[newbie] Sharing address-books

2004-10-04 Thread Piero
I would like to use (exploit, modify) the Mozilla address books that are on the Windows partition when I use Mozilla on the Linux partition. Any idea? -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] eth0

2004-07-24 Thread Piero
How do I neutralise temporarily the ntework services of my notebook? When I'm not connected to any lan at boot time, the booting process hangers on on the awakening of eth0. Thanks. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] pb at boot

2004-07-23 Thread Piero
?); when I boot shere linux, everything stops and Iget the message: "You passed an undefined mode number". What this refers to I cannot imagine. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrak

[newbie] RpmDrake

2004-07-15 Thread Piero
I downloaded an rpm-package for Realplayer. Can I use RpmDrake in order to install it? It looks as if the only available packages for RpmDrake are those contained in a list, probably coming from the installation cds, and I do not understand how to add a new package to this list. -- Piero

[newbie] Inspiron 500m

2004-06-27 Thread Piero
Has anybody installed Mandrake 9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 500 m? Are there known problems? Are there known solutions? Thanks -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] Hostname

2004-06-27 Thread Piero
Where are the hostname and domainname stored in Mandrake (9.2)? I tried to edit file /etc/hosts butnothing changed, even after rebooting . Thanks. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-14 Thread Piero Piutti
of their QuickTime player... they got the Safari browser from us... time to get us something back! -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it"

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-14 Thread Piero Piutti
achesize=65535 line in the /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf config file doesn't do much). After fixing this glitch, then I can finally enjoy again the trailers on Apple website! -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you nee

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-13 Thread Piero Piutti
Alle 15:19, giovedì 13 novembre 2003, Derek Jennings ha scritto: > Maybe not the answer you are looking for but Opera is a stonking good > browser ;-) Thanks for the tip... but I'd rather keep using mozilla... ;-) -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Man

Re: [newbie] new kernel and dvd drives. was: 9.2 and kernel sources...

2003-11-09 Thread Piero Piutti
Alle 23:09, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Piero Piutti ha scritto: > Alle 17:20, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Derek Jennings ha scritto: > > I had the same issue. With that kernel some makes of DVD drive do not > > work with scsi emulation. Set it back to IDE and it should be OK > > m

[newbie] new kernel and dvd drives. was: 9.2 and kernel sources...

2003-11-08 Thread Piero Piutti
d this new one. anyway, I don't think I'll want to give up to scsi-emulation on the dvd drive as I need it to use it with k3b, so I think I'll get back to the 2.4.22-10mdk and wait for the 2.6 final to upgrade. thanks for your help. -- Piero Piutti Powered by Km

Re: [newbie] 9.2 and kernel sources: where are them?

2003-11-08 Thread Piero Piutti
works just fine. Could it be a just occurred hardware fault or something to do with the new kernel? -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it"

[newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread Piero Piutti
Yesterday I accidentally erased my "Documents" folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! -- Pi

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-02-27 Thread Piero Piutti
g > tape drive and tapes.. Mondo Rescue: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It should suit your needs perfectly. -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.5a ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to

[newbie] Problem with RealPlayer 8

2001-03-10 Thread Piero
ot;segmentation fault". Any idea? Piero.

[newbie] Installing Rpm packages

2001-02-02 Thread Piero
this means and of what should I do? By the way, I downloaded those packages using Kfm (I use Kde as a Gui), but could not download them using Netscape (4.73); is there any other way to download them? Thanks Piero.

[newbie] Balsa

2000-06-20 Thread Piero
Is it possible to use Balsa with Kde, or daoes it have to used in the Gnome environment?

[newbie] How to install Netscape ?

2000-06-20 Thread Piero
I just down loades Netscape 4.73. It's a src.rpm and I never installed such packages. What do I have to do? Thanks. -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!

2000-06-17 Thread Piero
ormat anything!) From > there on it's an easy install, and you'll have the ReiserFS to boot! > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Wh

Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm

2000-06-17 Thread Piero
step a) rpmfind.com step b) Go directly to the rpm database step c)rpm indexed by name step d) packages bedinning by Q step d) qt2.1.1-1mdk step e) download -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [newbie] Packages

2000-06-13 Thread Piero
ething would be very useful, though: a dictionary, or encyclopedia on line, that would allow one to understand such expression as "gui", or "api", or what a program like "Doom" is meant to do... But may-be it exists. Has anybody got any idea about this? -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)

2000-06-12 Thread Piero
> May I agree too! This list is great. Imagine the number of people that > would not be helped if it does not exist. > Together we know a lot, but not everything. (Just give us a few more > months though... ;-) > > Paul > I 'd join this eulogius choir! -- Piero

[newbie] Mail Reading

2000-06-06 Thread Piero
and so on), do they? Is there one that you strongly prefer? Thanks, Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-06 Thread Piero
Yes, It's hardly understandable. And from the little I can understand, I think it better stays in its rude, uncivlised darkness. -- Piero. Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Stephen Weltman wrote: > I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever > encountered! I

[newbie] Netcape/ftp

2000-06-06 Thread Piero
n order to install what I wanted to install. Now, was all this normal? Or do I have to settle a ftp plugin in Netscape in order to have a more "transparent" ftp behaviour? And, in this case, what should I do? Thenk you for leaning on this question. -- Piero ---

Re: [newbie] Netscape Addressbook - Where?

2000-06-05 Thread Piero
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Can anyone tell me which file contains netscape addressbook information > under linux? I've found all the other bits and pieces but this one - I'd > like to back it up instead of recreating it each time I do a new install > etc. > &g

Re: [newbie] Modifying PATH(adding directories)

2000-06-05 Thread Piero
t; > >always have to append it again. -- > > >-michael- > > > > edit .bashrc (if you use bash) in root's home directory. There's a path > > command there, that you can add the desired directory to. > > > > Paul >

[newbie] DISCUSSION Poor Support

2000-06-03 Thread Piero
] says, "Poor support makes Mankrake look bad". -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil a me alienum puto.

[newbie] Prtition Magic

2000-06-03 Thread Piero
There's a grate talking of Partition Magic around... Do we have it on the MK CDs? Piero. -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil a me alienum puto.

Re: [newbie] Command Execution

2000-06-03 Thread Piero
but in the present working directroy. The environment variable PATH recieves its value through a certain number of initialising files : /etc/profile ; ~/.profile ; ~/bash_profile ; etc. On the other side, in the bash/sh/csh/etc. world, the character "." indicates the d

Re: [newbie] netscape files

2000-05-28 Thread Piero
You mean you can actually share your mailboxes across Windows and Linux? How 'd you do? I share the address books, and i works all right. If I could share the mailboxes, it 'd find it useful. > You could, but a shared directory would have to be on the win partition > to be read and written by b

Re: [newbie] How to install StarOffice?

2000-05-28 Thread Piero
On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: > After a successful (whew) install of the Linux Mandrake 7.0 OS, with > SOUND even I find I'm having trouble installing StarOffice. Following > the directions on the ReadMe file from the StarOffice CD, I'm putting the CD > in the CD-ROM drive, logging i

Re: [newbie]Discussion - Fonts - Please,Dacia

2000-05-28 Thread Piero
nsert in Linux some true type fonts; But they do't work neither with Netskape nor with Staroffice. Hence I ask Dacia : do you have a peace of advice? What are the "Mozilla fonts" you talk about? Thanks, Piero.

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION documentation

2000-05-28 Thread Piero
I would like to be able to submit more useful remarks. There is something, though, which Mandrake should improove: documentation and support. - Manuals are really too poor. - From time to time you discover that an interesting program exists in your system, and you didn't even fancy it was there

Re: [newbie] Ports ?

2000-05-27 Thread Piero
: what are these "ports" ? thank you, Piero.

[newbie] licq - garbled lines

2000-05-23 Thread Piero
@@#! Is it a common fault? If not, do you have any clue to what do I have to change? Thanks, Piero.

Re: [newbie] Charset - Thanks, Paul!

2000-05-13 Thread Piero
On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: > On Sat, 13 May 2000, Piero wrote: > > >I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell > >what's a Charset? > > > > On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: > >> Paul, > >> thanks for the r

[newbie] Wrong Charset ...What's a Charset?

2000-05-13 Thread Piero
I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell what's a Charset? On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: > Paul, > thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. > Eric > > Paul wrote: > > > > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: > > > > >Hi all, > > >why get I always the

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-13 Thread Piero
On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: > How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6; Read Kde help.

[newbie] Precious Site!

2000-05-12 Thread Piero
At this address there are answers to questions frequently asked in this mailing lis. Very useful indeed! http://sunsite.auc.dk/linux-newbie/Linux_apps.htm

[newbie] Printing man pages

2000-05-12 Thread Piero
What do you do when you wnat to print a man page? Is there a site where you can find the whole man in a printable format?

[newbie] Cookie Pal

2000-05-12 Thread Piero
Do you know whethert a program like Cookie Pal exists for Linux?

Re: Repost: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again. > > - Original Message - > From: Michael E. Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM > Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk. > > > > I hav

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC > TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but > since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments > about S3 cards in gener

Re: [newbie] Disk drives

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer? > And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net? Yes: 1 (easiest) just keep it like this, but make a symbolic link to it : ln -s/mnt/DOS_hda1 /win for instance.

Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
"man find" giveves you the answer... > Mogens Jæger wrote: > > > > Hello > > Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all > > partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to > > have your musik cut-off, just because you have to find a > > file > > > > Regards > > > > Mogens

[newbie] Ugly StarOffice Fonts!

2000-05-02 Thread Piero
Does anybody have an idea on how to make the look better on the screen?

[newbie] A notebook as an extra console

2000-05-01 Thread Piero Caracciolo
I'm wondering if it's possible to connect a notebook through one of the serial ports, or otherwise, to my Linux machine, and use it as an extra console, i.e. an extra tty. Does anyboy have an idea how to do it?

Re: [newbie] X problem

2000-03-06 Thread Piero Caracciolo
d refresh rate is, so I think setting it to standard >SVGA 800 x 600 should work. > >Any suggestions appreciated, > >Victor > > > Boot from the boot disk you made during installation. If you didn't make it, use the installation cd and do a fake upgrading. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

RE:Re: [newbie] boot to console

2000-03-06 Thread Piero Caracciolo
ot so i can step back with >> "Shift-Up" to see the exact errormessages ? > > This actually what I usually do. But you don't get ALL boot messages. How to get the other ones? Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] sndconfig problems

2000-03-06 Thread Piero Caracciolo
e following error: > >/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/sgalaxy. o: init_module: device resource busy. > > > May be what I'going to say is too naive: did you disable the PnP-system feature in the Bios (as you should have done)? With me, this solved many problems. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] re: Netscape toolbar color

2000-03-05 Thread Piero Caracciolo
ot; > H Henry > > > --- It's not uncommon. Change your depth to 24 bit. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines

2000-03-04 Thread Piero Caracciolo
At 18:04 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: Yes, Alan, supermount works also with my cdroms. But did you find any dox about it? >Pieroyep, same here with the ls-120. But my zip 100, my >cdrom, and my two floppys (1.44 & 1.2) all work just fine with >supermount. > >Alan &g

Re: [newbie] General Help: Mounting devices & Modem Trouble

2000-03-04 Thread Piero Caracciolo
tly gives more troubles thens advantages, and repalce it with a classic fstab entri (not without having saved first /etc/fstab in case your changes were disastrous). Supposing that one of your cdrom was /dev/hdd and that you had a directory /mnt/cdrom, the corresponding line in /etc/fstab could be:

Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions

2000-03-03 Thread Piero Caracciolo
one and reinstall it), then say go!. This would reinstall LILO and you might boot. If partition tables are corrupted, though, this wouldn't be enough. In this case I don't know what to suggest you, apart from reinsalling everything... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake's Broken!

2000-03-03 Thread Piero Caracciolo
ange the contents of a file, do save its pristine contents first. For instance, if you modify file /hell/murder do first cp /hell/murder /hell/murder.old. You will see: life will be much easier. Yours frindly, Piero. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1/ root size

2000-03-03 Thread Piero Caracciolo
It has only 45 MB free >and the /temp partition may be require more size. >Thanks > I think 350 Mb is too small. How large is your disk? > Piero. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

[newbie] Help formatting LS-120. How?

2000-03-03 Thread Piero Caracciolo
t of the floppy. So I think it did something useful, like creating a partition table, but did not really format the floppy. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

RE: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines

2000-03-03 Thread Piero Caracciolo
;s out of my fstab now! >> -- >> Lane >> ---- >> Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA >> >> Getting where I want to be with Linux... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE

2000-03-03 Thread Piero Caracciolo
At 09:30 02/03/00 -0300, you wrote: > UNSUBSCRIBE Why did you send that to me? May be just a simple finger error. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France