Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software

2002-10-15 Per discussione sebastiano arrigoni
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 17:33, Andrea Nasso wrote: Scusate ma sono abbastanza novizio di questo mondo... Qualcuno sarebbe cosi gentile da aiutarmi a entrare in questa mentalità linux e mi guiderebbe nel semplice setup di un qualsiasi applicativo. So che la domanda è generica ma dopo aver

RE: [newbie-it] Installazione Software

2002-10-15 Per discussione Andrea Nasso
Grazie mille :-D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of miKe Sent: lunedì 14 ottobre 2002 19.58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:09, lunedì 14 ottobre

RE: [newbie-it] Installazione Software

2002-10-15 Per discussione Andrea Nasso
Grazie mille -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Fabio Manunza Sent: lunedì 14 ottobre 2002 23.26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software Alle 17:33, lunedì 14 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Scusate ma sono

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software

2002-10-15 Per discussione Andrea Celli
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:18:21 +0200 francesco.melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: adesso sei tu ad avergli complicato la vita :) uno pari, palla al centro :-))) sai, sono un vecchio tradizionalista, ho sempre la konsole aperta e considero più semplice dare al volo la riga di comando. L'errore

[newbie-it] wine

2002-10-15 Per discussione ba-rk
ho installato il pacchetto wine dalla distro ,in rpm...come faccio a vederlo?grazie mario

[newbie-it] Hard disks su USB

2002-10-15 Per discussione Guido Milanese
Su una rivista ho letto recensioni di hard disks portatili collegati via USB (in particolare: Archos MiniHD e Iomega HDD20). Notizie di compatibilità Linux? Grazie in anticipo! guido Guido Milanese - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua - http://www.arsantiqua.org

Re: [newbie-it] wine

2002-10-15 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
Alle 12:48, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: ho installato il pacchetto wine dalla distro ,in rpm...come faccio a vederlo?grazie mario ..Vedere, cosa? Una volta installato, wine, in teoria, è pronto per essere a) manipolato; b) testato con gli applicativi di Win che intendi

[newbie-it] USB not working.... Help!

2002-10-15 Per discussione David
Hi yall Just installed ML 8.0 on a Toshiba 1710CDT and everything went fine during the install detected everything and was able to complete the USB mouse test successfully. Go and StartX and nada. Mouse is a MS Optical Intellimouse and its dead.. Any hints on how to configure it? .. TIA,

[newbie-it] Masterizzatore / Masterizzare.

2002-10-15 Per discussione ottoecinque
Ciao a tutti Ho appena installato il Mandrake 9.0 dopo anni di winzozz capitemi... allora ho 2 domande da porre: che programma posso usare per masterizzare e dove lo trovo? Io ho un masterizzatore waitec scsi 624, ha bisogno di driver per funzionare da masterizzatore o lo

Re: [newbie-it] wine

2002-10-15 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Alle 14:44, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: [CUT] personalmente mi sono scontrato con wine come un caprone contro un muro, ma pare che l'ultima versione, presente nella mdk 9.0, sia piuttosto maturata da un punto di vista dei risultati [CUT] ... meno male, non sono il solo ad avere le

[newbie-it] mozilla mail

2002-10-15 Per discussione Fabio Gianferrari
Non riesco a configurare la posta elettronica con Mozilla mail. a dire il vero credo di fare tutto regolarmente : imposto i vari server in entrata per i vari account e quello in uscita. Quest' ultimo funziona : i messaggi li spedisco, ma incredibilmente non riesco a scaricare niente, con

Re: [newbie-it] mozilla mail

2002-10-15 Per discussione Greg
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:43:45 +0200 Fabio Gianferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non riesco a configurare la posta elettronica con Mozilla mail. a dire il vero credo di fare tutto regolarmente : imposto i vari server in entrata per i vari account e quello in uscita. Quest' ultimo funziona : i

Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzatore / Masterizzare.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
Alle 16:48, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti Ho appena installato il Mandrake 9.0 dopo anni di winzozz capitemi... allora ho 2 domande da porre: che programma posso usare per masterizzare e dove lo trovo? XCd-Roast può essere quello che fa per te; ti consiglio

Re: [newbie-it] Modem

2002-10-15 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
Alle 16:56, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti altro problemuccio... io ho un modem pci Conexant/Rockwell HSF. i driver per linux si trovano senza problemi( navigando con winzozz) ma come faccio a portarli a linux? Posso mettreli su un dichetto formattato da windows

Re: [newbie-it] Modem

2002-10-15 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Alle 16:56, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti altro problemuccio... io ho un modem pci Conexant/Rockwell HSF. i driver per linux si trovano senza problemi( navigando con winzozz) ma come faccio a portarli a linux? Posso mettreli su un dichetto formattato da windows

Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzatore / Masterizzare.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Arwan
Alle 16:48, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] Masterizzatore / Masterizzare., [EMAIL PROTECTED] hai scritto: Ciao a tutti Ho appena installato il Mandrake 9.0 dopo anni di winzozz capitemi... allora ho 2 domande da porre: che programma posso usare

[newbie-it] Crash!

2002-10-15 Per discussione Arwan
Buonanotte... nel vero senso della parola! Son due giorni (ieri e oggi) che KDE mi va in crash. Ieri e' capitato mentre mandavo una mail; per rispedire ho dovuto uscire da KDE, rifare il login (senza reboot) e riavviarlo. Dopo cio', tutti i collegamenti (del desktop e della barra) se cliccati

Re: [newbie-it] Crash!

2002-10-15 Per discussione freefred
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:45 pm, Arwan wrote about S%: Buonanotte... nel vero senso della parola! Son due giorni (ieri e oggi) che KDE mi va in crash. Ieri e' capitato mentre mandavo una mail; per rispedire ho dovuto uscire da KDE, rifare il login (senza reboot) e riavviarlo. Probabile

Re: [newbie-it] Modem

2002-10-15 Per discussione giamgax
Il Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:56:39 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Ciao a tutti altro problemuccio... io ho un modem pci Conexant/Rockwell HSF. i driver per linux si trovano senza problemi( navigando con winzozz) ma come faccio a portarli a linux? puoi anche copiarli sulla partizione

[newbie] DNS config

2002-10-15 Per discussione Kalle Saarinen
Hello What config file stores the DNS server information in LM 9.0? I can't find it. Thanks -K -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Per discussione Michael Adams
Hands up all those that have had major isues trying to uninstall Bonzai Buddy from computers when it had been inadvertently downloaded. This would be a lot less of a problem in Linux even if the buddy came in an RPM. On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:09, E T wrote: ever seen the bonzi buddie as parrot

[newbie] Video Capturing with geforce 3?

2002-10-15 Per discussione Mixael
Hi, I was wondering if it there is any drivers / software for video capturing in linux with a geforce 3. Thanks, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Per discussione Franki
the worst spyware is IMHO Alexa, They even say in their license that they will collect Some personially identifable material they record where you go, what you enter into online forms and a ton of other stuff,,, that is such strong spyware, that it should class as a trojan horse... luckily,

Re: [newbie] Sound in LM9

2002-10-15 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Does anyone know how the /etc/modules.conf should read if one has LM9? When mine worked in 8.2 it had a different looking /etc/modules.conf than in LM9. I have the viachipset onboard sound. Does anyone have LM9 with the viachipset onboard sound and has it

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Per discussione Eric S. Dye
i did indeed go to the site below and my Black Ice Defender proved completely stealthy. thank you.. eric At 09:03 AM 10/15/2002 +, you wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote: another good firewall program that i use is the black ice program and of course

Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hi, if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a

Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hi all, I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is there a security level that

Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Per discussione Derek Jennings
Shutdown is under the control of PAM (Permissions access module?) If you look at /usr/bin/shutdown you will see it is in fact a symlink to an application called 'consolehelper' Consolehelper is a wrapper which looks at the name of the symlink it was called from (in this case shutdown) and

Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hey Derek, I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x permission for

[newbie] Samba Troubles

2002-10-15 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings all, I'm having a little trouble getting Samba going. I've got Mandrake 9.0 on my deskop, win2k on my laptop and trying to get these bad boys to have a conversation. I can ping the Laptop from Linux, and vice versa. I edited the smb conf file to reflect the workgroup name, also

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 12:25 pm, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey Derek, I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said

[newbie] damn mandrake apache.!!! nothing in logs to tell me what the problem is.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Franki
Hi guys, I am getting stressed here, so excuse my abruptness.. :-) anway, the source of my problem is that apache is giving me no feedback on why it won't start. apachecrl configtest passses both httpd.com and httpd-perl.conf I have looked in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages and

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:07 am, you wrote: snip Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was Medium). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? No I do not think that would help. You have to 'pass' a test to get access to

[newbie] host to host or two host to hub?

2002-10-15 Per discussione Hesham Khonji
This a general question about networking: is itbetter to connect two computers directly with a crossover cable than via a hub because that way it would run in full-duplex as oppose to half-duplex? HeshamSend and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here Want to buy your Pack or

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Per discussione Flux
Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across the Login Manager. Its kinda hidden

Re: [newbie] DNS config

2002-10-15 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 02:59, Kalle Saarinen wrote: Hello What config file stores the DNS server information in LM 9.0? I can't find it. Thanks -K Not exactly sure what you are referring to here. If you are talking about a bona fide DNS server that's running named and serving DNS

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-15 Per discussione Travis Crook
hi, I have a ten GB partition devoted to miscellaneous things. I use it for: 1) saving downloaded rpm's and tarballs 2) a place to rip dvd's and music 3) a place to download music to 4) backing up my computer whenever I need to The only reason it would make it faster is if the games and mp3's

RE: [newbie] host to host or two host to hub?

2002-10-15 Per discussione Sabin, Matthew
I suppose it would depend on the hub -- if it supports full duplex, then I'd use the hub to allow for the flexibility of adding another host later. I use a switchwhich supports full-duplex, soall 6 hosts in my home get full duplex. --Matthew -Original Message-From: Hesham Khonji

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday October 14 2002 04:23 pm, Franki wrote: other then that, don't worry about it, head over to grc.com and run shields up to see if you have anything open.. (its not a great scanner, but better then nothing.) Frank Shields up is a fairly easy test to pass. The security

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-15 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 3:39 pm, Travis Crook wrote: If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a software RAID drive. RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read from one drive, and some from the other effectively halving the

[newbie] looking for hands-on help

2002-10-15 Per discussione Joe Harkins
As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me sufficiently grounded to start real learning. Right

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-15 Per discussione Travis Crook
If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a software RAID drive. RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read from one drive, and some from the other effectively halving the seek time. Software RAID is real easy to set up using

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-15 Per discussione Travis Crook
start smart ass redneck with two teeth remarks send it to me, by far the best use for it. / smart ass redneck with two teeth remarks end LOL! Would it make file access faster if it was used as a file drive (i.e. I install games, mp3s, etc. on it instead of the system drive)? What else could

[newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow 9.0 is coming and out it's deafeningly quiet!:o( I don't mind buying 9.0 again, it's all in a good cause, but

Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help

2002-10-15 Per discussione Miark
Instead of a class, you may consider getting one of those mondo manuals like Using Linux by Que. I find them very class-like in that they cover all the basics, but in depth, and in a way that's friendly to those new to the game. They cover sound and the rest. Miark Joe Harkins [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow 9.0 is coming and out it's deafeningly quiet!:o(

[newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Franki
Hi all, I want to add a contribs directory: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contrib /RPMS/ to mandrake9.0's urpmi sources... how do I do that? I don't really understand the whole synthesis.hdlist.cz thing.. and it doesn't seem to work. can anyone help me

Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Miark
Frank, 1) Do the add command 2) Give the source a shorthand name of your choice 3) Specify the URL of the contribs RPMs directory 4) Use the word with and pecify the path of the hdlist relative to the RPMs directory. With normal packages, it's often ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz, but contrib

RE: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Franki
cool, how I got it, so the hdlist.cz files are a binary that is put in the ftp sites, and it somehow contains a list of packages that are in the directory?? is it recreated by a cron job on the server whenever new packages are added? thanks for the tip, much appreciated. rgds Frank

Re: [newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow

Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Charlie
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:00 am, Franki wrote: Hi all, I want to add a contribs directory: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contri b /RPMS/ to mandrake9.0's urpmi sources... how do I do that? I don't really understand the whole synthesis.hdlist.cz

[newbie] KonCD

2002-10-15 Per discussione Anne Wilson
KonCD appeared to recognise my ide cdreader, so I hoped to use it for a disk copy. I got the following error: /usr/bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ''. Error, Exit status: 2 I have checked that permission are set to give access to the group cdwriter, of which I

Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help

2002-10-15 Per discussione Sharrea
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 4:20 am, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me

Re: [newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with

Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help

2002-10-15 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 4:20 am, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes

Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help

2002-10-15 Per discussione Rick Friedman
Since you're in the NY/NJ area, I would suggest that you get in contact with the New York Linux Users group (NYLUG). You can get a lot of help and learn quite a bit from joining a LUG (Linux Users Group). The website is: http://www.nylug.org Rick On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 11:20, Joe Harkins

Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Charlie
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:22 pm, Franki wrote: Thanks mr Charlie, There was a hdlist.cz file in the contribs dir.. I used that and it worked.. first time for everything huh?? I am surprised that mdk don't make a contribs source part of the base install, its very handy. rgds

Re: [newbie] damn mandrake apache.!!! nothing in logs to tell me what the problem is.

2002-10-15 Per discussione Sharrea
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 1:42 am, Franki wrote: anway, the source of my problem is that apache is giving me no feedback on why it won't start. apachecrl configtest passses both httpd.com and httpd-perl.conf I have looked in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages and

[newbie] Smart partitioning

2002-10-15 Per discussione Marco Verheul
Hello, For those who didn't read the other mail, I'm going to kick Windows and use Linux exclusively on my PC. I intend to re-partition and install Mandrake 9.0 and I need some tips on how to do this in a smart way. I have a disk of 40GB which now is devided in 10GB Linux and 30GB Windows. I

[newbie] Making a good backup

2002-10-15 Per discussione Marco Verheul
Hello fellow Mandrake users, I decided the time has come to create myself a microsoft free environment, so I'm going to erase Windows ME that I don't use anyway from my PC. The plan is to make a new install after re-partitioning my hard-disk of Mandrake 9.0. Before I do that I could use some

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Per discussione RichardA
Roman Korcek, Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:47: Hi, if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Per discussione Franki
yeah, i remember reading about that as well.. I like steve gibson, he is a very smart man (I think anyone that can program assembly is smart), so what, he is a tad melodramatic... if it gets the point across, good on him.. As to the firewalls, as I remember it, he had good stuff to say about

Re: [newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Per discussione Robin Turner
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1

[newbie] Mencoder results and questions

2002-10-15 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Well, I just d/led and installed the latest MPlayer. I went to PLF and grabbed all the required dependencies (AFAICT) and I compiled it. Its running, I can play DVD's, DIVX, and VCD's... So I thought I'd be brave and use Mencoder to rip a DVD. I looked at the docs, tracked down some Mencoder

Re: [newbie] Smart partitioning

2002-10-15 Per discussione Richard Holt
On 15 Oct 2002 22:14:25 +0200, Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For those who didn't read the other mail, I'm going to kick Windows and use Linux exclusively on my PC. I intend to re-partition and install Mandrake 9.0 and I need some tips on how to do this in a smart way. I

Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help

2002-10-15 Per discussione windwalker
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:12, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 4:20 am, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and

Re: [newbie] Is lnx4win a FAKE?

2002-10-15 Per discussione shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 11:58 pm, H.J.Bathoorn did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: If it's really needed to run Linux from a Win/dos folder (older laptops sometimes need dos for the hardware) Markus could try using 'zipslack' or

Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help

2002-10-15 Per discussione E T
of course you have beeen here; http://www.mandrakecampus.com; On Tuesday 15 October 2002 03:12 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 4:20 am, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 21:50, FemmeFatale wrote: For windows both norton blackice bite the bikey. Plain simple. If you want proof I Can direct you off or on list to a website. Zonealarm is the only software firewall for Winblows i personally trust. *Dons her tinfoil hat* :) ---

Re: [newbie] Mencoder results and questions

2002-10-15 Per discussione Carlos Arigos
El Mar 15 Oct 2002 17:56, Ronald J. Hall escribió: Well, I just d/led and installed the latest MPlayer. I went to PLF and grabbed all the required dependencies (AFAICT) and I compiled it. Its running, I can play DVD's, DIVX, and VCD's... So I thought I'd be brave and use Mencoder to rip a

Re: [newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 03:06 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snipped stuff about when/if boxed sets will arrive I've thought and supposed

Re: [newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Per discussione E T
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 09:12 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 03:06 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snipped

[newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...

2002-10-15 Per discussione Ralph M. Los
Hey, One thing I haven't figured out how to do is how to get my 128-meg Thumb Drive (USB-based disk) to work as a hot plug into linux. I can do it with WinXP and Win2k all day long which I use on a regular basis as a FAT filesystem. These things are SO useful! Does anyone know

Re: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...

2002-10-15 Per discussione Michael Notforyou
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:21, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey, One thing I haven't figured out how to do is how to get my 128-meg Thumb Drive (USB-based disk) to work as a hot plug into linux. I can do it with WinXP and Win2k all day long which I use on a regular basis as a FAT filesystem.

[newbie] SMB package missing

2002-10-15 Per discussione Ted Manka
HI all! Ok, so here is the deal. I am trying to set up a samba server on my home network. In KDE I right click on the file I want to share, I follow the dialog to share the file but then at the end I get a funny message: Diskdrake Mandatory package SMB is missing But the kicker is that SMB

Re: [newbie] SMB package missing

2002-10-15 Per discussione Jim Fazio
Ted, When you run a rpm -qa | grep samba what do you get? This command will query the rpm database and grep (search for) samba. I get: samba-common-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-client-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-server-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-swat-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk I have the

Re: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...

2002-10-15 Per discussione Barry Michels
I just plug mine in and it mounts itself to /mnt/removable. I don't know how it works, I guess it was default. And, yes, those things are VERY useful. 4 of the technicians in my company have them and I'm trying to talk my boss into getting one for each of the rest. Barry On Tuesday 15

RE: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...

2002-10-15 Per discussione Sekurity Wizard
..so there's no possible corruption (like Windows warns) when you plug/unplug at will? Do you have to un-mount before you unplug? Anything else I should know before I try the solution outlined earlier? THANKS ALL - I'm completely new - I don't quite understand what I'm doing so I'm asking for

RE: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...

2002-10-15 Per discussione Sekurity Wizard
OK, assume I'm a complete idiot and know nothing about Linux. Can I plug in the USB drive after I boot up? Or do I require a re-boot every time I plug in, unplug, etc? Can you give me an idiot's guide to getting this working? Like I said, I installed linux about...oh.3 weeks ago and am

Re: [newbie] Making a good backup

2002-10-15 Per discussione Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 06:14, Marco Verheul wrote: Hello fellow Mandrake users, I decided the time has come to create myself a microsoft free environment, so I'm going to erase Windows ME that I don't use anyway from my PC. The plan is to make a new install after re-partitioning my

Re: [newbie] an unexpected icon and a forgotten password

2002-10-15 Per discussione Ferris
Login to the window manager using the login name 'root' and then your root pw as the pw. Then you can call up Mandrake control center and set up user accounts there or you can also do it in the terminal if you wish. On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 03:57, Joe Harkins wrote: I'm running Mandrake8.2 and

[newbie] Apple Airport Card

2002-10-15 Per discussione christopher geddes
Title: Apple Airport Card Hello, I am a newbie and I just installed mandrake 8.2 on my powerbook g4 667. I am very satisfied with the OS with the exception that I cannot seem to get the airport card to work. If anyone has encountered this problem and resolved it your help would be greatly

Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help

2002-10-15 Per discussione Graham
shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 October 2002 3:32 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Got printer working, got a new hayes modem running, but so need LICQ I download and from there its a messonline docs for installing