Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-17 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
service. I find their upto 2 months behind current versions for somethings, (except for security updates) -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http:/

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-14 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
95 dlls), its not really usable as wine gets into a knot with the daft palette/tool thingies and spends 90% of its time redrawing them. -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 1

Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.

2002-03-12 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:26, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: > > I hope that this poisoned letter of yours ... Well, you were the one who posted in HTML :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-11 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> (Linus said the very best > thing he has going for him is that he is not Bill Gates) Linus also said 'I am you're God' ...... -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX :

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-11 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> So (beat me with a stick) I have to have a Windows box right here next to my > Linux box. VMWare :) -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Publi

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-11 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
u have quake who cares right) Besides PC's make expensive game stations, better to buy a PS2 (etc) and buy games matched perfectly for your hardware. -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (0127

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-11 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
dprocessors open word docs to anything more than the most basic standard. -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=g

Re: [newbie] Re: ximian gnome

2002-03-11 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> I've started to agree Shane. Gnome just keeps pissing me off. for me its the other way round, gnome is perfect -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PG

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
ns and for most photoshop is king of the hill. Gimp!=Photoshop by any stretch of the imagination -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.e

Re: [newbie] programs running on wine

2002-03-10 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
ceros 1.1 (yay!!) and .. um ... notepad you could run max in vmware, but seriously, who would want to - dual boot and replace your windows shell with max :) -- -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44

Re: [newbie] Voodoo5 How-To for RH 7.x

2002-03-10 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 04:38, FemmeFatale wrote: > I think this might work for Man. 8.x. Try reading it. I post this for > the persona asking about voodoo 5 cards. > > http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/3dfx/redhat7/ Great, that worked a treat - thanks! -- -- Rick Kitt

[newbie] Hardware 3D (Voodoo5) ?

2002-03-09 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
, blue masks:0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f significant bits in color specification:6 bits -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:1

Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

2002-03-06 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> > I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on > > seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into > > Linux from within Windows without rebooting?? > > I wonder if you could use VNC to access the other drive. They do have a > Windows client

Re: [newbie] How to change X resolution

2002-03-06 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> > I've heard about a keys combination to change resolution windows-style (on > > the fly). This was CTRL+ALT+ "+" but it's not working... > > > > Maybe it was for X v.4 (i'm using v.3 to use experimental 3D on my Ati > > Mobility M1) ? 8-? > Try Ctrl Alt "+" on the numeric keypad only and C

Re: [newbie] Building a PC.

2002-02-07 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
GIMP. I'm sure someone else can correct > or confirm this for the moment at least, having more than 512mb mem is overkill for most activities, image editing perhaps (either huge images, or a large undo buffer), or rendering\raytracing. perhaps a ram drive Rick Kitty5 WebDesign -

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Laptops

2002-02-06 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
earch?sourceid=navclient&q=linux+viao http://groups.google.com/groups?q=linux+viao&num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&sa=N&; tab=wg Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 25

Re: [newbie]

2002-02-05 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> Can anyone recommend a good "Howto" site? I'm looking to set up an anonymous > ftp (proftpd) and my samba server. you may have all the doc's installed anyhow - have a look in /usr/share/doc Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources -

Re: [newbie] Windows CE and Linux

2002-02-04 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
why not try it and find out? Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x231E1CEA Want to buy y

Re: [newbie] networking & internet woes...

2002-02-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
retreve web pages if i know > > the ip address of the site. i can ping my internal lan (on eth0) fine etc. > > > > disbable eth0 and dns suddenly works > > > > any ideas? > disable routing. you have the "default route" set to eth0 and not PPP0 and

Re: [newbie] Zip drive Access

2002-02-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
might be an idea to make sure the drive works under windows, and the disk your trying is not a duff. zip drives are not the most reliable beasties   Rick   Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.comPOV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.ukTEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 25

[newbie] networking & internet woes...

2002-02-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
.   disbable eth0 and dns suddenly works   any ideas?   Rick   Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.comPOV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.ukTEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037   PGP Public Keyhttp://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x231E1CEA

Re: [newbie] installing 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> i only have about 1gb which is nowhere near enough. is there not a way of installing Linux manually a floppies worth at a time? I would also be interested if there is as I am getting a old laptop soon (read no cd at all!) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Re

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release

2001-11-25 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> I guess I'll just go and please myself.. that's a little more information than we needed Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http:

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-25 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
ve" as they need it to be. oop!, Linux Nut alert!! Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-25 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
ossible. Everybody is developing to their own ideals, no definite direction or purpose, forcing users to have both the super GUI and the Unix installed at the same time as neither do everything 100% Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +4

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-25 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
t! I really don't care if my neighbour is > using it or not, I just want Linux to be there so I have a choice in how I > use my PC. Period! but different doesn't have to mean it cannot be user friendly (or at least a little less newbie painful) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitt

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-25 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
of windows and should not be compared in that way. Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x231E1CEA

Re: [newbie] OT M$ Win and RAM

2001-11-18 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> Rant over... thanks for listening and be warned... you would be better using win2000 for dual booting, as it really is a very different beast compared to the 9x series, and as a result will give you fewer headaches Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources

Re: [newbie] fat32 vs reiserfs for storage

2001-11-13 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
id drive to any other PC and have access to the data. (unlike my tape backup) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?o

[newbie] Got Office XP?

2001-11-09 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
You might want to look at this http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
e. In terms of boxes on desks, Linux is a very little penguin. Massive server usage will never do anything in the quest for more hardware support - servers don't need 3d cards etc etc etc Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44

Re: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Turn AA off, restart KDE, turn AA back on, restart KDE Tada! It was enabled by default for me, but just didn't seem to kick in Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 1577

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
erest. The fact that their is a wide spread (ok geek community ) alternative that is constantly improving and gaining ground will be enough to make MS feel a little less secure Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 -

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
t i cannot use with Linux as there is either no supoport, or the howto explaining how to get it working will most likely take a day out of my life, and have the possability that i will knacker something else in the process. Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Re

Re: [newbie] Burping a printer?

2001-10-24 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
time. rip the paper out so it will stop after the current page, then once it has paused (and flashing its 'nd paper pleeeze :(((' light at you) you may be able to cancel it Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44

Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

2001-10-23 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> Do you find that winME is less stable than say > winNT or 2000? I do, Win2k runs like a dream, WinME has added clunkyness Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 1577

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-22 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
means NO MS SOFTWARE - you can run IE with wine, but I suggest you have a look at some of the Linux native browsers such as Mozzy, Opera or Galeon (best) there is however a version of IE for unix, but your not running unix :P Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-10-01 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
a junkie who couldn't solve his own problems, and while it makes interesting reading, its psycho babble (with the emphasis on babble) of the best kind :) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270)

Re: [newbie] i686?

2001-09-26 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> It depends on the program. XFree86 seems to run better on my system compiled > i686. did you just download it, or compile it yourself? Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ

Re: [newbie] is this a good way to test a modem

2001-09-26 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> if the modem states it will run under Dos will it run under Linux? I would think so Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11

[newbie] i686?

2001-09-26 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Hi all Is there an i686 compile of Mandrake (or any other distro for that matter), and what (if any) real world advantages would it have over a similar i586 version? Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX :

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-21 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
esktop icons. You can invoke the > Doorman again with the command "doorman". or as I recently found on the ximian site in a terminal window "doorman-reset", then quit gnome (and X) logout and back in again, you will get a fresh doorman, and pick the second option (for cust

Re: [newbie] Upgrading XFree

2001-09-11 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> Can someone explain me how i can upgrade my XFree from 4.0.3 (came with > PowerBox MDK 8.0) I have managed to knacker my mdk 8.0 inst several times trying to install XFree 4.1.0 - have given up and am just going to wait till 8.1 is out of beta (voodoo 5 here) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign

[newbie] silly question (OT)

2001-09-10 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
whats with the 'message.footer' file attachment? (Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ) or is it just an OE thing.... Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270