Not
worth fixing CD burner if the new install will do it for me, and
certainly not worth rebooting six times and twiddling my thumbs while
the CD burns.
Thanks,
Fred
Now if I could just remember why I made a 14 gig root partition last
time. 121 megs used.
Opinions?
Thanks,
Fred
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Is anyone familiar with seting up a sevice for Bittorrent on a
Westell Versalink 237W?
Thanks,
Fred
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l end up. Will the update
miraculously happen? Will the rpms end up in a cache somewhere? Or
will I have to wait out another download?
If I get a response in time, is there something I should or can do to
"rescue" the downloads?
Fred
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Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Thanks Jason,
I will take a look
Fred
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From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Jason,
Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file.
Thanks,
Fred Mungandi
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From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Suerte,
Thanks for your response. I have tried all the mouse options under Mandrake Control Centre. Nothings works so far.
Fred
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Sent: Monday, March 24
modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up.
Fred Mungandi
Lusaka, Zambia
Tel: +260-1-254303
Fax: +260-1-254532
Cell: +260-97-841560
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mask and other TCP/IP network parameters to it. Sever does not complain but the network does not come up. ie, ping to the local ethernet produces no reply. Could I be missing something?. Anyone with this experience?
Looking forward to your assistance.
Fred Mungandi
Lusaka, Zambia
Tel: +260-1-2
Just called my dialup ISP and asked how to route all connections to their
news server thriough my modem. I want to use my cable connection for all
other addresses. Told them I was using Mandrake 9.
Their tech support said the only practical way was to physically disconnect
the
aid for and use the product often,
and have been very impressed with how quickly I get responses e-mails asking
for support even on weekend afternoons. Jeremy White is one patient,
accessible, and newbie friendly person.
Thanks to all,
Fred
Want to buy your Pac
open for suggestions, and I'll try to update what happens with the two
most obvious maybes.
Fred
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On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:07, et wrote:
> I wonder if either of you have installed "crossover plugin demo"? and did
> you install Quicktime? I noticed this after I killed a failed install of
> quicktime via the plugin, but only as root.
Actually, yes. But it was the full install, no
Maker load in just a
few seconds.
Is there any way I can generate a log file showing each item loaded with the
time so I can see where the delay is? Anyone with another suggestion? I use
IceWM most of the time, but some things just seem to work better on KDE or
gnome.
Fred
Wa
ls printer-testpages nmap scli gimpprint
So it says things were installed, not installing.
BTW, the printer set up fine through CUPS, but printed only a little
gibberish each page. It works OK under thatwhichshallnotbenamed. So I want
to try it this way.
Fred
Want to
s, or list the steps?
Fred
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es, only
commenting on a part of the installer and asking whether I would be missing
anything significant if I blew it off. It may indeed have appeared I was
asking why there were no updates for a beta release.
Fred
--
I've gone to find myself. If you see me first, please ask me
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 09:19 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> Please keep in mind that what I'm about to say is said with the best of
> intentions and no offense is meant. But, which part of bleeding edge,
> _Beta_ release isnt' quite clear?
>
> first, s
several items
several times. So many I (thought I) had the keystrokes memorized. (the
following is purely my fault, the flaky fickle fingers of fred strike again.
Well, actually the thumb.)
Eventually, I clicked the wrong button and did not update the installed
packages. And, as in
)
did not miss any pixels. Only the fonts. Any idea what's going on?
Thanks in advance
best regards
Fred
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I followed the instructions on installing KDE 3 from the Mandrake website,
but when I do the urpmi *, I get all of these errors about qt3 devel files
conflicting with the qt2 devel files. How do I get around this? is is
alright to have it install without checking dependencies?
Thanks,
Fred
, smoothwall, or something similar on a P-133/32 megs ram/1.2gig HD for a
router. Should each of the local machines continue to use msec, will it be
unnecessary, or can I obviate msec by running something else on the router?
Fred
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ry for wine. I have created a windows group and added
the group to user profiles Now I want to change the umask to 007.
I can umount and remount to get things working, but msec's resetting back to
the defaults is frustrating.
Tnx,
Fred
SuperMethaneBrothers game -- works
xmms -- works
GnomeCDplayer -- works
Grip -- works
Ogle -- works
RealPlayer -- ERROR
"Cannot open the audio device.
Another application may be using it"
Click "more Info" button > nothing happens
Quicktime via CrossOver Plugins -- no soun
m, well, let me just say I saw no
middle ground :-)
Now this bunch sounds as if a few days could be interesting and relaxing.
Fred
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US - Great Lakes region
Akron-Cleveland Ohio area
Medina, Ohio, US to be specific
But I miss the Eastern Kentucky mountains.
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connecting with 8.0, just got a cable connection 2
weeks ago.
In my case it was because I was configured to get my IP address by DHCP and
had not installed a DHCP client. I DL'd one from Tucows
(dhcpcd-1.3.21-pl2.tar), but I suspect there was one on the CDs.
Fred
Anyone here using it? I'm thinking about it for a 4 desktop home network
with a cable connection. I have a 166mmx w/32 megs and a 3 gig HD laying
around I can use. (laying around! and it was only last spring I was still
getting by with a 486/25, 8 meg, 540 HD. Sheesh!!)
Wid
strated.
Hints greatly appreciated.
Fred
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On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:17 pm, you wrote:
> On Thursday 13 December 2001 17:52, you wrote:
> > Fred,
> >
> > This is idle time on your machine. From a previous answer on this list I
> > believe that instead of just recording idle time, it actually tries to
Anyone know what kamp-idled is and why it is using 97% of CPU, at least that
is what top tells me.
Thanks,
Fred
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;cannot save file,
> discard?' Whay can't I save the file changes in the editor?
> I am using LM 8.1.
> Thank you.
> Mick
Mick, you need to edit this file as root.
log in as su before you edit it, then you can save it. When you open it as a
user, it is opened read-only.
Fred
On Friday 07 December 2001 04:30 pm, you wrote:
> 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&quo
On Friday 07 December 2001 01:50 pm, you wrote:
> On Friday 07 December 2001 08:59, you wrote:
> > On Friday 07 December 2001 05:21 am, you wrote:
> > > Fred Schroeder wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at wo
the kernel in 8.1 is not supported yet. So bought Win4Lin, and everything
works perfect so far, it even picked up the scanner, a HP DeskJet 3200c.
Took a little bit to figure out the settings, but after I got that right, all
works perfect so far.
Fred
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On Friday 07 December 2001 05:21 am, you wrote:
> Fred Schroeder wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at work and ran
> > "who" that I show being still logged in a couple of different places,
> > though my workstati
Hi,
I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at work and ran
"who" that I show being still logged in a couple of different places,
though my workstation is shut down. How do I kill these connections?
Thanks,
Fred
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At 06:46 PM 10/29/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Friday 26 October 2001 19:54, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My system is running LM 8.1. When I try to install 'kylix' I get this
> > message:
> >
> > [root@main kylix_oe]# sh setup.sh
> >
> > : command not found
> > : command not found
> > : command not fou
While viewing web pages in Mozilla 0.9.4, I notice that all of the
apostrophes get replaced with a y with two dots over the top. Do any of
you guys know how I get rid of this? Not a big deal, but kind of annoying.
TIA,
Fred
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On Friday 19 October 2001 10:12 pm, you wrote:
> Fred Schroeder wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > I changed all of my removeable drive icons to the old way,
> > like in 7.2, where you click on them to mount the drive,
> > and right click and umount from the menu, no supermount
>
Robert,
at the command promt type:
md5sum filename
where filename is the name of the downloaded file you wish to check. This
will spit out a character string, which should match what is in the md5sums
file, which is a text file.
hope I helped, and didn't confuse!
Fred
At 05:34 PM
On Sunday 30 September 2001 10:59 pm, Michael wrote:
yes, from console, as su, type:
passwd username
where username is the actual users login of course.
You can also change the users password from within linuxconf.
hope this helps,
Fred
> One of my users forgot thier password.
>
Hi,
I'm trying to install Red Hat Linux over Win NT (have
to use an old version, unfortunately) or viceversa.
Which is suggested? I've tried both and haven't really
succeded in any. Windows has a nazi approach of
eliminating everything it finds...
Please don't answer "why installing WIN NT at al
Michael
thanks for the advice. Gee, I'm really Newbie!
ok, so var is full and I guess that's where the
man would decompress... Is it easy to change the space
allowed for var or do I need to repartition the HD?
the output is
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1
,
Fred
to add a user, from the command line:
adduser
you must do this as root, but since it sounds like that is the only account
you have, shouldn't be a problem!
hope this helps,
Fred
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April
I have a Diamond Stealth III S540 Xtreme video card, but don't seem to have
OpenGL on my system, Mandrake 8.0 rc1.
Has anyone got this config to work, or am I just screwed on the 3D accel?
TIA,
Fred
/3rd-referer
where IPADDRESS is of course replaced with the actual IP address of your
site. This is also for where the last two are aliases to the first site.
Notice that if you have a virtual host, that you must have an entry for each
site, including the main one.
hope this helps.
Fred
Got it set!
Thanks guys!
Fred
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From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting the time
> On Friday 26 January 2001 17:08, you wrote:
> > Hey Fred,
Hi!
Does anyone know how to sync the time with an atomic clock, and also my time
always seems to be off by 1 hour, even if I select DST in linuxconf, any
ideas?
This is on a server running Mandrake 7.1
TIA!
Fred
Dave,
No, I am not saying that a reinstall is certain, just wanted you to be
prepared if it does turn out that way.
Best of luck!
Fred
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:09 A
ithout the quotes of course.
I do think there are several GUI interfaces for
these packages, but I prefer the ol' command line. I think you can even
handle these type files in Konqueror, never tried.
Fred
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From:
pogo
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
use tar. "man tar"
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: [newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ?
> Need this to uncompress a .tar.Z file and it's nowhere to
have you tried:
rpm --rebuilddb
I think that will do it, I am sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong.
;-)
HTH
Fred
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From: "cyberclay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:59 PM
Subject: [newbi
, I will come
in and there will be three logrotates running, ie they never get done before
cron starts the next one. Any idea what I need to do to fix this? It is an
old pentium 133, with 32megs ram, but it ran fine for months without a
problem, now all of a sudden this.
TIA,
Fred
Yes, is there a way to set up printing in 7.2 like it was in 7.1? I have
had all kinds of trouble with CUPS,
never had a problem before this "improved" system.
thanks!
Fred
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From: "marcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Se
I have Mandrake 7.2 on a laptop that started out with W2K and now dual
boots. 7.2 sees the mnt/windows just fine. The -t type is vfat just like you
specified. Check to see if there is an update available for linux to mount
W2K filesystems. Or this maybe a kernel update. I am not sure.
Fred
never had this problem on
RedHat si I'm assuming my setup is incorrect.
Any thoughts?
Fred Klaus
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 8:24 AM
Subject: [newbie] re ssh
> Does mandrake 7.1 come with a ssh server on it?
> If not, can anyone suggest one thats easy to install can configure!(rpm
pa
(Note that this is straight from the man page for setleds.)
For X, you need to edit the file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/types/basic'. The
last section of the file is the "KEYPAD" section and looks like:
type "KEYPAD" {
modifiers = Shift+NumLock;
map[None] = Level1;
map[Shift] = Level2;
map[NumLock]
starting
them from a terminal, but it doesn't tell me anything. Is this a common
problem? I searched the mailing list archives, but didn't find anything on
it. Any help would be appreciated.
TIA
Fred
Thu, 09 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Hey Larry,
> I've been following the exchange between you and Fred (excerpts below) > with interest. I don't know what kind of tag team you've got going with
> Tom-- Larry
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 21:12, you wrote:
> I nearly wrote exactly what he did but decided it wasn't worth the time
I think your statement says it all! If it isn't worth the time then why
bother posting? The very name of this reflector says it all. When someone
comes in and asks a questi
L messages, and I do not want to use Netscape.
Thanks,
Fred Hamilton
Maybe this is a stupid question, but where do I change the security?
Thanks,
Fred
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From: Steve Weltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] User can't login
> The system is
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Thanks,
Fred
You can try GnuCash, or there is also a program that is pure Java called
Moneydance. You should be able to find them on Linuxburg, or goto
www.gnucash.org
Fred
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2
Post a copy of your /etc/fstab file.
also, do you have a directory on your system such as, /mnt/zip or
/mnt/zipdrive or something along that line?
Fred
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:2
nt to change disks. Is there some
setting that I need to change?
TIA,
Fred
ls me that
the dev is busy. It is kind of a pain to reboot the system to change a
zip disk! Any idea what I am missing here?
TIA
Fred
I often have noticed that I get a continuesly higher download speed in linux
than in windows. the speed in windows averages about 3.4 kbits/seconds and
that seems as fast as we get. in linux I get an average of 5.5 kbits/seconds
with spikes around 12 or 15 kbits/second. The same dialup isp and
mo
How can I have Linux and NT 4.0 Server on the same machine and have Linux
show up on the NT start menu instead of using the Linux boot manager? Can
it be done? I am getting ready to do a clean install of both operating
systems.
Fred
configuration? I reinstalled the make rpm package and
tried again but no luck. Any help would be appreciated
Thanks to all who have helped so far..
Fred
e
Linux better so far. Once I get past the learning curve I may use it
exclusively...
Fred
PS: What is one of the better email clients? I use Eudora Pro in Windows
and would like something similar for Linux.
Where are some of the better sites for obtaining Linux software on the web,
and for
menu for execution?
Thanks
Fred
make sure your bios plug -n pray settings are off all the way... not
"automatic" not plung and pray aware os... worked for me...had to reinstall
after I changed the bios all the way
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Thanks for the recommendation - I was begining to wonder if I should includ
plug in play turned of in bios???
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Are other PCMCIA-/PC-Card-devices working?
>
> Is the approriate module loaded?
>
> Bye,
>
> Drosti
>
>
> > I just can't get the network card to work on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 - the
> > following error appears whi
> Are they running scans because they disallow running servers on home
accounts? When I spoke to the salesguy, he told me that it's
> okay to run any server as long as the 128k/sec upload barrier will suffice
for my needs. Is the salesguy just blowing smoke?
@Home service sucks. That is wh
press ctrl+alt+backspace
/Fredrik
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From: Chris Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] how to set up monitor res and more problems
> Thanks for the info, but how do I close X to get to root? I c
Is this Spam???
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From: Bluebottle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 10:41 AM
Subject: [newbie] Humour
> Some light relief
>
> One night, a Delta twin-engine puddle jumper was flying somewhere
> above New Jersey. The
> More than just that:
> shameless promotion of an *illegal* product that *won't ever work*.
>
> You can't just create a TLD all of your own and ask ISPs to list you as a
> root nameserver.
> There's nothing that prevents me from doing the same for just the same
> TLD, and where will that get us
Off topic http://www.linuxnic.net
Spam? I guess a bit of shameless promotion -:)
Blame me directly at the above email if you are bent.
Cheers.
What can I say.. I was in one of my moods.
You know I see all this stuff go by
Subject: Help
Subject:
Subject: I am dying
I really like the one with no subject . That gets black holed
right off. So today I was thinking about the microwave
Next time maybe it will be a question about t
I bought this stupid OS because, the guy at
the computer store said, I could manage my microwave with it.
How do I detect & connect to it?
http://www.linuxnic.net
Interesting www.linuxnic.net
|Right IE5 available for Linux ? Sure.
Not yet. Hm U.S. West acct ? In Washington State?
Redmond? Funny...
IE 5 & Bill Rules the World.
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From: Ron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Newbie Mandrake List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 8:53 PM
I was serious about problems with women & computers.
If you do this type of work the hours are long & hard.
To try and be all things to all people is this biz is a
a disaster waiting to happen.
If you spend 18 or more hours a day working on the
computer, I suggest you find a woman that understand
Ok - So you say your girlfriend is real bitchy about Linux.
She wants to have MS Windoz installed just to make it easy?
Right. I say get another girlfriend, keep Linux! Find a woman
who has the same common interests as you. Show her this message.
She can be replaced. I know its a bit painfull
> My US Robotics 33.6 modem dials my ISP, they "talk", the Kppp reads
> connected, but nothing works.
I have Caldera 2.2 installed. I see the same problem. Kppp acts a bit nuts.
I think its a combo of several things. About three tries and I get
connected.
At 33.6 it should be no problem. Ke
> The Microsoft Internet Explorer for Unix seems to be only for two non
Linux
> systems, according to the MS download pages.
>
> Has anyone tried to use this program with Linux?
>
> Art
I must admidt I do use the MS IEAK CD to sit my coffee cup on. I
have to be carefull because when its gets h
No thank God.
>Yes thank god...http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp
The IE 5 on this pages does not work with Linux. Its for HP & Sun versions.
I am sure it will not be long before they release something.
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???
I will let the "newbie" list know in the next few days. I will download it
very soon. Maybe tonight. Thanks for the link.>
No thank God.
I'm Sorry But the World ends next Tuesday.
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From: Trevor Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:32 PM
Subject: [newbie] CRASH!
> A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried
> to log off and the s
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