Re: [newbie-it] compatibilità applicazioni

2002-05-21 Per discussione Mario Lodi Rizzini
Compatibile sì, a livello di dati, ma per quanto riguarda le macro NISBA! (ovviamente) Bye Mario -- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 01:20:35 +0200 Subject : Re: [newbie-it] Re:

Re: [newbie-it] Fai girare questa mail, per favore(SERIAMENTE)

2002-05-21 Per discussione jclark
http://punto-informatico.com/p.asp?i=37624 non per insegnare alla gente a stare al mondo ragazzi ma solo perche questi idioti (siamo in pubblico) si divertono a tenere vivo il dolore della gente non facendo mai finire una catena sfruttando la disponibilita' e il buon cuore delle persone

Re: [newbie-it] avvio di kde3

2002-05-21 Per discussione Andrea Celli
On Mon, 20 May 2002 22:44:27 +0200 ENx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho un piccolo problemino: ho installato kde3, ma ogni volta che lo avvio mi compare il programma di personalizzazione (kpersonalizer). Come posso fare a evitare che compaia ancora? Ciao everybody all e grazie

Re: [newbie-it] Condividere la connessione ad internet

2002-05-21 Per discussione Andrea Celli
On Wed, 22 May 2002 22:15:30 +0200 Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 22:17, lunedì 20 maggio 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Salve a tutti! Mi hanno consegnato ilpacco Alice-senza la ragazza ovviamente-e mi sono accorto con disappunto che invece dell'Alcatel usb(so che è supportato

R: [newbie-it] Fai girare questa mail, per favore(SERIAMENTE)

2002-05-21 Per discussione LILO
pienamente d'accordo ... inoltre è inutile inoltrare casualmente e-mail così importanti senza prima informarsi a dovere ... sono un donatore AVIS, ADMO, AIDO da molti anni ... vi assicuro che ci sono altri mezzi in casi disperati come questi ... non dobbiamo avere la presunzione di aver aiutato

Re: [newbie-it] Fai girare questa mail, per favore(SERIAMENTE)

2002-05-21 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 01:09, martedì 21 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Fai girare questa mail, per favore(SERIAMENTE), Matteo ha scritto: 1. per favore avvisa tutti quelli ai quali hai girato la mail di non fare altrettanto! la famiglia Brandani è già stata

[newbie-it] Re: Fai girare questa mail, per favore

2002-05-21 Per discussione rosanna
A chiunque crede ancora che queste catene servano a qualcosa (un tempo anche io riempivo la posta di amici con queste cose) consiglio di visitare il sito http://www.hoaxkill.com/ (e di non inviare alla ml comunicazioni non pertinenti) Ciao a tutti

Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!

2002-05-21 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
Alle 23:55, lunedì 20 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Uhmm, dubito che il problema sia rpm in cron (in fondo fa solo la lista degli rpm installati ordinati alfabeticamente e la scrive in un file). Dai uno sguardo in /etc/cron.daily e /etc/cron.hourly se c'e' qualcos'altro di pesante che si attiva.

Re: [newbie-it] Fai girare questa mail, per favore(SERIAMENTE)

2002-05-21 Per discussione LukenShiro
Il 21.05.02 alle 01:09, il notabile Matteo proferi' codeste parole: Le rimostranze sotto il profilo etico sono gia' state precisate, io aggiungo che tra le piu' schifose e arroganti violazioni della netiquette c'e' appunto la catena di Sant'Antonio, che, oltre a diffondere in giro abusivamente

[newbie-it] plugins konqueror

2002-05-21 Per discussione e/io
Non riesco più a configurare i plugins per konqueror 3.0.1 Con Mozilla funzionano( ho messo il file libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins) ma konqueror non lo vede. Ciao

Re: [newbie-it] Fai girare questa mail, per favore(SERIAMENTE)

2002-05-21 Per discussione CyberDevil
http://www.nospamware.it/arg/69 Un'altra volta accendi il cervello prima di muovere le dita. saluti -- CyberDevil Se non sai a cosa serve disinstallalo !!!

[newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf

2002-05-21 Per discussione ku68
Scusate ma in mdk 8.2 esiste un prg che permetta di convertire un file di testo in un file pdf? In win ho una specie di stampante virtuale pdf . Si stampa il file .sdw o .txt con questa stampante e il file anziché venir stampato su un foglio viene convertito in pdf. Grazie in anticipo

Re: [newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf

2002-05-21 Per discussione Luca
Alle 19:14, martedì 21 maggio 2002, ku68 ha scritto: Scusate ma in mdk 8.2 esiste un prg che permetta di convertire un file di testo in un file pdf? In win ho una specie di stampante virtuale pdf . Si stampa il file .sdw o .txt con questa stampante e il file anziché venir stampato su un

Re: [newbie-it] avvio di kde3

2002-05-21 Per discussione freefred
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 03:45, Andrea Celli, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] avvio di kde3 wrote: Modo radicale: pialli completamente kde-2 dall'HD. Io ho risolto così. non esageriamo. prova prima a creare, non dovrebbe esserci, il file kpersonalizerrc in /opt/kde3/share/config e scrivici

Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!

2002-05-21 Per discussione Giovanni Mazzamati
Alle 15:57, martedì 21 maggio 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 23:55, lunedì 20 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Uhmm, dubito che il problema sia rpm in cron (in fondo fa solo la lista degli rpm installati ordinati alfabeticamente e la scrive in un file). Dai uno sguardo in /etc/cron.daily e

Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!

2002-05-21 Per discussione freefred
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 14:15, Giovanni Mazzamati, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla! wrote: msec l'ho disabilitato. ma non cambia nulla per chiarezza vi allego (spero che per questo non mi ucciderete) la schermata dei processi... mi sembra strano che la lista faccia passare gli

Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!

2002-05-21 Per discussione LukenShiro
Il 21.05.02 alle 20:15, il notabile Giovanni Mazzamati proferi' codeste parole: msec l'ho disabilitato. ma non cambia nulla per chiarezza vi allego (spero che per questo non mi ucciderete) la schermata dei processi... ARRRGGGHH!! gli allegati corposi non vanno _mai_ postati in lista (non e'

Re: [newbie-it] plugins konqueror

2002-05-21 Per discussione LukenShiro
Il 21.05.02 alle 16:24, il notabile e/io proferi' codeste parole: Non riesco più a configurare i plugins per konqueror 3.0.1 Con Mozilla funzionano( ho messo il file libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins) ma konqueror non lo vede. Vai nelle impostazioni di konqueror, nel menu

[newbie-it] Boot Splash

2002-05-21 Per discussione nicola
Salve a tutta la ML, nei meandri dei file di configurazione, ho scoperto che è possibile cambiare l'immagine del boot nella MDK8.2, visto che quello nuovo è un po insignificante (questione di gusti...). Ho cercato di capire come si doveva agire, ma non ho ottenuto nessun risultato. Per prima

R: [newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf

2002-05-21 Per discussione Ferdinando
-Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di ku68 Inviato: martedì 21 maggio 2002 19.15 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf Scusate ma in mdk 8.2 esiste un prg che permetta di convertire un file di testo in un file

[newbie-it] mandrake win9x

2002-05-21 Per discussione asapi
Vorrei condividere la connessione(cioè navigare contemporaneamente su internet)tra un portatile con Mandrake 8.2 e un desktop con win XP Pro-il primo dovrebbe fare da client e il secondo da server.Ho fatto tutto quello che potevo assegnando manualmente gli indirizzi IP ad entrambi i computer

Re: [newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf

2002-05-21 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 19:14, martedì 21 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf, ku68 ha scritto: Scusate ma in mdk 8.2 esiste un prg che permetta di convertire un file di testo in un file pdf? in kde c'è un opzione apposita nel 'gestore

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Tue, 21 May 2002 17:58, Damian G wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2002 00:29:08 -0500 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 May 2002 11:56 pm, Damian G wrote: Hi Damian. Well, I'm sorry you are having problems as well. I've not got a soundcard busymessage, but its annoying none-the-less...

Re: OT: signatures WAS: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. is derived from We are The Borg. Resistance is futile, which is from Star Trek. On Tue, 21 May 2002 17:49:36 +0800, Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while on the topic of signatures, i remember another one in the last i didn't understand.

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Hi Graham, Winds##t have to be installed first (if we're talking about the 9X series 95,98,ME) because they need to write the boot sector during installation, otherwise setup won't continue.Something that won't happen when you install XP or 2000 or NT4 even, I think. Now, in the case that someone

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:30 pm, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: Hi Graham, Winds##t have to be installed first (if we're talking about the 9X series 95,98,ME) because they need to write the boot sector during installation, otherwise setup won't continue.Something that won't happen when you install

Re: [newbie] VPN Connection

2002-05-21 Per discussione wrnash
I was looking at setting a VPN also so i could use my server resource like printer and connect to my PIM. Bill VPN = Virtual Private Network, i.e. one based on PPTP or L2TP protocols. It allows you to create a secure tunnel (i.e. encrypted) through an unsecure medium (the internet, for

Re: [newbie] harddrake new video card

2002-05-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 20 May 2002 09:54 pm, darklord wrote: On Monday 20 May 2002 06:50 pm, you wrote: Hey darklord, Yeah, it was a disappointment that 3month old card died. Yeah, I'm working on warranty replacement as we speak. Good luck, they should replace it I just mentioned that I had a

Re: [newbie] harddrake new video card

2002-05-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 20 May 2002 02:11 pm, s wrote: You wouldn't know the exact video ram of a 128mb card or how I could find it, do you? That's what I was looking around for when I discovered the harddrake hiccup. 128 * 1024 == 131072 If you can't get 3d accel support for the card yet, or

[newbie] Am I back on????

2002-05-21 Per discussione Franki
Hi guys, Just got my ADSL tonight.. set up my linux box and my network.. and it all seems to work fine.. I have just resubscribed to the lists and I'm waiting to find out if I can post again.. I am gonna be sooo pissed if I can't.. rgds Frank Want to buy your

RE: [newbie] Am I back on????

2002-05-21 Per discussione Franki
Oh my god! I can post, I can post I CAN POST ! WHOOO!! saboutfukkintime... rgds Frank :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2002 9:41 PM

Re: [newbie] How to create a cd from ISO file

2002-05-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 20 May 2002 01:01 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/howtos/iso/howtoisoen.html On Monday 20 May 2002 6:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the Mandrake 8.2 .iso files and I am having problems getting them to work when I try to burn to a cd. Can

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:29 am, s wrote: Yeah, my system sounds stop periodically too requiring a kde3 restart. Used to could restart arts from kcontrol, but mine don't work anymore. A friend and myself were trying to figure out how to restart arts by the commandlline without having to log

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione David
Brian Parish said onto me: -- |On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 14:54, Nashib .J. wrote: | Hi everybody, | Can someone help me, I have partitioned my harddisk with two primary fat32 for windows98 installation and used the

RE: [newbie] Am I back on????

2002-05-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Franki wrote: Oh my god! I can post, I can post I CAN POST ! WHOOO!! saboutfukkintime... rgds Frank :-) I'm sorry Frank...could you speak up a bit? I can't hear you so good. you're

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione David
Derek Jennings said onto me: -- |On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:30 pm, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: | Hi Graham, | Winds##t have to be installed first (if we're talking | about the 9X series 95,98,ME) because they need to | write the

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione David
Dimitris Ioannou said onto me: -- |Hi Graham, |Winds##t have to be installed first (if we're talking |about the 9X series 95,98,ME) because they need to |write the boot sector during installation, otherwise |setup won't

[newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-05-21 Per discussione Franki
Hi guys,, Its so great to be able to post again.. was terrible lurking, but not being able to add anything.. Anyway, I have a question.. the only slow thing about this setup is the dnslookups, it takes about 4 or 5 seconds when I enter a link before it starts loading.. I know that its

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione Bill Davidson
On Tue, 21 May 2002 02:47:17 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2002 08:54:27 +0400 Nashib .J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, Can someone help me, I have partitioned my harddisk with two primary fat32 for windows98

Re: [newbie] Hercules Fortissimo II

2002-05-21 Per discussione Charlie
Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:36 am,Inhabitantofzion wrote: Hi Thanks for the help. None of those sites seemed to have any Linux specific drivers. John ~~~ As I said before John, Google is your friend. When I'm looking for Linux drivers for

[newbie] RPM FILES

2002-05-21 Per discussione John Richard Smith
What does the does .ppc mean as in package.ppc.rpm John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RPM FILES

2002-05-21 Per discussione Bill Davidson
On Tue, 21 May 2002 16:55:35 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the does .ppc mean as in package.ppc.rpm That's the platform it's been compiled for. .ppc means Power PC. Like .i386 means it's been compiled for an intel 386 processor. HTH. Bill Want to buy your

RE: [newbie] Am I back on????

2002-05-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Franki wrote: bite me !!! I am grinning ear to ear, I have broadband, and I can post to the mandrake lists again.. I'm a rather happy man. rgds Frank :) congrats! and I know the feeling. I just got BB last week and spent 4 hours Sunday afternoon setting

[newbie] Eric Raymond mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-21 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
Eric Raymond has a take on the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, and some other valuable points of view regarding the activism and involvement of anyone that values their freedom. http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0520.rms.html LX --

[newbie] Users

2002-05-21 Per discussione Mark Lucas
I hope this isn't too basic a question! I've been running a Mandrake server on my network for nearly a year now and it is great. Currently all network clients are running some flavour of Windows. I would like to begin to migrate clients to Linux but the first problem is how to validate user

[newbie] is the list still up??

2002-05-21 Per discussione Franki
I stopped getting email an hour ago.. thats unusual for this list, so I figured I'd post and see if I get it.. sorry :-) rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-21 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 12:49, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Eric Raymond has a take on the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, and some other valuable points of view regarding the activism and involvement of anyone that values their freedom.

RE: [newbie] is the list still up??

2002-05-21 Per discussione Franki
Its possible that I am still excited about the new account, but I deny it and you can't prove anything :-) As for gates, he may have 90 billion dollars, but he will die sooner then me, so that makes it easier to deal with :-) incidently, does he have kids and if so are they nerds??? (spose they

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-21 Per discussione Jim Dawson
I think I found the problem with StarOffice crashing on saves. It seems that the default configuration specifies directories that either don't exist or I don't have rights to. I changed all the directories (particularly the temp and backup directories) to directories that I have rights to and

Re: [newbie] is the list still up??

2002-05-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
this is the list monitor. if you're receiving this message it is because the list has stopped sending mail to this address. there isn't any reason for this action. we just felt like it. heh! somebody has a new BroadBand account and is playing!!! :) The list is up, but all the mail is being

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione Bart Salien
Op Tuesday 21 May 2002 05:04, schreef u: I had the same problem in 8.1 because i activated the full duplex mode in the Sound Server module , at the time it was the only way to get XMMS working for about 45 min. Now i updated to MDK 8.2 and sound is working perfect ( no full duplex setting) . I

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Mon, 20 May 2002, darklord wrote: It seems that we all have the same problem! But for me it is really at random! (I mean... sometimes it happens, sometimes not!) So I never know if I have sound or not just until I need it or it's too late. I just typed: service --status-all and got two

[newbie] Trouble still w/CUPS and Samba

2002-05-21 Per discussione Terry S.
I am having trouble printing from my Mandrake 8.2 laptop using CUPS 1.1.14 and samba 2.2.3a .. Our domain printers are managed by some printer accounting software that will not allow anyone outside of the domain to print to our printers. I was able to successfully add my Linux box to our domain,

Re: [newbie] is the list still up??

2002-05-21 Per discussione Bill Davidson
On Tue, 21 May 2002 13:08:27 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is the list monitor. if you're receiving this message it is because the list has stopped sending mail to this address. there isn't any reason for this action. we just felt like it. heh! somebody has a new

RE: [newbie] is the list still up??

2002-05-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Franki wrote: Its possible that I am still excited about the new account, but I deny it and you can't prove anything :-) As for gates, he may have 90 billion dollars, but he will die sooner then me, so that makes it easier to deal with :-) incidently, does he have

Re: [newbie] A little advice.

2002-05-21 Per discussione Warren Post
Can't help with everything, but... On Mon, 20 May 2002 23:49:04 -0600 Chris Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, when I install something, how do I get to where I can access what I install in the GUI? You mean, have it appear on the start menu? Run menudrake, either from the menu

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-21 Per discussione Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 May 2002 6:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen, but I have the authors mixed up; it's not Eric Raymond (who was on my mind with krazy glue for some reason) but rather the Father of free software, Richard Stallman.

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On 21 May 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 12:49, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Eric Raymond has a take on the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, and some other valuable points of view regarding the activism and involvement of anyone that values their freedom.

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione Jerry
i DO know a fix for THIS one... use alsamixer. mine starts up with the init at runlevel 5. haven't had a problem since! hope this helps :-) On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 22:22, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: Στις Τρι 21 Μαι 2002 07:04, ο/η Ronald J. Hall έγραψε: Hi folks, I'm sorry to burst in but I

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione Jerry
Mine was throwing some pretty weird stuff at me too I never had a problem there (cause i never tried it... never could get those sound previews to work on KDE... GNOME, find but not KDE but then.. the sound effects themselves work on KDE and not GNOME hmmm) mine were elsewhere. Some

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione Jerry
Winblows is a MBR hog.. it's gotta have those first (what is it.. 80 clusters? been too long since i've tried dual boot on one drive.) so ya have to fake it out and put winblows on first. (what's on second, i don't know's on third :-P) On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 23:43, Chris Ames wrote: From

[newbie] Netscape 6.2.3 and KDE desktop....

2002-05-21 Per discussione Charlie
Hello Gurus; So; because of a suggestion posted on my local LUG (yeah yeah OK; GNU-LUG then Stallman :-)) mailing list, I recalled that I had intended to install the latest version of Nutscrape in order to compare the performance, appearance, functionality etc. with the latest Mozilla release

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6.2.3 and KDE desktop....

2002-05-21 Per discussione mike
Charlie wrote: How the hell do I add it to the menu or at least link it to the desktop from the default install directory (/usr/local) so I won't have to keep launching it from konsole? That gets old in a hurry. Charlie right click on the desktop and create new Link to location fill in

Re: [newbie] Trouble still w/CUPS and Samba

2002-05-21 Per discussione Terry Sheltra
Never mind folks, I was able to get things working on my own (finally!) .. what I needed to do was to use the format: smb://name:password@domain/server/queue and all was well .. not the most secure way to do printing in the domain, but at least it's working .. unless someone can suggest another

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6.2.3 and KDE desktop....

2002-05-21 Per discussione Jerry
console to /home/userx/Desktop and ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape netscape would work wouldnt it? (I've always just used menudrake to add a menu item then did a drag/drop off to the desktop) hth On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 14:47, Charlie wrote: Hello Gurus; So; because of a suggestion

Re: [newbie] A little advice.

2002-05-21 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Mon, 20 May 2002 23:49:04 -0600 Chris Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. How in bloody 'ell do I get my newsreaders yEnc-compliant? Also, when I install something, how do I get to where I can access what I install in the GUI? Also, I have 3 CD's worth of MP3 files that I need to transfer

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:10, David wrote: Brian Parish said onto me: -- |On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 14:54, Nashib .J. wrote: | Hi everybody, | Can someone help me, I have partitioned my harddisk | with two primary

[newbie] 3 Problems

2002-05-21 Per discussione Thomas Beno
1. I have Win98 SE installed on one hard drive and Mandrake Linux 8.2 on another. I had Lilo configured and was able to boot into Linux with no problem. The problem is that when I rebooted and tried to go into Win98, all I got was a black screen with the message Windows loading. Windows

Re: [newbie] Hercules Fortissimo II

2002-05-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Charlie wrote: Since I only read part of what was listed in the Google search; my advice wouldn't be worth too much. But there are drivers for this card to run on a Linux install at the Hercules site. Look in the left column of the (very slow loading) page for the link here:

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Michael Adams wrote: When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a full second to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like [] and [']. I am running KDE on a P3 500. Only some of the punctuation keys are like this. Full stops, commas and even the square brackets i

Re: [newbie] OT, for those interested in the M$/school scandal

2002-05-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/21/216202.shtml?tid=167 -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] A little advice.

2002-05-21 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, 21 May 2002 17:46:43 -0600 Chris Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can understand that attitude. Only one problem, at least for my main question: the yEnc encoding. Recent releases of Pan have yEnc capabilities. But if you prefer to use Mozilla, can't help you there. You've checked out

Re: [newbie]OT, keeping Free/Open source alive!

2002-05-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
I love it, can't wait to see this up running : http://open-content.net/ -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-21 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Michael Adams wrote: When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a full second to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like [] and [']. I am running KDE on a P3 500. Only some of the punctuation keys are like

Re: [newbie] harddrake new video card

2002-05-21 Per discussione s
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 05:59 pm, Michael Adams wrote: 128 * 1024 == 131072 128 * 1024 * 1024 = 134,217,728 Bytes exactly the above calculation supplied by Tom give KBytes thanks guys. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione s
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 06:19 am, Michael Adams wrote: A friend and myself were trying to figure out how to restart arts by the commandlline without having to log out and restart kde just last night for this reason. Anyone know? I don't have artsd running. At least i don't think so

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione s
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 09:00 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: have you tried 'service sound restart' as root? Yeah, had tried that too. It didn't effect arts. Damian's idea works tho. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione s
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:58 am, Damian G wrote: commandlline without having to log out and restart kde just last night for this reason. Anyone know? well, i'm pretty sure you already know about this, but i'll give it a try... i think you can do a killall -9 artsd and then artsd

Re: [newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-21 Per discussione Roland Hughes
Galeon only looks in the mozilla plugin directory. I found this out the hard way, banging my head against it for awhile. Roly On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 16:53, Michael Kovary wrote: I have download jre-1_4_0-linux-i386.bin and installed it in /usr/local/java. I then copied the contents of

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-21 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 10:16, shane wrote: On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:02, DAVEinDSM opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Reiser FS also should have somewhat faster file access for my large directories of jpegs and html files if I'm not mistakenI

Re: [newbie] Video again

2002-05-21 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 12:53, Nicolas VERITE wrote: Le mer 15/05/2002 à 10:59, Robin Turner a écrit : Has any one here had any success getting Mandrake to download from a camcorder via USB? Sir Robin With or without Mandrake, you can't up/download moving pictures (vidéo) from/to a

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-21 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 04:02, DAVEinDSM wrote: As you can probably tell. I'm using windows right now... the reason is that I reformatted everything and reinstalled MS so I could use this computer for email etc while I decided which file system I wanted to install on my linux partition.

Re: OT: signatures WAS: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-21 Per discussione et
Ohms is a name of the man that states (in one form) watts=volt x amps, in other words, in electrical troubleshooting, you use an Ohmmeter to discern the level of resistance ina circuit, (or area of a circuit). but I believe it is a play on the star trek Borg line of we are Borg, you will be

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Jerry wrote: Mine was throwing some pretty weird stuff at me too I never had a problem there (cause i never tried it... never could get those sound previews to work on KDE... GNOME, find but not KDE but then.. the sound effects themselves work on KDE and not GNOME hmmm) mine were

Re: [newbie] Hercules Fortissimo II

2002-05-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 21 May 2002 18:07:19 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google loves: Bsd - http://www.google.ca/bsd Mac - http://www.google.ca/mac.html Linux - http://www.google.ca/linux US Govt. - http://www.google.ca/unclesam M$ - http://www.google.ca/microsoft.html

Re: [newbie] Hercules Fortissimo II [OT]

2002-05-21 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: Charlie wrote: Since I only read part of what was listed in the Google search; my advice wouldn't be worth too much. But there are drivers for this card to run on a Linux install at the Hercules site. Look in the left column of the (very slow

Re: OT: signatures WAS: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-21 Per discussione Damian G
On Tue, 21 May 2002 17:49:36 +0800 Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while on the topic of signatures, i remember another one in the last i didn't understand. We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. uhmm... physics. ;o) an electron is a tiny part of an atom that orbits

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione gbanks
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 2:54 pm, Nashib .J. wrote: Hi everybody, Can someone help me, I have partitioned my harddisk with two primary fat32 for windows98 installation and used the free space for M.Linux installation. I installed M.Linux first on the hard disk. My question is,

[newbie] ppc 8.2

2002-05-21 Per discussione Eric McClure
I have an ibook that specs out as: 600mhz 640mb of ram 40gb of hard drive a firewire 20gb hard drive airport card I would like to install 8.2 to the 20gb firewire hard drive. Where would I find information on this and is there a ppc mailing list? os x is great, but I miss my window managers,

[newbie] re: java runtime environment

2002-05-21 Per discussione Michael Kovary
Sorry about replying to your address, but that's what hotmail did. Sigh. I've finished copying the files but when making the symlink I'm told the the file already exists, does this mean I can leave it alone or do I have to delete the old one first?

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-21 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 15:39, Alastair Scott wrote: Mind you, the Stallman piece is interesting; his line is that, as Linux contains rather a lot of GNU material, it should be called GNU/Linux and not enough credit is given for the involvement. He also has a characteristic argument that

Re: OT: signatures WAS: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-21 Per discussione shane
the short version of this being, resistance to changing from a negative (other OS) to a positive (linux) depends on your path, and what that path goes through. :) On Tuesday 21 May 2002 20:53, Damian G opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: .. an electric

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6.2.3 and KDE desktop....

2002-05-21 Per discussione shane
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 16:33, Charlie opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I know Mozilla is the basis for the Netscape browser but if it uses the same settings/book-marks/address book/ad infinitum, what the devil is the point, other than a cheap way to

Re: [newbie] XMMS

2002-05-21 Per discussione dfox
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1021688874-31891-3083 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK. I got in my manual and set up XMMS, went to Shoutcast.com and downloaded one of their site addresses and

Re: [newbie] XMMS

2002-05-21 Per discussione dfox
Xmms will NOT run Windows Media Streams by default; you must add plugins to enable this capability. The one I've been experimenting with is Avi4Xmms, and it's on Sourceforge. Hmm. I will check this out soon, but I'm not really looking for another avi plugin at the moment. mplayer works OK

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-21 Per discussione shane
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 19:13, Lyvim Xaphir opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. shane ShaneI swearyour sigs are

Re: [newbie] Hercules Fortissimo II

2002-05-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2002 18:07:19 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google loves: Bsd - http://www.google.ca/bsd Mac - http://www.google.ca/mac.html Linux - http://www.google.ca/linux US Govt. - http://www.google.ca/unclesam M$ -

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-21 Per discussione Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 03:24, Jim Dawson wrote: I think I found the problem with StarOffice crashing on saves. It seems that the default configuration specifies directories that either don't exist or I don't have rights to. I changed all the directories (particularly the temp and backup

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-21 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Michael Adams wrote: When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a full second to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like [] and [']. I am running KDE on a P3