Re: [newbie] P2P Application?

Sevatio wrote: Can you recommend a good p2p application for sharing files across the internet? Sevatio dcgui-qt has always worked good for me :-) http://dcgui.berlios.de/ and plf also has .rpmshttp://plf.zarb.org/packages.php warren Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

PM wrote: When I check (using ls /usr/bin/drak* ) I get the results: /usr/bin/drakbug* /usr/bin/draklocale@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-remove@ /usr/bin/drakconf*/usr/bin/drakrpm@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-update@ /usr/bin/drakhelp*/usr/bin/drakrpm-edit-media@

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

Derek Jennings wrote: urpmi rpmdrake If anything else is missing the command urpmq drak should give you some clues. Software Management option is BACK!! Thanks Derek, Aron and PM. :-) Goodnight gentlemen (it´s 1am New Zealand time). Warren Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

PM wrote: Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to urpmi to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know what the name of that is? urpmi IS the mandrake rpm package installer. sorry, i should rephrase the q

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to installRPMs

PM wrote: what does /usr/bin/menudrake (as root in a terminal windows) give you? the menu manager came up - but still no way of adding the missing bits ( firefox is no longer in /usr/bin and i am guessing neither is the Open Office or Mandrake control utilities) I tried to install firefox again

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root "mcc" if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type "updatedb && update-menus" Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]# mcc bash: mcc: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] d

[newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

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[newbie] xsessionerrors file growing

;= nodes" in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) and proceeded to do so at the rate of 3 or 4 lines a second. I have just recently installed MDK 10 on a new HDD. Every day as soon as i turn my machine on the file starts to grow, and although it only grows by M

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

23 March 2004 10:03 am, William Warren wrote: just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on windows. Gateway only supports windows and

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on windows. Gateway only supports windows and they do not and will not support Linux on that

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

My wife has a Solo 5300 that we bought a year ago refurbed. The first one got damaged in shipping..but Gateway replaced it withou problem..since then it has been rock solid..even better than the desktop i once had. frankieh wrote: Marc wrote: I also had a gateway some time ago, I sold i

Re: [newbie] mdk10 community wont boot to install

known issue with the 10.0..boot from 10.0 disc 2 then switch back is the "official" workaround LtCdData wrote: hi the cd1 of mdk 10.0 community fails to boot up to the installer on one of my computers but does on the other ok however if i put in a 9.2 cd the intaller boots ok from that ok but fa

Re: [newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

Any takers on this one?.. William Warren wrote: FYI i do have sshd running and webmin running so i can do this either way..:) William Warren wrote: I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have

Re: [newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

FYI i do have sshd running and webmin running so i can do this either way..:) William Warren wrote: I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have been trying for the past couple of months to get

[newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

mozilla 1.x with the calendar module add-on installed..:) William Warren -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,

Re: [newbie] Missing .bashrc for root (Mandrake 9.2)

El vie, 06-02-2004 a las 03:59, Alexander Shupliakov escribió: > Could anybody please mail a copy of the original /root/.bashrc file? This is from 8.2, not 9.2, but for what it's worth: [EMAIL PROTECTED] warren]# cat /root/.bashrc # .bashrc # Source global definitions if [ -f /et

[newbie] Finally, a socially responsible virus

This story caught my eye: MyDoom Virus Could be 'Linux War' Weapon http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3304311 I wonder if it would run under Wine? :-) -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de CopÃn, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy yo

Re: [newbie] OT - Web host query

Pair Networks <http://www.pair.com/>. They are reasonably priced and very supportive of Open Source. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] TIP: cups and cups-common-1.1.18-2.1 break printing on 8.2

updated a boatload of packages the same day. Tracking down which packages were responsible was no fun. But at least broken updates are reversible, unlike that other OS.) -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] Running programs at startup

s on startup, such a placing things in ~/Desktop/Autostart. I'm not considering them here because for the moment I am looking for WM-independent ways to launch programs. So... what else is there to know about running programs at startup? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Cop

Re: [newbie] urpmi: "everything already installed" - NOT

El vie, 09-01-2004 a las 09:39, Anne Wilson escribió: > Warren - this was a well-publicised problem with 8.2. The fix was > simple, though I can't remember it. It was described on the 8.2 > Errata page, and I think it's still available. Actually, it was a prob

Re: [newbie] edgeSnapThreshold in fluxbox doesn't work - SOLVED

El vie, 09-01-2004 a las 10:34, Warren Post escribió: > Several of you have convinced me to try fluxbox, and I love it. One > minor annoyance I am dealing with is edge snap. It is easily set in > ~/.fluxbox/init (session.screen0.edgeSnapThreshold per the man page), > but it do

Re: [newbie] boot messages

to /var/log/boot.log. The latter is what you're looking for; every line that appeared as "[OK]" on the screen ends with "succeeded" in the log. You need to be root to view either of these files. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http:/

Re: [newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?

El jue, 08-01-2004 a las 16:43, Margot escribió: > I can see your message. Perhaps the gurus are still recovering from the > holidays? Try posting again and see if you get any replies. Will do, and thanks. Perhaps the hangovers are beginning to wear off now. -- Warren Post, Registered

[newbie] Managing downloads and packages

ing things up or reinventing the wheel. All advice welcome. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] edgeSnapThreshold in fluxbox doesn't work

s behavior. Has anyone been able to enable edge snap in fluxbox? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] urpmi: "everything already installed" - NOT

alled". If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. -- Warren Post, Register

[newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?

For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa

[newbie] Managing downloads and packages

lled and those I rolled myself, regardless of architecture) in one place, and so be able to define one local source for urpmi rather than many. Perhaps this is all much ado about nothing, but I want to understand what is going on and why before I start messing things up or reinventing the wheel. All advi

[newbie] Tip: checkinstall on 8.2 broken

M that works fine at <http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.5.3-1.i386.rpm>. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver - SOLVED

w. What gave me the clue I needed was section 17.4.5 (6) of the Mandrake Linux Reference Manual, which also taught me something about unresolved symbols. Perhaps this will be of use to others with unresolved symbols. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http:

Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver

As I never saw this appear on the list, I am resending it. Warren -Mensaje reenviado- From: Warren Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver Date: 23 Dec 2003 12:13:55 -0600 El dom, 21-12-2003 a las 15

Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver

As I never saw this appear on the list, I am resending it. Warren -Mensaje reenviado- From: Warren Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver Date: 24 Dec 2003 10:27:55 -0600 El lun, 22-12-2003 a las 09:28

[newbie] Can't make xscreensaver

(big snip) demo-Gtk-support.o: In function `create_pixmap': /home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/demo-Gtk-support.c:165: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file' /home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/demo-Gtk-support.c:175: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_render_pix

Re: [newbie] OT: CSS Editor

ink you'll want to fix your reply-to header. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

wearing a Hawaiian necklace. Steady customers didn't notice that it wasn't Windows but did comment on how much faster and more stable the workstations had become, and how much nicer the desktops looked. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopa

Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?

stifter/linux/pctel.html> will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windo

Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?

stifter/linux/pctel.html> will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windo

Re: [newbie] how many...

light bulb EULA, no provision has been made for uninstallation of light bulbs. Should you desire to remove a light bulb, it will be necessary to reinstall the system." -- Warren Post Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy y

Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)

One of my boxes does the same thing if I don't get the memory seated just exactly right. If I pull the memory one stick at a time I can isolate which stick was incorrectly seated and fix the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pa

[newbie] Misreported CPU

fix it? If so, how? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] pppd dies

ust going to have to learn to be more patient. Ah, the joys of government monopolies. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] pppd dies

do to correct this? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Remotely answer incoming fax?

El dom, 20-07-2003 a las 17:16, JoeHill escribió: > On 20 Jul 2003 17:10:43 -0600 > Warren Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Now my fax machine has died and I'd like to do the same thing with my > > computer's fax modem. So far I can't find any re

[newbie] OT: Recommended laser printer parts vendor

Can anyone recommend a reliable online vendor of laser printer parts? My Brother MFC 4500ML multifunction laser needs a new fuser controller board. Sure, I could Google, but my interest is not so much finding the lowest price as finding a reliable vendor. TIA, Warren -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de

[newbie] Splitting a file across floppies

a 3 MB Windows executable on my Linux box, which I need to install on a Windows box. I don't have CD-R, so I have to split the file across several floppies. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Human language translation software

y and tweak. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] This ROCKS

El sáb, 21-06-2003 a las 10:09, Derek Jennings escribió: > Question for you Warren > > Why choose LEAF Dachstein as opposed to LEAF Bering ? Simply because Dachstein was the first I looked at, I liked it, and jumped right in. I have since heard good things about Bering so I can't

Re: [newbie] This ROCKS

e 'puter in the building. Ha! -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

El mar, 17-06-2003 a las 09:46, eric huff escribió: > Anyone have a favorite ssh program for win2000? PuTTY. I don't have the URL handy; you'll have to Google for it. I put PuTTY on a client's Win2K box to ssh into the Linux box I set up for them as a firewall. Works great. --

Re: [newbie] deadkeys usage in keyboard layout.

El lun, 16-06-2003 a las 16:50, manolis escribió: > I cannot use the deadkeys on my keyboard (for foreign letters with accents). > When I press such a key and after a vowel I get no char. Your keyboard is configured as U.S.-International? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Hondura

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

sy, once you find it. Some people will find this second method even easier: Bookmarks | Add bookmark. Then later you can edit your bookmarks and move it to where you want it. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Linux drver genius colorpage vivid III scanner

When I started to reply to your query, my reply was addressed to you personally and not to the newbie list. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes

ound. If you are willing to sacrifice quality, I suppose you could record to .wav at a higher than normal speed (you'll need to find a cassette deck with a high speed dupe function) and later stretch out the .wav's time scale, but methinks that you'll sacrifice a lot of quality to

Re: [newbie] Tip: When the Winmodem goes AWOL

s advice. I had to add my modem's modules to /etc/modules.conf before the modem worked across reboots. HTH. Joeb: Thanks for the "service -f devfsd" tip. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] dreamweaver equivalent linux

phere to Dreamweaver. Websphere is a lot cheaper than Dreamweaver, and last time I checked you could get a 30 day trial version. Personally I use Bluefish, which is head and shoulders above anything in its class in Windows. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to

Re: [newbie] File viewer (like QuickView for Win)?

ral people's twit filters by now for this. > ...but he wants to view many types of files, not just pr0n. So I see now. Sorry, rikona, can't help you there. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeS

[newbie] Tip: When the Winmodem goes AWOL

, and then recreate and reload. Duh! In my particular case: rmmod ptserial rmmod pctel rm /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem mknod /dev/ttyS15 c 62 79 chgrp uucp /dev/ttyS15 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS15 ln -s /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem insmod pctel insmod ptserial HTH someone. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Hon

Re: [newbie] File viewer (like QuickView for Win)?

lighter and faster than Nautilis, Konqueror, et al. Works great even on an older system. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KMail enhancements

references for some way to activate HTML mail. The use of HTML mail is frowned upon by most lists (including this one) and many users. My mail filters, for example, throw away all HTML mail unread, as the only HTML mail I receive is spam. So I would encourage you to use HTML mail sparingly or not at

[newbie] Video for Linux

e useless. So, anyone have any URLs for me? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla

So far, so good, with thanks to Raffaele and Todd for suggesting that I use a tarball and not RPM. I had to kill my /user/.mozilla file before the Spanish language pack would work, but that's no problem. Thanks again. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Wa

[newbie] Updating Mozilla

eaching. Rather than fight the language pack install with an old version, it seems wiser to just upgrade to the current version. Does anyone see any gotchas, or have any tips? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] What the sHell is foo ? ;-)

t;To read man page 'foo', enter 'man foo' at the console." It's clearer, if less precise, than replying "man [options] [section] [title]". -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

Select Options | Preferences | Visualization plugins, and play around. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] If I have to have MSIE...

run multiple versions of MSIE in an emulator. Thoughts? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

ak the code to learn how it's done. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

t propagate viruses. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:56:15 -0800, "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I get something like this almost every 2 weeks... Only one every two weeks? What's your secret? I get two or three a day. Shall I forward my extra ones to you? :-) -- Warren Post Santa R

Re: [newbie] kalle.saarinen@acte.fi

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:00:02 +0200, "Silent Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering how to display disk space in commad line? Used/free etc. df, or if you need more information, du. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want

Re: [newbie] Evolution Sending

put Evolution into offline mode. In offline mode, messages you write will go to the outbox until you explicitly chose to send and receive messages (you do not need to switch to online mode to send and receive). -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy

Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization & extended ASCII issues

odes in Windows. > 2) How can I rapidly change keyboards? I could use the Mandrake Control > Center's hardware menu to change keyboards, but this would also be very > slow... Can't help you with this one. Anyone else know? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http:/

Re: [newbie] Linux & W2000

tation is very newbie friendly. Highly recommended. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)

t, you might be stuck with Windows if it won't run in Wine. I still need a Windows box around to test my sites in M$IE. And if you do ASP, you may well want your web server to be IIS on Windows. But in general, I think you'll find Linux far superior to Windows for website development. YMMV, a

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation

El mié, 11-12-2002 a las 12:30, Mr. VLE79E escribió: > Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I > install it? See http://www.winmodem.org/ and look up your modem. Some work quite well, some are flakey, and some don't work at all. -- Warren Post Sa

Re: [newbie] LILO

El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: > How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. You can edit the configuration file manually (/etc/lilo.conf) as root or use the GUI tool in the Mandrake Control Center, under boot. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Hondu

Re: [newbie] PHP Editor

El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: > Anyway knows a good PHP Code Editor that support indentation and text > highlighting Bluefish. It's on your installation disks. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Se

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening - SOLVED

El dom, 01-12-2002 a las 21:21, Warren Post escribió: > OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now > that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. > OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down... Thanks to everyone wh

[newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening

StarOffice 6.0 from the rpm on the Power Pack. I never could get StarOffice to work, so I uninstalled the rpm prior to installing OO. Any ideas of what I should be looking at to fix this? I'd rather not rerun setup every day from now on. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.

Re: [newbie] Sound "issues"

El vie, 29-11-2002 a las 10:11, Ralph M. Los escribió: > 1. What's a good "file manager" type application? Nautilus plain sucks. I like XWC: fast and light. It's on your installation disks. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ W

Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen

orizontally and vertically. Try it and let us know if the problem persists. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

u want, I think. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Evolution folder repair

Evolution rebuild the folder's summary file and the folder worked fine. To clean up, I then deleted the renamed mbox.ev-summary file. Easy. Perhaps this fix will work with other mbox based email clients as well. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want t

Re: [newbie] CUPS hangup

; interferes with it. Has anyone got a fix for this? My printer (a Brother MFC 4500ML) would also hang midpage with anything but the most simple documents. It turns out that I didn't have enough memory in the printer, and installing more solved the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Cop

[newbie] Can't start a program at boot

* "xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u" in /etc/rc.local. I've tried it both as the last line and as the next to last line. Fails silently. * "exec xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u" in ~/.xinitrc. Fails silently. * "xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u" in ~

[newbie] Installing 8.1 packages on 8.2

stem? Could I simply define my 8.1 disks as additional sources? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Adding to OpenOffice gallery for all users

directory, /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/share/gallery. These images can now be installed in each user's gallery, but each user has to do this installation by hand. How can the installation be done once and for all for all users? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ W

Re: [newbie] Stop %^$#@$% print job

, but > I haven't been able to find it. Can anyone point me to it, or offer > some suggestions? Here's what works for me: Delete the files in /var/spool/cups and /var/spool/cups/tmp Service cups restart -s Reboot the printer (not the computer) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copá

Re: [newbie] Formatting from boot disk

nload a DOS boot disk from the net (there are several, try Google). Or perhaps the floppy drive is dirty or dead. The Mandrake symptoms you describe may be a configuration problem: wrong video adapter selected, wrong version of XFree86, etc. Give the list some details about your video hardware and co

Re: [newbie] Can I

s.com but not open source. DOS based floppy. Parted. Free from freshmeat.net and open source. Linux based floppy. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Evolution and recurring tasks

s my biggest gripe with Evolution. You can't make a recurring task, only a recurring appointment, at least not with 1.0.2 which I am using. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network

g that you have a so-called winmodem, so take a look at <http://www.winmodem.org/>. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Install of Mandrake Linux on an old machine

in any case. But I can say that with your older system KDE is not an option. You will find a lighter window manager like IceWM or Blackbox to be much faster and probably more stable. If you can put more memory in the box, do it. Linux uses RAM very efficiently and so there's no such thing a

[newbie] OT: Won't boot if headless

reliably. I suspect that the problem is hardwired and the only solution is to change the motherboard. (I see no BIOS settings that should affect the keyboard.) But somebody prove me wrong, please. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your P

Re: [newbie] The print job that wouldn't die - SOLVED

El lun, 23-09-2002 a las 15:01, s escribió: > delete the files in /var/spool/cups & /var/spool/cups/tmp & then > service cups restart. > -s That, plus rebooting the printer (not the computer) finally took care of it. Thank you! -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Cop

[newbie] The print job that wouldn't die

t says "lp is ready" and "no entries" * cancel lp. It says "cancel: cancel-job failed: client-error-not-possible" What else can I try to kill off this monster? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Smiley faces

To send, type a smiley emoticon, which is: :-) The receiver needs to have enabled "display emoticons as graphics", which in Mozilla is at Edit | Preferences | Mail and Newsgroups | Message Display. Warren El jue, 12-09-2002 a las 07:43, Marcia escribió: > Dear All, > > How

Re: [newbie] Download manager for LINUX?

much high quality software there is for Linux, and a lot of the best is already on your installation disks. Warren El vie, 30-08-2002 a las 00:32, Markus Bela escribió: > > Hi, > is there a download manager available, like FLASGET, DOWNOAD ACCELERATOR, > etc? > > Béla Want

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

to choose which one you want to try for that session. Pretty soon you'll see just how limiting Windows is with only one graphical environment. Warren El mar, 27-08-2002 a las 21:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > was wondering what is better, Gnome or KDE for Windows Manager. Let me know >

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