Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta

2001-03-06 Thread Ribbo
nah i'll wait for the 8.1 which probably has major bugs fixed for the previous version ;-) Tanggal 03-Mar-2001, dari Julio Gutierrez : To all you people! I just downloaded 8.0 beta and let me tell you this OS is tighter than a 16 yr old girl, you guys should check out the new

Re: [newbie] How do you tar /usr/share/apps

2001-02-17 Thread Ribbo
e mc to do it select the folder and hit F2, choose "3" -- Ribbo "Worthless fragbait." -- Sarge, Quake 3 Arena

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

2001-02-15 Thread Ribbo
load another part of it during boot up. im sure you noticed that windows tooks more time to boot after the office apps installed. TIA, Tafta -- Ribbo "Consider yourself lucky. I only let the Adrianator do that." -- Slash, "Quake 3 Arena"

Re: [newbie] Partitioning advise

2001-02-12 Thread Ribbo
the rest of it usr, home, and var will be reiserfs :) if you want something simple: linux-swap 128mb / 3gb /home rest of it dont forget to read Partition-mini-HOWTO for reference -- Ribbo "Consider yourself lucky. I only let the Adrianat

Re: [newbie] Window Maker desktop screenshot

2001-02-11 Thread Ribbo
got there, abe :) -- Ribbo "Laughing? Me? Of course I'm laughing at you." -- Slash, "Quake 3 Arena"

Re: [newbie] window managers

2001-02-11 Thread Ribbo
le: #!/bin/bash echo "gkrellm " ~/.xinitrc; echo "xterm -e pine " ~/.xinitrc; echo "blackbox" ~/.xinitrc; startx Thanks in advance, Jim -- Ribbo "Oooo. Don'tcha just hate it when that happens." -- Sarge, Quake 3 Arena

Re: [newbie] Desktop

2001-02-08 Thread Ribbo
Tanggal 08 Feb 2001, Mark Weaver mengatakan, K D E ! There -- is -- no -- other. this is what i like from linux. Choices... :D -- Ribbo "Armor break. Bone break. Soft inside." -- Klesk, Quake III Arena.

Re: [newbie] Partitioning and ReiserFS

2001-02-08 Thread Ribbo
the kernel. as you see, you and i have similiar problem, failed to boot from reiser partition. -- Ribbo "Didn't think I'd be fighting cheerleaders." -- Doom , Quake 3 Arena

Re: [newbie] WindowMaker beeps every hour!!!

2001-02-05 Thread Ribbo
'm running LM 7.2 and have been using WindowMaker lately, and it beeps exactly every hour. I can't figure out what it is. Has anyone had this problem?? Thanks, John -- Ribbo "The rain of destruction. It doesn't stop!" -- Doom , Quake 3 Arena

Re: [newbie] mount point

2001-02-05 Thread Ribbo
directory (folder) on your hardrive. for example, mount /dev/hdd /mnt/mycdrom my cdrom mount point is ~/1disk/ and make a symlink to /cdrom/ i put "1" to it so its easy for my to pointing it out from command line ;-) mike -- Ribbo "The rain of destruction. It doesn't stop!&q

Re: [newbie] mandrake with GF2mx

2001-02-03 Thread Ribbo
half-way serious about enjoying your 3D graphics. You can read about GLX installation here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html P.S. Mandrake support will not support the GLX installation. I've already tried. And no response yet from Nvidia. -- Ribbo "That toy

[newbie] mandrake with GF2mx

2001-02-01 Thread Ribbo
hi, sorry if this had been discused before could mandrake 7.2 detect geforce2 mx during installation? or i have to wait the next release before purchasing that card? thanks in advance -- Ribbo "Destruction and turmoil are my companions." -- Doom , Quake 3 Arena

Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel

2001-01-21 Thread Ribbo
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: It depends. Specially if like me, you have ReiserFS. i gave up reiserfs, i know it fast and saving hardisk spaces but i got too many error on it, maybe i failed on something i dont know (2.2.17+reiserfs-3.6.24-patch) I prefer Mandrake kernels

Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ???

2001-01-21 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Emiliano Ogando wrote: How can i install ppp Please an easy way... Thank... PPP comes with the kernel. its not a program -- "To followers We feed you." -- Klesk, Quake III Arena.

[newbie] nexus

2001-01-15 Thread Ribbo
anyone here use the nexus font? could you give the fonts.dir and fonts.alias lines for that font? mkfontdir failed to process 03:41pm root@darkstar/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc# /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nex6x10.pcf.gz,skipping

Re: [newbie] a painless transition, please

2001-01-12 Thread Ribbo
gh. leave it to the defaults. if there still an error , it looks like you dont have any mail-server running (Sendmail or Postfix). and be carefull not to install both sendmail and postfix, it causes a lot of trouble, and if you did, remove the sendmail good luck Ribbo -- "Next time, don't

Re: [newbie] Mouse Speed in X

2000-05-17 Thread Ribbo
to do this? Thanks... use xset and put in your .xininitrc $ xset m 10 -- Ribbo But Captain -- the engines can't take this much longer!

Re: [newbie] Re : Enlightenment

2000-04-28 Thread Ribbo
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Del Kennedy wrote: I don't suppose there's a way of moving an iconbox? I like to have my pager bottom-right anyway. use ALT key and drag with left button -- Ribbo Ditat Deus. [God enriches]

Re: [newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown

2000-04-25 Thread Ribbo
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, 404 Error wrote: I just got the Quake2 RPM from rpmfind.org and installed it, but couldn' t figure out what to do to start it. I finally managed to "start" it from the console, I think by typing ".\quake2", but then it immediately quit with this message: try to run

Re: [newbie] path

2000-04-16 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, rich wrote: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. put/add it on your ~/.bashrc file for

Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???

2000-04-15 Thread Ribbo
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Mohamed Saad wrote: well... here are the crashes! KDE: I was opening 2 windows of Netscape. And suddenly, the whole system freezed! I just could move the mouse! but i can't do anything! I had to press ctrl+alt+backspace to log out! and it worked! well that means your

Re: [newbie] screen shots

2000-04-06 Thread Ribbo
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: How can I make screen shots under Mandrake? Kirk open your xterminal, type $ import -window root image.jpg image.jpg would be in your ~/ -- Rib A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy for ever.

Re: [newbie] fetchmail

2000-03-19 Thread Ribbo
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Daryl Fisk wrote: I can get fetchmail to download my mail, but when it comes time for it to turn it over to the system, everything seems to be thrown into the "bit bucket" how do I get fetchmail to do its job? Daryl, have you change the .rc to rw mode? try $ chmod

Re: [newbie] Terminal

2000-03-17 Thread Ribbo
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeremy wrote: You said you have Mandrake 6.1 but the NEWEST version of lynx. That could make it tough for people here to know your exact setup. If you compiled it yourself it may be easier to know which library was used. If noone here can help you, try the lynx mailing

Re: [newbie] Terminal

2000-03-16 Thread Ribbo
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Jeremy wrote: Do you have colors in lynx in one of your text mode virtual consoles? Jeremy, my lynx does have colors in console/shell, and so does vim. do you have lynx/vim colors while you in X session, i mean running lynx from Konsole/Eterm/Aterm/Xterm, do you see

[newbie] Terminal

2000-03-15 Thread Ribbo
dear friends... i ever post this question before but only one person who replied the answer. so i would like to ask again: Do you guys could seen colors in terminals for Lynx and Vim ? Here i have some terminal in my system: Xterm, Kvt, Konsole, Aterm Eterm. I usually use Aterm and Eterm (make

Re: [newbie] start imwheel automatically

2000-03-15 Thread Ribbo
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Claus Atzenbeck wrote: Hello, what can I do in order to avoid typing "imwheel -k" after every reboot? I want it to be started regardless which user is loggin in. It seems that there is no appropriate startup service for this. if you use init 3, put that line to your

Re: LICQ on Mandrake v7.0 CD ... was Re: [newbie] umm qt 2.0.2

2000-03-12 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Wayne wrote: I was trying to use licq but I cannot find anywhere to enter the settings for it.. ANy other suggestions? Wayne, you have to run Licq from xterm for the first time. or you could edit your configs on ~/.licq just edit the owner.uin files and keep the rest

Re: [newbie] how do i make WindowMaker open a new window, maximized?

2000-03-12 Thread Ribbo
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Ryan Drafall wrote: Hello, The subject pretty much says it all. Whenever I open a new window, whatever the program may be, it always opens in a window that is off-center on the screen. How do I make it automatically maximize? Thanks for your help. hit

Re: [newbie] Unanswered Question

2000-02-20 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: Partition magic is the best program to do what your trying to do. I don't know for sure about the one that came with linux. In order to get linux on D: not to mount the partitions on C:, you can run 'linuxconf : File systems : access local drives'

Re: [newbie] subscribe/unsubscribe

2000-02-17 Thread Ribbo
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good idea - I need the unsubscribe email and instructions please. click here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Who on earth has time to read this much e-mail?! you dont have to read all of them. nobody ask you to do that, right?

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-16 Thread Ribbo
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Try StarOffice. But, I'm still looking for a linux email client that can handle multiple accounts for sending. Seve you should try Mutt (www.mutt.org) for handling multiple acc. i could send you my Mutt config if you want. -- Rib "I

Re: [newbie] Joystick/Gamepad

2000-02-15 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: I have a rather generic gamepad that connects to my soundcard... what would I have to do to get this gamepad to work? some joystick module included in mandrake. you just have to recompile. for more information you may take a look at

Re: [newbie] Which package does kmail belong to

2000-02-04 Thread Ribbo
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, R_Yeo wrote: I've tried looking for the package with: rpm -aq | grep kmail and also using 'find package' and 'find file' in kpackage. No joy Anyone can help? TIA KDE-Network -- Rib Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian

Re: [newbie] file permissions and pppd

2000-02-02 Thread Ribbo
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Bobby Welch wrote: issue the command ./usr/sbin/pppd i get the following error: ./pppd: must be root to run ./pppd, since it is not setuid-root. Now, i have tried giving the user permission to execute the pppd command using chmod 555 .. but I can still not execute the

Re: [newbie] fortune

2000-01-29 Thread Ribbo
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, David Odin (aka DindinX) wrote: If you want your sig to change from time to time, put this script to your crontab: #!/bin/bash Thanx David, do you have another suggestion? thats nice but sometimes i also want to put my name to my sig (maybe i

Re: [newbie] How do I unscribe? Too much mail!

2000-01-29 Thread Ribbo
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, John F. McClinton wrote: how do you subscribe? -- Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.

Re: [newbie] netscape not working

2000-01-28 Thread Ribbo
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, JAMIL HUSSAIN wrote: i know i need my ISP DNS etc?? where do i get them from and where do i put them in mandrake # edit your /etc/resolv.conf, put this lines: search . nameserver isp.dns.adrs for more information about resolv.conf $ man resolver -- If God is

[newbie] fortune

2000-01-25 Thread Ribbo
does anybody knows how to put fortune as email signature automaticaly. i use mutt with vim -- Rib

Re: [newbie] Weird Message

2000-01-25 Thread Ribbo
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this message on bootup of Mandrake 7.0 Starting Sendmail postfix is loaded: i die in front of my lord Is this uh... supposed to happen? I thought it was kind of spooky! That, coupled with squid dying constantly, prompted me to

Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux

2000-01-01 Thread Ribbo
Pada Jumat, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich menulis: You might try mpg123 from a command-line. That's a console-based mp3 player. John ... gqmpeg for its frontend http://gqview.netpedia.net -- Rib

Re: [newbie] running multi GUI's for fun...

1999-12-08 Thread Ribbo
Pada Minggu, 05 Dec 1999, Ty C. Mixon menulis: Heh. :) I run WM now, but I like kfm, so I tend to start it, and it gives me just eh icons on the desktop. No panel, or anything else. I kinda like it. :) hi Ty, use "kfm -w" to start kfm without kde icons. or put "kfm " on

Re: [newbie] Mail client that handles many different pop accounts???

1999-12-08 Thread Ribbo
dmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; \ my_hdr From: Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED]; \ set signature:"~/.mutt/sig/ribbo"' and this is my .fetchmailrc: poll pop3.telkom.net proto POP3 user ribbo password is des fetchall user des password

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons

1999-12-08 Thread Ribbo
Pada Rabu, 08 Dec 1999, Lars Nordin menulis: I was wondering how I could cut down on the number of icons on my desktop. How can keep those icons from reappearing on my desktop? is that KDE ? for KDE just delete/remove all files in this directory: /etc/skel/Desktop do it as root :) -- Rib

Re: [newbie] Deleting icons from kde desktop

1999-12-08 Thread Ribbo
Pada Senin, 06 Dec 1999, Greg Pritchard menulis: Could someone please tell me how to get rid of some of the icons on the kde desktop. I have tried deleting them from the desktop and from the desktop file in /home/user/desktop but when I logoff then logon again all the icons reappear. I have

[newbie] desktop

1999-11-07 Thread Ribbo
do you guys using KDE/GNOME for desktop? all of you? here i'm using WindowMaker -- Rib

Re: [newbie] Terminals

1999-11-02 Thread Ribbo
++ 01/11/99 13:27 -0500 - John Aldrich: I use Konsole here for all my command-line apps, and I have color *shrug* John, does your lynx looks colored in Konsole? -- Rib

Re: [newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!

1999-10-31 Thread Ribbo
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 03:50, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I hope you don't mind my repeating this message. My main reason is that I tested Gnomeicu in Gnome (which I should done earlier) and it works fine. But it won't work in KDE. Is there any to make it work in KDE? Hi Ben, try

Re: [newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!

1999-10-31 Thread Ribbo
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 04:23, Benjamin Sher wrote: By the way, what does the -a add to it that makes it work in KDE when without the -a option it seems to be dead? hi Ben, gnomeicu needs gnome-panel to dock the applet. so if you dont use GNOME then you must by pass the panel. more details

Re: [Re: [newbie] Graphical text editors?]

1999-10-31 Thread Ribbo
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 01:11, Michael Scottaline wrote: === You are obviously a very bright young man (oh-oh; apologies if I got the gender wrong). And you've reminded me that I'm not quite marginally competent ;o) hi Mike, please dont say that. it maybe because

[newbie] Terminals

1999-10-31 Thread Ribbo
dear friends, which one of these terminals do you like ;) -Konsole -Kvt -Gterm -Aterm -Xterm -Rxvt and all comes with mandrake. here im using WindowMaker,i choose Aterm and make it shaded and transparent. Eterm is great too (but not include in mandrake), you can put background image on it, but

Re: [newbie] Graphical text editors?

1999-10-29 Thread Ribbo
On Friday, Oct 29 1999, 12:27, Damien Mc Kenna wrote: I'm looking for a graphical text editor, something that supports syntax coloring for HTML, and preferably PHP and SQL too. I'll go with either a KDE or Gnome app, and no, EMACS variants don't count. For those of you familiar with them,

Re: [newbie] Kernel version

1999-10-26 Thread Ribbo
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:15:22PM -0700, Yifan Yu said: Can someone tell me what version is the kernel that comes with Mandrake 6.1? $ uname -r 2.2.13-7mdk -- Rib

Re: [newbie] Quake2 in Xwin

1999-10-22 Thread Ribbo
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:41:00PM +0800, Mr-X- said: Is runnin q2 with the X11 driver the _only_ way im gunna get it to work in X? Hi, Quake2 running just fine with my old voodoo graphic. i just follow the README steps, and Quake-HOWTO. remember to remove /baseq2/config.cfg everytime you

Re: [newbie] Procmail

1999-10-22 Thread Ribbo
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:38:28PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman said: Indeed my .procmailrc was group writable... I did a chmod 644 and bam it works. Go figure. glad you made it... so which will you using then, postfix or sendmail? with or without .forward? more things to consider, you should

Re: [newbie] GREP

1999-10-22 Thread Ribbo
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:04:30AM -0600, Shannon M. Johnston said: Does anybody know what the grep command do? $ man grep ... DESCRIPTION Grep searches the named input files (or standard input if no files are named, or the file name - is given) for lines containing a match to the given

Re: [newbie] Quake2 in Xwin

1999-10-21 Thread Ribbo
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 06:02:35AM +0800, Mr-X- said: Hi. I downloaded the RPM of Quake2 from ftp.iinet.net.au and it wont run in ANY window manager under Xwin (KDE, enlightenment, gnome, afterstep), i managed to get it running in console 680x420 with my voodoo2 but the mouse wont work. Iv

Re: [newbie] Procmail

1999-10-20 Thread Ribbo
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:50:38PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman said: I gave that a try and it didn't work, all my mail was tossed into /var/spool/mail/hawk3 instead of being filtered by my .procmailrc. Did you alter any of sendmail's settings so that it would use .procmailrc without needing

Re: [newbie] Procmail Woes

1999-10-03 Thread Ribbo
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:28:54PM -0400, Jim Howarth said: I am presently attempting to setup procmail and its not sending my messages to the appropriate place...I have followed the instructions in the FAQ by the letter and yet it isn't processing the mail properly. I'm pretty sure that

Re: [newbie] e-mail reader

1999-09-25 Thread Ribbo
On Sam, 25 Sep 1999, Bob wrote: Hello all, What is a good e-mail reader for Linux. I need one that can have several POP servers configured at one time? you can use Fetchmail for downloading your email. fetchmail can handle several POP/IMAP servers. here i use Fetchmail for my 3 POP3

Re: [newbie] Mail

1999-09-10 Thread Ribbo
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 05:22:42PM -0700, Iulian Ungureanu said: Another newbie question: which mail tool should I install/use: the one in Nescape, or sendmail(Kmail) I have Mandrake 6.0 installed( prety straight farward!). I dial to my ISP for connection and I don't have a network. I can

Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting - dialing

1999-09-05 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 08:37:40AM -0700, Westbrook said: hi Russ, When I tried to set it up as a normal user, these errors popped up: pppd is not properly installed the pppd binary must be installed with the SUID bit set. Contact your System Administrator.

Re: [newbie] Re: X11Amp

1999-09-05 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 09:20:25AM -0500, Jose Alberto Abreu said: How do you change the skins? I downloaded a couple of ones from xmms.org but i dont know where to unpack them, and how to tell xmms that i have these skins. Jose, ~/.xmms/Skins/ and you dont need to extract them -- Rib

Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting

1999-09-05 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 07:56:55AM -0500, Jeanette Russo said: Can you also access GNOME menu items from KDE? I saw the KDE menu in GNOME. Jeanette sure you can Jeanette, i use Gnome + WindowMaker and running some KDE apps to. like Klyx, Kppp, and Kpanel run 'panel ' from your KDE and you'll

Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?

1999-09-05 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 04:25:11PM +0800, Luqman Hakim said: My friend has SuSE, and he have tested his SuSE by pushing the power button before shutdown (many times), like i do(1x) in my 3rd install, to test that the distro can pass the power failure. His SuSE always run smootly without any

Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?

1999-09-05 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:30:37AM -0400, John Aldrich said: Get a UPS! I don't know why they would be SO much more expensive there in Indonesia. A UPS is the ONLY thing that will save you, even in Windows 95/98! I don't know if flushing the buffers more frequently (continuously?) would make

Re: [newbie] Kppp and password

1999-09-05 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 08:43:31AM -0400, harry ellis said: Kppp remembers my user ID and password in root and for one user. When I create more users through Configurator, the Kppp wont remember . In all cases I'm using the same ID and password, and the box is clicked to ask it to remember.

Re: [newbie] Uh oh... I did it again

1999-09-05 Thread Ribbo
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 01:53:48PM -0500, Andy Goth said: Where are all these Attributes... settings saved on disk? ~/GNUstep/Defaults/ -- Rib

Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?

1999-09-04 Thread Ribbo
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 03:10:55PM +0800, Luqman Hakim said: Alternatively reinstall your OS. A newbie should do this 4-5 times any way, play with partitions, different packages, etc. This is the third times. i hope that i'll successfull for the forth. Luqman, then maybe you should try

Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-01-03 Thread Ribbo
Pada Jumat, 05 Nov 1999, John Aldrich mengatakan: Keyboard with just three keys -- Control, Alternate and Delete. :-) John so what those all about? (i never use MS Windows) we do have the same combo buttons for linux, right? $ less /etc/inittab --- # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE