[newbie] how do I do an absolute minimal install on mini-itx system?

2005-02-05 Thread magnet
thanks if you can help magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] not receiving anything

2005-02-01 Thread magnet
On Monday 31 Jan 2005 07:39, Simon wrote: On Monday 31 Jan 2005 07:07, Maureen wrote: I have reregistered for the newbie list twice and I am still not recieving anything from the list. I rely on the list for answers to problems and just look forward to others opinions. I don't understand

[newbie] Is sending remote bash commands across LAN possible?

2005-01-14 Thread magnet
/keyboard/mouse on the main computer and I would like to be able to type a single line command into my console and have it execute on any of the other remote machines I choose it to go to. This is all user-level stuff, no su commands at all. Any help you can give is much appreciated magnet

Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file

2004-10-31 Thread magnet
on to the next in a list. magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] How to Capture Text Mode Output?

2004-10-06 Thread magnet
konsole dmesg any good? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Cannot see contents of burnt data DVD

2004-09-09 Thread magnet
-volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-magnet/k3bJcICfb.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-magnet/k3b1FcLFa.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames -allow-lowercase -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-magnet/k3bnABAbc.tmp The problem is that my mandrake 9.2 box cannot see any content on this DVD

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-15 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 9:09 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 4:11 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:14:04 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start

[newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-14 Thread magnet
used to do this sort of thing on much larger numbers of pages on my trusty Amiga using a DOS script and an editor with an AREXX port running over-night but not a clue how to even start on my Mandrake 9.2 box. As always, any help is much appreciated :) magnet

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-14 Thread magnet
On Monday 14 Jun 2004 7:08 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: magnet wrote: Hi all, I require some pointers for the following problem please: I have 100+ files of html code, ie: page0001.htm page0002.htm page0003.htm etc... but I need to remove the first 20 lines and the last 17 lines from

Re: [newbie] Warning to windows users - virused message (Re: document)

2004-06-04 Thread magnet
I can't get this to run. Linux says it doesn't recognise the file suffix. Maybe I need to install an emulator. :) On Friday 04 Jun 2004 4:11 pm, John wrote: This email contained the [EMAIL PROTECTED] virus. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read the document.

[newbie] sending email test - ignore please

2004-04-13 Thread magnet
just a test :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Re: Bounce when mailing to newbie list?

2004-03-22 Thread magnet
just my quick test. I've not been getting any mail from here for a few weeks and it's only just started to arrive this last couple of days. On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 9:06 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:05:59 +0100, Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[newbie] no video capture from tv-card

2004-01-04 Thread magnet
. The machine runs 24/7 and nothing that I am aware of had changed but it suddenly stopped capturing to hdd. This is a dump of the console output and as you can see, a blank line is no help whatsoever in trying to find out what didn't happen... [EMAIL PROTECTED] magnet]$ streamer -c /dev/v4l/video0 -r 24

[newbie] xawtv and streamer recording sound problems

2003-12-26 Thread magnet
fine in xawtv. I issue the following command from a console: streamer -o /drive1/magnet/vcr/testrecording.avi -F stereo -f mjpeg -r 25 -s 320x240 -t 0:05 -j 80 -n pal ...this should record a 5 second clip of video in avi format but no such file is created, so I'm assuming that streamer

Re: [newbie] xawtv and streamer recording sound problems

2003-12-26 Thread magnet
Doh! magnet selects muppet-mode Right, Just in case anyone else reads this in the archives, the answer is in the question, as I just discovered 2 minutes after posting this! mjpeg this wasn't installed!! urpmi mjpegtools Simple really! Streamer no longer hangs, exits and shuts off the sound

Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)

2003-12-09 Thread magnet
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 7:18 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation

Re: [newbie] OT: The 'Original' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2003-12-03 Thread magnet
Apart from the copyright issues, I would hazard a guess that you could fit 3 of the video episodes onto a CD ;-) On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 10:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:48:54 -0600 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to Joe Hill: How large were those MP3s? Each episode was

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Thread magnet
and tutorials and even a few forums for all levels of users. Worth a look though and it rendered very fast on just a 1.2Ghz athlon system although there is 768mb ram on board which always helps apps. Hope this might help you. magnet -- On Thursday 09 Oct 2003 1:56 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Thread magnet
and settings. In that respect it is as complex as Lightwave ;-) magnet On Thursday 09 Oct 2003 2:56 pm, Alan Carbutt wrote: Tango Echo, If indeed that is your real name. :) Like magnet, I have been also using povray. I have the Windoze version up and running on my Mandrake box through WINE. I

[newbie] xawtv sound

2003-09-25 Thread magnet
Hi all, I am only getting mono sound when watching TV in xawtv even though the broadcast is stereo and sounds fine on the big TV. Stereo sound plays mp3's fine using xmms. Can anyone suggest where I should start my investigations please? Regards magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] ignore - test

2003-09-20 Thread magnet
just a test. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mplayer configuration

2003-08-01 Thread magnet
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 12:01 am, LtCdData wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 16:50, magnet wrote: hey magnet^ i had the same prob.. dont now tho ) i cant mind if the fix was a manual edit of the mplayer config file or if it went away with the next compiled upgrade as it was some time back

Re: [newbie] mplayer configuration

2003-07-31 Thread magnet
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 5:15 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: magnet wrote: I can only start mplayer up in full screen. I have checked the konsole messages during start-up for references to files accessed and have checked the contents of those config files for any settings that might cause

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-27 Thread magnet
On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 6:41 am, Eric Huff wrote: I have been trying out a technique for ad-blocking i saw on slash-dot: someone made a huge list of common ad-sites and made a hosts file where the names get sent to 0.0.0.0 So now, almost always, i am spared the flashes, pictures, etc of ads.

Re: [newbie] SBr Temp

2003-07-25 Thread magnet
On Friday 25 Jul 2003 4:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:51:51 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked Dennis what this was off-list and hes not sure, so I'll throw this out to the rest. Below is my sensors output, what is SBr temp? Southbridge?

[newbie] Alcatel USB330 modem

2003-07-18 Thread magnet
How hard is it going to be to get this modem up and running on my linux box and to get connected online? Hardware is 1.2GHz Athlon, 768 MB ram, Gigabyte mobo with 2 usb ports. Running fully up to date version of Mandrake 9.1. Many thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Video capture

2003-07-18 Thread magnet
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 1:38 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi guys! Can any of you recommend an inexpensive Linux compatible video capture card? I am told the primary need for this card will be for converting VHS tapes to file. I saw the ATI TV wonder VE on pricewatch for about $47. However, this

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup

2003-07-15 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 9:57 pm, Deek wrote: Gah, another problem: I just recently installed the nVidia driver for the GForce FX graphics card for linux, and installation and everything went fine, and it told me to change the XF86Config file to use the new driver. And so I did, and restarted

Re: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread magnet
then email me off-list and I'll send you a very up-to-date copy as I added about 25 more servers to it only yesterday. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread magnet
so every bit helps. If you want a copy derek then email me off-list and I'll send you a very up-to-date copy as I added about 25 more servers to it only yesterday. Regards magnet Hmm... got that wrong in last post. typo... Its actually 16000 servers. See, it's kinda comprehensive coz spam bugs

Re: [newbie] serious problem : LILO

2003-05-31 Thread magnet
default to 3 anyway. It might help solve your problems. You can always go back and tweek your settings once you have it up and running magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA

2003-05-31 Thread magnet
and see how you get on. I had to add the 2nd line myself on this install of 9.1 magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux

2003-03-28 Thread magnet
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 12:47 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello I am looking for a good TV Card to use with Mandrake 9.0. I plan to upgrade to 9.1 next month. I have searched a few web sites and so far have found a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 but it is a bit pricey for my budget. Are there other

Re: [newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread magnet
time great here. Webmin Hardware System Time I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk Hope this helps you out -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 5 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Mandrake 9.0. 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Windows 2000 Profressional 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop

Re: [newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread magnet
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:22 pm, magnet wrote: I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. Keeps time great here. Webmin Hardware System Time I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk Hope this helps you out

Re: [newbie] Twin head--but not

2003-03-04 Thread magnet
as to what's going on. Miark I may be wrong here, but doesn't twin head refer to running 2 monitors from the one card. AFAIK the GeForce Ti range have this capability but I've never looked into it yet. Correct me if I'm wrong though. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 5 x [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread magnet
On Friday 14 Feb 2003 9:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? What's a newbie? grin -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all

[newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread magnet
should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread magnet
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread magnet
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:57 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh

Re: [newbie] how to cron? - working now

2003-02-09 Thread magnet
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:14 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set

[newbie] kmail went awol on me

2003-02-07 Thread magnet
across from my saved copy but then it stopped working again. I can't seem to find a solution to reinstate my old emails into kmail again. Anyone got any suggestions please? -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-03 Thread magnet
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:10 am, civileme wrote: On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:46 am, magnet wrote: I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest

[newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread magnet
I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution? Thanks :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread magnet
On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:55 am, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Perl will do it but you will need to make the scripted or there might be one on the net have a look On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:46 am, magnet wrote: I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and am trying to find

Re: [newbie] xawtv config and recording

2003-01-29 Thread magnet
to recording the station xawtv was last tuned in to? Still looking to utilise this machine as a 2nd VCR here as my tv is determined to broadcast 2 of my fav programs on diff channels at the same time when I'm at work ;-) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines

Re: [newbie] xawtv config and recording

2003-01-29 Thread magnet
Ek 1 minute of capture created a 25mb file! LOL Next question has to be how to recode this to another format that is substancially smaller :)) On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 3:46 pm, magnet wrote: On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 12:55 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:02:08 -0500

Re: [newbie] xawtv config and recording

2003-01-29 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 28 Jan 2003 5:00 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:52:14 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ek 1 minute of capture created a 25mb file! LOL Next question has to be how to recode this to another format that is substancially smaller :)) You can change

Re: [newbie] xawtv config and recording

2003-01-28 Thread magnet
be found. Is it something separate from XawTV that has to be installed? Thanks. Yeap, same here. command streamer is not found as user or root and mine is stock V9.0 install also. tv card is win-tv Go and gfx card is a juicy gforce Ti 4400 :))) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered

[newbie] xawtv config and recording

2003-01-25 Thread magnet
working and possibly scripts to allow this machine to become a virtual VCR. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread magnet
received a telnet connection one night that reveiled a buffer-overflow feature on my account and all the money disappeared! Damn these spammers ;-))) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour

Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)

2003-01-19 Thread magnet
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 9:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 3:50 am, magnet wrote: This I don't understand. Could you please explain to me how this works? Just for understanding :) Anne Go here Anne for a read: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html Thanks

[newbie] http advert filtering

2003-01-18 Thread magnet
Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs? -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour

Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)

2003-01-18 Thread magnet
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:56 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:28:24 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs? Webwasher is avaliable

Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)

2003-01-18 Thread magnet
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 6:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 2:49 pm, magnet wrote: On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:56 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:28:24 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar

Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?

2003-01-14 Thread magnet
. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?

2003-01-13 Thread magnet
a complete power-down of the system but still end up with twm. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want

Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?

2003-01-12 Thread magnet
from my main connected/gateway linux box. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?

2003-01-12 Thread magnet
On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 7:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 00:28, magnet wrote: I run linux 6 computers here and 2 of them refuse to reboot after a power outage due to faults on their harddrives generating a S.M.A.R.T error warning of impending doom and catastrophy soon

Re: [newbie] Sorry To Be Off Topic

2003-01-03 Thread magnet
fall for the remove scam either :) Regards magnet On Friday 03 Jan 2003 11:24 am, Michael Adams wrote: Sure looks like spam. Thank heavens i am vegetarian so i dont have to taste it and find out. On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:59, K. Spress wrote: I am writing this as a simple letter if anyone

Re: [newbie] sound blaster pci 128

2002-12-29 Thread magnet
connected a tape deck to it via the input plug and backed up some old tape recordings. It sounds fine and all programs detect it. magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] blocked ports?

2002-12-25 Thread magnet
need to know what port licq uses as it won't connect at all. Connection sharing is working fine from linux box [gateway] to the other machines on this LAN and the windows laptop also suffers from the dcc block but connects fine to ICQ. Cheers magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] blocked ports?

2002-12-25 Thread magnet
suffers from the dcc block but connects fine to ICQ. Cheers magnet I had the same trouble with DCC.Finally I went to the #xchat channel on irc and they told me to enable Get my IP from server in the settings. Settings/Setup/IP Address/Get my IP from Server This solved my DCC problem and I

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread magnet
is was fasinati... Zzz magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Using Internet

2002-12-19 Thread magnet
it to: GATEWAY=ppp0 This tells it to use your modem and not the ethernet port as your internet input device. Also worth changing the following lines: FORWARD_IPV4=true NETWORKING=yes Happy surfing :)) regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] configure script failure

2002-12-14 Thread magnet
Qt3 installed. Hi You need to install the developer source headers for QT. I think they are on the 3rd CD. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Samba

2002-12-14 Thread magnet
if you have added your windows boxs and their local.domain.names plus alias's. Let us know how you get on. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?

2002-12-09 Thread magnet
recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? Slightly off the original topic, but relevant as I need to convert these to mp3/wav format for an audio CD as these tapes are vulnerable to damage. regards magnet Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?

2002-12-09 Thread magnet
these .wav files are still rather large. regards magnet On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:22 am, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 19:49, magnet wrote: Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? At a command

Re: [newbie] Remote DVD over ethernet

2002-12-07 Thread magnet
On Friday 06 Dec 2002 6:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 02:09, magnet wrote: Hi all, Can you view on a linux box a commercial DVD playing on a DVD player built into a windows laptop across 100Mbit ethernet? I have ogle and libs needed already installed, and have used

[newbie] Getting VNC to use KDE

2002-12-07 Thread magnet
of getting mine working? regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Internet connection sharing with Windows?

2002-12-07 Thread magnet
to connect using the linux gateway and it has no effect on samba here, and retains your choice of static IP addresses you use. Hope this can help you. regards magnet On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 5:23 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Got a 3 comp LAN. My main computer is running Linux - 56k connection and both

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing - SUPER EASY

2002-12-06 Thread magnet
to you all :) regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Remote DVD over ethernet

2002-12-06 Thread magnet
player which I'd rather avoid for a number of reasons, expense and space to mount it in this stack. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card

2002-12-03 Thread magnet
will have a look in the local computer shop to see if they have any better quality leads available and try a replacement. Thanks for your replies. Will let you know if this makes any difference. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed

2002-12-03 Thread magnet
. it isnt running anyway and I don't ever plan to use it EVER again after the last few weeks of grief it has caused me? ;-) How do get the gShield.rc script to be executed on booting the machine rather than opening up a console as su and typing /etc/firewall/gShield.rc each time? regards magnet

Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed

2002-12-03 Thread magnet
. regards magnet On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 4:27 pm, Franki wrote: What is your connection??? When I had dialup.. I created files in /etc/ppp called: ip-up.local and ip-down.local Those files are automatically run when the connection goes up or down.. in ip-up.local I put this line: /etc

[newbie] internet sharing help needed

2002-12-02 Thread magnet
how to write iptables rules yet to achieve a fully secure machine. Hope some of you will take the time to offer some advice on this. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card

2002-12-02 Thread magnet
a clue what might be causing this? It has happened on all versions of the nvidia drivers and all versions of mandrake I have used since installing this card. Apart from this niggle, these cards are the puppie's privates 8-)) regards magnet (ok... who nicked my sig?) Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card

2002-12-02 Thread magnet
On Monday 02 Dec 2002 8:12 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 02:12, magnet wrote: Hi all, I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4400 gfx card installed on my mdk 9.0 machine using nvidia drivers 1.0-3123. I'm currently running 1280x1024 in 16bit display, although this weird effect

Re: [newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card

2002-12-02 Thread magnet
On Monday 02 Dec 2002 10:42 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:15, magnet wrote: On Monday 02 Dec 2002 8:12 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 02:12, magnet wrote: Hi all, I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4400 gfx card installed on my mdk 9.0 machine using

Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed

2002-12-02 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 1:07 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:59, magnet wrote: Hi all, Well back from the dead once again after another fresh install following a lost battle trying to get a firewall installed and working, damn that shorewall! Machine is running mdk 9.0

Re: [newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card

2002-12-02 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 1:26 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:21, magnet wrote: On Monday 02 Dec 2002 10:42 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:15, magnet wrote: On Monday 02 Dec 2002 8:12 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 02:12, magnet wrote

Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!

2002-11-26 Thread magnet
is causing it. I need some light shed on this problem coz I'm close to giving up after double-figured re-installs. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!

2002-11-26 Thread magnet
something that manages to cause failure of previously working functions, and not know what is causing it. I need some light shed on this problem coz I'm close to giving up after double-figured re-installs. Regards magnet If shorewall is removed completely, then your IP masquerading

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA revisited

2002-11-25 Thread magnet
. Enter your username, password, then type: startx If it was anything like here, your screen will, after a short delay pop up a lovely NVIDIA logo and welcome to a correctly setup fast gfx card :) Hope that has been of help to anyone who reads this. Regards magnet Want to buy your

[newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!

2002-11-25 Thread magnet
and tried pinging the other machines, all responded except the fw machine. I have tried pinging from fw machine to the others but it just times out. Any help will be appreciated on how to get this firewall working correctly. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] NFS Impasse

2002-11-18 Thread magnet
done something wrong or is this a known problem on Mandrake? Same problem has occured on mdk8.0/8.2/9.0 here for me. regards magnet I don't believe you're an idiot! :-) As for what the problem is - I'm not sure. I wish I was enough of a guru to just tell you. I'm sorry. BTW, I'm using

[newbie] Can I use Samba on my Linux LAN

2002-11-11 Thread magnet
to mount all the other machines using Samba so that I can dump using NFS? Regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) note: network is feeling

[newbie] Keeping accurate system time

2002-10-03 Thread magnet
on this or am I simply doing something wrong? As usual your help is appreciated :) regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over

Re: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time

2002-10-03 Thread magnet
On Thursday 03 Oct 2002 5:22 pm, you wrote: - Original Message - From: magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 13, 1901 9:56 PM Subject: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time Hi all, Digging thru Webmin I came across a page to enter the host/address

Re: [newbie] Hardware acceleration support for GeForce 4

2002-09-30 Thread magnet
:) Hope this helps you out. regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake 8.2 and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! On Sunday

Re: [newbie] Can I assign IRQ's manually

2002-09-20 Thread magnet
? On current nvidia drivers it defaults to 3 - driver chooses, but maybe changing this to 1 or 2 might stablise your system. I had great fun getting this Ti 4400 card installed and working but it was worth it :) Regards magnet Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines

[newbie] gfx card driver question

2002-09-06 Thread magnet
on their system please? It's a lot of money for a gfx card, but no good if it cant be used. Regards to all magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop

Re: [newbie] gfx card driver question

2002-09-06 Thread magnet
On Friday 06 Sep 2002 3:39 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Magnet, Use this link http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php and that will sort it out for ya. Well I kinda went round the sites and did it all manually in vi but the end result was it is installed andthe glxgear test reported

Re: [newbie] gfx card driver question444

2002-09-06 Thread magnet
On Friday 06 Sep 2002 9:47 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:34:37 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a lot of questions to ask, but this has cost me hard cash and I dont feel I'm getting the performance out of this card. If you are using the Nvidia

[newbie] LAN problems

2002-07-28 Thread magnet
on the linux1 box? regards magnet Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines: 163839 - Mdk 8.2 163840 - Mdk 8.2 163841 - Mdk 8.2 163842 - Mdk 8.2 163843 - Mdk 8.2 163844 - Mdk 8.0 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like

[newbie] TV card and recording to disk suggestions please.

2002-07-16 Thread magnet
running, I would appreciate hearing what you are using and how easy/hard it was to set up correctly. Many thanks magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups

2002-07-07 Thread magnet
problems I might have encountered further down the line. Many thanks for your suggestion . regards magnet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups

2002-07-05 Thread magnet
showing the correct time. Any suggestions how to get this install running as smoothly as 8.0 will be appreciated :) thanks magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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