Why would a list member request a reply from my
computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails
with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned
off. Just a thought
In reply to Don's mail, d.d. Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:58:41 -0800:
Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have
received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our
addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off.
Just a thought
It is
even aware it's on.
Joeb
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From: Don and Alexa Pongracz
Sent: 12/11/02 10:58 AM
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Subject: [newbie] curious
Why would a list member request a
reply from my computer that I have received his message
Its a
good way to get confirmed address's if you are a spammer...
rgds
Frank
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[newbie] curious
that's a thought
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Subject: RE: [newbie] curious
Its
a good way to get confirmed address's if you are a
spammer...
rgds
Frank
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I have a newbie problem with FTP-ing to my linux box from my Win2K machine. I'm
running the simplist of simple networks of just two CPU's networked together with an
cross-over cable.
The problem is that I can only FTP from Windows to my Linux box when I'm *on-line*.
Once I get off the
Just out of curiosity is anyone running a machine with Transmeta's Crusoe
chip, if I spelled that correctly.
Just wanted to know how well or if anyone knows of a device that has it and
which Linux distro is being used.
Just curious.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go
I just got around to this post after going through my email. Just wanted to make
a few quick comments.
Windows9x CAN survive with out IE, but IE is there way in. That's how they keep
tabs on what's going on the machine, and that's how they update the OS. Ever
wonder why an update for IE is
Here's the link:
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Jun 23
00:19 X - ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA*
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 17:06, Terry C wrote:
I am getting conflicting information concerning
the
version of X I'm running, and the color
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:10, Judith Miner wrote:
Sridhar wrote:
I noticed that you said in an earlier post that you had trouble
importing your fonts. Have you tried using DrakFont (part of the
Mandrake Control Centre)?
Of course. It's a very limited tool, but it did make some TrueType fonts
I am getting conflicting information concerning the
version of X I'm running, and the color depth. When I
bring up X-Server - KDE Control Module it tells me
that I am running XFree86 3.3.6 and a 24 bit color
depth. If I run XFree86 -version in a terminal it
tells me that I am running XFree86
Sridhar wrote:
I noticed that you said in an earlier post that you had trouble
importing your fonts. Have you tried using DrakFont (part of the
Mandrake Control Centre)?
Of course. It's a very limited tool, but it did make some TrueType fonts
available to the system and some of the programs
On Sunday, Jul 01, 2001, Jose Mirles wrote:
Also, if Ms are so full of innovation, why is hotmail (a microsoft
service) still using freebsd servers? and why has microsoft admitted
nicking freebsd code for their own apps??
MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of
On Monday, July 02, 2001 3:46 AM, Franki [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
oh yeah, I meant to respond to this as well..
MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of users
can now use a PC. OS2 didn't do that, neither did UNIX or Linux. It was
Windows 3.1 that started it
Take a look at http://www.98lite.net. It can install Windows without IE, or
strip IE away from an installed system. It can even replace the Windows
Explorer file manager in 98 and ME with their 95 equivalent (which is far
less bloated and more stable). Of course, MS don't like this (it was
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:45, Franki wrote:
oh yeah, I meant to respond to this as well..
MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of users
can now use a PC. OS2 didn't do that, neither did UNIX or Linux. It was
Windows 3.1 that started it and Windows 95 that really made
snip for sanity's sake
I have one thing to say
if MS don't force ie on people. prove that to me
by installeding ME without it.
Pratt.
M$ is beyond that. Even if (Mini)ME can be installed without
IE, most Microsoft apps (e.g. Office 2000 and XP) require it
at least for online help.
I fix other people's PC problems for a living, specifically Windows
problems... no shortage of work there might I add ;-) . After seeing Linux
pop up more and more on the net I thought it was time for me to learn
something about this 'cool OS'. I can see more New Zealanders getting into
Linux
Even though we are all newto Linux, don't you think we owe it to the Linux
community in general to read up on it and see what it is all about,
instead of just jumping in and then thrashing it because it isn't Windows?
Don't misunderstand I am very grateful for all the work that has been
Skinky wrote:
I fix other people's PC problems for a living, specifically Windows
problems... no shortage of work there might I add ;-) . After seeing Linux
pop up more and more on the net I thought it was time for me to learn
something about this 'cool OS'. I can see more New Zealanders
At 08.34 01/07/01, you wrote:
I do a lot of home video editing the total cost of my own built machine is
still 1/3 of what a high end Mac costs. Exclude the iMac which at their
cheapest, or affordable if you like, is still a $1000 without a rebate. I
don't use anything smaller than a 17 monitor
On Sunday 01 July 2001 03:30, Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
At 08.34 01/07/01, you wrote:
I do a lot of home video editing the total cost of my own built machine is
still 1/3 of what a high end Mac costs. Exclude the iMac which at their
cheapest, or affordable if you like, is still a $1000 without a
$.02:
David E. Fox wrote:
So far so good...some servers should be included, postfix / apache
probably for starters. No need for innd,postgresd, etc. Again, the
current installation profiles need to be tweaked - one shouldn't have
to go for a server install to get a few necessary (plus some
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:59, Michel Clasquin wrote:
On Saturday 30 June 2001 10:35, Franki wrote:
non-KDE/non-GNOMEapps:
xmms - it looks like Winamp, sounds like winamp, it even uses winamp skins.
A newie essential.
XMMS is actually part of the GNOME project. It works equally well in KDE,
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:55, steve campbell wrote:
On Friday 29 June 2001 20:58, PENA FAMILY wrote:
I agree comletely, Linux is still very young and developing. My twist on
the car analogy is like this
Windows is the average car which the vast majority drives and get from
point A to
Again, well said!
Like any community, there are a variety of members with a variety of
goals. Some of us would like to see Linux on the desktop be the OS of
choice for normal people. I'd like to see that, and will be trying to
help.
From what I've heard, Mandrake is one of the distributions
: Sunday, 1 July 2001 8:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious My last comment on the subject..
Great suggestion for Mandrake.
$.02:
David E. Fox wrote:
So far so good...some servers should be included, postfix / apache
probably for starters. No need for innd,postgresd, etc
..
just more of my inane thoughts.. my apologies.. :-)
regards
Frank
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Sent: Monday, 2 July 2001 2:54 AM
To: Randy Kramer
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious My last
Frank wrote:
There is a HUGE need for a distro that doesn't offer so many options
that it drives would be users away
I think you have many good ideas, but speaking as a Windows user who has
recently installed Mandrake 8, it wasn't the large number of options
that is the problem, but the
Michael,
Thanks for recounting how Linux has become more user friendly since
your Slackware 2.x days. Though I have just started using Linux, I've
followed it over a few years and installed it now because I thought it
was finally reaching the point where a normal person could use it.
I've found
. But with real
competition at least it hopefully won't get out of control like
Microsoft did.
Tazmun
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From: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
I'm wondering about FreeBSD
Two good ideas!
Randy Kramer
Franki wrote:
Maybe a tiny floppy app, that can probe a windows system and give a report
of what is likely to work with linux and what isn't ...
then give heaps of the disks to mandrake resellers, so people can try one in
thier computers before buying the
Microsoft is considered a great company by many; it can be
argued that they are great because of innovative ideas ... Will
.NET be considered amazing by many? Will Windows XP succeed?
Can one honestly say that Micro$soft has such a huge presence
mostly because of unfair business practices?
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
At this time I see no objective reason for splitting up
Microsoft ... what purpose will it serve? And why is Bill Gates
so dead-set against it? What's the threat? Is it just a
comfort-level thing? A nuisance change that he's concerned
about? Or is it a huge
Sent: Monday, 2 July 2001 7:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
Microsoft is considered a great company by many; it can be
argued that they are great because of innovative ideas ... Will
.NET be considered amazing by many? Will Windows XP succeed?
Can one honestly say
for the same
company that writes the windows OS
that was the idea behind spliting up Ms..
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeanette Russo
Sent: Monday, 2 July 2001 7:19 AM
To: Rita F. Koenigs; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:06 pm, Judith Miner wrote:
Frank wrote:
There is a HUGE need for a distro that doesn't offer so many options
that it drives would be users away
I think you have many good ideas, but speaking as a Windows user who has
recently installed Mandrake 8, it wasn't
AM
To: Rita F. Koenigs; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
Well the breakup was supposed to be a remedy for M$ business cut throat
business practices and antitrust violations.
Looks like it is not going to happen now.
Jeanette
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From: Rita F
Excellent answer!
On Sunday 01 July 2001 20:29, Romanator wrote:
Judy,
A good portion of what you have mentioned has been covered in the
Mandrake archives. People are working on these features and more than
can mentioned in a few brief emails. Rather than stepping on the gas and
trying
Subject: Re: FW: [newbie] curious
On Sunday 01 July 2001 20:21, Franki wrote:
couple of little points I would add to that...
years ago when the www was new, netscape developed a pretty not browser
and called it navigator..
ms then came up with IE and in order to get rid of NS
oh yeah, I meant to respond to this as well..
MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of users
can now use a PC. OS2 didn't do that, neither did UNIX or Linux. It was
Windows 3.1 that started it and Windows 95 that really made PC's sell. I
may not like MS, but I can not
On Sunday 01 July 2001 12:55 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
Again, well said!
Like any community, there are a variety of members with a variety of
goals. Some of us would like to see Linux on the desktop be the OS of
choice for normal people. I'd like to see that, and will be trying to
help.
On Sunday 01 July 2001 02:02 pm, you wrote:
On Sunday 01 July 2001 12:55 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
Again, well said!
Like any community, there are a variety of members with a variety of
goals. Some of us would like to see Linux on the desktop be the OS of
choice for normal people. I'd
With all due respect I keep hearing that remark about Apple. That initially
it is expensive but in the long run you save money. Frankly, a BMW and Volvo
are expensive at first but in the long with the quality and safety you save
money. Of course you have to be able to afford it. You either have
LOL...on the bicycle as your alternative mode of transportation.
I see nothing wrong with command line but most are daunted by it and could
careless if they ever learn it. I don't see the futue dealing much with
command line and GUIs. As long as Linux offers what it has now without going
This is a good post. People constructively discussing an issue with
out a lot of the mess that has gone in the past when Micro$HAFT has
been mentioned.
But I will agree with some of the things said, understand some others,
and just simply comment on others.
Linux is sort of a Hippie sort of
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:15:17 -0400 when Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Friday 29 June 2001 17:32, Mandrake wrote:
But winblows crashes
And don't forget this ridiculous plan they have for Windows XP to lock
it to one particular computer. This one should have people switching
to Linux
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On Friday 29 June 2001 06:50 pm, you wrote:
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Many of you have provided so much help to us
newbies but your past experience and with some of you with a formal UNIX
education go through command lines
I think it is great and I haven't been black listed so farlol
I am just expressing a thought but I am certainly not bashing Linux anymore
or less than Mac and Windows. I have gotten alot out of this mailing. Even
though there is the occassional upset Linux user who might interpet it
Whoa, just to clarify my comment I meant nothing about Linux being suitable
for the desktop or for the average user, whatever that might be.
Just for the record I think of Linux as a much more sophisticated and
complex OS than Windows and Mac. By no means do I think otherwise. It is not
an easy
On Saturday 30 June 2001 10:35, Franki wrote:
Hi all,
think about it..
take one mdk install,
remove all servers and the multiple apps of the same apps, settle on one
for each,, one word processor, one spreadsheet, one text editor,, one of
everthing...
except games, of course
settle on
It was Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:46:21 -0700 (PDT) when Rita F. Koenigs wrote:
I mispoke ... I was in BarnesNoble, and it was in some book I
was skimming that it mentioned OS X as a unix-based OS (but I'm
a little confused on the details, because I wrote notes about
FreeBSD) so IMAC was just the
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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:54:34 +0200
To: PENA FAMILY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
At 21.58 29/06/01, you wrote:
I agree comletely, Linux is still very young and developing. My twist on the
car analogy is like this
Windows
Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:54:34 +0200
To: PENA FAMILY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
At 21.58 29/06/01, you wrote:
I agree comletely, Linux is still very young and developing. My twist on the
car analogy
remove all servers and the multiple apps of the same apps, settle on one for
each,, one word processor, one spreadsheet, one text editor,, one of
everthing...
I kind of like that idea. Peanut linux or other small distributions probably
already do something along that line -- if they can
I mispoke ... I was in BarnesNoble, and it was in some book I
was skimming that it mentioned OS X as a unix-based OS (but I'm
a little confused on the details, because I wrote notes about
FreeBSD) so IMAC was just the general term I used for an
Apple machine, since I have no knowledge of
Well, I meant that my bug with my keyboard was litterally a bug, as in a
spider crawled out from between the keys and nearly freaked me out. I did't
relay that apparently since I was typing about 3:00am and half asleep.
Just ot elaborate.
As far as market share goes, I think you'd have to take FreeBSD out of that list.
FreeBSD is the ISP UNIX. It's a downsized UNIX, but still a step above Linux. I
don't
know of anybody personally that's using FreeBSD as a desktop/workstation (Meanwhile I
do
have a FreeBSD server at home.) and
At this time I see no objective reason for splitting up
Microsoft ... what purpose will it serve? And why is Bill Gates
so dead-set against it? What's the threat? Is it just a
comfort-level thing? A nuisance change that he's concerned
about? Or is it a huge threat to their monopoly? In fact, the
I found your post very interesting. Here is my 2 cents if you don't mind an
outside opinion.
First, I never gave a second look at a Mac. First off at that time APPLE was
on the bottom and looking like it wanted a bullet to put it out of its
misery. My first PC was a HP7170 Pavilion. I was amazed
In short, I agreee.
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From: PENA FAMILY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
I enjoy Linux and I have spent hours learning and playing with it, but
frankly and with all due
I agree comletely, Linux is still very young and developing. My twist on the
car analogy is like this
Windows is the average car which the vast majority drives and get from point
A to point B. There are lemons depending on everything from quality and
price but they get the larger slice of
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:58:00 -0700 when PENA FAMILY wrote:
I wonder do those who prefer command line will ever move
to a GUI or do they just stay in a command line enviroment within a UNIX
platform since thats all they want?
Oh, I run a GUI. It's called XFCE. But when you're used to, for
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i _am_ jealous of your new machine 1.4gig. i can hear more than one Tim
Taylor grunt right now!
sounds sweet!
moose.
On Saturday 30 June 2001 03:48, you wrote:
Rita:
I
On Friday 29 June 2001 17:32, Mandrake wrote:
But winblows crashes
And don't forget this ridiculous plan they have for Windows XP to lock
it to one particular computer. This one should have people switching
to Linux in droves.
***
First, I never gave a second look at a Mac. First off at that time APPLE was
Neither did I. My sum total experience using Macs is about 2 hours, back in
the 1980's on a microscopic Mac with a black white screen the size of a
postcard. That was enough for me. Plus the proprietary, overpriced
As far as market share goes, I think you'd have to take FreeBSD out of
that list.
FreeBSD is the ISP UNIX. It's a downsized UNIX, but still a step
above Linux. I don't
know of anybody personally that's using FreeBSD as a desktop/workstation
(Meanwhile I do
have a FreeBSD server at
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:48, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Rita:
I would *love to see a product that will give a lot of people a
highly usable alternative to M$, because I dislike their
tactics.
I rebuilt my system this morning. It was a Pentium III-450 oc'd to
600. Now with a different
Unlike other WinDOS competitors, GNU/Linux will
never die... M$ can't use its code (legally),
and they sure as hell can't buy it out.
The richest man in the world, representing the
most powerful software force in the history of
the planet can't touch Linux. sigh
Brings a tear of joy to
There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the
Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to
the Linux OS
I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any
potential competition there? ... any way to combat the OS
monopolistic intent of M$?
It was Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:25:59 -0700 (PDT) when Rita F. Koenigs wrote:
There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the
Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to
the Linux OS
I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any
potential competition
On Thursday 28 June 2001 23:25, Rita F. Koenigs wrote:
There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even
before the Appeals Court decision) being a competitor
of / annoyance to the Linux OS
I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any
potential competition there? ... any
iIf you check out the webmin, there's something in there for MajorDomo.
So yes, you will be able to manage and config THE MAJOR from webmin.
You just have to install it first.
The RPM may be on the downloaded disks. Just make sure you have all the
requirements when installing to avoid errors.
Can I install this...on LM-8.0 ?
and have webmin 0.84 configure it..
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/openlinux/edesktop/col/install/RPMS/majordomo-1.94.5-1.i386.html
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Can I install this...on LM-7.2 ?
and have webmin 0.80 configure it..
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/openlinux/edesktop/col/install/RPMS/majordomo-1.94.5-1.i386.html
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I was wondering...if this motherboard...and its features/hardware
will work under linux...anyone know for sure...let me know?
just click oh the link to see it...on ebay
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Integrated chipsets (sound/vid/LAN/etc...) are not worth the hassle trying to
configure in Linux
HTH
Jaguar
KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering...if this motherboard...and its features/hardware
will work under linux...anyone know for sure...let me know?
just click oh the link to
can anyone tell me how many bit operating system is the mandrake? 64? or 32.
thanks
Kit,
try /usr/sbin/apachectl
This will show you the available options.
Bryan
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Subject: [newbie] curious
just "httpd" if you are root
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To: Mandrake Linux
Subject: [newbie] curious...
Hey, what is the apache execution file...name,
and where is it located.
anyone k
I was wondering...if someone out there, had an extra EXTERNAL 56k modem
they
will trade for some software...a modem that will work under linux.
I have a brand new CD of the following:
Star Wars X-WING collector series..3 full games unregistered.
Star Trek- a final unity...DOS simulation
I was wondering...if anyone had an old 28.8 or 33.6 external modem
they could GIVE me...as I'm short of funds.
Also, I need to know...HOW do I find/startup a program...after
first dragging and dropping a RPM file into Kpackage to install it???
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From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 11:59 PM
Subject: [newbie] Curious fsck and changing login screens
I have used Linux for about 8 months (RedHat 5.2) and have recently
started
using
, August 13, 1999 12:23 AM
Subject: [newbie] Curious fsck and changing login screens
I have used Linux for about 8 months (RedHat 5.2) and have recently started
using Mandrake 6.0. I have been generally extremely impressed with
Mandrake, however I have noticed a few strange occurences.
1) I have always
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