Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-24 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Alle 23:55, giovedì 23 ottobre 2003, NIC ha scritto: anche su mozilla, se scrivi ad esempio file://home/user navighi nel filesistem. se vuoi puoi togliere konqueror E dopo che l'ho tolto da kmail i link ai siti internet riesco a farli aprire con Mozilla? senza problemi: è una banale

Re: [newbie-it] unallocated area sull'hard disk e installazione (problemi??) + winmodem

2003-10-24 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:46, giovedì 23 ottobre 2003, Pierluigi Peggiani ha scritto: Inanzitutto grazie a tutti!! Che cosa intedni per Come è stato tagliuzzato il figuro? Che cosa è il figuro??? Grazie! Pierluigi E il linguaggio di noi altri, iniziati ai segreti

[newbie-it] installazione chlib

2003-10-24 Per discussione alfredo
Salve a tutti, sto cercando di installare le librerie chmlib: nel file INSTALL leggo: ... Linux - 1. Edit the Makefile (yeah, yeah, I know... it's archaic and I should be using automake or something...). There are not many settings you need to modify here. Basically, there are three

[newbie-it] problemi nell'installare gtk2

2003-10-24 Per discussione alfredo
Salve a tutti, volevo installare xfce, ma ci vuole gtk2, per il quale servono glb2, atk, pango. Bene ho installato glib2, atk, pango ed è andato tuttoi bene, quando vado ad installare gtk2 mi dice: configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 = 2.1.4 atk = 1.0.1 pango = 1.0.1) not met;

Re: [newbie-it] problemi nell'installare gtk2

2003-10-24 Per discussione Nevermind
Alle 13:45, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, alfredo ha scritto: Salve a tutti, volevo installare xfce, ma ci vuole gtk2, per il quale servono glb2, atk, pango. Bene ho installato glib2, atk, pango ed è andato tuttoi bene, quando vado ad installare gtk2 mi dice: anche io ebbi lo stesso problema. Se

[newbie-it] Modificare il menu di lilo

2003-10-24 Per discussione Luigi De Pascale
Salve a tutti, uso come bootloader lilo. All'avvio mi compare la lista delle varie possibilita': linux linux-nonfb windows eccetera eccetera. Qualcuno sa come posso modificare l'ordine in cui compaiono? Purtroppo devo farlo da linea di comando, non dispongo di X. Grazie Luigi

Re: [newbie-it] Modificare il menu di lilo

2003-10-24 Per discussione Nevermind
Alle 14:36, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, Luigi De Pascale ha scritto: Salve a tutti, uso come bootloader lilo. All'avvio mi compare la lista delle varie possibilita': linux linux-nonfb windows eccetera eccetera. Qualcuno sa come posso modificare l'ordine in cui compaiono? Purtroppo devo

Re: [newbie-it] Modificare il menu di lilo

2003-10-24 Per discussione carmine de pasquale
- Original Message - From: Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:36 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Modificare il menu di lilo Salve a tutti, uso come bootloader lilo. All'avvio mi compare la lista delle varie possibilita': linux

[newbie-it] Wine e fonts

2003-10-24 Per discussione emmepielle
ho istallato wine da pochissimo, mi stavo divertendo a testare istallando programmi e tutto sembrava andare a meraviglia, o anche preso un po di confidenza con il file ~/.wine/config. Ho tentato di fare il salto di qualità istallando Cubase un sequencer che uso molto, proprio alla fine mi è

Re: [newbie-it] Problema server vari su mandrake 9.1

2003-10-24 Per discussione Morsiani Luca
- Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Problema server vari su mandrake 9.1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:23, mercoledì 15 ottobre 2003, Morsiani Luca ha

Re: [newbie-it] Modificare il menu di lilo

2003-10-24 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:45, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: - Original Message - From: Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:36 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Modificare il menu di

Re: [newbie-it] gcc

2003-10-24 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:59, giovedì 23 ottobre 2003, Eraser Head ha scritto a MLdrake in merito a [newbie-it] gcc : Ciao a tutti. Ho scoperto da pochissimo che il gcc quando compila ottimizza il compilato per la macchina in uso. Il codice cosi' compilato

Re: [newbie-it] Blocco installazione - il problema del checktime reached continua

2003-10-24 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 22:40, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, Mimmo ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a [newbie-it] Blocco installazione - il problema del checktime reached continua : . Sinceramente non riesco a capire perche' mi da un errore di checktime

Re: [newbie-it] Problema server vari su mandrake 9.1

2003-10-24 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:24, lunedì 20 ottobre 2003, Morsiani Luca ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Problema server vari su mandrake 9.1 : E' nel file xinetd.conf che devo modificare per abilitare l'ascolto della ppp0? se non erro

[newbie-it] OT_Sostituire Konqueros...

2003-10-24 Per discussione kudega
Dato che sulla mia RH ho konqueros che fa i capricci e non volendolo aggiornare o reinstallare mi sono andato a cercare un altro file manager e... xls è una bomba!! Veloce, funzionale, personalizzabile, l'unica pecca è un pò la grafica ma viceversa è molto snello! E' scritto in C o C++...

Re: [newbie-it] Wine e fonts

2003-10-24 Per discussione kudega
On 24.10.2003 14:38, Michele wrote: ho istallato wine da pochissimo, mi stavo divertendo a testare istallando programmi e tutto sembrava andare a meraviglia, o anche preso un po di confidenza con il file ~/.wine/config. Ho tentato di fare il salto di qualità istallando Cubase un sequencer che

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-24 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:03, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, Andrea Celli ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide : se vuoi puoi togliere konqueror E dopo che l'ho tolto da kmail i link ai siti internet riesco a farli

[newbie-it] reply-to settato sull'indirizzo mittente (a che servirebbe?)

2003-10-24 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 salve a tutti come da subject... chiederei a chi ha settato un reply-to sul proprio indirizzo (sullo stesso dal quale posta...) , di rimuoverlo negli account che usa per postare in lista o a mettere un filtro che lo faccia, per caso mi sono

[newbie-it] scheda tv

2003-10-24 Per discussione carmine de pasquale
ho qualche problema nel modulo del sintonizzatore della scheda tv. ho provato tutte le combinazioni possibili. la mia è una scheda boeder tv pci con chip bt878. col comando /usr/bin/XawTV -c /dev/v4l/video0 vedo in bianco e nero solo l'ultimo canale impostato da winzozz, o gli ingressi

[newbie-it] modem palladio digicom

2003-10-24 Per discussione Luciano Varotti
salve a tutta la ML mi sono appena iscritto ho un modem pcmcia palladio V92 che è stato riconosciuto e correttamente configurato con mdk8, mentre non ha mai funzionato con mdk9 e con mdk9.1 prima della mdk9.1 ho tenuto una debian stable (woody) che me lo riconosceva (il dev era tap0) e me lo

Re: [newbie-it] Rete casalinga

2003-10-24 Per discussione freefred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 October 2003 17:04, kudega wrote: A grandi linee potete dirmi i passi per configurare una rete casalinga? Ho un Pc(Windozz) e vorrei collegarlo a questo (Linux RH 9) per navigare su internet. Ovviamente su Linux ho già configurato il

[newbie-it] non trovo le applicazione, ne installo di nuove ma non ci sono

2003-10-24 Per discussione Pierluigi Peggiani
Spero che nessuno mi prenda troppo in giro ma mi è capitata una cosa grottesca... Sono riuscito finalmente a installare mandrake 9.2 e fargli riconoscere TUTTE (evviva!) la periferiche, ma quando lo lancio non trovo le applicazione!!! (browser, e mail, openoffice). Cito da sito mandrake "La

Re: [newbie-it] non trovo le applicazione, ne installo di nuove ma non ci sono

2003-10-24 Per discussione freefred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 October 2003 20:09, Pierluigi Peggiani wrote: htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV/DIV PSpero che nessuno mi prenda troppo in giro potrebbero pero' maledirti se continui a postare in html:-) PSTRONGBeh io sto gran numero proprio non

Re: [newbie-it] non trovo le applicazione, ne installo di nuove ma non ci sono

2003-10-24 Per discussione francesco.melo
Alle 20:34, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, freefred ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 October 2003 20:09, Pierluigi Peggiani wrote: htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV/DIV PSpero che nessuno mi prenda troppo in giro potrebbero pero' maledirti se continui a

Re: [newbie-it] modem palladio digicom

2003-10-24 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:34, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, Luciano Varotti ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a [newbie-it] modem palladio digicom : all'avvio, in sede di boot, quando parte cardmgr si sente un beep alto (segno che l'hw e' stato riconosciuto)

Re: [newbie-it] Mplayer

2003-10-24 Per discussione Corrado
Il lun, 2003-10-20 alle 18:58, anna ha scritto: ho provato a installare xine da mandrake ( cd) e la procedura di installazione si e' bloccata perche' mancavano diverse librerie ho lasciato perdere e installato mplayer che e' uno spettacolo ( ma e' l'unico che ho provato;), la mia domanda si

Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :(

2003-10-24 Per discussione Corrado
Il mer, 2003-10-22 alle 09:56, Andrea Celli ha scritto: i contratti vanno letti accuratamente. L'abilità a inserire postille che fregano i clienti raggiunge vette impensabili ;-) Non ci sarebbe nemmeno bisogno di mettere postille in caratteri cirillici microscopici alla Paperon de Paperoni,

[newbie-it] Re: Rete casalinga

2003-10-24 Per discussione Mauro
A grandi linee potete dirmi i passi per configurare una rete casalinga? Ho un Pc(Windozz) e vorrei collegarlo a questo (Linux RH 9) per navigare su internet. Ovviamente su Linux ho già configurato il ppp0, ma non la sk ethernet. grazie ciao ciao Davide mh, molto a grandi linee devi dare

Re: [newbie-it] satellite sky1dvb PCI

2003-10-24 Per discussione Corrado
Il gio, 2003-10-23 alle 23:09, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: da 2 anni io ho una sky2, che non sono riuscito a configurare. mi ricordo però che su http://pluto.linux.it ho trovato un how-to tradotto da fatamorgana che spiegava per filo e per segno come istallare la sky1 (che non conosco)

Re: [newbie-it] Mplayer

2003-10-24 Per discussione Moreno T
Tutto era filato liscio fino alle 21:53, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, quando Corrado ha scritto: personalmente preferisco Mplayer per i file e Xine per i DVD: Concordo. A me capita però di vedere (sia con Xine che con Mplayer) le immagini dei DVD percorse da leggere righe, non nitide (come

[newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-24 Per discussione Massimo Mele
Ho un pc pentium 200 mmx scheda madre soyo 64mb ram scheda video matrox mystique e non vi dico il resto xchè anche eliminando tutti gli altri componenti praticamente lascio solo mb fd hd ram e scheda video comunque una volta partito e aperto il kde il pc si blocca ho provato anche suse e

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-24 Per discussione carmine de pasquale
prenditi le tue responsabilità, Massimo Mele, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 00:04, sabato 25 ottobre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: Ho un pc pentium 200 mmx scheda madre soyo 64mb ram scheda video matrox mystique e non vi dico il

Re: [newbie-it] reply-to settato sull'indirizzo mittente (a che servirebbe?)

2003-10-24 Per discussione tom
On Friday 24 October 2003 17:01, miKe wrote: Ora, visto che Sympa setta il reply-to alla lista (non tutte le ml lo fanno) mi pare corretto che tutti possano leggere le risposte. mi sa che il sympa fa un po come cazzo le pare. ogni tanto setta bene il reply e ogni tanto va a farsi na

Re: [newbie-it] satellite sky1dvb PCI

2003-10-24 Per discussione carmine de pasquale
prenditi le tue responsabilità, Corrado, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 22:35, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: Il gio, 2003-10-23 alle 23:09, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: da 2 anni io ho una sky2, che non

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-24 Per discussione Martin L. Johansen
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? Not for a desktop. Only servers handling web services and lot'sa lot'sa users, or a sound/video studio. So unless

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-24 Per discussione John Wilson
On October 23, 2003 03:28 am, HaywireMac wrote: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5094279.html Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more secure than Windows. The data doesn't jibe with that. In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000, there were 17 critical

Re: [newbie] PDF printing in landscape mode

2003-10-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 2:42 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I am trying to print a document (pdf) in landscape mode but it doesn't seem to be cooperating. I am running MD9.1 with a Canon s750 printer with TurboPrint up and running. I have tried xpdf, Ghostview, kghostview and all seem to chop up

Re: [newbie] Adobe tar.gz

2003-10-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 4:07 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have decided to install Adobe Acrobat to view and print pdf files. So I downloaded the newest version for Linux. It is a tar.gz. I figured no problem I've done a couple of those :-) (ya right). I extracted it but can't seem to get it to

Re: [newbie] OT Help with samba

2003-10-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 5:59 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:38:22 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install Webmin, if you don't already have it, and try configuring through that. If you still don't get it right, post your smb.conf file and we'll look at it for you.

Re: [newbie] OT Help with samba

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:14:44 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 6/ Run the command smbpasswd -a user_name as root for each user of the Linux computer who needs to view their files over samba. user_name must be a valid user name in both Linux *and* Windows environments. The

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:49:45 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Now..onto Linux. Whatever number of vulnerabilities are reported and patched the fact remains that these are often discovered by the development team and patched BEFORE any reported attempt to exploit the

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 11:16 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: The user_name:password is the log in. Naturally it must be a valid combination. Duh! Abject grovelling That comes of grabbing a quick read between other unrelated jobs. I didn't read the line, just used it - so, no username, no

Re: [newbie] Open GL graphics cards.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 3:08 am, Scott Naylor wrote: Hey I just did this a little bit back. You go to NVIDIA.com and choose the Drivers section. Look for your card and you should run into a driver called Linux IA32 Go download that file and put it anywhere you like. Then follow the

Re: Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 5:41 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need to setup a fuck me! OS beside my normal install of linux. sigh Femme It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my Desktop box. MDK 9.0

[newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
I really like this guy, a Lin/Mac supporter all the way, but very realistic when it comes to dealing with that crap called Windows. Anothere *great column*: http://securityfocus.com/columnists/193 -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

[newbie] RPM'S and POP3

2003-10-24 Per discussione Drew Martin
Hello All, The RPM stuff was about what I expected,it's not a very good idea to use older RPM when using a more up to date Distro(but it can be done if careful). POP 3 was sorted when I managed to get into NTL's account section and set up so more accounts,I've been trying

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 1:09 am, Scott Naylor wrote: Only one problem with that stratagy. I want my MIDI files to work with OSS if that is possible. Scott - I haven't been following, so sorry if this is off-beam. Have you tried KMidi (not kmid - they are different)? I had no success with

[newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione Margot
I've taken the plunge, ordered the CDs, and I want to make sure I know what I'm doing before I move from 9.0 to 9.2 so I don't mess it up like I did last time! So, before the parcel arrives from France, I need to know a few things. On boot, I get the following choices: linux - I get into this

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 1:11 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: I still don't have my MIDI in KMid working. Hasn't anybody come across the same problem as mine before? Scott - I replied earlier, but since you had your reply-to wrongly set it did not get to the list. Please do try to answer questions that

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Scott Naylor
KMidi and Timidity work fine, but I need MIDI's to play on request from games such as DOOM Legacy... I thought if KMid worked, they would work. How do you get MIDI to work in games? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Open GL graphics cards.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Scott Naylor
Ok I attached the ReadMe file to the topic Video, but I couldn't edit it because I'm not the creator of the topic. I hope that helped. And By the way, I do try to answer questions, but I am completly new at Linux, I've only been using it for a week or two... Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:39:58 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've taken the plunge, ordered the CDs, and I want to make sure I know what I'm doing before I move from 9.0 to 9.2 so I don't mess it up like I did last time! So, before the parcel arrives from France, I need to know a few

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione Scott Naylor
I'm not sure what old linux is, but I think it's carried over after a fresh install... it doesn't really have any value. Re-installing Lilo will immediatly remove that option. As for LinuxNonFB I can't be positive what it is, but I think it's a more secure form of Linux. I've never booted into

Re: [newbie] Can't login as root in CLI

2003-10-24 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
The file /usr/share/doc/msec-0.38/security.txt describes the security features for each level. Levels 4 and 5 disable direct root login. Disabling direct root login means that somebody has to guess two passwords to enter as root. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione mike
Margot wrote: I've taken the plunge, ordered the CDs, and I want to make sure I know what I'm doing before I move from 9.0 to 9.2 so I don't mess it up like I did last time! So, before the parcel arrives from France, I need to know a few things. On boot, I get the following choices: linux

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione Scott Naylor
I'm not sure what old linux is, but I think it's carried over after a fresh install... it doesn't really have any value. Re-installing Lilo will immediatly remove that option. As for LinuxNonFB I can't be positive what it is, but I think it's a more secure form of Linux. I've never booted into

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 1:47 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: KMidi and Timidity work fine, but I need MIDI's to play on request from games such as DOOM Legacy... I thought if KMid worked, they would work. How do you get MIDI to work in games? Is this why you want to use OSS and not Alsa? Alsa has an

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 1:47 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: KMidi and Timidity work fine, but I need MIDI's to play on request from games such as DOOM Legacy... I thought if KMid worked, they would work. How do you get MIDI to work in games? Not being a game-player, I can't answer that one for certain.

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-24 Per discussione Bryan Phinney
On Friday 24 October 2003 12:59 am, Michael Adams wrote: snip Trouble is Bryan, mainstream press quote these statements verbatim and do not quote anything to the contrary alongside it. They are not interested in doing any 'investigitive journalism' nowadays when they can cut and paste from

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:53:02 -0400 Scott Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: As for LinuxNonFB I can't be positive what it is, but I think it's a more secure form of Linux. Framebuffer is just high-res text mode, I don't think there's anything to do with security involved. Most graphics cards

[newbie] Power Pack

2003-10-24 Per discussione Drew Martin
Hi All, If I buy 9.2 Power Pack from Mandrake,and do a upgrade from 9.2rc2 will such things as the Nvidia Drivers be install during the upgrade?If not will a full install install the drivers and other bits and pieces? Drew Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:17:30 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: We know that journalists are bought by advertising dollars and we know which software model has the money to buy them. They are respected by the public slightly more than politicians and slightly less than used-car

Re: [newbie] Power Pack

2003-10-24 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 08:36 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, If I buy 9.2 Power Pack from Mandrake,and do a upgrade from 9.2rc2 will such things as the Nvidia Drivers be install during the upgrade?If not Only if they are already installed, but since 9.2 will install a new kernel,

Re: [newbie] Adobe tar.gz

2003-10-24 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 24 October 2003 07:52 am, Derek Jennings wrote: snip You do not need to compile acroread. It is a programme binary. Al you have to do is make the install script executable with chmod +x script_name and then execute it with ./script_name (Do that all as root) Or install

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: I've taken the plunge, ordered the CDs, and I want to make sure I know what I'm doing before I move from 9.0 to 9.2 so I don't mess it up like I did last time! So, before the parcel arrives from France, I need to know a few things. On boot, I get the following choices: linux -

[newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione Margot
I know that I should backup /home before installing 9.2, but what is the best way to do this? I have a CD-RW drive, but have never used it except as CD-Rom! Would it be best to do backups on CD-R or CD-RW? Alternatively, I have some private web space - can I just FTP a copy of /home

Re: [newbie] Power Pack

2003-10-24 Per discussione Drew Martin
Hello Greg, Thanks for that,it looks like I will Power Pack at some point soon. Drew - Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Power

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 3:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: The real questions you need to ask yourself are, Do I upgrade, or reinstall, Do I want to dual linux boot, so your've got your old working linux OS to work with while you configure the newer version. As for the old lilo scripts they

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:35:29 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I know that I should backup /home before installing 9.2, but what is the best way to do this? I have a CD-RW drive, but have never used it except as CD-Rom! Would it be best to do backups on CD-R or CD-RW?

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
Before upgrading I normally backup on CD-RW and use diff to verify the burning process. (diff is a command line program that compares two files or directories. I'm sure KDE or Gnome have graphical equivalents) There are several graphical front ends to burn CDs: Gnome-toaster, Xcdroast,

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione Margot
HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:35:29 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I know that I should backup /home before installing 9.2, but what is the best way to do this? I have a CD-RW drive, but have never used it except as CD-Rom! Would it be best to do backups on CD-R or CD-RW?

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-24 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 01:46, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:49:45 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Now..onto Linux. Whatever number of vulnerabilities are reported and patched the fact remains that these are often discovered by the development team and patched

Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 03:07, HaywireMac wrote: I really like this guy, a Lin/Mac supporter all the way, but very realistic when it comes to dealing with that crap called Windows. Anothere *great column*: http://securityfocus.com/columnists/193 What is scary is that most people don't care

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:17:45 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: As you can see, I've got plenty of space at the moment, but it seems to me it would be more useful to have a larger /home. Holy shite! You could easily pack your whole /home partition onto one CD, LOL! Ya, just tar it all up

[newbie] caching up audio files from and external source

2003-10-24 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Can you cache up audio files from an external source like an audio CD player ? I think I could rig up some sort of audio line from the audio output socket of my main highfy CD player to the audio imput on my mobo. But would it work, and can you blow something up ? John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione robin
Scott Naylor wrote: I'm not sure what old linux is, but I think it's carried over after a fresh install... it doesn't really have any value. Re-installing Lilo will immediatly remove that option. As for LinuxNonFB I can't be positive what it is, but I think it's a more secure form of Linux.

[newbie] Need Trouble Ticket program recommendation

2003-10-24 Per discussione Tango Echo
Hi all, I searched freshmeat for trouble ticket programs and found quite a handful. I would like your recommendations... Are any of you using a linux/web based support ticket program? Do you know of any good ones in 9.1? Something for an IS department to track problems and search/retrieve

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 730M 7.4G 9% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ As you can see, I've got plenty of space at the moment, but it

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Each to their own, but I would not have so much space devoted to one task. Much more convenient to measure out your hard drive into practicable spare partitions, with seperate mount points.Then you can use

Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 4:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 03:07, HaywireMac wrote: I really like this guy, a Lin/Mac supporter all the way, but very realistic when it comes to dealing with that crap called Windows. Anothere *great column*:

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione Eric Huff
Before upgrading I normally backup on CD-RW and use diff to verify the burning process. (diff is a command line program that compares two files or directories. I'm sure KDE or Gnome have graphical equivalents) I usu make a tar file of what i want backed up, then burn that. Only works if you

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - what have I got now?

2003-10-24 Per discussione Eric Huff
As for the old lilo scripts they can be upgraded as with an upgraded OS, or reinstalled as with a fresh new install. If upgraded, then when on desktop you can wipe the old linux part of the boot script. If you choose to reinstall , then lilo will be renewed completely. So making a

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:00:33 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: # root because i backup /etc if test `whoami` != root; then echo `whoami`, you have to be root exit fi BACK_PATH=/stuff/backup FILENAME=cudaback FULLPATH=$BACK_PATH/$FILENAME tar -cf $FULLPATH.tar

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione Eric Huff
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: some snippage nice --18 mkisofs -r $FULLPATH.tar | cdrecord -v -eject fs=6m speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data - This should be one line. Sure, make us all look like bloody dumbass amateurs... ;-) :) I am still learning bash, so it took some time... I

Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 10:40, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Oct 2003 4:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 03:07, HaywireMac wrote: I really like this guy, a Lin/Mac supporter all the way, but very realistic when it comes to dealing with that crap called Windows.

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:21:56 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, it'll be good for a little while. My /home is closing in on 700MB, so the complexity of the script will go up. Unless, of course, i start compressing, too. 700MB?! LOL! Mine is like 25GB, what with all the music

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:27:40 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Each to their own, but I

Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On 24 Oct 2003 11:24:06 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have alearted several friends who use win$ux most of them don't care You could *make* them care eg. Options: 1. Rubber hose 2. Bicycle chain 3. Piano wire and for the really stubborn: 4. Cinderblock -- HaywireMac ++

Re: [newbie] caching up audio files from and external source

2003-10-24 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Friday 24 October 2003 12:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Can you cache up audio files from an external source like an audio CD player ? I think I could rig up some sort of audio line from the audio output socket of my main highfy CD player to the audio imput on my mobo. But would it

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Each to their own, but I would not have so much space devoted to one task. Much more convenient to measure out your hard drive into practicable spare partitions, with seperate mount points.Then

Re: [newbie] caching up audio files from and external source

2003-10-24 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 12:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Can you cache up audio files from an external source like an audio CD player ? I think I could rig up some sort of audio line from the audio output socket of my main highfy CD player to the audio imput on my

[newbie] for those who don't get the newsletter

2003-10-24 Per discussione Heather/Femme
someone asked about MDK for PPC: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker-ppc/2003-10/msg00024.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:43, HaywireMac wrote: On 24 Oct 2003 11:24:06 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have alearted several friends who use win$ux most of them don't care You could *make* them care eg. Options: 1. Rubber hose 2. Bicycle chain 3. Piano wire All

Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:43:47 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Oct 2003 11:24:06 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have alearted several friends who use win$ux most of them don't care Here's a scary (true) story: A friend of a friend has some minor

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-24 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:28:03 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5094279.html Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more secure than Windows. The data doesn't jibe with that. In the first 150 days after the release of Windows

[newbie] Moving Home partition

2003-10-24 Per discussione Kelly McCormick
More on the subject of home partions, In my current setup, I have only a / and /swap. I am thinking that I'd like to seperate /home out. It seems to me that it should be as simple as shrinking my / partition, creating a new /home, copying everything over to the new /home, emptying the original

Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups

2003-10-24 Per discussione Dale Huckeby
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:21:56 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, it'll be good for a little while. My /home is closing in on 700MB, so the complexity of the script will go up. Unless, of course, i start compressing, too.

Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:00, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:43:47 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Oct 2003 11:24:06 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have alearted several friends who use win$ux most of them don't care Here's a scary (true)

Re: [newbie] Adobe tar.gz

2003-10-24 Per discussione Russ
Hi Dennis, After I untared it, I read the README file and it said run the INSTALL script. End of help. It sort of left me hanging. Thanks Russ Dennis Myers wrote: Russ, more info, I assume you did a 'tar -xvzf adobe.tar.gz or whatever the file is. After the untaring is complete did you read

[newbie] update connections

2003-10-24 Per discussione John
After resolving some hardware issues, i have re-installed md9.1 and removed win. I am trying to update using easy urpmi at plf.zarb.org for mirror setup. Kppp keeps cutting off after about 5 minutes at one mirror and 30 min at another. Message is kppp daemon has timed out. I am running direct

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