[newbie] [newbie] software install - Couldn´t open file

2005-01-21 Thread Hugh Dixon
After changing plf mirror, the download went fine. Is this just part of life, or are there net admins that are interested in these sorts of problems? Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] software install - Couldnt open file

2005-01-20 Thread Hugh Dixon
I am trying to install Video-DVDRip through the software install option in mcc. I get the error message: The following packages have bad signatures: Video-DVDRip-0.52.0-1plf.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldnt open file) Do you want to conmtinue installation? Couldnt open file implies to me the

Re: [newbie] software install - Couldn´t open file

2005-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:07, Hugh Dixon wrote: I am trying to install Video-DVDRip through the software install option in mcc. I get the error message: ¨The following packages have bad signatures: Video-DVDRip-0.52.0-1plf.i586.rpm: Missing

Re: [newbie] software install - Couldnt open file

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Hugh Dixon wrote: I am trying to install Video-DVDRip through the software install option in mcc. I get the error message: The following packages have bad signatures: Video-DVDRip-0.52.0-1plf.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldnt open file) Do you want to conmtinue installation? Couldnt open

[newbie] Software Patents - good news (at last)?

2004-06-22 Thread PM
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7442 reports that the Dutch government is considering revoking their minister's vote at the council meeting a couple of weeks ago. If I recall correctly, it only went through on the Dutch vote, after badgering by the Irish (presidency sponsored by

Re: [newbie] [Software] Where did the Theme Manager go on KDE 3.2?

2004-06-14 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi Dennis, Those are the Icons Themes - not the general theme. Cheers, On Sunday 13 June 2004 18:59, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 13 June 2004 09:04 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I was looking for the Theme Manager that used to be under the Look Feel Sub-Menu... Can't find it...

Re: [newbie] [Software] Where did the Theme Manager go on KDE 3.2?

2004-06-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 14 June 2004 01:47 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi Dennis, Those are the Icons Themes - not the general theme. Cheers, On Sunday 13 June 2004 18:59, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 13 June 2004 09:04 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I was looking for the Theme Manager that

[newbie] [Software] Where did the Theme Manager go on KDE 3.2?

2004-06-13 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi All, I was looking for the Theme Manager that used to be under the Look Feel Sub-Menu... Can't find it... I am running KDE 3.2 (Branch 20040204) on MDK 10.0 Official. I have a bunch of .ktheme files I would like to try out... Thanks ! --

Re: [newbie] [Software] Where did the Theme Manager go on KDE 3.2?

2004-06-13 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 13 June 2004 09:04 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I was looking for the Theme Manager that used to be under the Look Feel Sub-Menu... Can't find it... I am running KDE 3.2 (Branch 20040204) on MDK 10.0 Official. I have a bunch of .ktheme files I would like to try out...

Re: [newbie] [Software] Where did the Theme Manager go on KDE 3.2?

2004-06-13 Thread Ali Fay
Hi, I'm a bit baffled on this one too - maybe if you just double click on the .ktheme file it might do something! Ali On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 15:04, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I was looking for the Theme Manager that used to be under the Look Feel Sub-Menu... Can't find it... I

[newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread andrew . lundy
Hello people, There is an abundance of software available for Linux, which is great, but I don't have time to look through it all at the moment. So I was hoping you could recommend me some of the best (or THE best) software for the following things for MDK: - Movie player. - MP3 player.

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:02:35 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Movie player. - MP3 player. (including playlist feature) - HTML editor / Web site construction software. - Image creating/editing. - FTP client. 1. 2. Beep Totem 3. Quanta 4. Gimp? 5. Gftp I foresee 52 responses to this post.

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:02:35 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people, There is an abundance of software available for Linux, which is great, but I don't have time to look through it all at the moment. So I was hoping you could recommend me

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:07:12 -0500 Lee Wiggers disseminated the following: - Movie player. - MP3 player. (including playlist feature) - HTML editor / Web site construction software. - Image creating/editing. - FTP client. 1. 2. Beep Totem 3. Quanta 4. Gimp? 5. Gftp I foresee

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:53:58 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I foresee 52 responses to this post. ...we should be okay, he didn't mention 'text editors' ;-) you trying to say HTML is not written in text editors?? next you'll be

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:02:35 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: - Movie player. MPlayer. Plays everything. No clunky GUI, but lots of cool features like mousewheeling forward and backward, keyboard functions, etc. It Just Works (TM). - MP3 player. (including playlist feature)

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:00:24 +0200 Alaa The Great disseminated the following: you trying to say HTML is not written in text editors?? next you'll be telling me people use wysiwyg tools to write memos and reports. Heh, see my post above. I thought of that a split second after I hit 'send'.

RE: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread andrew . lundy
That's because Gnome wins hands down. Heheheheh. By the way, what is the best text editor? Chuckle... -Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2004 14:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:26:14 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: That's because Gnome wins hands down. Heheheheh. Good start ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 09:34:57 up 4 days, 5 min, Mandrake Linux

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 15 March 2004 08:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Favs - Movie player. mplayer - MP3 player. (including playlist feature) xmms - HTML editor / Web site construction software. quanta, bluefish is good too. - Image creating/editing. The GIMP - FTP client. I like gftp even

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:20:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pissed he didn't ask about WM's...no opportunity to point out, for example, that KDE is developed by Maoists and uses baby seals as test subjects. actually I was surprised

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Fajar PRiyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 March 2004 09:44 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: - FTP client. I like gftp even though it is a GNOME app and I am a KDE user. I have started to play around with kbear (which so far I am not sure I like) gftp is a gnome native? geez..

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 15 March 2004 09:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because Gnome wins hands down. Heheheheh. By the way, what is the best text editor? Chuckle... edlin. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread Glenn
On Monday 15 March 2004 19:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 15 March 2004 09:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because Gnome wins hands down. Heheheheh. By the way, what is the best text editor? Chuckle... edlin. -- cmg :-) . Sometimes this old fart misses those simple

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-28 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 27 December 2003 11:53 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: Charlie, I have anjuta up and running, so this conversation is now just for my knowledge. Please feel free to take as long as you want to reply - no hurry. Charlie Mahan wrote:

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 7:25 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: whack Ok, I see what you are talking about, Carroll EDU seems to have an extra contrib directory (that had the anjuta I wanted) that is not part of cooker and appears not to be structured like

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 7:25 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: whack Ok, I see what you are talking about, Carroll EDU seems to have an extra contrib directory (that had the anjuta I wanted) that is not part of cooker and appears not to be

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 27 December 2003 8:41 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: Ok, let me be exact then. I'm ftp'd into Carroll. Here is the full path the the contrib directory I need: /pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i586 The full URL to start from

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charlie, I have anjuta up and running, so this conversation is now just for my knowledge. Please feel free to take as long as you want to reply - no hurry. Charlie Mahan wrote: ../../cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz since the directory we started from was contrib we want the hdlist for

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I'm having difficulty understanding the proper way to configure the Software Media Manager (SMM). I was trying to install the latest Anjuta 1.2.0, and I found it here:

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:15 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - - (3) The install of anjuta found everything on the carroll edu site, and - installed okay (anjuta runs.) But when it finished, it said - installation failed, source Carroll EDU has invalid list file format. -What does this mean?

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:35 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:15 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - - (3) The install of anjuta found everything on the carroll edu site, and - installed okay (anjuta runs.) But when it finished,

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:57 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - Thanks Dark Lord and Ed (et) for the reminder. (-: - - I hate workarounds though, especially ones for things like this that shouldn't - be causing trouble in the first place. - - Peace; - Charlie Can't argue with that Charlie! :-) --

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I'm having difficulty understanding the proper way to configure the Software Media Manager (SMM). I was trying to install the latest Anjuta 1.2.0, and I found it here:

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 5:54 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: snip The contrib directory on the mirrors have a synthesis.hdlist.cz file in them. In fact I think part of the reason that people have been getting warnings is there are two, a

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charlie Mahan wrote: snip Charlie, thanks for the detailed reply. After you pointed it out, I got back on gFtp and went back to Carroll EDU. I do indeed see hdlist.cz in pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 and two sythesis files in

[newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-25 Thread Guy Rouillier
I'm having difficulty understanding the proper way to configure the Software Media Manager (SMM). I was trying to install the latest Anjuta 1.2.0, and I found it here: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i586 I started by adding the following to the

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: So does this leave us with a satisfactory position ? I'm not at all sure. No, it is not satisfactory - look again at the last 2 paragraphs of Caroline Lucas's message: However, the draft Directive remains ambiguous and contradictory (articles 2 4

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:04:39 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I guess that this needs a project team from the EU law dept to come down to grass roots level and discuss what needs to be done to strengthen the right of GPL products users rights in law. ROTFLMAO! Oh, wait,

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:04:39 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I guess that this needs a project team from the EU law dept to come down to grass roots level and discuss what needs to be done to strengthen the right of GPL products users rights in law.

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:46:59 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well I don't see how I'm going to be able to put the case to my local MEP. I mean I'm no expert, and he/she is no expert and they have to put some sort of a case to the legislators to get them to

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 09:04, John Richard Smith wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:46:59 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well I don't see how I'm going to be able to put the case to my local MEP. I mean I'm no expert, and he/she is no expert and they

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:04:21 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So the ethos of that argument is that that you cannot patent code it's something akin to a writer publishing a piece of liturature, it is his work, but it's not a novel invention . Have I understood it correctly?

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:46:59 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well I don't see how I'm going to be able to put the case to my local MEP. I mean I'm no expert, and he/she is no expert and they have to put some sort of a case to the

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 09:04, John Richard Smith wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:46:59 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well I don't see how I'm going to be able to put the case to my local MEP. I mean I'm no expert, and he/she

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:32, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:04:21 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So the ethos of that argument is that that you cannot patent code it's something akin to a writer publishing a piece of liturature, it is his work, but it's not

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:05, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: big snip OK then, so my approach when I tackle the MEP is something allong these lines, Did you know the EU legislators are preposing to allow patenting of copy write ? and as you surely know you cannot patent

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:05, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: big snip OK then, so my approach when I tackle the MEP is something allong these lines, Did you know the EU legislators are preposing to allow patenting of copy write ? and as you surely know you

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 14:23, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:05, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: big snip OK then, so my approach when I tackle the MEP is something allong these lines, Did you know the EU legislators are preposing

[newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread Margot
An interesting reply from my MEP Caroline Lucas... Original Message Subject:Re: Software Patents Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:08:19 +0200 From: Caroline (Dr) Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Margot, Thanks you for your email on software

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 12:36:24 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: An interesting reply from my MEP Caroline Lucas... Wt! Well done, Margot! As Robert A. Heinlein once noted, of course the game is rigged, but if you don't bet, you can't win, keep up the good fight! Go Greens! --

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread John Richard Smith
So does this leave us with a satisfactory position ? I'm not at all sure. I'm curious as to why Europeans are not trying to get the principle of the GPL incorporated into European law. Wouldn't this be better than hedging around trying to determin what is patentable and what it not. If the GPL

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:20:34 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So does this leave us with a satisfactory position ? I'm not at all sure. Of course not. It won't be satisfactory until all Political interference in the affairs of software and the internet is strictly forbidden.

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread Margot
John Richard Smith wrote: So does this leave us with a satisfactory position ? I'm not at all sure. No, it is not satisfactory - look again at the last 2 paragraphs of Caroline Lucas's message: However, the draft Directive remains ambiguous and contradictory (articles 2 4 contradict each other,

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:20:34 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So does this leave us with a satisfactory position ? I'm not at all sure. Of course not. It won't be satisfactory until all Political interference in the affairs of software and the internet

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:53:49 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But how should we be going about getting GPL incorporated into at least European Law. By voting and writing and voting and writing some more, and if that doesn't work... Malcolm X: By any means necessary. All

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread mooney
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:36, Margot wrote: An interesting reply from my MEP Caroline Lucas... Original Message Subject: Re: Software Patents Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:08:19 +0200 From: Caroline (Dr) Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread robin
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:20:34 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So does this leave us with a satisfactory position ? I'm not at all sure. Of course not. It won't be satisfactory until all Political interference in the affairs of software and the internet

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-01 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:30:08 +0300 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Haywire Mac citing Adam Smith? What is the world coming to? Hey, he wasn't all bad...he even warned quite vehemently in some of his writing about the dangers inherant in Capitalism, specifically the formation of monopolies and

Re: [newbie] Software install rpm (failed dependancies)

2003-09-13 Thread Russ
Thank you very much for the help. I went there but I really do not know what I am suppose to do there. If you are trying to get me to update what I have, I have already done so. I am running MDK 9.0 with all updates patches available (Through Red Carpet and MDCC updater). Can you tell me what

Re: [newbie] Software install rpm (failed dependancies)

2003-09-13 Thread Russ
okay, opened a console in su, typed in urpmi bibletime and it began to install, then gave me this error: The signature of the package 'bibletime-1.3-mdk9.1.i386' is not correct. No GPG signature. Do you want to install anyway? and when I say 'yes' it gives me another window giving me the

Re: [newbie] Software install rpm (failed dependancies)

2003-09-13 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:59:49 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Can you tell me what urpmi is suppose to do and how it relates to rpm? Just follow the instructions on the page, it's very simple, step 1, step 2, etc. it has nothing to do with having all the updates and patches, it has to do

Re: [newbie] Software install rpm (failed dependancies)

2003-09-13 Thread Russ
okay, followed the instructions and all seemed to go well. Then I tried to install again, in the end it failed again only this time it only listed 3 files instead of 6. I saved a copy of the text for the install attempt if anyone wants to look at it. I did the source update and the install in

Re: [newbie] Software install rpm (failed dependancies)

2003-09-13 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:34:12 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Anyway, this is the failed part: Installation failed: libcrypto.so.0.9.7 is needed by bibletime-1.3-1 libssl.so.0.9.7 is needed by bibletime-1.3-1 libsword.so.3 is needed by bibletime-1.3-1 Any

[newbie] Software opinions desired

2003-09-11 Thread Northwest Marmot
OK, I'll start off with the disclaimer, I've been running Mdk 9.1 for oh, about (checks watch) a few hours now on a laptop from the office. This is my first journey into Linux (well, aside from multiple attempts with Red Hat years ago, each aborted when I couldn't get an install to

Re: [newbie] Software opinions desired

2003-09-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 08:01, Northwest Marmot wrote: OK, I'll start off with the disclaimer, I've been running Mdk 9.1 for oh, about (checks watch) a few hours now on a laptop from the office. This is my first journey into Linux (well, aside from multiple attempts with Red Hat years ago,

Re: [newbie] Software opinions desired

2003-09-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 11, 2003 04:01 pm, Northwest Marmot wrote: OK, I'll start off with the disclaimer, I've been running Mdk 9.1 for oh, about (checks watch) a few hours now on a laptop from the office. This is my first journey into Linux (well, aside from

Re: [newbie] Software opinions desired

2003-09-11 Thread Northwest Marmot
On Thursday 11 September 2003 03:36 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 08:01, Northwest Marmot wrote: snip Good on ya, Marmot... MDK is better for end user usage - much moreso than RedHat...but that's a divergent tale and I shan't bore you with my PP on it (personal

Re: [newbie] Software opinions desired

2003-09-11 Thread Northwest Marmot
On Thursday 11 September 2003 03:31 pm, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 11, 2003 04:01 pm, Northwest Marmot wrote: OK, I'll start off with the disclaimer, I've been running Mdk 9.1 for oh, about (checks watch) a few hours now on a laptop from the

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote:

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-03 Thread Jess Arocho
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 05:43, John Richard Smith wrote: Eric Huff wrote: |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America? Is Canada in northamerica? On another note, it's kinda

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Jesüs Arocho wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 05:43, John Richard Smith wrote: Eric Huff wrote: |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America? Is Canada in northamerica? On

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-03 Thread Aron Smith

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:54, Paul wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:37, Eric Huff wrote: |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America? Is Canada in northamerica? On

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Eric Huff wrote: |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America? Is Canada in northamerica? On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses pics of the statue of

[newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread Curt Tresenriter
http://petition.eurolinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:01:22 -0500 Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://petition.eurolinux.org h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... well, I'm there in spririt anyhow. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:43:37 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:01:22 -0500 Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://petition.eurolinux.org h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:43:37 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:01:22 -0500 |Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: | | http://petition.eurolinux.org | |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:11:37 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: There are choices for North and South America there. ah, yes, thank you, signed, sealed, delivered... -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
|h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America? Is Canada in northamerica? On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses pics of the statue of liberty... --

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread linux
other question: switzerland isn't in the EU, will the patnets be there too? :/ remo Quoting Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America?

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:37, Eric Huff wrote: |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America? Is Canada in northamerica? On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses pics of the statue of liberty... Wasn't it made in France donated to the USA. Yep. That's what they taught us in skewl. The Statue of Liberty National Monument officially celebrated her 100th birthday on October 28,

[newbie] Software Raid in Linux, for those of you who asked here is info on it

2003-02-10 Thread Robert Wideman
Part 1 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5653 Part 2 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5898 Linux-Raid-HOWTO Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Software Manager hangs while analyzing CD 1

2003-01-31 Thread Allan Gillis
Hi all, Well, Ive been all around the circle on this one. rpmDrake will not start properly. Ive tried a few things including a clean install (twice) removing CD 1 from the command line and then adding it again. I do not have a source for security updates specified yet (I saw this

[newbie] Software installer problem Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-17 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
Hello, I am new to this list and forward a problem that I hope is well-known. I made a fresh install of Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my PC and found out that the package mplayer was not installed. So I used the software installer that showed the package and some others that were needed. I ticked the

Re: [newbie] Software installer problem Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 09:27, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: Hello, I am new to this list and forward a problem that I hope is well-known. I made a fresh install of Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my PC and found out that the package mplayer was not installed. So I used the software installer that

Re: [newbie] Software wanted!!!!!!!!!

2003-01-01 Thread Fareed Sultani
hello people my system crushed and i lost all my downloaded software. which also included mandrake 9.0 which took me a month to download with 56k modem. can someone please send me a copy i will pay for the shipping. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Software wanted!!!!!!!!!

2003-01-01 Thread Lee
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:52 pm, you wrote: hello people my system crushed and i lost all my downloaded software. which also included mandrake 9.0 which took me a month to download with 56k modem. can someone please send me a copy i will pay for the shipping. thanks Sure. Give me

Re: [newbie] Software sources manager - cant find disk 2

2002-12-02 Thread Technoslick
. Hope this helps. T - Original Message - From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Software sources manager - cant find disk 2 Hi When I installed Mandrake 9.0, it seemed to not be able to read disk 2. However, I can access

[newbie] software manager problem

2002-09-07 Thread Scott
I just set up the software manager to get security updates so it would't ask me if I want to do it every time I started it up. Now I can't install any software. That is, for every package that there is now a choice of intalling from the ftp site or from the cd, neither one will install

[newbie] Software for cell phones

2002-08-28 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Hi, I recently built a serial cable for my Ericsson R320s and I'd like to use it with linux (SMS, Calendar, address book, melodies, logos, and, maybe, modem). Are there good X apps for such job? Thank you Olaf olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Software database?

2002-08-19 Thread Isaac Curtis
I've been eyeing Debian a little bit lately, and came across this page (http://packages.debian.org/stable/) which was really enticing. It is EXACTLY the kind of page I have been looking for forever for Mandrake-Linux and just in general. I even went to the efforts of drawing out on paper the

[newbie] Software Manager

2002-07-18 Thread Lee
I have noticed that I have no descriptions in the side panel when I select programs (LM 8.2). Even with the descriptions I wonder sometimes what they do. Is there a way to turn descriptions on and off or is this a new feature to keep my computer lean and mean? Or should I install everything

[newbie] Software mirror on mandrake

2002-06-18 Thread A A
Hi all, I am loocking if it is possible to migrate from WinNT to Mandrake 8.2 as server platform. I readet many docs about how stable and good is linux as server solution. But I do not find nothing about the software mirror in mandrake. In NT the software mirror is very simple and with very good

Re: [newbie] Software Manager crashing.

2002-04-29 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:00:58 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do that.. I have, for example, the

Re: [newbie] Software Manager crashing.

2002-04-28 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Saturday 27 April 2002 07:44 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Friday 26 April 2002 01:00 pm, civileme wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do

Re: [newbie] Software Manager crashing.

2002-04-27 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Friday 26 April 2002 01:00 pm, civileme wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do that.. I have, for example, the e2fsprogs-1.27-1.1mdk.i586.rpm

[newbie] Software Manager crashing.

2002-04-26 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do that.. I have, for example, the e2fsprogs-1.27-1.1mdk.i586.rpm and the e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm on my system by the Software Manager.

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