[newbie] Sharing address-books

I would like to use (exploit, modify) the Mozilla address books that are on the Windows partition when I use Mozilla on the Linux partition. Any idea? -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] eth0

How do I neutralise temporarily the ntework services of my notebook? When I'm not connected to any lan at boot time, the booting process hangers on on the awakening of eth0. Thanks. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] pb at boot

?); when I boot shere linux, everything stops and Iget the message: You passed an undefined mode number. What this refers to I cannot imagine. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

[newbie] RpmDrake

I downloaded an rpm-package for Realplayer. Can I use RpmDrake in order to install it? It looks as if the only available packages for RpmDrake are those contained in a list, probably coming from the installation cds, and I do not understand how to add a new package to this list. -- Piero

[newbie] Hostname

Where are the hostname and domainname stored in Mandrake (9.2)? I tried to edit file /etc/hosts butnothing changed, even after rebooting . Thanks. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Inspiron 500m

Has anybody installed Mandrake 9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 500 m? Are there known problems? Are there known solutions? Thanks -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

in the /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf config file doesn't do much). After fixing this glitch, then I can finally enjoy again the trailers on Apple website! -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

... they got the Safari browser from us... time to get us something back! -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

Alle 15:19, giovedì 13 novembre 2003, Derek Jennings ha scritto: Maybe not the answer you are looking for but Opera is a stonking good browser ;-) Thanks for the tip... but I'd rather keep using mozilla... ;-) -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux

Re: [newbie] new kernel and dvd drives. was: 9.2 and kernel sources...

Alle 23:09, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Piero Piutti ha scritto: Alle 17:20, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Derek Jennings ha scritto: I had the same issue. With that kernel some makes of DVD drive do not work with scsi emulation. Set it back to IDE and it should be OK mine is an Asus. still puzzled

Re: [newbie] 9.2 and kernel sources: where are them?

fault or something to do with the new kernel? -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] new kernel and dvd drives. was: 9.2 and kernel sources...

this new one. anyway, I don't think I'll want to give up to scsi-emulation on the dvd drive as I need it to use it with k3b, so I think I'll get back to the 2.4.22-10mdk and wait for the 2.6 final to upgrade. thanks for your help. -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3

Re: [newbie-it] Download Manager

On Thursday 16 October 2003 00:42, miKe wrote: prozilla c'è modo di integrarlo nei browser? chessò da far partire al posto della gestione scaricamenti di mozilla? -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.1

Re: [newbie-it] Rippare video DVD con K3b

PLF all'elenco delle sorgenti software: # urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://knight.zarb.org/pub/plf/9.1 with hdlist.cz Per installare dvd::rip: # urpmi Video-DVDRip Enjoy! -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.1

Re: [newbie-it] messaggi_sympa

! -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Stop EU Commission plans to enforce Software Patents: sign the Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe http://petition.eurolinux.org

Re: [newbie-it] upgrade mozilla 1.3.1

manager minimali). Ciao, e buon divertimento. PS: qualcuno qui usa Gentoo? Esperienze? Consigli? C'ho una voglia di provarla... ma lasciare la via vecchia per la nuova un pò mi spaventa... -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Stop EU Commission

Re: [newbie-it] Consiglio modem ADSL... quale compro?

a riguardo. Netgear. Ottimi, non troppo costosi e bellissimi (che non guasta). Dai un'occhiata su CHL per vederne modelli e caratteristiche, poi compralo dove ti pare! ;-) -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Stop EU Commission plans to enforce

Re: [newbie-it] ADSL e Mandrake

-pppoe) e configura la connessione... potrai usarlo come dialer (anche se il termine è improprio) per attivare e chiudere la connessione adsl a piacimento. -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Stop EU Commission plans to enforce Software Patents

Re: [newbie-it] linux professional

alterare il nome per poterla allegare al giornale. Quelli di Linux Magazine invece l'hanno scorso pubblicarono la RH 8 col vero nome (già protetto) e si beccarono una bella causa, che ovviamente hanno perso... furono un pò ingenui... -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.2 - KDE

Re: [newbie-it] Montare nfs

consulta il manuale in linea di kde. Ciao! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.5 ~ KDE 3.1 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0

[newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! -- Piero Piutti

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

and tapes.. Mondo Rescue: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It should suit your needs perfectly. -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.5a ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie-it] OpenOffice: menù spariti (MDK 9)

(evitando di reinstallare tutto!!): se qualcuno lo conosce sappia che avrà la mia gratitudine! Ciao! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0

Re: [newbie-it] Agfa Snapscan e25 (con mdk9.0)

vogliano 30+ secondi per attivare lo scanner, ma poi, fatto questo fila tutto liscio. -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0

Re: [newbie-it] auto avvio

dentro un collegamento al prg che vuoi lanciare all'avvio ed è fatto! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0

Re: [newbie-it] Agfa Snapscan e25 (con mdk9.0)

scoperto sulla ML Expert in inglese che basta accertarsi che nel file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf sia presente la linea snapscan Prova e fammi sapere. Se non funge ti spiego il piano B. Ciao, -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message

Re: [newbie-it] Web con Linux

usare le funzionalità ftp di DW, ma chissene, per quello mi appoggio a gFTP. E' una gran cosa, da quando lo faccio non sono più costretto a ribootare la macchina in Winz quando devo mettere mani alle mie pagine web... -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http

Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus

di dare un'occhiata al sito di paolo Attivissimo dove trovi tutti i consigli per una transizione indolore... www.attivissimo.net Saluti, e facci sapere! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE

Re: [newbie-it] ancora di driver nvidia

salve all ml tornato dopo miniferie. allora il driver e nvidia. quello che volevo sottolineare è che ero convinto che mdk non lo includesse, invece sfruttando xfdrake lo ha trovato e installato da solo saluti piero Alle 23:26, venerdì 20 settembre 2002, Ale ha scritto: Non è che ora il driver

[newbie-it] mplayer e dvd

di famiglia devo usare il programma con gm player. Pensandoci forse potrei ingannare con un link, ma data la mia scarsa esperienza vorrei un suggerimento prima di andare a fare dei danni grazie a chiunque abbia una soluzione piero

Re: [newbie-it] ancora di driver nvidia

Alle 23:21, martedì 17 settembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: Alle 11:47, martedì 17 settembre 2002, piero ha scritto: NVIDIA_GLX 1.0_1251.2mdk NVIDIA_kernel 2.4.8-26mdk se usi il kernel originale mandrake, cerca i driver per QUELLA versione di kernel, io consigli sempre di usare i sorgenti e

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] scanner ...... arghhhh

è colpa dell'uso eccessivi di win :-))) ho installato linux e non ho riavviato il cervello. In altri termini grazie adesso ho tutto quello che miserve piero From: LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] scanner .. arg

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook

, in altre parole l'utlizzo di un unico so, chiuso e unipropietario sognifica mettere tutto nelle mani di uno solo che non ritengo sia una scelta particolarmente astuta. piero From: Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win

[newbie] Problem with RealPlayer 8

ot;segmentation fault". Any idea? Piero.

[newbie] Installing Rpm packages

nd of what should I do? By the way, I downloaded those packages using Kfm (I use Kde as a Gui), but could not download them using Netscape (4.73); is there any other way to download them? Thanks Piero.

[newbie-it] Problemaccio con Wordperfect

Ho Mandrake 7.2 e ho da qualche settimana installato Wordperfect 8.0. Accade che digitando in testo improvvisamente l'applicazione si chiuda da sola senza salvare l'elaborato. Tutto questo accade con una frequenza che lascia poco al caso. Qualcuno sa come venirne fuori? Gian Piero Mentasti

[newbie] How to install Netscape ?

I just down loades Netscape 4.73. It's a src.rpm and I never installed such packages. What do I have to do? Thanks. -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

[newbie] Balsa

Is it possible to use Balsa with Kde, or daoes it have to used in the Gnome environment?

Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm

step a) rpmfind.com step b) Go directly to the rpm database step c)rpm indexed by name step d) packages bedinning by Q step d) qt2.1.1-1mdk step e) download -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!

install, and you'll have the ReiserFS to boot! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Which are the advantages of the Reiser Fiel system? -- Piero -- Dr

Re: [newbie] Packages

quot;Doom" is meant to do... But may-be it exists. Has anybody got any idea about this? -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)

the number of people that would not be helped if it does not exist. Together we know a lot, but not everything. (Just give us a few more months though... ;-) Paul I 'd join this eulogius choir! -- Piero

[newbie] Netcape/ftp

m in order to install what I wanted to install. Now, was all this normal? Or do I have to settle a ftp plugin in Netscape in order to have a more "transparent" ftp behaviour? And, in this case, what should I do? Thenk you for leaning on this question. -- Piero ---

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

Yes, It's hardly understandable. And from the little I can understand, I think it better stays in its rude, uncivlised darkness. -- Piero. Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Stephen Weltman wrote: I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever encountered! I don't think that your

[newbie] Mail Reading

on), do they? Is there one that you strongly prefer? Thanks, Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [newbie] Modifying PATH(adding directories)

.bashrc (if you use bash) in root's home directory. There's a path command there, that you can add the desired directory to. Paul You should also add, also in .bashrc, (in a lower line) export PATH -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo

Re: [newbie] Netscape Addressbook - Where?

On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me which file contains netscape addressbook information under linux? I've found all the other bits and pieces but this one - I'd like to back it up instead of recreating it each time I do a new install etc. Nev .netscape -- Piero

Re: [newbie] Command Execution

onment variable PATH recieves its value through a certain number of initialising files : /etc/profile ; ~/.profile ; ~/bash_profile ; etc. On the other side, in the bash/sh/csh/etc. world, the character "." indicates the directory in which you are, i.e. the

[newbie] Prtition Magic

There's a grate talking of Partition Magic around... Do we have it on the MK CDs? Piero. -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil a me alienum puto.

[newbie] DISCUSSION Poor Support

] says, "Poor support makes Mankrake look bad". -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil a me alienum puto.

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION documentation

I would like to be able to submit more useful remarks. There is something, though, which Mandrake should improove: documentation and support. - Manuals are really too poor. - From time to time you discover that an interesting program exists in your system, and you didn't even fancy it was

Re: [newbie]Discussion - Fonts - Please,Dacia

in Linux some true type fonts; But they do't work neither with Netskape nor with Staroffice. Hence I ask Dacia : do you have a peace of advice? What are the "Mozilla fonts" you talk about? Thanks, Piero.

Re: [newbie] How to install StarOffice?

On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: After a successful (whew) install of the Linux Mandrake 7.0 OS, with SOUND even I find I'm having trouble installing StarOffice. Following the directions on the ReadMe file from the StarOffice CD, I'm putting the CD in the CD-ROM drive, logging in

Re: [newbie] netscape files

You mean you can actually share your mailboxes across Windows and Linux? How 'd you do? I share the address books, and i works all right. If I could share the mailboxes, it 'd find it useful. You could, but a shared directory would have to be on the win partition to be read and written by

Re: [newbie] Ports ?

mail server port just one for smtp and pop or does pop have one of its own? I am taking my mail directly off of my mail server with pine so maybe pop does not apply here?? I take advantage of this mail to ask a question I wanted to ask since long : what are these "ports" ? thank you, Piero.

[newbie] licq - garbled lines

@@#! Is it a common fault? If not, do you have any clue to what do I have to change? Thanks, Piero.

Re: [newbie] Charset - Thanks, Paul!

On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Piero wrote: I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell what's a Charset? On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: Paul, thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. Eric Hi Piero, A charset is a Character

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6; Read Kde help.

[newbie] Wrong Charset ...What's a Charset?

I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell what's a Charset? On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: Paul, thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. Eric Paul wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Hi all, why get I always the message

[newbie] Cookie Pal

Do you know whethert a program like Cookie Pal exists for Linux?

[newbie] Printing man pages

What do you do when you wnat to print a man page? Is there a site where you can find the whole man in a printable format?

[newbie] Precious Site!

At this address there are answers to questions frequently asked in this mailing lis. Very useful indeed! http://sunsite.auc.dk/linux-newbie/Linux_apps.htm

Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind

"man find" giveves you the answer... Mogens Jæger wrote: Hello Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to have your musik cut-off, just because you have to find a file Regards Mogens Jæger

Re: [newbie] Disk drives

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer? And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net? Yes: 1 (easiest) just keep it like this, but make a symbolic link to it : ln -s/mnt/DOS_hda1 /win for instance. 2

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments about S3 cards in general

Re: Repost: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again. - Original Message - From: Michael E. Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk. I have Linux

[newbie] Ugly StarOffice Fonts!

Does anybody have an idea on how to make the look better on the screen?

[newbie] A notebook as an extra console

I'm wondering if it's possible to connect a notebook through one of the serial ports, or otherwise, to my Linux machine, and use it as an extra console, i.e. an extra tty. Does anyboy have an idea how to do it?

Re: [newbie] X problem

it to standard SVGA 800 x 600 should work. Any suggestions appreciated, Victor Boot from the boot disk you made during installation. If you didn't make it, use the installation cd and do a fake upgrading. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] re: Netscape toolbar color

H Henry --- It's not uncommon. Change your depth to 24 bit. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] General Help: Mounting devices Modem Trouble

classic fstab entri (not without having saved first /etc/fstab in case your changes were disastrous). Supposing that one of your cdrom was /dev/hdd and that you had a directory /mnt/cdrom, the corresponding line in /etc/fstab could be: /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,rw 0 0

Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines

At 18:04 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: Yes, Alan, supermount works also with my cdroms. But did you find any dox about it? Pieroyep, same here with the ls-120. But my zip 100, my cdrom, and my two floppys (1.44 1.2) all work just fine with supermount. Alan Piero Caracciolo wrote: I'm

Re: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE

At 09:30 02/03/00 -0300, you wrote: UNSUBSCRIBE Why did you send that to me? May be just a simple finger error. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

RE: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines

to be with Linux... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

[newbie] Help formatting LS-120. How?

. So I think it did something useful, like creating a partition table, but did not really format the floppy. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1/ root size

partition may be require more size. Thanks I think 350 Mb is too small. How large is your disk? Piero. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake's Broken! sob

file /hell/murder do first cp /hell/murder /hell/murder.old. You will see: life will be much easier. Yours frindly, Piero. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France

Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions

tables are corrupted, though, this wouldn't be enough. In this case I don't know what to suggest you, apart from reinsalling everything... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France