RE: [newbie] Just built a Mandrake 10.1 system for the 1st time. I am getting the error "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!"

2004-12-21 Thread Randy Paries
"kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!" Hi Randy What version of the kernel are you running? regards Duncan Randy Paries wrote: > Hello, > > I just finished building a new Box and have been letting it just run > to burn in. > > After running 5 days it crashed, a

[newbie] Just built a Mandrake 10.1 system for the 1st time. I am getting the error "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!"

2004-12-21 Thread Randy Paries
Hello,   I just finished building a new Box and have been letting it just run to burn in.   After running 5 days it crashed, and this was in the error log:: === Dec 19 04:02:01 millhouse kernel: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!Dec 19 04:02:01

RE: [newbie] Monitor Resolution & Refresh Rates

2004-03-28 Thread Beavers, Randy W.
bigger problem. -john smith Beavers, Randy W. wrote: >All, > >How do I tell the "Monitor" to change Screen >Resolution & Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 640x480. > >I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. >That I push ar

RE: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-27 Thread Beavers, Randy W.
I'am having the same problem with Mandrake Move can't change the screen resolution. -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen Dear All Some win

[newbie] Monitor Resolution & Refresh Rates

2004-03-26 Thread Beavers, Randy W.
All, How do I tell the "Monitor" to change Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 640x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG g

[newbie] Screen Resolution & Refresh Rate

2004-03-23 Thread Beavers, Randy W.
All, How do I tell the "Monitor" to change Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 460x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG gr

Re: [newbie] Need to format new HD?

2003-03-28 Thread Randy Kramer
ve.) Todd, You could format it before starting the install, but there is no point -- during the Mandrake install you will have the opportunity / requirement to divide it into partitions and then format those. Easiest to do it during the install. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] ATI all-in-wonder

2003-01-12 Thread Randy J Freitas
Hi I have an old 4MB All-in-Wonder card in my Mandrake 9.0 system and the handler tells me that there is not a supported TV card in the system. Is there a fix? Randy J Freitas PS is there a print driver for the Lexmark Z 12? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] CD Read errors

2002-12-01 Thread Randy Kramer
accelerating to "rated" speed. Anyway, I've taken to stocking up on 4X or 8X drives when I see them cheap ($5 or less) at computer shows. Randy Kramer On Saturday 30 November 2002 11:24 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > Exactly what i was after Randy. Teach me for thinking hdparm was for >

Re: [newbie] CD Read errors

2002-11-30 Thread Randy Kramer
tion CDRoms (or from somewhere else). If you can improve the cited page in any way, please do! (After all, it is a wiki.) regards, Randy Kramer On Monday 25 November 2002 12:05 am, Michael Adams wrote: > Following the "First -Suspect Me" Thread with interest. > > My Case... >

Re: [newbie] Trash can icon

2002-11-09 Thread Randy Donohoe
ot; > other way. It conflicts with my background. Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Trash can icon

2002-11-09 Thread Randy Donohoe
Is there a way to delete the trash can icon in KDE on 9.0? If there is, how would I recover files I decide not to delete? TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?

2002-10-11 Thread Randy Kramer
thing else I don't understand. ;-) Randy Kramer On Friday 11 October 2002 09:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > rdate-1.2-1mdk I'm usin that on 9.0+ IIRC, I got it from > /contrib, eg, 'urpmi rdate' from a cooker RPMS2/ source. > > alias tdate='rdate -p -

Re: [newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?

2002-10-11 Thread Randy Kramer
stuff), and then I specifically selected nedit, joe, and two other editors as individual packages -- I'm somewhat surprised a time synching utility was not included. (Aside, after I sent my first post I did a "locate date | grep bin" looking for evidence of a time synching utility -- d

[newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?

2002-10-10 Thread Randy Kramer
nching -- any suggestions? Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0

2002-09-28 Thread Randy Kramer
ems If you (or anyone) can add to it (or correct anything) please do -- it is a wiki! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to set Mozilla as the default browser in KDE (2.2.2 -- Mandrake 8.2)

2002-08-30 Thread Randy Kramer
Anybody know how to set Mozilla (or any other browser) as the default browser in KDE (2.2.2 -- Mandrake 8.2)? Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Of coarse again... Mandrake downloads.

2002-08-27 Thread Randy Kramer
geFile And links on those pages. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Seth, Thanks very much! I'll try these out over the next several days (and check the man page for postqueue). Randy Kramer Seth Zirin wrote: > Postfix now includes sendmail compatibility commands so you should be > able to display all queued mail with the simple command mailq. Yo

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-20 Thread Randy Kramer
when it makes sense and when it doesn't? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-19 Thread Randy Kramer
Thanks! Randy Kramer et wrote: > > I believe what Ed is referring to is that so much of his current > > bandwidth is being used by the d/l, that the connection to his ISP's > > mail server times out (eg, "no host..."), and Kmail just keeps the > > pos

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-19 Thread Randy Kramer
come back in 5 days and say "failed to deliver after 5 days" (approximately).) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

2002-08-19 Thread Randy Kramer
HH, IIRC, it was in the bios.) Although there was a mechanism to choose any one of them, if I chose the wrong one the disk was unreadable. Maybe someone else can provide more insight on this. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Modem help

2002-08-18 Thread Randy Kramer
et wrote: > AOL does not do linux, as I recall. Well, it depends what you want to do -- you can certainly send and receive email on Linux via AOL. (Don't know the details of how, but know a few people who do it.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Burn an iso to disk

2002-08-17 Thread Randy Kramer
CD Creator file or image is not an iso. But, I'm surprised a mirror has something like that. Interesting! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] install on Compaq Presario 1240

2002-08-17 Thread Randy Kramer
omething like (MS-)Dos 5 or 6? Then try accessing the hard disk from dos. Then try accessing the cd-rom (although you'd need to install some drivers or something, like mscdex or whatever). At least this would give you some indication of hardware condition. sorry, ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy

[newbie] How to Create and Use Additional IMAP Folders?

2002-08-17 Thread Randy Kramer
the folders be below, for example, /var/spool/mail(/dad) instead of /home/dad/mail to be visible to IMAP? thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-16 Thread Randy Kramer
ding and updating the distro (IIUC). Mandrake would probably have to make some changes to use rsync instead of ftp (or whatever they do use) in their "automatic" update system, but it could be worth it to us (the downloaders). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-16 Thread Randy Kramer
Derek Jennings wrote: > On Friday 16 Aug 2002 3:04 am, Randy Kramer wrote: > > I was curious so I tried sending you mail at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- it > > basically bounced so I assume that is not a good "Internet" email > > address for you. (There was also

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
took a brief look -- I wonder if somebody has created a GUI email header parser that displays the headers in some way to easily make sense of them? regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:07 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > > Oops, I probably should have mentioned that the problem occurs when I > > try to send mail to myself addressed as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". (I haven't > > tried addressing it a

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Oops, I probably should have mentioned that the problem occurs when I try to send mail to myself addressed as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". (I haven't tried addressing it as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I will in case it provides a clue.) Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: > >

[newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
f I send it via my server, it just seems to disappear (although I suppose it could be at my ISP, waiting to get a nondelivery notice after five days). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
e in a very specific > setup. It cannot run in daemon mode. Thanks (for the info)! > I'll shoot again tonight and see what gives. Thanks anyway!! Good luck! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
utomatic polling program. I handle that through cron. And getmail can't poll at intervals like fetchmail can? > I doubt that the problem could be that I use 00, 04 and 05 instead of 0, > 4 and 5 in the time descriptors??? I don't think so, but I am not an expert. I just took one

Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
x27;m not familiar with the stuur command -- is that a script or command that you wrote?) Anyway, is there any chance you are checking with something like fetchmail and it is running in a polling mode? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] thinking of installing Mozilla ...

2002-08-14 Thread Randy Kramer
zilla and you close that window, you are left in the continuous vertical scroll mode, which you have to find a way to get out of. (IIRC, pressing escape or clicking somewhere else on the screen (or both) let you get out of the mode.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from M

Re: [newbie] hdparm not in Mandrake 8.2?

2002-08-14 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 1. Has hdparm been superceded by something else? What? > No that is what is known as a packaging error. You can download hdparm > from any Mandrake mirror --just DL the 8.2 version. Civileme, Thanks! Randy Kramer Wan

Re: [newbie] thinking of installing Mozilla ...

2002-08-14 Thread Randy Kramer
Randy Kramer wrote: > I'm not an expert, but for my purposes, Mozilla is the best browser on > Mandrake 8.2. (Mozilla 0.9.8 comes with Mandrake 7.2 -- if you didn't Oops: ^^8.2 > install it originally it should be fairly easy

Re: [newbie] thinking of installing Mozilla ...

2002-08-14 Thread Randy Kramer
had two "crashes" of a Mozilla instance, in both cases it closed all the open Mozilla windows. Mozilla 1.0 may or may not have solved the problems listed above. (But surely created some "new and better problems" ;-) ) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] hdparm not in Mandrake 8.2?

2002-08-14 Thread Randy Kramer
occasionally as new versions of a distro (Mandrake) are released, but I do it by wiping things like /, /usr, etc. off my disk (preserving things like /home) and then doing a complete reinstall. I would like as few surprises as possible, except for the improvements (but even then, I'd like

Re: [newbie] how to setup Mandrake to be a Router

2002-08-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Ah, OK -- there it is -- thanks to you both! Randy Kramer Miark wrote: > Ya, what Dennis said. I'm running 8.2 and KDE 3.0.2 and it's > the one on the KDE desktop. > > Miark > > "Myers, Dennis R NWO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > > > I

Re: [newbie] how to setup Mandrake to be a Router

2002-08-12 Thread Randy Kramer
rake 8.2 I don't have a "Network & Internet" tab (or whatever) under Control Center, and I can't find "Connection Sharing" anywhere under Control Center. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

2002-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
an an "ex post facto" clarification by the authors, although that might be considered. (But, I am really uncertain about this, and, in addition to all other considerations, it probably depends on what country / jurisdiction the case is tried in.) NOTE: IANAL -- IANAL -- IANAL (I Am Not A L

Re: [newbie] Kmail: how to not flag message as read

2002-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: > I have found something about each to love, but > in a rush I drag out SDF every time. What's SDF? (I know that once you tell me I'll say "duh", but just doesn't ring a bell for me immediately.) And, what's the 2k editor? Thanks! Rand

Re: [newbie] md5sum

2002-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
ave errors on 2 gnome -game at 21% and in 3 I,ve > > got several .I am useing cable download at 197 usally > > have good luck JOE Just a PS: If the md5sums are bad, consider using rsync instead of redownloading the entire files -- see: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Rsyn

Re: [newbie] Help with screen area resolution and ethernet adapter

2002-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
ous mode lines set up in that file (or maybe a subset of those mode lines??). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT?? Linux or Unix?

2002-08-03 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: > Well, one of the SNF designers was Jay Beale, and his opinion was that a > caching DNS server was a serious security risk. Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT?? Linux or Unix?

2002-08-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Is DNS included but not mentioned, or if it is not included, is there some technical or security related reason? regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] TV Tunner Cards

2002-08-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Phillip scott wrote: > Is it posible to use a tunner card made for Windoze 98 in MD 8.2? I think you should get the manufacturer and model number and check it against the Mandrake hardware compatibility list (or post it here). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeS

Re: [newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
ay (maybe) -- you can get an insecure mail server to send mail fairly easily. When you enable security (some type of security) your faced with the anonymous relaying problem -- and now, what you so carefully got to work requires reworking. Oh well, sooner or later I'll get this stuff. Randy

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
ll the buffers, and something you had in the buffer stays in that particular buffer. I'm hoping they might have implemented some of this in kde 3 (I'm still using kde 2.2 with Mandrake 8.2). If anybody is using kde 3.0 or higher, has any of this been implemented? regards, Randy Kram

Re: [newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
uspect would be msec -- what security level did you choose when you installed? IIUC, in some levels you are not allowed to log in as root directly, but only to su to root from a user account. Try this page for some links to information on msec: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Msec Randy Krame

Re: [newbie] Kmail: how to not flag message as read

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
d" notification as soon as you've opened it whether you've read it or not * are you concerned about that -- AFAIK, there is not much that you (or the developers) can do about that, unless perhaps there is change to the email infrastructure. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
indows approach to cut and paste quite well. (It has a few quirks, but they surprised me.) regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CivilEme petition.

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
them and decides to step up to the plate and save > the goose that laid the golden egg for them. Good advice! Or join the Mandrake Club. > oh yea, misspelt is not the correct spelling of miss-spelled Well, it might be -- in England, Australia, Canada, or somewhere similar. Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
lacement batteries (maybe required in three years?) to cost significantly more than $10, unless you get them from new $10 UPSs. ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
I look for?) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
The Conext has an indicator light to indicate if the plugged in load is beyond the rating of the UPS (even while the UPS is running off the mains) -- it is not on, and I've never seen it on. regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] xinetd and imap questions

2002-07-30 Thread Randy Kramer
installed it "over" a Mandrake 7.2 installation. If so, give me some hints on how to do that. (I suspect I should have installed it over the Mandrake 7.2 installation, because some things that, IIRC, were present in 7.2 are not present now. (Can't immediately think of an example, though.) Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Dialog with imap via telnet? (was Re: [newbie] xinetd and imap questions)

2002-07-30 Thread Randy Kramer
- GRC or whoever always says all my ports are "stealthed"). So, I suspect that I don't know how to initiate a dialog with imap via telnet -- I suspect that this command: "A001 user ", which I got from Linux Red Hat 6 Unleashed, is not valid. Can somebody tell me how to ini

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-07-29 Thread Randy Kramer
o the earth. High and as far away from your electronic equipment as possible. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OT: MP3 Players Send Info Back to Gracenote?

2002-07-25 Thread Randy Kramer
based Gracenote, which has software embedded in several popular MP3 software solutions that captures information on what recordings users listen to on their computers and reports this information back to the company." Has anyone heard of this before? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Ser

Re: [newbie] RFEs -- Better Ways to Search the Archives

2002-07-23 Thread Randy Kramer
th a cron job -- if it indexes only the added posts it should not be a major burder (little or no worse than doing the same thing every 24 hours). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RFEs -- Better Ways to Search the Archives

2002-07-23 Thread Randy Kramer
site appears > to be broken now though :( I'm glad the mail-archive site is still archiving these -- in a few trials, the search seems a little more useful -- I'll keep testing it. ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RFEs -- Better Ways to Search the Archives

2002-07-23 Thread Randy Kramer
get a better search / index tool. Randy Kramer Michael Adams wrote: > I found that searching the identical list at > http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ > works for me usually. The attempt 2 minutes ago raised an error message which > is unusual for this site

Re: [newbie] Getting off the list...

2002-07-23 Thread Randy Kramer
Error1018 wrote: > how to get off this mailing list. Help? Try reading http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RFEs -- Better Ways to Search the Archives

2002-07-22 Thread Randy Kramer
ive > entries. Thanks, Anne! That's typical of what I get. (So I'm still looking for those better ways, or if there are none, I have some RFEs.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-19 Thread Randy Kramer
ife, like life of the author plus 70(?) years, and for coporations, 99(?) years. Randy Kramer I now know that IANAL is intended to mean "I Am Not A Lawyer", but before I understood that, I thought it meant "I Am Not A Liar". I wondered, for a very brief time, why all these pe

Re: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-07-17 Thread Randy Kramer
ring". Usually when I do this, I will add the name of the person I originally quoted to the list of contributors. To learn more about wikis, please see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages and follow any of the links that appear interesting. regards, Randy Kramer [EM

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael Adams wrote: > Only a big blue link at the bottom of the left column called "Contact me". > > MAILTO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow, I am blind! ;-) Thanks! Randy Kramer Now, what was I going to tell him -- ahh, yes -- try nedit! Want to buy your Pack or Services fro

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-14 Thread Randy Kramer
increase in size until it is > infinitely large? sounds like windows.. ;) Interesting thought! (Sounds like something I'd mention, but you saw it first.) Anyway, then we need "code janitors" or refactorers to start reducing the size. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
00 or Windows XP". > > I couldn't resist. I wrote the company back and asked why > they were burdening their company with the expense and > licsensing associated with those products when Linux is > available. > > They didn't respond. Not yet anyway :-) Alri

[newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
ho asks about Linux drivers". (I'll try to buy something every once in a while, also.) Anybody want to take up the same hobby? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
weren't user friendly enough to bother trying. The point is there are a lot of alternatives in the Linux world. SuSE and Mandrake are, IMHO, two good choices. There are others, depending on your knowledge, experience, tolerance for frustration, etc., like Red Hat, Slackware, Debian, GenToo,

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
oft's ethics or business practices -- I'm just reminding myself that they have been fairly successful to date. I want to see Linux be an effective competitor to Microsoft *on the desktop*. To do that, I believe we need more looking at things from the other perspective, fixing things to

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Alastair Scott wrote: > iv. 9 is resolved by nedit, which he evidently isn't aware of. Absolutely, and I'm rather annoyed that he doesn't provide an email address to allow feedback. I guess I could search on the web, but why should I have to. Randy Kramer (Guess I'm cr

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread Randy Kramer
eems to show only subdirectories within a directory, not files within a directory. Is this the expected behavior? Alias does not show that du is an alias for some other command. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-11 Thread Randy Kramer
Joe, Thanks for a masterful job of editing (snipping) previous posts!! (I preserved most of the post below so others can remember what it looked like.) regards, Randy Kramer Joe Harkins wrote: > At 08:19 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >is the smaller drive a master or slave and

Re: [newbie] html help files

2002-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
to edit it) or run html2latex from > the command line, then run latex on the resulting .tex file, then dvips > on the resulting .dvi file, then you end up with a nice printable .ps file. > > Apologies for the syntax of the last sentence! You mean the first sentence, don't you ;-)

Re: [newbie] Inodes

2002-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
u tell me where that terminology came from (I mean, like Windows, Unix, Univac, Dec, ...??) regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT Why HTML mail is bad

2002-07-08 Thread Randy Kramer
er of these pages, as they are on a wiki (TWiki). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-03 Thread Randy Kramer
;s worth a read. (It may not have worked for me as a rank newbie.) Randy Kramer > On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:22:29 -0300 > Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can > > interest others newbies) > > >

Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2

2002-06-29 Thread Randy Kramer
D. Olson wrote: > All you're mail are belong to KMail. ;-) Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal?

2002-06-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Bill Spatz wrote: > minicom maybe? I've used it to configure external modems when I was running > MDK 7.0 Yes, I think that's what I was actually trying to remember (as opposed to mintty). Thanks, hope that helps the original poster. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2

2002-06-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Fixed that, but now having trouble navigating from the cited post to the one by you == probably will have to re-search the archives and put a new link in. I've probably got several pages with the same problem (square brackets around newbie or expert). Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your P

Re: [newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal?

2002-06-29 Thread Randy Kramer
like mintty, etc.??) that might do the job. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will answer you! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Whoopeee

2002-06-27 Thread Randy Kramer
Great -- congratulations! Randy Kramer C.Anne Wilson wrote: > > Major breakthrough - I have to share. My life is bound up in my Lotus > Organizer, and this has been a major stumbling block. It seemed that > Evolution would be the way forward, but I could find no way of

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Thread Randy Kramer
about that! I guess it was dos where printscreen actually printed (?). And, I had a utility installed in Windows, IIRC, that did the same thing. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Thread Randy Kramer
t -- I just tried it, alone and in combination with most combinations of , , and , and saw no response. BUT, I'm not real confident my printer is set up properly -- I only recently got it to work at all. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Thank you, Nick! Randy Kramer Nick Andriash wrote: > I find reading your postings difficult to do because of the excess quoting > on your part. In that last message you quoted 134 lines of text to write 4 > lines. Is KMail not capable of creating a normal Reply, or are you not >

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-20 Thread Randy Kramer
ry in most cases.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No Message Collected

2002-06-18 Thread Randy Kramer
y accident). These were grouped together (timewise), and messages after those were fine. (Unfortunately, I didn't save the messages.) Just thought I'd contribute to the mystery. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-15 Thread Randy Kramer
o Mandrake 8.1 and then 8.2 but never tested the sound. I understand that the NIC does not work with Linux -- I've never tried as I use coax on my network, and the on board NIC is RJ-45 (10/100). Aside: The reason I switched motherboards is that the TX-Pro II could handle a max of two 64 MB

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-13 Thread Randy Kramer
dfox wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: > > And, if spammers wanted to reach people who have specified their > > preference not to receive HTML / XML mail, they'd have to send plain > > Spammers could care less. Most of the spam I get now is all html or > in chinese. They don

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory

2002-06-12 Thread Randy Kramer
both types of slot, all the memory runs at the speed of the slowest type. I've seen the motherboard with a couple of different brand names, I usually refer to it as a TX-Pro II, oftentimes with a manual that simply says "Mainboard". Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory

2002-06-12 Thread Randy Kramer
inux) with 128 MB. Like I said, check your manual, and if you don't have your manual, search the Intel site for more info, or publish the model number here, so maybe somebody with the same motherboard can help you. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Konqueror 2.2.2 (Mandrake 8.2): Lines don't wrap properly in textarea box

2002-06-08 Thread Randy Kramer
) exactly what to delete, I'll try deleting the .kde files and restart kde to see if that helps. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Printer stops at half work

2002-06-08 Thread Randy Kramer
Alastair Scott wrote: > That said, with the Lexmark ink cartridges almost £40 a pair I'll > replace the whole thing with something Linux-friendlier next time they > run out. (Probably a HP). I recommend you consider Canon. The big selling point for me is that the cartridges are usually easy to r

Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs

2002-06-08 Thread Randy Kramer
robin wrote: > Randy Kramer wrote: Just for the record, I didn't write what you attributed to me. I think Dan W. Dooley wrote it, but I'm not absolutely sure. > So is it a case of comparing apples and pears (i.e. recent versions of > KDE with old versions of Windows)?

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