Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-22 Thread robin
Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: No one would trust a techie in a suit." Sir Robin Damn right. Any techie who has time to learn a fasion sence obviously didn't learn enough about what they do. For clothes-conscious geeks, wearing a tux means putting on a T-shirt with a penguin on it. Sir Robin

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
>No one would > trust a techie in a suit." > > Sir Robin Damn right. Any techie who has time to learn a fasion sence obviously didn't learn enough about what they do. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org h

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 21 February 2004 05:52 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2004 08:39 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Saturday 21 February 2004 05:42 pm, robin wrote: > > > JoeHill wrote: > > > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 > > > > > > > > Aron Smith disseminated the following: > > >

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 08:39 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2004 05:42 pm, robin wrote: > > JoeHill wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 > > > > > > Aron Smith disseminated the following: > > Can you imagine what it would be like if it were applied to clothes?

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 21 February 2004 05:42 pm, robin wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 > > > > Aron Smith disseminated the following: > Can you imagine what it would be like if it were applied to clothes? > You would only be able to wear your Armani tie with your Arman

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Can you imagine what it would be like if it were applied to clothes? You would only be able to wear your Armani tie with your Armani suit. What a horrifying crime against humanity that would be! What Armani cl

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: > > > Can you imagine what it would be like if it were applied to clothes? You > > > would only be able to wear your Armani tie with your Armani suit. > > > > What a horrifying crime against humanity that would be! > What Ar

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Lanman
On February 21, 2004 11:29 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:24:19 +0200 > > robin disseminated the following: > > > Actually, Microsoft now requires that the activation key be affixed to > > > the computer case as part of their OEM program. It's to emphasize that > > > the OS license is

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:24:19 +0200 robin disseminated the following: > > Actually, Microsoft now requires that the activation key be affixed to > > the computer case as part of their OEM program. It's to emphasize that > > the OS license is tied to that particular computer or some such > > nonsens

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-19 Thread jimdawson
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 00:24, Russ wrote: > That is what I meant. I was reinstalling XP on his Compaq laptop and I > finally found the Windows XP serial code on the bottom of his laptop. I > literally searched through everything he had several times. Why they > chose to hid that stupid thing und

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Marc Resnick
On Thursday 19 February 2004 01:24 am, Russ wrote: > Marc Resnick wrote: > >On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:57 am, Russ wrote: > >>Marc Resnick wrote: > >>>Relax, done this several times before. Yes Erylon I do have an XP setup > >>>disc but the idiots at Compaq didn't give me a serial. > >> > >>I

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Russ
Marc Resnick wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:57 am, Russ wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: Relax, done this several times before. Yes Erylon I do have an XP setup disc but the idiots at Compaq didn't give me a serial. I have not been following this thread, but if this is a Compaq la

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Marc Resnick
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:57 am, Russ wrote: > Marc Resnick wrote: > >Relax, done this several times before. Yes Erylon I do have an XP setup > > disc but the idiots at Compaq didn't give me a serial. > > I have not been following this thread, but if this is a Compaq laptop > you are dealing

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Russ
Marc Resnick wrote: Relax, done this several times before. Yes Erylon I do have an XP setup disc but the idiots at Compaq didn't give me a serial. I have not been following this thread, but if this is a Compaq laptop you are dealing with, look on the bottom of the laptop for the Windows seri

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Marc Resnick
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:35 am, Aron Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 21:28, Erylon Hines wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 10:51 am, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > It's too late. I was impatient, and my Compaq System restore is > > > currently running. It's going to be a long day... >

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 21:28, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 10:51 am, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > > > > It's too late. I was impatient, and my Compaq System restore is currently > > running. It's going to be a long day... > > > > > > --

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 10:51 am, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > It's too late. I was impatient, and my Compaq System restore is currently > running. It's going to be a long day... > > > --- >- > System restore SUCKS. Do

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE! > On February 18, 2004 12:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > I used diskdrake to mount a new parti

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-18 Thread Lanman
On February 18, 2004 12:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > I used diskdrake to mount a new partition in a new directory, that's all. > When I finished, it said 37GB free...that's my whole hard drive. Scared, I > powered off. I turned it back on and tried to boot Windows..Lilo was still > there, I got thi

Re: [newbie] Help please

2003-09-04 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:24:40 -0400 Scooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I am getting the following error when trying to run gnucash : > > The font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" does > not support all the required character sets for the current locale > "en_US" > (Mi

Re: [newbie] Help please

2003-07-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 25 July 2003 09:19 pm, gilligan wrote: > I got LM 9.2b1 installed and running nicely except: > I can't find > > Koffice > Openoffice > screensaver > etc > > when I click on (KDE desktop) K button the only options that > are available are bookmarks > quick browser > run command > lock scre

Re: [newbie] Help please

2003-07-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 Jul 2003 10:19 pm, gilligan wrote: > I got LM 9.2b1 installed and running nicely except: > I can't find > > Koffice > Openoffice > screensaver > etc > > when I click on (KDE desktop) K button the only options that are available > are bookmarks > quick browser > run command > lock scree

Re: [newbie] Help please. Thank you.

2003-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:13 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 04:38, Richard B. Thibaudeau wrote: > > Dear Sir / Madam. > > > > I'm using Mandrake-Linux PowerPack 9.0, with kernel 2.4.19-16mdk. > > It is very buggy, slow, etc. A week after a fresh installation, it > > generates ab

Re: [newbie] Help please. Thank you.

2003-03-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 04:38, Richard B. Thibaudeau wrote: > Dear Sir / Madam. > > I'm using Mandrake-Linux PowerPack 9.0, with kernel 2.4.19-16mdk. > It is very buggy, slow, etc. A week after a fresh installation, it > generates about 50,000 files with zero bytes. I use it on a PI-233 with > 114

Re: [newbie] Help please. Thank you.

2003-03-26 Thread Jason Greenwood
Richard, I am a very happy Mandrake user and though 9.0 had its problems (especially eg supermount etc.), I never had the problems you describe. 9.1 has now been released, I suggest you upgrade/reinstall (download available on all the major mirrors) immediately. See if this fixes your problems

Re: [newbie] help please, keyboard rreeppeeaattiinngg

2002-09-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 05 September 2002 09:51 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Chris Spackman wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:13:57 -0600 > > > > Jan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Have you tried a different keyboard? That would be the first step in > >>ruling out a hardware problem with the keyboard. > >>

Re: [newbie] help please, keyboard rreeppeeaattiinngg

2002-09-05 Thread Chris Spackman
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:13:57 -0600 Jan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried a different keyboard? That would be the first step in > ruling out a hardware problem with the keyboard. > > If the borrowed keyboard works, get a new keyboard and don't worry > about it. If it does the s

Re: [newbie] help please, keyboard rreeppeeaattiinngg

2002-09-05 Thread Jan Wilson
* Chris Spackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020904 13:30]: [snip] > Anyhow, I put mandrake 8.2 on it and it works fine except for one or two > things. The major problem is that the keyboard repeat rate is totally > f**ked up. Typing quickly (normal speed for someone used to typing) > causes a large numb

Re: [newbie] Help Please peoples?? is this a reiser problem???

2001-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:08:48 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ,, > > I mentioned this last night, but noone really knew so I am asking again in > the hope that someone can give me a tip here... > > > I have a mandrake 7.2 system, and when I rebooted it last night, all sorts > of

Re: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread civileme
On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:22, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Michael Spivak wrote: > > I edited my XF86Config-4 file, added the 'load "glx"' and 'load "dri"', > > but the log file says, > > that it failed to load DRI becouse it needs voodoo 3 or higher, and 2 > > lines before, it said > > Voodoo 3

RE: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread Michael Spivak
Actually, i bought the Voodoo before the LM, and when i installed it, the card was already in -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help please ... Michael Spivak

Re: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Michael Spivak wrote: > > I edited my XF86Config-4 file, added the 'load "glx"' and 'load "dri"', but > the log file says, > that it failed to load DRI becouse it needs voodoo 3 or higher, and 2 lines > before, it said > Voodoo 3 inc. chipset found, so, i don't know what to think and what to do,

Re: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
> Michael Spivak wrote: > > Does anyone here configured an Voodoo 3 3000 on > linux mandrake 8.0 ? I need help > > > *** > Michael Spivak > Topaz QA Team Leader > Mercury Interactive > Ext. - 2586 > Cell. - 054-543234 > Home - 09-8358599 > *** > > Hi. My

RE: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread FLYNN, Steve
alyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Michael Spivak [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:11 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Help please ... I edited my XF86Config-4 file, added t

RE: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread Michael Spivak
nd what to do, i just bought the Mandrake and the Voodoo . -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 6:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Help please ... I've got my Voodoo 4 4500 working with MDK

RE: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I've got my Voodoo 4 4500 working with MDK 8.0, but not very well. Switching from X to console or vice-versa can take 3 or 4 seconds. Saying that, I've not had the time to spend on fixing the problem and generating a proper XF86Config-4 file. However, my card worked straight out of the install -

Re: [newbie] Help please !

2001-08-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: > Gonzalix le Druide wrote: > > Hi All!! > > > > Please help me: I installed LM7.2 on a Pentium II 350 > > Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Video Card Trident 975 agp 4 Mb. > > > > I've probed Xconfigurator, xf86cfg and xf86config. > > > > I was trying to find some command "XFree86Setup" or

Re: [newbie] Help please !

2001-08-08 Thread Sevatio
I can't remember the exact program for doing this... But what you could do (if you find a better answer) is to run your installation CD's again. This time choose UPGRADE. You don't have to install any programs but eventually, it walks you through the Video setup part. Sevatio >>

Re: [newbie] HELP... please

2001-03-24 Thread Wayne
Hi, Sounds like PPP is the problem, I think you need root privileges to run ppp so it terminates. Way around this is to set the 'Setuid' bit so anyone who runs it , runs it with root privs. Check these files: /usr/bin/kppp /usr/sbin/pppd then as root do the following: do a ls -l to find the permis

Re: [newbie] HELP... please

2001-03-23 Thread Dennis Myers
; for a fortnight.' > > -- Blackadder, Amy And Amiability > > - Original Message - > From: "Derek Rayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:22 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP... please > >

RE: [newbie] HELP... please

2001-03-23 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] HELP... please In Kppp setup, check the modem timeout, it needs to be a minimum of 60 to 90 seconds to allow login time. If it is set for only a few or say 20 or less seconds, the modem does not stay on long enough to log on, Hope that helps, Dennis M. -Original

Re: [newbie] HELP... please

2001-03-23 Thread dan burrows
k for directions in Wales, Baldrick - you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.' -- Blackadder, Amy And Amiability - Original Message - From: "Derek Rayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:22 AM

Re: [newbie] HELP... please

2001-03-22 Thread Derek Rayne
--- dan burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all > > i need some help i have managed to solve my winmodem problem by > getting an > external modem is an usr sportsterflash modem > it connects fine in both windows98 and 2k bur i cant seem to > successfully > connect in linux > > i am using ma

Re: [newbie] help,please...

2000-12-26 Thread Mr S Ganesan
no sir , it will work whether u have a tape drive of the ide or the scsi type since they will be recognised on start up. We only help it to get mounted.On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > On Tuesday 26 December 2000 04:16, you wrote: > > do you have KDE installed? Kde will configure t

Re: [newbie] help,please...

2000-12-25 Thread Mr S Ganesan
do you have KDE installed? Kde will configure the tape drive for you. Try to mount it as /mnt/nt0 or /dev/nt0 and the tape will be recognised. -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105

Re: [newbie] help,please...

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
There's a program on your system that will help you backup files from your system to the tape drive. It's called Taper. If your tape drive is the only scsi device on your system you would start the program like this. taper -T st0 Once you issue the command in a terminal window th

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! PLEASE, I AM AT MY WITS END

2000-08-11 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
> Kalu Chijioke wrote: > 2. I can't get my modem to work too. As described by the ChenLi Tien > CM8738 driver, I am supposed to compile the "pctel.o" > module, that, I can't find anywhere, I have gone to websites to > attempt downloading the file but to no avail, and it isnt included in >

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! PLEASE, I AM AT MY WITS END

2000-08-10 Thread patrick darcy
Kalu Chijioke wrote: Goodday All, Please I pray and hope anyone and I mean anyone can end up helping me resolve my problem.Do take time to read this, cause it's littered with a newbie request structure. I just acquired my Mandrake 6.1, having dumped my old Slackware 2.0 version.  Hoping that th

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! PLEASE, I AM AT MY WITS END

2000-08-10 Thread Eric MC.D
> Kalu Chijioke wrote: > > Goodday All, > > Please I pray and hope anyone and I mean anyone can end up > helping me resolve my problem. > Do take time to read this, cause it's littered with a > newbie request structure. > > I just acquired my Mandrake 6.1, having dumped my old > Slackware 2.0 v

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! PLEASE, I AM AT MY WITS END

2000-08-10 Thread Anthony
You might want to try "cat /dev/sndstat" and not sndstart. > 1. I can't seem to be able to configure my sound card to work with my >motherboard(System Specifications at end), I am using a > CM8738 Sound Card, which, ChenLi Tien, designed the driver that should work with >the Linux Box, but

Re: [newbie] Help Please

2000-03-15 Thread Jon Hunter
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > Ronald Brown wrote: > > > Hello Group, > > > > I'm a newbie, so forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to install Mandrake > > 7.0. > > Ok...I am in the installation process and when I get to the part that > > ask > > for the following information: > > > > Please enter th

Re: [newbie] Help Please

2000-03-15 Thread Jon Hunter
Hi Ronald! Ignorance is ok, we all start somewhere :) If you are using a floppy to boot this please check which image you used. I think you need to change your boot disk image, sounds like you are attempting to do a network install. As for the numbers: NFS stands for Network File Server (Usual

Re: [newbie] Help Please

2000-03-15 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Ronald Brown wrote: > Hello Group, > > I'm a newbie, so forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to install Mandrake > 7.0. > Ok...I am in the installation process and when I get to the part that > ask > for the following information: > > Please enter the following information: > > 1. the name or IP numb

Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error

2000-02-27 Thread Eunice Thompson
;t want. - Original Message - From: "Sam Junge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 1998 4:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error > I never backed up my hd, so i have like 350 mp3's and a bunch of o

Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error

2000-02-27 Thread Sam Junge
I never backed up my hd, so i have like 350 mp3's and a bunch of other irreplaceable stuf. . - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 5:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - P

Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error

2000-02-26 Thread Eunice Thompson
Sam,I'm surprised you have't said, 'the hell with it!" and just reformat your hard drive. Start out with a clean slate, install Win 98, make a boot floppy for Partition Magic (BTW, don't use BOOT MAGIC); make another primary partition for Linux and install Linux. You may want to boot to Linux usin

Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error

2000-02-25 Thread ChOPpY C. Chipper
I had a similar problem once, Windows 98 would not stop auto-loading a DOS program for partitioning my HD on startup!  I copied my autoexec.bat and config.sys from the Windows partition to another comz where I removed the command to load the proggy!  I then copied the new one over the old an

Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error

2000-02-25 Thread Kevin Sexton
Sam Junge wrote: > As I've mentioned before, I've been having problems with > PartitionMagic. I installed PartitionMagic, then mandrake > linux 7, then decided to delete the linux partition. No > longer does my computer load lilo, or list linux as a > partition, but PartitionMagic still loads as

Re: [newbie] Help please Scsi & IDE duo

2000-01-18 Thread Derrick Judge
Here is a ghetto way of doing of it, but it will work. Just hookup the SCSI drive while installing the OS and then add the IDE after setting up the machine. I'm sure there is a better way of doing it but this should work. Derrick - Original Message - From: ATL Oledog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>