[newbie] Re: [Wine]To su or not to su

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Yu
> h:\ maps to your home drive. Or, mine does. I used winetools-2.1.0-jo > to set up wine. See what else is in ~/.wine/dosdevices. > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards > and/or writing?

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Yu
Anne, why uninstall Xine? Shouldn't I just be able to update it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ___

[newbie] To su or not to su

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Yu
If I try to install a WIndows program with Wine, should I su to root before doing so? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __

[newbie] Using the sources of http://www.zarb.org

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Yu
Is it possible to save the packages downloaded from this site onto a cache folder for later use? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ___

[newbie] Mozilla vs Konqueror?

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Yu
What do you prefer when browsing the web? Mozilla or Konqueror? Which one has the higher rate of success when displaying webpages, which one has better plugin suppor? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrak

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Yu
Anne, is there a way of finding out whether the updated packages are really installed when I do follow the instructions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrake

Re: [newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-27 Thread Robert Yu
http://www.zarb.org/~trem/easyurpmi/ Willl this site update my Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com _

[newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-26 Thread Robert Yu
What's a good way of updating your free version of Mandrake? I've only thought of two: - using a higher version of a Mandrake CD - updating through updating programs - others? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://w

Re: [newbie] Yet Another RPMDrake question

2005-03-21 Thread Robert Yu
Leaf, are you refering to RPMDrake? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Yet Another RPMDrake question

2005-03-21 Thread Robert Yu
If I double-click on an RPM that's not listed in RPMDrake, will it be able to install? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com _

[newbie] Wine

2005-03-20 Thread Robert Yu
Does Wine support Visual Studio.NET yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] RPMDrake

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Yu
After using noclean to keep the files into the directory, how will I be able to access the directory as normal user? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
--- Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2005 10:52, Robert T. Yu wrote: > > > Yes > > > Put the text > > > no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never > > > remember) > > > on a line between the first

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Thank you for the answer and I hope I am not overstaying my welcome. If I were to do something like configuring Samba shares, do I have to login or SU as root? I figure that because I need to alter the smb.conf file. === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pl

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Another question: when I su as root, does root priveleges apply only within the terminal or the operating system as a whole? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail!

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
> Yes > Put the text > no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never > remember) > on a line between the first set of {}in the file > /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg You mean typing (--noclean) like so? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're us

[newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Since urpmi has a feature to keep updated packages in a cache directory for later, does RPMDrake adopt this feature as well? Thank you. === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail!

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru"

2004-11-19 Thread Robert A Larson
Bootdisk.com, download a win98 boot disk. Get your self a blank floppy, execute the image which will write to the floppy, it should have fdisk on it, from the command line type fdisk /mbr   That will wipe the mbrStephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:31, Lanman wrote:

RE: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]

2004-10-09 Thread Robert Lucencic
tried to put Stupid Mode = yes in /etc/wvdial.conf, the only difference is that it starts PPPD without waiting for the prompt. Don't give up on me now, John, we are getting somewhere, don't you think :) And thanks. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

[newbie] Onboard Microphone Support for NVIDIA nForce chipset

2004-10-08 Thread Robert McIntosh
sound on (xmms, for instance). Currently the sound card is using the snd-intel8x0 driver as reported by the Hardware Browser under Mandrake's Control Center. This driver does fine except the microphone is a lost cause. Does anyone have pointers or solved this problem with nForce onboard mics?

[newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]

2004-10-08 Thread Robert Lucencic
ing was created with Internet wizard from drakconf and KPPP. Can anyone help? Thnx. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] problem with Festival and Mandrake 10.0

2004-08-20 Thread robert lester
I compiled and used festival (text to speech) through mandrake 9.2 but when I attemped to install in under Mandrake 10.0, it fails. When I do a make test I get : "audsp: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 cannot open shared object file: no such file audio

[newbie] amd64 iso???

2004-06-14 Thread robert lester
I'm a standard member. I think I goofed because I can't find the ISO for mandrake 10.0 for the amd64 chip. where do I download it? bob lester Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-28 Thread Robert Walker
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 11:50:42 PM, you wrote: > Robert Walker wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last >> words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). >> >> I was reading an

Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-27 Thread Robert Walker
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 8:31:22 PM, you wrote: > On Thursday 27 May 2004 20:14, Robert Walker wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last >> words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). >>

[newbie] turning off mailman

2004-05-04 Thread robert lester
looking at syslog, it seems that cron is runing the mailman program which brings in news. I never read new. How do I turn it off? It runs every five minutes and fills up syslog. I looked in the cron (hourly,daily,etc) but couldn't find it. bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] The journey of a thousan

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-09 Thread Robert Walker
I am/was using didn't support automatic shutdown with low battery charge but the /proc/acpi interface was very accurate (I found) so thats not such a big problem. -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Xine to play dvd's

2004-03-08 Thread Robert Beach
, CSS, dvdnav, etc and not quite sure which ones I'm suspose to use. If I could be pointed to a website or websites that has the correct files for me to get or confirm that I already have I think I could get it to work no problem. Please and Thankyou Robert Beach Want to buy your Pack or Ser

[newbie] dvd plugin for xine

2004-03-06 Thread Robert Beach
could just have a good source to download from that works well I could probably figure out how to install it. Please help Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] dvd plugin for xine

2004-03-06 Thread Robert Beach
could just have a good source to download from that works well I could probably figure out how to install it. Please help Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread Robert Walker
I compile my Linux kernels with the P3 switch for my Laptop (the closest match just now I understand). Also laptops use slow 5400RPM harddisks... When I switch between my P4M laptop and my P4HT Desktop with 15K RPM Ultra SCSI 320 drives it really hurts :-) -- Best regards, Robert

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-24 Thread Robert Walker
a Linux box and cheap hardware SWITCH (netgear are really nice) is a more powerfull combo and its more efficient... -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hasn't the 'rebuild' function been moved out of rpm into the > 'rpmbuild' package? > See man rpmbuild. Yes, it was ... If you want to build binary, source, ... rpm package than you have to use `rpmbuild`, not

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
file, you have to click on link below ... ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/mozilla-firefox-0.8-6mdk.i586.rpm -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
lace or shall I move it some where else? -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] File managing??

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
ore readable for you. Try to send some file/directory name and we will tell you if you can remove this file/directory or not. -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
ay how to tell TB that your signature file is script ... (Pipes doesn't work too ...) -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-16 Thread Robert Walker
Monday, February 16, 2004, 3:33:37 AM, you wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: >> On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:22 am, Robert Walker wrote: >> > Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: >> > > On Saturday 14 February 2004

Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-14 Thread Robert Walker
Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am >> on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I h

[newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-14 Thread Robert Walker
nux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS hardware... :-) -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-06 Thread Robert Walker
On Friday 06 Feb 2004 11:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Yes OK then, have done that, > Incidentally the replacement is a new straight out of the box 350W, > nothing special, as to make, > just kept as a spare for just such test purposes. > Unforetunately i

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Walker
; someone else's just to rule this out. Modern PC components draw > > massive amounts of current in surges. If your PSU lets the > > voltage drop slightly too much when this happens (ie not matching > > the ATX standard of -+5% tolerance) then you get system > > instabilit

[newbie] Get DJBDNS to compile

2004-02-04 Thread Robert Walker
opying commands into ./command... cp: cannot stat `compile/svscan': No such file or directory === I am just following the instructions to the letter and not trying to be clever :-) Any ideas? Maybe I misconfigured my compiled kernel or somethin

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-04 Thread Robert Walker
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 4:59 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: > > Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 > laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 > as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle > copying files bef

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-04 Thread Robert Walker
ule this out. Modern PC components draw massive amounts of current in surges. If your PSU lets the voltage drop slightly too much when this happens (ie not matching the ATX standard of -+5% tolerance) then you get system instability. Just my $0.02. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-03 Thread Robert Walker
s users anyway :-). So don't worry about using the MBR... budge over Winblows and make room for a real OS :-) Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-03 Thread Robert Walker
ke a cheap Q-Tec PSU and/or a crucial DDRAM (PC2100) stick to test what is actually wrong. Then replace these parts (one at a time). Linux has kernel support for avoiding dodgy areas of RAM but I would rather have RAM that works :-) Hope that helps. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Update Files

2004-01-23 Thread Smith, Robert A
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Budhi Astiyadi Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Update Files I use Mandraka 9.2 Download Edition. Can anybody tell me where are the Update Files that I download

RE: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/

2004-01-21 Thread Smith, Robert A
ON Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:17 AM trufflesdad scribbled: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:02:34 -0500 Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:34:00 + > trufflesdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I did update the eslrahc site and if I do a urpmi gift-plugin > > it t

[newbie] Configuring for multiple networks

2004-01-19 Thread Smith, Robert A
I've installed Mandrake 9.2 on an IBM ThinkPad laptop computer. This machine is used both at home and at my work location. In each case, it is connected to a LAN. My network at home is set up using static IP addresses, with a DSL router separating the machines from the Internet. At work, I am on a

[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Update Problem

2004-01-13 Thread Smith, Robert A
Hi all, I recently built a desktop machine with Mandrake 9.2. I used Mandrake Update to update the system, including all the latest security fixes, bug fixes and updates. All appeared to go well, but now, I've lost most of the applications that were formerly listed in my menu, my icons in the task

Re: [newbie] Getting CD sources back ( was: Update Doesn't Update)

2003-11-30 Thread Robert Walker
n never remember the command > >>so I go to the newbie archives and search on urpmi.addmedia > >>Thats how you do it :-) > >> > >> > >>derek > > > > > > There's a lot of info on > > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Ma

[newbie] MDK 9.2 - Lost my open windows applets on Gnome panel on my Desktop :-)

2003-11-30 Thread Robert Walker
finding my way around :-) Its annoying have to switch between apps using ALT-TAB!! How do I get the Applets back? Is it in one of the .gnome config files in my home directory or something? Cheers Robert = == Registered Linux User : 333230 MDK 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21

[newbie] PartImage with GnuPG

2003-11-07 Thread Robert Golovniov
for an image file name I want to restore. 2. Asks for the GnuPG password. 3. Restores the image to /mnt/windows Would appreciate any additional comments. -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukr

Re[2]: [newbie] Autostart programs in KDE

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Golovniov
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, 9:37:52 AM, Rob Blomquist wrote: RB> You can just drop a link to the program in ~/.kde/Autostart Thank you, Rob. Very simple solution and works fine. -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv,

[newbie] Autostart programs in KDE

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello Mandrake group, I remember in one of the previous releases of Mandrake I could configure certain programs to be started automatically when KDE is started. Where can I find this feature in 9.1 or 9.2? -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukr

[newbie] Using SUDO to run various configuration programs

2003-11-04 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello Mandrake group, When I try to run drakconf program, it opens without asking me for a password. Is there a way to disable this option and to tell SUDO *always* ask for a password - for whatever program? -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukr

[newbie] SUID/SGID permissions

2003-11-03 Thread Robert Golovniov
, should programs like pppd, kppp traceroute(6), man, cdrecord and alike have that kind of permissions or can it safely be changed? - -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re[2]: [newbie] IP info conflict

2003-11-03 Thread Robert Golovniov
On Monday, November 3, 2003, 4:10:05 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: DJ> Look here DJ> http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=13 Thank you very much! That did it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.

[newbie] IP info conflict

2003-11-03 Thread Robert Golovniov
roper values, on the other hand, I cannot use the LAN anymore. Could anynone suggest which files can I modify to permanently save the needed values for both connections? -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv

[newbie] kopete upgrade

2003-10-20 Thread Robert Fisher
ble C compiler found in $PATH" What do I do to fix this on Mandrake 9.2? -- Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] External DVD Players

2003-04-01 Thread Robert F. Trettel
ideas?? or suggestions Robert F. Trettel   Thanks smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange

2003-03-14 Thread Robert Boggs
On Friday 14 March 2003 06:58 pm, you wrote: They are Where in America?> On Friday 14 March 2003 01:30 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Ok - so most y'all already know that I'm fully on with the 9.1rc2 stuff > > and never reverting back to my previously horrible nature of being a > > RedHat person. Wit

RE: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread Robert Wideman
There are a few howto's on the net but usually it is impossible to do. You have to generally know the area (inodes) on the HD that the files were on and you read a hex dump of those inodes to verify and then you cat that information to a file that you want to save it in. I have read a few howtos

RE: [newbie] Updating GTK

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Wideman
>> is there a simple way to update GTK to version 2 on a Mandrake >> 8.2-system, >> the thing >> is that I do not wish to do it package by package, although >> timewise I would >> have the time >> to fix that. This is a thing where I find the RPM-system inferior to for >> example FreeBSD's portsyst

RE: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Wideman
>> The SENDMAIL package for MDK is only, ONLY 618k - wow - monstrously >> huge, ay? Actually, it's relatively simple - just a matter of following >> the defaults, but then again, someone that lives on Postfix will say the >> same thing...ditto on Qmail and every other mail package down the line >>

RE: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Wideman
I would personally install qmail. http://www.qmail.org/top.html Its secure, 10k reward for first problem on it. Also its supposed to be super easy to setup. Sendmail is known as the largest damn program on the face of the earth. But other than that i would use sendmail. I know i am going to have

[newbie] vmware 3.2 w/ all scsi system

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Wideman
I have installed vmware 3.2 onto my all scsi system: p3-450mhz 512mb ram 2940u2w scsi card ibm 18g scsi HD pioneer scsi dvdrom I ran the vmware-config.pl script and it seemed to get me going. I created a new vm w/ 176mb ram and 4g space. The HD was setup ok inside the VM, but the cdrom was set t

RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
>> > If you google on "vnc ssh tunnel" you will get tons of hits >> tha t provide the >> > details on how to do this. http://www.iodynamics.com/~fozz/presentations/VNC+SSH/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
>> > >> And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD >> mounted via >> > >> USB? >> > >> > That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting "from" diskette. >> > But would be THEORETICALLY be booting "through" diskette. >> > >> > Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the >> > technic

RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
>> And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via >> USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting "from" diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting "through" diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Wan

RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Check this out.I just bought a desknote laptop with AMI Mobile PC >> Bios and it has USB support to boot from "USB Mass Storage Devices such >> as USB Floppy, USB CD-ROM, USB Zip, USB LS-120, Iomega Zip." >> >> Find out more here: >> http://www.ami.com/amibiosmobile/ >> http://www.ami.com/su

RE: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
The original posters problem might stem from not being 128-bit ecryption installed. I had the same problem the first time i tried linux and a secure site. Personally i have tried and tested Mozilla/Galeon with different websites. I have not had a problem with Galeon anywhere, even bank accounts.

RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
>> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et >> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:41 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [newbie] USB hard drives? >> >> >> On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: >> > Curious question ...

RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Whoah! KLet's be clear about what you are all talking about. >> >> Win4Lin does not care what the filesystem is, because it uses >> the Linux kernel >> to handle that. This allows you to install Windows on any filesystem >> supported by Linux. if Win4Lin could not support NTFS it is >> becaus

RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a >> few months ago >> was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I >> don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob PS-The link for the

[newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
I am wondering if the 9.1 ProSuite or PowerPak Editions will have Win4Lin v4. The reason why is b/c 8.2 came with v3 and i want to totally make all my boxes MDK, with my fastest and most powerful a win4lin win2k install to use non-linux apps in. For those of you who dont know what Win4Lin isit

RE: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Have you got libdvdcss installed? That seems to be important >> for ogle, xine, >> and mplayer. The PLF site has RPMs, some specific to ogle. Go to http://rpm.pbone.net/ and get it there. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
Check out this site and follow it. It got me going. http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sherman >> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:15 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD movi

[newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, its b/c i had one specified in ntp.conf and its not the server that i thought it

[newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing this is that it is linux

[newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read

2003-03-06 Thread Robert Wideman
er is sober. The moral of these true stories is I do not care if you drink...but give up your keys if you drove. Be responsible, be an adult. If you drink you take on these responsibilities automatically. Robert Wideman PS-Please pass this on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

RE: [newbie] how to list sources for urpmi

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Wideman
>> "man urpmi". "man 8 urpmi.update". I cant see where to output >> the list of >> sources to read. >> >> Reason, For a mate I wish to delete an update mirror >> "urpmi.removemedia" so i >> can set a new one. See the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file to see the media sites/locations. Or just check the Sou

RE: [newbie] user mode linux question

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Please be a bit more patient with people on this list. I still haven't >> gotten over the id10t error statement that you made to someone on this >> list a while ago. Dood that was a IT Industry joke. Get over it. I do ID-10-T issues all the time. I even do PEPKAC issues myself. I just get ov

RE: [newbie] IPTABLES manually

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Wideman
iptables-save and iptables-restore Also, put your rules into a script like /etc/rc.firewall and just add that to the end of rc.local adn it will start every time. Also there are lots of tutorials out there. Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] B

RE: [newbie] iptables stopped

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Firewalling/packet filtering/NAT is compiled into the Linux Kernel, it >> is not a service. You don't start it, you just configure it for >> operation. The iptables package that you installed is only a user-space >> configuration utility - again not a service. I would not worry if >> iptable

RE: [newbie] user mode linux question

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Are you talking about a chroot environment? Have you used UML? It sure doesnt sound like it. Its a virtual machine (OS) inside file. Just like VMWare but better (depending on what your doing). Its built into the kernel and it has its own filesystem and everything. http://user-mode-linux.so

[newbie] user mode linux question

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I have played with UML with the basic FS's that are on their site. I have actually DLed the MDK 8.2 FS on their site and tested it on my MDK9 box. It came up with a bunch of errors, guessing b/c my box is all scsi. Ok, down to the real issue. The UML docs state you can install a distro into its

RE: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
CVS is what he was using. >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer >> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:55 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1 >> >> >> On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:07 pm, Brian T

RE: [newbie] port monitor sought

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Well, i made my suggestion only because he was asking >> for a ZoneAlarm-like program. As you may already know, >> ZA is a software firewall for Win32, it notifies you of blocked >> connections as they happen, and can be set up with simple >> rules. To my eyes, iptables + firestarter are pretty

RE: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Do you have the kernel source installed Just install the rpm version that your using from the RC1 DL cd's. Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Trainor >> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:07 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject:

RE: [newbie] port monitor sought

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Have you tried firestarter? It's quite simpler than >> ZoneAlarm --it only has two tabs, one which reports >> connection attempts and blocked packets, and the other >> inside of which you can create rules for your firewall >> >> http://firestarter.sf.net Ok, this is what initially got me into

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Hush, rob, or we'll cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third >> largest state. LOLso true. Its weird that Alaska is double the size of Texas. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Tom: >> You bring up a good point. The only valid conclusion is that >> either they are >> perjurers and monopolists, or traitors and monopolists. Don't hold your >> breath waiting for John Ashcroft to announce that anyone has >> been indicted, >> though. I would say they are Traitors and

RE: [newbie] no sound in 9.0

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> >>>AMD Mainboard that uses SiS 740 chipset. It also has a built in AC97 >> >>>Codec. I am not sure what other information you might need out of the >> >>>book. I am very new to Mandrake Linux. There is so much I don't >> >>>understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brenda

RE: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> look at the bright side Anne. At least you're not still fighting >> with Java >> and Mozy. :P She has a ways to catch up with me this month if i keep on like i am. ROFL Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Any comments on my original query? >> I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been >> hijacked by another >> subject... or two. >> >> Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. >> >> On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: >> > I was trying to install the

RE: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> I haven't booted in 4 months. And this is even AFTER system/software updates. >> I don't think boot or load time is a fair comparison. S true. Again look at the # of times we boot in 4 months. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.c

RE: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm >> at the point of giving up. >> First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: >> ECS K7S6A >> Athlon xp 1800 >> 256 MB ram >> NIC 3com 905 TX Personally i will not buy ESC b/c they have jumpers to s

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