Re: [newbie-it] Window Maker

2001-11-01 Per discussione CaMiX
Il 21:09, martedì 30 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: CaMiX ha scritto: L'ho compilato, tutto ok ma non so come avviarlo. Ho provato a modificare lo script startkde specificando di usare come window manager /usr/local/bin/wmaker, ma ho degli errori. togli startkde da $HOME/.xinitrc, poi dai

Re: [newbie-it] domandina

2001-11-01 Per discussione Brunini Alessandro
Alle 16:05, giovedì 1 novembre 2001, hai scritto: Brunini Alessandro wrote: Devo quindi riconfigurare l'Internet Connection Sharing del server, e tutto funziona di nuovo a dovere. ciao, non vorrei dire una stupidaggine ma se non ricordo male sul sito mandrake, tra gli errata relativi

Re: [newbie-it] kdm e failsafe

2001-11-01 Per discussione Andrea Colanicchia
Il 19:03, mercoledì 31 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: [...] Ho attivato lingua e charset come da manuale italia+ISO-8859-15. Se da te funziona, puoi farmi avere Il tuo ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals che lo confronto con il mio? Quando ti ho mandato l'email ero fuori casa e non potevo provare la

[newbie-it] installazione mandrake 8.0

2001-11-01 Per discussione caspar
salve e' la prima volta che scrivo . ho installato linux mandrake 8.0 ma non mi riconosce la scheda video, una paradise pipline 64, cioe' quando parte l'interfaccia grafica la risoluzione e' troppo bassa due icone prendomìno tutto il video, qualcuno puo aiutarmi a risolvere questo problema. e' la

Re: [newbie-it] domandina

2001-11-01 Per discussione Brunini Alessandro
Alle 17:53, giovedì 1 novembre 2001, hai scritto: Alle 16:05, giovedì 1 novembre 2001, hai scritto: Brunini Alessandro wrote: Devo quindi riconfigurare l'Internet Connection Sharing del server, e tutto funziona di nuovo a dovere. ciao, non vorrei dire una stupidaggine ma se non

Re: [newbie-it] installazione mandrake 8.0

2001-11-01 Per discussione Giovanni Mazzamati
Il 12:40, giovedì 1 novembre 2001, hai scritto: salve e' la prima volta che scrivo . ho installato linux mandrake 8.0 ma non mi riconosce la scheda video, una paradise pipline 64, cioe' quando parte l'interfaccia grafica la risoluzione e' troppo bassa due icone prendomìno tutto il video,

[newbie] password in network

2001-11-01 Per discussione belcoop
After reconfiguring many times the network, suddenly the computer appears on the screen oof the windows network. To access however, he asks for passwords. Where do I find/install them? Thanks, Geert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to connect from linux computer to network

2001-11-01 Per discussione belcoop
Suddenly, my linux computer appears on the wondows network. However, in Konquerer he still says cannot connect to localhost. How do I see the network on my linux computer? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Rmove screensavers?

2001-11-01 Per discussione Søren Neigaard
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 20:33, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Monday 29 October 2001 18:56, you wrote: How do I remove some of the screensavers, an keep the rest? Do I need to delete some files, and can I easily guess the filenames? The xscreensaver modules (used in Gnome and most other

RE: [newbie] Binary newsreader

2001-11-01 Per discussione Søren Neigaard
Yes I use that one too, great app., but can I get it to save all binariy attachements? On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 19:03, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: If you have LM8.1 you already have a WONDERFUL newsreader called PAN. For me it's the Killer Linux App. Agent, and others cannot handle the sheer

[newbie] Time For Me To Put Back In

2001-11-01 Per discussione Michael Falzon
Hi All I found a old script, That i updated to find key words ( that i need it to look for ) in my log files. (not sure who ask for thissome timeago) Note the script was from http://dshield.org My Updates http://mozysswamp.yi.org/putback/ Michael FalzonLast Of The BBs SysopMozy's

[newbie] Time For Me To Put Back In

2001-11-01 Per discussione Michael Falzon
Hi All I found a old script, That i updated to find key words ( that i need it to look for ) in my log files. (not sure who ask for thissome timeago) Note the script was from http://dshield.org My Updates http://mozysswamp.yi.org/putback/ Michael FalzonLast Of The BBs SysopMozy's

[newbie] compiling module problems

2001-11-01 Per discussione Robin Ballantine
Hi everyone, I've been having a few problems trying to compile the modules that I want from the kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm supplied with 8.1. I'm using gcc2.96 and can get through compiling the kernel ok, but not any of the modules. The only way I could get all the features I wanted

Re: [newbie] 2 Zip icons...?

2001-11-01 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronaldyou'll find that icon stored as /usr/share/mdk/Zip2.desktop. Kill that one as well as the one on your desktop and it'll disappear forever. :) -- Alan Thank you Alan!!! It was really starting to bug me. I had figured out how to get rid of my dog-ugly XawTV

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:39:32 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:40:39 -0500, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand the huecry, especially from linux users, about the activation process of Windows XP, or the fact that it is tied

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:06:35 -0500, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:39:32 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:40:39 -0500, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand the huecry, especially from

Re: [newbie] Help with KDE

2001-11-01 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Bill, These are rather terse answers because I can't tell you at this time exactly how to do these things. I put this under the category of any help and only responded because, AFAICT, no one else has responded so far. William R. Nash wrote: 1. Is there a way i can use JAVA with kongueror

[newbie] time for a new worm

2001-11-01 Per discussione kons Richard Bown
here's an idea for some bright spark, how about a worm which changes the reg data in XP, and puts a penguin instead of their daft logo. I wonder how long it would take norton etc, to ignore it as well. have fun -- Richard Bown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] xp remote access safe?

2001-11-01 Per discussione Mohammed Arafa
any xp pc with web services enabled for remote access can be accessed with http://ip/tsweb/ it will give u the xp logon screen. my question is ..is it safe? coz altho i m pro linux , the workstations are m$ territory n the organisation is thinking of upgrading from nt to xp. are there any

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:18:30 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I think that Red Hat had a very valid reason _not_ to include ReiserFS. You must remember that Red Hat is a server distro that prizes security and reliability Hi! Just as an

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Thursday 01 November 2001 14:06 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:39:32 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:40:39 -0500, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand the huecry, especially from linux users,

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione arthur
I don't trust the RedHat Network though. I had a customer that had his entire /usr/bin directory wiped out after running the RH Network daemon. It was a bloody mess. Arthur H. Johnson II The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: On

[newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I think that Red Hat had a very valid reason _not_ to include ReiserFS. You must remember that Red Hat is a server distro that prizes security and reliability Hi! Just as an observation, while on the Linux Lunacy trip, I got a chance to hear Michael Johnson of

Re: [newbie] Windows eXPerience, MandrakeLinux saves the Day-ta

2001-11-01 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
civileme wrote: I knew that extra phone listing might be handy someday. Fussing with a download that wouldn't md5sum and needing it very badly, I was only too happy for the break when the phone rang and I picked it up, saying Mandrakesoft. Errr, I have a REAL problem. Is it with one

Re: [newbie] xp remote access safe?

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:23:55 +0200, Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any xp pc with web services enabled for remote access can be accessed with http://ip/tsweb/ it will give u the xp logon screen. my question is ..is it safe? coz altho i m pro linux , the workstations are m$

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 01:40:23 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:06:35 -0500, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:39:32 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have a problem with RHN, then you have a

RE: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione Loke Kit Kai
guys... can u guys stop arguing about these stuffs... do u know if microsoft officials are lurking in the list, their smile are from ear to ear... do u want linux to be seperated to different camps? development hindered by disunity like unix? Go ahead and argue about small things... Microsoft is

Re: [newbie] IRQ`s

2001-11-01 Per discussione Onur Kucuk
FS Hello i have a little problem with my irq`s . FS Since i have quite a lot of hardware in my box there is some sharing. Now the FS problem is that my wintv card shares an irq with my GeForce and since it FS crashes my complete system after running xawtv or zapping as well as any FS other tv

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
RMS is the kind of guy who is very easily misunderstood. He is also the kind of guy that tends to go a little overboard with things. In some cases, he mellows out with time, after an initial burst of accusations. In short, he's eccentric. And eccentricity and genius go hand-in-hand :) Red Hat

Re: [newbie] now THAT is irritating

2001-11-01 Per discussione kons Richard Bown
Now if you find that annoying, what about a certain server which keeps sending mail back for two reason, 1 his mailbox is full and secondly an unrecognised characterset. probally the 2 little dots above the letter o in the town I'm in regards richard Mohammed Arafa wrote: here we are

Re: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1

2001-11-01 Per discussione shane
all i know is that 8.1 is the install ever that i have tried that did _not_ require a visit to the font deuglification page. :0 On Thursday 01 November 2001 08:29, you spoke unto me thusly: What's the current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1? Is there an easy way to get the system to

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Loke Kit Kai
how do I do that? I just installed mandrake 8.1, but don't really have chance to play with it yet... having exams now... -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 November 2001 00:52 To: Loke Kit Kai; Mandrake Newbie List Subject: Re: [newbie] Reiser

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
--- Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, quaylar wrote: So you better not run /etc/procmailrc! root privileges!!! Just make a simple one and copy to other users... much better than having a security 'hole'! Then, how do I get this to work? Say I

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Loke Kit Kai
oh no... I use ReiserFS for /... how do I change that to wat ever u recommend? or do I have to reinstall the whole system? so sorry that I asked so many questions -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 November 2001 01:20 To: Loke Kit Kai Cc:

Re: [newbie] password in network

2001-11-01 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
Are you trying to connect from a windows PC to a linux samba server? If you are, you must make sure that either your windows username is mapped to your unix username in /etc/smbusers (or possibly /etc/samba/smbusers, depending on which version of samba / Mandrake you are using on the server) or

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Paul Schwebel's words, written Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:10:46 -0800 (PST) Now, say I log in. I have a .procmailrc in my home directory, so Linux invokes procmail. My recipe tries to move mail addressed to my wife into her home directory. I'm not logged in as root, so won't this fail? You

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Ralph Slooten
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote: Then, how do I get this to work? Say I put a .procmailrc in my home directory and another one in my wifes. The point of this is to filter the mail headers so that mail addressed to me goes to my mailbox and mail addressed to my wife goes to hers

[newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-01 Per discussione Great Dragon
Alright, here is what I have: a Dell GX1P with a Crystal Audio CS4232 sound card, on the board It finds the driver but it can't load OPL3. It says YM3812 and OPL-3 driver, OPL3 not detected ff. I run sndconfig and the first test comes back good, I can hear the wav, the midi gives me an error,

Re: [newbie] The Old Java /Mozilla Question...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Derek Jennings
This came from a mail on the Galeon list. It is true for Mozilla, Galeon and Netscape Install mozilla at /usr/local/mozilla. The JAVA plugin ( a symbolic link and java2 JVM) for mozilla should be in installed in directory /usr/local/mozilla/plugins. export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/mozilla

[newbie] The 56K Professional Message Modem in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-01 Per discussione Michael Carr
A sort of pre-sales query -- I've got a 3Com/US Robotics 56K Professional Message Modem, which worked fine with Mandrake 7.2, SuSE 7.0 and 7.1, and currently (on the same PC) with Windows 98 s.e, but not SuSE 7.2. In SuSE's default dialler kinternet (much like kppp except for the security

Re: [newbie] IEEE-1394 support

2001-11-01 Per discussione Terry
On Thursday 01 November 2001 08:47 am, you wrote: I don't know, and don't know much about FireWire, USB, and USB2, but I get the feeling that (1) FireWire will always be more expensive than USB(2), and FireWire will be obsolete before USB(2). Is there something that is driving you to use

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Franki
Old reiserfs versions, like those that come with 7.2 and before can have problems with disk intensive operations, like runnin postfix on it on a high intake mail server.. I had this problem myself, and it was on a box that only did 6000 odd emails a day.. got heaps of error messages in the logs

RE: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione Franki
That can't be true, not according to my understanding of GPL copyleft.. redhat is absolutly chockers with GPL software, not the least of which is the kernel itself, they HAVE to be licensed as GPL,, without GPL, redhat would drop out of the race in a big hurry... not to mention ending up in

RE: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1

2001-11-01 Per discussione Franki
I can't say this for certain, but I think it worked out of the box for me.. opening a file in a text editor in kde is SOO much clearer txt then in 7.2, which is what I had before.. everything txt wise seems clearer, so I am guessing its enabled by default if everything can support

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Franki
I have done that before myself with no problems.. but if you want to change it, it should be the same as any other partition... make a new partition and format it ext2 or 3, (dunno if it has to be at the start of the disk or not, but it couldn't hurt) copy everything from boot into it.. then

RE: [newbie] 8.1 PowerPack

2001-11-01 Per discussione Franki
Wow, heard alot of bad stuff about mandrakeshop,, I can't say I have experianced that yet, I got my download disks promptly, and the others should arrive in AUstralia any day now... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Loke Kit Kai
well, if u say it will run with no problems, then I wouldn't change it...simply because that was my experiment os... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: 02 November 2001 02:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Reiser

[newbie] Hey can someone put Mandrake 8.1 up in their Morpheus accounts so we can get some serious downloads going

2001-11-01 Per discussione Roger
I don't want to wait for 1 day just to get a file 650megs in size Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 8.1 PowerPack

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Charles A Edwards's words, written Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:09:50 -0500 Hmmm. I received the download disks a while ago, and the powerpack yesterday. But then, that's easy. I am in Holland, and they shipped it from France. Almost around the corner ;) Paul I received today my 8.1

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Ralph, I can see three possible approaches. Approach 1: The one you wrote here makes sense, but I'm not sure what you meant below by export both our mail folders. She uses Kmail, and I use Evolution. Approach 2: Put the .procmailrc in /etc and have procmail run as root, though I'm not sure:

Re: [newbie] IRQ`s

2001-11-01 Per discussione Florian Struck
Thanx for the reply. I was now trying to do a few things : First my original setup : AGP = nvidia PCI1 = empty PCI2 = firewire PCI3 = soundblaster128 PCI4 = ethernet PCI5 = WinTV ISA = empty First i changed the tvcard wich was in the last pci slot (sharing with nvidia) to PCI slot1 below the

[newbie] security, suse and mandrake.. and permissions

2001-11-01 Per discussione Franki
Hi all, both mandrake and Suse have hardening scripts, suse has a file called: /etc/permissions.secure and others to allow you to set permissions or exceptions for stuff loaded after the install.. Does mandrake have anything like that? for example, I get thousands of world writable files

Re: [newbie] Abiword spellchecker

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
Thanks, Sridhar! While installing abispell didn't change anything for me on a vanilla 8.1, I was able to install 0.9.4 from a src rpm. I chose the gtk rpm as the gnome one had build errors. Now it's working perfectly! And I'm a happy man! -Paul Rodríguez On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 22:40, Sridhar

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
No, I think I get it. Right now I have fetchmail get our mail. Then, you're saying that I can set up a procmail recipe so that when I get the mail, it sends wife-specific mail to her, and when she opens the mail, it sents husband-specific mail to me. Right? --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Paul Schwebel's words, written Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:12:12 -0800 (PST) No, I think I get it. Right now I have fetchmail get our mail. Then, you're saying that I can set up a procmail recipe so that when I get the mail, it sends wife-specific mail to her, and when she opens the mail, it

[newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently

2001-11-01 Per discussione aortiz
Hi everyone: I updated kernel 2.4.7 from 2.4.3 in M8. after updating and rebooting system froze while trying to load second stage booting (i guess). it stays here and does do anything else. I checked in MUO. it says to run rescue from CD (i don't have a floopy boot disk). But i am sure what to

RE: [newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently

2001-11-01 Per discussione Franki
WEll, I don't know the solution to your problem for sure, I have never upgraded a kernel, I always install it beside the old one, so that if something goes wrong, I can still boot the old one.. that is the recommended way of doing things.. if it was me, in your case, I would boot from the

Re: [newbie] Rmove screensavers?

2001-11-01 Per discussione Søren Neigaard
Ok - Can I comment it out with a #? What should I remove? Here's some of my file, what goes and what stays (stuff like programs and mone confuses me). programs: \ -Qix (solid) qix -root -solid -delay 0

Re: [newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul
In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words, written Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:41:50 -0800 A proper upgrade should leave 2.4.3. on disk. Can't you see that in lilo/grub when booting? Paul I updated kernel 2.4.7 from 2.4.3 in M8. after updating and rebooting system froze while trying to load second stage

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Michael
A couple of weeks ago i set up fetchmail (among others) with help from this list... Works great now :) Thanks all! Reading all your comments here about the danger of running procmail as root. Is there not a similar warning with running fetchmail as root? If not, what makes feetchmail safe and

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2001-11-01 Per discussione shipahoy
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:14:52 -0600 Gary Traffanstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for user experiences with Evolution. I'm wanting to switch to it from Kmail only because I like the way it does spell check. I've been using KMail since I first started using Linux and so I know

Re: [newbie] The 56K Professional Message Modem in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-01 Per discussione Robin Ballantine
Hi Michael, I have a 3Com/US Robotics 56K Message Modem (it doesn't say anywhere that it's professional on it) and use it with 8.1 and kppp no problems. On Thursday 01 November 2001 5:50 pm, you wrote: A sort of pre-sales query -- I've got a 3Com/US Robotics 56K Professional Message Modem,

[newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-01 Per discussione Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware Hi All, I'm writing this because I'm curious. With all the trouble with WindowsXP having all these hardware issues, isn't it about time to get our thinking caps on and re-focus our attention on the fact at this moment in time we have an opportunity

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
My /etc/fstab line looks like this: /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 You probably shouldn't be using ReiserFS for /, though. There are some known problems with doing so, but I haven't noticed any (yet). On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:59:53 +0800, Loke Kit Kai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Jabber is a great open source IM protocol. Gabber, a Jabber client, allows you to connect to he MSN, ICQ and Yahoo networks as well. It has some features that you won't find in the mainstream IM services, like encryption. There are Windows Jabber clients as well. Go to jabber.com and jabber.org

Re: [newbie] Windows eXPerience, MandrakeLinux saves the Day-ta

2001-11-01 Per discussione civileme
On Thursday 01 November 2001 07:21, Carroll Grigsby wrote: civileme wrote: I knew that extra phone listing might be handy someday. Fussing with a download that wouldn't md5sum and needing it very badly, I was only too happy for the break when the phone rang and I picked it up, saying

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2001-11-01 Per discussione Lee
Right off the bat, I have a problem with Evolution - get an error message when trying to GPG encrypt and/or sign a message. Is there an FAQ for this mail program or does anyone know why I get malformed user ID? GnuPG works fine with Kmail. On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 18:33, shipahoy wrote: On Thu, 1

Re: [newbie] The Old Java /Mozilla Question...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Lee Roberts
What's wrong with leaving it where the rpm put mozilla (/usr/bin)? At 05:44 PM 11/1/2001 +, Derek Jennings wrote: This came from a mail on the Galeon list. It is true for Mozilla, Galeon and Netscape Install mozilla at /usr/local/mozilla. The JAVA plugin ( a symbolic link and java2 JVM)

Re: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-01 Per discussione David E. Fox
I'm thinking (actually I've already ordered) a new motherboard and an intel pentium IV chip. Personally speaking you're way better off with an Athlon system. Intel brought out the IV far too quickly IMHO and from reading others' comments, they really botched the design. Athlons of a lower

[newbie] AOL Email.pl!pls help

2001-11-01 Per discussione AOL Systems
To all my friends in Mandrake I have perl porgram that sends info to my e-mail.i called it email.pl it is inserted on the send botton of my html page but when i uploaded the webpage in the internet and i fillout the information of the page and click the botton send.when i check my e-mail i did

[newbie] Kmail Problem

2001-11-01 Per discussione Margaret N Uy
Kmail is a bit choosy when sending out emails. It works when I send to some addresses, and doesn't with others. A dialog box appears which has the following error, verbatim: Sending failed: a SMTP error occured Command: DATA Response: 250 2.1.5 email@address ... Recipient ok The message

[newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-01 Per discussione Michael Peligro
Dear Sir/Madam: Good day! I am an avid gamer and I plan to migrate to Linux. The Windows upgrade is too steep and the product requires me to upgrade my computer hardware as well. I am sad that I have to pay expensive licenses and hardware for Windows XP only to get an operating system that is

Re: [newbie] Mouse

2001-11-01 Per discussione civileme
On Thursday 01 November 2001 19:06, Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi, Once again I need your help. I hope I can explain myself... I have problems with mouse pointing (punteo del ratón)... After 1 or 2 hr. of working in KDE my mouse get's crazy and the place where I make click is like 2 cm to

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:00:11 +1100 , Craig Williamson (ENZ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm writing this because I'm curious. With all the trouble with WindowsXP having all these hardware issues, isn't it about time to get our thinking caps on and re-focus our attention on the

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 19:33:12 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: RMS is the kind of guy who is very easily misunderstood. He is also the kind of guy that tends to go a little overboard with things. In some cases, he mellows I've met RMS as well on two separate occasions.

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:57:03 +0800, Michael Peligro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/Madam: No need for formalities - this is a list where users help other users! :) Good day! I am an avid gamer and I plan to migrate to Linux. The Windows upgrade is too steep and the product requires me

[newbie] New to Mandrake- lost in the sources void

2001-11-01 Per discussione Nate Kitts
Well first off lemme describe my system, I have: AMD 1 Ghz Socket A Processor Asus A7V Motherboard 512 Mb PC133 SDRAM ATI Radeon AGP 64 Mb DDR VIVO Graphics Card 60 Gig Maxtor drive (windows based) 30 Gig Maxtor drive (linux based) Teac 4x/4x/32x CD-RW Drive Creative Labs PC-DVD 12x Ovation

Re: [newbie] New to Mandrake- lost in the sources void

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Nate Kitts's words, written Fri, 02 Nov 2001 02:40:47 -0500 My motherboard has the built in Promise ATA100 interface and i can't find the source that i need for my version of Mandrake (7.1 aka Linux I doubt that mandrake 7.1 supports it. Never heard that happen. It works fine on

RE: [newbie] Evolution

2001-11-01 Per discussione Franki
you were tryin a cooker version, you can't base your judgement on that,, cooker is beta packages, they take all the latest stuff, wrap an rpm around it and offer it for download.. imagine getting a daily updated cvs snapshot of KDE and trying to run it you most likely wouldn't get it to