Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Glad i don't surf with Windows]

2002-05-15 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 15 May 2002 17:25:48 -0700 "Schwenk, Jeanie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes one can write a program that runs invisibly on unix. If you know what > you're doing. How do you think so many hackers can be successful? Regular > commands like ps, find or ls can be modified. Daemons can b

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Glad i don't surf with Windows]

2002-05-15 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 15 May 2002 20:06:05 -0400 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 May 2002 07:36 pm, you wrote: > > Miark wrote: > > > Sure--put it to the list. > > > > > > Miark > > > > > > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 12:55, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > > Miark wrote: > > > > > > > Miark > > > > > > > >

Re: [newbie] Wher did the Opera go??

2002-05-15 Thread Damian G
On 15 May 2002 20:39:22 -0400 Birger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi i just unpacked Opera 6.0 browser.RPM format > In mandrake 8.2 KDE. > I just cant seem find it anywhere (it did unpack successfully > > I'm very newbie > > thanks > Birger > > > uhm.. well, what do you mean 'unpack'?

Re: [newbie] Can't Boot Linux

2002-05-15 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:47:52 -0700 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can no longer boot into Linux, and I need to get files from my Mandrake drive. > > I have a dual boot system with Windows 98 on hard drive 1, and Mandrake 8.1 on Hard >Drive 2. I had to reinstall Windows, and can no longer get th

Re: [newbie] deny access to su

2002-05-14 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 14 May 2002 14:50:01 -0700 Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Damian G wrote: > > On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:21:59 -0700 > > Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Michael Viron wrote: > >> > >>> Change the group o

Re: [newbie] deny access to su

2002-05-14 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 14 May 2002 22:27:58 +0100 Dave Conroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Damian, > > Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:13:55 PM, you wrote: < quote of a post i made... > > With best wishes, > > Dave > umm.. what's up with this? i've seen at least four or five replies like this from 'Dave' to

Re: [newbie] deny access to su

2002-05-14 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:21:59 -0700 Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Viron wrote: > > > Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel . > > Next, remove execute permission from "other" on su. > > I have to say I find this option kind of puzzling. > What's the rationale exactly?

Re: [newbie] menubar back in Opera6?

2002-05-14 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 14 May 2002 07:50:35 -0700 shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 May 2002 09:36, adrian opened a general hailing frequency and > transmitted to all open stations: > > > How do i get the menubar back in Opera 6? (the thingie on top that has > > the file, edit, view options etc

Re: [newbie] Evolution 0.13 mail program thank you nag screen

2002-05-13 Thread Damian G
On 14 May 2002 00:34:17 -0500 Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 22:15, Damian G wrote: > > On 13 May 2002 20:56:16 -0500 > > Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Okay.got my reiser fs files system to work a

Re: [newbie] Evolution 0.13 mail program thank you nag screen

2002-05-13 Thread Damian G
On 13 May 2002 20:56:16 -0500 Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay.got my reiser fs files system to work and decided to > try a new mail program.evolution..which I am using now. It > has a thing that is bugging the hell out of me > > Everytime i start evolution.

Re: [newbie] Supermount survey...

2002-05-13 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 13 May 2002 11:27:52 -0400 darklord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just curious, and would like to get everyone's input on Supermount. After > running so long without it under v8.1, and now using it again under v8.2, > well - I'm just about ready to disable it again. Can everyone just

[newbie] Re: FIXED! [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-12 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 13 May 2002 09:44:14 -0400 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Schroeder said onto me: > | Would dd successfully copy an unmounted windows partition to a new hd? > > Doesn't a partition need to be mounted for one to be able to access it at all? > > i i'm quite sure dd

Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-10 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 10 May 2002 21:31:58 -0700 shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, saw an article on this, was shocked, forgot about it. went to the store > tonight. saw it again. now i am just confused. > > redhat is currently offering a rebate if you are changing over from another > OS. "cool" yo

[newbie] softhome is off?

2002-05-09 Thread Damian G
is anyone able to connect to softhome's POP? as far as my machine can tell, it's dead! plz respond offline, as i suscribed to the lists with a softhome account and i am currently unable to retrieve the list messages. thanks. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t

Re: [newbie] start apps on log in

2002-05-07 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 7 May 2002 07:37:50 -0700 Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I used to know this.I want to get 'sound mixer' to start whenever I log > in. I'm pretty sure I have to put it in rc.d ...I think. > Anyway, tell me the syntax and I promise I won't forget agai

Re: [newbie] Installing as Newbie

2002-05-06 Thread Damian G
On 06 May 2002 23:17:26 +0200 Klemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Short and simpel > > If I have 3 users that use the computer > > How can I make > * one install of some program (lets say Star (open)Office because that > what i tried to do ) > * Where I should install it ? What locations > * Ho

Re: [newbie] The Register, Microsoft EULA's and all that jazz

2002-05-03 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 4 May 2002 00:42:21 -0400 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My 2 cents on this whole deal: Just because it says something in the EULA > doesn't mean it's legal. The problem is that MS has a lot of highly paid > lawyers who get their marching orders from Uncle Bill. His agenda

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Damian G
> > note, the sig below is in no way intended to poke fun at any 6 fingered ppl > who can indeed carry out the command described, no similarity to any ppl > living or dead is accidental. the name "shane" may not be mine. i may be > spoofing. your milage may vary. do not taunt happy fun ba

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-02 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 02 May 2002 21:36:36 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > >On Thu, 2 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: > > > >>On Wednesday 01 May 2002 21:45, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > >>[snip] > >> > >>>I too agree. If I buy a car and drive it till it is rust, I can remove >

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Damian G
On 03 May 2002 09:56:09 +1000 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick note on SO6. I have seen claims here that it opens > everything faultlessly and that it crashes and is totally useless. It > turns out that both are true :-) > > Try to open a word doc file received as an atta

Re: [newbie] Ta foda

2002-05-02 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 02 May 2002 15:16:54 -0300 "J. Castro Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > será q alguém de bom senso desta lista pode me dizetr como sair? > não posso mais ficar apagando 200 mails por dia e não tenho tempo pra isto. > vou começar a apelar com msgs indesejadas se não me tirarem daki. > fui.

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 2 May 2002 12:57:13 +0300 Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 02 May 2002 10:13, FemmeFatale wrote: > > civileme wrote: > > > > > > > > *Hugs ya* HI :) > > > > > And Yes you do have power. Build your own systems. Let the > > > manufacturers who ship Windows and suppor

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-01 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 1 May 2002 22:35:24 -0500 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 06:35 pm, you wrote: > > On Thu, 2 May 2002 00:52:47 +0300 > > > > Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 21:45, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > >

Re: [newbie] to install 8.2 or not

2002-05-01 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 1 May 2002 20:13:17 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed 8.2 on a Dell Optiplex with W98 and it was a breeze. At home, > however, I have 8.1 with Postfix and Apache running. I've read on this > list that you can install and not format the /home directory. Is it > pos

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-01 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 2 May 2002 09:53:40 +1000 "Mcleod, Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try using a mail filter - it is what you should do for all mailing lists you > join otherwise you will be overwhelmed. BTW - 10 points for anyone that can > guess the Old English origin of 'whelmed' > whelm Pronu

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-01 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 2 May 2002 00:52:47 +0300 Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 21:45, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > [snip] > > I too agree. If I buy a car and drive it till it is rust, I can remove > > engine transmission, seats and what ever else is salvageable and sell them

Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?

2002-04-29 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:39:06 -0700 "db" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > recognize it? the drive should be recognized automatically. > > however, in order to get it to burn, you will have to add > > scsi emulation for it. it's quite simple, it /etc/lilo.conf > > you have to look for a line that

Re: [newbie] Software Manager crashing.

2002-04-29 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:00:58 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seedkum Aladeem wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the > >older version but the KDE "Software Manager" crashes when trying to do > >that.. I have, for example,

Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?

2002-04-28 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:07:27 -0700 "dbota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have ordered a Sony CDRW to install on a windows/Mandrake 8.1 machine. > How do I go about getting 8.1 to recognize and use the drive once I install > it? Can anyone tell me where I find out this info? > > recognize it?

Re: [newbie] You folks are great

2002-04-27 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:50:54 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations, newbie list members. You have kept a civil list > compared to the other linux help lists extant, and it has been a > pleasure being here. > > It appears there are enough people answering questions--a c

[newbie] Re: [expert] OT (was Smoking Grass)

2002-04-23 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:47:13 -0400 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hehehehe yea yea it was invented by the Evil Bill so he could sell terribly bad products without ppl realizing that!! a very very smoked Damian > Here we go again. > > All those who pay-by-the-byte, start saving up your p

Re: [newbie] Taskbar plots too slow

2002-04-23 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:29:21 +0200 Marc Audard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I successefully upgraded from LM8.0 to LM 8.2 by making a clean > install (without the /home partition being reformatted). I noticed > one problem that I would like to share: > > when launching an X application,

Re: [newbie] [2] Installing mosfet-liquid theme - the sequal

2002-04-22 Thread Damian G
On 22 Apr 2002 23:27:27 +0200 Marco Verheul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I tried once again to install the mosfet-liquid theme on Mandrake 8.1 > and it seems for this package to install you also need to install > libpng3-1.2.1-6mdk. No here's where things go wrong because this package

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD

2002-04-21 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:38:32 -0400 ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:14 pm, you wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 08:23:47 -0400 > > > > ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the DVD has MUCH more stuff than the "download" CDs and most of the rest > > > is not GPL

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD

2002-04-21 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 08:23:47 -0400 ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the DVD has MUCH more stuff than the "download" CDs and most of the rest is > not GPL but is commercial software, the dvd-deal you had was a "prepurchase" > and there were some "prepurchase" deals for 8.2 also. I guess kno

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD

2002-04-20 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:29:12 -0400 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I reading the website right? The Mandrake DVD is only available with > the 8 CD/ DVD Prosuite set for $150? > > There used to be a 8.1 DVD set for $50, which I would get for home use, > but $150 is a little steep. Anybod

Re: [newbie] antivirus

2002-04-19 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:18:11 -0700 shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 18 April 2002 22:48, Lyvim Xaphir opened a general hailing > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > The punchline is that Microshaft is responsible for all virus damages. > > > > OK, now that you ar

Re: [newbie] weird log...

2002-04-18 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:03:46 -0400 Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grep -B 5 repeated /var/log/messages thanks a lot., i found what it was and didn't surprise me.. turned out to be some process trying to connect to my port 631 all the time, and being blocked by my firestarter scripts...

[newbie] weird log...

2002-04-18 Thread Damian G
hi.. i've just noticed a funny thing on my machine.. i switched to tty12 to look at the messages being displayed there and saw something like this: Apr 18 15:11:15 localhost last message repeated 2 times Apr 18 15:12:17 localhost last message repeated 2 times Apr 18 15:13:19 localhost last mess

Re: [newbie] Low Internet dial up modem connection speed

2002-04-16 Thread g
dsl, cable, t1. 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 =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy "made in america". Want to buy your Pack or Serv

Re: [newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-16 Thread g
#x27; 'superuser', and then i go and write it out wrong. i guess it just proves that some cloning is good, some is bad. ;) oh, well. at least i told him to 'man su'. thank you for correcting my error. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save

Re: [newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-15 Thread g
enter 'su root', you would become user root. provided you know root pw. if you are root, you can 'su username' with out pw. 'su' means _superuser_, not 'substitute user', which it does. at cl, enter 'man su' for more help. tc,hago. g . -- think

Re: [newbie] /boot

2002-04-15 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > what is the difference in /boot and / file systems > > I know that / is root, but what is /boot for??? /boot is just that. for 'boot'. files in /boot are files needed for system boot. they could be in /, but /boot is a common logica

Re: [newbie] xine only works for root

2002-04-15 Thread Damian G
have a permissions problem... have you checked the skin's owner/permissions? > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Damian G wrote: > >>>El Dom 14 Abr 2002 06:18, Jesper Nyholm Jensen escribió: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> When I run xine as a regular user I get > >>

Re: [newbie] xine only works for root

2002-04-14 Thread Damian G
El Dom 14 Abr 2002 06:18, Jesper Nyholm Jensen escribió: > Hi, > When I run xine as a regular user I get > > This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.8 > (c) 2000, 2001 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team. > Built with xine library 0.9.8 [Sun 14 Apr 2

Re: [newbie] Very Newbie Question

2002-04-12 Thread Damian G
El Vie 12 Abr 2002 20:53, Barry Premeaux escribió: > I have MD 8.1 installed on my first drive and wanted to do a separate > install for MD8.2. I put in a second drive and installed MD 8.2 which > installed its version of LILO in MBR. After reading the LILO info on MUO, > I learned that I needed

Re: [newbie] Community

2002-04-11 Thread Damian G
mple design so it's easy on the download rate too. > > the link is > > http://communities.ninemsn.com.au/MandrakeCave/_whatsnew.msnw > > If you don't like it, don't join. > Simple as that, you can even have every post that is posted up sent to your > e-mail if you want too

Re: [newbie] Motherboard

2002-03-26 Thread g
orked on previous, do not work on later. i do not know what parts availability are like in lviv, ukraine, so you may have to order in a new card. which ever way, check http://www.linuxhardware.org to insure that new card has drivers. good luck. Cristos Anesti. tc,hago. g . -- think gree

Re: [newbie] Motherboard

2002-03-26 Thread g
Robert Golovniov wrote: > > Hello List, > >Just a little question: Where do I get the name of my PC's >motherboard? it will be marked on mainboard. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage.

Re: [newbie] SCSI dialog box problem Linux-Mandrake 7.2

2002-03-19 Thread Joel G. Viney
At 10:22 AM 03/19/2002 -0800, you wrote: >At 12:49 PM 03/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>Joel G. Viney wrote: >> > I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD. I get to the Setup Filesystems >> > section. A dialog box pops up asking "Do you have any SCSI Inte

Re: [newbie] SCSI dialog box problem Linux-Mandrake 7.2

2002-03-19 Thread Joel G. Viney
At 12:49 PM 03/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Joel G. Viney wrote: > > I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD. I get to the Setup Filesystems > > section. A dialog box pops up asking "Do you have any SCSI Interface?" I > > do not so I click "No." T

[newbie] SCSI dialog box problem Linux-Mandrake 7.2

2002-03-18 Thread Joel G. Viney
Hi There, I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD. I get to the Setup Filesystems section. A dialog box pops up asking "Do you have any SCSI Interface?" I do not so I click "No." The dialog box keeps popping up and I can't get past it. I'm installing it on a P-II 233mhz machine w/ 295MB

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread g. sanders
> >(This is one'a the best threads we've had in a long time) It has been funeven with the volumes of email that have come in today (that I'm adding to at the moment! ;-)) I usually just sit back, lurk and learn, but I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributes

Re: [newbie] root / su passwords different?

2002-03-08 Thread g
x27; and remove file from system. put a lock on boot floppy drive. ;) hth. iat. being that you are new to open world of unix and linux, i would suggest you find some good books on security. btw. tabs are a waste. blank lines break thoughts. 79 line wrap is nice. tc,hago. g . -- think green...

Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem OT- ET's favorite rant

2002-03-07 Thread g
ent [some friends do not listen] not 'plug and play', not 'wintel' works great with linux as unix was designed just some thoughts. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email, text/plain - disable pgp/g

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-24 Thread g
may be wrong. i wish i could give you a more positive answer to your problem, but i am now tending to believe that either you have a bad download, or there is some sort of incompatibility with your hardware and it is causing you problems. good luck. let us know what you decide. tc,hago. g . --

[newbie] Mounting/Umounting of my /dev/hda1( which my Windows partition) problems

2002-02-22 Thread Michael G.
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 dual booting with Windows 98. Both were fine. I was even able to drag files from my Windows partition into my Linux partition. While using Linux, my computer locked up so I rebooted my computer. When booting up into Linux everything was being listed as O.K.,O.K.,O.K

Re: [newbie] rules for evolution - OK

2002-02-22 Thread Damian G
> > > > does anyone know how/if i can set up rules for evolution so it shows >email > > from different senders in different directories? > > > > thanks! > > > > damian > > > >I don't know which version you're using, but in v1.02 you can set up new >folders in File -> Folders. You can set up fil

[newbie] rules for evolution

2002-02-21 Thread Damian G
hi..! does anyone know how/if i can set up rules for evolution so it shows email from different senders in different directories? thanks! damian _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Wa

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-20 Thread g
hese lines; /dev/hda8 /hda/8 ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda3 /w2k/c ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /w2k/d ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda9 /w2k/e ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda10 /w2k/f ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 /w2k/g ntfs defaults 0 0 write and quit vi. cp fstab fstab.001 cp lilo.conf lilo

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-19 Thread g
greets john, please excuse delays, i am in and out a lot, both day and night. so i am not avoiding you, just that other things do get priority. John Richard Smith wrote: > > Very many thanks for your reply, > (forgive me, I'm confused , your name ? ) g = george > Sorry to b

Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-19 Thread g
rescue boot sequence.. > John (call me this) i did. btw. remove '1' from 'newbie 1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'. also, is there a reason to leave 'cc:' address in? had trouble sending, so i left it off this round. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree

Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-18 Thread g
mnt cd /mnt/etc ls -l lilo* if lilo.conf, less lilo.conf verify hda1 is boot, rest of file is correct. /mnt/sbin/lilo note response is correct. while in '/etc', cat fstab for correct. shutdown -r now no more grub errors... btw. 'all caps' is considered sh

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 beta startup command

2002-02-18 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
ld invoke the following swriter simpress scalc there are others but you could also invoke soffice and it will launch the swriter program. hth. -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." ===== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporat

[newbie] Already asserted ?!?!

2002-02-17 Thread Damian G
Hello .. i've reinstalled linux completely due to some "minor inconveniencies" and i'm trying to reinstall vmware workstation. during the vmware-config.pl file you have to run after the rpm installation, i get some weird compilation warnings... like this. cpp: -lang-c: linker input file un

Re: [newbie] par for linux?

2002-02-17 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
ressing need for it in linux. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-30

Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager

2002-02-17 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
the fly (although there is something in the > >>Mandrake menus, > >>under configuration, which may allow this. > >> > > > >>To run your favorite WM from startx, edit your .xinitrc file like so: > >> > >>#!/bin/sh > >>exec fvwm

Re: [newbie] File Sharing

2002-02-17 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
from the gaming). ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City T

Re: [newbie] @ *

2002-02-17 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
it pertains to special files that you wont meet frequently (check your /dev as there are some files there that have this indicator.) ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated

Re: [newbie] Set Backup

2002-02-15 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
permissions. then you log-in, was put in your home directory. you issued ls to get a directory listing. since bash will be looking first for a ls executable in the current directory (look at the PATH variable), you could just guess how big the intruder's smile would be after that moment.

Re: [newbie] Set Backup

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
%m%d`.tgz /home/chuck/evolution and put it in the cron jobs to be executed daily(search the archives on how to submit a job to cron). this way your backups have the date on their filename. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin

[newbie] gaim question

2002-02-14 Thread Damian G
Hi..!! first. the cr-rw problem was quickly solved by the " ice-scsi " line in lilo.conf. thanks everyone once more! second, i've started using gaim ( oscar ) for ICQ, but i can't figure out how to start a chat session, ( not just simple messages ). i go to join chat and then it asks me some

Re: [newbie] kernel sources

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
27;s not what I am looking > for). > > TIA > Roman try kernel-source-[version].rpm. its in there somewhere. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower,

Re: [newbie] Installing a Downloaded File

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
ending on the speed of the list. [/end] welcome aboard. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Cent

[newbie] [OT] saw this one in Sridhar's sig

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
entering the house from the backdoor which is wide open? *grin* ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, O

Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
ons: filters and delete. ;-) sorry if some of my comments may seem smart-alecky but they were done in good humor. have a good day! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305

Re: [newbie] mount as a regular user

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
e of the fstab file, make sure that for the cdrom and floppy entries have the word 'user' in the options. if they are missing, (as root) add them and run mount -a to have the changes reflected immediately. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back."

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] kernel sources

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
body (civileme?) mentioned that the rpmdrake does not show all the packages as it hides some so as not to overwhelm the new user. but its in the other tab (the list view). ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engi

Re: [newbie] greek fonts

2002-02-14 Thread g
vasscon wrote: > Does the latest distribution support greek fonts as well? should. saw it somewhere in 8.0, did not bother. intend to install when i up to 8.1. your need is special? tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. s

Re: [newbie] monitor

2002-02-14 Thread g
e, search 'pk-572', pull tech specs, plug into config. you can also check linuxhardware site, [ http://???.??? ] and search for make/ model. good luck. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email, text/plain - di

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update locks up

2002-02-13 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
mi.cfg file and do away with removing the entries related to the redbox media. i prefer the first one. if you dont know what name it is referenced then go to the cfg file and find out. hth. -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design E

Re: [newbie] uhm.. new cd-rw

2002-02-13 Thread Damian G
> > > > > > hi everyone, i've got a new one. ;o) > > > > i've been borrowed a cd-rw, so when i add it to my PC it's recognised OK > > and i can mount cd's on it, as /dev/hdd . >to use the CD you need SCSI emulation (this is when you make your programs >thin you have a SCSI drive instead of an IDE

[newbie] uhm.. new cd-rw

2002-02-13 Thread Damian G
hi everyone, i've got a new one. ;o) i've been borrowed a cd-rw, so when i add it to my PC it's recognised OK and i can mount cd's on it, as /dev/hdd . now, ive tried two or three programs for burning cd's with it, and the error message is the same, it looks like it's only used as a read-only

Re: [newbie] Re: Frontpage like application for Linux

2002-02-12 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
nex to your all-linux platform but YMMV. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center

Re: [newbie] standard compressed archive format ?

2002-02-12 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
e zip files, anyway winzip will open > tar.gz files. > well if there is a package unzip then there certainly is a package named zip which you can use to creata zip files. ;-) ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Desi

Re: [newbie] proftpd question

2002-02-12 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
this one if you have it) # Default root can be used to put users in a chroot environment. # As an example if you have a user foo and you want to put foo in /home/foo # chroot environment you would do this: # #DefaultRoot /home/foo foo DefaultRoot ~ ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that

Re: [newbie] BIG thanks ;o)

2002-02-11 Thread Damian G
> > >%_ > > First boot with my 2.4.17 kernel, thanks to Charles, and Sridhar >Dhanapalan, > > i've > > NOT destroyed my system this time ;o) > > > > BTW .. as soon as it booted, i ran kpm and noticed 0% swap being used... > > huge > > difference! > > > >Where did you find the 2.4.17 kernel? >

Re: [newbie] Speed.... Or lack of?

2002-02-10 Thread Damian G
Hey, there is one more thing you could check. Something like this used to happen to me when i ran firestarter on KDE startup... when the machine starts getting slow, run KPM, i'm pretty sure you will find one single process taking 98% of the CPU cycles. ( in my case it was a mysterious second

[newbie] BIG thanks ;o)

2002-02-10 Thread Damian G
First boot with my 2.4.17 kernel, thanks to Charles, and Sridhar Dhanapalan, i've NOT destroyed my system this time ;o) BTW .. as soon as it booted, i ran kpm and noticed 0% swap being used... huge difference! thanks again. see ya! Damian __

Re: [newbie] About the 3 ISO files

2002-02-08 Thread Damian G
nope, the second and third cd's are a lot of useful packages and programs, but they are not necesary to make the OS work. anyway if you have a broadband connection, i suggest you get them too.. see ya. > >Hi group, >I'm downloading the first iso file (Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso) and I was >

Re: [newbie] New kernel .. tips?

2002-02-08 Thread Damian G
Thank you all very much. i will try the RPM's out !! wish me luck ;oP see ya,. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] window managers run command

2002-02-07 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
quot;Programming, an artform that fights back." ===== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079

Re: Mandrake RPM-howto (was Re: [newbie] XMMS & CDs_

2002-02-07 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:14:58 -0700 Darwin Gottfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revealed these words to me: > On Friday 08 February 2002 06:18, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:10:34 + > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revealed these words to me: >

Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc

2002-02-07 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
-- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz De

Mandrake RPM-howto (was Re: [newbie] XMMS & CDs_

2002-02-07 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
resulting _mirrored_ pages take on the form of http:/address/to/the/page/for/every/slash/delimination/index.htm, its a little bit ugly. thanks! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." ===== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorpo

Re: [newbie] Disk Space in LM 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
> Chuck > on the commandline, issue the command df -k (or df-kh for more user-friendly display). ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippine

Re: [newbie] Operating Systems and Ram

2002-02-06 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
cardboard/paper. weird analogy but i hope you get my point. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortig

Re: [newbie] Linux Architecture

2002-02-06 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
gt; Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > > -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millen

[OT] application/ms-tnef? (was :Re: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC.)

2002-02-06 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
ao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 ==

[newbie] New kernel .. tips?

2002-02-06 Thread Damian G
Hello once more, everyone. I'd like to hear some opinions about this.. i'm completely open so suggestions and comments about it... i know i need them.. The howto's i've found out there do not clear all of my doubts.. i've read on this list that 2.4.17 is a pretty efficient/fast kernel that so

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