Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
importing in in ms word. Damian El jue, 13-05-2004 a las 17:53, David A. Ferguson escribi: I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal

Re: [newbie] Installing Second Parallel Port

2004-03-18 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
that the ports are already found and functional as /dev/lp[0,1,3] Why are you trying to insmod the stuff in? Is something not working? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight

2004-02-26 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 06:41, Lanman escribi: On February 25, 2004 10:44 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 00:40, Greg Meyer escribi: It's kind of quiet tonight. Everyone must be over at Groklaw watching Eben Moglen's speech at Harvard. Finally, the list has

Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight

2004-02-25 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 00:40, Greg Meyer escribi: It's kind of quiet tonight. Everyone must be over at Groklaw watching Eben Moglen's speech at Harvard. Finally, the list has answered all remaining questions and no one has a single problem anymore. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-25 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El mi, 25-02-2004 a las 11:09, Mike Adolf escribi: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did the What do you get when you try to browse with Linux? any error messages? try, as root: umount

[newbie] test.

2004-02-23 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
test. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-11-10 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
official Mandrake vendors. As part of the arrangements, there was the success story, which involved us being in one of those articles. We're still thinking about it. Is this something we could/should add to the Twiki site? Comments? IMO yes. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Keyboard key command

2003-11-09 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
.. xev? El lun, 10-11-2003 a las 01:54, Greg Meyer escribió: I recall that there is a little utility for determine what code a particular key returns. It would be useful for mapping some of the alternate quicklaunch keys on many modern keyboards. I for the life of me cannot remember

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-26 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Big Bugs(tm) until something is done about that impossible release rythm. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] webcam recommendations needed

2003-10-07 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
, performance and resolution can be real problems as drivers vary in quality. So, is there any brand or model that could be useful for this (resolution should be good enough to make it possible to recognize a face standing at about 3 or 4 meters from the camera) under Linux? Thanks Damian Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-02 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 03:03, Anne Wilson escribió: On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 1:44 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Whenever a desktop user sees a problem in his screen, he/she goes uf, grabs the phone and calls you. This is why they seem so stubborn and closed-minded about change. It's

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# insmod snd-via8233 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz: unresolved symbol snd_ac97_set_rate /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz:

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 04:48, Damian Gatabria escribió: here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# insmod snd-via8233 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz: unresolved symbol snd_ac97_set_rate

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 10:58, Margot escribió: Damian Gatabria wrote: El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 04:48, Damian Gatabria escribió: here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# insmod snd-via8233 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Hope you slept well! hmph, how rude of me not to answer. Thanks! :o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-01 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
That's the price you pay when you tie absolutely everything to the kernel. Adding a new driver? -- reload the kernel (=reboot) Changing HW config? -- reload the kernel (=reboot) and so on.. on win98, reboots are really impossible to explain. Changing an ip address? (or any aspect of the

Re: [newbie] Urgent !!!!! Error after installation reboot. Urgent!!!!!!!!

2003-10-01 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
24 as 32bpp is not supported with your video card. mandeake 9.1 is older than your chipset, that's why your video card is not being correctly set up. However you can choose your driver manually as I descibed above, and you should be fine. Damian El mié, 01-10-2003 a las 11:42, Budianto Yudi

Re: [newbie] USB not hot-swappable in Linux?

2003-10-01 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
the drive but it's not mounting it? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
and I noticed in the recovery mode of w2k, both fixmbr and fixboot. fixmbr. which should I use? and will it screw up lilo? Most likely.. You will have to do exactly the same process with Mandrake's installation disks to get lilo back after that. :o/ Damian Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
entry is gone! Beautiful! Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-01 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
else been getting this? I got a couple of those. I don't think you were spoofed: someone you know (or someone that has your address) has the virus, which sends messages like that. Someone he knows has the plague!!! burn him!! burn him!!! burn them all to hell :oP Damian Want

RE: [newbie] single account, multiple users:

2003-08-14 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
with a simpler (or safer) solution, i'll check it out too. Thanks everyone. Damian El mar, 12-08-2003 a las 08:32, Frankie escribió: Fetchmail can do this.. I have done it before where the mail is recieved by a single account.. fetchmail fetches the mail and distributes the mail based on one

RE: [newbie] single account, multiple users:

2003-08-14 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
: Only one user gets the message. b) Same thing, but with undisclosed recipients. Only one person gets the message. can this be done correctly with fetch? Thanks a lot! Damian Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] test

2003-07-21 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El lun, 21-07-2003 a las 02:38, JoeHill escribió: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:06:11 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Rolling on the floor laughing my mail server off. LOL that happened to me the other night. see thread Postfix and POP3. hey, would it be possible to link

[newbie] test

2003-07-20 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
argh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] test

2003-07-20 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
my mail server is an open relay my ass. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] test

2003-07-20 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Whoops. That one made it. :oP El lun, 21-07-2003 a las 01:17, Damian Gatabria escribió: my mail server is an open relay my ass. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] test

2003-07-20 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El lun, 21-07-2003 a las 01:34, JoeHill escribió: On 21 Jul 2003 01:17:41 -0300 Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: my mail server is an open relay my ass. I got that too... How did you get around it? I had to go over at that site the error message reported : (reason: 550

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-10 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
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 to eject, last error: Invalid argument Can someone tell

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
CDROM? just for fun, edit your lilo.conf so the append line looks like this: append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma then, in the command line, run `lilo`, and reboot. See if it keeps crashing. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer8 and RealPlayer9

2003-07-09 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 02:13, Brooks Family escribió: Sorry. I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and I don't know what the firewall is named. It's the standard one that comes packed with Mandrake 9.1. Are you using KDE? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Sendmail (non fatal) error.

2003-07-09 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El mar, 08-07-2003 a las 17:40, Richard Urwin escribió: On Monday 07 Jul 2003 3:25 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: I've made my first attempt to install and configure my own mailserver. It was way easier than i expected (did it completely from webmin) but my syslog is showing that sendmail

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-09 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
to open the tray. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] optical mouse

2003-07-08 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
mousedrake, which detected it at once. I just clicked OK, restarted my X session, and it worked perfectly. Wheel, all buttons, everything. I'm actually happy with it... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Sendmail (non fatal) error.

2003-07-08 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
open hash database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument The file /etc/aliases.db exists, and there's also one called 'aliases' but aliases.db is empty, and i really don't know what's it for. Apart from that error, my sendmail is working perfectly. Any ideas on this one? Damian Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] I'm being DoSed!

2003-07-08 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
. (IF you have iptables service running, of course :o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Install results vary

2003-06-26 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
El mié, 25 de 06 de 2003 a las 00:11, Allan escribió: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 01:00, Damian Gatabria wrote: You wanna hear a funny one? If i choose ext3 for the /, my soundcard chipset is not correctly detected... it still works, but the sound is lower quality and choppy... Damian

Re: [newbie] Install results vary

2003-06-24 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
this out to people on the list, but no one believed me... You wanna hear a funny one? If i choose ext3 for the /, my soundcard chipset is not correctly detected... it still works, but the sound is lower quality and choppy... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] testing

2003-06-23 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
ignore me :o/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.

2003-06-22 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
' user settings are stored so I can back them up? I looked in /home/darklord/mail and .kde but didn't find anything. Thanks! ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-19 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 03:02, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Damian Gatabria wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:33, eric huff wrote: So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT Sorry if i missed it: where does this go

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-17 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
server of some sort, and if the connection attempt is blocked, then it does not continue loading until a timeout is reached... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-16 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
on the users list are about Windows builds (no surprise there). Sir Robin So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT and all was solved. Thanks Greg for the hint. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:33, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:10 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: In the last few weeks i've noticed OO taking over 6 minutes to start. This machine is a Pentium 2, 400 mhz. OO would take about 50 seconds to start, which was bearable, but now

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
to join OO.o's forums/mailing lists and try to get some more useful answers there... Thanks Greg for trying to help. See ya. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-14 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
documents and new windows is almost instantaneous... deleting the local installation files didn't help, and reinstalling OO didn't, either. This is happening with OO 1.0.3 running on Mdk 9.1.. Any ideas? thanks! Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-08 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 07 June 2003 17:30, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 02:39 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true! and besides, who knows how many viruses does Lunix have?!

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-04-03 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Thursday 03 April 2003 18:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 06:12, Lanman wrote: It would suck-start a Harley, from 2 miles away, on a windy day, in snow this deep! Are we done now?? Can we kill this thread and get back to the other cool stuff? Lanman Uh - what cool

Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!

2003-04-02 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Haha! April fools!!! ;p Damn.. i should have known better! LOL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!

2003-04-01 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
www.pclinuxonline.com PCLinuxOffline Due to our active boycott of SCO, SCO has filed a temporary court injunction forcing our website offline. We apologize for any inconvenience. You can email us at pclinuxonline at eastwind.net. Details can be found here. - :o? Damian

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-03-30 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
and application softwares under Windows. It isn't about money, is it ?. It's about Crystal Icons. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connection?

2003-03-29 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
appears as unknown device. I just want to test if I can dial my ISP. For that, I need to terminate my ASDL connection, how do I do that? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Try, as root, adsl-stop or service adsl stop Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] just another cd burning question!

2003-03-24 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] font's appearance , win vs linux

2003-03-17 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
. Texstar's RPMs are hosted on ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/ OR you can hold your breath a few weeks and get Mandrake 9.1 when it goes out. :o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MPlayer woes

2003-03-16 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
anyone? C'mon - help a RedHatter become more of a Mandrakian? urpmi -a mp3lame0 will provide everything you need for a normal recompile of MPlayer to detect and use mp3lame. what does `rpm -qa | grep mp3` tell you? HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] MPlayer woes

2003-03-16 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 16 de March 2003 20:12, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 09:53, Damian Gatabria wrote: urpmi -a mp3lame0 Output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# urpmi -a mp3lame0 no package named mp3lame0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# urpmi -a mp3lame no package named mp3lame [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin

Re: [newbie] MPlayer woes

2003-03-16 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 16 de March 2003 22:18, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 10:34, Damian Gatabria wrote: ...almost the same as you... only my packages seem older. How exactly are you trying to use MPlayer? have you tried CVS or are you just using RPMS? I did it the Mandrake way

Re: [newbie] newbie's problems with qt

2003-03-12 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
(?), as 'qmake' is still an unknown command. Is not qt included on the 3 mandrake CDs? Or what am I doing wrong? I'm using mandrake 9.0 If trying to install lyx gives you a message saying you need file libwhatever, then just urpmi libwhatever. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] port monitor sought

2003-03-02 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
, and the other inside of which you can create rules for your firewall http://firestarter.sf.net Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] port monitor sought

2003-03-02 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
to allow that process or not) and Iptables is purely rule-based. You are correct anyway, i was not talking about a port monitor at all. But i did not intend to. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] worried

2003-03-01 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
post on the thread [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kde rewrites .desktop files

2003-03-01 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
that will change the contents of .kde everytime kde is started? Better yet, it would be nice to find the script that does this in the first place, and kill the bastard. Things like these are the ones people refer to when they say KDE is unpredictable. Damian Of course if you have

Re: [newbie] kde rewrites .desktop files

2003-02-28 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Friday 28 de February 2003 14:08, Jozef Riha wrote: thanks for help, i'll try your advise. is this a bug or a feature? Sure looks like a bug in KDE. i also noticed that kde (i guess) replaces my own menu structure (defined in ~/.kde) with the system one (/usr/share/applnk-mdk) when i

Re: [newbie] kde rewrites .desktop files

2003-02-28 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
. have to make a script that will change the contents of .kde everytime kde is started? Better yet, it would be nice to find the script that does this in the first place, and kill the bastard. Things like these are the ones people refer to when they say KDE is unpredictable. Damian Want to buy

Re: [newbie] kde rewrites .desktop files

2003-02-27 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
, Sylpheed open, and Gaim, all at the same time. On Windows 98, even trying to give it that much load would bring it to it's knees. Unfortunately the process which would take up the most RAM is the one you cannot replace -- the X server. (resident, taking up 12MB constantly) Damian Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
that have something to do with fractals and the way the human eye perceives colours... PNG being a lossless compresion, like you said, takes up more space. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic

Re: [newbie] OT - Problem with threads

2003-02-23 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
mention it. You are welcome. :o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Rebuilding RPM Database

2003-02-22 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
if rebuilding the RPM database from scratch, like this, helps: rm /var/lib/rpm/_* (should ask you if you want to delete __db.001 and __db.002. Say yes.) rpm --rebuilddb HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-21 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
to wav? Have you tried xmms-diskwriter? (I suggested MPlayer as a solution because i assumed you could not play these files in xmms or other players..) Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic

Re: [newbie] licq getting old contact list ?

2003-02-21 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
. Is there another client that can get the old list, send and recieve files? Or a way to get KOPETE to send/recieve files. Weird. Which version of Licq are you using? (1.2.4 was relesed a few days ago and it's working perfectly here. server-side list, file transfers, even in batches.) Damian -- I

Re: [newbie] How do I kill a non responding Crtl+Alt+F1 Console

2003-02-21 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
the process ID of the umount command. Then you can kill -9 PID. HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
. mplayer -ao pcm -aofile Outputfile.wav Inputfile.mpga If you do not have mplayer installed, i recommend it to you very much. www.mplayerhq.hu HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1's keyboard settings :o?

2003-02-19 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 03:21, Damian Gatabria wrote: Did you install the i18n package for your language? Yes, yes, language is not a problem. everything is working fine except for the damn keyboard. Damian Fixed itself after logging out and back in. Thanks Greg for trying to help

[newbie] KDE 3.1's keyboard settings :o?

2003-02-18 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
be greatly appreciated. Damian PS: yeah, i know if it ain't broken, don't fix it. I should have kept that perfectly working KDE3.1 RC5 :o/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1's keyboard settings :o?

2003-02-18 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Did you install the i18n package for your language? Yes, yes, language is not a problem. everything is working fine except for the damn keyboard. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT Opera v. M$

2003-02-15 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
don't expect anything from those. :oP Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] New OS new problems

2003-02-15 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] KDE3.1 totally messed up

2003-02-15 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
wipe out. I will look first and make sure that I don't have the old kde files in conflict with the new. But that should not be the case. Bummed. Umm.. before you do anything.. see if you can browse /mnt from another environment... fluxbox? Gnome? Damian -- -- I don't want Windows

Re: [newbie] proble with Licq

2003-02-14 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
. It's working great, it has implemented batch file transfers, and many bug fixes. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean

Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1

2003-02-14 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Friday 14 February 2003 15:05, Robert Wideman wrote: Try going to http://ftp.ibilio.org first, then just decend the tree. OK NOONE GO TO THIS SITE. Wasn't going to until i read this :oP Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all

Re: [newbie] XFS support

2003-02-13 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
for a long time now. I've been using it in nearly all my partitions, and i have never patched or recompiled a kernel in my life. (well, i have, actually, but never with acceptable level of success.) Damian -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security

Re: [newbie] Texstar site ?

2003-02-13 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Friday 14 February 2003 02:06, Terry Smith wrote: Somebody mentioned getting kde-3.1 from the texstar site. Is the site up and running? Terry Smith Cape Cod USA ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ Damian -- -- I don't want

Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1

2003-02-13 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
so busy I can never connect? Anyone have any ideas? e What error message/s are you getting? for example, try to navigate to ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org in a web browser. What do you get? Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On a side note how can I tell which version of any window manager I'm using? Whats teh CLI cmd or Gui place to look? - FemmeFatale umm.. like this? [root@localhost user]# rpm -qa | grep -i Windowmaker WindowMaker-0.80.1-2.1mdk HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
That will do. Thx Damian. Not that I'll remember the command cause I don't understand grep yet... :) So I'll just save your mail as a txt file. - FemmeFatale But for this kind of usage, grep is as simple as can be! the -i switch is simpy for case-INsensitivity. (so that a grep

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
Hey FF, try this. Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc file alias rpmq=rpm -qa | grep -i $1 Nice idea... why don't i have that on my box!? Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic

Re: [newbie] wine

2003-02-10 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
messages. Has anyone any idea what might be causing this?? Yup. but only with programs that i knew wouldn't work correctly (i.e. QuickTime player) Please tell us what is it that you are trying to run, and which version on wine you are using. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
will not regret it once you get familiar with Linux and the way it does things. On the other hand, you might regret it if you try to make Linux behave like Windows as you will find that Linux is not a better Windows than Windows. It is different. HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
, seriously, did the konq thing do any good? Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] OT Adobe

2003-02-05 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
stable version of koffice will have pdf-import capabilities. I dunno about you guys, but i'm eager to see how good it works :o) Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt

Re: [newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
that are not familiar with your way to express things (i.e. they don't know you). Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want

Re: [newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
not ellaborate semantically, grammatically correct messages with perfect speling, but i think we're quite open over here. There's no need to think twice before asking here. All i say is that there IS a need to think twice while actually typing. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173

Re: [newbie] ? Is it possible

2003-02-04 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 14:35, mbot wrote: Hello, My LM9 discs have scratch, so some progie can't be installed. Is it possible to install those progie from my LM8.2 discs? How? Or, is there a URL to d/l the progie as follows: Wine, Xine, Xmms and Kword. TIA ... and PEACE!!! All the

Re: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-04 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
!!! :-) Look inside of /mnt. There should be a directory inside for your cdrom, other for your floppy, and one for your Windows partition. It's usually named Windows, or nt. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes

Re: [newbie] having problems with video players....?!?!

2003-02-03 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
the kind of OS that requires some actual learning. Maybe in 5 years, Linux will have improved enough for my father to use it, too. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit

Re: [newbie] Menudrake and kde 3.0.3

2003-02-03 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
the system two or three times. Any thoughts? Regards, Adam Ritchie Open menudrake, go to action - modify menu style. Make sure you are using Mandrake style menus HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii

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