Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

2004-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 10:27 pm, Lexx wrote: X86 / 9.2 Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

2004-01-24 Thread Lexx
X86 / 9.2 Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder including this in text: these files are glibc

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

2004-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 11:40 pm, Lexx wrote: X86 / 9.2 Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. I get various errors when trying to unpack the

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

2004-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 12:22 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 11:40 pm, Lexx wrote: X86 / 9.2 Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. SNIP OK That is the atmelwlandriver The good

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-17 Thread et
On Friday 16 January 2004 07:57 pm, jason pearl wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:14:55 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote IIRC you have tried 'linux noapic' when booting - if you haven't already done so, try linux noacpi. No, it's not the same, and at least one poster believes

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-16 Thread P J Scott
- Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux install On Monday 12 January 2004 11:10 am, P J Scott wrote: Dear list please help.I have a new computer with a asrock motherboard

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 16 January 2004 11:21 am, P J Scott wrote:   At install time (if you haven't managed to install yet)    Boot the install CD, press F!, and try 'linux nobiospnp'  (w/o the quote marks)    If you do have a working install, add nobiospnp to the append= line in /etc/lilo.conf,

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 16 January 2004 17:21, P J Scott wrote: Thanks for this, I have tried booting with linux nobiospnp, it all went well untill part way through. Then the dredded mesage hda lost interupt...aaagg I tried googling for 'lost interrupt' and was amazed how many threads popped

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
quote IIRC you have tried 'linux noapic' when booting - if you haven't already done so, try linux noacpi. No, it's not the same, and at least one poster believes that to be the solution. /quote Correction - 'linux acpi=off' Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-16 Thread jason pearl
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:14:55 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote IIRC you have tried 'linux noapic' when booting - if you haven't already done so, try linux noacpi. No, it's not the same, and at least one poster believes that to be the solution. /quote Correction - 'linux

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 16 January 2004 19:57, jason pearl wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:14:55 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote IIRC you have tried 'linux noapic' when booting - if you haven't already done so, try linux noacpi. No, it's not the same, and at least one poster believes that

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-13 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:23, P J Scott wrote: Well the problem is this. I have a new computer and a new distro 9.2. When I try to install it all that happens is I get the message lost interupt over and over so have to abort installation . Anne thought it might be the pnp in my bios but like

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from You need to specify

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:22, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:23, P J Scott wrote: Well the problem is this. I have a new computer and a new distro 9.2. When I try to install it all that happens is I get the message lost interupt over and over so have to abort installation

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread robin
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:02 am, robin wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread robin
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:02 am, robin wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread Eric Huff
My info may be dated. I am still on version 1.02 of Open Office and the last time I did some research, there were still some compatibility problems with some XP file formats. Version 1.1 is supposed to be fully compatible according to the website, but I am not running that version.-- I

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-13 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:31, Anne Wilson wrote: Adolfo - he's not even getting it installed. I think he needs to pass noapic during the install. Can you tell him exactly how that's done? Anne Sorry I couldn't answer before. Here is a link that explains how to pass options during

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-13 Thread P J Scott
- Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux install On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:31, Anne Wilson wrote: Adolfo - he's not even getting it installed. I think he needs

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-12 Thread P J Scott
...Philip - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux install Phillip; What happens with your install that is causing you some problems? For the record,I don't think there is an option

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-12 Thread Lanman
basically im stuck...Philip - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux install Phillip; What happens with your install that is causing you some problems? For the record,I don't think

[newbie] Re: Messages to Newbie Linux Group

2004-01-12 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
Jeff, Thanks. How to get the messages to go through though is an odd thing. For every message I send I get an email from SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to approve my own messages. After I have approved them via reply then they go through to the list. J. Kelley Jernigan On Mon, 2004-01-12 at

[newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-12 Thread vikrant joshi
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from vikrant - Still single? Click

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-12 Thread Eric Huff
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. If you just want to read them, no problem. It'll be setup when you install. If you want to write to them also, you will want them on a seperate FAT32 partition. eric

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-12 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:25 pm, many eyes noted that Eric Huff wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. If you just want to read them, no problem. It'll be setup when you install. If you want to

Re: [newbie] Re: Messages to Newbie Linux Group

2004-01-12 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:57 am, many eyes noted that J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Jeff, Thanks. How to get the messages to go through though is an odd thing. For every message I send I get an email from SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to approve my own messages. After I have approved them via

[newbie] Linux behind proxy

2003-12-03 Thread cdrack
Hi people, i have installed Mandrake 9.2 and i need to use the internet access over the network. A server on the net is administrating the internet over a proxy server, and i wath to connect with it, but i can't find where to especify the port of connection. At the internet options there are

Re: [newbie] Linux behind proxy

2003-12-03 Thread qhwang
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux behind proxy Hi people, i have installed Mandrake 9.2 and i need to use the internet access over the network. A server on the net is administrating the internet over a proxy server, and i wath to connect

Re: [newbie] Linux behind proxy

2003-12-03 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I've never had much luck with MDK's internet connection wizards, I find it easier to configure by hand. There are various places where to configure the proxy. For Mozilla, you go to the Edit-Preferences-Advanced-proxy and specify there the name and port of the proxy. I guess there's something

Re: [newbie] Linux behind proxy

2003-12-03 Thread cdrack
you are rigth with the browser thing but the mail client like evolution or kmail, doesn't have this option to put on. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had much luck with MDK's internet connection wizards, I find it easier to configure by hand. There are various

Re: [newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-30 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0500 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I rebooted, it got the same error, THE PERMISSONS WERE SET BACK TO ORIGINAL VALUES!! That's msec in action: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html Linux isn't out to lunch, it's protecting you from

Re: [newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-30 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0500 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a second user using userdrake. When I tried to logon to the new account. I get No Write Permission on HOME KDE can't start. SO, although the new home has the same permissions as my home, I change the permission

Re: [newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 12:28 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0500 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a second user using userdrake. When I tried to logon to the new account. I get No Write Permission on HOME KDE can't start. SO, although the new home has the

Re: [newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-30 Thread Mike Adolf
On Sunday 30 November 2003 08:08 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 12:28 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0500 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a second user using userdrake. When I tried to logon to the new account. I get No Write Permission

Re: [newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-30 Thread E. Hines
On Sunday 30 November 2003 04:25 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0500 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I rebooted, it got the same error, THE PERMISSONS WERE SET BACK TO ORIGINAL VALUES!! That's msec in action: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html

Re: [newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 30 November 2003 19:29, E. Hines wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2003 04:25 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0500 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I rebooted, it got the same error, THE PERMISSONS WERE SET BACK TO ORIGINAL VALUES!! That's msec in

Re: [newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-30 Thread robin
Mike Adolf wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2003 08:08 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 12:28 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0500 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a second user using userdrake. When I tried to logon to the new account. I get No Write

Re: [newbie] Linux VS Windows virus Vulnerability

2003-11-29 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:38:25 -0800 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is from a Win list. All above my head. Any truth to it? None whatsoever. No one with any experience in security and who has not been bought off my MS seriously believes that Windows is *anywhere near* as secure as Linux or

Re: [newbie] Linux VS Windows virus Vulnerability

2003-11-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 29 November 2003 08:38 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, This is from a Win list. All above my head. Any truth to it? Given that a lot of virus writers and malicious hackers are in it purely for the bragging rights and given that any successful mainstream virus or exploit on Linux systems

[newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-29 Thread Mike Adolf
Sometimes linux looses it. I added a second user using userdrake. When I tried to logon to the new account. I get No Write Permission on HOME KDE can't start. SO, although the new home has the same permissions as my home, I change the permission to 777 on new HOME. Tried to log on again

Re: [newbie] linux-out to lunch

2003-11-29 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:35 pm, many eyes noted that Mike Adolf wrote: Sometimes linux looses it. I added a second user using userdrake. When I tried to logon to the new account. I get No Write Permission on HOME KDE can't start. SO, although the new home has the same permissions as my home,

Re: [newbie] Linux VS Windows virus Vulnerability

2003-11-29 Thread rikona
Hello Russ, Saturday, November 29, 2003, 5:38:25 PM, you wrote: R Hi All, R This is from a Win list. All above my head. Any truth to it? R Thanks R Russ R [I suspect almost no Unix users know how to properly configure R IPchains to prevent a random process from accessing the network R

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 2:45 pm, Tango Echo wrote: -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! On Friday 14 Nov 2003 9:09 pm, Lanman

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 2:54 pm, Tango Echo wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! On Monday 10 November 2003 11:50 am

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Tango Echo
--- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can set up a page for you, containing the single word 'placeholder', on which you can build, if that would help. For any potential contributors who don't want to learn the few simple formatting commands, they can use html tags instead. Just

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 2:50 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can set up a page for you, containing the single word 'placeholder', on which you can build, if that would help. For any potential contributors who don't want to learn the few simple

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Lanman
T.E. - I signed up for Twiki, Finally! Now what to I do for entering information, and how many can I put in? Read your post back to Anne, but I don't agree with you about the worth of this page. I think it's great! The most significant reason for this is because this will be a list of scenarios by

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:24 pm, Tango Echo wrote: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BusinessUser Anne Ok, I threw something up on that location. I wasn't able to add the industry pages because I don't know how to branch off from the main index page. After more thoroughly browsing

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 9:09 pm, Lanman wrote: T.E. - I signed up for Twiki, Finally! Now what to I do for entering information, and how many can I put in? That's the beauty of TWiki - if you feel that it fits, it goes in! I'm looking forward to what arrives. Come on, everyone. Get your

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 November 2003 11:50 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business

RE: [newbie] Linux in Thailand

2003-11-13 Thread Milburn, Todd
and they will be getting plenty of exposure to Linux =:0) They will be learning more about MS in their history class. lol ToddM -Original Message- From: Kevin B. O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in Thailand

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 1:19 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 1:49 pm, Tango Echo wrote: The Twiki suggestion is great. One addition to it may be more of an industry HOWTO. For example, people could post HOWTOs that

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 11:01 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 01:56 PM 11/12/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): And don't forget to tell them that all support/updates/fixes for 98 have ceased. Ummm...No. They just released fixes for Win98

Re: [newbie] Linux in Thailand

2003-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 9:44 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32110.html just thought a few ppl here might be slightly interested :) Very interesting. And it bears out what I have always held true - the M$ way is only 'intuitive' if you have been a M$ user.

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Thread robin
understand it; the sysadmins are all using Linux anyway! Sir Robin Tony. -Original Message- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Lanman wrote: Just

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 1:49 pm, Tango Echo wrote: The Twiki suggestion is great. One addition to it may be more of an industry HOWTO. For example, people could post HOWTOs that pertain to their industry. Weather its government, insurance, production, retail, or something else, each

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Robin Turner
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Tony S. Sykes
. -Original Message- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux

[newbie] Linux in Thailand

2003-11-12 Thread Merlin Zener
http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32110.html just thought a few ppl here might be slightly interested :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 01:56 PM 11/12/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): And don't forget to tell them that all support/updates/fixes for 98 have ceased. Ummm...No. They just released fixes for Win98 again. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Linux in Thailand

2003-11-12 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 04:44 PM 11/12/2003, Merlin Zener said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32110.html just thought a few ppl here might be slightly interested :) It was interesting, and it echoes something I have been saying. The

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Roland Hughes
That's only because they want 98 to be able to get worm's etc, like 2k and xp. Roly On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:01 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 01:56 PM 11/12/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): And don't forget to tell them that all

Re: [newbie] Linux Power Tools (WAS Good Article on Linux Filesystems)

2003-11-12 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about [newbie] Linux Power Tools (WAS Good Article on Linux Filesystems) One thing that's a rarity in the part of Canada that I live in is a book that acknowledges that Mandrake even exists. So you can imagine my delight when the cover of a recent release by Sybex called

[newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they're doing with

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Anders Lind
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:40:18 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Very cool! Open-Source is all about choice, and FreeBSD is certainly a good choice. I find that a lot of people start with Mandrake because it's one of the easiest distro's to start with, but I also see a lot of users switch to other Open-Source solutions once they have gained some experience

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Way to go Franki ! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread mike
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? Lanman Lanman, I use Linux mandrake 9.1 both at home and at work .( writing from there now ) I work at an Information management company that does record storage,

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread brian
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
I think that you'll find that this is the case in most installations Mike. Usually, once it's set up and configured, Linux will usually bore you to tears in how dependable it is. Unless your clients or employers require additional administration or servers/services, you'll typically find that

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Tony S. Sykes
software on (I have no input there). They are very windows centric here so it is difficult to get them to change over. Tony. -Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux in the Business World

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:50 am, Anders Lind wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:40:18 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Warren Post
My principal business is a restaurant http://pizzapizza.vze.com/ and I've been running Linux Mandrake on our office computer since 8.0. The system is more stable and our data is no longer hostage to Microsoft's proprietary formats. One of the reasons that made me look at alternatives to Windows

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
I'm not using it for business, but as a long time IT professional, Linux is at least as easy to maintain as Win2k server. Added to which, the software is a lot cheaper and the support is a lot better. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El lun, 10-11-2003 a las 12:40, Lanman escribió: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I was hired in a cybercafé last month. My job is to completely migrate it to Linux. (gaming machines included). Not an easy task as you can

Re: [newbie] Linux to MS VPN

2003-11-08 Thread Guy Rouillier
Guy Rouillier wrote: At work, we are considering replacing CheckPoint SecureRemote VPN with Microsoft VPN that's built in to Windows 2K server versions. To hook up with MS VPN from a Win2K remote system requires no add-on software; everything needed is built into Win2K. Does anyone have any

[newbie] Linux to MS VPN

2003-11-03 Thread Guy Rouillier
At work, we are considering replacing CheckPoint SecureRemote VPN with Microsoft VPN that's built in to Windows 2K server versions. To hook up with MS VPN from a Win2K remote system requires no add-on software; everything needed is built into Win2K. Does anyone have any experience with

Re: [newbie] Linux Power Tools (WAS Good Article on Linux Filesystems)

2003-10-17 Thread John Wilson
No it isn't, though my guess is that the title and the depth that it goes into was inspired by Unix Power Tools. From reading the back cover on Amazon's site I'd also guess that the two books together would really be a great resource to have handy. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Linux Power Tools (WAS Good Article on Linux Filesystems)

2003-10-16 Thread robin
Is Linux Power Tools an update of Unix Power Tools? That was one hell of a good book. Sir Robin -- I declare this sentence a performative! Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Linux Power Tools (WAS Good Article on Linux Filesystems)

2003-10-15 Thread John Wilson
One thing that's a rarity in the part of Canada that I live in is a book that acknowledges that Mandrake even exists. So you can imagine my delight when the cover of a recent release by Sybex called Linux Power Tools said it covered Mandrake. Imagine even further my delight to see Mandrake

Re: [newbie] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-15 Thread Franki
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 8:48 pm, Franki wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux

[newbie] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be general purpose using productivity apps and also

Re: [newbie] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Franki
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be general purpose using

Re: [newbie] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 8:48 pm, Franki wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless

Re: [newbie] Linux on a Thinkpad?

2003-10-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 09 October 2003 01:03, Merlin Zener wrote: Good idea? Excellent idea!!;) I've got 4 (older P166's) Tpads with Linux only... they all work fine. Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] Linux on a Thinkpad?

2003-10-08 Thread Merlin Zener
Hi, have any of you folks put Linux on a Thinkpad? I've got an A21E - 600Mhz, 256Mram 800x600lcd. I noticed that when I got it there were two partitions set up on the HDD - one is [I think] about 8G or so which has the IBM setup files etc on it; the rest came pre-installed with WIN2KPRO. I've

Re: [newbie] Linux fax machine

2003-10-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
I have a Toshiba TF631 bought on ebay for about !00.00 US. Look for one with the network card installed and it will do all. This is the 2nd one we've gotten the same way. I put the wrong toner in the first, then fubar'ed the fuser trying to clean up the mess. Expensive lesson, but a lesson

RE: [newbie] Linux fax machine

2003-10-07 Thread Tony S. Sykes
What about Hylafax with a sheet feed scanner? -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:11 PM To: Newbie; Expert Subject: [newbie] Linux fax machine I'm looking for a laser fax machine that does copying (I guess they all do). It's

[newbie] Linux fax machine

2003-10-06 Thread Miark
I'm looking for a laser fax machine that does copying (I guess they all do). It's not imperative that I can print and send faxes from Linux, but it'd be nice. Any recommendations? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] linux guides

2003-09-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
http://www.tldp.org/guides.html#abs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any solutions? I'm betting you need to burn an ISO

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any solutions? I'm betting you need to burn an ISO

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 06:22, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-12 Thread DrewMartin
: Thursday, September 11, 2003 8:22 PM Subject: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-12 Thread TAKane2
Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any solutions? I'm betting you need to burn an ISO that is on the dvd to a CD...so the cd will boot.

[newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-11 Thread TAKane2
Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any solutions?

Re: [newbie] linux world magazine resource DVD with mandrake 9.1 on it

2003-09-11 Thread TAKane2
Does anyone have this? i do and i it won't boot from the dvd drive and when i make a boot disk it dosn't regognize the DVD as the install CD and tells me to insert the install CD. Any solutions? I'm betting you need to burn an ISO that is on the dvd to a CD...so the cd will boot. most

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