[newbie-it] xanim

2002-05-07 Per discussione Francesco Speranza
Ho installato MKD8.2 powerpack che mi e' arrivato da poco , ma quando cerco di installare kde3 mi chiede xanim . La cosa non mi e' successa con la versione scaricata dal web ( l'installazione di KDE3 e' andata liscia ) e inoltre nonostante abbia scaricato la versione di xanim compressa non

Re: [newbie-it] xanim

2002-05-07 Per discussione Brunini Alessandro
Alle 15:57, martedì 7 maggio 2002, Francesco Speranza ha scritto: Ho installato MKD8.2 powerpack che mi e' arrivato da poco , ma quando cerco di installare kde3 mi chiede xanim . La cosa non mi e' successa con la versione scaricata dal web ( l'installazione di KDE3 e' andata liscia ) e

[newbie-it] boot

2002-05-07 Per discussione lux12
Ciao a tutti, ho installato winzoz 98 (dopo un anno che non lo usavo) sul pezzo finale dell'HD. (Io uso MDK 8.2). Mi è successo questo: Win ha cancellato l'MBR come da manuale ma mi ha anche rovinato il 1 settore di hda6. Domanda: come faccio a ripararlo? e a ripristinare lilo? Ho provato dal

[newbie-it]

2002-05-07 Per discussione lux12
Ciao a tutti, ho installato winzoz 98 (dopo un anno che non lo usavo) sul pezzo finale dell'HD. (Io uso MDK 8.2). Mi è successo questo: Win ha cancellato l'MBR come da manuale ma mi ha anche rovinato il 1 settore di hda6. Domanda: come faccio a ripararlo? e a ripristinare lilo? Ho provato dal

Re: [newbie-it] Font Windos non supportati

2002-05-07 Per discussione LukenShiro
On Sun, 5 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] max wrote: ma i programmi relativi ad Internet non supportano i font di Windows. C'è un modo per rimediare al problema? Non ho (piu') windows sul disco fisso, ma hai gia' provato con DrakFont a recuperare i font con l'apposito pulsante o casomai ad aggiungerli?

Re: [newbie-it] xanim

2002-05-07 Per discussione LukenShiro
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Francesco Speranza wrote: nonostante abbia scaricato la versione di xanim compressa non riesco a capire come installarla . Qualcuno sa dove posso trovare in corrispondente RPM? Be', direi sul solito sito rpmfind.net (e mirror europei relativi). Cmq la versione che trovi

[newbie-it] floppy???

2002-05-07 Per discussione tom
ciao tutti Ho riparato il floppy..ora scrive e legge bene ma quando vado a credare un disco di boot mi dice -- Formatting /dev/fd0... mount: /dev/fd0 già montato o /tmp/syslinux.mnt.2109.0

Re: [newbie-it] boot

2002-05-07 Per discussione LukenShiro
On Tue, 7 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Io uso MDK 8.2). Mi è successo questo: Win ha cancellato l'MBR come da manuale ma mi ha anche rovinato il 1 settore di hda6. Domanda: come faccio a ripararlo? In generale se un settore e' danneggiato AFAIK non c'e modo di recuperarlo, l'unica cosa

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione David
daRcmaTTeR said onto me: -- snip | |Brian, | |Thats a terrible thing to say. even for Billy-bob. sure the guy is evil |but geeZ. That's rather harsh. Maybe the poor bugger simply doesn't know |any different. poor dumb

Re: [newbie] VMWare problem

2002-05-07 Per discussione Mike Oliver
Joseph Braddock wrote: Surely it would be cheaper to buy a new scanner than to purchase VMware simply to use a windows only scanner. Wouldn't it? Not if you already own VMWare, as it appears the OP does. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] in search for a mag:linux france magazine issue january

2002-05-07 Per discussione - hybrid -
good morning everyone ; any of you from france ? i'm in search for a mag called 'linux france magazine' , and especially for the issue from january ... they have a big article about e17 [enlightenment 0.17] about how to install it and how to work witch etcher !!! if anyone coult help me in

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Marc wrote: A interisting point to ponder is that from what I have heard the crime rate in Kenasaw Georga before passing that local ordance was extremely high compared to the rest of the state of georgia but after that law was in place for 3 months the crime rate had droped to way below

Re: [newbie] Converting Mozilla Bookmarks

2002-05-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Charlie wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 05:53 pm, FemmeFatale offered this for consideration: Just do an Export bookmarks To a floppy boot linux, in mozilla do a IMport bookmarks Point to the floppy drive. Done deal. Worked for me fine. And its less complex ;)

Re: [newbie] DVD?

2002-05-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Brian Koppe wrote: Sorry for the slew of questions as of late - I'm trying to get as many things working just right in Linux so I can use Windows as little as possible. So, onto the next subject :-p Anyone know of a DVD player for Linux and where I can get it? My box is my primary

Re: [newbie] OT Guns

2002-05-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yes, however those ideas have already been taken into account when doing an analysis of the crime rates in various disarmed countries. Once more I recommend the following from Amazon: See the book: More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws

Re: [newbie] E-term problems under 8.2?

2002-05-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
darklord wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 09:08 pm, you wrote: Ironically? not? I'm running a PIII 550. On an ancient but reliable BX board by Asus. Otherwise I would have tried that while back when it was mentioned on the list by Kaj. *sigh* Sorry thats not it. And I tried again

[newbie] Locking me out

2002-05-07 Per discussione Lee
I was reading a post the other day about the potential 50 yr old newbie and it got me thinking. How about a script to lock me out of my box for random 8 hr periods. It would be just like old times with Windows reinstalling without the work. My wife would love it. Lee -- Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 03:16, FemmeFatale wrote: Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. *dons the flame

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Miark
Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. That's not true. The murder rate in Canada was tiny compared to the States' _before_ the restrictive laws came into effect. Canada has less violent crime

Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-07 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hey, You know what I do whenever I get a new Mandrake distro? (well there are a lot of things BUT) I open the software (RPM) manager, go to flat list, and under the not installed part, I take the time to scroll down thru the list and see just what was -not- installed. Its pretty

Re[2]: [newbie] OT guns

2002-05-07 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hi, Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. Rediculous. Criminals kill people, Accidents can kill them, too. And easy access to guns makes it easy to get guns for crimes. I think I agree with Femme. and if you take away their guns, they will

Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-07 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hey, Hmm, I always went through the whole list before (during) installation... i dont think you could view all available rpm packages during installation as many are intentionally hidden by the distro packagers to prevent overwhelming the new users who are trying mandrake for the first

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-07 Per discussione civileme
shane wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 14:55, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I beleive there is a 486 distro downloadable (from memory). Thanks for the info, much

Re: [newbie] OT Guns

2002-05-07 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 07 May 2002 01:34:02 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yes, however those ideas have already been taken into account when doing an analysis of the crime rates in various disarmed countries. Once more I recommend the following from Amazon:

Re: [newbie] OT Guns

2002-05-07 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 03:34, FemmeFatale wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yes, however those ideas have already been taken into account when doing an analysis of the crime rates in various disarmed countries. Once more I recommend the following from Amazon: See the book: More Guns,

Re: [newbie] best way to set up e-mail?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 6 May 2002 17:36:34 +0800, Gobind Rudra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello folks, any suggestions for the best way to set up e-mail for dial-up home use? I'm used to Mercury (Win32) which will send and fetch mail. Is there a simple Linux equivalent? I'm not familiar with this

Re: [newbie] Audio issues...

2002-05-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 06 May 2002 21:32:32 -0500, Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have KDE3.0 set up to automatically preview files. When I leave the mouse over an mp3 file, it plays until I move the mouse away. However, after I have done that, I can't play mp3's in XMMS - I get this message:

Re: [newbie] VMWare problem

2002-05-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 06 May 2002 22:53:24 -0500, Jim Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have any VMware experts here? I am trying to install Windows 98 under VMWare 3.1 on my Mandrake 8.2 computer in order to operate my blankedy-blank Windows-only scanner. When I start my Win98 session I get the following

Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-07 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hey, Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? *grin* to tell you the truth i dont know if i can switch to flat view during installation. is there such an option during the graphical installation? IIRC there is something like

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-07 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:39, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey, You know what I do whenever I get a new Mandrake distro? (well there are a lot of things BUT) I open the software (RPM) manager, go to flat list, and under the not installed part, I take the time to scroll down thru the list and

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 6 May 2002 22:32:21 -0400, darklord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 06:53 pm, you wrote: A interisting point to ponder is that from what I have heard the crime rate in Kenasaw Georga before passing that local ordance was extremely high compared to the rest of

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 6 May 2002 23:28:34 +0100, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP I would have to whole-heartedly agree with you. I enjoy dry british humor as much as the next guy, but these guys just don't get it. Hey don't get at us Brits The author was Thomas C Green who is an

Re: [newbie] RE: setting a 10/100 NIC 's speed

2002-05-07 Per discussione civileme
Hanan Shargi wrote: Hi All, I have posted last week asking if there is a way I can set the 10/100 NIC's speed to 10, and some one suggested that it is easer to set the hub's speed instead. I tried netconf, harddrake, Mandrake control center, I couldnt find anyplace hat lets you set the

Re: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...

2002-05-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 06 May 2002 18:10:28 -0500, Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you so much, that really helped :-D Now, does anyone know how to import IE bookmarks? Thanks Can IE export its bookmarks to an HTML file? If so, then do that and import the file in Konqueror. If not, then you

Re: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-07 Per discussione civileme
Roman Korcek wrote: Hey, Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? *grin* to tell you the truth i dont know if i can switch to flat view during installation. is there such an option during the graphical installation? IIRC there

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How do you know that? Have you lived in Australia or Britain? Have you actually looked at the official statistics or simply some biased interpretation by the National Redneck Association [sorry, couldn't resist ;)]? The Australian Bureau

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
EhI forgot to include this in the last post. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/gun-ethics.html LX On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How do you know that? Have you lived in Australia or Britain? Have you actually looked at the official statistics or simply some

[newbie] Problem with Eudora

2002-05-07 Per discussione Mr S Ganesan
I have configured a mail server with the latest avatar of Mandrake and the sendmail is running fine. However when I want to see my mails from a Windows machine using Eudora, the server is refusing the connection and mails are not sent or received by the windows client. The same machine works

[newbie] KMAIL ADDRESSBOOK RESTORATION

2002-05-07 Per discussione John Richard Smith
I don't have any problem creating kmail addressbook.csv files from netscape.ldif original :- RESTORE FROM NETSCAPE ADDRESSBOOK.LDF Put up KMail File - addressbook , this creates a new addressbook.kab file - cancell File - import - KMail+kab importfilters Vxx - change:import

Re: [newbie] OT Guns

2002-05-07 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 7 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yes, however those ideas have already been taken into account when doing an analysis of the crime rates in various disarmed countries. Once more I recommend the following from Amazon: See the book: More Guns, Less Crime :

[newbie] How to print

2002-05-07 Per discussione Cesar Santos
Hello Using Mandrake 8.2 and HP LaserJet 1000 but cannot print at all. This printer is attached to USB port and Mandrake recognized both USB port and HP LaserJet 1000. I have some output results of those commands: $ rpm -q usbutils $ uname -a $ lspcidrake -v | egrep -i 'usb' $ cat

Re[2]: [newbie] OT guns

2002-05-07 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi, Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. Rediculous. Criminals kill people, Accidents can kill them, too. And easy access to guns makes it easy to get guns for crimes. I think I agree with Femme.

[newbie] mandrake-offtopic newsgroup

2002-05-07 Per discussione Alastair Scott
Following my original email it seems rather a lot of people want discussion of gun culture, United States constitutional issues, the wickednesses of Microsoft and so on elsewhere, so I've set it up as a diversion for such threads. You subscribe by sending a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-07 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On 7 May 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 03:16, FemmeFatale wrote: Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of

RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Tibbetts, Ric
Title: RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove? -Original Message-From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:46 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to

Re: [newbie] help with ./configure

2002-05-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
Whenever you find ./configure stops saying it needs a file just open Mandrake Software Manager and search for an rpm of that name. If one is not found then press the 'search by file' button and search again. Once you have found the correct RPM install the '-devel' version of that RPM. The

[newbie] RPM's missing of Powerpacks?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
Check out this post on Mandrake user http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=366 This guy says that he has found 318 RPMs present on the Mandrake 8.2 download edition which are missing from the Powerpack. One of them is slocate which I recall Kaj saying last week he could not locate on

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-07 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 7 May 2002, David wrote: daRcmaTTeR said onto me: -- snip | |Brian, | |Thats a terrible thing to say. even for Billy-bob. sure the guy is evil |but geeZ. That's rather harsh. Maybe the poor bugger simply

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione David
daRcmaTTeR said onto me: -- |On Tue, 7 May 2002, David wrote: | | | | daRcmaTTeR said onto me: | -- | snip | | | |Brian, | | | |Thats a terrible thing

Re: [newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-07 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 06 May 2002 07:19 pm, Brian Koppe wrote: Well, I have an Athlon T-Bird - am I correct in assuming that means to equeate it to over a PII? Also, what if there is only one option i.e. it comes in i586 but not i686 - will the i586 work for me? Thanks a lot! :) You can use

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-07 Per discussione shane
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 02:14, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I guess the real difference will come with the hammer-core processors which are x86 compatible unlike IA-64, but have significant enhancements beyond the 64-bit wideness. There a

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-07 Per discussione shane
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 00:26, David opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Come on now..Don't get me wrong, I support that guy in NO way. But if there are two things in this world he is not they are: _poor_ or _dumb_. i won't argue the dumb part, but

Re: [newbie] OT Guns

2002-05-07 Per discussione shane
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 00:34, FemmeFatale opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I'm gonna seriously beat whoever next posts on this topic keeps it going! my wife is out of town for meetings, i haven't been beat by a women in age

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-07 Per discussione Charlie
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 03:30 am, Roman Korcek offered this for consideration: Hey, Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? *grin* to tell you the truth i dont know if i can switch to flat view during installation. is

[newbie] nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm

2002-05-07 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Anyone out there had the experience of getting the downloader programme nt to work. I installed abovementioned, just fine, Seems interesting indeed, just one problem , I cannot seem to get it to addopt a file from the net. I suspect I need to add konqueror to the NT downloader somewhere, so

[newbie] start apps on log in

2002-05-07 Per discussione Bill Winegarden
Hi, I used to know this.I want to get 'sound mixer' to start whenever I log in. I'm pretty sure I have to put it in rc.d ...I think. Anyway, tell me the syntax and I promise I won't forget again. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm

2002-05-07 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 10:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone out there had the experience of getting the downloader programme nt to work. I installed abovementioned, just fine, Seems interesting indeed, just one problem , I cannot seem to get it to addopt a file from the net. I suspect

Re: [newbie] start apps on log in

2002-05-07 Per discussione Damian G
On Tue, 7 May 2002 07:37:50 -0700 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used to know this.I want to get 'sound mixer' to start whenever I log in. I'm pretty sure I have to put it in rc.d ...I think. Anyway, tell me the syntax and I promise I won't forget again.

[newbie] HELP!!!

2002-05-07 Per discussione Brian R Koppe
Boy did I learn my lesson not to play around as root! :-[ Alright, I decided to install some Texstar RPM's last night and some said they needed the latest RPM's from the KDE3 CVS - so, I figured, what the heck, why not install them? So, silly me, I decided to install *some* of the RPM's from

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-07 Per discussione Brian Koppe
Read the book More Guns, Less Crime There was a LOT of research put into that book and it shows, quite well, that what you just claimed is not true. I submit to you the case of Switzerland. Every male in Switzerland is REQUIRED to own a gun - yet they have incredibely low crime there too.

[newbie] Fax Ware

2002-05-07 Per discussione Malcolm Candlish
Sirs, Has anyone experience of using Fax on Mandrake 8.2. This is something I need, but unsure whether to go for Hylafax, efax, Kfax, Gfax, or Mgetty. Are there major advantages and is setting up a major problem. The advantage of fax over email, is that you know the recipient has down loaded

Re: [newbie] Getmail (was: best way to set up e-mail?)

2002-05-07 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Paul wrote: In reply to daRcmaTTeR's mail, d.d. Tue, 7 May 2002 13:23:51 -0400 (EDT): Getmail??? I've heard good and bad about it. Tried it once but wasn't very impressed. and you're right...it did complain a lot. It has run fine here always... Paul -- If it ain't