[newbie] mkisofs - data cd's with directories

ayer without having to jump all over the disc. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMA

Re: [newbie] reading Troff document

uot;man" pages which are written in that format. Also handy would be something to view postscript output, such as "gv". Normally something like: $ groff -T ps | lpr would print one of these documents out. > --Angus -- -

[newbie] Command-line updates

I know how to update software using the Control Centre and Software update, but how would I go about doing this from the command-line? -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] How big is a block ?

bit more than you gave him. :) -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

if you like the French card game "mille bornes" :). > Julie -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMA

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

ption. Right atlantik :) -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Help Compiling C++ with Emacs

ike if you did it from another terminal, more or less. So it's not really an emacs vs. c++ issue. What you'll need to do is to urpmi (install) the g++ compiler. > ~ Ayn -- ---- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] When the Computer is winning

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:40:40 -0800 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #go here ;-) #http://www.desktop-linux.net/ # # Yepsounds like me E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open

Re[2]: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype

r then? Converted prices: Skype 1.7 eurocents/min GMeeting 4.3 eurocents/min -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition

sda1 and copy files from one to the other. Can some kind soul provide some incantations to enable me to do this please. My Mandrake machine has no Windows partitions or usb disks so I can't look in fstab to get some clues. And yes, I am a real newbie! -- Best regards,

Re: [newbie] K3B - Multi Session Burning

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:12:49 -0500 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Saturday 12 March 2005 03:47 pm, David wrote: #> Is it me or does K3B not like to undertake multisession burning. I thought #> that I was burning the downloaded update RPM's (in multisession mode) only #> t

[newbie] K3B - Multi Session Burning

ully burnt. Luckily for me that I'd not deleted the files after having burnt them so was able to burn them onto a CD-RW. Anyone with any ideas on this? E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds

s Rosemary The only one I have found for Linux is Liferea, and it works well. rob gdesklets-rssgrab -- Thanks, David Skype: dgsatimdb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the C

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

Saul, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 3:18:49 PM, you wrote: > You may need to install additional packages: > spamassassin-spamc-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk > spamassassin-spamd-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk Thanks very much - that did the trick! -- Best regards, Davidmail

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

tatus-all:Print a status of all services. -d|--debug: Launch with debug. -h|--help: This help. -v|--version: Print version. version 1.14 -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

red spamd you mention in a later posting. -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] SpamAssassin startup

is no entry for SpamAssassin. . Can anyone give an incantation to get it there (or even visible in Webmin)? The RPM is SpamAssassin-3.0.2-0.1010.lmdk.i586.rpm. Regards David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] MySQL

SOTL wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 15:04, David G Stevenson wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: SOTL wrote: Hi All As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data base using MySQL. I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions that are not answered in the

Re: [newbie] MySQL

on (including the system mysql database) then restart mysql server -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules a

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

b.com). :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] You probably already know this

f the rh M$ key) in a terminal you get a '~' which works in my machine where as if I use the tilde key I get told I'm a silly bugger there's no such file or directory. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, se

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting

private machines access to the webservers by url or add to hosts on firewall if available. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] modem problem

of your problem as the browser needs DNS to resolve web URL's. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found (it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen would come up and then it would go to sleep. -- -------

[newbie] Viavoice Scripts

ich got me over the problem of finding java. It then has a seg default on the following line which starts "java com.ibm.speechapps.userwizard...". Could someone who has successfully got this programme to run post the lines from their scripts for me please. TIA E. David I. Taylor Beneath

Re: [newbie] Script for burning DVD images

.. >>On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 11:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm >Added to the TWiki on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DvD > >Anne HTH. -- Thanks, David

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

I have on standby in case my DSL goes down. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] alternative programs

so much errors Thanks Mohammed There's QCad, http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html Never used it beyond starting it up in knoppix just to see what it does. Seconded - very good intuitive 2D package which I would liken to AutoSketch. Comes with all the d

Re: [newbie] Data Base Help

ally need to do is define the rules for which the data should comply. And then convert these to code. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

Mohammed Badran wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David G Stevenson Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:41 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem Mohammed Badran wrote: Hi all I have a SM56

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

ork. hmm... On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:47 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:52

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

ng in the MacOS file system implementation on linux which I am missing (as I mentioned before, I have no experience with MacOS) You cannot revert/forget file permissions as this is not historically recorded. Not sure what to suggest next. -- Thanks, David

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

atever your country code is. Does 'lsmod' (as root) show it has loaded? If not, try: % depmod -a % modprobe sm56 From the docs, I see the device should be loaded as /dev/modem which should be linked to /dev/sm56. So in kppp use /dev/modem. depmod -a -- Thanks, David __

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

ovide more info as to what sort of data is on there (I have never used MacOS). HTH David. OK, that doesn't seem right ay, but .. hmm, what was the permissions for the macos before you changed it? If you used to be able to read, write and execute on it then, the owner root, should have rwx,

Re: [newbie] Bootloader

t; has details. Floppy might be easier in the short term, but I think it is fun in a sad sort of way to see Windows booting my laptop into Linux :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrak

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

you could use: % chmod -R +w dirname Have a play with the option on a dummy directory so see the effect. Remember, some files need to be executable and readonly for a reason! HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] application development suggestion

. Use the http.consf files and .htaccess to provide group security to scripts etc. I am sure you can do all this in php or any other language, but thats what make programming so much fun eh! HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Serv

Re: [newbie] Print server setup

:// share thru Samba. Either way you connect remotely, you will have needed to configured cupsd on the server machine. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the C

Re: [newbie] telnet connection problems

terface setup, does hosts file have the 127.0.0.1 localhost in it? Try adding the ip/hosts of the connecting clients? HTH - just a list of random things I would check. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT

packs of diff types of disk until they find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the equipment :-( HTH PS: http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk this is my supplier for what its worth. -- Thanks,

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:00:52 -0500 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Monday 31 January 2005 11:29 pm, David wrote: #> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:36:31 +1300 #> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #> #> a big snip #no bother, just hoping you keep us informed as to how it all w

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:36:31 +1300 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:57:25 +1300 #David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # ##Back in Nov 04 a thread titled "Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime" ##discussed amoungst other things Voice Recognition and

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:57:25 +1300 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #Back in Nov 04 a thread titled "Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime" #discussed amoungst other things Voice Recognition and ViaVoice in particular. #Jack did you try Viavoice and if so did you get it sort

[newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice

on 10.1 and did you experience any problems that I should be aware of? Any clues as to what to look for would be appreciated. Thanks E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring M

[newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM

Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get > "Environment variable TERM not defined!" So if I > "TERM=vt100" and then "export TERM" all is well. > Unless I close and open it again, that is. > > How do I make this change permanent without affecting > ot

[newbie] Re: re konqueror

Dave Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks for the info ann and for every one else that has supplyed me with > info.nothing is ever easy in life and you have to start some where.oh well i > supose it will be like going to school again > dave.. > How much memory do you have in your m

Re: Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything

get when you try installing these files? > Michael, linux day one Welcome.. ! -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patte

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Tungsten T5

ilot or kpilot to work more than occasionally on 10.1 on a toshiba. pilot-xfer works fine provided you hit hot sync and the cable button on the T5 before running it. I think hotplug maps it to /dev/pilot automatically. To backup: pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot --backup $HOME/palm/xbackup

[newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the verbose startup report (M

[newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap space" rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap space? Is there som

Re: [newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:30 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 08:30 am, David Reynolds wrote: > > Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, > > burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error > > my machine

[newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?

' '52X32CD_R/RW' '100G' Removable CD-ROM 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Any ideas? David __

Re: [newbie] using k3b to append files to a cd -rw

d have thought that you would have to #do that if you want to add to it. # #Anne #- -- >From my experience with K3B you cannot do a multisession with a cd rw disc, you have to use an ordinary cd disc. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. compose

[newbie] How to get right ALT key to work.

The left Alt key works fine but the right Alt key is ignored. It is like the system doesn't recgonize it as a shifting key. Mdk 10.0 Thanks...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Joi

Re: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia

r.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=181931 > Anne David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup

On Friday 07 January 2005 04:53 pm, Miark wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:44:12 -0600, David wrote: > > > I've tried it for about a week now, and honestly, I can't tell any > > > difference. Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request > > > to a s

Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup

x27;t tell any > difference. Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request > to a server in order to get one page. There's enough clogging the > net already. But that's just me... This 'scheme' was proposed elsewhere last week to almost universal

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:55 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:25, David Reynolds wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: > > > > On Tue, 4 Jan

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

html. My guess is, that our American > > > friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be > > > able to read Scandinavian characters like Ã, à and à or even > > > the Euro-symbol ___. I've got no problems seeing them in Kmail. David

Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo

y to set the active 'bit' on your primary partition? That might save me the entire reinstall, which would be nice... David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)

are below if you're morbidly curious I apologize if this sounds stupid, I'm just working on my 3rd day of wrestling with this thing, and I'm willing to reinstall if that's what it takes, but I don't want to screw it up anot

[newbie] libgcc?

.1 and libgcc_s.so.1 (GCC_3.0). What's going on here? Do I need to reinstall because they weren't available during the original install, and therefore aren't in the kernel? Newbie question I know, but this is really throwing a monkeywren

Re: [newbie] Internet Radio on Linux Mandrake

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:18:14 +1300 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:35:47 -0500 #Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # ## ##Why don't you look into streamtuner. A great little app for listening to ##Internet radio on Linux. 'urpmi stream

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

Benjamin Pflugmann writes: > Another thing I would change is to avoid changing host.deny > directly. You can make hosts.deny look into other files like this: > > sshd: /etc/host.deny.foo > This is a great idea, and thanks. I much prefer this. Dave _

Re: [newbie] Internet Radio on Linux Mandrake 10.1

d prefer not to use Internet #> Exploiter. # #Why don't you look into streamtuner. A great little app for listening to #Internet radio on Linux. 'urpmi streamtuner' or use rpmdrake thanks for the tip Greg, loaded and listening E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, my little script is very quick and dirty but after about a week of > being hit multiple times every night, I haven't yet found it parsing logs > wrong on my system but that doesn't mean much beyond my system. I just had some different text in mine

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is a script I wrote to work around SSH probes. It is NOT elegant, very > quick and dirtyish but it does seem to work and it can be run from a cron > job fairly often without problems. > Hi Bryan, pretty cool, the only thing I would suggest is usi

Re: [newbie] Hardware Questions

ith a good and useful other distro to try for testing, or for other uses. > Amy -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [E

Re: [newbie] Kpilot & Palm Tungsten T5

link /dev/pilot is created when you press the hotsync button. I am not > sure about 10.x, but it is worth a try. > > Mikkel YEESS -Works perfectly with /dev/pilot. Thanks, david Want to buy your Pack or Services from M

[newbie] Kpilot & Palm Tungsten T5

Hi, Can't access my T5 with KPilot. Messages shows it's on /dev/ttyUSBn but KPilot can't link to it. When HotSync on the T5 times out or is cancelled, the next time the T5 attempts to connect it's on a different port. Anyone got this working on 10.1? David Output f

[newbie] e2fsck library version out of date?

rking after it gets this message, which strikes me as a Really Bad Thing. But I can't find anywhere what the procedure is to get it straightened out... David -- Three operations of wisdom: taming savagery; spreading peace; improving laws. ___

[newbie] Mdk 8.2 + Cedega 4.1.1 = ?

9mdk OS release: 2.4.18-6mdk (Mandrake Linux release 8.2) Anyone have any ideas? I'm willing to upgrade this machine to 10.1 OE if it seems like it'll help, although at this point I may just try to get them to convert to NWN Thanks in advance, David -- Three

Re: [newbie] what to do with non-contiguous files?

em will be utterly devoid of fragmentation; for that, you probably want to switch to an even better filesystem, such as reiserfs. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

although I do use Windows machines at work sometimes :(. And why are .com files even supported anyway? Those things are holdovers from CP/M, for god's sake. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letti

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

to Mepis. In short, I'm very happy with it. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:50 -0500 David Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my concern about Live CDs: In older machines with slower CD > drives, they're awful. It takes about 10 minutes for the distros I've True enough. And larger distros like Knoppix t

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:00:04 -0500 David Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to > novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been > recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS part

Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup?

___ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > -- David Johnson http://ww

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

Gee, my Linux installations work right out of the box. Even when some tweaking is required, I've been able to get onto the web and go looking for help. And I've never had to dive around in drawers looking for old CDs and floppies. By and large my experience has been the same. Perhaps not, but so

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all. On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:34, M.Schild wrote: : I'm still searching for that perfect distro to recommend, but this isn't an experience I would want to impose on a novice

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

I repair/reconfig/support all kinds of MS Windows machines - in home and corporate environments - I can't begin to tell you how many times I've experienced the exact same thing - but with MS Windows (all versions). Believe me, I know. Installing a clean copy of Win XP on the same machine is no pi

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

es has to be excellent hardware support out of the box. Am I missing something obvious here that would solve my problems? --Dave ---- -- David A. Feldman User Interface Designer http://InterfaceThis.com ___

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

easier just to change clients? -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?

I'm confused. Is there something especially risky about Abba for a computer that wouldn't be a problem with other artists? --Dave On Nov 12, 2004, at 11:16, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 11:06 am, JoeHill wrote: My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like

[newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing > Queen' and the like. Is this safe? The more important question would be "is it legal"? If you are speaking of going to one of the commercial download services, and purchasing copies o

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

Wow, $170 paid for endless thousands of dollars of equivalent software, friendly support (evidence below) and admission into what in any other conceivable discipline would be a select group of longtimers who would not have the slightest thing to do with you. You offer them $170 bucks (I say off

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

Mandrake would definately be one of the top ones for novice users, in my experience. I can sympathize with your installation problems, however, though I've never had the same with Linux. I had similar problems installing RedHat 8 on a certain box, but on others it installs flawlessly. I've ha

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there isn't enough RAM. Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19" monitor...can normally run 1600x1200 at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. The monitor is connected through a KVM switch, though. - If 10.1 Official m

[newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

o the various Intel versions? Thanks, Dave -- David A. Feldman User Interface Designer http://InterfaceThis.com Public PGP key at http://interfacethis.com/misc/pgpkey.txt

Re: [newbie] Ping gamers

ack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

-- Forwarded message -- From: David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:40:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users To: Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can

Re: [newbie] Uptime question

I can't imagine that ALL the Linux boxes out there are suffering from not being able to update their clocks...? On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:26:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell W. Behne wrote: > > Today at 08:39, David Johnson wrote: > > >

[newbie] Uptime question

eport times that are different from reality (usually shorter than actual uptime) when I know that they have not rebooted (a check of the logs will verify). Certainly not a major problem, but I'm curious... Thanks -- David Johnson http://www

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 22 October 2004 03:08 am, David Johnson wrote: > > Ok, so I added the line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > > > > to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > > > And eth0

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

(EDT), Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Björn Lundin wrote: > > > David Johnson wrote: > > > > > I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 > > > where eth0 shows as having [Fai

[newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:41 am, J. David Boyd wrote: > > "Paul Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Hi all: > > > > > > > >Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am goi

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

> leave the reply:to address bl;ank. By default it will reply to your > email address except for when you send to mailing lists, then it will > reply to the list > > ED > > > > David Johnson wrote: > > >Maybe I should qualify my previous statements. After

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