Re: [newbie] Has our list-server got X-MAS hiccups ?

2001-12-25 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 07:13, Kaj typed: > > Have you ever come across this before. As of a day or two ago, I > > can no longer post to the newbie list on Mandrake. My emails are > > constantly being returned as errors. I called my ISP and asked them > > to look into the matter. I can receiv

[newbie] docking apps dissappear

2001-12-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr
Subsequent to my installation of MDK 8.0,, whenever I check the box in KPPP to dock the application, instead of docking as it did in MDK 7.2 it just disappears? although the connection remains operable ...in order to shut it down ,I must kill the PID. I checked some other KD

Re: [newbie] U.S.Robotics/3Com

2001-08-18 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:25:36 -0500, you wrote: >Am I missing something? > >Also, when I go to "setup" in dialup, I notice the list of devices range >from ttys0 - ttys3, but I noticed that the modem was using com 5! > >I'm getting there but I get in deeper and deeper into confusion. :) --

Re: [newbie] MS Outlook

2001-03-14 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 02:15, Aldo Baez wrote: > I think he means whether he can import individual pieces of mail > from outlook to kmail. I've always wondered that myself. What I've > done in the past is just forwarded/copied all the mail I wanted > to have in my new mail client, the in the n

[newbie] canon bjc 4100

2001-03-10 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
Sat Mar 10 15:29:51 2001 I hooked up the old canon to the ATX machine , MDK 7.2 was hungry for drivers, and asked for installation disc one... Unfortunately I have mailed that disc to Australia...(A self solving problem with the release of MDK 8.0) so I put up a message in Kmail, selected "

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-02-28 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
On Tuesday 27 February 2001 05:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday I posted that I had not come across this - I have now ! > My question, I use Kmail and would like to bounce these but there > does not appear to be a filter rule "bounce" does anyone no how to do > this ? If not will forwardi

[newbie] MDK Tractopel

2001-02-28 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
the management wrote: >New story on (http://www.mandrakeforum.com) >The first Beta of the upcoming Linux-Mandrake 8.0 >(Traktopel) is available -- Wed Feb 28 21:08:38 2001 Well fortunately they said Tractopel meant "plow" in French. Unfortunately I am handicapped with struggling w

Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking

2001-02-17 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
On Saturday 17 February 2001 12:17, Paul Rodríguez wrote: > What do you mean by their own safety? > > -Paul R Sat Feb 17 12:54:29 2001 What Tom is telling you Paul , is that rogue programs can be imbedded into HTML that can damage your microsoft system when you read

Re: [newbie] info on harddrive optimization in mandrake install?

2001-02-11 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
On Sunday 11 February 2001 10:01, walter hanagriff wrote: > i checked hardware profiles(if your referring to the tab under system > properties), and in the box i have original configuration, and 3 > buttons, copy, rename, and delete > no option to see what hardware i actually have, i have checke

Re: [newbie] Distro

2001-02-07 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
On Wednesday 07 February 2001 18:42, scxxx linux wrote: > Knowing that this list belongs to Mandrake users. I want to know the > bunch of reasons why you picked up mandrake´s distribution. -- Wed Feb 7 20:08:17 2001 Well Chava, I selected MDK from five distros and demos that I ha

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 not detecting RAM correctly

2001-01-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:19:42 -0600, Tom B wrote: > Not to jump Olly, but I believe there's a clarification to be made. >Each "title" section in grub's menu.lst, or each "label" section in >lilo's lilo.conf, can have it's own and different 'append=' line. So >while there could be many 'append=

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 not detecting RAM correctly

2001-01-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:14:59 -0500, you wrote: >i can only have one altogether? so are the other two screwing things up? > >thanks, >salman - Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:48:08 I do not profess to being an expert Salman, not ever having this problem...but from just reading of the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 not detecting RAM correctly

2001-01-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:32:14 -0500, you wrote: >i tried putting the "mem=128m" under the 1st image=/boot/vmlinuz, which >didn't help either. this is the lilo.conf produced from linuxconf>boot >mode -- there, i set boot options to 'mem=128m', and it produced this file. >let me know if you have any

Re: [newbie] Memory Miss reported and shutdownd command

2001-01-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:41:07 +,Dennis wrote: >showing only 64 M of memory on boot up and in control panel. I went into lilo >and did the append="mem=256" and still no change. The MoBo shows the correct >amount of memory on boot -- Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:20:42

Re: [newbie] Add a modem into com port 5

2001-01-27 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:29:34 +0800, Herbert wrote: > >As you know by using "kpp" we can only add the modem into >com port 1 to port 4. Would you tell me how to add a modem >into the com port 5 ? > >Best regards >Herbert --- Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:27:07 Well Herbert.

Re: [newbie] modem problem

2001-01-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 03:39:54 ,Mark wrote: >i recently bought a zoom 56k fax/modem. i added it to my computer and >configured it properly. i then went to dial my isp and when it tried to >initialize, it sat there for ever. and it did not dial. >i am using mandrake 7.2 with kde. >i was wonder

Re: [newbie] Unable to see cdrom

2001-01-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:03:37 -0800,Mike wrote: >> ls: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error >> If I try to access /Root/mnt/cdrom from Konqueror I get:- >> unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access rights >> to this location. >> I would be very grateful if anyone can help m

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-19 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:18:33 -0600, Olly wrote: > Are you familiar with socket problems...what would normally be >a logical approach for repair of sticky sockets? or trouble shooting ? > > The man fetchmail says "treat it as an unrecoverable error" >wellI must do some recovery...

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-17 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:18:03 -0600, I wrote: >Every one of these mailprograms ask for the pop3 server , >username and password separately - Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:05:20 Another bean falls into the pot Markwhile messing with the pop3 password I discovered that one changed ch

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-17 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:21:05 -0500, Mark W wrote: >Since it has to hand off the mail to someone, beit Postfix, or Sendmail >usually, that is the next place I would look in this chain to see if it's >functioning correctly. The weird thing in this is that it's not just >fetchmail that is having

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-17 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:59:30 -0500 (EST), Mark wrote: >Oliver, > >The fetchmail error you're getting when you tried to download mail with >command line fetchmail is a communication error between fetchmail and the >TCP/IP stack...so to speak. I get that error when I issue a fetchmail >command from

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-17 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:48:19 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >Where are you telling it to go when you download the mail from the server? > >-- >Mark Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:51:06 Hi MarkThe Kmail is setup to go to ~/Mail and that dir does exist..this is default and I d

[newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-16 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:08:09 When I attempt to download mail in Kmail or Netscape mail in MDK 7.2 With a solid connection to my ISP with Kppp I can trigger "get messages" and see in the" details" window of Kppp, the graphic representation of the mail being downloaded.. On the Kppp status graph I

Re: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond

2001-01-14 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 02:25:20 -0700, Miark wrote: >But when I try to connect to the Internet in KDE, I'm told >that the modem "won't respond" to either /dev/ttyS0 or to >/dev/modem (which would be the same, thanks to modemtool). >If I try ttyS1 or anything else, I'm told that the device is >"busy"

Re: [newbie] (newbie) Can't find Com port 2

2001-01-10 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:32:49 +1100, you wrote: > >I'm running Mandrake 7.2, trying to set it up as a SOHO server. >However, I seem to be unable to find the COM2 port. Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:05:18 The com ports are called ttyS0 is com one...ttyS1 is com two...ttyS2 is com three...etc l

Re: [newbie] Re: Learning curves

2000-12-16 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:46:04 -0500, Jim T wrote: >> As a Civil Engineer every graph I ever saw involving time had time on the X >> axis. >> Therefor the steeper the curve the quicker things happened. >> >> How come everyone has ir backwards? >> >> Jim T.

[newbie] listing comport

2000-12-10 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:56:10 MDK 7.2..when I run this tric: ls -al /dev/modem And it returns this string. rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 3 21:09 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS1 Is it telling me that I have an actual modem connected to ttyS1 and it is finding it there? Or is i

Re: [newbie]vmware and Xfree86v.4

2000-11-24 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:25:10 -0500, you wrote: > Dear All, I just found out that vmware does not work with the new >Xfree86 version 4. I have already paid $99 for it and downloaded it. >What would be the best thing to do now? I definitely wish to use it. >Thanks for your help. Marcia --

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition(Correction)

2000-11-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:11:34 -0600, I wrote: > > In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I >have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do >with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios 6.1 and >doubt that I will be able to live without a

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:54:13 -0800, Alan S wrote: >OllyI can think offhand of two basic approaches. > >One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as >root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log out and >reboot with the installation CD and let it do the >partitionin

[newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-21 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:50 I am sitting here in trouble with my penguin, While preforming a MDK 7.2 expert installation (Hey,..no smirking) 8-) I cannot make anything go into the Linux extended partition with this installer? I have a 2g dos on hda primary 1...and another on prim

Re: [newbie] Novice Help

2000-09-22 Thread Oliver L . Plaine Jr .
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:55:11 -0500, Bob wrote: clip of queries: >Questions are: >1. What are my alternatives? >2. Can I load Linux on a non-boot drive and then use Bios >configuration when I want to use Linux. >3. Is there any quick way to move pr

Re: [newbie] commands problems

2000-09-21 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:44:19 -0400, Carlos wrote: >Now can you tell me why ?when I try to install an rpm from the Command >line (Konsole)and I type :"./configure " ,or " make" ,"xmkmf" the konsole > tells me :"No such file or directory,or Command not found,no target >,stop? all I want to do is in

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:12:17 +1200,Duchess wrote: >p.s. i have the wardrobe, though! six t-shirts from thinkgeek.com! and i >have a stuffed penguin! and i devour slashdot upon a daily basis... oh, >god, *please* tell me i'm not a total failure and i have the makings of >a "real" linux user...!! -

Re: [newbie] User can't login

2000-09-15 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:30:21 +0800, Magicshooter wrote: clip: > As for your problem, you must go bookshope to buy related books with linux command >which you had to go by the hard way to learn and read first. >Linux is not a user friendly O.S...infact i had read and bought few books which cause

Re: [newbie] VMware

2000-09-14 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:36:57 EDT, you wrote: >Dear Anyone, Is VMware in Linux-Mandrake 7.0 complete? If so, where can if be >found ? Thank you, Marcia Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:16:45 Dear Marcia...not absolutely positive but I think, vmware is a commercial program ..the kind

Re: [newbie] remove from the list

2000-09-13 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:19:26 -0500,Rob wrote: > >If there is another way than this to remove myself from this list can >someone please let me know. Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:44:37 We on this list cannot unzubscribe you. To unzubscribe <-(spell like this except replace z

Re: [newbie] Learning Linux?

2000-09-13 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:00:05 +0100, Gordon wrote: >As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning >Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie >unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like >"Linux for Dummies" for example ch

Re: [newbie] Hacker on Licq

2000-09-12 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:51:03 BST, Robert wrote: clip > for all you know it could be a virus, soon as you open it, >your infected...Oh yes, see all the stuff at the top of this e-mail, their's >enough info there for you to be hacked..worrying isn't it...by the way, >don't get the wrong idea...i'

Re: [newbie] Hacker on Licq

2000-09-12 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:29:59 -0700, Robin wrote: >Yesterday, some hacker from Spain got into my system and started to hacking >away at some of my linux files especially in Licq files. --- Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:38:15 I am sorry Robin that I don't know enough to be able to help you,

Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem

2000-09-11 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:49:06 -0400,John wrote: >For my modem, I need to install a special RPM driver made by lucent. So I have a new >question. I downloaded the file with windows. How do i access the file from linux? > Is this possible? Oh, and I haven't a clue how to install it, but my kn

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:48:35 +1200, you wrote: The first penguin said: >..linux will not even mount >> it. So how do I go about making a new boot disk? >> >> Mike > The second penguin said >I may need correction here > >mkbootdisk (uname) from a console as root ---

[newbie]

2000-09-08 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
clip: >I then invoke e-config select the theme and restart enlightenment > >I then receive a "it's all gone a bit wrong message" about the module >accessing memory it shouldn't. Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:16:55 Hi Jason and Manuel. I have settled on Afterstep in this 24M ram machine, i

Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning

2000-09-07 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:00:00 EDT, Gary wrote: excerpt: > Is there a simple way >to resize a DOS partition without having to reinstall Windoze, for those of >us still stuck having to use it? -Gary- Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:12:25 Normally the old M$ install has already taken the whole

Re: [Re: [newbie] Module Help]

2000-09-06 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:36:34 -0700,steve wrote: > >I got an external modem for $50 and it is plenty feature rich that it gets >done what I paid for: get to the internet and e-mail (and the occasional ftp >and telnet connection). --- Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:24:21 Sounds good Steve, I a

Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete

2000-09-06 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:38:10 -0500,Flupke wrote: >> If there are several directories called ".xvpics", and you want to erase >> them all, issue a : >> find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \; >> and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt. >> >> HTH >> Flupke >> ---

Re: [newbie] Cannot get Version 7.1 Deluxe to install

2000-09-05 Thread Oliver L . Plaine Jr .
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:03:28 PDT,Dennis wrote: >Hi Mandrake Linux Help Desk, > >I guess I must be one of a small minority who cannot get version 7.1 Deluxe >to install on his/her PC. I have made three thorough attempts and all goes >well until the final step where the X configuration test is do

Re: [newbie] Problem with Cdrom and floppy under Mandrake7

2000-09-04 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:15:33 +0200,Danilo wrote: >I have just installed mandreke 7 and my Cd-rom and floppy don't work. >When I try to file in it a message that says "Impossible to elencate yhe >content of this directory" appears. Mon, 4 Sep 2000 11:56:44 Hi Danilo,

Re: [newbie] Uninterruptible Power Supply

2000-09-03 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 11:22:03 -0700, you wrote: >> I went to the APC website and it suggested a UPS that >> is frankly worth more than my computer. -- Sun, 3 Sep 2000 14:51:02 Here on the Gulf of Mexico I share your thunderstorm and power inconsistency problem, I solved mine by buying an

Re: [newbie] How to open a program as different user?

2000-09-02 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:03:52 +0100 (BST), you wrote: >On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Joan Tur wrote: > >>Hallo! >> >>Now i know how to open a program as root having logged in as user... but >>how do i open a program as a different user? 8-) Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:51:09 If I understand

Re: [newbie] playing .wav sounds and .au sounds

2000-08-25 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:19:16 +0100, bascule wrote: >i have noticed that a lot of my wav files from windows won't play in >linux, also some that came with downloaded linux progs, is linux >restricted in some way due to use of commercial codecs etc.? >also what prog do i need to play .au sounds > >

Re: [newbie] KCharset

2000-08-21 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:13:00 -0400, you wrote: >I'm regularly getting the message: KCharset: wrong char set. > >Is there something I can edit to correct whatever is wrong? > >Michael Coady > Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:55:03 I remember having this happen Michael, and I

Re: [newbie] Partitioning questions

2000-08-19 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 21:12:45 +0100,Lance wrote: > One idea that >appeals to me is having separate partitions for /, /boot, /home, etc. --- Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:33:32 a perfect idea Lance, as It mirrors my thoughts precisely 8-), in my opinion the most important one to have separate is /home.

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:17:05 -0400, Darryl wrote: >We hams, as one poster pointed out, are a small sample of the linux >community, but we have contributed enormously to its cause. We were >doing wireless packet before the big guns thought it was feasible. I >suspect we invented the concept of ope

Re: [newbie] Sound in Enlightenment

2000-07-12 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:15:40 +0100 (BST),Paul wrote: > >I have not had sound running in E. yet. In KDE it goes all well, in >another one there was no problem either (but what the was that one!) > >Paul === Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:19:49 It must be Afterstep Paul Olly P Biloxi Mississi

Re: [newbie] Windows Manager

2000-07-03 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 03:19:01 +0800,Joe wrote: > may I know why each of you like the window manager of your >choice? >Just to gather some points on the highpoints of each window manager. > === Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:29:05 its the 4th there already? Well Joe I have a P-166 with 24m ra

[newbie] Off topic longest time mail reject I have ever had

2000-06-17 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
want to send the whole reject to the list, but in the header was addresses of daemon in the UK...the MDK machine is in the UK? I thought France. sorry Wayne. some of sent message: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Down with LILO! From: "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] wrong extension

2000-06-17 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:53:14 +0200, Pierre wrote: >I'm trying to gunzip a .gz file and the command outputs that the file is >not a gzip file ... >Any idea ? > >thanks >Pierre === Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:11:36 Yes sir Pierre, I had this problem with several tar.gz files...what I discover

Re: [newbie] Packages

2000-06-13 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 06:02:50 -0400, you wrote: >I have a question on packages that are on Linux. Is there a web site that >gives details of what the package is and etc?? I would like to be able to >know what to install and what I don't need. I think I am wasting space by >taking everything tha

Re: [newbie] X tries to start and fails

2000-06-09 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:09:49 -0700 (PDT),Dacia wrote: >I noticed that my system was using 247 megs of ram >while it was just sitting there with nothing running >so I started killing processes. This freed up about 3 >Megs! Usually when my system first boots up it is >using around 65-70 megs not 2

[newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-06 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
>> I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever >> encountered! I don't think that your intended receiver got what you meant >> clearly. = Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:19:30 No offense meant to the writer of the above, but please do not attempt to turn th

Re: [[newbie] What is this message?]

2000-06-05 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On 4 Jun 00 16:47:34 EDT, Jaguar wrote: >Thats ok...I keep getting Vacation replies when I post to newbie list from >Dave Naylor??? whomever that is == Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:11:52 That's easy Jag, Ole Dave turned on his auto responder to notify all his respondents that he would

Re: [newbie] Still having memory problems!

2000-06-05 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:40:23 -0400, Cy wrote: >I've reinstalled linux I don't know how many times trying to get it to >recognize all of my memmory. I've tried appending the line append="mem=256M" == Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:05:40 Straight away I will tell you Cy I am working over my head h

Re: [newbie] Is my mail reaching you? (fwd)

2000-06-04 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:35:01 +0200 (CEST), Denis wrote: >Hi, folks. > >Does anyone know Wade? > >He has the strangest e-mail adress I ever saw, I wonder how has he managed >to reach me - pine refuses to reply to an adress which has two >"@" signs, and I am quite sure my procmail filters do not lik

Re: [newbie] Shutting down X

2000-06-04 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 11:12:55 -0400, Jim wrote: >I have a dumb questionI need to run in command line mode and can't seem to >get there. Can anyone tell me how to shut down X and get to the command line? > >thanks > >Jim = Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:23:23 One way to do that J

Re: [newbie] What is BogoMIPS?

2000-06-04 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 18:16:49 +0400,Koly wrote: >Hello all! > >What is BogoMIPS? What does the number depend upon? > >The reason of my interest is this: > >With a standart kernel (2.2.14-15mdk) my PentiumIII-500 (Katmai) (or >whatever is measured with BogoMIPS) receives rating of 499 point somethin

Re: [newbie] Sometimes...

2000-06-04 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 14:17:46 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: >Hi Olly and all, >I think I have figured part of this out now. PoPy... well, the Py stands >for Python, a programming language. Zope must be some kind of program. And >ZPoPyDA (DA - Database Adapter) is some kind of plugin for the Zope >progr

Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels

2000-06-01 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 30 May 2000 22:12:54 HST, you wrote: >These things are just very tall that even if I hide the panel (the one that >u are referring to) i still can't see the 'OK', 'Quit', 'Apply' buttons. > >The panel configuration u referred too works all right. > >edison === Wed, 31

Re: [newbie] Sometimes...

2000-06-01 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 30 May 2000 21:43:41 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: >Sometimes descriptions of programs really stump me... I just ran over this >one: >ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy >Well, Aren;t you glad you know this now? *grin* >Paul Wed, 31 May

Re: [newbie] HELP 2!!!

2000-06-01 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 30 May 2000 10:20:58 HST,edison wrote: >2) i did not fdisk /mbr yet coz my boot disk won't work! I don't know, I >created it during installation and tried booting from it, it just gives me >Error 0X10. I tried viewing the file contents in Linux and the reply was >'can't read the conte

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-06-01 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 31 May 2000 00:09:21 -0400, Kenny wrote: >It doesnt, the computer just hangs if you just do fdisk/mrb I've done it >before as an experiment with no lilo and even before i screwed up linux i >had to do that no go. > >Kenny = Wed, 31 May 2000 09:45:1

[newbie] Pauls proposed website

2000-05-31 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 30 May 2000 19:42:54 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: >Paul >who is thinking about collecting all the assistance here and putting that >up on a website... = Tue, 30 May 2000 21:43:28 That is a lovely Idea Paul, it would be a perfect endeavor for you, you have a wealth of knowledge

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-05-30 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Mon, 29 May 2000 15:45:48 HST,edison wrote: >Would sincerely appreciate any help guys. > >Is it possible to remove the LILO from my Windows disk and setup Linux to >just boot from the 'boot disk'? > >edison = Tue, 30 May 2000 14:28:01 Believe it or not edison, I have

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-30 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Mon, 29 May 2000 19:36:20 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: >Unix also teaches you to think and consider again. rm -f does exactly >that, no questions asked. > >Paul >~keyboard junkie~ Tue, 30 May 2000 12:04:20 Right Paul...I like that in a computer system, doing what I comm

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 28 May 2000 09:23:12 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: >Run GnoRPM or Kpackage. You will find a nice tree-structure on the >left. Click around a bit and on the right you will see a description of >the purpose of the program. Including an uninstall button at your service, >so if you don't like th

Re: [newbie] Is DrakX really real or do I have a poor video card?

2000-05-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 28 May 2000 01:01:18 -0500,Aaron wrote: > I went through setup again and I got a couple linux penguin >images this time but I still didn't get the fancy gui pictured in the >manual. === Sun, 28 May 2000 11:21:48 If you can see the Penguin Aaron, login with your password and it

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 27 May 2000 18:32:42 -0700, Alan S wrote: >Oliveropen Konsole, navigate to /usr/bin and begin >launching. --- >Oliverone more thing. Navigate to /usr/doc and start >reading. == Sun, 28 May 2000 08:12:06 Yeppers Alan, the reading never stops..it's like

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION - one of the kind

2000-05-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 27 May 2000 21:31:48 -0700 (PDT), Dacia wrote: >Hope this gives you some ideas Olly. You can find >most all of these programs in the KDE menus. I pretty >much just went down the list from applications - >utilities. = Sun, 28 May 2000 07:29:38 Thanks for the response Dacia,

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION - one of the kind

2000-05-27 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 27 May 2000 00:07:55 -0700 (PDT),Dacia wrote: >If you want I will give you a (reasonably) >comprehensive list of the programs that were >absolutely essential to me during my migration to >mandrake. I would be happy to do that. Sat, 27 May 2000 11:08:32 Dacia, I would b

[newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-27 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
>what is in it? Sat, 27 May 2000 10:07:33 How did all of you solve this problem when you were a newbie? I have hundreds of unknown to me programs on this Mandrake...I discover what they do by accident. Is there a listing of programs and RPM's decoded into something that will

Re: [newbie] Rumors??

2000-05-23 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 23 May 2000 15:20:31 -0400, Vern wrote: >:~>collective butts?? >> :~>vern == Tue, 23 May 2000 20:55:49 Say Vern, when you burn a copy of the new MS/BSD beta "Reno"...I sure would like to have it also. Your buddy Olly P Biloxi

Re: [newbie] High failure rate tar.gz

2000-05-18 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 18 May 2000 10:48:58 -0400, Ron wrote: >I have had the same problem >if you dwonloaded them with netscape try to >tar xvf without the z >this has worked for me in the past == Thu, 18 May 2000 20:54:47 Thanks John..Alex...and Ron..for taking the time to help I ra

Re: [newbie] High failure rate tar.gz

2000-05-18 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 18 May 2000 05:47:54 -0400, Alex wrote: >> [olly@localhost Lintech]$ tar -tf Grokking-the-GIMP-v1_0_tar.gz > >Did you download this file under windows? Thu, 18 May 2000 10:46:04 Yes Alex, I have only a winmodem to access my slow (max 26-4) connection...I downloaded the

[newbie] High failure rate tar.gz

2000-05-17 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
Wed, 17 May 2000 16:30:04 I have downloaded eighteen tar.gz files from various sites...some of them work without complaint...six of them will not gunzip.. The Archiver tool claims they are of an unknown format... zcat and midnight commander will not open them...I have tried to open the

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

2000-05-11 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 11 May 2000 22:04:11 +1000, Wayne wrote: >If I do this will BootMagic still boot Linux OK? I thought LILO was the program >required to actually boot linux and if I do this won't it stop Boot Manager picking >up that Linux is installed? - Thu, 11 May 2000 12:00:51

Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?

2000-03-24 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:57:06 -0800, you wrote: >If you don't mind me asking, which Logitech mouse are you using? I've got a >Trackman marble that works great under Windows, yet I haven't understood the >instructions for getting it to work under imwheel. I haven't given it a lot >of time, but it

[newbie] Wrong charset

2000-03-19 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:35:27 After logging out of KDE on my Mandrake 6.1 Helios 2-2-13-7 MDK, I see several lines of "wrong charset installed"but the Mandrake does not tell me what charset it is hungry for.. The print seems to look ok to me on all the screens and I have never changed a

Re: [newbie] Large Disk (14G) on a P166

2000-03-19 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:22:06 -0600, Jeremy wrote: >If that works for you, you got it easy. -- Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:54:40 Well Jeremy, it wasn't that easy , but it is working really fine.. I did not intend to put any money into this old P-166..it has the antique BIOS

Re: [newbie] Large Disk (14G) on a P166

2000-03-18 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:09:43 -0600, you wrote: >ujeevan wrote: >> >> HELP ME PLEASE !!! >> >> my friend has a 14g HD (FUJITSU) and he is trying to install Mandrake 7 >> on his computer. we tried to boot the computer with 14G, but the >> computer just hung. The HD has option to use only 2GB so t

[newbie] Mandrake 6.1 sent me a mail

2000-03-05 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
Sun, 5 Mar 2000 15:33:21 My MD "Helios" 2-2-13-7mdk, has sent me an E-mail saying "errors occurred while rotating logs"...? "/var/mysql.log failed" ..."no such file or directory" what is a MYSQL log ? (it sounds painful). I ran man mysql and it refers to some obscure data base? I ran info mys

Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions

2000-03-04 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 06:44:07 -,condeuser wrote: >Now I'm pretty positive that the time taken to format the partition for 98 >could not have formatted the entire disk;so I think its not just that mbr >has been overwritten by doze but that its dozely written a false one. -- Sat, 4 M

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Compatible soundcards

2000-03-03 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 09:51:09 +0200, you wrote: > >After trying to configure my Aztech soundcard , I noticed that >it is not supported. Do "Sound Blaster 100% Compatible" soundcards >work in Linux - or does it got to be a real Sound Blaster ? > > > >Thanx in advance, Osmo -

Re: [newbie] Permissions to /mnt

2000-02-18 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:01:38 -0700,Chuck said to Steve >You will of course let the list know how you solve this (thinking >optimistically I am). Actually I'm shocked that more users don't seem >to have the need to write to vfat partitions! > >Good luck Steve. > > >On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote: