Re: Re[2]: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
instantaneous on the CL, and much quicker even with Konqueror. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] d4x

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
give it a go, but I don't like the end problem, I like the way Gftp handled that part. maybe I will stick with Gftp Not all mirrors support resume -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
anymore ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
updated your system? update != Upgrade -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Shorthand

2003-02-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
=ISO-8859-1q=email+acronymnsbtnG=Google+Search In case your email reader truncates that, Google 'email acronymns' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
Canucks live anyhow. Down here in TX, we call the rest of 'em to the west ... *real* cowboys (and cowgirls ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bugzilla (bitch session)

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
to improve bugzilla. In the meantime a post to the cooker list will most likely yield better results. It's really only viable if you're subscribed to cooker tho. Which you should do anyhow if you're runnin cooker. For a bug FAQ, http://leon.brooks.fdns.net/Mandrake/bugFAQ.html -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Can't find moc

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 5 2003 11:26 am, robin wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Just in case anyone else here wants to compile Qt apps, installing kde-devel seems to do the trick. I was thrown by the name - in other distros it seems to correspond to qt-devel. Sir Robin tom# urpmi kde-devel

Re: [newbie] Can't find moc

2003-02-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
' or 'whereis' won't find it if /usr/lib/qt3/bin/ isn't in your path. I found it with 'locate'. You'll probly need to pass an option to ./configure so that it can find moc. ./configure --help should give you an idea -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to Powerdown/Off the computer a la Winsucks with a cmd on the CLI or Gui?

2003-02-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
' or 'reboot' just save a little typing ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] UserDrake fuses

2003-02-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
somethin wrong, one thing or another, with every GUI out there for usin cdrecord. Also that using cdrecord from the CL is actually easier and quicker, and with much better results than any of the GUI's anyhow. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] trouble logging in via Mandrake splash screen

2003-02-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
mix of last stable release with current cooker will most likely, almost surely end in failure, and any problems doin so can't be audited or addressed. Any bug reports with such a mix will be ignored by the Mandrake developers. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 1 2003 11:47 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 03:57 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip As usual, thanks for all the advice, Tom! I've got a Gef2-64mb (Abit), 167mhz memory, 200mhz core (oc's to 185/225 with ease). Altho I use it with the Xfree driver

Re: [newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me!

2003-02-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
underscores ) rpm --rebuilddb -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-01-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
up your linux install ;~ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-01-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday January 31 2003 04:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I always look for a hot babe on the cover of the graphics adaptor box - http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/9.0/i586/hot-babe-0.1.2-2plf.i586.rpm -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off Topic list

2003-01-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
on a public mailing list not for such discussion (hyperbole), and only serve to eventually be hurtful. Even buried comments in otherwise on topic posts. I also applaud Todd Lyons for his bucket of ice water on such offenders. Thanks Todd -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] Cooker rpms

2003-01-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
is using much newer libs, particularly glibc, than 9.0 has. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Very slow loading KDE and gnome

2003-01-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html Get the codecs there, use Mandrake rpms to install mplayer (mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2mdk) There's also a mplayer GUI rpm, if you need point and click to play movies. mplayer handles everything, dvd's, avi's, mpg's, mpeg's, mov's, m2v's, wmv's -- Tom

Re: [newbie] PCtel HSP56 AMR

2003-01-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
to compensate for it's lack of real hardware capabilities at http://www.linmodems.org/ ... but I doubt it -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Logitech MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse on Mandrake 9.0+?

2003-01-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
up, I toss 'em. Secret to buyin cheap keyboards is to buy black ones ... so ya don't have to clean 'em either ;) Just turn 'em upside down every once'n while and bang the cookie crumbs and pizza bits out ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
by the unwashed masses. I also suspect there's a M$ tax, that even if you do ship an allowed percentage without M$ OS, you still gotta cough up x $$'s per non M$ unit ... to keep your M$ discount. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] OT Hardware weirdness 2

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
recommended power supplies, motherboards, and heatsinks, if you aren't now doin so. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Anyone have a working supermount cdrom?

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
kernel to fix this situation till the cdrom/ide issue was discussed, and the fix given on the cooker list. I reckon it'll be fixed with beta3, which should be any day now. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] HDD temps?

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
curiousity's got the better of me. What are normal temp ranges?, what's too high? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] HDD temps?

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday January 26 2003 12:19 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:53:31 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are normal temp ranges?, what's too high? On my XP1900+ the 45Gig Maxtor does not even give a temp. # hddtemp /dev/hd[ab] WARNING: Drive /dev/hda

Re: [newbie] HDD temps?

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
drives are separated by a coupl'a inches from anything including each other in a _well_ ventilated tower case. MOF, I took the case cover off an pointed a table fan at the HDD's ...with no difference in reported average temps. 135 to 140F (high 50C's) does seem a bit hot afterall -- Tom

Re: [newbie] OT Hardware weirdness 2

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
. It's startin to run hotter lately ;( Maybe 64 bit desktop cpu's will be the rage by then ;) Had a P3-450 oc'd to 600 on a Intel BX chipset, before. The hardware people are willin to buy's been goin down hill since ... includin me -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] newbie qustion on ISO images

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
for your dev= numbers. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine

2003-01-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
(mobile cpu) isn't always 1.8 ghz. It slows down under load. A P3 would probly be faster too. So yes, it's a hardware deficiency ... get a real computer ;~ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Which file system?

2003-01-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday January 20 2003 02:37 pm, et wrote: On Monday 20 January 2003 03:01 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Brinkman wrote: It shouldn't make a differnence, but Civileme use to always recommend that a small ext3 /boot partition be used. Then any and all other partitions

Re: [newbie] no acceptable C compiler?

2003-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
all of http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/bsource.html -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Which file system?

2003-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday January 16 2003 12:03 pm, Charlie wrote: On January 16, 2003 08:44 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip I suspect XFS kernel support is iminent. I vaguely recall that it's out for now because of a conflict with somethin else in the current kernel, tho I can't remember what

Re: [newbie] My friends don't know better yet (can Mandrake 9 handle a .zip file ?)

2003-01-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday January 14 2003 02:26 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hmm...is that a new one? I don't recognize that unzip command. ;) You won't either unless you install the unzip rpm ;) I've got unzip-5.50-4mdk and zip-2.3-9mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] safari browser

2003-01-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
is retrofitting them to Konqueror: http://members.shaw.ca/dkite/jan102003.html Alastair Apple is also contributing in much the same way to XFree86. IMO, this is great!! news. (Unless your name is Bill Gates ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Trouble innstalling Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
XP1900, 768 MB ram , CD.burner: LITE-ON LTR Cd rom: ATAPI 44x Harddrive: WDC WD400BB Screencard: Nvidia Gforce 3 TI200 thanx -- Birger Have you tried using you burner to install from? It should work better than from a 44x cdrom. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Just move it to /cron.daily If you don't run over night, you'll need to install the anacron rpm to update on boot. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
from Freshmeat. So far with limited testing, it works with mozilla, but not Konqueror for playin steams off the Net (with DSL). Even Quicktime. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
in mozilla/plugins/. Might be worth a try. I reckon with the plugin in either netscrape or mozilla plugins dir, Konqueror should pick it up. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] netscape 7.0 installer problem

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
a good indication (but not proof) you aren't havin hardware problems. IE, the HDD's, the motherboard (chipsets and controllers), the cables will have done their job properly. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
you'd see it with any journaling filesystem, except posibly ext3. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday January 11 2003 09:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: At least since 9.0, and with ReiserFS. I believe you'd see it with any journaling filesystem, except posibly ext3. It works in ext 3 on 9.0 Anne Main reason I included

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
plf mdk rpms. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone

2003-01-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
. UI_FONT=arial ^and put arial here instead of AUTO, then save the change. OOo will then have text on the menus. Newer versions of openoffice also have this fixed -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
. For those with PII-350, or K6-2's and newer that use a 100Mhz FSB, pci is 100/3=33mhz. For 133mhz FSB, it's 133/4=33mhz. The newest 166FSB systems, 166/5=33mhz. Like I said, damn near everybody ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday January 9 2003 02:41 am, Tuija wrote: Viestissä Keskiviikko 8. Tammikuuta 2003 18:35, Tom Brinkman kirjoitti: as root, urpmi.update -a ...will update all sources you've installed urpmi --auto-select ...will get the updates. Or better yet, urpmi.update -a --wget

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake

2003-01-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
this. You can run it from the CL with 'edit-urpm-sources.pl' Hint: just type 'edit- ( and then hit the Tab key ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0 and Mplayer problems

2003-01-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
you try again. Also, I always run ./configure and make as user, only su'ing to root for make install (as with all tarballs). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstar - how to keep 'em living

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
), faster, and less expensive than the IBM 30's -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
longer if you're not always turnin 'em off and on ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0

2003-01-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
that figured out too, but are afraid of patent infringments ? Last thing they need to do is give M$ a shot at crippling them with lawsuits. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] installed and installable packages/updates...discrep ancy??

2003-01-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
upall='rpm --rebuilddb updatedb update-menus -n ldconfig' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DSL Configuration - How?

2003-01-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
app !! If you want/need further documentation, see the DSL-howto. It's very thorough, including trouble shooting. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] installed and installable packages/updates...discrep ancy??

2003-01-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
on the CL fan. The way my brain works, that's practically ancient history ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0

2003-01-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
are nothin more than glorified transistor radios. It ain't bootsplash, or Mandrake, or Linux, or even Windoze so much. It's user acceptance of over priced, seems snazzy, hardware. ... and it ust'a be only winmodem persons got razzed ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
[!+], I can't say I didn't tell you so ;-) Pitty it had to side off onto a political issue, probably one that most people bitching about it don't even understand anyway, LOL... and just to think, it was my fault. For this I'm truly truly sorry, really... OK, Star Trek -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
try'n remember ;) Seems my foggy old brain was right, 'cause vga=785 works out to 640x480 at 64k (0x311). Probly a good setting for those that want bigger text on a 17 monitor. One thing I should'a mentioned before, none of this will work unless the video card supports framebuffering. -- Tom

Re: [newbie] Java - lost it

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
as you taint a system with closed source stuff, ie, Sun's java. It may or may not work. Lobby Sun to release OSS java. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
Trek and KDE -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0

2003-01-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
see the boot process. 'Course you need to run 'lilo' to make the changes take effect. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Java

2003-01-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
* . adds jre to your path tom$ echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games: /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin:/home/tom/bin ... and takes care of anything else while it's at it ;) I don't believe it's even neccesary to uninstall kaffe first, but I always do. -- Tom

Re: [newbie] Java

2003-01-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday January 1 2003 07:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yeah, too many steps. Nutscrape was the first mistake ; 'rpm -Uvh j2re-1.4.1_01-5mdk' rpm makes java available globally to all apps (browsers too). You do nothin, and can't

Re: [newbie] Java - lost it

2003-01-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
any needed deps, but you might also do it with 'urpmi j2re-1.4.1_01-5mdk' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Trouble with Wine

2002-12-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
in the XFree86Contrib package. You can always try a search on rpmfind.net Sir Robin X11R6-contrib It's on the CD's. Make sure you use one that matches your XFree86 version. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Java

2002-12-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
? Yeah, too many steps. Nutscrape was the first mistake ; 'rpm -Uvh j2re-1.4.1_01-5mdk' rpm makes java available globally to all apps (browsers too). You do nothin, and can't screw it up ;) It's available from the Club, or maybe from /unsupported mirrors. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Using a Cyrix cpu with MMX

2002-12-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
isn't a good bet tho, try RH 8.0, an 1386 distro. IIRC, Mandrake kernels, 2.4.20 (latest cooker) might be your best bet for these junk cpu's. I believe they recognize them for what they are ... from what I've read. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] More 9.0 questions.

2002-12-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
=mount whatever_else -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] core files

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
/dev/null 21 Software can cause segfaults (core dumps), but often it's hardware problems http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.

2002-12-12 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] rpms descriptions

2002-12-07 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] Bad HDD?

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
(or I've got a dos6boot.tgz (260k) that already has some sys diagnostic tools on it. I could email it you. Contact me offlist). If you've got the floppy that came with the drive, the utilities are most likely on it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
. For those that really want to support MandrakeSoft, buying cheap CD's like this, _and then_ joining the Club, goes a lot further, does much more good, than buying boxed sets. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday December 6 2002 09:00 am, Azrael wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 15:00, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.opensoars.com/?page=shop/flypageproduct_id=73 is sellin Mdk 9.0, 3 CD sets for $2.99 plus they make a (very) small cash contribution back to Mandrake and other OSS projects

Re: [newbie] Bad HDD?

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
if it's out of warranty. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bad HDD?

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
(specially SCSI's will) become permanently rendered unusable. o Little gain you've only maybe managed to get a questionable and problem drive going again. For how long? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/SRPMS -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RE: So many core dumps, what up !!

2002-12-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
annoyng core files [ $UID = 0 ] ulimit -S -c 100 /dev/null 21 I get occasional segfaults, always associated with certain apps, but no core files. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
that deps and conflicts are reported when tryin to install some packages, specially if you've tainted your system http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Which burning software can burn music cds on the fly?

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
, audio CD's can be copied with the resulting burned CD very often being better quality than the CD that was copied. Even 'store-bought' ones. Here's how, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=101794826917733w=2 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.5

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
be better off runnin full current cooker 9.1, than doctorin 9.0 and 8.x with 'updates' and proprietary junk. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and reputable hardware sites, I believe will backup my opinions. The old adage applies 'you get what you pay for'. In this case I believe quality, currently capable hardware can be had for similar (if not cheaper in the long run) prices. Just needs a fan here'n there ;~ -- Tom Brinkman

Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 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] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
to complaints based on the assumption it's the OS's fault, when surely, user, then hardware, and lastly OS should be explored. As the subject says First suspect - me then hardware. Eliminate those culprits before complaining about Mandrake and supermount. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [newbie] streaming on Mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
..' ? You might as well have your Net connection up too, 'cause you're gonna need it to install the plugins. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
and greatest cooker kernels. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
sources you do have installed, on or off. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
/3's the cycles, the real world enhancement is about 5 to 7%. I'd advise to always buy Cas2 rated ram tho. So, ram is what it'll do. 'Sides it doesn't determine how it's timed, the motherboard does (bios settings, IO voltage, capacitors), and it needs steady, clean power. -- Tom

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
a 'urpmi.update -a' on the CL. Ready to go ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to test new PC?

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
the appropriate module for your cpu, eg, 'burnK7' for an athlon. There might be a cpuburn rpm (cpuburn-1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm) on your CD's, so try 'urpmi cpuburn'. The system should be able to run cpuburn for at least an hour. If it can, your system is damn near bulletproof. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] cooker kernel???

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
. So much so that I added acpi=off to my lilo.conf append line for that kernel ;) I know some are complaining about supermount problems, but I've not had any since 8.0. I doubt -19mdk will fix supermount for you. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
with it. Anne Do you have numlock on? I believe it needs to be -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] PPPoE in Allied Modem.

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
section. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
That is odd. OK, try 'XFdrake' (in a term, as root). That'll give you a GUI to change resolution, among other things. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.

2002-11-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
of developers will certainly not be included in any info shared with Apple, there may be some trickle down affect. For instance, it wasn't long after QuickTime was ported to OSX, that mysteriously open source Linux apps (Xine, then Mplayer) also gained the ability to play QT files. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
on top, then do the rest. I don't know why Mandrake still configures to use the .netscape dir, since NutScrape (thankfully) has been gone for a long time now. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
for some info (I haven't bothered with 6 yet). http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3760 How 'bout a URL for the flash page that didn't work ? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
printer will almost certainly be an HP. derek OTOH, for HP to be fair to users, even Windoze ones, they should be forthcomming and make it clear to purchasers that win-hardware is substandard, corner-cutting, fake junk. Not just printers any win-fake-hardware, any vendor. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
final. As Civileme said, 'the more closed source proprietary secret stuff you inject into your first class Linux OS, the less you own it' (paraprhrase) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
situation worse, not better. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

2002-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
lm_sensors' and it should get any deps for you. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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