[newbie-it]

2003-06-14 Per discussione Vincenzo Cefaly
Sono in possesso di un modem esterno USB con linea telefonica ISDN, il sistema non mi riconosce questa periferica. Potreste gentilmente aiutarmi a risolvere il problema prima di comprare un nuovo modem grazie

Re: [newbie-it]

2003-06-14 Per discussione artasersec
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 11:26:30 +0200, Vincenzo Cefaly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sono in possesso di un modem esterno USB con linea telefonica ISDN, il sistema non mi riconosce questa periferica. Potreste gentilmente aiutarmi a risolvere il problema prima di comprare un nuovo modem grazie Che

Re: [newbie-it] update

2003-06-14 Per discussione piter
ho determinato la versione del mio kernel così: $ uname -r 2.4.21-0.13mdk e poi ho digitato questo: # urpmi kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk --media update_source nessun pacchettto denominato kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk poi ho provato anche così: urpmi kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk-1-1mdk --media update_source nessun

Re: [newbie-it]

2003-06-14 Per discussione artasersec
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 11:52:39 +0200, Vincenzo Cefaly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: la marca TRUST, scusami l'avevo dimenticato grazie Driver specifici per Trust mini usb isdn modem, che dovrebbe essere il tuo modello, non ne ho trovati. La pagina che forse ti pu interessare di pi questa:

[newbie-it] scanner compeye smartkey 9636p

2003-06-14 Per discussione Lupo
ciao a tutti, ho uno scanner compeye smartkey 9636p che non funziona sotto Linux (come del resto non funziona con win Xp...) qualcuno sa se esiste un driver x farlo riconoscere dalla Mandrake? grazie 1000! Alberto

[newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Nathan Coad
Hi all, Ive just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000.  My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L).  Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN.  I have a link light on the rj45 socket, so everything seems

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN. I have a link

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Nathan Coad
It's not the router that's the problem. All the other (admittedly windows) computers work fine, get ip addresses, resolve dns names, etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] adding 2nd drive

2003-06-14 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 10:30, Chris wrote: I should be getting my replacement 60gb drive in a day or so and I want to remove my windows drive and install this one in its place. My 120gb is set as pri master and of course the new as pri slave. I've been told that lilo is installed on the

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 10:40, Ralph Bagwell wrote: I am still embarrassed to post because you newbies seem light years ahead of me - oh well. I downloaded and installed with zero problems amsn a messenger program very like Windows Messenger. I actually swapped a few lines with a friend. I

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 11:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Now, returning from a non-networked-one-week-a-time job I browsed my *usual suspects* and learned that Micro$oft had purchased RAV, a Romanian Antivirus Company. Accordingly, M$

RE: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 13:33, walt wrote: I noticed when downloading the windows demo version of this antivirus software,it was 12.1 meg but the linux version was only 2.9 megs. I installed RAV on my windows partition but am not sure if I need the linux version on my linux computers. Walt

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 7:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN. I have a link light

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Nathan Coad
I forgot to mention, but the network is setup up as an active directory (microsoft) domain. Will this make any difference? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 8:41 am, Nathan Coad wrote: I forgot to mention, but the network is setup up as an active directory (microsoft) domain. Will this make any difference? SNIP No. That has nothing to do with IP address assignment. derek -- --

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Another great program for MSN and ICQ (and some other protocols too) is Kopete. You get to do everything with one program. If you have Mandrake 9.1 you can get the URPMI from the club site. I have version 6.2 on here and you get all the links in start menu (for those who need them). John

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Nathan Coad
Well, I have followed ur advice, Derek. This is now the result of running the ifconfig command: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:69:AB:33 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! MIDI input/output under Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-14 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 14 June 2003 04:24, The Other wrote: 06/13/03 Hello All, Since I'm not having any luck locating drivers for my Midiman, Winman 4x4/s MIDI ISA interface card, I'll looking into going back to the single MIDI input/output cable coming off the joystick port of my SB LIve! Value

[newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-14 Per discussione eric huff
About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. Thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Frankie
personally I think that the perfect antivirus solution for windows, (apart from format or fdisk) would be if microsnot put a antivir function into the kernel, and outsourced just the pattern files.. Then the trend/symantec etc companies could just concentrate on supplying up to date pattern files

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 10:04 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Well, I have followed ur advice, Derek. This is now the result of running the ifconfig command: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:69:AB:33 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0

Re: [newbie] DNS with bind.

2003-06-14 Per discussione manolis
well I fought with named, shorewall, conf files and finally I made internet sharing manually to work! One question: in my policy file of shorewall i edited like this to have samba and internet sharing all together. masqnet ACCEPT loc net ACCEPT fw net ACCEPT fw

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN. Did you try

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Nathan Coad
Yep, I've tried that -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all,

Re: [newbie] DNS with bind.

2003-06-14 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:30 pm, manolis wrote: well I fought with named, shorewall, conf files and finally I made internet sharing manually to work! One question: in my policy file of shorewall i edited like this to have samba and internet sharing all together. masq net ACCEPT

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 10:49 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030613 15:21]: All I wanted to do was change the icon on the link. I wasn't trying to do anything to the directory. Ummm, let's start over. You were trying to create a link (icon) on the KDE desktop? What

Re: [newbie] Quote character not working.

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:13 am, Stuart Guthrie wrote: I´m trying to use the inverted comma character (ie ) in Evolution and lots of other parts of Mandrake 9.1 including the console. It doesn´t type a quote. If I press it twice it types a thing that looks like a quote but is not (ie ¨)

Re: [newbie] sound problems Via AC97 on Sony Vaio

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:12 am, Lavanya Vasudevan wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble getting my Apollo Super AC97 sound card to work on my Sony Vaio PCG FXA47, running Mandrake 9.1. Here are the details from HardDrake: I don't know specifics for this card, but in principle, go to mcc,

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 1:40 am, Ralph Bagwell wrote: I am still embarrassed to post because you newbies seem light years ahead of me - oh well. Some of us feel to be newbies for a *verrry* long time g But it's not so long since we took our first steps that we've forgotten g (PS Anne, I

[newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Gareth Qually
I need an e-mail program that will not only work in linux and windows 2000, but also share data. The result I want to get is to be able to have the data shared across the two OS's. Anyone know of a program thatdoes this? Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! MIDI input/output under Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:24 am, The Other wrote: 06/13/03 Hello All, Since I'm not having any luck locating drivers for my Midiman, Winman 4x4/s MIDI ISA interface card, I'll looking into going back to the single MIDI input/output cable coming off the joystick port of my SB LIve! Value

[newbie] Large Hard Drives

2003-06-14 Per discussione John Richard Smith
One thing I have been meaning to ask , now that large hard drives are becoming cheap enough, is how long does it take for bootups to complete the fsck tasks on say a 120 gig drive, with a modern AMD1800 Athlon, or a similar P4 processor. Currently I have a 40gig drive, and usually when

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:25 am, Gareth Qually wrote: I need an e-mail program that will not only work in linux and windows 2000, but also share data. The result I want to get is to be able to have the data shared across the two OS's. Anyone know of a program thatdoes this? Try something

Re: [newbie] Large Hard Drives

2003-06-14 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: One thing I have been meaning to ask , now that large hard drives are becoming cheap enough, is how long does it take for bootups to complete the fsck tasks on say a 120 gig drive, with a modern AMD1800 Athlon, or a similar P4

[newbie] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Per discussione Eric Huff
Hi folks, Lesson learned today: no resizing of ntfs partitions because all those margaritas are keeping you from sleeping... Here's what i did: My ntfs partion was hda1, /boot hda5 / hda6 I shrunk the ntfs (successfuly) at the cli. I think at this point, it told me that it

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-14 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 1:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 10:49 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: I just right-clicked on my desktop, selected Create New -- Link to Location, typed in a name (I picked Testing) and browsed to a folder in /mnt. It left a dumb page-looking logo on my

Re: [newbie] APT

2003-06-14 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:53 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:33 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Is the Ibiblio APT repository no longer available? I have been trying to access it for some time, but all I get is a 404 error. On an associated note, is the PLF source no longer

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Well, when i reboot, i get kernel panic for no INIT= (i think) and when i upgrade i find that hda6 (which is where /boot is) has errors that the install cd can't fix. Ok, so what should i do now? I have heard people on the list say it is

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Per discussione Ralph Bagwell
Sure thing. My smb.conf file is at /etc/samba/ . It says under [printers] path = /var/spool/samba and yes my jobs are there. It also says workgroup = MDKGROUP under [global] Is this file editable? And does it config samba ? Ralph - could you look at /etc/smb.conf to see where it is locating

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Well, when i reboot, i get kernel panic for no INIT= (i think) and when i upgrade i find that hda6 (which is where /boot is) has errors that the install cd can't fix. Ok, so what

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Per discussione Ralph Bagwell
Thanks a lot Joe BUT: I have the program running but can only get AOL to work. I have only two options AOL/ICQ and TOC (whatever that is) as proocols available,. I was unable to follow your instructions on setting up the urpmi deal. But I now know how to make the amsn program run - which gives

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Gareth Qually
Thanks Greg and Derek, I was sleeping, didn't think of the two most obvious. Derek you say I should use a FAT32 partition, but my Linux partition sees my NTFS, so that should be ok right? Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: When i get knoppix going, what do i do with the partition? I assume i would start with fsck? That'll be a good guess. It sort of depends on what you find. If i can't recover the /boot partition, can i just copy the /boot files from my other

[newbie] Start your urpmi --updates!

2003-06-14 Per discussione JoeHill
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1114229 -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 12:04:25 up 11 days, 10:08, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-14 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:48 am, Chris wrote: Gkrellm is installed, however none of the plug-ins appear to be. When trying to install the plugins from my 9.0 cds I get everything installed. The dir /usr/lib/gkrellm/plugins is empty which is where I assume they are supposed to be located.

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-14 Per discussione JoeHill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:48:39 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: When trying to install the plugins from my 9.0 cds I get everything installed IIRC, this is a bug in 9.0, you may need to use the software manager in MCC -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Per discussione Ralph Bagwell
Really great help derek - thanks ralph How do I get an icon on the desktop that runs the program ? ./amsn means run the application amsn which will be found in the current directory. It would also work if you typed /path/to/directory/amsn In Linux any file can be executable if the

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:48 am, Nathan Coad wrote: It's not the router that's the problem. All the other (admittedly windows) computers work fine, get ip addresses, resolve dns names, etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronald J.

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Per discussione Jan Wilson
* Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030614 08:24]: Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel or the onboard sis630 on my PC, I can't even get it to run in text mode - just an out of range message

Re: [newbie] Linux drver genius colorpage vivid III scanner

2003-06-14 Per discussione Warren Post
El dom, 08-06-2003 a las 12:27, Johan Scheepers escribió: Hi, I need linux driver for above scanner The Genius ColorPage-Vivid series are rebadged Plustek products, so you need drivers and instructions for Plustek scanners: Drivers and general information:

Re: [newbie] Texstar' version of KDE

2003-06-14 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 09 June 2003 09:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: Sorry if this has been asked before, but I have been off the list for three weeks and can't find the answer in the archives. I am running KDE3.1.0 as came with 9.1, but I see that Texstar has a version 3.1.2. Are there many improvements

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-14 Per discussione JoeHill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:49:13 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. Run top and just watch for what might be acting up (should appear at the top of the list every 4 or 5 seconds). Also check for any cron jobs

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-14 Per discussione Chris
On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:08 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:48:39 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: When trying to install the plugins from my 9.0 cds I get everything installed IIRC, this is a bug in 9.0, you may need to use the software manager in MCC Just tried that

Re: [newbie] Texstar' version of KDE

2003-06-14 Per discussione Miark
One minuscule difference I noticed is Ctrl-U in Konq is a shortcut for View Source, just as in Mozilla. But minuscule as it is, it's really important to me! Miark On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:00:18 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just uploaded 3.1.2 from the Texstar site last night,

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-14 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 June 2003 01:20 pm, Chris wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:08 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:48:39 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: When trying to install the plugins from my 9.0 cds I get everything installed IIRC, this is a bug in 9.0, you may

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Saturday 14 June 2003 05:25 am, Gareth Qually wrote: that sounds like ximian connector to me www.ximian.com I need an e-mail program that will not only work in linux and windows 2000, but also share data. The result I want to get is to be able to have the data shared across the two OS's.

[newbie] Furbaring my system

2003-06-14 Per discussione Aron Smith
well I did it updated from 9.0 to 9.1 unfortunely I was trying to upgrade and the Adult beverages got inthe way so I lost everything. Oh well didn't need that 15Gb of archived e-mail anyway. My system is fast now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Per discussione rikona
Hello, I found an old version of kstars for MD versions up to 8, and the RPM is still available. Would it run in 9.1, or is it likely to cause problems? -- Best regards, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Eric Huff
On Saturday 14 June 2003 09:03 am, Gareth Qually wrote: Thanks Greg and Derek, I was sleeping, didn't think of the two most obvious. Derek you say I should use a FAT32 partition, but my Linux partition sees my NTFS, so that should be ok right? Since you are planning ahead, you definitely want

[newbie] fubaring my system

2003-06-14 Per discussione Aron Smith
OK you clowns are gonna laugh at this I finaly upgraded to 9.1 BIG g although the consumption of too many adult beverages combined with a lack of sleep lead me to doing a full install instead of an upgrade. Luckly all i lost was the 15 Gb of ?? (hell I didn't know what most of that stuff was

Re[7]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-14 Per discussione rikona
Hello Stephen, Wednesday, June 11, 2003, 4:19:25 PM, you wrote: SK On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 04:41, rikona wrote: That's exactly what I did, but it didn't kill it. I'd run top, get the PID, exit top, kill it, go back to top, and it's still there. Any idea why? SK It's probably easier to run

Re[8]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-14 Per discussione rikona
Hello FemmeFatale, Wednesday, June 11, 2003, 5:08:14 PM, you wrote: F I hate man pages...with a passion... they weren't meant as F tutorials...as such they suck. They are terse, capable but like F the military very practical. Rely on web stuff if you can more F often for how-tos i'm an

Re[7]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-14 Per discussione rikona
Hello Tom, Thursday, June 12, 2003, 10:54:10 AM, you wrote: That's exactly what I did, but it didn't kill it. I'd run top, get the PID, exit top, kill it, go back to top, and it's still there. Any idea why? TBUsually I start with a 'killall app-name' If that doesn't get TB it done I

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:30 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030614 08:24]: Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel or the onboard sis630 on my PC, I can't even get it

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:20 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030614 07:02]: Yes - I had done that before, but it appears to be a hard link, not a soft one, which is why I started again with ln -s. No, it isn't a link at all, in the sense of ln or ln -s ... it's just

Re[2]: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-14 Per discussione rikona
Hello g, Thursday, June 12, 2003, 4:19:14 PM, you wrote: if he did not have an icon 'linux documents' I don't seem to have one of these. Is MD supposed to come set up with one? I was going to set up a link, but I don't seem to have the dir '/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/index.html'. Did I not

Re[9]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-14 Per discussione rikona
Hello stormjumper, Thursday, June 12, 2003, 9:57:57 PM, you wrote: That seemed to bring down everything - ssh remote quit responding, could not log back in, no keys worked anywhere. s i'm sorry to hear that. i've just tried, and killing the pid of s startx brought down everything running on

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:57 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Sure thing. My smb.conf file is at /etc/samba/ . It says under [printers] path = /var/spool/samba and yes my jobs are there. It also says workgroup = MDKGROUP under [global] Is this file editable? And does it config samba ? It does,

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:07 pm, Poogle wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:30 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030614 08:24]: Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel

Re: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:36 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, I found an old version of kstars for MD versions up to 8, and the RPM is still available. Would it run in 9.1, or is it likely to cause problems? Why not use the newest version ? -I have kstars 0.9.1 running fine on my 9.1 box. Kaj

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:31 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:13 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:25 am, Gareth Qually wrote: I need an e-mail program that will not only work in linux and windows 2000, but also share data. The result I want to get is

Re: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 7:36 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, I found an old version of kstars for MD versions up to 8, and the RPM is still available. Would it run in 9.1, or is it likely to cause problems? Kstars is in the kdeedu package Just run urpmi kdeedu If you ever wnat to know which

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 8:33 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:31 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:13 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:25 am, Gareth Qually wrote: I need an e-mail program that will not only work in linux and windows

Re: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 7:54 pm, rikona wrote: F The New twikis work too. :D What's a twiki? It;s a community owned and edited site. Ours is at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome Browse around, there's a surprising amount there already, and it's growing fast. There's also a

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-14 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:54 am, Dennis Myers wrote: This is one of those rare instances where you may have to reboot, I can not find a way for the plugins to activate without a reboot. Same with lm_sensors. HTH Actually, I've been able to get it to work after installing by (as root)

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 8:47 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 8:33 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Derek - the old netscape versions allowed you to specify where your mail was kept. I haven't seen any way of doing it with netscape6 and later or mozilla. Is it there? Anne I

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Gareth Qually
Thanks for that Eric, i will study up on that. Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com - Original Message - From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows? On Saturday 14

Re[2]: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Per discussione rikona
Hello Kaj, Saturday, June 14, 2003, 12:37:25 PM, you wrote: KH On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:36 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, I found an old version of kstars for MD versions up to 8, and the RPM is still available. Would it run in 9.1, or is it likely to cause problems? KH Why not use the newest

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Per discussione Eric Huff
fsck won't save my /boot partition: bad superblock. At this point, i think i should fdisk hda6 and copy the /boot from knoppix over to it. Does this make sense? Or should i let the install cd format that section, and do a mini install? Thanks for any advice, eric On Saturday 14 June 2003

Re[2]: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Per discussione rikona
Hello Derek, Saturday, June 14, 2003, 12:45:33 PM, you wrote: DJ Kstars is in the kdeedu package Just run urpmi kdeedu no package DJ If you ever wnat to know which package an application is in just run urpmq no package DJ and urpmf I get docs, etc for just about any language you can think

[newbie] USB Flash disk

2003-06-14 Per discussione Aron Smith
Bought one of those little usb pendrives M9.1 reconizes it but it is read only any body know how to reset it to r/w ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Its on the club site: http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kdeedu-3.1-5mdk.i586.html John . ,snip KH Why not use the newest version ? -I have kstars 0.9.1 running KH fine on my 9.1 box. Where did you get that? I can't find a Mandrake rpm for 9.1

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Mind you there is a list of dependencies as long as your arm... all the best! ROTFL John . ,snip KH Why not use the newest version ? -I have kstars 0.9.1 running KH fine on my 9.1 box. Where did you get that? I can't find a Mandrake rpm for 9.1 anywhere.

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Robin Turner
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Sorry to be pedantic, but the plural of virus in English is viruses. The -a suffix is the plural for, IIRC, second declension neuter nouns. If you want the Latin plural, it's viri (NOT virii - that would ony be the

Re: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:18 pm, rikona wrote: snip Where did you get that? I can't find a Mandrake rpm for 9.1 anywhere. /snip As far as I remember, I used http://rpmfind.net to get hold of it. Can't remember the FTP address, though. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:52 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Sorry to be pedantic, but the plural of virus in English is viruses. The -a suffix is the plural for, IIRC, second declension neuter nouns. If you want the

[newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching

2003-06-14 Per discussione Miark
I'm using Texstar's KDE 3.1.2. Every once in a while, the desktop will switch to another desktop by itself. I can't see any pattern to it either, so I don't know what's triggering it. Any ideas? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-14 Per discussione Chris
On Saturday 14 June 2003 07:54 am, Dennis Myers wrote: This is one of those rare instances where you may have to reboot, I can not find a way for the plugins to activate without a reboot. Same with lm_sensors. HTH Dennis, got lm_sensors installed, got the gkrellm sensor plugin installed,

[newbie] The Mysterious Vanishing Title Bar

2003-06-14 Per discussione Glenn
Can anybody tell me whether there's an easy way to recover the title bars for my apps in MDK 9.1? I got into a fix where I had a couple of Konsole sessions that wouldn't kill, and the process of attempting to kill them made the title bar non-existent on every application I opened thereafter

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Robin Turner
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:52 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Sorry to be pedantic, but the plural of virus in English is viruses. The -a suffix is the plural for, IIRC, second declension neuter nouns. If

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Per discussione revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: Thanks a lot Joe BUT: I have the program running but can only get AOL to work. I have only two options AOL/ICQ and TOC (whatever that is) as proocols available,. I was unable to follow your instructions on setting up the urpmi deal. But I now know how to make the amsn

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:53:14 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 8:47 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 8:33 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Derek - the old netscape versions allowed you to specify where your mail was kept. I haven't seen any way of

Re: [newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching

2003-06-14 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 08:16, Miark wrote: I'm using Texstar's KDE 3.1.2. Every once in a while, the desktop will switch to another desktop by itself. I can't see any pattern to it either, so I don't know what's triggering it. Any ideas? Miark Is it switching to a specific desktop, or a

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 19:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:25, Gareth Qually wrote: I need an e-mail program that will not only work in linux and windows 2000, but also share data. The result I want to get is to be able to have the data shared across the two OS's. Anyone know of a program thatdoes this? Ciao Gareth

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-14 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 19:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS,

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-14 Per discussione g
rikona wrote: I don't seem to have one of these. Is MD supposed to come set up with one? my x desktop is built from accumulation of past distribs that i carry to new installs. icon for 'linux documents' is from somewhere around md 6. I was going to set up a link, but I don't seem to have the

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Per discussione Brian Parish
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:25, JoeHill wrote: Hi all, I ripped some cd tracks to make a cd for a friend chris. I ran normalize -m * in the dir ~/mp3/chris, and it segfaulted part of the way through. Now, if I try to even list the contents of the dir, the shell freezes, ctrl-c will not

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 June 2003 07:25 pm, JoeHill wrote: Any way out of this? I just want to delete the dir and start over. I cannot even delete the parent dir! Any help appreciated, as always. First thing I would do is boot up with wither the rescue cd or something like knoppix and run fsck on

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-14 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 June 2003 05:25 pm, Chris wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 07:54 am, Dennis Myers wrote: This is one of those rare instances where you may have to reboot, I can not find a way for the plugins to activate without a reboot. Same with lm_sensors. HTH Dennis, got lm_sensors

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