote, in part:
Copying the text of the bash script I provided will require one mouse
click-and-drag, and pasting it into a new document may require a click
to focus
Alastair wrote:
There's an easier way from KDE - do Alt-F2 then type ksnapshot. The
snapshot is grabbed immediately you press Return, then the ksnapshot
window appears and you can do what you like with it.
This is helpful . . . however, my original question was: is there any way to
do a
On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:09, you wrote:
SNIP
Not sure I entirely understand. Are you saying that these three
commands will, between them, cause a timely and controlled shutdown?
This tells you all about it
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html
Whoa!
I sent the following question several days ago, and never received any
response? Did the message never arrive, previously?
Does the keyboard Print Screen key work with Linux in the same way as it
does with Windows? ... so a captured screen image automatically goes to a
clipboard and can
Does the keyboard Print Screen key work with Linux in the same way as it
does with Windows? ... so a captured screen image automatically goes to a
clipboard and can then be pasted directly into any graphics app?
I have tried using Screen Capture, but that seems rather cumbersome by
Hi Terry ...
I have Win4Lin working perfectly on Mandrake 8.1. While I don't have a
specific suggestion to solve your problem, perhaps the following info may be
of some help:
I had some difficulty getting Mandrake 8.1 to work because it failed to
recognize my very generic video card (S3
I use KMail and would like to know if there is any currently known risk of
being infected by a virus on a Linux system from opening any file
attachments that might be sent to me.
Prior to getting converted to Linux and KMail, I had always avoided opening
any attachments to try to avoid
In KDE 2.2.1, to set the home URL in Konqueror, I start it, click on
Settings and then type:
file:/home/name/mydata/subdir/newfile.htm
then click on Apply and OK ... but the home URL I just specified doesn't
take. Instead, one that I had previously set is still the active home URL
Great! -- Please do tell us how does one turn off pop-ups in Konqueror?
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:43, you wrote:
Anne,
You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others
too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to
turn them off.
Miark
window but get rid of unwanted junk-mail popups.
Joe
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:53, you wrote:
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 7:55 pm, Josef Lowder wrote:
how does one turn off pop-ups in Konqueror?
From Konqueror select the Settings menu, then the Configure Konqueror
... item, then, on the window
What are the quickest, easiest, and/or best ways to send a fax from Mandrake
Linux 8.1?
1. Is it possible to fax a text file directly from the command line? How?
2. How does one setup the system to fax a document as a print output from
the K text editor (or from KWord or from any other
Just had several email messages disappear which I had been saving in my
Kmail sent-mail folder, and I cannot imagine what happened. I did not
delete them. They were there just a few minutes ago. Then I sent two new
messages and all the previous messages I had been saving vanished.
I am
I don't know how to open a .pub file, but if you are mainly interested in
the text contents and not all the glamorous formatting, you might try
opening a shell, su to root, and then using a command-line the command:
strings filename | less ENTER
to see if you can either find out what kind of
that would cause new
incoming mail to go to that folder instead of cluttering up my inbox, but
that doesn't work.
Josef Lowder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thought I sent this previously, but it hasn't shown up.
Hope this is not a duplicate.
Q1: How do I get the Kword Print Preview to work? It only displays a
blank window;
although printing the same document works fine.
Q2: When I insert a .jpg graphic into a Kword document, the graphic
When one switches to F1 thru F6 virtual console screens, the login splash
screen generated by /etc/issue has a penguin graphic and a whole bunch of
lines of annoying text. I can edit the /etc/issue file so it only shows the
screen number (tty#) but every time I reboot, the system overwrites
How can one eliminate the big Kmail sprinkler head graphic with the big
white K superimposed on it in every email message displayed by Kmail?
Also, how can one revised the message header arrangement?
And is there a Bcc option available with Kmail?
Josef Lowder
Mesa, Arizona
[EMAIL
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