Re: [newbie] Netscape For Linux Problem

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Howes
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:18:46 GMT it was written: Ps: where to get that "Registered Linux User #"? Go here http://counter.li.org/ -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In darkness we are no less

Re: [newbie] RPM announcements

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Howes
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 10:15:37 -0400 it was written: Is anyone building RPMs for Mandrake outside of the regular channels? Is there an announcement list for that? I'm familiar with sites like freshports.org for FreeBSD, LinuxMafia for Slackware, Ryan Weaver's Falsehope stuff for RedHat.

Re[2]: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Howes
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 08:19:40 -0500 it was written: Many monitor manufacturers overstate their product specs, and 'Hz' are always ± Damn near all the time, even junk monitors will do 1280x... @ 60Hz (17" ), so that's usually a good choice if you're not sure, or your monitor doesn't wanna

Re[2]: [newbie] Galeon web browser

2000-08-06 Thread Steve Howes
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:54:41 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well...I finally got it running, but it sure is buggy. It crashes if you attempt to access the preferences, or import bookmarks. It's quite unstable as yet. I think the problem could be at your end because I only installed

Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP client

2000-07-21 Thread Steve Howes
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:00:05 WEST you wrote: Hello! I have mandrake 7.02 Air and I am using the gFTP FTP client but I am not happy with it. Is there any nice FTP client? (like WSFTP-LE) You could try IglooFTP ( a search at Twocows will find it). Not recommending it though, I

Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings

2000-07-17 Thread Steve Howes
John Glasscock wrote: Report on the topic. Thanks for the summary, to which I have to say I agree with your opinion. I did not respond to your request on the basis I am mainly a reader and being a GNOME user tend to use a email client capable of reading text and html and was therefore not

Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop (fwd)

2000-07-17 Thread Steve Howes
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 09:41:12PM +0100, Paul wrote: For all the unsubscribees. I may turn this into a weekly lecture, plenty of students, as obvious... What about putting that into the signature of each and every outgoing message? That way nobdoy can say

Re: [newbie] Midnight Commander M keys?

2000-07-17 Thread Steve Howes
Jeff Malka wrote: I have used NC for years and therefore love Linux's MC. But, I cannot figure out what the "M" key stands for, like M-? to search for a file. What keys does that correspond to in a normal keyboard? Thank you. The left Alt (_M_eta) key -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK

Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP client

2000-07-16 Thread Steve Howes
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:00:05 WEST you wrote: Hello! I have mandrake 7.02 Air and I am using the gFTP FTP client but I am not happy with it. Is there any nice FTP client? (like WSFTP-LE) You could try IglooFTP ( a search at Twocows will find it). Not recommending it though, I

Re: [newbie] VI - colors - help!

2000-07-16 Thread Steve Howes
Paul wrote: Hello and help! Since I upgraded to 7.1, I noticed that vi has all kinds of colors in the text. Now I pulled a webpage (linux.htm) into vi, and I can't read most of it anymore. I am colorblind, and there are lots of dark colors in it. I really can't make out what is what

Re: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems

2000-07-14 Thread Steve Howes
Roman Korcek wrote: Hey Romanator, Hmmm...I used to have MDK7.0 installed but I am using MDK7.1 which offers a button called MouseDrake to change your mouse driver. Don't have such a thing (MouseDrake), at least I don't think so. When you pressed Cntrl+Alt+Backspace, were you able

Re: [newbie] Helix? What is it?

2000-07-14 Thread Steve Howes
Anthony Huereca wrote: Helix Gnome is just an implimentation of Gnome. A company took the Gnome source code and improved on it, and released it as Helix Gnome (or at least I *think* that's how it is). Anyway, I really like it, and if you have a fast connection it's well worth downloading.

Re: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems

2000-07-10 Thread Steve Howes
Paul wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Roman Korcek wrote: 2. And second - I would love to access my CD-ROM, but it doesn't work. A copy of my fstab and mtab files is included several lines below (in my original mail). I can't mount the CD-ROM neither using (I think it was like this) mount

Re: [newbie] /dev/sda6 boot error

2000-07-10 Thread Steve Howes
Victor Richardson wrote: I have a system running 7.1 (current) that worked perfectly (I assume) yesterday, when I turned it on this morning the system fails during the "Checking root filesystem" portion of boot. The error message is: Checking root filesystem /dev/sda6 contains a file

Re: [newbie] append=mem=192m For your memory problems.

2000-07-07 Thread Steve Howes
Tom Brinkman wrote: Keep in mind that the only reason you needed to append a mem statement in the first place is because of a hardware deficiency. I thought the reason for appending the 'mem=' was because the Linux kernal doesn't recognise more than 64Mb? -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK

Re: OT Re: [newbie] Windows Manager

2000-07-04 Thread Steve Howes
Mark Weaver wrote: I use them each on their own. I've found things get convoluded when you start running things like IceWM while running Gnome and the like. another one of the nice things about Linux these days. You have the choice of running these WM's all on their own, or using parts of

Re: [newbie] 7.1 resolution (as in screen)

2000-07-04 Thread Steve Howes
Digital Wokan wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I noticed that, too. I think it has to do with the Sawmill/Sawfish WM. If there's a way of disabling/removing it to restore the alt-drag way of moving windows, that would probably solve your