Re: [newbie] Are there any AAC(.m4u) plugins for Linux?

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 03:44 am, Rory Gleeson wrote: If you have an iPod, I would suggest ripping in MP3 LAME rather than AAC, I own an iPod and I use MP3's ripped to alt--preset-standard. Probably the best ripper is EAC http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ which is free, but sadly not available for

Re: [newbie] RPMS, RPMS2 RPMS3

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:56 am, Andrew Archibald wrote: using plf you probably do want contrib, tho. Thanks for the explanation, but what is plf? SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

[newbie] RPMS, RPMS2 RPMS3

I've found a local mirror that's working and want to add the appropriate rpms directories using urpmi. What is the difference between the RPMS, RPMS2 RPMS3 directories? Careless use of urpmi has already upgraded my installations to 10.1 Cooker, which is not what I wanted. So I am a little more

[newbie] What Does The Document Contains No Data Mean?

On one of my machines running MDK 10.1, Mozilla regularly reports The Document Contains No Data when interacting with html forms. Why does Mozilla do this? Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] What Does The Document Contains No Data Mean?

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: One simple answer: MICROSOFT JAVA/JAVASCRIPTING Dig. No? Empty your cache, try again. And sometimes it's more of a timeout issue with certain webpages (like, say, for instance, HOTMAIL) But not with fastmail, where I encounter it the most.

Re: [newbie] MK 10 and Windows dual boot solved

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:48 pm, Owain Sutton wrote: I found the answer to the problem I was having a few days ago, installing Mandrake 10 alongside XP.  It appears there's a problem with the partitioner in the Mandrake setup, which damages the existing FAT. There was no problem with the mdk 10

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:50 am, Marc Resnick wrote: $ cat /etc/mandrake-release [EMAIL PROTECTED] steve]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 Oops... How did that happen? I wanted a reasonably stable installation, how did I end up with a Cooker installation?

Re: [newbie] Installing from a RW

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 02:05 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Greg is right! I have just installed Mdk 10 with cdrws and, in fact, cd1 does not boot (well, at least on my computer...). There a trick to overcome the problem: Boot from disc #2, then follow the prompts. Steve

[newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a similar application in the Linux world? SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:44 pm, Charlie wrote: snip Only a better one I think:- Quanta Thanks Charlie I'll check it out. SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Where do I manage DHCP setup on Mandrake 10

Where do I manage DHCP setup on Mandrake 10 Regards, Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Slow to resolve host names

I have just installed a D-Link DSL-504 router. One of the machines connected to this router is dual booting XP/Mandrake 10. If I boot to Linux, web browsing is very slow, much slower than when I'm booted to XP. Browsing with Linux is also much slower than when I was connecting to my ADSL

[newbie] Which FTP Server is Installed by Default on MDK 10

Which FTP server is Installed by default if you select the server option when you install MDK 10? Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Can I network two local machines with a ADSL remote router

I've just bought a DSL-504 ADSL remote router(http://www.dlink.com.au/products/broadband/dsl504/) so that I can connect two stand-alone machines running Mandrake 10 to my ADSL account. I'm a total novice about networking, but I was wondering if once I have these two machines connected to this

[newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

I'm using MDK 10, but can't find/google any gnome specific wallpaper, anybody have some links to gnome wallpaper. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Changing The Default KDE Browser

How do I change the default KDE web browser from Konqueror to Mozilla in MDK 10? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:47 am, Marc Resnick wrote: Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure of how iPODs work. Would it be recognized just as a removable device? Or does anyone know of any open source apps equivalent to the itunes software? An iPod works fine as an USB

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:10 pm, franki wrote: you shouldn't really use winzip for that, its not strong password protection and I have seen tools on the net that can break them easily.. There is a new version of winzip with strong encryption. For a while I used PGP, but it's unusual to find a

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:23 pm, Philip Cronje wrote: You could use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org. It's got other nifty uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting e-mails, etc. etc. Thanks, gnupg was just what I was looking for... Once I'd found the right GUI tools to go with

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:38 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Thanks, gnupg was just what I was looking for... Once I'd found the right GUI tools to go with it :-) ... which were? KGpg or Gnu Privacy Assistant, both are available via URPMI. I think it was KGpg which integrated gnupg with Konqueror

[newbie] Encrypt a text file

When I'm using windows I use winzip to encrypt plain text files that contain sensitive information (username/passwords etc) What do I use to encrypt plain text files with Mandrake 10? Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Soundblaster Audigy and MDK 10

I can't get sound from my Soundblaster Audigy sound card since I installed MDK 10. Anybody else have this problem and found a solution? I'm sure others have discussed this problem on this list, but I can't find a searchable archive -- is there one? Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

MD5 Sums are 32 byte character strings that are the result of running the MD5 sum program against a particular file. Since any difference between two files results in two different strings, MD5's can be used to determine that the file or iso you downloaded is a bit-for-bit copy of the remote

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

Paul Smith wrote: Thank you very much indeed, Lanman and Stephen! Paul I can't claim the credit, I wondered what those files were, so I googled and found the information here: http://www.linuxiso.org/ SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake

I have a robust Mandrake 9.2/Windows XP dual boot machine with a spare partition. I would like to install Mandrake 10.0 Community on the spare partition, but still be able to boot Mandrake 9.2 until I am convinced Mandrake 10.0 Community is robust enough to replace Mandrake 9.2 as my working

[newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake

I have a robust Mandrake 9.2/Windows XP dual boot machine with a spare partition. I would like to install Mandrake 10.0 Community on the spare partition, but still be able to boot Mandrake 9.2 until I am convinced Mandrake 10.0 Community is robust enough to replace Mandrake 9.2 as my working

[newbie] How To Add A FAT32 Partition?

On my XP/Mandrake 9.2 dual boot machine I have created a FAT32 partition using the XP disk management tools. I did this so that I can write to the FAT32 partition from Linux and XP. How do I add the FAT32 partition to the Linux /mnt directory? SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] How To Add A New FAT32 Partition

Sorry for the repeat post, but I thought I should add some more information. On my XP/Mandrake 9.2 dual boot machine I have created a FAT32 partition using the XP disk management tools. I did this so that I can write to the FAT32 partition from Linux and XP. How do I add the FAT32 partition to

[newbie] How To Add A FAT32 Partition?

On my XP/Mandrake 9.2 dual boot machine I have created a FAT32 partition using the XP disk management tools. I did this so that I can write to the FAT32 partition from Linux and XP. How do I add the FAT32 partition to the Linux /mnt directory? SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] How To Add A New FAT32 Partition

Thanks all for the help -- both on and off list. I struggled a bit to get read/write access to the partition for while, but eventually worked it out. Many thanks to you all for the help. SR Stephen Reynolds wrote: Sorry for the repeat post, but I thought I should add some more information

[newbie] Mirror Directories

On windows machines I use a Microsoft tool called robocopy to mirror directory trees. I use this tool to synchronise my documents directories onto a usb flash drive. Is there a similar tool with Linux? SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 12:48, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm just here to learn. What's the fun of just using 9.2? Good point, and the world needs more beta testers. I need a robust workstation so I don't use beta software and I don't like to fiddle. If everybody was like me how would developers find

[newbie] Lilo and XP

I want to change the boot order on a dual boot Mandrake 9.2 / XP machine. I´ve edited lilo.conf, but when I run lilo I get the following message: ¨LILO wants to assign a new Volume ID to this disk drive. However, changing the Volume ID of a Windows NT, 2000, or XP boot disk is a fatal Windows

Re: [newbie] Lilo and XP

Tony S. Sykes wrote: Steve, You should have boot options in mmc, but you just need to run drakboot if you can't find it from the command line as root and you can configure it from there. Tony. That´s what I thought, but when I run drakboot, even as root, there are no option to edit the way lilo