[newbie] Reinstallation Help Required

2004-10-30 Thread SME Server Admin
Hi Folks I have finally got my mitts on a replacement 80gb Hdd for this linux machine, MDK10. However, before I splash ahead I'd like some advice and stuff 1. It's going to be dual boot so I'd need to install the Win98se first (in a 20gb partition) and then install Mdk telling it to leave the

[newbie] Dual Booting..

2004-10-20 Thread SME Server Admin
Hi Folks I've had a look around but I can only see options for setting up a dual boot system from scratch. I'd like to be able to just add windows to this machine I've got a 25gb Hdd in this machine, with linux but I'd like to put 10gb or so aside to put Windows 98 on... I know it's

Re: [newbie] Moving System / Upgrading.... Help!

2004-10-20 Thread SME Server Admin
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 03:34, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 11:05 am, SME Server Admin wrote: Aftenoon :) The time has come. I am finally in a position (technically) to upgrade this computer (Mandrake 10 on a P2-300mhz PC (384mb ram, 25gb Hdd, CRRW) to the chassis

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting..

2004-10-20 Thread SME Server Admin
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 18:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 18:38, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks I've had a look around but I can only see options for setting up a dual boot system from scratch. I'd like to be able to just add windows to this machine

Re: [newbie] FSTab

2004-10-19 Thread SME Server Admin
Thank you very much for the explanation... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] FSTab

2004-10-18 Thread SME Server Admin
Hi Folks I'm doing a bit of, er, housekeeping. Can someone tell me of the following entries which are not needed. /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 //sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs

Re: [newbie] FSTab

2004-10-18 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 18 Oct 2004 16:04, SME Server Admin wrote: //sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.sentinel.admin 0 0 I've removed that and it's taken that icon off the desktop... But not sure about the others so have left them... Elwyn

[newbie] Moving System / Upgrading.... Help!

2004-10-17 Thread SME Server Admin
Aftenoon :) The time has come. I am finally in a position (technically) to upgrade this computer (Mandrake 10 on a P2-300mhz PC (384mb ram, 25gb Hdd, CRRW) to the chassis of an AMD1300 (384mb ram, the rest transfers over). Just need a bit of guidance and advise before I continue... Please :)

[newbie] Databases

2004-09-28 Thread SME Server Admin
Hiya Folks I'm after a basic database program for Mandrake 10. It only needs about 5-10 fields but records wise could stretch on to several thousand records, and needs to allow imports from CSV files? Only for personal use... I've got Cross Office running MS Office 97 for access but it's slow

Re: [newbie] Databases

2004-09-28 Thread SME Server Admin
On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 01:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Thanks Björn Lundin and John Layt for your suggestions, I'll be looking into this now over the commming weeks to get it all running. Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] IRC Client

2004-09-17 Thread SME Server Admin
Hi Folks I currently use X-Chat to sit on an IRC channel usually 24/7 (as this machine is always on) and there are a few minor things I thought someone here could help me with :) I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says something. If not can someone suggest another

Re: [newbie] IRC Client

2004-09-17 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 17 Sep 2004 20:54, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:13:45 +0100 SME Server Admin disseminated the following: I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says something. If not can someone suggest another program instead please? I'm getting on well with X

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread SME Server Admin
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote: I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech support didn't scream in horror when I asked!). They

Re: [newbie] Scream!

2004-08-13 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 13 Aug 2004 09:32, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Your never to old for games. Yes :) Indeed :) Despite this I am S glad I've moved to Linux though, it has taken a lot of headache out of somethings that Windows does which i don't like :( Also, I've found the files. I was playing

Re: [newbie] Linux / LAN Help

2004-08-13 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 13 Aug 2004 20:05, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Slowly getting my office up and running on Linux. Using Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack. MDK 10.0 is loaded and running well on my PC and laptop. I have established LAN connections and can see three of the four computers in my office. I

Re: [newbie] Scream!

2004-08-12 Thread SME Server Admin
On Thursday 12 Aug 2004 13:49, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:26, SME Server Admin wrote: There are some days I want to scream at this setup! I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in LinNeighbourhood. Fine

Re: [newbie] Scream!

2004-08-12 Thread SME Server Admin
Alas. If I could run my games and Ameol on the linux machine I would happily move over. Alas not. I'm feeling better today, a bit more relaxed... Perhaps the caffine is helping me relax more :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Re: [kdepim-users] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-12 Thread SME Server Admin
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 13:47, SME Server Admin wrote: 1. What does your local.cf look like in /etc/mail/spamassassin? # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin. # # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be # tweaked

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-11 Thread SME Server Admin
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 03:26, Chris wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 03:44 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Now, I've got SpamAssassin working and it seems to handle the spam at the moment, but I need to get this learn bit sorted, so would appreaciate some assitance in getting this working

[newbie] Scream!

2004-08-11 Thread SME Server Admin
There are some days I want to scream at this setup! I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in LinNeighbourhood. Fine. Linux saw the XP drives, so I copied a file over, checked, it was there. So I moved 400mb of documents and some

[newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Thread SME Server Admin
Hiya Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually directory is: Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam Now, I've been into shell and done as it asked, ie type in the following string. The

[newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail

2004-08-02 Thread SME Server Admin
Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:40, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya

Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail

2004-08-02 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 16:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail

2004-08-02 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 16:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail

2004-08-02 Thread SME Server Admin
Right. I seem to be getting somewhere. I have no idea why this is happening, but the Message Body is closing up between the message list and the message structure leaving just a thick grey line with 6 dots in the middle. When the MB is back, with the ML at the top and MS at the bottom this

[newbie] Updating

2004-08-01 Thread SME Server Admin
Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found to get the updates from. What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through

Re: [newbie] Re: Updating

2004-08-01 Thread SME Server Admin
On Sunday 01 Aug 2004 19:37, Björn Lundin wrote: SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found

Re: [newbie] Problem with konqueror.

2004-07-27 Thread SME Server Admin
On Tuesday 27 Jul 2004 13:14, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 02:45, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote: Press F5 when you put a new disc in? Elwyn Thanks that works. What

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 20:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:25, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email. At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking for something I can use that will handle it for me, one

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 05:22, Rob Blomquist wrote: FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf? I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can figure out what you are asking. Rob Ahh, a man with more understanding of these things than I ;) At the moment I'm building up a

[newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
Hiya Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing, there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without fruition! Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 11:23, Poogle wrote: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml Ahh thank you :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
(i.e. ceases to exist, kicks the deleted bucket, runs out of time...) On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:19:04 +0100 SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing, there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-25 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote: At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and have been unable to find it

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-23 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 16:13, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 01:25 am, SME Server Admin wrote: | Hiya | | I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email. | | At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking | for something I can use that will handle

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-23 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 18:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewar ticleartid=15 http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/spam.html snip These two refrences do not resolve on the server. The Columbia Link has gone, but the other is there

Re: [newbie] Looking for the brother of FrontPage for Linux

2004-07-23 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 21:16, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program similar to FrontPage for Linux. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul What about Quanta Plus?? It's probably already installed :) Elwyn Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] difficulty reconfiguring Kwallet under mdk 10.0

2004-07-20 Thread SME Server Admin
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 22:52, g2 wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2004 08:41 am, Peter Watson wrote: Run /usr/bin/kwalletmanager then open kwallet from the icon in the system tray and you will be able to access the configuration settings and un-enable kwallet. HTH Pete Ardnamurchan

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 12:07, Bryan Phinney wrote: arts is the default sound system in KDE. You can, however, turn arts completely off and use OSS directly, you just won't get sounds in KDE or if you do get sounds, they won't coexist with other items such as xmms. To disable arts, disable it

[newbie] XawScreen

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
Hiya Is there a log file entry somewhere for XawScreen? I'm trying out a TV card and it keeps crashing. Or rather, all it does it starts to load then just vanishes??? Running Mandrake 10 Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 14:32, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I am stumped as to how to get around the insert cdrom4 message when I try to install some softwares with rpmdrake. There is a 4 CD pack for members of Mandrake's website... Otherwise everyone else has a 3 CD pack HTH Elwyn

[newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others wont work :( Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc For mp3encode for example I've got the following settings Encoder Command Line:

Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 18:47, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:10:20PM +0100, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? MandrakeSoft can't package mp3 encoders due to licensing restrictions, so you'll have to download and install

[newbie] X-Chat

2004-07-09 Thread SME Server Admin
Could anyone tell me where X-Chat keeps its logs. I know I've got them switched on but I don't know where they are stored. Anyone?? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] X-Chat

2004-07-09 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 15:43, Dan Gordon wrote: /home/username/.xchat2/xchatlogs Ahh yes, thanks found it :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com