Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake - real world style

) snip Yadda yadda, sigh, humpf. -- Todd Slater We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Email Service

are running a firewall, make sure you don't have your mailer blocked. Can you send mail to an outside addy using your local account? Todd -- Todd Slater What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau) Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:48:30 -0500 Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? Zanesville, Ohio. About 60 miles east of Columbus. Winter? What winter? -- Todd Slater The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

, trying to learn Perl etc. Oddly enough, this will probably spill over to work as I plan to set up a Linux server there to experiment with open source educational apps. Mis dos centavitos. Todd -- Todd Slater No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems

Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.

understand. John, why don't you stop asking questions if you already know all the answers? Todd -- Todd Slater I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy

Re: [newbie] how to create a logout message?

it per individual user, but is there a universal file like /etc/profile? Try ~/.bash_logout That only does it for root, not other users. Todd -- Todd Slater I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable

[newbie] virus scanners (again)

these work with Mandrake? Thanks, Todd -- Todd Slater No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back

[newbie] how to open IMAP port?

, Todd -- Todd Slater Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat (Martin H Fischer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom

[newbie] 3 cheers for Linux

figure out how to do color adjustments in batch, as my camera gives a slightly reddish cast to images, I would be totally satisfied Happy Camper Todd -- Todd Slater It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results The wish to preserve

Re: [newbie] how to open IMAP port?

destination, could be blocked there as well. I recommend that you read the firewall-howto and ethernet-howto so you can see in clearly defined terms where I am saying to open this port and that port. Will do. Thanks, Todd -- Todd Slater The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound

[newbie] no more ssi

What would cause apache to no longer execute ssi commands? It was working before, then the wife turned off the computer (bad!) and now my ssi commands don't get executed. I checked httpdcommon.conf and the shtml section is uncommented. Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] cd burning trouble

. Thanks! Todd -- Todd Slater What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau) On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:15:48 -0500 Andre Dubuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, First off, if there are any errors in this, it's because I had to copy

[newbie] question re gtk and skins/themes

appeared in the list of installable themes. Can anyone point me to a how-to or tutorial? Thanks, Todd -- Todd Slater My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school. (Margaret Mead) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Question about Sylpheed and -claws

I think I have decided to abandon Evolution in favor of Sylpheed. For those of you who use Sylpheed-claws, can you tell me what enhanced features you like that are not in Sylpheed? Can you use a script for .signature like in Kmail? Is it worth it to have the two installed simultaneously? I

Re: [newbie] Question about Sylpheed and -claws

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:06:32 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My favourite enhancements include a vastly improved filtering system (better than Kmail's) and better word wrapping. For more details, see http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/. Can you use a script for

Re: [newbie] Translation

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:19:48 -0700 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're using Konqueror as your browser, select Show Extra toolbar from the Settings pull-down menu. Then when you're on a German page, click the fish button, and select German to English. I tried this using Konqueror 2.2.1

[newbie] IM choice?

Just curious about your choices for IM software that is compatible with various services like Yahoo, MSN, AIM etc. Gabber, Jabber, Everybuddy, GAIM, what's your favorite? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] IM choice?

On Saturday 09 February 2002 01:42 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: I'd like to piggyback off this question -- I help with a school for computer newbies (teaching Windows at this point ;-( ). We've now set up a Linux server, not connected to the Internet, with the intent of running Apache, squid,

[newbie] another evolution question or two

I just installed Ximian GNOME. Nice. But, now Galeon is messed up. When I try to read help in Evolution, I get an error in Galeon. I looked on the Ximian site and can't find the answer to this simple question: how do you limit line/column length in Evolution? I have looked everywhere and

[newbie] how to edit .login?

If I want to run fortune when a user logs in, how do I edit the .login file? I searched in my home directory, and cannot find this file. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:08 am, ed tharp wrote: this is code red or nimda worms (or some worm close to it) and the solution is to run linux. then, if you care, block the IP sending the requests. since you don't run IIS, you will not have a problem other than the bandwidth used by the

[newbie] Am I being hacked?

Checking the webalizer stats for Apache, I see that I have a huge amount of 404 errors. I looked in the error log and found a single IP address requesting all sorts of Windows programs and directories. For example: /winnt/system32/cmd.exe /MSADC/root.exe root.exe and cmd.exe are the two main

[newbie] trashing messages in Evolution

After much downloading and updating or rpms, I now have Evolution 1.0.1 up and running. One stupid question: how do I get a message to go to the trash can, rather than having a strike-through? I notice that I can expunge messages, but that completely deletes them. I would like to be able to

Re: [newbie] trashing messages in Evolution

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 12:15 pm, Andy Gay wrote: Go to Actions menu, then punch Empty Trash. Is there a way to send the message to the trash without permanently deleting it? T On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 10:08, Todd Slater wrote: After much downloading and updating or rpms, I now have

Re: [newbie] trashing messages in Evolution

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 04:23 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: Here is how Evolution works: 1. When you delete a message in any folder, it is struck through (or hidden, depending on your settings) and copied to the Trash folder. 2. When you undelete a message (right-click any struck-through

Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 03:20 pm, Andre Dubuc wrote: The problem with my LM8.0 configuration for Apache is that it doesn't have those lines AddType in any of the .conf files! I wondered what they were talking about -- and I have checked them all! In desperation, I finally decided to go

[newbie] mailing list manager help

Has anybody on the list had any luck at setting up mailman or sympa? I'm trying but can't find any documentation (man or help) and the web sites haven't proven useful. TIA Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] help installing openoffice.org?

Finally getting around to trying to get openoffice.org installed, and I know this has come up here before. I dl'd and extracted it in my home directory. Ran setup -net. Specified install directory as /usr/share/openoffice. Installed fine. changed to /usr/share/openoffice/program and ran

Re: [newbie] help installing openoffice.org?

On Friday 25 January 2002 06:58 pm, Nelson Bartley wrote: Now that you've installed it w/ the -net, you need to run the setup program again for each user, so the program can install settings in their home directories. You'll find the soffice executable in the location you install it to

[newbie] ISO image viewer

I'm able to dl images from my fuji camera now, and one of the things I miss from Windows is the software that came with the camera--exif viewer. This would show thumbnails of the images, and allow me to rename them. The files have info about the date, so I always renamed them to the date so

[newbie] Zip/KDE annoyance

annoying to have to keep doing that everytime. -- Todd Slater mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free since 13 January 2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] befuddled-mounting media

I thought I had everything working, until I recently tried to mount floppy, zip, and cd from the KDE desktop. Each time I try to mount I hear the drives spinning, desktop icons appear to be mounted, but trying to read I get error: /mnt/floppy or /mnt/zip or /mnt/cdrom does not exist. For zip

[newbie] how to remove applets from taskbar?

I've honestly looked for help on this elsewhere. I added a dictionary applet and newsticker applet to the taskbar, now I want them gone. Clicking, right clicking, million-clicking doesn't give me any options. Anybody recommend a good book on Mandrake or Linux in general? Todd -- Todd Slater

[newbie] proftpd question

OS and exactly what is wrong. Am I required to have a static ip to start this? Is there some other process I should be running? I'm not sure what I would put in the /etc/hosts file, or how to fix the dns. :-( Gracias, Todd -- Todd Slater mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-Free since 13

[newbie] Domain hosting--how to?

I've been playing with Apache and am able to access my machine by typing in the IP address in a browser. I am connected to RoadRunner by a cable modem. RR uses DHCP, so my IP could theoretically change. I named the machine NAME.columbus.rr.com, which I found from winipcfg (when I still had

Re: [newbie] Bastille error FIXED

On Monday 14 January 2002 08:58 pm, you wrote: When I try to run Interactive Bastille I get the following error: Using Tk user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib

[newbie] question about security

I just got my cable modem running under 8.1. I set up a firewall (Tiny firewall) via the Control Center. I'm not running a web or mail server or anything. Is this adequate? Also, what is good for virus scanning? I didn't find any virus scanner on the download edition cds. TIA, Todd Want

Re[2]: [newbie] question about security

a lot, mostly cause you just won't need it. welcome to linux. :-) Thanks, Shane! I have everything copied from Windows that I can move to Mandrake, and I'm getting ready to install and get rid of Windows once and for all. Yipee! Todd -- Todd Slater mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[newbie] Applications crashing--how to troubleshoot?

When I try to run ImageMagick, I see the hourglass working in the task bar, but the program never comes up. When trying to run Tuxracer, my monitor flickers and when the display reappears, half the display is off-screen and it freezes. Any idea how to troubleshoot? Todd -- Todd Slater mailto

Re: [newbie] Opera 6.0

know what to do to Java with Opera? Under Preferences (Alt-P), Multimedia, Media Types, Enable Java. I assume you downloaded the version with Java, as Opera offers versions with and without. HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.toddslater.org Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Can't print

. (Red usually means bad, I fear.) I apologize for being such a bonehead about this :-(. TIA, Todd -- Todd Slater mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.toddslater.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Zip and parallel printer

if the printer will work without it tomorrow when I can think straight. Todd -- Todd Slater mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.toddslater.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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