Re: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Annandale
thing happened when I tried SUSE, so I presume later versions of kpp only recognise PAP based ISP's. Bernard Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same problem as my ISP uses CHAP. Have you tried to select CHAP ? HTH Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Importing fonts

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys Where can I find the import fonts utility, I'm sure there was one under 8.0 ? I'm using 8.1. Is there somewhere I can set up a firewall using KDE ? Thanks Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Importing fonts

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Annandale
. Thanks again. Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:31:22 -0400 Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wait...let me get this straight...you want to use a RAID setup with Mandrake on not one, but two Western Digital drives? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink

[newbie] Zip drive

2001-10-05 Thread Mark Shaw
I plan to buy an external Zip Drive within the next few days, to use with several machines -- including my LM7.2 box. Any reason I should choose USB over parallel port, or vice-versa? Thanks in advance. __ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities

[newbie] Sound card recommendation

2001-10-05 Thread Mark Shaw
. (It works fine under Windoze Me, go figure.) Any suggestions? I pretty much want it for gaming only, nothing cutting-edge. Thanks again. = Mark Shaw http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities

RE: [newbie] attachments in every message??

2001-10-03 Thread Mark Johnson
yup. it sucks don't it... -Original Message- From: Carl Lafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] attachments in every message?? I recently signed back up to the expert and newbie lists for mandrake

RE: [newbie] Hello Everyone!!

2001-10-03 Thread Mark Wilson
Hello List.. I am a new to Mandrake.. My name is Mark, and I have been using Linux for about 6 months.. I have loaded it on one machine and I am currently loading it on my other machine, as soon as I get my new Motherboard and processor.. I have been using Redhat Linux 6.2 for about 9

Re: [newbie] anti-virus program

2001-09-30 Thread Mark David Hamilton
, but I am not certain). I hope this helps, mdh Mark David Hamilton Registered Linux user # 212240 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~kimark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] SWAT

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi gang When trying to start SWAT I get the log on screen asking for a username and password. However nothing I enter allows me access. I have tried as root and as a user, but to no avail. Is there a trick to this. Thanks and regards Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Mark Johnson
Agreed. You know it's amazing how many times we assume the worse in others when rarely it is ever the case that there was any harm intended. There are only a few people out there in the world that really enjoy making others miserable or really get their kicks by controlling others. The majority

RE: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

2001-09-25 Thread Mark Johnson
I was thinking a variation of this would be to track the ipaddress of my ISPs subnet and every night autodispatch an email to the support desk asking the ISP to contact those people affected by the virus... I wonder if it would have any effect? I wonder if this is something you could take up the

RE: Re: [newbie-it] INFORMAZIONI

2001-09-24 Thread Mark
Ciao Andrea, se stai a Roma te ne posso regalare una (versione scaricata). Domanda: e' vero che dal sito Mandrake puoi scaricarti una versione completa gratis?? Ciao, e grazie mille, Enrico PS. a giorni dovrebbe uscire la 8.1 __

RE: [newbie] Samba Clients Passwords

2001-09-24 Thread Mark Johnson
Are you using Win95 or '98... if you are you have to set it up so that you enable logins on the Windows machine because if you don't it'll try to login to samba with an invalid user name. It's in the Samba docs, it just not real obvious - this is such a common problem I don't understand why they

[newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

2001-09-21 Thread Mark Johnson
You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are affecting me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my weblogs. I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response time and connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully

RE: [newbie] SQL database for patient information

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
Hmm, I would doubt that you could find a generic application that you could for your purposes. Of course you could find something that was close and extend it to suite your needs but I would think the time and effort of understanding how the application was constructed and applying your

Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
This is not a gripe, just an observation, but it seems like for most people (including me) their linux system is usually in a constant state of broken-ness, or in some way always marginally handicapped. Why is that? I realize that software is difficult to write just in general and operating

RE: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peter Rymshaw Subject: Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome? On Tuesday 18 September 2001 17:16, Peter Rymshaw wrote: (..snip..) That's not

RE: [newbie] incoming telnet connection

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
you ought to use ssh (daemon is sshd) instead of telnet; however, i don't know off hand what port that is. Either way you'll need to open a port on your firewall if you have one, if you don't have you, your full open already... If you want to go the telnet route open port 23... -Original

RE: Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
to this type of framework would be effective. Would people pay to subscribe to a automatic trouble shooting repository. I'm guessing not... -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark Johnson; '[EMAIL

[newbie] Telnet proxy for Windows; a Linux VPN work around?

2001-09-17 Thread Mark Johnson
One of the last reasons that I can't completely go 100% linux is that I must VPN in to work from home, and I cannot for the life of me get VPN on linux to work. So I had this bright(?) idea - if I could run a telnet proxy and start up the VPN client on my windows box then I should be able to

RE: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list

2001-09-14 Thread Mark Stewart
actually get to the heart of the matter instead of defending your right to post here. Just a thought. I'll be using my delete button in the meantime. ::mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Updates

2001-09-14 Thread Mark Annandale
Hello all did anyone ever figure out how to get the security update feature to work? When I try the ftp server is found, however the rpm manager just hanfs when trying to access the site. I'm using mandrake 8.0 by the way. Thanks Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] To subscribe?

2001-09-14 Thread Mark Annandale
. A few minutes later you will recieve a confirmation message by email, hit reply and you are on. Good luck Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Screen Resolution Problem

2001-09-13 Thread Mark Owens
a resolution of 1024 x 768. Doing a Show Information displays the correct hardware AND resolution. Doing a Test again shows 800 x 600 instead of the configured 1024 x 768. It simply refuses to change to the required resolution. Any ideas? Thanks Mark

RE: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem

2001-09-13 Thread Mark Owens
Title: RE: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem Thanks Paul - I'm now living the Linux experience @ 1024 x 768 in glorious 8! bit technicolour ;-( Do you run 32bit colors? Try 16bit colors then. Keep the settings on the conservative end, linux drivers usually do not push the hardware to the

Re: [newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-13 Thread Mark David Hamilton
...or as protection from kitten keyboarding ; - ) -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Mark David Hamilton Registered Linux user 212240 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~kimark

Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-11 Thread Mark Weaver
Steve wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:36:02PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: etharp wrote: LOOOK A TOP POSTER!! just me getting my... yayas out. I have had a problem sendin from -kmail for about a week now. and since I personally do not like to scan throu the whole e-mail for the latest

Branding (was RE: [newbie] Open source hits back?)

2001-09-11 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm a little late on this thread but I read the article Should Linux Start Playing Dirty? and when I suddenly read this sentence: This Web page can only be viewed using Linux I started thinking, what do you think of when you think Windows? I think Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Office.

RE: [newbie] Linksys router.

2001-09-10 Thread Mark Johnson
hmm... all I can tell you is first make sure that the machine is setup for DHCP. If it is, then remove the router from between the machine and the internet and see if you can get an ip address that way. If all else fails give the machine an ip address and tell it were the router is that

[newbie] HELP: Linksys PCMCP100 on Mandrake 8

2001-09-10 Thread Mark Wheeler
Need a little assistance configuring a Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet card On Mandrake 8. Doesn't seem like the card is recognized as a valid NIC. I have it configured to use the tulip driver/module in netconf. This is running on an Acer Travelmate 517te. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't know of any comparisons between KDE and GNOME. On the surface KDE is more Windows like and GNOME is more Mac like, but it's only cosmetic. I was a KDE user for a long long time, but I downloaded the Ximian desktop and it's really nice, I've completely switched. Both (K/G) are highly

RE: [newbie] HELP: QuickCam USB for Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-06 Thread Mark Wheeler
PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] HELP: QuickCam USB for Mandrake 8.0 Did you check the gphoto ? -Original Message-From: Mark Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:07 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [newbie] HELP

RE: [newbie] HELP: QuickCam USB for Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-06 Thread Mark Wheeler
or something, like mine - Toshiba PDR-M5, then it's very simple, you just mount the smartmedia to /mnt/camera, and access it like any other regular directory ... Hope I helped ... -Original Message-From: Mark Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers

2001-09-06 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm not sure I truly understand the advantages of all these different flavors of linux. I understand that Debian is the super secure, and Mandrake is the super friendly, and Redhat is enterprise oriented. But what I find is that flavors mean non-standard directories and other nuances. The only

Re: [newbie] New install M8.0 - modules don't work. What did I do wrong?

2001-09-06 Thread Mark
I just installed my Mandrake 8 disk, and I get messages in /var/log/messages that say modules cannot be loaded, kernel isn't module enabled, etc. I can't even post my messages file because I can't get online without ppp. It was working fine before, I reinstalled because I downloaded the

RE: [newbie] paste in console?

2001-09-06 Thread Mark Johnson
does the LSB address issues like this or is do they only concern themselves with directory structures? -Original Message- From: Matt Greer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] paste in console? on

RE: [newbie] keyboarding

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Johnson
check some of these out: http://freshmeat.net/search/?site=Freshmeatq=typing+tutorsection=projects -Original Message- From: James S Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] keyboarding This year, at our

[newbie] HELP: QuickCam USB for Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Wheeler
I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro (light ring). This device is Recognized in Mandrake 8.0. My question is, now what? How do I retrieve images with it. I have been going around in circles Installing gqcam, xawtv, etc. I get errors with xawtv, with /dev/video0: no such device. Thanks, Mark Want

[newbie] How to cope with bad RAM

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Johnson
After running some memory tests on my RAM I have discovered that it had some bad parts, is there a way I can tell linux not to access those bad sections because right now things will spontanteously crash... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Mac OS X and display managers

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Johnson
My wife went out and bought OS X but I really don't know a thing about Macs or OS X. But I do know that OS X is running on some version of the BSD kernel. If that's the case does anyone know if it would be possible to: 1) access the linux desktop from the mac? 2) access the mac desktop from

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Johnson
Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now... you can get a 256MB for about $33 now... This is a mom and pop shop down the street where I always buy my computer stuff... http://www.microchipcomputers.com/ -Original Message- From: Arthur H. Johnson II

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
oops...never mind...found it. coffee hadn't started to work yet. stupid me... -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: You can download the RPMS from a Ximian FTP mirror. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
and that site would be where? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: You can download the RPMS from a Ximian FTP mirror. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Charles A. Punch

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
. Author unknown Lanman wrote: Wwl Mark, Since you mentioned it ! LOL ! ( Nah, no references to the stupid comment!) Just a quik tip, never operate heavy equipment (ie; a mouse or keyboard) without having a substantial amount of your favorite Columbian

Re: [newbie] access permissions, please help

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
skinky wrote: Perhaps editing your /etc/fstab file might help (after making a backup copy first). The line in my file for the CD-ROM drive is as follows: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Note, this was done automatically on a new installation of LM8.0 just

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Once you've installed Ximian GNOME, try anti-aliasing GTK+: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1142 On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:01, Mark Weaver wrote: oops...never mind...found it. coffee hadn't started to work yet. stupid me... Want to buy

Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
etharp wrote: LOOOK A TOP POSTER!! just me getting my... yayas out. I have had a problem sendin from -kmail for about a week now. and since I personally do not like to scan throu the whole e-mail for the latest info, I will keep on posting at the top and welcome any one it bothers

Re: [newbie] StarOffice can't find sofficerc

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Ben Bayer wrote: Hi all, I recently reinstalled Mandrake 8 on an old computer. After installing staroffice in the user home directory, I ran staroffice, but instead of starting it ran a repair program, telling me I needed sofficerc in ~/office52/user/sofficerc. Well, sofficerc is

Re: [newbie] Firewall/networking tutorial?

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Ben Bayer wrote: Hi all, I want to set up an old computer I installed mandrake 8 on as a firewall for my main PC. Does anyone know of a howto, forum discussion, book, or article that might help me get started networking and firewalling? Thanks, Ben Ben, There is a howto on your

Re: [newbie] Newbie still having problems with modem

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
d wrote: LURKER here, below is what I think on this. At 01:22 PM 9/3/01, you wrote: skinky wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 10:14, Admin wrote: [snip] One more thing, I keep reading of a program called Kppp. I can't find in my system to safe my life. I have checked

Re: [newbie] viewing pdf in mozilla

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Valerie Cheng wrote: how to i make mozzila handle pdf properly? i want to be able to click on a link and view the file w/o having to download and open w/ xpdf. thanx. You will need to make sure you've got the plugin for this loaded in your installation of Mozilla. This can usually be

Re: [newbie] viewing pdf in mozilla

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Valerie Cheng wrote: Paul - i set up netscape before using application/pdf w/ xpdf %s and it worked. but it didn't work w/ mozilla. nothing happens when i try to open a pdf file. If the config is anything like Netscape, you should add an application to the helper-applications in the

Re: [newbie] enabling Disk quotas

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Julio Rodríguez wrote: hi everyone, I wan't to know how can I enable disk quotas for my filesystem... I am running linux Mandrake with Kernel 2.4.3 Thanks. I've found disk quota to be a bit of a pain, but if you really want to enable them and you're running Mandrake 8 then run

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Lionel Pitaru wrote: Hello everyone Some one know of a robust application to write CDs R-RW? (I'm using BlackBox-0.61.1 and Mandrake 8.0) Thanks Lionel Lionel, I've been using Gtoaster for all my CD burning and it works very nicely for all my CD burning needs. -- daRcmaTTeR

Re: [newbie] problems with partitions

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Mare y Guille wrote: Hello, i Install Madrake 8 today. All work well, but in Windows something is wrong. I have two HD, one of 12 G and one of 8 gb. I install Linux y an 4 gb partition of the 8 Hd, but windows still recognize 8 GB. Why? How can I change it? Thank You Guillermo Movia

Re: [newbie] Firewalling

2001-09-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Colin, If you open Mandrake's control center you'll be able to configure your firewall in there. Mdk 8.0 comes with iptables and there are two way to configure your firewall already on your machine. You have both tiny firewall and Bastille firewall. Mandrake Control Center uses tiny firewall by

RE: [newbie] How to work oo my PC from school?

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
Someone probably knows better than me, but if firewalls and VPNs do not get in your way you might be able to mount a share drive via Samba or NFS depending on your particulars. To mount with Samba from a linux machine to a windows machine: root@morpheus {/home/mjohnson} $ mount -t smbfs -o

[newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based email system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient when travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But I actually

RE: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
use FTP in ASCII mode... it'll auto correct linux to dos and dos to linux for ya... Also, check freshmeat.net, they probably have a dos2unix/unix2dos utilities for linux. Solaris comes with this utility... -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Do We really have to download both ISOs?

2001-08-30 Thread mark
line, then trading in both for, say a cable connection will cost only $10 more a month. Well worth it. Option 3: There is no third thing. Is that clear? Miark - Original Message - From: Shirley, Mark R [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10

RE: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-08-30 Thread Mark Johnson
The Doorman kept crashing when I tried to upgrade the 1.4 I'm running Mandrake 8.0. Don't suppose anyone has any suggestions as to why it would be crashing. It crashes everyime it tries to apply my preferences... -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

[newbie] Ximian mines for gold in Linux desktops

2001-08-29 Thread Mark Johnson
Just FYI... http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096249,00.html If you can afford it and it suites your needs I would encourage you to support Ximian and purchase their products. It would be a shame to see them go under like Ezeal... Think of it as a donation?!? However, it seems

RE: [newbie] Linux VPN?

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Johnson
PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux VPN? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 August 2001 09:03 am, thus spake Mark Johnson: Isn't freeswan and poptop server side VPN? What I need (and I think

RE: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
This isn't really on topic here, but does anyone know of any sites the compare what UI aspects of Microsoft are poor in relation to Mac (and for that matter KDE and GNOME). I always hear the Mac's UI is superior than MS, but to tell you the truth, I've never heard that claim backed up. It's very

RE: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
Yup, I aggree... and this is also true of other scripting languages like PHP and PERL... but maybe I'm just being too much of a purist. I think you also have to understand that a lot of so called crappy programmers never had anyone show them how to write code so it's not their fault. My wife is

RE: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
FWIW: WNT is one letter away from VMS coincidence? -Original Message- From: Jim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

[newbie] Serial ports

2001-08-22 Thread Mark Licker
HOWTO, or searching Google, so I assume this is a longshot). Thanks in advance for any help. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bypassing KDE Logon Screen

2001-08-20 Thread Mark Shaw
KDE. Thanks for any additional info. Mark Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bypassing KDE Logon Screen

2001-08-20 Thread Mark Shaw
or whatever, and how I need to set it to get the old login screen back (along with the ability to choose window managers and shut the machine down without logging in). This is LM7.2 if that helps. Mark Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] almost got it!

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
I struggled with the premature end of script headers for 3 days, I figured out the the cgi stuff was being run under suexec, if you rename suexec to say suexec.sav then restart apache this should get rid of your problem. Addmittedly, this is not the correct solution, but I don't know how to get

[newbie] RE: Usability in linux

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Usability in linux (was RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to Why can't programmers put informational error messages in there

[newbie] anybody use jed?

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm trying to use jed with brief emulation. I added this to my .jedrc file: () = evalfile (brief); but it doesn't seem to take... any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Johnson
Can someone help me with this error? It seems like every installation of linux is unique. I've got 4 machines with MySQL and each one has it's own special MySQL problems all machines were installed from the Mandrake 8.0 cd arrrgh [mjohnson@ripley mjohnson]$ su Password:

RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/ var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Johnson
and http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/u/Automatic_start.html cheers! -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:12 PM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/ var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

Re: Usability in linux (was RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Shaw
is column up all the curlies and remove all the tabs). Not to start any holy wars or anything Mark Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: Charles Punch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?! manuels would have aquired. It would seem to me, that if someone

[newbie] How do you uninstall something?

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Johnson
Here at work we have 3 linux machines. I was trying to do something with php and mysql. Php installed fine on 2 of the machines but on the third I couldn't get the php-mysql rpm to install. It turns out someone installed v11 of mysql on the 3rd machine (whereas the first two are running v10).

[newbie] php and apache

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Johnson
Ok, i installed php ( rpm -ivh php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm ) and created an index.php and when I try to hit it, the web browser prompts me as if I was tryint to download a file. In my httpd.conf I have: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm index.shtml index.cgi Default.htm

[newbie] Reinstalling without pain?

2001-08-12 Thread Mark Shaw
thinking of stuff like /etc/ passwd, rc.local, etc. I can come up with a few of these myself without too much thought, but I bet one or two of you out there have already faced this problem and might have something to say about it Anything else I should keep in mind? Thanks! Mark Shaw

[newbie] Apache won't execute scripts in /home/~mjohnson/cgi-bin

2001-08-09 Thread Mark Johnson
I have scoured the internet for help on this is it's all the same: make sure your permissions are correct on your cgi-bin dir and your script or make sure your a outputing the correct headers It's like only 3 people in the entire universe has had this problem and

failed to open log file Premature end o f script headers (was RE: [newbie] Apache won't execute scripts in /home/~mjohnson/cgi-bin)

2001-08-09 Thread Mark Johnson
/~mjohnson/cgi-bin -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 August 2001 08:46, thus spake Mark Johnson: This makes the http://tux/~mjohnson work fine, but if I try to do something like, http://tux/~mjohnson/cgi-bin/myscript.pl it just dumps the code to the browser

[newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop

2001-08-01 Thread Mark Shaw
with the cartoon penguins and the rest of it back. How do I go about doing this? Do I have to reinstall the OS? Thanks! Mark Shaw

Re: [newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop

2001-08-01 Thread Mark Shaw
THANKS! But: no joy. No change at all. Anything else I should try, or other things I should look at? I still have all the /var/log/... stuff but I'm not sure what to look for. Thanks again, Mark Shaw try putting a file called: .xinitrc in your user directory in that file put one

Re: [newbie] activate wheel mouse in XF86Config

2001-08-01 Thread Mark David Hamilton
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[newbie] How to restore LM7.2 desktop?

2001-07-31 Thread Mark Shaw
is a KDE login screen, which works, but I'd like to get the other one back. How can I go about this? Thanks! Mark Shaw (I asked this question already the other day, and didn't get any responses. Maybe rewording the subject line and condensing the text will help. :)

[newbie] Lockup kills KDE

2001-07-29 Thread Mark Shaw
that at the moment all I really want to do is get the LM7.2/KDE desktop back. Perhaps even more importantly: what should I do the next time the system locks up like that? Thanks Mark Shaw

Re: [newbie] Debugging print jobs

2001-07-28 Thread Mark Shaw
that your printer is online (i.e. through CUPS), and print a test page (the page is a postscript file) when you're done. On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:56, Mark Shaw wrote: Still nothing. The xpp window just goes away after the 'print' button is pressed. My test PostScript file (non-pcal

Re: [newbie] Debugging print jobs

2001-07-28 Thread Mark Shaw
else, try running xpp filename.ps. On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:01, Mark Shaw wrote: I downloaded and installed a pretty cool calendar application (pcal, to be exact) that produces PostScript calendars in various formats. I have verified that 1) The output of pcal prints just fine under

[newbie] Debugging print jobs

2001-07-25 Thread Mark Shaw
I downloaded and installed a pretty cool calendar application (pcal, to be exact) that produces PostScript calendars in various formats. I have verified that 1) The output of pcal prints just fine under Solaris 2.7 2) My Mandrake 7.2 box is able to print PostScript produced by other

Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux

2001-07-23 Thread mark
I got this response a while ago, maybe May or so. I still haven't seen anything. Mr. , Maximum Linux did cease publication with the April issue. We will be offering a replacement magazine and will have the details finalized soon and inform our subscribers. It is taking longer than

Re: [newbie] Dial on demand

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Annandale
from the windows machine to execute ifup ppp0 ? Thanks for your time -- Mark R. Annandale Linux User # 223589 Sent by KMail 1.2 / Mandrake 8 -- No Micro$oft products were used in the compilation of this document. --

[newbie] No sound

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Shaw
down- loaded the QuakeIII demo :) Mark Shaw

[newbie] Draknet

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys Where do you find Draknet ? I've looked through all the CD's and done a search under software manager. Regards Mark -- Mark R. Annandale Linux User # 223589 Sent by KMail 1.2 / Mandrake 8 -- No Micro$oft products were used in the compilation of this document. --

[newbie] Autnting SanDisk USB

2001-07-21 Thread Mark David Hamilton
your favorite epithet for that other OS here. Thanks in advance for any ideas. ~~~ Mark David Hamilton Registered Linux User 212240 http://home.earthlink.net/~kimark/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~

[newbie] Internet Sharing

2001-07-21 Thread Mark Annandale
the connection sharing I was prompted for disk 1 and stuff like IPChains and Bind was installed. Thanks and have a great day. Regards Mark A -- Mark R. Annandale Sent by KMail 1.2 / Mandrake 8 -- No Micro$oft products were used in the compilation of this document. --

[newbie] Webmin and samba

2001-07-20 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys When accessing swat I am prompted for a username and password, using the obvious such as root and passwd etc. don't seem to work. Does anyone know what the usname and password are ? And with webmin, what is the port number to access webmin. ie http://localhost:4000 ?? Thanks. Mark A

[newbie] Dial on demand

2001-07-20 Thread Mark Annandale
end. Thanks and regards Mark A

[newbie] Winmodems

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Annandale
avaialble on www.herby.de (I hope the spelling is correct). If you cannot find it mail me direct and i will mail it to you. Regards Mark A

[newbie] 15 O'Reilly computer books free for download

2001-07-14 Thread Mark Winchester
Learning Perl Learning Perl on Win32 Programming Perl Advanced Perl Programming Perl Cookbook You can surf all of these books online here: http://corvin.spb.ru/ Or download all via FTP from here: ftp://hrg.dhtp.kiae.ru/pub/corvin/ Mark __ Do You

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