Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?

2003-03-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
7;s. Furthermore they are not *true* linuxes (for example, when you log into one of those, you'll have root-privileges, thus omitting one of the major benefits of linux : security !). If you really want to compare distros, go to : http://www.distrowatch.com that'll change your mind.

Re: [newbie] printing trouble after upgrading to Cooker

2003-03-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
9.0. Finally, before giving up and returning the bastard, I used webmin. Voila - succes ! Try webmin. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Off list for a while

2003-03-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 15 March 2003 08:21 pm, civileme wrote: > So goodbye.. > > Civileme Civileme, I wish you all the best. To me it is incomprehensible that IT corporations aren't fighting to get you onboard. I sure will miss you. Good luck ! Kaj haulrich. -- Registered Linux user #

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-10 Thread Kaj Haulrich
an other users on your Linux-box. That's why You can keep your private stuff private on a linux-partion. If you want to, make a script or a cron-job that regularly copies your files - or some of them - to the FAT32 partition so you can use them from Windows as well. > Thanks for the he

Re: [newbie] FYI - SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for 'devaluing Unix'

2003-03-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
:-) > I can very well imagine what Richard M. Stallman would say. Something in the line of what Eric Stephen Raymond says here : http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-03-07-010-26-OP-CD-LL Kaj Haulrich. P.S. Once upon a time Caldera had a good reputation. Gone foreve

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 08:53 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > --- Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not my idea really, Lyvim. Some time ago Civileme > > himself offered to *unify* the 4 software-screens you > > complained about under the appropriate name >

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 05:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > --- Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:16 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > Very interesting. I think t

Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
can be found here : http://www.chaintechusa.com/eng/products/SOCKA/7vjl.asp Good luck. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:16 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Very interesting. I think that if many of the magazines > > out there had any sense, they would be hiring Civileme > > to do tech article work. Seems

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
t > would be nice to hear some straightforward commonsense > tech talk for a change in the trade rags instead of blah > blah blather from non-tech journalists. > > LX I'll second that ! Kaj Haulrich. -- Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Registe

Re: [newbie] problem with ./configure installation

2003-02-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
solves dependencies, promts you to insert CD-s and so on. Kurniawan, I don't know if you have a graphical interface, but if so, click the Mandrake Control Center, issue your root-password, go to the software-section, define FT-sources and you are in business. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Wa

Re: [newbie] What is rpmv ?

2003-02-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:24 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday February 19 2003 11:18 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Two or three days ago I installed anacron. Now my box > > behaves like the good old 8.x days : Immediately after > > powering up, the CPU and HD g

[newbie] What is rpmv ?

2003-02-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
When running top, I see there's a process called rpmv eating almost half of the CPU. No man or whatis entry for rpmv. Can someone enlighten an eternal newbie, please ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Regist

[newbie] A night at the Opera

2003-02-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hello list. I think this will be of some interest to you : -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: re: Bork edition Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:38:17 +0100 From: Live Leer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Kaj Actually, we know that, but th

Re: [newbie] Shorewall doing its job ?

2003-02-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 17 February 2003 04:16 am, civileme wrote: > On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > When doing a dmesg I get all the usual stuff, but > > lately a new thing - at least to me - is showing up. > > The last stanzas grow bigger and bigger and read

Re: [newbie] Shorewall doing its job ?

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:06 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > When doing a dmesg I get all the usual stuff, but > > lately a new thing - at least to me - is showing up. > > The last stanzas grow bigger and bigger and read

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:56 pm, et wrote: > ahh all "toungue in cheek" Ed, that's where emoticons come in handy ;-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at htt

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
The greatest linux rescue cd i have found to be at > ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd > Yes it is a Redhat disk. Noone knows about this cd. I > know about it b/c at Dell Server Support the RH guys > told us about this for "just in case"

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:27 pm, et wrote: > On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > getting nowhere > > > > Well Dennis, I read you loud and

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 15 February 2003 10:54 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > We're not in that line of heritage, are we? > Certainly not, Lyvim ! Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user #

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 15 February 2003 02:22 am, you wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 13:46, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:29 am, Stephen Kuhn > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > No such thing as protection that can't be broken. > >

Re: [newbie] I LIKE rpmdrake 2.1

2003-02-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
: Please let the new *rpmdrakexaphir* get rid of the old *software sources manager* and replace it with *urpmi.setup*. TIA Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.l

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ust about to remove & reinstall urmpi when you told me about *urpmi.setup* from cooker. I used that, and - hoopla - it worked. Even on my 9.0. Another issue solved by Mandrake developers and you. Thanks Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:12 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 9:10 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Thanks, Charles. Actually I tried all of the above, > > but still got some errors from my script. Must be a > > bad script. Nevertheless, Patrick got his probl

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 13 February 2003 07:50 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:35:51 + > > Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let us - very politely - ask the proponents of the new > > rpmdrake/urpmi/gurpmi how they manage to get rid of > &

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
-refugees ?). And : when one finally gets something right, at lot is learned, right ? Greetings Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Micro

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:16 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday February 13 2003 09:35 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Let us - very politely - ask the proponents of the new > > rpmdrake/urpmi/gurpmi how they manage to get rid of > > unusable/disappeared/outdated source

Re: [newbie] Leave this l i s t ?

2003-02-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 06:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I leave this l i s t ? I have tried, and tried > ... can't find any info. Please help. > > Thanks. Go to the following page and read the instructions : http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/flists.p

Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:55:22 + From: Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 12 February 2003 03:50 pm, you wrote: > When I tried to run this script, I got "permission > denied"... > > I definitely have problems with my urpmi upda

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ttp://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ Good luck Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. ===

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
patiently as the messages scroll by. Have a beer or something. 5. Now, issue the command (still as root) *urpmi webmin*. That should give you the latest and greatest, including dependencies. HTH Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux-

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
in a hurry using only a text-editor. Using - for example - Mozilla Composer gets you running. That doesn't exclude reviewing the code in a text editor and doing a tidying-up job. And, finally, in Konqueror there's a nifty little gadget that lets you validate the code at W3C. So : t

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
art is here : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/server/service-file-sharing.html Enjoy. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter

Re: [newbie] ? No sound in Xine and CD player

2003-02-10 Thread Kaj Haulrich
u can select a directory as well. It should read something like : */mnt/cdrom* . I admit this is confusing, but it works. HTH Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 2

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 08 February 2003 05:28 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Dan, I think it will be cheaper for you to order from > here > > http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/index.php?PAGE=2 > > although it's giving up on burning. All my coasters are > excellent for my daughters

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
gt; bootable so that Mandrake can be installed. > > Thanks Kindly > Dan Dan, I think it will be cheaper for you to order from here : http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/index.php?PAGE=2 although it's giving up on burning. All my coasters are excellent for my daughters rifle-practice

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-06 Thread Kaj Haulrich
f Mandrake. Or even better : throw a little dough in their direction. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-fre

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-06 Thread Kaj Haulrich
say around here. - thanks to you ! Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal com

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
r. To me, that is. Regards Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. ===

[newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hello list. I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new kernel. Opinions ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powere

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
e ALL went away. > > > Civileme As far as I remember Civileme, so did the cat. Didn't you have it for dinner ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 21

Re: [newbie] UserDrake fuses

2003-02-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
he hard way (about 15 coasters and a lot of wasted time) I'll second that. Very strongly. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsof

Re: [newbie] UserDrake fuses

2003-02-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 12:52 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Hello list. > > > > A few days ago I installed k3b in order to get a > > usable frontend to cdrecord. Couldn't use that one > > either. Seem

Re: [newbie] UserDrake fuses

2003-02-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
t; derek A bug, eh ? - Makes me look a little less stupid ? Thanks a lot, Derek. Have a good sunday. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 %

[newbie] UserDrake fuses

2003-02-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
rdrake, it says : *Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtpm exists* Suggestions anyone ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100

Re: [newbie] Coasters, Coasters, Coasters

2003-02-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
be the the .iso file to blame. Now, I'll follow Tom's idea and download the 9.1 beta3. If successful (usually am on this high-speed DSL) I'll start a new career as a Mandrake-pusher. Thanks for the help. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux

Re: [newbie] Coasters, Coasters, Coasters

2003-02-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 01 February 2003 06:31 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Friday January 31 2003 08:50 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > List, I have a problem : > > Conclusion : How the *H can I make this CD > > bootable ? > > You don't. The iso is bootable. BTW, I believe t

[newbie] Coasters, Coasters, Coasters

2003-01-31 Thread Kaj Haulrich
.0. Conclusion : How the *H can I make this CD bootable ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free pe

Re: [newbie] Shorewall and Slammer

2003-01-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > Oh btw, Kaj, you lost your bet :P March 3 it isn't! Did we bet ? - Anyway, I'm very glad you are back and well, Femme ! Kaj Haulrich. P.S. The portscanning of my box doesn't seem to affect anything, so I su

Re: [newbie] Shorewall and Slammer

2003-01-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
dmesg anew, it seems that someone is doing a portscan on me. I get DTP=21 and DTP=80 etc.. - Interesting. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my

Re: [newbie] Shorewall and Slammer

2003-01-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
or. > Cool, Terry - thanks. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. =

Re: [newbie] Shorewall and Slammer

2003-01-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:51 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 3:28 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > When running dmesg I suddenly get a lot of the > > following stanzas at the end of the output : > > > > > > Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT

Re: [newbie] Very slow loading KDE and gnome

2003-01-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
same problem with 8.2 Those errors don't seem to affect anything, though. That's why I mostly use fluxbox. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter

[newbie] Shorewall and Slammer

2003-01-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
esses trying to *slam* me - to no avail. Correct ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal com

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
the MDK mailing >lists and it will get sorted out fairly quickly. Well, I'll go for an Optiplex with only this rudimentary DOS on it. Then I'll install Mandrake. If anything goes wrong - other than really basic matters - I'll post to the list, of course. Thanks a lot for your

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 07:49 pm, Charlie wrote: > On Tuesday 28 January 2003 08:57 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > Thanks, Lyvim and Tony. > > > > The story goes on : 5 minutes ago I had a telephone > > conversation with a Dell Denmark representative. He >

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
tional pressure I managed to get a bargain : Dell Denmark will deliver an Optiplex with only a rudimentary DOS in it. He claimed that it would be necessary in order to get the hard disk running (???) and maybe for legal reasons. The price cutoff would be around 70-80 euros relative to

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
hew > Thanks, Matthew. That encourages me bigtime. The one I have in mind has a P4 2GHz with 512 MB RAM, so I guess that's all right. > > Regards > > Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered

Re: [newbie] Merging 2 files

2003-01-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 27 January 2003 09:42 pm, Joan Tur wrote: > Hallo! > > I'd like to merge file A with file B creating file C... > how could I do that? > > I've had a look at cp's man with no luck O8-) cat file2 >> file1 Kaj Haulrich. =

Re: [newbie] Installation fault

2003-01-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
* page, it stopped and prompted me to download java, although java already resides on the box. I did that nevertheless ( must be done as root ! ) and again without any glitches. Now I have two java plugins ;-) However, I intend to get rid of it again. HTH Kaj Haulrich ==

Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
> On Monday 20 January 2003 05:17 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Send them klez for giggles and grins Stephen, please send me one (off-list) to play with. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered L

Re: [OT]:RE: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
is being developed by Everyone's Linux Pvt. Ltd, a highly progressive India-Hyderabad, (Also known as Cyberabad for its great IT talent ) based organization of young, dynamic and hardworking professionals yearning for perfection. Hope that clarifies matters. > Kaj Haulrich > Denmark.

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
signed some major contract with the German govt. - coincidence ? Is it even thinkable that the French govt. would scuttle its only linux-distro and let the Germans / Brits / Yankees / Chinese / Indians take over ? Knowing the Frenchies, I think not. Kaj Haulrich Denmark.

Re: [newbie] Using KDE 3 to rip Mp3/Ogg?

2003-01-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
E's file manager - provided you have the *tree* window open - there's a yellow star icon. Click it and it will open a *audio CD browser*. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] scsi emulation

2003-01-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
( for example a CD-reader and a CD-writer ) change it to : append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi quiet" which is what I have. Works fine in all respects. And - after editing *lilo.conf* - THEN (as root) run *lilo*. You can confirm the changes by watching the output from lilo

Re: [newbie] Install Mandrake 9.1 problem

2003-01-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
think it is best for Mandrake to support them by club membership ( silver, actually ) rather then ordering a full box ( thus sparing them the cost ). However, a quick look at a FTP-mirror tells me that MDK 9.0 ISO CD1 is 694.6 MB MDK 8.2 ISO CD1 is 650.0 MB and I'm pretty convinc

Re: [newbie] Newbie Mouse Problem

2003-01-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
; > Red Hat 8.0 recognizes my mouse fine. > > Any suggestions? > Have you tried to run *mousedrake* (as root) ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark- === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://coun

Re: [newbie] adding Creative cd-writer

2003-01-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:05 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2003 04:43 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Yep, that's the one to let your burner on hdc appear > > as a scsi-device, but did you remember to run > > */sbin/lilo* (as root) after editin

Re: [newbie] adding Creative cd-writer

2003-01-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ember to run */sbin/lilo* (as root) after editing the file ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100

Re: [newbie] This is personal!

2003-01-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 13 January 2003 07:05 pm, Sharrea wrote: > Looks great! Love the wallpaper too... where did you > get it? Would love to have that background (hint... > hint...) > > Cheers > Sharrea What about those ? : http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/dozeshots Ka

Re: [newbie] adding Creative cd-writer

2003-01-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
click, select 'Permissions' and set the group name to be cdwriter 3/ Put the CD-RW in the cdwriter group by editing the permissions of /dev/scd0 You can test your cd burner by opening a user terminal and typing cdrecord --scanbus If it finds your CD writer then cd burning should

Re: [newbie] Which version of Mandrake?

2003-01-10 Thread Kaj Haulrich
and don't like to be nervous. When I was on 8.x I had Bastille, but I suppose Mandrake has good reasons to replace it with Shorewall. Your opinion, please ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered

Re: [newbie] Linux Hardware Database

2003-01-09 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 09 January 2003 01:42 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Microsoft Apologist (and ZDNet editor) David Berlind > took it down a while ago. > > > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:33:58 +1300, Michael Adams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Has the ZDNet database moved or is it just down for > > two

Re: [newbie] Getting LILO back after installing Win XP

2003-01-09 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ill be happy to mail the boot.img to you. Then, dd it to a floppy, and you should be in business. Kaj Haulrich Denmark. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Umgangston in dieser Liste

2003-01-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
gt; Nope, Femme - by no means !!! - The original post was in german, meant for the german-newbie list, not ours I suppose. Although I understand german, I don't speak it very well. Hereabout we speak danish, ya know. Sort of like saying U.S citizens speak spanish. No offense ! Kaj

Re: [newbie] installing mdk rpm's

2003-01-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 05 January 2003 01:28 am, Aurélio Diniz wrote: > thanks everyone for your reply! > As we say here: > -Temos que nos desenrascar, então! > > Cumprimentos, > > Filipe - Portugal You're welcome, Filipe. But what does *Temos que nos desenrascar, então!* mean, plea

Re: [newbie] installing mdk rpm's

2003-01-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ng to let my wife ( who is beautiful, but a windoze-addict ) use the system, XFCE when nothing important is waiting and KDE when I've got plenty of time. But the menus are different. I tried to issue the update-menus command (as root) but to no avail. Maybe Mandrake will fix this - unimpo

Re: [newbie] Small OT ... leaving the list for a bit

2003-01-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
st. :) > Femme, be comforted that we all wish you the best and that we are looking forward to march 3. ! Kaj Haulrich Denmark === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source :

Re: [newbie] Re: Dual Booting

2002-12-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
t keeps a man young, right ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re: Dual Booting

2002-12-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Control Center (as root) to adjust things later on. Most problems with dual-booting stems from another scenario : installing a real OS alongside a bogus one. Enjoy ! - But why on earth do you want two real OS's ? HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark --

Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ed, right-click somewhere in xmms and select *play directory*. Then browse to /mnt/cdrom or whatever and enjoy. This is somewhat different from other CD-players like Noatun, because normally a music-CD must be unmounted to play. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from Ma

Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels

2002-12-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
cumentation which details what each > generic setting changes on the system? > > Thanks for any info. > > Anthony Anthony, please take a look at : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html where you will find an in-depth explanation of msec. (and thank you, Lyvim for you

Re: [newbie] resetting the console back to english

2002-12-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ter --> Personalization --> Country & Language --> United States of America. Merry Christmas to all and a warm welcome back to Civileme ! Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading

2002-11-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Joe, when I look at the fstab below it strikes me that there are commas just in front of the "fs"-statement. I think you should try to replace those commas with an empty space. Furthermore, I've replaced the "fs=auto" with "fs=iso9660". Works for me. HTH K

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
- word-blindness-disorder ?), de and fr (for my teen-age daughters) and all work splendidly. HTH ( I didn't use any spell-check here, - sorry ) Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.0 installation problems

2002-11-10 Thread Kaj Haulrich
have any suggestions? Walt, I think the problem is mentioned on the "errata" page http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3 HTH Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
an use this D-drive from within linux. Cool,... eh ? HTH Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs

2002-11-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ce this one? > > tia, > Bill W. Hmm.. I'm not sure what you mean, Bill. However, when an application freezes in KDE I usually just press : , then point the cursor (now a skull) to the frozen application and left-click to kill it. Then launch it anew. That's all. HTH Kaj Haulr

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

2002-11-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
>Any ideas, anyone? > > > >Anne Anne, BMP's are a lot of things. Essentially it is nothing than "a collection of bits". I remember form my OS/2 days a great application - PMView - that gave a thorough explanation of the various .bmp-formats. There IS a big differen

Re: [newbie] Defrag?

2002-11-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
; > > What is it about Linux's setup that makes defrag > > unnecessary? > Jan, in addition to the answers already given : Linux file systems : ext2, ext3, XFS and Reiser don't need defragging. However, the newly ported JFS from IBM is extremely fast and reliable, but needs an

Re: [newbie] 9.0 upgrade - internet sluggishness

2002-10-31 Thread Kaj Haulrich
IRC (?). Solution : Edit (as root, of course) /etc/lilo.conf "append" - line to append=" noapic " Then run /sbin/lilo (as root) and reboot. Worked for me. Now I suddenly recall : The problem is documented on the Mandrake home page under "errata". HTH Kaj Haulric

Re: SV: [newbie] Internet connection

2002-10-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ettings in Kppp a few times, and - if still no go - return to this list with as many informations as possible. We CAN read from this other OS, you know. Regards Kaj Haulrich > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]På

Re: [newbie] RPM Difficulties.

2002-10-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
age that everything > is already installed?! > > How can I get beyond this apparent impasse? > > LTR Langsley, did you by any chance forget to uncheck the "test" option in Kpackage during install ? - If so, uncheck it and try again. HTH Kaj Haulrich Want to

Re: SV: SV: [newbie] Mounting/Fstab/Perms

2002-10-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
t (as root) the line to : /dev/hda6 /mnt/data vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850, rw,nosuid,umask=0, 0 0 Especially the "umask=0" option allows all users to acces the filesystem. Be careful with the commas. Good luck Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Internet connection

2002-10-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
a guess : what are your security settings ? - Go to Mandrake Control Center --> Security and have a look. Mine is "high" and all the other options set to "default". Works like a breeze. Of course you need to know what your ISP supports (PAP / CHAP). BTW : It seems you are on

Re: [newbie] making dos file system on floppy

2002-06-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
using the Mandrake Linux 8.2 CD1 to do a CD-ROM installation. During boot, press F1 at the splash screen, then place your floppy disk that contains patch.pl in the floppy drive. At the prompt, type "patch", then follow the installation as usual. If still in trouble, please return to the

Re: [newbie] xcdroast help

2002-06-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
ong as you don't intend to play music cds as I > recall Doesn't matter. My CD-Writer is playing Mozart, Bach and Armstrong quite well as long as the audio-cable is connected to the soundcard. To play music-CD's the media isn't mounted as a "normal" filesystem.

Re: [newbie] xcdroast help

2002-06-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
my example hdc is the "master" on the second IDE-bus. Then, save the file, and run "lilo'" as root. Finally, run : cdrecord --scanbus to see if the burner is there. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry

2002-06-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
tions once again to your liking. Remember to have the floppy in place. If still in trouble, repost to this list, I'm sure there are people here to help you through this. I'm sure it's only some minor issue. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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