[newbie-it] Problema con Telnet

2003-02-20 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao a Tutti, spero che riusciate a risolvermi unn problema che mi assilla e evitarmi la figura di m... con l' azienda per cui lavoro che incombe.Ho istallato da poco sul Pc che utilizzo in azienda Red Hat 8.0, mentre a casa utilizzo Mandrake 8.0. Fi li tutto bene i vari WordProcessor e fogli

[newbie-it] macchina digitale

2003-02-20 Per discussione Eraser Head
Ciao a tutti. Ho provato a collegare la mia macchina digitale al pc, ma linux non sembra nemmeno vederla... La mia macchina è una Minolta Dimage s304. Ho guardato nel file unusual_devs.h del mio kernel (quello della mandrake 8.2) e ho visto che i settaggi della mia macchina ci sono già. Allora

[newbie-it] /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Per discussione Eraser Head
Ciao. Facendo un tail -f /var/log/messages ho scoperto che continuano a comparire cose di questo tipo: Feb 20 11:01:20 atropo kernel: 10.68.2.11 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadc ast. Feb 20 11:01:51 atropo kernel: 10.68.2.11 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadc ast. Feb 20 11:02:53

[newbie-it] II incontro

2003-02-20 Per discussione miKe
Salve a tutti il primo marzo si svolgerà a Bologna il II incontro del majalinux dopo la riuscitissima giornata del 15 dicembre a Roma. Chiunque vuole partecipare e unirsi a noi si faccia vivo contattando me o, meglio ancora, la lista (è a traffico medio-alto e assolutamente NON tecnica)

[newbie-it] devfs e usb-storage

2003-02-20 Per discussione Pollo
Ho un lettore di compaqflash su porta usb riconosciuto tranquillamente dalla mandrake 9.0. Quando collego il lettore al pc devfs mi crea automaticamente il dispositivo (/dev/sda1) e poi mi basta montarlo. Il problema è il seguente: volevo disabilitare l'opzione devfs al momento del boot del kernel

Re: [newbie-it] macchina digitale

2003-02-20 Per discussione Sandro Porrazzini
Il gio, 2003-02-20 alle 13:22, Eraser Head ha scritto: Ciao a tutti. Ho provato a collegare la mia macchina digitale al pc, ma linux non sembra nemmeno vederla... [cut] Il supporto scsi c'è, visto che il masterizzatore è scsi e funziona. Non so però le altre cose richieste... C'è un modo

Re: [newbie-it] devfs e usb-storage

2003-02-20 Per discussione Sandro Porrazzini
Il gio, 2003-02-20 alle 15:26, Pollo ha scritto: Ho un lettore di compaqflash su porta usb riconosciuto tranquillamente dalla mandrake 9.0. Quando collego il lettore al pc devfs mi crea automaticamente il dispositivo (/dev/sda1) e poi mi basta montarlo. Il problema è il seguente: volevo

Re: [newbie-it] devfs e usb-storage

2003-02-20 Per discussione LukenShiro
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Pollo wrote: volevo disabilitare l'opzione devfs al momento del boot del kernel (devfs=nomount se non sbaglio) ma come creo il dispositivo /dev/sda1 ? E' un dispositivo a caratteri? Avendo precedentemente installati i sorgenti del kernel (pacchetto kernel-source-*), leggi

[newbie] OT: M$: Bugs are cool

2003-02-20 Per discussione
Hi all, at http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html you can read an interview with Bill Gates, in which he states that new software versions are not meant to fix bugs. Paul -- Don't let your mind wander - it's too little to be let out alone. http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro

[newbie] [Newbie] USB Compact Flash Memory Card Reader

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
= Has anyone found a useable Compact Flash Memory Card Reader/Writer that will work under Mandrake 9.0 or later? = Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux-

RE: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
Tom, Beta 3 wouldn't erase my cd-rw so I had to finish off in micro$haft. Were you using d4x in beta 3? If so was it through urpmi? If so where from? I have added cooker main contrib and another cooker to urpmi (can't remember which one), but it would not find it, also it will not find the

RE: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
Dennis, What nic have you got? There seems to be problems with one or two nics at the moment. I have a realtek and to get to the internet I have to use a fixed ip. Which machine is it on, the firewall or one of the two behind it? Tony. -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers

[newbie] licq getting old contact list ?

2003-02-20 Per discussione fifner the dragon
When I used windows and installed icq and registered my old icq number my old contact list was automaticly downloaded. Can this be done using licq as well? Thanks in advance, Fifner -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at

[newbie] Exchange email replacement?

2003-02-20 Per discussione T E
Hi all, I am wondering what any of you recommend for a Microsoft Exchange Server replacement from the Linux world. I was orginally considering the Bynari product, but I hear postfix with fetchmail will also work as well? The replacement will need to work with a an Exchange 5.5 box AND support

Re: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:25:27 - Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What nic have you got? There seems to be problems with one or two nics at the moment. I have a realtek and to get to the internet I have to use a fixed ip. Which machine is it on, the firewall or one of the two behind

Re: [newbie] Koffice/KWord warning?

2003-02-20 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I would like to inquire about a warning message that I get whenever I use KWord. Does anyone else get the following when opening KWord in a terminal? Koffice (lib

[newbie] wrong printer picked...

2003-02-20 Per discussione linux
G'day all, when I installed Mandrake it didn't find my printer and I accepted the suggested alternative; unfortunately it now prints twice as wide as it should... My printer is a Canon S200SP; Printerdrake lists the S100 and the S300, but it actually chose the BJC-2100

RE: [newbie] no audio in Xine...?

2003-02-20 Per discussione linux
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars Sent: Monday, 17 February 2003 19:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] no audio in Xine...? On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:14:17 +0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day, as

RE: [newbie] no audio in Xine...?

2003-02-20 Per discussione linux
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Williams Sent: Tuesday, 18 February 2003 10:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] no audio in Xine...? On Monday 17 February 2003 03:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day, as the

Re: [newbie] Koffice/KWord warning?

2003-02-20 Per discussione Andrei Raevsky
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I would like to inquire about a warning message that I get whenever I use KWord. Does anyone else get the following when opening KWord in a terminal? Koffice (lib

Re: [newbie] licq getting old contact list ?

2003-02-20 Per discussione fifner the dragon
Hi, I´d like to say thank you to Sthephen Kuhn for answering every single question I ever asked on this list. And I could say that licq never did get the contact list for me, and I tried it like 20 times, on different computers and connections. Thanks, Fifner - Original Message -

[newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
What files are .mpga files and how can I convert them into .wav or any other burnable format? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] make modules fails in 9.0

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 19 2003 09:43 pm, David McGlone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:03 am, you wrote: On Wednesday February 19 2003 09:03 am, David McGlone wrote: I am having a problem trying to make modules on my 9.0 box, I keep

Re: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 20 2003 02:15 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Tom, Beta 3 wouldn't erase my cd-rw so I had to finish off in micro$haft. Were you using d4x in beta 3? If so was it through urpmi? If so where from? I have added cooker main contrib and another cooker to urpmi (can't remember

RE: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
Tom, Sorry I should have made my email more clear, I have used d4x for a while, but I don't like putting programs on my system unless I use urpmi. I was curious to see if you urpmied it or compiled from source. As for the cdr I don't like to waste em, no matter how much they cost (it's the green

Re: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-20 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 20 February 2003 14:04, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:25:27 - Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What nic have you got? There seems to be problems with one or two nics at the moment. I have a realtek and to get to the internet I have to use a fixed

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:23, Vahur Lokk wrote: What files are .mpga files and how can I convert them into .wav or any other burnable format? Wahur I don't know what mpga is (just a guess: an MPEG audio-only stream?) but you can probably convert it to WAV with MPlayer. It's simple.

RE: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-20 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails Dennis, What nic have you got? There seems to be problems with one

RE: [newbie] [Newbie] USB Compact Flash Memory Card Reader

2003-02-20 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:02 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] [Newbie] USB Compact Flash Memory Card Reader = Has anyone

[newbie] OT Good news on the modem front

2003-02-20 Per discussione Peter Watson
Thought I'd share some good news. For months I've been struggling with a winmodem, and whilst it does work its a real PITA to get it started. Anyway I finally succumbed and bought a serial modem from ebuyer.com it cost GB pounds 14.56 or GB pounds 19.45 including VAT and carriage and it

Re: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 20 2003 07:04 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: For anyone having problems with DHCP and the Betas or RC1 ^ The problem Is Not caused by the nic During network configuration if you select DHCP, regardless of the type of

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 20 2003 08:23 am, Vahur Lokk wrote: What files are .mpga files and how can I convert them into .wav or any other burnable format? Wahur Maybe someone made a typo? I suspect they're mpeg-2,3, or 4 files (.mpg, .mpeg, .m2v, etc), which are video files. If you play one

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-20 Per discussione simo
hello guys, is there a way to disable the right click in Icewm or kde ? 10x in adv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 20 2003 09:45 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Tom, Sorry I should have made my email more clear, I have used d4x for a while, but I don't like putting programs on my system unless I use urpmi. I was curious to see if you urpmied it or compiled from source. As for the cdr I

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-20 Per discussione Harv Nelson
On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:04 am, simo wrote: hello guys, is there a way to disable the right click in Icewm or kde ? 10x in adv In KDE: Click on the KDE Control Center. Click Look-n-Feel, Then Desktop. You'll find choices there for configuring your mouse clicks. Harv Want to

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-20 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
For IceWM (standalone, not within KDE), there's a configuration utility called IcePref. There you'll find a Mouse Buttons tab where you should be able to disable right click. Or, you can edit directly ~/.icewm/preferences. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME

Re: [newbie] OT Good news on the modem front

2003-02-20 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Peter Watson wrote: Thought I'd share some good news. For months I've been struggling with a winmodem, and whilst it does work its a real PITA to get it started. Anyway I finally succumbed and bought a serial modem from ebuyer.com it cost GB pounds 14.56 or GB pounds 19.45 including VAT and

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione K. Spress
Tom, What i went ahead and did was some sent me mpga file and i changed the extension to mpg and they work just fine. Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interested in a Home Based Buisness or saving money on your local, long distance, internet or gas and electricity please send me an e mail

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-20 Per discussione Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:04 am, simo wrote: hello guys, is there a way to disable the right click in Icewm or kde ? 10x in adv KDE control center has the abuility to control mouse actions. I believe it is the peripherals section,

Re: [newbie] latest SANE

2003-02-20 Per discussione Kristjan
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:57:28 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 03:34 pm, Kristjan wrote: grep: /usr/lib/libexif.la: No such file or directory sed: can't read /usr/lib/libexif.la: No such file or

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 20 2003 10:50 am, K. Spress wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom, What i went ahead and did was some sent me mpga file and i changed the extension to mpg and they work just fine. Kenneth E. Spress That's why I mentioned 'typo'? ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] make modules fails in 9.0

2003-02-20 Per discussione David McGlone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 09:24 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 19 2003 09:43 pm, David McGlone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:03 am, you wrote: On Wednesday February

Re: [newbie] OT Good news on the modem front

2003-02-20 Per discussione David McGlone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:44 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Peter Watson wrote: Thought I'd share some good news. For months I've been struggling with a winmodem, and whilst it does work its a real PITA to get it started. Anyway I finally

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-20 Per discussione simo
I already checked that nothing about the right click, and if u disable it over there the right click doesn't work for Icewm, but as soon as u open a new program like Mozilla or netscape the right click work. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/20/2003 at 5:40 PM Raffaele Belardi

Re: [newbie] OT - Linux Job Resources

2003-02-20 Per discussione Michael Lewis
Thanks for kudos Andrei. Believe it or not, your's has been the only response so far. Sometimes I wonder if I should even bother. If it were not that a number of people have indicated that they really like my site here in Colorado, and an occasional response like yours, I would just give it

Re: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:00:28 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, I'm connecting thru a NIC and router (ATU-R), often called a adsl modem. tom$ frpm dhcp dhcp-client-3.0-2pl2.3mdk dhcp-common-3.0-2pl2.3mdk No problems, works great. Right. With your set-up you need

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-20 Per discussione Lanman
What if you were to physically disable the right mouse button? Lanman On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:19, simo wrote: I already checked that nothing about the right click, and if u disable it over there the right click doesn't work for Icewm, but as soon as u open a new program like Mozilla or

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-20 Per discussione robin
Lanman wrote: What if you were to physically disable the right mouse button? Yep, it's about time someone wrote a Chewing gum HOWTO. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO

Re: [newbie] latest SANE

2003-02-20 Per discussione Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: But as I see I realli don't have the file /usr/lib/libexif.la In usr/lib I have 4 files of libexif /usr/lib/libexif.so.7.0.0 /usr/lib/libexif.so.7 /usr/lib/libexif.so.8

Re: [newbie] Koffice/KWord warning?

2003-02-20 Per discussione Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I would like to inquire about a warning message that I get whenever I use KWord. Does anyone else get the following

Re: [newbie] Why should I recompile my kernel?

2003-02-20 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:35, T E wrote: Hi all, Do any of you recommend rebuilding Linux Mandrake kernels? I've heard that it can make things faster - is this true and what are the other benefits? It more ideal for Linux servers, Linux workstations or both? I've also heard the term

Re: [newbie] Exchange email replacement?

2003-02-20 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:50, T E wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what any of you recommend for a Microsoft Exchange Server replacement from the Linux world. I was orginally considering the Bynari product, but I hear postfix with fetchmail will also work as well? The replacement will need

Re: [newbie] Exchange email replacement?

2003-02-20 Per discussione Anthony Abby
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 15:13, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:50, T E wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what any of you recommend for a Microsoft Exchange Server replacement from the Linux world. I was orginally considering the Bynari product, but I hear postfix with

Re: [newbie] OT - Linux Job Resources

2003-02-20 Per discussione civileme
On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:36 am, Michael Lewis wrote: Thanks for kudos Andrei. Believe it or not, your's has been the only response so far. Sometimes I wonder if I should even bother. If it were not that a number of people have indicated that they really like my site here in Colorado,

Re: [newbie] wrong printer picked...

2003-02-20 Per discussione civileme
On Thursday 20 February 2003 04:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, when I installed Mandrake it didn't find my printer and I accepted the suggested alternative; unfortunately it now prints twice as wide as it should... My printer is a Canon S200SP; Printerdrake lists the S100 and

[newbie] cd players?

2003-02-20 Per discussione bascule
is there a cd player that will recognise a cd in either of the drives without having to config seperately each time i swap drives? one that can let me choose which drive to play from and that has a bar to choose what part of the song to play from? i want the functionality of the basic cd player

Re: [newbie] wrong printer picked...

2003-02-20 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 00:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, when I installed Mandrake it didn't find my printer and I accepted the suggested alternative; unfortunately it now prints twice as wide as it should... My printer is a Canon S200SP; Printerdrake lists the S100 and the S300,

RE: [newbie] no audio in Xine...?

2003-02-20 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 00:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day, well this is a clean install of Mandrake from scratch, I've done almost no stuffing around with it - I'm just beginning to find my way around, reading things and watching the pretty visualizations in XMMS :) So I don't think

Re: [newbie] licq getting old contact list ?

2003-02-20 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 01:10, fifner the dragon wrote: Hi, I´d like to say thank you to Sthephen Kuhn for answering every single question I ever asked on this list. And I could say that licq never did get the contact list for me, and I tried it like 20 times, on different computers and

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-20 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 03:04, simo wrote: hello guys, is there a way to disable the right click in Icewm or kde ? 10x in adv Have you checked configuration of the keybindings? (That works for keys and mouse) -- Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:50:00 +1100 8:50am up 1 day, 21:33, 7 users, load

[newbie] pre-recorded cd and permissions

2003-02-20 Per discussione Chris
I put in a pre-recorded cd in my drive a bit ago, clicked on the cd icon and got a box that said I don't have enough permissions to open /mnt/cdrom, tried my other drive, got the same. A cd that I've recorded mp3's on works just fine. Why won't a pre-recorded one? And what may I have to do

RE: [newbie] New Galaxy theme.

2003-02-20 Per discussione Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [newbie] New Galaxy theme. Thanks for that. Any screenshots? -Original Message- From: mycal62 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 21 February 2003 12:17 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Galaxy theme. Hi Craig, you can get it here :

Re: [newbie] New Galaxy theme.

2003-02-20 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 20 February 2003 06:17 am, mycal62 wrote: Hi Craig, you can get it here : http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/gal axy-kde-0.0.4-5mdk.i586.html You will also need fontconfig, and libfontconfig.so.1 first. Tried it in KDE 3.1 under 9.0 and

Re: [newbie] OT - Linux Job Resources

2003-02-20 Per discussione Michael Lewis
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 14:13, civileme wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:36 am, Michael Lewis wrote: Thanks for kudos Andrei. Believe it or not, your's has been the only response so far. Sometimes I wonder if I should even bother. If it were not that a number of people have indicated

Re: [newbie] Re: PCMCIA

2003-02-20 Per discussione Derek Jennings
SNIP PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 01:00.0 Yenta IRQ list 0ab0, PCI irq10 Socket status: 3020 cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x1317, device 0x8201 PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 ( - 0003) cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f

[newbie] Leaving the list for a while

2003-02-20 Per discussione FemmeFatale
I am unable, at the present moment, capable of coping with the numbr of emails on this list. Mostly because I am stoned 24/7 I don't have the strength to read answer them. For the most part I've lately been deleting a lot of threads which I would normally read. Anyway I've been

Re: [newbie] IDE Tape drive

2003-02-20 Per discussione Larry Williams
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 21:04, g wrote: Larry Williams wrote: I used to have an old Jumbo 250 installed and working with a 3.x or 4.x 4 cms jumbo 250 tape drives that i have are floppy tape drives and i use ftape for them. Yes, you are correct. My memory is slowly returning. I had

Re: [newbie] Leaving the list for a while

2003-02-20 Per discussione et
On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:57 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: I am unable, at the present moment, capable of coping with the numbr of emails on this list. Mostly because I am stoned 24/7 I don't have the strength to read answer them. For the most part I've lately been deleting a lot of threads

Re: [newbie] pre-recorded cd and permissions

2003-02-20 Per discussione Larry Williams
On Thursday 20 February 2003 15:52, Chris wrote: I put in a pre-recorded cd in my drive a bit ago, clicked on the cd icon and got a box that said I don't have enough permissions to open /mnt/cdrom, tried my other drive, got the same. A cd that I've recorded mp3's on works just fine. Why

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-20 Per discussione Trevor Rhodes
John, bootup, but now I'm actually got this urpmi udate on a cooker going, all be it painfully slow, as I don't seem able to get the wget part of it to reconnect after my lousy isp has cut me off for the umpteenth time, so I have to restart manually with urpmi --auto-select wget -c , but

Re: [newbie] pre-recorded cd and permissions

2003-02-20 Per discussione Chris
On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:32 pm, Larry Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Thursday 20 February 2003 15:52, Chris wrote: I put in a pre-recorded cd in my drive a bit ago, clicked on the cd icon and got a box that said I don't have enough permissions to open

Re: [newbie] pre-recorded cd and permissions

2003-02-20 Per discussione bones
Hi, On Friday 21 February 2003 01:54, Chris wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:32 pm, Larry Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Thursday 20 February 2003 15:52, Chris wrote: I put in a pre-recorded cd in my drive a bit ago, clicked on the cd icon and

[newbie] IBM install from HELL !!!!

2003-02-20 Per discussione Marc Oestreicher
I have a older IBM model 300 PL type 6862-34u 400 MHZ P2 with windoze 95 installed here where mandrake refuses to install but for that matter so does windows 98 infact I can not run fdisk or format. I get some messages when I use a windoze boot disk or a mandrake boot disk that I have never

Re: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-20 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:56 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 20 2003 02:15 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Tom, Beta 3 wouldn't erase my cd-rw so I had to finish off in micro$haft. Were you using d4x in beta 3? If so was it through urpmi? If so where from? I have added

Re: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-20 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Thursday 20 February 2003 02:25 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Dennis, What nic have you got? There seems to be problems with one or two nics at the moment. I have a realtek and to get to the internet I have to use a fixed ip. Which machine is it on, the firewall or one of the two behind it?

Re: [newbie] IBM install from HELL !!!!

2003-02-20 Per discussione Harv Nelson
Hi When I have encountered problems like this, one program that has helped me is a little utility called aefdisk. It is available from the usual sources or www.aefdisk.com I use it with: aefdisk /delall That blows away the mbr and writes a clean new one. If this works, anything that was

[newbie] Xine doesn't play smooth

2003-02-20 Per discussione indra
Hi everybody. i 've already install my PC with mandrake 9.0. everything's run well. but when i play VCD on Xine. the video output didn't run smooth.. the video play discreet.. can anybody help me?? or anybody can suggest me link for vcd Player other than Xine..??? TIA Indee.. 1 month Linuxer

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Thursday 20 February 2003 18:12, you wrote: Maybe someone made a typo? I suspect they're mpeg-2,3, or 4 files (.mpg, .mpeg, .m2v, etc), which are video files. If you play one with mplayer from the CL, in the console ouput you'll see the actual file type. Mplayer, (maybe other players

Re: [newbie] OT: M$: Bugs are cool

2003-02-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html you can read an interview with Bill Gates, in which he states that new software versions are not meant to fix bugs. On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the hope that