[newbie] Re: [Cooker] Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and Nvu

2005-04-11 Thread Philippe Landau
Frederic Crozat wrote: Hi guys, hello Frederic, how are you doing under the new flag :-) ? following marketing decisions, we are switching from Mozilla application suite to Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu. -firefox, thunderbird and nvu will move from contrib to cooker main. I try to integrate all

[newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe Landau
after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? after configuring konqueror and the screen resolution, installing firefox and

Re: [newbie] aMule (was: eMule for Mandrake

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe Landau
Paul wrote: Have a look at http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/a/am/amule/aMule-1.2.8-1mdk.i586.html. That is perhaps what you seek. i can't install it on my fresh mandrake 10.1 due to a dependency: libcurl.so.2 what is the best way to install that ? as i understand it we are two class

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe Landau
Philippe Landau wrote: if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) now that i installed mandrake

Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe Landau
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)

2005-04-09 Thread Philippe Landau
if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) kind regards philippe

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-08 Thread Philippe Landau
Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:10 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power

[newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-08 Thread Philippe Landau
hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Philippe Landau
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files,

[newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send control signals i can understand that it powers down

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
, 2005 6:23 AM, Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power to USB, because it happens even when its power switch is off, but so far not

pdf browser plugins (Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (was: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-03 Thread Philippe Landau
Derek Jennings wrote: Seriously though, I could live without acroread apart from the browser plugin. Anyone knows of an opensource solution for embedded browser viewing of pdf docs? what is the advantage of reading a pdf in a browser window ? i personally did not like that, as the browser has a

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-03 Thread Philippe Landau
how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, and how to disable their snooping system: http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, don't it? Actually, from what I read, it is not Adobe that is doing this. A third party has written an app to use a

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-03 Thread Philippe Landau
Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for storing my own web-page. Oh you mean hosting there are lots of them

Re: [newbie] eMule for Mandrake

2005-04-02 Thread Philippe Landau
Thanks, Paul. I have already installed aMule. However, when I try to connect to a server, I get the following error: NG : Your 4662 port is not reachable. Please review your network config. I guess it is the firewall (I use the default Mandrake firewall) that is causing it. How can I open the port

Re: [newbie] eMule for Mandrake, xmule

2005-04-02 Thread Philippe Landau
Adrian Coman wrote: I recommend you to use xmule, it works great for me. do you use it because you had it first, or is the performance better, or is configuration easier ? kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Thread Philippe Landau
Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, and how to disable their snooping system: http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html kind regards philippe

Re: [newbie] eMule for Mandrake

2005-04-02 Thread Philippe Landau
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Paul. I have already installed aMule. However, when I try to connect to a server, I get the following error: NG : Your 4662 port is not reachable. Please review your network config. but there are providers blocking port 4662. under amule: preferences:connection you can

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Philippe Landau
Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! once again you are all just jealous that he will get to enjoy all the hyper sucking action fun all by himself, having the courage to escape the social

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Philippe Landau
'cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=16 dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao name of iso' Adjust speed= an dev= to suit your burner use one quarter of the possible speed, maximum. OTOH, Warly is already testin the final 2005LE (10.2) iso's. Should be available shortly EPA, 2005, April 6. RC2,

Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.

2005-03-29 Thread Philippe Landau
hello Mr. Geek This may have already been thought of, but correct me if I'm wrong. I see a lot of posts on the list from new list-members and veterans alike, most of which concern run-of-the-mill questions. Many of these are answered on the Twiki site, while a lot more are answered repeatedly

Re: [newbie] MC erases all data during copy (HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Philippe Landau
hello Frank really bad bug there ... great you have backups. do i understand you right that there is no harddisk failure involved but you loose all content while using Midnight Commander (MC) ? kind regards philippe -- SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under

Re: [newbie] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot

2005-03-25 Thread Philippe Landau
Aron Smith wrote: Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Running 1.0.0. and I have no problems with it. ?? ditto. running 10.0 and no problems on slashdot either. Which leads me to believe that there is something wrong with my system

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Philippe Landau
i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has some underlying problems ? ALSA is

Linux maintenance - fresh install (Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Philippe Landau
i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. Hey - not your fault. thanks :-) do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has

Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Found a card reader - NZ$30 and linux compatible. Probably will buy one great. people also try to get rid of used ones, because readers are integrated in printers, tvs, laptops etc now. your card reader should not be compatible with your camera, it will connect the

Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: http://www.google.ch/search?q=memory-card+copy-protection CPRM technology, a copy protection mechanism is embedded in all SD Memory Cards and can be used to protect copyrighted content such as most commercially distributed music and movie files. as usual the orwelian

memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your task by just connecting a (Memory Stick) card reader to your computer.

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Thread Philippe Landau
hello Rosemary I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, perfectly fitting question :-) or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html nice

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify

professional attitude (Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Philippe Landau
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:44, Tom wrote: Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your task by just connecting a (Memory Stick) card reader to your computer.

Re: [newbie] Duvida

2005-03-11 Thread Philippe Landau
Barbosa, Robson dos Santos wrote: Sou iniciante tb, gostaria de saber sobr e o mandrake 9,0. instalei em casa, a partir de uma revista que todo mês rola distribuições, ele naum colegue carregar a parte grafica. Xstart?. tem algum outro comando para o mesmo? ...tem como eu

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread Philippe Landau
This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you like to volunteer? unfortunately, the off-topic list is dominated by people with sectarian views proud of using foul language. also, when people

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-17 Thread Philippe Landau
H. Crissman wrote: Did you install OOo with MDK10... It has a reasonable WYSIWYG html editor - no need to worry about syntax. What's the name of it? NVU, or it's predecessor OpenOffice composer. kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] easyurpmi mirrors that get never updated - security risk

2005-01-26 Thread Philippe Landau
hello can mandrakesoft please remove the uk mirror from it's lists, it was never updated this year and using it puts users at risk of loosing their personal data all while believing all is fine as they regularly update their system ... kind regards philippe --

[newbie] website downloader httrack

2004-12-27 Thread Philippe Landau
hello i can not find httrack in my sources, and when i try to install it from rpmfind, i get a message about missing libhttrack.so.1 kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] website downloader httrack

2004-12-27 Thread Philippe Landau
Derek Jennings wrote: httrack and libhttrack1 are both in contrib. Declare an online source for contrib and you can install them with your software install GUI. To add a contrib source open a terminal, enter 'su' (without quotes) to become root user, then type urpmi.addmedia contrib

Re: [newbie] website downloader httrack

2004-12-27 Thread Philippe Landau
thank you for the explanation. it did not work, the package source manager of my Mandrakelinux Control Center 10 still only listed the 3 install CDs, but i now added your ftp source there. i do use mandrake 10.1 official, what do you use as main source ? unfortunately http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ is