Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-12 Thread Roger Sherman
: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 07:11 Subject: Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Mark wrote: Hmm...I just entered the IP to my router (gateway), which is exactly what I did to get this install (9.1 b3) online

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-12 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mark Weaver wrote: Are you still getting the spontaneous reboots with b3? I haven't in 2 days, 19 hours, and 40 minutes... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-12 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Stephen Kitchener wrote: On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 23:14, Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mark Weaver wrote: Are you still getting the spontaneous reboots with b3? I haven't in 2 days, 19 hours, and 40 minutes... Excuse me for butting in - where is rc3

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-11 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Mark wrote: Hmm...I just entered the IP to my router (gateway), which is exactly what I did to get this install (9.1 b3) online. Successfully, as you can see...;-) Hi Roger, I just saw this thread, so, I'm a few days behind on it. when I saw the original post

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-11 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Mark wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Roger Sherman wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Chris wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 07:32 pm, Dennis Myers decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Friday 07 March 2003 05:24 pm, Chris wrote: Ok, let me try

Re: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's

[newbie] Blackbox-Konqueror wierdness

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
Having a strange problem with Konqueror in blackbox...when I first boot the PC up, or restart X, if I log into blackbox, Konqueror won't start from the blackbox menu, unless I start it from a terminal first. After that, it works fine...but in KDE, it works from the menu, icons, everything.

[newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
Is there a trick to getting RC2 online? I have a cable modem, and a Netgear router between the modem and my PC...I set up networking the way I have on every version of mandrake since 8.0 came out (RC1 excepted - didn't bother trying to set that up during install, since I heard it didn't work),

Re: [newbie] Blackbox-Konqueror wierdness

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Michael Scottaline wrote: On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:11:17 -0500 (EST) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled furiously: Having a strange problem with Konqueror in blackbox...when I first boot the PC up, or restart X, if I log into blackbox, Konqueror won't start

RE: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RC2 and networking Is there a trick to getting RC2

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:09:12 -0500 (EST) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a trick to getting RC2 online? I have a cable modem, and a Netgear router between the modem and my PC...I set up networking the way I have on every

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 01:22 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:09:12 -0500 (EST) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a trick to getting RC2 online? I have a cable modem, and a Netgear router between the modem and my

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Chris wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 07:32 pm, Dennis Myers decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Friday 07 March 2003 05:24 pm, Chris wrote: Ok, let me try with a different subject, may just reboot didn't catch anyones eye. I came home from work

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 07:16 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: OK, thanks...I actually use a static IP, since my PC is behind the router, but thanks just the same! Well that should mean that you did not enter your nameservers in drakconnect. If you

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Sherman
, man...I'm gearing up to give rc2 another shot now, so I'll try that... Roger Sherman wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Sensor alarm was Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:14 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 02:10 am, Roger Sherman wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:59 pm

Re: Sensor alarm was Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 1:11 am, Roger Sherman wrote: Roger, I think the alarm is showing because your readout is below the minimums set in the sensor config. I use ksensors and have had to reduce the minimums to reset the alarm for lowvoltage

[newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-14 Thread Roger Sherman
I was digging around in my desk the other day, and found a cheesy little USB webcam that Earthlink sent me about 3 years ago. I figured I'd play with it a little, but then realized I've never used a USB device on my linux box (don't have a windows box anymore)...so I don't even know if they

Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-14 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, g wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: I was digging around in my desk the other day, and found a cheesy little USB webcam that Earthlink sent me about 3 years ago. ok. now add a little intelligence to your post, such as system and which 'cheesy little usb webcam' earthlink sent

Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-14 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:59 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I installed gqcam, but when I try to run it (just typing gqcam in a term), it tells me /dev/video: No such file or directory There is no man gqcam, so what do I do? snip Oddly

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an easy to use HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented toward the

Re: [newbie] How long to download 9.0

2003-02-07 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Robert wrote: How long will take approximately to download LM 9.0 using a DSL connection? I am well aware that each service and line could vary a bit, but just an approximate time, please. With a good connection, it takes me about an hour and a half to get all three

Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients

2003-02-06 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, FemmeFatale wrote: Hm... went to see both Pines Mutts web sites. Wondered ppl's opinions on both which is more newbie friendly. Basically I want to learn either one (whichever is easier for now) just so that again I can use an email client on any system anywhere to

Re: [newbie] Half OT Why Canada Rocks [was: Vi vs Emacs... Not aflamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored]

2003-02-06 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Anders Lind wrote: And of course, you'd be so, so wrong. ;-p Mouhahahahathat must be the Miller talking ;P, of course drinking horsepee will do that to you ;o) Heh...well, I imagine I'd have to drink it before it could have any judgement-inhibiting action, eh?

[newbie] Plextor problem

2003-02-04 Thread Roger Sherman
I've been building a PC for the better part of a year and a half now, and it's been a major ordeal. My first time doing something like this...amazingly, I bought not one, but two bad motherboards. But, just stuffed a new KG-7 in it yesterday, and now it's purring like a kitten. One problem.

Re: [newbie] latest mandrake kernel??

2003-01-31 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Greg wrote: In red hat, the up2date feature updated me with the latest release kernels. Where do I get them from mandrake? Does mandrake have a website with them on, or what? thanks Greg Go to the cooker. You can find a link for it on the Mandrake site. --

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-25 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Jan 2003 10:31 am, Franki wrote: I'd agree, except that some of them get killed from it.. they try to get you to come over to help get things moving and when you get there they put a gun to your head and make you withdraw every cent

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-23 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email. I haven't seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew they were still around. :) Anne There was an article in the NY Post today about a Wisconsin businessman

Re: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything

2003-01-12 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I seem to have lost Stephen's original post on this, so perhaps he'd post the link again. Anyway, I did read it, and interesting reading it made. For those who didn't see it, it concerns the reasons for the lack of women in computing in general and

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-12 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, - netmaniac - wrote: I'm currently using two machines: one with apache and the other with windows, because I still like the photoshop, dreamweaver and other web design tools. But don't like to switch between computers every

Re: [newbie] M9.1 beta download

2003-01-12 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Besides, M9.1beta1 , is there a 2nd and 3rd disc yet, No, it's a one CD download. -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

2002-11-08 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: If it's from lm_sensors, it's comin from a probe (thermistor) that either reads one of the cpu's pins, or is in contact with the die. From a pin is slightly better, I know this has been covered here before, but I can't find it in the archives (I

[newbie] Pan alerts

2002-10-04 Thread Roger Sherman
Does anyone know how to turn off the alerts in Pan? Specifically the ones that say this message is mostly quoted text and the even more annoying your signature is more than 4 lines long? -- peace, Rog

[newbie] Java quirk in Konqueror

2002-10-04 Thread Roger Sherman
I finally figured out how to get java working in konqueror about a month ago, when I was still using 8.2. Worked like a charm, except it got going a little slow, but I can live with that. Now, I have 9.0 running, and it seems real nice. Problem is, when I go to a page that has java on it,

[newbie] Pine in 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Roger Sherman
How can there be no Pine included in 9.0? There should be a law that states Pine has to be included with every single version of linux. This is more a rant, than a question - no real need to answer. Sorry if you consider this an abuse of bandwidth. ;-) -- peace, Rog

RE: [newbie] Pine in 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Roger Sherman
RPM off rpmfind.net...I wonder why the pine guys changed things. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Pine in 9.0 How can

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good media player?

2002-10-04 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Rob Black wrote: Hi I've got a few MPG, AVI (VFW DivX) files from my windows drive that I'd like to be able to play in Linux, but I can't seem to find anything that will play them, the built in player (Xine is it?) won't play my files. I did try and download MPlayer

Re: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cable modem.

2002-10-01 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Mark Berkwitt wrote: I know this should be so simple, but Mandrake just doesn't get it. eth0 using tulip is connected to my cable modem. I have it set to dhcp as it should. On installation I have 2 nics. eth1 is for a nic I plan to use in the future, but it's not

Re: [newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?

2002-10-01 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Mark Berkwitt wrote: Too many problems. 1) I use a MS Intelli-mouse and just like in 8.2 if I select a wheel mouse the cursor goes nuts. This happens to me every time, but less in 9.0 than ever before. However, if I just keep rolling the wheel for a minute, it settles

Re: [newbie] Autoinstalling all packages?

2002-09-17 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: Hello, list. Is there a way to tell the drakx autoinstaller to install all of Mandrake's packages without having to list every single package in the auto_inst.cfg file? Thanks. Thomas, I didn't read your post, because I use a text only email

Re: [newbie] Quark Express

2002-09-11 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, robin wrote: Heh...well, actually, all I want to do is change my business card around from time to time. No idea whatsoever about what programs are good for that; I just know that it was originally done on Quark Express. And that I'm tired of being a slave to the

Re: [newbie] MP3 conversion

2002-09-11 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Graham Watkins wrote: Is there a program or Xmms plugin that will convert mp3s to wavs? I'm sure I used to have such a thing but I can't, for the life of me, remember what it is. You can do this at the command line: mpg123 -w filename.wav filename.mp3 You can name

Re: [newbie] Quark Express

2002-09-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Lane P. Lester wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: Is there a linux equivalent of this program? No, nor is there one for Corel Ventura, the DTP program that I use for books and magazines. The only reason I can run Linux as my main OS is because I have VMware, which allows me

Re: [newbie] Quark Express

2002-09-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, robin wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: Is there a linux equivalent of this program? Not yet, though Scribus looks promising. A lot depends on why you use Quark (I'm guessing here, as I've never used it). If it's because you like frame-based layout, then KWrite

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote: DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV Well, if you have an S video out from your vid card, you can hook that up to most TVs, I believe... On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 10:20 am, Damian G wrote:

[newbie] Quark Express

2002-09-09 Thread Roger Sherman
Is there a linux equivalent of this program? -- peace, Rog Come, let me gnaw your fingernails that I may absorb and lose myself in the wise and gritty detritus that is you. http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG 56469198 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] CD Burning issues

2002-08-14 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Isaac Curtis wrote: Isaac, just curious, did you try burning your cd as root or user? If as user, then try as root. Just for ha-has, type into a terminal (minux quotes) cdrecord -scanbus, just to make sure your system is seeing your cd-rw. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] FYI - MS Passport FTC Settlement

2002-08-09 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: How about just a url next time? Bill Screw that, put the relevant stuff in the post. I hate those Hey, go here *URL*, we all need to see this! posts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0

2002-07-30 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Michael Scottaline wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:43:50 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: snippage Well, the problem is bugs in the current revision and it is up to Mandrakesoft to fix them. My involvement with the fixing process is becoming

Re: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.

2002-07-28 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, frankie wrote: Hi guys, We know that its always better to install rather then upgrade, But I get really sick of reinstalling endlessly to get the latest stuff.. and I was thinking about that. Wouldn't it be a fantastic thing if Mandrake created an Export system

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, db wrote: I'm a newbie and wish to transfer files from my networked Mandrake 8.2 machine to my home account on the university server. I'm sure mandrake comes with such a command line or xwindows utilty. Can anyone tell me what it's name is? If I know I am sure I

[newbie] Hey Paul...

2002-07-18 Thread Roger Sherman
By any chance, do you have a SAMBA question? ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DVD in 8.2

2002-07-13 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? I just tried watching a DVD in 8.2 for the first time (actually, I've never viewed a DVD in any previous Mandrake, or linux, for that matter...), and watching it in Xine crashed X

RE: [newbie] DVD in 8.2

2002-07-13 Thread Roger Sherman
and Miark! Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DVD in 8.2 Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? I just tried watching a DVD in 8.2

Re: [newbie] No Sound. No Drivers. No Luck

2002-07-13 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sound card is a Creative Audigy platinum... (if anyone could give me ANY help in getting ANY sound out of this, i'd apreciate it. I don't think there's a driver for that card at this point. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] DVD in 8.2

2002-07-12 Thread Roger Sherman
Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? I just tried watching a DVD in 8.2 for the first time (actually, I've never viewed a DVD in any previous Mandrake, or linux, for that matter...), and watching it in Xine crashed X. Is there an updated Xine that I should be using, or a different program?

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA:Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: Here is the site to assuage guilt http://www.fairtunes.com/functions/mlmain.php derek Heh...thanks Derek... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]test, ignore pls

2002-06-30 Thread Roger Sherman
: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, et wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2002 05:34 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, David Elliott wrote: user 'Roger Sherman' failed ignore test.:) I forgot to study...;-D you do know that if you had studied, you could have learned how to use a computer

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Thread Roger Sherman
Whatever... On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, John Rigby wrote: Hello folks, You know, it *IS* fascinating to read the comments of those few tunnel-visioned people on this list who continually make it difficult for people outside of their tiny worlds. I would love to take the candy/money off the

Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs

2002-06-02 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Skeet shooting, anyone? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 28 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root directory

Re: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS

2002-05-26 Thread Roger Sherman
On 26 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: Roger, Sorry - no answer to your problem, but your post raises another question for me. From my reading of the dyndns page, I thought that they could only redirect to an address within predefined domains. Hence my post and Civ's reply. From what

RE: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS

2002-05-26 Thread Roger Sherman
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark D. Weaver Sent: Monday, 27 May 2002 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS Roger Sherman wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2002, Franki wrote: There might be some port redirection service you

RE: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS

2002-05-26 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Franki wrote: I dont' think dyndns do it.. its a tough situation to be in.. a dns server doesn't supply any info on ports. its just supplies the IP address from a domain name.. (I don't know honestly if the returned IP can be in the format 123.123.123.123:8080 but I

Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS

2002-05-25 Thread Roger Sherman
I use dyndns.org to redirect people to my PC when they type in my domain name, so thats not a problem. What is the problem is, due to the nimda type stuff, my ISP (Optimum Online) has blocked port 80. Now, I know I can change the port that Apache runs on, but since browsers by default go to

RE: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS

2002-05-25 Thread Roger Sherman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, 26 May 2002 1:50 AM To: newbie Subject: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS I use dyndns.org to redirect people to my PC when they type in my domain name, so thats

Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)

2002-05-25 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 11:22:06 -0500 (CDT) Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post to the list. Can anyone tell me how to install Gnome and Kde, but especially Gnome, without

Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)

2002-05-25 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Dale Huckeby wrote: Have you thought about trying 8.2? I bought the 7.2 powerpack several years ago. I turned my daughter and son-in-law on to Linux, they bought the 8.1 poerpack, and I burned copies and installed from that. But having just moved and not having a

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Not that the Australian government is much better. Prime Minister John Howard bent over backwards to meet with Bill Gates the last time he was here, yet he totally ignored Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison when they visited. What part of

Re: [newbie] Interner connection speed

2002-05-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On 17 May 2002, Klemm wrote: Hi Very wondering about the speed I get I use ADSL internet connection and the downstream speed should be 256Kb/s I made some test and all monitors show that it gets no more than 63 kb/sek Could there be some settings somewhere that are restricting that as

Re: [newbie] Video again

2002-05-15 Thread Roger Sherman
On 15 May 2002, Nicolas VERITE wrote: Le mer 15/05/2002 à 10:59, Robin Turner a écrit : Has any one here had any success getting Mandrake to download from a camcorder via USB? Sir Robin With or without Mandrake, you can't up/download moving pictures (vidéo) from/to a camcorder via

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Roger Sherman
I remember Civilme suggesting that XFS is a good way to go on a PC, so that's what I'm using now. I have a somewhat faulty mobo, so every couple weeks, it freezes up to the point where I have to cold boot, and with XFS it boots up just as fast as it did when I was using ReiserFS. However, I

Re: [newbie] ISO to data CD Writing

2002-05-12 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 12 May 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: I now have a 668Mb ISO ( CD1) file downloaded. How do you take this ISO file in Linux and convert to a data file and write to disk, and can this be done simultaneously as one operation, like you can in windows / EZCD V5. John You can do

[newbie] Rec question

2002-05-11 Thread Roger Sherman
OK, I was asking about line in recordings yesterday, and someone suggested I use rec...I was having a problem with it at first, until I realized that the channel I was going into the soundcard on, be it mic in or line in, needed to be set as the recording channel. So now I can record.

[newbie] Simple line in recording

2002-05-10 Thread Roger Sherman
What would be the simplest way to do a recording using the line in on my soundcard? I'm using 8.2 with a SBLive 5.1 Platinum (with Live!Drive, but I don't feel like tackling that today). Is there software (a simple wav editor would be great) that comes installed by default on the 8.2 download

Re: [newbie] Simple line in recording

2002-05-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002 13:13:30 -0400 (EDT) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the simplest way to do a recording using the line in on my soundcard? I'm using 8.2 with a SBLive 5.1 Platinum (with Live!Drive, but I don't feel

[newbie] Flash in Konqueror

2002-05-09 Thread Roger Sherman
I know...it's been beaten to death, and was discussed just the other day. I just went and looked in the archives, and couldn't find that thread from the other day, which bites, cause it had exactly what I needed to know. So here I am. Anyhoo. I finally got around to installing 8.2 on this

Re: [newbie] Flash in Konqueror

2002-05-09 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:17 pm, you wrote: I know...it's been beaten to death, and was discussed just the other day. I just went and looked in the archives, and couldn't find that thread from the other day, which bites, cause it had exactly

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] bios setting

2002-04-21 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Bill Spatz wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] bios setting Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:31:45 -0600 From: Bill Spatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ron Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 21 April 2002 09:21 am, you wrote: on page 5 of

Re: [newbie] KDE3.0

2002-04-06 Thread Roger Sherman
directory and just did: urpmi *.rpm and it fixed all the dependencies I didn't have installed for me - all I had to do was insert Disk 1 when it asked for it. James OK...that sounds easy enough, I'll go with that. Thanks, James! From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply

Re: [newbie] Removal from Mandrake Mail List

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Skhumbuzo Mhlongo wrote: Hi All I need to be deleted from mandrake list please HELP John Have you tried throwing away your PC? ** This email and any files transmitted with it

Re: [newbie] divx again ...

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
Have you tried Xine? On 4 Apr 2002, - addy [ISO-8859-1] däudsch - wrote: good eve to all of you a divx content question again i have mplayer , correctly installed . i can play mpeg 1/2 and normal avis w/o probs ... everything is working but i can't play divx ... i downloaded

Re: [newbie] KDE3.0

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: *laughs* Damian flaked on me, so Civilme to the Bat-Rescue! Into the KDE-Mobile my linux comrades! Now thats *got* to be a major blow to the ego, eh, Damian? ;-) -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, What's a good MP3-ripper? One that just takes a cd as input and outputs the MP3s. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen My personal favorite is a command line ripper that will rip the CD, query CDDB, do all the name change, etc, and convert it to

Re: [newbie] KDE3.0

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On 4 Apr 2002, tester wrote: Now do these urpmi unixodbc (and from the reply install every match with urpmi Let me make sure I understand...I type the above, and it shows me this: The following packages contain unixodbc: libunixODBC2-devel unixODBC-gui-qu unixODBC unixODBC-gui-gtk

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware,software development]

2002-03-27 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, James Thomas wrote: I know, the bloody thing puts it there automatically. But the email service is good, and well, it didn't used to be Microsoft! :) James And it's not totally out of place in this case...M$ is as against the bill as we are, or so I read... Did

Re: [newbie] For the brazilian fellow looking for comp parts.

2002-03-26 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: I got an answer it was mostly for Asus motherboards Couldn't find out much else. Sorry Femme Hi Femme...you weren't referring to me with this, were you? If so, thanks! But I'm American, not Brasilian (though thanks to a 5 year relationship

Re: [newbie] For the brazilian fellow looking for comp parts.

2002-03-26 Thread Roger Sherman
Oops, my bad...I thought Femme was referring to me with this thread...:-) On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: TKS, anyway! If I change my mind to Asus ;-) thanks again for the time and effort! Ricardo Castanho

Re: [newbie] Re: New info from cdrecord -scanbus.....

2002-03-26 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. Derek, I have exactly that message too, only from my HP 9100 Writer. Doesn't mean a thing, it burns happily away nevertheless. Some

Re: [newbie] get off the list

2002-03-22 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Ron Grace wrote: how can i get off this list Read the directions? I don't know...just a thought... -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] And their OFF!!!!! 8.2 is now out!!

2002-03-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Charlie wrote: Agreed. I'll be happy to buy a box set as soon as it's available at my local everything in software including the 'bugware' store. A pain to go all the way downtown but I refuse to do transactions of any kind online. Charlie I'm downloading it now,

Re: [newbie] 2 Linux Computers

2002-03-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Lanman wrote: I hate it when that happens! Here's the link, dude! http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ By the way, for those of you who don't know, you can start simplifying your Linux-related searches by using Google's Linux search page; www.google.com/linux -

Re: [newbie] And their OFF!!!!! 8.2 is now out!!

2002-03-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 20 March 2002 00:47, Roger Sherman wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Charlie wrote: Agreed. I'll be happy to buy a box set as soon as it's available at my local everything in software including the 'bugware' store. A pain to go all

Re: [newbie] anybody already on 8.2?

2002-03-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, mandrake linux wrote: HI: anybody already on 8.2? Just finished burning my CDs...gimme an hour! ;-) From: Ming Wu -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: Sorry to address this to the list, but I'm at my wits end, and it's either this, or find a service center or something to fix this problem for me, and after building this PC, I really don't have the money. I built a PC about two 1/2 months ago

RE: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Bill Spatz wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT - PC building help Sorry to address this to the list

[newbie] 8.2 Blackbox logout problem

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
I don't know if I should submit this as a bug report or not, but has anyone else noticed that on the menu on blackbox (where you right click to get a floating menu), it no longer has the Exit (logout) option at the bottom? Now to get out of it, I have to Cntl-Alt-Backspace. Is there a better

Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
again. Well I think you get the drift. Try to isolate the component that's causing the problem. Good luck. Terry Smith Cape Cod, USA On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:28, Roger Sherman wrote: Sorry to address this to the list, but I'm at my wits end, and it's either this, or find a service

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Blackbox logout problem

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Miark wrote: Session WindowManagers Exit Aha! Those slippery bastards...;-) Thanks, Miark. Miark On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:01:32 -0500 (EST), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I don't know if I should submit this as a bug report or not, but has

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Donald E.Gulmire wrote: Thanks for the help with the jpeg viewer question. I ended up with Gqview. I am trying to replace my Windows based programs with Linux stuff. Could I get some feedback on what News Readers and FTP Clients are good. I use Forte Agent and

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