Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread robin.bcc
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2003 05:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disab

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread robin.bcc
Francisco Alcaraz wrote: If you install cableextract and msttcorefonts you will also have more fonts and looking better on the screen. Cableextract? El Domingo, 6 de Abril de 2003 12:32, Keith Powell escribió: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 11:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003

Re: [newbie] installing k3b

2003-04-05 Thread robin.bcc
Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi List ! I am trying to install k3b. I got interested in it because people said here it has features others cd-burning tool do not have. When I try to install it with urpmi I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi --auto k3b-0.8.1-1mdk90.i586.rpm installing ./k3b-0.8.1-1md

Re: [newbie] Printer not working in openoffice

2003-04-04 Thread robin.bcc
Dan Johnson wrote: Hi all I can't find the info I need to get my HP Deskjet 932C printer working in Openoffice 1.0 in MD 9.1 any help would be appreciated but please be very specific for I am a newbie of all newbies in linux. TIA I've also had problems, though not as bad. I've found it will o

[newbie] depmod woes

2003-04-04 Thread robin.bcc
Can anyone tell me what I should do about this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] nalan]# depmod depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index: 0176 >= 003f depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index:

Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)

2003-04-03 Thread robin.bcc
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:23 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yeah, that one was too good to be true. I like the one about M$ buying Linux too. Seems more got sucked in by the pclinuxonline deal than any of the other 4/1 stuff. and I think it was last year (or year be

Re: [newbie] Observation: Differences in Mandrake and Redhat

2003-04-01 Thread robin.bcc
Stephen Kuhn wrote: * Porn viewing is quicker (did I put that in there?) Joking! I think there's a market niche for a porn-oriented Linux distro (LinuXXX? HotPenguin? ). Alternatively, Mandrake could cash in on this market by releasing a "Pornpack". Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Ser

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-03-30 Thread robin.bcc
Jason Greenwood wrote: Just another reason to use Linux - you are not buying pirated software. =) I sometimes think it would be a good thing if MS finally succeeded in bullying developing countries into enforcing "anti-piracy" laws - that could really herald the end of Windows in most of the w

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-03-30 Thread robin.bcc
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 10:45, Zariyan Zephyr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As a Linux newbie, I don't really understand why people in Europe and North America has chosen Linux for daily use. I think people in Europe and North America can afford Microsoft Windows and appli

[newbie] [slighlty OT] Mozilla junk filtering

2003-03-30 Thread robin.bcc
Does anyone know of a good guide to getting the junk filtering in Mozilla 1.3 working properly? The Help page hasn't been written yet, and the guide I found on www.mozilla.org was a little cryptic. At the moment it's deciding that most of the mail posted to this list is junk, and I'm having p

Re: [newbie] 9.1 Flakey installs, no internet dialer etc

2003-03-30 Thread robin.bcc
Keith wrote: Has anyone else had problems with 9.1? My CD's md5sum match. SEVERAL install in 2 different AMD (1gig Duron 1.3gig Athlon), 256 RAM. Sometime bootloader would not install (tried ALL THREE) NO internet dialer... Many other wierd things... Went back to 8.2 Powerpak... You??? On my offic