[newbie] mdk Community vs. Official

2004-12-14 Thread Josh Dean
I've just put Mandrake Community 10.1 on my computer and realized Official was available. I hate to have something better available and not use it. Is it possible to upgrade to Official without having to reinstall Mandrake as Official instead of Community? This also brings up the question

RE: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-05-26 Thread Josh
ClamAV and F-Prot can both scan a windows partition from Linux. However, I doubt they would be much help if you are trying to clean an ntfs partition. Josh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aidan Holmes Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:56

RE: [newbie] PHP nuke problem

2004-04-24 Thread Josh
Check the docs folder for installation instructions. If I remember correctly, you have to modify some config files to connect to your db, and run a few scripts to create tables. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nigel Wilkinson Sent:

RE: [newbie] XFree 4.4 RPMS for MDK 10?

2004-04-19 Thread Josh
Unless I misread the last update I did, its still part of cooker. If it is, you can get the rpm's through one of the mirrors. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of evolt Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] MK 10 and Windows dual boot solved

2004-04-13 Thread josh
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:18, Owain Sutton wrote: I found the answer to the problem I was having a few days ago, installing Mandrake 10 alongside XP. It appears there's a problem with the partitioner in the Mandrake setup, which damages the existing FAT. This explains why it was impossible

RE: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Josh
higher for windows if they looked at comparable windows applications. And I type this from a windows box, isn't that's stupid. Josh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] MD 10 install misreads HD

2004-03-26 Thread Josh
windows and I'm not going to give them something that may destroy their existing partitions. I've searched the mandrake forums, and checked the twiki real quick, but havent found any info. If anyone does know anything about this, i'de appreciate some help. thanks Josh btw, all of the cd's i've

[newbie] CAN'T INSTALL FLASH PLAYER FOR MOZILLA ON PPC

2004-02-23 Thread Josh
I have 9.1 running my G4 and i tried to install the macromedia flash player for Mozilla; i'm pretty sure i installed it correctly because i got an error saying something along the lines of an imcompatiblitly with my system architecture. Is there any solution to this? Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] 3Com Gigabit Ethernet 3C940 supported?

2004-02-15 Thread Josh
syskonnect.com. Josh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yvan Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 3Com Gigabit Ethernet 3C940 supported? Okay, looking at the Mandrake Database of supported hardware I

[newbie] CAN'T INSTALL FLASH PLAYER FOR MOZILLA ON PPC

2004-02-13 Thread Josh
I have 9.1 running my G4 and i tried to install the macromedia flash player for Mozilla; i'm pretty sure i installed it correctly because i got an error saying something along the lines of an imcompatiblitly with my system architecture. Is there any solution to this? Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Video Card Problems

2004-01-28 Thread Josh Peters
Awesome! That was it! Thanks Tony! Josh From: Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:27:39 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Video Card Problems Josh, Have you got the screen and the monitor set up to be the same res

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

2004-01-26 Thread Josh Peters
PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:29:30 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help On Sunday 25 January 2004 09:00 pm, Josh Peters wrote: Oh yeah, I still have the exact same error. Sorry, you're farther along than I thought (ignore

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

2004-01-25 Thread Josh Peters
events remaining. back to a command prompt. I installed the recommended amount of items at the install, neither adding or removing any it defaulted to. Any suggestions? Thanks, Josh From: Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:03:11 -0800 To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

2004-01-24 Thread Josh Peters
very much a linux virgin, please excuse my idiocy. Josh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: Help! Total Newbie on ppc

2004-01-04 Thread Josh Peters
! Total Newbie on ppc Josh, I had the same problem with lots of partial installs on my pc, and it turned out I either had a bad video card, it was a diamond 3d, ancient pci card. Installing an oddball mpact3 that I had laying around solved the problem. YMMV Troy Josh Peters [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Help! Total Newbie on ppc

2004-01-03 Thread Josh Peters
somewhere? Should I try burning another disk? Any other clues? From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 23:49:17 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Total Newbie on ppc On Friday 02 January 2004 6:22 pm, Josh Peters droned

Re: [newbie] Help! Total Newbie on ppc

2004-01-03 Thread Josh Peters
Thanks Derek, I'll keep trying it as that is probably exactly what I need. Josh From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:44:48 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Total Newbie on ppc On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:22:46 -0600

[newbie] Help! Total Newbie on ppc

2004-01-02 Thread Josh Peters
) at this, if I'm missing something quite simple please let me know. I will gladly give any more info that is needed. Thanks, Josh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-26 Thread Josh
There is an update that addresses this exact problem. I can't remember the exact update right now, but its rpm-something. You can't miss it. Josh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Rouillier Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 1:54 AM

RE: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-17 Thread Josh
Here's the best I can without understanding what your wrote The sk98lin drivers work fine with that nic, or you can go to asus' site and download the 3c2000 drivers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Genady Oliash Sent: Wednesday, December

[newbie] installation help PLEASE

2002-11-19 Thread josh
I have recently downloaded mandrake 9.0 from an ftp site. I am having some problem getting my machine to install the software. I have made 3 cd's but none seem to boot? I am trying to install it on a machine that has no previous os and I am using a boot floppy, but when I put the floppy in

[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Install Problem

2002-04-28 Thread Josh
I am trying to install Mandrake 8.2 onto my system to make a dual boot sytem with Win XP. I put the CD in and restart and start the install. But I get this error: Unable to handle Kernel paging request at virtual address 00030002 printing eip: c02195e6 *pde= Oops: CPU:0

Re: [newbie] How to change graphical environment in 7.2

2000-11-08 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
Open up a terminal window and type switchdesk At 09:02 PM 11/08/2000 -0500, you wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2000 09:33, you wrote: I think KDE2.0 is great and all, but how do I change my default window manager to Enlightenment, or maybe even GNOME? Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 had a utility

Re: [newbie] URGENT

2000-11-07 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
You know the say that GOD saves. Root is God and you should be saving a copy of your shadow password file. If you did not then so be it. Do you not remember what your password is. Then boot into linux single mode. At 04:30 PM 11/06/2000 -0800, you wrote: TiGereYe wrote: i have a problem

Re: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

2000-11-06 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
You might want to check your inittab file in /etc See what the run level is set to. At 05:40 PM 11/06/2000 +0100, you wrote: Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop and i've changed something... don't know where!! It's booting directly to my user account without asking me for the password!

RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

2000-11-06 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
The file is inittab and the run level should be 3 for multiuser mode. At 12:46 PM 11/06/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just my guess: You might have set runlevel to something like 2 or 3. I don't remember exactly which file in /etc you need to look. My guess is /etc/init.rc. It should be set to 4

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
Could you people please discuss this outside of the mailing list. I am getting sick and tired of it. At 09:13 PM 11/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bills got enough money so i could care less And just how much money is too much? Is it the amount more than you have? I

Re: [newbie] Samba

2000-11-03 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
First of all why are you using swat. At 03:11 PM 11/01/2000 -0600, you wrote: Ok, I have been through two different configure setups, one from Linuxnewbie and the other from a book called "Mastering Linux". Neither of which reflects the current Samba 2.0.7 that I am using and I have also

RE: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-03 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
AMEN At 06:22 AM 11/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: It doesn t matter if anyone s making money from your piracy.  Pirating software is a crime, no matter if it s friends sharing a program or a business selling illegal copies.   I m all for free distribution of software.  That s why I like the

Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem

2000-11-02 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
NO At 06:14 PM 11/01/2000 -0800, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: hey, I am really a newbie , but should not your swap be twice the size of the ram? - Original Message - From: "Brice Ruth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:19 PM

Re: [newbie] how 2 change 2 command line

2000-11-02 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
You could do a core dump. Control ALT Backspace. Or you could just set your Inittab file to boot to run level three and then when you want to run X just type StartX from the command line. At 10:38 PM 11/02/2000 +0200, you wrote: OK, I want to do some administrative things that I need to do on

Re: [newbie] egcs1.1.2

2000-11-01 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
try rpmfind.net At 01:55 PM 10/31/2000 -0600, you wrote: Where I can find the rpm of egcs1.1.2 for Mandrake 7.1 ? thanx --- Rodrigo Castro Hernandez Area de Desarrollo Departamento de Computo Universidad Latina de CR --- Squashman dit,

Re: [newbie] Anybody know if a driver for the HP Deskjet 722C is in the works, or exists under another version of Linux besides Mandrake?

2000-10-31 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
Would it work if you just set it up as a postscript printer. At 04:57 PM 10/30/2000 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I e-mailed to ask how to set up my HP DeskJet 722C under Mandrake 7.1 because I couldn't get it to work under any other drivers. I got a response (thank you!) saying that a driver

RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Josh Shirey
Enough. I can stand it. STOP THE MADNESS. -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush Yes, but what

RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh

2000-09-25 Thread Josh Shirey
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh Sorry Josh - I should have been more specific and asked did you run the rebuild *again*, after you updated to the 4.0 version ? Does running kpackage or rpmdrake give

[newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh

2000-09-22 Thread Josh Shirey
ee that I am running version 3.0. Could the version of rpm I am running be my problem and if so how and where would I go to update my version of rpm for MD. Thanks... josh [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh

2000-09-22 Thread Josh Shirey
Ok. I've loaded 4.0 version of rpm and I am still getting the error when trying to do rpm -Uvh filename.rpm "An rpm in db1 format exists in /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm. Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root. What is db1 and db3 format's? Thanks.

RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh

2000-09-22 Thread Josh Shirey
: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh Sorry Josh - I should have been more specific and asked did you run the rebuild *again*, after you updated to the 4.0 version ? Does running kpackage or rpmdrake give the same database error

RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh

2000-09-22 Thread Josh Shirey
as root. What is db1 and db3 format's? Thanks... Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/RB

[newbie] HELP..... LM 7.1

2000-09-21 Thread Josh Shirey
Yo! I needs some help. I'm trying to install xfree86.4.0.1as a single 15 meg file onto my LM 7.1 box and I am receiving an error "Only packages with major numbers =3 are supported by this version of RPM." I'm a newbie so take it easy on me. Thanks a bunch!!! Joshs [EMAIL

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 and Ensoniq Audio PCI

2000-09-19 Thread Josh Shirey
Loaded Mandrake 7.1 and my sound has some cracking in the background. I have two drives, one with win98 and other other with Mandrake 7.1 What do I have to tweak to make the cracking in the background go away? Cheers josh

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modem to work

2000-09-15 Thread Josh Shirey
the modem for it to work? If so where? Is there some kinda problem with the way I have my com ports setup. Any help would be greatly welcomed. Thanks. Josh Shirey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Passwords

2000-08-07 Thread Josh
I recently came home to discover that all my passwords are changed... I installed Star Office and that happened to me. I removed it, and my passwords worked again. I don't know why though.

Re: [newbie] Freshmeat?

2000-08-06 Thread Josh
Melinda Shoop wrote: Hello All, Has anyone else besides me had trouble getting to Freshmeat.com the past few days? Freshmeat.net?

Re: [newbie] numbers lock in kde

2000-03-22 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Yeah, me too. That really sucks!, or rather is a minor but irritating annoyance. I have that same problem On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Michael Holt mewed: Hello all! I've got another question for ya! I've got 'numlock at boot' enabled on Mandrake 7, but when I start kde, I lose my

Re: [newbie] Disableing PNP IN BIOS

2000-03-11 Thread Josh McCaffrey
and my mom's Compaq is F10. Hope this helps. -Josh At 12:18 AM 3/9/00 +0100, you wrote: pnp os - - Original Message - From: Matthew Loschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 3:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Disableing PNP IN BIOS I now kn

Re: [newbie] increasing the font size in Netscape?

2000-03-09 Thread Josh McCaffrey
more so for mail than for browsing. And what's w/ the "increase/decrease fonts" section being disabled? Fonts seem fine for everything else BUT Netscape. Maybe v7.x has this fixed? -Josh -Original Message- From: Funk Soul Brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECT

[newbie] Linux rocks!

2000-03-07 Thread Josh McCaffrey
ch support for Windoze software can only give you generic solutions, like "run scandisk and defrag", "power off for 10 seconds", etc... W/ Linux, we're more or less learning together (some more than others), and it's all really simple once you play around a bit. Just my $.02... -Josh

Re: [newbie] Now I'm Impressed!

2000-03-01 Thread Josh McCaffrey
that would just be sad. I don't think W2k is on the shelf around here yet, but I havn't looked either :~} CUZ I DON'T CARE! Just my $.02 on the subject... Later -Josh Necrotica wrote: I just have to share this with someone. Ya know, the more I learn about Linux Mandrake the more I love

Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Winmodems are junk. I wouldn't recommend using one in a Windows box either. ISP's don't like them, cuz evertime I've called tech support, they ask "now, is this a winmodem?", "no? good, now I can help you." And they're never called Winmodems on the box of that nice new system you just

Re: [newbie] no make possible

2000-02-26 Thread Josh McCaffrey
your installation cd for the rpm packages called pgcc, pgcc-c+, pgcc... I believe installing these will get you the make command. Lance There is also a package called "make", so you may want to install that also. -Josh

Re: [newbie] FW: newest version of mandrake or redhat...

2000-02-23 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Paul Hendrick wrote: -Original Message- From: toie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 1:42 PM To: Newbie Subject: newest version of mandrake or redhat... can anyone tell me what version of either of these is going to support winmodems and

Re: [newbie] Defragging

2000-02-18 Thread Josh McCaffrey
nally have never used it, but am wondering if it could help boost disk performance/increase speed. (?) -Josh Anthony Huereca wrote: Is there any regular maintaince that needs to be done to a linux box like in Windows with defrag, scandisk, etc? I know that defragging in Windows can

Re: [newbie] Red Neck Linux

2000-02-17 Thread Josh McCaffrey
cs @ 2MB's. Playing around w/ different window mgrs. KDE still very user friendly. Gnome/Enlightenment a bit harder to figure out. STILL LOVIN' LINUX!!! -Josh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOKx3tJIc6oBNVYv1EQLnsACdEB832g77Roe41Ts46P0M47VSAhcAnAhb w1whal+DZ6y15B

[newbie] on the subj. of the kernel...

2000-02-11 Thread Josh McCaffrey
/ these errors: ...as86: command not found, *** [bootsect.s] Error 127, and [zImage] error 2. Ultimately, I can't finish building a new kernel. Any ideas? Thanks! -Josh

Re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE

2000-02-09 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Since msgs are apparently being reposted (again)... Is make installed on your machine? How about ncurses-devel, glibc-devel, and binutils-rpm? Not sure, but you might also need bin86 and sh-utils, also. I didn't get menuconfig to work on the first few tries, but instead of getting frustrated

Re: [newbie] Scanners

2000-02-09 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Harold Hartley wrote: I would never use "root" for a regular user setup and using the internet constantly as it could pose trouble for you if you continue... root is used to install and uninstall software and to do other changes on linux... I think you should use a regular user account

Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!

2000-02-07 Thread Josh McCaffrey
rds around, I'm having a difficult time choosing one. With all the graphics cards moving from PCI to AGP, and ISA being phased out, what should I do? Testimonials would be great! i.e: The best MB you've used and Linux compatibility. As much info as I can get b4 I buy. Thanks! -Josh

[newbie] certain services safe to disable...

2000-02-05 Thread Josh McCaffrey
is doing too much disk swapping, and is SLOW as a result. Just need to do a little "fine-tuning". Current config = 48mb, 1.6gb, P133. Till I have the $$ to UPGRADE, I'd like to milk my box for all it's worth ($1600 in `96) Thanks! -Josh

Re: [newbie] OT Starting LUG for mandrake

2000-02-02 Thread Josh McCaffrey
's and W's. It would be cool to see how many people show up. I already know there's talk around campus about starting a LUG, but I don't know any of these people. This way, I can get most, not all Linux users together on campus. Later -Josh

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Mailling-list in German

2000-01-31 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I would really like to see it. Ein Deutsches List wird viel spaB machen. I could practice written German and learn more about Linux at the same time! -Josh Gael Duval wrote: Hello there, we have been asked several times for new Mandrake lists in German language. How many people here

Re: [newbie] DOOM

2000-01-31 Thread Josh McCaffrey
"David Odin (aka DindinX)" wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:29:12AM +, Josh McCaffrey wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a li

Re: [newbie] DOOM

2000-01-31 Thread Josh McCaffrey
cutpaste from Kedit to Netscape and I'm too lazy to type the whole thing. -Josh

[newbie] DOOM

2000-01-30 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! Later. -Josh

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Josh McCaffrey
for everybody straight out of the box. Viel Gluck! -Josh Hugh Semmler wrote: Well I cant speak for anybody else , But my computer runs at least twice as fast as win98. On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: i have mandrake 6.1 and i have win98se. i use win98se quite alot and i found that it is much

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Josh McCaffrey
to 800x600, I get a "virtual screen", which may be what you're describing. eg: if you move the mouse past the edge of your desktop, you can see the rest of it, but not all at once? I don't care for the virtual screen either. -Josh JAMIL HUSSAIN wrote: josh i installed

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Seth Gibson wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: desired results. There has never been any intention to make Linux perform well for everybody straight out of the box. Tho i think we are seeing that change more and more with Things like lizard and such. . .me personally, when

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Josh McCaffrey
snip I started Josh recompiling the kernel a couple of times, and each time it Josh failed (I forget why) after choosing to save the new kernel, Josh so in /usr/src there are "linux-2.2.13" and Josh "linux-2.2.13.old" folders, and the 2 files generat

Re: [newbie] Linux + Mainstream

2000-01-12 Thread Josh McCaffrey
of the aisle, you have little or no choice as to which Windows you want, and right next door are 1/2 as many Linux distros, but w/ greater variety and flexibility... I always bump into people at the book or computer store under the Unix/Linux section and start talking about Linux. -Josh

[newbie] Hello?

2000-01-10 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Anybody left on the list? I start to wonder what's going on if I don't receive any mail for 3 days...

Re: [newbie] Instant Internet start?

2000-01-07 Thread Josh McCaffrey
After you do that, create a Kppp icon on your desktop to make it *really* easy to start. Right click-New-Application-Kppp. Under the "Execute" tab, just put "kppp". -Josh Alan Shoemaker wrote: Steveassuming you are in the KDE desktop, open the application starter

[newbie] list moderation PLEASE (rant)

2000-01-05 Thread Josh McCaffrey
that doesn't pertain to Linux-Mandrake in any way shape or form is OFF TOPIC and punishable by 1)a warning and then 2)a booting. If people aren't going to show any consideration for a particular forum of discussion, then they have no place in the forum. Just my $.02. -Josh "I just

[newbie] LUG's in the Atlanta, GA area?

2000-01-02 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I know there must be some Linux users in the area. Probably many, just spread a little thin. I'll be going back to school at Kennesaw State this week, maybe I can stir up some users on campus. Later... -Josh

[newbie] graphics card shopping....

1999-12-31 Thread Josh McCaffrey
? I'm not a big gamer, but I expect my sys performance would increase noticably upgrading from 2mb to 16mb. Also, what cards use the Trident chipset? I'm still looking I really like the one I've got, it's just a bit outdated. -Josh

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions

1999-12-30 Thread Josh McCaffrey
finally have to just put it out of it's misery :-) -Josh and have not had much problems. HTH -- Ronald

Re: [newbie] Welcome to list newbie

1999-12-29 Thread Josh McCaffrey
t my 1-1/2% (if that...) Later -Josh

[newbie] What am I missing?

1999-12-28 Thread Josh McCaffrey
uconfig in my case). If someone could either tell me what I need to do or direct me to the proper documentation, i'd really appreciate it. Thanks! -Josh

Re: [newbie] (Update)What am I missing?

1999-12-28 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Des Wass wrote: ++ /12/99, Josh McCaffrey: Josh McCaffrey wrote: Okay, so I needed to install "make" (duh!) I also installed bin86 and sh-utils (just in case). Now bash knows what I'm asking for when I type "make"... Thing is that I can only run "make

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-12-24 Thread Josh McCaffrey
for future referance, if you do some researching (FAQ's/archives, etc...), most basic configuration problems have already been answered in many ways. It helps if you read this stuff b4 you install Linux :-) -Josh Ganesh Subramanian wrote: I installed linux 6.5 on my pc which contains wind

Re: [newbie] newbie horrors (was Kernel)

1999-12-23 Thread Josh McCaffrey
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: snip Josh, You at 22 seem a little like me at 50 - I have always liked putzing around with my 'puter since I started with a Comodore Vic 20 (boy was that a long time ago!). I think though that we most likely fit the discription geek-wannabe, sin

Re: [newbie] small note

1999-12-21 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Yeah, then you can UNINSTALL stuff as you decide you don't need it and need to free up some HD space. MickeyMutant wrote: I have noticed that many things work Much better if you do a Custom install and put in EVERYTHING! i know this takes up a lot of hd space but you will run into

Re: [newbie] A question

1999-12-20 Thread Josh McCaffrey
newbie, Thanks! -Josh mshirley wrote: Perhaps we are overlooking the obvious here. A fresh install of W95/W98 with the patches needed doesn't crash quite as much as you would think. I have been running a fresh install of W95OSR2 for several days now without a crash or reboot. I have noticed

Re: [newbie] Modem Settings

1999-12-20 Thread Josh McCaffrey
, and once configured, operates fine... www.zoomtel.com Hope this helps. Happy Holiday's :-) -Josh "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Ryan Gardner wrote: I've used search and everything and looked all across my computer to configure my modem. As of now my computer doesn't know I ha

Re: [newbie] KDE screen help

1999-12-20 Thread Josh McCaffrey
t gives me that 'virtual desktop' I don't really care for. Xconfigurator didn't ask me if I wanted thisJust gave it to me. I think I know what it is..... Later -Josh funboy wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but there is a slight problem... I am already _at_ 1024 X 780. sigh Even if I

Re: [newbie] M$ Streaming Media - With what software would you playthis? M$ Media Player?

1999-12-17 Thread Josh McCaffrey
evelopment tools, more than I know off the top of my head, and more coming. Later -Josh

[newbie] Increase/Decrease Font(Netscape)

1999-12-17 Thread Josh McCaffrey
May be slightly off topic, but does anyone else notice that when you go to View, that Increase/Decrease Font section is disabled in a Netscape window? Anyone know why this is? -Josh

Re: [newbie] dropped modem connections with Linux

1999-12-14 Thread Josh McCaffrey
to that model, or go to their website. -Josh Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: Hello, I'm having what would seem to be a rather strange problem. My modem almost always disconnects suddenly from my ISP after a few minutes online. The time varies -- sometimes 20 seconds sometimes 45 minutes. KPPP gives me

[newbie] Returned mail...

1999-12-14 Thread Josh McCaffrey
? Others? There has to be something I can do to minimally but noticibly increase my PC's speed (besides adding more RAM/HD and a new CPU, for now). Any help greatly appreciated -Josh

[newbie] cannot adjust video settings...

1999-12-14 Thread Josh McCaffrey
y is it so difficult to switch b/t resolution settings? 800x600 is OK, but I'd like to have the option of switching resolutions as needed. Xf86config isn't any easier to set acceptable settings, and besides, I'd like to be able to make changes "on the fly". -Josh

Re: [newbie] Office

1999-12-12 Thread Josh McCaffrey
probably download it, but it's a pretty big app, even w/ a 56k modem. Oh, yeah, it's called StarOffice :-) -Josh Thanks, Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Helios-New" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, De

Re: [newbie] Problems configuring my modem

1999-12-09 Thread Josh McCaffrey
. Good luck. This worked for me. -Josh Moises Lopez wrote: Hi, I've been trying configuring my SupraExpress 33.6 PnP internal modem, but I can´'t configure at all. Any ideas? Thank you. Moises Lopez

[newbie] Window Maker is interesting...

1999-12-03 Thread Josh McCaffrey
around. -Josh

Re: [newbie] crash tests....

1999-12-03 Thread Josh McCaffrey
onds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what would disk swapping be comparable to? Later -Josh Simon Norris wrote: From a Unix point of view, you can normally have 255 X sessions of whatever type open at the same time, so head for that if you want. It should be reasonably easy to wri

[newbie] Desktopcfg

1999-12-03 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I ran desktopcfg as root and chose to set the system wide default as Xfce, but when I log in as user, Window Maker starts; if I log in as root, Xfce starts.

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I think www.list.com or lists.com. I know when another mail list server was down, we had a back up list using one of these sites. If you can put up w/ a little advertising on all of the posted mails, it's not so bad. If it works, it works :) -Josh Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends

Re: [newbie] test

1999-12-02 Thread Josh McCaffrey
If you're using Netscape, try hitting the "Get Msg" button on the toolbar. Maybe your prefs aren't setup to automatically dl new msg's. Are you getting any mail at all? If you're not getting list mail, then this is probably no help. -Josh Pat Mellema wrote: Is this getting

[newbie] BIOS tweaks

1999-12-02 Thread Josh McCaffrey
, 48MB's RAM? If it matters, I bought my 'puter in Fall '96, it's an A-OPEN AP5C/P and upon boot it says my BIOS date is OCTOBER, 1994. I did, however, get an updated motherboard driver (Jan., 1997). Don't know what this changed if anything. Thank you all! -Josh

[newbie] crash tests....

1999-12-02 Thread Josh McCaffrey
. Later... -Josh

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-01 Thread Josh McCaffrey
worry, I'm on my umpteenth install which I'll post about in a bit :-) -Josh hugahog wrote: Hi again, On a resent install of LM 6.1 I find I do not have permission to use most of the desktop icons such as linuxconf and rpm's. Yes, I created a user account during install and my root desktop

Re: [newbie] modems for Linux

1999-11-26 Thread Josh McCaffrey
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi, Can anybody send me a complete lists of current brands and models of modems for Linux? I have tempted to go ahead and buy from a vendor but I know the vendor will tell the wrong things about the modems that are supported by Linux. Can anybody help me?

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