[newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server or will it work on a LAN? This is probably way elementary to a lot of you, sorry about that. Thanks for any reply, bj

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Thread Ryan Steffes
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:33:50 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server or will it work on a LAN? This is probably way elementary to a lot of

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Thread BJ Tracy
On Monday 13 September 2004 11:31 am, Ryan Steffes wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:33:50 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server or will it

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Thread Ryan Steffes
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:02:18 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 September 2004 11:31 am, Ryan Steffes wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:33:50 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 13 Sep 2004 3:33 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server or will it work on a LAN? This is probably way elementary to a lot of you, sorry about that. I

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-30 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 20:40, Paul Smith wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 08:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 29 August 2004 17:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 29 August 2004 18:14, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 08:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
Stephen Kühn wrote: I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G 2,6G 40% /

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G 2,6G 40% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 09 July 2004 00:44, Aron Smith wrote: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? I dont know what a mp3u file is but I have 27G of mp3 files and they

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-16 Thread Lanman
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 09 July 2004 00:44, Aron Smith wrote: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? I dont know what a mp3u file is but I have 27G of mp3

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 16 July 2004 12:17 pm, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 09 July 2004 00:44, Aron Smith wrote: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files?

[newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-08 Thread Aron Smith
1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-08 Thread Charlie M.
On July 8, 2004 11:44 pm, Aron Smith wrote: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? Yeah, right Aron. How many times do I have to tell you; the stupid

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-08 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia pi 9. lipca 2004 07:44, Aron Smith napisa: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? It's an mp3 playlist. You can generate it by xmms (for example)

[newbie] Question about restore?

2004-06-22 Thread Luan Pham
Yesterday I try to restore my users profile and home directory after fresh install of Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack, and all the data for Evolution and Pan restore fine. Only problem that I was unable to access sub folder under Local IN-BOX. Do you know solution for this? By the backup was from

[newbie] Dumb Newbie Question

2004-05-19 Thread Edgars Smits
OK, so I'm a real newbie. I've been running 10CE (still waiting for my 10 official DVD to be delivered), wanted to upgrade to Gnome 2.6. Decide to try it myself, using a site in Germany that had 299 RPM's. To make a long story short, I totally hosed up Gnome - to the extent that I can no

Re: [newbie] Dumb Newbie Question

2004-05-19 Thread John Drouhard
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 22:24 -0400, Edgars Smits wrote: OK, so I'm a real newbie. I've been running 10CE (still waiting for my 10 official DVD to be delivered), wanted to upgrade to Gnome 2.6. Decide to try it myself, using a site in Germany that had 299 RPM's. To make a long story short, I

[newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Ian MacGregor
I have a question concerning remote access and iptables. I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Community on a PII 450Mhz. with 256Mb RAM. I have tweaked all the settings in Mandrake Control Center, but I know nothing about iptables. I have assigned the following to the su and login commands: owner:

Re: [newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:05, Ian MacGregor wrote: I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms It seems that my box would be invisible to anyone

Re: [newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Ian MacGregor
Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( On Wednesday 21 April 2004 8:21 am, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:05, Ian MacGregor wrote: I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets

Re: [newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:27, Ian MacGregor wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( Hmmm. Not sure if you could see me as a good friend, but I do ping once in a while. You can send me your IP through private mail, I could check for you. Paul

Re: [newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Ian MacGregor
I just sent you some info. thanks for volunteering. On Wednesday 21 April 2004 8:36 am, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:27, Ian MacGregor wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( Hmmm. Not sure if you could see me as a good friend, but I do ping once in a

RE: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-05 Thread Adrian Earnshaw
Well I've sort of answered my own question, as I looked at the what packages were preinstalled and noticed that the libraries needed to install some of the software were not installed themselves. So used Mandrakes RPM to install the missing libraries and update Linux and voila all work. I think

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-05 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 March 2004 15:44, Adrian Earnshaw wrote: Well I've sort of answered my own question, Nice feeling, isn't it? g Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 04 Mar 2004 01:13, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:08:02 + Derek Jennings disseminated the following: Erm the lines I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib ring alarm bells in my head. The Glib library is one of the most fundamental libraries on

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-04 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:20:06 + Derek Jennings disseminated the following: But I still would not advise a brand new newbie to mess with compiling Glib when there is a perfectly good RPM package. I'm just curious still about this glib package from a magazine CD. There should be warnings all

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-04 Thread aron Smith
On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:39 am, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:20:06 + Derek Jennings disseminated the following: But I still would not advise a brand new newbie to mess with compiling Glib when there is a perfectly good RPM package. I'm just curious still about this glib

[newbie] Question about internet connection on Mandrake 9.1

2004-03-04 Thread TJ
Hi, I have just got my internet up and running on my 9.1 system. For some reason when I try to go in to Gnome it tells me that I should save my host in a folder called /ect/host or something like that. I can't remember exactly what it said but I am confused, I have no idea how to do that. KDE is

[newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-03 Thread Adrian Earnshaw
Title: Message I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to ./configure any programs that needGLib it tells me it's not installed properly or it's the wrong version. The GLib is from this months Linux

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-03 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:20:12 - Adrian Earnshaw disseminated the following: I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to ./configure any programs that need GLib it tells me it's not installed properly or

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 23:45, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:20:12 - Adrian Earnshaw disseminated the following: I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to ./configure any programs that

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-03 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:08:02 + Derek Jennings disseminated the following: Erm the lines I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib ring alarm bells in my head. The Glib library is one of the most fundamental libraries on your system. If you mess with it you are almost

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie question

2004-02-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 07:10 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:47 PM Subject: [newbie] stupid newbie question I know we covered this about an eon ago

[newbie] stupid newbie question

2004-02-25 Thread Aron Smith
I know we covered this about an eon ago but can anyone tell me how to untar a .bz2 file? Thanks Smitty (who can't remember his name sometimes :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie question

2004-02-25 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:47 PM Subject: [newbie] stupid newbie question I know we covered this about an eon ago but can anyone tell me how to untar a .bz2 file? Thanks

Re: [newbie] dumb Stupid Newbie Question

2003-11-09 Thread aronsmith
? *** - Original Message - From: Aronsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:19 AM Subject: [newbie] dumb Stupid Newbie Question I have been struggling to install a HP PSC-1210 I have downloaded hpoj

[newbie] dumb Stupid Newbie Question

2003-11-07 Thread Aronsmith
I have been struggling to install a HP PSC-1210 I have downloaded hpoj 0.91 which is required after (I thought un-installing hpoj 0.90 when I try to install it hpoj .090 is reinstalled (ARRGH) any help would be appreciated. smitty -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an

Re: [newbie] dumb Stupid Newbie Question

2003-11-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 07 November 2003 06:19 pm, Aronsmith wrote: I have been struggling to install a HP PSC-1210 I have downloaded hpoj 0.91 which is required after (I thought un-installing hpoj 0.90 when I try to install it hpoj .090 is reinstalled (ARRGH) any help would be appreciated. smitty Aron,

Re: [newbie] dumb Stupid Newbie Question

2003-11-07 Thread Aronsmith
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 18:48, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 07 November 2003 06:19 pm, Aronsmith wrote: I have been struggling to install a HP PSC-1210 I have downloaded hpoj 0.91 which is required after (I thought un-installing hpoj 0.90 when I try to install it hpoj .090 is reinstalled

[newbie] question on install Mandrake on second partition

2003-10-19 Thread pencuse
Hi, I have such configuration on my PC from an OEM: - Windows HP Home Edition with latest updates - 40 GB HDD: (C: 20 GB/NTFS, D:20 GB/FAT32) My intention is to install Linux on partition D: but I don't want to stop using Win XP on C:. Please note that as a user I have never used D: (no file, no

Re: [newbie] question on install Mandrake on second partition

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 12:22 pm, pencuse wrote: Hi, I have such configuration on my PC from an OEM: - Windows HP Home Edition with latest updates - 40 GB HDD: (C: 20 GB/NTFS, D:20 GB/FAT32) My intention is to install Linux on partition D: but I

Re: [newbie] question on install Mandrake on second partition

2003-10-19 Thread pencuse
Hi Charlie, hi folks, please read my 1e-9 $ comments below: --- Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 12:22 pm, pencuse wrote: Hi, I have such configuration on my PC from an OEM: - Windows HP Home Edition with latest

Re: [newbie] question on install Mandrake on second partition

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 02:03 pm, pencuse wrote: whack Hi Charlie, hi folks, please read my 1e-9 $ comments below: If you don't have an actual Windows XP install disk you don't want to do that. D:\ is your restore partition designed to work in

[newbie] installing anacron - newbie question...

2003-09-24 Thread Merlin Zener
In the thread: Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:35, RichardA wrote: [...snip] While you're at it, install anacron, too, unless you leave your computer on 24/7. When you boot, it starts the tasks that cron didn't do whilst the PC was off. This includes an updatedb every

Re: [newbie] installing anacron - newbie question...

2003-09-24 Thread RichardA
On 24 Sep 2003 20:00:52 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I don't know where to go next from here... I got slocate installed ok but not anacron: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi anacron no package named anacron You should be able to install it. Do you have a 'main'

Re: [newbie] Question for Sylpheed users

2003-09-07 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 19:24:03 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 19:18:23 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 19:09:44 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I receive some emails in HTML format (I know...Boo!).

Re: [newbie] Question for Sylpheed users

2003-09-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:09:19 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hen you go to the plugins page within sylpheed, click on install and navigate to /usr/local/lib/sylpheed. If he used the mdk rpms it will be in /usr/lib/sylpheed Charles -- Good salesmen and good repairmen

Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question]

2003-09-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:04 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: whack Hello all, well I'm pleased [no, make that: amazed:)] to say that I went out and got a modem, came home and plugged it in and connected first time - no problems!!! I got an Aztech 56K, Windoze detected it on bootup and

RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-31 Thread Merlin Zener
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 18:27 To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem... [newbie question] On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 10

[newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread Merlin Zener
Hi, I'm an almost newbie: I managed to get Mandrake installed and that's about it. I did post here a while back [I think about six months ago,] and I received some really helpful advice to get Mandrake and WIN2KPRO on the same HDD but past that I found it all a bit hard and I really don't have

Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 20:07, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, I'm an almost newbie: I managed to get Mandrake installed and that's about it. I did post here a while back [I think about six months ago,] and I received some really helpful advice to get Mandrake and WIN2KPRO on the same HDD but past

RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthemodem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
... [newbie question] in your case, I would suggest that you (as root, in a text console, without the quotes) cat /proc/pci and if you can highlight the text, and copy it to an email and post it here. we can look at that info and tell if your modem is a win modem (which will require a good bit

Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 29 August 2003 08:07 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: But the surprise is: Linux doesn't think there's a Modem in my machine! When I click on connect to the internet [from the what to do menu] it either hangs on the initialising modem stage, or sometimes it says sorry, the modem doesn't

RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread Merlin Zener
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 21:27 To: newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthemodem... [newbie question] [...snip] OK,,, the important parts about

RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 16:46, Merlin Zener wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 21:27 To: newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthemodem... [newbie

Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread Marc
: to connect to the internet, first findthemodem... [newbie question] [...snip] OK,,, the important parts about your modem are this, Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Communication controller: PCI device 8086:1040 (Intel Corp.) (rev 0). IRQ 11. Master

RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread Merlin Zener
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc Sent: Sunday, 31 August 2003 04:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question] [...snip] hmm. looks like

Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 10:07, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, I'm an almost newbie: But the surprise is: Linux doesn't think there's a Modem in my machine! You're going to want to find out what the chipset is for that modem - that way, you can search out the proper modem driver and get it installed -

[newbie] Question Update MySQL in Linux Mandrake 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread Seno Adiputra
Can you tell me how to upgrade MySQL to MySQL 4.0 or higer in Mandrake Linux 9.0... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Question Update MySQL in Linux Mandrake 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread Frankie
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Seno Adiputra Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2003 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Question Update MySQL in Linux Mandrake 9.0 Can you tell me how to upgrade MySQL to MySQL 4.0 or higer in Mandrake Linux 9.0

Re: [newbie] Question about Running Dos Application in Mandrake 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 12 Aug 2003 8:46 am, Seno Adiputra wrote: My company is still using Dos application such as cobol for its administration. When we decided to use Linux, especially Mandrake 9.0, we had a trouble to run Dos application on it. Can you tell me how to run dos application on Linux

RE: [newbie] Question about Running Dos Application in Mandrake 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread H. Carter Harris
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:50 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Question about Running Dos Application in Mandrake 9.0 On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:46, Seno Adiputra wrote: My company is still using Dos

Re: [newbie] Question about Running Dos Application in Mandrake 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:46, Seno Adiputra wrote: My company is still using Dos application such as cobol for its administration. When we decided to use Linux, especially Mandrake 9.0, we had a trouble to run Dos application on it. Can you tell me how to run dos application on Linux Mandrake

[newbie] Question about Running Dos Application in Mandrake 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread Seno Adiputra
My company is still using Dos application such as cobol for its administration. When we decided to use Linux, especially Mandrake 9.0, we had a trouble to run Dos application on it. Can you tell me how to run dos application on Linux Mandrake 9.0 ...? can wine do it ? Thank's

[newbie] Question About Instant Massanger Server...?

2003-08-14 Thread Seno Adiputra
Is the Jebber IM Server Instant Massenger server configuration..?? If it is... how to configure it so that I can run my Mandrake Linux 9.0 as Instant Massenger Server..?? Thank's __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

Re: [newbie] Question about my built in Network Adapter

2003-07-08 Thread Patrick Coffey
good thinking, worked great. Thanks From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Question about my built in Network Adapter Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:22:56 -0400 On Monday 07 July 2003 01:12 am, Patrick O. Coffey wrote: Hi, I

[newbie] Question about my built in Network Adapter

2003-07-06 Thread Patrick O. Coffey
Hi, I have two NIC's. One is built into the motherboard(an ASUS) nForce2 MCP Network Adapter, The other is an SMC card(SMC2-1211Tx) when I run the wizard in Mandrake Control Center it only configures the SMC card. Now it lists the built in adapter with the SMC under network adapters in the

[newbie] question for mozilla users

2003-06-30 Thread Michael
i don't know if i messed up a setting somewhere, but every time i open mozilla or i click on a link from a web page and it opens another page, it's FULL SCREEN. it's kind of annoying actually and i don't need it full screen, especially with a 19 moniter. i've been checking everywhere for an

Re: [newbie] question for mozilla users

2003-06-30 Thread Björn Olsson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 Michael wrote: i don't know if i messed up a setting somewhere, but every time i open mozilla or i click on a link from a web page and it opens another page, it's FULL SCREEN. it's kind of annoying actually and i don't need it full screen, especially with a 19 moniter.

Re: [newbie] question for mozilla users

2003-06-30 Thread Michael
On Monday 30 June 2003 03:54 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: Open a Mozilla window and right click the title bar. Un-check the Maximize option. Then resize the window to your liking and check the Save window configuration option. /Björn thank you. mozilla is better now. Mike Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 Jun 2003 1:32 am, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Anne , thanks heaps. No problem Did what you said and have booted up three times now with no glitches -. Glad to hear it. I got another question for ya - don't tell anyone I asked/. I have managed to upgrade to KDE 312 on my right box -

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-20 Thread Charlie
quoting Anne Wilson; Friday 20 June 2003 03:47 am: On Friday 20 Jun 2003 1:32 am, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Anne , thanks heaps. No problem Did what you said and have booted up three times now with no glitches -. Glad to hear it. I got another question for ya - don't tell anyone I

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 09:54, Ralph Bagwell wrote: My 9.1 install went so-so on my left machine ( I simply replaced the drive - installed XP - left half of the 40 GB available - ) Four things failed to install - two from the first disk and two from the second disk. When Linux failed to boot , I

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-19 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Four notified me that they could not install. All these were readable and copyable in Windows and I have since reput them with no problem by installing with Install Software. The names are shortened at bit - if you have any doubts - lemmi know. gnome-mime-data tcsh-6.12 -4

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 6:18 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Now, about every third start up when the booting process gets to the KDE screen where it flashes about six things as it goes along - it stalls on the monitor - blinking for about a minute then up comes a blue screen - and I have no options

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-19 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Anne , thanks heaps. Did what you said and have booted up three times now with no glitches -. I got another question for ya - don't tell anyone I asked/. I have managed to upgrade to KDE 312 on my right box - but I can't do the same on the left box - maybe I have forgotten what I did. What is

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-18 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 12:54 am, Ralph Bagwell wrote: I have a system connecting to the web (using the nonfb option) and the names of the four programs that didn't load. You stand a better chance of getting an answer if: 1. You tell us the names of the four programs. 2. You tell us the

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-18 Thread Robin
Ralph Bagwell wrote: My 9.1 install went so-so on my left machine ( I simply replaced the drive - installed XP - left half of the 40 GB available - ) Four things failed to install - two from the first disk and two from the second disk. When Linux failed to boot , I selected Linux - nonfb and

[newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-17 Thread Ralph Bagwell
My 9.1 install went"so-so" on my "left" machine ( I simply replaced the drive - installed XP - left half of the 40 GB available - ) Four "things" failed to install - two from the first disk and two from the second disk. When Linux failed to boot , I selected "Linux - nonfb" and it booted .

[newbie] question about network shares.

2003-05-30 Thread manolis
I forgot to ask ,in my previous questions the following: Let's say that I have a harddisk FAT32 in /mnt/disk1 How can I make it shared in networking? The system says that I can make shares only in the /home directory. koppermind Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing this is that it is linux

Re: [newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder

2003-03-08 Thread robin
Robert Wideman wrote: I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing

[newbie] question about Kmail

2003-01-28 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I'm curious about something. With Kmail, is there a way to advance from on message to another with the view pane completely closed and viewing the message in a window all its own? I use this method of reading messages with Mozilla and

[newbie] Question: how to get rid of ridiculously large font on the non-KDEapplications?

2002-12-12 Thread Vinh N. Pham
Hi, I have a problem with system fonts on the non-KDE applications. All in a sudden, all the non-KDE application appear with very large fonts on the menu and on the buttons. The button, text box are also expanded. I'm not quite sure what happen to them but when I look at the FAQ in the

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-10 Thread RichardA
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 01:58, Angus Auld wrote: Richard, does anacron need to be configured to do that, or is that default behaviour? Default in 8.2, but I've just seen Derek Jennings say that's changed in 9.0. All I know is my laptop gets very excited if it hasn't been booted for a few

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 09 Dec 2002 2:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, another newbie question. :-) This is something I have been wondering about for awhile. Is there a program on my Mdk system that looks after log files? To keep them from getting too

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-09 Thread Derek Jennings
Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, another newbie question. :-) This is something I have been wondering about for awhile. Is there a program on my Mdk system that looks after log files? To keep them

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-09 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:29:53 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-09 Thread RichardA
On Monday 09 December 2002 05:02, Angus Auld wrote: I'll leave my comp on overnight and let logrotate do it's thing. All the best. --Angus When you boot, anacron starts, works out which cron jobs have been missed, and runs them. So logrotate should happen for you the day after the cron

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-09 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:06:45 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files On Monday 09 December 2002 05:02, Angus Auld wrote: I'll leave my comp on overnight and let logrotate do it's thing

[newbie] question about log files

2002-12-08 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, another newbie question. :-) This is something I have been wondering about for awhile. Is there a program on my Mdk system that looks after log files? To keep them from getting too large? Or is there a ceiling on how big these files can get? Seems like wasted space after a while. My

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, another newbie question. :-) This is something I have been wondering about for awhile. Is there a program on my Mdk system that looks after log files? To keep them from getting too large? Or is there a ceiling on how big these files can

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-08 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09 Dec 2002 13:01:20 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, another newbie question. :-) This is something I have been

Re: [newbie] question about log files - OT a bit

2002-12-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 13:18, Angus Auld wrote: This list is sure a lot of fun. I never had half this much fun when I used that other OS. --Angus If you're on an email list and there isn't a slight bit of humor, then something's definitely wrong with the list. -- Mon Dec 9 13:30:00 EST

Re: [newbie] question about log files

2002-12-08 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:39:57 +1300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:18, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] question MCC, samba and /etc/init.d

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:38, Stormjumper wrote: i'm wondering where samba is usually started in Mdk 8.2. the reason i'm asking is that everytime i wanna access my mdk 8.2 box from any windoze machine, i've to ssh in, and manually kill (as root) the most recent smbd process before i can

Re: [newbie] question MCC, samba and /etc/init.d

2002-11-18 Thread Stormjumper
thank you stephen. the issue is not so much my smb.conf, since killing the 2nd smbd process solves the problems. rather, i'm stumped as to which script/tool is starting smbd the 2nd time. if i can turn that off, my problem will be solved. thanks On 19 Nov 2002 06:39:44 +1100 Stephen Kuhn

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