Re: [newbie-it] convivenza di un utente di distro diverse

2002-12-16 Per discussione Andrea Celli
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:29:43 + tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ave lista, ho installato un altra distro nel pc,ho messo in comune la /home alle due distro,creato il medesimo utente su le due distro (stesso UID e passw). Ecco quali sono i problemi: 1°: usando lo stesso W.M.(KDE) ,se

Re: [newbie-it] convivenza di un utente di distro diverse

2002-12-16 Per discussione tom
Alle 02:26, lunedì 16 dicembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: AFAIK l'unico modo di mantenere le impostazioni autonome e' tenere separate le partizioni per $HOME (ed effettivamente a me pare una soluzione piu' pulita ;)) Se quell'altra distribuzione e' la slack, quanto sopra non corrisponde a

[newbie-it] Fwd: scusa, mi daresti una mano?

2002-12-16 Per discussione LukenShiro
Ho ricevuto questa mail da parte di un iscritto e la inoltro in lista, casomai qualcuno di voi voglia/possa dare il suo contributo. Inizio ad azzardare una possibile risposta: potrebbero forse essere dei problemi di instradamento dal provider con cui ti colleghi fino al server della ML, che ad

Re: [newbie-it] convivenza di un utente di distro diverse

2002-12-16 Per discussione LukenShiro
Alle 11:17, martedì 17 dicembre 2002, tom ha scritto: per eliminare l'utente creato senza compromettere la home, che comando conviene usare? Bel problema, l'uso di userdel o comando simile e' potenzialmente pericoloso, perche' rischia di cancellare file anche dell'altra distribuzione. Ma non

[newbie-it] Memoria

2002-12-16 Per discussione Santarella Benedetto
Salve, dove posso trovare della documentazione relativa alla gestione della memoria di Linux In particolare, sapete dirmi se Linux, assegna ai vari processi pagine di memoria fisse o variabili \ | / (@ @)

Re: [newbie-it] Xine and DVD

2002-12-16 Per discussione LukenShiro
Alle 09:26, venerdì 13 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ho montato un lettore/masterizzatore combo LG, non riesco a fargli leggere i dvd con xine, ho cambiato nelle impostazioni la directory /dev/dvd con /mnt/cdrom2 , tra l'altro in dev non esiste dvd..., Oltre a quanto gia'

[newbie-it] kmail

2002-12-16 Per discussione ba-rk
ciao a tutti, quesito:avrei la necessità di esportare (le mail,spedite e ricevute)tramite kmail e poterle eventualmente salvare su floppy in modo che vengano lette anche su windows 98 visto che in ufficio sono riuscito ad avere un computer dedicato a linux..in che modo posso esportarle

Re: [newbie-it]archivio ml

2002-12-16 Per discussione gianni piazza
Ciao a tutta la ml! Volevo sapere se esiste un archivio di questa ml e se esiste come fare per consultarlo. Sapete, a volte leggo delle cose che al momento non mi interessano, poi quando mi servono non ce l'ho!Grazie in anticipo, ciao Gianni.

Re: [newbie-it]archivio ml

2002-12-16 Per discussione LukenShiro
Alle 16:45, lunedì 16 dicembre 2002, gianni piazza ha scritto: Volevo sapere se esiste un archivio di questa ml e se esiste come fare per consultarlo. Uno e' sicuramente su http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie-it@linux-mandrake.com/

Re: [newbie-it] scanner hp 3200c [was: GeForce 2 con Tv-Out]

2002-12-16 Per discussione LukenShiro
Alle 21:52, giovedì 7 novembre 2002, Corrado ha scritto: Snort, purtroppo il cambio di hardware non mi ha permesso di scavalcare il problema col mio scanner, un HP 3200c, di cui esiste peraltro il driver (beta) in sane. Se qualcuno avesse nel frattempo raccolto notizie recenti, cadrebbe una

Re: [newbie-it] convivenza di un utente di distro diverse

2002-12-16 Per discussione freefred
On Monday 16 December 2002 12:37 pm, LukenShiro wrote about Re: [newbie-it] convivenza di un utente di distro diverse: Alle 11:17, martedì 17 dicembre 2002, tom ha scritto: per eliminare l'utente creato senza compromettere la home, che comando conviene usare? Bel problema, l'uso di userdel

Re: [newbie-it] kmail

2002-12-16 Per discussione Sandro Porrazzini
Il lun, 2002-12-16 alle 15:31, ba-rk ha scritto: ciao a tutti, quesito:avrei la necessità di esportare (le mail,spedite e ricevute)tramite kmail e poterle eventualmente salvare su floppy in modo che vengano lette anche su windows 98 visto che in ufficio sono riuscito ad avere un computer

Re: [newbie-it] Xine and DVD

2002-12-16 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alle 09:26, venerdì 13 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ho montato un lettore/masterizzatore combo LG, non riesco a fargli leggere i dvd con xine, ho cambiato nelle impostazioni la directory /dev/dvd con /mnt/cdrom2 , tra l'altro in dev non esiste dvd..., Oltre a quanto

Re: [newbie-it] convivenza di un utente di distro diverse

2002-12-16 Per discussione LukenShiro
Alle 17:33, lunedì 16 dicembre 2002, freefred ha scritto: [userdel] Anche senza il -r? (che dovrebbe appunto cancellare anche la home e la spool ecc.?) No, senza l'opzione -r 'dovrebbe' rimuovere solo le voci contenute in passwd, shadow e group, che si riferiscono all'utente. In entrambi i

Re: [newbie-it] Xine and DVD

2002-12-16 Per discussione LukenShiro
Alle 18:46, lunedì 16 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Piuttosto, ho un acquisitore TV esterno connesso tramite USB, (XawTV e xine mi dicono che non 'c'è nessun acquisitore TV) volevo fare un link simbolico video0- alla porta USB ma niente, pui dirmi qualcosa? Non saprei, non ho

Re: [newbie-it] convivenza di un utente di distro diverse

2002-12-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 02:26, lunedì 16 dicembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: Se quell'altra distribuzione e' la slack, quanto sopra non corrisponde a verita': l'italiano c'e', e' solo che non e' contenuto nel CD unico della distribuzione (perche' non puo'

Re: [newbie-it] Fare un router.....!!

2002-12-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 08:58, lunedì 16 dicembre 2002, Ivano Natalini ha scritto: Salve a tutti, ho una piccola lan casalinga, con 2 pc con mdk 9.0. Ora ho un problema, non riescoa fare routing con il pc che ha accesso ad internet, quindi l'altro non può navigare...

Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: scusa, mi daresti una mano?

2002-12-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:19, lunedì 16 dicembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: Inizio ad azzardare una possibile risposta: potrebbero forse essere dei problemi di instradamento dal provider con cui ti colleghi fino al server della ML, che ad un determinato punto

Re: [newbie-it] kmail

2002-12-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 15:31, lunedì 16 dicembre 2002, ba-rk ha scritto: ciao a tutti, quesito:avrei la necessità di esportare (le mail,spedite e ricevute)tramite kmail e poterle eventualmente salvare su floppy in modo che vengano lette anche su windows 98 visto

[newbie] looking for a new distro

2002-12-16 Per discussione christopher j bottaro
hello, i've been a redhat user for like 2 years now. i'm a big kde fan and i've always kind of disliked how redhat is geared towards gnome. finally in redhat 8.0, they mucked up some xft2 and freetype stuff that won't allow qt to compile with xft support without some hacks and now i'm ready

Re: [newbie] Problems with corrupt file system or partition table

2002-12-16 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
You probably did not format the hdb disk with # mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1 I normally forget to do that when I change partitions or disks on my PCs and get that same behaviour you describe :-) How to recover: The system uses /etc/fstab file do decide which disks/partitions to mount at boot. Your

[newbie] urpmi and autofs

2002-12-16 Per discussione Milos Prudek
Hi, Instead of supermount, I use autofs. It works great. Except for urpmi and rpmdrake. Both urpmi and rpmdrake fail with similar error message about device automount(pid1474) not found. pid1474 is the PID of automount process. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 4:33 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Anne, it needs to know the partition, try mount /dev/sda2 or /dev/sdb1 and see if it pops up. HTH device /dev/sdb1 does not exist - similar for sda2. If the LS120 is found at sda, is sda1 the first partition on that device? That's what I

Re: [newbie] looking for a new distro

2002-12-16 Per discussione Derek Jennings
Comments embedded On Monday 16 Dec 2002 8:40 am, christopher j bottaro wrote: hello, i've been a redhat user for like 2 years now. i'm a big kde fan and i've always kind of disliked how redhat is geared towards gnome. finally redhat 8.0, they mucked up some xft2 and freetype stuff that

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 7:04 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Not at all sure what is going on in your system Anne - from your posts it would appear that SCSI emulation is working. Does /sbin/lsmod list scsi_mod and ide-scsi? The earlier tip about mounting the partition is important (/dev/sda1 or

Re: [newbie] login script modification

2002-12-16 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 15 Dec 2002 6:42 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Friday 13 Dec 2002 7:02 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:21:35 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using KDM for login in mdk 9. I want a script to be executed as root whenever somebody do login so that it can

Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without

Re: [newbie] CDROM troubles

2002-12-16 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi folks, sorry for the FAQ. But, I've read lots of howto's and tons of threads on the subject in various boards, and am more confused than when I started. The trouble is with my IDE CD-ROM burner. I'm not trying to burn at this point, just read data CDs reliably.

Re: [newbie] urpmi and autofs

2002-12-16 Per discussione John McQuillen
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 20:26, Milos Prudek wrote: Hi, Instead of supermount, I use autofs. It works great. Except for urpmi and rpmdrake. Both urpmi and rpmdrake fail with similar error message about device automount(pid1474) not found. pid1474 is the PID of automount process. I use

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-16 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 7:04 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Not at all sure what is going on in your system Anne - from your posts it would appear that SCSI emulation is working. Does /sbin/lsmod list scsi_mod and ide-scsi? The earlier tip about mounting the partition is

Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files, cable connection between two boxes

2002-12-16 Per discussione Technoslick
Of course, Stephen is very correct, and Brandon's two Option's work great, however... What's best from a standpoint of ease, security and performance is purchasing an internet gateway/router/firewall from Linksys. Mine is a four port switch, as well, but they also make even smaller units. I think

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 11:51 am, you wrote: My latest experiments, based on John's comments that auto is almost as good as supermount, has got it working now, apparently, but I don't have an automatic mount and manual umount, as his post seem to suggest. I can live without supermount,

[newbie] VNC

2002-12-16 Per discussione ivette brusselmans
1 box Mandrake 8.2 (server) 1 box win98 (client) network OK (Komba 2) I can get the remote screen of the MDK box on my winbox without problem. But when I type the IPaddress of win98box in the VNC viewer on MDK 8.2, nothing happens. Could it have to do with the fact that win98 has tightVNC

Re: [newbie] VNC

2002-12-16 Per discussione Barry Michels
On Monday 16 December 2002 06:50 am, ivette brusselmans wrote: 1 box Mandrake 8.2 (server) 1 box win98 (client) network OK (Komba 2) I can get the remote screen of the MDK box on my winbox without problem. But when I type the IPaddress of win98box in the VNC viewer on MDK 8.2, nothing

Re: [newbie] VNC

2002-12-16 Per discussione ivette brusselmans
I'll try this when I get home. Didn't add the 0. Thanks From: Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:06:07 -0500 On Monday 16 December 2002 06:50 am, ivette brusselmans wrote: 1 box Mandrake 8.2

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-16 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 11:51 am, you wrote: My latest experiments, based on John's comments that auto is almost as good as supermount, has got it working now, apparently, but I don't have an automatic mount and manual umount, as his post seem to suggest. I can live without

[newbie] Lnx4win in Windows XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Luis Quesada
Hi , Before installing it, I would like to be sure about the availability of Lnx4win for Windows XP. What made me hesitate is that this platform is not mentioned in the Install.txt file of Mandrake Linux 9.0. Thanks in advance, Luis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] CDROM troubles

2002-12-16 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 03:25, John Richard Smith wrote: Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi folks, sorry for the FAQ. But, I've read lots of howto's and tons of threads on the subject in various boards, and am more confused than when I started. The ones

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 12:38 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 11:51 am, you wrote: My latest experiments, based on John's comments that auto is almost as good as supermount, has got it working now, apparently, but I don't have an automatic mount and manual umount, as his

Re: [newbie] Lnx4win in Windows XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 1:34 pm, Luis Quesada wrote: Hi , Before installing it, I would like to be sure about the availability of Lnx4win for Windows XP. What made me hesitate is that this platform is not mentioned in the Install.txt file of Mandrake Linux 9.0. Thanks in advance, Luis I

Re: [newbie] Lnx4win in Windows XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 1:34 pm, Luis Quesada wrote: Hi , Before installing it, I would like to be sure about the availability of Lnx4win for Windows XP. What made me hesitate is that this platform is not mentioned in the Install.txt file of Mandrake Linux 9.0. Thanks in advance, Luis

Re: [newbie] Lnx4win in Windows XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Luis Quesada
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 1:34 pm, Luis Quesada wrote: Hi , Before installing it, I would like to be sure about the availability of Lnx4win for Windows XP. What made me hesitate is that this platform is not mentioned in the Install.txt file of Mandrake Linux 9.0.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-16 Per discussione Marc
12/13/02 12:18:26 PM, Vasiliy Boulytchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I have had this error in the past, but I believe with FreeBSD 4.6. I do NOT remember what exactly it was that I did. OH YEAH!!! I think it was the CDROM. Believe it or not. Replace the IDE cdrom, and install

Re: [newbie] VNC

2002-12-16 Per discussione Jan Wilson
* ivette brusselmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021216 06:01]: 1 box Mandrake 8.2 (server) 1 box win98 (client) network OK (Komba 2) I can get the remote screen of the MDK box on my winbox without problem. But when I type the IPaddress of win98box in the VNC viewer on MDK 8.2, nothing happens.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-16 Per discussione Vasiliy Boulytchev
Marc, Yeap, its a driver issue, its the limited amount of drivers loaded into 9.0 kernel. H, did you replace the CDROM with the same model of the CDROM? Search on Mandrake for errate on your Hardware manufacturers. I thought we were done with this crap years ago On

[newbie] Fwd: [Cooker] rosegarden-4-0.82mdk.rpm midi notation package

2002-12-16 Per discussione Brent Hasty
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Cooker] rosegarden-4-0.82mdk.rpm midi notation package Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:22:43 -0800 From: Brent Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List Cookers [EMAIL PROTECTED], List MDK Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED], List MDK Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-16 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 06:50 PM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: I never thought to go any further on my original answer, which might have given you some peace of mind on this. I have had one of those weeks, and my weekend was spent on my knees tearing my network apart and cleaning. (Yuck! I hate cleaning!) Maybe this

Re: [newbie] Lnx4win in Windows XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 00:34, Luis Quesada wrote: Hi , Before installing it, I would like to be sure about the availability of Lnx4win for Windows XP. What made me hesitate is that this platform is not mentioned in the Install.txt file of Mandrake Linux 9.0. Thanks in advance, Luis

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-16 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 06:56 PM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: Femme, I took a look at your latest post to Spence just before sending off my response. I have been away from the list because of work, so my time here has been spotty, at best. You are right. If you asked for boot-up assigned IP addressing during the

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-16 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 06:10 PM 12/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: I should mention that I didn't install dhcpcd as an add-on stand alone install. I'm not sure which option I checked during the installation of Mandrake 9.0 that caused it to be installed but it was ready to go as soon as the OS installation finished.

Re: [newbie] Games under linux (which ones?)

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 04:45, Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'm a member of ClubIbosim.org, a Club of computers' friends that supports open source. We're planning for 17/1/03 some events (it's Saint Anthony's day, our town's - -Sant Antoni,

Re: [newbie] network sharing scanner

2002-12-16 Per discussione Brent Hasty
On Sunday 08 December 2002 10:02 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:53, Brent Hasty wrote: well first of all my scanners plural, have sheet feeders, unfortunatly due to a kernel bug between smp and usb, I cannot run the scanners directly on my highpowered dual processor amd

[newbie] permissions....

2002-12-16 Per discussione - netmaniac -
I've 4 users: goofy, mickey, donald and minnie. All of them belong to the group disneyland and I've a file that mickey is the owner and the file's group is disneyland too. So, there's anyway how I can set the permissions to not allow goofy to read and execute that file and allow all the other

Re: [newbie] Now the good news

2002-12-16 Per discussione Poogle
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 H:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Today I found this comment: It's been a few weeks since Civileme started taking care of MandrakeExpert support. Good to see him back. Anne Sounds too good to be true, where did you see it ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Now the good news

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 6:07 pm, Poogle wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 H:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Today I found this comment: It's been a few weeks since Civileme started taking care of MandrakeExpert support. Good to see him back. Anne Sounds too good to be true, where did you see

Re: [newbie] permissions....

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 5:51 pm, - netmaniac - wrote: I've 4 users: goofy, mickey, donald and minnie. All of them belong to the group disneyland and I've a file that mickey is the owner and the file's group is disneyland too. So, there's anyway how I can set the permissions to not allow goofy to

[newbie] viewing files on XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Peter Dunmow
greetings all. I'm a real newbie to Linux, just over a week. Running Mandrake 9.0 downloaded the 3 iso's. I can see the shared folders on my XP machine(mounted on the KDE desktop) but cant see the files in said folders. The XP is using NTFS, does this cause a problem? I would like full

[newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
I am really new to Linux (less than 3 months) and want to start doing all my web programming under Mandrake 9. What are the best text editors? I would really like something with regexp, syntax color, automatic indenting, able to open several files at once. Either graphic or text based. Now

Re: [newbie] viewing files on XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 6:46 pm, Peter Dunmow wrote: greetings all. I'm a real newbie to Linux, just over a week. Running Mandrake 9.0 downloaded the 3 iso's. I can see the shared folders on my XP machine(mounted on the KDE desktop) but cant see the files in said folders. Hi Peter - not a bad

Re: [newbie] viewing files on XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:46, Peter Dunmow wrote: greetings all. I'm a real newbie to Linux, just over a week. Running Mandrake 9.0 downloaded the 3 iso's. I can see the shared folders on my XP machine(mounted on the KDE desktop) but cant see the files in said folders. The XP is using NTFS,

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione villoing
Vi is not so limited... You can try emacs but I'm not very satisfied with the php-mode, particularly when I write scripts in a .html file... I use now bluefish. The gui is very nice and there are a lot of functions to manage web programming. Adolfo Bello wrote: I am really new to Linux (less

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:42, Adolfo Bello wrote: I am really new to Linux (less than 3 months) and want to start doing all my web programming under Mandrake 9. What are the best text editors? I would really like something with regexp, syntax color, automatic indenting, able to open several

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Aaron Mehl
There are lots of text editors on linux but the two main ones are vim and emacs. both have a bit of a learning curve both do all that you ask, and as to which is better is a dangerous question to answer. I have tried emacs and after much persistance I finally learned vim well enough to call it

RE: [newbie] viewing files on XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Peter Dunmow
wowzers! thanks Anne for the prompt response. and i've just read Stephens reply aswell Well, i think the easiest thing will be to change the whole xp to FAT32. Security not an issue since these 2 have no net connection. Once i've done that will it be as simple as remounting the directories

Re: [newbie] Now the good news

2002-12-16 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 6:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 6:07 pm, Poogle wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 H:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Today I found this comment: It's been a few weeks since Civileme started taking care of MandrakeExpert support. Good to see him

Re: [newbie] viewing files on XP

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 7:05 pm, Peter Dunmow wrote: wowzers! thanks Anne for the prompt response. and i've just read Stephens reply aswell Well, i think the easiest thing will be to change the whole xp to FAT32. Security not an issue since these 2 have no net connection. Once i've done

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 02:42 PM 12/16/2002 -0400, you wrote: I am really new to Linux (less than 3 months) and want to start doing all my web programming under Mandrake 9. What are the best text editors? I would really like something with regexp, syntax color, automatic indenting, able to open several files at

Re: [newbie] Now the BAD good news

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 7:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 6:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 6:07 pm, Poogle wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2002 H:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Today I found this comment: It's been a few weeks since Civileme started taking

[newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Per discussione Kenn Murrah
for now, i don't care about see my linux box from a windows machine ... i ONLY want to be able to reach a windows computer from my linux box, so that i can run wine ... do i need samba for this? or something else? i'm confused about whether samba is ONLY for making a linux box appear on a

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Per discussione Vasiliy Boulytchev
well, sharing files, samba is good. if you wish to see your desktop, run a rdesktop client (terminal services client for linux) Other than that, if you wish to share your files across LAN, you can use AFS On Monday 16 December 2002 12:41 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote: for now, i don't care about

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:41, Kenn Murrah wrote: for now, i don't care about see my linux box from a windows machine ... i ONLY want to be able to reach a windows computer from my linux box, so that i can run wine ... do i need samba for this? or something else? i'm confused about whether

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Ralph Slooten
I use SciTE for almost everything. I haven't heard too much about it in and about, but it's been there for quite a while now and supports all the things you mentioned. Mandrake doesn't distribute the files, and I haven't found any Mandrake RPM's around, so I made my own. It looks like a simple

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 7:41 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote: for now, i don't care about see my linux box from a windows machine ... i ONLY want to be able to reach a windows computer from my linux box, so that i can run wine ... do i need samba for this? or something else? i'm confused about

RE: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Franki
most of the windows text editors will work in wine,, perhaps you should keep going with what you know till you get to know the linux ones better.. I still use textpad for most of my perl coding.. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: [newbie] looking for a new distro

2002-12-16 Per discussione Michel Clasquin
On Monday 16 December 2002 12:29, Derek Jennings wrote: Neither and both. All Mandrake tools use a gtk toolkit because it is smaller and easier to use than qt, and will not oblige the lighter window managers like Blackbox or Xfce to keep the QT libraries loaded. Mandrake includes (I think)

RE: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
Well, I will try most of your recommendations. I really appreciate your support. Thanks a lot. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] VNC

2002-12-16 Per discussione ivette brusselmans
Pinging is no problem. Can reach win98 box. When I type 'vncviewer' in terminal I get this message: [luc@luc luc]$ vncviewer bash: vncviewer: command not found [luc@luc luc]$ vncviewer bash: vncviewer: command not found when I try vncserver in terminal, I get following message: [luc@luc luc]$

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Per discussione Roberto Armenteros
Here you have two choices. You can install samba in your linux box and configure it correctly. If you are in a LAN with a WINS server, do not forget including it in smb.conf. Your other choice will be setting up an NFS server on the specific windows computer I use a program named DiskShare in

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Per discussione Roberto Armenteros
Here you have two choices. You can install samba in your linux box and configure it correctly. If you are in a LAN with a WINS server, do not forget including it in smb.conf. Your other choice will be setting up an NFS server on the specific windows computer I use a program named DiskShare in

[newbie] VNC

2002-12-16 Per discussione ivette brusselmans
_ MSN Zoeken, voor duidelijke zoekresultaten! http://search.msn.nl/worldwide.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Roberto Armenteros
VIM is just great once you get use to it. --- Aaron Mehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are lots of text editors on linux but the two main ones are vim and emacs. both have a bit of a learning curve both do all that you ask, and as to which is better is a dangerous question to answer. I

[newbie] VNC hurray

2002-12-16 Per discussione ivette brusselmans
YES YES YES IT WORKS clicked on vncviewer after download and was asked for server address, password, and saw the incredible display of win98 on my linuxbox!!! Was so enthousiastic in my former message I sent it without text. LINUX forever!! thanks everybody!!

[newbie] VNC help!!

2002-12-16 Per discussione ivette brusselmans
tried to connect a second time and didn't get anything! terminal message after typing [luc@luc luc]$ vncviewer bash: vncviewer: command not found [luc@luc luc]$ [luc@luc luc]$ vncserver xauth: (argv):1: bad display name luc:2 in add command Couldn't start Xvnc; trying default font path. Please

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Michel Clasquin
On Monday 16 December 2002 20:42, Adolfo Bello wrote: What are the best text editors? Them's fighting words around here, pardner But try nedit. I practically always have one open, either as a cut 'n paste scratchpad or writing shell scripts. It has everything you asked for plus keystroke

Re: [newbie] VNC

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 07:42, ivette brusselmans wrote: Pinging is no problem. Can reach win98 box. When I type 'vncviewer' in terminal I get this message: [luc@luc luc]$ vncviewer bash: vncviewer: command not found [luc@luc luc]$ vncviewer bash: vncviewer: command not found You need to

[newbie] RPM Building problem

2002-12-16 Per discussione Ralph Slooten
Hi there all A brief question to those who maybe know just a bit more about rpm-building :-) Seems when building an RPM certain standards are thrown into the ./configure part as a standard macro. One of these being the build-architecture. I'm trying to build a package again for myself but it

[newbie] [NEWBIE] Beowulf Clustering Linux INstallation CD's up for grabs

2002-12-16 Per discussione FemmeFatale
For anyone interested in ever running clustering linux software or a beowulf cluster in their work space or home, please contact me offlist. I have 3 cd's of it... perfect install of MDK 9 with Beowulf stuff in it. If you have no clue what that is, ignore this. If you want to learn more

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-16 Per discussione Marc
I replaced it with a different model and manufactuer cd drive. Also it does make it to the second level part of the installation. The first part where I am asked to select language and type of installation , reccomended or expert seems to work just fine. The problem is in the next stage. it

Re: [newbie] Games under linux (WineX)

2002-12-16 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 12:45, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'm a member of ClubIbosim.org, a Club of computers' friends that supports open source. We're planning for 17/1/03 some events (it's Saint Anthony's day, our town's - -Sant Antoni, Ibiza- main day). Some of them are explanations of

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

2002-12-16 Per discussione Andrei Raevsky
Nedit is probably the best choice. But I would reccommend getting at least a working exposure to vi or vim which you will find on ANY linux distro. Cheers! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user:

Re: [newbie] RPM Building problem

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 09:42, Ralph Slooten wrote: Hi there all A brief question to those who maybe know just a bit more about rpm-building :-) Seems when building an RPM certain standards are thrown into the ./configure part as a standard macro. One of these being the build-architecture.

[newbie] scanner problems

2002-12-16 Per discussione Andy
Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my digital camera and scanner (or my usb in general. But i'm not worrying about that). Soo what the problem is, I suppose linux knows that I have a scanner (since

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-16 Per discussione Graham
I don't know if this is relevant but I had a similar problem with my g/fs machine which turned out to be the MS blue USB optical mouse she was using (she liked the colour). In desperation I took everything back to basics an used my Logitech USB mouse and everything went thru fine. I was

[newbie] is it rebooting or what?

2002-12-16 Per discussione Thought Progress
Hello, When I xlock my Mandrake 9.0 box and walk away for more than an hour, when I come back I am logged off the machine. What is causing this? I've had SuSE 7.2-8.0 and Red Hat 7.0 - 8.0 installed on this machine (in my efforts to learn more about Linux) and this has never happened before.

[newbie] configure

2002-12-16 Per discussione Paul Kaplan
in what files, respectively, are the options for configure and make stored? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] scanner problems

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my digital camera and scanner (or my usb in general. But i'm not worrying about that). Soo what the problem is, I suppose

Re: [newbie] scanner problems

2002-12-16 Per discussione Andy
On Monday 16 December 2002 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my digital camera and scanner (or my usb in general. But i'm not

Re: [newbie] configure

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 12:12, Paul Kaplan wrote: in what files, respectively, are the options for configure and make stored? TIA Paul When you're working on compiling a program, the script configure is just that - a script. It will call aclocal, autoconf, automake, gcc, libtool - and other

Re: [newbie] scanner problems

2002-12-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:38, Andy wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my digital camera

Re: [newbie] scanner problems

2002-12-16 Per discussione Andy
On Monday 16 December 2002 07:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:38, Andy wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything

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