Re: [newbie-it] Installazione rpm

2003-06-07 Per discussione Sandro
Alle 01:13, sabato 7 giugno 2003, kua79 ha scritto: E' da un pò che voglio fare questa stupida domanda... Quando io installo un programma, in questo caso da rpm, dove cavolo me lo installa ?!?! Come faccio poi a trovare il file per mandare in esecuione sto benedetto progr ?? Grazie ciao

Re: [newbie-it] Palm Pilot

2003-06-07 Per discussione mauro
Alle 17:30, giovedì 5 giugno 2003, Luigi Beltramini ha scritto: io uso jpilot che mi sembra molto più efficiente. Non ho fatto nulla di l'ho installato anch'io e funziona pero' non visualizza gli appunti presi a mano con kpilot nelle impostazioni in generale, prova a scegliere la voce

[newbie-it] All'avvio

2003-06-07 Per discussione kua79
Come faccio a togliere i servizi che mi carica all'avvio? Ad es mi carica qlcosa per il mouse e la tastiera USB e li volgio togliete perchè non mi servono a nulla! Non ho ne il mouse ne la keyb... usb! grazie ciao ciao Davide

Re: [newbie-it] All'avvio

2003-06-07 Per discussione Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:36, sabato 7 giugno 2003, kua79 ha scritto: Come faccio a togliere i servizi che mi carica all'avvio? Ad es mi carica qlcosa per il mouse e la tastiera USB e li volgio togliete perchè non mi servono a nulla! Non ho ne il mouse ne la

[newbie-it] Wine non funziona

2003-06-07 Per discussione mandraker
Ciao a tutti. Ho installato l'ultima versione di wine in formato rpm da sourgeforce. L'installazione va a buon fine ma quando digito wine mi riporta questo errore: wine: error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.dll.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Cosa posso

[newbie-it] mutt: Ssssyyyyyyyddddd!!!!!!

2003-06-07 Per discussione Arwan
Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! E' da due notti che cerco disperatamente alcune soluzioni; sono allo stremo delle forze e piu' in la' non riesco ad andare. I problemi sono questi: - c'e' un modo per vedere correttamente le parole accentate, che

Re: [newbie-it] le sorprese di kmail - ravanando con procmail

2003-06-07 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* Arwan ha scritto: Problemino: ho letto il man per fare il filtro su una cartella con la data corrente, ma non ho trovato esempi per filtrare tutte le mail arrivate prima di una certa data, credo che gli esempi del man diano per scontato il filtro giornaliero... e io ho roba vecchia da

Re: [newbie-it] le sorprese di kmail - ravanando con procmail

2003-06-07 Per discussione Arwan
Alle Saturday 07 June 2003 16:21, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] le sorprese di kmail - ravanando con procmail (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: A parte il fatto che c'e' il campo date, che ho visto solo adesso... Personalmente non ho ancora usato l'header

[newbie-it] sendmail vaniliacacao

2003-06-07 Per discussione Arwan
Alle Thursday 29 May 2003 19:17, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] fetch+proc+mutt+MTA [era:All'attenzione..] (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), syd ha scritto: Parliamo quindi della tecnica del _taroccamento_ del file vanilla che viene fornito dalla stessa versione di sendmail che

Re: [newbie-it] dmesg

2003-06-07 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 09:41, venerdì 6 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] dmesg, Eraser Head ha scritto: la risposta era This bug seems to be fixed with kernel 2.4.21-0.15mdk and the the bugfixes of April 10th of ML 9.1 and also in the latest cooker

Re: [newbie-it] Wine non funziona

2003-06-07 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 13:18, sabato 7 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] Wine non funziona, mandraker ha scritto: Ciao a tutti. Ho installato l'ultima versione di wine in formato rpm da sourgeforce. L'installazione va a buon fine ma quando digito wine mi

[newbie-it] messaggi di fortune in coda alle mail con kmail

2003-06-07 Per discussione vroby
Come si fa? (io non l'ho capito ma vedo che molti di voi ci sono riusciti..)

Re: [newbie-it] mutt: Ssssyyyyyyyddddd!!!!!!

2003-06-07 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Arwan ha scritto: - c'e' un modo per vedere correttamente le parole accentate, che mutt mi converte in numeri di tre cifre? Questo è un problema che ho verificato anch'io, non ho ancora capito perchè ad un certo punto le lettere accentate non vengono più lette come tali, io la prendo con

Re: [newbie-it] mutt: Ssssyyyyyyyddddd!!!!!!

2003-06-07 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: set postponed=+outbox Arwan sostituisci quanto sopra con: set postponed=+postbox perchè non mi sono accorto che ho dato la stessa box anche a set record. Come vedi Murphy ha colpito ancora. Ciao, Giuseppe. -- GNU/Linux Powered Red Hat 9 (Shrike) Kernel

Re: [newbie-it] sendmail vaniliacacao

2003-06-07 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* Arwan ha scritto: ...nel mio HD di esempi su sendmail non c'e' traccia... il readme spiega come generarlo... cose che non ho nessuna intenzione di fare. Non c'è bisogno di configurare niente per far funzioanare sendmail in locale. La configurazione serviva solo per il problema del contenuto

Re: [newbie] turning on Kernel modules

2003-06-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 07 June 2003 05:08 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Thanks would seem I don't have V4L on my system and I can't find a Xfreee86 driver for a Radeon 8500DV with TV tuner support. Ahh well there goes KwinTV then. The v4l module is an XFree module that should be loaded by the

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 2:18 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 10:16, Anne Wilson wrote: Sounds like a conflict to me. I think you have installed two drivers - one from the Agfa disk and one from the Mandrake install. If it were me, I would try getting rid of the stuff from

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-07 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 H:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 1:06 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi, I couldn't use my flatbed scanner on mdk 9.0 and I still can't on 9.1. The scanner is a AGFA SnapScan e50, which is listed by SANE as supported. Here is what I did sofar:

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione RichardA
On 06 Jun 2003 22:05:17 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:28, RichardA wrote: On 05 Jun 2003 18:29:37 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:21, Femme wrote: lol i didn't notice till a few mins ago that it was loading Phoenix. Now

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 11:49 am, RichardA wrote: On 06 Jun 2003 22:05:17 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:28, RichardA wrote: On 05 Jun 2003 18:29:37 -0400 I don't know why it would do that, only that Evo being a Gnome app, you want the Gnome Control Centre

Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes

2003-06-07 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 07 June 2003 03:35 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 4:50 am, Dennis Myers wrote: As the subject implies, I am recording my old cassette tapes to make CDs. Some of them are nearing 22 years old and I don't want to lose them. I am using gramofile since I can't

Re: [newbie] Samba PDC with Win2000 clients/Any help welcomed!!!

2003-06-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 07 June 2003 12:22 am, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: A big Hello to the list... I'm facing this problem for about 1 week now. Trying to join the domain I created with Samba as a PDC for my 3 Win2000 clients. No joy. I've read much of the excellent documentation from Samba.org and other

Re: [newbie] lm-sensors

2003-06-07 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 06 June 2003 09:37 pm, Femme wrote: Fair enough. I'll just cross my fingers then. Thanks for the in-depth info. get a temperature gun, aim Shoot @ the cpu. done deal. :D That'll work. :-) Don't know if anyone else mentioned this in this thread (if Tom B. did, I apologise),

Re: [newbie] Wheeeeee - cable modem madness! :-)

2003-06-07 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 06 June 2003 10:31 pm, Femme wrote: heh glad to see you got it going luv. :) I think its like the color-blind person who finally gets to see the rainbow! Did a full 299 meg update from Mandrake in no time flat. Never been able to do that before Life is good! --

Re: [newbie] Startup progs

2003-06-07 Per discussione Robin Turner
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 30 May 2003 9:03 am, Kalle Saarinen wrote: hello, I need to start my MySQL at boot time. I'm using runlevel 3 so I think that I have to create link from /etc/rc3.d to /init.d/mysql to start the daemon right? How do I create the link? Thanks -Kalle The simple

Re: [newbie] Xine Tutorials

2003-06-07 Per discussione Robin Turner
LeaAnne Kolp wrote: Hi all, I've been away for awhile but I wanted to tell ya that the Linux Tutorials are back up on my site if you need help with playing DVDs in Xine or help setting up PINE. More will be added, but those are all I have at the moment. Anyway, here's the link:

[newbie] Window Maker

2003-06-07 Per discussione kostas
Hello list I live in Greece so when i installed Mandrake 9.1 i chose Greek as language. When i run Gnome and KDE i saw that it had Menus and all in Greek. When i started Window Maker 0.8 (i think) it had the menu with symbols. Do you know what must i do? Do you suggest to me to install Mandrake

Re: [newbie] M9.1 D4X resume problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday June 6 2003 09:50 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I have Mandrake's own prefered D4X downloader version 2.4.0 which I downloaded vis the M9.1 add new software programme. It installed fine and comes up to use in the normal way. Trouble is I cannot get the programme

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione eric huff
As a matter of interest - how do you access the Gnome Control Center if you are in kde? I went into menudrake, and set it to gnome, and found it to be: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center You get almost the same thing in Nautilus: go -- start here but it's a slower interface. eric Want to buy

Re: [newbie] lm-sensors

2003-06-07 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday June 7 2003 08:21 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Don't know if anyone else mentioned this in this thread (if Tom B. did, I apologise), but on my Soyo Dragon MB, I have to let lmsensors use the ISA bus as well as the smbus. If I don't, I don't get all the temps/fans/voltages. Nothin

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 4:31 pm, eric huff wrote: As a matter of interest - how do you access the Gnome Control Center if you are in kde? I went into menudrake, and set it to gnome, and found it to be: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center You get almost the same thing in Nautilus: go -- start

Re: [newbie] Xine Tutorials

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 2:14 am, LeaAnne Kolp wrote: Hi all, I've been away for awhile but I wanted to tell ya that the Linux Tutorials are back up on my site if you need help with playing DVDs in Xine or help setting up PINE. More will be added, but those are all I have at the moment.

Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes

2003-06-07 Per discussione The Other
recording and burning as .WAV gives you: loss-less recording CDs you can play on any CD player I would record as .WAV and then burn as an audio CD, one disc per tape, or per tape side. Also be sure you mute system sounds, or they might appear on the recording. Reading in another

[newbie] KMail and Importing Outlook Express 5 address lists

2003-06-07 Per discussione The Other
06/07/03 Hello All, Anyway to import Outlook Express 5 addresses into KMail? I exported the Outlook Express 5 address book as AddrBook.wab Can I now Import it into KMail? TIA The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KMail and Importing Outlook Express 5 address lists

2003-06-07 Per discussione eric huff
Export it as a csv text file (or someting like that). It was one of the text choices in outlook express (maybe version 6). Then, in kmail you can import it, and configure some stuff as you do. If you are like me, you'll do it a few times before you get all the outlook export choices set

Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 5:06 pm, The Other wrote: recording and burning as .WAV gives you: loss-less recording CDs you can play on any CD player I would record as .WAV and then burn as an audio CD, one disc per tape, or per tape side. Also be sure you mute system sounds, or

[newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione Kristjan
Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown' command to the file that is not owned by him only gets that operation is not

[newbie] Suggestions for Money Managing program, must import Microsoft Money files

2003-06-07 Per discussione The Other
06/07/03 Hello All, I would like to migrate my Microsoft Money 95 files to Linux. I've already exported the files from Money 95 into the Quicken for Windows file format, .qif Suggestions on a comparable Linux program to Import those files? TIA The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] KMail and Importing Outlook Express 5 address lists

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 5:24 pm, The Other wrote: 06/07/03 Hello All, Anyway to import Outlook Express 5 addresses into KMail? I exported the Outlook Express 5 address book as AddrBook.wab Can I now Import it into KMail? TIA The Other The version shipped with 9.1? The first option on

[newbie] Apache security

2003-06-07 Per discussione JoeHill
I read the Seven Deadly Sins of Linux security, and one item concerns me: On Toxen's don'ts list: Don't use PHP, even though it's convenient. Don't run DNS, auth (ident) or Apache as root. But, do use suEXEC, a tool first introduced in Apache 1.2, that increases security by allowing users to

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Money Managing program, must importMicrosoft Money files

2003-06-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 12:07:35 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 06/07/03 Hello All, I would like to migrate my Microsoft Money 95 files to Linux. I've already exported the files from Money 95 into the Quicken for Windows file format, .qif Suggestions on a comparable Linux

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 20:12:42 +0300 Kristjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown'

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 07 June 2003 01:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown' command to the file

Re: [newbie] Xine Tutorials

2003-06-07 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 15:29, Robin Turner wrote: LeaAnne Kolp wrote: Hi all, I've been away for awhile but I wanted to tell ya that the Linux Tutorials are back up on my site if you need help with playing DVDs in Xine or help setting up PINE. More will be added, but those are

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione eric huff
I also know that a user can manipulate a file in their own home directory even without ownership. In other words, if a file owned by root exists in my home, I can delete it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ ls -l testfile -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 7 13:42 testfile [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 6:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 01:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true! and besides, who knows how many viruses does Lunix have?!

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione Jan Wilson
* Kristjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030607 12:29]: How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown' command to the file that is not owned by him only gets that operation

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 7:39 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be

Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes

2003-06-07 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 09:06, The Other wrote: recording and burning as .WAV gives you: loss-less recording CDs you can play on any CD player I would record as .WAV and then burn as an audio CD, one disc per tape, or per tape side. Also be sure you mute system sounds, or they

[newbie] Mini ITX form factor

2003-06-07 Per discussione Aron Smith
-- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone installed Mandrake on a mini ITX form factor board? I'm thinking the 800 Mhz with a 30 GB slim disk would fit in the radio slot on my Jeep real nice.(and I would be able to play any format wav Mp3 Ogg Vorbis etc. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 22:46, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 11:49 am, RichardA wrote: On 06 Jun 2003 22:05:17 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:28, RichardA wrote: On 05 Jun 2003 18:29:37 -0400 I don't know why it would do that, only that Evo

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 04:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true!

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-07 Per discussione Marco Verheul
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 12:07, Poogle wrote: Referring to http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/, you may or may not need the edit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf in respect of the firmware, but if you do you have edited it correctly. Next do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and you should get something like

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 07 June 2003 02:39 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione Steven Broos
You can use the Sticky Bit Read this article: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/ch-acctsgrps.html Steven --Extract-- setuid used only for applications, this permission indicates that the application runs as the owner of the file and not as the user

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-06-07 Per discussione dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool? But do these searches use the slocate database, or are they just brute force, ' look at every file' type searches? Well, slocate is there to find file names really fast. Seems that the OP is rather interested in

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 13:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 04:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 9:16 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 22:46, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 11:49 am, RichardA wrote: On 06 Jun 2003 22:05:17 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:28, RichardA wrote: On 05 Jun 2003

Re: [newbie] Apache security

2003-06-07 Per discussione Steven Broos
I think it's a little bit paranoia to say you may not run PHP. I find it weird CGI is OK, but PHP isn't... Both are dangerous for your system when they are not administered well. Apache has one parent-instance owned by root. The child-rpocesses are run from the account you specified. I

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 10:03 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 13:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 04:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Per discussione Steven Broos
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true!

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:09, Robin Turner wrote: The kind of people who drink Earl Grey generally don't eat jellied eels, and vice versa - it's a class thing. Sir Robin Well, then this is revised: The Earl Grey drinkers that love scones and jam and The Guiness drinkers that love jellied

RE: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione walt
1) runs faster 2) takes up less hard drive space 3) takes less time to load on to your computer and you practically have everything you need without loading a lot of other programs on it 4) dont need to keep rebooting From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Steven Broos
That's a very personal matter... But I'll give you my quick top-5: (didn't think of it for a long time, so please don't take it too serious) First of all, M$ is about money, Linux is about quality and consumer/user-needs. Linux distro's and most of the applications are FREE! Windows is kinda

Re: [newbie] lm-sensors

2003-06-07 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 07 June 2003 11:40 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: I passed over that issue by advising to just accept the default answers during 'sensors-detect'. I still think that's a good idea, at least to start with. I have a Soyo k7vta pro, and the default answer is ISA (Industry Standard

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 15:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:07, Cody Harris wrote: Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should switch. -Cody Harris 1.) Cost 2.) Support 3.) Security

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Cody Harris
At 03:32 PM 6/7/2003 -0700, you wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 15:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:07, Cody Harris wrote: Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should switch. -Cody Harris

Re: [newbie] Mini ITX form factor

2003-06-07 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 14:33, JoeHill wrote: On 07 Jun 2003 12:39:25 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: a 30 GB slim disk would fit in the radio slot on my Jeep real nice. I would be most concerned about the bumps and vibrations inherant in driving and their effect on the HD. I

RE: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 00:18, walt wrote: 1) runs faster 2) takes up less hard drive space 3) takes less time to load on to your computer and you practically have everything you need without loading a lot of other programs on it 4) dont need to keep rebooting I

Re: [newbie] KMail and Importing Outlook Express 5 address lists

2003-06-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 11:24 AM 6/7/2003 -0500, you wrote: 06/07/03 Hello All, Anyway to import Outlook Express 5 addresses into KMail? I exported the Outlook Express 5 address book as AddrBook.wab Can I now Import it into KMail? TIA The Other Export your address book in whatever normal format Outsucks uses.

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Money Managing program, must import Microsoft Money files

2003-06-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 12:07 PM 6/7/2003 -0500, you wrote: 06/07/03 Hello All, I would like to migrate my Microsoft Money 95 files to Linux. I've already exported the files from Money 95 into the Quicken for Windows file format, .qif Suggestions on a comparable Linux program to Import those files? TIA The Other

Re: [newbie] KMail and Importing Outlook Express 5 address lists

2003-06-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 06:07 PM 6/7/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 5:24 pm, The Other wrote: 06/07/03 Hello All, Anyway to import Outlook Express 5 addresses into KMail? I exported the Outlook Express 5 address book as AddrBook.wab Can I now Import it into KMail? TIA The Other Forgot to

Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes

2003-06-07 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 06:03 PM 6/7/2003 +0100, you wrote: snip The snag to ogg is that no hardware players exist for it yet. We are promised one sometime this year. I can't remember which manufacturer it was, but I have a printout of an article somewhere, in which it said that the manufacturer had teamed up with

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-07 Per discussione JoeHill
On 08 Jun 2003 08:13:07 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Look, spend some time in READING about linux/unix viruses/trojans. Use that tiny bit of grey matter I reckon you still have to digest what is said in the documentation. You'll start to understand not only the differences in

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-07 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 1, 2003 01:42 pm, JoeHill wrote: On 02 Jun 2003 06:32:28 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What kinda modem ya getting? Some providers give you a modem-connection-sharing-NAT thing all in one?! Now that I have the reply working right :-) BEWARE of those all in one

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Robin Turner
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:09, Robin Turner wrote: The kind of people who drink Earl Grey generally don't eat jellied eels, and vice versa - it's a class thing. Sir Robin Well, then this is revised: The Earl Grey drinkers that love scones and jam and The Guiness drinkers

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Robin Turner
Steven Broos wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 00:18, walt wrote: 1) runs faster Questionable.Depending on how your Linux system is set up (services, wm etc.), XP may well run faster. 2) takes up less hard drive space Again, that depends on your system. 3) takes less time to load on

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione The Other
On Saturday 07 June 2003 05:07 pm, Cody Harris wrote: Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should switch. -Cody Harris 06/07/03 1. My current system was designed from components I selected in the Spring

[newbie] Original .conf files?

2003-06-07 Per discussione rikona
Hello, As a complete newbie, I didn't realize the value of the comments in the original conf files, and didn't know that the various setup programs would overwrite so many of the comments. It would be nice to see all the originals. Is there a place on the install disks where these are stored? At

[newbie] In a fix with Postfix

2003-06-07 Per discussione Robin Turner
Can anyone tell me how I can configure postfix so that it only sends mail to one user (i.e. me)? The man page confused the hell out of me. Sir Robin -- A Perl script is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-07 Per discussione JoeHill
On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 17:42:18 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: sorry joe i don' tbuy that. Hehe... i read alot of security focus articles and well call me totally tinfoil hat paranoid but i tend to believe linux can be just as vulnerable to virii as winsux. Theoretically, yes. But

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Cody Harris
At 07:44 PM 6/7/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 05:07 pm, Cody Harris wrote: Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should switch. -Cody Harris 06/07/03 1. My current system was designed from

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 15:53, JoeHill wrote: On 08 Jun 2003 08:15:25 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 1.) Cost 2.) Support 3.) Security 4.) Control 5.) Stability 6.) Features 7.) Multifunctionality without overhead cost 8.) Performance 9.) Installation time 10.)

[newbie] DVD playing fits!

2003-06-07 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Trying to play a dvd from the library on 9.1 with vlc and get the picture but no sound. after fiddling with the sound through the preferences menu, still no go. Xine: crashes. Mplayer: no audio every other one: won't even start with ogle I get the following from the term: snip libdvdread:

Re: [newbie] In a fix with Postfix

2003-06-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 1:55 am, Robin Turner wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can configure postfix so that it only sends mail to one user (i.e. me)? The man page confused the hell out of me. Sir Robin In Postfix you can define aliases. Edit the file /etc/postfix/aliases It is required that

[newbie] CD drive paths messed up

2003-06-07 Per discussione Trey Sizemore
I am assuming a recent upgrade of KDE from 3.1 to 3.1.2 may have caused some undesired changes. Before the desktop shorcuts for my CD drive and CD-RW drive functioned as expected, CD players saw CD's in my drive, abcde ripped and encoded CDs placed in the CD drive, etc. Now, these shortcuts

[newbie] cannot remove files

2003-06-07 Per discussione V.X.
mdk 9.1 and reiserfs I tried to compile gtk+ and failed, so I decided to remove the extracted source files folder, but this appeared: [EMAIL PROTECTED] install]# rm -rf gtk+-2.2.1/ rm: cannot remove gtk+-2.2.1//docs/reference/gtk/xml/gtkscrolledwindow.xml: Permission denied rm: cannot remove

Re: [newbie] Original .conf files?

2003-06-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 07 June 2003 08:49 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, As a complete newbie, I didn't realize the value of the comments in the original conf files, and didn't know that the various setup programs would overwrite so many of the comments. It would be nice to see all the originals. Is there a

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione Michael Adams
This is a desirable security feature. But as mentioned if you $ cp source foo $ rm source $ mv foo source user now owns source. On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:12, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 6:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 01:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi It

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:33, Cody Harris wrote: True, but sometimes in the morning you don't want to excersize. lol. I have several different logins to my system. I have a desktop/window manager environment for JUST DOING. It works, it's already setup and tweaked to my liking, I think of

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:51, JoeHill wrote: I gotta start making my sarcasm more obvious... You live in Canada. You're not allowed to be sarcastic. -- Sun Jun 8 13:45:00 EST 2003 13:45:00 up 23:36, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.07

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:53, JoeHill wrote: On 08 Jun 2003 08:15:25 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 1.) Cost 2.) Support 3.) Security 4.) Control 5.) Stability 6.) Features 7.) Multifunctionality without overhead cost 8.) Performance 9.) Installation time 10.)

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 09:01, FemmeFatale wrote: Ty Eric Stephen... knew you were good for something both of you. *Ducks fast!* :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt I KNOW I'm good for SOMETHING. My wife tells me I make a great hat rack. -- Sun Jun 8 13:50:00 EST 2003 13:50:00 up

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Scott Thayer
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:44:49 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 05:07 pm, Cody Harris wrote: Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should switch. -Cody Harris 06/07/03

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Money Managing program, must import Microsoft Money files

2003-06-07 Per discussione Barry Premeaux
On Saturday 07 June 2003 10:07 am, The Other wrote: 06/07/03 Hello All, I would like to migrate my Microsoft Money 95 files to Linux. I've already exported the files from Money 95 into the Quicken for Windows file format, .qif Suggestions on a comparable Linux program to Import those

Re: [newbie] cannot remove files

2003-06-07 Per discussione Miark
Put gtk+-2.2.1 in quotes and it'll work. Miark On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:21:13 -0400 V.X. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mdk 9.1 and reiserfs I tried to compile gtk+ and failed, so I decided to remove the extracted source files folder, but this appeared: [EMAIL PROTECTED] install]# rm -rf

Re: [newbie] disc3

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 09:23, DrewMartin wrote: Hi All, I have the 2 disc download version of 9.1.What is the advantages/disadvantages of the 3rd disc? Drew Three is more than two. (g) (Nah, on the third CD you have other languages, a few other

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Miark
On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 01:09:35 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Please don't think that I spend much time thinking about or researching what happens in Pommieland, but this was irresistible !!! http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135726,00.html

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:38, Robin Turner wrote: Yep, that's pretty much it. Personally, I've never scene a jellied eel in my life, but that's not a class thing, it's that eels are a southern dish, as far as I can tell. Sir Robin But it should go without saying that you have, at least,

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