Re: [newbie] splitting a pdf

2003-10-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
would be to use the print feature in xpdf. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no division between

Re: [newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!

2003-09-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} We all suck. -- Microsoft senior vice president Craig Mundie, September 2002 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake

2003-09-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. This is a very important critical decision that should not be taken lightly. The only way we can properly make that decision is if the knowlege is made available to us when we need it most. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc

Re: [newbie] Gnome out to get X?

2003-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=7501 It is called Xouvert, and it is platform-agnostic just like XFree86. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} I

Re: [newbie] VNC with sound?

2003-08-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
like esound, NAS or arts across a network. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan

Re: [newbie] what happened?

2003-08-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
are the sign of a kernel panic. AFAIK, there isn't much you can do about this. Try browsing the files in /var/log and check your home directory for coredump files (although I don't think kernel panics would create these). These typically start with the word core. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
in it... Which is why we need to get the word out as widely as possible. Allow me to demonstrate: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=7498 Enough said :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc

Re: [newbie] mac os x on mandrake

2003-08-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
good enough to run Mac OS X on x86. I know that there is software that will allow you to run Mac OS X in GNU/Linux on a PPC machine (not just Macs), but I can't remember any off-hand. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc

Re: [newbie] i'm looking for a very good WYSIWYG editor other than Mozilla composer

2003-07-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
here. IE is still not fully standards-compliant, and Frontpage is deliberately designed to make shonky code that only works in IE. With that said, take a look here: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3481 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http

Re: [newbie] MS to investors: SCO is a good bet!

2003-06-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
=articlesid=7039 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 | A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} And in the end, reality always tends to hit theory hard in the face when you least

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, 0.06 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 | A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} As history shows a lot of ActiveX components are buggy and new version is released. The interesting part

Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry

2003-06-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
was much faster afterwards. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 | A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it! -- Linus Torvalds pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [newbie] OPINION

2003-05-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the PCLinuxOnline SCO boycott: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/ We have a petition at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/petition.html You can find more about the SCO case in our SCO news section http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/news.html -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http

Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!

2003-04-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I think that was TheDarb's idea. That one gave me a bit of a fright as well :) On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 00:29:57 -0500, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The really cruel joke was the RedHat chapter 11 poll. Shame on you ;-) Miark On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:09:53 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] [OT] FYI - SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for 'devaluing Unix'

2003-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:40:36 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:43:51 -0500 (EST), Andrei Raevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29632.html (-:imagine what RMS would say about this:-) SCO's actions are NOT good

Re: [newbie] FYI - SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for 'devaluing Unix'

2003-03-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
more harm than good. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Recently I bought Office XP. It was quite unpleasant feeling giving so much money for so buggy product. ... Solution: Uninstall Office XP and Windows. -- Georgi Guninski, security expert, http://www.guninski.com

Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything

2003-03-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
a whole site, set this to 0 (unlimited). You may also want to toggle the Allow leave this server while recursing via HTTP and Only subdirs for some extra control. The Change links in HTML file to local can be useful here, too. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] When I see

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
have done. I figured it'd be better to directly quote a respected member of the community rather than write my own half-arsed (by comparison) response. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no division between military

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
to discuss whatever you wish. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Maybe somebody else comes up with a better way to do it, or with a really compelling reason to. Feel free to try is definitely the open source motto. -- Linus Torvalds pgp0.pgp

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
) is inaccessible. home - user data usr - Contrary to popular belief, this does _not_ stand for 'user'. It does, in fact, stand for 'UNIX System Resources'. Most apps go here. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Without C, We would only have Pasal, Basi

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
build. MLDonkey has full client (and some server) support of the eDonkey network. Unfortunately, on Overnet it can only download, which the MLDonkey developers blame on a lack of cooperation on the part of the Overnet developers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
not talking from experience, but I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-) Greetings Ralph -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] I don't actually follow

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
stuff :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. -- Linus Torvalds msg118930/pgp0.pgp

Re: [newbie] GLX gears (wanna see BAD?)

2003-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
,Canada When comparing glxgears stats, make sure you're all running the same screen resolution and colour depth, and maximise the glxgears window. Things like these can make a big difference to performance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] GNU make is possibly

Re: [newbie] Lost about swap

2003-02-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
boast more RAM than you'll ever need, given the current state of GNU/Linux, so you can afford to relax things a little. For example, I have 1GB RAM, which is far more than I'll ever need. I have configured a swap size of 1GB (i.e. swap = RAM), but my system never needs to use it. -- Sridhar

Re: [newbie] Creating pdf

2003-02-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
pdf file. So then I went to what I really wanted to convert. I can't get any html file to open in Ghostview, getting error messages as attached. Can enyone help, please? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com

Re: [newbie] Creating pdf

2003-02-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the version of GhostScript that comes with Mandrake? I'm asking because your error message contains ESP Ghostscript. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
any better) doing it? If he were right, you'd think that after over thirty years of UNIX existing somebody would've thought of it by now. There's a reason for all this, and just because he doesn't understand what that is doesn't mean that he is right. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http

Re: [newbie] Replacement for MS ACCESS ?

2003-02-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
=articlesid=2460 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] As history shows a lot of ActiveX components are buggy and new version is released. The interesting part is the buggy version is still really signed and available in one form or another. -- Georgi Guninski, security expert

Re: [newbie] Re:Back to Basics

2003-01-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
-oriented Debian-based distro), but it refused to boot on my machine. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] I don't think it's right and I think it causes people to make decisions which are not even in their best interest. A, we're not evil. B, we're not an empire

Re: [newbie] Linux Hardware Database

2003-01-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Microsoft Apologist (and ZDNet editor) David Berlind took it down a while ago. On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:33:58 +1300, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the ZDNet database moved or is it just down for two days now? -- Michael -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
much faster and easier to use. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bluecurve to mandrake

2002-10-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
copyrighted the name Bluecurve, so Tex had to rename it to something else. This became Freecurve. There is no difference but naming. Also take a look at the LightHouseBlue theme: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3556 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama] 50,000 monkeys

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

2002-10-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
clock to an accurate clock over the network, as follows: rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu hwclock --systohc rdate is apparently not installed by default in Mandrake 9.0, and apropos doesn't list any commands for time synching -- any suggestions? Thanks, Randy Kramer -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] iso downloading problems

2002-10-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
for the official release to come out. Was going to buy it anyway but wanted to install it now. I get the opening screen and hit enter and get a black screen. Have hit f1 and tried the other install methods with no luck. Any ideas guys? Walt -- Sridhar Dhanapalan As history shows a lot

Re: [newbie] mldonkey problems

2002-10-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
is that MLDonkey is a threat to the eDonkey network since it can connect to multiple servers simultaneously. This is not necessarily the case More info can be found at the Linux eDonkey forum: http://forums.edonkey2000.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?forum=21 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Before you complain to us

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

2002-09-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
to be quite robust in actual use, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. -- HTH Roman -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Recently I bought Office XP

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

2002-09-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
it is not an official part of the 2.4 series kernels it can interfere with some kernel performance patches, like the low-latency and kernel preempt patches. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... _no_ major software project that has been successful in a general marketplace (as opposed to niches) has ever gone through those

Re: 9.0 on edonkey (was: Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)

2002-09-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
it is the first time that I try to publish files (other than simply putting them in my shared folders), I am not sure that I did not miss anything. Let me know, if it works - or not. Bye, Benjamin. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Microsoft? Is that a kind of a toilet paper? Want

Re: [newbie] File conversion

2002-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
) to convert all files in the current working directory to lower case. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan You have no privacy. Get over it. -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] File conversion

2002-09-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:18:08 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote, Yes. By default, it changes all filenames to lower case. So # chcase * will probably do what you want. Many thanks Sridhar, Can I run my results

Re: [newbie] File conversion

2002-09-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
element. John -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We like to think of ourselves as the Microsoft of the energy world -- Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron eval 'exec perl $0 ${1+$@}' if 0; # don't modify below here #- $ver = '1.2'; # chcase 1.2 # Changes case

Re: [newbie] galeon and opera

2002-09-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
regarding speed etc. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I don't think it's right and I think it causes people to make decisions which are not even in their best interest. A, we're not evil. B, we're not an empire. -- Steve Ballmer, objecting to Microsoft being called The Evil Empire Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools

2002-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's worth. 9.0 rc2 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There's no place like ~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Menu at the top of the screen

2002-09-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. Maybe I was not clear enough, I meant the menu bar, where File Edit, stay. I'd like to have it on the top of the screen, I don't want a bar with file Edit ... for every window. Oh, I see now. Try this: http://lfh.hkcampus.net/~lfh-lck/programs/finder/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Your

Re: [newbie] Menu at the top of the screen

2002-09-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
at the top of the screen (like MAc OS) to save space and for personal taste. Is it possible with Gnome? I remember I saw it some months ago, but I don't remember where and how to set up the WM. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
there, including Enlightenment and XFce, to name only a few. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit

2002-08-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
should be out in under a month :) ] to wherever you want. AFAIK, Windows still has this 1024 cylinder limit. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The reason I'm doing Linux is not because I think I'm needed. It's because I enjoy it, and because I happen to believe that I'm better than most

Re: [newbie] really really out of topic

2002-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
about XP throttling bandwidth down to save some for talking to M$ servers?? thats something that people should know about. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 1:26

Re: [newbie] Where can I download Ximian Evolution?

2002-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan OS/2 is the platform of the '90s. -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

2002-08-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 05:09:52 +1200, Sharrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: IBM drives made in the year or so have had major reliability problems. In fact, IBM are trying to get out of the business by selling most (70%) of their hard drive

Re: [newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux

2002-08-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
users is not steep. Evolution is already included in Mandrake Linux, and also in Ximian GNOME (http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_gnome/). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nine out of ten voices in my head can't be wrong, can they? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] really really out of topic

2002-08-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
your back. I don't know what it uses that bandwidth for, but it's enough to put me off MS products for good (not that I liked them before). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- informal Xerox PARC slogan Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] DVD subtitles

2002-08-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, the MPlayer encoder. The manual tells you how to extract subtitles. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We will get the source code up on the Web - anybody who specifically wants a copy can just ask. -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] GCombust permissions problem

2002-08-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
user permissions to access them. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first

Re: [newbie] File system choices

2002-08-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
of preexisting FSs. Nevertheless, it has proven to be quite robust in actual use, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter

2002-08-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
/. It'd designed mainly for MPEG video but the site says mpgtx can currently split and join MPEG 1 video files and most MPEG audio files. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Help me out, and I won't ever call netfilter a heap of stinking dung again. Do we have a deal? -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Wine

2002-08-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
it free (and open source) for non-commercial use. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Groups

2002-08-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:42:12 -0700 (PDT), Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get a list of groups available on Linux? Group info is stored in the /etc/group file. If you prefer a GUI, there's Mandrake's userdrake tool, available in the Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1

2002-08-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the '-t [FILESYSTEM]' parameter as well. So if /dev/hda1 is FAT, add '-t vfat', and if it's NTFS, add '-t ntfs'. NTFS support is read-only. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
to http://www.pclinuxonline.com and scroll down towards the bottom of the page. In the left column there should be a section called RPMS Debs. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. -- Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment

[newbie] test

2002-08-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
testing... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Civilme petition.

2002-07-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
06:09 pm, you wrote: --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My involvement with the fixing process is becoming distant as I struggle to complete a few more testing tools before my lay-off is effective. (two days hence). Civileme -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] screen resolution

2002-07-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, as well? Yep, there is. You can find it in the Mandrake Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: CENSORSHIP: 1984-reduced.......?

2002-07-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
that there are far more Windows users out there. Peek-a-Booty uses P2P technology, so it is important that there be many nodes. I hear that the code is cross-platform, but is more optimised for GNU/Linux. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan HTML needs a rant tag. -- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
? This is as close as i got:- http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3388837,00.html -- Michael -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There's no place like ~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0

2002-07-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
... GNOME 2.0 RPMs built specifically for Mandrake 8.2 are currently being made by MandrakeClub volunteers. If I were you, I'd wait until those are released (you don't need to be a member of the Club). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming

Re: [newbie] Gnome Themes Selector

2002-07-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
changed, since Gnome 1.4? GTK2 themes are different from GTK1 themes. To change GTK1 themes in GNOME2, try this: http://www.muhri.net/nav.php3?node=gts -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
' so that it is not too hard. The 'o' is emphasised more in the word 'or' than in the word 'colour'. In that way, the 'u' is actually phonetic in (British) English. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by the sense of accomplishment you get from

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:19:59 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:04 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
to ensure that a game works in other OSs with little modification. In Quake's case, all that is required to make the game run work in GNU/Linux is to change a few megabytes of binaries. Environments like OpenGL and SDL are designed to do just that. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... I will claim that nobody

Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?

2002-07-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the second line with a #. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam. No windows, no gates. Apache inside. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?

2002-07-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
It's been a while since I did this so I'm not too sure. Try logging out then logging back in. If that doesn't work, do a reboot (the simplest way). On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 23:55:46 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent--how do I put the change into effect? Miark Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
code from the Internet, security is of paramount importance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan In short, Microsoft is no more able to build secure products than England's cricket team is able to withstand the bowling of Australia's bowlers. -- John Leyden, MS firewall

Re: [newbie] Enabling quota

2002-07-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
userquotas using webmin. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here ? Is your /home partition ReiserFS? ReiserFS needs to be patched to support quotas. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!

2002-07-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
on the internet, but somehow it was too big for a floppy :-\ Do you have a Mandrake CD? If so, just boot with it and type 'rescue' at the LILO prompt. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... the main beneficiaries of mergers in the computer industry have been competitors -- Ben Rosen, Chairman of Compaq

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
), a publisher should package it together with the Windows version. In the case of Quake 3, the GNU/Linux binaries are only a couple of megs, so why not? I believe that Sun, Hancom and Gobe are doing just that with their respective office suites. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We love Linux, and the most

Re: [newbie] Xpdf versus KGhostView for viewing all text in PDF file?

2002-07-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
of GV (released under the Aladdin Public license) from Aladdin Systems. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds, after a hard drive

Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?

2002-06-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
without formatting, and without loosing your previous settings. I always wanted to try out BeOS, but by the time I was ready to install it the company was ready to fold :( I guess I'll wait and see how the BeOS clones like OpenBeOS develop before trying those. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I

Re: [newbie] Privoxy

2002-06-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the World Cup!!! I was going for Germany :( -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Maybe somebody should tell gcc maintainers about programmers that know more than the compiler again. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Privoxy

2002-06-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
for'. In this box, enter 'localhost' (without the quotes). Save the settings and reactivate Privoxy. Make sure your browser is set to use Privoxy as a proxy. Now everything should work as it should, minus the advertising on Web pages. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nothing would please me more than being able

Re: [newbie] Adding another window manager by hand to login screen

2002-06-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the setup utility for your login manager and add the new entry to it. Alternatively, you can use the Xtart utility if you prefer to load X from the command line (negating the need for a login manager). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0 released

2002-06-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
has been improved ... Nautilus can be turned off, as I have outlined in an article at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2561. That may be something to play with until GNOME 2.0 RPMs are made. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Internet cannot be removed

Re: [newbie] making space

2002-06-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
drive. With the 1.2GB drive, make a single GNU/Linux partition (or one for / and one for /boot). Make sure that each drive is on a different IDE channel. Having two drives on the same channel can severely cripple performance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Attachements are evil

Re: [newbie] OT: Gnome Panel Level ??

2002-06-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
windows so that the desktop is visible. - Switch to a bare virtual desktop or viewport. You should then be able to see that panel. Also, please remove the 'Reply-To' on your mail. It makes responding to your posts annoying. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I think that throttling writers is fine and good

Re: [newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?

2002-06-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
? Why didn't I hear about this earlier? Mandrake doesn't officially support apt, but it does work. I think you can get it in the Contribs directory of Mandrake mirrors. Mandrake has it's own alternative to apt, called urpm. You can find more by typing 'man urpmi' at a terminal prompt. -- Sridhar

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
me what we could do about it. If the problem only lies with pop-ups and pop-unders, then you can kill them by using a browser like Galeon or Mozilla, or a proxy like Privoxy. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Why is it always Segmentation's fault? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
even flawed. I've been thinking of trying Dvorak out for some time, but these two articles have made me think again. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Without C, We would only have Pasal, Basi, and obol. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] sound record and playback

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
what I'm using :-) The problem I have (I think) is that there are two applications (sound recorder and xmms) trying to access the sound card and one of them gets trown out with the 'sound device busy' message. Shouldn't ESD sort this out? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The reason I'm doing Linux

Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 02:28:31 -0600, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:06:29 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking back, I can only bow my head in self-disgust. But the lesson is a valuable one: Thinking that DOS/Win is any

Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
to make Clt-C, Ctl-V OpenOffice.org can be made to recognise middle clicks as 'paste' if you set it in the Preferences. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The only intuitive interface is a nipple. After that, it's all learned. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] OT - World Cup broadcasts

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
minutes, so I don't have to stay up to watch games early in the morning as I used to do with previous World Cups. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Ok, the guy who made the netfilter Makefile was probably on some really interesting and probably highly illegal drugs when he wrote

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
that all its pages are standards-compliant. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... if you're a basic PC user thinking about buying XP, don't. It's basically malware. It harangues you with nagging, fake-friendly reminders to obtain a Passport and submit to product activation, and treats you like a child when you try

Re: [newbie] Any news of MDK 9.0?

2002-06-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
is to release by the end of October. You can expect Mandrake 9.0 to have GCC 3.1.1, GNOME 2.0 and KDE 3.0 (possibly 3.1). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command. -- Bill Lye Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes

2002-06-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I actually think that Linux with the stuff that is going on in 3D, desktops, etc., has a chance to become the first real user-friendly UNIX. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] searchbot

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
://www.mamma.com/ http://webinfosearch.com/ If you want the latter, try http://bookmarklets.com/moreinfo.phtml. If you use Galeon, you can use its Smart Bookmarks feature to create search boxes on the toolbars, or its My Portal home page. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates

Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
this one: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2395 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. -- Bill Gates, 'An Open Letter to Hobbyists', 1976-02-03 Want to buy your

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

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
a million-and-one reasons why HTML mail is not a good thing, yet you still continue with the 'I want flashy shiny buttons with glitter and a pony' rant. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those

Re: [newbie] Tips or Shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ...

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
alot beforehand .. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan What's this script doing? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep. Hint: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're in a sleeping bag, camping out with your girlfriend. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

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