[newbie-it] Chiedo aiuto...

2003-10-25 Per discussione Antonello
Salve amici, vorrei chiedervi come posso montare il mio cdrom e floppy all'utente? Ho provato a dare il comando # Chmod 777 /mnt/cdrom ... non riesce a farmi leggere, comunque, le due periferiche. Vi chiedo aiuto. Antonello Santamaria -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te:

Re: [newbie-it] Chiedo aiuto...

2003-10-25 Per discussione kudega
On 25.10.2003 13:24, Antonello wrote: Salve amici, vorrei chiedervi come posso montare il mio cdrom e floppy all'utente? Ho provato a dare il comando # Chmod 777 /mnt/cdrom ... non riesce a farmi leggere, comunque, le due periferiche. Vi chiedo aiuto. Antonello Santamaria Per far montare

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione Ikki The Porcupine
Alle 00:04, sabato 25 ottobre 2003, Massimo Mele ha scritto: 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

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

2003-10-25 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 03:27, sabato 25 ottobre 2003, tom ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a Re: [newbie-it] reply-to settato sull'indirizzo mittente (a che servirebbe?) : mi sa che il sympa fa un po come cazzo le pare. ogni tanto setta bene il

Re: [newbie-it] Re: Rete casalinga

2003-10-25 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 22:20, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, Mauro ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a [newbie-it] Re: Rete casalinga : Quando faccio il collegamento (ftp) verso il pc con linux, mi vengono richieste l'username e la pw, e tutto funziona.

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 00:04, sabato 25 ottobre 2003, Massimo Mele ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a [newbie-it] help me plaese : Ho un pc pentium 200 mmx scheda madre soyo 64mb ram scheda video matrox mystique e non vi dico il resto xchè anche

[newbie-it] problema rpm

2003-10-25 Per discussione kudega
Devo aggiornare balsa, che è un client di posta, in modo da poter utilizzare GnuPg. Sul sito di balsa ho trovato anche come fare... In breve: prima devo installare GnuPG Made Easy library e poi installare balsa ricordandosi di inglobare GnuPG Made Easy con il comando ./configure

[newbie-it] avvio automatico kde

2003-10-25 Per discussione nmasiero at dsi.unive.it
salve, ho un notebook con mdk 9.1 kernel 2.4.22 o 2.6-test8 dopo il login grafico nn parte in automatico kde. al posto di kde parte una sorta di ambiente con una unica console da cui ora faccio partire kde a mano (startkde). come posso fare per far partire kde subito e in automatico. grazie ps

Re: [newbie-it] Mplayer

2003-10-25 Per discussione carmine de pasquale
prenditi le tue responsabilità, Moreno T, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 23:15, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: Tutto era filato liscio fino alle 21:53, venerdì 24 ottobre 2003, quando Corrado ha scritto:

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione Massimo Mele
nulla pc morto ..devo solo resettarlo - Original Message - From: carmine de pasquale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 12:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese prenditi le tue responsabilità, Massimo Mele, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 00:04,

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione Massimo Mele
non capisco il tuo messaggio l'email è partita da un altro pc non da quello per cui ho chiesto aiuto - Original Message - From: carmine de pasquale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 12:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese prenditi le

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione Massimo Mele
infatti sono le uniche due cosa che non ho sostituito oggi tento intanto con un altro hd e domani come mi suggerisci tu - Original Message - From: Ikki The Porcupine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione Massimo Mele
thanks come faccio ad avviarlo senza x (sono alle prime armi) - Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 00:04, sabato 25

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione carmine de pasquale
prenditi le tue responsabilità, Massimo Mele, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 00:01, domenica 26 ottobre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: non capisco il tuo messaggio l'email è partita da un altro pc non da quello per cui ho

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione Massimo Mele
grazie ...con cosa devo avviarlo per tentare di farlo funzionare ? - Original Message - From: Michele (emmepielle) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese Con la tua configurazione scodarti di KDE o Gnome.

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione carmine de pasquale
prenditi le tue responsabilità, Massimo Mele, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 00:14, domenica 26 ottobre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: thanks come faccio ad avviarlo senza x (sono alle prime armi) appena si avvia il server

Re: [newbie-it] help me plaese

2003-10-25 Per discussione carmine de pasquale
prenditi le tue responsabilità, carmine de pasquale, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 00:29, domenica 26 ottobre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: prenditi le tue responsabilità, Massimo Mele, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 00:14, domenica

Re: [newbie-it] Mplayer

2003-10-25 Per discussione Corrado
Il ven, 2003-10-24 alle 23:15, Moreno T ha scritto: Concordo. A me capita però di vedere (sia con Xine che con Mplayer) le immagini dei DVD percorse da leggere righe, non nitide (come quando li vedo con DVDplayer sotto uindouz). C'è qualche impostazione in Xine per migliorare la qualità

Re: [newbie] OT Help with samba

2003-10-25 Per discussione Dan Gordon
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:52:18 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone piont me to a link or such on how to set up a two computer network with samba on Mandrake 9.1 and windows 98se ? The win computer Ok i finaly got it working, turns out i had to enable wins host on the samba

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

2003-10-25 Per discussione John Wilson
On October 24, 2003 05:48 am, HaywireMac wrote: 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

[newbie] k3b error

2003-10-25 Per discussione Kristjan
Hi Suddenly my K3B refuses to burn anything Just yesterday I burned Slack to the disc and it worked fine Now the gui even does not start and from cli I get error like k3b: relocation error: k3b: undefined symbol: _ZNK10KAboutData18copyrightStatementEv Can anybody give some good advice what

[newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
Jim Connor has documented this problem on the TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CDroms If anyone can add the model number, please make adding this a priority. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 October 2003 07:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Jim Connor has documented this problem on the TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CDroms If anyone can add the model number, please make adding this a priority. Anne Mandrake is already compiling a list. Search

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

2003-10-25 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:31:34 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 25 October 2003 08:37 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 07:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Jim Connor has documented this problem on the TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CDroms If anyone can add the model number, please make adding this a

Re: [newbie] @LIBTOOL@: command not found

2003-10-25 Per discussione Scott Naylor
On Friday 24 October 2003 10:51 pm, Scott wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 22:04, Scott Naylor wrote: I've run into a wierd error while trying to perform make install on a program. It says this: /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin @LIBTOOL@ --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c

Re: [newbie] k3b error

2003-10-25 Per discussione Scott Naylor
On Saturday 25 October 2003 05:41 am, Kristjan wrote: Hi Suddenly my K3B refuses to burn anything Just yesterday I burned Slack to the disc and it worked fine Now the gui even does not start and from cli I get error like k3b: relocation error: k3b: undefined symbol:

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host

2003-10-25 Per discussione Russ
Hi Rob, The 2 that Mozilla won't go to anymore are Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) and Umpqua Bank (www.umpquabank.com). I use Yahoo BillPay and of course Umpqua is the bank I go through. I have been to both sites with Mozilla. Why would it suddenly say say nope? MD 9.1 and I hook to the net via cable

Re: [newbie] Kernel-souce for MDK9.2 download version

2003-10-25 Per discussione Johan
Hi, Sorry, misunderstanding here - no update was done - only looking for kernel-source Johan On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 03:15, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 07:01 pm, Johan wrote: Hi, The result of uname -a... Linux localhost 2.4.22-10mdk #1 Thu Sep 18 12:30:58 CEST 2003 i686

[newbie] MDK-9.2 which kernel will be installed

2003-10-25 Per discussione Johan
Hi, This is the output on CD #1... [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]# find /mnt/cdrom -iname *kernel* -mount /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-secure-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel2.4-marcelo-2.4.22-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] MDK-9.2 which kernel will be installed

2003-10-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 25 October 2003 09:33 am, Johan wrote: Hi, This is the output on CD #1... [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]# find /mnt/cdrom -iname *kernel* -mount /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-secure-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel2.4-marcelo-2.4.22-1mdk.i586.rpm

[newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
For anyone who owns a LG CDRom and intends installing 9.2, see http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/LgCdrom for a list of models known to be fried/working. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host

2003-10-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 24 October 2003 19:22, Russ wrote: Hi Rob, The 2 that Mozilla won't go to anymore are Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) and Umpqua Bank (www.umpquabank.com). I use Yahoo BillPay and of course Umpqua is the bank I go through. I have been to both sites with Mozilla. Why would it suddenly say say

Re: [newbie] MDK-9.2 which kernel will be installed

2003-10-25 Per discussione jose usoz
/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-secure-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel2.4-marcelo-2.4.22-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-enterprise-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 October 2003 09:04 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 08:37 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Mandrake is already compiling a list. Search IMPORTANT on the cooker list archive. Currently, fried: COMPAQ CRD-8322B(CP1) CRD-8400B (machine: Dell Optiplex

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

2003-10-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 2:55 pm, Michael Adams wrote: ?raft? - I let the newly installed lilo overwrite the old, borrow any vmlinuz and initrd that dont match the new, copy them to /boot, then rewrite the old lilo.conf's to suit. Of course i have to keep a written sheet of my 'a-hem' 15

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host

2003-10-25 Per discussione Russ
Hi Rob, Thanks for the post. Umpqua seems to be down right now. I cannot open it in Konq either. However, this was not the case yesterday. Mozilla refused to access it but Konq did just fine. Same with Yahoo. Anyway, clearing the cache seems to have worked for Yahoo. Mozilla finds it just

Re: [newbie] pppd dies

2003-10-25 Per discussione Warren Post
El mié, 22-10-2003 a las 13:01, John Richard Smith escribió: Other factors, Line quality, Well, that's probably it then. The problem is more acute when it's raining, and I'm dialing in over phone lines that our government telco splices with masking tape. Guess I'm just going to have to learn

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host

2003-10-25 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:58 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 19:22, Russ wrote: Hi Rob, The 2 that Mozilla won't go to anymore are Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) and Umpqua Bank (www.umpquabank.com). I use Yahoo BillPay and of course Umpqua is the bank I go through. I

Re: [newbie] k3b error

2003-10-25 Per discussione Kristjan
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:15:09 -0400 Scott Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 05:41 am, Kristjan wrote: Hi Suddenly my K3B refuses to burn anything Just yesterday I burned Slack to the disc and it worked fine Now the gui even does not start and from cli I get

Re: [newbie] pppd dies

2003-10-25 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Warren Post wrote: El mié, 22-10-2003 a las 13:01, John Richard Smith escribió: Other factors, Line quality, Well, that's probably it then. The problem is more acute when it's raining, and I'm dialing in over phone lines that our government telco splices with masking tape. Guess I'm just

Re: [newbie] Kernel-souce for MDK9.2 download version

2003-10-25 Per discussione Johan
Hi, Thanks for info. Please some more... Using urpmi to update from club-internet others I do not see the kernel on the available list that come to screen. Will urpmi do this automatic or does it need some specific instructions. Some pointers here would be much appreciated. I have never done a

[newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione eric
Hi, I was recently hospitalized and I didn't use my computer for awhile. During that time I forgot my password for root and I forgot where I wrote it down. Can I find that password somewhere on my system? Will I have to do a total reinstall? Thank you for any help you can give. Eric

[newbie] Using urpmi updating rpms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Johan
Hi, Using urpmi with the --noclean option some rpms are saved in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms. I take it they may be written to cd and used to update a 2nd version of mdk92 or after system crash/reinstall? What actions need be taken to get all info on disc like hdlist etc. Thanks -- Johan May this be a

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 4:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 09:04 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 08:37 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Tom, can you get to cooker and have them add the LG GCR-8523B model. That is the model that went up in smoke at

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host

2003-10-25 Per discussione lduvall
A quick test with Mozilla and IE comes up with the same upmquabank not found. Thus I would be inclinded to think their server is down. LeRoy On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:58 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 19:22, Russ wrote: Hi Rob, The 2 that Mozilla won't go to

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione Franki
eric wrote: Hi, I was recently hospitalized and I didn't use my computer for awhile. During that time I forgot my password for root and I forgot where I wrote it down. Can I find that password somewhere on my system? Will I have to do a total reinstall? Thank you for any help you can give.

Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!

2003-10-25 Per discussione dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out! After ca. 6 hrs, I've still only got about 10% downloaded (with DSL). Only got about 43 hours to go. Wooo h!! Not too impressed with Bittorent so far g. I've had similar results with most of those napster-like things. I don't bother with

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

2003-10-25 Per discussione stormjumper
u're off wrong. ;-) it's not a bug. the kernel can only access approx 860mb directly. anything above that, and the memory needs to be accessed differently for the total amount of memory, using translation tables. this leads to a performance hit as every memory access takes around 3 reads or

Re: [newbie] Kernel-souce for MDK9.2 download version

2003-10-25 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 25 October 2003 12:19 pm, Johan wrote: Hi, Thanks for info. Please some more... Using urpmi to update from club-internet others I do not see the kernel on the available list that come to screen. Will urpmi do this automatic or does it need some specific instructions. Some

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 October 2003 11:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I never saw Tom's original post, nor Derek's reply to it. More posts that went missing sigh. When we get's Derek's update on his hardware, in a format that matches the rest of the list, I'll add it - assuming that I get it. Please

[newbie] Stephen Missing

2003-10-25 Per discussione Aron Smith
Anybody heard from Stephen Khun lately he's been missing from list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] pppd dies

2003-10-25 Per discussione Erylon Hines
On Saturday 25 October 2003 11:38 am, Warren Post wrote: El mié, 22-10-2003 a las 13:01, John Richard Smith escribió: Other factors, Line quality, Well, that's probably it then. The problem is more acute when it's raining. Guess I'm just going to have to learn to be more patient. Ah, the

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:07 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 09:04 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 08:37 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Mandrake is already compiling a list. Search IMPORTANT on the cooker list archive. Currently, fried:

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 6:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Let me add some caution here. First the problem seems to be software (kernel patch, from kernel.org) that can adversely affect cheap substandard corner cutting hardware. The trend appears that this is happening mostly on ready made

Re: [newbie] Stephen Missing

2003-10-25 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 14:08, Aron Smith wrote: Anybody heard from Stephen Khun lately he's been missing from list __ He's out making money LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] using old ICQ number and contacts database etc in LICQ or similar?

2003-10-25 Per discussione Merlin Zener
Hi, I got LICQ working, using a new number [UIN], but I'd like to be able to use my old ICQ number that I've had for years, and import my old database from ICQ with all my contacts and old messages etc in it. Kind of like copying my old mail into Evolution, only this time for ICQ. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host

2003-10-25 Per discussione Russ
Going to answer my own post Umpqua is back up and I can get to it with Mozilla. I wonder why the cache was preventing me from getting there? h Russ Russ wrote: Hi Rob, Thanks for the post. Umpqua seems to be down right now. I cannot open it in Konq either. However, this was not the case

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 00:26, eric wrote: Hi, I was recently hospitalized and I didn't use my computer for awhile. During that time I forgot my password for root and I forgot where I wrote it down. Can I find that password somewhere on my system? Will I have to do a total reinstall?

Re: [newbie] k3b error

2003-10-25 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 25 October 2003 03:54 pm, Kristjan wrote: snip Only thing I did before it stopped working was that I changed the partition table of my spare drive. but that can not have anything to do with that k3b crashes. it is not logical. /snip Without diving too deeply into this : What

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione eric
Franki wrote: Hi, I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that matters. Boot from the mandrake CD1 I did that press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt. I did that when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt This didn't work. When it

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Sharrea Day
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:00, Dennis Myers wrote: snip Wonder how a retail boxed LG would do, I chicken to try it. I will be getting several new Sony or EPO DVDroms as replacements. Guess I'll find out in the next day or two when I get round to installing 9.2 on my 2nd PC. It has an LG

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione eric
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: No luck with this. When the system boots and you get the boot prompt, type in linux single. I get an error that says no such file as linux. Any ideas. Eric That will put you into single user root mode where you can execute the passwd command and change your root password

Re: [newbie] Stephen Missing

2003-10-25 Per discussione HaywireMac
On 25 Oct 2003 11:08:35 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Anybody heard from Stephen Khun lately he's been missing from list Ya, he's OK, no worries, just *very* busy. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] using old ICQ number and contacts database etc in LICQ or similar?

2003-10-25 Per discussione Paul M. Bucalo
On Saturday 25 October 2003 03:30 pm, Merlin Zener graced me with: Hi, I got LICQ working, using a new number [UIN], but I'd like to be able to use my old ICQ number that I've had for years, and import my old database from ICQ with all my contacts and old messages etc in it. Kind of like

Re: [newbie] video/audio from browser

2003-10-25 Per discussione Mike Adolf
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:42 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 12:56 am, Mike Adolf wrote: I am looking at a language web site that has video and auto links. When activated from Windows/IE, real player one comes up and does its thing. When I use Konqueror or Modzilla,

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione Sharrea Day
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:59, eric wrote: Franki wrote: I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that matters. Boot from the mandrake CD1 I did that press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt. I did that when it comes up, in rescue mode,

Re: [newbie] video/audio from browser

2003-10-25 Per discussione Derek
On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 7:16 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: SNIP * Thanks derek, From PLF site, I used Easy urpmi to Identify and load the sources you mentioned above. First I tried mplayer. It installed OK, but it would not play the video. Then I found out that the file type I was downloading

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione eric
Sharrea Day wrote: Follow Franki's instructions but ignore the chroot /mnt part and instead choose Mount your partitions in /mnt from the menu that comes up. I did that. Then when it goes back to this same menu choose Go to console. It comes back to that menu after I hit enter but after I

[newbie] update-menus stalls

2003-10-25 Per discussione antonovich
hi, issuing the command $ update-menus -v hangs and doesn't recover. It seems to do the trick but it always makes me nervous when things don't run to completion. Any ideas? Cheers Anton Can't give you the output 'cos the copy/paste doesn't seem to work until commands complete... Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Stephen Missing

2003-10-25 Per discussione David E. Fox
He's out making money mowing the sheep? :) haven't heard from you since 10/7 though. Gov-elect Schwarzenegger all that. Did you get my email? LX David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

[newbie] Winex installation errors.

2003-10-25 Per discussione Scott Naylor
include -o caps.o caps.c In file included from d3dgl_private.h:5, from caps.c:20: ../../include/wine_gl.h:31:20: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [caps.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/scott/osfiles/winex/wine/dlls/d3dgl' make[1]: ***

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione David E. Fox
when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt Im not certain that's going to work... what is actually mounted at that point? His root partition? What chroot does is to change the root partition basically. Putting in NEWROOT is just a sample place, it's not meant to be taken literally.

Re: [newbie] Stephen Missing

2003-10-25 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 25 October 2003 09:11 pm, David E. Fox wrote: snip mowing the sheep? /snip No, I don't think so. Last time we heard from him he mentioned something about having to manually mount something :-) Kaj Haulrich. -- *This mail was sent from a 100 % Microsoft free computer* Want to buy

[newbie] Can't connect with SpeedTouch 510 ADSL Ethernet

2003-10-25 Per discussione *.::::Ken::::.*
Hi,I have an Alcatel SpeedTouch 510 Ethernet modem that I use with Windows. I installed Mandrake 9.1, hoping that it would recognize and configure my connection well, since I was using an Ethernet modem and not a USB.After installation, the system starts up, and these two messages

Re: [newbie] Winex installation errors.

2003-10-25 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 October 2003 06:50 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: include -o caps.o caps.c In file included from d3dgl_private.h:5, from caps.c:20: ../../include/wine_gl.h:31:20: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [caps.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: [newbie] using old ICQ number and contacts database etc in LICQ or similar?

2003-10-25 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 October 2003 03:30 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, I got LICQ working, using a new number [UIN], but I'd like to be able to use my old ICQ number that I've had for years, and import my old database from ICQ with all my contacts and old messages etc in it. Kind of like copying my

Re: [newbie] Can't connect with SpeedTouch 510 ADSL Ethernet

2003-10-25 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 16:22, *.Ken.* wrote: Hi, I have an Alcatel SpeedTouch 510 Ethernet modem that I use with Windows. I installed Mandrake 9.1, hoping that it would recognize and configure my connection well, since I was using an Ethernet modem and not a USB. After

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 October 2003 02:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 6:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Let me add some caution here. I'm not out to cause scaremongering - the opposite in fact, but I do think it's wise to say on the TWiki that if you have one of these drives

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:55:10 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, so I'll say this newbie user TWiki is redundant, loaded with marginal solutions. Often wrong or not useable for all. That's why I haven't contributed. Better wicki's are already provided by Mandrake or

[newbie] kscd questions

2003-10-25 Per discussione Erylon Hines
Something about kscd is haywire, and has been, on my system since 9.0 (I'm using 9.1 now). Kscd plays audio CD's fine, but much of the time (not always), the cd track-timer doesn't work, it just sits at zeros. Also, the toolbox functions never seem to take--autoplay when cd inserted and eject

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione Franki
eric wrote: Franki wrote: Hi, I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that matters. Boot from the mandrake CD1 I did that press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt. I did that when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt This

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione Franki
Sharrea Day wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:59, eric wrote: Franki wrote: I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that matters. Boot from the mandrake CD1 I did that press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt. I did that when it comes up, in rescue

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Per discussione Franki
David E. Fox wrote: when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt Im not certain that's going to work... what is actually mounted at that point? His root partition? What chroot does is to change the root partition basically. Putting in NEWROOT is just a sample place, it's not meant to

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Franki
HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:55:10 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, so I'll say this newbie user TWiki is redundant, loaded with marginal solutions. Often wrong or not useable for all. That's why I haven't contributed. Better wicki's are already provided by

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 12:55 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 02:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 6:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Let me add some caution here. I'm not out to cause scaremongering - the opposite in fact, but I do think it's

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Per discussione Franki
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 02:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 6:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Let me add some caution here. I'm not out to cause scaremongering - the opposite in fact, but I do think it's wise to say on the TWiki that if you have one