[newbie] Why does ps shows uid for dbus-daemon-1, but user name for all other processes?

2005-02-20 Thread Michael Woinoski
On Mandrake 10.1 Community, when I run ps -ef, the UID column shows the user name for the owner of all processes except the dbus-daemon-1 process owned by uid 72. The line for that process shows the numeric uid instead of the user name. /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group all have an entry

Re: [newbie] Why does ps shows uid for dbus-daemon-1, but user name for all other processes?

2005-02-20 Thread Stuart R. Fuller
On Sunday 20 February 2005 4:33 pm, Michael Woinoski wrote: On Mandrake 10.1 Community, when I run ps -ef, the UID column shows the user name for the owner of all processes except the dbus-daemon-1 process owned by uid 72. The line for that process shows the numeric uid instead of the user

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-31 Thread Graham Watkins
Alexander Ruoff wrote: I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-29 Thread Graham Watkins
Miark wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until very recently with

[newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Oh, and I

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Alexander Ruoff wrote: Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope?

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (Snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope?

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Björn Olsson
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:21:40 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: snip, snip, snip Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 28 October 2004 03:41 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:21:40 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: snip, snip, snip Never say that to a guy :-D Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 03:45, Graham Watkins wrote: Abiword. I can see your point but the compatibility with Word is likely to keep me looking at OO, SO or . Word ;-) What I do - when I have to use OO, is to open up one instance of it, and then minimise it - then when I have to open

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:21, Graham Watkins wrote: Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread et
On Thursday 28 October 2004 14:21, Graham Watkins wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (Snipped) Is

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Miark
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice Miark

Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?

2004-05-21 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp try changing this to =static I will give it a try, but ultimately I will need to use DHCP. What is weird is that the network actually works. The trouble I have is that I don't know what log

Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?

2004-05-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:55, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 17:16, David A. Ferguson wrote: snip Why does my eth0 show failed? When Mdk10oe boots it hangs on the 'bring up eth0' message for a long time and then says [FAILED]. Where can I go to look and see more detailed

Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?

2004-05-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 21 May 2004 19:26, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:55, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 17:16, David A. Ferguson wrote: snip Why does my eth0 show failed? When Mdk10oe boots it hangs on the 'bring up eth0' message for a long time and then says

[newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??

2004-05-20 Thread hertas
Dear Friends, As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? Best regards H.ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??

2004-05-20 Thread Paul
Op Thu, 20 May 2004 14:47:59 +0300 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? Open an xterm and see if you can run 'konqueror' from the

Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??

2004-05-20 Thread hertas
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Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??

2004-05-20 Thread Paul
Op Thu, 20 May 2004 14:58:15 +0300 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With an xterm I can not run konquerer. It says command not found - Does it work from the menu? - Can you locate the program running locate konqueror from the command line? Yes- It is not in the path No - It is not installed On

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-20 Thread The Other
On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:58:42 -0700, David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to

Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??

2004-05-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 20 May 2004 07:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - -With an xterm I can not run konquerer. It says command not found - -H.ERTAS Umm...its spelled konqueror... :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??

2004-05-20 Thread et
On Thursday 20 May 2004 07:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? do not capitalize it spell it konqueror or make

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Thread Damian Gatabria
That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal. If you need to convert a file to windows style, try

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Thread Damian Gatabria
From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread Frank
And just another thought. I found that unless you included [ actually typed ] the file extension name ( eg *.txt) then my system when within windows is not happy about it at all. To check others concerns issue the following from your command client: $su Password #fdisk /dev/hda

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread David A. Ferguson
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread David A. Ferguson
- Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David A. Ferguson wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between

[newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-13 Thread David A. Ferguson
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open

[newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-13 Thread David A. Ferguson
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-13 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 May 2004 16:00:24 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-13 Thread Marc Lijour
Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is

[newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Read
Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? If I click on the bottom line in my sig file below, Mozilla shows the page I've reached as: http://users.ids.net/%7Ebobread/cotm.htm Also, if I type %7E in the URL box, it functions the same as if I

Re: [newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??

2004-03-03 Thread Aavo Tambur
Tsiteerin Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? 0x7E or 126 in decimal is the ASCII code of tilde symbol. In urls a few special characters (most notably the space within a filename) get automatically

Re: [newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Read
Thanks Aavo -- glad I asked. ;-) Bob Aavo Tambur wrote: Tsiteerin Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? 0x7E or 126 in decimal is the ASCII code of tilde symbol. In urls a few special characters (most

Re: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/

2004-01-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:34:00 + trufflesdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did update the eslrahc site and if I do a urpmi gift-plugin it tells me there is no package by that name.. That is correct there is no pkg named gift-plugin. gift-plugin is provided by gift-openft urpmi gift-openft

Re: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/

2004-01-21 Thread trufflesdad
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:02:34 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:34:00 + trufflesdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did update the eslrahc site and if I do a urpmi gift-plugin it tells me there is no package by that name.. That is correct there is no

RE: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/

2004-01-21 Thread Smith, Robert A
ON Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:17 AM trufflesdad scribbled: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:02:34 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:34:00 + trufflesdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did update the eslrahc site and if I do a urpmi gift-plugin it tells me

Re: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/

2004-01-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:29:30 -0600 Smith, Robert A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get no package named gift-openft when I do the rpmi call... How do I find out which repository to add to get it Sorry for the hassle but it I am just coming back to Mandrake The first thing I would

Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Franki
Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Check it out - very interesting reading. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Unfortunately for the Inquirer, the article is wrong. If you run the Linux Windows search you get on the first page indeed 'Results 1-15 of

Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Check it out - very interesting reading. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Unfortunately for the Inquirer, the article is wrong. If you run the Linux Windows search you get on

Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Charlie
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:31, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me 98,600,000. Can you say MSN sucks?

Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:47, Charlie wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:31, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me

Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread mwafkowski
: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google! On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Check it out - very interesting reading. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Unfortunately for the Inquirer, the article

RE: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Mark Kirschner
mwafkowski said: That article belongs in a rag such as the (US) National Inquirier...come one people. You're really not that bored?! Nope...please note the National Enquirer URL: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ and the URL for the article: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Want to

Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:47 am, Charlie wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:31, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069!

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-05 Thread John Richard Smith
I don't believe you answered the question:- Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-04 Thread M.A.Bell
mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-04 Thread M.A.Bell
John Richard Smith wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-04 Thread M.A.Bell
Tony S. Sykes wrote: What is your hardware? If you have a nvidia geforce4 have you installed the drivers? Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why do I have

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-04 Thread M.A.Bell
. No need to install any drivers. OTOH, there's no tellin what kind of bugs installin the proprietary nVidia driver can cause. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why do I

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-04 Thread Dennis Myers
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually? M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window

[newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-03 Thread M.A.Bell
Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Any pointers would be greatly

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-03 Thread mike
M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Start kde then open a

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-03 Thread M.A.Bell
mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Start

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-03 Thread mike
M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this

[newbie] Why is it..

2003-10-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do install Linux and the gee whizz GFX card won't work or the CD-ROM

Re: [newbie] Why is it..

2003-10-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do

Re: [newbie] Why is it..

2003-10-31 Thread aronsmith
On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do

Re: [newbie] Why is it..

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 31 October 2003 02:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do install

Re: [newbie] Why is it..

2003-10-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 12:49 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 02:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux is not less demanding on hardware, but more so. I think it used to be true, when linux was mainly being used to run a few server apps. Nowadays we want it to do as wide a

Re: [newbie] Why is it..

2003-10-31 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 7:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do install Linux

Re: [newbie] Why torrent is too slow!!!

2003-10-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 11:55 pm, Lucio_Costa wrote: Hi guys, I´m experimenting download 3 mdk 9.2 iso using torrent, I don't know why but it's too slow. I accessed this link: http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969 and I saw my infos below. Is it normal? BitTorrent download info *

[newbie] Why torrent is too slow!!!

2003-10-15 Thread Lucio_Costa
Hi guys, I´m experimenting download 3 mdk 9.2 iso using torrent, I don't know why but it's too slow. I accessed this link: http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969 and I saw my infos below. Is it normal? BitTorrent download info * tracker version: 3.3 * server time: 2003-10-15 23:05 UTC

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-10 Thread Flávio Henrique
I suggest you model yours after mine, making the necessary adjustments. The syntax is not that hard to understand. Once you have updated your lilo.conf, post it here. Note, the append line will be completely different for you, so I suggest you skip these lines in

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-09 Thread bascule
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1?

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-09 Thread Flávio Henrique
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1?

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread ed tharp
let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. your error might be any part of /etc/lilo.conf, so post the whole

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:01:42 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# lilo Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# Could you kindly

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread Flávio Henrique
let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition.

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:30:58 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread Flávio Henrique
Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:31:50 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd

[newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Flávio Henrique
Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread yankl
On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Flávio Henrique
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:10, Flávio Henrique wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Flávio Henrique
I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:27, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:10, Flávio Henrique wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here...

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:32:29 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Flávio Henrique
my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 Make this your windows entry in /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 Save the file, then (without the

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Russ
It worked for me. I installed Linux 9.0 on a brand new 60 gig HD then slaved my old 40 gig Win98 drive to that one, pointed Lilo to it and it booted just fine. My Win drive has since crashed altogether so I am totally Linux now. I did my editing in MCC Russ I guess it means you better post

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 03 October 2003 01:33 pm, mwafkowski wrote: There is no Kentucky Fried Chicken, remember, as in Kentucy - associated with rednecks?/fried chicken-as in fried=heart attacks. It's KFC to you , Suh! MRW Well, I do live in Kentucky... I did stain (cedar siding) part of my house

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 03 October 2003 05:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: hehe... hm... think they'd let me off if I put the little Copyright symbol in there? Debatable... Running from Col.Sanders Femme Hehehehe, you better - I hear one of his fav slogans is the birds the word lol --

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 02:39, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 05:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: hehe... hm... think they'd let me off if I put the little Copyright symbol in there? Debatable... Running from Col.Sanders Femme Hehehehe, you better - I hear one of his

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 04 October 2003 11:53 am, Aron Smith wrote: As the Taxidermist said(while. taking his girlfriend to dinner) you gotta stuff the bird before you mount it Yea, and I'm a firm believer that one in the bush is worth 2 in the hand anytime wicked grin --

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-04 Thread Heather/Femme
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 21:17:10 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 02:08, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Femme: Well, now we know why you didn't choose a career in the diplomatic service.-- cmg Yeah - that might be true...God...I wanted to say something horribly

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-04 Thread Heather/Femme
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 21:27:41 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 03:07, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Finger-Licking-Good-Femme (or so they tell me) roflol I can see a herd of lawyers from

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-03 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:52 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 01:18:19 -0700 M J Pipkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is unsolicited spam and an invasion of my privacy. Please send no further newbie communicationsand remove my name from your list. and who the flying

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Finger-Licking-Good-Femme (or so they tell me) roflol I can see a herd of lawyers from Kentucky Fried Chicken bearing down on you, even as we speak Femme! :-) --

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-03 Thread mwafkowski
: Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ? On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Finger-Licking-Good-Femme (or so they tell me) roflol I can see a herd of lawyers from Kentucky Fried Chicken bearing down on you, even as we speak Femme

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