Re: [newbie] mandriva future?

2005-04-11 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 12:04, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Dear community, After the merge, what happents to the distro? Will be any free version available? I used MDK for 2 years... I've started to love it! quote Q1. Will the Limited Edition 2005 distro be split into several flavors, like

Re: [newbie] mandriva future?

2005-04-11 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 18:04, Mike Adolf wrote: quote Q1. Will the Limited Edition 2005 distro be split into several flavors, like Discovery and PowerPack? A download Edition (3CD available on public mirrors) will be released? A1. There will be only one version available through the

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 00:02, JoeHill wrote: I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). I'm not sure this is true, Joe. My Matrox

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 16:28, Tom wrote: mplayer will more often play problem DVD's than xine. BUT, every once in a while I've encountered DVD's that xine will play and mplayer won't. Those are the players I would recommend, not totem Side-issue, but interesting. I have one disk that

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any

Re: [newbie] Web page hints?

2005-04-09 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 08 Apr 2005 23:47, et wrote: have you installed drakwizard? just run the apache web server wizard from mcc, and when it asks you to put in the root, just change it to /var/www/html/Design. or are you asking about editing /etc/www/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf? as root and restarting

Re: [newbie] Re: ark rar

2005-04-09 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 11:52, Q.H. Wang wrote: Q, if you delete your reply-to address, it would be easier for people on the Mandrake/Mandriva lists to respond to your posts. Hi Miark, Many thanks for your suggestion. Now I have removed my address from the reply-to. In fact I don't

[newbie] Web page hints?

2005-04-07 Per discussione Anne Wilson
I have a small amount of web space, and need to separate a part of it. A subdirectory call Design will be under the index page. I want to make it appear the root, but I can't remember how it's done. Nor can I find anything in either of the books I have. Can anyone either point me at

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 01:11, Bryan Phinney wrote: So, when someone suggests that a Linux app be coded to provide the same false sense of security to users, when there are myriad choices of real firewalls as well as methods to lock the system down that are not trivially bypassed, some of us

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 11:13, Bryan Phinney wrote: I think what people really want is something like a dialogue box on any dial-out from an application that gives the option of this session always never so that they can block automatic dial outs but allow genuine ones. An app

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 11:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, I did suggest that they pay someone to develop such an app as I didn't think that there would be a big Linux audience for it. (The fact that there is not a current project for such a thing, to my knowledge, would tend to bear that

Re: [newbie] KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 11:33, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent re-install I had been using the graphical login

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-04-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 12:38, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: Hello, Since I installed Acrobat Reader 7, KGhostView no longer works (hangs forever). I've just downloaded KPDF: doesn't work either (*very* strange characters). Has anyone had the same problem? I haven't heard people complaining that kpdf

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not by

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 19:37, jdow wrote: So you simply block all ports for AcroRead. That's as easy as only blocking port 80. The cute problem is when you want to read a pdf file in your browser. It is probably better to save the pdf file and only allow AcroRead to access local files. I

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: AW No man page matching to iptables found. Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google, too.

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 08:36, SnapafunFrank wrote: Someone might have already answered to this later in the thread but I think want you need is: Open a new tab or page in konqueror and in the address bar type: Man:iptables That's what didn't work for me, but man:/iptables does work. Others

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 03:44, RickSisler wrote: Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my things to remember book that the syntax is man:/manpage name man: also works for me .. but it shows this man:/ in the konqueror handbook subject: Viewing Help, Man and Info Pages

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-04 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 10:55, Paul Smith wrote: Actually, what I am wanting it is a site for publishing a HOWTO pass/forward ports for my modem/router. Since my modem/router has not any manual and there is no available HOWTO, I thought that writing myself the HOWTO would help some people.

[newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Per discussione Anne Wilson
I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgphB2W5ZfDmQ.pgp

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 17:07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing you may want to do is take a look at some of the options in /etc/man.conf and deside if you want to broaden the search path for man pages. If you use the man command to look at man pages, you may also want to look at some of the

Re: [newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 19:17, John Michael Schneiderman wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. Anne Go to Configure your desktop-Security

[newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Per discussione Anne Wilson
For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, but got the error No man page matching to iptables found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE. I tried to set the variable - probably doing it completely wrong, but

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 20:18, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 02:08 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:43, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:38 pm, mike wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:02, RickSisler wrote: Anne Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne

[newbie] IRC channel, Mandrake

2005-04-03 Per discussione Anne Wilson
I have been asked to remind everyone that there is an IRC channel for Mandrake, on Freenode. It was #mandrake, but is now ##mandrake. I haven't tried it myself, but I'm told it is a good place to try when you need urgent help. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-02 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 13:22, Daniel Anderson wrote: With the original 4k ram ...none of that sissy 16k expansion stuff ;-) Or the 720k drives. Weren't they the double-density ones? I seem to remember 360k in the heady days of my first floppy drive - before that it was stretch audio tape.

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-02 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 13:20, SigmaX wrote: Makes me feel young though... 1k of RAM? Gee whiz. I guess there wasn't much eye candy, huh? :-P. Eye candy? We built pictures from white blocks on the black screen! g It was almost 6 years after that when I got my first pc - with a monochrome

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-02 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:48, Duncan Anderson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: We had a Computer Group in Huddersfield, rather like the LUGs today. We all carted down our heavyweights and plugged them in on trestle tables, with adapters on adapters g. On one occasion I actually had the output

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-02 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 21:16, Noel McG. wrote: Hello Anne, Why is it, that recently, that all your post come up as an attachment and are unreadable in the ordinary way? Because you are using OE: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 and it seems that OE can't correctly handle

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 01:42, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 10:25, Derek Jennings wrote: I gave up spying on you when you started sitting at your terminal naked. Now if only Anne and Margot would stop... No way - gotta have some fun somewhere Anne -- Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-02 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 02:46, Robert Yu wrote: Anne, is there a way of finding out whether the updated packages are really installed when I do follow the instructions? The instructions from easyurpmi set up your sources. You then need to use urpmi or Software Installer to do the updates -

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer

2005-04-01 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 13:52, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I do not have a dvd player, but I have heard that it is possible to use the computer dvd recorder to play dvd movies. Could somebody here please give me some directions? You can indeed. However, commercial dvds are encoded, and thanks

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strangely, if you look at his website he has taken the trouble to include linux links and he has written about it at some length, although I'm afraid I don't read his language. Look for him in the archives, then look at the date. Anne

Re: [newbie] Cannot access the archives

2005-04-01 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 17:12, Christopher Taylor wrote: I have not been able to access the archives today. I s there something that I have wrong? I am using the URL http://archives.mandrakelinux.com The operation is always timing out. Thanks. Try

Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.

2005-03-31 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 17:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Having something like a newsletter would also allow people to compile their own libraries on a variety of technical topics, which can be reviewed offline at their leisure, while cutting back on some of the redundant

Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK

2005-03-31 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 18:53, Noel McG. wrote: Hello Anne, Why is it all of a sudden over the last few days, that your messages do not load but are shown as attachments each time? Because you are using Outlook Express. I don't know why it happens, but I have been told by others that

Re: [newbie] gwenview

2005-03-31 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Mar 2005 10:12, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Anne Just wanted to say I am enjoying getting to use gwenview. I also updated gimp to 2.2 and it seems easier to use than v2.0 which I used in windows. Glad you're enjoying it. You've enough problems with other things :-) Anne --

Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.

2005-03-31 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Mar 2005 15:17, Mr. Geek wrote: Anyway, it seems rhetorical at this point, since the majority of the feedback concerning the idea was not positive. It seems that other assessments were right on this. No one would have the time. Time is always of the essence, isn't it? g. I

Re: [newbie] Linneighborhood

2005-03-27 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 27 Mar 2005 08:19, Leaf wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 06:26, Jason Oakley wrote: Hi. I've installed Linneighborhood on my MDK 10.1 installation. I can't find any icons for it in my MD-K-DE menu so I don't know how to configure it. It'd be nice to use for setting up

[newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look it over. The problem I've found is that clicking on

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under

Re: [newbie] Assistance from newbies needed

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 16:20, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I guess we will have to restructure the Restoring the Boot Loader section into a more general Using the Rescue Mode of the Install CD. It is not may favorite tool, but it is one that users will have. It has been a wile sence I have

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:35, Mr. Geek wrote: Anne; Take a look at the title bar in OpenOffice. Go to ToolsOptionsOpenOffice.org, and open that section. Look for a subsection called External Programs and change the settings to match your preferences. I know you have to be logged in as the

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:51, Simon wrote: I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' I do have Kwrite installed. Any ideas please. Thanks, Simon. Yes - I've no idea why it happens, but the cure is

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:42, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The reason has to do with X server security. Normally, only the user that owns the current X secession can have programs connect to it. Starting an X based program requires that it connect to an X server. Now, the user that is logged

Re: [newbie] YOUR MESSAGE #57288 - IDE CONTROLLER PROBLEM

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 16:46, Linda Ken Bowmer wrote: Hi, I wondered if you could send me a copy of your message 57288, on the above subject, from Mail Archive. It appears to have been deleted. I am installing new hard drive (Samsung 6.4G) and during the set up I have received this

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 27 Mar 2005 03:58, Lee Wiggers wrote: Members have been talking about Gwenview. May be what you need. If you go for GwenView, read the TWiki page first - you need the latest version of some packages. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited

Re: [newbie] Security updates for new MD10.1

2005-03-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 23:49, DAN WALKER wrote: That worked a treat. Thank you very much. I can't believe that this is not documented and easy to find somewhere. I looked all over the place but found the answer here thanks to you, anne. Dan, you can find lots of help on the Community TWiki -

Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK

2005-03-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 25 Mar 2005 08:13, DAN WALKER wrote: Thats what I currently do. My work will pay for a course, but as we are a school, the budget could be spent on better things like getting a real pet hamster instead of the stuffed glove with sequins as eyes. Where are you, Dan? The suggestion of

Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK

2005-03-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 25 Mar 2005 13:19, DAN WALKER wrote: there is one where I am - milton keynes. would it be full of bearded men who drive austin allegros? a bit scared of going. The ethos of a group is unpredictable - some are academic, some are bearded men who drive austin allegros, most are very

Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK

2005-03-25 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 25 Mar 2005 16:11, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 05:19 am, DAN WALKER wrote: there is one where I am - milton keynes. would it be full of bearded men who drive austin allegros? a bit scared of going. Buy a geek a pizza and a beer ,tell them that you are learning

Re: [newbie] win4lin

2005-03-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 14:32, Christophe wrote: Hello, Since I can not watch dvds on my laptop ( and I tried...) It certainly can be done. Of course it depends whether you have the time to troubleshoot your problem. and I need Asymetrix Toolbook to create educational material. I don't

Re: [newbie] Security updates for new MD10.1

2005-03-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 17:50, DAN WALKER wrote: Please excuse my newness... I tried to do the updates for my i686 machine, but it says that the website is uncontactable. Where can I find a list of update mirrors. I have googled but can not find any. Hi, Dan. Open Mandrake Control Center,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake as a Firewall

2005-03-23 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Mar 2005 16:56, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:46, Anne Wilson wrote: quote Mandrake Linux offers one of the best OSS Firewall servers available today /quote http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=showid=87perpage=1pag en um=1

Re: [newbie] gwenview

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 06:45, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've installed gwenview, unfortunately the attempted install of updated version failed and it is version 1. I can't see any of the photos using this application. I can see them in Konqueror, and find their file names in gwenview but

Re: [newbie] gwenview

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 10:21, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay Anne - thanks - wondered if it was something silly I was doing ... I don't think so. I need to become a club member obviously. I see that GQview provides a good picture on monitor, and I can see the photos using Gimp2.

Re: [newbie] KDE - KOrganizer - Free/Busy

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 13:26, SOTL wrote: Hi All Does anyone have any idea of how to set up KOrganizer Free/Busy Where the setup ask for Server Information what server should be entered? Same for User Name and Password. Is the following correct? Server Information: mail.ISP.net User

Re: [newbie] Yet Another RPMDrake question

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 15:48, Leaf wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 07:44, Robert Yu wrote: If I double-click on an RPM that's not listed in RPMDrake, will it be able to install? I am left to assume you have this RPM somewhere on your computer and you move your mouse over it and double left

Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 18:10, Christopher Taylor wrote: I am debating whether or not to upgrade to the 10.2 beta. Primarily the updates in KDE are appealing and some of the others as well. I know that I can get the iso's via bittorrent. Once burnt, how do I go about doing the upgrade? My

Re: [newbie] Auld lang syne.

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 19:35, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On March 21, 2005 10:41, Duncan Anderson wrote: ... Learning to use vi never killed anybody. ... No, it just made them wish they were dead! 8^} Vi is one of those necessary evils, because sometimes when your system is really messed up,

Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 20:12, Christopher Taylor wrote: My home is on a searate partition. I am just unfamiliar with the upgrade process. I started with a blank machine and let Mandrake do the rest. At installation, it created the 5 gig root, 1 gig swap, and 24 gig home partitions. I am

Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 20:46, Christopher Taylor wrote: Should I suggest that for future installs on the twiki? I also thought that the default for root seemed small. If you can see a page that would benefit from that, by all means add it. Anything that helps you may also help someone else.

Re: [newbie] ADSL.

2005-03-21 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 20:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, Can any one give me ideas on the best broadband provider for Mandrake-Linux. At present I have a dial up modem and have been so far attracted to Metronet who charge only £10 per month: although there are extra charges for heavy

Re: [newbie] YAY! Success! But a bit hiccup. was Doomed: KDE 3.4

2005-03-20 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 09:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Kmail doesnt see my mailing list folders! Oh, boy I've got ten of thousands emails there. What should I do to get Kmail 1.8 recognize them? Just a guess, Fajar, but maybe kmail is now using the default ~/Mail as its directory, instead of

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 12:16, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 22:45, Dan Gordon wrote: On March 20, 2005 04:48 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed the newer package I get this after checking to see what

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 18:06, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 12:30, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, I know that this is off-topic but my mail directly to you keeps getting bounced in your system. You have issues with procmail filters. I was trying to let you know and my messages

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 08:33, Elwyn wrote: Hiya Folks What I'd like to do is set up a shared area within our network that all our (family) music files are on, plus other bits and bobs, that will only share files for most of its hard drive. I've already got a working Samba place on this

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 18:25, John or Margaret Montgomery wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:44:07 -0600 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised

Re: [newbie] KDE unable to start

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 18:44, Carlton Matthew wrote: On my other PC I get teh message:- error trying to start KDE No write access to '/home/carlton/.ICEauthority' KDE is unable to start. On further investigation, the file appears to be owned by root how do I change ownership back to

Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 19:28, Carlton Matthew wrote: Following previous advice, I added the line lp to the file /etc/modprobe.preload lsmod now gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] carlton]# lsmod Module Size Used by md5 3584 1 ipv6 230916 10

Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 19:49, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could somebody please tell me how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Ksnapshot - can take screen or window. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I usually put a pretty printed label on them anyway, so that is less of a problem. But one day I would like to get one of the printers that will print directly on CDs/DVDs. But they require printable CD blanks anyway. (I do have a bunch

Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:07, Carlton Matthew wrote: gt;From: Anne Wilson lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;Subject: Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer gt;Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:50:51 + gt; gt;On Saturday 19 Mar 2005

Re: [newbie] still Cant find the printer :

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
Carlton - most of us on this list use only plain text. Html is *very* ugly and difficult to read in a text-only reader. Please, for the list, don't use it. Anne On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:50, Carlton Matthew wrote: gt;Does /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe show anything?

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 21:13, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I usually put a pretty printed label on them anyway, so that is less of a problem. But one day I would like to get one of the printers that will print

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work fine. No-name ones work, sort of, in that you will get a

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 13:56, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Should add - not getting hopeful after heaps of reading at various sites - Canon scanners seem to be the pIts with linux! Or, more accurately , Canon, disinterested? Have emailed them ... Good luck to you - let us know if you get

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:13, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I have installed libphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkam, as per johnwyles. I've looked at the various suggestions on his website, but being a newb, and the various suggestions being diff distribs, feeeling - as I said - ovewrwhelmed. Scanner

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 15:26, Ian wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I'm afraid I haven't had any DVD blanks that didn't work. I presume that's down to the

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 17:44, Tom wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:44, Tom wrote: Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your twiki, but go

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 19:39, Charles Rodgers wrote: Success at last :-)) Many thanks to all for the helpful replies. I have a DVD reader - make just says Atapi. I have a Pioneer 109 DVD burner. I had been trying to put the source disk in the Atapi and the blank disk in the Pioneer burner

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:14 +, Anne wrote: Sounds as though you never did the configuration. You can list the available drives and say which one is to be the reader. K3b had already decided that before I got there :-) It's more

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:37, Tom wrote: The only damn 100-spindles they had on the shelf were frickin Memorex. The same 'brand' that stuck me with about 20 poor quality CDr's on a previous 100-spindle. How odd! I've never had a failure from Memorex. Could it be your burning technique?

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 02:18, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes - following the johnwyles instructions gives me the display on the camera as he describes ie USB connect, PTP. I've checked and double checked and libphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkam are all installed. When I open gtkam the window

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 00:10, Tom wrote: Maybe Memorex is sellin you different manufacturer's media than they do to me. Lighten up, Tom. I was pulling your leg. Seriously, though, many people report that their particular drives seem to like or dislike one particular brand. I've

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-17 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 09:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-17 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 10:12, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Kaj, if you have a windows boot disk, use fdisk to completely remove the partition, then let MCC deal with it. I've never used the linux fdisk, but I would have thought you could do the same with that. Anne Thanks, Anne. But..eh..

Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum

2005-03-17 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 16:25, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 08:18 +0200, Duncan Anderson wrote: I agree with Greg. In a low bandwidth situation such as mine, a mailing list works much better. Website based forums are a major pain in the behind if you have a slow

Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum

2005-03-17 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 19:50, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 02:46 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:57 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Nicole I am using a Best Data V.92 External on a dual boot Mandrake 10.0 and WinXP. It wasn't terribly expensive - about

Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum

2005-03-17 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 03:08, Duncan Anderson wrote: In South Africa, there is a service whereby you pay an extra fee every month which limits the charge of any phone call between 19h00 and 07h00 to approx. 0.9 euro (7 Rands). This means you can stay logged on from 7 in the evening to seven in

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 22:52, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Well people can call me chicken but I never, NEVER upgrade a KDE that's running on my install.I prefer waiting for the next general distrib upgrade (which is never very far away in mdk's case). I haven't considered it until this last week

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 20:12, Michel Leunen wrote: I don't know what XFDrake is so I looked where i could find it. I just said that the only reference to XFdrake I found was in /usr/share/mdk/ and it's a directory. Sorry - I made a mistake on the capitalisation. [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 20:19, Michel Leunen wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Did you upgrade KDE recently, buy any chance? Sounds familiar to the frightful mess KDE always gets into when upgrading yes, I do an upgrade regularly but, IIRC, kde was still working after my last upgrade. In the case

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 20:49, Michel Leunen wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ slocate XFdrake /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk_128.png /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk.png /usr/sbin/XFdrake Thanks Anne, that's definitely not the same as what i got

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 21:26, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I messed my KDE so bad konq would take about 5 minutes to start from xfce...beuh!!! So I installed Mdk10.2rc3 totally afresh on that laptop..and I'm not complaining;) Believe me KDE is a PIA when it comes to upgrades.makes you love

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