Re: [newbie] dev/hda6 was not cleanly unmounted

2001-12-09 Thread Ed Tharp
how are you shutting down the box? what command? what is the last bit of info on the screen as it shuts down? On Saturday 08 December 2001 23:50, you wrote: Hi, I am getting this error ( along with a long list of errors) on bootup. ... dev/hda6 was not cleanly unmouted .. I checked

Re: [newbie] driver for Dell Trinitron

2001-12-09 Thread Ed Tharp
why are you looking for a driver for the monitor? (I generally think of driver monitor as a M$ sort of thing) What version of xfree86 are you using? On Sunday 09 December 2001 02:10, you wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where I can find the driver for a Dell trinitron monitor? - eJ

Re: [newbie] dev/hda6 was not cleanly unmounted

2001-12-09 Thread Ed Tharp
On Sunday 09 December 2001 10:10, you wrote: Hi Ed, First a correction, the unmounting error occurs on dev/hda1 and dev/hda5 (not hda6). Second, to answer you questions: how are you shutting down the box? 1. from the prompt (not in any windowing system) I type exit. this takes me

Re: [newbie] driver for Dell Trinitron NOW: Xwindows rectangular blue spots appear top, bottom.

2001-12-09 Thread Ed Tharp
have you tried to see if the problem is related to KDE or a theme you are using? have you tried Gnome? to see if it goes away? SNIP I'm using KDE ... (the version that came with mandrake 8.0). sometimes my windows do not display correctly, meaning, that rectangular blue spots would appear on

Re: [newbie] conflict between USR modem and Com 2?

2001-12-09 Thread Ed Tharp
On Sunday 09 December 2001 14:44, you wrote: cat is short for catolog like the type command in dos, it just shows it I thought cat was for concatenate. your Idea works as good as mine. less see if we get a definitive answer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] how to find major and minor numbers?

2001-12-09 Thread Ed Tharp
I know I have to do a mknod to get MDK to see my 3rd cdrom (really a USB CDRW) and I know I need the major and minor numbers for the device. I even know that at one time, I beleive it was Tom Brinkmna that told me where to find the info on how to figure that stuff out, but for the life of me i

Re: [newbie] RAID SUPPORT, OT now;, Civileme? go on a rant? never

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Tharp
IMHO I would only qualify as a rant if you were not asked the question so often As it is, in my view, you are 'patiently answering a question too often repated. I would be temppted to just give the URL for the list archive and say search. Sorry to go on a rant, but this one really annoys

Re: [newbie] conflict between modem and Com 2?

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Tharp
Less see... take two aspirins, no more caffeine for 10 hours, post the output of (in a text console, as root, without the quotes) cat /proc/pci and the real model number of your modem would be good. the part we are looking for in /proc/pci is about a communication controller or something else

Re: [newbie] lilo

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Tharp
write to lilo as root. just change the default info, does not matter where in the list it is. after saving lilo.conf, run (as root in a text console, without the quotes, lilo or /sbin/lilo to have lilo check and write the configuration to the boot record. On Saturday 08 December 2001 09:44,

Re: [newbie] Spam

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Tharp
I wonder what country has .PL? I always think .pl is a perl script? On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:46, you wrote: poczta.tvfamilijna.pl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Spam ok .pl is poland

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Tharp
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] yamaha sound card problems

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Tharp
ehhh. do you have the cds? rpm.sourceforge.net? google.com search? On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:33, you wrote: I am looking for a module called 'isa-pnp' to make my sound card work. Does any one know where i can find it? Roy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Spam

2001-12-07 Thread Ed Tharp
Spam? maybe, worm? more than likely. i got to you because Uncle Bill wants to drag the internet to his knees so he can sell more stuff. On Friday 07 December 2001 05:20, you wrote: I received an e mail, obviously spam, which came to the e mail address which I use exclusively for this list, it

Re: [newbie] start up file

2001-12-07 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 06 December 2001 22:50, you wrote: Hi, I would like to get the sound mixer to start when I log in as user. I seem to remember that there is an init file that I edit for this purpose. For the life of me I can't remember which one. Anyone help me with this one? Thanks and

Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 95 LM 8.1

2001-12-07 Thread Ed Tharp
On Friday 07 December 2001 05:10, you wrote: Dear All, I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows first, however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if I use the

Re: [newbie] killing a connection

2001-12-07 Thread Ed Tharp
when you use top, try U the fred to get only the instances owned by fred. then try T (or h as it will bring up help) for time. showing you the process up the longest. Note: there is no need to hit enter after you enter U or T but is needed after you type: U fred. On Friday 07 December 2001

Re: [newbie] DNS settings

2001-12-07 Thread Ed Tharp
not only true..but legal and any more than three are ill-legal On Friday 07 December 2001 17:40, you wrote: I have 4 boxes on my home network. A WinXP box, a Mac OS X box, Mandrake Linux workstation and a FreeBSD workstation. Earthlink is my ISP and they have 3 DNS servers. I want to set my

[newbie] Re: Where do you come by this knowledge?

2001-12-07 Thread Ed Tharp
and it is NOT FORMAT!!! it is FDISK /MBR On Friday 07 December 2001 18:34, you wrote: Hi Ed: I am asking this in order to gain some knowledge here. Where do you find information about the format /mbr command and option. It is not in my PC Pocket Reference. Thanks, Dennis in Victoria

Re: [newbie] conflict between modem and Com 2?

2001-12-06 Thread Ed Tharp
gee i don't know why you expectthe PC to have such a bit of prep if the OS was not pre-installed. just go into BIOS and disable com 2. what does (as Root, in a text consol, without the quotes) cat /proc/interrupts say? On Thursday 06 December 2001 02:50, you wrote: I have recently purchased a

Re: [newbie] ddclient

2001-12-05 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 17:57, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2001 04:11 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I have installed ddclient onto my box so I can have a domain to go with my dynamic IP,, I have an account with dyndns and have set it up no worries.. problem is that it

Re: [newbie] Kmail

2001-12-05 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:28, you wrote: Hi, I'm having a little problem with the account section. I wanna remove an entry which is corrupt. Where can I find the config file to remove it manualy cause in Kmail It ain't possible Thanxs Daniel Ehh In the main (client)

Re: [newbie] users controlling ppp dialup scripts

2001-12-05 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 12:31, you wrote: http://www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html ? Greetings, I need to know hoe to configure my ppp dialup scripts so that a regular user can control internet access. I tried using netconf to setup the dial up network scripts and it breaks

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-04 Thread Ed Tharp
did you try the f8 or f9 tty? On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:44, you wrote: it should not but I still dont see where the second manager went (did it come up?). i thought the loading failed as is implied by the the 'Fatal Server Error'. ciao! On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:02:23 +0600 Mark

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Ed Tharp
this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) On Monday 03 December 2001 04:08, you wrote: I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 03 December 2001 15:47, you wrote: As I understand it a leak is returned to the OS after the program finishes. The problem with leaks is they can cause problems while the program is running. There were problems with different versions of windows, where the memory was NOT

Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD? ot now I've never understood the desire to maintain a /home dir,

2001-12-02 Thread Ed Tharp
On Saturday 01 December 2001 16:07, you wrote: snip I've never understood the desire to maintain a /home dir, specially thru future installs and upgrades. I can give you my reason. I like to see the difference in different levels of installs and have (more than once) bothched my install or

Re: Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why? NOW VIRI LERT

2001-12-02 Thread Ed Tharp
On Saturday 01 December 2001 17:57, you wrote: I just recieved a message from a reply I sent to the list with the following in the message: from EDEUARDO CERONI [EMAIL PROTECTED] k0y7IsywoXc3QLFSzLsiwUEhEIcN4CArEP3TaoIP5F+ksg3Q8BCwEG/9kK3u8DAI9QcS+gWEkDM

Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why?

2001-12-01 Thread Ed Tharp
in that users home directory, you should have a hidden file (got a . in fornt) called .kderc as I recall (and this is from memeory) this file can be removed (in a text console, Su to root, type cd /home/username (where username is the name of the user with the problem, ls -all without the

Re: [newbie] SMTP error

2001-11-30 Thread Ed Tharp
just delete the first message in the outbox. it has a bad address that does not connect to a valid smtp mail server address On Friday 30 November 2001 01:42, you wrote: I'm having a problem sending email in Mandrake 8.1. Today I tried to send an email with a file attachment (1.8 mb) and I

Re: [newbie] fill in the blank.directory question...

2001-11-30 Thread Ed Tharp
sorry, I used the show hidden files tab and now ...even tho it's there. i don't see it. some times a hidden file might just be something you need, and if it seems empty when you look at it, when it;s needed, it sure would be nice to have, and really, in that 40 gig HD, how much space are you

Re: [newbie] fill in the blank.directory question...

2001-11-30 Thread Ed Tharp
On Friday 30 November 2001 10:25, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: sorry, I used the show hidden files tab and now ...even tho it's there. i don't see it. some times a hidden file might just be something you need, and if it seems empty when you look at it, when it;s needed, it sure would

Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-28 Thread Ed Tharp
if you read in linux, then the viri ain't your problem, if you are a M$ user, look for a file called setup.pif. On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:28, you wrote: Franki wrote: Hi all, Frank McKenna just sent the list the above virus/worm.. the email will try to automatically save the

Re: [newbie] IE way OT now

2001-11-28 Thread Ed Tharp
2001 17:19:50 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2001 16:52, you wrote: so complain to the DOJ they let ms give away a crap browser despite being guilty of abusing their monopoly don't you just know the settlement will allow the to offer discount

Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-28 Thread Ed Tharp
a PSInet stock holder. On Wednesday 28 November 2001 13:22, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: if you read in linux, then the viri ain't your problem, if you are a M$ user, look for a file called setup.pif. thank you, ed. i use both linux and ms, but do email in ms. i like early version, 4.07

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 16:52, you wrote: so complain to the DOJ they let ms give away a crap browser despite being guilty of abusing their monopoly don't you just know the settlement will allow the to offer discount pricing to poor schools, so a dis-advantaged school can get a

Re: [[newbie] problem with netconfig for ppp on LM8.0]

2001-11-26 Thread Ed Tharp
one page I found with lots 'o help is http://theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html; On Sunday 25 November 2001 22:25, you wrote: In a follow up to this problem... Formatted and started all over again and am still running into the same problem except it is even worse now. If i use

Re: [newbie] Shutdown Hanging...in Mandrake 8.1!?!

2001-11-26 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 26 November 2001 00:46, you wrote: I need help =). Everytime I shut my PC down it hangs after Disconnect usb 1, Disconnect usb 2. After it displays disconnect usb 2 it just sits there, and never shuts down or times out with an error. Any help would be great. Thanks... Alan as

Re: [newbie] Configuring a LAN card

2001-11-25 Thread Ed Tharp
On Saturday 24 November 2001 18:24, you wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:36:38 -0800 (PST) Paul Schwebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up an old PC with Mandrake 8.1. It has an Intel Etherexpress Pro 10+ ISA card. I've tried to configure the card using the Control Center, but when

Re: [newbie] EFAX Viewer for Linux

2001-11-25 Thread Ed Tharp
ehhh... it's a different e-fax I believe. one that MDK supplies is a program to fax (like hylafax, or in M$winder$, winfax) and the other is a service that offers a free fax phone number, and you recieve your fax via e-mail. I believe they make there money by being the recieving service for

Re: [newbie] AOL Help IDE RAID!

2001-11-25 Thread Ed Tharp
have you tried to set it up using webmin? (https://127.0.0.1:1 login as root, hardware linux RAID?) you might have to install raid tools. On Sunday 25 November 2001 10:49, you wrote: Pls help me to configure and how to setup RAID using two IDE hardisk Pls reply to me at least a

[newbie] Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release

2001-11-25 Thread Ed Tharp
ehhh I got the DVD and Do see a LOT of software that is commercial quailty.(have you ever used a better program than Broadcast 2000?) geeesss how much of a bargian did you think you wold be getting? Poor Mandrake, on the one hand folks complain cause software that costs BIG bucks needs a

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-25 Thread Ed Tharp
Rick, you remind me of a child of say,,sixteen, who believes the world they have seen is it, and views the universe as beeing all from their (limited) perspective. M$winders is not how _I_ think the world should look, _I_ want to decide, and I am willing to allow that one mans cluster f#ck is

Re: [newbie] proxy servers..squid vs. apache ?

2001-11-19 Thread Ed Tharp
OK, make my life intersting, I want to do both, Squid to cache and serve webpages to my home network, Apache to serve web pages to the external world. got instructions? On Monday 19 November 2001 01:05, you wrote: --- Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:57:28

Re: [newbie] Problem in MKL 8.1

2001-11-18 Thread Ed Tharp
I would proceed to inform the list as to model and cofiguration settings as best as possible to assist in troubleshooting the malfunction. I would also proceed to inform the list as to the particular timing of the hang and length of time the hang occours. Does it happen durring boot? At what

Re: [newbie] Nice new NEWBIE website for Linux users

2001-11-18 Thread Ed Tharp
On Sunday 18 November 2001 01:50, you wrote: Basicly all Linux's will have 99.99% the same commands. Now going to something like HP's Unix you will find that the commandline options are different sometimes. I use HP Unix at work. I'm so sorry :) really,,, you have all our

Re: [newbie] Web page design

2001-11-16 Thread Ed Kasky
without knowing now to program. I have been using frontpage 2000. I'm trying to get away from windows and just use linux. next i need to change over my hp joranda 450 to use under linux and quicken then i can delete windows. thanks Bill Nash Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . You

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-14 Thread Ed Tharp
sure looks to me like a miss-spelled password... maybe caps? On Wednesday 14 November 2001 05:55, you wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for your response. At 11:34 PM 11/13/2001 +, you wrote: I would not worry about that too much. Evolution is still not final code. It does crash sometimes. I

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-14 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 10:32, you wrote: OK, I'll bite...so what did you do that reconfigured my system to use the modem only as default,? Hello: Not sure this will answer your question, but I used to have the same problem, where I would have to type ifconfig eth0 down before being

Re: [newbie] cat5 cable again

2001-11-14 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 18:41, you wrote: and if I recall corrrectly, they sould both be set to either full duplex or not (both cards same seting ,,, more important w/100... (just working from memory, what is left of my right brain) What kind of cards are you using? Both cards have to

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Thread Ed Tharp
one page I found with lots 'o help is http://theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html; the problem may be dns or the default route setting. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:35, you wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also

Re: [newbie] Installation

2001-11-13 Thread Ed Tharp
did you buy the cds or burn them? sounds like a defect cd On Tuesday 13 November 2001 14:06, you wrote: Hi, I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the same :-( I did try with cd nothing. I did try with

Re: [newbie] Can't upgrade Mandrake with the Single Network Firewall.

2001-11-13 Thread Ed Tharp
and , may I ask why you would want to do that? if you have 8.1, run InteractiveBastille to set up the firewall.. SNF is a earlier (some saymore stable) kernel, without all the bells and whistles a regular Mandrake Distro comes with. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 15:24, you wrote: Hi, I

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Thread Ed Kasky
? (approx. 30-40 feet) Is there a limit to cat5 length in order to remain effective? Do I need a wireless solution? is that even safe? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. --Steven Wright

Re: [newbie] mandrake/linux and upgrading cpu+motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread Ed Tharp
windows would have worked if you would have gone into the device mangler, err... manager and deleted the info about the old MB and stuff, and let winders discover the new hardware. I have a computer that I have upgraded since it was a 286/10 with 2.5 megs mem. and a 30 meg hd. copies the files to

Re: [newbie] GRUB

2001-11-10 Thread Ed Kasky
In the readme that comes with Grub, it explains how to change the default os - Yours is set to 0 right now. To make windoze the default, change the line from: default 0 - default 2 Ed At 04:07 AM Saturday, 11/10/2001, you wrote -= Can someone familiar with GRUB please tell me how to alter

Re: [newbie] How to view all Junk and control characters in a file.

2001-11-09 Thread Ed Tharp
ehhh,, have you tried more as in (in a text console, without the quotes) more filename.doc - Original Message - From: KL, Kiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:25 AM Subject: [newbie] How to view all Junk and control characters in a file. Hi,

Re: [newbie] Easier reading

2001-11-09 Thread Ed Tharp
like Franki, I read the top posted messages and may answer to them...the heading is only what I read in _every_ message - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:15 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Easier

Re: [newbie] 8.1, problems, cannot fill in info on first time

2001-11-04 Thread Ed Tharp
if I did, I did not notice, as I did not sit in front of the computer to watch all the graphics, but if it had, would not have it stopped the install until I acknowledged it? - Original Message - From: Jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] 8.1 PowerPack

2001-11-03 Thread Ed Tharp
yep I pre ordered and ordered the prosuite dvd too, got an invoice for 2 cds and the prosuite dvd, but I got 3 cds, I installed them this morning, and all went well until the run once setup wizard started on reboot, and the machine would not respond to keystrokes for 2 or three min, and I could

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-24 Thread Ed Kasky
lists that I run from my server to change their settings in AOL!!! Then I found demime which just strips it and attachments - including vcf's - before a message hits a list. Another solution might be to get the newbie list folk to use something like demime to strip the html... Ed At 10:24 PM 9

Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001-09-23 Thread Ed Kasky
I am editing the /etc/logcheck/ignore file which I've checked the path in logcheck.sh to make sure it's pointing there.. which it is. I have all the logcheck files in the same dir. Check the docs as to the exact files that you should be seeing Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA

Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001-09-22 Thread Ed Kasky
If you don't want to see certain activity in the reports, look at logcheck.ignore. Anything specified in that file will be ignored by logcheck. For example, ipop3d.*Moved will ignore entries like this from maillog: Sep 22 21:28:06 yoda ipop3d[2967]: Moved 7395 bytes of new mail to /home/ed

Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001-09-22 Thread Ed Kasky
FWIW - I use a handy little tool called Logcheck from Psionic that monitors logs and reports via email. It's very configurable and runs via cron so you can run it as often as you like. Ed At 11:13 AM Saturday, 9/22/2001, you wrote -= It'll be in your error_log and access_log files in /var

Re: [newbie] MS PowerPoint reader for linux?

2001-09-14 Thread Ed Tharp
star office presenter seems to do pretty well - Original Message - From: Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:28 PM Subject: [newbie] MS PowerPoint reader for linux? Anything availible in linux to read MS PowerPoint presentations? --

Re: [newbie] TEST! was I thrown off the newbie list by Denis HAVLIK? is this a blow FOR Mandrake?

2001-09-14 Thread Ed Tharp
again and again I shall beg forgiveness for my self, this WAS NOT done by anyone but me and my ISP changing POPmail settings. (they changed, I did not) - Original Message - From: jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001

Re: [newbie] TEST! was I thrown off the newbie list by Denis HAVLIK? is this a blow FOR Mandrake?

2001-09-14 Thread Ed Tharp
MY BAD!!! sorry to EVERYONE whip me and my ISP with a wet noodle. they screwed with my pop mail settings and I was not receiving any mail. all my fault (he said with his head bowed) - Original Message - From: d [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001

Re: [newbie] Can't find StarOffice in KDE menu

2001-09-13 Thread Ed Kasky
I even reported this little bug to Star and never heard anything back... I just manually created the links. Ed At 07:07 PM 9/13/2001 -0400, you wrote: I installed StarOffice.. and it tells me it is installed into the KDE menu. I restarted my KDE. But it's still not in the KDE menu. How can I

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread Ed Kasky
From the end of the article: For those who didn't immediately see the irony in my editorial, I feel it necessary to mention that this was only written as a joke in response to the frustrating times we're all experiencing in our ever-continuing battle with Microsoft. Written At 05:18 PM

[newbie] qmail on mandrake?

2001-08-28 Thread Ed Colmar
this problem. Some reccomended to use queue-repair. I tried that and it made a bunch of changes, but I still see this error... Any tips? Should I be installing from the source? Thanks -ed- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

2001-08-20 Thread Ed Colmar
FYI... The cold boot workaround did work on the laptop! thanks! -ed- On Friday 17 August 2001 13:36, you wrote: Not quite sure I follow you here... Shutdown the machine, then do what from there? Direct boot? Boot from a win boot disk? Thanks for the help! -ed- Boot from LILO

RE: [newbie] Newbie :) WU-FTPD

2001-08-18 Thread Ed Kasky
Try Webmin. www.webmin.com At 10:32 AM Saturday, 8/18/2001, you wrote -= Is there a GUI interface for proftpd or wu-ftpd? I am used to having a visual interface like in serv-u and G6 Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything

Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

2001-08-17 Thread Ed Colmar
Not quite sure I follow you here... Shutdown the machine, then do what from there? Direct boot? Boot from a win boot disk? Thanks for the help! -ed- Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am

[newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

2001-08-16 Thread Ed Colmar
the time. But gaming is the only thing that windows can do that linux can't and the speed needs to be there for that. Any ideas? TIA! -ed- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

2001-08-16 Thread Ed Colmar
Are you saying that it may be bacause the two OSs are on the same HD? Unfortunately with the laptop installing them on seperate HDs is not an option. -e- Ed wrote: On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread Ed Kasky
Be sure you have your lilo boot floppy before you do anything. Then install Win2k. You can then use your lilo boot floppy to boot to linux and then run lilo again which will install the loader. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ There is victory in surrender. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Robert

Re: [newbie] ParPort Scanner

2001-07-08 Thread Ed Tharp
in bios is your parrellport set bidirectional ? (ecp or ehp or something like that as I remember) do you dual boot and does it work in winders? - Original Message - From: Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:54 AM Subject: [newbie] ParPort Scanner

Re: [newbie] kwintv missing in MDK 8

2001-07-08 Thread Ed Tharp
I use xaw for TV viewing in 8.0 - Original Message - From: L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:09 AM Subject: [newbie] kwintv missing in MDK 8 In mdk 8 kwintv is missing in both CDs. I tried to install it from mdk 7.2. I got dependency

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-08 Thread Ed Tharp
I agree with most of your points, although loving netbeui is not necessarily my choice. I would also point out that linux, with all it's configuration abilities and learning curve (mostly an admin type thing really, most users should not have to setup anything, and in most business operations the

Re: [newbie] Local network browsing not working

2001-07-08 Thread Ed Kasky
and then authenticate once you tried to attach. My wondoze machines cna see and attach to the md box's shared folders but not visa versa Ed ~~ On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:05 am, etharp wrote: I could be barking up the wrong tree,,, but have you mounted those networked shares ? On Saturday 07 July 2001

[newbie] Local network browsing not working

2001-07-07 Thread Ed Kasky
. Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

Re: [newbie] *.GZ

2001-07-05 Thread Ed Kasky
I have had no problems using Winzip 8 on .tar's and .gz's Ed At 09:01 AM 7/5/2001 -0500, Boliver Allmon wrote: Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does

Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem

2001-06-26 Thread Ed Kasky
have to be fat32. Since I re-installed with a fat32 partition I have had noproblems writing files as well... Ed On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05 pm, tazmun wrote: Thanks Frans, I suspected as much since NTFS makes many things more difficult. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it since win 2K can

Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?

2001-06-22 Thread Ed Kasky
Thanks - this worked. Kmix is now a panel icon as well when I start KDE... Ed At 02:49 AM Friday, 6/22/2001, bascule wrote -= there is a kconfigkdesoundmixer dialog with a 'load volumes on login' setting but i don't know if this launches the panel icon as well, also a long winded way

[newbie] Volume Control in KDE?

2001-06-20 Thread Ed Kasky
Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze But... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Improve the computing world. Toss a Mac off a cliff.

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Ed Tharp
to minimize the can't (or maybe won't) be moved clusters, you can try and set virtual memory to nothing while you run defrag and scandisk, and turn off your screensaver too - Original Message - From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded

2001-06-17 Thread Ed Tharp
so what I want now is to replace the apple logo on my Mazda RX3 with a nice tux with a mandrake shooting star and like the mandrake 7.0 user guide cover logo - Original Message - From: Dan LaBine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:56 AM Subject: Re: Fwd:

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded

2001-06-17 Thread Ed Tharp
and well they should ...let everyone know I ain't part of the fence holding up the Gates - Original Message - From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dan LaBine [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Re

Re: [newbie] Ho can I create a demo .AVI or similar to show how OS operates?

2001-06-17 Thread Ed Tharp
xawtv can save an *.avi - Original Message - From: Carlos Berardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ho can I create a demo .AVI or similar to show how OS operates? i haven't found an app for

Re: [newbie] Removing Linux, how do I re-install next OS?

2001-06-13 Thread Ed Kasky
and the board. Do you hear the drive spin up when you power on? Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-) On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Michael A Duffy wrote: Hi List, I had LM 8.0 loaded onto a smaller sized HD than the one I am using now. I now want to remove

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-09 Thread Ed Kasky
Thomas Adam wrote: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 [Thomas]: What are your major/minor numbers, for the /dev/fd0 file?? This can be found, by typing in the following: ls -l /dev/fd0 brw-rw 1 ed floppy 2, 0 0 Apr 14 04:06 /dev/fd0 mount -a Does

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Ed Kasky
At 08:24 AM 6/8/2001 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-05 Thread Ed Kasky
This is exactly the issue. Anyone figure out why yet? Ed At 11:59 AM 6/5/2001 -0700, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Yes, but you shouldn't have to. That's the point. StarOffice claims that it installed the icon to the panel during install, and it doesn't work. The question from the original poster

[newbie] fd0 input/output error

2001-06-05 Thread Ed Kasky
# cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. permissions are drwxrwxrwx 1 root root from fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 Any ideas? -- Ed

[newbie] How to Compile Kernel

2001-06-02 Thread Ed Kasky
/arch/i386/boot/bzImage but there's no folder with that name. I found a bvmlimux of kernel size in a folder named ../arch/i386/boot/compressed and tried to use that but that's when I get the error. Any ideas or url's for some howto's or docs are appreciated Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles

Re: [newbie] How to Compile Kernel

2001-06-02 Thread Ed Kasky
Tim - I downloaded the recent src but the explanation in the README was a little cryptic at the end. I read the chapter in the Reference Manual for LM and it is a lot more specific for someone with my level of experience with kernel configuration. I'll let you know how it goes... Thanks - Ed

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-02 Thread Ed Kasky
I had to put the links in manually.. Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-) On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Has any one been successful in having StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel after installation in LM8? I can't get it to work

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread Ed Kasky
I have a dual boot system with win2k but use a second hd on which I installed Mandrake. I didn't like the way it handled the windows partition. Once you get it installed you'll need to recompile the kernel using xconfig to enable ntfs support so you can see the partition... Ed At 09:15 AM

[newbie] 2.4 routing question (easy one)

2001-05-29 Thread Ed Colmar
just create the route? Thanks for all the help! you guys rock! -ed-

RE: [newbie] mandrake security question

2001-05-24 Thread Ed Colmar
you go. regards frank Perth WA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Colmar Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2001 1:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mandrake security question Hi all! I've got my mandrake security box up

[newbie] mandrake security question

2001-05-23 Thread Ed Colmar
Hi all! I've got my mandrake security box up and running... All is well, except for the few services that I want to make available to the outside world. I have the firewall configured to pass http traffic through to the internal ip address of our web server. 192.168.1.26

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