[newbie] Re:

1999-10-07 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Joaquin wrote: Wha happen? Joaquin off the page? :-) Bob J.

Re: [newbie] Setting up a modem

1999-10-04 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Mike Easter wrote: Hi i was wondering how to get linux to recognize my modem it is definetly not a winmodem because it recognizes it as a pci device any help with this will be greatly appreciated Mike, this isn't about your modem problem per se, but I'd like to ask you a question if I

Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware

1999-10-04 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Ty Mixon wrote: Original Message On 10/4/99, 8:20:52 PM, Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware: [snip] Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me, one with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other

Re: [newbie] newbie-remove

1999-10-02 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Thomas Peter wrote: Bob Jackson wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Larry Corrales wrote: newbie-remove Wrong address. Check the MandrakeSoft website for the correct address. Isn't it about time we put a footer on the bottom of list messages that includes removal

OT Re: [newbie] newbie-remove

1999-10-02 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Jaybird X wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote: Maybe they're just stupid. :-( Maybe they ,like myself, lost it from having to reinstall several times trying to make things work. Maybe you forget what it was like when you got started.

Re: [newbie] newbie-remove

1999-10-02 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Ripcrd6 wrote: -Original Message- From: Bob Jackson Steve Philp wrote: Larry Corrales wrote: newbie-remove Wrong address. Check the MandrakeSoft website for the correct address. Isn't it about time we put a footer on the bottom of list messages that includes

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install. SUCCESS!

1999-09-26 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Regional Webmaster wrote: I have finally installed 6.0 onto my laptop. Killed the mouse by pulling the computer to tiny little bits, and then putting it back together agian, and like all good mechanics was left with a few too many screws and wires at the end of it.. I presumed this to be

Re: [newbie] Savage 4 Server

1999-09-26 Per discussione Bob Jackson
RICHARD FRIEDMAN wrote: Does anyone know if XFree86 3.3.5 (I think that's the most recent version) has the appropriate x server for video cards with the Savage 4 chipset? XFree86.org would know. They have a list of supported hardware. Check out their website. Bob J.

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install.

1999-09-25 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Aaron Sinclair wrote: My fourth day of attempting 6.0 installation leaves me speachless. No i am not an imbecile, yes I have half a brain.. Most of my time has been spent browsing HOWTO's FAQ's Man and LINUX Books, Unix Books, you name it and I have looked. Eerrr - have you tried

OT leavetakings Re: [newbie] Bye...

1999-09-25 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Andy Goth wrote: Sorry, guys, but I must leave this list. Most of my questions are ignored, and the list is flooded with nonsensical garbage about chix and microwaves and... well... you name it. I can be found on the expert list. Hopefully they're a little more focused. Goodbye, and

Re: [newbie] KDE/XF86Config Question - what's a viewport?

1999-09-25 Per discussione Bob Jackson
TheThingThatShouldNotBe wrote: Thanks for the reply Jon. unfortunately I don't know what a viewport is, so I would not know how to set it. Take a piece of cardboard bigger that your monitor screen, cut a rectangular hole, 4" wide by 3" high in it. Put the cardboard over your screen.

Re: [newbie] OT Good posting practice

1999-09-25 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Richard Adams wrote: No do as i said, contact the list owner and try and get him to put your ideas into the subscription conformation message. That's a good idea. If we agree on what should be in, I'll see if I can get them to do that. The FAQ part was to make a small section in the FAQ,

Re: [newbie] OT Good posting practice

1999-09-25 Per discussione Bob Jackson
"David P. Greenberg" wrote: --I agree with all but the sigs. I _love_ my sigs. Pleeease!!! David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" **The falcon has heard the falconer** There's a problem with that, you have a 4 line sig. Some have none, some have

Re: [newbie] OT Good posting practice

1999-09-25 Per discussione Bob Jackson
fred wrote: I see the list says NEWBIE. This is the Internet people. OT Means off topic. If you get more than 20 emails a day and feel stressed - get another interest. This stuff is common. It also eans that this is a good place to learn how to get the maximum use from your postings. If

Re: [[newbie] Cannot detect microwave (REPLY)

1999-09-22 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Fred Macinster wrote: What can I say.. I was in one of my moods. You know I see all this stuff go by Subject: Help Subject: Subject: I am dying I really like the one with no subject . That gets black holed Correct!! Blank subject is the secret code for "Hell, I didn't really

[newbie] Re:

1999-09-22 Per discussione Bob Jackson
John Paul Donaldson wrote: remove surgicaly?? with a chainsaw?? Oh yeah111

Re: [[newbie] Cannot detect microwave

1999-09-22 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Ripcrd6 wrote: -Original Message- From: Bob Jackson Fred Macinster wrote: I bought this stupid OS because, the guy at the computer store said, I could manage my microwave with it. How do I detect connect to it? Who was it that said "A fool and his money ..."

Re: [[newbie] Cannot detect microwave

1999-09-22 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Bluebottle wrote: Some mothers do ave um!.. Problem is they live! That can be remidied. Bob J.

Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install

1999-09-19 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Mike Fieschko wrote: Try ncftp, a character based ftp client. Download. Interrupt the download. Start to retrieve the same file, and ncftp asks if you want to overwrite, resume, append or skip. Choose resume. This is called "reget", and is very useful. Running ncftp on a virtual

Re: [newbie] I am almost ready to give up.

1999-09-19 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Caymen wrote: I got the files to get Linux to work with my Video card. I have tried everything. I read the readme in the file (using Windows) and it says to: This is the SuSE X-server for ATI RAGE 128 video cards. Install both the two packages in this directory and run Xconfigurator.

Re: [newbie] Re:

1999-09-19 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Martin Cleaver wrote: What am I supposed to do with these? WHen you join mailing lists, you are expected to know what to do to get off, and not to spam all its users. Martin, when you join mailing lists you must realize that a small percentage of the members are terminally lazy, stupid or

Re: [Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar]

1999-09-19 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Richard Adams wrote: The above is correct, however just tellig someone to untar the file without telling him or even warn him what he is doing is going a little to far. tar files can will and have done damage to my system when i was a green newbie many moons ago. I _still_ do the

[newbie] Re:

1999-09-18 Per discussione Bob Jackson
"Joseph L. Czapiewski" wrote: newbie remove __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com Joseph, one of the definitions of insanity is: Repeating the same actions and expecting different results. If sending remove

Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install

1999-09-18 Per discussione Bob Jackson
real slow site (~200bps) Took me four days but I got it. Good luck Bob Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] X and kde

1999-09-18 Per discussione Bob Jackson
terry wrote: I've installed Linux-Mandrake about 6 times now and every time I do X windows just comes up blank regardless of the resolution of screen. The mouse works ok, it boots up without problems. When I execute KDE I get error messages "can't find X server" What am I doing

Re: [newbie] GO

1999-09-17 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Away

Re: [newbie] rpm package won't install!

1999-09-16 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Mark Hall wrote: Live and learn. Just curious, why do you FTP instead of just cp ing? Bob J. Hi Bob, I think, because my Internet ISDN connection is only (currently) on my Win NT Box and I didn't think it was possible to cp directly from NT to Linux. Do you know if it is

Re: [newbie] rpm package won't install!

1999-09-16 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Brandon Somogie wrote: hi just wanted to say that i also had a trio 3d bought a velocity 128 -30 bucks -- works great in 16bit. Brandon, don't smoke that stuff when you post. Bob J.

Re: [newbie] X display very odd

1999-09-14 Per discussione Bob Jackson
, to be found over on the right side of the screen. I have no idea what's going on. I seem to remember that there was another configuration utility other than Xconfigurator and XF86config. Is there one? I'm not sure. Ugh, I'm getting frustrated! What release of X are you using? Bob Jackson

Re: [newbie] rpm package won't install!

1999-09-14 Per discussione Bob Jackson
Mark Hall wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my XFree86 in the hope that the latest version will support my (so far unsupported S3 Trio3d) video card. I downloaded XFree86-3.3.5-1mdk.i586.rpm from Linux-mandrake. I did this on my Win NT box, then FTP'd the file to my Linux box. I de-installed

Re: [newbie] remove

1999-09-13 Per discussione Bob Jackson
to get off the list and we wouldn't have to listen to you whine. Bob Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Michael Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] remove what - Original Message --

Re: [newbie] Recoverable disk space

1999-09-13 Per discussione Bob Jackson
t programs are you running? If you can kill these maybe you can delete those pesky files. You can always fire them up again after you get Linux installed. I've got win95 and I stripped all non-essentials before I installed Mandrake. The defrag/partitioning went smoothly. Bob Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]