[newbie-it] xine o mplayer

2003-07-01 Per discussione linuxnic
Ho installato sia xine che mplayer contenuti nei cd della MDK9.1,solo che non riesco a vedere i normali dvd,mi basta solo questo. Cosa devo fare per visionarli?Devo per caso installare qualche pacchetto aggiuntivo che non è inserito nei cd? Grazie a tutti NIC -- ...siate sempre capaci di

Re: [newbie-it] sendmail

2003-07-01 Per discussione Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 03:15, martedì 1 luglio 2003, syd ha scritto: In ogni caso nella parte iniziale del .procmailrc devi dichiarare il percorso della MAILDIR che nel tuo caso sara' /var/spool/mail/ferris. Trovi tutto quello che ti serve ai link che ti ho

Re: [newbie-it] impossibile spedire posta relaying not allowed rcptto

2003-07-01 Per discussione paolo brusasco
vero grazie avevo cambiato provider e non il settaggio smtp. peraltro mandando la maggior parte delle mail a caselle di libero, avevo lasciato come smtp mail.libero.it e quindi alcuna posta in uscita funzionava ed alcuna no. miKe wrote:

Re: [newbie-it] find

2003-07-01 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Alle 21:42, lunedì 30 giugno 2003, Arwan - ha scritto: . Dunque: grep stringa /nomedir/* cerca una stringa su tutti i file di una dir? E per includere le sottodirectory? Modo becero $ grep stringa /nomedir/* $ grep stringa /nomedir/*/* $ grep stringa /nomedir/*/*/* .. il modo

Re: [newbie-it] problemino della settimana - file .swf

2003-07-01 Per discussione bombadur
*** on Monday 30 June 2003 19:49, miKe wrote: stampa su pdf poi pdf2ps indi ps2ascii Puoi fare anche pdftotext! O stampare come ps. troppe conversioni rischiano di farti perdere il testo! dopo averlo scritto mi è venuto in mente.. Rilancio: supponi che abbia scaricato con

Re: [newbie-it] find

2003-07-01 Per discussione syd
* Andrea Celli wrote: E per includere le sottodirectory? Modo becero $ grep stringa /nomedir/* $ grep stringa /nomedir/*/* $ grep stringa /nomedir/*/*/* A questo punto, volendo nobilitare di un pelino il modo becero, propongo $ grep -R stringa pathdir/ -- syd - Slackware 9.0

Re: [newbie-it] find

2003-07-01 Per discussione Germano
il Tuesday 01 July 2003 10:17, si è scritto riguardo a Re: [newbie-it] find Alle 21:42, lunedì 30 giugno 2003, Arwan - ha scritto: . Dunque: grep stringa /nomedir/* cerca una stringa su tutti i file di una dir? E per includere le sottodirectory? Modo becero $ grep stringa /nomedir/* $

Re: [newbie-it] find

2003-07-01 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Alle 12:20, martedì 1 luglio 2003, syd ha scritto: * Andrea Celli wrote: E per includere le sottodirectory? Modo becero $ grep stringa /nomedir/* $ grep stringa /nomedir/*/* $ grep stringa /nomedir/*/*/* A questo punto, volendo nobilitare di un pelino il modo becero,

Re: [newbie-it] wget e problemino della settimana - file .swf

2003-07-01 Per discussione Arwan -
Deve aver avuto molto sonno, perche' il martedì 01 luglio 2003, alle 10:23, bombadur ha scritto: Rilancio: supponi che abbia scaricato con wget le pagine del sito, e Aggiungo un quesito (sono ferma al passaggio precedente): ma se wget non scarica tutto? Ho provato, e sono certa che si e'

Re: [newbie-it] find

2003-07-01 Per discussione Germano
il Tuesday 01 July 2003 14:02, si è scritto riguardo a Re: [newbie-it] find Alle 12:20, martedì 1 luglio 2003, syd ha scritto: * Andrea Celli wrote: E per includere le sottodirectory? Modo becero $ grep stringa /nomedir/* $ grep stringa /nomedir/*/* $ grep stringa

Re: [newbie-it] sendmail

2003-07-01 Per discussione Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* Luigi Pinna ha scritto: Il problema è che se non esiste l'utente ignore il ... is 'ferris' here Se intendi, quando scarichi la posta con fetchmail, evitare che si verifichi una perdita di posta per un problema di mancata consegna locale puoi rimediare con le seguenti due righe in

[newbie-it] Ho perso tutti i miei file?!?!?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Pollo
Al momento del boot mi compare il seguente messaggio: e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda8 e non si avvia linux... Io ho disabilitato la riga dell'fstab che riguarda /dev/hda8 in

Re: [newbie-it] impossibile spedire posta relaying not allowed rcpt to

2003-07-01 Per discussione pabrusas1
vero grazie avevo lasciato come server smtp quello del provider precedente (libero) di conseguenza, sperdendo messaggi a caselle su @libero.it uscivano, gli altri no. Alle 22:09, venerdì 27 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] impossibile spedire posta relaying not allowed rcpt to, pabrusas1

Re: [newbie-it] mp3 editor

2003-07-01 Per discussione tom
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 20:50, alex wrote: Salve a tutti! ci riprovo: sapreste cortesemente indicarmi se per linux mandrake 9.0 esiste un programma di editor mp3? in pratica mi ritrovo un file mp3 molto voluminoso che vorrei dividere in n files mp3. non conosco editor per mp3 ma prova a

Re: [newbie-it] sendmail

2003-07-01 Per discussione Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:04, martedì 1 luglio 2003, Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: Se intendi, quando scarichi la posta con fetchmail, evitare che si verifichi una perdita di posta per un problema di mancata consegna locale puoi rimediare con le seguenti due righe

Re: [newbie-it] problemino della settimana - file .swf

2003-07-01 Per discussione Arwan -
Deve aver avuto molto sonno, perche' il lunedì 30 giugno 2003, alle 17:13, miKe ha scritto: Come se non bastasse mutt per incasinarsi la vita ;-) ho un'altra cosuccia da portare a termine. Devo scaricare dei testi da un sito fatto completamente con Flash 6; ovviamente i testi sono

Re: [newbie-it] Ho perso tutti i miei file?!?!?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Pollo
Il mar, 2003-07-01 alle 23:50, miKe ha scritto: che è successo al disco? ci hai lavorato, hai usato qualche tool per partizionare, è andata ia la luce... - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.21 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 --

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-07-01 Per discussione Michael
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:48 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Just make sure that you give yourself a large enough SWAP partition - about equivalent to your existing RAM. while that subject has been brought up..how hard is it to go and move my swap partition from one hard drive to another? i've

RE: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-07-01 Per discussione Frankie
I am running my own irc server using the mandrake contrib ircd rpm.. actually, I downloaded the src rpm and recompiled it with a few changes allowing me to use /kill and enabling services (though I have not found any services available for that version of ircd, so that was kinda pointless.. but

Re: [newbie] problem with sound

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only option that i have is alsamixergui, i don`t have any alsa, alsamixer, alsamixertext, or any other (in command line) ! I don`t have a man page for alsamixergui ! There is nothing ! So if someone understood my problem, i would really

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions forMusic Workstation

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:55, Michael wrote: On Monday 30 June 2003 09:48 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Just make sure that you give yourself a large enough SWAP partition - about equivalent to your existing RAM. while that subject has been brought up..how hard is it to go and move my

RE: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-07-01 Per discussione Frankie
swapping partitions is not as hard as it would seem at the outset, I have done it many times. Some Tips.: - If you are not putting windows on the 100gb drive, you can benefit by putting the swap part at the start of the drive where things will be faster. if you want windows on the drive as

Re: [newbie] Window$ free- woo hoo

2003-07-01 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Just like to announce to the list that my three computers are now completely free from the dreaded operating system from redmond. I have been running mdk without a single regret - I can do everything I have to do for work and play the way I want to do it! Cool. I am nearly there

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-01 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 12:04 PM 6/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: snip Femme, you may of hit on the solution. I'm not sure whether it will not only write to floppy but also insist on writing to MBR as well. My experience is that once in install lilo you aren't left with a choice, so that even if you elect to create boot

Re: [newbie] problem compiling

2003-07-01 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 28 June 2003 04:48 pm, Tsyko wrote: when i try to compile a game called kpacman i get the following error checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! I have no idea what package needs to be updated...

Re: [newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality

2003-07-01 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 17:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:46, FemmeFatale wrote: You can't. Bleah (tosses shiny new MNF CD in the trash). guess i'm installing 9.1 as a server. :\ thx - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Hey, how's about installing

Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more

2003-07-01 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 28 Jun 2003 7:37 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did urpmi checkinstall - it reported

Re: [newbie] driver for canon S520 (inkjet)

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:46, Eko Budiharto wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a printer (canon S520) with mandrake 9.1. I tried canon S 500, it does not print anything, except the LED is blinking. It also happens with S400. Can someone tell me what is the proper driver? I am looking forward

[newbie] Sound poor in Mandrake; Good in Redhat

2003-07-01 Per discussione Allan
Hello all, I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and I'm very happy with it, except that my sound quality is poor. I have sound, but it's soft and crackly. I just installed Redhat 9 on another partition and the sound works great. Is there a way that I can use the sound driver from Redhat while running

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 18:30, Eko Budiharto wrote: Hi, I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a certain site that I can see a

Re: [newbie] driver for canon S520 (inkjet)

2003-07-01 Per discussione Eko Budiharto
You might want to see if Webmin has a different driver to assist in the setup of the printer - I find that if MCC and everything else fails, try Webmin - if Webmin fails, then you've got to start searching... Sorry Steve, It seems that you misunderstand. I tried it with control center and MCC,

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-01 Per discussione John Richard Smith
FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:48 PM 6/30/2003 +0100, you wrote: Snip well if ya need help i'm sure we'll all be here with bells on waiting to pitch in :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Currently my mplayer picture and sound are out of sync on DVD play. John Well i can dance with my

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-01 Per discussione John Richard Smith
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Currently my mplayer picture and sound are out of sync on DVD play. have you tried shortening or lengthening audio cables? peace out. tc,hago. g . My wife suggested that , but I told her I couldn't find the cable and the scissors wont cut. John --

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Per discussione C T
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 03:30, Eko Budiharto wrote: Hi, I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a certain site that I can see a

[newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Per discussione Eko Budiharto
Hi, I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a certain site that I can see a list of hardware that is compatible with 9.1. I am

Re: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-07-01 Per discussione Cody Harris
At 12:21 PM 7/1/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:47, Cody Harris wrote: Could you be a little more specific? I used: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi ircd Please insert the medium named disc 3 Supplementary Applications CD (x86) (cdrom3) on device [/dev/cdrom] You're going to

Re: [newbie] Free of OE!

2003-07-01 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 3:10 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:09, Cody Harris wrote: What's Sylpheed? It's a venereal disease that you catch from playing with very grungy, dirty women - generally prostitutes and whores. LOL, gross enough, but look at the fortune cookie!

[newbie] winbindd problems

2003-07-01 Per discussione Richard Urwin
I have 23 days uptime, and winbindd was taking 58% of memory. (I have 320MB) 100% swap space used, everything on a go-slow. The Windows machine is switched off most of the time, including all the time when I noticed the problem. service -f smb made no difference so I sent it a HUP and it died,

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Robin Turner
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 30 2003 11:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: If I had a text file that contained the winning Powerball numbers in our state for the last 10 years, what would be the easiest way to search it for the numbers that occurred the most often. Hopefully output to a text

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-01 Per discussione John Richard Smith
ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 04:02, John Richard Smith wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:48 PM 6/30/2003 +0100, you wrote: Snip well if ya need help i'm sure we'll all be here with bells on waiting to pitch in :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt

[newbie] Accessing 'C:\Windows' ?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Peter Moscatt
I have a dual-boot system which comprises of Mandrake 9.1 [default] and MS WindowsXP. When viewing the file system with Konqeror I can see Windows in the '/mnt' area. I can browse it's file system but when I want to copy a file from the Linux system to the '/mnt/windows' - I get an error that

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-07-01 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 03:32, The Other wrote: 06/30/03 Hello All, In a few days (I hope), I'll have a replacment for the Maxtor 30GB drive. I'll be dedicating the entire drive to Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo. I plan to use the Bamboo system for music hard drive recording, editing, and score

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-07-01 Per discussione mike
Hi stephen, I had a cannon camera scanned twice on a recent trip to the Netherlands, and it didn't hurt anything. I have also known may people who have done the same. what happens, or what's the mechanics behind what you said? I'm curious :-) Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:38,

Re: [newbie] winbindd problems

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 21:23, Richard Urwin wrote: I have 23 days uptime, and winbindd was taking 58% of memory. (I have 320MB) 100% swap space used, everything on a go-slow. The Windows machine is switched off most of the time, including all the time when I noticed the problem. service -f

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-07-01 Per discussione mike
I have a cannon camera with a cf card and it works fine under linux. in mandrake you have to mount it of course, but it's no big deal. I tried to format it in linux and rendered it useless in the camera. it has to be formatted with the canon tools under windowz sad to say. once it's formatted, it

[newbie] Accessing 'C:\Windows' ?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Peter Moscatt
I have a dual-boot system which comprises of Mandrake 9.1 [default] and MS WindowsXP. When viewing the file system with Konqeror I can see Windows in the '/mnt' area. I can browse it's file system but when I want to copy a file from the Linux system to the '/mnt/windows' - I get an error that

Re: [newbie] Accessing 'C:\Windows' ?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 12:53 pm, Peter Moscatt wrote: I have a dual-boot system which comprises of Mandrake 9.1 [default] and MS WindowsXP. When viewing the file system with Konqeror I can see Windows in the '/mnt' area. I can browse it's file system but when I want to copy a file from the

[newbie] Mozilla 1.4

2003-07-01 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Anyone else experiencing problems with installing the new mozilla (1.4) on mdk9.1? I'm getting all sorts of .xpm errors, and it won't let me specify an install directory. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] lost login configuration

2003-07-01 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 05:40 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi All, I had to do a hard reset and now when I boot into LM9 my login options are whacked. I used to have one user now there are many. ftp, udp, games etc. are all on the login screen. Also, my user can't login to any window

Re: [newbie] winbindd problems

2003-07-01 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 12:54 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: WINBIND is a daemon that works in conjunction with SMB/NMB to make use of the Windows authentication for network logins/access and the likes - if you're not using it (which I highly doubt) then disable it. If you're already making use of

[newbie] Gideon (KDevelop 3.0) alpha 4a and kdelibs documentation

2003-07-01 Per discussione Guilherme Cirne
Hi all, I downloaded the source tarball for Gideon (KDevelop 3.0) alpha 4a and after running configure I get the following error: You have no kdelibs documentation generated by Doxygen installed. You should install Doxygen from www.doxygen.org, reconfigure and rebuild the kdelibs sources. You

Re: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-07-01 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 30, 2003 10:55 pm, Frankie wrote: I am running my own irc server using the mandrake contrib ircd rpm.. actually, I downloaded the src rpm and recompiled it with a few changes allowing me to use /kill and enabling services (though I have not found any services available for that

Re: [newbie] RPM for X11 cursors?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Terry Sheltra
Thanks for the help all. Terry Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Charlie wrote: quoting Terry Sheltra; Monday 30 June 2003 02:25 pm: Hi list, I remember reading somewhere about an RPM for Mandrake that included several different X11 cursor themes, but I can't remember where I read it, or where they

[newbie] Preventing Popups

2003-07-01 Per discussione Burrows, Scott
Stephen, How do u prevent the porno popups with Linux? Wife loves it because THERE AIN'T NO MORE PORNO POP-UPS when she's seriously surfing... Thanks Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support perotsystems(tm) Office: 407 804-3208 Pager: 407-400-0197 Fax:407-804-3340 E-Mail

[newbie] Is MDK 9.0 Updates prepared to Intel P4 2.8?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Lucio_Costa
Greetings All. Can anyone help me? I received 4 Dell Opt1plex 260GX box, P4 2.8Ghz, 1.0Gb Ram, and I tried to install MDK 9.0 on it. I didn't have problem in installation process, but I couldn't update It; I received information about processor incompatibilities. Do You have any information

[newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-01 Per discussione John Richard Smith
I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting home/.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John later = What programme is responsible for initiating apps on arrival on desktop ? John

Re: [newbie] hey?

2003-07-01 Per discussione ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 22:22, Damian Gatabria wrote: Can anyone read this? If so, please respond privately, i've not received any mail from the lists since friday night... Damian gotten any reply yet? __ Want to

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-07-01 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 06:48 pm, Miark wrote: Tab doesn't work when the app follows man. Try 'man cdrecTab' and nuthin' will happen. Miark H it does here. Maybe because I'm runnin 9.2 On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:47:51 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once, twice

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-07-01 Per discussione John Drouhard
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:58:03 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't seen it before, but very useful: To use word completion with man, hit ESC !. IE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk here i hit ESC ! pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype and it

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 04:21 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Eko Budiharto wrote: Hi, I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 1, 2003 01:30 am, Eko Budiharto wrote: Hi, I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a certain site that I can see a list

Re: [newbie] Is MDK 9.0 Updates prepared to Intel P4 2.8?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 3:59 pm, Lucio_Costa wrote: Greetings All. Can anyone help me? I received 4 Dell Opt1plex 260GX box, P4 2.8Ghz, 1.0Gb Ram, and I tried to install MDK 9.0 on it. I didn't have problem in installation process, but I couldn't update It; I received information about

Re: [newbie] Good Mailing List Software??

2003-07-01 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:43:03AM -0400, LeaAnne Kolp wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for a good mailing list software for my MDK 9.1 machine. I need something to where I can moderate it and have the subscription emails go to me so I can approve them. Take 2 - didn't make it the first time (?)

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-07-01 Per discussione N. B. Day
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: Big snip - everybody agrees the odds are terrible Tom Brinkman: In Texas it use to be about 1:16million. Lately they've changed the lotto from pick 6 out of 50, match all 6 ... to pick 5 out'a 50, match all, plus pick the right bonus ball

Re: [newbie] [HIJACKED]Window$ free- woo hoo = Virus scanning WinBoxen

2003-07-01 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:37 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 12:23, Dennis Myers wrote: Stephen, how do you scan a windows box for bugs? I would like to scan my wifes' comp from my linux system and show her what shows up for virii and wormies. Can you point me in the right

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Per discussione Jason Greenwood
With modems, it is much better to have a hardware modem (e.g. external serial/usb modem) than a so-called software modem (e.g. Winmodem) which relies on the OS to do some of its work, thus the slightly lower cost. Buy a hardware modem and all your problems will dissappear. There are really

[newbie] uprmi messed up all my sources.

2003-07-01 Per discussione Dan Gordon
I was playing wirh uprmi last night and now my cd sources are no longer showing any packages. As a mater a fact there are no sources to be found on any of the sites either. Not shur what i did wrong but i would at least like to have acces to the cd's. Any help will be apreatiated. Regards,

Re: [newbie] defragmentation

2003-07-01 Per discussione Robin Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but it would be very usefull if the most experienced ppl on this mail list would give us an explanation or some usefull links on this matter, why ext doesn`t need defragmentation ... Thanks in advance for your understanding. It's very simple, and not exclusive to Linux

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-07-01 Per discussione Eric Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk here i hit ESC ! pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype and it gave all the solutions. This is straight out of the ML 9.0 Command line manual (p19). eric Hey Eric. Just curious, I have to hit esc twice here, and it

Re: [newbie] apt question

2003-07-01 Per discussione Xuer
Thers is a file /etc/apt/vendors.list, you just backup and remove it so apt can work properly. But I can't use apt to install from src.rpm,for the rpm-src source sux. If anyone know how to make it work, let me know, thanks. :) Hi When I try to use apt I get this: $ apt-cache search wmweather

[newbie] Backups

2003-07-01 Per discussione Chris
Hmm, didn't get any help with my question on drakbackup so maybe I'll ask it in a different manner. Using drakbackup creates backup tar.gz files on my other drive in my /var partition. Shouldn't I be able to look inside these files using Konqueror in superuser mode? Or am I missing something

[newbie] Fully Automatic Installation

2003-07-01 Per discussione L.V.Gandhi
As for debian , apt-get install fai, anything exists for mandrake. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] we are down again

2003-07-01 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Looks like the server is down. But being the impatient type (sometimes) I thought I would send this to see if it goes. I'm sure others will too. We are a testy lot. LOL -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] asf player?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Isaac Curtis
Is there a media player for L-M that can play .asf files? My sister's HS graduation is in .asf format and I'm trying to figure out a way to view it on this box. Worst case scenario I think I can get someone to convert it, but if it's viewable that would rule. Isaac Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 02:49, MWafkowski wrote: Stephen -- Hey, hey, I'm the one who has to close his eyes at night with the boxes humming and staring at me as I sleep...let's not get them two riled up here...shesh. Mike Wafkowski Close one's eyes at night? Hmmm...strange concept. Is

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-07-01 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 1 2003 10:03 am, N. B. Day wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: Big snip - everybody agrees the odds are terrible Tom Brinkman: In Texas it use to be about 1:16million. Lately they've changed the lotto from pick 6 out of 50, match all 6 ... to pick 5

[newbie] quicktime

2003-07-01 Per discussione Tsyko
How do i play quicktime mov files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Robin Turner
rikona wrote: Hello Robin, Saturday, June 28, 2003, 7:54:35 AM, you wrote: RT A lot of them are very well-educated (and I'm not talking about RT all that training they got in Pakistan thanks to the CIA). The RT word taliban derives from talep, meaning student. Very interesting. We probably get

[newbie] How do I use all buttons on MS Explorer mouse?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Trey Sizemore
I have a MS Intellimouse Explorer wireless USB mouse and want to be able to use the side buttons as well (previous web page, forward page, etc.). Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? What are the changes to make in XFree86 (I assume)? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Is MDK 9.0 Updates prepared to Intel P4 2.8?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 1 2003 09:59 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Can anyone help me? I received 4 Dell Opt1plex 260GX box, P4 2.8Ghz, 1.0Gb Ram, and I tried to install MDK 9.0 on it. I didn't have problem in installation process, but I couldn't update It; I received information about processor

Re: [newbie] sylpheed: max # recipients limited by isp

2003-07-01 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 15:41, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:11:19 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If i have an isp that has a limit on the number of mails sent, is there a way to get sylpheed to break it up into seperat mails automatically? I'm sure the reason

Re: [newbie] USB digital camera?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:37 pm, Grant wrote: I'm going to go take some photos right now. Is it going to be able to upload to Mandrake? Any tips? - Grant Wow, in Windows I have to install a driver for it, but in Mandrake it popped right up as soon as it was plugged in. Sweet! -

[newbie] Sylpheed Claws display problems

2003-07-01 Per discussione Aron Smith
Claws worked OK untill last night now all I get is the MSG. header the text is nothing but los of little blocks any one know what's wrong? (ie:how did smitty screw it up this time) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-01 Per discussione Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote: I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting home/.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John What window manager are you using? -- Brant Fitzsimmons

[newbie] test

2003-07-01 Per discussione Aron Smith
This is a test no need to panic .. unless I am sending in HTML if so notify me and I will panic. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws display problems

2003-07-01 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On 01 Jul 2003 16:59:05 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claws worked OK untill last night now all I get is the MSG. header the text is nothing but los of little blocks any one know what's wrong? (ie:how did smitty screw it up this time) You either changed your system fonts or the

[newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality

2003-07-01 Per discussione FemmeFatale
I want to run an MNF Server and add the ability to have it serve files by ftp or something similar. Has to be simple easy to administer as well as setup. Can this be done with MNF just adding an ftp server program to it? Or will I need to install a full MDK 9.1 just set that up as my

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws display problems

2003-07-01 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 16:59:05 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claws worked OK untill last night now all I get is the MSG. header the text is nothing but los of little blocks any one know what's wrong? (ie:how did smitty screw it up this time) Did you change the fonts? Todd --

Re: [newbie] Gideon (KDevelop 3.0) alpha 4a and kdelibs documentation

2003-07-01 Per discussione John Layt
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 04:04, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi all, I downloaded the source tarball for Gideon (KDevelop 3.0) alpha 4a and after running configure I get the following error: Can't help with the configure problems, but I did find some ready made packages that work on my 9.1 install:

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-07-01 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:38 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:28:43 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:05, Todd Slater wrote: A colleague has a g4 with cf card. She usually uses the usb connection to get pics to her windoze machine; today

Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video

2003-07-01 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 28 June 2003 08:32 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I've just found something rather strange in my system - I've updated the NVidia drivers about a week or so ago, and now, for whatever reason, every time I play a movie (AVI or whatever), on the right side of the screen of the movie, I get

Re: [newbie] Accessing 'C:\Windows' ?

2003-07-01 Per discussione Peter Moscatt
G'Day Derek, Well you have answered that question:-) Yea I am running NTFS. Trust BillG to make things difficult for everyone - making friends again :-) Pete From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 22:05, mike wrote: Hi stephen, I had a cannon camera scanned twice on a recent trip to the Netherlands, and it didn't hurt anything. I have also known may people who have done the same. what happens, or what's the mechanics behind what you said? I'm curious :-)

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Per discussione Aron Smith
External modems are the best least hassle way with linux(at least for dialup) On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:36, Jason Greenwood wrote: With modems, it is much better to have a hardware modem (e.g. external serial/usb modem) than a so-called software modem (e.g. Winmodem) which relies on the OS to

Re: [newbie] winbindd problems

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:44, Richard Urwin wrote: Thanks Stephen. Damn. Had to reboot anyway. KDE wouldn't let me in. I did wonder about getting this machine to do the Windows authentication, maybe some of the setup is wrong. winbindd doesn't appear in top anymore, I'll keep my eye out

Re: [newbie] Preventing Popups

2003-07-01 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:23, Burrows, Scott wrote: Stephen, How do u prevent the porno popups with Linux? In Netscape 7+ you have the option to prevent pop-ups. In Galeon, you can go to preferences, to filtering, and then untick the box that says Allow Pop-ups Fairly easy... -- Wed Jul 2

Re: [newbie] Fully Automatic Installation

2003-07-01 Per discussione Brant Fitzsimmons
L.V.Gandhi wrote: As for debian , apt-get install fai, anything exists for mandrake. urpmi fai -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Re: [newbie] Backups

2003-07-01 Per discussione Brant Fitzsimmons
Chris wrote: Hmm, didn't get any help with my question on drakbackup so maybe I'll ask it in a different manner. Using drakbackup creates backup tar.gz files on my other drive in my /var partition. Shouldn't I be able to look inside these files using Konqueror in superuser mode? Or am I

Re: [newbie] Preventing Popups

2003-07-01 Per discussione Miark
Stephen, Mozilla: 1) Edit Preferences, then 2) Privacy Security Popup Windows 3) Click Suppress popups then OK. Konqueror: 1) Settings Configure Konqueror... 2) Java Javascript, then JavaScript tab 3) Click Ask, Deny, on Smart at the bottom, the then OK. (Experimentation recommended,

Re: [newbie] Filters in kmail

2003-07-01 Per discussione LtCdData
hi just dont do anything to kill your /home/account dir and all your settings will be there... atm i use a second hdd as /home i mount this after i have created my accounts again .. remame the /home in use as old and log into a kde session.. everything will be there waiting for you.. ) inc the

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