Hi Folks
I have finally got my mitts on a replacement 80gb Hdd for this linux machine,
MDK10.
However, before I splash ahead I'd like some advice and stuff
1. It's going to be dual boot so I'd need to install the Win98se first (in a
20gb partition) and then install Mdk telling it to leave the
Hi Folks
I've had a look around but I can only see options for setting up a dual boot
system from scratch. I'd like to be able to just add windows to this
machine
I've got a 25gb Hdd in this machine, with linux but I'd like to put 10gb or so
aside to put Windows 98 on...
I know it's
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 03:34, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 17 October 2004 11:05 am, SME Server Admin wrote:
Aftenoon :)
The time has come. I am finally in a position (technically) to upgrade
this computer (Mandrake 10 on a P2-300mhz PC (384mb ram, 25gb Hdd, CRRW)
to the chassis
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 18:51, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 18:38, SME Server Admin wrote:
Hi Folks
I've had a look around but I can only see options for setting up a dual
boot system from scratch. I'd like to be able to just add windows to
this machine
Thank you very much for the explanation...
Cheers, Elwyn
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Hi Folks
I'm doing a bit of, er, housekeeping.
Can someone tell me of the following entries which are not needed.
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
//sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs
On Monday 18 Oct 2004 16:04, SME Server Admin wrote:
//sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs
user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.sentinel.admin 0 0
I've removed that and it's taken that icon off the desktop... But not sure
about the others so have left them...
Elwyn
Aftenoon :)
The time has come. I am finally in a position (technically) to upgrade this
computer (Mandrake 10 on a P2-300mhz PC (384mb ram, 25gb Hdd, CRRW) to the
chassis of an AMD1300 (384mb ram, the rest transfers over). Just need a bit
of guidance and advise before I continue... Please :)
-- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n)
Found virus WORM_NETSKY.P in file data.rtf
.scr (in document342.zip)
The file is deleted.
-
I cannot believe
Hiya Folks
I'm after a basic database program for Mandrake 10.
It only needs about 5-10 fields but records wise could stretch on to several
thousand records, and needs to allow imports from CSV files?
Only for personal use... I've got Cross Office running MS Office 97 for access
but it's slow
On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 01:19, SME Server Admin wrote:
Thanks Björn Lundin and John Layt for your suggestions, I'll be looking into
this now over the commming weeks to get it all running.
Cheers, Elwyn
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Hi Folks
I currently use X-Chat to sit on an IRC channel usually 24/7 (as this machine
is always on) and there are a few minor things I thought someone here could
help me with :)
I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says something.
If not can someone suggest another
On Friday 17 Sep 2004 20:54, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:13:45 +0100
SME Server Admin disseminated the following:
I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says
something.
If not can someone suggest another program instead please? I'm getting on
well with X
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote:
I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and
reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they
assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech
support didn't scream in horror when I asked!).
They
On Friday 13 Aug 2004 09:32, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
Your never to old for games.
Yes :) Indeed :)
Despite this I am S glad I've moved to Linux though, it has taken a lot of
headache out of somethings that Windows does which i don't like :(
Also, I've found the files.
I was playing
On Friday 13 Aug 2004 20:05, BJ Tracy wrote:
Hello All,
Slowly getting my office up and running on Linux. Using Mandrake 10.0
Power Pack. MDK 10.0 is loaded and running well on my PC and laptop. I
have established LAN connections and can see three of the four computers in
my office. I
On Thursday 12 Aug 2004 13:49, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:26, SME Server Admin wrote:
There are some days I want to scream at this setup!
I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP
They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in
LinNeighbourhood. Fine
Alas. If I could run my games and Ameol on the linux machine I would happily
move over. Alas not.
I'm feeling better today, a bit more relaxed... Perhaps the caffine is helping
me relax more :)
Elwyn
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On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 13:47, SME Server Admin wrote:
1. What does your local.cf look like in /etc/mail/spamassassin?
# This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.
#
# See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
# tweaked
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 03:26, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 03:44 pm, SME Server Admin wrote:
Now, I've got SpamAssassin working and it seems to handle the spam at the
moment, but I need to get this learn bit sorted, so would appreaciate
some assitance in getting this working
There are some days I want to scream at this setup!
I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP
They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in
LinNeighbourhood. Fine. Linux saw the XP drives, so I copied a file over,
checked, it was there.
So I moved 400mb of documents and some
Hiya
Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built up
about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually
directory is:
Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam
Now, I've been into shell and done as it asked, ie type in the following
string. The
Trying here just in case :)
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50
From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:40, SME Server Admin wrote:
Hiya
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 16:19, SME Server Admin wrote:
Trying here just in case :)
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50
From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 16:19, SME Server Admin wrote:
Trying here just in case :)
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50
From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Right. I seem to be getting somewhere.
I have no idea why this is happening, but the Message Body is closing up
between the message list and the message structure leaving just a thick
grey line with 6 dots in the middle.
When the MB is back, with the ML at the top and MS at the bottom this
Hi Folks
Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE /
Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade.
ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place
I've found to get the updates from.
What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through
On Sunday 01 Aug 2004 19:37, Björn Lundin wrote:
SME Server Admin wrote:
Hi Folks
Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of
KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade.
ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the
place I've found
On Tuesday 27 Jul 2004 13:14, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 02:45, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote:
Press F5 when you put a new disc in?
Elwyn
Thanks that works. What
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 20:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:25, SME Server Admin wrote:
Hiya
I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email.
At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking
for something I can use that will handle it for me, one
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 05:22, Rob Blomquist wrote:
FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf?
I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can
figure out what you are asking.
Rob
Ahh, a man with more understanding of these things than I ;)
At the moment I'm building up a
Hiya
Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing,
there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without fruition!
Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please?
Elwyn
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On Monday 26 Jul 2004 11:23, Poogle wrote:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml
Ahh thank you :)
Elwyn
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of time...)
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:19:04 +0100
SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hiya
Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing,
there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote:
At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that
did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a
succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives
and have been unable to find it
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 16:13, Erylon Hines wrote:
On Friday 23 July 2004 01:25 am, SME Server Admin wrote:
| Hiya
|
| I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email.
|
| At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking
| for something I can use that will handle
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 18:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewar
ticleartid=15
http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/spam.html
snip
These two refrences do not resolve on the server.
The Columbia Link has gone, but the other is there
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 21:16, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
I am looking for a program similar to FrontPage for Linux. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
What about Quanta Plus?? It's probably already installed :)
Elwyn
Want to buy your
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 22:52, g2 wrote:
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 08:41 am, Peter Watson wrote:
Run /usr/bin/kwalletmanager then open kwallet from the icon in the system
tray and you will be able to access the configuration settings and
un-enable kwallet.
HTH
Pete
Ardnamurchan
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 12:07, Bryan Phinney wrote:
arts is the default sound system in KDE. You can, however, turn arts
completely off and use OSS directly, you just won't get sounds in KDE or if
you do get sounds, they won't coexist with other items such as xmms.
To disable arts, disable it
Hiya
Is there a log file entry somewhere for XawScreen?
I'm trying out a TV card and it keeps crashing. Or rather, all it does it
starts to load then just vanishes???
Running Mandrake 10
Cheers
Elwyn
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On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 14:32, Angus Auld wrote:
Greetings all,
I am stumped as to how to get around the insert cdrom4
message when I try to install some softwares with rpmdrake.
There is a 4 CD pack for members of Mandrake's website... Otherwise everyone
else has a 3 CD pack
HTH
Elwyn
Hi Folks
Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3?
At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others
wont work :(
Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc
For mp3encode for example I've got the following settings
Encoder Command Line:
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 18:47, Todd Slater wrote:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:10:20PM +0100, SME Server Admin wrote:
Hi Folks
Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3?
MandrakeSoft can't package mp3 encoders due to licensing restrictions,
so you'll have to download and install
Could anyone tell me where X-Chat keeps its logs. I know I've got them
switched on but I don't know where they are stored.
Anyone??
TIA
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On Friday 09 Jul 2004 15:43, Dan Gordon wrote:
/home/username/.xchat2/xchatlogs
Ahh yes, thanks found it :)
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Hiya
I've a flatbed parallel port scanner that I'd like to use with Mandrake 10
that I've got installed here.
Installing it shouldn't be a problem, but if there is you'd know about it
here :) Any suggestions?!
I was wondering what sort of programs anyone here would reccomend for getting
the
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 19:08, chris wrote:
On Thursday 03 June 2004 23:30, SME Admin wrote:
On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 19:34, chris wrote:
I recently installed 10.0 Official, and I now find that the Delete key
often doesn't work, and neither does the auto-repeat function.
I cannot
On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 19:34, chris wrote:
I recently installed 10.0 Official, and I now find that the Delete key
often doesn't work, and neither does the auto-repeat function.
I cannot discern a pattern to this: sometime I boot up and they work, the
next time they don't. Sometimes they will
Right, well, I've got somewhere!
I managed to mangle the whole mail system, but hey, saved me having to delete
them. One day I'll get some of them back, when I work out what I did...
Anyway. If I tell it not to delete messages from the server then there is no
problem! Can anyone add that to
Hi Folks
I've got several mail accounts setup in Kontact but am having a few problems
with collecting email.
I'm on ADSL via a router, so any machine that is on the network is on the
internet. I'm using Mandrake 10 and Kontact for email, news, etc.
Most times whenever I check email I get an
Hello:
The email below is not written in Spanish, it looks more like Portuguese to
me. It is confirmed by the persons email address, which points to Brazil.
Reagards,
Dexter
On Qui, 17 Jan 2002 12:18:08
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ajuda Plase!!!
Uso o Mandrake 7.2 e deixei uma partição
Hello:
Recently my video card died, and I replaced it with a 32Mb DDR Nvidia Ge
Force 2GTS. My hard drive is partitioned, so installing the proper drivers
for my windows portion was uneventful. Unfortunately, I can't say the same
about my linux partition. When I boot up in linux, I can only
tell you it
will configure your new card. It should give you a generic driver.
- Original Message -
From: Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: [newbie] Downloading proper Nvidia driver file
Hello:
Recently my video card
Hello:
Have you tried the veto files command? I have not used it, but the book I
have has a description for it, which you might find helpful:
veto files: Contains a list of file and directory names that are marked
by Samba as not visible and cannot be accessed by users. Entires in the
list
Hello:
I have been trying to install pilot-link into my lm8.0 system. After
installing the appropriate files from the distro cd's, I keep getting an
error saying it could not find the device. I have a PalmIII, whose cradle
is connected to my pc via a serial to usb interface. I read what
Hello:
yup type:
source .bashrc
Good luck.
Dexter
- Original Message -
From: tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:54 AM
Subject: [newbie] reloading .bashrc without logging out?
is there a way to do this, so that environment variables newly
Hello:
Was fiddling about in my system (lm8.0) when I ran into the urpmi.log.
Reading the file, I get, from time to time, and error message stating it
could not find my secure level and to run msec. Well, as far as I can
tell, I do have a security.conf file located in directory
Hello:
Not sure this will answer your question, but I used to have the same
problem, where I would have to type ifconfig eth0 down before being able
to access the internet. A friend of mine asked me to type the command
route and it turned out both my modem connection and eth0 were set up as
Hello:
Thanks for the advice regarding the installation of Pine in my system. I
have the program up and running at the moment, but with a couple of quirks,
which I would like to discuss.
1. I am running pine 4.30 under lm8.0, using a PIII 800mhz chip with 384megs
of RAM.
2. Is there
, it
shouldn't be a problem, but I would start postfix first..service postfix
start
As for your last problem, in postfix, you need to set mydomain and
myhostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Admin
Sent
Hello:
Trying to get Pine to work in my system (running pine 4.30 under lm8.0). So
far, I am able to send messages, but I cannot figure out how to retrieve
messages. I have read man pine as well as gone to their web site, and either
I am missing something, or the issue of retrieving
Hello:
I am using 2.1.1 and spell check is an option. To set it up, click on the
icon to start a new email message. On the new email select
Settings/Configure Toolbars. It should be there. Good luck.
Dexter
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 19:07, you wrote:
On Wednesday 24 October 2001
Hello:
I believe Samba is the answer to your question. There are how-to's around
explaining its' installation, but I ended up buying a book in the subject.
It walked me step by step on configuring Samba properly, and more
importantly, it had some very good trouble shooting advice. It also
Hello:
Setting up the bastille firewall is turning into an adventure. Although I
pretty much having it do what I want, there are some nagging issues I am
hoping somebody can assist me.
1. Background info: Running LM8.0 in a dell 4100 series pc using an 800 mhz
pIII processor with 384meg
cannot access it as a standard user. I can reach it as root,
but more interestingly(troublesome), even as root I can't change the
permissions for it. Any suggestions??? Thanks again...
Dexter
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 16:38, Peter Watson wrote:
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 20:25 pm, Admin
Hello:
Toda my linux box would act as the internet gateway to the lan. In the
process, I found out mandrake also installed iptables. I now understand a
firewall must be installed for masquerading, don't know why, but it has to.
Now, I have been trying to figure out how to use iptables and
Hello:
I have a peculiar problem. I leave my pc pretty much connected to the
internet 24/7. Since installing LM8.0, it will disconnect every 24 hours,
almost to the second. To get around it, I have configured my dial-up to
re-dial when disconnected. At first I suspect there is something
Hello:
I understand fetchmail is an email retrieval system, which will obtain emails
from a remote email server and distribute them to the local network.
Currently, I have a two pc lan, where my second pc is a win98 box. Does
anybody know if fetchmail will work with outlook express?
Hello:
When I attempt to set up interconnect sharing while using the Mandrake
control Center, I get the following error message:
config file content could not be interpreted.
The error message seems to be self -explanatory, but does anybody know of a
fix to get over this obstacle? Thanks...
Hello:
I just installed swat. Have you made sure the proper entries were made in
the xinitd.conf and services file?
Regards,
Dexter
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 20:20, you wrote:
Hi gang
When trying to start SWAT I get the log on screen asking for a username and
password. However
Hello:
The past couple of days I have been configuring my local area network
consisting of one win98se and one lm8.0. Last night everything looked
pretty good. Linux could see win98 and vicer versa. Samba seemed to be
working fine and I was a happy camper.
This morning the system was acting
Hello:
Does anybody know of a utility which will import the email addresses in
Outlook Express into the KDE mail client? Thank you
Dexter
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Hello:
I am using an internal USRobotics modem model 5610A.
Dexter
On Sunday 16 September 2001 18:10, you wrote:
I would appreciate any suggestions as to a suitable modem for a dual boot
setup. Using Windows 98 and Mandrake 8.
Thank you
Ivor
Hello:
This might be a silly question, but I installed LM8.0 on a disk partition,
which it shares with windows 98se. As per instructions, I went ahead and did
a disk scan and defrag on the hdd prior to installing linux. Now that I have
installed LM, is it still safe to run diskmanager and
Hello:
Thank you everybody for the quick response. The ifconfig eth0 down has
solved my immediate problem, but it does not address my overall issue. Which
is fine, since at the time I just wanted to get back to square one and start
over.
I have two pc's at home. Both of them run windoze
Hello:
Got a problem. I was trying to configure my nic using the Mandrake Control
Center - Connection. I entered the information as best I thought. I am
pretty new at Linux and admitedly some of it was guess work. After I
finished configuring it I rebooted the system.
When I tried to
Hello:
Wondering, just installed LM 8.0 about a week ago or so. What programs are
available to listen to music played in the CD-ROM? I found cdp, a terminal
based program. Seems to work fine, but was curious what other programs were
available? At the moment, I am looking for programs
Lurker:
LURKER, here. Just to let you know in WindBlows you use 'PNP' in Linux
TURN it OFF. That fixed mine.
After reading the instructions (go figure, I can't remember the last time I
ever read instructions), I did disable PNP from the BIOS. Still, after
receiving your response, I double
Hello:
Well, some progress on my attempts to get the modem up and going. I
switched to XON/XOFF and can now reach the point where the o/s attempts to
initialize the modem, but then nothing happens. If I log the answer
obtained from the modem, it looks something like:
M}W[_mm
The
Carroll:
Admin wrote:
Hello:
Well, some progress on my attempts to get the modem up and going. I
switched to XON/XOFF and can now reach the point where the o/s attempts
to
initialize the modem, but then nothing happens. If I log the answer
obtained from the modem, it looks
Hello:
I think I am getting closer to solving my problem, but I am not there yet.
I went out and bought a 3Com 5610 modem. It is linux compatible, as stated
on the box and in the literature inside the box and the only modem I found
in the three stores I visited which made such a claim. It also
Hello:
Let me introduce myself. My name is Dexter, and just today I installed
linux on a partitioned hdd and I am looking forward to spending some good
quality time with this group list. I own a Dell 4100 series pc, running on
an 800mhz PIII, with about 380 megs of ram, 40 gig hdd, a linksys
for some reason...you might have installed it wrong
perhaps
I would fully un-install it(star office)...and then re-install.
and unless...you wish to allow each single account on your machine
to use the one install, then I would install it ONLY in your
\home\username directory...not in root.
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