RE: [newbie] a positive end to OT

2001-09-14 Per discussione Siavash Sefidvash
Really nice sentiment. Enjoyed the read in prayerful hope that this dream can come true soon. Man's nature seems to need to experience pain before he can grow. Siavash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jennifer Sent: 15 September 2001

RE: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Per discussione d
LURKER here, NOT a guru still trying to learn how to be a NEWBY. NOW for this prob, just corrected a prob I had with my system. My system was booting to LILO and I use the PowerQuest's BootMagic, I booted to LILO and then typed in windows, then went into the BootMagic Configuration and set

[newbie] CD info question

2001-09-14 Per discussione Jon Doe
Ok, in windows you just right click on a cd and you get the info such as : CD title, CD publisher and all that good stuff. How do I do this in linux? -- They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither safety nor liberty. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: [newbie] a positive end to OT

2001-09-14 Per discussione Jeff Reed
damn...that's really nice. especially whereas i do live in the boston (worcester) area and i did notice that for real. people were driving...looking around at each other...a lot. a lot of eye contact and head nods. no mas road rage. very cool peoples. it was...almostweird. no, it was very

Re: [newbie] File access- Me?,Machine?, Manual?

2001-09-14 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
What you said makes sense. Except for one item, Root directory - key word is directory not root. The one item is if I am SU, does this automatically open the root file or the directory? Assuming I have it set for all access. If you 'su' without the dash, you become the root user (ie, user

[newbie] File access- Me?,Machine?, Manual?

2001-09-14 Per discussione Altaira
First I have a dual O/S. WIN98/ MandrakeLinux 8. Installed using DrakX. I have installed maybe two software programs, a few directories created. Now . . I wanted a file to print the output to the screen. Manual states cat /proc/pci Typed the following - su Password cat /proc/pci

Re: [newbie] filters in Kmail

2001-09-14 Per discussione s
On Friday 14 September 2001 05:25 pm, Stan Lockaby wrote: In replying to this post, I wish to thank all who responded. I'll play with all of this a bit, and see what happens. Thanks much. Peace, Stan Well... we were getting bored... no problem. :-) j/k -s Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] PDF files

2001-09-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:16:30 +0800, chris swain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive come across a problem with kghostview PDF viewer. I can view the pdf from a website but after I save it to my hard drive I cannot open it again. It gives me the error kghostview can only open pdf ps or eps files.

Re: [newbie] Attention for everybody

2001-09-14 Per discussione Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
On a last and final note I think it is more than likely LA as it is Los Angeles which means, I think, Without Angels. Greg G wrote: no it is not the city of god __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief

Re: [newbie] Original desktop colors

2001-09-14 Per discussione skinky
On Friday 14 September 2001 20:50, you wrote: Robt. Miller wrote: I no longer have the four different background colors that came up the first time I booted Mandrake and I can't seem to get the 4 desktops either, it comes up with only 2. Is there a way to get it to come up as 4 with the

Re: [newbie] USA this and USA that,w here did the newbie list go?

2001-09-14 Per discussione Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I will agree on the fact that some families will not be complete again and that Linux will still be there but... In the circle of life all life has a lifespan. In this case those people on the planes was their time. No matter how bad it is, shit happens and we will just have to live with it. In

Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512

2001-09-14 Per discussione Robert MacLean
I apologise if I wasn't clear enough, what I meant was. ATI themselves do not have actual Linux drivers, and on there web site state that they cannot (will not) provide technical support for there own hardware under Linux :( They give technical specs to Free to create drivers, which IMHO is not

RE: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Per discussione Adrian Lynch
Adam, not two weeks ago I did exactly the same thing, and it was a weekend so I had no way of finding out how to fix it. you might want to wait for someone to confirm this answer, but you use a Windoze Boot disk get into the c drive ( dir c: and press enter) then fdisk /mbr this clears the Master

Re: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Per discussione Richie de Almeida
Is there any way of getting rid of Grub, so that the machine boots straight into Windows? Boot with a Windows floppy disk, the System boot disk that you can create from Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel is a good one to use. At the command prompt type: SYS C: You must have a file

Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error

2001-09-14 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
On Friday 14 September 2001 08:47, Seeun William Umboh wrote: When I boot up, I sometimes get a maximal mount count error, check forced. What does this mean? How do I avoid it? Here's what http://www.mandrakeuser.org has to say about the subject: maximal mount count reached - check forced

[newbie] Getting X11 to use Mesa ?

2001-09-14 Per discussione Marcin Jendrzejewski
Hey all, Ok this email is more like two questions than one. I currently have a Nvidia Geforce2 Mx/200 with 64 megs of ram. My query is it possible to use the Mesa3d library rather than Nvidias native GLX module (I'm prepared to lose some performance). If so, how would I go about getting X

Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error

2001-09-14 Per discussione civileme
On Friday 14 September 2001 15:47, Seeun William Umboh wrote: When I boot up, I sometimes get a maximal mount count error, check forced. What does this mean? How do I avoid it? You don't avoid it. It is a maintenance function, not an error. After a certain number of mounts (default 35),

Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list -- some people pay foremail access by volume

2001-09-14 Per discussione Matt Greer
on 9/14/01 9:58 AM, Randy Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Greer wrote: Actually that's not true. Here in Chicago local calls cost by the minute, as much as 9 cents per minute. This is probably true of New York and LA as well, but I don't know for sure. Matt, Thanks for the

Re: [newbie] ultimate security on Mandrake box

2001-09-14 Per discussione civileme
On Friday 14 September 2001 16:52, Joe Lareau wrote: Hi- I am trying to harden my Mandrake 8.0 box as much as possible. I would like your thoughts on what tools should be installed, and in what order. Specifically, I have heard I should install Bastille-Linux, ipchains, TCP

Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list

2001-09-14 Per discussione Don Wilson
MR HAVLIK. How many of your Mandrake customers are dead or maimed? How many potential Mandrake business customers responsible for the re-building of IT infrastructure have you just alienated? Does the death of more than five thousand souls not transend the fact that this is a Linux mailing

Re: [newbie] StartX-problems

2001-09-14 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
Sebastian wrote: Your font server, xfs is not running. One reason for xfs not starting may be that you have deleted or moved the folders where all the fonts are stored. To verify that you still have fonts to load, open this file at the shell command prompt: vi /etc/X11/fs/config

Re: [newbie] TEST! was I thrown off the newbie list by Denis HAVLIK? is this a blow FOR Mandrake?

2001-09-14 Per discussione Ed Tharp
MY BAD!!! sorry to EVERYONE whip me and my ISP with a wet noodle. they screwed with my pop mail settings and I was not receiving any mail. all my fault (he said with his head bowed) - Original Message - From: d [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001

Re: [newbie] Expand/collapse in kmail

2001-09-14 Per discussione bascule
cheers tom, makes sense now :-) bascule On Saturday 15 September 2001 2:15 am, you wrote:  Bascule, 2.2.1 is ahead of, and is a full 2.2. The 'pre' suffix just means it's not quite 2.2.1 which is expected next week.  Call it beta if you want, but IMO, most all Linux software is beta. Don't

Re: [newbie] Libarary compatibility

2001-09-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I did a quick search for libc at rpmfind.net and I found a number of Mandrake and Mandrake Cooker packages. What is the problem? On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:17:21 -0400, Charles A. Punch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:18:01 -0400, mcoady [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Fostering the linux comunity spirit...... and a question about mandrake security level..and another one on Bind..

2001-09-14 Per discussione Franki
OK, so they just closed it up using ipchhains? if thats it, then I have no problems, I know my way around ipchains fules.. I thought the security script may have done other stuff to close ports and stuff. gonna have to learn iptables when 8.1 comes out though... rgds Frank

Re: [newbie] Save Realplayer stream?

2001-09-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:08:09 -0400, Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I am haveing some problems streaming realplayer video. If I can download the video, it plays fine on realplayer. So my question is, is there a way, or utility that can find the link for the java scripts that open the

Re: [newbie] filters in Kmail

2001-09-14 Per discussione Stan Lockaby
Here's what I had as a filter for the Newbie list in KMail back when I used it (I have since switched to Sylpheed): any header contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had a 100% success rate with this. In replying to this post, I wish to thank all who responded. I'll play with all of this a

Re: [newbie] multiple copies of ML messages

2001-09-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:37:23 -0700 (PDT), Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: civileme wrote: All of us have to click the reply all button or else use something like KMail with filters to put this mail in a single folder and associate that folder with the list address in order to

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