Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:00 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 04:22 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 03:57 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Saturday 02 April 2005 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 13:22, Daniel Anderson wrote: With the original 4k ram ...none of that sissy 16k expansion stuff ;-) Or the 720k drives. Weren't they the double-density ones? I seem to remember 360k in the heady days of my

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

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

[newbie] Mozilla vs Konqueror?

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

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

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

[newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-02 Thread Elwyn York
Can anyone speculate here roughly when Mandrake 10.2 will be ready for end user (ie me). It is, apparently, sometime the beginning of April (er, now! :) ) ready for cooker. Oh, and can someone explain what cooker is please?? (reference to Linux, not the kitchen... Google doesn't like me this

Re: [newbie] Mozilla vs Konqueror?

2005-04-02 Thread frengoGorgia
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Re: [newbie] reading Troff document

2005-04-02 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:22:23 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, could some kind soul tell me what program I can use to read Troff documents? A friend of mine has a Mac, and they have sent me a couple documents that I have thus far been unable to read. Is Troff a Mac

Re: [newbie] Quicktime video

2005-04-02 Thread frengoGorgia
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:17 pm, Elwyn York wrote: Can anyone speculate here roughly when Mandrake 10.2 will be ready for end user (ie me). It is, apparently, sometime the beginning of April (er, now! :) ) ready for cooker. Oh, and can someone explain what cooker is please?? (reference

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 02 April 2005 11:12 am, SigmaX wrote: | Miark wrote: | On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:49:52 +0200, Philippe wrote: | Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here | ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ | | how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, | and how to disable their snooping

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Command-line updates

2005-04-02 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Command-line updates Date: Sunday 03 Apr 2005 06:52 From: riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com On Saturday 02 April 2005 06:11 pm, David Anderson wrote: I know how to update software using the Control Centre

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 01:42, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 10:25, Derek Jennings wrote: I gave up spying on you when you started sitting at your terminal naked. Now if only Anne and Margot would stop... No way - gotta have some fun somewhere Anne -- Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 02:46, Robert Yu wrote: Anne, is there a way of finding out whether the updated packages are really installed when I do follow the instructions? The instructions from easyurpmi set up your sources. You then need to use urpmi or Software Installer to do the updates -

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

2005-04-02 Thread Duncan Anderson
Robert Yu wrote: Is it possible to save the packages downloaded from this site onto a cache folder for later use? You can download the packages using ftp or something similar, and then, when they are all sitting in a directory, call up a root shell and go to the directory and type the

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-01 Thread Q.H. Wang
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html Ya, basically I always go there first to seek pointers for new plugins. It's nice to know it's working now! Enjoy it. Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Looking for Azureus 2.2.0.2_MOD for Linux

2005-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 1, 2005 12:14 AM, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:23 am, Paul Smith wrote: Azureus http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/search.php?query=Azureus Thanks, Aron. Non-members of MandrakeClub can get it from:

[newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I do not have a dvd player, but I have heard that it is possible to use the computer dvd recorder to play dvd movies. Could somebody here please give me some directions? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem

2005-04-01 Thread Tim
Thank you, Have amended modprobe.conf and it has been ok for last couple of days. Cheers Tim I have to set up a new modem connection every time i reboot, it just seems to forget that i set one up, but if i go into Manage connections its there but i can't do anything with it. Does your

[newbie] SMC Barricade

2005-04-01 Thread Mr. Geek
Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The card is unable to receive packets from the SMC router. I've tried it with and without DHCP, and with or without WEP. The SMC Barricade

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-01 Thread Ian
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 13:52, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I do not have a dvd player, but I have heard that it is possible to use the computer dvd recorder to play dvd movies. Could somebody here please give me some directions? Thanks in advance, Paul Most of the media players in Mandrake's

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 13:52, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I do not have a dvd player, but I have heard that it is possible to use the computer dvd recorder to play dvd movies. Could somebody here please give me some directions? You can indeed. However, commercial dvds are encoded, and thanks

[newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Josenildo Marques
I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! -- Josenildo Marques

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Anders Lind
Bubbai troll - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:32 PM Subject: [newbie] back to Windows I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Chris
On Friday 01 April 2005 10:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Joe Mecklin
gee, i wonder how he really feels? he shouldn't be so reluctant to voice his opinions; he leaves so much in doubt about his true emotions. on a more serious note, it might be interesting to know his actual reasons for his opinion; perhaps he'll enlighten us, though i get the impression he merely

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 01 April 2005 10:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread poogle
On Friday 01 April 2005 15:35, Anders Lind wrote: Bubbai troll - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:32 PM Subject: [newbie] back to Windows I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Anders Lind
Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Hehehe...well, Ronald you might be right there, but then again we get trolls here occassionally.

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Deep Thinker
On Apr 1, 2005 9:43 AM, Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Hehehe...well, Ronald you might

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Anders Lind
What exactly do you mean by troll ? A person that just post an inflammatory email with the only reason to start a fight /anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:43 am, Anders Lind wrote: Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Hehehe...well, Ronald you might be right

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:43 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hehehe...well, Ronald you might be right there, but then again we get trolls here occassionally. /Anders I know. It just seemed to coincidental... :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Mr. Geek
Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well !

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread M.Schild
I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! So they have an

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strangely, if you look at his website he has taken the trouble to include linux links and he has written about it at some length, although I'm afraid I don't read his language. Look for him in the archives, then look at the date. Anne

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 01 April 2005 06:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Philippe Landau
Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! once again you are all just jealous that he will get to enjoy all the hyper sucking action fun all by himself, having the courage to escape the social

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 01 April 2005 06:59 am, Anders Lind wrote: What exactly do you mean by troll ? A person that just post an inflammatory email with the only reason to start a fight Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) /anders

Re: [newbie] SMC Barricade

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The card is unable to receive packets from the SMC router. I've tried it with and without DHCP, and with or without WEP.

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Roy
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 06:59 am, Anders Lind wrote: What exactly do you mean by troll ? A person that just post an inflammatory email with the only reason to start a fight Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) /anders What some people must

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 1, 2005 3:05 PM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have a dvd player, but I have heard that it is possible to use the computer dvd recorder to play dvd movies. Could somebody here please give me some directions? You can indeed. However, commercial dvds are encoded, and

[newbie] Cannot access the archives

2005-04-01 Thread Christopher Taylor
I have not been able to access the archives today. I s there something that I have wrong? I am using the URL http://archives.mandrakelinux.com The operation is always timing out. Thanks. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please

Re: [newbie] SMC Barricade

2005-04-01 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The card is unable to receive packets from the SMC router. I've tried it with and without DHCP,

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Mr. Geek
Philippe Landau wrote: Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! once again you are all just jealous that he will get to enjoy all the hyper sucking action fun all by himself, having the

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Mark Kirschner
On Apr 1, 2005 8:33 AM, Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys DO realise that it's April Fools Day, yes? Methinks that you have been had! Big Time! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Cannot access the archives

2005-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-newbie or http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpbt0GrTagnR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 01 April 2005 08:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install

[newbie] Sync PocketPC with Evolution

2005-04-01 Thread Travis Crook
Hi All, I just received a Toshiba PocketPC e755 and would like to sync it with Evolution 2.0. Is there a way to do this? Where do I start? Thanks! -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Noel McG.
Hello, Perhaps those of you in the UK, also read the BMW advert in today's papers? - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 5:32 PM Subject: [newbie] back to Windows I'm going to uninstall this OS

[newbie] Package List

2005-04-01 Thread Tony
Hi, Can anyone tell me where I can find a list of available pac= kages for 10.1 AMD64, specifically I want to know what the latest mdk Kerne= l version I can install is. Regards, Tony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Sync PocketPC with Evolution

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I just received a Toshiba PocketPC e755 and would like to sync it with Evolution 2.0. Is there a way to do this? Where do I start? Thanks! The first step would be to install the synce package. You may also want to take a look at:

RE: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread h k ball
... very entertaining, I was taken in totally, because as a month old newbie I went through that phase ... bought some Mandrake 10.1 disks ($6), they worked OK at first, but then degraded ... ended up with: (1) .. an old Mandrake Red Hat 6.0 that works on my desktop .. (2) .. a SUSE 9.2

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:51 am, Dennis Myers wrote: carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun just has to be had. Couldn't help it - the old Atarian in me just lives for any excuse to wave the

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:41:48 -0600 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Everyone is intitled to their own opinion. Even if it is wrong. BWAH! Busted! Check the date foo' ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:12:34 up 39 days, 16:18, 7 users, load average: 0.14, 0.10,

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:57:04 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: My guess is that it was a bit of astroturfing by a paid shill. The sig and website are provided merely to add credibility and make it look real. Keep diggin', Greg, maybe you'll strike gold! LOL! I love it Josenildo,

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:19:32

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:20 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... O

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:51:43 -0600 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun just has to be had. You don't need to look at the date, look at the OP. Anyone else I mighta believed it, but not JM, man, no way. That's why I'm

[newbie] More April foolishness... :-)

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-04-01-014-26-OP-CY -- /\ DarkLord \/

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Tom
Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well !

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 01 April 2005 02:20 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... Actually

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks !

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Miark
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:32:17 -0500, Josenildo wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-04-01 Thread Ivo Perich
Jason: i forgot to remark that the security level is that i put IN THE INSTALATION, im NOT talking about change the security level once Mandrake is installed. Im talking about installing mandrake again, with a lower security level. good luck Ivo --- It's EEvo El Lunes, 28 de Marzo de

[newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
I have created a lot of coasters under k3b trying to burn 10.2 I noticed that the first disk is 699.8 Mb while the capicity is 700Mb The md5sums check is it because the CD-R is too small ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 01 April 2005 01:44 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:20:50 -0600 Tom disseminated the following: Eric Raymond a seat on the Microsoft Board of Directors ROFL! Now *that* I'd like to see...an ill-tempered and well-armed anarchist in a room full of pissant corporate

Re: [newbie] Sync PocketPC with Evolution

2005-04-01 Thread Travis Crook
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 11:28 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I just received a Toshiba PocketPC e755 and would like to sync it with Evolution 2.0. Is there a way to do this? Where do I start? Thanks! The first step would be to install the synce

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 01 April 2005 02:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:57:04 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: My guess is that it was a bit of astroturfing by a paid shill. The sig and website are provided merely to add credibility and make it look real. Keep diggin', Greg,

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: I have created a lot of coasters under k3b trying to burn 10.2 I noticed that the first disk is 699.8 Mb while the capicity is 700Mb The md5sums check is it because the CD-R is too small ? No - the 700Mb is more then big enough to burn a 699.8 MB image. The 700MB (80 minute)

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Tom
Aron Smith wrote: I have created a lot of coasters under k3b trying to burn 10.2 I noticed that the first disk is 699.8 Mb while the capicity is 700Mb The md5sums check is it because the CD-R is too small ? No. Cdr's are good for =703 mb. If you're already usin 10.2, CD's can't be reliably

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:47:50 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: This should be fun to follow OTH remember Abbie Hoffman wound up as a Wall Street Stockbroker ...you *do* realize it's another 'April Fools', no? Quote: Articles: Humor Microsoft joins OSDL, frees Linux of liability

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 01 April 2005 23:44, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:20:50 -0600 Tom disseminated the following: Eric Raymond a seat on the Microsoft Board of Directors ROFL! Now *that* I'd like to see...an ill-tempered and well-armed anarchist in a room full of pissant corporate

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Mark Kirschner
. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Congratulations, Josenildo! Two years running! http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg155652.html You'd hope they all have learned to read the date by now... ;-) -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:06:22 -0600 Tom disseminated the following: EPA I'm assuming you mean *ETA*, though I'm sure the *EPA* would be concerned about Aron's 'coasters' filling up the landfills, eh? Anyhow, good to know about April 6th. Gonna start backin' up my home dir tomorrow :-) --

Re: [newbie] Where is the DrWeb Antivirus Directory in Mandrakelinux 10.0

2005-04-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 01 April 2005 22:33, Edward Rochon wrote: I receive update files from DrWeb. I am supposed to add them to their directory but cannot find it. The Search option cannot find DrWeb on the disk. I have mailed DrWeb without any answer. I am unable to use Mandrake Expert. Am I supposed to

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Tom
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:06:22 -0600 Tom disseminated the following: EPA I'm assuming you mean *ETA*, though I'm sure the *EPA* would be concerned about Aron's 'coasters' filling up the landfills, eh? Anyhow, good to know about April 6th. Gonna start backin' up my home dir tomorrow

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 01 April 2005 03:06 pm, Tom wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have created a lot of coasters under k3b trying to burn 10.2 I noticed that the first disk is 699.8 Mb while the capicity is 700Mb The md5sums check is it because the CD-R is too small ? No. Cdr's are good for =703 mb.

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:06 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 Apr 2005 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strangely, if you look at his website he has taken the trouble to include linux links and he has written about it at some length, although I'm afraid I don't read his language.

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:23 -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:51:43 -0600 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun just has to be had. You don't need to look at the date, look at the OP. Anyone else I

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:57 -0800, Aron Smith wrote: Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4.

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 01 April 2005 07:05 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:06 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 Apr 2005 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strangely, if you look at his website he has taken the trouble to include linux links and he has written about it at

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 17:10 +0200, M.Schild wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:45:48 -0600 Tom disseminated the following: Might be easier to get RC2 now an upgrade it Me run a Cooker box? Despite my bravado regarding Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, I am, shall we say 'fearful', to run Cooker on my one and only desktop. An aging P3

[newbie] Failed Install

2005-04-01 Thread Aron Smith
Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:06 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 Apr 2005 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strangely, if you look at his website he has taken the trouble to include linux links and he has written about it at

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Philippe Landau
'cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=16 dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao name of iso' Adjust speed= an dev= to suit your burner use one quarter of the possible speed, maximum. OTOH, Warly is already testin the final 2005LE (10.2) iso's. Should be available shortly EPA, 2005, April 6. RC2,

Re: [newbie] Failed Install

2005-04-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases --

RE: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Susanto (CBN)
to waiting the solid rock, ready to use Free Linux as I wish someday. Yours truly, Susanto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josenildo Marques Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:32 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] back

Re: [newbie] Failed Install

2005-04-01 Thread Miark
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:05:34 -0800, Aron wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases --

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread jdow
From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] What exactly do you mean by troll ? A person that just post an inflammatory email with the only reason to start a fight /anders If you apply for a return of your leg with proper respect and humility I am sure it will be returned, Anders. {^_-}

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread jdow
From: M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too !

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-04-01 Thread WauloK
Ack! Too much configuring since installation to go back to the start! I'll have to find another way, but thanks On Apr 1, 2005 11:24 PM, Ivo Perich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason: i forgot to remark that the security level is that i put IN THE INSTALATION, im NOT talking about change the

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread riccardo
On Saturday 02 April 2005 03:11 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: that a seemingly stupid message can bring out good memories ~ likewise, i too have best memories of TRS80 ~ it had terrific Manual , with interesting illustrations and great teaching method. best rgds

RE: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Hugh Dixon
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Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread jdow
From: Hugh Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [JDOW] April Fools has existed since the days of the Roman Empire. {^_-} Did the Romans get to Brazil? [JDOW] Rumor has it that this ancient Roman (and perhaps earlier) tradition may have made it to Brazil via Portugal. A lot of other things may have,

RE: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 15:56, Hugh Dixon wrote: [JDOW] April Fools has existed since the days of the Roman Empire. {^_-} Did the Romans get to Brazil? Where do you think the Brazilians came from? Rome had been there. Etruscans had been there. Phoenicians had been there. Egyptians had

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread jdow
From: riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 02 April 2005 03:11 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: that a seemingly stupid message can bring out good memories ~ likewise, i too have best memories of TRS80 ~ it had terrific Manual , with interesting illustrations and great teaching

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