[newbie] Detect Libraries in Mandrake 8.0

Mandrake 7.2 configured my sound card correctly, though 8.0 didn't. But it was easy enough to go into HardDrake, select my sound card, select your sound card and click on "Run Configuration tool" and select the correct one. Hopefully Mandrake will fix this in the future. Adams, Jamie writes: >

[newbie] Cyrillic in Kword -- How, please?

I don't know about Kword and Russian, but xemacs-mule works for entering Chinese characters, and has support for Russian characters too. Benjamin Sher writes: > Dear friends: > > I added Russian to my list of Keyboards in KDE 2.1.1. Works great. I can go > to a Russian site and type in sea

Re: [newbie] ./ .... why?

DStevenson writes: > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 06:47, Paul wrote: > > It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:49:01 EDT when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >It took a while to catch onto the ./ thingy.. now that I know it, I still > > >don't understand *why* this is necessary. I know, it's easy enough to a

[newbie] Gnome Applets not redrawing

I Use Mandrake 8.0's Gnome on two systems and on both of them some of the applets don't redraw correctly. To be specific "Character Picker" works fine but if I slide the menu on and off the screen it doesn't redraw correctly until I move my mouse over the buttons. Sven

RE: [newbie] Careers in Linux

A unix sysadmin doesn't to know how to programm in any programming language really. They have to just be able to make modifications to every programming languages used at the site. Though C, Perl and Bourn Shell good starters an OOP language is a good idea too. Just so long you can read code I

[newbie] write and print Greek with LM8?

emacs and xemacs-mule provide ways to enter greek letters, and you can save your files in different formats like iso-8859-7, iso-2202-* and others. I don't know greek and I have not idea out good the input methods are. I don't know about printing. Emanuil Giuris writes: > How can I write and

[newbie] emacs

I know nothing about a Cobold but in general the command to compile stuff in emacs is: M-x compile The default command is: make -k You will either want to write a Makefile or edit that command. I put the following in my .emacs file: (global-set-key [f7] 'compile) so the f7 key runs

[newbie] how to get ssh to use askpass?

How do I get ssh to launch ssh-askpass when i'm logging in somplace else? Here is what is installed on my local system: openssh-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk openssh-askpass-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk openssh-clients-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk Sven

[newbie]] Linux Careers

Marcia, The other replies look good too, but in my current job I only ever see Linux boxes and get to play around with the latest kernels and all kinds of opens source stuff. I found it from: http://www.geekfinder.com/ And if you are geeky enough, and thinking about working in the 609 a

[newbie] .welcome

man ftpaccess and search for %T Michael Falzon writes: > Hi All > How do i get the list of macro for the .welcome.msg ( for a ftp > server ) > > Michael Falzon > Gremlin Consultancy P/L > Phone : (+61 03) 9315 3855 > Fax : (+61 03) 9315 1585 > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [[newbie] Kernel in 7.2]

The command: uname -r is generally the way to figure out what version you are running. Michael Scottaline writes: > "David Grubb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Due to brain leakage and severe lack of caffeine, can someone tell me what > the kernel version is in Mandr

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error

the MAKEDEV command might get it back too. If it's not IDE type: man MAKEDEV and start reading. Paul writes: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I assume you had an IDE cdrom. Was it on /dev/hdb? hdc? hdd? > > Make a new link > > cd /dev > rm cdrom > ln -s /dev/

[newbie] ftp update doesn't work

it matters. Sven Sven Heinicke writes: > > On an package updated Mandrake 7.2 system I have a copy of the > Mandrake 7.2 and updates, I made these available to the local network > via Mandrake 7.2's anonftp package. I just installed another system > over the network

[newbie] ftp update doesn't work

On an package updated Mandrake 7.2 system I have a copy of the Mandrake 7.2 and updates, I made these available to the local network via Mandrake 7.2's anonftp package. I just installed another system over the network via FTP but when I try to use MandrakeUpdate to update the latest packages it

[newbie] Best Web Browser

I know people who like Opera, but while I think the beta versions are free I don't think the stable versions are. Amaya is still a little unstable, and last I checked Mnemonic wasn't quite ready either. I don't know about the other browsers X11 on freshmeat. Mike Riffle writes: > After seeing