Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-14 Thread Technoslick
On Saturday 09 August 2003 03:41 pm, Thinker graced me with: I have been watching this thread for a while and .. well, I may not know much about Linux but I can say that ... 1. Being an American that is married to a German woman, everyone I know drinks Warsteiner Dark at room temperature.

Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-10 Thread Technoslick
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 03:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir graced me with: Yep. I am not kidding. Are these slimeballs a bunch of maggot puke or what? snip Let them come and get me. Pistols are loaded, sword's ready, plenty of slingshot fodder... Let'em come. T Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and Open Source Commitment

2003-08-04 Thread Technoslick
On Monday 04 August 2003 02:55 pm, John Wilson graced me with: On August 4, 2003 06:59 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Ximian (as in Red-Carpet, Evolution, Ximian Connector, Ximian Desktop2) has been purchased by NOVELL. Read. This is interesting.

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and OpenSource Commitment

2003-08-04 Thread Technoslick
On Monday 04 August 2003 07:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 00:40, Tony S. Sykes wrote: What's SCO going to say about that? Are Novell going to release their own version of Linux? I honestly think that this is only going to give more credence to GNU/linux et al;

Re: [newbie] import messages from OE6 into Kmail

2003-08-03 Thread Technoslick
On Saturday 02 August 2003 02:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto graced me with: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I've been trying to import messages from OE6 into Kmail without success. The process just stopped after some times. Has anyone got any idea how to import it? I use

Re: [newbie] Kmail send fails

2003-08-03 Thread Technoslick
On Sunday 03 August 2003 04:11 pm, Cornerstone Community Farm graced me with: KDE may have a bug. That may be. I sometimes fail in sending, and it ends up in the out-box. I have to get it and choose re-send, sometimes several times before it will send. Only happens every couple of weeks.

Re: [newbie] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)

2003-08-02 Thread Technoslick
On Saturday 02 August 2003 05:56 am, Paul graced me with: On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 10:42, Brian Parish wrote: Hi Brian, Did you have to jump through hoops to get 1.4.4. installed? I mean, were there bunches of dependencies to fullfil? I'd appreciate the info! Paul When I installed it on my

Re: [newbie] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)

2003-08-02 Thread Technoslick
On Saturday 02 August 2003 08:34 am, Paul graced me with: Hi T, I got 1.4.4. working already, with the RPM's from the site that Brian pointed out. No problem at all. Good for you! If you can get all the RPM's needed to satisfy dependencies, all's fine. :0) way to change. Have you tried

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank

2003-08-01 Thread Technoslick
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:11 pm, David graced me with: I use Mozilla for my personal accounts with one bank. I have recently started a business account with another bank. When I enter the account number and password with the new bank and press go, nothing happens (using Mozilla). I can use

Re: [newbie] User IDs start at 500 or 501?

2003-07-26 Thread Technoslick
On Friday 25 July 2003 06:23 pm, Andy Davidson graced me with: I just installed 9.1 on a new system and ran into a difference between how the installer creates new users and how drakconf does. I created a couple of users during the install and they ended up with uid = 501 and 502. As they

Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!

2003-06-26 Thread Technoslick
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:20 pm, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:19, Technoslick wrote: Stephen! That's not fair! You covered all your bases with that shotgun approach. ;0) (Solly Cholly) I don't doubt all those contribute to my problem. However, I

Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!

2003-06-26 Thread Technoslick
On Thursday 26 June 2003 09:25 am, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:12, Technoslick wrote: I looked at the bookmarks.xml in a text editor. It appears to keep only the URL info here. Folder info must be elsewhere; one of the other KDE config files. Um...as I'm looking

[newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!

2003-06-25 Thread Technoslick
I'm running MDK 9.1 on an AMD K6-2/550. Recently, I imported well over a thousand I.E. Favorites into Konqueror. Konqueror has been really stable and smooth up to this point, but now I'm getting a rather weird result whenever I use KEditBookmarks. It takes the better part of a minute for the

Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!

2003-06-25 Thread Technoslick
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 08:11 am, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: snip Has anyone experienced this and/or have any ideas as to what's happening and should be done to resolve the problem? Is this just a fact of too many bookmarks for my processor and/or Konqueror to handle? Any suggestions

Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag

2003-06-21 Thread Technoslick
On Saturday 21 June 2003 06:49 pm, JoeHill graced me with: http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1018669.html It's official, Sun is right in there with MS and SCO. They even have an ad campaign telling nervous IBM customers that they can switch to Solaris because SCO is not after Sun. No

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamicallyopening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-19 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:13, rikona wrote: Hello Technoslick, Monday, June 16, 2003, 12:00:42 PM, you wrote: T No, thankfully. It just has to be an executable that shows itself T in calling for services through ports that need to be opened. Are you certain that it actually knows

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-19 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 8:36 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Were you using the most recent version of Mozilla released for 9.1? I believe it's version 1.3.1. It's working pretty well for me. It's gets very extensive use throughout the

Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$

2003-06-19 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:23, Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 5:22 pm, Miark wrote: http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/06/17/cx_ld_0617linux.html At its best it is an object lesson in how damning one can get without saying a single thing that can be (legally speaking) denied.

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-19 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:43, RichardA wrote: On 19 Jun 2003 16:39:10 -0400, Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip I did the same, Anne, and I found that while it works properly, its really s-l-o-w. Slow to start up and slow to move along the Web. I was under the impression that Galeon uses

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:49, Maurice O'Connor wrote: I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. I can't find a solution although I looked at every option provided by the menu system. I am new to Galeon and maybe I messed up somewhere or I don't know what to look for. Is there a way?

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:52, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:04, Technoslick wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:49, Maurice O'Connor wrote: I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. I can't find a solution although I looked at every option provided by the menu

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:41, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 16 2003 01:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As frustrated as you have been, I hope you can come to see that you have some place to go when things just aren't going your way. Everybody needs a place like that, you know? :0) Earlier on you were having problems with the Windows

Re: [newbie] Insert Name Here

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: friendly snip so just a little FYI for everyone so you know who you're dealing with! (by the way, all the angry marine aggression is out of my system after being out for 2 years...wellMAYBE!) I should have known...a Leather-Neck!

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: We were talking about Dhcp. Samba will resolve NETBIOS names for you which is entirely a different thing. By putting the names/adrresses in /etc/hosts you are using static

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:37, Derek Jennings wrote: snip Well assuming you are using Dhcp then how are you managing to resolve the hostnames? I believe it can't. I think that BIND, or some flavor similar, does that. When you ask to ping a host your system will first go to /etc/hosts to see if

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 14:32, rikona wrote: Hello Technoslick, Sunday, June 15, 2003, 7:31:07 AM, you wrote: T I have a Linksys router/gateway that has the ability to dynamically T open ports and port ranges when a certain executable is requesting T to do so from a network client. This has

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:36, FemmeFatale wrote: At 06:23 PM 6/15/2003 -0400, you wrote: snip but it makes no sense for me to manually open ports 1024-65535 and then just as manually shut them down after a chat or video conference session when I have the ability to let the router do it

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:40, FemmeFatale wrote: snip Rikona has hit it. ICQ does this as well it seems as if you look on the net ICQ tries to use / request (I joke not) 64,000 *yes THOUSAND* Ports! jesus... no wonder IT security guys hate ICQ. *If* you want to have chat sessions, and audio

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamicallyopening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:56, rikona wrote: Hello Technoslick, Monday, June 16, 2003, 3:21:54 PM, you wrote: T Your spyware software, commercial or malicious, is going out ports T that would be open in all firewalls that allow HTTP access: port T 80. Not necessarily. Tiny, for example

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamicallyopening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 19:34, rikona wrote: Hello Technoslick, Monday, June 16, 2003, 3:50:17 PM, you wrote: T My Linksys is a BEFSR41. Four fully Switched ports, Cable Modem or T DSL capable. It looks as though the Linksys may be getting the app info from Zone Alarm, which MUST

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 00:07, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 11:44 pm, Technoslick wrote: I bought an Epson C82 earlier in the year but found I couldn't get it to network properly off of my Intel print server. I ended up giving it to my wife as a direct printer to her

[newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports inLinksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
I have a Linksys router/gateway that has the ability to dynamically open ports and port ranges when a certain executable is requesting to do so from a network client. This has worked very well from Windows clients using NetMeeting, ICQ or MSN Messenger for video conferencing and chat sessions,

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:24, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used for my 3 comp LAN. I'm using DHCP here and it

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 11:49, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:06 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: And when I need to step back and think about where everything is in my setup...even my feeble mind can remember the IP address of anything on the network. :0) Most DHCP

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:31, Technoslick wrote: I've got LICQ configured on my MDK 9.1 workstation with my ICQ accounts. I tried to open the needed ports on my router for a full chat session, but it doesn't seem to be working. I cannot

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:23, Technoslick wrote: So, what do you think? If 'licq' is running, is *it* requesting the ports or some other supporting program? If the latter, any idea what that/they might be? I would have thought someone using

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:45, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:46, Technoslick wrote: Untrue, Stephen. Every application that communicates through a port, or series of ports, has a signature, for lack of a better term. It's best to explain through the Windows end just

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-13 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:10, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:43 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:35, Technoslick wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:20, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 17:38:12 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Thread Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:07, JoeHill wrote: snip There is, however, a way to truly push a program into the background from the terminal. Using this method, you can close the window while keeping the program running: nohup gkrellm This simple addition of six keystrokes (space included)

Re: [newbie] one more

2003-06-13 Thread Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:13, JoeHill wrote: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/ Looks like another winner, Joe! Thanks, again. Bookmarked and still open for later perusal. I should check with Anne to see if anyone is managing bookmarks on the Twiki. It would be nice to go to a familiar site to

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Thread Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:23, Len Lawrence wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 17:40:14 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:44, Derick Schmidt wrote: Hi Use ln -s path to the file or folder you want to link for example ln -s /mnt/win_d Aren't you

RE: [newbie] Savage drivers

2003-06-13 Thread Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Hutton Daniel wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 10:28:47 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, this is a dead issue since the card has been relegated to Windows duty My 1 foray into the realm

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Thread Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 08:28, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030613 05:58]: I have just realised that if yoiu use kde's 'create a link here', you get a hard link. Now I may have completely misunderstood the whole theory, but I thought that when you want to make what

Re: [newbie] Savage drivers

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:09, Hutton Daniel wrote: Hello, I'm installing Mandrake for an association that I'm part of and I'm having trouble getting x configured on a dual boot pc with a newly installed Madrake 9.1. I got all the graphics card info from windows which tells me that the graphic

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:31, Todd Slater wrote: Hmm, this sounds like bad design in kmail rather than a breach of etiquette. It is not difficult to imagine times when you would want to reply and include the original writer's sig. If anything, kmail should offer the option of turning off

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:00, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 13:11:00 +0200 Chris Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Steven, I`ll try the link you`ve supplied Thanks for your time in responding... Regards On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:46, Steven Broos wrote: I don't

Re: [newbie] Savage drivers

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:17, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:09:53 +0200 Hutton Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a tough one but I'm really stuck. Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Regardless of what card you have you should always be able to

Re: [newbie] Savage drivers

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 10:28:47 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, this is a dead issue since the card has been relegated to Windows duty My 1 foray into the realm of the S3/Savage has made its appropriate home in my

[newbie] cat of /proc/interrupts doesn't show video card use

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
I've had some issues with interrupt conflicts on one my workstations, but I believe I have resolved the problem. When I do a: # cat /proc/interrupts I get this: CPU0 0:2512461 XT-PIC timer 1: 36282 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:25, RichardA wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200 Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote:

RE: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:44, Derick Schmidt wrote: Hi Use ln -s path to the file or folder you want to link for example ln -s /mnt/win_d Aren't you missing the name of the link in your syntax? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:35 am, Ronald J. Hall graced me with: Just got cable modem service yesterday: Tech (of course) said he had never heard of Linux (where the Hell has he been?) Anyways, need hand holding orientated tutorial or guide to get it up and running on Mandrake v9.1!

Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4

2003-06-02 Thread Technoslick
On Sunday 01 June 2003 10:02 pm, g graced me with: and, in addition to what i wrote before, i say this; give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time. show a newbie bad habits and you teach him wrong for a life time. It's human

Re: [newbie] Lexmark X73 via samba does not print

2003-05-31 Thread Technoslick
On Friday 30 May 2003 12:56 pm, Lady Mark graced me with: I have tried to install a printer with LM 9.1. The printer, a Lexmark X73, is connected to a XP machine (192.168.1.101). Its share name is LexmarkX. I am 192.168.1.100. Printerdrake detected the network, installed samba (with

[newbie] Free-Form Database -- Still Looking

2003-05-30 Thread Technoslick
I posted a request for opinions, experience and recommendations on this a while back. I can't remember where it went, but it seemed that I didn't find what I was looking for. So, I wish to ask again for any suggestions and advice on a general purpose free-form database that doesn't have the

Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO

2003-05-30 Thread Technoslick
On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:27 am, Marc Oestreicher graced me with: snip Are they committing commercial suicide or is that just the way it appears when mocro$oft uses another company as a pawn? It would be interisting to hear the conversations going on between closed doors the last month but

Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO

2003-05-30 Thread Technoslick
On Thursday 29 May 2003 09:30 am, Marc Oestreicher graced me with: IBM, Novell, now Linus... I must have missed something here. Has Linus been drug into this to? I wonder if anyone has thought about sueing Tux? Here's the link that Sridhar passed along in an earlier post. Mention

Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO

2003-05-30 Thread Technoslick
On Thursday 29 May 2003 10:42 am, Technoslick graced me with: snip Here's the link that Sridhar passed along in an earlier post. Mention made of Linus being taken to task. I skimmed it, but I am sure that the news must be posted many other paces by now. I had the feeling early on that IBM

Re: [newbie] Free-Form Database -- Still Looking

2003-05-30 Thread Technoslick
On Thursday 29 May 2003 11:47 pm, rikona graced me with: snip I looked at it. The free/linux version is quite small in capacity. I know. Linux is a new venture platform for them. It will take time before the really improve the product to the level of the Win stuff. I've got a LOT of stuff,

Re: [newbie] Free-Form Database -- Still Looking

2003-05-30 Thread Technoslick
On Thursday 29 May 2003 11:53 pm, rikona graced me with: Hello Technoslick, Thursday, May 29, 2003, 7:30:56 PM, you wrote: T Once extracted, you run the install file and it your done in T seconds. I prefer the Linus installs over Winblows. This one installs like the old DOS apps. Park

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1 this one DEFINITELY OT

2003-05-27 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:03 pm, Tom Brinkman graced me with: On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: snip You realize it will be hard to talk about 'puters and Linux over the din? ;-) Not after the race, back at the travel trailer parked just outside the track :) 'Course

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:29 pm, Tom Brinkman graced me with: On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: This is good stuff, Tom. Have you ever posted your own HOW-TO on mixing, normalizing and burning anywhere that I can get my hands on it? snip Actually I've posted much

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:14 pm, Derek Jennings graced me with: snip Install the slocate package and then in a root terminal type 'updatedb' It will index every file on your computer and you can perform a quick search with the command 'slocate string' The database will update itself weekly,

Re: [newbie] WM's in general

2003-05-27 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:34 pm, MG graced me with: Not sure if this is what you are talking about but, I boot to run level3 and use this little session selector. I like it better than kdm or gdm. Its on the MDK8.2 cd's not sure about later versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]$ Xtart

[newbie] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update

2003-03-27 Thread Technoslick
... -- Technoslick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update

2003-03-27 Thread Technoslick
traffic! Leave me alone for a while! I could handle that. Thanks, Franki. I can wait. T :-) -- Procrastination is not a disease! It is a way of life... -- Technoslick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Club access to 9.1

2003-03-20 Thread Technoslick
Does anyone know for sure if Club members will have access to 9.1 ISO's before the general public? T -- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Club access to 9.1

2003-03-20 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 15:56, Miark wrote: No, everybody gets access at the same time, probably sometime Friday or this weekend. Miark thanks, Miark -- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Off list for a while

2003-03-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 14:21, civileme wrote: So goodbye.. Civileme Good luck to you, Civileme. T -- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Help - Can't get printer on lan working

2003-03-13 Thread Technoslick
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:37, Greg wrote: I did it I got it to work It took some fooling around with it but it does work now I had to delete all of my old printer setups and start over Thanks very much for your help I owe you one Greg I may have to look into one of those combo

Re: [newbie] Help - Can't get printer on lan working

2003-03-11 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:35, Greg wrote: Hi Everyone I need help to set up my 9.0 box to printer to my printer server on my lan The windows Machines can print to it using prt local port The print server is a Barricade router with the print server built in I have tried but I can not get

Re: [newbie] Help - Can't get printer on lan working

2003-03-11 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:35, Greg wrote: Hi Everyone I need help to set up my 9.0 box to printer to my printer server on my lan The windows Machines can print to it using prt local port The print server is a Barricade router with the print server built in I have tried but I can not get

Re: [newbie] Help - Can't get printer on lan working

2003-03-11 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 18:19, Greg wrote: I do have a staic ip for my router It is 192.168.123.254 Where would I enter the the ip number What program would I use to set it up Thanks Greg Greg, I went to SMC's Web site and downloaded the manual for the four-port unit with print server.

[newbie] Samba question

2003-03-01 Thread Technoslick
My question deals with a current setup of two MDK 9.0 clients and one MDK 9.0 server running DHCP and Samba with winbind. The network is a mixture of Windows clients (presently Win 98 SE and Win 2K) and MDK 9 clients, all DHCP clients. The server is setup to be Master as well as Local Browser

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-01 Thread Technoslick
On Saturday 01 March 2003 01:39 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, about a week ago I posted a message about problems I was having with my Epson C62 printer. Isn't it true on the newer inkjets that you need to apply a software 'patch' to reset the chip, or fool it, into thinking that the refill

Re: [newbie] MandrakeClub Renewal

2003-02-28 Thread Technoslick
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:07 pm, James Dawson wrote: My finances are rather tight right now so I don't know if I can afford to renew at Silver level but I can't find an option online to renew at Bronze level. Second, is it possible to renew paying on a month-to-month basis rather than a

[newbie] Test Post

2003-02-10 Thread Technoslick
Test post...please ignore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-10 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:52, Greg Meyer wrote: The same exact problem that adelphia has. Thank you very much for clarifying, I now have the info that I need to speak with the ISP again. - -- Greg Greg, I just wanted to follow-up with you, and let everyone else one the list know, about my

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-10 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 18:40, Terry Smith wrote: I'm the fellow that needs help :-). Or put another way, another unhappy Adelphia customer (the only high speed access available in my neigbborhood). This is a test msg, passing the email through an SMTP server at work. Terry Smith Cape Cod

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-10 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:11, FemmeFatale wrote: Perhaps a stupid question here... But would using your adelphia acct routing the email thru some kind souls own postfix/sendmail/qmail/whatever server help ? I know ppl on this list run the damn things even I'd be willing to set one up

Re: [newbie] Test Post

2003-02-10 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:07, FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:23, Technoslick wrote: Test post...please ignore No. That'd be cheating. big grin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files, cable connection between two boxes

2002-12-16 Thread Technoslick
Of course, Stephen is very correct, and Brandon's two Option's work great, however... What's best from a standpoint of ease, security and performance is purchasing an internet gateway/router/firewall from Linksys. Mine is a four port switch, as well, but they also make even smaller units. I think

Re: [newbie] CDROM troubles

2002-12-15 Thread Technoslick
It appears that you do not have supermount runnning. It would show up in your fstab like this: none /mnt/cdrom supermount /dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask 0 0 0 So, you do need to unmount before switching CDs, then mount again. T - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Technoslick
Femme, For the longest time, I was letting my Lynksys router/firewall/gateway do the DHCP for my mixed O/S network. During that time, my NT 4.0 Server was acting as a Primary Domain Control (PDC) and a secured resource center file sharing between my business and family needs. I had no problems

[newbie] OT: Free-Form Linux Database

2002-12-13 Thread Technoslick
I would like some feedback from anyone who has found and is using any free-form database program in Linux. Something similar in nature to askSam. I wish to migrate all of thousands (literally) emails, tech notes and other minutia to an easily accessible and usable program that allows advanced

Re: [newbie] OT: Free-Form Linux Database

2002-12-13 Thread Technoslick
documents. I haven't had time to really looked at it but it may help you. If you get it up and running, let us know on the list. Spence On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:52:02 -0500 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like some feedback from anyone who has found and is using any free-form database

Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error

2002-12-11 Thread Technoslick
to hear how your USB mouse works with Mdk 9.0. Maybe I'll switch to USB too. Thanks for your kind offer of off list help too. You're definitely a sweety ;-) I think Technoslick is on to something about jarring the mouse causing the error. I usually reach down to turn on my sub-woofer when booting up

Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/

2002-12-04 Thread Technoslick
Real funny, Angus! Good one! Look at what that curiosity brought me I was playing an audio CD in KsCD when I decided to open a terminal, 'su' over to root and cat 'message' in /boot. That's when the joke was on me. All of a sudden I got a flurry of Morse code beeps through my speakers, making

Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/

2002-12-04 Thread Technoslick
. Of course, if you like your terminal going postal on you, cat away! Ron. --- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Real funny, Angus! Good one! Look at what that curiosity brought me I was playing an audio CD in KsCD when I decided to open a terminal, 'su' over to root and cat 'message

Re: [newbie] Software sources manager - cant find disk 2

2002-12-02 Thread Technoslick
Here's what I have in mine for CD #2: URL: removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2 hdlist path: ../base/hdlist2.cz This is referring to the 3-CD downloaded version of MDK 9.0. I have no problems with installing from my second CD. I don't know if this matters, but I do have 'supermount' active.

Re: [newbie] Menu settings

2002-12-02 Thread Technoslick
Are you asking about the menu choices added to the the very top of the starting menu in KDE3? If so, that is called the Quick Start area. To adjust the number of entries that show up go to 'K | Configure Panel | Preferences'. Click on the 'Menus' tab. At the bottom, you will see where you can

Re: [newbie] Menu settings

2002-12-02 Thread Technoslick
Ditto. :-) T - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Menu settings On Monday 02 Dec 2002 4:00 pm, Technoslick wrote: Are you asking about the menu choices added to the the very top

Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients

2002-12-01 Thread Technoslick
is not installed or running. Should it be? Is it necessary in a small network where everyone knows who everyone is? Thanks for the help. I feel so-o-o-o-o much better having my little baby up and running! T - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [newbie] Sndconfig probs

2002-12-01 Thread Technoslick
Changing the BIOS to non-pnp was the only way I could get sndconfig to work for me with an SB AWE 64 in MDK 9.0. I learned through that, and others, that it should be set to off whenever possible. Hopefully, it's that simple for you, too. T - Original Message - From: Anders Lind [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mystery files

2002-12-01 Thread Technoslick
I get these, tooAren't they cookies? I got them from Mandrake when I logged into their site. Am I wrong? If I delete them, they seem to come back. T - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 1:43 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients

2002-11-30 Thread Technoslick
- From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients On Saturday 30 Nov 2002 4:05 pm, Technoslick wrote: I finally got around to setting up my Linux server, with the main idea being to use

Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients

2002-11-30 Thread Technoslick
, Technoslick escribió: Hey, Anne, Thanks for being the first to jump into my problem. :-) I think that the bulk of my problem is not understanding how to configure the Samba client. The 'smb.conf' file, as far as the server is concerned, seems pretty straight-forward to me. So, how does the client

Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients

2002-11-30 Thread Technoslick
I can't remember what I installed as WM's, but if I had any of these on the box, wouldn't at least one of them have shown up as a menu choice or something? Anyway, I will check them out; see what I like. Since Francisco has a good word to give for LinNeighnorhood, I will try that one out first.

Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients

2002-11-30 Thread Technoslick
, Technoslick wrote: Hey, Anne, Thanks for being the first to jump into my problem. :-) I think that the bulk of my problem is not understanding how to configure the Samba client. The 'smb.conf' file, as far as the server is concerned, seems pretty straight-forward to me. So, how does the client

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