[newbie-it] Variabili d'ambiente

2003-06-23 Per discussione Enrico Piccinini
Ciao a tutti, una domanda veloce veloce e facile facile, Dove e come si settano delle varibili di sistema (devo imostarne una con il nome di una directory) in linux? Grazie e buona settimana a tutti Enrico --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system

[newbie-it] cancellazione ML

2003-06-23 Per discussione francesco
Vorrei cancellarmi dalla ML. Grazie ___ IncrediMail - il mondo della posta elettronica si è finalmente evoluto - Clicca Qui

Re: [newbie-it] Utilizzo della RAM

2003-06-23 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Alle 16:16, sabato 21 giugno 2003, Pollo ha scritto: Ho un pc con pentium III 500MHz e 450MB di RAM. Appena avvio linux (mandrake 9.1) l'uso della RAM è già di 300MB circa. . Il comando top mi dice la percentuale di memoria usata da ogni processo ma mi sembra sbagliato. Quando ho il

Re: [newbie-it] Word processor

2003-06-23 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Alle 22:16, domenica 22 giugno 2003, Junkie ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, nessuno conosce un Word processor japponese che giri su linux e che abbia i supporti hiragana/katakana/kanji e dizionario(come ad esempio l'NJ star per windows)? Mi rendo conto che come domanda è un po'astrusa, in ogni caso

Re: [newbie-it] Variabili d'ambiente

2003-06-23 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Alle 08:48, luned 23 giugno 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, una domanda veloce veloce e facile facile, Dove e come si settano delle varibili di sistema (devo imostarne una con il nome di una directory) in linux? come: set VARIABILE=valore-variabile export VARIABILE oppure

Re: [newbie-it] cancellazione ML

2003-06-23 Per discussione Paride Desimone
At 10.23 23/06/03 +0200, you wrote: Vorrei cancellarmi dalla ML. Grazie ___ IncrediMail - il mondo della posta elettronica si è finalmente evoluto - Clicca Qui E allora fallo :-)) inline: IMSTP21.gif

Re: [newbie-it] Ma perche' la domenica mi fanno inca22are?

2003-06-23 Per discussione syd
* Arwan wrote: E no, non ci siamo. L'altro mezzo pomeriggio m'e' partito con send-hook Aggiungi nella parte iniziale del tuo .muttrc (comunque prima dei vari hook da te specificati) set default_hook = ~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s) Non so se questa stringa puo' risolvere i tuoi problemi.. prova.

Re: [newbie-it] cancellazione ML

2003-06-23 Per discussione artasersec
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:23:06 +0200 (ora legale Europa occ.), francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vorrei cancellarmi dalla ML. Grazie Per cancellarti dalla ML devi andare a questa pagina: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/it/flists.php3 Liste di supporto, inserire l'email con cui ti sei iscritto

Re:[newbie-it] redirezionamento output

2003-06-23 Per discussione Mario Lodi Rizzini
Ciao a tutti volevo sapere se fosse possibile il redirezionamento di tutto l'output di un programma verso un file di testo. Mi spiego meglio: se da console lancio un programma con la sintassi nomeprog log.txt, nel file log.txt non mette tutto il testo ottenuto in output, infatti soprattutto

[newbie-it] redirezionamento output

2003-06-23 Per discussione Gianluca
Ciao a tutti volevo sapere se fosse possibile il redirezionamento di tutto l'output di un programma verso un file di testo. Mi spiego meglio: se da console lancio un programma con la sintassi nomeprog log.txt, nel file log.txt non mette tutto il testo ottenuto in output, infatti soprattutto i

Re: [newbie-it] cancellazione ML

2003-06-23 Per discussione tom
On Monday 23 June 2003 10:23, francesco wrote: Vorrei cancellarmi dalla ML. non ti preoccupare...gia glielo dico io,tanto sono amici miei :) Grazie http://www.mandrakelinux.com/it/flists.php3 -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Amo' me

Re: [newbie-it] Variabili d'ambiente

2003-06-23 Per discussione tom
On Monday 23 June 2003 08:48, Enrico Piccinini wrote: Ciao a tutti, una domanda veloce veloce e facile facile, Dove e come si settano delle varibili di sistema (devo imostarne una con il nome di una directory) in linux? Grazie e buona settimana a tutti Enrico in /etc/profile per tutti gli

Re: [newbie-it] 2 harddisk 2 linux 2 orari

2003-06-23 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 13:12, sabato 21 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] 2 harddisk 2 linux 2 orari, Mirko ha scritto: come si può sincronizzare l'orario? lancia nelle due distribuzioni date -u, così vedi la data in formato Greenwich Mean Time (dovrebbe

[newbie] testing

2003-06-23 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
ignore me :o/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-23 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 2:53 am, Chris wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:31 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I feel your pain. This is an area that ML is very weak in. I don't know about other distros. Sound in general is very problematic. I am having trouble now with a computer that worked perfectly

Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-23 Per discussione Derek Jennings
If I can correct myself - xmms-cdread is not on your CDs it is on the mirrors in Contrib. I believe I may have mentioned once or twice on this list how to set up a Contrib urpmi source :-) derek On Monday 23 Jun 2003 7:27 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 2:53 am, Chris wrote:

[newbie] my computer loves Mandrake, doesn't like WinXP and really hates Slackware

2003-06-23 Per discussione Beppe
Hello :) Some time ago I passed to Slackware, which on my old computer used to work perfectly (the version is 9). Then one week ago I changed computer and something strange happened: when I try to install Slack I get error messages saying that LILO cannot install itself on the MBR or on the

Re: [newbie] Alsa tools RPM for Mdk 9.1

2003-06-23 Per discussione Brian Parish
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 09:39, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 01:12, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 3:38 pm, Brian Parish wrote: 9.1 includes alsa, but not the tools. Does anyone know of a compatible rpm for this? The source tarball from the alsa site complains

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability

2003-06-23 Per discussione sstubbs
06/23/03 Hello All, from The Other Last week was very frustrating. The slave Maxtor drive went back to PC Peripherals (this was an OEM drive), so I decided to continue the dual-boot Win95B and Mandrake 9.1 system on the remaining master Western Digital drive. Total disaster. Linux wouldn't

Re: [newbie] testing

2003-06-23 Per discussione James R. McKenzie
did you say something? 8-{ - Original Message - From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:09 AM Subject: [newbie] testing ignore me :o/ -- --

Re: [newbie] Another Help site

2003-06-23 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:18 am, Aron Smith wrote: Hey Gang Don't Know if you know this link it's interesting http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/howtos.html#network mandrake.tips.4.free.fr is among the many useful sites you will find at

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-23 Per discussione JoeHill
On 19 Jun 2003 20:44:41 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Ok, Femme, Mr. Ron (I don't live in a trailer up a holler) Hall, and all the other gamerz; THIS IS BLOODY BRILLIANT. http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/enemyterritory/guide.shtml been getting into it much online? -- + Joe

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-23 Per discussione Douglas Bainbridge
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 06:25, Ian Trickett wrote: I very much doubt it http://www.browning.co.uk/ Ian Herman Goering said When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my Browning. Richard __ Me, too.

[newbie] changing GNOME themes

2003-06-23 Per discussione Russ Rollins
Anyone had success changing downloading and installing new themes in GNOME (Metacity themes that is) in Mandrake 9.1? I've spent an hour or so on it and can't seem to get it to work using the Theme configurator... TIA -Russ- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability

2003-06-23 Per discussione sstubbs
06/23/03 Hello All, from The Other Last week was very frustrating. The slave Maxtor drive went back to PC Peripherals (this was an OEM drive), so I decided to continue the dual-boot Win95B and Mandrake 9.1 system on the remaining master Western Digital drive. Total disaster. Linux wouldn't

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is certainly going to complicate trouble

Re: [newbie] my computer loves Mandrake, doesn't like WinXP andreally hates Slackware

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:57, Beppe wrote: Hello :) Some time ago I passed to Slackware, which on my old computer used to work perfectly (the version is 9). Then one week ago I changed computer and something strange happened: when I try to install Slack I get error messages saying that LILO

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-23 Per discussione John Drouhard
On 23 Jun 2003 10:39:36 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello yet again John. This morning when I booted I discovered that I no longer have access to my CDRW drive!! I still get the two FAILED entries on boot up but now they both end with mount 0 does not exist. I

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-23 Per discussione Langsley T Russell
Hello yet again John. This morning when I booted I discovered that I no longer have access to my CDRW drive!! I still get the two FAILED entries on boot up but now they both end with mount 0 does not exist. I checked my /dev directory and found no listing for either /hdb or/scd1. However in my

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:05, Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 16:01, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:44, ed tharp wrote: yep, channel #2 bridge, right near Holiday Isle. Funny it's been literally 20 years since being down that way and I still remember it so

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Crak600 - Michael
ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to 768MB), i decided it was time to install the ram and the hard drive. opened up the computer to check where everything was on the ribbons and see where i'm going to plug in the hard drive. the current hard drive and CDRW are on

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-23 Per discussione ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 08:05, Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 16:01, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:44, ed tharp wrote: yep, channel #2 bridge, right near Holiday Isle. Funny it's been literally 20 years since being down that way and I still remember it so

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-23 Per discussione ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 06:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:05, Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 16:01, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:44, ed tharp wrote: yep, channel #2 bridge, right near Holiday Isle. Funny it's been literally 20 years

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 22 2003 09:19 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. They're still all on one bus no matter how many ide connections you have, the one and only PCI bus. Generally the only 'rule' is to not to

Re: [newbie] This ROCKS

2003-06-23 Per discussione Warren Post
El sáb, 21-06-2003 a las 10:09, Derek Jennings escribió: Question for you Warren Why choose LEAF Dachstein as opposed to LEAF Bering ? Simply because Dachstein was the first I looked at, I liked it, and jumped right in. I have since heard good things about Bering so I can't recommend one over

Re: [newbie] my computer loves Mandrake, doesn't like WinXP and really hates Slackware

2003-06-23 Per discussione Beppe
Alle 12:20, lunedì 23 giugno 2003, Stephen Kuhn ha scritto: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:57, Beppe wrote: Hello :) Some time ago I passed to Slackware, which on my old computer used to work perfectly (the version is 9). Then one week ago I changed computer and something strange happened: when

Re: [newbie] slypheed installed

2003-06-23 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:36:36PM -0700, eric huff wrote: Ok, installed. I like the speed, etc, but it seems a little klunky for reading mail. I figured out that hitting enter scrolls the mail down so you can read lower, but if you need to go back up, the only way i can see to do it is

Re: [newbie] how to config the lilo?

2003-06-23 Per discussione John Drouhard
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:56:28 +0800 Xuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system is mdk 9.1. Today my friend brought his harddisk here , with a winxp in it. After it connected , the xp system is in /dev/hdd2 . Now I think maybe I can modify my lilo.conf so I can start xp from the lilo menu? What

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:27 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to 768MB), i decided it was time to install the ram and the hard drive. opened up the computer to check where everything was on the ribbons and see where i'm going to plug in

[newbie] how to config the lilo?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Xuer
My system is mdk 9.1. Today my friend brought his harddisk here , with a winxp in it. After it connected , the xp system is in /dev/hdd2 . Now I think maybe I can modify my lilo.conf so I can start xp from the lilo menu? What should I do? Thanks in advance. :) Want to buy your Pack or

Re: Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag

2003-06-23 Per discussione Jim Dawson
Actually, SCO just wants to jack up it's stock price and/or get bought out. They've succeede (temporarally) on the first part, I don't think the second is going to happen anytime soon. I think I am going to file a suit against SCO for infringing my IP on a device called a 'Wheel' which is used

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options!

Re: [newbie] webmin

2003-06-23 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:30 pm, Warren Post wrote: El sáb, 21-06-2003 a las 10:54, Tsyko escribió: How do I launch webmin?? Launch your favorite web browser and enter the URL: https://localhost:1/ I can never remember this, so I have it bookmarked. the 's' in https is important - it's

[newbie] UDF formatting?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Paul
Hi everyone, I am trying to format a CDRW to UDF. I installed the UDFtools, and run [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]# mkudffs /dev/scd0 Which tells me: trying to change type of multiple extents What does this mean? I have commented out the CDRW device from /etc/fstab but that does not help... Paul

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-23 Per discussione Paul
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:56, Björn Olsson wrote: Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter as quoted printable because of that letter. Does

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 01:46 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: snip Just my mileage :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ you just like bucking the system! :D glad

Re: [newbie] Alsa tools RPM for Mdk 9.1

2003-06-23 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 12:56 AM 6/21/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 09:39, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 01:12, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 3:38 pm, Brian Parish wrote: 9.1 includes alsa, but not the tools. Does anyone know of a compatible rpm for this? The

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-23 Per discussione N. B. Day
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:56, Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:50:23 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snips yanks Bjorn outta his closet! NO CLOSSETING ALLOWED! Once you're OUT you're OUT! snip Check its permissions make sure they are set for USER that you now

Re: [newbie] testing

2003-06-23 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 03:09 AM 6/23/2003 -0300, you wrote: ignore me :o/ aw must we!? But you're so cute! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your

[newbie] sensors

2003-06-23 Per discussione John Richard Smith
I have lm_sensors-2.7.0-2mdk installed Every time I shut down I get error message, /etc/rc0.d/k971_ ?line 73 error, too few arguments. here is the section. modules=`grep \^MODULE_ $CONFIG | wc -l` i=`expr$Pmodules` while [ $i -ge 0 ] ; doline

Re: [newbie] slypheed installed

2003-06-23 Per discussione eric huff
The space bar will page down in the message view. If you reach the end of the message and hit space again, it goes to the next message. IIRC that is the next message whether it's read or unread--to get to the next unread you can do shift + n. On mine, it goes to the next unread message.. To

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: snips a rattlesnakes rattler! OHH! Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability

2003-06-23 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 07:49 AM 6/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: SNIPs some hummingbirds ... you finish the thought... My guess is that Win95B and NT 4.0 have never heard about HDD S.M.A.R.T Capability, and didn't try to write to the Western Digital using it. Whereas Mandrake 9.1 is new and sophisticated enough to know

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-23 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 08:56 PM 6/23/2003 +, you wrote: snip But I LIKE my closet! sulking But you're right, It's probably more rewarding to participate in the discussion than to quietly wait for the interesting bits to trickle in. My main problem is that it's a pain in the a** to use this queer language :)

RE: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how? Sorry if this shows up as HTML. But have to ask if you have checked the bios and made sure that ide2 is active. One or the other of the ide connections can be turned off in bios. The ide buss is what your hard drive ribbons connect to on

Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-23 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 11:44 AM 6/23/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello Technoslick, SNIPs some puppy dog tails I've been snooping, as time permits. There are SI firewalls available, but I have yet to find an app-aware linux fw. It seems as though the fw's are based on iptables (a kernel function, as I understand it), and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability

2003-06-23 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 02:19 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 08:34 am, sstubbs wrote: Anyone know different? Don't know if it has anything to do with your problems at all, but Civileme used to say to avoid WD drives like the plague... claimed they did not do CRC stuff right, especially at

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-23 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 8:28 pm, N. B. Day wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:56, Björn Olsson wrote: Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter

Re: [newbie] sensors

2003-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 02:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have lm_sensors-2.7.0-2mdk installed Every time I shut down I get error message, /etc/rc0.d/k971_ ?line 73 error, too few arguments. here is the section. modules=`grep \^MODULE_ $CONFIG | wc -l`

[newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Per discussione DrewMartin
Hello All, I tried to install Mplayer from the mplayer website,but ended up going round in circles(using the RPM's for Redhat),i.e. one would not install without the other,but could not install the other one first. Went to the Mandrake site the only RPM's where on the

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Per discussione Robin Turner
DrewMartin wrote: Hello All, I tried to install Mplayer from the mplayer website,but ended up going round in circles(using the RPM's for Redhat),i.e. one would not install without the other,but could not install the other one first. Went to the Mandrake site the only

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-23 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 23 June 2003 11:10 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Me, too. Schmeissner ? or would that be an anachronism? /snip *When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.* The full quotation is: Wenn ich Kultur hre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning. It comes from Hanns Johst's

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Per discussione JoeHill
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:06:49 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You oculd try the alternative RPM sites like Texstar. However, if you have circular dependency problems, one thing that might work is to put all the RPMs in a directory, cd to that directory, then do or 1. Go here

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability

2003-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 02:57 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Don't know if it has anything to do with your problems at all, but Civileme used to say to avoid WD drives like the plague... claimed they did not do CRC stuff right, especially at higher DMA/UDMA levels :-(

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 8:59 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Wake up OLD PEOPLE! Its called DISK ON KEY! HELLO?! USB keys? you know?? recognized as a floppy device by bioses now? ;D They're not old people unless they've compiled a *nix kernel to 8 inch floppy. (yes, I have, and for those who assume

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Per discussione Miark
Drew, 1) Configure a Texstar source for urpmi: urpmi.addmedia texstar http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz 2) Use urpmi to install mplayer: urpmi mplayer 3) Enjoy! Miark On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:12:32 +0100

Re: [newbie] sensors

2003-06-23 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 9:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's NBFD, just ignore it. One I haven't seen before. Google thought it was the New Boston Fire Department, but http://www.kelseypub.com/irc/abbrev.shtml put me straight. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Configuring Ethenet LAN card

2003-06-23 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 10:33 pm, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, how can I control a LAN card? This is automatically starts in 100Mbpw/fulldup mode, but I have to switch it back to half dup and/or 10Mbps because of the high error rate. Thanks.. Bela Depends on the driver. Some drivers accept options

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 03:12 pm, DrewMartin wrote: Hello All, I tried to install Mplayer from the mplayer website,but ended up going round in circles(using the RPM's for Redhat),i.e. one would not install without the other,but could not install the other one first. That was

[newbie] 9.1/Speedtouch problems

2003-06-23 Per discussione mooney
Hi, I re-installed Mandrake 9.1 am having trouble getting Alcatel Speedtouch working (managed to get it working prior to re-install). mgmt.o is installed. Speedtouch rpm is installed. Set up for connection to internet at boot. Both lights are green. I followed Michel's intructions on the

[newbie] Configuring Ethenet LAN card

2003-06-23 Per discussione Bela Markus
Hi, how can I control a LAN card? This is automatically starts in 100Mbpw/fulldup mode, but I have to switch it back to half dup and/or 10Mbps because of the high error rate. Thanks.. Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Configuring Ethenet LAN card

2003-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 04:33 pm, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, how can I control a LAN card? This is automatically starts in 100Mbpw/fulldup mode, but I have to switch it back to half dup and/or 10Mbps because of the high error rate. Thanks.. Bela You're hijacking this 'mplayer' thread by

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-23 Per discussione Björn Olsson
On 23 Jun 2003 21:28:46 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Problem. You are known as Björn, dear Bjoern. ;-) Paul Good, just had to check. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Per discussione mooney
On 23 Jun 2003 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: SNIP mplayer, tho not full featured (questionable legal issues) is on your CD's. The full featured Mandrake, an probly illegal, ones you can get from http://plf.zarb.org/ SNIP Surely it's only illegal in 'the land of the free'? (and

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-23 Per discussione Björn Olsson
On 23 Jun 2003 14:28:04 -0500 N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good here in evolution, Bear. That's one of the few words of baby-talk Swedish my grandparents taught me that I can remember from 50 years ago. Wow, I'm impressed! I suppose you haven't used that word for some time :).

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Per discussione ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:32:56 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: They're not old people unless they've compiled a *nix kernel to 8 inch floppy. God, I haven't seen one of those since my mom took a computer course for work when I was 10. She used a Wang computer... I always thought

[newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2

2003-06-23 Per discussione C. Tresenriter
In an earlier version 0.8.* - that I used in mdk 9.0, I was easily able to set links in email to open with Opera - In 9.1, with this new version, I can't seem to find how to set this up, or maybe I just forgot.. Can someone tell me where to make this change? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] changing GNOME themes

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:23, Russ Rollins wrote: Anyone had success changing downloading and installing new themes in GNOME (Metacity themes that is) in Mandrake 9.1? I've spent an hour or so on it and can't seem to get it to work using the Theme configurator... TIA -Russ- I gave up

Re: [newbie] my computer loves Mandrake, doesn't like WinXP andreally hates Slackware

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 02:05, Beppe wrote: I can understand he does not like XP but what about poor slackware? :) It's not such a bad distro after all (even if packages are managed in such a way that calling awful would still be a compliment) Giuseppe Have you tried a newer version of

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Per discussione Erylon Hines
If you don't have the Mandrake rpms, and you're not using urpmi, you can use the --force option on the rpm. That will probably work, but only use it if you are certain that the 2 rpm's will satisfy all the deps. In almost all cases, RH rpms work on Mandrake systems. Sometimes you have to

Re: [newbie] sensors

2003-06-23 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 23 2003 02:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have lm_sensors-2.7.0-2mdk installed Every time I shut down I get error message, /etc/rc0.d/k971_ ?line 73 error, too few arguments. here is the section. modules=`grep \^MODULE_ $CONFIG | wc -l`

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 00:54, JoeHill wrote: On 19 Jun 2003 20:44:41 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Ok, Femme, Mr. Ron (I don't live in a trailer up a holler) Hall, and all the other gamerz; THIS IS BLOODY BRILLIANT.

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 03:19, ed tharp wrote: BTW, have you ever eaten conch salad, made from fresh Conch? Viagra got nothing on this food, but like a lot of things there can be drawbacks, if you eat enough to put lead in your pencil, the next morning your stomach feels like you ran the 3

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-23 Per discussione JoeHill
On 24 Jun 2003 08:57:54 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm on dial-up. I'd rather not do multi-player games on dial-up. so do you have people who you can play on a LAN with? -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-23 Per discussione James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I see your diaeresis (what is it called in Swedish?). Please do not spell your name any other way than the way it's spelled. Sincerely, Jim. Postscriptum: My spellchecker likes Bjorn better, I've taught it the error of it's ways. On Monday 23 June 2003 04:56 pm,

[newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome

2003-06-23 Per discussione Wade Waldron
I have tried to run both KDE and Gnome and get hung up on either. They start to load and then just stop and the system hangs. I have pressed Alt Ctrl F1 to get to a prompt. From here I pressed the windows key on my keyboard. This brings up a list of errors which are scrolling by so fast I

[newbie] Open filename.mny.pif in Linux?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Bob Read
I'm running LM 9.0 at the moment. Can anyone tell me how to open a file with extension; .mny.pif?? (/filename./mny,pif) Much thanks, Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Dual Booting MDK9.1 and MDK9.1

2003-06-23 Per discussione LeaAnne Kolp
Hi all, I need some help. I'm new to linux, and my linux machine is my main computer. The problem I have is, I want to install 2 versions of Mandrake 9.1 on my 30G hd. I'm tired of trying to learn linux on my main machine and loosing all my programs and email :( So I got the bright idea of dual

Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-23 Per discussione Chris
On Monday 23 June 2003 01:42 am, Derek Jennings wrote: If I can correct myself - xmms-cdread is not on your CDs it is on the mirrors in Contrib. I believe I may have mentioned once or twice on this list how to set up a Contrib urpmi source :-) Yep, you sure have, and I went to the archives,

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:25, JoeHill wrote: On 24 Jun 2003 08:57:54 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm on dial-up. I'd rather not do multi-player games on dial-up. so do you have people who you can play on a LAN with? That implies being social. -- Tue Jun 24 10:45:01 EST

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Crak600 - Michael
Okproblems. when my friend built the computer, he said teh primary IDE connector on the motherboard was bad. well, it's not. turned out he had been trying to hook up a bad hard drive to it. so since then, everything has been running on the 2nd IDE port. the CDRW drive is the

Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:20, Wade Waldron wrote: I have tried to run both KDE and Gnome and get hung up on either. They start to load and then just stop and the system hangs. I have pressed Alt Ctrl F1 to get to a prompt. From here I pressed the windows key on my keyboard. This brings up a

Re: [newbie] Open filename.mny.pif in Linux?

2003-06-23 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:30, Bob Read wrote: I'm running LM 9.0 at the moment. Can anyone tell me how to open a file with extension; .mny.pif?? (/filename./mny,pif) Much thanks, Bob PIF is PROGRAM INFORMATION FILE and it won't be opened by anything other than Windows. Now, being

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 05:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jun 2003 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: mplayer, tho not full featured (questionable legal issues) is on your CD's. The full featured Mandrake, an probly illegal, ones you can get from http://plf.zarb.org/ Surely it's

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 23 June 2003 03:59 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: snips a rattlesnakes rattler! OHH! Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting MDK9.1 and MDK9.1

2003-06-23 Per discussione Royke K
Use Lilo, 1. Install Mandrake 9.1 and then when you have to configure the disk partition , make sure there are enough free space for your second Mandrake 9.1 instalation. 2. Choose lilo as the bootloader, and place it on the MBR (master boot record) on your harddisk. it's easier to use. 3.

Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-23 Per discussione C. Tresenriter
As for seeing your playlist :- To start playing a CD with xmms select PlayDirectory and select /mnt/cdrom Then you can press the 'PL' button on the xmms GUI to see the playlist. HTH derek -- If I could jump in here I've been trying to figure this out but I must be doing

Re: [newbie] sensors

2003-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 04:46 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 9:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's NBFD, just ignore it. One I haven't seen before. Google thought it was the New Boston Fire Department, but http://www.kelseypub.com/irc/abbrev.shtml put me straight. Like

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