Re: [newbie] Firewal not working...

2004-03-15 Thread Mark Weaver
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 04:26 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:24 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: And one more... I red the instruction to setup a firewall. I use my machine since the first MDK installation with no firewall. In my case I had just to remove

Re: [newbie] Firewal not working...

2004-03-15 Thread Mark Weaver
On Thursday 11 March 2004 04:52 am, rhein wrote: Hello, I opened port 80 by typing tcp/80 udp/80 in the advanced panel of the firewall setup. Still no access to the net. I removed all the firewall and I can connect again. What did I wrong? Christophe Christophe, check my reponse to Aron

Re: [newbie] Ad-Aware

2004-03-15 Thread Mark Weaver
On Saturday 13 March 2004 01:51 pm, David Williams wrote: Is there any thing for Linux like Ad-Aware for Windows? Is there even a need for anything like Ad-Aware for Linux? I love these kinds of questions...they're so cute! In answer to your question, no. There is no need for such software for

Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake

2004-03-15 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:04 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:22 am, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:10, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Will the Mandrake 10.0 Community installation process automatically add the second installation of Mandrake to lilo.conf or

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-03-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:03 am, anton wrote: Big hairy things! ARGGGH! My one real wish with 3.2 was to put the KDM blues (having to use GDM) behind me. Alac, alas, not to be! The piece of )*()*^ still doesn't work (for me)! It will log me into a desktop now (before, with 3.1.3, not

Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove problem

2004-03-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Friday 26 March 2004 08:47 pm, John Carver wrote: It appears the dcopserver file is not working properly. KDE will not execute its programs because this setup is not running. Any help on this? I'm not sure this was meant to do anything other then allow folks to preview Mandrake and what it

Re: [newbie] Samba vs LinNieghborhood

2003-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, I have my MDK 9.1 box connected to our Windows network here at work using Samba. From a windows box I can see my linux box on the network. Using Samba alone should I be able to browse the windows network? Currently I

Re: [newbie] Urgent !!!!! Error after installation reboot. Urgent!!!!!!!!

2003-10-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Budianto Yudi wrote: No i choose standard mouse. well ok... its your computer. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by

Re: [newbie] Urgent !!!!! Error after installation reboot. Urgent!!!!!!!!

2003-10-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Budianto Yudi wrote: PS 2 mouse. yes...I have one too! -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1

Re: [newbie] Urgent !!!!! Error after installation reboot. Urgent!!!!!!!!

2003-10-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Budianto Yudi wrote: install madrake linux 9.1 from CD. Problem 1 : when the installation ask for the languange which i choose, the mouse pointer always hang, and i must reset my computer and start over the linux installation so the mouse pointer can be moved. Why ? is there something wrong

Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 06:03, Mark Weaver wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:41, Todd Slater wrote: I finally got around to making the RPM's for XFce 4.0, available at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ as always. WHAT A GUY! Gee, mate, you're a sport

Re: [newbie] Where I can find mdk 9.2 (final) in Mandrake Club?

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Lucio_Costa wrote: --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 09:24 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Greetings All. I subscribe me in Mandrake Club and I can't find MDK9.2 in there. Can anyone help me to find it in there? As far as I know Mdk9.2RC2 _is_ the same as the

Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:03:47PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: The only thing I have to whinge about (whinge = whine) is that when I try to run or use another right-click function - it takes SO long...so I re-arranged my path statements and that helped a bit

Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:41, Todd Slater wrote: I finally got around to making the RPM's for XFce 4.0, available at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ as always. WHAT A GUY! Gee, mate, you're a sport! Good on ya! Hip hip hoorah! Todd's neater than sliced bread! Kudos!

Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:03:17 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: here here...I'm with Stephen on this. I LOVE IT! Man! has this desktop ever come a long way. Thank you SO much for putting this stuff online. It is Beauutiful and so stinkin

Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote: Ladies and Gents, Does anyone know/use a Groupware Linux Email client that replaces Outlook? THANKS! Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies, Inc. http://www.coinfotech.com Evolution comes to mind. As far as real GRoupWare apps take a look at what

Re: [newbie] groupware email client

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote: Ladies and Gents, Does anyone know of a good Linux Groupware Email client that would synch up just like Oulook? THANKS! Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies, Inc. http://www.coinfotech.com http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/nix.html --

Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 04:03 PM 9/29/2003, Mark Weaver said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:41, Todd Slater wrote: I finally got around to making the RPM's for XFce 4.0, available at http://clevername.homeip.net

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Terence J. Golightly wrote: List, I just started my machine after leaving it off while away from home. I noticed that when I booted the machine, right over the third? column where the devices are listed with there associated interrupts was a rectangular section colored green with four greek

Re: [newbie] HP Laserjet 1000

2003-08-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 07:19, Matthew Dunaway wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head title/title /head body I am using Mandrake 9.0 Power Pack. I would like to go M$ free. The only thing stopping me is I can't get my Laserjet 1000

Re: [newbie] lexmark z54 driver

2003-05-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Adolf, Michael F scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: No luck yet finding a linux driver for lexmark z54 inkjet. Has anyone got a z54 to work? mike Hi Mike... I've got some good news and I've got some bad news. First, the bad news...the Lexmark Z series printers are horrible on

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Erylon Hines wrote: You are joking, right? Download additions don't have serial numbers, and no registration is necessary. If you buy the boxed set, there is a support number, but download editions aren't supported by Mandrake, except by the help lists, such as this one. Mandrake Linux is a

Re: [newbie] securing postfix

2003-05-31 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything that one needs to do to secure postfix out-of-the-box configuration in 9.1? I need to allow relaying to run mailing lists, but I don't want to become a relay for spammers. Thanks, Todd Todd, Go to this page. It has all you'll ever want to know about

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Steve Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux

2003-05-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Kinda old, but I just found this - thought it might be of interest to some of y'all...actually quite funny when you think about it... http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,248630,20274086,00.htm Ballmer is such a bafoon! -- Mark The definition of stupid is doing

[newbie] Re: [expert] usb problem with PDA palm zire

2003-04-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Shamot wrote: Hello. I have just problem when to try hotsync because of nonexisting /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 When I do hotsync it seems kernel recognizes my device and try to load modules and creare /dev/ust/tts/0. Something is wrong here coze I get this from kernel: Mar 30 19:26:02

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:28:24 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font

Re: [newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Robert Wideman wrote: I was taking a friend home Wednesday evening when on the radio was a commercial type thing that reported a Sophomore in Lake Travis High School was in a drunk driving accident. He had 2 friends with him who were killed instantly when they hit another car head on, the driver

Re: [newbie] no sound in 9.0

2003-03-02 Thread Mark Weaver
lewis wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 05:19 pm, robin wrote: lewis wrote: Hello, I have Mandrake Linux 9.0 installed on my computer. The sound doesn't work but it does on the windows side of the partition. I have an AMD Mainboard that uses SiS 740 chipset. It also has a built in AC97 Codec.

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Well Andrew, I have

Re: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Todd Slater wrote: Monthly stats for Mandrake-newbie Total posts processed:3027 Most active threads 86 Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned 47 Xwindows Stability 43 Lovin' KDE 3.1 38 OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad! 34 Update the

Re: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 3:34 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Most active posters 200 Robert Wideman 158 Anne Wilson Shucks - I'm still talking too much. I thought I'd been quieter lately. Anne look at the bright side Anne. At least you're not still fighting with Java and

Re: [newbie] unkillable process?

2003-02-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Sun 2003-02-16 at 14:46:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: [...] Correct. If it does not, there is nothing a mere user (or admin) can do about it. I know it's late in the thread but I thought I'd mention that when I get a process

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-17 Thread Mark Weaver
robin wrote: Or more specifically, you build a package and upload it to the contribs folder that actually works and everyone else can use. for me, prolly a long way off. I'm still in the break it and fix it area. Funnily enough I came within a whisker of doing that with lyx-qt-1.3, but

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 04:42 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Oh come one. I like 12 hour shifts. They are easier than 16 hour shifts. HEHE Rob You know, I used to work this weekend shift thing - where I pulled 2 sixteen hour shifts, Sat and Sun, then was off 5 days a

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and especially with opinion it's really a

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 08:17 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. No joke. I am personally going to be taking a newbie learning course (not a course, just a self taught action) in Apache/Perl/Python/SQL programming here soon. So i totally

Re: [newbie] unkillable process?

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Wed 2003-02-12 at 14:22:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] what i'm doing: ps ax | grep process su (passwd) kill -s signal pid using all kinds of signals starting with sigterm, sigkill, Those two is all you need. kill -s TERM will ask the process to

Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:59:30 -0800 Myers,

[newbie] Mandrake Off Topic list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi all, Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is concerned has led me to a place where I'm willing to try an experiment of sorts. I've created a mailing list for anyone here on the newbie and expert lists

Re: [newbie] Installing Java...

2003-02-12 Thread Mark Weaver
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday February 10 2003 09:33 am, Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tom Brinkman wrote: Or simply 'rpm -Uvh j2re-1.4.1_01-5mdk.i586.rpm' does it all. ^^^ HI Tom, that method has never

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Weaver
civileme wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:46 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anders Lind wrote: OK I just read some stuff about VI Emacs. Now I'm not one for super complex editors of text. Having said that I realize it behooves me (Correct context for behooves? sp!?) to learn one

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Tue 2003-02-04 at 21:21:06 -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [... cool overview about available editors ...] If I am on a desktop and I need a quick edit, I usually grab for kedit, but any heavy work is emacs unless it is a sudoers file in which case a special variant

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Robert Wideman wrote: to tell you the truth though, it's been my experience that going Linux to Linux, which I do 97% of the time on my home Lan, NFS is killer compared to the misery Linux-Linux samba brings. IMHO samba only exists to allow winders machines to connect to and share files with a

Re: [newbie] RE: ACCOUNT REMOVAL

2003-02-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 3:24 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 22:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity. What ads? Perhaps he means addresses and instructions for subscribing/unsubscribing. They are not as accessible as they might be. I know

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Robert Wideman wrote: thats ok... but it sounds like you've been brain-washed into thinking graphical interfaces are a bad thing. they're real handy to have around when you've got a ton of other things to do and you just need to get something config'ed quickly so's you can get that assignment

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers -NS7

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 12:17 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 8:31 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne, Actually you don't have to do that at all. Start Netscape with the -ProfileManager argument and create just the profile for Netscape. That should take care

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers -NS7

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 12:17 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 8:31 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne, Actually you don't have to do that at all. Start Netscape with the -ProfileManager argument and create just the profile for Netscape. That should take care

Re: [OT-ish] XP vs. Mandrake [was Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers-NS7]

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Weaver
robin wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: The two of them do indeed run on the same browser engine, but they don't seem to want to play nice together. I've experienced this on both winders and Linux. Speakin of Winders...I blew up my XP installation last night. I prolly oughta git to work on it. I

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Robert Wideman wrote: Ok, I have been fighting NFS for the last hour and it is pissing me off. I basically just reinstalled MDK b/c of my newbie experience with PLF and library issues. I have just installed and updated MDK9 and that is all. I edited /etc/exports and restarted nfs server and

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Frank Mertens wrote: The United States are about to start a war without of consideration for international law. If you want to speak against it, the UN are collecting signatures to work against this tragically event. Please do copy this e-mail to a new mail, sign it at the end of the attached

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Lanman wrote: Mark; Could you take a moment to define your use of the word Balls? I'm hoping that your intended use of the word was in reference to the fact that this list is not a political group, and therefore is probably unable to effect a change in the foreign policies of the United States

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 07:14, Mark Weaver wrote: In all seriousness your time and energy would be far better spent sending these sigs to the US congress and senate and communicating your feelings to them rather then sending them to a body that has no balls. Let Washington

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanman, I interpreted his disparagement to apply to the UN rather than to us. Still, clarity is a good thing when insulting randomly and in a public forum (or amy discourse in any forum, for that matter). Sorry for any confusion...My intent wasn't to disparage anyone.

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Dick Mazierski wrote: Frank Mertens wrote: The United States are about to start a war without of consideration for international law. If you want to speak against it, the UN are collecting signatures to work against this tragically event. Please do copy this e-mail to a new mail, sign it at the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off Topic list

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:27:15PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi all, Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is concerned has led me to a place where I'm willing to try an experiment

[newbie] Mandrake Off Topic list

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi all, Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is concerned has led me to a place where I'm willing to try an experiment of sorts. I've created a mailing list for anyone here on the newbie and expert

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 28 January 2003 06:55 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Fascinating. I'm glad to hear that they are giving consumers a choice. Although I'm disappointed to hear that they expect to give winblows preinstalled. My comment is that I would like to know what their

Re: [newbie] Packaging systems [was: ANNOUCEMENT: KDE 3.1 IS OUT]

2003-01-28 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 January 2003 08:23 am, Anders Lind scribbled nervously: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:13:08 -0500 (EST) Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There aren't any Mandrake rpms yet anyway are there? I know that RPM's are much simpler to use,

[newbie] question about Kmail

2003-01-28 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I'm curious about something. With Kmail, is there a way to advance from on message to another with the view pane completely closed and viewing the message in a window all its own? I use this method of reading messages with Mozilla and

Re: [newbie] Packaging systems [was: ANNOUCEMENT: KDE 3.1 IS OUT]

2003-01-28 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 January 2003 09:40 am, Anders Lind scribbled nervously: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:24:15 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do tell? I can't stand the suspense. descibe this new beast to me! Actually it is not really new, just

Re: [newbie] OT-Homeland Security dumps winblows

2003-01-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 28 January 2003 03:29 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Check this out: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/01/27/1831240.shtml?tid=2 - by Tina Gasperson - The United States Department of Homeland Security (www.dhs.gov) changed its servers over to Oracle on Linux last

Re: [newbie] StarOffice setup

2003-01-25 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris wrote: | When installing Star Office 6.0 what is the preferred method, Workstation or | Local install? I remember this thread from quite aways back and searched the | archives but can't find the msg I'm looking for that explained the |

Re: [newbie] re: java

2003-01-24 Thread Mark Weaver
Raffaele Belardi wrote: To check the path(s), type $ env | grep PATH or $ echo $PATH I don't think java.rpm sets up the path to the executables. You can do it by hand adding it to your .bashrc. Or, you can create a /etc/profile.d/local.sh as root, and put those settings there, so they will

Re: [newbie] Toshiba Laptop installation ?

2003-01-24 Thread Mark Weaver
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 21:05, Marc wrote: snip When it locks up I am unable to use the mouse and there is no hard drive activity and as of yet I have founnd no keyboard commands that work. The display stays frozen.and I am unable to do anything but a hard shutdown

[newbie] Installing Java plugin for Mozilla

2003-01-24 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi there, I wish I had a dollar, (accounting for the current rate of inflation), for every time I've seen this need addressed in these lists. Doesn't anyone read the archives any more? ;) with this thought in mind I've saved this message as a template on my system and will send it to the list

Re: [newbie] Java

2003-01-24 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Jan 2003 9:59 am, Ongkie PDS wrote: Dear Friend, I need to open a website that use java applet, where can I download the java rpm? Do you need the whole java? Which browser are you using? If it's Mozilla, go to mozilla.org and they have a link page for

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Trevor Rhodes wrote: Mark, From the way his log file read it sounds as though it's already too late and he should just do a reload. What your saw of my logfile was from the DLink Router/Firewall. Not one of those attempts got past the router. This has been confirmed in several ways and

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: On Monday 20 January 2003 02:56 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 5:29 am, Robin Turner wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Interesting article in my local paper. http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html Looks like we

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
walt wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:05, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Colin McElhatton wrote: The single BIGGEST problem for end user to this day remains being able to find the information that will get them going and *their* willingness to avail themselves of that information

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 20 Jan 2003 10:26 pm, walt wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:05, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Colin McElhatton wrote: The single BIGGEST problem for end user to this day remains being able to find the information that will get them going and *their*

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:37:53 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph, have you done the leg work in tracking these connections and reported to the ISP they're coming from yet? That _should_ be the first place to begin. If your theory is correct then the sooner

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: hmwhat-er-ya trying to say et? you don't think they can read english er somthin? or they are less likely to give a $hit than my cat yeah...i guess you're right, but ya can't blame a fella for tryin. what else could I do? guess I shouldn't complain too awfully much because

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:07 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: walt wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:05, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Colin McElhatton wrote: The single BIGGEST problem for end user to this day remains being able to find the information that will get them

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:10:19 +1100 Trevor Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following is a third of my logfile. Is this not normal for you folks? Why do so many people get so worried when something shows up. Why? well just read what I added to almost all your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 6:31 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: But as I said almost a year ago, it's not as easy to find a linux tech as a windows one. Anne :) I'm not overly expensive! At present when I'm not doing dad things and I'm not over burdened

Re: [newbie] postfix problems

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 January 2003 11:22 pm, - netmaniac - scribbled nervously: GAH!!! STINKING HTML FORMATTED EMAIL!!! IT SHOULD BE BANNED AND THE PERVAYER PUBLICALLY CAINED htmldiv style='background-color:'DIVI've two mail servers on

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 beta2

2003-01-18 Thread Mark Weaver
Jure Repinc wrote: Walt wrote: got this from the expert list beta 2 is out on the french mirrors it is 2 cd's Great. I was unable to bring up the network (3Com 3C905B NIC) in beta 1. I hope they fixed this in beta 2. It wasn't broke in beta1. The networking worked just fine for me. In

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

2003-01-18 Thread Mark Weaver
Ralph Slooten wrote: Hiya all again, My webserver is running portsentry, and has, on a daily basis been blocking and banning all connection attemps from an Australian IP, running on the connect.com.au network. -= Reason for the block =- Port-scanning on port 635 -= What is relevance is Port

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

2003-01-18 Thread Mark Weaver
Ralph Slooten wrote: On 18 Jan 2003 16:51:54 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 15:03, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For any POM's and Yanks that have a whinge, /dev/null I think I speak for all the americans on the list when I say...HUH??? Hehe, I knew this would

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 beta2

2003-01-18 Thread Mark Weaver
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 18 January 2003 18:31, Mark Weaver wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 18 January 2003 17:37, Walt wrote: got this from the expert list beta 2 is out on the french mirrors it is 2 cd's Dang, I've got a monthly max of 2500M and I'm at 1780 already.=:o

Re: [newbie] problems with new install

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Weaver
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 03:17 am, Colin Jenkins scribbled nervously: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:01:51 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin, For your printing have you tried installing Cups for that. Cups does a real nice job of taking care of printing needs and has

Re: [newbie] Mozilla error messages

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sunday 12 January 2003 11:50 pm, John Richard Smith scribbled nervously: Everytime I put up mozilla web browser, I get an error message about now having /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/chrome/packages/core/sidebar.xul but it doesn't say anything about what to do to correct it. Any suggestions

Re: [newbie] Where is proftpd?

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 11:39 am, fifner the dragon scribbled nervously: Hi, I ran the ftp utility in the mandrake control center (mandrake9). It installed proftpd for me. Where can I find proftpd? And does it run with a GUI? If not, can I get a GUI for it? Thanks in advance, Fifner

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
Dennis Myers scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: On Sunday 12 January 2003 06:56 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: 3) Bootloader refused non install , insisted on being installed 4) refused opportunity to create boot disc 5) upon reboot , found lilo had not been installed after

Re: [newbie] My friends don't know better yet (can Mandrake 9 handle a .zip file ?)

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
Stephen Kuhn scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: Unless I know who the ZIP file is from, I generally use: rm -rf filefromwhoknows.zip (g) UnZIP has been part of linux for quit some time - and ARK (if you're using KDE) or File-Roller should be able to pick it up just by a

Re: [newbie] Free the code

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 January 2003 05:09 pm, Anne Wilson scribbled nervously: No go, Derek. I found the plugins in /usr/local/netscape/plugins, so I copied them to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins and /usr/lib/netscape/plugins. I reckoned that I must have

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:11 am, Anne Wilson scribbled nervously: On Monday 13 Jan 2003 10:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I've just had a very trying experience trying to install this. 1) ps2 mouse scrole wheel not detected at all, hardly

Re: [newbie] Install Mandrake 9.1 problem

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:09 pm, Kaj Haulrich scribbled incoherently: you mean the drive itself couldn't handle the 700MB media? thats a new one for me, although I'm not saying it can't happen. - -- Mark Exactly, Mark. I repeated the

Re: [newbie] Free the code

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:00 pm, Anne Wilson scribbled incoherently: have you considered trying Opera? you don't appear to be having very good luck with Mozilla or Netscape. ;)_ - -- Mark Well, life's a bitch sometimes, but by and large

Re: [newbie] problems with new install

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:59 am, Colin Jenkins scribbled incoherently: Hi all, got a strange problem here... finally got rid of winxp and installed mdk9. sound cd burners and nvidia card working fine..BUT whne trying to add a printer, got

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:29 am, Robin Turner scribbled incoherently: Richard Babcock wrote: Interesting article in my local paper. http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html Looks like we got our user base! Sir Robin

Re: [newbie] This is personal!

2003-01-13 Thread Mark Weaver
Todd Slater wrote: Playing with ROX and Fluxbox on 8.2. I have the pinboard working OK so I can have desktop icons (not that I use them). So I spent time today looking for icons and just generally customising the look and feel. (See

Re: [newbie] This is personal!

2003-01-13 Thread Mark Weaver
Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:35:09 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, how did you get past the glibc problem? Funny you should ask, Mark. I hosed my system once trying to upgrade all those packages. I'm running an old version of ROX (1.2.1). Getting the latest

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Netscape problems

2003-01-12 Thread Mark Weaver
On Saturday 11 January 2003 10:59 am, Mike Larson scribbled incoherently: If I have a Mozilla (1.2.1 XFT) window open and try to open a Netscape 7.01 window, I get another Mozilla window. If I close all browser windows and start Netscape, it opens normally. On the other hand, I _can_ open a

Re: [newbie] Java - lost it

2003-01-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 4:02 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Success! OK, partial success. I removed all trace of java from my machine, ran the upgrade from the 9.0 discs and then installed the Blackdown

Re: [newbie] Which version of Mandrake?

2003-01-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 11:08 am, Walt Frampus wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 02:18, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: Hi, Someone (Sir Robin I believe) said that V8.1 was bad and 8.2 was Mandrake's best release yet. Mandrake Linux 9.0 didn't receive a favorable review from OS news

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Jan 2003 07:16:44 -0500 To: NewbieMandrake-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:52, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday January 6

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-07 Thread Mark Weaver
David Williams wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 09:07 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:24:41 -0500 David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that anybody really cares. But I tried Phoenix and I am about to uninstall it. I don't notice any difference in performance between

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 06 Jan 2003 8:04 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: james Mellema wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:49, walt wrote: Actually the only thing republicans are doing is creating an unnecessary war but that has nothing to do with linux.. besides, Linux users must be

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