On Sunday 16 November 2003 10:40 am, Margot wrote:
Browsing in my local library a few months ago, trying to find any useful
books on computing, I discovered that they stored the computer books
next to the books on...the Loch Ness Monster! The librarian explained
that it was because of the
On Saturday 15 November 2003 11:06 am, Margot wrote:
LOL! Priceless! Thank you so much for posting your 'confession' - made
my morning ;-)
Margot
gee, glad my idiocy made your morning.. ;)
yeah, i just sat here in shock when i realized what was going on. and really,
i thought i had
On Monday 10 November 2003 08:07 pm, crak600 wrote:
I'm on cable. occasionally, i'll get an e-mail, or i'll open a web page or
whatever, internet related sounds, and i'll get sounds from cable TV coming
out of my computer speakers. The other day it went on for maybe 30 seconds
until i
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:03 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Mike:
Have you tried getting the Playboy channel?
-- cmg
Or even freakier - broadcasts from the past...or future! (try to see what
the winning lottery numbers are going to be!):-)
if i could do that, do you think i'd tell
I'm on cable. occasionally, i'll get an e-mail, or i'll open a web page or
whatever, internet related sounds, and i'll get sounds from cable TV coming
out of my computer speakers. The other day it went on for maybe 30 seconds
until i switched web pages, i thought it was something related to
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 03:46 am, Marc wrote:
Not all that odd at all. A classic case of TVI ( TV interference )
And there could be a number of causes. Do you have any kind of a
large plastic window cut into your computer like a lot of folks do
for game machines, that could be a factor.
On Monday 08 September 2003 10:23 am, HaywireMac wrote:
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 16:44:01 +
crak600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
well, currently all my mail is saved onto my /home partition, but
every other document/file/picture/whatever i get e-mailed to me that i
want to save, i save
On Monday 08 September 2003 11:21 am, ed tharp wrote:
I think I see what you mean, and maybe, for you, a decoder might take
some of the overhead from the CPU. I would see if I had something
sharing the IRQ with the sound card tho. and see if moving the sound
card might make some difference.
On Saturday 06 September 2003 05:56 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
I'm a little fuzzy on just what your video problems are. If you
inherited the GeF card on a screwed mobo, it could just be that the
card is compromised also. I believe I'd boot to lilo, an hit Esc,
then, 'linux init 3 mem=860M'
On Sunday 07 September 2003 04:25 am, Marc wrote:
Wrong. Rebooting into windoze would only cause a problem if you then
open the virus in a windoze email client or somehow transfered the virus to
your windoze partition
well, currently all my mail is saved onto my /home partition, but every
On Sunday 07 September 2003 01:05 pm, Michael Scottaline wrote:
=
No need for a flame war, but I'd suggest that those who still, for whatever
reason, use some iteration Windows, try to avoid using the virus magnet
known as Outlook or Express. There are
so here's a question about the viruses. does a router with a natural firewall
built in help out at all? i'm on cable and i run a 4 port router, even
though i only have one computer on it, and i only use the router for the
firewall protection, just to keep the hackers out. but since my IP
On Sunday 07 September 2003 08:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
big snips of my mistakes and corrections for them
32mb is plenty. Set the aperature to 32 also. You'll never need
more than that. Most of the time you're only usin about 4mb of
video ram, even at the resolutions you mentioned I
On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:17 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday September 6 2003 01:20 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Did you install a kernel capable of using that much memory when
you did your upgrade?
I believe you need to do the initial install with the standard
kernel and
On Sunday 07 September 2003 02:52 am, HaywireMac wrote:
You could save yourself a whole lot of money, flush McAfee, AVG, and
whatever whatchamacallits that make $ from Microsoft's egregious
incompetence, down the toilet if you would get rid of at least Outhouse,
at best the whole Windows
On Sunday 07 September 2003 03:28 am, Charlie M. wrote:
Probably, but what I posted is still what I think. People running MS
virusware shouldn't be calling us or this list infection focal points.
I thought there were more than two, and I've also seen a s**t load for
every post I've made to
i opened up the comp to take the NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 card out and replace it with
an NVIDIA GeFORCE2 MX200. now that i'm in linux, i can see a noticible
difference in the clarity and crispness of things on the screen, and i havn't
even tried playing DVDs yet.
but the key words in the above
ok, i should be shot. i will try to defend myself later after i discribe what
i did. i still don't know why.
i re-installed, i didn't delete out anything, i told it to 'upgrade' to
essentially what i already had, MDK9.1. why i did this, well, i was playing
around in MCC after i sent the
On Friday 05 September 2003 11:50 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
Which means dog fucking slow...
i really didn't need that mental image
lmao
Mike
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 07:56 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
I believe there's a way to reduce the suspend aRts time from
60s, but since I never needed it, I'm not familiar with it. Sorry.
havn't kept up with this thread too entirely much, but to change the aRTs
suspend time in KDE
K
On Monday 01 September 2003 12:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
anybody knows gaim?
you have the option to show a horizontal buddy ticker, it's a plugin. i
__deactivated__ the plugin, but the ticker is showing after a few minutes
again. i dont like this feature...
i thought it could be that
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 05:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Did you check capitalisation - arts is not the same as aRts.
sure did. John had it as aRts, and if you go KDE sound sound system it
has it as aRTs. i've tried all in a terminal and it still doesn't tell me
where it is, even though
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:23 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
KDE CC - sound - Sound system - | X | the option to enable aRts.
found it, aRTs was enabled. i'll turn it off the next time i try to watch a
DVD. don't have time to do it now. i'll let you know what happens.
If you want
On Monday 01 September 2003 05:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
If you have both Aumix and Kmix turned right up full and have set them
as such as default settings, maybe you need to look at gmplayer itself,
there are a number of audio driver settings in preferences, if that does
not work,
i recently aquired a DVD ROM drive. i wasn't able to install the newest
verison of XINE successfully, so i went ahead with mplayer. i can watch dvds
now, but the volume is incredibly low. i have it all the way up on mplayer
but it's not loud enough compared to other computer sounds, and when
On Friday 22 August 2003 07:11 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
It doesn't like your GCC compiler, or complains you haven't got one
installed,
do this,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc-c++-3.2.2-3mdk
gcc-cpp-3.2.2-3mdk
libgcc1-3.2.2-3mdk
gcc-3.2.2-3mdk
to see what gcc
i'm trying to upgrade GAIM from version 0.59 to 0.67. using the rpm didn't
work right, so i downloaded the tar.gz file and followed the install
directions, but it's giving me a problem. here it is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/win_c2/gaim/gaim-0.67
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gaim-0.67]# ./configure
this is gonna sound really weird, i can't explain it. my scroll mouse fully
functions now and i have no idea why. i've played with the configuration to
no end and couldn't get it to work. earlier today i had rebooted into ms-win
to burn some photo cds, when i booted back into linux, the
Posted this to the list yesterday but it still hasn't hit the list. and as
said below, having a hell of a time accessing the archives. so here it is
again, hope someone can help (and hope it makes it to the list this time).
sorry to put this to the list w/out searching the archives first,
On Friday 15 August 2003 08:07 pm, ed tharp wrote:
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:50, ed tharp wrote:
As root, in a text console mousedrake choose 'logitec mouseman+' I
think that should do what you want, maybe not.
run the test though.
didn't work. as far as any test, the only thing i know of
isn't there somewhere that linux keeps a lot of what the system does? i'm
sitting here this morning, got gaim, kmail, mozilla, and KsCD running, all of
the sudden the mozilla window closes. figured that was pretty odd. i go to
the kmail window, click on it, it closes. i turned off Gaim
On Monday 11 August 2003 09:04 pm, Dow Mathis wrote:
Beat's me, Harv. I saw the post by the other guy, and it got my curiosity
up. When I followed his link to http://stoppoliceware.org , they
referenced the bill S. 2048. So I went on a scavenger hunt and ended up
with the info I posted. I
On Sunday 03 August 2003 11:03 pm, John Drouhard wrote:
Anyway, you should just be able to highlight a link and then press the
middle mouse button in the conversation window, and it should paste it
by itself automagically.
ok, i thougth this was a dead issue because i got it resolved,
On Saturday 09 August 2003 11:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
DEAR SIR,
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO MICROWAVE COOKING AND CATTLE FETISH GROUP HAVE BEEN
ACCEPTED. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SOME COUNTRIES HAVE AN AGE LIMIT ON
SEXUAL CONTENT AND THAT THIS GROUP DOES NOT. PLEASE CHECK THE LEGAL
RIGHTS YOU HAVE
http://stoppoliceware.org/
if this has been posted already, i apologize. i'm so behind with all the mail
from the group, it's overwhelming at times. anyway, this is very important
to everyone. i'm not having the government control what i do with my
computer. guess it's time to buy a DVD
On Sunday 03 August 2003 11:03 pm, John Drouhard wrote:
Do you think you could take the Reply to thing off, it's not necessary.
sorry. it's done now. someone else pointed that out to me too.
Anyway, you should just be able to highlight a link and then press the
middle mouse button in the
On Monday 28 July 2003 12:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 28 Jul 2003 3:02 pm, Cornerstone Community Farm wrote:
In general, we know far too little about them.
Posted to the wrong list, perhaps?
Anne
at least it isn't more bashing and name calling about personal standpoints on
quickie about kmail.when i click on a web page link that's been e-mailed
to me, the page opens up in Konqueror. i can't find where to make it open up
in mozilla web browser as the default. i've checked out all the options for
kmail and i don't see a way to make it default to mozilla
On Monday 28 July 2003 10:49 am, Paul M wrote:
Had no problems with gnutella, haven't worked out how the filters work on
the download search yet though.
i have a question...what is gnutella? :)
But I do only use it to download songs that I've already got on vinyl
tape - I'd never do
i know that in order for the mbr to be rewritten properly by linux in a dual
boot system, the ms-win OS of choice must be installed before doing a linux
install. but if i go and format out my ms-win OS and reinstall it (i'm using
win98), will the mbr be rewritten and i won't be able to get
On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:14 pm, Marco Verheul wrote:
Also I wouldn't mind if i could get Kazaa
to run...
you're not iffy about running kazaa with all the RIAA stuff going on?
Can you recommend a tutorial to do a basic set up?
yes, that'd be nice ammo to have in my arsenel as well :)
ok, i was tooling around and decided to see how much ram i was currently
using. i have 768mb installed and linux knows it (running a 950 processor,
decent speed combo). so i look at i'm fluctuating between 5 and 20mb of free
ram left. so i think this just can't be right, i mean, to use up
i just fired up ksim and it says i've got 588M physical ram free. but why is
there a discrepancy between what it says when i check memory and in ksim?
any ideas?
On Friday 25 July 2003 02:05 am, crak600 wrote:
ok, i was tooling around and decided to see how much ram i was currently
using
On Thursday 24 July 2003 07:01 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
On Friday 25 July 2003 03:37 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Friday 25 July 2003 10:49, Sharrea wrote:
Difference is likely one takes the cache into account while the other
is reporting without cache. There is nothing to worry about. Linux
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,466180,00.html
i don't think this has been posted yet, and i think it's definetly worth a
read. i came across this last night and just laughed. it's pretty funny
that the company that's working to stop piracy of their operating
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:15 am, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
snip
If you're using mdk 9.1 you can go to
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php
to learn how to set up your sources and begin using urpmi.
ZS, that link will walk you through very nicely. i just did updates from it
last
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:15 am, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
I'm also pretty new to Linux and (so far) have found urpmi to work very
nicely.
It will go to whatever source that has the RPM you want and install it
along with dependencies (usually).
If you're using mdk 9.1 you can go to
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 04:18 pm, JoeHill wrote:
No, I don't appreciate being treated with disdain by someone whom I have
gone *out of my way* to be nice to, to help, to treat as a friend.
You only get one chance with me, unfortunately, in that kind of
situation.
So, fuck off.
ok, so now i
On Sunday 20 July 2003 01:26 am, Erylon Hines wrote:
Interestingly, this case is the one always brought up when the subject of
lawsuits (in the U.S.) raises its head, and the facts of this case are more
interesting than just the anecdotal mention would suggest.
Why the corporation was found
On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:08 am, Eric Huff wrote:
This is weird: i used to see that same error, and others did too, so i
just made a filter to delete it. Since then though, i switched to
sylpheed and only made filters as needed. Now i realize that i no
longer get that error.
I wonder if
On Friday 18 July 2003 11:31 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
Hi
You guys should really read this its outragious - if its true!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31800.html
John
it'll never happen. the jails would be completely overloaded, as if they
aren't already. i'll admit, i use
On Friday 18 July 2003 10:38 pm, David E Fox wrote:
That's probably the best way to do it. One thing I did was to unplug my
existing CD-ROM and plug in the cables from it to the new drive (Toshiba
SD 1312 combo). This at last worked -- one thing is that the connector
1/2 way along the IDE
g, sorry, i didn't have your e-mail address and i had lost the other thread
when i formatted / and reinstalled. kmail all got lost, even though i tried
to back it up on a windows partition. oh well, back in business now!
fstab
dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
do i not have something set right or is there something wrong with the server?
every time i send mail to the list i get a reply with 'NDN' before the
subject line. it's returned from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and the body contains
On Saturday 19 July 2003 12:42 am, you wrote:
Sorry. Your message
oh, and to add.
was posted under the cd drive refuses to work threadi was suggested to
use the middle connection on the cable instead of the connection on the end
for the cd drive. i've got nothing to lose by swapping it, and there's
nothing else on that cable anyway.
Want to buy
I'm sorry to ask this again, because i asked something along the
same lines last week. someone even gave me a link for it,
BUTmy hard drive was formatted out and everything is GONE.
here's the setup
2 hard drives
20GB partitioned to 5gb for windows and 15gb for anything else
100gb
ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to 768MB), i
decided it was time to install the ram and the hard drive. opened up the
computer to check where everything was on the ribbons and see where i'm going
to plug in the hard drive. the current hard drive and CDRW are on
Okproblems.
when my friend built the computer, he said teh primary IDE connector on the
motherboard was bad. well, it's not. turned out he had been trying to hook
up a bad hard drive to it. so since then, everything has been running on the
2nd IDE port. the CDRW drive is the
Ok, here's the situation. my new 100GB hard drive showed up today. i need to
put it into the computer and get everything set up. here's the way i plan to
set up.
20GB hard drive i currently have - all for windows
100GB hard drive - 80GB for mandrake, 20GB for windows (that's my current
On Saturday 21 June 2003 10:28 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
20GB hard drive i currently have - all for windows
100GB hard drive - 80GB for mandrake, 20GB for windows (that's my current
plan, might go 60 linux 40 windows)
That sounds a little excessive to me.
Good call, now that you
On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:28 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
Mike:
You sound a bit confused about drive terminology.
definetly :)
Your board has
two IDE slots (or channels). One is the primary, the other is the
secondary. Each channel can handle both a master and slave drive. The drive
On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:18 am, JoeHill wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:20:54 -0400
Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
winning the special olympics...when it's all over, you're still
retarded.
sorry to butt in, but that is dark, dark humour.
have to admit, I laughed tho!
I'm going
Ok, i have some questions about a few things, just stuff i don't understand.
when i go to reboot, what are the differences between
KDE
GNOME
ICE WM
Failsafe
Default
i would guess that failsafe would be kind of like safe mode in windows, am i
right?
i'm also kind of guessing that default
On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:03 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:35:15 -0400
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this worries me, I here a lot of Maxtor's failing on this list...
I've noticed that too..think I've seen it on other lists also.
Cust serv said This drive's proven
ok, in windows you can right click on my computer and it gives you hardware
profiles and you can see if everything is working correctly.
1st questionwhere do you do that in mandrake 9.1? i think i saw it before
but can't seem to find it now.
2nd questioncan you test your hardware for
checked it in the control center, ran test, no problems.
i already took the faulty moniter back. it was a KDS 16 viewable, flat
screen. already went and ordered a Samsung 18 viewable (19 overall) to
replace it with, only cost $40 more, and that was because of shipping ($165
total).
On Thursday 19 June 2003 10:32 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:03:12 -0400
Crak600 - Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Samsung
955? that's what I got, love it!
no, 950B. don't know how much difference there is between the 2. ordered
from Techonweb, where geeks shop
subject says it. Kaboodle will, but Noatun won't. don't know why either.
i'm only on day 5 of running linux...HELP! :)
www.basiclinux.net doesn't start til july from the e-mail i was sent earlier
pointing me to it (and it looks like a great idea for me to take it). so
until i can get
ok, so i rebooted, and when i get back into KDE (which i was in before i
rebooted) Noatun fires right up. i closed it out, switched to another
desktop (i LOVE having 4 desktops to work with), opened it back up, and now
it's working flawlessly.
any clues?
Want to buy your Pack or Services
On 17 Jun 2003 at 1:50, FemmeFatale wrote:
agreed... i suspect i hold the record for most reinstalls in one day
fastest OS crasher in the western hemisphere...lol... and all i do
is surf, email, IM um... fubar the system as much as possible. :D
prepare to lose that title as i'm
On 17 Jun 2003 at 7:36, g wrote:
i am curious, you never mentioned, did you ever run md5 on 1st dl's.
no, never ran MD5. i looked into the program and got that
uhhh feeling, as in one of those...what do i do with THAT?! i
think most of the origonal problems were just user error
my friend told me that he wasn't able to get games running in linux
because linux doesn't support directX (he had just scratched the
surface on this subject though). while i don't play games a lot,
occasionally me and him will link up over cable and play multiplayer
games. so the question
On 17 Jun 2003 at 19:53, g wrote:
should have asked what to do with it. we would have even told you
'where to stick it'.
Well, honestly, what happened the first few times was i was just
burning everything as a straight data Cd like i would for a windows
program. that caused me 2 days
On 17 Jun 2003 at 15:41, FemmeFatale wrote:
*giggles* let the battle begin!
he who can fook his comp up as much as possible wins! now the fun
part is unfooking w/out reinstalling...
if the rules involve that (fixing w/out re-installing) then you win. i'm
not going to compete lol
Want
so after the informal introduction (and me getting utterly ticked off
doing an install).
Hi. I'm Mike, and i'm a new linux user.
HI MIKE
I'd tell you what i do for a living, but i really don't do anything. lost
my job in January to a back injury and havn't worked since. After
On 16 Jun 2003 at 13:25, g wrote:
JoeHill wrote:
IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little
stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really
a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what
it *thinks* it is...
ms
ok, well, i havn't actually done the install yet. but i did do a fresh
download of all 3 CDs last night. i re-burned CD one by telling it to
create a CD from an ISO image. then went to install again and it
actually went into the install! but i restarted the computer once i
realized that it
On 16 Jun 2003 at 20:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't keep it to yourself, what did you do to get it going?
Paul M.
sorry.
simple...fresh download on all 3 ISO images, didn't move them
around in my hard drive, which i was guilty of diong before to make
space, using a
installed! i'm back on windows right now, because i did not have a
whole lot of free space on my hard drive and i need to clear up
space now. If i clear out a bunch of my hard drive, can i go and re-
install linux again to take advantage of more space? there were a
few options i wasn't able
i screwed something up, not sure what. i can't get into linux, and my
14GB space on my one partition is knocked down to 10GB...4GB
set aside for linux...i can't access it, i need to wipe it clean and re-
install linux again. can't figure out how to get to it. need help.
thanks.
Want to buy
ok, my current hard drive is a 20GB hard drive. it was partitioned for
me (by my friend who built my computer) into a 5gb and 15gb
partition. when i first installed mandrake, it only gave me slightly
over 1gb of free space on my 15GB partitoin to install with. after
seeing mandrake was
5GB is a temp just for now. i'm trying to get this up and running and
get a little familiar with it until i get my 100GB hard drive. once i get
the 100GB drive, the 20GB drive i currently have will be used for
Windows, the 100GB will be partitioned for linux (and it's a FAST
drive
went in and expert installed to re-partition the drive and fix my
mistakes. thanks Mike for the offlist info to get me going.
i think it's going to be a slow process from here just in getting used
to the new OS. all i've ever known is windows, and the first few
years i ever touched a
eric, paul, thanks. stuff for me to check out tomorrow as it's getting
close to bed time.
Gaim...what is that? does it handle instant messaging and that
stuff?
now this is where it'll all get interesting. as long as i can surf the way
i want, access my mail, play music, and chati
Ok, i'm completely new to linux, but i'm so sick of windows that i
NEED something new and always have plenty of time to kill learning
something new, so i decided to try my hand at linux. i'm currently
set up with an Asus K7V-RM, AMD 950, 20GB WD hard
drive(waiting on a WD 100GB drive to add
On 15 Jun 2003 at 13:07, JoeHill wrote:
I had the same problem with an older machine. Couple of things you can
try:
Burn the CD at a lower speed. I have been told that CDs burned at
higher speeds can be unreadable under certain circumstances.
I burned the CD at 4x, and i think my only
On 15 Jun 2003 at 14:45, JoeHill wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:32:21 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Oh, and don't feel like an idiot, all of us went through this at some
point, except maybe Stephen Kuhn and Tom Brinkman, who were born with
ubergeek in them... --
well, it's just one of
ok, i did download an ISO image for all 3 CDs. i also made sure i
burned the CD in ISO, yet it STILL tells me i don't have an install
disc. then i get a message that says which driver should i try to
gain SCSI access? nothing on my computer is SCSI, it's all EIDE.
i'm so lost, i'm so
On 15 Jun 2003 at 15:34, JoeHill wrote:
If I am not mistaken, Linux sees all cdrw as SCSI, nothing to worry
about there.
I wonder if it is just not recognizing your Philips drive...have you
checked the Hardware Compatibility List? Does it give you a list of
drivers to choose from? If
Yeah, i've been frustrated. i've got one computer (the PC) that for
some reason i can't get linux to load on, and my laptop is DOA for
an unknown reason (has something to do with an accidental drop a
while back, but it worked afterwards). I've been extremely frustrated
with both all day, as
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