Re: [newbie] scsi emulation

2003-11-02 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:46:41 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: I don't know how to set the scsi emulation. snip Thank you for the help, but I have tried altering fstab to the point where I now get an error on boot and lost the original. (sigh) I

Re: [newbie] scsi emulation

2003-11-02 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 07:48:19 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:46:41 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: I don't know how to set the scsi emulation. snip Thank you for the help, but I have tried altering fstab

[newbie] scsi emulation

2003-10-31 Thread Lee Wiggers
I just installed a new burner in my brother's box, then learned how to use gcombust on mine so I could be a hero. Fell flat because I don't know how to set the scsi emulation. After the install, there is no scsi drive found. What did I miss? Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter,

Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-10-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:44:59 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:19:45PM +0200, Anarky wrote: I'd like to influence the to ogg transition of the world by converting all my mp3s to oggs ... .. is there anybody here who's good at scripting that could

Re: [newbie] Gcombust Question

2003-10-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:33:47 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: I tried to burn a few .mp3's this morning with Gcombust and got the following: /usr//bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. /usr//bin

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:35:13 - Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: msec? -Original Message- From: Lee Wiggers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gcombust Question On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:33:47

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:28:12 -0500 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:55:46 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Must be msec. perms are back to root as we speak. Can anyone tell me how to make the changes stick? edit (or create, if it's not already

Re: [newbie] Suggestions on Mandrake books

2003-10-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:12:41 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 08:43 am, S. Wieland wrote: I think its best for me to get a book to help me with learning mandrake 9.1/linux in general. MI'm ccompletely new to linux and would say I'm an intermediate -

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
snip snip snip not necessary. ty. Femme tnx nose in corner Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Where to post on reply

2003-10-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
snip snip See there... If you snip tight nobody can tell if your post is t,m, or b. Nothin' like a good ol' posting thread to warm the list. It's been weeks. Lee from the corner Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -- User

[newbie] Gcombust Question

2003-10-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
I tried to burn a few .mp3's this morning with Gcombust and got the following: /usr//bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. /usr//bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. /usr//bin/cdrecord: For possible

Re: [newbie] cool toy

2003-10-21 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ed! I've actually been needing this, but haven't had a chance to look... --- ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just used jigl.pl to make thumbnails for a page I was doing, and never having played

[newbie] 9.1 to 9.2 upgrade

2003-10-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
What an easy upgrade. I used a late cooker 9.2 dl because I didn't have media to burn the three iso's, expecting all kinds of problems. Had to upgrade 200+ progs because of the way I started, probably, and the ton of stuff I've tried out this past year, but not one problem. Everything still

Re: [newbie] 9.2 VMware

2003-10-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:43:44 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:20:33 -0400 LW wrote: |On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:39:24 -0400 |Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Does anyone use VMware successfully on Mandrake 9.2? | Paul | | |Works fine.

[newbie] Upgrade from network

2003-10-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
Now that I have 5 boxes on 9.1 and 9.2 altogether, I have a question. Can I somehow open the ISO's in a directory available to all boxes on my network and upgrade from there? Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:56:22 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 11:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: As I started off with, this bittorBS is new to me, never been a fan of p2p anyhow. There's a growin consensus of docs, FAQ's, an smart BT people tho.

Re: [newbie] Upgrade from network

2003-10-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:22:58 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On October 17, 2003 03:28 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Now that I have 5 boxes on 9.1 and 9.2 altogether, I have a question. Can I somehow open the ISO's in a directory available to all boxes on my network and upgrade

Re: [newbie] 9.2 VMware

2003-10-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:43:44 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:20:33 -0400 LW wrote: |On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:39:24 -0400 |Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Does anyone use VMware successfully on Mandrake 9.2? | Paul | | |Works fine.

Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!

2003-10-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:07:25 +0300 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 13:25, ed tharp wrote: and right after I posted that, I realized I bet I also have to have the3 cd 'download' edition to get the first 3 cds, as well as the 3powerpack

Re: [newbie] 9.2 VMware

2003-10-15 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:39:24 -0400 Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone use VMware successfully on Mandrake 9.2? Paul Works fine. Remember to install the source for the kernel and VMware takes it from there. It's all fresh in my mind after getting the office up on 9.2 last

Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter

2003-10-10 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:07:18 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:50:44 + Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files? You can try a script I made (mp3conv.sh attached). It's a simple bash script, which

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:08:15 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent report by the CCIA gave us an academic viewpoint as to why Windows is a blight on the Internet. This article provides a concrete example as to why Windows machines should be disconnected from the Internet,

[newbie] Printerdrake

2003-10-08 Thread Lee Wiggers
I have experienced easier and easier installations since 8.0. What a joy 9.2 is generally. I have a network printer question, however. mcc printer installation sees and properly installs the printer on another linux 9.2 box (although I haven't checked if it is using the VMware printer or the

Re: [newbie] Printerdrake

2003-10-08 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 01:23:31 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have experienced easier and easier installations since 8.0. What a joy 9.2 is generally. I have a network printer question, however. mcc printer installation sees and properly installs the printer on another linux

Re: [newbie] Linux fax machine

2003-10-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
I have a Toshiba TF631 bought on ebay for about !00.00 US. Look for one with the network card installed and it will do all. This is the 2nd one we've gotten the same way. I put the wrong toner in the first, then fubar'ed the fuser trying to clean up the mess. Expensive lesson, but a lesson

[newbie] OT

2003-10-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
Well it's 4:30 in the morning. I used to be able to scan the list, note some light banter basically wrapped around mdk, mostly one liners exchanged by a few friends ready to jump when the occasional serious question came down the road. Apparently that's gone now. Everyone happy? I don't see

Re: [newbie] OT

2003-10-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
On 07 Oct 2003 07:24:36 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 07:05, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 03:57:57 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 7, 2003 02:44 am, Lee Wiggers wrote

[newbie] Upper Case

2003-10-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
I have 1500 fonts from my computer lifetime that I would like to add to my oo options, but many of the filenames are upper case. Anyone know how to rename them in lower case all at once? Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Upper Case

2003-10-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
What a guy! On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 06:00:57 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 05:48:40 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have 1500 fonts from my computer lifetime that I would like to add to my oo options, but many of the filenames are upper case

Re: [newbie] Upper Case

2003-10-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
But not as adventuresome. It's a boring morning. I'm going to copy the directory and try both. Doesn't look like I can break anything. (I've said that before.) Thanks Lee On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 06:12:21 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2003 05:48 am, Lee

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Patenting of Software Code]

2003-10-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 15:43:43 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 3:31 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: Hello Anne and others, On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:45:25 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Patenting of Software Code]: snip

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Patenting of Software Code]

2003-10-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:54:26 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 4:45 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 15:43:43 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 3:31 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: Hello Anne and others, On Fri

[newbie] lspci

2003-09-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
lspci is missing on my new install. Needed by VMware. Any ideas about about what might have been different on the install on this box than the last three I did over the weekend? Just found it in pciutils with a google and installed the rpm but I don't know what I did different in the first

Re: [newbie] lspci

2003-09-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:09:59 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:58 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: lspci is missing on my new install. Needed by VMware. Any ideas about about what might have been different on the install on this box than the last three I

Re: [newbie] browsing, browsing, over the bounding main

2003-09-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:53:41 +0900 Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, before I go out and smell the dioxins, there is one item of urgent (for me, anyway) business: Please look at the following URL in both Mozilla and Konqueror: https://newtrading.etrade.ne.jp/ETGate I know

[newbie] 9.2 flawless install

2003-09-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
Spent the past few hours dl and installing/updating 9.2. I picked the Australian mirror for the update at 8 AM Fla time cause I knew they were all out partying about then. Best urpmi experience ever. VMware also flawless install. Win2k easier this way by far. Came with the RC4 Open Office,

Re: [newbie] 9.2 flawless install

2003-09-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:26:59 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spent the past few hours dl and installing/updating 9.2. I picked the Australian mirror for the update at 8 AM Fla time cause I knew they were all out partying about then. Best urpmi experience ever. VMware also

Re: [newbie] Workgroup change

2003-09-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:15:12 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:19 pm, dlwiggers wrote: I know someone told me how to do this a couple of weeks ago, but I just can't find my notes. How do I change workgroups so komba2 will see my 9.2 cooked box as part

Re: [newbie] Workgroup change

2003-09-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 00:45:15 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 11:29 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:15:12 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:19 pm, dlwiggers wrote: I know someone told me how to do

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:51:49 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to shut down is type: halt enter If you just want a reboot type:

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:51:49 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to shut down is type: halt enter If you just want a reboot type:

[newbie] Browser

2003-09-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
I'm using Opera because I'm addicted to mouse gestures. Is there a OpenSource alternative with this feature? I put the office on Mozilla getting ready for the big mdk day 'cause it'll look the same Monday morning as it did on Win2K Friday afternoon. But...I'm going to have trouble

[newbie] Urpmi, Grpmi, Burpmi

2003-09-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
Just when I thought I had a handle on downloads, I was browsing through addons for Mozilla in the gui, picked some to match the mdk mozilla that I urpmi'ed last week. grpmi ground to a halt with a version conflict because it didn't see the -4mdk version as installed. I thought that the gui

Re: [newbie] Browser

2003-09-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:10:23 -0500 Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:09 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: |I'm using Opera because I'm addicted to mouse gestures. Is there a|OpenSource alternative with this feature? |Lee Firebird has them too

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:47:05 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:15, Franki wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:50:41 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:03:12 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On September 23, 2003 10:41 pm, dlwiggers wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:17:58 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On September 23, 2003 01:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Thank you for a great exposition of

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:50:41 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list it may take a few years, and you may bump in to an Aussie or two, but sooner

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:10:09 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can use a program called Partimage. Find it in freshmeat.net, I can't remember its website. What great about it is that you can boot your PC using its CD (gentoo

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:30:47 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:45 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: urpmi partimage. It's on contrib Lee No, it's a different program. What I mean is this: http

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Lee Wiggers
On 21 Sep 2003 21:01:45 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, at 03:27, John Wilson wrote: Now if I could just find a Linux app that reads ACT! files and is a workalike I could wean them off Windows completely :-) ttfn John

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-22 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:31:31 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:03 pm, rikona wrote: Yep - another part of the problem. M$ help suffers from the same problem, although their overall integration of help is a step in the right direction. Newbies can describe

[newbie] VMWare on 1.1g

2003-09-22 Thread Lee Wiggers
My first VMWare experiment was a flop. Install was on a 1.1 Gig Athlon box w/128meg sdram. Result was very slooow win2k on a slow mdk 9.1. I need kde or there's no point trying to migrate. I panicked and reinstalled win2k. So, any input would be appreciated. More memory? Faster

Re: [newbie] VMWare on 1.1g

2003-09-22 Thread Lee Wiggers
Thank you all That was my first thought. If all else fails, throw money at it. Next weekend. Lee snip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-22 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:35:02 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:37:19 -0400, Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put it in fat32 because of the ntfs write thing. It's first shot practice anyway. If you're using a virtual disk setup, that won't matter

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 06:19:55 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:45:29 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Even more worrying is that it would effectively outlaw Linux. Exactement, and in doing so, would drive us underground, fulfilling the

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Wiggers
My sympathy to the Russian. I can't get [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the darn list either. Lee On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:11:49 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:06:44 -0300 Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's up? Whenever I

[newbie] Domain assign

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hello list Over the years, I have added a box at a time in a small office. I'm now, one by one, installing mdk 9.1 on all of them. There is no place that I see to assign hostname or domainname in the install. And I can't find the tool or howto to let me change them post-install. I would like

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:54:27 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:16, Lee Wiggers wrote: My sympathy to the Russian. I can't get [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the darn list either. Lee Who the hell is Lee Wiggers anyways? stephen kuhn - owner Damn good

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Wiggers
Not since I did so and got a confirmation request. Problem is, I can't confirm from that address anymore. Comcast moved smtp to smtp.comcast.net when they bought attbi. Forward stops in Dec sometime. What's one more PITA. Lee On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:56:27 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
Proprietary programs really suck. VMWare is the subject of this particular rant, but could be anybody. I bought the package at a reasonable price, but: Can't install what they sent because it only supports up to 9.0 mdk. When I try to allow setup to build a vmon module, it asks for the

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:58:42 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:10:59 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As usual I'm amazed at the response here. Thanks all Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:33:19 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 04:02:02 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proprietary programs really suck. In theory yes, in actual circumstances I'd say vmware does about the best job around for paid software

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:20:44 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I think I did... stephen kuhn - owner It's always good to know who to blame. I installed the kernel source and the win2k install is going as I hoped it would. Never saw a 4g format go in 2 sec before. I put it

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:47:21 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:37, Lee Wiggers wrote: Also, when I had install problems, I got the latest rpm from the VMWare site and installed that. Should I leave it now that I understand the install or start over

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
What a nice bonus. Thanks Tony You just saved a big pain in the tail. Lee On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:20:08 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note you know you can copy the image of win2k onto the other PC's so you don't have to install it on all. Just install vmware.

[newbie] VMWare question

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
I'm slowly installing 9.1 on the office boxes this evening. heh heh Question struck playing with my VMWare install on the laptop. Do I have to defrag a VMWare fat32 disk? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] urpmi vs Mandrake Update (the GUI)

2003-09-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
Okay I go to Mandrake Update in the Configuration menu and it says no new updates then I do urpmi -v --autoselect from the cli (Darn I like saying that) and (after dumping texstar again) I get a slew of updates. I'm sure I'm not the only one curious. What's the difference and why? I know, I

Re: [newbie] urpmi vs Mandrake Update (the GUI)

2003-09-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
aha he said Thanks Lee On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:49:38 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 5:49 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay I go to Mandrake Update in the Configuration menu and it says no new updates then I do urpmi -v --autoselect from the cli

Re: [newbie] urpmi vs Mandrake Update (the GUI)

2003-09-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
So, is there a way to update all from gui? Not that I will, being a cli hotdog now, of course. Lee On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:18:49 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aha he said Thanks Lee On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:49:38 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:10:08 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 20:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Any thoughts? Lee DO NOT GET A HP-PSC 1210 they are cheap and make

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:10:59 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 11:06 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Any thoughts? Lee I've been pretty happy with my Epson

Re: [newbie] Konq

2003-09-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
Thanks all, I installed kdeaddons and imagegallery is back. Anybody have any idea what might have happened to it in the first place? I'm 90% sure I have used it since moving up to 9.1. OTOH this may be senility sneaking up on me, I suppose. Would I lose it in an upgrade, anyway? Lee Want

Re: [newbie] Konq

2003-09-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:53:10 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:08, Lee Wiggers wrote: Thanks all, I installed kdeaddons and imagegallery is back. Anybody have any idea what might have happened to it in the first place? I'm 90% sure I have used

[newbie] Konq

2003-09-15 Thread Lee Wiggers
Appears that I lost all Konq plugins. Specifically, I don't have Image Gallery in my tool selection, but don't seen any of the plugin selections offered anymore. What have I done now? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] This is just sickening

2003-09-11 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:11:21 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Original Message --- From: HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] This is just sickening On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:24:28 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) uttered: n***gg***

[newbie] Strange use for multiple desktops

2003-09-11 Thread Lee Wiggers
Ladies and Gentlemen I use kde with 11 desktops and want to open an OO presentation on each desktop for a smooth transition from module to module. OO insists that they all belong on the same desktop. Linux always lets me do it my way or at least 10 other ways. Anyone have a plan? I posted

Re: [newbie] Tangled threads

2003-09-10 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hey. Lets start one on top posting. They had a thread on OpenOffice that started three weeks ago and is still showing up now and then. I know Stephen can do better than that on his own. Lee On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:34:21 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 Sep

Re: [newbie] This is just sickening

2003-09-10 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:38:39 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:10:07 -0400 Networks East [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: FILE SHARING IS ILLEGAL No, it's not. Sharing of copyrighted material is a violation of the copyright holders' rights, it is not theft, at

Re: [newbie] Gotta get off Windows

2003-09-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:57:35 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:15 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a naive question. I'm going to buy VMWare because the dual boot crud is driving me nuts on my laptop. Question is, Do I have to buy a copy for each

Re: [newbie] Gotta get off Windows

2003-09-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
data files if you export them as .qif files. The other items I mentioned above can be found at SourceForge. Just a thought. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 9/8/2003 at 1:26 AM Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 01:04, Lee Wiggers wrote: The only two

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-03 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 16:35:07 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:39:09 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, snip I have just ordered the following laptop. Does anyone have any suggestions or hints on loading linux on this thing? it comes with

Re: [newbie] ssh

2003-09-02 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:18:07 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP I understand now what's going on. (I think) On the bright side, I get to buy another box and relegate my last years box to server. That's not a bad thing. I have 8 up now so I get to buy a router

[newbie] Router

2003-09-02 Thread Lee Wiggers
Wait a minute...You almost had me there. 8 boxes translates to 8 extra nics @ $15.00 US per, if one box is a router. And 8 open slots on the mb. 1 switch box=2 nics or less in cost. Tell me again what the advantage of the box/router/firewall setup is? I'll admit hangin' out here usually

[newbie] ssh

2003-09-01 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hello all This afternoon, in my continuing quest for understanding, I ssh'ed from my laptop to aeis.tv which is on my desktop 9.1 box serving to the net on apache2. I used root and the root password and immediately had the run of the box. It scared me enough to zoom to the firewall and

Re: [newbie] ssh

2003-09-01 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:34:09 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 6:40 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hello all snip Depends on how secure you want it to be. The more services running on a box, the more ways there are to attack it. So having a dedicated firewall

Re: [newbie] Apache: where to begin?

2003-08-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
webroot is var/www/html. su then go get your files. Lee On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:40:00 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just installed Apache2 and when I enter http://localhost in my browser it shows me the apache page, so installation was succesfull. To which

[newbie] Postfix

2003-08-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hi all Assume I'm as dumb as I feel when I get into this stuff. I have rtfm'ed my eyes out. I want to install postfix on my apache2 server, aeis.tv for use like my host on americanelevatorinspection.com has set up qmail. Next year I expect to drop the host and do all from my happy little mdk

Re: [newbie] Postfix

2003-08-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:06:21 +0200 Bart Salien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Saturday 30 August 2003 14:25, schreef Lee Wiggers: Lee , have you looked at the basic how to on the postfix site ? http://www.postfix.org/basic.html Bart. snip I'll do that now, before I muddle around

Re: [newbie] Postfix

2003-08-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:42:04 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:25:35 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm missing something. Can someone do a simple 1,2,3 or point me to a tutorial on howto postfix on apache server? First off, Nazi mode here

Re: [newbie] Toshiba Sat. 330CDS Laptop

2003-08-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
I went through the drill with PM, read your email, and started over installing on a 2 gig partition directly with 2k install, leaving the rest virginal for mdk. Now here goes 9.1. Lee Use PM 8+..otherwise you will be sorry. Femmeknowstoomuchaboutwinsux Want to

Re: [newbie] Toshiba Sat. 330CDS Laptop

2003-08-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:41:25 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:25:30 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Use PM 8+..otherwise you will be sorry. Strange, I never ever had any probs with Windows coexisting with MDK when I used to dual boot. I

[newbie] Toshiba Sat. 330CDS Laptop

2003-08-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
Just had one of these fall out of the sky. Anyone using it dual boot with mdk 9.1? HD is wiped so I guess I pull out PartMagic first unless there's a better way? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Toshiba Sat. 330CDS Laptop

2003-08-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
Yes win2k and mdk9.1 Just finishing win2k looking forward to driver chasing. Lee On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:40:03 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you dualing it with w2k? Tony. -Original Message- From: Lee Wiggers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

[newbie] Thanks to all

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
Well you did it again. I barely know enough to tie my shoelaces and I got an apache server up. Between lurking and asking a vague question now and then, all of a sudden it came together. The last bit of understanding was my hardware firewall (duh). I feel like deleting everything and starting

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:34:42 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:46:19 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Now in linux I think there is NO difference except: RTFM became RTFHTO (Read The Fucking How TO), Is this any change? From linuxgroups I got less

[newbie] Hostname

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
First, I did rtfm. I couldn't ftfa. How do I change the hostname, with or without webmin. It's the little things that get you. All 8 boxes on my lan are properly named except for my pride and joy. She is listed as . Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] qmail, sendmail, etc.

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
1. Any preferences? 2. A few months ago, I couldn't get through sympa to the list. I was led to believe there was a problem at my host with DNS. I am about to tackle a mail server but my ip is subject to change by comcast at will. No-ip.com will handle the resolution within a few minutes,

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-23 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:20:38 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 14:03, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:02:17 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How can I determine what ports my providing is blocking? try getting someone to telnet

Re: [newbie] Recommend a laptop

2003-08-20 Thread Lee Wiggers
snip Thanks to all for the suggestions.Off to ebay Lee On Tuesday 19 August 2003 11:34 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi List Trying to decide on a dual boot laptop for win2k (sorry) and mdk 9.1 Any suggestions (besides offing the win2k). Lee Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Kmail won't let me send email at all!?

2003-08-20 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:41:34 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 1:11 am, Heather/Femme wrote: I can't get kmail to send to the list or for that matter, to anyone! Error I get is relaying to linux-mandrake.com is not allowed blah blah, will sit in your

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