Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23

2003-12-22 Thread Melissa Reese
Hi Jason, On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:23, you wrote: have you tried evolution?? I'm writing this email from Evolution. i like evolution but i do want something better... i havent tried the mozilla one yet.. i have seen some emails people send that indent the replies in the same email that

Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23

2003-12-22 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me, On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 11:22:44 PM PST, I wrote: I'm writing this email from Evolution. Eek! I get a bad GnuPG signature verification on my Evolution signed message. :-( - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23

2003-12-21 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi The Other, On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 6:25:55 AM PST, you wrote: Has anyone familiar with The Bat! looked into M2 and Opera 7.23? I'm in Windows at the moment, but I don't suppose the Opera package would look and behave much differently

Re: [newbie] Desktop issues, revisited

2003-12-14 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Guy, On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 10:33:09 PM PST, you wrote: Last night I spent an exasperating 6 hrs struggling with numerous issues. I'll submit them as bugs if appropriate. I feel these issues (and many more like them) are

Re: [newbie] How to run a Win program now in Wine?

2003-12-11 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 10:00 pm, I wrote: I'm wondering though...after I log out, then log back into Mandrake, how do I run this particular program? Nevermind...I figured it out. Sorry for replying to myself, but I didn't want to waste

Re: [newbie] How to run a Win program now in Wine?

2003-12-11 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Margot, On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 12:42:56 AM PST, you wrote: Melissa, I'm glad to hear that you solved your problem. Could you please post brief details of the solution? Okay. Below, I'll paste a message I sent to the wine users

Re: [newbie] Modem troubles

2003-12-10 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 06:50 pm, deedee wrote: Did you figure that out? If not, open a terminal as a user (not as root) and type $ wine [path to]messagecleaner.exe Thank you deedee! The Windows program I installed (MessageCleaner) is

[newbie] How to run a Win program now in Wine?

2003-12-10 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thanks to deedee's simple instructions, I've managed to install a Windows program into Wine (MessageCleaner...and it's working! :-)). At the moment, MC is still running since its installation. I'm wondering though...after I log out, then

[newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that

Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, On Monday, December 08, 2003, at 11:05:49 AM PST, you wrote: Have you checked the Wine list to see if that program is supported? I didn't see it listed there, but thought I'd give it a try anyway. How else will I know if it can work or

Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, On Monday, December 08, 2003, at 11:38:51 AM PST, you wrote: What does MessageCleaner do? Here's the MC site, which describes the various things it does: http://www.roundhillsoftware.com/MessageCleaner/ My regular Windows email client

Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 12:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: Googling for pan message cleaner brings up all kinds of things for the kitchen :) Hee hee! I already have a dishwasher, and I'm pretty sure it'll run under both Linux and Windows (maybe

Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts

2003-12-01 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charlie, On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 9:31:06 PM PST, you wrote: Joe: I use Sylpheed. I send mail. I receive mail. I have an address book. It does some cool stuff like we mentioned before, like auto-snipping, auto-formatting, etc. What am

Re: [newbie] NTFS and Lilo in MBR

2003-11-30 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Roger, On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 1:59:30 AM PST, you wrote: I have a hard drive with Windows XP Pro installed using NTFS. I want to put Mandrake 9.2 on a second hard drive. I've done exactly this, having recently installed MDK 9.2 on my

[newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts

2003-11-30 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It's now been eleven days since I installed Mandrake, and I'd like to share a few thoughts. This may be a bit long, so I apologize in advance for my sound-byte challenged condition. First, I want to thank all of the very helpful and patient

Re: [newbie] [OT?]Replacement of GnuPG keys

2003-11-30 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charlie, On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 10:33:27 AM PST, you wrote: Since the security alert from this week recommended revocation and replacement of encryption keys I figured I'd just let the list know my keys are changed now. [snip] I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2. Many proprietary apps gone...

2003-11-30 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 6:34:06 AM PST, you wrote: Have you applied any updates to the system. It sounds like the menu disappearing bug has bitten you. Try running 'update-menus -v' as root and see if that fixes it. I was

Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts

2003-11-30 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adolfo, On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 5:44:31 AM PST, you wrote: What I am trying to say is that people who feel that their passion is hacking or tweaking software and hardware may feel that they have a richer life than others who don't do

[newbie] External editors with Kmail/Sylpheed-claws/Knode/Pan?

2003-11-28 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Can anyone recommend some capable text editors that I can use as external editors with various email and news clients? Being a Virgo, I'm pretty picky about how I present messages, and would like a bit more plain text formatting functionality

Re: [newbie] OT? Critical Flan in GnuPG

2003-11-28 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 November 2003 05:25 pm, Chris wrote: Thought I'd pass this along. Not sure if it applies to anyone. - Critical flaw in GnuPG - [snip] It does indeed apply to a minority of GnuPG users who elected to create

[newbie] KNode/Pan not getting all posts

2003-11-27 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've been trying out both Knode and Pan for news reading, and while I like them, I just noticed that they're not downloading all recent posts. A little while ago, I was in Windows, and I downloaded new posts via Forte Agent. Then, I booted

Re: [newbie] KNode/Pan not getting all posts

2003-11-27 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 November 2003 11:49 am, I wrote: I've been trying out both Knode and Pan for news reading, and while I like them, I just noticed that they're not downloading all recent posts. Oops! Please disregard my previous post! After a bit

Re: [newbie] Kmail: Address book import

2003-11-26 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for rambling on - just thinking aloud and hoping that something here gets you on the right lines. Not terribly helpful, I'm afraid, except to say that importing does work, once you

[newbie] Kmail: Address book import

2003-11-25 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I saw in the address book import options in Kmail that .vcf files could be imported. So...I went to my Windows email program and exported all the addresses to a single .vcf file. When I tried to import that file into the Kmail address book,

[newbie] KDE Menu issue revisited

2003-11-25 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm still trying to figure out why several menu items are missing from my K menu in KDE. Does the error message below give you any hints? [EMAIL PROTECTED] melissa]# menudrake ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! ERROR: Couldn't attach to

Re: [newbie] KNode: Disabled delete?

2003-11-25 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 November 2003 08:14 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: This seems such a basic function, so I'm sure I'll feel sufficiently stupid when someone points it out to me, but could you anyway? How do I delete unwanted headers/posts from the message

Re: [newbie] KDE Menu issue revisited

2003-11-25 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:17 am, Melissa Reese wrote: I hope someone can help me. Eek! My KDE menus are back! :-) I went into MenuDrake once more, and this time I dealt with the menu style option (I've done this before, but the changes

Re: [newbie] KNode: Disabled delete?

2003-11-25 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi et, On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 9:36:21 PM PST, you wrote: select the headers you want to delete? :-) Of course I did. I know that KNode is an online reader, but there must be a way to delete unwanted headers. It's important to me at

Re: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up

2003-11-24 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 November 2003 01:01 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Why not just open the terminal, su to become super user and copy and paste the command in? Isn't that easier? If you want to type the lines in manually you have to type _exactly_ what I

Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures

2003-11-24 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 07:23 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: I also read somewhere that going to menudrake and just saving without doing anything else would restore your icons. I tried that as well, and still no luck. It does seem very strange,

Re: [newbie] Connecting From 9.2

2003-11-24 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 November 2003 12:58 pm, Margot wrote: Is your computer part of a LAN, or is it standalone? If you are not part of a LAN, there is no point trying to configure it! If you have just the one standalone computer, and you are trying to

Re: [newbie] How to stop Auto connect internet on boot?

2003-11-24 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:50 pm, Bob Read wrote: Can anyone tell me how to discontinue the automatic connection to the internet on boot? Hi Bob, If you run drakconnect (network/connection wizard thingy) in expert mode, one of the screens

[newbie] KNode: Disabled delete?

2003-11-24 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've been using KNode for news reading the past few days, and it's pretty nice (I'm used to using Forte Agent in Windows). There is one thing that I can't figure out...how do I manually delete headers of threads and/or message bodies of

Re: [newbie] ML 9.2 News page on the twiki

2003-11-24 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 November 2003 10:05 pm, Eric Huff wrote: The best example is the disappearing menus: it was covered a bunch of times, and now we can just point people to the page. After an issue goes away we can remove it from the page. Hmmm.

Re: [newbie] Eek! Am I really connected?!

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
On Saturday 22 November 2003 09:22 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: This is a test. It looks like I've sorted out my ethernet connection. We'll see if this goes anywhere. :-) Sorry to reply to myself, but I've noticed a peculiar thing... After I installed the basic updates (including some update

Re: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
On Saturday 22 November 2003 10:47 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: First since I hate switching CDs: urpmi.removemedia -a Eek! Which media am I removing? Then: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mand rake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz

Re: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
On Saturday 22 November 2003 10:47 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: First since I hate switching CDs: urpmi.removemedia -a Then: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mand rake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz Eek! I tried this first one (after the

Re: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:16 am, Melissa Reese wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] melissa]# urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586 with ../base/hdlist.cz Oops! I'm an idiot! I mis-typed the command. It's working now. Sorry about that! -- Melissa

Re: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:40 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: -select the text you want to enter on the command line with your left mouse button, then go to the xterm window you've got opened for the CML. By middle clicking on the CML it will reproduce

[newbie] Wine (or others)

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm now interested in seeing if I can run my favorite Windows email client (The Bat!) in my Mandrake. I've read various accounts of people running TB! very well under Wine, and others saying that they've had problems (like not being able to

Re: [newbie] Local SMTP server?

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 02:43 am, Richard Urwin wrote: Postfix or Sendmail. Of these Postfix is probably the easiest to set up, but the list has plenty of Thanks Richard. Being still rather Windows wimpy, I'll probably want to start with the

Re: [newbie] Wine (or others)

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robin, I'm back to Windows for the moment... On Sunday, November 23, 2003, at 3:19:09 PM PST, you wrote: Try wine by all means, but you might first consider looking at the multitude of mail programs for Linux. Whatever features make you like

[newbie] No sound, no pictures

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Aside from the disappearing K menu items (still really bothersome for me), there are two other issues I'm wondering about. Lack of sound, and being able to open pictures (.png, .jpg, etc.). If someone sends a picture attached to an email, and I

Re: [newbie] Local SMTP server?

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, On Sunday, November 23, 2003, at 5:07:15 PM PST, you wrote: The odds are that if you're configured to use email in MDK you already have Postfix installed. :-) :-) This brings me to another question or two... Where do I find it? I'm

Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 05:20 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: If someone sends a picture attached to an email, and I try to open it, I get the following error message: KDEInit could not launch kiconedit Could not find kiconedit executable Well

Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 06:36 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: Try this to recover your menu: Ctrl-Alt-F2 login as root update-menus -n -v Ctrl-Alt-F7 Hi Adolfo, Thanks for trying to help, but this didn't change anything. I don't think all those

Re: [newbie] Connecting From 9.2

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 06:43 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: At this point my only choice is to open the Mandrake Control Center select Networking and click on the connect/disconnect button. There just has to be an easier way. I'm certainly no

Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adolfo, On Sunday, November 23, 2003, at 7:23:09 PM PST, you wrote: I also read somewhere that going to menudrake and just saving without doing anything else would restore your icons. I tried that too. When I opened up menudrake, I got all

Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures

2003-11-23 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 05:20 pm, I wrote: Also, there's no sound. My sound card (nvidia GeForce2) was recognized during installation. Oops! That's my video card! :-) My sound card is Sound Blaster Live 5.1. So...any ideas about why I have

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 11:47:17 AM PST, you wrote: Yes. Put them all on one disk, ... I'm still a little confused (my natural state)... What exactly do you mean by them all? At the MDK ftp updates site, there is a folder

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me, On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 12:58:34 PM PST, I wrote: Then, I added each of those new directories to the list of places to look for updated files. Here's how I added the new directories: K menu, then to

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charlie, On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 1:23:56 PM PST, you wrote: urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select enter Thanks...that worked well. Now though... After that update session, several menu items were missing. I then used the following

[newbie] Eek! Am I really connected?!

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
Hi This is a test. It looks like I've sorted out my ethernet connection. We'll see if this goes anywhere. :-) -- Melissa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Eek! Am I really connected?!

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
On Saturday 22 November 2003 09:44 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Happy now? (-; Yes! Thanks to everyone who has suffered through my troubles and helped me anyway! :-) I still have a lot to figure out here (currently dealing with my missing menu items issue), but I'll get it sorted out

[newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
Hi, Now that my ethernet connection is fully functional, I'd like to start experimenting with the various email clients. I'm starting out with Kmail. In Windows, I'm using GnuPG, so I'd like to get my GnuPG keyrings and trustdb into my Mandrake installation, but I have no idea how to go

[newbie] Local SMTP server?

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
Hi, Another question, another thread... In Windows, because I found several of the SMTP servers of my various accounts to be unreliable, I've been using my own little SMTP server to send mail from all my accounts. I *know* there must be such a thing I can set up in Mandrake. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:38:43 PM PST, you wrote: Of course you can start all over again, and maybe you ought to, just for experience, but linux offers you many solutions, you can run XFdrake from that root terminal instead,

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:58:05 AM PST, you wrote: Cann't help the ethernet cards, no previous experience, nor cable modems. What sort of dialup modem do you have ? Well, here's a peculiar update. I was just over in

Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem problem

2003-11-19 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charlie, I think my problem is *almost* fixed! ... read on... On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:02:26 AM PST, you wrote: Have I mentioned that you have to change the connection to the ethernet port yet? eg Hee hee...I have a

Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem problem

2003-11-19 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi H.J.Bathoorn, On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:45:43 PM PST, you wrote: I just noticed in your mail that sis900 is mentioned as eth0 as well as eth1that could be your problem. Open a terminal, become su/root and type ifconfig. If

Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem problem

2003-11-19 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi H.J.Bathoorn, On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 1:49:03 PM PST, you wrote: Well for one: Your cable-ISP isn't mentioned in the routing table so prolly you don't have internet access other than via pppyou already knew that didn't you:D I

Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem problem

2003-11-19 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 2:21:18 PM PST, you wrote: Is there any way to completely wipe the slate clean with regards to my LAN Configuration, then start over? Delete the following files. /etc/dhclient*

[newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I decided to give the installation a go by myself, figuring that if I messed it up, I could just abort and wait until my friend could be here to hold my hand. Here's the story so far (I'm pretty sleepy, so I hope I get this right)... I have two

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Anne, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 3:22:05 AM PST, you wrote: Select 'Custom disk partitioning' There you should see your two disks. Choose the one you want for install, Thanks Anne. Here's a small update... This time around, I got

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryan, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 4:07:03 AM PST, you wrote: I don't know what kind of computer you have but just a quick guess. Some of the proprietary computers like Compaq, etc. often create a small partition on the beginning of the

[newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In spite of my worries, curiosity (and your encouragement!) has caused me to install Mandrake. Everything seems to have gone well. I have no problem choosing either Linux or Windows at startup. However... When I choose Linux, all goes

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi HaywireMac, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 3:41:26 PM PST, you wrote: Looks like you have it set not to start X on boot. No problemo. If you want to start KDE, the most common desktop for beginners, you can just type kde and hit enter

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 6:14:13 PM PST, you wrote: Melissa, you didn't say what kind of Internet connection you have, DSL, cable, dial-up? I have a cable connection (currently a Linksys cable modem connected via USB), and I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryan, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 2:26:44 PM PST, you wrote: try startx to see if the GUI works. More stuff happens, but still no success. Here's what I'm getting now (starting with my typing startx and pressing Enter): [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Melissa, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 2:51:24 PM PST, you wrote: More stuff happens, but still no success. Here's what I'm getting now (starting with my typing startx and pressing Enter): Strike that. I've now got the KDE desktop coming

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 7:23:30 PM PST, you wrote: Do you have an ethernet card in your machine anyway. It sounds like drakconnect is detecting your winmodem, (yuck) and an ehternet card, but missing the cable modem on usb. I

[newbie] USB Cable modem problem

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. I also have a backup dial-up modem in the machine, but I only

[newbie] Be prepared for ignorant questions

2003-11-17 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! WARNING: UPS just delivered my Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack! As soon as my computer tech friend can come here to look over my shoulder (sometime in the next few days), I'll install it. In the meanwhile, I'll be reading the Starter Guide. After

[newbie] Test

2003-11-17 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sorry for the test, but I may be having a problem receiving list mail today, so Eric asked me to send a test message to the list. I did try to post a message to the list earlier this morning, and I haven't seen it, or any other message since

Re: [newbie] Be prepared for ignorant questions

2003-11-17 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 6:25:36 PM PST, you wrote: If you want to play with Mandrake before installing it, the famous Texstar is building a LiveCD distro similar to Knoppix but based on Mandrake 9.2. It runs from the CD without

[newbie] OT (sort of) Knoppix

2003-11-15 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, As I anxiously await the arrival of my Mandrake package, I decided to see what running Knoppix from a CD-ROM would be like, so last night I downloaded it and burned it to CD-R (should I have burned it to CD-RW instead?). In any event,

Re: [newbie] E-mail sound.

2003-11-15 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Malcolm, I'm sorry I can't help you with your question, but I will offer a comment or two anyway... On Saturday, November 15, 2003, at 12:17:22 PM PST, you wrote: I would like to place a small sound file in an outgoing e-mail to activate on

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems

2003-11-15 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Derek, On Saturday, November 15, 2003, at 5:37:52 PM PST, you wrote: If 9.2 turns some newbies off Linux it will be a pity. Once you correct the initial bugs it actually works quite nicely. (Supermount is great now :-) After reading about all

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-13 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, Thanks for all your comments...they are helpful and encouraging. For the moment, I'll just reply to this one bit... On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:28:07 AM PST, you wrote: Well, first, I wrote: 3) As a total newbie getting ready

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Merlin, On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 3:32:34 AM PST, you wrote: There was a story widely reported in the papers here in Thailand about a Government minister who was locked inside his BMW when it stopped on the highway. Eventually someone

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-12 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryan, On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 4:28:08 AM PST, you wrote: It would possibly provide more certainty but you would be robbing yourself of a prime learning opportunity. The question is, do you want to remain dependent upon others or

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6 *almost* trojaned

2003-11-12 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chuck, On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 9:22:26 PM PST, you wrote: There are probably not enough eyes to see all the holes... Or maybe too many eyes looking in the wrong directions. My sister works at MS, and she's under the impression that

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-11 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Paul, On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 2:02:17 AM PST, you wrote: for advice try the win2linux site at http://win2linux.net/docs.html Thanks Paul...and everyone else as well for your helpful suggestions! - -- Melissa PGP public keys:

[newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, This is my first post to this list (I've been lurking for a few days...it sure is a busy list! :-)). After trying to figure out if my assorted bits of hardware can be expected to play nicely with a fresh Linux distribution installation, I've

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryan, On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 1:07:54 PM PST, you wrote: Just remove all the partitions from the 20GB drive. That will leave the drive completely blank with no drive letters or partition information saved to the drive. While I'm

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me, On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 1:41:09 PM PST, I wrote: While I'm pretty handy with digging around various bits of Windows, removing partitions is not a procedure I'm familiar with. Can anyone offer me a little step by step for this?