Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 05:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:04:11 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Of course you realize what this really means? Should this get implemented, everyone here in the US will start going over the border to get their computers and/or

Re: [newbie] partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 10:03, Marc wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:43 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I am going to give Mandrake 9.1 a look, coming from the MS world. Until I get real comfortable with the idea the Linux can work for me, XP will remain the primary OS on the box, so we

Re: [newbie] Comp shutdown looses / and /var

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:29, Dennis Myers wrote: I seem to have a heat problem with a 750mhz Duron. It may be the power supply or the cpu not sure, but believe it to be the cpu. Anyway the lm_sensors shows a 60c in the case I think and when I am gone and it sits for a while it will reboot.

Re: [newbie] Comp shutdown looses / and /var

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:43, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:29, Dennis Myers wrote: I seem to have a heat problem with a 750mhz Duron. It may be the power supply or the cpu not sure, but believe it to be the cpu. Anyway the lm_sensors shows a 60c in the case I think and when I

Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
ah, if it ain't powered by a Cattrademark, it's a dog On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:31, Greg wrote: Dont even get me started Greg Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 02:42, Frankie wrote: God I love Ford, I have been a ford fan for

Re: [newbie] not able to connect to win xp home edition

2003-09-20 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 10:27, Brian Downs wrote: I too, like another writer, am having trouble connecting to an xp box. i can connect fine to my friends win xp pro box but not to my girlfriends win xp home box. I get an smb error. Any ideas?? thanks, brian XP home is brain dead for

Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman

2003-09-20 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:09, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 7:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I'd like to add an image file of the spiel on the back of the box, only it'd come to more than 100kb., then you could all see what you make of it. Would you send it to me at home,

Re: [newbie] test sms response

2003-09-20 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:40, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:39:43 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Test It is look like for each time I post I get an kaluga sms replay to me personally. You just noticed this *now*?! I say we blame Yankl for it Your previous

Re: [newbie] Full Installation option support much like Redhat Anaconda Installer?

2003-09-17 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 03:33, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: Hi, I am using Mdk 9.1 (bamboo). I didn't see this option while installing this OS. I know I can check all the options like Network, Development... but it doesn't install full 3 and half GB of information. Did I miss out

Re: [newbie] installing sb audigy2

2003-09-17 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 01:02, Steven Nelson wrote: Hi, Would someone tell me how to install a soundblaster audigy 2 sound card? From, Steven this

[newbie] post script to html

2003-09-17 Thread ed tharp
I am sure there are lots of filters to render a postscript document to html. What I am hoping for is some recommendations from someone who has tried a few, and can suggest which they found produces the best html, easiest. -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] OT - 3rd Annual Nigerian E-Mail Conference

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 00:44, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:25:14 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: actually I collect them as they are so obvious that I wonder if anyone has ever been taken in by a Nigerian letter I've seen some pretty funny bits where people have

Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT]

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 04:14, d2ci1fj g1nf24 wrote: From: Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT] Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:50:38 +0200 you're using a funny name... :p d2ci1fj g1nf24 remo Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Governments like open-source software, but Microsoft does not

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 00:40, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:04:42 -0300 Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Brazil, for instance, is preparing to recommend that all its government agencies and state enterprises buy open source. Ahem, that's where I live :-) The

Re: [newbie] Governments like open-source software, but Microsoftdoes not

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 06:31, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: Hi, I am pretty damn sure the terrorists use GNU-Linux, because it is secure, and they are not locked into buying any certain type of software, and I bet they use GNU-Linux _because_ it is secure. You forgot they are

RE: [newbie] For anyone in Toronto

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 09:35, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 23:09, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I bet 90% of the readers would not have noticed if you hadn't corrected yourself. But I bet Stephen would have corrected that for you. My correction-script brokeed. stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] OT - 3rd Annual Nigerian E-Mail Conference

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Taken in... yeah in more ways then one. Don't this is Ed and some times I post right in the middle of the line,, to make sure everyone attributes are really messed up know of you remember the headline but someone was actually killed over this scam

Re: [newbie] which kernel version

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:42, Charlie M. wrote: careful snipping of all context... By not answering any more questions. Regards; Charlie Does that mean Stephen and I and Joehill will get to answer some Questionsjust kidding in all cereal-ness, don't ever let one persons reply get to

Re: [newbie] which kernel version

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 18:19, Merlin Zener wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 04:55, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:42, Charlie M. wrote: careful snipping of all context... By not answering any more questions. oh dear... It was meant to be funny. Sorry: I thought

Re: [newbie] Installing video card driver.

2003-09-15 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 00:05, d2ci1fj g1nf24 wrote: Hi, After I install my video card driver and try log into the desktop I get an error message. It says things about check www.xfree86.org for upgrades, that the server failed, and it kept saying stuff about the agpgart module was not found

Re: [newbie] How to resize a linux partition ?

2003-09-15 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:23, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:34:42 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hello all, I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a 28 gig harddrive and ended up with a swap file which is fine and a / on hda1 of 5.8 gig and a /home on hda6 of 22 gig.

Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

2003-09-15 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:56, Ralph Slooten wrote: Umm, did my first post on this subject come through? I didn't get it.. strange, nor the annoying auto-responce from the sms shit thing either Greetings Ralph it will Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] which kernel version

2003-09-15 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:17, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 12:07 am, Bill W. wrote: Hi All, How can I find the exact kernel version that I'm running? . I need it for the ltmodem driver. They are very fussy for exact kernel version. On the Mandrake site it says that 9.1 uses

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 03:00, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 13, 2003 05:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the Linux

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 03:41, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 01:15 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I'm happy to know I ain't the Old Timer on this list. 46 a week ago today is young compared to you and Tom. g Just kidding! I do

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 05:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:43, Xuer wrote: I know it's dangerous. But I do need it now. How to? Thanks. What kind of llf (low level format) do you need to do - and on what kinda drive? What's the problem that you've got to resort to those

Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 08:47, Anarky wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here before. The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html (HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My bad.)

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 09:58, John Richard Smith wrote: Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. What i tried is to scan a cover with Kooka at a resolution of 600. Then

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:30 am, Charlie M. wrote: Depends on the drive and the circumstances. A year ago a friend acquired a 13 GB Maxtor drive that was about a year old. It had been data storage for someone she knew, the data files

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:04, John Richard Smith wrote: ed tharp wrote: you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages installed if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. That is quite true, you can scan withing gimp , but right now

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick/ Gnome2.4 install?

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all For those of you who helped me with my memory stick problem, I think it's a non-issue for now. I think my usb ports are dead. not to sound stupider than usual, but how do you know the ports are dead? Which is not a bad

Re: [newbie] Apache woes...

2003-09-13 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 23:44, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 22:49, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:00, Trey Sizemore wrote: I had Apache2 working on my 9.1 box, but just had to go and upgrade it from Cooker. Now it will not start. I should say that MCC says it's

Re: [newbie] FWD; by Ed Tharp; Dear EFF Supporter:...

2003-09-13 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 07:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 21:38, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 06:53, HaywireMac wrote: On 12 Sep 2003 22:38:00 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.eff.org/share/petition/ no choices fer Canada, I guess

Re: [newbie] FWD; by Ed Tharp; Dear EFF Supporter:...

2003-09-13 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 08:36, HaywireMac wrote: On 13 Sep 2003 08:21:55 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am praying some where (some country) they have the balls to stand up for what make sense, as opposed to standing around to make cents. Verry well done, Ed! Copied

Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?

2003-09-13 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 10:19, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday September 12 2003 06:40 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: ls -l in the /usr/bin directory scrolls off the end of the page, and even scrolling back up doesn't go as far as files beginning with c, so I don't know. I looked in 'man ls' but I

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds

2003-09-13 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:09, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:43:27 +0200 Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Just to clarify. RMS does not want the Linux kernel name to have any GNU extension. What RMS wants is that Linux based *distributions* and anyone referring to

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any solutions? I'm betting you need to burn an ISO

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any solutions? I'm betting you need to burn an ISO

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 23:47, rikona wrote: Hello Heather/Femme, Thursday, September 11, 2003, 10:44:15 AM, you wrote: HF Have to agree with Anne. Till linux becomes more pervasive, ppl HF who can only turn the comp on nothing else (and most don't want HF to know more) won't use linux

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 06:22, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any

[newbie] FWD; by Ed Tharp; Dear EFF Supporter:...

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
Dear EFF Supporter: This is astounding - in the first 24 hours, over 6,000 people have signed our petition to stop the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) nationwide rampage against average Americans. Rather than working to create a rational, legal means by which its customers

Re: [newbie] Apache woes...

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:00, Trey Sizemore wrote: I had Apache2 working on my 9.1 box, but just had to go and upgrade it from Cooker. Now it will not start. I should say that MCC says it's running (set to start at boot), but pointing to http://localhost takes my to the clever Australian

Re: [newbie] IP address of DNS?

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 21:23, Trey Sizemore wrote: How do I find the IP address of a DNS? telephone your ISP, or leave it blank and it will fill in automagicly if you get an IP number via dhcp -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Mouse Config from CLI ?

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 21:12, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:52:06 -0400 Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I recall seeing command line settings for mouse functions such as repeat delay/speed etc. But I don't remember them, or where to find them. If someone could point

Re: [newbie] FWD; by Ed Tharp; Dear EFF Supporter:...

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 23:01, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 12, 2003 08:38 pm, ed tharp wrote: whack Yeah I'd sign the petition except for a minor point. Americans not currently living in the U.S. and not maintaining a permanent residence

Re: [newbie] Astrophysics, Molecular Mechanics and DNA Research

2003-09-11 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 03:44, John Layt wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:31, Stephen Kuhn wrote: same quiet wit, Quiet Aussies??? And I have my doubts about the wit part too :-) John (the by-product of an Aussie dingo shagging a Kiwi sheep...) I have tosay,,, that is not a pedigree I

Re: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-11 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:01, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 7:40 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:08:10 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 3 years ago. Maybe - but I saw no sign that my university had any foresight, and it takes time to change.

Re: [newbie] HTML Validation

2003-09-11 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 11:19, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:46:41 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey y'all, kinda OT, but WTF, it's a simple (I hope) question. I wanted to see if I could put one of them purty W3C validation tags on my site, but when I go to

Re: [newbie] nice link fer newbs

2003-09-10 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 09:44, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 15:28, HaywireMac wrote: On 09 Sep 2003 22:52:31 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OTOH the Athalon chip in that thing runs so hot you don't need a furnace in the house. there is no such thing as global

Re: [newbie] This is just sickening

2003-09-10 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:19, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:38:39 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:10:07 -0400 Networks East [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: FILE SHARING IS ILLEGAL No, it's not. Sharing of copyrighted material is a violation

Re: [newbie] Number of users than created

2003-09-10 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 16:05, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run tops in a terminal it tells me that there are 3 users. One is root, one is my current logon, what would the other be? I created only one account when I installed

Re: [newbie] The difference between RH and Mdk

2003-09-10 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:20, Joeb wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've been using Mdk for all my life. I love it. However, when our company called a software house to develop a web application using PHP + mysql, they said we should

Re: [newbie] Win'98 backup to tar

2003-09-10 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:36, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Back in April there was a thread on backing up Win XP by 'tar'ring it. Stephen advised deleting the swapfile (c:/pagesys). To do the same for backing up Win '98, what is the name of the Win '98 swapfile? Ta! DougB win386.swp

Re: [newbie] Graphical Log-in Problem

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 20:21, crak600 wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Printing - TurboPrint or New Printer

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:59, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 2:41 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have a Canon S750 which doesn't work well at all under CUPS. I am debating whether I should buy an inexpensive printer that is support under CUPS (and hooking my Canon up to one of

RE: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 01:11, Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2003 5:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions On Monday 08 Sep

Re: [newbie] A Serious Question - Do You Ever Stop?

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:06, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 4:47 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 04:16, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 08 Sep 2003 11:03 pm, Aron Smith wrote: even better is Kona Peaberry roasted and covered with Chocolate.. yum Kona

Re: [newbie] Mandrake cd installation problem.

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:16, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 18:46, d2ci1fj g1nf24 wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help. It is a wd sata hard drive. Don't thank too soon:o) Afraid I don't have any sata devices here so I don't know any tricks offhand. Maybe somebody else here

Re: [newbie] Intel |Unveils

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:20, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:14 am, John Richard Smith wrote: So once again AMD are ahead of the game.So does anyone know of a Mobo, and which AMD processor is currently the right choice for testing , 64 bit architecture. Why will it be

Re: [newbie] A Serious Question - Do You Ever Stop?

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:42, Aron Smith wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:20, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:06, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 4:47 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 04:16, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 08 Sep 2003 11:03 pm, Aron Smith

Re: [newbie] Mandrake cd installation problem.

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:54, d2ci1fj g1nf24 wrote: From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake cd installation problem. Date: 09 Sep 2003 15:22:36 -0400 On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:16, H.J.Bathoorn wrote

Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-08 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 00:09, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 6:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: o Any decent heatsink and fan will do, but use thermal grease, not a thermal pad. Provide plenty of air movement (ie, case cooling). Often the thermal pad is already attached when

Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-08 Thread ed tharp
/political dealings. There are plenty of decent audio cards for linux these days, and on-board ac97 qualifies as 'decent' in my book, and is well supported. Mike ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:40, Michael Lothian wrote: For Intel cpu's, you're on your own. IMO, there hasn't

Re: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 08:55, DrewMartin wrote: Hi All, Before this turns into a flame war between those of us how still use Windows to some degree(or are forced to for various reasons). It is a well know fact that the script kiddies who write these insidious pieces of code

Re: [newbie] A Serious Question - Do You Ever Stop?

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 10:22, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 07 September 2003 15:37, Stephen Kuhn wrote: ...but it IS cheaper than cocaine or booze...and less damaging to the body... Funny, you didn't say nutting about the brain-damage:o) Or pot... guess he forgotg Still trying to

Re: [newbie] A Serious Question - Do You Ever Stop?

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 10:49, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 00:22, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 07 September 2003 15:37, Stephen Kuhn wrote: ...but it IS cheaper than cocaine or booze...and less damaging to the body... Funny, you didn't say nutting about the

Re: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 11:06, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:55:21PM +0100, DrewMartin wrote: It is a well know fact that the script kiddies who write these insidious pieces of code only do so, because Windows is such a wide spread OS in the world out there.If/when

Re: [newbie] Can not choose to log as 'root' anymore in graphic mode

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 12:28, Cristian Papp wrote: Ok, just there exist no other user! Only root and the new one, I've forgot to enter a password when I've created. I can not log in my system anymore (because I can not choose root). instead of trying to login, when lilo starts, hit esc, and type

Re: [newbie] Virus - let's go over this again, shall we?u

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 12:51, David E. Fox wrote: Shit, that's what the Windows users are doing now. Paying for protection. Guido == McAfee in this instance. you know, I would not want to be a manager for McAfee tho... trying to 'work with M$' on a Corp. level must be a real nerve racking

Re: [newbie] Viruses..........

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 12:19, Eric Huff wrote: Hell, I go for a much more subtle approach. How have you guys been standing up to Sobig and MSBlaster this week?... got any idea of what it's cost you? I sure am glad I don't have to worry about that, if you ever want to try out Linux, let me

Re: [newbie] Virus - let's go over this again, shall we?

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:16, Margot wrote: Lanman wrote: history of criminal activity snipped Ok, so like I was saying,...If someone has already mentioned this kind of thing in the Virus-related posts to the list then please ingore this diatribe. But John? You better start running,

Re: [newbie] Can not choose to log as 'root' anymore in graphic mode

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:04, Merlin Zener wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 23:21, Eric Huff wrote: I've tried, only that I have no place to type in'root'. The first dialog is for choosing the user (apparently by icon clicking). There is no edit box for typing. However, I've clicked the

Re: [newbie] Graphical Log-in Problem

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:17, crak600 wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:40, Michael Lothian wrote: For Intel cpu's, you're on your own. IMO, there hasn't been a decent chipset for Intel processors since the good ol' 440BX. Probly best to use an Intel Retail (not OEM) board for P4's to be on the safe side. Let's be honest.

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 18:44, Cornerstone Community Farm wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 11:59 am, Aron Smith wrote: SK I managed once to un-install wife but ended up getting another SK installation less than ten years later. My un-install has been going on for eight years. I'm hoping

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 03:56, Eric Huff wrote: I've not been on a list that DIDN'T have odd members... Well, now, that would be impossible, wouldn't it? :) especially if Franki is there... they might not have anyone odd in the room until he enters, but every room he is in has some odd people

Re: [newbie] 'Pro's test rail underwear panties vote'

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 06:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 20:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Sorry to bust everyones' bubble therebut I already patented... wait for it Here it comes - PATENTS - So everytime you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:07, Pete Stean wrote: Selected the 1024x768 generic flatpanel - and I have a DVI and analog in on the monitor and DVI and analog out on the card. I only have the DVI cable connected (why bother with analog) - could it be as simple as trying to install with the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:32, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:07:32 +0100 Pete Stean [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: this will be my third attempt at installing the o/s - we all love to hate MS but I'm beginning to see why people don't venture out into the wild unknown of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:05, Pete Stean wrote: Thanks for the advice - that doesn't work though unfortunately - none of the geforce drivers give me anything other than a blank screen on test.. :-( Petey Dot not goot. Zumptink

Re: [newbie] Microsoft to Asia: No Fair!

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:54, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:22, HaywireMac wrote: Oh, this is rich. Microsoft complaining about unfairness when it comes to competition. Did these people have their sense of irony surgically removed?

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:56, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:23, Margot wrote: Had a boyfiend once who claimed he was almost a vegetarian because he only ate animals that didn't eat meat! Margot I tried to eat a vegetable before, but she just laid there. (Dig that

RE: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 08:13, Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 7:13 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 03:56, Eric Huff wrote

Re: [newbie] 4 speakers linux

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 04:42 pm, Anarky wrote: was there a sblive 10 years ago?? My 10 year old *son* :-) (just being a dick here,,, all seriousness aside) don't you mean your wife's son? (damn what kinda

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:00, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:26 pm, Margot wrote: Eric Huff wrote: How can I tell if I have the HD space? df at the cli OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your application

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:44, David E. Fox wrote: sobig virus to me. it appears to have originated from the linux newbie list by someone using outlook And you go and forward the whole fucking thing to the list you should be shot and arrested, as that qualifies (in most folks book) as

Re: [newbie] Is there a CLI Editor that colours your code?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
Does jed do what you need? On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 06:18, Heather/Femme wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:04:05 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 11:55, Heather/Femme wrote: like if i hit CTRL-F1 I wanted an editor that will colour my coding for perl

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 06:49, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:34 pm, Mathieu Frenette wrote: Hi everybody! I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows XP installed on a 30GB hard drive (with a single NTFS partition). I wanted to install Mandrake 9.1 with dual boot handled

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 07:16, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 02:16 am, Liechti wrote: [...] resize Windows partition option. However, it looks like I've lost I had the same problem, but i didnt resize my disc. the lilo just didnt write the entry for my windows

Re: [newbie] Is there a CLI Editor that colours your code?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 07:45, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:25:04 +0200 Guilmot Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: BUT, since you didn't ... have you tried GNU Nano ? The latest version can also colour your code, IF you configure it in. Something like ./configure

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your application

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 08:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 3:44 am, David E. Fox wrote: sobig virus to me. it appears to have originated from the linux newbie list by someone using outlook And you go and forward the whole fucking thing to the list you should be shot

Re: [newbie] Nigerian Free Money Scam Please

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
I love Mailfilter so much, it deletes it right off the server. However, it's been so freaking overwhelmed lately by the damned SMS backfires that it can't keep up. Soo...I posted a link, as I believe Ed suggested, to their site on Slashdot. Their whole network should be down within

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:46, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 07:49 am, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 07:16, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 02:16 am, Liechti wrote: [...] resize Windows partition option. However, it looks like I've lost

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 20:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 10:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip A-hem - in my last life (re-incarnation, remember that?) - which was from 45,980 bc to 46,034 bc, ... /snip I knew you were fast, Stephen. But that fast ??? Exceding the

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
http://www.american-webshop.com/book/b5r1z2 On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 10:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip A-hem - in my last life (re-incarnation, remember that?) - which was from

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:12, Aron Smith wrote: Thump you? Thump you too... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:35, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 07:31 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: ...snip WinME OTOH, uses command.com, not NT bootloader because it is just another flavor of Win98. Sorry, I didn't fully qualify. WinME uses Io.sys and msdos.sys as boot

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:31, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 06:47 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 01:26 pm, ed tharp wrote: when I installed w2k the (only) last 3 times, it did not mess with lilo

Re: [newbie] Slashdot fix for Dildo browsing

2003-09-04 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 07:53, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:57:32 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: me? :D Well, there's only two people on this list who can out-deviant me, sooo... you think. -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's

Re: [newbie] Slashdot fix for Dildo browsing

2003-09-04 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 07:53, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:57:32 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: me? :D Well, there's only two people on this list who can out-deviant me, sooo... you might be suprised, ya just never know. --

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