[newbie] allowing cgi with vhosts (apache on Linux)

2003-08-14 Thread Michael and Erin Spiceland
). Thanks, Michael and Erin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] killin'

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Juntunen
--- Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 7:41 am, Anarky wrote: > > normally I use 'gnome-system-monitor' to kill > apps, but now an X > > app won't stop with that even. So I do "ps aux | > grep app_name" and > > then try "kill pid" ... but still nothing will > h

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesecure.net

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Viron
At 03:51 PM 8/6/2003 +0100, you wrote: >We have a TWiki site at > >http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome This can also be accessed via http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org (if that's more of a convenient url for you. You could also take a look at http://www.mdklinuxfaq.org once it comes up.

Re: [newbie] Mail setup

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Lothian
But what packages are best to do the aforementioned tasks. I was under the impression there were quite a few choices. And where would documentation for these things be? Mike Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:30, Michael Lothian wrote: Sorry my question was what's the bes

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Lothian
can find them for as little as 99p (again look arround) You'll find that most pci network cards work in linux "out the box" Mike Netgear also have very good UK customer service John Richard Smith wrote: Michael Lothian wrote: Ok if you were to get ADSL ou wouldn't get

[newbie] vhosting and cgi scripts

2003-08-14 Thread Michael D. Spiceland
I've successfully set up a small server for vhosting and I'm having a couple of isolated problems. I can access each vhost via http just fine, but I cannot access any cgi scripts. I have suexec enabled. apache.org docs have examples with user and group directives, but uncommenting these directiv

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Lothian
well do so, but I want to be sure first that it is my ISP lack of equipement to service the demand that really is the problem. I suppose it might help if I could get the computer to cough up some reason why the ISP connection fails so often. Michael Lothian wrote: Get cheep broadband ;) My excha

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Lothian
and 2 network cards. I assure it is worth it and makes life a lot easier (it also works with windows if anyone's actually silly enough to use it) I'm also sure if you search arround on ebay.co.uk you;ll find an even cheeper solution. Mike John Richard Smith wrote: Michael Lothian wr

[newbie] Mail setup

2003-08-10 Thread Michael Lothian
Hi I'm not sure this is the best place for this question but here goes... I'm getting a 2MBit broadband conection and I'd like to set a linux box to be my own mail server. What's the best way to do this: My ideal setup would be imap, pop and webmail and an ftp and web server as well perhaps.

Re: [newbie] ssh access with secure install

2003-08-10 Thread Michael D. Spiceland
> Just to double check you do definatly have ssh-server installed & > configured on the new box don't you? Yes, installed and running. ssh won't let me in unless i drop the security down. Erin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] ssh access with secure install

2003-08-10 Thread Erin and Michael Spiceland
I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a spare box, with the security level set to "higher." I can access it with ftp and http, but not ssh. I have all the same config files as on my other Mandrake machines, and ssh works fine on them. How can I enable/fix ssh on my secure machine? What is blocking m

Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake [OT]

2003-08-07 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:28:08 +0800 "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >Bite my bag lanman.. we have lottsa beer here that is 5.5%... :-) >3% is for the "light" beer, which I don't drink anyway. == Here on Long Island, we have a Micro Brewery (BluePoint

Re: [newbie] Draw a simple line with Gimp

2003-07-30 Thread Michael Adams
sage is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > > > A straight line is a bezier with no flex. May take a little experimenting. Or zoom in majorly and follow the squares. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-30 Thread Michael Adams
t; Edit your /etc/hosts file as root, and add lines like: > > > > 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com > > This was actually the topic of the original email i sent... > > And now i really love this thread. Excuse me while i venture into su (somewhere underhood) and try not to bre

Re: [newbie] two Mandrakes on two harddrives

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Adams
get lilo to read them both at boot? I am trying to do it > so that I can beta test and yet run the regular system when I am not running > tests. Any hints or manual suggestions are appreciated, I have not found > anything to help. > -- > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > >

Re: [newbie] loading Linux

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:26:35 -0400 "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: > > > I install Mandrake 9.1 but when I boot It load on a dos mode how do I >load linux with graphic?? === As root user, check the file /etc/inittab There is likely a line: id:3:initdefaul

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:35:44 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 28 Jul 2003 6:47 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:10:09 -0700 > > > > Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Isn't it easier to simply

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
requested pop-up windows only" which is the best of both worlds. > > > Charles > Not pop-up ads, the thread was about in-line banner style ads. I also block pop-up ads. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cannot log in as root in 9.1

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
blind or stupid or both, but I cannot find a way to log in as > > root. > > > > How do I login as root? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Fifner > > > -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] GMO foods

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
mport > >expensive hybrids. > >In the circles I travel in, there is a growing movement to "heirloom" > >varities. > >This year I'm growing a heirloom tomato, called "stripey"...it is yellow > >with > >stripes, as supposed to be of SUPERIOR

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
L code requests a graphic/etc > HTTP request to noted server approved -HTTP request to any other server dropped My guess is it could only be implimented on the browser itself. Be one hell of a security feature though, less than half the cookies, and sp

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:12:45 +0800 "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen >Kuhn > >On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:05, Aron Smith wrote: > >>> what'sa matter stephen Nigerian letter not working th

Re: [newbie] Help me out [OT]

2003-07-24 Thread Michael Scottaline
On 24 Jul 2003 10:24:26 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 04:16, Gene Barker wrote: >> Hi Harv, >> >> I'm not a vegetarian but I do eat most of them except the "A" veggies. >> Thanks for the welcome >> >> Gene Barker > >I hate eating vegetables. Th

RE: [newbie] WE R @ it again.......my humblest apologies..

2003-07-23 Thread Michael Viron
faq.org also I've always tried to aim high on everything I do -- so here's to hoping, Frank, that you're on the list for another 10 years! Michael At 03:47 PM 7/23/2003 +0800, you wrote: >Franki replies: > >Thanks Carlos, but I have been on this list for over 3 >ye

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:18:31 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:09:07 +0100 >Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> > > Joe - I'm not going to follow this up, no matter what you post >> > > next. > >Oh, I see, you can cut the discussion off, but no

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:55:53 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:36:07 -0400 >crak600 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> joe, if you feel so inclined to give me the same response >> as you just gave to anne, do it "offlist" as to not clog everyone >> else

Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.

2003-07-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:29:29 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >lawyers and university professors and the NEA are not ruining the world, >corporate greed is a serious problem itself. = Yes, it's about time people stop making lawyers

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Adams
he CD-RW was /dev/scd0 and the DVD became /dev/scd1. Thus the original install which had been from /dev/hdc was now pointing to /dev/scd0 or visa-versa... I am confused... urpmi was confused... in the end it hurt my head to much and i stopped trying to work it out. Sounds like the same thing. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] modem sharing vs ICS

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Adams
alahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 > MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA > > > -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Adams
encers such as MuSE. Timidity can save MIDIs to wave > files. In Windows, programs like Cake Walk can edit. > > Regards, > _nasturtium > > -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] The continuing saga of my non-functional CD drive

2003-07-16 Thread Michael
ok, been hunting around the system at different files. in the directories / > dev > ide > host0. in the host0 directory, there's bus0 and bus1. bus0 has target0 and target1, which would be both my hard drives on the primary ide channel. in the bus1 folder, there's a target0 directory, then l

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 12:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday July 10 2003 09:30 am, Michael wrote: > > Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 > > > > ok, so what does all this tell us about my setup? thanks! > > That last line tells you the drive won't

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:55 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Er, I think that you are supposed to open up /etc/lilo.conf in an editor > (like vi or kedit) then add those changes. > > After that, still as root or su, from a shell, type in "/sbin/lilo" > (without the quotes). > > That will cause the

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: > just for fun, edit your lilo.conf so the "append" line > looks like this: > > append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma" > > > then, in the command line, run `lilo`, and reboot. See if it > keeps crashing. > btw, i've bee

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 02:04 am, Eric Huff wrote: > > cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 > here it is Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > In win98, are you using DMA for your CDROM? > not sure just for fun, edit your lilo.conf so the "append" line > looks like this: > > append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma" > > > then, in the command line, run `lil

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 04:10 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > I see the CD-RW is the only device on the secondary IDE interface. > Do you have the 'master' jumper correctly set on the back of the CD drive? > Or perhaps you have it set to 'Cable Select'? (Linux does not work well > with cable select) >

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible

2003-07-10 Thread Michael Adams
x27;t > > be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for > > update should be on the server. > > > > I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the > > server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. > > > > Di

[newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-09 Thread Michael
been working with few people offlist to try to get my cd-rw drive to work, but i thought i'd post it back to the list to try to see if anyone else has ideas. cd-rw drive was origonally a supermount, it's been changed to automount. we've modified fstab. i've tried kiwkdisc. none of it matters, b

Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 16:19:34 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:41:44 -0600 >Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> I couldn't figure out what the hell it was about either, and I read >> J.H.'s post as agreement and amplification of Frankie's statement.

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Configuration

2003-07-08 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A last thought which is only vaguely > relevant to the list is: what Windows OS should I run for gaming? I have > always run 98SE but have heard XPPro runs better. If I get eaten alive for > even asking a Windows question I won't blam

Re: [newbie] multimedia player running and i can't stop it

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday 06 July 2003 04:57 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 02:20, Michael wrote: > > On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > Open a terminal and type: > > > > > > killall -KILL noatun > > > > > > That s

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday 06 July 2003 01:49 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: >> root terminal and >> type mount -a >> that will mount everything in fstab afresh. >> just to make sure, i type "mount -a" no quotations, right? good to know! thanks! > >> Yes, scsi emulation is fake ide , if you like. Some programme

Re: [newbie] multimedia player running and i can't stop it

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Open a terminal and type: > > killall -KILL noatun > > That should kill it for good. Once it's killed, shutdown and reboot (or > logoff and login again) and it won't be there. so that would just stop the program from running, right? or woul

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to, > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > ok, opened a terminal, "su", password, kwrite, opened up fs

Re: [newbie] multimedia player running and i can't stop it

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:36 am, Michael wrote: > i really did a number here. somehow i accidentily added every single file > from my mswin hard drive to the noatun media player playlist. well, in > trying to remove everything from the playlist, the computer started bogging > down BA

[newbie] multimedia player running and i can't stop it

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
i really did a number here. somehow i accidentily added every single file from my mswin hard drive to the noatun media player playlist. well, in trying to remove everything from the playlist, the computer started bogging down BAD. i closed the media player, restarted the computer. got back i

Re: [newbie] dummies books

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 08:47 pm, walt wrote: > I am not a big fan of the "dummies" books, but I was in a book store at the > local mall today and saw redhat Linux 9.0 for dummies and it included 2 > cd's. I didn't see one for mandrake. I own an old copy of Linux for dummies > and found it a littl

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Essentially , if you want the nice easy gui way, just navigate to the > file in question,via home to / and click on the desired directories to > the file in question, then right mouse click the icon for that file , > then "open with",

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Do you know how to use a text editor ? > how hard is it? if it's simply deleting some text and entering new text in it's place, i'm sure i can handle it, if i'm told where to do it, what i need to change and what it needs to be

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 12:50 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Go, Home directory , back to / , click on etc icon to /etc directory > , skip past the blue directories to a file called fstab. There right > mouse click fstab, and it opens in konqueror. > then copy and paste to an open composer

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 05:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see > what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you > through supermount. > > John i went into mandrake control center and copied this in

Re: [newbie] USB digital camera?

2003-07-03 Thread Michael
On Saturday 28 June 2003 07:23 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Grant: > From what I've seen on this list, some folks have had problems with USB > cameras. Information about your camera would be useful to anyone who is > considering adding one. > -- cmg I have a sony DSC-P32 digital camera. md9.1

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-06-30 Thread Michael
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:48 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Just make sure that you give yourself a large enough SWAP partition - > about equivalent to your existing RAM. while that subject has been brought up..how hard is it to go and move my swap partition from one hard drive to another? i'v

Re: [newbie] question for mozilla users

2003-06-30 Thread Michael
On Monday 30 June 2003 03:54 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: > Open a Mozilla window and right click the title bar. Un-check the > Maximize option. Then resize the window to your liking and check the > Save window configuration option. > > /Björn thank you. mozilla is better now. Mike Want to buy your

[newbie] question for mozilla users

2003-06-30 Thread Michael
i don't know if i messed up a setting somewhere, but every time i open mozilla or i click on a link from a web page and it opens another page, it's FULL SCREEN. it's kind of annoying actually and i don't need it full screen, especially with a 19" moniter. i've been checking everywhere for an a

[newbie] removing dual boot option...have a computer with tons of problems

2003-06-28 Thread Michael
ok, i've got some problems here. my laptop had been giving me problems for a while. i had dropped it after getting my PC (which is 3x faster), and broke the latch on the CD drive. well, i fixed that. the display is also funky now, but with an external moniter, it's fine. well..

Re: [newbie] removing dual boot option...have a computer with tons of problems

2003-06-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:57 pm, Tsyko wrote: > If you boot of the windows cd again go to the dos prompt and type ´fdisk > /mbr´ without the quotes and this should take away the lilo partioning... > > That´s how I have done it in the past. > THANK YOU! it works now. i'm happier now :) now i

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Michael
On Saturday 28 June 2003 12:11 am, Charlie wrote: > > Making a mess that seems not fixable, and learning how not to make such > mistakes, is what this list is about. Believe it or not there will come a > time, probably very soon, when you'll even understand how to fix *those* > seemingly "unfixable

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Michael
On Friday 27 June 2003 05:39 pm, Charlie wrote: > Windows 9X (95, 98, 98SE, and ME) series won't install at all, or run for > that matter, when there's more than 512 MB memory TOTAL (too many people > forgot that Windows counts memory on video cards in that total) available > without some severe s

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Thread Crak600 - Michael
Okproblems. when my friend built the computer, he said teh primary IDE connector on the motherboard was bad. well, it's not. turned out he had been trying to hook up a bad hard drive to it. so since then, everything has been running on the 2nd IDE port. the CDRW drive is the master,

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Thread Crak600 - Michael
ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to 768MB), i decided it was time to install the ram and the hard drive. opened up the computer to check where everything was on the ribbons and see where i'm going to plug in the hard drive. the current hard drive and CDRW are on th

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-21 Thread Crak600 - Michael
On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:28 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Mike: > You sound a bit confused about drive terminology. definetly :) Your board has > two IDE slots (or channels). One is the primary, the other is the > secondary. Each channel can handle both a master and slave drive. The drive > ju

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-21 Thread Crak600 - Michael
On Saturday 21 June 2003 10:28 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > > 20GB hard drive i currently have - all for windows > > 100GB hard drive - 80GB for mandrake, 20GB for windows (that's my current > > plan, might go 60 linux 40 windows) > > That sounds a little excessive to me. Good call, now that you

[newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-21 Thread Crak600 - Michael
Ok, here's the situation. my new 100GB hard drive showed up today. i need to put it into the computer and get everything set up. here's the way i plan to set up. 20GB hard drive i currently have - all for windows 100GB hard drive - 80GB for mandrake, 20GB for windows (that's my current p

[OT] Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:28:50 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:38:06 -0600 >FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> Joes makes me thinks "Gun nut". > >you misunderstand, I have a certain sympathy with the individualist who >resists authority, and

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:22:43 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 >Thomas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> but I get concerned that any time the government gets involved > >One of my favourite quotes, I still have no idea where it came

Re: [newbie] Noatun Multimedia Player won't open

2003-06-19 Thread Crak600 - Michael
ok, so i rebooted, and when i get back into KDE (which i was in before i rebooted) Noatun fires right up. i closed it out, switched to another desktop (i LOVE having 4 desktops to work with), opened it back up, and now it's working flawlessly. any clues? Want to buy your Pack or Services fr

[newbie] Noatun Multimedia Player won't open

2003-06-19 Thread Crak600 - Michael
subject says it. Kaboodle will, but Noatun won't. don't know why either. i'm only on day 5 of running linux...HELP! :) www.basiclinux.net doesn't start til july from the e-mail i was sent earlier pointing me to it (and it looks like a great idea for me to take it). so until i can get some

Re: [newbie] recognizing/testing hardware problems?

2003-06-19 Thread Crak600 - Michael
On Thursday 19 June 2003 10:32 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:03:12 -0400 > > Crak600 - Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Samsung > > 955? that's what I got, love it! no, 950B. don't know how much difference there is between the 2. order

Re: [newbie] recognizing/testing hardware problems?

2003-06-19 Thread Crak600 - Michael
checked it in the control center, ran test, no problems. i already took the faulty moniter back. it was a KDS 16" viewable, "flat" screen. already went and ordered a Samsung 18" viewable (19" overall) to replace it with, only cost $40 more, and that was because of shipping ($165 total). th

[newbie] recognizing/testing hardware problems?

2003-06-19 Thread Crak600 - Michael
ok, in windows you can right click on "my computer" and it gives you hardware profiles and you can see if everything is working correctly. 1st questionwhere do you do that in mandrake 9.1? i think i saw it before but can't seem to find it now. 2nd questioncan you test your hardware for

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-19 Thread Crak600 - Michael
On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:03 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:35:15 -0400 > > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >this worries me, I here a lot of Maxtor's failing on this list... > > I've noticed that too..think I've seen it on other lists also. > Cust serv said "This drive

[newbie] what do these different things mean? KDE, Gnome, etc

2003-06-19 Thread Crak600 - Michael
Ok, i have some questions about a few things, just stuff i don't understand. when i go to reboot, what are the differences between KDE GNOME ICE WM Failsafe Default i would guess that failsafe would be kind of like "safe mode" in windows, am i right? i'm also kind of guessing that default

Re: [newbie] Insert Name Here

2003-06-19 Thread Crak600 - Michael
On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:18 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:20:54 -0400 > > Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > winning the special olympics...when it's all over, you're still > > retarded. > > sorry to butt in, but that is dark, da

Re: [newbie] Insert Name Here

2003-06-19 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:49 pm, g wrote: > i have several friends here in mem, tn, that are ex jar heads. from there > current state, i can assure you, with time, head games they played with > you will one day be something to laugh and joke about. > oh i'm over it, for the most part. i've be

Re: [newbie] CLAM AV

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:42:47 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously: > Is anybody using CLAM antivirus? I have a couple of questions about it. > > Todd > > Hi Todd, I'm using it as a plugin for Sylpheed [0.9.0claws]. I've tested it by e-mailing mysel

Re: [newbie] newbie] WELCOME TO LINUX!

2003-06-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:29:38 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:20:29 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > > > installed! > > yeeeha! > > hope we'll be seein ya here often, it's a blast, you'll love it. Yes, an

Re: [OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormallylong...)

2003-06-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:48:35 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:15:20 -0400 > Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > I just make my own. Talk about "customization" <|8^) > > Sorry, does

[OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...)

2003-06-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:13:21 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >But Blackbox?! Not even nice pixmaps to play with? Bah! == I just make my own. Talk about "customization" <|8^) Best, Mike -- "The man who views the world the same at 50

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:56:33 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On 16 Jun 2003 09:43:18 +1000 >Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> Picky picky picky. > >I shouldn't say really, I have yet to try XFCE4. I'm just not a big fan >of icons and taskbars. >

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On 16 Jun 2003 07:46:43 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:48, JoeHill wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) >> "Wm. G. Urquhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: >> >> > OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you'

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:13:16 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:05:19 -0400 >Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> But I don't think it >> beats ratpoison "by a country mile" in terms of sp

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:48:09 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) >"Wm. G. Urquhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >> OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're >> using a GUI mail client? > >Pekwm! The best!

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:20:57 +0300 manolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >22sec for the first time to load. >-if you close it and the load it again about 12 sec. >-if you leave it open and open another file about 5-6 sec. 19 seconds for initial launch

RE: [newbie] VPN client

2003-06-13 Thread Adolf, Michael F
To close the loop: I found Linux VPN client software from Netlock http://www.netlock.com that works with Nortel VPN switches. mike -Original Message- From: Adolf, Michael F Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:30 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] VPN client Greet

[newbie] VPN client

2003-06-12 Thread Adolf, Michael F
Greetings, Does anyone know if the MDK 9.1 kernel contains FreeS/WAN? I read somewhere on the FreeS/WAN site that it did, but could not find any other information. I need my machine to be VPN client. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] [OT] General Comments / mdklinuxfaq.org

2003-06-09 Thread Michael Viron
name under mdklinuxfaq.org, please don't hesitate to let me know. I seem to remember that someone had created samba and / or ldap howtos -- anyone remember who it was? Michael -- Michael Viron Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Thread Michael Viron
every windows program, there is some piece of equivalent software in some phase of development that is free. Michael -- Michael Viron Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux >>>> I think that's where someone should step in and make it usable to the average non-computer literat

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Michael Adams
mv the entire passwd file and create a new one. > (Oops!) > > Since the owner and group are stored in the same tables I would expect that > changing them would be possible. > > From playing around here it would seem that you cannot chgrp to or from a > group that you are not in. By extension it would seem that chown works the > same way. > > Strangely enough the documentation for chown makes no mention of this > behavior. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] SCO V Linux - now i understand it.

2003-06-06 Thread Michael Adams
http://www.arie.org/doh/ -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-05 Thread Adolf, Michael F
I finally was able to change the default to windows, but it should have been easier. First I opened MCC then selected the big boot icon, got a screen which had a lilo configure button (been there, done that), then another screen containing a drop down of boot devices. Nothing yet about a default bo

RE: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-04 Thread Adolf, Michael F
MAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] lilo frustration! Does MDK control center not enable you to do this? Tony. -Original Message- From: Adolf, Michael F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:53 PM To: '[EMAI

RE: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-04 Thread Adolf, Michael F
I am at work now. I'll post tomorrow. Thanks -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:02 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] lilo frustration! On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 22:49, Adolf, Michael F wrote: > I am trying unsucc

[newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-03 Thread Adolf, Michael F
I am trying unsuccessfully to make windows the default boot in lilo. I looked all over linuxconf and could not find the right switch. I read that you could edit lilo.conf directly, so I did. But when I ran lilo here is what I got. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]#

Re: [newbie] File viewer (like QuickView for Win)?

2003-06-01 Thread Michael D. Spiceland
small text editors to choose from. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SanDisk USB CF/SM readers work?

2003-05-31 Thread Michael Lothian
I'm using the sandisk 6 in 1 Card Reader (USB2) And after adding one simple line to one configuration file telling the scsi module to use multiple luns (because it has more than one slor or drive) it works perfectly. Mike Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 30 May 2003 5:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-31 Thread Michael Lothian
Hmm Royal Observatory Edinburgh? Do you know George Sherrifs undergrad or Meric who works there? Mike CVS - The VS stands for versioning system I think - the C might be "coordinated" or "cooperative". It is something we used up at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh for software development projec

Re: [newbie] Spell Check for Mozilla Messenger

2003-05-31 Thread Michael Lothian
Hi Try typing: urpmi mozilla-spellchecker It should then work (hopefully) What version of mandrake and mozilla are you using anyway? Mike owenb wrote: Thanks Charlie, When I tried it I got: [root localhost owen]# ]root @ localhost owen] # urmpi mozilla-spellchecker- 1.3.-1mkd.i586.rpm unab

[newbie] lexmark z54 driver

2003-05-30 Thread Adolf, Michael F
No luck yet finding a linux driver for lexmark z54 inkjet. Has anyone got a z54 to work? mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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