Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
config dir is ~/.sylpheed-gtk2 > You can copy your old config dir to the new location > > * plugins > You will need to reload your plugins -- Chuck MATTSEN / mattsen at arvig dot net / Mahnomen, MN, USA Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.10-3.mm.9mdk RLU #34651

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-04 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
ead rumours that > > because linux doesn't support adware it therefore encourages > > browsing for porn. M$ has referred to Linux as a cancer before, > > might it now be 'the cancer that causes the moral decline of > > society'? ;) > What ever you call it..

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-03 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:20:28 -0500 "Mr. Geek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if > someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Sinux? -- Chuck MATTSEN / mattsen at arvig dot net / Mahnomen

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-03 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
if I've ever seen one. Do you own any goats? -- Chuck MATTSEN / mattsen at arvig dot net / Mahnomen, MN, USA RLU #346519 / Mandrakelinux 10.2-Cooker / 2.6.10-1.mm.18mdk MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Want to buy your Pac

Re: [newbie] Maintenance, what if any?

2005-02-17 Thread Chuck Mattsen
ixed the problem and the logs remain tiny now. :-) But similar, yeah. :-) -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm __

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/")

2005-02-15 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:02:39 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've added a section to the PopFile page on the TWiki at > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PopFile#Using_upgrade_to_change_to_an_orthodox_install Wonderful. Thanks. I'll try it out

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade

2005-02-14 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:05 -0700, mike wrote: > Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > > Same with Firefox ... my bookmarks are still there, and my Google > > toolbar is still there, but I've lost the ability to make profile > > changes (it warns it couldn't write to the profile an

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade

2005-02-14 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
~/.phoenix are interesting > in this respect. Nope, nothing amiss there, near as I can tell. User still owns. Hmmm. Thx. -- Chuck MATTSEN ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade

2005-02-14 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
oblematic from the get-go, but was hoping they'd ironed things out a bit better by now. Oh, well. Anyway, TIA for any pointers. I've had little luck finding my way around the Mozilla forum/FAQs for this. -- Chuck MATTSEN ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Ma

Re: [newbie] login problem

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 20:37, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Hey, Derek ... I've also done as you suggest above in switching to udev, but at boot I'm getting a lot of error messages reading: open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory Is there something else th

Re: [newbie] login problem

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
n as running, to start at boot ... What am I missing here? Log-in is now lightning fast in comparison, of course, but still a long string of those errors during both boot and shutdown. ...? -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Regis

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/")

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
rse beyond that set of instructions for a fresh install. I think most of the folks hanging out there are just too familiar with CVS and all, and just don't realize how difficult it might be for someone else to perform an update when there's no packaged .rpm for Mdk. -- Chuck MATTSEN

Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/")

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
tall/ directions in the POPFile user space, but I don't recall seeing anything about updating an extant install and John's always changing things around from one database to another, moving files around, etc., so I'm hesitant to attempt it without a walk-through. Any pointers appre

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:18, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been 'cracked' by a spammer. Na

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
ally need a steer in the right direction before I muck things up royally. :) -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Success is more a function of consistent common se

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway (below). Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, it would appear that this could account for the missing nearly 1 gi

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
31768 -rw--- 1 0 0 197160960 Feb 12 08:53 info [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Patience; n. A minor form of despair, disguised

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
things to check out, then. I've been running with roughly the same free space on / for quite some time now, so not sure what caused it to suddenly begin filling up. Appreciate the detailed info above. Again, thx. :-) -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup

[newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-nilly? Other things to look for? Any help appreciated so that I can at least get back in and work on this from within the GUI (so, again, please dumb-down appropriately any responses that require me using the CLI, if you'd be so kind). Thanks. -- Chuck Mattsen (Mahn

[newbie] New setup problems

2004-11-10 Thread Chuck Paulien
e top left install mandrake option nothing happens. This is a Windows 98 SE system. I would like to start off with a dual boot setup.   Any help would be appreciated.   ****Chuck Paulien

[Fwd: Laptop CPU Temps (WAS: Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup)]

2004-08-06 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sympa bounced this once (see below); hopefully, this time it'll make it. :-\ - Original Message Subject: Laptop CPU Temps (WAS: Re: [newbie] [EMAIL PROTECTED] install/setup) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:00:15 -0500 From: Chuck MA

Solved (WAS: Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup)

2004-08-05 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | Okay, I'm feeling even denser than usual today. Could someone point | me to a good, comprehensive site for all things SETI under Linux? I | know it's a CLI version, and there are various monitoring programs | for it

[newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-05 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
s what I'd like to use), but I really need a site that gives me a step-by-step from start to finish, if there is one. So far, I've not found anything that dumbs it down to the degree that I apparently need today. TIA - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandra

Re: [newbie] Gimp 1.2 and 2.0 together on one system

2004-07-14 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
ountered no problems. - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Random Thought/Quote for this Message: ~ Being able to say NO is the root to reclaiming your life.

Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player

2004-07-14 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | urpmi realplay My bad . . . after a double check, the package I have installed is RealPlayer-8.0-8mdk . . . I can't recall, however, the source (i.e., whether from one of the mirrors or Power Pack CD). - -- Chuck MA

Re: [newbie] Wine 20040213

2004-06-29 Thread Chuck Lutz
ht consider grabbing the 06152004 version from the website- it is the latest. NB: the graphical configure tool included only works up to the version before 06152004, but you might not need it anyway, esp. if you are doing a 'no windows' install. Good Luck, Chuck - Original Message

Re: [newbie] Firefox and Thunderbird aren't playing nice!

2004-06-27 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul wrote: | Op Sun, 27 Jun 2004 06:54:01 -0500 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: | |>There's been a thread on the Cooker list about problems with 0.7 and |>0.9 Thunderbird and Firefox, respectively ... seems many are having |>problems.

Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?

2004-06-27 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
lder TB no longer crashes on those messages. I just had another one crash TB this morning (not from Oozy, but someone else using the Windows '1256' charset), and this seemed to fix it.] - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker

Re: [newbie] Firefox and Thunderbird aren't playing nice!

2004-06-27 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
speak to either upgrade personally, as I've held off after seeing others' difficulties with them. I'll wait, and that would be my suggestion (beyond trying the run-as-root method, since it's nondestructive :-). - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Ma

Re: [newbie] Mandrake OT

2004-06-26 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hoyt Bailey wrote: | On Saturday 26 June 2004 18:19, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | |>robin wrote: |>| The traditional method is to go to a crossroads at midnight, draw a |>| pentagram on the ground and sacrifice a goat. Otherwise, the metho

Re: [newbie] Mandrake OT

2004-06-26 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
. - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Random Thought/Quote for this Message: ~ The food that you get in art museums is institutional revenge for the art

Re: [newbie] Multipal copies of same message

2004-06-25 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hoyt Bailey wrote: | Is anyone else getting 3 or 4 copies of each message. Whats causing it? No. Errant filtering? Improper ISP logouts? Possibly just sympa silliness? - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux

Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?

2004-06-24 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JoeHill wrote: | ...did better than that: | | http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=189893 Love it. - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk MT Lookup: http

Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?

2004-06-24 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
azards of indiscriminately clicking proffered links. - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Random Thought/Quote for this Message: ~ This life is a test. It is

Re: [newbie] XP/MDK dual boot -- setting up shared FAT32 partition

2004-06-20 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
> /dev/hda740134864 6839248+ 83 Linux |> [EMAIL PROTECTED] chuck]# |> |> | Ok - the section of your drive from 1917 to 3184 is not "owned" by any | partition. You have two choices here. You can create a primary | partition out of it, or you can create a second

Re: [newbie] XP/MDK dual boot -- setting up shared FAT32 partition

2004-06-20 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
r not claimed by any partition. It makes a | difference on what you can do with it. Gladly ... thanks (I /almost/ followed part of that LOL): [EMAIL PROTECTED] chuck]# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 *

[newbie] XP/MDK dual boot -- setting up shared FAT32 partition

2004-06-20 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
er to a really //basic// step-by-step, a link would be appreciated. All I've found so far is either not Mandrake-specific or details only part of the procedure/concept. TIA, - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kerne

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :-) Borked resume, cannot complete boot

2004-06-19 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
trivial, considering the list volume), very helpful, very friendly and very knowledgeable. Thanks again. - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk 15:05:00 up 2:32, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.10 - --

Re: Follow-up (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :-) Borked resume, cannot complete boot)

2004-06-19 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
k around because I figured I'd learn even faster than relaxing with one of the commonly dubbed "stable" releases. And, so far, that has been true, I think. Though, if the listmembers in general feel no questions should be asked by a Cooker user, I certainly wouldn't fight that co

Follow-up (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :-) Borked resume, cannot complete boot)

2004-06-19 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | Okay, keep "Newbie" in mind here, okay? :-) | | Somehow, I threw my laptop running Mandrake (Cooker 10.1, but I don't | think that matters in this case) into resume mode; now, it's | consistently hanging whe

[newbie] Hay-ulp! :-) Borked resume, cannot complete boot

2004-06-19 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Okay, keep "Newbie" in mind here, okay? :-) Somehow, I threw my laptop running Mandrake (Cooker 10.1, but I don't think that matters in this case) into resume mode; now, it's consistently hanging when it tries to resume (at "Waiting for DMAs to settle down..." and will go no further. Again, ne

[newbie] Problem with fortunes, .signature and/or crontab

2004-06-15 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
riod is up, the signature generated is like the one below (i.e., minus the tagline itself). Maybe I'm just too tired, but I don't see what's wrong here. Here's my file to generate the .signature file for Thunderbird: ~ #bin bash ~ echo "-- " > /home/chuck/.sign

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Kuhn wrote: | On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:36, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: |>Not that I disagree with much of the rest of your self-described rant, |>but what's wrong with going to www.kde.org ?? | | Nothing, really - but still, all in all, t

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Kuhn wrote: | KDE's website all | but vanished (surf to www.kde.com and see what I mean). Not that I disagree with much of the rest of your self-described rant, but what's wrong with going to www.kde.org ?? - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail

2004-06-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
of days, it seems) ... easiest thing to do is to filter it to the trash. - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk 13:00:00 up 20:05, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.08 Random Thought/Quote for this Message

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

2004-06-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
ny of his emails in Evolution, MozillaMail or | KMail. Anything at the TBird site? Haven't gotten that far yet (one instance wasn't sufficient for me to tackle a search of the forums there, which I find rather awkward), and wouldn't even have mentioned it except in response as a &quo

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

2004-06-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
s hasn't worked for me. But trying it might be easier than going for world domination. Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Amy wrote: To start, I'm running Thunderbird 0.6. I have all the mail from this list viewing threaded. I have found that when I open certain emails from the list, Thunderbird

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

2004-06-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
mail clients because I love Thunderbird, I'd greatly appreciate it. Not sure if it's the charset or something else, but you could /try/ filtering on that header and sending those e-mails to an "Unsafe" folder or something, then view those in the folder with the preview pane off.

Re: [newbie] laptop won't shut down completley

2004-06-03 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
utdown, maybe you can figure out how to get my 3D/OpenGL running ... or a functional Shockwave plug-in for my Mozilla Firefox. :-) Those are _my_ annoyances right now. LOL.) :) -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel

[OT] Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
er page of code from the monthly magazine so that I could play some lame version of "Breakout" on the sucker (not to mention the hours debugging it of typos, etc.). But then, I was quite happy at the time with DOS and BBS'es on my old 286 with it's 20MB hard drive and 2400

Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
t and fired the sucker up. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk 13:50:00 up 6:21, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 0.32, 0.23 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Instead of trying to build newer and bigger we

Re: [newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
ut I'm leaning toward the errant update theory now, pending verification/a fix. Appreciate the time taken ... -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk 02:30:01 up 2:03, 1 user, load average: 1.11, 1.22, 0.98

Re: [newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
n. If I look in Gnome sound settings it comes up saying that artsd is suspended. Again, I'm totally at a loss at this kind of thing, and longing for the days of wizards and point and click, I must confess. I had much more free time then. :-) Thanks, though. Hope this helps and good

Re: [newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin (More Info)

2004-05-30 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Have had no problems with sound throughout the day, receiving system notifications, listening to streaming audio off and on, etc. Just tried opening up xmms via Streamtuner, and received a crash notification: The application Sounderserver (artsd) crashed and caused

[newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin

2004-05-30 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
01672ed in Arts::AudioSubSystem::open (this=) at audiosubsys.cc:361 #9 0x40167222 in Arts::AudioSubSystem::check (this=) at audiosubsys.cc:341 #10 0x0805ea8d in main (argc=0, argv=0xb7f4) at artsd.cc:362 -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (C

Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

2004-05-23 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
us sent them as individual messages, but I may be wrong. But, you're right, some ISPs would probably end up stopping such a send with either the To: or Bcc: method otherwise. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel

Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

2004-05-23 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
t, instead? The servers need never know. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk 20:45:00 up 2:20, 1 user, load average: 0.43, 0.37, 0.19 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: For three days after death

Re: [newbie] 10

2004-05-17 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 11:57 -0500, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:29 +0100, Phlip J Scott wrote: > > Hi all just installed man 10 on 3 cd`s everything went smoothly untill > > reboot. When it boots up it gets to "looking for new hardware" and will go >

Re: [newbie] FreeCell

2004-05-08 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
ffhand if PySOL is part of the standard "games" install or not, but readily available nonetheless. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk 00:26:23 up 1 day, 14:40, 1 user, load average: 0.21

Re: [newbie] problems with Kontact mail

2004-05-02 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 20:55 +0200, Paul wrote: > Op Sun, 02 May 2004 13:42:07 -0500 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: > > > Sending failed: > > Unknown error > > Unexpected server response to EHLO command. > > Did you by chance configure an ESMTP server instead of

Re: [newbie] problems with Kontact mail

2004-05-02 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
p with them and have remained with Evolution for now, and my attempts to narrow it down on my own have just confused me more. :-) -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 13:36:35 up 1:57,

Re: [newbie] Mozilla v1.6

2004-05-01 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
ail & Newsgroups | Message Display and uncheck "Display emoticons as graphics." -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 06:20:05 up 23:11, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.09, 0.13 We a

Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing

2004-04-30 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Mandrake, do I have to use something > > like Gimp, or is there a "paint" equivalent? > > > Try ksnapshot. It should be installed. ... and, if I'm not mistaken, if it's installed you need merely hit the "prt scr" button to invoke it. -- Chuck MATTS

Re: [newbie] write access to NTFS partitions

2004-04-30 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
ome The conventional wisdom seems to be that it shouldn't be attempted, as it's not well enough supported and is rather risky. If you need to read and write data from both Windows and Linux, better to set up a shared FAT partition for doing so. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU

[newbie] Rpmdrake bug and question re running 10.1 cooker

2004-04-06 Thread Chuck Mattsen
hat I'm asking, probably in a more or less bass ackwards way here ... I think I have a grasp of //some// of the concepts and structures involved here, but not all, certainly, so I need clarification up the proverbial wazoo before I'm comfortable with a particular course of action. TIA

Re: [newbie] Today's cooker updates and KDE 3.2.1 (bye bye)

2004-04-06 Thread Chuck Mattsen
rts that would seem to be addressing the behavior I saw (updates downloaded but not installed, able to install manually). In any case, I seem to be fully operational and back to normal now, though another glitch or two wouldn't surprise me. :) Thx. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTE

[newbie] Today's cooker updates and KDE 3.2.1 (bye bye)

2004-04-05 Thread Chuck Mattsen
up (most are at this point, I think), and there are a ton of updates out there, of course ... caution, though. Well, if nothing else I get to have "10.1" in the sig ... that switched automagically. :-\ -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cook

Re: [newbie] Re: OpenGL/Mesa broken? -- SOLVED

2004-04-05 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 17:33, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:12:42 -0600 > Chuck Mattsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My messages sent over the past 24-36 hours have not made the list, as > > far as I can tell, so this may not, either. :-) But, in case the

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-05 Thread Chuck Mattsen
t it. Oh, xmms would crash upon attempting to play an .mp3, but that was fixed in the first round of updates for me. (There will be a //ton// of updates, so be prepared for a long update session after install.) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (

Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN

2004-04-03 Thread Chuck Mattsen
s freed up again ... Monday? -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 13:11:41 up 1 day, 1:03, 1 user, load average: 0.55, 0.32, 0.15 Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevi

Re: [newbie] foo, master foo

2004-04-03 Thread Chuck Mattsen
eans, foo, foo bar, > master foo? Instead of "foo bar," look up "fubar," which was the original acronym. :-) If that doesn't yield results, then obviously it's SNAFU. :-) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) fo

Re: [ml] [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN

2004-04-03 Thread Chuck Mattsen
etween Gaim and Yahoo (which, I understand, was just fixed with the 0.76? release), and it's served me well so far. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 09:40:41 up 21:32, 1 user, load average: 0.62, 0.25, 0.1

Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN

2004-04-03 Thread Chuck Mattsen
the message "[EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not > supported". > I`d be grateful for any suggestions. kopete? :-) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 09:39:48 up 21:32, 1 user, lo

[newbie] Test

2004-04-02 Thread Chuck Mattsen
I'm in DNS hell, apparently, and able to receive from the list, but not to send. Just talked to my ISP, so testing to see if they did anything worthwhile... :-\ As you were. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3

[newbie] Don't you just hate it when people send "test" messages to the list...

2004-04-02 Thread Chuck Mattsen
host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [209.81.96.55] So, finally tried unsubbing and resubbing this evening. Fingers crossed. (Oddly, it didn't affect my "expert" list membership or send abilities). -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux rel

[newbie] Re: OpenGL/Mesa broken? -- SOLVED

2004-04-02 Thread Chuck Mattsen
the first place, but I needed to go into the X Server settings within Mandrake Control Center and reselect the proper hardware (Radeon), as well as enable 3D. After a log-off and log-on, all is well. On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 21:26, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > Okay, resending, as it's been a good

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
e file itself and the way I had created it when transporting it over from my Windows installation. Probably my choice of editors, but I've not narrowed the cause down yet. :*) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 08:39, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > I managed to get mine working, including the tagline/'fortune' ... I can > > still only use others' fortunes, however, as all attempts to compile my &

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
seem to be operational yet. I think it is checking the > update servers which do not show any updates yet. At the moment all > enchancements to 10.0 are going into mandrale-devel/stable That's my impression, as well, and I didn't expect any updates to be out there at this point,

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
installer (clicked on the link for 10.0 in the right-hand column), and it installed the required perl/TrayIcon module, so not sure why your install was crapping out. In any case, after installing, uploading my configuration and personal data, the icon sits in the tray saying, "Service de

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
up with that, but figuring that out is currently on my e-mail client "wish"/to-do list. :-) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 18:22:25 up 44 min, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.02 If you took al

Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 09:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's "usual" or > > something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) > > > > I've noted

[newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
nce and always just a solitary, nonrepeatable "crash," but one of those "Hmmm..." things, nonetheless. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 02:57:30 up 2:17,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:37, anton wrote: > Again, wtf is urpmi, and isn't it for installing apps? What do you mean > you install documentation? Why do you need to install documentation? For that matter, wtf is "wtf" (I know, but as long as we're being argumentative

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
s "free" but you can also buy a hard copy. It's definitely worth a look. Doesn't "urpmi rute" work, as well? -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 02:25:53 up 1:45, 1 user, load aver

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
$50 total, S&H included. > And the pundits that talk about how linux is not ready for the desktop have no > idea what they are talking about. Linux has been ready for this desktop for > the last 4 years. I run a 100% MS free PC. My processor has never seen MS > code. Linux is

Re: [newbie] Popfile config

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
TIA I may be wrong, but did you also set up POPFile to run as a service? (I believe the instructions are in the same doc you referenced above.) I don't have the POPFile/console problem you report, and am running it as a service. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandr

Re: [newbie] Okay, still on the subject of e-mail signatures... (random taglines)

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:41, Todd Slater wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:08:23AM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > Any suggestions on random tagline generators? I see a number of them in > > a quick Google search (TaRT, gensig, and others), but any > > recommendations for o

Re: [newbie] Okay, still on the subject of e-mail signatures... (random taglines)

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:41, Todd Slater wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:08:23AM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > Any suggestions on random tagline generators? I see a number of them in > > a quick Google search (TaRT, gensig, and others), but any > > recommendations for o

[newbie] Okay, still on the subject of e-mail signatures... (random taglines)

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
Any suggestions on random tagline generators? I see a number of them in a quick Google search (TaRT, gensig, and others), but any recommendations for one that is (A) simple to use (for a capital-N newbie) and maintain, while also (B) flexible and configurable? TIA -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:08, bascule wrote: > try using echo -e and using \\n to represent a newline, thus: > #bin bash > echo -e "Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN" \\n > echo -e "Registered Linux User #346519" \\n > echo -e `cat /etc/

Re: [newbie] URPMI oddity

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
ve you tried using cooker, instead? I've had no problems using the ftp.club-internet.fr mirror using cooker; once MDK 10 goes final/official, then one should be able to point at "_10.0" sources, or so I understand it ... I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. :-) -- C

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-24 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:26, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:11 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:08, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > - From the PM point of view, create your fat32 partition for data > > > immediately after the ntfs pa

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-24 Thread Chuck Mattsen
rive DriveSpace'd to approx. 1 Gig, etc., so I'm quite the miser when it comes to disk space otherwise :-), and just want to stash music and graphics there, really. TIA -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 __

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Chuck Mattsen
e" space in the midst there, or am I just missing some important concept here? (A somewhat rhetorical question, as I know I'm missing a lot in terms of knowledge of the process). -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #34651

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Chuck Mattsen
mes, say, an "F:" drive within Windows, is that the same as creating it as, say, "/data" from within Linux, or are there some gotchas in this process? Paranoid, as always, and certainly not used to the whole partitioning "thang" ... TIA -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Chuck Mattsen
d it quickly did the NTFS resizing, etc., that Partition Magic had been balking at; no errors, no complaints, and I'm still here. :) Thx. -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread Chuck Mattsen
ker from the 'net. Not safe at all, if the information is truly sensitive. -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2->10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread Chuck Mattsen
appreciate users' willingness to experiment with the latest releases, whether newbies or more-seasoned users. Of course, if the problem is brought to the list in the form of a raving, angry complaint, then the "what did you expect?" response is probably just

Re: [newbie] Power Off

2004-03-18 Thread Chuck Mattsen
t; btw. FWIW, I had the same problem while running 9.2, but with the upgrade to 10.0 and the 2.6x kernel, the power-down is now complete. Whether you can get it to work while still running 9.2 and/or earlier kernel I must leave to others, but the upgrade fixed that for me, among other things.

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