Re: [newbie] RSS feeds

2005-03-01 Thread David G Stevenson
amala singh wrote: Thunderbird RSS feed is OK to me. Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've been googling and looking at kmail info to see how to add RSS feed. I'm obviously looking in wrong place - can anyone direct me thanks Rosemary

Re: [newbie] How to update Kernel

2005-02-21 Thread Dennis G. Tidon
Hi Derek As for my experience for this week, the only best way to compile Mandrakelinux 10.1 kernel is through the Mandrakelinux Update located under System, Configuration, Packaging menus... Just search for kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-12mdk and install it. I try that for my Linux box and it

Re: [newbie] MySQL

2005-02-18 Thread David G Stevenson
SOTL wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 15:04, David G Stevenson wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: SOTL wrote: Hi All As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data base using MySQL. I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions that are not answered

Re: [newbie] MySQL

2005-02-17 Thread David G Stevenson
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: SOTL wrote: Hi All As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data base using MySQL. I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions that are not answered in the book. This computer is set up with all data located on a separate

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread David G Stevenson
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One of the biggest sites on the web is driven by Perl (IMDb.com).

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread David G Stevenson
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting

2005-02-15 Thread David G Stevenson
Noel McG. wrote: - Original Message - From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:32:42 -0800 Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all.

Re: [newbie] modem problem

2005-02-14 Thread David G Stevenson
M.Schild wrote: I am actually writing this in linux using web email because can't get kmail/kontact going to send mail! Probably going to be a simple thing I know. I remember having that sort of problem too but cannot remember why. Not much help but it was a simple thing marsye Assuming that

Re: [newbie] alternative programs

2005-02-10 Thread David G Stevenson
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 10, 2005 05:48, Mohammed Badran wrote: Hello i need to know if there is an alternative program like 'autoCAD'and 'orCAD' as I couldn't find a linux version for them and I don't like to use wine to run these programs because of so much errors Thanks Mohammed

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

2005-02-10 Thread David G Stevenson
Mohammed Badran wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erylon Hines Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:59 AM Exactly my thoughts. I've had this problem with the Lucent chip modems with kernel 2.6.x. The versions must match exactly (as

Re: [newbie] Script for burning DVD images

2005-02-10 Thread David G Stevenson
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I ran into an interesting problem today. I have some wedding DVDs that family friends keep asking for copies of. I had been using K3b's Copy DVD tool. But I realized I could shave about 20 minutes off the time for each disk if I saved the image and reused it, instead of

Re: [newbie] Data Base Help

2005-02-09 Thread David G Stevenson
SOTL wrote: Hi All I have a problem with what I am trying to accomplish which begans with I have no idea of what I need to do technically to accomplish my objective so hence this posting. Basic objective is a data base of clients along with their address phone numbers, contact names, and

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
Mohammed Badran wrote: Hi all I have a SM56 Motorola modem and I can't make it work at Mandrake 10.1 official, I have downloaded the driver of mandrake 10 from http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm And done the following commands [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# insmod sm56 insmod: can't read

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

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

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd forgotten to edit my email 'to' in the header. Hope this is now corrected. As regards the permissions problem - What is really needed is a command that tells all my macos files to forget _all_ their file permissions. Then perhaps I can start again...? Reverting or

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
2005 10:47 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday

Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem

2005-02-08 Thread David G Stevenson
Mohammed Badran wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David G Stevenson Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:41 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem Mohammed Badran wrote: Hi all I have a SM56

Re: [newbie] unlocking files?

2005-02-07 Thread David G Stevenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to change the permissions of my macintosh OS 9 partition and I inadvertently locked all the mac files. I've unlocked the majority of files again,by hand,but I was wondering if there was a mandrake konsole command that would unlock every file on that

Re: [newbie] Bootloader

2005-02-07 Thread David G Stevenson
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:39:20 +1300 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO? When I tried Linux a few years ago I had some problems with boot loader and ended

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

2005-02-04 Thread David G Stevenson
Len Lawrence wrote: Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned

Re: [newbie] telnet connection problems

2005-02-04 Thread David G Stevenson
rasta rasta wrote: hi. we're having problems with disconnecting a telnet connection. we have this custom-made shell that is run (this is run in /etc/passwd) everytime a successful telnet login occurs. but when we forcefully disconnect the telnet connection (forcefully as in not typing 'exit' in

Re: [newbie] Print server setup

2005-02-04 Thread David G Stevenson
Aron Smith wrote: Can anybody point me to a simple method of setting up a print server? I would like to use my inkjet printer on both machines. somthing like bladerunner slowbox |

Re: [newbie] application development suggestion

2005-02-04 Thread David G Stevenson
Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi Folks, A friend asked me something about developing a management program for his store (a small one but with two computers). He need to track the sales and print bills for customers on both computers. I wonder whether it can be done using mysql and php or perl in mandrake (I

Re: [newbie] USB flash drive with Mandrake 10.0 CE

2004-09-06 Thread G Dawes
--- Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have just bought a 256MB Verbatim USB flash drive to make it easier to transfer files between home and university. When I plug the drive into my USB port Mandrake recognises the drive and creates a mount point '/mnt/removable/' to which

Re: [newbie] Trouble installing !0.02 Community

2004-09-06 Thread G Dawes
--- aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install goes like clockwork untill I get to where it sets up my printer (HP PSC 1205) then I get the message Scanner-gui rpm not found any idea ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] sharing files between mandrake and osx

2004-05-16 Thread g. sanders
Hi all, I have a problem I've been struggling with for a little while, so I'm going to break down and ask here. I purchased a powerbook G4 last xmas, and since then I've only been able to network between the 2 in one direction. My powerbook has no problem seeing and accessing shares on my

Re: [newbie] sharing files between mandrake and osx

2004-05-16 Thread g. sanders
On Sunday 16 May 2004 12:33, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 05:32, g. sanders wrote: Hi all, I have a problem I've been struggling with for a little while, so I'm going to break down and ask here. I purchased a powerbook G4 last xmas, and since then I've only been able

Re: [newbie] sharing files between mandrake and osx

2004-05-16 Thread g. sanders
So it's safe to assume that you've set up the same workgroup name, and that you've got a static IP for both the G4 and the MDK box, ya? yes, that would be safe to assume. workgroup is simply, well, WORKGROUP (original, I know. :-) and they both have static ip's within my home lan. One

Re: [newbie] sharing files between mandrake and osx

2004-05-16 Thread g. sanders
I think that this might have something to do with the firewall on the MDK machine; have you tried disabling it and then being able to share the files? Wouldn't the firewall only block inbound connection attempts? And even if it was blocking outgoing, why is the shared printer showing?

[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 CE does not properly shutdown

2004-05-05 Thread G-Love
Installed 10.0CE a few days ago and am quite happy. However, I can't get my machine to properly shutdown. It hangs while unloading some USB drivers (unfortunately I don't have the exact message). However I think I've seen some posts about this being an improper USB patch in the 10.0 kernel.

[newbie] Painfully slow page loads

2004-04-02 Thread tim g
It's taking my mandrake 10 (just installed) box way too long to load a page. Doesn't matter whether I'm in mozilla, firefox or the KDE one (conqueror I think). This isn't a problem on my debian machine or on the win2K box my girlfriend uses. 9.2 didn't have these problems before I upgraded -

[newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?

2004-03-19 Thread Mark G. Spencer
I downloaded 10.0 Community to test on my Gateway 200ARC laptop and am now downloading the AMD64 to test on my Shuttle SN85G4. How do I install the kernel source for 10.0 Community? Has Mandrake left the kernel source off the ISO's again? Thanks for the advice, Mark Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?

2004-03-19 Thread Mark G. Spencer
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community? On Friday 19 March 2004 17:00, Mark G. Spencer wrote: How do I install the kernel source for 10.0 Community? Has Mandrake left the kernel

[newbie] remote X login

2004-03-15 Thread Stephen G Smith
I have succesfully set up xdm on a Mandrake 9.2 server so that users can do remote X logins. however, I have run into the problem that even though they can bring up KDE, those users don't seem to be listed as logged in. The 'users' command does not list them, and the talk daemon says user not

Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

2004-03-11 Thread g
back to the palm. I think I have the conduits to synch, but I will have to look at it more closely when I have more time. I trust I can draw an all you folks more knowledgable about these things than I. Thanks again! On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:24 pm, g wrote: Hi folks, I'm a newbie

[newbie] Re: Working Rendition V2200 Driver for 9.2?

2004-03-05 Thread Patrick G.
Try startx -- No luck, same error. The error is: redition_drv.o received improper signal, I think. It tells me it's 'signal 4'. That's about it. (sigh) Looks like I need to root my Banshee out of storage. - Patrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Working Rendition V2200 Driver for 9.2?

2004-03-04 Thread Patrick G.
Hey everyone. I recently did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 from the 3-disc ISOs which I downloaded. The install was to a system running 192 MB of PC100 Ram, a Motherboard that I no longer have the specs for [ashamed face], a AMD K6-II 400 Mhz processor, and a Quantum

[newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

2004-03-02 Thread g
Hi folks, I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing. I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch with built in programs under mandrake 9.2 I am currently using the Gnome desktop, and have tried synching with both jpilot as well as kpilot.

[newbie] Blank Screen on boot?

2004-01-11 Thread Mr. Justin G. Kozuch
Hey Everyone, Just finished d/ling the source for Mdk 9.2. Install went ok, and when I boot up the system, it loads everything ok, and then when I get to the login screen, it goes blank. Not sure why this is happening, I got no errors during the install/boot up... Anyone have the same problem?

RE: [newbie] Blank Screen on boot?

2004-01-11 Thread Mr. Justin G. Kozuch
PM To: Linux Newbie Mailing List Subject: Re: [newbie] Blank Screen on boot? Justin, Are you able to type in the blank screen? What type of login are you set on; graphic or text? --Marc - Original Message - From: Mr. Justin G. Kozuch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie Mailing List

[newbie] How To Network Windows XP Pro and Linux Mandrake 9.1 Together

2004-01-10 Thread Mr. Justin G. Kozuch
Hey Everyone, I am a new Linux user (and I mean new), and I would like to network my Windows XP Pro/Linux Mandrake machines together, however, I am very confused as to how to do this. I am not very good with Linux, but I am somewhat proficient with Windows XP Pro. What I would like to do is

RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

2004-01-05 Thread Jason G. Crowder
The scripts can be executed by root and run fine with root. Do they need to be permissible by anything else? I am not at home at the moment but I can post the exact permissions on those scripts later. -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [newbie] SBLive! driver won't change permanently

2003-09-05 Thread Aaron G. Mangoroban
-05 at 11:58, Aaron G. Mangoroban wrote: hi all, i am running mandrake 9.2 on an athlon 1.4 with sblive! soundcard. i have tried a couple of times to configure my soundcard with drakconf and draksound to the snd-emu10k1 driver but everytime i turn on my computer, it would change

[newbie] SBLive! driver won't change permanently

2003-09-04 Thread Aaron G. Mangoroban
hi all, i am running mandrake 9.2 on an athlon 1.4 with sblive! soundcard. i have tried a couple of times to configure my soundcard with drakconf and draksound to the snd-emu10k1 driver but everytime i turn on my computer, it would change the driver to the audigy driver. is there anyway i

Re: [newbie] Logitech Marble Mouse

2003-07-28 Thread g
problems. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] GMO foods

2003-07-28 Thread g
entire post and other's post. it was meant for the OT list, where we have an on-going discussion on this topic. what is with this 'OT' list? are you meaning adding of '[OT]' to 'subject:' line, or does mandrake have another mailing list? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree

Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.

2003-07-19 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very do you still have your zx-81? ria, i still have 7 of them in working condition and i am looking for more software. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time

Re: [newbie] The continuing saga of my non-functional CD drive

2003-07-17 Thread g
at lower speed than cd is rated? if you can see cdr drive led during burn and cd shows partial burn, then you have 'indications' of accessing cdr drive and that you can burn, thus leading to burner prog config error, buffer size, poor quality cd, or, you picked a copy protected cd. peace out. tc,hago. g

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware

2003-07-15 Thread g
to install. :) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Newbie needs install/checksum help

2003-07-15 Thread g
R. L. Moore wrote: Where do I get checksum software and how do I use it on a windows have a look at http://www.md5summer.org/ peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-02 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: My wife suggested that , but I told her I couldn't find the cable and the scissors wont cut. you can sharpen your scissors by closing then on a nail. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage

Re: [newbie] Splitting a file across floppies

2003-06-30 Thread g
, connector, for ms, where you select size and number of split. can be re joined with out prog by 'copy /b fn1+fn2+fn3 fn.ext' or 'cat fn1+fn2+fn3fn.ext' in linux. size = 45,144 bytes, uses vbrun300.dll or later. can send booth. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-06-30 Thread g
. I've never had this happen with my lexar cf card. does cannon recognize kingston? contacted kingston?. then again, if nothing important, as step hen sa id, re format it. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send

Re: [newbie] how to config the lilo?

2003-06-24 Thread g
;) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users

2003-06-20 Thread g
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I had this your needs if nothing posted, jrs, are you up? :) forgot yesterday was tuesday, 25 min late to golum meet. just now back in. will pull em to see if any replied to your needs. being i init 3 boot, i have not set x-wins to enabled thru user's start

Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users

2003-06-20 Thread g
do, just go thru menu pages to see what is there. then, build bookmarks to get to what you want quicker. hth. or, break them in right. install 'xstart', log them in cl with 'xstart' as login prog. :) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save

Re: [newbie] what do these different things mean? KDE, Gnome, etc

2003-06-20 Thread g
in as 'root'. for now, being a 'user', less likely a 'looser'. !!! in coming !!! peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud

Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users

2003-06-19 Thread g
... if in x, dropped how ever to cl, return with 'alt+f7'. works for me when i 'ctrl+alt+fx' [x=1,2,3,4,5,6] from x to cl. also, cyoa. be very careful playing root. ;) [how is monitor?] peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save

Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users

2003-06-19 Thread g
. it can be set, just do not recall how and where. later. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-18 Thread g
. most glad to see you will succumb to checksum. :) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-18 Thread g
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Where do you find that? http://www.md5summer.org/ http://www.etree.org/md5com.html peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code

Re: [newbie] Insert Name Here

2003-06-18 Thread g
state, i can assure you, with time, head games they played with you will one day be something to laugh and joke about. how many sand fleas did you hold burial for? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-18 Thread g
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:53:18 +0100 g [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: let me know when you get over your personal problems. you can take offense to any and all that i say. that is you right and problem. obviously from crak600's, reply, he is aware that there was no intent as in your

Re: [newbie] hot swap

2003-06-18 Thread g
' before attempting and at your own risk. if it where my system, i would try it. might not work, then again... peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments

Re: [newbie]

2003-06-18 Thread g
reply. i just may be correct in other. but, do read man's. kafaba. :P peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american

Re: [newbie] Launch MySQL at startup

2003-06-17 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Jesus Hernandez wrote: Hi, i've just installed MySQL in my Linux machine, and i want to know how can i launch it at startup, as another service. Thanks, Chus Hi, You could always use webmin if you installed that, then you'll be able to configure the machine from

Re: [newbie] help

2003-06-17 Thread g
for sure, and you need plenty. :) you may also want to look at http://www.expita.com/ peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-17 Thread g
. instead of tripping, it stumbles. screw a fuse in backwards, instead of blowing, it sucks. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread g
. i am curious, you never mentioned, did you ever run md5 on 1st dl's. i could've possibly downloaded a bad or incomplete ISO image and reason of asking above. anytime you dl files and md5 checksums are available, run md5. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-17 Thread g
eric huff wrote: http://www.samsungodd.com/eng/LiveUpdate/FWvercheck/FWvercheck.asp thanks for passing link. will pull later. i have been using norton to find most of what i have needed to know of ms os's. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 7:36, g wrote: no, never ran MD5. i looked into the program and got that uhhh feeling, as in one of those...what do i do with THAT?! i think most of the origonal problems were just user error though. should have asked what to do with it. we

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
need to crash. get cd drive model and prog ver back to me and i will check on them tomorrow, later today. it will take a little time to verify, will post asap. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain

[newbie] Alternative Software

2003-06-16 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
Hi, I currently have 3 machines running windows, a 2K box I use myself to run Visio, and SSADM Enterprise and 2 98 machines that my children have. I want to totally remove any dependence to the man from redmond from my Office and Home. So I need to find software that's comparible (if not better)

Re: [newbie] Alternative Software

2003-06-16 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Kopete is very good. In fact its the dogs danglies IMHO. Don't know about Yahoo though I think you have to add a special plugin. Worth a look anyway. 0.6.2 is available from the vclub site as an RPm and it installs without any

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
post. i have not checked out any phillips drives, and why i asked crak600 for model number so as to check phillips and nti sites. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
as a wavy flag on a single page and of type 'iso file'. i am still at wonder as to where '.rar' is coming from. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: I have a niggling feeling that I have read something about Phillips drives, but for the life in me I can't remember what or where. phillips drives had some problems a while back, somewhere around 24x time, iirc. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-15 Thread g
vnum in md 9.1, howto's are in; howto-html-en-9.0-0.1mdk and howto-utils-0.2.9-1mdk rpms. i believe that they are installed from selection 'documentation' during a graphic install. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On 15 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:14, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: On 15 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:49, Paul wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO site,

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-15 Thread g
. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-15 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 16:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:31 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:13 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:25 am, Gareth Qually wrote: I need an e-mail program

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-14 Thread g
to places to find further info. tech lists have become more of a 'quick answer' than they are true tech support learning place. as for apropos, i have never found it to be all that helpful when it does work. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-12 Thread g
window. so, any time you are wondering about a command, simply enter 'man progname'. in this case, 'man ln'. you can even enter 'man man' to get a description of how to use 'man'. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread g
. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= beauty of real is revealed only to those who persevere. old orthodox saying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Two (seemingly) simple questions

2003-06-05 Thread g
? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie]

2003-06-05 Thread g
to which 'subject:' of this 'thread' do you post??? or, are you making a point?? gbwg peace out. tc,hago. g . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4

2003-06-03 Thread g
Technoslick wrote: [snip] your are welcome for link. i would have thougth by now that you would have been more up with http://www.google.com/linux do not recall count on search i feed in, but link was in first 10. have a safe trip. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save

Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4

2003-06-03 Thread g
ed tharp wrote: set a man next to a fire and he stays warm all night, light a man on fire and he stays hot for the rest of his life 'cremation of sam mcgraw'. remember it well. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save

Re: [newbie] Laptop Question

2003-06-03 Thread g
him and/or a virus is hiding drive. not that i would wish such a thing on an 'html head'. :) femme sems to have grown tired of him. ;) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg

Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4

2003-06-02 Thread g
,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4

2003-06-02 Thread g
or at lest to disable sending html. :) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want

Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4

2003-06-02 Thread g
eric huff wrote: I thought that was: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man to fish and he'll drink beer all day. got to have something to drink to keep from being boarded when they are not biting. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save

Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4

2003-06-02 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: g appears to forget that I advocated teaching him to fish. He advocated shoving him into the river. it would be a good way for 'him' to learn to swim. :) but, no. i do not advocate shoving 'him' into a river. nor do i note anywhere that i made reference to your

Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.

2003-05-29 Thread g
before, there are other browsers to use on aol. peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america

Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.

2003-05-29 Thread g
to designate multi parts, as opposed to single. because most email thru mandrake's lists have a 'want to buy', 'message.footer', 'multipart/mixed;' will appear in header when body is 'text/plain'. for sure, your are right on, and correct with your suggestion. peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= think green

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: Well I cannot be certain, because I'm not the programmer but it press 'i' during boot, then note timing of displays after pressing enter. that is if you really want to know. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time

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