Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-22 Thread Brandon Rife
John Wilson wrote: On October 21, 2004 04:11 pm, Elliot Somers wrote: This is a pretty general question, I've heard it said by one party that linux/unix is virus proof, other's say it's that virus authors go after the big guys, so MS, wintel servers, etc. What I want to know is what's true and

Re: [newbie] Problem with my web site

2004-10-19 Thread Brandon Rife
Bryan Phinney wrote: I have just noticed a very troublesome problem with my web site and was hoping that someone here could point me in the right direction. I am using Postnuke CMS version .750 Gold, MySQL server and PHP 4.3.8. The site displays in IE, Opera fine but whenever I hit it from

Re: [newbie] Conférence à Bordeaux.

2004-10-17 Thread Brandon Rife
Warly wrote: Je serai sur Bordeaux Mardi 19 octobre pour une conférence à l'ENSEIRB de 11h à 12h30 sur le thème de l'économie du libre et Mandrakesoft. Si des gens sont intéressés pour passer et discuter un peu. I ran this through a French-English translation robot: I will be on Bordeaux

Re: [newbie] 802.11G support

2004-10-17 Thread Brandon Rife
Ken Sieving wrote: I have purchased a new HP model ZE4805 which has a Broadcom 94306 chipset. Does anyone know if 10.1 supports this out of the box? Thanks. I had to use ndiswrapper to wrap the Window's drivers for the 94306 chipset (PCMCIA) in MDK 10.0 and 10.1. Brandon

Re: [newbie] Using Midnight Commander

2004-10-15 Thread Brandon Rife
et wrote: A MUCH better answer, really was yes, rtfm. along with complaining that the previous answer did not include 'RTFM', imho. But I knew Aron would (and probly had begun to) rtfm. BTW, I count Aron as a frien from the OT list, and I am sure that if he had had further problems, he would

[newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config directories in my home directory, still no panels. Any suggestions? Thanks,

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 07:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 22:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 07:09, Brandon Rife wrote: Nope, I was starting from run level 3. I created a .xinitrc file in ~ to launch Gnome. Install Xtart and don't muck around with your .xinitrc unless you truly know what you're doing - at least it allows you to run any

Re: [newbie] Security Updates

2004-10-08 Thread Brandon Rife
On Friday 08 October 2004 09:24 am, Stew Benedict wrote: You currently see updates hitting community main? I was under the impression that that is static atm. Went through this last night with a support person and it looked like the hdlist on proxad was dated Sept15. I haven't gotten any

Re: [newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem

2004-10-08 Thread Brandon Rife
On Thursday 07 October 2004 08:27 pm, Chris wrote: On Thursday 07 October 2004 09:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send

[newbie] Setting wlan0 connection timeout

2004-10-08 Thread Brandon Rife
Hi, I have wired and wireless PCMCIA cards in my laptop. At home I connect wireless, at work, I am wired. The wired interface, eth0, fails almost instantly on boot at home - good. At work the wireless interface, wlan0, takes a couple of minutes to fail - bad. Is there anything that I can

Re: [newbie] Setting wlan0 connection timeout

2004-10-08 Thread Brandon Rife
On Friday 08 October 2004 07:21 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 08 October 2004 05:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I have wired and wireless PCMCIA cards in my laptop. At home I connect wireless, at work, I am wired. The wired interface, eth0, fails almost instantly on boot at home

[newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem

2004-10-07 Thread Brandon Rife
Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: Authentication failed. Most likely the password is wrong. The server responded: Authentication

Re: [newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem - SOLVED

2004-10-07 Thread Brandon Rife
On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: Authentication failed. Most likely

[newbie] Konqueror/toolbar persistence

2004-10-04 Thread Brandon Rife
This isn't a big deal but it is getting annoying. Everytime I run Konq I have to reconfigure the toolbars the way I lke them. It appears that the toolbar state is not being persisted when Konq is closed. Anyone else seeing this on 10.1CE? Anyone have a fix? Thanks, Brandon

Re: [newbie] Konqueror/toolbar persistence

2004-10-04 Thread Brandon Rife
Brandon Rife wrote: This isn't a big deal but it is getting annoying. Everytime I run Konq I have to reconfigure the toolbars the way I lke them. It appears that the toolbar state is not being persisted when Konq is closed. Anyone else seeing this on 10.1CE? Anyone have a fix? Thanks

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Brandon Rife
aron Smith wrote: BTW .zip files are for windows That's a ridiculous statement. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] 10.1CE

2004-10-01 Thread Brandon Rife
Paul Kaplan wrote: My initial impression is that 10.1CE is faster than 10.0 Official. Can anyone confirm or would people like a sample of what I've been smokin'? Paul I don't see too much difference. I does seem to me though that XFree was faster then Xorg.

Re: [newbie] Calling Firefox from Thunderbird

2004-09-30 Thread Brandon Rife
Russell Butler wrote: Hi all Hopefully a simple question: I have just installed Firefox and Thunderbird on my MK10 setup -KDE desktop and am most impressed. If there is a web link in an email, clicking on it opens konqueror. Is there any way to use Firefox as the default agent? I have set

Re: [newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver

2004-09-17 Thread Brandon Rife
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:27:36 -0600 Scott Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:18:09 +, Lee Wiggers wrote Hello list Recently my test box in 10.0 Official noted new hardware on boot. With vast stupidity, I followed along and it changed my mouse

[newbie] Synatics Touchpad

2004-08-07 Thread Brandon Rife
I have a synaptics touchpad and a USB wheel mouse. I've installed the synaptics driver so that I can scroll and double click on the touchpad. This works great provided that I have or have had the USB mouse puggged in. If I boot without the USB mouse plugged in then it seems my touchpad

Re: [newbie] Wireless PCMCIA Card

2004-06-23 Thread Brandon Rife
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Brandon Rife wrote: I'm looking for a wireless PCMCIA card that works 'out of the box' with MDK 10 and XP. Can someone suggest such a card? Thanks! I will probably get flamed for saying this, but the Microsoft MN-520 works with Mandrake 9.2, and I would think 10.0 I

[newbie] Wireless PCMCIA Card

2004-06-22 Thread Brandon Rife
I'm looking for a wireless PCMCIA card that works 'out of the box' with MDK 10 and XP. Can someone suggest such a card? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Proxim Orinoco gold a/b/g card

2004-06-20 Thread Brandon Rife
Does anyone have this wireless card working with mdk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped

2004-06-16 Thread Brandon Rife
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:46:42 -0400 eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Brandon Rife
Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I tried to use Kbear for the first. I have no problem connecting to a website. After connecting, I see that the login and password was accepted followed by this message: 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode. But, after I connect I can see no directories and files at the

Re: [newbie] DrakeConf is uninstalled

2004-02-23 Thread Brandon Rife
Brandon Rife wrote: I absently mindedly uninstalled drakconf, at least that's what I think its called. It's the Mandrake app that corresponds to the Configuration/Configure your computer menuitem. At this point I'm still very dependent of the GUI to get things done in Linux, especially

Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

2004-02-20 Thread Brandon Rife
Amichai Rotman wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 05:01, Brandon Rife wrote: The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron Transport ZX

[newbie] Sound is kaput

2004-02-19 Thread Brandon Rife
Hello, I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error message. Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue,

Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

2004-02-19 Thread Brandon Rife
Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 09:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: Hello, I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error message. Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't

[newbie] Evolution mail client mail folders and saved email

2004-02-18 Thread Brandon Rife
Has anyone else experienced the Evolution mail client losing their email addresses and saved email? This has happened to me twice. Funny thing is that Evo did not lose my mail account info so its not like my whole config was lost. At this point I've switched to Thunderbird. Thanks, Brandon

[newbie] k-menu Transparency

2001-08-23 Thread rife
Just out of curiousity, and i know this isn't a kde mailing list =), but does anybody know what file settings need to be changed in order to make menus transparent in KDE? i've seen it in several themes for kde, but when i install them, changes to the k-menu and kicker don't take effect. Any

Re: [newbie] k-menu Transparency

2001-08-23 Thread rife
megagradient eh?.. i am using kde2.2, i'll have to give it a try when i get home tonight! Many thanks s. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] k-menu Transparency

2001-08-23 Thread Rife
Actually that's in the styles section. You might want to check out a theme call mosfet-liquid. It is spoken of on pclinuxonline.com with instructions and link. I change the color it recommends (it comes with a light purple-ish, and I changed it to a blue-ish), but it looks kinda neato

Re: [newbie] PPPOE/Roaring Penguin/Network card

2001-07-11 Thread Rife
Yyes! Finally got it going. Had to change pci slots. Started linux, and it assigned my card a proper hwaddress. Tried adsl-start, and worked like a charm. Still seems a bit flaky (i rebooted, and when i came back into linux my hwaddress was back to 0s.. had to reseat my card to get it

Re: [newbie] PPPOE/Roaring Penguin/Network card

2001-07-10 Thread Rife
Well, I hope you have a winbox to use that D-Link in. It is one of our bad list. It appears to work and detects well but never actually transmits. I have two of them here in testing, and everything that can be done for thsm has been done. Civileme Yeah, i've got win98 and 2k on this

RE: [newbie] PPPOE/Roaring Penguin/Network card

2001-07-10 Thread rife
Yeah, i've tried installing 3.0 off of cd too, and that wasn't working either (same thing). I'll check to make sure that the conf file you mentioned is empty when i get home tonight. Thanks for the help

Re: [newbie] PPPOE/Roaring Penguin/Network card

2001-07-09 Thread Rife
./go is the install command for the rp-pppoe software, but after re-installing linux i realized that i don't even need to install it off of cd (as it's already included).. therefore, no more need for ./go Have assigned my nic all the info below, have run adsl-setup, still no go. Module is listed

[newbie] PPPOE/Roaring Penguin/Network card

2001-07-03 Thread rife
Hey everyone, I'm having problems getting my PPPOE connection going in Linux (MDK 8.0). Running ifconfig eth0, it would appear as though my network card is detected and functioning properly. Installed RP 3.0, and ran ./go (./go-gui wouldn't work for me for some reason, gave me problem when