Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-29 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 08:51 +0700, Teddy Widhi wrote: Hi, in README.txt file i found this... but i not yet to try it. === Installion of the Browser plugin (not done by default): - To install the browser plugin, you would need to execute the script

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-29 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:11 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: I just tried and it worked. The entire session was: = $ cd /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/ $ ls Browser_Plugin_HowTo.txt install_browser_plugin* intellinux/ $ ./install_browser_plugin This will install the browser

Re: [newbie] How do I...

2005-03-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 06:46 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: look at the maillists site where you first subscribed it will tell you how to unsub. HTH The headers of any list message gives unsubscribe info too. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-29 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:20 -0600, Chris wrote: Yes, mine did the same, Mozilla shows the plug-in installed, however, clicking on a .pdf file withing Mozilla nets some drive action, but the .pdf never loads. Any ideas? I don't know. I just closed Mozilla (1.7.6), started it again and

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-29 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:35 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:20 -0600, Chris wrote: Yes, mine did the same, Mozilla shows the plug-in installed, however, clicking on a .pdf file withing Mozilla nets some drive action, but the .pdf never loads. Any ideas? I don't know.

Re: [newbie] xmms and sound

2005-03-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 00:44, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:27 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Any ideas why I can't get any sound out of xmms but realplayer, totem, and the system sounds work fine? TIA Paul Have you tried resetting it to the arts output plugin? or one of

[newbie] Quicktime video

2005-03-29 Thread Aron Smith
anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem

2005-03-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 02:32, Tim wrote: Hello all, My 10.1 system has developed a strange problem. 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.

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2005-03-29 Thread mandrake
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Re: [newbie] Quicktime video

2005-03-29 Thread Teddy Widhi
Hi, install MPlayer or Xine. you can play the QuickTime video file using those application. dont forget install quicktime codec. Teddy Widhi L. Penguin Power On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:20:30 -0800, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ?

Re: [newbie] Quicktime video

2005-03-29 Thread Miark
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:31:25 +0700, Teddy wrote: anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? install MPlayer or Xine. you can play the QuickTime video file using those application. dont forget install quicktime codec. Set up PLF free and non-free urpmi sources, and then 'urpmi

Re: [newbie] xmms and sound

2005-03-29 Thread Duncan Anderson
Paul Kaplan wrote: Any ideas why I can't get any sound out of xmms but realplayer, totem, and the system sounds work fine? TIA Paul If you right-click on the xmms console, go Options -Preferences and then see the first tab, Audio I/O Plugins. At the bottom of the box, see Output Plugin. Try

Re: [newbie] I'm confused about java

2005-03-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:38, Aidan Holmes wrote: Hi list, I tried to view a website today that needs java to display properly. I used the 'install software' part of mcc and searched for java - the (monsterous) list has left me very confused. Can anyone tell me what package I need to

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or directory. Thought I would rename it, but

[newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-28 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
Hello, Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 17:09, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - no just kidding. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865. There is

[newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread.

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 28 March 2005 10:32, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: Hello, Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ Yes, but installing with urpmi gives an error, something with curl being in the way. Instead, use this : # rpm -i --nodeps AdobeReader

[newbie] can't find /udev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2005-03-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
the above resolved could someone tell what the - - in the mount options mean and also what the none at the beginning actual does and of course how is it over~ridden. All the reading I have done hasn't explained these two points to me as yet. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
- that some prefer to wrestle with linux, than actually use their system I *don't* fall into that category. I really am deeply appreciative of your efforts to help, and of other listers - but am beginning to wonder if it is going anywhere. Regards Rosemary -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY

[newbie] Ping ogo user

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. ___ my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :- ___ # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Sep 28 02:21:33 2002

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was once there. I don't seem to find my way around there

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 11:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. just /, /home and one for swap (3 total) ___ ~ maybe, it handy, to have complete Reserve system on another Partition . . . kept up-to-date by a cron job to run rsync

[newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. I thought that the last time I did this I copied the /home/lee/Mail directory to the new box and I was done. So I renamed the existing directory xMail and copied the old Mail directory to the

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put it in

Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-28 Thread Smiley
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:26:52 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boot from CD1 and select 'Upgrade' It will not touch the contents of your /home But be aware this is a **beta** there **will** be things wrong with it. Some things that currently work fine may stop working. I did

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-28 Thread Ivo Perich
El Lunes, 28 de Marzo de 2005 11:37, Jason Oakley escribió: Ivo Perich wrote: What happened in the Mandrake installation? Did the mouse work? If so, I had exactly the same problem with a ps/2 mouse. In the instalation, it worked fine. After the reboot, it didn't. I used the cursor keys and

[newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread SOTL
Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different computers. In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100 data files with over 2 GB of data. In the last instance Saturday morning I was transferring a directory with over 5

Re: [newbie] MC erases all data during copy (HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Philippe Landau
hello Frank really bad bug there ... great you have backups. do i understand you right that there is no harddisk failure involved but you loose all content while using Midnight Commander (MC) ? kind regards philippe -- SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was

Re: [newbie] can't find /udev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: My /dev/hdc is a symlink to /udev/hdc and /udev lists /hdc so that is loaded. Yet when I go : # mount /dev/hdc or # mount /udev/hdc I get the above message My fstab entry for this is: none /mnt/dvd-rw supermount

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that Linux Stuff directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. Linux_Stuff or some

Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Teilhard Knight wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Duncan Anderson
SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different computers. In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100 data files with over 2 GB of data. In the last instance Saturday morning I was transferring a directory

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - no just kidding. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - first up: during the install, I selected the partitions that Mandrake preselected - which is what I was advised to do, probably at linuxquestions or another forum, or possibly on the installation process itself. These were: hda5 (5.8Gb, /, ext) hda6 (368Mb,

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different computers. In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100 data files with over 2 GB of data. In the last instance Saturday morning I was transferring a directory

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 23:50, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was once

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - no just kidding. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:54:06 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo)

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 23:33, riccardo wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: My main question is:  will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. ___ my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :- ___ # Modified by

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:01:35 +0200, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ Yes, but installing with urpmi gives an error, something with curl being in the way. Instead, use this : # rpm -i

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread SOTL
On Monday 28 March 2005 11:15, Duncan Anderson wrote: SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different computers. In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100 data files with over 2 GB of data. In the

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
mail from your system ether directly to the mail server of the person you are sending to, or relayed through another email server, depending on how you set it up. (Setting up Sendmail in not a job fo a newbie...) If you have the program you use for reading mail (kmail, Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread SOTL
On Monday 28 March 2005 12:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different computers. In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100 data files with over 2 GB of data.

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Duncan Anderson
SOTL wrote: You missed the point. I was doing NOTHING with the root file system. I was simply coping data files [5 gb worth] from one directory to another. OK. I misunderstood. Were the two directories on the same hard disk or what? cheers Duncan

[newbie] associations lost in KDE: incomprehensible!

2005-03-28 Thread Ivo Perich
I can't save the file associations in KDE. when i associate a type of file to a executable, it works fine until i reboot. After that the association the file is opened with the default program. I thought that may be some kind of problem related with chmod or chown, i did a chmod -R 755 . in my

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Sendmail in not a job fo a newbie...) If you have the program you use for reading mail (kmail, Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail, etc) set up to use your ISP's mail server, then you do not need sendmail. The change to /etc/fstab will let you access the files you have there. I am not sure what you have

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-28 Thread eric jackson
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:36 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 26, 2005 09:42 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip No, that's all it says. Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? Eric

[newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In Konqueror - attempted to mount a CD to look at photos (which I've

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Ian
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 20:43, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:43 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: This may relate to the other problems I am having. ~ maybe, if the 'learning curve' seems a bit steep . . . you might consider running a system entirely off CD . . . someone recently had good experience with 'Feather Linux' best

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:16:00 -0500, Lee wrote: Thanks all. Trick was rename .sylpheed to .sylpheed-gtk2. Right--when you said 1.9.6 I was thinking you were using Claws, not Claws2. That 1.9 naming convention still throws me for a loop! Miark

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In Konqueror - attempted to mount a CD to

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The reason has to do with X server security. Normally, only the user that owns the current X secession can have programs connect to it. Starting an X based program requires that it connect to an X server. Now, the user

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may have broke a couple of other things. The reasion is that the mount points for other

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Rafa Kamraj
Just terrible. But i really don't believe that using any program(not only mc) could do such harm to hardware. I suppouse that problem is rather technical not software by nature. Are you using UPS? Bad electricity often causes strange hardware failures. Check your power, maybe it falls below or

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread SOTL
On Monday 28 March 2005 14:12, Duncan Anderson wrote: SOTL wrote: You missed the point. I was doing NOTHING with the root file system. I was simply coping data files [5 gb worth] from one directory to another. OK. I misunderstood. Were the two directories on the same hard disk or what?

[newbie] USB Wireless

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. HP built a Mini-PCI adapter slot into my laptop (accessible from the underside of the laptop), but

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400 that I bough new for less

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may have broke a couple

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Miark wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400 that I bough new

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Miark wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400

[newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to get a Wireless G card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found the cardbus slot! As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' 'G' enabled networks with speeds up to 54Mbps, so this is

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Miark wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What file system were you using? How is the power source the systems are connected to? The laptop is battery powered but was plugged into the wall. The MSI box is not currently connected to a UPS. I have one location that I

Re: [newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to get a Wireless G card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found the cardbus slot! As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' 'G' enabled networks with speeds up to 54Mbps, so

Re: [newbie] associations lost in KDE: incomprehensible!

2005-03-28 Thread Andras Keszei
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 05:20, Ivo Perich wrote: I can't save the file associations in KDE. when i associate a type of file to a executable, it works fine until i reboot. After that the association the file is opened with the default program. I thought that may be some kind of problem related

Re: [newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations

2005-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:10 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to get a Wireless G card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found the cardbus slot! As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' 'G' enabled

Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user

2005-03-28 Thread et
On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee let us know how it goes... -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org;

[newbie] Failed logins and access

2005-03-28 Thread Leroy Britton
I am new to Linux. I have Mandrake 9.1 running and would like to know how I can log failed logins and failed file access attempts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Wlan pcmcia cards, cardbus cards

2005-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
Oh what the heck, here is the URL that I used to get my wireless card. I am not affiliated nor otherwise connected with this company or persons. Hope this helps someone. http://stores.ebay.com/DataAlliance_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm -- Dennis M. linux user #180842

Re: [newbie] Failed logins and access

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Leroy Britton wrote: I am new to Linux. I have Mandrake 9.1 running and would like to know how I can log failed logins and failed file access attempts. Failed logins will show up in /var/log/auth.log, along with other security information. If you run, as root, touch /var/log/btmp, then you

Re: [newbie] Wlan pcmcia cards, cardbus cards

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Dennis Myers wrote: Oh what the heck, here is the URL that I used to get my wireless card. I am not affiliated nor otherwise connected with this company or persons. Hope this helps someone. http://stores.ebay.com/DataAlliance_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm Thanks Dennis. I'll have a look. -- Mr.

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:14, Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom.

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 13:33, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
et wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee let us know how it goes... Lee; I went a few rounds with OpenGroupware and couldn't get it to work. I switched over to Egroupware

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Duncan Anderson
SOTL wrote: There were 3 failures each slightly different all occurred while I was using MC under very heavy load. HD Failure # 3 details snipped At the time of the last failure I had decided to use MC to transfer files as previous transfer had been by root so root permission was required to

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:58, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. It all depends on what you are doing. For me: / gets 6 Gb 35% free /home gets 13 Gb 94% free /swap gets 500 Mb and it never fills up. I use a

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:36, Jason Oakley wrote: This all makes it look like the system is totally ready for the mouse: Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Macally Peripherals  Evoluent Optical

[newbie] I'm confused about java

2005-03-28 Thread Aidan Holmes
Hi list, I tried to view a website today that needs java to display properly. I used the 'install software' part of mcc and searched for java - the (monsterous) list has left me very confused. Can anyone tell me what package I need to install to view a website with java - I'm using firefox if

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:08:01 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a | picture. Any suggestions? | | Thanks in advance, | | Paul May I

Re: [newbie] Linneighborhood

2005-03-27 Thread Leaf
On Sunday 27 March 2005 06:26, Jason Oakley wrote: Hi. I've installed Linneighborhood on my MDK 10.1 installation. I can't find any icons for it in my MD-K-DE menu so I don't know how to configure it. It'd be nice to use for setting up connections to Samba shares on my FreeBSD server. TIA

Re: [newbie] Linneighborhood

2005-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 27 Mar 2005 08:19, Leaf wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 06:26, Jason Oakley wrote: Hi. I've installed Linneighborhood on my MDK 10.1 installation. I can't find any icons for it in my MD-K-DE menu so I don't know how to configure it. It'd be nice to use for setting up

Re: [newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-27 Thread Robert Yu
http://www.zarb.org/~trem/easyurpmi/ Willl this site update my Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run

2005-03-27 Thread et
On Saturday 26 March 2005 08:30 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2005 03:56 pm, Aron Smith wrote: system acting weird again kmail comes up then terminates with fatal error so i started it in a terminal got this message [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ kmail QObject::connect: No

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