Rif: [newbie-it] Sony Vaio GRT816M e Gnu/Linux

2003-11-13 Per discussione MBoito
Anche se con PC differente dal tuo ho avuto gli stessi problemi per quanto riguarda Mandrake, l'alternativa l'ho trovata in RedHat 9.0 che mi consente effettuare l'installazione tranquillamente. Nota: quando ti chiede il tipo di installazione scrivi linux nomce ide=nodma pci=off in questo

[newbie-it] icewm e icone

2003-11-13 Per discussione lori cava
Ciao a tutti. Una domandina: è possibile mettere delle icone sul desktop di icewm? E, se si, come si fa? __ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam

[newbie-it] Bandwith limit

2003-11-13 Per discussione [Gnomix]
Salve a tutti, cosa mi consigliate come software semplice per limitare la banda sotto mandrake 9.1? Grazie mille [Gnomix]

Re: [newbie-it] Bandwith limit

2003-11-13 Per discussione Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 November 2003 14:37, you wrote: Salve a tutti, cosa mi consigliate come software semplice per limitare la banda sotto mandrake 9.1? Grazie mille [Gnomix] Per scaricare e basta? Allora dx come programma per downloadare: puoi

Re: [newbie-it] Sony Vaio GRT816M e Gnu/Linux

2003-11-13 Per discussione Walter
Grazie miKe, non conoscevo il sito mobilix andro' a vedere se trovo qualcosa. Ciao Walter. Il mer, 2003-11-12 alle 21:41, miKe ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:00, mercoledì 12 novembre 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] Sony Vaio GRT816M e Gnu/Linux , Walter

Re: [newbie-it] icewm e icone

2003-11-13 Per discussione alfredo
Non penso che rientri nella filosofia del progetto, ma puoi sempre aprirti konqueror, alla directory Desktop trovi le icone e i collegamenti che ti sei fatta su kde. Icewm è bello così,leggero e impalpabile, se ti piace scaricati IceWMCP, un control manager non in bundle con mdk che ti permette

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6 *almost* trojaned

2003-11-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 13 November 2003 01:33 am, Melissa Reese wrote: Or maybe too many eyes looking in the wrong directions. My sister works at MS, and she's under the impression that everyone there is cross-eyed. :-) I just wish they were tongue-tied as well...wy too much coming out of

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione John Wilson
On November 12, 2003 06:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:20 pm, John Wilson wrote: snip Ahhh, ain't M$ grand! Pay $80,000 for a shiny new beamer and it dies because CE hiccups. Can you imagine that happening on one of the freeways around LA? wicked grin

[newbie] Display flickers on laptop ( F-siemens Amilo D 6820 - Ati radeon mobility 9000 vga )

2003-11-13 Per discussione hertas
Dear Friends, I installed Madrake 9.2 on my fujitsu - siemens amilo D 6820 notebook. Almost everything fine but the monitor flickers but it is robust on XP with 1024 * 768 @ 60 hz.Mandrake shows my monitor ( display ) as flat panel 1024 * 768 . I am using Xfree 4.3 with 3d acceleration and my

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Margot
John Wilson wrote: On November 12, 2003 06:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:20 pm, John Wilson wrote: snip Ahhh, ain't M$ grand! Pay $80,000 for a shiny new beamer and it dies because CE hiccups. Can you imagine that happening on one of the freeways around LA? wicked

Re: [newbie] 9.2 minor niggles - SOLVED

2003-11-13 Per discussione Margot
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:28 pm, Margot wrote: I can't get the 'Lock Screen' button to work - little blue button with a white padlock. Click on it and nothing happens! I used to use this a lot, when leaving the computer unattended while something is running - essential

[newbie] Macromeida flash plug-in installation on mozilla - I did something wrong !!

2003-11-13 Per discussione hertas
Dear Friends , I dowloaded macromedia flash plug-in from Macromedia's site and installed it. Eveything seems fine with the installation. Plug - in was installed in myusername/home/.mozilla/ . But when I enter a site including flash , still it can not be seen.!! How can I activate it ? Or is my

[newbie] video file conversions

2003-11-13 Per discussione Anarky
what would you recomend for converting video files in Linux? I know of avidemux .. but I'm having problems with it .. what I want to do right now is take an avi with divx raw wave and convert it into divx mp3 for audio. Any other options other than avidemux? Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Lanman
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/12/2003 at 7:58 PM Phil Newcombe wrote: I don't get these business egg-heads - the _proven_ most reliable operating system on the planet is *Free* and they choose to go with the _proven_ most bug-ridden software available and pay through the

Re: [newbie] Macromeida flash plug-in installation on mozilla - I did something wrong !!

2003-11-13 Per discussione Jerry Barton
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:13:49 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends , I dowloaded macromedia flash plug-in from Macromedia's site and installed it. Eveything seems fine with the installation. Plug - in was installed in myusername/home/.mozilla/ . But when I enter a site including

Re: [newbie] video file conversions

2003-11-13 Per discussione Jerry Barton
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:19:16 +0200 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would you recomend for converting video files in Linux? I know of avidemux .. but I'm having problems with it .. what I want to do right now is take an avi with divx raw wave and convert it into

Re: [newbie] video file conversions

2003-11-13 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Anarky wrote: what would you recomend for converting video files in Linux? I know of avidemux .. but I'm having problems with it .. what I want to do right now is take an avi with divx raw wave and convert it into divx mp3 for audio. Any other options other than avidemux? I'm

[newbie] EXPORT command

2003-11-13 Per discussione Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Where does all the variable go if I do some export commands, for example when I do EXPORT MAILUSER=me and EXPORT MAILHOST=some.tld, where all those settings go? Can I see it in somekind of configuration files? My friend told me that it is

[newbie] The name of show desktop process ??

2003-11-13 Per discussione hertas
Hello there What is the name of process (command) that makesshow desktop work ??? and where is it ?? Thanks Hertas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Merlin Zener
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 20:41, Todd Slater wrote: This was a good chuckle. USA Today has a piece about problems with the computers in certain BMW's--a cd player that spits cd's at passengers, engines that shut down while running at highway speeds etc. Now, didn't BMW choose Microsoft for that

Re: [newbie] Macromeida flash plug-in installation on mozilla - I did something wrong !!

2003-11-13 Per discussione Harv Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends , I dowloaded macromedia flash plug-in from Macromedia's site and installed it. Eveything seems fine with the installation. Plug - in was installed in myusername/home/.mozilla/ . But when I enter a site including flash , still it can not be seen.!! How can I

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 1:43 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: In case anyone is using SpamAssassin and wants to increase their use of the available DNS Blacklists, I have a configuration file that I can make available that includes connections to some of the blacklists that I find to be more valuable.

[newbie] Audio control button

2003-11-13 Per discussione Harv Nelson
My 9.2 installation offers an aRts control tool applet in the task bar. It is slow and clunky In my 9.1 system there was a cute little volume control button that resided in the task bar next to the klipper, calendar, and the clock. It was easy to use and fast ... all it need was a right

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 12:01 pm, Piero Piutti wrote: I have a problem with the mplayerplug-in 0.80 shipped with LM 9.2 playing audio and video with Mozilla: since I have realplayer 8 installed and perfectly functioning, I don't want mplayerplug-in to steal real files associations... browsing

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Thursday 13 November 2003 02:19 am, John Wilson wrote: On November 12, 2003 06:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:20 pm, John Wilson wrote: snip Ahhh, ain't M$ grand! Pay $80,000 for a shiny new beamer and it dies because CE hiccups. Can you imagine that

Re: [newbie] Audio control button

2003-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 2:16 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: My 9.2 installation offers an aRts control tool applet in the task bar. It is slow and clunky In my 9.1 system there was a cute little volume control button that resided in the task bar next to the klipper, calendar, and the clock. It was

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Per discussione Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:04 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Later:- I tried out your rules and get these errors when I run spamd -D debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: tflags RCVD_IN_EASY Possible that additional CR/LF have been introduced by my posting. I

[newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4

2003-11-13 Per discussione charo
Hi, I can't go to an online program using Mozilla because appears a message box explaining that SSL is disabled. When I double check in Preferences - Privacy Security - SSL all options where active (SSL version2, SSL version 3, TSL). What should I do to solve this problem? Thanks, Rosario

Re: [newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4

2003-11-13 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
Could it be that you are running behind a firewall that blocks SSL? I've never had problems with secure browsing with Mozilla 1.x. What's the URL of the site you can't access? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can't go to an online program using Mozilla because appears a message box

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 2:42 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:04 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Later:- I tried out your rules and get these errors when I run spamd -D debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: tflags RCVD_IN_EASY Possible

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Per discussione Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:23 am, Derek Jennings wrote: No still the same. Reading 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' it looks as if the tflags statement should always assign a test type to a test. I made them all test type 'net' and now the config files parse OK. Now to see if they will

RE: [newbie] mirror speed checker

2003-11-13 Per discussione Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Phil Newcombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mirror speed checker Hi all. Here's a bash script I found looking for something that would poll (ping) Mandrake mirrors and return the

Re: [newbie] Phoenix bios

2003-11-13 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:03 pm, alfredo wrote: Hello, does anyone know if is possible change the usb port IRQ settings from the BIOS Phoenix R0105K6. Thanks Alfredo Alfredo: Check out the support section at your motherboard's site -- after that, Google is your friend. Because each

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione John Wilson
On November 13, 2003 12:01 am, Margot wrote: snip This old joke has been doing the rounds for a while, but I think it is worth repeating in this context: There are three engineers in a car; an electrical engineer, a chemical engineer and a Microsoft engineer. Suddenly the car just stops by

RE: [newbie] Linux in Thailand

2003-11-13 Per discussione Milburn, Todd
I have just installed LM9.1 on my system at home and have set up accounts for my kids. This way they can learn it the same time I am... Family time. The way I see it, there's no time like now to get them used to working with the future of things. By the way, we are home-schoolers and they will

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 1:19 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 1:49 pm, Tango Echo wrote: The Twiki suggestion is great. One addition to it may be more of an industry HOWTO. For example, people could post HOWTOs that

[newbie] [OT] Link offered without comment...

2003-11-13 Per discussione Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2003-06.html Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 10:35:54 up 2 days, 22:41, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.08,

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 11:01 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 01:56 PM 11/12/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): And don't forget to tell them that all support/updates/fixes for 98 have ceased. Ummm...No. They just released fixes for Win98

Re: [newbie] Linux in Thailand

2003-11-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 9:44 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32110.html just thought a few ppl here might be slightly interested :) Very interesting. And it bears out what I have always held true - the M$ way is only 'intuitive' if you have been a M$ user.

Re: [newbie] mirror speed checker

2003-11-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 1:28 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Phil Newcombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Here's a bash script I found looking for something that would poll (ping) Mandrake mirrors and return the result rated by speed like apt-netselect does in Debian. I hacked it up a

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 3:42 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:23 am, Derek Jennings wrote: No still the same. Reading 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' it looks as if the tflags statement should always assign a test type to a test. I made them all test type 'net' and

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 12:01 pm, Piero Piutti wrote: in a few words, I'm asking if there is someone who succeeded in having mplayerplugin 0.80 to leave the control of real files to realplayer... I don't use 9.2, so I have to tell you what works in 9.1 and let you try for it. If you are

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Per discussione Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 13 November 2003 01:03 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: OK I have adjusted some of the scores and it is all working nicely, but I have a question? What is the difference between RCVD_IN_SORBS and the specific Sorbs tests like X_SORBS_SOCKS ? RCVD_IN_SORBS is triggered when any one of

[newbie] Problems configuring Caitoo

2003-11-13 Per discussione Scott Naylor
Recently I've been trying to configure Caitoo. I fixed the error with QT, but now I have a different problem. This comes up everytime I try to configure it checking for KDE headers installed... configure: error: your system is not able to compile a small KDE application! Check, if you installed

Re: [newbie] POSTFIX in wrong time zone

2003-11-13 Per discussione Nigel Wilkinson
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:42:33 - Kerwick Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a Mandrake 9.0 server which hosts our intranet. I have just one small problem, my postfix server thinks its in the (-5:00)EST time zone when the box itself is in the GMT Time Zone. Consequently all of my

[newbie] DivX player ?

2003-11-13 Per discussione John Richard Smith
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/BB0A4H/saledep-21?dev-t=DJQUA1R Is this Yamada DVX-6100 MPEG4 Multi-region DVD Player - Umax, electronics going to be any good for playing .avi format do you think ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] VCD programs

2003-11-13 Per discussione Merlin Zener
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:12, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:10 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 04:19, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi does the download edition of MDK 9.1 come with programs that can play VCDs? Installing Xine gives me problems with MD5 signs.

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-13 Per discussione Piero Piutti
Alle 15:19, giovedì 13 novembre 2003, Derek Jennings ha scritto: Maybe not the answer you are looking for but Opera is a stonking good browser ;-) Thanks for the tip... but I'd rather keep using mozilla... ;-) -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux

Re: [newbie] Display flickers on laptop ( F-siemens Amilo D 6820 - Ati radeon mobility 9000 vga )

2003-11-13 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I installed Madrake 9.2 on my fujitsu - siemens amilo D 6820 notebook. Almost everything fine but the monitor flickers but it is robust on XP with 1024 * 768 @ 60 hz.Mandrake shows my monitor ( display ) as flat

Re: [newbie] POSTFIX in wrong time zone

2003-11-13 Per discussione Nigel Wilkinson
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:11:33 -0500 (EST) Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:42:33 - Kerwick Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a Mandrake 9.0 server which hosts our intranet. I have just one small problem, my postfix server thinks its in the

[newbie] Ripe for plucking ?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
Quote from The Globe and Mail about the Novell takeover of S.u.S.E. : quote There could also be some other moves. Other giants might be thinking Linux too. The financially troubled Mandrake Linux is ripe for plucking, especially by a company such as Hewlett-Packard Co., which a few weeks ago

[newbie] Test

2003-11-13 Per discussione Casper
Test disregard. Casper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-13 Per discussione Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, Thanks for all your comments...they are helpful and encouraging. For the moment, I'll just reply to this one bit... On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:28:07 AM PST, you wrote: Well, first, I wrote: 3) As a total newbie getting ready

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-13 Per discussione Margot
Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, Thanks for all your comments...they are helpful and encouraging. For the moment, I'll just reply to this one bit... On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:28:07 AM PST, you wrote: Well, first, I wrote: 3) As a total

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-13 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Melissa Reese wrote: I've certainly encountered the type described above, but he's not one of them (as evidenced by his reluctance to simply re-install when he's helped me over the past four years with my troublesome Win98SE and WinME computers...often finding more focused solutions). I feel

Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-13 Per discussione robin
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:45 am, HaywireMac wrote: Stallman's answers really strike a chord with me, though I have to say I think his stance on Debian is a bit much. Anyway, he has some interesting things to say about DRM, Free Software, and the linkage between software

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Per discussione robin
Tony S. Sykes wrote: Robin, I am sure that they must have checked their licence's and found out they hadn't got any newer one's than 98. Can't think of any other reason. You can put your pen (mightier than the sword) down and hopefully not have to fight when you explain that it does not cost a

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Merlin, On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 3:32:34 AM PST, you wrote: There was a story widely reported in the papers here in Thailand about a Government minister who was locked inside his BMW when it stopped on the highway. Eventually someone

Re: [newbie] LG has posted Firmware Fixes for Bum Drives

2003-11-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: It looks as though LG has posted revised firmware for affected drives and also published a method for reflashing already dead ones. Point your browser to http://us.lgservice.com/ click Device Driver icon click CD-ROM link The first

Re: [newbie] Ripe for plucking ?

2003-11-13 Per discussione John Wilson
On November 13, 2003 12:53 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Quote from The Globe and Mail about the Novell takeover of S.u.S.E. : quote There could also be some other moves. Other giants might be thinking Linux too. The financially troubled Mandrake Linux is ripe for plucking, especially by a

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:14 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Merlin, On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 3:32:34 AM PST, you wrote: There was a story widely reported in the papers here in Thailand about a Government minister who was locked

[newbie] Repairing Perl (was many perl things broken)

2003-11-13 Per discussione Richard Babcock
Ok, I'm going a little crazy right now. My Linux box hasn't been turned on for 10 days or so which caused 'locate' to give me an error message about the database. I used the command 'updatedb' and then looked for perl5.8.0 once more to insure that I got the directory right. #locate perl5.

Re: [newbie] Ripe for plucking ?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:57 pm, John Wilson wrote: On November 13, 2003 12:53 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Quote from The Globe and Mail about the Novell takeover of S.u.S.E. : quote There could also be some other moves. Other giants might be thinking Linux too. The financially

[newbie] Best practive for installing a multi boot system, MDK 9.2 and Win XP

2003-11-13 Per discussione gideon
Hi folks, I'm a newbie, wouldn't you like to be a newbie too? Anyway, I'm just staring to try out linux. I'm actually mostly a mac user, but I also use Win. I have read many comments about various ways of accomplishing the multi boot system, which I am sure is not an unusual setup. However I

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-13 Per discussione John Wilson
On November 13, 2003 01:26 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, Thanks for all your comments...they are helpful and encouraging. For the moment, I'll just reply to this one bit... On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:28:07 AM PST, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] Repairing Perl (was many perl things broken)

2003-11-13 Per discussione bascule
just a small point. to query an installed package, ommit the .i586.rpm e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ rpm -q perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk.i586.rpm is not installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ rpm -q perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk

Re: [newbie] The name of show desktop process ??

2003-11-13 Per discussione julian
On Thursday 13 November 2003 11:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there What is the name of process (command) that makesshow desktop work ??? and where is it ?? Thanks Hertas From googling a bit: the show desktop and K icons are not aplications like the other icons, and there is no

Re: [newbie] Best practive for installing a multi boot system, MDK 9.2 and Win XP

2003-11-13 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 November 2003 09:32 pm, gideon wrote: Hi folks, I'm a newbie, wouldn't you like to be a newbie too? Anyway, I'm just staring to try out linux. I'm actually mostly a mac user, but I also use Win. Well, with that being the case, let me point out an etiquette breach that you made

Re: [newbie] Best practive for installing a multi boot system, MDK 9.2 and Win XP

2003-11-13 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 14 November 2003 09:32 pm, gideon wrote: Hi folks, I'm a newbie, wouldn't you like to be a newbie too? Anyway, I'm just staring to try out linux. I'm actually mostly a mac user, but I also use Win. I have read many comments about various ways of accomplishing the multi boot

Re: [newbie] Repairing Perl (was many perl things broken)

2003-11-13 Per discussione Franki
bascule wrote: just a small point. to query an installed package, ommit the .i586.rpm e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ rpm -q perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk.i586.rpm is not installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ rpm -q perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk

[newbie] home network Mandrake howto

2003-11-13 Per discussione Anguo
Hello, I have not been able to find a simple step by step howto for home networking. So far, I have absolutely no experience in networking, or any IP address stuff. Right now, I have a friend's computer at home and I would like 1- to share the internet connection with my own computer's

Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:55 pm, robin wrote: Does he still start lists with zero? Sir Robin and wears old computer parts... :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?

2003-11-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:14 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: I always feel really uncomfortable in any car that doesn't at least have a totally manual way to open the windows from the inside. Of course, I still only trust manual transmissions as well, so I must just be a Luddite. :-) Nah,

Re: [newbie] home network Mandrake howto

2003-11-13 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 13 November 2003 11:33 pm, Anguo wrote: Hello, I have not been able to find a simple step by step howto for home networking. So far, I have absolutely no experience in networking, or any IP address stuff. This is older, but might be helpful

Re: [newbie] mirror speed checker

2003-11-13 Per discussione Phil Newcombe
Tango Echo wrote: -Original Message- From: Phil Newcombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mirror speed checker Hi all. Here's a bash script I found looking for something that would poll (ping)

Re: [newbie] mirror speed checker

2003-11-13 Per discussione Phil Newcombe
Phil Newcombe wrote: Thanks for trying it out. It worked fine for me on my 9.2 box - some minor erroneous ping results but otherwise very helpful. I'm sorry, like I said, I'm no guru. I had to change a couple of the grep lines because, I think, they referred to ping message lines from a

Re: [newbie] Best practive for installing a multi boot system, MDK 9.2 and Win XP

2003-11-13 Per discussione gideon
ah, my appologese. I have never hijacked anything before and I did't know I had it in me. I will certianly read the twiki page on it. thanks for the other comments. I'll be back. gideon On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:34 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 09:32 pm,