[newbie] update a file

2004-03-12 Per discussione David Sexton
maybe some can tell me this is a simple question I am making some alias's and wish to test them with out having to keep loging in and out. I use to know a command that would force linux to read a file over agin. So you can avoid loging in and out dues any one know that command? Thanks Want

[newbie] samba is not accessible

2004-03-08 Per discussione David Sexton
can any one tell me why I cant access my samba server I keep getting the following error below. I also will put in my smb.conf file. thanks David \\testserver is not accessible You might not have permission access this network resource. Contact the administrator of the server to find

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box

2004-02-12 Per discussione David Sexton
You should be able to install it just do a custom install and specifiy what you want to install. If I recall I had 9.1 running on a P200 with 64mb of ram and KDE it was a bit slow but worked. From: Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 12:14:42 EST To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Will any thing change with mandrake

2004-02-10 Per discussione David Sexton
I just want to know what every one thinks, what is going to happen to Mandrake. Since Redhat is no longer going to support and release Redhat and instead have Fedora as a replacement. Douse that mean Mandrake is going to be based off Fedora? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie]

2004-02-05 Per discussione David Sexton
argument David David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd

2004-02-05 Per discussione David Sexton
EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:36 am, David Sexton wrote: Hi all I am unable to get my DVD drive to eject I tried to hold the open button on the drive. Also tried to use the eject command. The drive is not mounted but yet

Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd

2004-02-05 Per discussione David Sexton
PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 06:05:18 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd On Thursday 05 February 2004 04:05 pm, David Sexton wrote: Bryan I have tryed alreday using umount /mnt/cdrom and got back no errors but still can not eject it I have been using

Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd

2004-02-05 Per discussione David Sexton
, David Sexton wrote: ok I tryed the mount command i got back no errors when I typed mount /mnt/cdrom here is my mtab file /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8

[newbie] Bios problems

2004-01-28 Per discussione David Sexton
Thanks Tony I thought there was a program to stop it from checking new hardware. Ill Check on google David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Bios problems

2004-01-28 Per discussione David Sexton
Is hardrake the program that checks for new hardware, and hardware changes. Maybe if I turn that off on boot that will keep it from detecting changes. could that work? David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Bios problems

2004-01-27 Per discussione David Sexton
Here is the problems I have a Dell Inispron 4000 series the and of cores the mother board is bad but every thing works fine except the system bios dues not keep time. No problem I don't mind the clock time being wrong but every time it boots up it finds my network card and wireless network

Re: [newbie] New Users ?

2003-10-21 Per discussione David Sexton
Ken could you explain more in detail what you want. David From: Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/21 Tue PM 01:45:35 EDT To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] New Users ? When I create new user for access to

Re: [newbie] I'm goin' mobile....

2003-10-21 Per discussione David Sexton
Ok this is what I have done a few times I have a computer at home with mandrake 9.1 and vnc server. Ssh gets forwarded from my computer to my router and out to the net. I then take my laptop with me and I can access the computer from home from any where in the world. My laptop has Mandrake

Re: [newbie] urpmi question

2003-10-20 Per discussione David Sexton
Try urpmi -q packagename.rpm where packagename is the name of the rpm your looking for From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/17 Fri PM 11:07:26 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] urpmi question How can i search the names of rpms, and show the summary and description?

Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients

2003-10-20 Per discussione David Sexton
You could try amsn it works very well for me and looks alot like msn http://amsn.sourceforge.net/ David From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/20 Mon PM 03:47:49 EDT To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients Anne was asking recently

Re: Re: [newbie] Googling

2003-10-20 Per discussione David Sexton
It works for me . maybe you need to clean out your cookies and history on mozilla From: Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/20 Mon PM 06:14:38 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Googling Graham Watkins wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Is Google still alive? For several

Re: Re: [newbie] Dull monitors and video cards

2003-10-17 Per discussione David Sexton
Thanks Ill give that a try. Damian From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/16 Thu PM 09:11:50 EDT To: Lista Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dull monitors and video cards El jue, 16-10-2003 a las 20:10, David Sexton escribió: Ok I have done some looking

[newbie] Dull monitors and video cards

2003-10-16 Per discussione David Sexton
Ok I have done some looking and didn’t find much about dull monitors and video cards. I have a voodoo 3500 and a Diamond Stealth 2500 video card the voodoo is AGP and the Diamond Stealth is PCI, my questions is how to you set them up so that each monitor has its own desktop and so you’re able to

[newbie] two monitor setup

2003-10-16 Per discussione David Sexton
Sorry if you get this two times it dident go the first time at that's what my isp e-mail server said Ok I have done some looking and didn’t find much about dull monitors and video cards. I have a voodoo 3500 and a Diamond Stealth 2500 video card the voodoo is AGP and the Diamond Stealth is PCI,

Re: [newbie] How to make 8.2 run faster

2002-12-12 Per discussione David Sexton
Thanks stephen On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:57, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:35, David Sexton wrote: I am running Mandrake 8.2 on my Dell Laptop with 850 PII 128mb of ram. I was wondering if any one had any sugestions on how to speed it up. I am in the process of getting 256

[newbie]

2002-09-04 Per discussione David Sexton
Can any one tell me how i can setup Konqueror so I can browse the local network like you do under ms windows. Or is that not possable Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Install something from cD

2002-08-28 Per discussione David Sexton
Damian, Well first you need to mount your CDROM with the mount command so type mount /mnt/cdrom then type cd and change in to the directory your rpm's are in next type su for super user installing a rpm is quit easy simply type rpm -i fowled by the name of the rpm package for example

[newbie] FW: DVD player

2002-08-26 Per discussione David Sexton
Duse any one know of a simple to install DVD player for Mandrake 8.2? ---BeginMessage--- Duse any one have any sugestions on a easy to setup dvd Player for Mandrake 8.2? ---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Per discussione David Sexton
Dose any one have any suggestions on CD duplication software? I copy a lot of cd's. I have tried X-CD-Roost but it only can read and copy from the CD Write drive. Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Per discussione David Sexton
-0500 David Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dose any one have any suggestions on CD duplication software? I copy a lot of cd's. I have tried X-CD-Roost but it only can read and copy from the CD Write drive. If you want to write on the fly you will need to add scsi emulation for your cdrom

RE: [newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Per discussione David Sexton
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:18:02 -0500 David Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, One problem I am running grub and not lilo. So won't that change things? Yes that does change things. It's been so long since I tried grub that I ca not tell you how. Try checking info grub. There should

[newbie] Setting Clock to 12 time

2002-08-19 Per discussione David Sexton
Can some one tell me how to set my clock to 12 time on Mandrake 8.2? I know this is an easy question I haven't had problems figuring it out in the past Thanks David

[newbie] Linux DVD player

2002-08-10 Per discussione David Sexton
Duse any one know of a simple to install Dvd player? and if so can you give me a url. I am running Mandrake 8.2 with a Vodoo3 3500 video card. I was looking at ogal but havent had much luck with it. Thaks much David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to