Re: [newbie] To American readers (slightly OT)

2003-09-03 Thread ed tharp
be the people who built the pool and the drain hose. it can not be _MY_ fault for not reading the instructions that say don't drain into the neighbors living room. Barbara and Robin - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Barbara A Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:54, Paul wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:37, Eric Huff wrote: |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America? Is Canada in northamerica? On

Re: [newbie] Anybody help with dvdauthor???

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:47, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 9:45 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I've figured out over the course of hmm..., several months, how to record off my video capture card and encode to an mpg file. Dvdauthor help amounts to a very short readme that says you

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 RC1 CD boot problem

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 00:15, Noah A Hicks wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 04:44 pm, Noah A Hicks wrote: Hello I just downloaded MDK 9.1 RC1 and burned the CDs. Booting off disk 1 gives the following message: I can't access a Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Host not connecting to server (DHCP)

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 04:03, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I have my server configured as a DHCP server. Recently I found out that using a non standard internal IP might be the caused of some of my cacheing sp: caching? problems. and part of other folks problems too. bad idea. what made you

RE: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 12:43, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I am curious if it is for performance or stability? I remember Civileme from the list and he obviously has a lot of insight into the file system. So please Anne for future reference if you could find it for me. Many Thanks, Tony. iirc, it

Re: [newbie] MCC has a sense of humour...

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 08:47, HaywireMac wrote: How long has this been there?: The tools accessed through the Mandrake Control Center greatly simplify the use of the system, notably avoiding the use of the evil command line. I just noticed it now, LOL! I was attempting an install of rc1,

Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:49, Heather/Femme wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 07:37, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:28:01 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but ya if you wanna play I'll install it again kick your ass after a warmup. :P I don't doubt it...I

Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 17:56, Björn Olsson wrote: On Monday 1 Sep 2003 Björn Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means? The originating domain is obviously false. chop There is still one thing I don't understand about this

Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger sutff

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 18:32, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 08:01, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 10:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Microsoft is once again trying to block the MSN protocol from usage by GPL/OSS programs - in reality, it's not a very good protocol in

Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-01 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 15:27, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:44:57 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I got a couple of those. I don't think you were spoofed: someone you know (or someone that has your address) has the virus, which sends messages like that. I

RE: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-01 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:27, Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Margot Sent: Monday, 1 September 2003 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed! I know what you mean - it just makes me so angry. My

Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

2003-09-01 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:54, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 19:19, Björn Olsson wrote: This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means? The originating domain is obviously false. The only number newbie I have tried to send anything to is this list.

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds

2003-08-31 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 17:00, Anarky wrote: I was at the frozen bubble game site and there was this bit about free software: Free software is a very interesting (and important) concept. It was brought to mankind by Richard M. Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation

Re: [newbie] MCC and 9.2 RC1

2003-08-31 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 16:57, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:36:01 +0100 Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Tried that before asking the list. Any idea where the mcc executable should live - perhaps its not installed... isn't it drakconf? drakewizard --

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 18:32, Anarky wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 22:33, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 22:41, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 11:16 pm, Anarky wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:33 pm, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied

Re: [newbie] calendar

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 23:03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 11:21 pm, Anarky wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 02:09 pm, Anarky wrote: Can you tell me of a linux app which would show me a calendar? Besides all the GUI stuff, if you are in a

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote: Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea operative words being, Today SCO also said it had no current plans

Re: [newbie] another defragmentation question

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 02:51, Eric Huff wrote: if the defrag or scan disk (most likely scan disk) screw with the last sector of the partition, it is possible, if the next logical partition starts right away, that the next partition start sector will be fubared, and not allow access to

Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 20:07, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, I'm an almost newbie: I managed to get Mandrake installed and that's about it. I did post here a while back [I think about six months ago,] and I received some really helpful advice to get Mandrake and WIN2KPRO on the same HDD but past

RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthemodem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 09:49, Merlin Zener wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 19:47 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem

Re: [newbie] opera

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 12:17, Marc wrote: On Saturday 30 August 2003 10:40 am, Anarky wrote: Marc wrote: I do this all the time using Opera as a browser, the download seems to temperaly slow while web pages are loading. I think that there are some other browsers that do

RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 16:46, Merlin Zener wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 21:27 To: newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthemodem... [newbie

Re: [newbie] How do I install from the hard drive?

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 17:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I start to boot into the installation and it starts to load all of the programs it is freezing. When it freezes the keys start to blink and it says Kernel Panic: cannot mount root files system on 1:03. It is not because I have 1gb of

RE: [newbie] Compaq is just plain weird

2003-08-28 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 08:33, Bill Spatz wrote: Have you tried using F10 during boot to access the bios? Later Compaqs use that rather than the configuration floppy. thia ain't no 'later model' if it is a 266mhz Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-28 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 01:22, Tom Brinkman wrote: Keep in mind my usual advice on this list is that hardware needs to be eliminated from any problems, specially if it's a ready made, in the first place. OC'd or not. OTOH, if it's there, RUN IT!! Windoze reviews: the current darlings

Re: [newbie] another defragmentation question

2003-08-28 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:50, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:22, julie wrote: I dual boot Win 98SE and ran a defrag on the Windows partition. In doing so, I screwed up my Mandrake 9.0 super block, at least that was what the error reported. All attempts at repairing the super

Re: [newbie] Reinstalling WinMe and Grub

2003-08-28 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 18:20, Heather/Femme wrote: - Keeping ppl from watching TV, Femme yep Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problems posting to Newbie List

2003-08-26 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:08, John Richard Smith wrote: Started having problems getting through, here is the latest return message , [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no such user (newbie). isn't something ending .ru a rusian address ? John crap from some ruskie who thinks

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-26 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 13:02, Lanman wrote: HaywireMac; No knickers to worry about! You might be right about the hijack, under the conditions you specified. I didn't see a hijack happening, because my thread was under a different name. Just so you know, I've never even seen any list of

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 00:49, HaywireMac wrote: Although I no longer have any Windows partitions or drives, they still show up under /mnt. I have checked /etc/fstab, and they do not appear. Is there somewhere else I need to go to make them stop appearing? fstab= file system table mtab=

Re: [newbie] Making Linux Converts

2003-08-26 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 04:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 2:54 am, Harv Nelson wrote: Watch an animation of the conversion process of a new Linux user http://ai9nl.shacknet.nu/images/linux_convert.gif Harv What did you view it with? I just got a low-res static pic.

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:57, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:45:41 +1200 Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yes, there are 2 ways to do this. Go into the Mandrake Control Center and change boot options. BootDrakBootLilo/Grub Mode (Configure)Then ok at the first dialog,

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:09, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:57, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:45:41 +1200 Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yes, there are 2 ways to do this. Go into the Mandrake Control Center and change boot options

Re: [newbie] Att: Lyvim Xaphir

2003-08-25 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:58, David E. Fox wrote: Did you get one from me last night? allright keep the personal stuff to the OT list, this is way too much personal infog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Kmail won't let me send email at all!?

2003-08-21 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 02:35, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:43, Heather/Femme wrote: blink k Ty luv. :) yippee for me.. replied to my own post... God I hate being stoned! but we love your posts g __

Re: [newbie] Restore Xwindows setting from boot

2003-08-21 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 14:09, John Richard Smith wrote: How do I restore xwindows monitor and video settings on bootup. There is some way by typing XFdrake , but how , I think with CD1 ? John as root, XFdrake should give you the ability to setup your display and monitor, and it should

Re: [newbie] Restore Xwindows setting from boot

2003-08-21 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 15:46, John Richard Smith wrote: ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 14:09, John Richard Smith wrote: How do I restore xwindows monitor and video settings on bootup. There is some way by typing XFdrake , but how , I think with CD1 ? John

Re: [newbie] POPFile plug

2003-08-20 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:36, Miark wrote: I'll send them directly to you within the hour. hell, post it to the list, so it will be available in the archives, Please. Miark On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:19:03 -0400, Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking as someone frustrated with

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-19 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:51, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:17:45 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: We can only speculate what was in the mind of the worm's author(s). But if the 200,000 instances of this worm had chosen to target

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-19 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 08:06, HaywireMac wrote: On 19 Aug 2003 07:33:03 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: unless I borrow a copy, I might not ever get to use XP. bet yer real busted up about that! I do have the VLE if you want tho, ;-) is it in ISO format

RE: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-18 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 21:46, Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Monday, 18 August 2003 9:08 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive! On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, owenb wrote

Re: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
ARG,,, kill the html, please. On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:41, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: Where I can find service pack to upgrade madrake 9.0 to 9.1 ? Is that possible to not reinstall the whole mandrake 9.1 to my mandrake 9.0 ? I just to upgrade it. Where can I find the service pack and

Re: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
have the correct answers) too. ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:ARG,,, kill the html, please. On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:41, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: Where I can find service pack to upgrade madrake 9.0 to 9.1 ? Is that possible to not reinstall the whole mandrake 9.1 to my

RE: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:04, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: Is that Mandrake 9.1/i586 ISO Image that I should downloaded ? I will have 3 CD's ? Which one should I downloaded ? each cd is numbered, all three are a good idea to burn. an ISO is an image and is not burned as a file but as an image.

RE: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:04, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: sorry, those numbers i just posted were for the beta for version 9.2, but the convention is the same. you also may want to wait a month (or so) and get 9.2 when it comes out, or try the beta version, and give Mandrake's developers a taste of

Re: [newbie] OT: Any HTML gurus out there?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:45, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:39:09PM +0200, Kasper Thunoe wrote: søn, 2003-08-17 kl. 13:19 skrev Margot: I'm helping a friend build her family history website, and we have a small problem. She has chosen the colours she wants for her

Re: [newbie] how to uninstall php and reinstalled again?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:33, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: less HTML will get More (and more correct) answers. Hi, everyone I do not know how to uninstall php package on mandrake. I use rpm -qa | grep php to find all package for php. I want to uninstall all those package. But I am worry about

Re: [newbie] SCO Nigerian Spam

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:11, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:03:09 -0500 Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html Not too far off the mark, eh? he is a canuck... Eh? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
squid might do what you are thinking about, and can do it well for everyone on your lan. On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 12:55, Anarky wrote: isn't there some true caching program ... well .. by true I mean: I keep setting cache sizes in Firebird stuff .. and yet I never feel like I'm browsing

Re: [newbie] Trident Cyberblade i1 MDK 9.1

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
are you passing the reduced amount of ram to the kernel? On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:59, RichardA wrote: I'm trying to install MDK 9.1 on a VIA C3. I get an insmod error during hardware detection when it reboots, but I don't think that's my problem (I can't find anything in the logs about IO or

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:11, Anarky wrote: Michael Lothian wrote: Yes it will work cool. And will this 'squid' have features like instant cache when going to a website and then refreshing .. or anything like that? this squid works like AOL. you don't know it's there, but gee wilikers,

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:08, Michael Lothian wrote: Was that sarcasm? nay, I think he was cereal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, owenb wrote: There may be some help at hand. When LH the makers of translation software got in hot water and closed their US office I received assistance from the Action Editor of Smart Computing Magazine . If several of us write maybe the public airing of

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-16 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 22:13, Cody Harris wrote: The VGA option was set to 786. On starting the computer with XFree 3.x with the edited lilo, it tired to start X about 3 times then says something about failing. On logging in as root and startxing, it says Fatal server error: No valid

RE: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-16 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 03:26, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Brandon, as I see it tho, M$ built a system designed to require expensive maintenance, as a business model. linus builds a system to 'work right' as an Operation system, as an Computer Operation System model. Let's see do I want an

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-16 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 08:01, Michael Lothian wrote: Still think Dyson is the best though sure,,, in _your_ (the real) world... ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 03:26, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Brandon, as I see it tho, M$ built a system designed to require expensive maintenance

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-16 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 09:52, Cody Harris wrote: I have sent you my lilo.conf off list. - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 7:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable? On Fri, 2003-08-15

Re: [newbie] OF INTEREST: [Virus Alerts [Prevention: thebest weapon againstthe Blaster wor m - 08/13/03]]

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 08:42, Harv Nelson wrote: Heather/Femme wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:35, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snick For ONE YEAR they should sit back, stop trying to FORCE the market and fix the damn product once and for all. ONCE it's fixed, stable, tested, tried and true,

Re: [newbie] M8.1 Shutdown fails

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 09:38, John Richard Smith wrote: My wife's M8.1 gets to , Stopping Kheader, and Hangs, no cursor, no keyboard, nothing. Have to crash the OS and restart. do the numlock lites work on the keyboard? what happens with [ctrl+alt+ f3]? just how are you 'crashing the

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:42, Cody Harris wrote: You say my problem is to do with a frame buffer? Yes i have a color lilo boot menu. How do i fix this? see Charles's reply, he is absolutely correct. but also check your lilo for the mem statement, since this is an on-board shared video memory

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
As root, in a text console mousedrake choose 'logitec mouseman+' I think that should do what you want, maybe not. On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:32, crak600 wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] laptop from Hell

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:28, Roland Cruse wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Erylon Hines wrote: I just finished (sort of) an install on a friends Compaq Presario 905US. He had tried multiple times, with multiple distros to get Linux on this machine, Anyone else have

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:27, Joe Hill wrote: Hey y'all! I was hit by the big blackout like so many of you I am sure, in the middle of composing a mail message. The power just came back on and when I booted up and logged in, gkrellm shows I have 300 messages in my spool, but when I hit get

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
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. On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:32, crak600 wrote: Posted this to the list yesterday but it still hasn't hit

Re: [newbie] VNC with sound?

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 17:44, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 07:02, Miark wrote: Is there any software out there that works like VNC, but pumps video and _sound_ over the network? Miark I am not really sure what you mean by 'works like VNC', but have you tried VLC or webcam

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 17:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i get a normal installation I want the installer to use Expert mode. Can i add another arg to that line

Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 08:51, Lanman wrote: Dear Mr. McBride; if you think you can get blood from this turnup, then when you send the police, make sure they have _real_ bullets. I don't want none of those bean bag or plastic bullets in my yard. Real Bullets. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:31, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 05:49, Heather/Femme wrote: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.19 seconds =673.68 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.45 seconds = 44.14 MB/sec No idea if thats normal or good or

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:40, ed tharp wrote: snip line in the image section for linux - error message duplicate append lines. Re-booted just the same. No sign of SCSI card. only one append line per boot stanza

Re: [newbie] how do i release the ipnumber with dhcp

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 22:38, Jerry Barton wrote: On 05 Aug 2003 18:15:42 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip ifconfig eth0 down Just curious because I come across this from time to time and that's how i've been doing it.. would service network restart work as well

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 12:00, John Richard Smith wrote: Michael Lothian wrote: Yes that's true but the cost is considerably more, the quality of service improvement not that much higher, and in my case I have to buy 4 new modems just to get started. What exactly is your setup?

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 10:03, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 20:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:32, Sharrea wrote: snip I have an Adaptec scsi card for my Microtek E6 scanner which is not presently being used with my current MDK9.0. It

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 22:42, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 09 Aug 2003 19:56:16 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you are installing 9.1, there is no expert mode, like there was in 7.0-9.0, but in some sections (like configuring the network) you can chose an expert mode

Re: [newbie] Government trying to control our computers - OT butImportant

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:32, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:31, Haywiremac wrote: On 12 Aug 2003 15:54:56 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: auxiliary association I think ancillary would be more appropos... JK! g damn how did _I_ get involved? I woulda

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:17, Cody Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable? On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 09:50, Haywiremac wrote: On Tue, 12

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:56, Anarky wrote: like I said in another mail if I copy fat32 to linux partition (don't know what kind exactly, the default installed with mdk 9.1) the speed is constantly fast. But that is one side of it:

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:29, Haywiremac wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:04:52 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hm...doesn't work...just goes to login on the term i tried it in. then login first? Ok, try this, create a file in your home dir called .xinitrc, then edit that

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Apache

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:51, Avi Schwartz wrote: I did not try to install Apache2 and PHP on mdk 9.1 yet but I can tell you I had a very bizarre experience on two different SuSE 8.2 systems. On one, the two installed beautifully and worked out of the box. On another machine I could not

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 09:50, Haywiremac wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:02:37 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I ran mcc from console and went to display configuration, but my card isn't listed there. I wants Trio64 (so it defaults to), but that doesn't work. your best

RE: [newbie] OF INTEREST: [Virus Alerts [Prevention: the bestweapon againstthe Blaster wor m - 08/13/03]]

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:06, Luis-Miguel Astudillo wrote: Welcome Luis-Miguel. I know you addressed Stephen, but let me take a stab. there should be an almost natural visible difference between closed source (ie.; M$)reporting of problems (as in; 'if you look for problems, we can send you to jail,

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:12, Cody Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable? On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:12, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 01:35, Haywiremac wrote: On 13 Aug 2003 12:27:37 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Can you shrink partitions in place? actually, I am curious about this myself. I stupidly divided my 60 GB

Re: [newbie] killin'

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 03:03, Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 7:41 am, Anarky wrote: normally I use 'gnome-system-monitor' to kill apps, but now an X app won't stop with that even. So I do ps aux | grep app_name and then try kill pid ... but still nothing will happen. Any

Re: [newbie] Government trying to control our computers - OT butImportant

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 05:46, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:44, Carroll Grigsby wrote: The bill was authored by Sen. Hollings (D - Disney). It would have required that _every_ digital device contain a means of preventing the copying of _any_ copyrighted material. (Can you

Re: [newbie] Question about Running Dos Application in Mandrake 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:46, Seno Adiputra wrote: My company is still using Dos application such as cobol for its administration. When we decided to use Linux, especially Mandrake 9.0, we had a trouble to run Dos application on it. Can you tell me how to run dos application on Linux Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Government trying to control our computers - OT butImportant

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:31, Haywiremac wrote: On 12 Aug 2003 15:54:56 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: auxiliary association I think ancillary would be more appropos... JK! g damn how did _I_ get involved? I woulda thunk this was some sorta intelec-tool dis-cussing

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:12, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:17, Cody Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable? On Tue

Re: [newbie] test again my mail does not go to list

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 22:09, Cody Harris wrote: H, it takes a while for mine to go, but they all have me filtered out so i never get a response. - Original Message - From: yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:54 PM Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:33, John Richard Smith wrote: Michael Lothian wrote: Netgear have a broadband modem / hub in one Best to use www.priceguideuk.com Reviews here but this place may not be the cheepest

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 08:12, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:38, Anarky wrote: hi everybody ... me new ... I just had a very embarassing moment today. A friend came by with his hdd .. and I was copying about 1Gb of data from one hdd to another. My linux preaching was

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 15:31, John Richard Smith wrote: ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 12:00, John Richard Smith wrote: Michael Lothian wrote: I have 3 computer, and my wife has hers and several of my daughters each have computers that float in and out according

Re: [newbie] Video capture card for linux

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 07:24, Brian Parish wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good quality capture card that will work with linux? Any advice on apps that make good use of it also appreciated. TIA Brian any wintv pci card, xawtv does OK capture, (also depends on your video

Re: [newbie] KDE Session management on logout

2003-08-10 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:19, Heather/Femme wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 20:54, ed tharp wrote: snip as I understand it, it was done to keep winblows users confused, and then when they ask, we get to tell them that they have many choices on how to do things in GNU-linux g Ok really

Re: [newbie] KDE Session management on logout

2003-08-09 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 18:04, Heather/Femme wrote: I liked in MDK 8.2 the ability to save my KDE Session as it was when i last booted into KDE. That option (a tickbox on the logout screen) asked if i want to save sessions. NOw i can't find it in 9.1! WTF? I've looked for it in different

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-09 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 18:44, Heather/Femme wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:56, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 17:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i

Re: [newbie] KDE Session management on logout

2003-08-09 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 23:35, Joeb wrote: ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 18:04, Heather/Femme wrote: I liked in MDK 8.2 the ability to save my KDE Session as it was when i last booted into KDE. That option (a tickbox on the logout screen) asked if i want to save sessions. NOw

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability

2003-08-08 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 07:00, Frankie wrote: So can I.. but does that mean you should??? Sure sounds good in theory.. but if you forked say 200 bucks extra to get a faster P4 CPU for example, and then bought a winmodem, you will lose most of the difference that faster CPU would have gotten you

Re: [newbie] More Stupid Questions(XMMS)

2003-08-07 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 03:50, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 06:41, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: If noone has answered the question yet here you go: Option = Preferences = Audio I/O Plugins and look at the configuration for the plugin that corresponds to the type of stream

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