Re: [newbie-it] gimp e web

2002-07-02 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
arwan wrote: Alle 23:55, luned 24 giugno 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] gimp e web, caro freefred hai scritto: dovrei ridurre una trentina di foto a dimensioni predefinite, e abitualmente creavo una art gallery con Photoshop:

Re: [newbie-it] gimp e web

2002-07-02 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Oltre a quello che ti hanno già suggerito, tieni conto che lo stesso Konqueror (e altri file manager) permette di visualizzare i thumbnail dei file immagine quando entri in una directory. Questi thumbnail sono poi conservati in una dir .kde/... dove poi recuperarli facilmente. Poi, una

Re: [newbie-it] kde3

2002-07-02 Per discussione ENx
Vai nella directory dove hai scaricato il kde 3.0.1 e usa urpmi. A console scrivi: urpmi ./*.rpm urpmi e` il programma che sta sotto il software manager e che gestisce automaticamente le eventuali dipendenze dei singoli pacchetti. Ciao ENx Francesco Speranza ha scritto: Io non sono un

[newbie-it] X-Window

2002-07-02 Per discussione Franco Negri
Ho installato da qualche tempo Kde 3.0.1 (a proposito, si vocifera di un 3.0.2...) ma per chiudere la sessione ho trovato solo il tasto logout, invece di quel menu presente sul 2.2.2 che mi permetteva il reboot ed altre cose. Ho sbagliato qualcosa o è un fatto normale ? Inoltre ho cercato Gnome

[newbie-it] Ma 'sta Redhat 7.3 davvero funziona così :-0 ?

2002-07-02 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Ho eseguito un'installazione _completa_ ma, mancano tanti programmi da riga di comando importanti come cfdisk per esempio e i tool di amministrazione grafici alcuni funzionano a metà in particolare diskdruid è abilitato solo a leggere, s'è trasformato in diskview; è strano perchè in fase

Re: [newbie-it] Ma 'sta Redhat 7.3 davvero funziona così :-0 ?

2002-07-02 Per discussione Brunini Alessandro
Alle 17:33, martedì 2 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Ho eseguito un'installazione _completa_ ma, mancano tanti programmi da riga di comando importanti come cfdisk per esempio e i tool di amministrazione grafici alcuni funzionano a metà in particolare diskdruid è abilitato solo a leggere, s'è

Re: [newbie-it] X-Window

2002-07-02 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Franco Negri wrote: Ho installato da qualche tempo Kde 3.0.1 (a proposito, si vocifera di un 3.0.2...) ma per chiudere la sessione ho trovato solo il tasto logout, invece di quel menu presente sul 2.2.2 che mi permetteva il reboot ed altre cose. Ho sbagliato qualcosa o è un fatto normale ?

[newbie-it] Scandisk e Defrag

2002-07-02 Per discussione Benedetto Santarella
Esistono delle versioni per linux di Scandisk e Defrag? O Linux non ha bisogno di questi tool --  \ | /     (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella

[newbie-it] Wine, come si usa

2002-07-02 Per discussione Benedetto Santarella
Qualcuno di voi l'ha mai usato??? E se si,come si usa Grazie  \ | /     (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella

Re: [newbie-it] X-Window

2002-07-02 Per discussione Franco Negri
Grazie Giuseppe per la risposta, sono andato a vedere ma nel centro controllo KDE ho trovato sotto personalizzazione (traduco dall'inglese): -Accessibilità -Paese e lingua -Crypto -Password -Spell checking ... e nient'altro Avevo trovato qualcosa di simile sotto System - Login manager ma per

Re: [newbie-it] Wine, come si usa

2002-07-02 Per discussione LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Benedetto Santarella esclamo': Qualcuno di voi l'ha mai usato??? E se si,come si usa Non aspettarti miracoli, e' un piccolo emulatore non un mago ;) Cmq direi che puoi iniziare a leggerti la documentazione allegata al pacchetto, la documentazione sul

[newbie-it] Download KDE3

2002-07-02 Per discussione Benedetto Santarella
Salve a tutti, dove posso scaricare il KDE3??? Sono andato sul sito www.kde.com, ma non ho trovato nessun link, sono 'cecato io' ho non e' il sito giusto? Grazie a tutti!  \ | /     (@ @)

Re: [newbie-it] Wine, come si usa

2002-07-02 Per discussione Benedetto Santarella
Alle 19:22, martedì 2 luglio 2002, hai scritto: In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Benedetto Santarella esclamo': Qualcuno di voi l'ha mai usato??? E se si,come si usa Non aspettarti miracoli, e' un piccolo emulatore non un mago ;) Cmq direi che puoi iniziare a leggerti la

Re: [newbie-it] Wine, come si usa

2002-07-02 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 19:38, martedì 2 luglio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Wine, come si usa, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: Quando non conoscevo ancora Linux, mi fu' detto che c'era la possibilita' di far girare Win 85 sotto linux, era una balla o esiste

Re: [newbie-it] Wine, come si usa

2002-07-02 Per discussione LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Benedetto Santarella esclamo': Quando non conoscevo ancora Linux, mi fu' detto che c'era la possibilita' di far girare Win 85 sotto linux, era una balla o esiste qualche programma + potente di wine con cui far girare alcuni programmi di winzoz??? Anche

Re: [newbie-it] Scandisk e Defrag

2002-07-02 Per discussione freefred
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 10:29, Benedetto Santarella, talkin' about [newbie-it] Scandisk e Defrag wrote: Esistono delle versioni per linux di Scandisk e Defrag? O Linux non ha bisogno di questi tool lo scandisk e' fsck, a seconda in realta' del tipo di file system che usi (il reiserfs,

Re: [newbie-it] Scandisk e Defrag

2002-07-02 Per discussione LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, freefred esclamo': L'fsck in un filesystem ext2 e' di norma anche lanciato ogni tot riavvii, dove quel tot e' un numero nell'/etc/fstab. Ti e' sfuggita un'imprecisione, quello a cui ti riferisci appare (per un fs ext2/ext3) dando tune2fs -l

[newbie-it] montaggio CD

2002-07-02 Per discussione Giorgio Griffon
Uso Linux (Mandrake 8.2) da due settimane e mi sono iscritto alla lista per principianti solo perché non c'era quella per ultra-principianti; però se qualcuno si degna di rispondere alle mie domande sicuramente ovvie, prometto di passare in seguito a quesiti più interessanti. Ho letto nei vari

Re: [newbie-it] gimp e web

2002-07-02 Per discussione arwan
Alle 00:06, martedì 2 luglio 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] gimp e web, caro Giuseppe Ferruzzi hai scritto: Hai provato pixie plus image manager ?I tumbnails sono facili da eseguire e il programma ricorda molto Acdsee per windows. Ciao e fammi sapere se ti piace ...

Re: [newbie-it] montaggio CD

2002-07-02 Per discussione arwan
Alle 21:25, martedì 2 luglio 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] montaggio CD, caro Giorgio Griffon hai scritto: Intanto benvenuto. Era ora che ti facessi vivo. E l'opzione supermount che ho trovato già predisposta, e secondo il manuale dovrebbe eseguire il montaggio

Re: [newbie-it] Scandisk e Defrag

2002-07-02 Per discussione ku68
- Original Message - From: freefred [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Scandisk e Defrag cut lo scandisk e' fsck, a seconda in realta' del tipo di file system che usi (il reiserfs, e l'ext3 direi, non lo usano).

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Per discussione Cyril Vassilchenko
Femme, just perform boot in single-user mode, i.e. LILO: linux single, then change root password FemmeFatale wrote: Gues what I did I forgot my user password! OH JOY! HELLLP! how the hell do I login now!? got roots password just not my user one! ;\

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Per discussione Ron Bouwhuis
Femme, Just log in as root and go to user admin - reset that user's password. Tres simple! Ron. --- FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gues what I did I forgot my user password! OH JOY! HELLLP! how the hell do I login now!? got roots password

Re: [newbie] Enabling quota

2002-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:40:55 -0500 (CDT), Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to enable userquota on my /home partition. I added the following script to a file in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d directory: # Check quota and then turn quota on. if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotacheck

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione Jure Repinc
Warren Post wrote: How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make sense of the man page. Warren I would also like to know

Re: [newbie] X windows

2002-07-02 Per discussione Malcolm Candlish
Frank, Thank you for your prompt reply and inspired suggestion of using 'drakxconf'. I did'nt know that existed on the command line! Another list member suggested 'mcc', which apears to do the same thing; up pops the same wonderful box to sort out lifes many problems. It's amazing. Having

Re: [newbie] Kernel module loads manually but not on demand

2002-07-02 Per discussione mike
I had a similar problem with a Umax scanner and was having to insmod the aix7xx module each time I wanted to use the scanner I wanted to know how to make it permanent I got the following responses: ( hope it sheds some light ) Praedor Tempus wrote: In this case, and until a real fix

Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!

2002-07-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:01:20 -0500 (CDT), Brian R Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, LILO is gone! Basically, the story is that I have a dual boot WinXP and Linux Mandrake - and I've reinstalled WinXP before with no problem. This time, I guess it decided to actually write over the

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione g2
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: Warren Post wrote: How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make sense

Re: [newbie] X windows

2002-07-02 Per discussione Malcolm Candlish
Gerard, Thank you for your prompt reply and inspired suggestion of using 'mcc'. I did'nt know that existed on the command line! Another reply suggested 'drakxconf' which seems to be the same, although I am not sure that it is. Having used that tool, after the Xwindow Test a box, it reads :-

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione g2
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: Warren Post wrote: How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make sense

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione robin
g2 wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: Warren Post wrote: How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't

Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!

2002-07-02 Per discussione robin
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:01:20 -0500 (CDT), Brian R Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, LILO is gone! Basically, the story is that I have a dual boot WinXP and Linux Mandrake - and I've reinstalled WinXP before with no problem. This time, I guess it decided

Re: [newbie] root login

2002-07-02 Per discussione Ron Bouwhuis
--- Roy Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Robt. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drake Zero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] root login On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Drake Zero wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Re: Mozilla upgrade

2002-07-02 Per discussione John Richard Smith
I still don't know about all the pluggins, Mozilla and Netscape seem to have so many. My old mozilla had java realtime as an rpm and I guess this serves again, and does not need changing ? John... glad to hear that you've gotten everything installed and working. I'm sure as you're

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 1:27 pm, robin wrote: I tried that - checked Turkish, but all my locale settings still read en_US. This is nearly as confusing as Windows ;) There are two components to the locale: - - the country, which contains all

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione robin
Alastair Scott wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 1:27 pm, robin wrote: I tried that - checked Turkish, but all my locale settings still read en_US. This is nearly as confusing as Windows ;) There are two components to the locale: - -

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:46 pm, robin wrote: But surely the locale info you get when you type locale is independent of the window manager. I have the Turkish locale package installed, and localedrake sees it,it just won't make any changes.

[newbie] k3b - cd text

2002-07-02 Per discussione Jennifer M. Wallace
k3b will not burn cd text to my cds. My cd burner is a BPRec, I am using generic-mmc as the cdcrdao driver...Whenever I try to burn cd text on my cds, ,I get the following errors: Cannot set write parameters modee page writing failed cdrdao returned some error sorry, no error handling yet...

[newbie] Fixed k3b cd text

2002-07-02 Per discussione Jennifer M. Wallace
nevermind, I fixeed it, I changed the driver to generic-mmc-raw... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] k3b cd text again

2002-07-02 Per discussione Jennifer M. Wallace
okay, that still did nto fix it any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Accessing (via ssh) PC Behind DHCP Server?

2002-07-02 Per discussione Kevin Old
Sevatio, Yes, this is possible. I use dyndns.org. Basically what you do is setup a subdomain at one of the domain names they let you choose from, and then install a client on your server. Whenever the DHCP connection is refreshed, the new IP is sent to dyndns.org and the host record is

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Per discussione D. Olson
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:41 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:11:02 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:46 am, you wrote: But why would anyone buy the GNU/Linux version when you can get the Windows version for the same price (sometimes cheaper) and

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Per discussione D. Olson
Whatever. Why is it so hard to see that without Linux games, there CAN'T be a Linux gaming market? How can we prove that we will buy games if there ARE NO GAMES to buy? On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:03 pm, you wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 05:24 pm, you wrote: everything snipped You

RE: [newbie] Windows Games OT: Quake 2.

2002-07-02 Per discussione Franki
Hi guys, If I have Quake 2 for windows.. is there anyway I can get it running on a linux box?? If I understand correctly, all I really need from the win install is the .pak files.. the rest of them can be replaced with a free linux variant??? is that true? If so, where do I get it? Also, can

[newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Per discussione Bob Read
I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Per discussione FemmeFatale
Ron Bouwhuis wrote: Femme, Just log in as root and go to user admin - reset that user's password. Tres simple! Ron. THank the gods someone on heres a genius! And sorry for hijacking this thread... Oops. :\ Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Wget

2002-07-02 Per discussione Jordan Elver
Hi, Could anyone advise me how to use wget? I am trying to download a whole directory of images, but directory brwosing is turned off :-( So wget can't follow them, does anyone know of any good sites that I can look at? I know wget *can* do this! Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWOSent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:10 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started

2002-07-02 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:55, tom brinkman wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 04:25 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: scan ISA bus yes bunch of error messages for chips that arn't on my board. That's normal Summary of probes just done: press enter to continue. didn't print anything

RE: [newbie] MS Outlook

2002-07-02 Per discussione Mike Settle
Dennis, If you just want to change the Outlook format on an individual basis, before you send, click Format/Plain Text - To change your default format, in the Outlook screen click on Tools/Options/Mail Format. You'll see a drop down arrow for HTML, Plain Text, et al. Mike S. vvwvv (©¿©)

Re: [newbie] queuing sounds

2002-07-02 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:52:42 +0100 LtCdData [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i stop sounds queuing on mandrake 8.2 while online sounds like you-have-post.wav and anyMsg.wav cannot play if i happen to have a movie playing at the same time. By the time the movie is about 2/3 the way through

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Per discussione shane
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:29, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Whatever. Why is it so hard to see that without Linux games, there CAN'T be a Linux gaming market? How can we prove that we will buy games if there ARE NO GAMES to buy? there

[newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Per discussione Pippin Barr
Hi all, I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I am. My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking for is ideas for establishing what the problem might be.

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Per discussione et
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:39 am, you wrote: Hi all, I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I am. My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking for is

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Per discussione Pippin Barr
how much memory do you have? 256 meg RAM is it shared video mem? Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hde2

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Per discussione et
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:07 am, you wrote: how much memory do you have? 256 meg RAM is it shared video mem? Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: Filesystem

Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started

2002-07-02 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Monday 01 July 2002 05:25 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 10:10, tom brinkman wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2002 03:37 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: sensors -s gives a no sensors found message. I looked at the sensors.conf file and I know I need help in setting it up.

[newbie] OO print to file (pdf)

2002-07-02 Per discussione Todd Slater
I'm trying to write an OO.org doc to pdf. When I try to open it with xpdf, I get this error: Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway) Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary Error: Couldn't read xref table GV is

Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started

2002-07-02 Per discussione mike
To jump in here , I have had problems with LM_sensors in 8.2 as well. in 8.0 it works perfectly. under 8.2 only one of the sensors is seen, and it registers the a cpu temp of 127 degrees C. quite silly and wrong. I can make it read a correct value, but the value never changes. I would

RE: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Per discussione Schwenk, Jeanie
We had a similar problem. We had weird symptoms such as a logger looked like it was running away, find made the machine hang (had to use the power button on that one) but only sometimes. Turned out to be flaky RAM. As soon as we replaced it and doubled it, all was right with the world. We

RE: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Per discussione Pippin Barr
We had a similar problem. We had weird symptoms such as a logger looked like it was running away, find made the machine hang (had to use the power button on that one) but only sometimes. Turned out to be flaky RAM. As soon as we replaced it and doubled it, all was right with the world.

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Per discussione D. Olson
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 04:31 pm, you wrote: there was a couple of companies making them. they went out of buis. go figure. Yes, very strange indeed. Funny how I only ever saw ONE Linux game on a store shelf... Hmm... Go figure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-02 Per discussione Filipe
Dear experts Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can interest others newbies) Linux home-user (not IT professional but above dummy in computer level), myself, that recently installed Mandrake 8.2 (2 cd’s pack), with no time for formal course, with some initial

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Per discussione civileme
FemmeFatale wrote: Gues what I did I forgot my user password! OH JOY! HELLLP! how the hell do I login now!? got roots password just not my user one! ;\ ain't I just brilliant? Femme

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione Warren Post
Thanks, that did it. The closest localedrake could get me was es_MX, but that's close enough. Now when I install a new package or force an upgrade of an existing package, it appears in Spanish. The only app I'm afraid to do this on is my email client, Evolution. If I force an upgrade, will I

[newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-02 Per discussione Roland Hughes
I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp will kill me, and I can not find out how. Roly -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Per discussione g2
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 10:28, Warren Post wrote: Thanks, that did it. The closest localedrake could get me was es_MX, but that's close enough. Now when I install a new package or force an upgrade of an existing package, it appears in Spanish. The only app I'm afraid to do this on is my

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-02 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: Dear experts Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can interest others newbies) Linux home-user (not IT professional but above dummy in computer level), myself, that recently installed Mandrake 8.2 (2 cd's pack), with

[newbie] reiser? or something foolish?

2002-07-02 Per discussione shane
i lost my root partition the other day. not sure why, but i am wondering if that is what was meant by some others when they warned against reiser. i tried to boot and it simply found no root partition. tried to rescue disk it and it said that partition was of unidentified type. now it

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-02 Per discussione Bill Davidson
On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:22:29 -0300 Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear experts Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can interest others newbies) Linux home-user (not IT professional but above dummy in computer level), myself, that recently installed

Re: [newbie] Kernel module loads manually but not on demand -SOLVED

2002-07-02 Per discussione Warren Post
Loading the module in /etc/modules fixes the problem. Thanks for the good idea. Warren On lun, 2002-07-01 at 20:00, mike wrote: I had a similar problem with a Umax scanner and was having to insmod the aix7xx module each time I wanted to use the scanner I wanted to know how to make it

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Per discussione civileme
Bob Read wrote: I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade

Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-02 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:55, Roland Hughes wrote: I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp will kill me, and I can not find out how. Roly No problem. Read http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Bookmark this page for future reference as you never know when

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-02 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:27, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: Dear experts Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can interest others newbies) Linux home-user (not IT professional but above dummy in computer level), myself,

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Per discussione civileme
et wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:07 am, you wrote: how much memory do you have? 256 meg RAM is it shared video mem? Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: Filesystem

Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000

2002-07-02 Per discussione dfox
My problem is that I have no idea how to use the tape drive. Could someone give me some pointers please. I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you just use the /dev/st0 (it is scsi, right?) or /dev/nst0 devises -

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Per discussione shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 05:30 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Yes, very strange indeed. Funny how I only ever saw ONE Linux game on a store shelf... Hmm... Go figure. i have seen a few, but not much. it boils down to the

Re: [newbie] let's keep it to the list to help others to OK?

2002-07-02 Per discussione dfox
What you described involves more than 11 separate steps ... and then I still don't know what to do to crop the captured image to just the portion I want: Well, we'll leave cropping the image for now - one would still have to do that step even in windows, unless you want the

Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-02 Per discussione Roland Hughes
Thanks! That's what I love love about this group. Roly On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 20:28, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:55, Roland Hughes wrote: I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp will kill me, and I can not find out how. Roly No problem. Read

Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-02 Per discussione John McQuillen
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 11:55, Roland Hughes wrote: I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp will kill me, and I can not find out how. Sorry, I can't help you with how, but I'm sure they'll make it as slow and painful as possible :o) Good luck, John... Want to

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-07-02 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:57 am, RichardA did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Good news. Open Office 1.0 is on one of the CDs that comes with the latest issue of Linux Format magazine. Don't know how widely

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Per discussione martin
--- FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gues what I did I forgot my user password! OH JOY! HELLLP! how the hell do I login now!? got roots password just not my user one! ;\ ain't I just brilliant? Femme if you have the root password, why