Re: [newbie] Dumbest test I've ever seen

2005-02-02 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:47:43 -0800 jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mandrake is not ready for Aunt Tilly. Although it does install and > come up usable. This may be true, but I would not know since I do not have an Aunt Tillie. I did have a stepmother over 90 years of age who used Mandrake th

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:20:46 -0500 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > starting it to see if there was any difference. It ran longer this time, > > maybe 10 seconds, then there was a blue flash in the vicinity of the power > > supply and it cut off. Oh well, I think this one is beyond me. > > > > T

Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 & 10.0

2004-11-26 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:43:44 +1100 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well for one thing I would suggest that you not share /home as it provides > plenty of possibilities for seeing problems arising from incompatible > contents of hidden folders. That won't prevent it running, but i

Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 & 10.0

2004-11-26 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:24:15 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Mikkel, One more question please. > > > You can share /home, /boot, and swap between the two, as long as /boot is > large enough for all the kernel versions you are using, along with the > inital RAM disk inages. (It is h

[newbie] Multi boot 9.2 & 10.0

2004-11-25 Thread J or M Montgomery
Hello folks I have not been able to find an answer to this question but it must be so simple I am looking right through it. I have installed 10.0 (clean install, but keeping /home). This was some time ago and there were problems which caused me to revert to 9.2. I was in a hurry to actually

[newbie] iso

2004-09-28 Thread Melvin M
Can anyone help me with an iso file?..i downloaded mandrake 10.1 and got all three disks but i dont know how to open them or instal Is there a difference in iso files or am i doing something wrong?..Hhhhep...Melvin _

Re: [newbie] Re: Installation help

2004-09-18 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:05:53 +1000 Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 17:08, YH wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am installing Mandrake 9.1 with KDE to a Pentium III, graphic card S3 > > Trio3D/2X and ViewSonic LCD VE710b monitor. But the KDE cannot be > > started, it di

Re: [newbie] W32.Netsky -> Linux really better protected than windows?

2004-08-21 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:03:44 -0600 Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the third hand (Moties anyone? ); Ah yes, Larry Niven Cheers John Montgomery Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-14 Thread CHARLIE M
- Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, August 14, 2004 3:11 pm Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked > On Saturday 14 August 2004 01:20 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > > Personal experience as of 42 minutes 38 seconds ago. Virgin > in

Re: [newbie] Current scanners

2004-07-28 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:34:20 -0400 Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Dear List; I'm looking to buy a new flatbed scanner which will work > >>seamlessly with Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0. If anyone on the list has > >>recently purchased a new scanner and had an easy time setting it up, > >>could you

Re: [newbie] More on Sympatico & Microsoft.

2004-07-08 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 8, 2004 01:46 pm, Lanman wrote: > Actually Charlie; They HAVE to answer. I filed a complaint with the > CRTC, which was forwarded to Sympatico. They have 30 days to respond, > and when they do, it will come to me and will be sent to the CRTC a

Re: [newbie] More on Sympatico & Microsoft.

2004-07-08 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 8, 2004 12:37 pm, Lanman wrote: > Looks like existing Sympatico customers DID receive advance notice about > this, but did not receive a choice in the matter. Still, there's no news > about the fact that their email system is being moved to Mic

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-07 Thread Charlie M.
On July 8, 2004 11:44 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > 1. what is a MP3u file ? > I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk > How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u > files? Yeah, right Aron. How many times do I have to tell you; the stupid q

Re: [newbie] Problem login mandrake 10.0 offical Power Pack

2004-07-07 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 7, 2004 06:21 pm, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: > Dear sir, > When I start up mandrake after the bootscreen my monitor turns black. > Some body has told me that the posible trouble is the nv driver that is > installed inplace of the invidia drive

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2004-06-17 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:04:54 -0400 John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Mustek 1200 UB scanner. Loaded it with no problems. However, > every time I try to use it with The Gimp, the Gimp 2 or XSane it get the > following message: > > Failed to open device 'mustek_usb: libusb: 001: 002':

Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?

2004-06-17 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:06:28 -0400 Marv Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, everyone. I realize that this isn't a developer's list, but I get > the sense that there are more than a few developers here, and some of > the sharpest people I've yet encountered online. I'm looking for some > s

Re: [newbie] HP 1350 and what OCR and scaning software to use?

2004-05-07 Thread Ramin M
On May 3, 2004 03:49 pm, rhein wrote: > Hello, > I bought a HP psc 1350 multifunction for the school and I want to use it > under linux... The scanner work strait out of the box under MDK9.2 > Then I used PrinterDrake to setup the printer and he found a lazerjet > 1300... I waited and waited fo

Re: [newbie] How to kill printer queu?

2004-03-31 Thread Ramin M
In the terminal: >lpq Gives the list of print jobs. Then either >lprm ¨print job #¨ or >cancel ¨print job #¨ cancel the job. I don´t remember the exact format. But it is essentially like those. Try also >man lprm >man cancel >man lpq >man lpr Regards, Ramin On March 29, 2004 07:32 pm, Mar

Re: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?

2004-03-31 Thread Ramin M
Hi, I have recently got an HP3330 printer, scanner, copier, fax. Look at the twiki page on how to set it up: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/LaserJet. Regards, Ramin On March 29, 2004 10:21 am, rhein wrote: > Hello, > I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copie

Re: [newbie] p2p software search

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 02:18 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > Weird. I just started it to see whether the network would respond. Up and > > running. > > > > Which of the plug-ins are you using? I use OpenFT. Never had a problem > > but I configured it so l

Re: [newbie] p2p software search

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 01:49 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > "The giFT daemon, which is responsible for connecting to the various > networks, appears to be down and I don't seem to able to start it." > > TIA Weird. I just started it to see whether the netw

Re: [newbie] bittorrent on dialup

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 12:20 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 17:30, Charlie M. wrote: > > You won't lose everything HarM. The application does a "/tmp mount" (the > > "r" switch for recursive mea

Re: [newbie] bittorrent on dialup

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 09:58 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 11:37 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > > I dread reading such responses Fajar. I'm just an Open Source Software > > user that has learned a few things, and feels

Re: [newbie] p2p software search

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 11:47 am, Thinker wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I tried 'urpmi apollon' and 'urpmi mldonkey-gui' as root and both > times I got something along the lines of package does not exist or > cannot be found. > > Am I doing something wrong

Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community-Download hdlists question;

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 01:54 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > Hello all, > I'd like some comments here: > I'm a silver Mdk club member so I downloaded CD4-5 using bittorrent but I > prefer using rsync on a mirror on my previous (rc1) iso's. Do that, then start th

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 MCC: "Error inserting floppy"

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 02:57 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > I believe this is the first time since installing 10.0 that I've fired > up the MCC via a terminal window, so this may not be a new error, just > the first I've seen it. Should I be concerned/correct

Re: [newbie] java path for Konquerer

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 15, 2004 07:42 pm, acid wrote: > what should be the correct path to java for Konqueror web browser be so I > can use chat rooms? > mine is currently:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_03/lib/i386/libjava.so > which only gives me a 'applet loading' screen fo

Re: [newbie] kernel upgrade? (# 2)

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 07:50 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > I think I leave the source build for later.  These are the steps I'll > > follow.   If something is screwed up, let me know. > > > > 1. Make sure my boot floppy works > > 2. Add the following to /etc/l

Re: [newbie] bittorrent on dialup

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 15, 2004 09:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 04:26 am, Charlie M. wrote: > > it's one way, download only. Sort of anyway, rsync reads everything on > > both ends but only downloads what's re

Re: [newbie] bittorrent on dialup

2004-03-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 02:35 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > Charlie, > Indulge me, but what's the "--delete" flag good for other than saving > diskspace? Yeah HarM, space. But with 240 GB of disk space available here that isn't the main concern. It also mak

Re: [newbie] bittorrent on dialup

2004-03-15 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 15, 2004 10:29 am, Fajar PRiyanto wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm trying bittorrent. Can it be used on dial up machine like mine? > I've installed it, but really confused of what I do next. > How do I begin to use it? > Thanks, > Fajar. Hello Fajar;

Re: [newbie] How to burn mdk 10 cds

2004-03-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 14, 2004 09:07 am, Paul Smith wrote: > > Start k3b, look for the "Tools" button in the toolbar at the top of the > > user interface, click it, click the CD section, click "Burn CD from > > Image." > > Thanks, Charlie! Did you mean «click "writ

Re: [newbie] Ad-Aware

2004-03-13 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 13, 2004 12:02 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:51:17 -0500 > > David Williams disseminated the following: > > Is there even a need for anything like Ad-Aware for Linux? > > No. There may not be a "need" but if you don't like pop-u

Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc

2004-03-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 11, 2004 05:50 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc > > So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? > > John Lots of good guesses. I _have_ answered this question on this list before though

[newbie] Troubleshooting - No Sound

2004-01-16 Thread Brian M. Smith
Hello All, I am pretty new to Linux, and I am not really sure of the best practices on troubleshooting hardware problems yet, but I am willing to learn. I am running Mandrake 9.2 on an IBM ThinkPad T23 laptop, and I am having a problem getting my sound to work. Mandrake is reporting that I have

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-29 Thread Ramin M
I am having the same situation! I have disabled ACPI and now at the final moment i have to push the power button to turn off the computer. However i don´t have any complaint about this. It is quite normal to do this! With ACPI on, the Mandrake was able to physically turn off the machine. Appa

Re: [newbie] Enabling hyper threading.

2003-12-28 Thread Ramin M
What is hyper threading? Regards, Ramin --- Steven Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about 85% sure that Mandrake 9.2 has hyper threading support. If > > Mandrake 9.2 does have hyper threading support will someone tell how > to > enable it? >

Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-25 Thread Ramin M
Thanks David for the tip. I will check if i need to recompile the kernel for usb support. I hope not because i am not that knowledgeable in these.   Regards,  RaminDavid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2

2003-12-23 Thread Ramin M
Thanks for the reply. I assume this means that KDE automaticly adds an option for XFCE 4 beside XFCE 3. However my question has been more general. For example, i would like to upgrade to Gimp 1.3 and again the mandrake installer does not recognize that i already have Gimp 1.2.5. So does it mean t

Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2

2003-12-23 Thread Ramin M
This is a general question also relevant to the particular case of XFCE4.0.2: If i choose to install xfce through mandrake installtion, does it automaticly remove the older version. I am asking this because when i high light this option as the current install version it says none. So it seems it

Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-23 Thread Ramin M
performance in Mandrake and will let you know about the result. Regards, Ramin --- P J Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still waiting to install 9.2 but after reading all the problems with > 9.2 I > am undecided. Any feedback on this would be helpfull. > - Original Message ----

Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-23 Thread Ramin M
I simply did this through the hardware control center where it has an option for activating/disactivating ACPI. The output is /etc/lilo/conf is acpi=ht. Regards, Ramin --- JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:55:58 -0500 (EST) > Ramin M <[EMAIL PR

Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-22 Thread Ramin M
onfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat > differently > than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use > Mandrake > because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. > > e > > On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: > > &

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-21 Thread Ramin M
--- et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 21 > but back to the problem in the subject line. > > turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Sorry, is this in reply to my problem? Why should i turn off this in BIOS? Regards, Regards, Ramin

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
ord, I like SuSe > a lot, but use Mandrake > because I like the Mandrake config tools better than > YAST. > > e > > On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M > wrote: > > > Another problem during the installation was that > the > > second time that i

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
--- "E. Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday > Have any other users out there noticed that the > /home/username directory isn't > user writable after installation? I haven't seen > that one before (and I > installed 9.2 on a friends laptop last week). The lockups are happening less

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
TED]> wrote: > On Fri, > how long does it take to freeze? and is it dual > booted with M$? i have > no lockup problems at all ever... > -- > jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >++ > "Keep your friends close and your enemies > closer"-

[newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-19 Thread Ramin M
Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd the powerpack 3 CD version and installed it. The inst

Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem problem

2003-11-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 18 November 2003 9:14 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > Hello, > > Now that I have Mandrake installed, I'd like to get it to work with my > cable modem. I'm currently using a Linksys external cable modem, and > it's connected to my computer via USB.

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:51 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Melissa Reese wrote: > > As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB > > drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error > > myself, because if all I

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 18 November 2003 1:07 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > Hi Bryan, > This is a custom built computer, so I'll have to ask the guy who built > it if he can explain what the MDK installation was seeing. > > As long as I can be very sure that I'm only me

Re: [newbie] iso size | I was unsubbed :-)

2003-11-18 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 18 November 2003 8:01 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Hi. > > I've downloaded the first two 9.2 iso's and, to my astonishment, they > appear to be extremely tiny. According to Konq, the first iso has 10 MG and > the other one, 13MG. > In the CLI

Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem

2003-11-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 17 November 2003 6:16 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:03 pm, a large portion of the List wrote: > > > > Thanks to all who replied - guess I'll try gftp or something like that. > > Although, I think I will try Konq (jus

Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem

2003-11-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 16 November 2003 2:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the > 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work > right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, c

Re: [newbie] E-mail sound.

2003-11-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 16 November 2003 12:15 pm, candlish wrote: > Dear Charlie, > > Thank you for your comments. You may have missed my point (the one on my head (-;) though. > E-mail sound may not have a need for html and the requirement for hugh > downloads can

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 9:47 pm, dfox wrote: > Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin > > >http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/matrix_revolutions.html > > I'm there now: it's just sitting there saying "transferring data from" the > site. One

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 8:15 pm, dfox wrote: > Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin > > >It seems that I have solved. My problems (mplayerplug-in > 0.8 not > > playing Quicktime movies) were caused by the generic rpm I downloaded > > I

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 3:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:47 pm, Margot wrote: > > I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should > > update my database. > > > > I thought the command I used to use for thi

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 2:54 pm, Margot wrote: > Being really stupid here (as usual!) but I can't find the command to > give the URLs for my sources. Tried > [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# urpmq --list-media > But only got this list of the names of the m

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 12:47 pm, Margot wrote: > I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should > update my database. > > I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but > I tried all 3 ways (as user, su

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 12:47 pm, Margot wrote: > I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should > update my database. > > I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but > I tried all 3 ways (as user, su

[newbie] [OT] Link offered without comment...

2003-11-13 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2003-06.html Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 10:35:54 up 2 days, 22:41, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.08, 0.08

Re: [newbie] Weird things in 9.2

2003-11-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:54 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 06:46 pm, Charlie M. wrote: (-; > Thanks, Charlie. After playing around a little, I find that in > Konqueror one can open /mnt/camera and download the pict

Re: [newbie] Weird things in 9.2

2003-11-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 11 November 2003 2:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 5:46 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > > Tuesday 11 November 2003 8:06 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > Yesterday I received my 7 cd's with 9.2. Installed with

Re: [newbie] another network.img install issue (HELP)

2003-11-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:38 am, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:09:00 -0700 > > "Charlie M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > For the CD-RW problem; is that drive a re-badged LG by any chance? If > &g

Re: [newbie] Weird things in 9.2

2003-11-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 11 November 2003 8:06 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Yesterday I received my 7 cd's with 9.2. Installed without > formatting my /home. Works fine and maybe even faster than 9.1. > > But : > 1. where is "file manager - super user mode". "Protect (l)

Re: [newbie] another network.img install issue (HELP)

2003-11-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 11 November 2003 7:20 am, Thinker wrote: > I tried to ftp install it but something has gone very wrong. > > Using the mirror > ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/ > > I made the network.img floppy using rawwritewin.exe

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-11 Thread Paul M
y explain (briefly) basic install, mounting, filesystems, devices, etc. plus some tips & hints. Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 12:00 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 > > Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited > > downloads from.. > > So its possible that is o

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 10:39 am, HaywireMac wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:43:21 -0500 > > HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The > > > trees have been updated to get rid of th

Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 9:21 am, Warren Post wrote: > PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed > Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no > particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done --

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 8:25 am, HaywireMac wrote: > Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using w

Re: [newbie] LAN not recognized on asus a7n8x-x MB

2003-11-06 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 06 November 2003 2:30 pm, gt wrote: > thanks so much, i will give it a try right now (postponing all the things I > really should be doing right now) :) > > Gideon > I have to slow down and give sensible answers, sorry Gideon. )-: You'll prob

Re: [newbie] md5 checksums for downloaded 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-31 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 31 October 2003 12:25 pm, Anarky wrote: > Brian Parish wrote: > >Does anyone have these or know where to find them? > > > >TIA > >Brian > > are you talking about the club member isos or the free isos .. as I > can't find any isos for non-club th

Re: [newbie] left start menu (another problem)

2003-10-31 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 31 October 2003 9:17 am, Mukul Sabharwal wrote: > Hi, > > also despite the fact that out of the hundreds of item that show up, > only few are there. > > Even fewer point to as valid links, most of them don't do anything. It > happens in GNOME, a

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-28 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 28 October 2003 13:11, Schwartz Avi wrote: > >>> > >>> I just wonder what will happen to all the people that lost their > >>> drive. Is Mdk going to pay for them? Can they even afford it? > >>> > >>> Avi > >> > >> Lol, > >> > >> I'd get upset

Re: [newbie] K3b .10-2

2003-10-28 Thread Charlie M.
rnel 2.4.22-21mdk 13:25:48 up 1:28, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.14 Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. -- George M. Cohan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ntE4G11CaRuZZSIRAgT9AKCdqCJlgQECHym+dhsLp8uCrcTC4QCfdkPd 6bxDHhIuhtJJBpSc6F9w

Re: [newbie] Audio Jackplug wiring

2003-10-26 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Sunday 26 October 2003 10:33 am, John Richard Smith graced me with: > I'm told Mobo audio connection is, > > Red= Right channel > Wt = Left channel > Blk = Common or ground > > but, > > Stereo Jackplug ? > > Diagram > === > > | body | shank1 |shank2 | tip > > therefore , > body = b

Re: [newbie] using old ICQ number and contacts database etc in LICQ or similar?

2003-10-25 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Saturday 25 October 2003 03:30 pm, Merlin Zener graced me with: > Hi, > > I got LICQ working, using a new number [UIN], but I'd like to be > able to use my old ICQ number that I've had for years, and import > my old database from ICQ with all my contacts and old messages etc > in it. Kind of lik

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:26 pm, Anne Wilson graced me with: > On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 11:28 am, HaywireMac wrote: > > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5094279.html > > > > "Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more > > secure than Windows. "The data doesn't jibe with that

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 12:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: > At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like > > (but somehow subtly different from): > >LeRoy Duvall > >Linux user #258988 > > OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-23 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:17 am, John Richard Smith graced me with: > Paul, > > I have an optical mouse, > > My XF86Config(-4) doesn't have > > Option "Resolution" "200" in it at all, > > Does this mean that where the system doesn't find a resolution set > here it adopts a default setting

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:30 am, Sharrea Day graced me with: > Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As > I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it > in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable > delay before the cursor a

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 04:01 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs > and they're not visible in the control center. > TIA > Paul A workaround taken from bugzilla: Do: mkdir /usr/share/applnk-

Re: [newbie] Welcome to Newbie

2003-10-22 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:25 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] graced me with: > This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for > people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. > > Welcome to Mandrake! I like it as it is, Eric. Nice job on this and the Etiquette TWiki page. If you ever find a need to

Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients

2003-10-21 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 05:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] graced me with: > Why is it that after I start aMSN via the terminal the terminal > session that I used to start aMSN is dead. Meaning, I can't do > anything with that terminal session unless I close out aMSN. > > Is there a way to launch aMS

Re: [newbie] Googling

2003-10-20 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 20, 2003 04:14 pm, Margot wrote: [..] > I have my home page set to www.google.co.uk and not www.google.com - a > tip I picked up from a friend, very useful because it gives the option > of searching UK sites only as an alternative to searching

Re: [newbie] question on install Mandrake on second partition

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 02:03 pm, pencuse wrote: Hi Charlie, hi folks, > > please read my 1e-9 $ comments below: > > > > > If you don't have an actual Windows XP install disk > > you don't want to do that. > > "D:\" is your restore partition designed to wor

Re: [newbie] Scanner (SCSI) question

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 01:02 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: [..] > I have a SCSI scanner (it works great - thats why I've not switched to a > USB model yet), an Astar Umax 1200s. > > What I'm trying to figure out is how to get it recognized after bootup if I > fo

Re: [newbie] question on install Mandrake on second partition

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 12:22 pm, pencuse wrote: > Hi, > > I have such configuration on my PC from an OEM: > - Windows HP Home Edition with latest updates > - 40 GB HDD: (C: 20 GB/NTFS, D:20 GB/FAT32) > > My intention is to install Linux on partition D: > but

Re: [newbie] adding a new HDD to a dual boot system

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 12:24 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hi, > > I found an 80G HDD that I'd forgotten I'd brought over here with me in > my luggage; I'd like to add it to my existing dual boot Mandrake 9.0 and > WIN2KPRO system. I temporarily put it in my ext

Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent

2003-10-18 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 02:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2003 03:09 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > > I guess the texstar source has to be added to use it with 9.1 from the > > urpmi command or from software manager. > >

Re: [newbie] encrypted email to/from windows/linux howto?

2003-10-18 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 18, 2003 02:52 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hello, > I'm using Evolution on Mandrake 9.0, and I'd like to be able to > send/receive encrypted emails to my friends [and my Mum], most of whom > use Outlook on WIN2K. I managed to work out how to gene

Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 12:52 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2003 11:44 am, Charlie M. wrote: > > urpmi bittorrent > > > > and accepting the "To satisfy dependencies the following packages are > > going

Re: [newbie] [OT]The mad Russian's new response...

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 13, 2003 06:01 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Charlie: > "Moron"? You're mellowing. > -- cmg Hi CMG; Oops. Sorry. )-: I'll behave. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 1

Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 16, 2003 09:27 pm, Stormjumper wrote: > hi, > > this must really sound stupid. The only "stupid questions" to my way of thinking are the ones you *don't* ask. (-; > am trying to install bittorrent to dl 9.2, using the rpm as listed on > the

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail dropping the POP connection

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 16, 2003 08:18 pm, The Other wrote: [..] > The problem was I would be reading and writing emails, doing some > surfing, and then get a popup alert telling me the POP server connection > timed out, when using Mozilla. Set the mozilla mail appli

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 08:18 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: [..] > We stayed up for 24hrs but it was slowing down my office connection > to the point where I had to shut it off this morning. How do I turn > it back on for uploads over the weekend? > > Lee The same

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 07:56 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: [..] >When BT froze (not BT's fault), I rebooted to change some bios > settings for the ram. I've since learned why BT wouldn't start up > again after I rebooted. My connection is dynamic, and my IP ha

Re: [newbie] list nazi: hijacking

2003-10-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 16, 2003 12:21 pm, Margot wrote: [..] > I subscribe to a lot of mailing lists, and many of them post a regular > reminder of "list netiquette", politely requesting no hijacking, > top-posting, HTML or attachments, and briefly giving the reasons

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