Re: [newbie] Matching email datafile between Winlows and linux.

2002-07-22 Thread Frankie
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:24, Dion Jensen wrote: > > Well - as i see this problem - it is not as easy as expected. > The PST file is a very M$ based file - and no program (to my knowledge) are able to >support sharing of this file (i could be wrong, but i havent heard of). So if not >possible

Re: [newbie] SAMBA turns into nightmare

2002-07-22 Thread Frankie
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:28, Klemm wrote: > Hi > > I just need some help > > I want to make a simple file sharing with 2 machines > one having LM8.2 other Windows2000 (sp2) > > I have installed Samba Clients and Servers and they are up and run on LM > > But what I don't have is that I don't

[newbie] Divx win vrs Lin

2002-07-22 Thread Frankie
Hi guys (and ladies where applic..), Out of curiosity, I decided to make a divx movie from a DVD I have here.. I am not a pirate, I just wanted to try it. So, after a bit of searching the net,, I found an excellent guide to doing this... it does everything from cropping the black borders to tell

[newbie] Mandrake popular.

2002-07-22 Thread Frankie
FYI: http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/?legacy=cnet scroll down the above link and see how popular mandrake is getting.. (especially compared to redhat,,,) very impressive. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OT: JVM No longer available for XP

2002-07-25 Thread frankie
Hi guys, Sorry to be a pain, but I am trying to use the file manager for Webmin from an XP machine and it doesn't have the JAVA VM it offered to autodownload, but when I tried, I got a message that Microsoft no longer support JVM on XP anymore.. So they have done it, they started to drop suppo

RE: [newbie] ip forwarding(?) with iptables......

2002-07-25 Thread frankie
do a search for a product called gShield... its a firewall that does it, but thats not why you should go there... they have a perl script there that generates port forward IPTABLES rules very handy,, the name of the people that host the tools is godot, google is your friend. you just dump it

[newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.

2002-07-28 Thread frankie
Hi guys, We know that its always better to install rather then upgrade, But I get really sick of reinstalling endlessly to get the latest stuff.. and I was thinking about that. Wouldn't it be a fantastic thing if Mandrake created an "Export system & user Settings" drake tool.??? and a drake

RE: [newbie] ip forwarding(?) with iptables......

2002-07-28 Thread frankie
try gShield (look it up in google..) It does port forwarding from scratch, and the save site has a perl script that generates IPTABLES rules for you.. you just run the script passed with the ingoing IP and port, and the outgoing IP and port, and it will give you a rule for it.. very handy.. r

RE: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.

2002-07-28 Thread frankie
months to get it.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake. On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, frankie wrote: > >

RE: [newbie] Need Newbie Firewall recommendation

2002-07-29 Thread frankie
just cos an app says its for gnome doesn't mean that you can't run it in KDE..   I run both gnome and kde apps and I use Icewm on one of my boxes, works find.   install firestarter and try it..   rgds   Frank -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]O

[newbie] Civilme petition.

2002-07-30 Thread frankie
anyone fancy starting a "Save Civilme" petition Seems a big shame that the guy who fronts to the users more then any other Mandrake employee is gettting kicked.. Nuts for mandrake really.. since Civilme and Vincent are the two main reasons these mailing lists are held in such high esteem.

RE: [newbie] Civilme petition.

2002-07-30 Thread frankie
I was not insinuating that anyone at mandrake was in any way sinister or "uncaring" Only that if they had to lay people off, laying off the ones that are in touch and have established good working relationships with the companies biggest clients is a bad idea... Since CEO's and directors are sui

RE: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion

2002-07-31 Thread frankie
I have XP on NTFS on my laptop along with linux 8.2, I have loaded all the updates for XP, I have defragged and use it every day in either XP or 8.2 guise, and have not had a problem.. so maybe it only happens on specific hardware.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [newbie] dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

2002-08-01 Thread frankie
if worst comes to worst, you will be able to get it working using "framebuffer" instead of the ATI driver. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Jeppesen Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

RE: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0

2002-08-01 Thread frankie
yeah, I'd join for the same reason... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dale Huckeby Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:43:50 -0800 civilem

RE: [newbie] TV out, Pal version in Australia.

2002-08-02 Thread frankie
Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] TV out, Pal version in Australia. On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:45:28 +0800, "frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Wondered if I coul

RE: [newbie] TV out, Pal version in Australia.

2002-08-02 Thread frankie
able to set it up properly for tv out. i have had the twinview monitors setup since i got the card but the tv out was not satisfactory. i will try again with the correct setting. regards, russell. --- Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:45:28 +0800,

FW: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-08-04 Thread frankie
Rubbish,,, there is no reason at all not to dual boot XP and Mdk 8.2... I am doing it right now, running on my M700 compaq laptop of all places.. it was very simple to do.. 1. start with a hard disk with no partitions, (run fdisk from a win98 boot floppy and remove all partitions.) 2. Boot fro

RE: [newbie] Antivirus software

2002-08-04 Thread frankie
Here is some info I wrote about 15 months or more ago,, I posted it on both the newbie and expert pages... hope it helps. rgds Frank I have just swapped to trend viruscan for linux... I thought I'd mention all the links and stuff, so that people can search the archives here if they want to

RE: [newbie] Distributing the Power Pack?

2002-08-10 Thread frankie
I have seen minor issues with the floppy when setup as shared with samba and supermount,, and accessed from windows boxes, if you delete all files on a floppy via smb to a linux supermount drive. and then try to put files on that drive, it forgets that it has deleted the files and you can't add mo

RE: [newbie] perl question.

2002-08-11 Thread frankie
image... This variable designates the local image path : $images_url thanks again and any further tips would be wonderful.. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Moshe Kaminsky Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:44 PM To: frankie

RE: [newbie] somewhat OT: putting my server box on the Internet

2002-08-12 Thread frankie
yes you do.. either setup a dns server or use your ISP's, it depends if they let you or not.. the manuals you should be looking at are for "bind" or "dyndns" then you set your new dns server up to be the master for your domain name.. (your ISP will probably second it for you.) then anyone that

[newbie] Problem with Samba and XP.

2002-08-14 Thread frankie
Hi guys, I have an 8.2 linux server under my desk and a laptop dual booting winXP and mdk8.2. I also have a win2000 server on my network, (its all for testing scripts on different platforms.) anyway, my problem is some weird interaction between XP and samba... The win2000 box can access all sm

RE: [newbie] iptables help

2002-08-15 Thread frankie
sounds like you are already using ipchains. are you?? you can one use one or the other, (ipchains or iptables) not both. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:29 AM To: newbie Subje

RE: [newbie] Postfix for dummies?

2002-08-15 Thread frankie
search the postfix miling list archives,, I saw a ton of this sort of question and answers when I was on it. (it a high volume list) you can look for it on postfix.org you should also look into amavisd while you are there, there is a proodut called amavis-new and it is tied in to spamassasin as w

[newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-15 Thread frankie
Has anyone noticed how XP doesn't have scandisk like previous versions of Winblows? instead they have chkdsk, which when running in "write mode" can only run when the drive has nothing else running... (ie at boot do it can dismount the drive if necessary.. sound familiar? they are now doing it t

RE: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-15 Thread frankie
ROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision. On Thursday August 15 2002 01:32 pm, frankie wrote: > Has anyone noticed how XP doesn't have scandisk like previous > versions of Winblows? >

RE: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-16 Thread frankie
pan out. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:10 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision. On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:02:09 +0800 "frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-16 Thread frankie
mparision. On Thursday August 15 2002 06:02 pm, frankie wrote: > yeah, someone gave me a cracked corp copy of XP, and I wanted to know > how/if it worked, so I installed it.. > > now my legit win2000pro machine on my network, and my XP machine, (no > longer with the cracked version) b

RE: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-16 Thread frankie
I am annoyed with mandrake 8.2 right now, I ran MandrakeUpdate and it told me I had to update some security and bugfix updates, and when I tried to, it wanted to upgrade what amounts to most of my system, including perl, gimp and a ton of other big apps,, and I have no idea why... so I upgraded no

RE: [newbie] read a pixel!

2002-08-16 Thread frankie
I think perl with the image magick module can do what you ask... go to search.cpan.org and search for "image" you'll find a ton of stuff.. you can even generate images with them.. its very cool. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behal

RE: [newbie] Swap file sizing

2002-08-18 Thread frankie
with that much ran, I'd stick with 128mb swap.. only 8.1 and before 2.4 kernels needed twice the ram.. 8.2 with hardly every use swap if you have 512mb ram... so don't waste hard drive space on a swap you'll never completly use. (unless you run a huge heap of ram intensive applications at the sa

RE: [newbie] I want to be a dialup server

2002-08-18 Thread frankie
dunno about some ISP's, but our ISP wants us to have our own DNS servers, webservers, and even mail servers if we want If you fancy some fiddling, I'd do something along the lines of NAT (Network Address Translation) routed over PPP... that way, the ISP is unlikely to know you are even doin

RE: [newbie] I want to be a dialup server

2002-08-18 Thread frankie
Aug 2002 23:51:15 +0800 "frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dunno about some ISP's, but our ISP wants us to have our own DNS servers, > webservers, and even mail servers if we want > > If you fancy some fiddling, I'd do something along the lines

RE: [newbie] I want to be a dialup server

2002-08-18 Thread frankie
Any decent modem can do 33.6 in both directions.. as for speed, there is not alot of difference in 33.6 to 56, especially since no one ever gets 56k anyway.. they shouldn't really know the difference. Your PC is fine, you could probably get away with less then that for this purpose. As for weth

[newbie] is this the last mandrake?

2003-03-20 Thread Frankie
Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in

RE: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?

2003-03-20 Thread Frankie
0 rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et Sent: Friday, 21 March 2003 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake? On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:10 am, Frankie wrote: > Hi guys, > > I bou

RE: [newbie] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update

2003-03-27 Thread Frankie
I got messages like that too.. I rather suspect is due to the massive amount of 9.1 downloading that is going on.. servers not accepting new requests... stuff like that.. see if its still happening next week before you go messing with your setup.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From:

RE: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connection?

2003-03-29 Thread Frankie
service internet stop try that.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Teilhard Knight Sent: Saturday, 29 March 2003 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connection? On Saturday 29 March 2

RE: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connection?

2003-03-29 Thread Frankie
its just his prompt... just type: adsl and press the tab key. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Teilhard Knight Sent: Saturday, 29 March 2003 9:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connec

RE: [newbie] shorewall pain and agony

2003-03-30 Thread Frankie
go an get gShield.. untar it into /etc/firewall edit the one config file.. written in english with the possible answers listed in comments above each question... and start it... then relax... In fact unless you are running server services,, you really don't need to change much in the config..

RE: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-03-30 Thread Frankie
definately about money.. though that certainly doesn't hurt.. Its about: 1. freedom of choice.. The right to steer your own destiny as it were. 2. Security.. The list of major flaws in windows past and present is so long that it would be easier to tell you what isn't broken in some way.. since li

RE: [newbie] [Fwd: Internet Security Update]

2003-03-31 Thread Frankie
I bet a heap of people fall for it anyway rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 3:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] [Fwd: Internet Security Update] Sorry about the HTML - but I

RE: [newbie] Installing tar

2003-03-31 Thread Frankie
use mc midnight commmander type mc in an xterm or console.. then browse to the tar or tar.gz and press enter.. there are two panels.. left and right.. have the opened tarball in the left and the target directory on the right.. press F5 to copy from the tarball to the target directory.. works fl

RE: [newbie] [Fwd: Internet Security Update]

2003-03-31 Thread Frankie
ranki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 3:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] [Fwd: Internet Security Update] On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 05:36, Frankie wrote: > I bet a heap of people fall for i

[newbie] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
Hi guys, I have to write a webapp with a downlaod option for the data.. at present the format is in .csv (comma seperated values) however there are massive limitations to what csv can display. notably there is no way to make headers of format the data at all In word processors we have rich text

RE: [newbie] Mandrake9.1 and ADSL

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
Don't use any of mandrakes tool... install pppoe and from a root exterm, run adsl-setup answer the questions and run it when its finished... let us know if that works for you.. it always has for me.. And I have never had any luck with the mandrake adsl setup. regards Franki -Original Me

RE: [newbie] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
2003 10:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] open source spreadsheet file format. Frankie; Have you tried Gnumeric? It handles pretty much everything you're looking for. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/1/2003 at 10:09 PM Frankie wrote: >Hi guys, >

[newbie] kernel mode pppoe

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
Hi guys, roaring penguin now say that kernel mode pppoe is no longer experimental.. has anyone tried it with a mandrake kernel? if so did you have to recompile it? or are the options necessary already present.. I notice the mandrake rpms do not have rp-pppoe.so binary required to use it, so I

RE: [newbie] Observation: Differences in Mandrake and Redhat

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
why in gods name would you replace postfix with sendmail?? thats nuts.. when I was a redhat user, I used sendmail.. always got it working.. tweaked to suit.. never really liked it.. one day after installing sendmail on mandrake a couple of times, I bit the bullet and played with postfix.. not on

RE: [newbie] Need a Linux based Exchange client

2003-04-02 Thread Frankie
yup... evolution.. but you will need to buy the plugin for exchange from their site.. evolution is a clone of outlook 2000... very nice it is too.. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of T E Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:18 PM

RE: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Frankie
go and download the latest ddclient there is an rpm you can download or a src rpm you can rebuild.. I have used it in the past on mandrake and there is no problem. it helps that its easy to setup as well. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [newbie] SCO Again?

2003-05-31 Thread Frankie
lol, that cracks me up... I suppose that the general Lee is the users -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: Saturday, 31 May 2003 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SCO Again? Check out this link http://www.ari

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Which download

2003-06-01 Thread Frankie
Get the ISO's, much easier to use. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: Sunday, 1 June 2003 3:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Which download OK you guys have convinced me I am having

RE: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-08 Thread Frankie
privacy in browsering is cool.. just keep in mind that you have no right to expect ecommerce apps to work if you make all authentication methods non functional... Its a tough call, as a user, I know that for the most part, I'd prefer to be anonymous but as an e-commerce developer I know how hard

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-08 Thread Frankie
aren't you??? rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of rikona Sent: Monday, 9 June 2003 12:13 PM To: Frankie Subject: Re[2]: [newbie] Privacy in linux? Hello Frankie, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 7:08:01 PM, you wrote: F> privac

RE: Re[4]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-08 Thread Frankie
Hi again, I made a point of not using cookies on our gateway.. For the simple reason that you can't guarantee that the user will accept them or that the client is capable of accepting them.. personally I deny any cookie that isn't set to expire within a day of being set. You are correct about of

RE: Re[6]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-10 Thread Frankie
: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 4:26 AM To: Frankie Subject: Re[6]: [newbie] Privacy in linux? Hello Frankie, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 11:54:45 PM, you wrote: F> I made a point of not using cookies on our gateway.. For the simple F> reason that you can't guarantee that the user will accept them or

[newbie] apache rewrite regex

2003-06-11 Thread Frankie
Hi guys I am hoping that on this list is a regex/apache guru... Currently, I have mdk9.0 running mod_perl/apache via virtual named hosts.. works great. I can run mod_perl scripts in either of the following methods: http://mydomain.com/perl/script.pl or http://mydomain.com:8200/perl/script.pl

RE: [newbie] apache rewrite regex

2003-06-11 Thread Frankie
n On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 09:05, Frankie wrote: > Hi guys > > > I am hoping that on this list is a regex/apache guru... > Currently, I have mdk9.0 running mod_perl/apache via virtual named hosts.. > > works great. > > I can run mod_perl scripts in either of the followi

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: The SCO UNIX Lawsuit (from Windows & .NET M agazine)

2003-06-11 Thread Frankie
Something else you might want to consider its possible that this has been planned years ago.. SCO could have done it themselves, slowly, patch by patch.. not directly of course... they may have had this planed with microsnot long ago. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-11 Thread Frankie
it probably means that windows longhorn (the next windows release) will have integrated antivir.. so all the virus's will target that.. cool stuff. :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2003

RE: [newbie] DNS with bind.

2003-06-12 Thread Frankie
well, you have done pretty well. If I were in your boat, I'd get on google and search for gShield download it untar it and put the files in a directory called 'firewall' in /etc go in there, open the .conf file and say 'YES' to all the relevant questions (like NAT (ICS)) save the file.. and run

RE: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Frankie
personally I think that the perfect antivirus solution for windows, (apart from format or fdisk) would be if microsnot put a antivir function into the kernel, and outsourced just the pattern files.. Then the trend/symantec etc companies could just concentrate on supplying up to date pattern files

RE: Re: [newbie] Launch MySQL at startup

2003-06-17 Thread Frankie
urpmi ntsysv and run it at the command prompt as root very handy.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jesus Hernandez Sent: Tuesday, 17 June 2003 3:10 PM To: Stephen Kuhn Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] Launch MySQL at startup The prob

RE: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread Frankie
WinSCP.. looks and works just like an FTP client. http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ TerraTerm pro Looks like a Telnet client.. (is a telnet client) http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html TTSSH The SSH plugin for TerraTerm that enables it to work with SSH. http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/t

RE: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-20 Thread Frankie
I agree with that, IBM are a commercial company that has pumped alot of money into linux and OSS in general,,, and they are making money from it.. I doubt they would limit its growth.. I suspect being a backer of that company is in no way a reflection of their beliefs.. IBM have shown a great deal

RE: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-20 Thread Frankie
glad you mentioned that.. I was about to... IBM supplied the server hardware for the system and also acted as prime contractor for Belmin, the supplier responsible for the implementation of EROS software -- based on IBM's Informix U2 product -- onto the Linux open-source architecture. Cable & Wire

RE: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag

2003-06-21 Thread Frankie
Isn't it ironic.. that Suns Java was and is being compromised by a clone called C# and .NET, and yet here they are teaming up with SCO and M$ to get some solaris sales from IBM's AIX/Linux market.. And if SCO senses at some stage that Solaris is taking sales from SCO unix, no doubt they will find s

RE: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Thread Frankie
I don't know if anyone has helped you out with this yet.. but the answer is pretty simple. the file /etc/fstab contains the info your linux box uses to mount its partitions.. when you change a drive over from one bus to another, or even from master to slave, you have to edit that file to reflect

RE: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-24 Thread Frankie
Why??? This will not hurt apple as much as you think.. The reason is that M$ make their money in the PC world just from the software.. so when people don't use it, it hurts them.. If people buy a mac, and put linux on it.. I can't see Apple being too upset about it.. since they got the money from

RE: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake! Support Mandrake if your one of us.!!!

2003-06-26 Thread Frankie
I will second this... Anyone that cares about mandrake linux should vote for Mandrake ... If novell end up extending their support to add Mandrake to the list as well as Redhat and SUSE (the later of which mandrake is currently tied with on the novell survey.) It will give mandrake a slice of

RE: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!

2003-06-26 Thread Frankie
They did.. its classed as "none" :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 1:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake! On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:03 pm, Miar

RE: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread Frankie
yeh, that always amazes me... M$ claim that linux is a clone of a 20 year old operating system. what it doesn't mention is that they are copying what they see as all the best bits of same 20 year OS.. no wonder they bought a SCO license. I am amazed at the list of commands in windows that are almo

RE: [newbie] defragmentation

2003-06-28 Thread Frankie
not unless you use JFS filesystem... and don't do that cos SCO will sue your ass, as its one of the things they claim IBM stole and gave to linux. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tsyko Sent: Sunday, 29 June 2003 4:40 AM To: [EMA

RE: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-06-30 Thread Frankie
I am running my own irc server using the mandrake contrib ircd rpm.. actually, I downloaded the src rpm and recompiled it with a few changes allowing me to use /kill and enabling services (though I have not found any services available for that version of ircd, so that was kinda pointless.. but /k

RE: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-06-30 Thread Frankie
swapping partitions is not as hard as it would seem at the outset, I have done it many times. Some Tips.: - If you are not putting windows on the 100gb drive, you can benefit by putting the swap part at the start of the drive where things will be faster. if you want windows on the drive as wel

[newbie] RE: [newbie] Interview: Gaël Duval on finances

2003-07-02 Thread Frankie
thats fantastic.. I hope they do alot of business.. And i hope the mandrake machines are much cheaper. now if Dell and all the other biggies would sit up and take notice. linux may well make a desktop dent. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

[newbie] RE: [newbie] RE: [newbie] Interview: Gaël Duvalon finances

2003-07-03 Thread Frankie
companies considering it. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2003 3:26 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] RE: [newbie] Interview: Gaël Duvalon finances On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:2

RE: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

2003-07-03 Thread Frankie
I knocked up a perl one the other day.. its been very popular.. over 300 downloads http://htmlfixit.com/free.php my counter is invisable and collects stats about your visitors.. screen res, OS, referer, browser etc has an admin login to view the stats.. instructions and whatnot are on the si

RE: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

2003-07-04 Thread Frankie
al Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sharrea Sent: Friday, 4 July 2003 8:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page. On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 18:38, Frankie wrote: > I knocked up a perl one the other day.. > > its been very

RE: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

2003-07-04 Thread Frankie
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dennis Myers > > Does anyone know of a site or book that I can get to build a hit counter on > my > web page? I have been using a commercial counter that was free if I allowed > their small add but now they are going to full charge an

[newbie] RE: [newbie] RE: [newbie] Interview: Gaël Duval on finances

2003-07-04 Thread Frankie
I think two things need to happen before mandrake will have a chance.. and both have to do with mandrake itself. 1. Mandrake MUST start actively fixing bugs in the current distros rather then just focusing on the next one, and making security fixes for the present ones. 2. Mandrake needs to add

RE: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

2003-07-06 Thread Frankie
9.1. > > > > > > Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf. > > > > > > Todd > > > > Ya know, I used to think I was fairly intelegent. Now I'm not so sure, > > I can not get webalizer to run nor can I login to the pages for &

RE: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

2003-07-06 Thread Frankie
ranki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Saturday, 5 July 2003 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page. On Friday 04 July 2003 11:48 am, Frankie wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Window$ free -follow -up

2003-07-07 Thread Frankie
BTW, back in 1992 I taught a class for teachers - about computers and using computers. I started the first week of the class by making people play Solitaire, Minesweeper and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Nothing technical. Just how to use the mouse and the keyboard, open the application, cl

RE: [newbie] Install stopped

2003-07-07 Thread Frankie
That is a perl error.. the install program apparently uses OOP perl, The script tries to create an object by calling the 'new' subroutine of the package ever. however it can't locate or load the 'ever' package or for some reason ever was not 'used' as in: use ever; basically, someting stopped th

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
Stephen, Heheheehewe're not allowed to have guns in Australia. Now you know that is just not true... Honest people are not permitted to own guns.. The crims didn't have to hand in their guns and stuff cos they were not registed in the first place.. Our police force are great, the

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
na, I've heard it said that people such as yourself do well there, and you'd get the added benefit of being able to punish the people that don't believe as you do) kindest regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:56:16 +08

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
Could you spread your right-wing opinion on the OT list and NOT here? http://mdw1982.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot bones Nope, I am done spreading.. except to say that I was unaware wanting to protect my family was right wing. I have one thing in common with Mr Joe Hill, and that i

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 08:59, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:56:16 +0800 > "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > anyway, that was all OT, > > no, unintelligible and stupid *and* OT. Frankie is absolutely c

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS :-)

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
y, 10 July 2003 2:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:46 pm, Frankie wrote: > As I said before, lets just rejoice in the fact that we at least have linux > as the common experiance of our lives. > > > kin

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
getting killed... Since you simply cannot provide an answer to that.. why not agree that you are argueing from moral highground and not reality? kindest regards, Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:57:14 +0800 "Frankie" <[EMAIL P

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS :-)

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
Arron, don't tell me you are an ass as well.. I have tried hard not to lower myself to Joe's (and now yours apparently) level by name calling and insults.. I would expect the same curtesy from others as well, agree or disagree.. The worse thing you can do for a cause you believe in, is to prove y

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
can protect my family from armed intruders without being armed myself kindest regards Franki -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lanman Frankie; Thanks for the clarifications ( on many levels! ). Always nice to understand why everyone wants to kick the c

RE: [newbie] PPC Install

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
As far as partitioning goes, I imagine that the PCC linux has much the same needs as the PC version.. at the very least, you need to create one swap file.. about 2 times your ram works, but you can go less or more depending on how much ram you actually have.. and a root partition, unless you cre

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Frankie
lol The "aussies" (your place of birth notwithstanding Stephen) are the cause of this whole thing since I posted what was sposed to be a semi humourous reply to your gun comment... I have been on this list for several years now and this is the first flame war I have started hopefully my last

RE: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]

2003-07-10 Thread Frankie
Deskpro [solved] On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:10, Frankie wrote: > I have added that partition myself on deskpro 4000n systems before.. > > you get the softpaq from their site, make the disks and you can use them to > create the partition on your system.. > > unfortunatly its not fri

RE: [newbie] Postfix and POP3

2003-07-17 Thread Frankie
If you install fetchmail on your system and configure it to collect your pop3 mail.. it will by default hand your mail to postfix which will pass it to procmail for local delivery.. I have been doing it that way for ages.. Here is an example .fetchmailrc set postmaster "postmaster" set bouncema

RE: [newbie] Postfix and POP3

2003-07-17 Thread Frankie
My comments are down the bottom.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 10:38 am, Frankie wrote: > If you install fetchmail on your system and configure it to collect > your pop3 mail.. > > it wil

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