Re: [newbie] Fluxbox and background under 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:23:30 -0500 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek, Todd and all you other fluxbox experts out there, Still probing 9.1 (the best yet IMHO ..in fact, on my 'minimalist' machine, I put CD1 in the drive, rebooted, left the house for 3 hours, came home, hit 'return'

[newbie] HELP-BIOS can't recognize new HD

2003-03-30 Thread todd slater
So I got a new hard drive and thought I'd install 9.1 on it. The problem is, I can't get my bios to see is as either master or slave. I skipped the autodetection and was able to install 9.1 on it, but I guess bios doesn't see the drive still and it won't boot into it. I tried to create a boot

[newbie] Need to format new HD?

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Slater
I feel I should know this, but I don't. I just got a new HD that I'm going to install 9.1 on. Do I need to format it, or will the MDK install take care of everything for me? (This is going to be the primary drive.) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Need to format new HD?

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:07:13 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 08:33 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I feel I should know this, but I don't. I just got a new HD that I'm going to install 9.1 on. Do I need to format it, or will the MDK install take care

Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.

2003-03-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:30:11AM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 7:42 pm, Miark wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:02:17 -0600 I have never burned a coaster in Linux, and my discs have never been rejected in other drives. And even if it happens,

Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning

2003-03-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:11:30AM -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday March 21 2003 08:33 am, Richard Urwin wrote: $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, went back in again $ sudo umount -l /mnt/cdrom2 Password: $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, stayed

Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.

2003-03-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:04:37 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday March 26 2003 08:51 am, Todd Slater wrote: Here's some of the output from that command: Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version

Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.

2003-03-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:30:27 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 March 2003 08:17 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:04:37 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I had the wrong idea that all 'Generic mmc CD-RW' drives supported SAO, so I'm

Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.

2003-03-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:02:17 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday March 25 2003 10:44 am, mycal62 wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 1:58 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: I apologize

Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:08:55 -0600 Stephen Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the address mycal! I cannot believe this, during rush hour on the Internet I have been receiving at 206.+KB/s from that same sight. In approx. 5 mins I will have d/led all three iso's in just over 3

[newbie] Final or rc3?

2003-03-24 Thread Todd Slater
I see a 9.1-rc3 appearing on some of the mirrors. Is this the final or is there to be another round of testing? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] can't eject cd after burning

2003-03-17 Thread Todd Slater
Using cdrdao, with the --eject flag, sometimes after burning the green light on the cd burner flashes, but I am unable to eject it. But sometimes it does eject. This is annoying because right now the only way I know to get the CD out is to reboot :(. The burner is an HP CD-Writer Plus. Todd

Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning

2003-03-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:28:27 -0500 (EST) Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Slater said: Using cdrdao, with the --eject flag, sometimes after burning the green light on the cd burner flashes, but I am unable to eject it. But sometimes it does eject. This is annoying because right

[newbie] bogofilter/BerkeleyDB compile error

2003-03-12 Thread Todd Slater
I'm trying to set up bogofilter. I needed to install BerkeleyDB, which I compiled from scratch. Now when I run ./configure for bogofilter I get this error: checking if a program can be linked against BerkeleyDB and run... no configure: error: Cannot run a program linked against libdb. Did you

Re: [newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:36:49PM +0200, robin wrote: David Jones wrote: hello all i have a question i need to set up a ftp server for friends/users and fix it to where all need a user name and password before they can log on to only there folders/files and not be able to see other users

Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!

2003-03-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:51:10 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've got the internet connection working, I'm trying to get everything running through the Mandrake machine, aiming to abandon the Win98 machine as soon as possible. Everything works OK so far, except one of my

Re: [newbie] streaming server

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:04:12PM +, Jozef Riha wrote: hi is there a simple (for newbie) how-to for establishing streaming server (audio)? the streaming format which winamp or wpm uses is enough. thanks. cheers, --joe Hi Joe, It's been a few months since I looked into this,

Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:38:20PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi it cannot be deleted (I tried '/' '/etc' '/home'). But

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:28:24 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font treatment

[newbie] OT ipod, ogg

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
Hmm, Linux on iPod: http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/. Also, looks like we can expect a portable music player to have ogg vorbis support as early as spring: http://www.vorbis.com/ot/20030223.html. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-05 Thread Todd Slater
I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font treatment in 9.1, or is there something special that has to be done for XFT2?

Re: [newbie] console question - search all files for text-string?

2003-03-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 12:20:19 -0800 Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the console command that I can use to search for all files (in a harddrive) for a string of text? Thanks, Sevatio You have gotten two correct answers for two different questions :) slocate for file names grep

[newbie] eureka urpmi

2003-03-04 Thread Todd Slater
I'm always running behind the times, just like this old train (name that tune). I feel like the only one on the list running 8.2 instead of 9.1rc1! Anyway, a few days ago I started looking into urpmi and had some success, updating gaim. Today I was surfing and came across a great tool for setting

[newbie] OT switch

2003-03-04 Thread Todd Slater
I don't know if this has been posted before, so here goes. I came across this a couple of weeks ago and about busted a gut. http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] IPTABLES manually

2003-03-03 Thread Todd Slater
I drop Nimda and Code Red infected computers with iptables, but if I have to reboot, or if I use a gui like Firestarter, it starts fresh and I lose those IPs from my rules. If you have built a firewall manually with iptables, how do you get it back when you reboot? I figure a script would do but

[newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-01 Thread Todd Slater
Monthly stats for Mandrake-newbie Total posts processed:3027 Most active threads 86 Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned 47 Xwindows Stability 43 Lovin' KDE 3.1 38 OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad! 34 Update the kernel ? 34

Re: [newbie] Opera7

2003-02-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:18:46AM -0600, Robert Wideman wrote: now, if only i can wean myself off Outlook Express for my email. I am with you on this one except i am using Outlook. I cant find any way to move data over. However i havent setup an IMAP server, then moved my email to that

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:41:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne As a general rule of thumb, .jpg for photos, .png for

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:30:10PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 1:43 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:41:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-23 Thread Todd Slater
. There is a 7.0 beta or preview out as well now of Opera. snip For Windoze. I can't find the 7.0 release for Linux. Todd -- Todd Slater The current tune is nickel creek - brand new sidewalk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:00:00 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 6:21 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:44:12 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been around the block with browsers, and I can tell you that Opera is the best

Re: [newbie] Kmail and any others?

2003-02-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:13:07 -0500 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:01 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I like the crisp and open feel of kmail and last but certainly not least: Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec laptops because it fires up so quickly when using other

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Kmail

2003-02-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:38:58PM +, Peter Watson wrote: My local mail gets put in /var/spool/mail/username. However I would like to read it in Kmail and so I have set up an incoming account which reads from /var/spool/mail/username, this is ok except that when I try to get mail I

Re: [newbie] Trouble with mime type/handler

2003-02-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:44:31PM -0600, Harv Nelson wrote: I'm having trouble setting up a mime/handler for a particular URL. WXPR (http://www.wxpr.org) is the radio station. It seems most of the streaming is directed at Windows systems and IE browsers specifically. The audio URL is:

[newbie] Another getpix update

2003-02-19 Thread Todd Slater
As I learn how to do things, I'm going back and cleaning up the bad and inefficient stuff in the script. This update is an example of that! (And I'm still learning.) New features: * you don't have to rename pictures, you can use the -k switch * you don't have to open the folder in gqview or any

[newbie] OT Opera v. M$

2003-02-14 Thread Todd Slater
H. Opera Swipes at Microsoft with Muppet Browser Fri February 14, 2003 01:53 PM ET By John Acher OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian software group Opera took a swipe at U.S. giant Microsoft MSFT.O on Friday by issuing a an Internet browser that converts text on Microsoft's Web Site into the nonsense

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:31:19PM -0300, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an easy to use HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread Todd Slater
On 10 Feb 2003 18:14:39 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:36, Robert Wideman wrote: OK... so whats the real diff between those 2 editors which one is more newb friendly? If neither is newbie friendly, well name something that is and is more or

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

2003-02-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:14:36AM +0200, Gil Katz wrote: Ok i didn??? express myself ouite clear enough i got several accounts in hotmail and the easiest way to handel them is by outlook express so that what i need. Gil I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. Do you want to access

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Thread Todd Slater
On 09 Feb 2003 19:56:05 -0800 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is

[newbie] xmms weirdness (multiple instances)

2003-02-08 Thread Todd Slater
I just did some security updating in 8.2, and now when I open xmms, I have four instances running. Not four players on the screen, but if I do ps -Af| grep xmms it reports there are 4. I noticed this because the info-pipe I use to tell the last 5 songs lists the same song 5 times. I'm using xmms

Re: [newbie] xmms weirdness (multiple instances)

2003-02-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:53:36PM -0700, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:09 AM 2/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: I just did some security updating in 8.2, and now when I open xmms, I have four instances running. Not four players on the screen, but if I do ps -Af| grep xmms it reports there are 4. I noticed

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

2003-02-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:35:43PM -0700, FemmeFatale wrote: I'm going to risk abolishment to M$hits camp here or excommunication from the Linux community by saying this... but what else is new? Russ I have to agree with you luvy. Most ppl love eye candy. I know I do. I use Evolution

Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients

2003-02-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:15:08PM -0700, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:37 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: I really like Mutt. I use it over ssh when I'm away from home. I found a good resource file for themeing the interface, which makes it much easier for me to read than Pine. Todd hm

[newbie] OT javascript gurus?

2003-02-07 Thread Todd Slater
I need to develop a template for a self-correcting javascript quiz. 1. 3 radio button responses per question 2. on submit, validate that all questions have been answered 3. display correct/incorrect feedback in a textbox next to each question 4. display explanation in textarea next to each

Re: [newbie] fluxbox configuration

2003-02-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:23:07 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also for configuration i found Whitebox. It is a GUI for configuration. There are rpms, found on rpm.pbone.net. They are a year old but it still looks like it works, havent tried it yet. WOW, i LOVE Fluxbox... Ok,

Re: [newbie] Shorthand

2003-02-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:32:43PM +, Douglas B. wrote: Being a newbie AND thick, I get mystified by quite a lot of the shorthand used in Newbie e-mails. Is there a glossary somewhere that will tell me the meaning of LOL, BTW, FUD.. ? Thanks, It's currently down for

Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients

2003-02-06 Thread Todd Slater
use it over ssh when I'm away from home. I found a good resource file for themeing the interface, which makes it much easier for me to read than Pine. Todd -- Todd Slater Mandrake Newbie mailing list help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help Got a great Mandrake-Linux tip bookmarked? Send

[newbie] OT regex help-other suggestions welcome

2003-02-06 Thread Todd Slater
I noticed the list stats script I was using wasn't giving accurate results. One thread had many more posts than the script reported. After investigation, I discovered that a few MUA's (Sylpheed 0.8.9, Eudora, and Mozilla) must do a new line on long subjects: Subject: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a

Re: [newbie] Searching 101

2003-02-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:08:00 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:26 PM 2/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: Heh anyway, email me on or offlist. I'll give you some useful sites to prowl. And if you feel overwhelmed feel free to email me pvtly. I'll be happy to help anyway I can

Re: [newbie] Printing a file list

2003-02-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:01:04 -0800 Larry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 18:08, Todd Slater wrote: I don't know if you mean print to a printer or not, but you can always dols directory .toc, then print .toc. I made .toc a dot file because if you don't and you

Re: [newbie] Linking Home Directories to Anonymous FTP

2003-02-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:49:46 -0700 Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome!!! Just the answer I was looking for. Thanks for the help. I appreciate it. No problem. Good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Todd Slater

Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:36:15PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: Top 10 Posters === 403 Stephen Kuhn 228 Anne Wilson 98 Todd Slater 85 et 80 Adolfo Bello 62 Derek Jennings 61 Dennis Myers

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 17:45:27 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:05:54 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x Can't help with regards to Konq, but do you do editing in Gimp? If not, convert en masse could save you a lot

[newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-02 Thread Todd Slater
=== 403 Stephen Kuhn 228 Anne Wilson 98 Todd Slater 85 et 80 Adolfo Bello 62 Derek Jennings 61 Dennis Myers 60 Mark Weaver 56 Ronald J. Hall 55 John Richard Smith Todd -- Todd Slater The current tune is Various Artists - NORAH JONES Come Away

Re: [newbie] C/L question

2003-02-01 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:46:31 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 3:50 pm, Todd Slater wrote: From man chown: x Thanks Todd. I have to confess I much prefer paper manuals, so I tend to check books before reading man pages. And really, this above is a prime

Re: [newbie] Email Sig Fortune question

2003-02-01 Thread Todd Slater
Evolution. Todd -- Todd Slater Mandrake Newbie mailing list help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help Got a great Mandrake-Linux tip bookmarked? Send it to me and I'll include it in my newbie tips fortune file! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Email Sig Fortune question

2003-02-01 Thread Todd Slater
On 01 Feb 2003 20:54:08 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 20:26, Todd Slater wrote: On 01 Feb 2003 16:47:02 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x My final script is: date -R /tmp/fecha.txt uptime /tmp/corriendo.txt /usr/games/fortune

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-01-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 07:14, Mark Weaver wrote: In all seriousness your time and energy would be far better spent sending these sigs to the US congress and senate and communicating your feelings to them rather then sending them to a body that has no balls. Let Washington know and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off Topic list

2003-01-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:27:15PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi all, Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is concerned has led me to a place where I'm willing to try an experiment of sorts. I've

Re: [newbie] Creating symbolic links

2003-01-31 Thread Todd Slater
a few keystrokes. I think what you're wanting to do is use the output from fortune in .signature.sxw? Should I just give up till I'm off the demerol G Send some my way ;) -- Todd Slater Mandrake Newbie searchable archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2 Got a great

Re: [newbie] Email Sig Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread Todd Slater
, you can specify the file you want to use. You can also decide to use a percentage from each set you've got. For example, see all the collections in /usr/share/games/fortunes. You could say use 80% from politics and 20% from startrek. Man fortune is your friend on this one. Todd -- Todd Slater

Re: [newbie] Email Sig Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread Todd Slater
of a script or file to generate the signature.. Settings - configure kmail - select your mail sending identity, go to the signature tab, tell kmail to use output from an external file. :) In Sylpheed this is achieved using | before the script name, i.e. |/path/to/sig.sh Todd -- Todd Slater

Re: [newbie] Very slow loading KDE and gnome

2003-01-29 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:28:38AM -0500, Fred Fraley wrote: When I start KDE, from the graphic login screen, it takes 1:10-1:15 before I get to the KDE splash screen, then another 1:00 on just the loading peripherals section. Everything else seems to load fairly quickly. Gnome is

[newbie] apt4rpm

2003-01-29 Thread Todd Slater
Is anybody out there using apt4rpm? If so, what are your impressions of it? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Making own screensaver ?

2003-01-26 Thread Todd Slater
I create a screensaver in linux without having programming skill ?. If we need programming language to build screensavers, what is the language ?. TIA. Try chbg. Todd -- Todd Slater Mandrake Newbie mailing list help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help Got a great Mandrake-Linux tip

Sylpheed filter on color, was Re: [newbie] Commands for the NewbieList

2003-01-24 Thread Todd Slater
/forum.php?thread_id=1564452forum_id=2006 Todd -- Todd Slater Learn how to create a custom search with Mozilla/Netscape/Phoenix: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=104160169801363w=2 Got a great Mandrake-Linux tip bookmarked? Send it to me and I'll include it in my newbie tips fortune

[newbie] CUPS hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Todd Slater
On 9.0, amd k6-2, Canon bubblejet connected via USB. When it boots, it gets to where it starts CUPS and just hangs. Has anybody experienced this, or where should I look to find out what the problem is? (This isn't for me, and I don't have a printer, so I no nothing about troubleshooting printers.)

Re: [newbie] FTP Login

2003-01-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:59:21 -0600 Zane Minninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I create an FTP only ID, with no home directory. a generic with read only access. I currently have a username and password on the system and I am using that, but that doesn't sound very safe, the more I

Re: [newbie] PHP-Nuke..... check this out!

2003-01-19 Thread Todd Slater
On 20 Jan 2003 17:34:37 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Peace! (And I drive a Honda - and I was born in Detroit - so as far as loyalty to a product goes, I've just slighted Ford, Chevy/GM and Chrysler, didn't I?) Do they have roads in Australia? (I used to live in Mexico

Re: [newbie] kalle.saarinen@acte.fi

2003-01-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:00:02 +0200 Silent Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering how to display disk space in commad line? Used/free etc. Bob df -h will probably get you what you want. man df man du HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Newsreader to post multi-part binaries?

2003-01-18 Thread Todd Slater
I thought Pan could post multi-part binaries, but I'm not seeing how to do an attachment. Is there another option for 8.2? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Save a search

2003-01-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:48:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: At some point in the last week or so I seem to have lost the ability to save a search in Mozilla/Netscape. I've had a good browse through Preferences, looking for something that I may have changed, but I can't find the reason.

Re: [newbie] Save a search

2003-01-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:40:44PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 8:03 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:48:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: At some point in the last week or so I seem to have lost the ability to save a search in Mozilla/Netscape. I've

Re: [newbie] where can I get these nice monitoring tools

2003-01-13 Thread Todd Slater
On 13 Jan 2003 22:31:23 -0500 ThinKer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie Question Alert!!! In these screenshots...(from the This is personal thread... http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2003_01_12_23_26_50?full=1 and http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/fluxbox.png The

Re: [newbie] This is personal!

2003-01-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:37:12 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:35:09 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, how did you get past the glibc problem? Funny you should ask, Mark. I hosed my system once trying

Re: [newbie] sylpheed - importing addresses

2003-01-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:54:48 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm thinking of changing over to sylpheed-08.3claws and wondered if there is a relatively simple way of importing my evolution contacts into the sylpheed address book. I think this may have been addressed before,

Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames

2003-01-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:26:13 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-11-2003 23:55]: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:22:43 -0800 You don't have to use the ls command, this will work for files with spaces in the name and also accounts for differing case

Re: [newbie] VCD slideshow

2003-01-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:25:13 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Jan 2003 06:36:28 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to go about making a slideshow that can be made into a VCD? Todd You can use cinelerra to do it - almost

Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images

2003-01-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:13:15 + _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 04:07, _nasturtium wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: do a: display nameoftheimage.JPG (display is part of the

[newbie] This is personal!

2003-01-12 Thread Todd Slater
Playing with ROX and Fluxbox on 8.2. I have the pinboard working OK so I can have desktop icons (not that I use them). So I spent time today looking for icons and just generally customising the look and feel. (See http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2003_01_12_23_26_50?full=1 if

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:26:55 -0700 Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:58:21 -0500 Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why when I have a crash or some like that, when the computer boots, it asks me to make the check of the file system ? shouldn't it ask to avoid the

Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames

2003-01-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:42:48 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 4:46 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:31:05 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if someone could assist me in creating a shell script that will take

[newbie] VCD slideshow

2003-01-11 Thread Todd Slater
Does anybody know how to go about making a slideshow that can be made into a VCD? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames

2003-01-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:22:43 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-10-2003 23:46]: #!/bin/bash EXT=.jpg NAME=pic CNT=1 for image in `ls /path/to/directory | sort` do FCNT=`printf %02d $CNT` echo $image == $FCNT-$NAME

Re: [newbie] Sort of OT - language

2003-01-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:01:10AM -0200, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: snip Talking about cultures Do you know any other country with such a multi-racial mix as Brazil? In the USA, they live together but, apartthey don't mix like here! This pluri-cultural background

Re: [newbie] Sort of OT - language

2003-01-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:10:33AM -0500, et wrote: snip Cuba, from what I understand, is pretty multi-racial, too. Most other Latin countries seem to have a clasismo like the US; there may be Indian, African, and European, but they don't much mix and one can pretty much guess the social

Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?

2003-01-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:00:51 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have mandrake running on a computer with no video card or monitor on it at all? And then admin the box via ssh,vnc or something else? Yes! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames

2003-01-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:31:05 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if someone could assist me in creating a shell script that will take the contents of a directory and rename them a certain way. For example - 4 files in a directory: a.jpg ab.jpg abc.jpg abcd.jpg

[newbie] getpix update

2003-01-08 Thread Todd Slater
I should keep a list of people (if any?) who use this so I won't trouble the list at large with this. You can change the default extension in the main config section (if your camera uses .JPG instead of .jpg, just change it there). Fixed the montage feature for those that like to generate a

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:00:00AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 2:34 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip That's cool, I didn't realize Moz had that. I always use the keyboard--Control + t to open a new tab, then you can use the drop-down in the address bar of the new tab. I

Re: [newbie] Re: Archives

2003-01-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:07:54AM +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Chris wrote: On Saturday 04 January 2003 11:21 am, Todd Slater decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: The list does not provide that feature. Todd So, if I'm looking to see how

Re: [newbie] smtp vs. sendmail

2003-01-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:19:38AM -0600, Linus Drouhard wrote: I had used the ISP's mail servers but something broke in Linux. I could not set up K-mail or Evolution to link to the ISP's SMTP servers. I verified the problem was on my end by logging into Windows and using Outlook Express.

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:38:06PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Get a life, Daniel, or you'll be old before your time. BTW, thank you for cropping your quote - that's helpful. Anne This is getting out of hand. Don't be so defensive, Anne, nobody is attacking you. Todd Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:24:41 -0500 David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that anybody really cares. But I tried Phoenix and I am about to uninstall it. I don't notice any difference in performance between Mozilla and Phoenix (I have a 1.4GHZ AMD) and I like the stuff like Open a Web

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:19:53 -0500 David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 09:07 pm, Todd Slater wrote: What's the Open a Web Page you refer to? Todd Actually, its Open a Web Location under the File heading. I have it set to Open in a New Navigator Tab. I like

Re: [newbie] smtp vs. sendmail

2003-01-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:19:40 -0600 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I broke K-mail the other day. couldn't send e-mail. Set up Evolution. couldn't send from that either. Booted in Windows. Outlook Express sent fine. Dang. Rebooted Linux and set up Sendmail.

Re: [newbie] Re: Archives

2003-01-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 16:44:15 +0200 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Tnx Todd for letting us know of the available custom searches however it still does not provide a solution enabling a user to submit an email query querying the archive for particular specified words.

Re: [newbie] Re: Archives

2003-01-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 17:17:10 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 04 January 2003 11:21 am, Todd Slater decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: The list does not provide that feature. Again, if you look at the full headers of mail from the newbie list you

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 23:22:43 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I've noticed there is a lot of Red and Yellow in Linux... and green. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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