Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
consumer labels tho. Important ratings are ns (nanosecond) and Cas rating. The lower the better. I recently failed to follow my own advice, and now I'm stuck with some under performing (no bad areas tho) Kingston junk till I get around to replacin it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

[newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
fair to do so. Thanks, -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
archives, cooker, expert, an newbie, Club links, plus Google for people smarter than me. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XWC - Undelete?

2003-10-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
the only proper use of --force. If it was your data or config files, restore from the backups you regularly make ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XWC - Undelete?

2003-10-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday October 14 2003 08:59 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday October 14 2003 10:39 am, Jason Greenwood wrote: Anyone know how to undelete in XWC? I accidentally deleted some files I'd dearly like to have back =( Cheers All, Jason File manager you use isn't the question

Re: [newbie] ksysguard loses connection to local host TOP Segfaults

2003-10-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
think that's 'burnP6'. It'd probly be wise to check with memtest86 and mprime first tho. Another opinion (?), I'm beginning to believe there's no sense overclocking new systems that are already wicked fast and high Ghz. Hard to admit for an oldtime overclocker ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] annoying alarm on standby.

2003-10-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
has work to do. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 01:50 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nobody will bite your head off ... that's nonsense and you know it. awww just because

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
showed up in SBC's logs as receiving infected email from Winsux users. Probly most of whom don't realize (or care) that they are spreading viruses and fsckin up the Internet. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
paid services. Giganews and Athena, mostly for binaries. Stuff ISP newsfeeds don't carry (or allow) ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
'chkrootkit' an always get a clean bill of health. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 01:01 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 9 2003 01:50 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered

Re: [newbie] VIA KT600 chipset

2003-10-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday October 7 2003 01:34 pm, 70233,2610 wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 08:30, Tom Brinkman wrote: N B, I've got a KT400a and 9.2. Basically the same chipset as the KT600. Everything should work right out of the box. The 6 channel VIA AC97 works great. You don't really need a 600

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and you should have no problem. Anne It's the new drives that do have the CRC checking shortcuts. Prior to August 1998, WD's did proper CRC checks, were some of the best drives. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
I'd replace a perfectly good working WD drive. IOW's, for those with WD drives and no problems with them, or traceable to them, I wouldn't give this WD-CRC deal another thought. Bottom line is, keep backups, all drives today are lesser quality than they use to be. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
thought it at least semi off topic. BUT this list needs to seriously reduce OT posts. Please post Linux accomplishments and or M$ failures to the OT list. Specially political, even religious topics. Nobody will bite your head off ... you might even convince somebody or two. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Filtered TCP ports 1080-1081

2003-10-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
, I know, but I was curious.) most ports showed up closed but TCP ports 1080 and 1081 were stealthed. Now, how can that be? Could it be that they are filtered by my ISP? Björn Try a better scan(s), http://scan.sygatetech.com/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
it. I'm aware of cdrdao, but I don't favor usin Disk at Once except for iso's. Then I use 'biso NameOfIso' (alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -dao') -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Some MS Propaganda for ya (Funny)

2003-10-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
-- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] installing a fix for x86

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
to patch level -78, a new height even for Laurent ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 already out?

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
real loud'n fast next weekend. Hang out with my brother in Alabama's temporary second largest city, the 'other' Mardi Gras twice a year ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday September 14 2003 01:32 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Anyway, ya just gotta ask yourself why t'hell you would want, or would need to regularly update everything with force an nodeps in the first place (?) Specially cooker Is anyone reading my posts? Yes, I

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
rather than just plain ./configure That'll put the binaries created in directories normally used by Mandrake. Otherwise the program will probly put 'em in /usr/local You'll probly have more questions after readin mandrakeuser, so holler back ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] 9.2rc2 and MD5sums

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
|less' and then you can Arrow, Page down, or scroll with your mouse down thru the output, either a page or line at a time. EG, 'll |less /usr/bin' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] 9.2rc2 and MD5sums

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
for 700 even tho I don't really care. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Laptop memory not recognized

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
in slot1, then slot2, an so on. I had a board some time ago that didn't like this arrangment tho. Slot1 empty, slot2, then slot 3, slot4 worked fine tho. That said, FedEx has another 256MB Corsair stick on it's way to me, so I hope I remember this advice ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] ShockWave for Mozilla ??

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
-6.0-3mdk.i586.html -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
' at 55 ;ppp -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
, it got me off my butt to take a look at the new installer ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
want, or would need to regularly update everything with force an nodeps in the first place (?) Specially cooker Better to go gently thru the night -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] configuring a monitor

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
about are some of the settings. There's not all that much to do. It's a generic (plug'n play) monitor. So run XFdrake an choose 1024x768, 65k colors (16bpp), @ 60 refresh rate. That'll work for any 17 crt monitor. What video card? The monitor doesn't run all by itself ;) -- Tom

Re: [newbie] 9.2 already out?

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
. AFAIC, it's already ready. Install RC2, update to current cooker, you'll be as close to 9.2 final as it gets. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ShockWave for Mozilla ??

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday September 13 2003 08:04 pm, Bob Read wrote: Thanks Tom. I have FlashPlayer installed, but it doesn't play ShockWave files. Bob Yeah, meal culpa. I realize I totally had a brain fade an missed what you were askin for. Sorry ;( -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
it (First thing I do after an install is disable the CD sources, as they're already obsolete. I go to mirrors to get current. 'Course first thing I do with instructions is throw 'em in the trash ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] This is just the most heinous idea...

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday September 13 2003 08:32 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Flunk the test, and you lose the privilege of paying taxes. I already did. I'm on the receiving end. You don't wanna go there. Stay young an healthy ... pay the damn taxes. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
://www.gocampingamerica.com/coloniadelrey/ http://www.google.com/search?q=colonia%20del%20reyie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday September 13 2003 06:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the Linux community think that it is cool to use a black or purple or dark blue background

Re: [newbie] 9.2rc2 and MD5sums

2003-09-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
-dao. Check the CDr's with md5sum /dev/scd? (replace ? with the dev number for your CD-RW) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 3 quick questions

2003-09-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 10 2003 12:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: With this in mind, today after twice rebooting to new kernels'finding modules' was instantaneous. Hardly a blink. Uh...what kernels are you booting to now? 2.4.22-7mdkxp7

Re: [newbie] RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Intel |Unveils

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
=/mandrakesoft/news/2414 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] A Serious Question - Do You Ever Stop?

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
maybe Chicago an NYC. $15 in S Texas ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 3 quick questions

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
(cooker list) that there were problems with dhcp-client and their connections ;) They won, I had to scratch. NBFD, eth0 works either way, otherwise you wouldn't have to read this ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
$ (as user) -or- tom # (as root) 'tom' is the working directory with either. if you edit /etc/bashrc, not your local one. Femurs, aren't those leg bones? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Intel |Unveils

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
much more than SMP. They only use one motor on winning race cars. The multi motor cars are called 'crowd pleasers', but they're not fast, just showy. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
touch the case every once'n a while to make sure you're discharged. A few beers doesn't hurt either, MOF it's a prerequisite. 'Sides, soon as I get to pushin hardware to it's limit, it's no longer mint condition ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Linux and Wireless Lan/Internet

2003-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
to confirm what I've read. I'm not considering wireless, just curious. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
processors since the good ol' 440BX. Probly best to use an Intel Retail (not OEM) board for P4's to be on the safe side. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and you'd need to run, and connect to the Net as root. There's very real reasons M$ currently has their own microsoft.com servers hiding behind some Linux boxes. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Graphical Log-in Problem

2003-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
be careful. If you have a spare partition to back up to, it's probly a good idea to backup /boot before you try any deleting. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Graphical Log-in Problem

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
of ram. I have an nvidia GeF2, but use the XFree86 driver. IIRC, there's issues with nvidia's proprietary driver and = 1 gig of ram and/or the bigmem kernels. I think the mem=860 restriction with the UP kernel would eliminate those problems too (if they still exist?). -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
of linux phew! Well, talk to Tom Brinkman about that. Not to excuse the lag in hardware support in Linux, but there is a very good reason. When a hardware vendor comes out with a new product, in your case I believe the display is the prob, not the Nvidia, they are lined up at MS's door

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
of their specialized needs, regardless of OS. Something the open source community can't and won't do. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Graphical Log-in Problem

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
, the links (system.map, config*, etc.) you can leave (or delete). Just be careful. If you have a spare partition to back up to, it's probly a good idea to backup /boot before you try any deleting. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Linux and Wireless Lan/Internet

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
, the percentage drops further. At 10 meters it's all but gone. True? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] deleting apps in Mandrake?

2003-09-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
-qa | grep -i' (_with_ the quotes) Then when you start a new terminal, just typing 'frpm app' will do all the extra typing for you ;) If you don't wanna do any of that, I believe rpmdrake will uninstall apps for you in a GUI, but I don't use it ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
into /swap hardly at all if ever. [tom /tom] $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 502458 43 0 83125 -/+ buffers/cache: 250252 Swap:509 0509 -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
was always needed. IE, gettin off the old an tired 33mhz PCI bus. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
you the default server, what you're currently usin, plus a drop down list of those you can switch to. Best to stay with your default tho, and only switch when needed on a temp basis, like my alias does. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 3 2003 02:40 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:12:58 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts filename' will use aRts for the sound output. In fact, even if I run the artsd when X starts, and play a movie the way

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 3 2003 01:42 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:12:58 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts filename' will use aRts for the sound output. AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver Could not open/initialize

Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
for all advice. I'd try another install. This time make /boot a separate partition, ext3. Make your other partitions ReiserFS. I've been usin ReiserFS since 7.2 beta's never a problem. If you opt for XFS, still make an ext3 /boot partition, 20 to 50 mb. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
were closer to what my ATA/100 drive gets. (Eko, you've got your mailer's 'reply to' set to yourself. You should leave the reply to configuration line blank. Thanks) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] HD SATA

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 2 2003 05:58 am, Eko Budiharto wrote: Hi, have anyone of you ever installed in SATA with MDK? Is HD SATA working with MDK? In 9.2 yes, I don't know about 9.1 an older. I have a SATA port, but no SATA drive. So I can't say how well it works. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
to go to their homepage for more info http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
a vis the linux community or corporate users, SCO may have violated the law. That's what SCO said Friday mornin, later in the day they changed their tune ... again http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11273 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday August 28 2003 04:25 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:21, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip run the appropriate 'burn' module on your (her) system, it's not stable IMO. Many store bought (ready made) computers won't pass. Any laptop surely won't. There's no reportin

Re: [newbie] Ethereal for Mandrake 9

2003-08-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
be on the cooker mirrors. If you're gonna try a cooker package tho, get the src.rpm and rebuild it on 9.0 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
thru test #1800 or so, run burnK7 for 25 minutes . then you know your hardware is stable. So far I am with an XP core at 2301, CL2.5-2-2-2 DDR427. So I gott'a XP Whatever (3600+?) that RUNS like a scalded ape. Glibc compiles are a lot shorter ;) No Winsux ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Making Linux Converts

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
to play the innocent one ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XFS Mount

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 27 2003 12:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday August 26 2003 09:54 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Miark wrote: It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already mounted

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday August 28 2003 08:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 1:41 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2003 01:22 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip I know y'all believe memtest86 is _THE_ test, an I confess I run it first too. But it's a weak test

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday August 28 2003 04:55 am, Michael Adams wrote: So what were you needing your newbie help with Tom? -- Michael It works both ways. I was jus' braggin an pontificatin ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
of mailin. Ah, heck, I'll throw in the ram too. My brother could use it, but he doesn't know that. 'Sides he considers somethin like that major surgery. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
that. 'Sides he considers somethin like that major surgery. I apologize to the list. Mea Culpa. I should'a specified off list responses. In any event, Darklord beat everybody to the punch. He's a good guy anyhow ;) Sort'a helpful around here. Sorry Mike, -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] XFS Mount

2003-08-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
maybe ya want to wait for those before fixin your partitions. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
format is set to USA-english. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday August 24 2003 01:56 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: How, specifically, are you adjusting your time zones? With ntpd? Just pick a time server in your zone. For syncing your software clock to your hardware clock see 'man hwclock'. EG, hwclock --systohc' -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
(change log) lists. If your printer is still a problem, post to the cooker list, and if need be file a bug report on bugzilla. Hurry every chance you get, it's gettin late in the 9.2 testing stages. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
-2.6.0-0.test3.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm That's test3, test4 should be available shortly. I don't think 2.6 will be in mainstream distros till early next year. I wouldn't fool with it just now. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
by Mon. or Tues. I'll let ya have first crack at 'em ;) I'm already runnin RC1. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Dell TFT 17Flat Screen

2003-08-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
in a store are runnin Winsux. Same for online reviews. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Rars PDF files

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
) will launch File Roller and then just choose Extract, and click OK. Try both the CL and the GUI, see which method you like the best ;) unrar needs to be copied to rar, because that what File Roller looks for and uses. So don't skip that step. 'Course you could also do it with a link. -- Tom

Re: [newbie] chkrootkit

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
chkrootkit check for in these files? I noticed most all the suspect files belonged to closed source proprietary applications. Namely StarOffice and Java. Use of closed source drivers and apps is always a security risk. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] M8.1 Shutdown fails

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
, or is it something else really ? No idea but you're gonna haft'a eliminate hardware causes first. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
, they'll probably just fire the tech who set it up and disavow any knowledge of it. Charles Well someone please tell me how you'd run Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux ?? ... or is the server just spoofed? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
. That still amounts to Linux savin their butt. Their main site, still comes back An error occured while loading http://www.windowsupdate.com: Unknown host www.windowsupdate.com and is down http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.windowsupdate.com -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversion tool

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
with a smaller movie, whereas before it wouldn't fit by itself. I've yet to have a need to rescale mp3's or wav's tho. Cdr's are cheap, I already fit around 20 to 25 normalized wav's to an audio CDr, 100 to 125 mp3's to a data CDr ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] VMWare Workstation 3.2.0 Serial Number

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
, the good cracks were gettin harder to find anyhow ; Linux has made an honest man out'a me Seriously -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
partitions and re-create them. In Douglas' case this is necessary since they need to be re-formatted anyhow. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and the t number, the important one, Timing buffered disk reads is constant ... 47+ mb/sec. I suspect the new hdparm is more accurate. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
, if the files had been on a real file system, and not subject to M$ fragmentation, the transfer would'a been no problem. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
run all that well at the specs the 'makers' set out. Dell is a good example ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments to installer routine

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
keyboards. I didn't have a USB kybd, but with my old hardware, F1 - expert, would not complete loading the 2nd stage ramdisk with 9.1. Default install loaded with no problem. Green gremlins were to blame ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday August 12 2003 02:44 am, Anarky wrote: On Monday 11 Aug 2003 6:15 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Well, I'm reading this thread and seein the suggestions to use hdparm parameters in rc.local or harddisks with some wonderment. With Mandrake 9.x, you shouldn't need to configure any

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 13 2003 02:56 pm, Haywiremac wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:12:58 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Partitions can be shrunk. The tool would depend on the FS. BUT you'd still need to backup all data, 'cause it's a risky business. Better to delete

Re: [newbie] DSL connection (SBC)

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
the connection properly configured, but can't connect. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
or XFS is used for all other partitions. Civileme did extensive FS testing while he was a Mandrake employee. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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