Re: [newbie-it] stampa con Gimp

2001-12-25 Per discussione Corrado
Il dom, 2001-12-23 alle 15:20, Daniele Morabito ha scritto: Hei provato con lpr -Plp0 Saluti Giovanni Mazzamati Non mi riesce di ottenere nessuna stampa anche con i tuoi suggerimenti Ma non accade proprio nulla? Pensavo di avere lo stesso problema, in realtà succedeva che mi

[newbie-it] nessun oggetto

2001-12-25 Per discussione Alberto
Salve a tutti sono Alberto dalla Sicilia. Ho un piccolo problema con linux mandrake 8.1 Mi spiego ho un pc un modem adsl e un mac Il pc ha 2 schede di rete una per collegare il modem adsl e l'altra per collegare il mac. A questo punto ho configurato il Linux per pppoe e collegarsi a internet

Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): YEs, time for a forum article This time, I thought, HOWTO make windows

Re: [newbie] Help with Real Player Plugin

2001-12-25 Per discussione Graham Watkins
Dennis Herndon wrote: I have installed the RealPlayer Plugin into Netscape 6.2 for Linux. When I go to my work site (npr.org) to listen to a real-audio file, I keep getting an error that says that I have some conflict with the audio being opened. Audio does work, I have the KDE startup and exit

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
I installed the Java runtime environment and it was easy to do and works fine. And now the Konqueror browser runs Applets too (better than IE 5.1 under OS X does, I might add, which is the only OS X browser so far to support Java). But why doesn't Mandrake Linux install the Java runtime

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
What does openoffice want to know during installation about the Java runtime environment. I can't figure it out... doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): Doug ; Try Star Office 6.0 Beta (it's a Beta but very stable!) at www.sun.com or better yet, try Openoffice at

[newbie] Spam

2001-12-25 Per discussione Alan Dunford
Has anyone had experience with spam filters - I am thinking of those routines which will identify spammed messages and send relevant data to the growing spam filter servers? I have had a cursory look at spamassassin and mailscanner but have not got either running successfully. Having

[newbie] Re: Cannot send email to list..?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
Merry Christmas to all, especially Civileme, Sridhar, Ed, Tom and all of you helpful people ! Who can help Mick (a fellow-newbie in need) ? - He had a hard time setting up his new linux-mandrake-system, and I've tried to help him to the best of my ability. After some hazzles he succeeded to get

Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous?

2001-12-25 Per discussione NDPTAL85
On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 08:30 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: Not really. But then again Mac OS 9 does the same thing. You can click on any partition on the Desktop and then choose Initialize from the Special Menu and without a single word or warning the partition is initialized! doug

[newbie] Has our list-server got X-MAS hiccups ?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
Merry Christmas to all, especially Civileme, Sridhar, Ed, Tom and all of you helpful people ! Who can help Mick (a fellow-newbie in need) ? - He had a hard time setting up his new linux-mandrake-system, and I've tried to help him to the best of my ability. After some hazzles he succeeded to get

Re: [newbie] is an anti-virus mandatory ?

2001-12-25 Per discussione robin
For a workstation you shouldn't need antivirus software - it's normally only necessary for servers where people are uploading stuff like Word documents (e.g. someone using MS Word on a virtual drive could in theory infect their files on that drive). A virus, in the strict sense of the word,

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:25:10 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Thanks, Steven. Well, everybody seems quite psyched abotu OpenOffice and StarOffice. I will give those a try. Nobody seems to mention Hancom Office. Has anybody tried them? Of course free is nice, but I

Re: [newbie] Re: Cannot send email to list..?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 13:03:56 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merry Christmas to all, especially Civileme, Sridhar, Ed, Tom and all of you helpful people ! Thanks! Same to you. Mick wrote: Hello Kaj, Have you ever come across this before. As of a day or two ago, I can

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In the download edition, the only exception to this rule (out of necessity) is Netscape 4. On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 18:44:09 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the Java runtime environment and it was easy to do

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:44 am, you wrote: I installed the Java runtime environment and it was easy to do and works fine. And now the Konqueror browser runs Applets too (better than IE 5.1 under OS X does, I might add, which is the only OS X browser so far to support Java). But why

Re: [newbie] 7.2 ISO's

2001-12-25 Per discussione Stephen Kitchener
Hi, I still have them here if you still need them - but I don't have a server where you can download them, what snailmail address do you have ? On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:11, you wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for an old copy of the 7.2 ISO's. I've tried repeatedly to install 8.0 and 8.1

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Monday 24 December 2001 20:15, you wrote: I went to Control Center Boot Boot Config, but Windows was already there. Clicking on Modify for that entry didn't really seem to indicate anything wrong - it was still specified as being on the second partition, which is where it is... doug

Re: [newbie] CDROM problem

2001-12-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
just edit the hidden file ~/.kde/share/config/kscdrc (The ~ means it is in your home directory) Where it says CDDevice=/dev/cdrom change that to /dev/hdc It should be OK then The CD-RW comes up as SCSI because Linux CD burning apps can ONLY use SCI devices, so your kernel emulates SCSI on

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
Maybe if they make an exception for Netscape, another good exception would be Java... doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In the download edition, the only exception to this rule (out of necessity) is Netscape

Re: [newbie] CDROM problem

2001-12-25 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 09:51 PM 12/24/2001 -0600, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have 2 cdroms, a DVD and a CD burner. When I first installed 8.1, I could play music cds on the DVD drive. Harddrake currently reports the drives as: DVD /dev/hdc CD burner /dev/hdd but it also reports the burner again as /dev/scd0. I

Re: [newbie] dependency tree

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 18:53:06 -0600 Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: just like that? but what if it can't find them? then what? you're still the same place you were before. In the dark without a clue as to why. no thanks. I'd rather know why something

Re: [newbie] is an anti-virus mandatory ?

2001-12-25 Per discussione tek1
hi robin. is there a detailed description as to what each mandrake security level entails (e.g. what settings are changed)? also, is there a way to change the level easily after installation? thx and happy holidays! :) At 14:39 01/12/25 +0200, you wrote: There are a few worms that can

Re: [newbie] 7.2 ISO's

2001-12-25 Per discussione Nelson Bartley
Thanks, that's just what I needed :) On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 00:28, Grant Fraser wrote: http://linux.unige.ch/install/mandrake/7.2/iso/ http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/7.2/iso/i586/8.1/ On Monday 24 December 2001 20:11, you wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for an old copy of

Re: Themes and Window Managers (was Re: [newbie] Unable to install: Kernel Panic)

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:19:39 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Monday 24 December 2001 02:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: ok...but what does one do when you get the theme and it doesn't have a themerc file in the tarball? theme no good...waste

[newbie] Please....

2001-12-25 Per discussione Jesse Angell
I read and reply to these emails on a palm pilot please use text email only thank you... _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione tester
Michael Scottaline wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:25:10 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Thanks, Steven. Well, everybody seems quite psyched abotu OpenOffice and StarOffice. I will give those a try. Nobody seems to mention Hancom Office. Has anybody tried them? Of

Re: [newbie] Has our list-server got X-MAS hiccups ?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 07:13, you wrote: Merry Christmas to all, especially Civileme, Sridhar, Ed, Tom and all of you helpful people ! Who can help Mick (a fellow-newbie in need) ? - He had a hard time setting up his new linux-mandrake-system, and I've tried to help him to the best of

Re: [newbie] gateway/router help update

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:26:38 -0800 ajax [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: routing tables. My only problem now is that when I restart the network or reboot I lose my changes to my routing table. Is there any way to stop this? What config file would this be in?

Re: [newbie] Re: Cannot send email to list..?

2001-12-25 Per discussione tester
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Merry Christmas to all, especially Civileme, Sridhar, Ed, Tom and all of you helpful people ! Who can help Mick (a fellow-newbie in need) ? - He had a hard time setting up his new linux-mandrake-system, and I've tried to help him to the best of my ability. After some hazzles

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 11:44, you wrote: But why doesn't Mandrake Linux install the Java runtime environment to start with? Probably because it is not free (in the FSF sense of the word), but a proprietary product licensed at no charge (for now) by Sun. Surely everybody wants to use

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione robin
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In the download edition, the only exception to this rule (out of necessity) is Netscape 4. Just out of curiosity, why 4.* not 6.*? I installed Netscape 6.2 on our office machine (partly so Windows

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione tester
Doug Lerner wrote: I installed the Java runtime environment and it was easy to do and works fine. And now the Konqueror browser runs Applets too (better than IE 5.1 under OS X does, I might add, which is the only OS X browser so far to support Java). But why doesn't Mandrake Linux install the

Re: [newbie] Has our list-server got X-MAS hiccups ?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Oliver L. Plaine Jr
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 07:13, Kaj typed: Have you ever come across this before. As of a day or two ago, I can no longer post to the newbie list on Mandrake. My emails are constantly being returned as errors. I called my ISP and asked them to look into the matter. I can receive email

Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous

2001-12-25 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:44 am, Doug Lerner wrote: I installed the Java runtime environment and it was easy to do and works fine. And now the Konqueror browser runs Applets too (better than IE 5.1 under OS X does, I might add, which is the only OS X browser so far to support Java).

[newbie] Setting Samba acts like DOMAIN for local intranet.

2001-12-25 Per discussione Tuan Tran
Hi, Before, I setup Samba for my local intranet. At that time, I setup at workgroup mode an now I want to setup at DOMAIN mode. It mean everyone on my local network (using Windows) MUST log on to this server. I don't know where do I start (I never try this before). Do I have to setup my Linux

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione tester
Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 24 December 2001 20:15, you wrote: I went to Control Center Boot Boot Config, but Windows was already there. Clicking on Modify for that entry didn't really seem to indicate anything wrong - it was still specified as being on the second partition, which is where

[newbie] OCR and Voice recognition software

2001-12-25 Per discussione Bob Bomar
I am looking for a good set of Optical Character Recognition and voice recognition software for Linux, and possibly FreeBSD. I am using a HP 5300C scanner, and a mic thru the sound card. Thanks Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione tester
robin wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In the download edition, the only exception to this rule (out of necessity) is Netscape 4. Just out of curiosity, why 4.* not 6.*? I installed Netscape 6.2 on our office

[newbie] Internet Connection and NIC's

2001-12-25 Per discussione Roy Barton
Ok. I am up and running on the internet under my linux machine. A friend gave me an internal hardware modem and i can now dial up and surf. But i wasnt until i removed the nic in my machine. It kept wanting to port out thought the nic to get to the internet. i would like to reinstall it and

Re: Themes and Window Managers (was Re: [newbie] Unable to install: Kernel Panic)

2001-12-25 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 10:40 am, Mark Weaver wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:19:39 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Penguin Liberation Front http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ Texstar http://www.pclinuxonline.com

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection and NIC's

2001-12-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
Quite likely to be an Interrupt conflict. Try seeing if you can force it in the BIOS or maybe the modem has jumpers to select IRQ. derek On Tuesday 25 December 2001 21:38, you wrote: Ok. I am up and running on the internet under my linux machine. A friend gave me an internal hardware modem

Re: [newbie] Setting Samba acts like DOMAIN for local intranet.

2001-12-25 Per discussione Michael Viron
It's actually smb.conf, not smb.cfg. In order to run samba as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) you must: 1. Be running samba 2.2.x or later on the linux server 2. Have accounts for all users in your company on the linux PDC, or appropriate lines in /etc/samba/smbusers As for setting it up,

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
What do people think about free vs commercial software in general? I myself don't object to commercial software. In fact, I work for a company that makes very high-quality commercial software with a great, loyal customer base. Surely there is nothing wrong with paying to have software supported

Re: [newbie] OCR and Voice recognition software

2001-12-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 17:14, you wrote: I am looking for a good set of Optical Character Recognition and voice recognition software for Linux, and possibly FreeBSD. I am using a HP 5300C scanner, and a mic thru the sound card. Thanks Bob see the sane web page;

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): You are addressing a windows issue Win2K has its own bootloader, which will boot various windows versions. While we mormally have no problem with this, it seems to break down once a non-windows partition has been encountered in the chain.

Re: [newbie] OCR and Voice recognition software

2001-12-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 17:14, you wrote: I am looking for a good set of Optical Character Recognition and voice recognition software for Linux, and possibly FreeBSD. I am using a HP 5300C scanner, and a mic thru the sound card. Thanks Bob Didn't finish my sentence. the HP 5300C is

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT

2001-12-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 19:17, you wrote: What do people think about free vs commercial software in general? I myself don't object to commercial software. In fact, I work for a company that makes very high-quality commercial software with a great, loyal customer base. Surely there is

Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
This is an interesting discussion. I agree with some of your points, but am not convinced by others. For example, if a company hires a dozen programmers and they spend a year creating and tweaking and debugging code, even if you think the company has no right to the *idea* (I am not convinced of

[newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over with both Windows and Linux? boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/jp106.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50

Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
hi, just curious, did you do something special with the way you partitioned your harddisk? your linux boot image points out to hda5 which is the first logical partition but your windows entry points out to hda2. i know that this is normal on some circumstances especially if the disk is a

[newbie] Kmail dictionary

2001-12-25 Per discussione L.V.Gandhi
Where is the point of storage kmail dictionary for backup purposes. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED],  [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your

[newbie] Re[2]: Off topic? How things are going with Linux...

2001-12-25 Per discussione [ © ª N ª ® i º JØË ]¹
Doug Lerner, Mandrake-group: Invest your $ on Apple, and your endevour/project will die under the Apple-boot. Do you know any linux hacker who works on apples ? None. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Ø©Eªnº - þªT®iª - NØsT®ª] Tuesday, December 25, 2001, 1:38:27 [Islas

[newbie] scanners

2001-12-25 Per discussione Scott
I've got some Christmas dough burning a hole in my pocket. Can someone suggest a good, reasonably-priced scanner that will work well in Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1? Happy Holidays, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re[2]: Off topic? How things are going with Linux...

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
None at all? :-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): Doug Lerner, Mandrake-group: Invest your $ on Apple, and your endevour/project will die under the Apple-boot. Do you know any linux hacker who works on apples ? None. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [oe§Eªnº - ï¨T®iª - NØsT?¨]

Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
Hi, No - I didn't do anything special. I started out with two partitions on my hard drive. The first one contained Windows 98 and the second contained Windows 2000. I decided to keep the Win 2000 partition so I clicked on the first partition, deleted it and then pressed auto- allocate. When I

Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Terry Smith
Doug, Check your address header. You are sending two copies of your mesages to the list. Your windows partition is at hda2 - the second partition on the primary hard drive. That's going to cause a problem. Windows insists that it be the first partition. Changing lilo.conf won't help. The only

Re: [newbie] Wrong Choice of Monitor while installation

2001-12-25 Per discussione Dennis Herndon
This can actually be kind of fun. I changed video boards to an openGL compatible board so I could run Tux Racer. I really screwed up and could not really see on my monitor once Linux booted up. In fact it would not launch X-windows. So I had to actually run XF86config to redo the monitor

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-25 Per discussione Andre Dubuc
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 20:08, you wrote: This is an interesting discussion. I agree with some of your points, but am not convinced by others. For example, if a company hires a dozen programmers and they spend a year creating and tweaking and debugging code, even if you think the company

Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
hmmnn... i remember that somebody already mentioned that windows stops checking for partitions on the first non-recognized partition and in your case that will be the first partition occupied by linux. but in my meager understanding, lilo was supposed to point to the bootable partition so

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
Well, obviously everybody in the world except for me knew that Windows will not run from the 2nd partition. I will just re-install. The Windows installation is new anyway and I have no real data that is lost. I *do* think a warning in the installer would be a good idea though! doug [EMAIL

[newbie] New

2001-12-25 Per discussione Ricky Parks
Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I dont realy think this mail listing is going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some troble getting my sound card and my network browsing to work. I am writting this from windows since I can get my e-mail working ether. I wanted

[newbie] sound blaster audigy

2001-12-25 Per discussione g.sanders
Hi all, I received a new sound blaster audigy for christmas! I'd say yay! except I can't seem to get it working in linux. sndconfig tells me that the card is currently unsupported. I've tried searching the archives and the web but can't seem to find much out. Does anyone out there know if

Re: [newbie] New

2001-12-25 Per discussione Grant Fraser
Thanks for the vote of confidence. There are many people on this list who can help you help yourself. Most questions can be answered with a Google search. I.e. mandrake 8.1 brand of sound card There are lots of instructions on networking as well. It would help to know what you consider a

Re: [newbie] New

2001-12-25 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 21:53:22 -0600 Ricky Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I dont realy think this mail listing is going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some troble getting my sound card and my network browsing to work. I am

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione tester
Doug Lerner wrote: What do people think about free vs commercial software in general? I myself don't object to commercial software. In fact, I work for a company that makes very high-quality commercial software with a great, loyal customer base. Surely there is nothing wrong with paying to have

Re: [newbie] New

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 21:53:22 -0600 Ricky Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I dont realy think this mail listing is going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some troble getting my sound card and my

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione tester
Doug Lerner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): You are addressing a windows issue Win2K has its own bootloader, which will boot various windows versions. While we mormally have no problem with this, it seems to break down once a non-windows partition has been

Re: [newbie] Off topic? How things are going with Linux...

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:18:12 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Some people say a lot of Linux people are leaving Linux for OS X. Have you heard anything about that? I use OS X in my daily work, and it is nice, but I am also interested in Linux for

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:23:41 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): You are addressing a windows issue Win2K has its own bootloader, which will boot various windows versions. While we mormally

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:50:43 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Well, obviously everybody in the world except for me knew that Windows will not run from the 2nd partition. I will just re-install. The Windows installation is new anyway and I have no

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:52:03 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In the download edition, the only exception to this rule (out of necessity) is Netscape 4. i thought netscape

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:27:47 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Maybe if they make an exception for Netscape, another good exception would be Java... how's that? -- daRcmaTTeR - If

Re: [newbie] New

2001-12-25 Per discussione tester
Ricky Parks wrote: Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I dont realy think this mail listing is going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some troble getting my sound card and my network browsing to work. I am writting this from windows since I can get my e-mail

Re: [newbie] Windows dual-boot after the fact?

2001-12-25 Per discussione David Reynolds
Just out of curiosity along this thread, is there any point in trying to fiddle with a slave drive with Win98 on it to get it to dual-boot? I placed the drive off of my old computer onto the new (Linux-only) one to get the data off of it. However Linux has not been as nice as expected about

Re: [newbie] New

2001-12-25 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 20:15:02 -0800 Grant Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the vote of confidence. snip There are many people on this list who can help you help yourself. Most questions can be answered with a Google search. I.e. mandrake 8.1 brand of sound card There are lots of

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
A very interesting take on it, Civil-san. I myself hope for a good mix. The company I work for is quite decent, provides EXCELLENT support for the specialized software we sell and our customers love us and become friends. But it is expensive because it just takes a lot of time to upkeep and

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
Actually, that is not true. It is not in the documentation. When I was installing I followed along with the documentation. The step in question is at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/81/en/user.html/ formatpartitions.html That section does not include a single word about being careful

Re: [newbie] Off topic? How things are going with Linux...

2001-12-25 Per discussione Doug Lerner
Well, like I said it was just one thing I heard in one report. I don't know or even think it is true, if for no other reason than sheer cost! doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:18:12 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 23:27, you wrote: Doug Lerner wrote: What do people think about free vs commercial software in general? I myself don't object to commercial software. In fact, I work for a company that makes very high-quality commercial software with a great, loyal customer base.

Re: [newbie] Spam

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:47:10 + Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Has anyone had experience with spam filters - I am thinking of those routines which will identify spammed messages and send relevant data to the growing spam filter servers? I

Re: [newbie] New

2001-12-25 Per discussione Oliver L.Plaine Jr
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 22:53, Ricky Parks typed: Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I don't really think this mail listing is going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some trouble getting my sound card and my network browsing to work. I am writting this

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-25 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:30:18 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: A little common sense can apply here. Certainly there are some examples that are obvious. For example, the letter a is obviously public domain. But C code that actually does something

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
The whole point of the existance of multiple GNU/Linux distros is to offer the user choice over what they want. Each distro has its own philosophy, and is made to suit the needs of a particular audience. There _are_ distros that bundle a lot of closed source tools alongside open source ones --

Re: [newbie] RAID question-ATA133 hard disc and hard discs connection

2001-12-25 Per discussione Stephen Liu
Hi Civileme Merry Christmas Thanks for your competent advice and time spent. I would only consider true RAID, hardware RAID in practical use. In parallel, I would not skip software RAID to envisage my knowledge in this respect. Maybe in some days late it will replace hardware RAID. B.R.

Fw: [newbie] Internet Connection and NIC's

2001-12-25 Per discussione hinet
PLS check /proc/pci - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection and NIC's Quite likely to be an Interrupt conflict. Try seeing if you can force it in the BIOS or

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-25 Per discussione Pascal Goguey
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 13:34, you wrote: I *do* think a warning in the installer would be a good idea though! it's *in* the *documentation* that you must *read* Well, that can be endlessly discussed. There are two kinds of people: those who read the docs and those who don't.

Re: [newbie] Re[2]: is an anti-virus mandatory ?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Curtis H
Hi Joe (???), Here's an article that's in response to those claims made by Anti-Virus companies. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/anti-virus.html Keep reading and learning about linux and you'll start to understand why it is so much more secure than Winders. /curtis --**--**--**