Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-04 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:44:37 +0530 Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ::Hi, :: ::Does anyone know a software that can open .cdr files created by ::CorelDRAW? I'm interested in printing them. Editing and all doesn't ::matter. I need sort of a viewer for the CorelDRAW graphics files under

Re: [newbie] Problem with Sylpheed-claws 0.9.12a

2004-12-09 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:41:35 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ::I doubt very seriously that it was claws which was causing the crash.::It has never happened to me nor have I heard of it occurring to::anyone else. :: ::But it does make me wonder what version of Mdk you are running.

[newbie] Problem with Sylpheed-claws 0.9.12a

2004-12-08 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
In the last couple days, Claws is crashing X. First few times it happened I was clicking on a message and was dropped to the shell. Just now I was scrolling down an email and it happened. Has anyone else experienced this? ... or have a guess what might be the cause? Tia, Curt

Re: [newbie] Browser

2003-09-25 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:09 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: |I'm using Opera because I'm addicted to mouse gestures. Is there a |OpenSource alternative with this feature? |Lee Firebird has them too -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Getting sylpheed-claws

2003-09-25 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I've tried several times to get Sylpheed-claws via urpmi. It d/ls the file from texstar but the install fails telling me that the a file is missing: (/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/sylpheed-claws-0.8.11claws-1mdk.i586.rpm) and You may want to update your urpmi database. I've run urpmi.update -a ...

[newbie] kopete

2003-09-25 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
After upgrading 9.0 to 9.1, Iinstalled Kopete 0.7.2. It worked fine until I rebooted, now I can't get focus to send a message. I uninstalled and installed it again, and again it was fine until I rebooted. What could be happening? -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein

[newbie] Nevermind was...Getting sylpheed-claws

2003-09-25 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:27 am, Curt Tresenriter wrote: |I've tried several times to get Sylpheed-claws via urpmi. |It d/ls the file from texstar but the install fails telling me that I switched to another contrib mirror and got it. Evidently texstar was the source for the libgpgme file

Re: [newbie] Strange Message

2003-09-23 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 06:22 am, Nadger wrote: |Only just re-subbed to list of a long absence. | |Just got this sms message from sms.kaluga.mts | |There is no such user (newbie) | |Putting address into google suggests that this may have happened, in |past, on this list. | |Anyone recall

[newbie] Downloading files

2003-09-22 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I'm trying to get some xmms skins but every time I hit the link to d/l, the browsers download dialog box doesn't open - a new page does and it begins filling with code. What needs configuring to get the file downloaded? TIA Curt -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want

Re: [newbie] Downloading files

2003-09-22 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:22 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: |On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 23:10, Curt Tresenriter wrote: | I'm trying to get some xmms skins but every time I hit the link to | d/l, the browsers download dialog box doesn't open - a new page does | and it begins filling with code. | What

Re: [newbie] Downloading files

2003-09-22 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:10, Curt Tresenriter wrote: | I'm trying to get some xmms skins but every time I hit the link to | d/l, the browsers download dialog box doesn't open - a new page does | and it begins filling with code. | What

Re: [newbie] Downloading files

2003-09-22 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 22 September 2003 12:56 pm, Stormjumper wrote: |have you tried right clicking the link and doing a save as? |or you can tell us the address of the page so that others can try. | |regards, Jim Thanks for the reply Jim. Yes, tried that and it only saved the link as:

[newbie] Downloading skins

2003-09-21 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Why does my browser open a page and begin filling with code when I attempt to download a skin for xmms? -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-18 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Just thought I'd throw this in... I've had an old Cannon BJC 1000 and it has worked with 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 and now 9.1. Don't know if it's a person could find one - it's at least three years old - but it was a cheapie and has always worked flawlessly. Curt -- Imagination is more important than

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-17 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:59 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: |IT doesn't format anything, i.e. it keeps what you've got including | installed software younger or even strange to the distrib you're | upgrading. Even kernel differences show up and lilo (the start up | screen) will be configured to

[newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Has anyone using apt-get with mandrake? -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 11:06 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: | |When you've got urpmi why use apt-get? |The best won!:o) | |Good luck, |HarM Well urpmi is giving me so much trouble I thought I'd give apt a try - but then I found Tex isn't maintaining the repository any more. Due to

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 01:05 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: |On Tuesday 16 September 2003 18:40, Curt Tresenriter wrote: | Well urpmi is giving me so much trouble I thought I'd give apt a | try - but then I found Tex isn't maintaining the repository any | more. | |I'm sorry I didn't follow your

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:07 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: |On Tuesday 16 September 2003 20:38, Curt Tresenriter wrote: | A few other problems that seem unrelated have me about to reinstall | the whole shebang. | |Sounds a fair mess to me:o) |Actually it reeks of KDE dependencies. |I wouldn't

[newbie] URPMI again

2003-09-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Attempting to update via urpmi I get a message that Mozilla 1.1 is needed by Galeon. 1.1 is the version that's installed so why is it giving this message? -- Women might be able to fake orgasms...But men can fake whole relationships. ~ Sharon Stone Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] URPMI again

2003-09-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 15 September 2003 05:11 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: |On Monday 15 Sep 2003 9:56 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: | Attempting to update via urpmi I get a message that Mozilla 1.1 is | needed by Galeon. | 1.1 is the version that's installed so why is it giving this | message? | |Did you install

Re: [newbie] URPMI again

2003-09-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 15 September 2003 06:35 pm, HaywireMac wrote: |On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:31:13 -0500 | |Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: | It was installed by default. | |what Galeon package are you trying to install? Sorry I didn't take that info down. 1.2.5 is what's installed now and I'm

Re: [newbie] URPMI again

2003-09-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 15 September 2003 07:19 pm, HaywireMac wrote: |On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:50:22 -0500 | |Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: | Sorry I didn't take that info down. | 1.2.5 is what's installed now and I'm updating 9.0, so whatever | version is the current one I guess. | |IIRC

Re: [newbie] URPMI again

2003-09-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 15 September 2003 07:51 pm, HaywireMac wrote: |On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:44:16 -0500 | |Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: | yes... and I ran auto-select again it wants to install galeon | version 1.2.5-8.1mdk.i586 | |but still complains about moz 1.1 not being there? | |why

Re: [newbie] URPMI again

2003-09-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 15 September 2003 07:57 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: || ||but still complains about moz 1.1 not being there? || ||why not try: || ||urpmi galeon-1.3.5-2mdk || ||and just update the whole darned thang? | |says 'no package named galeon 1.3.5-2mdk' |?? But then I said urpmi galeon

Re: [newbie] URPMI again

2003-09-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Monday 15 September 2003 08:13 pm, HaywireMac wrote: |On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:08:52 -0500 | |Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: | But then I said | urpmi galeon | and the 1.2.5-8.1 ersion went in with no complaints! | |LOL! Good ol' Mandrake, eh? Well, Galeon 1.3.5 is out there, it just

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-14 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Sunday 14 September 2003 07:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: |Not a joke - being serious here. | |stephen kuhn - owner I'm going to get myself a salt lick for my desk just for your posts! Curt the gullible -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-13 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I've started to read this book and I'm wondering whether or not it's worth the time since what I'm really interested in is Linux. Is enough of it relevant to make it worthwhile... or is just some of it helpful? Are there parts that may as well be be passed over, or am I better off focusing on a

[newbie] urpmi hosed??

2003-09-13 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I did a clean install of 9.0 then ran urpmi urpmi - after that I tried --auto-select it wanted to uninstall a couple packages - I said yes then it listed 30 or 40 it wanted to install and again I said yes. At that point it hung - let it sit for a good long time but no go. Since then I've

Re: [newbie] urpmi hosed??

2003-09-13 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Saturday 13 September 2003 03:54 pm, David E. Fox wrote: To what are you urpmi'ing? Cooker? I think that's a bit of a leap. No cooker here! Check for the presence of _db.00? files in /var/lib/rpm. Sometimes a process exits uncleanly and you end up with those temp files and the only thing

[newbie] testing pop filters - no message

2003-09-13 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
-- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ???? was: urpmi hosed??

2003-09-13 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I removed those two files but as soon as I ran --auto-select, they reappeared. :-( -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
http://petition.eurolinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:43:37 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:01:22 -0500 |Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: | | http://petition.eurolinux.org | |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada

Re: [newbie] Anyone know of an icq type app taht is decent?

2003-09-01 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:52:19 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |I'm not a club member... How may I acquire this KoPete thingy? | |Can you send it my way? with instructions on use or a manual? :) | |ty | |I.AM.Femme I'm not a paid member either but I just ran urpmi kopete and there

Re: [newbie] TWiki question

2003-09-01 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:42:00 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |-- |Zinn-Chomsky 2004 The dream team! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down

2003-08-24 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On 24 Aug 2003 11:38:27 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 06:25, Chris wrote: | Was going to send a friend the link to the sco linux faq, however when trying | to contact www.sco.com I keep getting operation timed out, gee could the | site be down :) | |Dang -

Re: [newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-24 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:29:03 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED](by way of manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |Hi, | |I think on this group someone posted a list of commands for linux that give |funny answers... |I don't seem to locate it on the forum archive. | |Can anyone help me find it? | | |

Re: [newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-24 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:29:03 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED](by way of manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |Hi, | |I think on this group someone posted a list of commands for linux that give |funny answers... |I don't seem to locate it on the forum archive. | |Can anyone help me find it? | | |

[newbie] Fw: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I just received this, as a result, I guess, of sending a reply to Funnyresponses to linux commands. Got two of 'em actually. After the first, I resent the post. Anyone know what's happening? Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:10:31 +0400 From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[newbie] URPMI database update

2003-08-22 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Attempting to run urpmi --auto-select, It told me that ..some files are missing. You may want to update your urpmi database Is this different than the updatedb command?... must be since it doesn't work. Is it complaining about my sources? I don't get it... Thanks, Curt Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] URPMI database update

2003-08-22 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:57:03 -0500 Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Attempting to run urpmi --auto-select, It told me that ..some files are missing. You may want to update your urpmi database Nevermind, I just went ahead and did it the Gui way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Files disappear from CD

2003-08-21 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I have a CD with 94 (PDF) lectures on it which I've been reading. The CD stayed in the machine (CD R/W) but when trying to look at all the files today, the only ones that showed are the ones I've already read. I closed Konq and opened it through the Removable Media icon on the desktop and

Re: [newbie] Files disappear from CD

2003-08-21 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:14:51 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:28:33 -0500 |Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: | | Anyone have an idea what's going on? | |I remember having that experience ages ago, way back when I used to use |KDE. | |I would try another

Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
out for its self. | |Mike | |Curt Tresenriter wrote: | |I want to mount the /home partition on hda (mdk 9.1) from my mdk 9.0 installation on hdd. | |Is it simply a matter of making a mount point for hda6 and naming it something other than /home to avoid confusing 9.0? |Or am I on the wrong track

Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:52:47 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Friday 15 Aug 2003 1:45 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: | I want to mount the /home partition on hda (mdk 9.1) from my mdk 9.0 | installation on hdd. | | Is it simply a matter of making a mount point for hda6 and naming

Re: [newbie] semi-pro sound card for Linux

2003-07-30 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Check out Turtle Beach's Santa Cruz by Voyetra On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:05:09 -0500 fifner the dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need a new sound card. I got a new set of headphones and now I hear all the noise from my soundblaster. Does anyone know of a card with very low noise.

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!

2003-07-24 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On 24 Jul 2003 06:27:47 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This list (and life in general) are not for you if you can not make brief excusions into philosophy (real life). Keith (living a joy filled life) :) Sorry Keith, but it is not for you, nor me to decide what goes, or does

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!

2003-07-23 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
What does this have to do with MS or Linux for that matter? Don't know why this rubs me the wrong way but Mark has generously provided server space for REALLY OTs; so why do so many insist on wasting newbie server space and bandwidth of those who have no interest in off topic discussions? I

Re: [newbie] best way to update apps in Linux?

2003-07-23 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 09:05, Zlatko Savic wrote: Hi, I am a newbie and I'd like to know what is the best way to update applications in Linux? I've heard something about urpmi but I am not really sure how it works or what it is. I'm also pretty new to Linux and (so far) have found urpmi to

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!

2003-07-23 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
In spite of the resistance to move this topic to the proper forum, that's where you'll find my reply if you're interested. If not, enjoy the linux topics. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again...

2003-07-22 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 23:36, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: C Tresenriter wrote: There's plenty of blame to go around. Agreed. However, there is a line at which heated discussion turns into verbal abuse. You can tell a person that their information is wrong with out attacking them

[newbie] sound server

2003-07-21 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
A message keeps popping up telling me the sound server has been suspended but I was still getting sounds. Today: I get: Error while initializing sound driver. device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue using the null output device. xmms won't

[newbie] email woes... reply

2003-07-20 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Since I can't recieve the posts I can not reply, sorry.. Anne, yes it was a typo. And apparently SMTP is ok. Still not receiving any email. Curt -- Registered Linux User #299730 Registered Machine #2046 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~60.51518 N, 150.79705 W*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] email woes - reply Lanman

2003-07-20 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Lanman I guess I was wanting to be convinced that there's nothing wrong on my end, even though it seems obvious. But if what you say is the case, wouldn't I be getting email sent to, say this list and tests from my family are being returned to them as of this morning. Plus I just got this on a

[newbie] Reply to Lanman

2003-07-20 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Actually I'm not getting any mails from the list, that's why each of my replies is a new thread. I'm reading the archive to see responses. Guess I'll wait 'til tomorrow and talk to cust serv at my ISP and see what they have to say. edit This time I had to use my secondary email as I'm unable to

[newbie] reply to Lanman

2003-07-20 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Actually I'm not getting any mails from the list, that's why each of my replies is a new thread. I'm reading the archive to see responses. Guess I'll wait 'til tomorrow and talk to cust serv at my ISP and see what they have to say. Appreciate your input. Curt -- Registered Linux User #299730

[newbie] Audio question

2003-07-18 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Is it possible to control volumes on audio programs running at the same time - independently? For instance - the sounds made by my IM are quite loud in relation to audio being streamed on xmms. I've found that I can lower the volume of one program while keeping the volume of a CD that's playing,

[newbie] Audio question

2003-07-18 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Is it possible to control volumes on audio programs running at the same time - independently? For instance - the sounds made by my IM are quite loud in relation to audio being streamed on xmms. I've found that I can lower the volume of one program while keeping the volume of a CD that's playing,

[newbie] C header files

2003-07-18 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I'm installing vmware - running the config script, it's asking for the location of the directory of the C header files matching my kernel. Usually I can find files but not this Any help?? thanks, Curt -- Registered Linux User #299730 Registered Machine #2046 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~60.51518 N,

Re: [newbie] web site displays source instead of HTML

2003-07-18 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:28, Graham Watkins wrote: Curt Tresenriter wrote: I'm trying to access a web site - an audio archive - but it's only displaying the code. Konq, Galeon,Opera - doesn't matter. I would have suspected the web site itself, but for other folks on the list

Re: [newbie] C header files

2003-07-18 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:45, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 6:18 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: I'm installing vmware - running the config script, it's asking for the location of the directory of the C header files matching my kernel. Usually I can find files

Re: [newbie] C header files

2003-07-18 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 18 Jul 2003 12:18:47 -0500 Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing vmware - running the config script, it's asking for the location of the directory of the C header files matching my kernel. You need to install

Re: [newbie] web site displays source instead of HTML

2003-07-18 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 15:22, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:43:33PM -0500, Curt Tresenriter wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:28, Graham Watkins wrote: Curt Tresenriter wrote: I'm trying to access a web site - an audio archive - but it's only displaying the code

Re: [newbie] HD-partitioning without f-drive

2003-07-17 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Which version of PM are you using? On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 04:34, ivette brusselmans wrote: is mandrake NTFS resizer as safe as partition magic? From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD-partitioning without f-drive Date:

Re: [newbie] Highlied colour in fields in M9.1

2003-07-17 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
In Control Center (not Mandrake Control Center) Choose LookNFeelcolors - under widget color choose 'selected background', then click on the color - the custom color dialog box opens, then just raise the pointer to lighten the background color. Be sure to hit the 'apply'button. On Thu, 2003-07-17

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:23, John Richard Smith wrote: I tried that a good many times. Even tried giving it the disc number it wasn't asking for, but same. It's either broken of it's the programmes way of saying it ain't got what it's looking for, and I know that in one case it was not true

Re: [newbie] parsing error??

2003-07-17 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Thanks Stephen, That worked. Curt On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 19:51, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 00:28, Curt Tresenriter wrote: I have d/l'd a couple of *.rtf files - in attempting to open with Kword, both give a parsing error at a specific line and column. Can someone tell me

[newbie] parsing error??

2003-07-16 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I have d/l'd a couple of *.rtf files - in attempting to open with Kword, both give a parsing error at a specific line and column. Can someone tell me what's going on here and how to resolve the problem? Both open in OO Thanks, Curt -- Registered Linux User #299730 Registered Machine #2046

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-10 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:45, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 18:40, Curt Tresenriter escribió: Every time I use urpmi lately I get: eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument Can someone tell me why? Curt does you cdrom tray get to open? Only when I do

Re: [newbie] Newbie needs install/checksum help

2003-07-10 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
A quick google search turned up this http://www.irnis.net/soft/acsv/ among others On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:35, R. L. Moore wrote: Where do I get checksum software and how do I use it on a windows machine? I have got both 8.2 and 9.1 ISO's disks1-3 burned onto cd's. I can't get either

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-10 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 06:22, Damian Gatabria wrote: El jue, 10-07-2003 a las 05:47, Curt Tresenriter escribió: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:45, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 18:40, Curt Tresenriter escribió: Every time I use urpmi lately I get: eject: unable

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible

2003-07-10 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
It's http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:56, Robin Turner wrote: Rosario Balboa wrote: I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with their

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:55, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:29 am, Michael wrote: btw, i've been trying to run that command. i open up a terminal, su -, password, then type append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma, then hit enter, then type lilo, and a

Re: [newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
http://librenix.com/?inode=829 On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 11:36, Brooks Family wrote: How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]

2003-07-09 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:52, Lanman wrote: If you'd like a work-around for bastille-firewall on Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, let me know. You'll probably laugh your ass off when you find out what I did to get it working! Lanman I like to see that... tried Bastille yesterday and no go. Want to buy

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
OT Please!! Subject: Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS Ok - to repost the original: http://thor.prohosting.com/~kilgoret/mandrake/ I reckon I was the one that started to push it off topic by making the comment about Aussies not having guns - my bad. I

[newbie] rar files

2003-07-08 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I decided I want to play with Deb, but need to deal with a rar file to get started. Do I need to buy rar or is there another way to decompress the file? Looked like mc would do it but when I try to open the file an error tells me it can't find /user/share/mc/extfs/unrar: line 27: rar: command not

RE: [newbie] Install stopped

2003-07-07 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
' package or for some reason ever was not 'used' as in: use ever; basically, someting stopped that package/module from getting loaded.. be it a bug, dirt on the CD etc etc.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curt

[newbie] recognizing Windows

2003-07-06 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
hda1 (C:) wasn't connected during my last install, so I'm trying to get Linux to recognize it. I've created the /win_c: dir in /mnt and edited fstab and mtab with: /dev/hda8 /mnt/win_c: vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 and rebooted. Still when I click the win_c: icon in a file

Re: [newbie] recognizing Windows

2003-07-06 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 13:01, Eric Huff wrote: On 06 Jul 2003 12:39:18 -0500 Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hda1 (C:) wasn't connected during my last install, so I'm trying to get Linux to recognize it. I've created the /win_c: dir in /mnt and edited fstab and mtab

Re: [newbie] recognizing Windows

2003-07-06 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 13:01, Eric Huff wrote: On 06 Jul 2003 12:39:18 -0500 Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hda1 (C:) wasn't connected during my last install, so I'm trying to get Linux to recognize it. I've created the /win_c: dir in /mnt and edited fstab and mtab

Re: [newbie] recognizing Windows

2003-07-06 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 14:22, Charlie wrote: Just a couple quick thoughts Curt; fstab is an acronym for file system table and it's where the kernel and device managers get their instructions. It's static, as in it's always (theoretically) the same as when it's first built. mtab is the

Re: [newbie] recognizing Windows

2003-07-06 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:17, Johan Scheepers wrote: May I make some suggestions Before you change anything in fstab please make backup. The dir name in /mnt is win_c in this case - you can create any dir name you like - after install I usualy create my own dirs like win-hda1 , dos-hde1 ,

[newbie] Sylpheed install

2003-06-28 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I found that I preferred the 0.8.3 version of Sylpheed-claws which I'm using under mdk 9.0 but the install fails for 9.1. It wants libcrypto.so.2 and libssl.so.2 I've googled and found that these files are provided by openssl. MCC tells me that openssl is installed and I'm having no luck finding

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed install

2003-06-28 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:32, Anders Lind wrote: I found that I preferred the 0.8.3 version of Sylpheed-claws which I'm using under mdk 9.0 but the install fails for 9.1. It wants libcrypto.so.2 and libssl.so.2 I've googled and found that these files are provided by openssl. MCC tells me

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed install

2003-06-28 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
We all had to learn. :) And now we spread the knowledge. The more the merrier! Paul And I'm off! Thanks Paul c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] urpmi... once more

2003-06-28 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it failed saying some files

For Femme... was Re: [newbie] OT, new game for linux ppl!

2003-06-20 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I'm not a gamer but this looks interesting as does Alice. As for Maurice on Linux maybe with wine? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GoOnLinux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] It worked yesterday!?

2003-06-20 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
xmms is giving me problems this morning - It appears to be connecting to the streaming signal (shows 64 kbps 22 khz) but there's no sound and the timer doesn't advance. Mixers are ok. Tried to play an mp3 file but no go there either. The only thing I can think of is to re-install the program but

[newbie] Install problems

2003-06-20 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I got the new disk form Maxtor today and have just made five attempts at installing 9.1 - the last one using rc2 or 3 - the install was smooth but on reboot, got this : EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,1)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=259114 Kernel Panic: Attempted to

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-19 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:03:19 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for fonts it is really quite easy now with Mandrake 9.1 Just set up the urpmi sources as I described. Ignore the Mandrake Fonts GUI you no longer need it, and just type in a root terminal urpmi msfonts

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-19 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Hi Derek, I'm struggling with fonts here this morning and tried the above command - what returned was no package named msfonts Did I do something wrong or is this specific to 9.1? I'm using 9.0 Thanks Curt That package is in Texstar and Tex does not keep a 9.0 source anymore.

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-19 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:45:04 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Go here and configure all your sources: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php 2. then as root, urpmi [packagename] make sure you add texstar, that's where the msfont and msfont-style rpm come from. Been there did

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-19 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:35:15 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this worries me, I here a lot of Maxtor's failing on this list... I've noticed that too..think I've seen it on other lists also. Cust serv said This drive's proven to be very solid... right, this will be my third since December

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-19 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:23:16 -0400 Crak600 - Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:03 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:35:15 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this worries me, I here a lot of Maxtor's failing on this list... I've noticed

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-19 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:13:10 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 4:35 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:31:32 -0500 So play safe, as I did. Install 9.1 alongside 9.0. If it goes badly wrong you can still use your old install. If it doesn't you can

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts -HDD's

2003-06-19 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
I sometimes wonder whether much of the problem people have with hard drives is to do with mixing the makes on the same ide - line Same with partitioning tools , keep to the same one for all partitioning. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I have windoh's on a WD as

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:05:33 -0500, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:46 pm, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:46 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Have you tried to rename that directory, or move the contents of that directory elsewhere, then

[newbie] Thanks to all

2002-04-20 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
Hi, A few weeks ago I got several responses on my LILO problem when suddenly the fertilizer hit the ventilator in other areas of life, preventing me from working on it. I have to unsub for a while, but wanted to offer my thanks for everyone who made suggestions and to everyone else for your

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