Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-09-10 Thread Monte Milanuk
The HP 722c and other printers around that model number are a special PITA from heck. HP decided to use a proprietary set of drivers, which, despite all their talk about linux support, they have yet to release to the communtiy the details. Dig around on SourceForge for the pnm2ppa project, and

Re: [newbie] how to install pronto email

2000-06-27 Thread Monte Milanuk
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Re: [newbie] Suggestions for an email client

2000-06-25 Thread Monte Milanuk
O.K., time to jump in and stir things up a bit ;) You want about the same things I would want from a decent mail client. Netscape is a PITA, and I haven't gotten it to work right w/ 7.1, it gripes about permissions, regardless of what they are set to. FWIW, if you use fetchmail, it doesn't

Re: [newbie] Sendmail

2000-06-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
look on freshmeat.net for a script called 'install-sendmail'. It will walk you thru setting up everything you need. Monte -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [newbie] Fetchamil is broken! :(

2000-06-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
Well, I haven't had this problem myself (yet), but a few things to try might be to check your system logs, in case fetchmail is really running into the firewall, it may leave a trace in the logs. The only part of fetchmail that I would think would have problems w/ a firewall would be the last

[newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sorting

2000-06-21 Thread Monte Milanuk
. Monte = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much snicker" What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Se

Re: [newbie] procmail sorting

2000-06-21 Thread Monte Milanuk
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[newbie] kmail 1.0.29-2

2000-06-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, all. I am trying to install the most current stable version of kmail, 1.0.29-2 (why does Mandrake 7.1 still have the 'old' 1.0.28?). I didn't find a mdk rpm, so I got the source and ran ./configure, which bombs out claiming that I need a 'newer' version of jpeglib6, specifically

[newbie] procmail sorting

2000-06-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, all. I am trying to re-process my 'old' mail and get some procmail filters working, such as removing duplicates, etc. Does anyone know how to take an existing mailbox and 'feed' it back thru again? I tried 'cat inbox /var/spool/mail/monte' which just dumped everything back in the

Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?

2000-06-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
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Re: [newbie] E-mail Clients

2000-06-14 Thread Monte Milanuk
uot; What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com

Re: [Re: [newbie] graphical instalation]

2000-05-09 Thread Monte Milanuk
Exactly. Jaguar wrote: Thank you Monte...you just increased my "this guy is an idiot and belongs in my JUNK Mail filter" list by one. Monte Milanuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, God, forgive me for having to do this... GET A CLUE!! RTFM!! Sorry. I realize this

Re: [newbie] installing acrobat reader

2000-05-09 Thread Monte Milanuk
joey wrote: im a new user of linux and i want to install the acrobat reader, the extension name is something like "tar.gz" . i try to install this many times using kpakage but untill now no luck from me :-(...what will i do? Well, for starters, if you got the boxed version of

Re: [newbie] Parental Control

2000-05-08 Thread Monte Milanuk
WolfRyder wrote: Being a parent, when I discovered my then 15 year old viewing porn sites, after specifically telling him he couldn't, he lost his computer privileges for 3 months. How, you may think, did I accomplish this? Well, when I went to work, so did the power cords. While at home,

Re: [[newbie] Printer sharing]

2000-05-06 Thread Monte Milanuk
Optionally, you could run samba on the the Linux box. This will make the Linux box appear as a Windows server to the Win98 box. You can share your printer, drive space, etc. Go to www.samba.org for more info. The latest version is 2.07, vs the 2.06 that comes w/ Mandrake 7.0, and the new

Re: [newbie] GCC is missing....grrrr

2000-05-02 Thread Monte Milanuk
Welcome to one of the 'quirks' of Mandrake 7.0 ( I presume that is what flavor you have). If I recall, if you don't select 'Custom', and 'Development' during install, or otherwise explicitly specify to install the compiler, you don't get it. If you are downloading an *.rpm file, you should be

Re: [newbie] Homemade Router/Switch... Being cheap.

2000-04-27 Thread Monte Milanuk
If you are being really cheap and don't need anything else besides routing, go to www.freesco.org. One floppy, setup done in less than 10 minutes (to be fair, I've done it a few times), and you are done. Monte flupke wrote: George Jones wrote: Ok... I have a question for all of you

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-04-26 Thread Monte Milanuk
Read the post a little closer next time. He did state quite clearly that he did set the preferences options. Monte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess would be you have NOT gone into the MENU, Edit, Preferences, etcetera. SetUp the thing in there and it will. don I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.02-i486

2000-04-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
Yes. Depending on the security level you choose during login, you cannot log directly into the console as root. This is supposed to help in auditing which user became root and did something they shouldn't have when there is more than one root user. Monte Dallas Haggar wrote: Hi, I have

Re: [newbie] remote X-login

2000-04-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
I had ran across some articles earlier this year on this subject, but I had the links on my machine at work, and finding them again from home took me about all morning. Oh, well. Hope these help. http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/xterminals/ http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kaszeta.html Enjoy,

Re: [newbie] running windows in linux

2000-04-22 Thread Monte Milanuk
You could also give VNC a try. It is a program that lets you run an X desktop using the windowmanager of your choice from a Windows or Mac, and a Windows desktop from your X Workstation. The client is very fast, and even comes as a java applet you can run in a browser. What it does is it

Re: [newbie] FTP: 500 Illegal PORT Command

2000-04-14 Thread Monte Milanuk
in advance. = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much snicker" What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? S

Re: [newbie] MDK7.02/FreeBSD and Networking

2000-04-09 Thread Monte Milanuk
Jaguar wrote: I already have MDK 7.02 installed, and was wanting to try out FreeBSD, I would like to know if there are any known conflicts/problems with running BOTH OS's on one 13 GB drive? The main reason for this is because I have read it is easier to setup a home network, I have

Re: [newbie] EZ permissions problem

2000-04-02 Thread Monte Milanuk
Jon wrote: Pak Wing wrote: This is a strange one. I managed to install StarOffice fine as root. As root, you're meant to have permissions for everything! I didn't do "/bin/sh" though. running under bash worked fine. Pak Monte Milanuk wrote: I have a Sun Mi

[newbie] EZ permissions problem

2000-04-01 Thread Monte Milanuk
I have a Sun Microsystems StarOffice 5.1 CD that if I recall right came bundled w/ my RH 6.1. I would like to install and use this w/ my Mandrake 7.0 install, but when I mount the cdrom and cd to the directory, either as root or otherwise, I receive this error: [monte@ishamael]$ /bin/sh

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0

2000-01-29 Thread Monte Milanuk
macs to get this far. Alternately, you could use emacs to read the Emacs-Beginner-HOWTO. Note that none of this requires a graphic desktop. It all works just fine w/o . If you find emacs to be too much, try 'vi /usr/doc/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO' to try the vi editor. Enjoy, Monte Milanuk

Re: [newbie] Drake

2000-01-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
Cesar Lincoln de V Cavalcante wrote: I downloaded the Mandrake 7.0 iso , and I had to install using the keyboards (my serial mouse was not reconized). Why Drakeconf doesn"t work ? It works only with paid versions ? thanks Cesar I downloaded and burned the 7.0 iso file also, and I

Re: [newbie] PS/2 Serial mouse problem on Mandrake v7.0 install

2000-01-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to Install Mandrake 7.0(Air) but have a problem with mouse autodetection. My PC motherboard has a PS/2 mouse port (which is disabled in the BIOS) but I prefer to use my Genius Serial 3 button mouse on COM port 1. When running the install program it

Re: [newbie] Installing a New Distro

2000-01-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
Seth Gibson wrote: Is it possible to install a new linux distribution but still retain all my personal files. . .ie crossgrade i guess is what im asking. Thanks all. Depends. Did you partition /home as a separate partition? Thats normally the easiest way, so that in your new distribution

Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux

2000-01-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ? I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both. Windows programs can be on NTFS, but I want

Re: [newbie] Hello

2000-01-22 Thread Monte Milanuk
³¯¦°¤§ wrote: Hi, Could you tell me how to enable telnet service? I can telnet others but cannot let others telnet. Mandrake 6.1 7.0 are the same. Where is the "switch"? Thanx Well, first off, try looking up information on the telnet daemon, i.e. 'telnetd'. This allows you to be

[newbie] 7.0 howto's?

2000-01-22 Thread Monte Milanuk
Does anyone care to enlighten me where the HOWTO's in Mandrake 7.0 are hidden? So far I haven't even been able to find them on the CD that I burned from an *.iso file. Thanks for your time