Re: [newbie-it] JVM

2002-06-21 Per discussione ENx
Se non ci sei gia` riuscito, prova ad installare la JVM in questo modo: Naviga in filesystem con il browser (mozilla o netscape) fino alla posizione del file jre131_02.xpi. Poi cliccaci sopra (non ricordo se una o due volte) e dovrebbe chiederti se vuoi installare la JVM! Ciao ENx Benedetto

[newbie-it] email della lista

2002-06-21 Per discussione luigi
ciao a tutti e grazie in anticipo Per caso ho fatto un giro sul sito mdk alla sezione di iscrizione alla mailing-list e cliccando su [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ho scoperto che ci sono delle mail anche molto recenti che non mi sono arrivate eppure scarico tutti i giorni... mi riferisco comunque solo ed

[newbie-it] Conoscete altre mail list?

2002-06-21 Per discussione luigi
Ciao a tutti e grazie in anticipo Ho scoperto da poco tempo il bellissimo mondo delle maillist e mi piacerebbe seguirne piu di una (ovviamente linux) ne conoscete altre che siano valide e che non contengano solo di spiegazioni su come fare il giro di marte e prendere un caffe sulla luna con il

[newbie-it] Luminosità delle scritte VGA normali 80x25 in fase di shutdown.

2002-06-21 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Da cosa potrebbe dipendere il fatto che dopo aver dato il comando per avviare lo spegnimento del computer le scritte VGA normali di sistema che scorrono sullo schermo del monitor (un Sony 17) hanno scarsa luminosità rispetto a quelle che invece sono di luminosità regolare nella fase di avvio

Re: [newbie-it] Conoscete altre mail list?

2002-06-21 Per discussione freefred
On Friday 21 June 2002 11:30, luigi, talkin' about [newbie-it] Conoscete altre mail list? wrote: Ciao a tutti e grazie in anticipo Ho scoperto da poco tempo il bellissimo mondo delle maillist e mi piacerebbe seguirne piu di una (ovviamente linux) immaginando tu le cerchi in italiano ci sono

[newbie] Setiathome

2002-06-21 Per discussione Robin K Fry
Hi: I'm trying to get setiathome going on a mandrake 8.2 / AMD 400Mhz box. I've downloaded, unpacked and chmod'd setiathome, but every time I type in setiathome -graphics 6 as per the README's all I get back is a command not found. Any ideas? Thanks to one and all Robin Want to

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2002-06-21 Per discussione Jure Repinc
Robin K Fry wrote: Hi: I'm trying to get setiathome going on a mandrake 8.2 / AMD 400Mhz box. I've downloaded, unpacked and chmod'd setiathome, but every time I type in setiathome -graphics 6 as per the README's all I get back is a command not found. Any ideas? Thanks to one

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 June 2002 07:10, Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks I can't explain why your setup fails but I've installed from both LXM CD

[newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Baka Attila Tams
Hi! I've been fooling around with Conectiva linux for some days. I had a few problems that made me turn back to mandrake again (gcc won't work, nvidia doesn't recognize my kernel, can't install mplayer or openoffice) as I need a working OS. What I really loved about Conectiva is that With like

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione et
what does df (without the quotes) tell you about avilabile space? On Friday 21 June 2002 02:10 am, you wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks I can't

[newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione John Rigby
Hello folks, You know, it *IS* fascinating to read the comments of those few tunnel-visioned people on this list who continually make it difficult for people outside of their tiny worlds. I would love to take the candy/money off the baby - but my mother won't let me do those sort of things any

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 7:10 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your help. Tried all that, to no avail. Permissions OK - 644 on all the zip files. I also tried logging in as root - no dice. Tried ./install --interactive. Placed trace

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 07:10, Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks I can't explain why your

Re: [newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?

2002-06-21 Per discussione civileme
Baka Attila Tams wrote: Hi! I've been fooling around with Conectiva linux for some days. I had a few problems that made me turn back to mandrake again (gcc won't work, nvidia doesn't recognize my kernel, can't install mplayer or openoffice) as I need a working OS. What I really loved about

[newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione mike cola
now that was all nice till you got to the PS and then fronted your opinion exactly the same way you told others not to (or not to listen to).. or did i misinterpret? linux: (the community as a public vocal group) is (from what i have observed as a longtime lurker on sites/forums/lists and

[newbie] Mysterious Opening and Shutting CD-ROM

2002-06-21 Per discussione Tim Holmes
I got home yesterday, headed into my office, turned the monitors on and sat down to check email and IRC. Suddenly I hear something. Confused, I pay it no nevermind, but only at first. I took it for something going on outside to start. After about a minute or two, the sounds were too

Re: [newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:11:58 +0200, Baka Attila Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've been fooling around with Conectiva linux for some days. I had a few problems that made me turn back to mandrake again (gcc won't work, nvidia doesn't recognize my kernel, can't install mplayer or

Re: [newbie] Gateway Solo 5150 - Bios reset

2002-06-21 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Thursday 20 June 2002 11:23 pm, et wrote: if your eyes are good, look for a jumper labeled J2. no warrenty on that, just kinda seems like an industry standard. On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: I have a strange problem. My wife set a bios password on her laptop a fair while

Re: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-21 Per discussione kahwoon's
:) nope.. just being polite.. :) hope you all don't mind.. :) as for the 64mb of ram.. i don't think i will be able to get more ram.. there's only 4 slots and i've used up all slots for the edo ram.. and for now.. it's quite hard to get edo ram here.. and i think it'll be real expensive too.. :(

Re: [newbie] Gateway Solo 5150 - Bios reset

2002-06-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On 20 Jun 2002 19:10:19 -0700 Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange problem. My wife set a bios password on her laptop a fair while ago and has forgotten it. She has misplaced to documentation that was with it and so we are stuck. It is usually cleared by a jumper on or off

Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-21 Per discussione John Richard Smith
On Thursday 20 June 2002 16:19, you wrote: Many Thanks Ralph, by the way is Slooten, Dutch by any chance. my spare partition and subdirectory is, /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/divx I have a couple gigs to spare. Log into your console as root (su) ln -s /dev/scd0

RE: [newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Baka Attila Tams
Yes you can use apt-get, but it is dangerous without the thorough discipline of the Debian package preparation. You can also use urpmi to much the same effect like put all the packages in one place on the web (who cares if the rpms are apt-get capable) do a urpmi.addmedia to generate a

Re: [newbie] anybody tried vmware and mandrake 8.2? Plus samba and gnome and XFree86

2002-06-21 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, At one time yesterday I could get a connection to my vmware with windows 2000 Professional on it. I had to install samba on linux and share a folder. Now it is gone again but it seems to be a smb.conf configuration issue. But something else is interesting: vmware says: Could not get

Re: [newbie] VMware/ LM8.2 and Win98 Guest OS

2002-06-21 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi Alan, it's me again - I can't help but the problem is the same in windows 2000 professional and LM8.2. And with suse7.3 and vmware the sound didn't work either. Patrik You wrote on Thursday 20 June 2002 17:07: Anyone else having sound problems with win98? The install goes fine. The

Re: [newbie] Gateway Solo 5150 - Bios reset

2002-06-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On 20 Jun 2002 19:10:19 -0700 Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange problem. My wife set a bios password on her laptop a fair while ago and has forgotten it. She has misplaced to documentation that was with it and so we are stuck. It is usually cleared by a jumper on or off

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione mike
John Rigby wrote: blah, blah , blah All of this is quite funny. I really loved the parts where John thinks he is somebody, that people should listen to... Very funny stuff. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.BBBHHHAAAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! You should write comic strips featuring a

Re: [newbie] Open Source databases?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Joshua James
Could you elaborate on some open source databases? I'm looking for something to replace Access. Something to work as a ODBC client and a single file data storage with ODBC connectivity for ODBC attached websites. Thanks! On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 23:05, robin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try

Re: [newbie] Open Source databases?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 June 2002 14:11, Joshua James wrote: Could you elaborate on some open source databases? I'm looking for something to replace Access. Something to work as a ODBC client and a single file data storage with ODBC connectivity for ODBC attached websites.

Re: [newbie] MPlayer

2002-06-21 Per discussione tom Brinkman
On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:32 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Please , I have absolutely nothing against the command line, I'm just not experienced with it, and I am the kind of person who doesn't have a mind like a telephone directory, and so I have to spend a lot of time working out

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione tom Brinkman
On Friday 21 June 2002 01:10 am, Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks Thanks for your help. Tried all that, to no avail. Permissions OK -

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-21 Per discussione tom Brinkman
On Thursday 20 June 2002 07:21 pm, Marcia wrote: AIB 17 Color Monitor .27dpi ***FREE SHIPPING*** 17MOSEL [pad] Regular price: $159.00 [pad] Sale price: [$123.00] [pad] Thank you, Marcia Looks like a great deal, specially with free shipping. I bought a el cheapo MagView from Best

[newbie] perl modules

2002-06-21 Per discussione L.V.Gandhi
I wanted to install YoSucker for getting yahoo mails. It needs the following perl modules and some are missing in my system as shown below [lvgandhi@localhost utils]$ ./CheckModules Module IO::Socket: Found. Module IO::Socket::SSL: Missing. Module MIME::Base64: Found. Module Term::ReadKey:

Re: [newbie] perl modules

2002-06-21 Per discussione Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 3:27 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I wanted to install YoSucker for getting yahoo mails. It needs the following perl modules and some are missing in my system as shown below [lvgandhi@localhost utils]$ ./CheckModules Module

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-21 Per discussione tom Brinkman
On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:36 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/20/209223mode=nested; tid=137 When I last looked, there were close to 600 posts (no, I didn't read them all.) The one vendor who is getting very high scores is newegg.com; another is

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Whatever... On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, John Rigby wrote: Hello folks, You know, it *IS* fascinating to read the comments of those few tunnel-visioned people on this list who continually make it difficult for people outside of their tiny worlds. I would love to take the candy/money off the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, et wrote: what does df (without the quotes) tell you about avilabile space? On Friday 21 June 2002 02:10 am, you wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 7:10 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your help. Tried all that, to no avail. Permissions OK - ... Out of

Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:15 pm, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Try Star-office, it is more solid and user friendly. Already have SO 5.2. do yourself a favor and download openoffice. 5.2 is terrible comparatively.

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 03:32 am, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: You want an RPM of OO1.0? You have plenty of bandwidth? Then try Rangers version http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=213 9

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 02:52 am, mike cola did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: linux: (the community as a public vocal group) is (from what i have observed as a longtime lurker on sites/forums/lists and as a user for about 3 years from

[newbie] Medialand Systems, Inc Notebook

2002-06-21 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
Medialand Systems, Inc FEATURES * 14 1024 x 768 TFT Display * Intel Celeron Processor 950MHz * VIA Core Logic * Built-in 3.5 Floppy Drive * 128MB PC-133 SDRAM * 10.0GB UltraATA Hard Disk Drive * 24X Slim CD-ROM * S3 Twister 4X AGP 3D Video (SMA up to 32MB Video Memory) * Crystal WDM Audio

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: Whatever... Roger! ag...you've become a top poster. O no!!! -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2002-06-21 Per discussione Robin K Fry
On June 21, 2002 07:39 am, you wrote: Robin K Fry wrote: Hi: I'm trying to get setiathome going on a mandrake 8.2 / AMD 400Mhz box. I've downloaded, unpacked and chmod'd setiathome, but every time I type in setiathome -graphics 6 as per the README's all I get back is a command

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-21 Per discussione Ralph Slooten
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi I couldn't wait untill lame + libraties were installed,to try it, So I put up a terminal and proceeded with just this command.

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-21 Per discussione Miark
Marcia: I really do like the way you go about your shopping. I'm thinking about an upgrade myself, so I've been piggybacking. It just so happens that there's a thread on Slashdot tonight about good sources for components and systems:

RE: [newbie] Basic www server configuration

2002-06-21 Per discussione ignacio . horcas
Hi again and thank you for your reply, I made the changes and it works better. Now I can connect to my server by typing www.myhost.mydomain, but only from my own computer. Can I make something to connect to it with that name from any computer in the internet? Do I need a DNS for that? In that

Re: [newbie] VMware/ LM8.2 and Win98 Guest OS

2002-06-21 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:24:14 +0200 Patrik Marxer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, it's me again - I can't help but the problem is the same in windows 2000 professional and LM8.2. And with suse7.3 and vmware the sound didn't work either. Patrik You wrote on Thursday 20 June 2002

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Per discussione Joan Tur
Es Divendres 21 Juny 2002 08:10, en Len Lawrence va escriure: Thanks for your help. Tried all that, to no avail. Have you checked if it is in /root ?? That was my default directory -and I changed it to /usr/local/- -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, darklord wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 11:11 am, you wrote: Shane, I don't have a clue what that guy was say. it sounded like a bunch of incoherent babling. could you please translate for me? Sorry to butt in here, but I think that his post was supposed to be

RE: [newbie] perl modules

2002-06-21 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] perl modules -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of L.V.Gandhi Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] perl modules I wanted to install YoSucker for getting yahoo mails. It needs

[newbie] Upgrading Gcc to 3.01 from bugy 2.96 under Mandrak 8.2

2002-06-21 Per discussione Duane King
Due to the buggy nature of the mandrake installed Gcc 2.96 (I fail to understand just why they installed a buggy gcc in the first place.. blah), and the fact that it can not compile some sound and vidio libs correctly, I wish to upgrade to gcc 3.01; The problem is, becouse of the non-standard way

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-21 Per discussione Damian G
mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi I couldn't wait untill lame + libraties were installed,to try it, So I put up a terminal and proceeded with just this command. It all looks very impressive. However I

Re: [newbie] Upgrading Gcc to 3.01 from bugy 2.96 under Mandrak 8.2

2002-06-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Duane King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to the buggy nature of the mandrake installed Gcc 2.96 (I fail to understand just why they installed a buggy gcc in the first place.. blah), and the fact that it can not compile some sound and vidio libs

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: Whatever... Roger! ag...you've become a top poster. O no!!! Did you really want me to put one word at the bottom of that

Re: [newbie] GeForce 4

2002-06-21 Per discussione s
On Friday 21 June 2002 11:22 am, Miark wrote: Are these bad-boys supported in Linux? Miark by nvidia drivers. I installed one while running 8.2 and it didn't have a problem. Then I installed the cooker snapshot and had to go with FBdev during installation, but upon boot, do a XFdrake

RE: [newbie] Basic www server configuration

2002-06-21 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Have you registered (and paid) for your domain with the Internic/verisign? Do you also have a fixed IP address? If so, then talk to your ISP and have them add www.myhost.mydomain.com to their DNS server. Of course you are NOT using myhost.mydomain as a real address right? -JMS |-Original

RE: [newbie] Basic www server configuration

2002-06-21 Per discussione Ignacio Horcas
I have a fixed IP with a fixed name, and that it is not myhost.mydomain. Is it possible to make the necesary changes only in my host or I need to talk to my ISP? thanks At 14:03 21/06/2002 -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Have you registered (and paid) for your domain with the Internic/verisign?

Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-21 Per discussione Ralph Slooten
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 16:19, you wrote: Many Thanks Ralph, by the way is Slooten, Dutch by any chance. my spare partition and subdirectory is, /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/divx I have a couple gigs to spare.

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-21 Per discussione John Richard Smith
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:07:38 +0100 From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 20 June 2002 16:19, you wrote: Many Thanks Ralph, by the

[newbie] set global shortcut keys to applications in KDE?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, I wonder if it is possible to set keyboard shortcut globally in KDE. I have looked in the control center but only predefined actions can be reassigned to other keys. I would like to start any application just by pressing a key. Something like Ctrl+i for my image browser. Or Ctrl+t for

Re: [newbie] GeForce 4

2002-06-21 Per discussione darklord
On Friday 21 June 2002 01:46 pm, you wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 11:22 am, Miark wrote: Are these bad-boys supported in Linux? Miark by nvidia drivers. I installed one while running 8.2 and it didn't have a problem. Then I installed the cooker snapshot and had to go with FBdev

Re: [newbie] VMware/ LM8.2 and Win98 Guest OS

2002-06-21 Per discussione Alan Carbutt
Win2k works just fine. I have no problems with it. 98, however, doesn't give me anything. I posted to VMware's forum to see if anyone there has any other ideas. Thanks anyway, Alan Patrik Marxer wrote: Hi Alan, it's me again - I can't help but the problem is the same in windows 2000

Re: [newbie] GeForce 4

2002-06-21 Per discussione s
On Friday 21 June 2002 02:28 pm, darklord wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 01:46 pm, you wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 11:22 am, Miark wrote: Are these bad-boys supported in Linux? Miark by nvidia drivers. I installed one while running 8.2 and it didn't have a problem. Then I

Re: [newbie] Medialand Systems, Inc Notebook

2002-06-21 Per discussione civileme
Gerald Waugh wrote: Medialand Systems, Inc FEATURES * 14 1024 x 768 TFT Display * Intel Celeron Processor 950MHz * VIA Core Logic * Built-in 3.5 Floppy Drive * 128MB PC-133 SDRAM * 10.0GB UltraATA Hard Disk Drive * 24X Slim CD-ROM * S3 Twister 4X AGP 3D Video (SMA up to 32MB Video Memory) *

[newbie] Upgrade crash - broken fonts

2002-06-21 Per discussione Miark
Hi all, I used MandrakeUpdate an hour ago. It was going to install ImageMagick and something else. But during the process, the computer locked up solid. I ended up pressing reset. When it came back, X was dead. So I manually installed ImageMagick and its lib from the 8.2 CDs because this is

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
robin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Miark wrote: Anne, You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to turn them off. Miark He's on Win98, so it's Netscape 6.2. I can't see any way there.

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING (OT) Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione civileme
Well, I will say this once then shut up. Sorry John Rigby, I don't agree. I think your philosophies are warped and skewed from reality. For a long time businesses were closed communities. Everyone followed what some people studying Henry Ford had concluded: that precise control was THE way

Re: [newbie] Upgrade crash - broken fonts

2002-06-21 Per discussione daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Hi all, I used MandrakeUpdate an hour ago. It was going to install ImageMagick and something else. But during the process, the computer locked up solid. I ended up pressing reset. When it came back, X was dead. So I manually installed ImageMagick and

Re: [newbie] Open Source databases?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Manuel Soto
Did you try MySql On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 09:11, Joshua James wrote: Could you elaborate on some open source databases? I'm looking for something to replace Access. Something to work as a ODBC client and a single file data storage with ODBC connectivity for ODBC attached websites. Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Open Source databases?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Joshua James
How do I get MySQL to act as a Microsoft SQL Server client so I can edit records? That would be perfect now that I have unixodbc working (kinda). On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 17:07, Manuel Soto wrote: Did you try MySql On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 09:11, Joshua James wrote: Could you elaborate on some

Re: [newbie] Upgrading Gcc to 3.01 from bugy 2.96 under Mandrak 8.2

2002-06-21 Per discussione civileme
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Duane King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to the buggy nature of the mandrake installed Gcc 2.96 (I fail to understand just why they installed a buggy gcc in the first place.. blah), and the fact that it can not compile some sound

[newbie] Windows

2002-06-21 Per discussione Den
Hi! First, I want to know, do you have someone who speaks russian? If you don't, I try in my bad english! ;) I'm newbie in Linux. I just installed it on my computer. So, my question is how can I choose OS to load? If I have not just Linux! Actually, on my computer installed Windows ME and Linux

[newbie] Re: [newbie] How to use icc instead of gcc

2002-06-21 Per discussione olaf_lists
just wondering if you have any info to back that claim? I read it soe time ago in internet, moreover it can optimize the code for the vector unit of Pentium processors: it automatically split loops and generate (when possible) code optimized for MMX, SSE and SSE2. If you don't believe me, try

[newbie] I'm having a booting problem w/LM8.2

2002-06-21 Per discussione Jason Morris
I just installed LM 8.2 via ftp. When I restarted the systemeverything was going fine until it started to go into the second phase. Everything went black and only two vertical lines were on the screen. It seemed to complete booting.but those lines were still there. I did not have this

Re: [newbie] Windows

2002-06-21 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu 20 Jun 2002 02:08, Den wrote: Hi! First, I want to know, do you have someone who speaks russian? If you don't, I try in my bad english! ;) I'm newbie in Linux. I just installed it on my computer. So, my question is how can I choose OS to load? If I have not just Linux! Actually, on

Re: [newbie] perl modules

2002-06-21 Per discussione robin
Alastair Scott wrote: I ran into the same problem in another situation ... and Perl has a brilliant solution called CPAN. In effect it's a bit like apt-get or urpmi; it goes away and finds the missing Perl module _and all dependencies_ then builds everything. I agree, CPAN is awesome.

Re: [newbie] locked floppy drive

2002-06-21 Per discussione robin
darklord wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:31 am, you wrote: But probably someone who prefers to do their file management with a graphic client would also prefer not to have to mount and unmount disks. Sir Robin Can't argue with that. ;-) However, with supermount disabled, you don't -have-

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione Miark
I was able to assure him as a professional peer - my own background is thirty years of clinical and industrial psychology - that what he experienced was... I have, on occasion, thought it remarkable that Frasier Crane, a well-trained and experienced psychologist, could be such a dork. Then

RE: [newbie] Basic www server configuration

2002-06-21 Per discussione Michael Viron
You could do this, which would allow it to resolve only internally (from the local machine), or you could talk to whoever is handling dns for your domain and get it done correctly. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education

Re: [newbie] Open Source databases?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Roland Hughes
Try webmin, the newer one has a mysql and pogresql management built in. Roly On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 14:34, Joshua James wrote: How do I get MySQL to act as a Microsoft SQL Server client so I can edit records? That would be perfect now that I have unixodbc working (kinda). On Fri,

Re: [newbie] set global shortcut keys to applications in KDE?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:14:00 +0200 Patrik Marxer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if it is possible to set keyboard shortcut globally in KDE. I have looked in the control center but only predefined actions can be reassigned to other keys. I would like to start any application just

[newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of installable items. it doesn't show up though. I found *By accident*, the alien package while browsing hte CD in windows. Why don't those kind of packages show up in the installation RPM screens when I go to put Linux on my

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Per discussione Miark
As I recall, Fluxbox is not on the 8.2 CDs. You'll have to snag it from rpmfind.net. Miark FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of installable items. it doesn't show up though. I found *By accident*, the alien package

Re: [newbie] Upgrade crash - broken fonts

2002-06-21 Per discussione Miark
Honestly Miark, I'd reinstall the X server and see if that takes care of things. you may want to go as far as uninstalling all the XFree86 packages that you've got on the machine first so that you don't run into any bad troubles. I did this, and it worked, although I cheated a bit :-)

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING (OT) Destructive Software on multiboots,Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
big snip civileme wrote: So, John Rigby and others, I won't flame you or suggest dishonesty, but I will challenge your knowledge, not because you are ignorant, but because you learned in a limited environment, with little or no different competition. The rules are changing, the playing

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
and this is wrong how? :) daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: Whatever... Roger! ag...you've become a top poster. O no!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Upgrade crash - broken fonts

2002-06-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
try this: http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca/article.php?sid=475mode=order=0 Miark wrote: Hi all, I used MandrakeUpdate an hour ago. It was going to install ImageMagick and something else. But during the process, the computer locked up solid. I ended up pressing reset. When it came back,

[newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-21 Per discussione L.V.Gandhi
I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt and gcc 3.1.1. I compiled MPlayer .90 rev 4 with --enable-gui option. It compiled and installed ok. I made a menu item with application as gmplayer. I opened a file /mnt/wind/VannaPoongavanam.mpg. When I pressed play button I got message that 'File not found

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thu 20 Jun 2002 02:08, Den wrote: linux-nonfb failsafe Good luck, Harm. what exactly are those options what do they do??? Its not in my mandrake manual. :( -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
oh its on the Cd's all right. Thats where I installed flux from in the first place. Its just not an option when installing MDK on a newly formatted partition. Miark wrote: As I recall, Fluxbox is not on the 8.2 CDs. You'll have to snag it from rpmfind.net. Miark FemmeFatale

Re: [newbie] Upgrade crash - broken fonts

2002-06-21 Per discussione FemmeFatale
FFS! wrong thread, sorry FemmeFatale wrote: try this: http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca/article.php?sid=475mode=order=0 Miark wrote: Hi all, I used MandrakeUpdate an hour ago. It was going to install ImageMagick and something else. But during the process, the computer locked up

RE: [newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Gustavo Rahal
Hi I started using mandrake about a week ago. Before mandrake I used conectiva. Although I have a little experience with urpm I think it is better than apt. With urpm you can select from which rpm repositary you want to download a package without having to edit any file. Another thing. Let's say

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-21 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Don't know about nonfb, but I had to use failsafe within the past few days. It is kinda like safe mode in M$, but only root can log in...at least for the problem I had. On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:14:18 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thu 20 Jun 2002 02:08,

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-21 Per discussione Damian G
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:35:19 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt and gcc 3.1.1. I compiled MPlayer .90 rev 4 with --enable-gui option. It compiled and installed ok. I made a menu item with application as gmplayer. I opened a file

[newbie] mouse speed

2002-06-21 Per discussione Todd Slater
I'm using a cheap wheel mouse I got for $0.69 from newegg.com, and it works pretty well, but sometimes a single-click gets interpreted as a double-click. Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity for this in Mandrake 8.1? I looked in Control Center-Hardware-Mouse, but only saw options for

[newbie] rpm

2002-06-21 Per discussione T C
I am having a problem with installed rpm packages. I noticed my screensaver, ksetisaver, wasn't working. I checked in Mandrake control center and ksetidaver was no longer listed as a choice under screensavers. I'd been having some problems with it so I decided to uninstall it. Here's what

[newbie] setting mouse speed with xset on start-up scripts

2002-06-21 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Good evening everybody, I have a simple question I think... Is it possible to have the mouse speed set in a startup script of some kind? When ever I log into a window manager, I always have to set my mouse speed using xset m 9 1 I have tried a GUI to set it, but never found a satisfactory

Re: [newbie] GeForce 4

2002-06-21 Per discussione D. Olson
On Friday 21 June 2002 04:04 pm, you wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 02:28 pm, darklord wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 01:46 pm, you wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 11:22 am, Miark wrote: Are these bad-boys supported in Linux? Miark by nvidia drivers. I installed one while

Re: [newbie] rpm

2002-06-21 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Friday 21 June 2002 11:37 pm, T C wrote: I am having a problem with installed rpm packages. I noticed my screensaver, ksetisaver, wasn't working. I checked in Mandrake control center and ksetidaver was no longer listed as a choice under screensavers. I'd been having some problems with it

Re: [newbie] Upgrade crash - broken fonts

2002-06-21 Per discussione civileme
daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Hi all, I used MandrakeUpdate an hour ago. It was going to install ImageMagick and something else. But during the process, the computer locked up solid. I ended up pressing reset. When it came back, X was dead. So I manually installed

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