Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-07 Thread Margot
LES wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:49, Margot wrote: Les Thomas wrote: I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Which contro

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-07 Thread LES
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:49, Margot wrote: > Les Thomas wrote: > > I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I > > must have done something to either hide it or delte it . > > I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to > > get it back up > > Les >

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-07 Thread Margot
Les Thomas wrote: I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Which control centre is missing? Mandrake control centre, or

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-06 Thread WauloK
Try: mcc On Apr 7, 2005 10:45 AM, Les Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I > must have done something to either hide it or delte it . > I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to > get it back up > Les

[newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-06 Thread Les Thomas
I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Want to buy your Pack or S

[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 http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] (Newbie) Another M/Board Q

2004-12-05 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 05 Dec 2004 03:41, care free wrote: did a search on the mdk hardware database for both ide raid and the gigabyte m/board but no joy. On the gigabyte site their are drivers for mdk 9 & rh 8 to 9. > Check to see if the raid controller is supported in Mandrake 10.1. I > bought an off boa

RE: [newbie] (Newbie) Another M/Board Q

2004-12-04 Thread care free
Check to see if the raid controller is supported in Mandrake 10.1. I bought an off board promise ide raid and did not do a deep research on it early this year. I just checked promise website and it said that the card is supported. After buying the card, I tried to install mandrake 9.2. It d

[newbie] (Newbie) Another M/Board Q

2004-12-03 Thread John Bowden
Just purchased a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 mother board. It has an on board ide raid controller, ITE 8211 i think. I have 2 X 250GB maxters set up with raid 0 . Will Mandrake 10.1 (Linux Format mag version) detect and set it up OK. I already have win 2000 pro on it. Also will it ma

Re: [newbie] newbie archive

2004-08-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:57:51PM -0400, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie mailing list. > TIA > Paul I have the best luck with http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie&r=1&w=2 Thanks for asking. Todd __

Re: [newbie] newbie archive

2004-08-17 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 04:57 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie mailing > list. TIA > Paul http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie&r=1&b=200408&w=2 -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:52pm up 8 days, 19:5

Re: [newbie] newbie archive

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 23:57, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie > mailing list. TIA > Paul http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net

Re: [newbie] newbie archive

2004-08-17 Thread Paul Smith
Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie mailing list. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/index.html#162206 Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.co

[newbie] newbie archive

2004-08-17 Thread Paul Kaplan
Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie mailing list. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-13 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:52:59 -0400 BJ Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 13 August 2004 03:28 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:20:39 -0400 > > > > BJ Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my >

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-13 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 13 August 2004 03:28 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:20:39 -0400 > > BJ Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office > > and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) > > > > I'm having the same problem

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-13 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:20:39 -0400 BJ Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office > and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) > > I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP > address on my laptop so I will b

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-12 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 12 August 2004 05:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: SNIP > > I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on > > my laptop so I will be watching the responses. > > > > Question: With all the software that came with Mdk 10 is there a contact > > management package lik

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 05:20, BJ Tracy wrote: > Hello All, > > I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office and also on my > laptop. (Two pc's to go.) > > I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my > laptop so I will be watching the responses.

[newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-12 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my laptop so I will be watching the responses. Question: With all the software that came with Mdk 10 is

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-15 Thread rikona
Hello David, Saturday, May 15, 2004, 6:51:39 AM, you wrote: DAF> > From: "rikona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DAF> > > DAF> > > LW> And when you're ready, post those "necessary Windows progs" and DAF> > > LW> we'll point you to the replacements. DAF> > > DAF> > > I would love to find a replacemen

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-15 Thread David A. Ferguson
> From: "rikona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > LW> And when you're ready, post those "necessary Windows progs" and > > LW> we'll point you to the replacements. > > > > I would love to find a replacement for DTsearch. It indexes disk files > > with most popular formats (txt, doc, xls, pdf, an

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-14 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:45:42 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). > > I > > managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no > > problems (amazing, for a newbie klu

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
John wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). I managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no problems (amazing, for a newbie klutz like me). So far I really like the system - if it wasn't for a few vital programs that have no Linux equiva

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-14 Thread B.J. McClure
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:11, John wrote: As a second question, is there any easy way to make the Linux machine 'see' the windows partition on its own hard drive, so as to transfer files etc. The following worked for me on ntfs partitions (w2k).     mkdir /mnt/windows     Using your fa

[newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-14 Thread John
Hi, I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). I managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no problems (amazing, for a newbie klutz like me). So far I really like the system - if it wasn't for a few vital programs that have no Linux equivalent, I would

Re: [newbie] newbie - help with gnomemeeting

2004-05-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 May 2004 13:55, Peter wrote: > Hi All, > > Have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Laptop, as a Linux newbie, > finding my way around it. > > question about gnomemeeting: > > can't connect to other users, get 'abnormal termination message' > > also > > how do i install programs/updates

[newbie] newbie - help with gnomemeeting

2004-05-07 Thread Peter
Hi All, Have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Laptop, as a Linux newbie, finding my way around it. question about gnomemeeting: can't connect to other users, get 'abnormal termination message' also how do i install programs/updates downloaded from the net (i try to use the software manager,

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:34 am, many eyes noted that Bryan Phinney wrote: > Never a bad idea to start with XP and then install Mandrake however, > Mandrake is much more accepting of XP than the other way around. > -- > Bryan Phinney > Software Test Engineer It's been some time since I used XP, but i

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread anton
Only problem is, IIRC, writing to NTFS partitions from Linux is still 'at your own risk', whereas at least with FAT32 there's no probs with reading or writing. Yip that's true (people seem to be skim reading my posts...). I must say though, IMHO, you need a damn good reason to be writing to the /

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:27:46 +1300 anton disseminated the following: > Don't be silly now, and format the bugger in NTFS. Only problem is, IIRC, writing to NTFS partitions from Linux is still 'at your own risk', whereas at least with FAT32 there's no probs with reading or writing. -- JoeHill ++

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 29 January 2004 04:52 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: >Write some important > notes, just in case. I know next to nothing about WindowsXP, but I > suspect that it will occupy your entire harddisk without asking. Not bad advice anyway, but Windows XP won't wipe the harddisk without asking, it

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:47, Web Site Response Address wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to ask the newbie group a question, apologies if this > isn't the right route to do so. > I can think of no better route. > I have a new (literally - no important data on it) computer > pre-loaded with Mand

[newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-29 Thread Web Site Response Address
Hello,   I'm trying to ask the newbie group a question, apologies if this isn't the right route to do so.   I have a new (literally - no important data on it) computer pre-loaded with Mandrake 9.1 which comes with the discs. I also have Windows XP Home discs which I want to install as a dual

Re: [newbie] newbie archives end at 11-2003

2004-01-26 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 26 January 2004 10:58 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 26 January 2004 10:45 am, David Little wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The newbie archives at archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ ends at > > 2003-11. > > > > Is there another archive with December-03 & Jan-04 somewhere else? > > > > I have a

Re: [newbie] newbie archives end at 11-2003

2004-01-26 Thread David Little
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:58, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 26 January 2004 10:45 am, David Little wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The newbie archives at archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ ends at > > 2003-11. > > > > Is there another archive with December-03 & Jan-04 somewhere else? > > > > I have a Lacie m

Re: [newbie] newbie archives end at 11-2003

2004-01-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 26 January 2004 10:45 am, David Little wrote: > Hi, > > The newbie archives at archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ ends at > 2003-11. > > Is there another archive with December-03 & Jan-04 somewhere else? > > I have a Lacie mobile drive which I want to repartition, there were a > lot of re

[newbie] newbie archives end at 11-2003

2004-01-26 Thread David Little
Hi, The newbie archives at archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ ends at 2003-11. Is there another archive with December-03 & Jan-04 somewhere else? I have a Lacie mobile drive which I want to repartition, there were a lot of relevant posts recently which I forgot to save. David Want to buy you

Re: [newbie] Newbie needs step-by-step instructions on Kernel upgrading

2004-01-23 Thread Eric Huff
> Here's the scoop: > I'd like to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.22 to 2.6.1. My machine is > an i686(I don't know what that means, so if someone would care to > explain), and I have a little over 10 GB in my whole Linux > partition(4 for root, 5 for main, 1 for swap). I have a habit of > completely sc

[newbie] Newbie needs step-by-step instructions on Kernel upgrading

2004-01-22 Thread marc resnick
Here's the scoop: I'd like to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.22 to 2.6.1. My machine is an i686(I don't know what that means, so if someone would care to explain), and I have a little over 10 GB in my whole Linux partition(4 for root, 5 for main, 1 for swap). I have a habit of completely screwing up

Re: Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 04 January 2004 22:00, robin wrote: > > For those who think life is too short for vi, there is also kcron. > and Webmin Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.man

Re: Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread robin
Paul wrote: On 01/04/2004 08:32 PM, mike wrote: I'll probably post back on the running the "cron" part but, I'll research it a bit more before I panic. :-) Your friends there will be: man crontab man 5 crontab and perhaps also man cron It is not difficult, just something you need to get used t

Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
On 01/04/2004 08:32 PM, mike wrote: I'll probably post back on the running the "cron" part but, I'll research it a bit more before I panic. :-) Your friends there will be: man crontab man 5 crontab and perhaps also man cron It is not difficult, just something you need to get used to. "su" to

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Paul wrote: On 01/04/2004 07:30 PM, mike wrote: I think I understand the function is to take the oldest which is the first argument if it exists rename it to the second argument. Yup. So it cd's to my file directory and sees if wireless_stat3.tar it would filetest 3 4 (rename file3.tar to file

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
On 01/04/2004 07:30 PM, mike wrote: I think I understand the function is to take the oldest which is the first argument if it exists rename it to the second argument. Yup. So it cd's to my file directory and sees if wireless_stat3.tar it would filetest 3 4 (rename file3.tar to file4.tar) and 2 to

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Paul wrote: Hi Mike, Your script to 'logrotate' the files could look like this: #!/bin/sh filetest() { if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar fi } cd / filetest 4 5 filetest 3 4 filetest 2 3 filetest 1 2 The filetest function takes 2 arguments

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
Hi Mike, Your script to 'logrotate' the files could look like this: #!/bin/sh filetest() { if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar fi } cd / filetest 4 5 filetest 3 4 filetest 2 3 filetest 1 2 The filetest function takes 2 arguments, being the o

[newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Greetings and Happy NewYear, I would like to write a script to accomplish a task, and then run it at regular intervals (I'll start another thread for that). The thing is I know zero about programming and in process of learning. I have a stand-alone firewall (mdk9.1) with no X installed, and a wi

Re: [newbie] [newbie-hi] Welcome Message for Hindi Users : newbie-hi

2003-11-15 Thread bascule
out of sheer curiosity i looked at the source of your email and saw: -cut-- X-KMail-SignatureState: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1068897663-683-8421 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If you are a

[newbie] [newbie-hi] Welcome Message for Hindi Users : newbie-hi विपत्र-सूची में स्वागत

2003-11-15 Thread Dhananjaya Sharma
If you are able to see the Hindi contents, means your settings are appropriate for Hindi-Unicode utf-8, else to view Hindi Contents in your Browser set: view-encoding-utf-8. Still not able to see properly, to know how-to send an e-mail on this mailing-list. -

Re: Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 2:55 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > > ?raft? - I let the newly installed lilo overwrite the old, borrow > any vmlinuz and initrd that dont match the new, copy them to /boot, > then rewrite the old lilo.conf's to suit. Of course i have to keep > a written sheet of my 'a-hem' 15 p

Re: Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:31:34 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 Oct 2003 5:41 am, Michael Adams wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 > > > > Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I really need to setup a "fuck me!" OS beside my normal install > > > of lin

Re: Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 5:41 am, Michael Adams wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 > > Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really need to setup a "fuck me!" OS beside my normal install > > of linux. > > > > sigh > > Femme > > It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my "Desk

Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really need to setup a "fuck me!" OS beside my normal install of > linux. > > sigh > Femme > > It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my "Desktop" box. MDK 9.0 - Stable MDK 9.0 - Tweak MDK 9.1 - Update A

Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:19, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:13 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > As a possible suggestion to Newbie Etiquette, when someone has > > asked a question and someone else has provided a possible > > answer, should we expect a post telling us whether that

Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:13 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > As a possible suggestion to Newbie Etiquette, when someone has > asked a question and someone else has provided a possible > answer, should we expect a post telling us whether that solved > the problem or should we just assume that if we

Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 08:13 AM 10/23/2003, Bryan Phinney said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): when someone has asked a question and someone else has provided a possible answer, should we expect a post telling us whether that solved the problem or should we just assume that if we don't

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:14:47 +0200 HJB wrote: |You have to specify the RPMSx directory (where x is the number i.e. |removable://mnt/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMSx with ../synthesishdlist.cz | |good luck, |HarM Ahhh... Thanks HarM! good to know. curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 11 October 2003 16:47, C. Tresenriter wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:00:11 +0100 > DJ wrote: > > IF I can jump in here > I'm trying to add my CDROMs (powerpack 9.1) to the software sources > > |To do that from Mandrake Control Centre>Software>Software Source > |Manager select all

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:00:11 +0100 DJ wrote: IF I can jump in here I'm trying to add my CDROMs (powerpack 9.1) to the software sources |To do that from Mandrake Control Centre>Software>Software Source |Manager select all the entries for your CDs and delete them. Close the |GUI | |Insert CD

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 11 Oct 2003 10:23 am, Merlin Zener wrote: SNIP > > Thanks again for the information, Derek. > it brings up a couple of interesting points: > first, I only have two CDs; I got them with APC magazine in Australia. > > Anyway, you're right I looked in Konquerer and dia-0.90 *is* on CD2 -

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Merlin Zener wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 17:35, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 04:21, Merlin Zener wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious an

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread Merlin Zener
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 17:35, ed tharp wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 04:21, Merlin Zener wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > > > > I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but > > >

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-10 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 04:21, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > > > I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but > > > > There is a prebuilt package for dia in the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 9:12 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:35, Derek Jennings wrote: > > [...snip] > > > > Merlin > > If you want to install dia just Open your Mandrake Control > > Centre>Software>Management>Software Install > > and type dia in the search box . > > > > You will f

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-10 Thread Merlin Zener
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > > I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but > > There is a prebuilt package for dia in the Mandrake distribution. Just use > rpmdrake or urpmi from the comm

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-10 Thread Merlin Zener
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:35, Derek Jennings wrote: > [...snip] > > Merlin > If you want to install dia just Open your Mandrake Control > Centre>Software>Management>Software Install > and type dia in the search box . > > You will find it is already on your CDs > Hi Derek, thanks for your reply.

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-10 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: "Merlin Zener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:32, julian wrote: > > [...snip] > thanks for the explanations, Julian. > picking up the p

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-10 Thread Merlin Zener
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:32, julian wrote: > [...snip] thanks for the explanations, Julian. picking up the process where the trouble starts: > > ./configure > (this prepares for the actual build. It may fail if you don't have the > particular software development packages that it needs

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but There is a prebuilt package for dia in the Mandrake distribution. Just use rpmdrake or urpmi from the command line to install it. # urpmi dia installing /mnt/dist

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-08 Thread Roel
Hallo Merlin On 9 Oct 2003 05:37:44 (my local time 00:37:44), Merlin Zener wrote: MZ> [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# whereami MZ> bash: whereami: command not found This should be 'whoami' MZ> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# cron MZ> bash: cron: command not found This should be 'crontab' MZ> [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 11:37 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hi, > > I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but > just right now I can't seem to find it. Not looking in the right help > file or man page, I guess. I did google on "install" and "install > problems" and such,

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-08 Thread julian
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 23:37, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hi, > > I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but > just right now I can't seem to find it. Not looking in the right help > file or man page, I guess. I did google on "install" and "install > problems" and such, came

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-08 Thread Merlin Zener
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 05:41, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hi, > [...snip] sorry about the duplicate. I had the half-finished version in the outbox, edited it then sent it, but then it seems it [Evolution] didn't delete the original version... ??? It's been that kind of day... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Syn

[newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-08 Thread Merlin Zener
Hi, I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but just right now I can't seem to find it. Not looking in the right nelp file or man page, I guess. I did google on "install" and "install problems" and such, came across a couple of pages but nothing that actually explain wh

[newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-08 Thread Merlin Zener
Hi, I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but just right now I can't seem to find it. Not looking in the right help file or man page, I guess. I did google on "install" and "install problems" and such, came across a couple of pages but nothing that actually explain wh

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-11 Thread RichardA
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:24:04 -0500, "Wilson, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok so if I backup /home, does that also backup the user information > (username and passwds?) I know each user has a directory under /home. If you back up /home, you do back up personal data, but usernames and passwor

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:45, Wilson, Jack wrote: > I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake > on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me > > 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I > looked at Trend Micro's product, but th

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Derek Jennings
> > > 3) if I have 2 ethernet cards, eth0 and eth1, and let's say I want to > > disable eth0 and just use eth1, how do I do that? > > Just for now? "ifconfig eth0 down". > Permanently? Not sure, why not just ignore it and not plug anything in? > Actually, there must be something in the init files

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Nigel Wilkinson
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:53:15 -0500 "Wilson, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake > on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me > > 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I > looked at

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:53:15 -0500, "Wilson, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I > looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the > Redhat kernels. I am assuming you CANNOT compile a RedHat kernel in > Mandrake.

[newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Wilson, Jack
I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me   1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the Redhat kernels. I am

[newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Wilson, Jack
I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the Redhat kernels. I am assuming y

[newbie] Newbie qmake configuration for Md 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
Hi All If one desires to use compile Qt programs with Md 9.1 one should be aware that as usual a few files were left off the distribution CD. This time the one of the critical files is libqt.so. Attached is a newbie configuration that will compile the simple helloworld.cpp program from O'Reil

Re: [newbie] Newbie needs install/checksum help

2003-07-15 Thread g
R. L. Moore wrote: Where do I get checksum software and how do I use it on a windows have a look at http://www.md5summer.org/ peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code

Re: [newbie] Newbie needs install/checksum help

2003-07-10 Thread Curt Tresenriter
A quick google search turned up this http://www.irnis.net/soft/acsv/ among others On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:35, R. L. Moore wrote: > Where do I get checksum software and how do I use it on a windows > machine? I have got both 8.2 and 9.1 ISO's disks1-3 burned onto cd's. I > can't get either insta

[newbie] Newbie needs install/checksum help

2003-07-09 Thread R. L. Moore
Where do I get checksum software and how do I use it on a windows machine? I have got both 8.2 and 9.1 ISO's disks1-3 burned onto cd's. I can't get either installed. On either of two machines where 7.2 were running before. I cheched the hardware list for both version and am in complience. with

Re: [newbie] newbie] WELCOME TO LINUX!

2003-06-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:29:38 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:20:29 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > > > installed! > > yeeeha! > > hope we'll be seein ya here often, it's a blast, you'll love it. Yes, an

Re: [newbie] newbie] WELCOME TO LINUX!

2003-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:20:29 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > installed! yeeeha! hope we'll be seein ya here often, it's a blast, you'll love it. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? +

[newbie] newbie] WELCOME TO LINUX!

2003-06-16 Thread crak600
installed! i'm back on windows right now, because i did not have a whole lot of free space on my hard drive and i need to clear up space now. If i clear out a bunch of my hard drive, can i go and re- install linux again to take advantage of more space? there were a few options i wasn't able t

Re: [newbie] [newbie' WM's for geeks way off topic again

2003-06-06 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Thursday 05 June 2003 05:14 pm, ed tharp wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 01:07, eric huff wrote: > > > PWM gets mentioned...I think some here use it? > > > > I used pulse width modulation in an EV motor controller... > > > > > > ___ > >_

Re: [newbie] [newbie' WM's for geeks way off topic again

2003-06-06 Thread Miark
On 06 Jun 2003 07:15:02 -0400 ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PWM is a method (as well as a proprietary trademark of Allis Chalmers, > now Fiat-Allis as PWM was not sold to Komatsu or Kalmar when the > Forklift divisions were split away) but most folks, for some long time, > considerd that s

Re: [newbie] [newbie' WM's for geeks

2003-06-06 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 01:07, eric huff wrote: > > PWM gets mentioned...I think some here use it? > > I used pulse width modulation in an EV motor controller... > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] [newbie' WM's for geeks

2003-06-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 22:07, eric huff wrote: > > PWM gets mentioned...I think some here use it? > > I used pulse width modulation in an EV motor controller... > > > __ > My model Airplane and Helicrasher use it(PWM) > Want to

Re: [newbie] [newbie' WM's for geeks

2003-06-05 Thread eric huff
> PWM gets mentioned...I think some here use it? I used pulse width modulation in an EV motor controller... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] [newbie' WM's for geeks

2003-06-05 Thread Femme
PWM gets mentioned...I think some here use it? http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0709.window.managers.html -- Femme *** *Using Evolution on * *Mandrake 9.1 & Loving it!* Suck it M$hit! OWNED! * *** Want to buy your Pack or Ser

RE: [newbie] Newbie with Dual Window

2003-02-28 Thread Peter Lomax
Got the wrong hang of it. Dual screen not dual machine therefore needing switch Sorry. Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 28 February 2003 17:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Newbie with Dual Window On

RE: [newbie] Newbie with Dual Window

2003-02-28 Thread Peter Lomax
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Newbie with Dual Window On Friday 28 Feb 2003 3:29 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: > Hello.. > > I am getting really close to switch my system from Windoze to Linux and > I am wondering if there is a way that I can get my dual monitor to work > wi

Re: [newbie] Newbie with Dual Window

2003-02-28 Thread Yoel P. Krigsman
Hello.. Oops.. Dumb me, Forgot to include the name of the hardware of that video card that i was inquiring about. it is, ATI Radon 8500. Thanks! On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:14, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 28 Feb 2003 3:29 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: > > Hello.. > > > > I am getting really close

Re: [newbie] Newbie with Dual Window

2003-02-28 Thread et
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 28 Feb 2003 3:29 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: > > Hello.. > > > > I am getting really close to switch my system from Windoze to Linux and > > I am wondering if there is a way that I can get my dual monitor to work > > with Linux? So

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