[newbie] Interesting sound problem

1999-10-19 Thread Mike Abney
Hi, I've got Mandrake 6.0 installed and running pretty well (for a while now). The only real problem I'm having is that sound doesn't play IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. For instance, the KDE startup sounds play fine. I can do a: cat test.wav /dev/dsp just fine and a: cat test.au

Re: [newbie] Installing Apps

1999-07-14 Thread Mike Abney
Ken Wilson wrote: Normally you want to install user programs to /usr/local/bin. This should be part of everyone's path. The reason is for easy back up of your add-ons and to give one general location everyone can find things. The install manager of the program may have other ideas, just

RE: [newbie] Java/Javascript

1999-07-12 Thread Mike Abney
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, you wrote: Java and Javascript are both so similar in syntax and structure to C++ that it is quite easy to come up to speed in either one if you know the other. This, however, may not be the same moving from Java/Javascript to C++ as the richness and lack of protection

Re: [newbie] Kppp DNS

1999-07-04 Thread Mike Abney
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote: anyone having problems with Kppp and DNS entries? It connects to my ISP fine, and I've manually entered my DNS IP address, but i still cannot resolve names, even the mandrake linux site won't. However I have had a few to resolve after an extended period of

RE: [newbie] NMB Problem anew...

1999-01-03 Thread Mike Abney
Title: RE: [newbie] NMB Problem anew... As someone who went through this just last night (thanks Axalon!) I think I can help. There are three steps from where I think you are to you having a (more or less) working system: 1. If you edit the smb.conf directly, you will see several master

[newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure.

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Abney
I've just set up a Helios box at work in an attempt to prove that Linux is a usable alternative for our development. (Not to mention to run an internal development mailing list -- there will likely be more on that later.) Anyway, During setup, it never asked me for a host name. (It did detect my

Solved : RE: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure.

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Abney
: Re: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure. On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Abney wrote: I've just set up a Helios box at work in an attempt to prove that Linux is a usable alternative for our development. (Not to mention to run an internal development mailing list -- there will likely be more