[newbie-it] unsubscrive

2001-07-02 Per discussione Yves Catineau

Re: [newbie-it] unsubscrive - come rinmuoversi dalla lista

2001-07-02 Per discussione Andrea Celli
andrea wrote: 1) in inglese la parola nel suject finisce per Be e non per Ve :-) 2) e` una parola proibita nei messaggi a ML per evitare che il traffico aministrativo venga inoltrato a tutti gli aderenti invece che al robot che gestisce la lista. Se aveste scritto la parola corretta vi

Re: [newbie-it] Modem non funzionante

2001-07-02 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Davide Giacomazzi wrote: Ciao a tutti e viva linux. Il mio unico problema, con Mandrake 7.2, è che non riesco a configurare la connessione Internet con un modem chippato Rockwell installato su COM1. La configurazione non trova il modem su nessuna porta; devo fare qualcosa di particolare

Re: [newbie-it] Stampanti

2001-07-02 Per discussione Alessandro
Unico neo: la stampante: una laser Canon LBP 800 beh, le stampanti la MDK le configura durante l'installazionepero' ha un sistema di configurazione molto pratico (ovvero che funziona ma non so perche' :) ): io ho una HP 690C series printer (cassone) e se scelgo i driver LPR non succede

Re: [newbie-it] staroffice

2001-07-02 Per discussione Giuseppe Foti
Ho avuto anche io lo stesso problema con Star Office 5.1 Inoltre non riesco ad istallare il programma zip dai cd della Mandrake 8.0 che sarebbe invece necessario all'istallazione di StaOffice. Spero che qualcuno abbia risolto il problema. Grazie Giuseppe Foti At 23.29 30/06/01 +0200, you wrote:

Re: [newbie-it] Gimp e gtk

2001-07-02 Per discussione Fabio Coatti
Il 22:24, lunedì 02 luglio 2001, CaMiX scrisse: Aiuto! Un'altra cosa: come si fa ad eseguire il find da shell riferendolo solo agli esguibili? A memoria non ricordo, ma tenete presente che tutte le opzioni di un certo comando si possono trovare (quasi sempre) facendo man nomecomando (nel

Re: [newbie-it] Soundblaster 128 e Epson Stylus Photo 870

2001-07-02 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il 19:10, sabato 30 giugno 2001, hai scritto: Caro mio hai fatto centro! Grande, ora funge. Poi proverò a vedere per la stampante. Ma conosci qualcuno che riesca a stampare come su Winzozz con una qualche stampante? Ancora grazie 1000 Adios CamiX Ciao CamiX, sono contento di aver fatto

Re: [newbie-it] Soundblaster 128 e Epson Stylus Photo 870

2001-07-02 Per discussione freefred
On Monday 02 July 2001 09:36, you wrote: Ho sentito, però, più di qualcuno in rete affermare che la sua stampante (di solito proprio modelli Epson) stampava sotto Linux *molto meglio* che sotto Windows... ahem io non l'ho mai detto ma in effetti.. certo ho una epson 440, non nuova (quindi

Re: [newbie-it] staroffice

2001-07-02 Per discussione Sergio Agosti
On Monday 02 July 2001 14:57, you wrote: Ho avuto anche io lo stesso problema con Star Office 5.1 Inoltre non riesco ad istallare il programma zip dai cd della Mandrake 8.0 che sarebbe invece necessario all'istallazione di StaOffice. Spero che qualcuno abbia risolto il problema. Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] Lancio di comandi al boot

2001-07-02 Per discussione Andrea Colanicchia
Il 20:36, lunedì 02 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Salve a tutti, il mio problema e' il seguente: dovrei far lanciare al boot il comando ifconfig eth0 mtu 1444, dove devo specificarlo ? uso Mandrake 8.0, Grazie a chi mi rispondera' !! Ciao !! Mettilo in fondo allo script /etc/rc.d/rc.local Ciao,

Re: [newbie-it] Soundblaster 128 e Epson Stylus Photo 870

2001-07-02 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il 22:18, lunedì 02 luglio 2001, hai scritto: On Monday 02 July 2001 09:36, you wrote: Ho sentito, però, più di qualcuno in rete affermare che la sua stampante (di solito proprio modelli Epson) stampava sotto Linux *molto meglio* che sotto Windows... ahem io non l'ho mai detto ma in

Re: [newbie-it] staroffice

2001-07-02 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il 20:17, lunedì 02 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Io ho installato StarOffice 5.2 senza nessun problema... Ciao a tutti, scusate per l'ingenuità della domanda. Io ho il Power Pack originale della Mandrake 7.2, ma ora sto usando la Mandrake 8.0. Posso installare sulla 8.0 i pacchetti RPM di

R: [newbie-it] Modem non funzionante

2001-07-02 Per discussione Davide Giacomazzi
Grazie per l'informazione, ma essendo io un newbie di Linux, dove trovo kppp e come lo lancio ? -Messaggio originale- Da: Andrea Celli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: lunedì 2 luglio 2001 10.20 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] Modem non funzionante Davide Giacomazzi

[newbie-it] Lancio di comandi al boot

2001-07-02 Per discussione OKreZ
Salve a tutti, il mio problema e' il seguente: dovrei far lanciare al boot il comando ifconfig eth0 mtu 1444, dove devo specificarlo ? uso Mandrake 8.0, Grazie a chi mi rispondera' !! Ciao !!

Re: FW: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Per discussione Paul Cox
On Sunday, Jul 01, 2001, Jose Mirles wrote: Also, if Ms are so full of innovation, why is hotmail (a microsoft service) still using freebsd servers? and why has microsoft admitted nicking freebsd code for their own apps?? MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of

Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione tazmun
- Original Message - From: tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matt Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Use of Linux My primary OS at this point it Win 2k, but dual booting with MD 8 on one of my systems. But even on my Win system I operate 100

Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione tazmun
- Original Message - From: tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jose Mirles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Use of Linux Then I think somewhere you missing the point. We know what it was originally intended for, but the modern Linux in my opinion

Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione tazmun
I suppose burden is in the eye of the beholder. I find constant typing of the root password to be annoying in the extreme and results in a fair amount of lost time if you have to do this several times in a few hours. Especially when it is a really goofy file name with dozens of agravating

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:05, C.Heaven wrote: On June 30, 2001 02:43 pm, you wrote: SNIP After getting mightily annoyed at having to run su in a console or run Super User file managers or give my root password time after time in order to run Mandrake Control Center or other root-only

RE: FW: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Per discussione Edward Barrow
On Monday, July 02, 2001 3:46 AM, Franki [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: oh yeah, I meant to respond to this as well.. MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of users can now use a PC. OS2 didn't do that, neither did UNIX or Linux. It was Windows 3.1 that started it

[newbie] configure

2001-07-02 Per discussione Van Winssen Ramaakers
I tried to install A program with ./configure , make ,make install. During ./configure I get an error: [root@drakehut kdvd-0.1]# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Romanator
tazmun wrote: I suppose burden is in the eye of the beholder. I find constant typing of the root password to be annoying in the extreme and results in a fair amount of lost time if you have to do this several times in a few hours. Especially when it is a really goofy file name with

Re: [newbie] Has anyone bought an Agenda VR3 Yet?

2001-07-02 Per discussione Romanator
Hugh wrote: If anyone has can you please write me off list Thanks Go to the following link and follow the instructions Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: Fwd: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] Sound In Yahoo! Messenger???

2001-07-02 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
Curtis/Civileme: Some companies require the usage of the Out of Office AutoReply feature, and it appears that Compaq is one of them. IMHO, it's a Very Good Thing in a corporate environment, although it can be a nuisance if the person is on a maillist. Since I'm retired now and no longer have

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Bill Winegarden
On Monday 02 July 2001 09:39, you wrote: Hi, I learned this little trick right here. If you are typing a long file name, just type in the first three or four letters, then hit the Esc key twice. Autocomplete fills in the rest. If there are two or more files with the same name up to a

[newbie] LISa configuration

2001-07-02 Per discussione Jamie Kerwick
I think I'm doing well, i've got my w98se box speaking to mandrake 8 accessing my samba shares (encrypt password = yes helps!!). The problem i have now is that i'm struggling to get Linux box to access w98 shares. I have tried 'browsing network' using LISa and reLISa in KDE. However, no joy.

[newbie] how does the rc#.d work

2001-07-02 Per discussione Mark Johnson
Am I right to assume that based on the run level that you set in your inittab that that determines what series of rc.d scripts will get run? For example, if I have my run level set to 3 (non-graphical login), then the scripts in rc3.d will get ran, if I have it set to 5 (XWindows) then rc5.d

[newbie] rpmdrake problem

2001-07-02 Per discussione Jeffery Chapman
I was trying to set up rpmdrake to pull the rpms from another directory. I followed the instructions in the manual but there seemed to be a problem since it was taking so long. Apparently I just didn't wait long enough. I killed the process and now rpmdrake doesn't work at all. As soon as I

[newbie] sound.

2001-07-02 Per discussione Terry C
I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound. When I start KDE I used to get a little sound file playing, now I get nothing. When I look at /dev I see the following highlighted in red and flashing: snd - ../proc/asound/dev What is the highlighting and flashing trying to tell me?

[newbie] nvidia drivers

2001-07-02 Per discussione Terry C
I just did an install of 8.0 and from what I've read I don't think that I want to use the 1251 drivers. (VIA chipset) :-( Anyone know where I can find the 769 drivers? Also, what is the best way to deal with the KDM problem? What are the alternatives? Right now I have it set up to auto login when

[newbie] 3com 509 on Mandrake 8.0

2001-07-02 Per discussione Renato Tognaccini
Hi, I have my computer working fine with Mandrake 7.1. I re-installed Mandrake 8.0 and I could not get working my 3COM 509B ETHERLINK III COMBO ISA PnP network card. Can you help me? Renato -- Renato Tognaccini, Dipartimento di Progettazione Aeronautica, Universita` di Napoli Federico II,

Re: [newbie] Kmail question

2001-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:32, Jim Kempton wrote: Hey all Is there a Kmail config file wherin is stored all the settings PARTICULARLY filter rules? If so, uh, where is it please. When I back up I wanna back this up too. TIA Jim -- Sridhar Dhanapalan.

Re: FW: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Take a look at http://www.98lite.net. It can install Windows without IE, or strip IE away from an installed system. It can even replace the Windows Explorer file manager in 98 and ME with their 95 equivalent (which is far less bloated and more stable). Of course, MS don't like this (it was

Re: FW: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:45, Franki wrote: oh yeah, I meant to respond to this as well.. MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of users can now use a PC. OS2 didn't do that, neither did UNIX or Linux. It was Windows 3.1 that started it and Windows 95 that really made

[newbie] Keyboard repeat rate?

2001-07-02 Per discussione Dan Ray
How would I adjust the repeat rate of my keyboard? I've found that in KDE's configuration, under peripherals there's a keyboard config program where I can turn OFF key repeat, but what I really want is for it to just repeat after a longer delay. Any pointers? -- Dan Ray Director Custom

[newbie] CGI

2001-07-02 Per discussione daho Med
Hello I have a couple ASP CGI that I developed on WinNT, and I would like to use them on Linux. I would like to know What Linux's users use for their CGI to support E-business, ODBC, SQL, etc..? Thank You Med

Re: [newbie] how does the rc#.d work

2001-07-02 Per discussione Paul
It was Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:16:08 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote: Yes, you are correct. Paul Am I right to assume that based on the run level that you set in your inittab that that determines what series of rc.d scripts will get run? For example, if I have my run level set to 3 (non-graphical

[newbie] sound.

2001-07-02 Per discussione Terry C
I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound. When I start KDE I used to get a little sound file playing, now I get nothing. When I look at /dev I see the following highlighted in red and flashing: snd - ../proc/asound/dev What is the highlighting and flashing trying to tell me?

[newbie] nvidia drivers

2001-07-02 Per discussione Terry C
I just did an install of 8.0 and from what I've read I don't think that I want to use the 1251 drivers. (VIA chipset) :-( Anyone know where I can find the 769 drivers? Also, what is the best way to deal with the KDM problem? What are the alternatives? Right now I have it set up to auto login when

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 06:13, Judith Miner wrote: Speedman wrote: Restricted super user authority is a hallmark of *NIX, and is one of the primary reasons it is so stable. [snip] We promote the very same practice to home users in order to prevent kids, or other family members from installing

Re: [newbie] CGI

2001-07-02 Per discussione Miark
I do everything in Perl. There are probably better ways, but Perl does everything I need it to do, and I don't have enough time to learn something new. :-) Miark - Original Message - From: daho Med [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:29 AM

RE: [newbie] CGI

2001-07-02 Per discussione Philip Mayer
Try PHP: http://www.php.net I think you can use ASP too ... but I don't know how ... anyone ? phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of daho Med Sent: Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2001 17:29 To: newbie Subject: [newbie] CGI Hello I have a couple

Re: [newbie] Gettin' certified

2001-07-02 Per discussione Francis J. Keller
Jason Guidry wrote: Yes, very funny. I hadn't thought to specify, but actually recommendations on both would be nice. Looking at some sample exams I think I could be COMPTIA A+ certified in a couple months, so that would be where I want to start. I just wanted to find a platform

RE: [newbie] Gettin' certified

2001-07-02 Per discussione Michael Mitchell
I also have the A+. Lots of stuff on printers, very easy to overlook. Taken lots of practice exams, definately use the exam cram... Yes, there is no Linux connection. But then it will certify (as designed) that you have attained 6 months of knowledge as a PC tech. A good break in, but not

Re: [newbie] sound.

2001-07-02 Per discussione Paul
It was Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:01:29 -0700 (PDT) when Terry C wrote: I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound. When I start KDE I used to get a little sound file playing, now I get nothing. When I look at /dev I see the following highlighted in red and flashing: snd -

Re: [newbie] 3com 509 on Mandrake 8.0

2001-07-02 Per discussione Tim Holmes
Oh my goodness... a ISA 3com card? WOW! Well, does Mandrake recognize it? Check /etc/modules.conf and /proc/interrupts. Do you see anything in there having to do with Mandrake at all? Maybe something along these lines? [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth0 alias eth0 3c59x

[newbie] okay no one has one huh?

2001-07-02 Per discussione Hugh
Well thanks for your time. Oh I am signed up for newbie also But not anymore Goodbye

Re: [newbie] Definitions

2001-07-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
alex, I was hoping someone more qualified would respond, but I'll give it a try. This writing is pretty rough -- some day I would hope to clean it up and put it on my wiki (after the wiki is running). alex wrote: What is meant by:? 'unpack' as in-- unpack to /usr/src Packing is

Re: [newbie] sound.

2001-07-02 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
Paul wrote: It was Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:01:29 -0700 (PDT) when Terry C wrote: I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound. When I start KDE I used to get a little sound file playing, now I get nothing. When I look at /dev I see the following highlighted in red and flashing:

[newbie] Display in LM8

2001-07-02 Per discussione Marcia Waller
Dear All, Since I have had LM8 I cannot get my display to the correct config. Alot of my programs are cut off at the bottom so that I cannot see the OK , Apply, or Cancel buttons. I have a generic S3Virge which worked perfectly in 7 and 7.2. How may I remedy this problem? I already did a new

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2001-07-02 Per discussione John
On Monday 02 July 2001 08:28, you wrote: I just did an install of 8.0 and from what I've read I don't think that I want to use the 1251 drivers. (VIA chipset) :-( Anyone know where I can find the 769 drivers? Also, what is the best way to deal with the KDM problem? What are the alternatives?

Re: [newbie] 3com 509 on Mandrake 8.0

2001-07-02 Per discussione s
I have an isa 3c509something, and I had to assign irq 11 to legacy (or isa) in the bios before it would work. You could try that. -s On Monday 02 July 2001 10:40 am, you wrote: Hi, I have my computer working fine with Mandrake 7.1. I re-installed Mandrake 8.0 and I could not get working my

[newbie] a newbie using LM7.2 and cygwin

2001-07-02 Per discussione Allen Joseph M Hernandez
Hey guys! I use LM 7.2 on a dual-boot machine with Win98. Fact is, I use some software in Win98 but spend most of my time using Linux, too much time in fact that I'm mixing up ls, cat, less, etc. with M$-DOS. I wanted to get bash into windows so I looked around the web for bash ports for Win32.

Re: [newbie] a newbie using LM7.2 and cygwin

2001-07-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
I used cygwin for a while, command line only, before installing Linux. (Still dual boot.) There is something called Lin4Win -- never tried it -- don't have a link -- it might be worth a search on Google and browsing a few pages. Randy Kramer Allen Joseph M Hernandez wrote: I just wanted to

[newbie] No sound for NeoMagic 256AV

2001-07-02 Per discussione David L. Dufeau
I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 3500 Laptop, but have not had any success with sound. Is the NeoMagic 256AV (MagicWave 3DX) sound card supported? I was led to believe that it was especiallly since numerous sources online indicated that the 2.4.x kernel

Re: [newbie] LISa configuration

2001-07-02 Per discussione civileme
On Monday 02 July 2001 14:41, Jamie Kerwick wrote: I think I'm doing well, i've got my w98se box speaking to mandrake 8 accessing my samba shares (encrypt password = yes helps!!). The problem i have now is that i'm struggling to get Linux box to access w98 shares. I have tried 'browsing

Re: Re: FW: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Per discussione Jim Dawson
snip for sanity's sake I have one thing to say if MS don't force ie on people. prove that to me by installeding ME without it. Pratt. M$ is beyond that. Even if (Mini)ME can be installed without IE, most Microsoft apps (e.g. Office 2000 and XP) require it at least for online help.

[newbie] Blackbox

2001-07-02 Per discussione Steve
Hello all: My first qestion to this list. I like light window managers, therefore am using Blackbox. In other environments one can tab through the desktops by using `control-F1' etc. How does one do this with BB? -- Cheers, Steve - ICQ 35454764 Toronto

Re: [newbie] Installing from RPMs

2001-07-02 Per discussione Steve
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Let's say you install Apache, PHP, and MySQL from their various binary RPMs (not source). How to I go about getting them all to work together? This is probably beyond the scope of this list, but it is not real obvious how to get everything situated to

Re: [newbie] No sound for NeoMagic 256AV

2001-07-02 Per discussione Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, Are you sure the Neomagic 256AV is a *sound* card? The same card in my ThinkPad is for *video*, and my sound card is an ESS Solo something-or-other. Dave On Monday 02 July 2001 16:14, thus spake David L. Dufeau: I've just installed

Re: [newbie] how does the rc#.d work

2001-07-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Yes. Randy Kramer Mark Johnson wrote: Am I right to assume that based on the run level that you set in your inittab that that determines what series of rc.d scripts will get run? For example, if I have my run level set to 3 (non-graphical login), then the scripts in rc3.d will get ran,

[newbie] K button

2001-07-02 Per discussione bc
under my K button in KDE (start button) i used to have the group network and under it was netscape, the entire network group is gone? any ideas? what is the K button called anyway? thanks, bc

Re: [newbie]

2001-07-02 Per discussione Daniel Espinosa
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, bc wrote: how can i open a Microsoft Word Document, a doc file in KDE/Mandrake? what program? Kword can not open it? Hi: Tray to use AbiWord or StarOffice of Sun Microsystems. Also you should have you Word Document in .rtf(Rich Text File) format.

Re: [newbie]

2001-07-02 Per discussione Daniel Espinosa
You shuold install abisuite-0.7.6-1mdk.i586.rpm On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Daniel Espinosa wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, bc wrote: how can i open a Microsoft Word Document, a doc file in KDE/Mandrake? what program? Kword can not open it? Hi: Tray to use AbiWord or

Re: [newbie] Gettin' certified

2001-07-02 Per discussione Francis J. Keller
Yes it is a good starting point I spent 9 months in school being retrained for this IT buss. I also have the COMPTIA's NETWORK+ and the I-NET+ certs. I have graduated in april and still looking for a job. Very difficult right now but I love building and rebuilding my machines at home and have

Re: [newbie] Gettin' certified

2001-07-02 Per discussione William Hughes
Certs, School, it's all great. And if you do not have any other way in that's where you have to start. But I interview people every month that have all the certs and school and no real pactical knowledge to go with it. If you can get your foot in the door and you have experience, that's worth

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Skippipix
i can't resist this one. to add further to John's response, why are you having to su so much? the only time i have to su is to install programs. i just tried this, i can su type in a password in 4 seconds. you do this so often that it results in a fair amount of lost time? i'm sure i'm

[newbie] Net Install Problems

2001-07-02 Per discussione Aaron
I have tried to install three times now and keep getting the same error when Mandrake 8.0 is installing. I can't tell if its one specific program that is causing the problem because there is a splash screen over top of the progress bar and the name of the program that is being installed. When

Re: [newbie] Display in LM8

2001-07-02 Per discussione D. Hoyem
Marcia, Have you looked at the Configuration -- Other -- Mandrake Control Panel and in there you can look at what the settinfgs are for the display.. From what you have said it appears that you display is set to 600x400 and that display is hard to see like you say. Try 800x600 and see if that

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
I can't resist either -- sorry! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can't resist this one. to add further to John's response, why are you having to su so much? the only time i have to su is to install programs. i just tried this, i can su type in a password in 4 seconds. you do this so often

[newbie] Plugger Problems?

2001-07-02 Per discussione Curtis Matthiesen
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone could help me with the Plugger plugin for Netscape. I can play every type of file that Plugger can support except the following: Basic Audio File (.au) Soundtracker File (.mod) I've contacted the author of Plugger and he has not returned my email(s) on

Re: [newbie]

2001-07-02 Per discussione Charles A. Punch
bc wrote: how can i open a Microsoft Word Document, a doc file in KDE/Mandrake? what program? Kword can not open it? Star Office or Word Perfect, if you have either one. If not SO is free and I believe there is a free version of WP. ShalomOut Chal Registered Linux user

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Charles A. Punch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can't resist this one. to add further to John's response, why are you having to su so much? the only time i have to su is to install programs. i just tried this, i can su type in a password in 4 seconds. you do this so often that it results in a fair

[newbie] Kmail Question

2001-07-02 Per discussione bc
i've used Kmail for 2 days, it has not responed twice, or, i cick around very fast and it does not like it, does anyone have an opinion for me, that is, should i use Kmail and Konkerer or Netscape's browser w/ email program??? thanks... bc

[newbie] SSH login

2001-07-02 Per discussione Amien Salie
I am trying to log into a Mandrake 8.0 server via ssh and i am getting the following error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I have updated to openssh-server-2.9p1 and to openssh-clients-2.9p1 on both the server and my workstation. In addition, this prob first

Re: [newbie] Kmail Question

2001-07-02 Per discussione Charles A. Punch
I never could get Konqueror or Kmail to work right. Netscape works fine for me , but I use Mozilla, which works just as well and has some nice skins . I think it's probably a question of whatever works for you. Different systems seem to work better with different things. I think that with

Re: [newbie] nbtstat equivilent?

2001-07-02 Per discussione jennifer
Michael D. Viron wrote: Jennifer, What does nbtstat do? Is it anything like netstat? Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:00 PM 07/01/2001 -0400, JENNIFER wrote: Is there

Re: [newbie] nbtstat equivilent?

2001-07-02 Per discussione jennifer
civileme wrote: On Monday 02 July 2001 00:00, JENNIFER wrote: Is there a NBTSTAT eqivilent in the *nix world? Wow a DOS command-line type person! Well, yes and no. I think the closest would be LinNeighborhood, which is graphical. You are looking for a samba equivalent of what *NIX

Re: Fwd: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] Sound In Yahoo! Messenger???

2001-07-02 Per discussione jennifer
Carroll Grigsby wrote: Curtis/Civileme: Some companies require the usage of the Out of Office AutoReply feature, and it appears that Compaq is one of them. IMHO, it's a Very Good Thing in a corporate environment, although it can be a nuisance if the person is on a maillist. Since I'm

Re: [newbie] Whois looking for lost email address

2001-07-02 Per discussione jennifer
Romanator wrote: Hi all, Is there such a thing is looking up an email address? I have an address but the whois feature cannot find the web page. You can respond to be directly. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility I'm not sure I understand. Do you

[newbie] Re: Use of Linux thread-off subject

2001-07-02 Per discussione jennifer
Paul wrote: Tim wrote: Even when I'm doing something that does require root access, I may edit the file as another user, then as root go in and paste in my edits, or quickly su to root, do what I have to do and then log off as root. That latter is how I manage my box also. There's a

RE: [newbie] The Root account

2001-07-02 Per discussione Franki
really? you are jesting surely? root is another name for bonking or bumping uglies or for the scientifically minded intercourse what country could you be from that doesn't have 10,000 names for what is essentially the same thing? regards Frank -Original Message- From: Terry

[newbie] Logitech Videocam

2001-07-02 Per discussione Marcia Waller
Dear All, I was just wondering if the Logitech Videocam is supported by LM8 and is it easy to setup? Thanks. Marcia -- Marcia Waller

[newbie] USB CD-writer

2001-07-02 Per discussione Mafiajoe3
hi, does anyone know of a way to get an HP CD-writer plus 8200i USB CD writer working without having to recompile the kernel. i have tried recompiling and have not been able to boot correctly. i had the CD writer working well with redhat 7.1, but i don't like red hat, i was just trying it

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione jennifer
Randy Kramer wrote: I can't resist either -- sorry! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can't resist this one. to add further to John's response, why are you having to su so much? the only time i have to su is to install programs. i just tried this, i can su type in a password in 4

Re: [newbie] K button

2001-07-02 Per discussione Steve
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, bc wrote: under my K button in KDE (start button) i used to have the group network and under it was netscape, the entire network group is gone? any ideas? what is the K button called anyway? thanks, bc Well, it's similar to the `start' on windoze. Have you done

[newbie] cvspserver and xinetd

2001-07-02 Per discussione Eduardo Dominguez
I cant get them to work :( I've read faqs, mail archives and plenty of docs but still cant get them to work. Somehow cvs thinks / is /root so it tries to create temp files in /root/tmp I already unset HOME before restarting xinetd and still the same problem :/ Anyone have cvs running with xinetd

Re: [newbie] ot sorry Society -- was: Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Mandrake
I gave up on relationships, they are too hard for me, I think society in the US has gone down the toilet bowl, I wonder what happened to just good honest play and good clean fun. I am a bit of an androgenous male, so I am not the traditional male that one would think I am, plus I am emotionally

Re: [newbie] K button

2001-07-02 Per discussione Mandrake
Hey speaking of the K button, if it does not work in one account, andit does in others, what file do I need to change to make it work again? Thanks On Monday 02 July 2001 11:22 pm, so spoke Steve: On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, bc wrote: under my K button in KDE (start button) i used to have the group

Re: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Per discussione Skinky
I fix other people's PC problems for a living, specifically Windows problems... no shortage of work there might I add ;-) . After seeing Linux pop up more and more on the net I thought it was time for me to learn something about this 'cool OS'. I can see more New Zealanders getting into Linux

Fw: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Per discussione tazmun
Even though we are all newto Linux, don't you think we owe it to the Linux community in general to read up on it and see what it is all about, instead of just jumping in and then thrashing it because it isn't Windows? Don't misunderstand I am very grateful for all the work that has been

Re: [newbie] missing rate... dirheader.html Error Message

2001-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Have you verified the integrity of your CD image using md5sum or something similar (I don't know the Windos equivalent, or even if there is one)? Perhaps it has not been downloaded correctly and it is damaged. In that case, you will have to obtain it again somehow (download, buy a CD, etc.).

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 and sis 6215

2001-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 01:20, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I was trying to install MDK 8.0 in a machine with SIS card 6215. While installing it starts in graphics. I saw in console one as 16 bpp, driver as cfb16, no acceleration and FBDev used. But after installation GUI doesn't work. First I get hanging

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione civileme
On Saturday 30 June 2001 18:43, Judith Miner wrote: Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being logged in as root?? I am a new user and am looking for a desktop alternative to Windows. I have no

Re: [newbie] sound.

2001-07-02 Per discussione Terry C
The only change I made was changing from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.1. Right after making this change is when I began having sound problems. TC --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:01:29 -0700 (PDT) when Terry C wrote: I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my

Re: [newbie] sound.

2001-07-02 Per discussione Terry C
I see that I do not have /proc/asound. How can I go about rectifying this? Thanks for the help. TC --- Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: It was Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:01:29 -0700 (PDT) when Terry C wrote: I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound.

Re: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Per discussione Romanator
Skinky wrote: I fix other people's PC problems for a living, specifically Windows problems... no shortage of work there might I add ;-) . After seeing Linux pop up more and more on the net I thought it was time for me to learn something about this 'cool OS'. I can see more New Zealanders

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Per discussione Romanator
Bill Winegarden wrote: On Monday 02 July 2001 09:39, you wrote: Hi, I learned this little trick right here. If you are typing a long file name, just type in the first three or four letters, then hit the Esc key twice. Autocomplete fills in the rest. If there are two or more files

Re: [newbie] Update Re: missing rate... dirheader.html Error Message

2001-07-02 Per discussione Romanator
Skinky wrote: Before selecting a file, hold down the [shift] key and then click on the file. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Kmailer by Tux Holding the [shift] key down while clicking on the file just opens the file in a new window. But thanks anyway Roman. I just found