Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread N. B. Day
is better than apt-get or anything else I've used for this situation. HTH -- N. B. Day Registered Linux user # 333228 @ http://counter.li.org N 30 1.602 W 90 4.070 2:35pm up 9 days 7:15, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.09 SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

2005-02-23 Thread N. B. Day
of interesting stuff. You could just page through the list, but it is easier to pipe it ( | ) to the grep command which looks for a string (in this case Thunderbird) and returns only the lines containing it. HTH -- N. B. Day Registered Linux user # 333228 @ http://counter.li.org N 30 1.602 W 90

[newbie] Le mot maudit - just a test

2005-01-27 Thread N. B. Day
Just a test to see if my posts aren't getting through because of something in my new sig. This one is clean. -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] Le mot maudit -- just a test

2005-01-27 Thread N. B. Day
Just a test to see if my posts aren't getting through because of something in my sig. This one has the sig. -- N. B. Day Registered User 333228 at http://counter.li.org 12:42pm up 1 day 4:05, 4 users, load average: 0.22, 0.17, 0.08 SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586

Re: [newbie] VMware and 2.6 kernel

2004-10-25 Thread N. B. Day
bugfix kernel release subsequently) but this is dead easy. I haven't tried it on 10.1 CE yet. -- N. B. Day Ni dieu, ni maƮtre Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:02:41 -0500 14:02:41 up 6:15, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.08 2.6.3-19mdk GNU/Linux Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586

Re: [newbie] MS Access in Linux

2004-10-15 Thread N. B. Day
used to in Linux, without the need for dual boot if possible. Thanks, Elliot You can do this with OpenOffice. Much information and tutorials here: http://dba.openoffice.org/index.html -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread N. B. Day
it has been fully updated. However, I've had no problems installing XP and patching it with the setup described above. -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] VMWare-question

2004-03-23 Thread N. B. Day
, in what they call raw mode. This is hedged about with caveats and warnings like for experts only! in such a way as to make me suspect that it doesn't really work. I've not tried it. If you've got the disk space in /home, it's almost certainly easier to install another copy. -- N. B. Day

[newbie] dead daemon but pid exists

2004-02-06 Thread N. B. Day
... Samba does indeed appear to be dead. I've tried killing it (but it's already dead). Smbd doesn't show up in top. Restarting the computer doesn't clear the problem. Where would the pid file be? TIA, -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-06 Thread N. B. Day
me your snail-mail address privately, I'll gladly send you the latest. -- N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba

2003-12-10 Thread N. B. Day
(other than to get rid of the Microsoft Sound at boot-up). -- N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department, University of New Orleans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove

2003-12-10 Thread N. B. Day
into any modern PC without doing a thing to the underlying OS or leaving a trace behind and *not having to to any reconfiguring* would be a good thing. I *hate* laptops. -- N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department, University of New Orleans Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] VMWare problems! Please Help!

2003-12-09 Thread N. B. Day
9.2, just accepting all the vmware 4.04 defaults. Your /home/whatever has to be large enough to contain the whole Windows installation. -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread N. B. Day
experiences? Pls help me. Thanks. Fajar. Fajar, I've had this trouble and the problem turned out to be that one of the jumper blocks wasn't making good contact with the pins. Verify that there is actually some _metal_ in the plastic jumper, or better yet, get some new jumper blocks. -- N. B. Day

Re: [newbie] VMWare accessing other Hard Drives

2003-12-09 Thread N. B. Day
installed in Linux and a public samba share you should see it in Network Neighborhood in Windows; assuming you have the default bridged networking installed. -- N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department, University of New Orleans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] How do I cause all activated hyperlinks to be opened with the same browser?

2003-11-24 Thread N. B. Day
-handlers/unknown/command 'mozilla %s' $ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/unknown/need-terminal false $ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/unknown/enabled true HTH -- N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department, University of New Orleans Want

Re: [newbie] OT - possible job vacancy for some of you

2003-10-19 Thread N. B. Day
the same stuff over and over. -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How cool!

2003-07-06 Thread N. B. Day
WINTER in the southern hemisphere! What's the ambient temperature? I don't recall anyone having central heating in NSW; they just wear a sheep or two in the winter. Who says I don't have a life? -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-07-01 Thread N. B. Day
to education from the general fund. -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-23 Thread N. B. Day
. This queer language is really a pidgin: Germanic structure and vocabulary with Frenchified fancy words. Nobody could agree on grammar or what gender nouns should have, so we just gave all that up. Must be hard to learn -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: Re[3]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-10 Thread N. B. Day
. - Source: Dilbert Your sig is small, plain text, not bragging and always interesting enough to pay to download. The list is a lot more fun since you've been back. -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread N. B. Day
let you have a big sig like he does. Until then, good practice is to limit it to a couple of lines, or use it only once in a while. -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com