Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-06 Thread Ivo Perich
I think Mandriva is awful... El Martes, 5 de Abril de 2005 11:57, JR escribió: > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:45 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > It seems our favourite distro is going to change its name > > > That would be a pity, I always thought Mandrake was a great name. And the > two suggest

Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-06 Thread Andras Keszei
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:49, WauloK wrote: > Yes! Definitely! Thanks :) > > On Apr 6, 2005 2:40 PM, Andras Keszei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and run at 1152x864 I get about 70Hz when the maximum is 75Hz. > > > > > > Any cluebats? > > > > I also have an LG studioworks 700S, I did nothing out

[newbie] Compiling the 2.6.11 Kernel ?

2005-04-06 Thread Pete Moscatt
I am trying to compile my first kernel (2.6.11) using the source. The distro this is for is Mandrake 10.0. I have had a look through the README file but reading this has me unsure on the correct process. Firstly I untar'd it an placed it in '/usr/src' >From there I ran 'make configold' as ro

[newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-06 Thread Les Thomas
I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Want to buy your Pack or S

Re: [newbie] Updating with RPM drake

2005-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Owen wrote: My installation is straight forward. Aside from updates from the mirror no other software has been installed or modified. For a few months I did not touched my Mandrake box. Now when I attempt to use RPM drake for updates I get messages with the error that the packages have bad sig

[newbie] Updating with RPM drake

2005-04-06 Thread Owen
My installation is straight forward. Aside from updates from the mirror no other software has been installed or modified. For a few months I did not touched my Mandrake box. Now when I attempt to use RPM drake for updates I get messages with the error that the packages have bad signatures. Suc

[newbie] Re: KIOSlave and Bluetooth phone

2005-04-06 Thread WauloK
The other problem is, every second time I click on the (K) bluetooth icon in the system tray, the program crashes. Pairing is not working either and TFM instructions don't fix it. On Apr 6, 2005 1:17 PM, WauloK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone set up KIOSlave to connect to a Bluetooth phone

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:10 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: > Miark wrote: > > Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external > > drive's power supply. > > thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. > it looks like the external case is leaking power to US

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-06 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 02:20 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 06:15:51 +0100 > > Elwyn York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got a MS wireless optical mouse. It used to be plugged into the > > PS2 port then I needed the adapter for the notebook, so it's now in USB. > > Does your

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-06 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 06:15:51 +0100 Elwyn York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a MS wireless optical mouse. It used to be plugged into the PS2 > port then I needed the adapter for the notebook, so it's now in USB. Does yours burn holes in your desk? Lee _

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-06 Thread Lee Wiggers
Thanks all for the input. I'll try Russ's fix first with my fingers crossed. Charles, I had to smile about yours. I feel lucky I had an old mouse kickin' around. Lee On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:51:13 -0700 Russ Kepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED] eng.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 04:09 pm, Charles A

Re: [newbie] New Kernel installation.

2005-04-06 Thread Tom
Gonzalo Mdk wrote: Hi all, i'm new to this list (I usually use the expert) because i think this Q doesn't qualify for the expert list. Actually it does, but you'll probly get better answers here, an less nags to add to the(ir) community twiki ;) I have a laptop (doesn't have a brand, is assemb

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power to USB, because it happens even when its power switch is off, but so far not when

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread jdow
From: "Philippe Landau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, > i see a small electric flash which can cause > my PC to shutdown instantly. > i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, > so the flash is not unexpected. > also as it is used to sen

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Miark
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:23:03 +0200, Philippe wrote: > when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, > i see a small electric flash which can cause > my PC to shutdown instantly. > i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, > so the flash is not unexpected. > also as it is use

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Philippe Landau wrote: when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send control signals i can understand

Re: [newbie] New Kernel installation.

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:10, Gonzalo Mdk wrote: > Hi all, i'm new to this list (I usually use the expert) because i > think this Q doesn't qualify for the expert list. > I have a laptop (doesn't have a brand, is assembled in a place here in > Chile) that has ACPI support, but when i recompile the k

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-06 Thread Tom
Robert Yu wrote: Anne, why uninstall Xine? Shouldn't I just be able to update it? The Mandrake versions of mplayer and xine are not compiled to take advantange of the 'unfree' codecs and apps that they can't distribute for legal reasons. Anne's advice was correct, uninstall the Mdk versions

[newbie] New Kernel installation.

2005-04-06 Thread Gonzalo Mdk
Hi all, i'm new to this list (I usually use the expert) because i think this Q doesn't qualify for the expert list. I have a laptop (doesn't have a brand, is assembled in a place here in Chile) that has ACPI support, but when i recompile the kernel with acpi support (i have 2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB)

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Joe Mecklin
assuming (i know that's a dangerous practice) the case/motherboard/power supply are all properly designed, the grounding will be builtin such that you really don't have to worry about it, but here are some things to look for: the power supply will have a black wire as part of its wiring harness fo

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Joe Mecklin wrote: from your description it would appear you have a grounding problem with your pc, or a defective hard drive. the electric flash as you plug it in (before the system can recognize/initialize it) should not be a control signal per se, but rather is likely extraneous current that im

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Joe Mecklin
from your description it would appear you have a grounding problem with your pc, or a defective hard drive. the electric flash as you plug it in (before the system can recognize/initialize it) should not be a control signal per se, but rather is likely extraneous current that improper grounding is

[newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send control signals i can understand that it powers down my

Re: [newbie] kernel with support for sata raid

2005-04-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:49, Isak Lyberth wrote: > i have a Fujitsu-siemens server (primergy Econel 50) with a Intel > fw82801fr chipset, that supports some raid settings. > I have seen on a debian install that it worked with a 3ware driver, but > couldn't get it to work with this on mandrake.

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-06 Thread Q.H. Wang
> Not much to it, really. I just type 'pdftotext filename.pdf' > which generates filename.txt. Feel free to e-mail me the file > offlist if you'd like me to take a crack at it. Many thanks Miark. I tried it again this morning but I have no luck. For certain pdf documents, "pdftotext" could work.

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-06 Thread Q.H. Wang
> you could also open the pdf in kWrite. > this will import the text too. > the pdf format is proprietary and often weird. > text can therefore come out mangled and out of sequence. > Many thanks Philippe. I also notice the problem of KWord to import pdf file. For some pdf files, they're readab

Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 6, 2005 3:44 AM, Alberto Omar Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual > > Machine (JVM) is working fine? > > Try this > > http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml Thanks to all who answered my question. Paul ___

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files, bu

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-06 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Dienstag 5. April 2005 16:37 schrieb Miark: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 > > Elwyn York disseminated the following: > > > > As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which > > during even a clean install is not formatted, at l

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-06 Thread Charles Rodgers
>On Tuesday 05 April 2005 23:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: >> I foolishly entered "control alt F1" >> and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. >> >> What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? >> >> Your help will be much appreciated. >> >> Charles > >Ctl+Alt

Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:49, WauloK wrote: > Yes! Definitely! Thanks :) Now you can get back into IRC and tell'em how great having TWO resources for Mandrake issues is, eh? (g) YankDownUnder -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-04-05 Thread WauloK
oh ok. on top like we used to do with windows way back On Apr 3, 2005 5:35 AM, Ivo Perich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try installing without formatting anything... it works > > El Sábado, 2 de Abril de 2005 01:50, WauloK escribió: > > Ack! > > Too much configuring since installation to go back t

Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-05 Thread WauloK
Yes! Definitely! Thanks :) On Apr 6, 2005 2:40 PM, Andras Keszei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and run at 1152x864 I get about 70Hz when the maximum is 75Hz. > > > > Any cluebats? > > I also have an LG studioworks 700S, I did nothing out of the ordinary > (not actually having the skills), and I

[newbie] Re: KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Thread Russell Butler
.rc file or something, or at least debug what is happening? I am not entirely a newbie, but have not learnt my way around debugging. k3b --help doesn't seem to offer a verbose mode and no help from k3bsetup. Russell KDM configuration is in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc It is well commented. derek Sorry I

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Thread frengoGorgia
Il mer, 2005-04-06 alle 04:11, jdow ha scritto: > From: "frengoGorgia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Il mar, 2005-04-05 alle 21:05, Anne Wilson ha scritto: > > > On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 19:37, jdow wrote: > > > > > > > > The cute problem is when you want to read a pdf file in your browser. > > > > It i

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-05 Thread Elwyn York
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 12:04, Lee Wiggers wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in > 10.1? > > I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm > switch. I've got a MS wireless optical mouse. It used to be plugged into the PS2 port then I neede

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-05 Thread Elwyn York
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 20:46, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:55:24 +0100 > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > In that case, the whole /home directory, including mail and any sa

Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-05 Thread Andras Keszei
> and run at 1152x864 I get about 70Hz when the maximum is 75Hz. > > Any cluebats? I also have an LG studioworks 700S, I did nothing out of the ordinary (not actually having the skills), and I have the desktop at 1152x864 @ 75Hz as per the OSD display on the monitor. I have Mdk10.0 and a Geforce

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2005-04-05 Thread mandrake
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[newbie] source build problem

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Kaplan
I am not an expert in rebuilding rpms from src.rpms, but I have done it from time to time.  I am now trying to build rpms for firefox 1.0.2 using the src rpm from cooker.  However the process aborts after about 20 minutes with the following message: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77790: line 96: fg: no job c

[newbie] KIOSlave and Bluetooth phone

2005-04-05 Thread WauloK
Has anyone set up KIOSlave to connect to a Bluetooth phone? I have a Motorola A1000 which I'd like to upload/download images, documents and other files with. My KDEBluetooth can detect the phone and connect to it, but I only get the options of OBEX-Push and a couple other things, but not OBEX-kiosl

Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-05 Thread Alberto Omar Rodrigues
On Apr 5, 2005 8:42 PM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All > > Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual > Machine (JVM) is working fine? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > > Try this http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml -- Bye Alberto Omar

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:30, mike wrote: > Ahh... thanks Steven. > > Never happened to me before at least since I been using Linux. > I guess I thought I was safer than I really was. > > Not sure how to turn that off in mozilla will look around. > > Again thanks, > Mike Not quite sure in Mozil

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Thread mike
Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:30, mike wrote: > > >> >>I'm scrolling it in mozilla browser and it kills X again. >> >>What is happening? is viewing the text document in browser executing >>some kind of java exploit? >> >>Should I report this to Source forge? Or am I compromized,

Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-05 Thread Cameron MacDonald
JR wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:38 am, Cameron MacDonald wrote: Now I feel even sillierI remembered "uname" but forgot the switch!! For any command you dont know the switches for (but you do know the command), just type 'uname - -help'. Replacing 'uname' with whatever command is torturi

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Thread jdow
From: "frengoGorgia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Il mar, 2005-04-05 alle 21:05, Anne Wilson ha scritto: > > On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 19:37, jdow wrote: > > > > > > The cute problem is when you want to read a pdf file in your browser. > > > It is probably better to save the pdf file and only allow AcroRead

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:04 am, jdow wrote: > From: "Aron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > > >On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > > >>On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: > > > > Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert > > from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does > > any better. > > Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or > two pages of two pdf files into tex

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:59:07 +1000, WauloK wrote: > Hence, it's the first naive Word processor! > > On Apr 6, 2005 7:38 AM, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:10:03 +0100, JR wrote: > > > * It exports to PDF naively :-) Since moving to Sylpheed 1.9.6, the spell check ha

[newbie] Re: [Wine]To su or not to su

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Yu
> h:\ maps to your home drive. Or, mine does. I used winetools-2.1.0-jo > to set up wine. See what else is in ~/.wine/dosdevices. > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards > and/or writing?

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:30, mike wrote: > I know this is actually a no...no... but sometimes I get these > emails meant for a windows box with attachments like joker.exe or > whatever. > > Anyways I dont open the attachments, but I view the message source > just to see what it looks like. I know

[newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Thread mike
I know this is actually a no...no... but sometimes I get these emails meant for a windows box with attachments like joker.exe or whatever. Anyways I dont open the attachments, but I view the message source just to see what it looks like. I know :-| killed the cat. I did not ever have a proble

Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-05 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 4:42 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual > Machine (JVM) is working fine? www.java.com -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Yu
Anne, why uninstall Xine? Shouldn't I just be able to update it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ___

Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 09:42, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual > Machine (JVM) is working fine? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul Why not something fun? http://speculativevision.com/arcade/tailgunner/tailgunner.html -- stephen k

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Thread frengoGorgia
Il mar, 2005-04-05 alle 21:05, Anne Wilson ha scritto: > On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 19:37, jdow wrote: > > > > The cute problem is when you want to read a pdf file in your browser. > > It is probably better to save the pdf file and only allow AcroRead to > > access local files. > > I do tend to view

[newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is working fine? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http:

Re: [newbie] Connecting a video camera

2005-04-05 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 14:52, Auke Jan Kroon wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Mandrake 10.0 on my aunt's computer (can be upgraded to 10.1 > if necessary) and she bought a Sharp VL-Z1S video camera with > DV/IEEE1394/Firewire output. I don't have a video camera, so my > knowledge about this is close t

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread WauloK
Hence, it's the first naive Word processor! On Apr 6, 2005 7:38 AM, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:10:03 +0100, JR wrote: > * It exports to PDF naively Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http:

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Q.H. Wang
> > Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from > one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files, but I got no luck. What I got in the text files are s

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-05 Thread Russ Kepler
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 04:09 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 07:04:18 -0400 > > Lee Wiggers wrote: > > Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in > > 10.1? > > > > I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm > > switch. > > Mine exhi

Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-05 Thread WauloK
Hey Yank! :) Nah didn't manage to resolve it. As I said, for some reason the OSD says "44.1kHz / 55.0 Hz". I *know* it's not 55 Hz cos that'd be sooo flickery it'd drive me nuts! Usually the OSD on the monitory also displays the RESOLUTION of the desktop (ie 1152x864) but at the moment, it's only

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:27, Charles Rodgers wrote: > >On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: > >> I foolishly entered "control alt F1" > >> and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. > >> > >> What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? > >>

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Rodgers
>On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: >> I foolishly entered "control alt F1" >> and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. >> >> What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? >> >> Your help will be much appreciated. >> >> Charles > >ctrl-al

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 23:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: > I foolishly entered "control alt F1" > and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. > > What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? > > Your help will be much appreciated. > > Charles Ctl+Alt+F1 only mo

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered "control alt F1" and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles This is strange. I use the Ctrl-Alt-F1 to change to the command lin

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: > I foolishly entered "control alt F1" > and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. > > What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? > > Your help will be much appreciated. > > Charles ctrl-alt-F7 or ctr

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 07:04:18 -0400 Lee Wiggers wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. Mine exhibits the same behaviour. The workaround I use is that each time

[newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Rodgers
I foolishly entered "control alt F1" and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 07:04:18 -0400 Lee Wiggers wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in > 10.1? > > I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm > switch. Mine exhibits the same behaviour. The workaround I use is that each time I change to

Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:38 am, Cameron MacDonald wrote: > Now I feel even sillierI remembered "uname" but forgot > the switch!! uname -a Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:10:03 +0100, JR wrote: > I have an interview coming up in a few weeks. One of the minor > requirements would be skills with MS word and excel. I was > thinking of using this as an opportunity to say "but I've also > started to use OOo more often because I find I am more > pro

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:52:15 +0100, Q.H. wrote: > I have some problem when using the feature of "select text" of > Adobe reader 7.0. For some pdf documents, the texts I selected > are ok. But for some others, the texts I slected are kinda > mess when I put them into OO writer. Does any one have sim

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:55:24 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 > > > Elwyn York disseminated the following: > > > > > > As far as your mail, it's sto

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 19:37, jdow wrote: > > So you simply block all ports for AcroRead. That's as easy as only > blocking port 80. > > > The cute problem is when you want to read a pdf file in your browser. > It is probably better to save the pdf file and only allow AcroRead to > access local fil

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Thread jdow
From: "Bryan Phinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 06:26, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > An app that knows the difference between these two things? That's not > > > asking for much now, is it? If I could build such a thing, nobody on > > > this group could afford it, Cisco and the o

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-05 Thread jdow
From: "Aron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > >On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > >>On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > >>>On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Apr 5, 2005 1:21 PM, H.J.Bathoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:14, Aron Smith wrote: > > It's better at opening *some* Word files than Word is > > OOo and Word treat whitespace differently.whatch out for that on large > docs.pdf is the solution. > -- > Good l

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:14, Aron Smith wrote: > It's better at opening *some* Word files than Word is OOo and Word treat whitespace differently.whatch out for that on large docs.pdf is the solution. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 09:49 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:10, JR wrote: > > I have an interview coming up in a few weeks. One of the minor > > requirements would be skills with MS word and excel. I was thinking of > > using this as an opportunity to say "but I've also sta

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:10, JR wrote: > I have an interview coming up in a few weeks. One of the minor requirements > would be skills with MS word and excel. I was thinking of using this as an > opportunity to say "but I've also started to use OOo more often because I > find I am more productiv

[newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Q.H. Wang
Hi folks, I have some problem when using the feature of "select text" of Adobe reader 7.0. For some pdf documents, the texts I selected are ok. But for some others, the texts I slected are kinda mess when I put them into OO writer. Does any one have similar experience? Bests, Q.H. _

[newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread JR
I have an interview coming up in a few weeks. One of the minor requirements would be skills with MS word and excel. I was thinking of using this as an opportunity to say "but I've also started to use OOo more often because I find I am more productive and it does ". Can anyone give me a few di

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-05 Thread JR
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:45 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > It seems our favourite distro is going to change its name That would be a pity, I always thought Mandrake was a great name. And the two suggested ones are awful (maybe it's my Irish accent?). Jarlath

Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-05 Thread JR
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:38 am, Cameron MacDonald wrote: > Now I feel even sillierI remembered "uname" but forgot the switch!! For any command you dont know the switches for (but you do know the command), just type 'uname - -help'. Replacing 'uname' with whatever command is torturing you a

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Do you really want to start comparing who has the oldest hardware sitting around? I think there is a lady on this list that has us all beat. (Especial after I junked the model 33 teletype last year.) An ASR 33? I would h

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-05 Thread Tom
Josenildo Marques wrote: It seems our favourite distro is going to change its name to _Mandriva_ (i.e., Mandrake+Conectiva), according to an article I have just read. The article says Mandrake bought the domains Mandriva.com and Mandriva.net. Conectiva bought the domain mandriva.com.br whois ma

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 > > Elwyn York disseminated the following: > > > > As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which > > during even a clean install is not formatted, at least

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 > Elwyn York disseminated the following: > > As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which > during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not by > default AFAIK. This should go for most if n

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:45 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: > And the latest newsletter says Mandrake is going "to incorporate > elements of technology from Conectiva, particularly in the area of the > smart package management software and some of Conectiva's kernel > enhancements." > I think that

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > >On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: > >>On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > >>>On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: > >>>| I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4.

[newbie] pci-express support

2005-04-05 Thread Isak Lyberth
does mandrake-linux or linux in general support pci-express? Regards Isak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ___

Re: [newbie] Re: KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Thread Derek Jennings
nager > > > > derek > > Thanks for the suggestion Derek, but still the same behaviour. > > Is there any way to edit an .rc file or something, or at least debug > what is happening? > > I am not entirely a newbie, but have not learnt my way around debugging. >

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:38:36 +0200, Pablo wrote: > Since I installed Acrobat Reader 7, KGhostView no longer works > (hangs forever). I've just downloaded KPDF: doesn't work either > (*very* strange characters). Has anyone had the same problem? No problems here. Miark

[newbie] Re: KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Thread Russell Butler
the "faces" settings. Mandrake Control Centre> System>Display Manager Select the 'KDM' display Manager derek Thanks for the suggestion Derek, but still the same behaviour. Is there any way to edit an .rc file or something, or at least debug what is happening? I am not entir

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-04-05 Thread Q.H. Wang
I don't find any problem with KghostView after installing AR 7.0. It wroks as good as it used to. How did you install your AR 7.0? I just downloaded the RPM from adobe.com and made no other effort to install it. Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-05 Thread Josenildo Marques
It seems our favourite distro is going to change its name to _Mandriva_ (i.e., Mandrake+Conectiva), according to an article I have just read. The article says Mandrake bought the domains Mandriva.com and Mandriva.net. Conectiva bought the domain mandriva.com.br And the latest newsletter says Mandr

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 12:38, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > Hello, > > Since I installed Acrobat Reader 7, KGhostView no longer works (hangs > forever). I've just downloaded KPDF: doesn't work either (*very* strange > characters). Has anyone had the same problem? I haven't heard people complaining that k

[newbie] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-04-05 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
Hello, Since I installed Acrobat Reader 7, KGhostView no longer works (hangs forever). I've just downloaded KPDF: doesn't work either (*very* strange characters). Has anyone had the same problem? -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Se

Re: [newbie] KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 11:33, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel > > installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent > > re-install I had been using the graphical

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