[newbie] Samba PDC with Win2000 clients/Any help welcomed!!!

2003-06-06 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
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Re: [newbie] OpenOffice opens with no menues (no fonts) ?!

2002-12-15 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
15 2002 13:30, / Joan Tur : Go to /etc/openoffice. Edit with vim or whichother editor you like openoffice.conf and in the place UI_FONT=AUTO replace it with Arial or whichother font you think is usable. That might help. Greetings Dimitris Ioannou -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: [newbie] encrypted DVDs with Xine or others?

2002-12-15 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
15 2002 19:41, / Andrei Raevsky : Check this site http://plf.zarb.org/ mate and download the packages from there from konsole as root with urpmi xine . Greetings Dimitris Ioannou Hi, I got my first computer with a DVD driver. I ran to the local library to rent a movie to test

Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.

2002-11-13 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
13 2002 11:06, / Franki : I agree wholeheartedly. Count me in it too. But let's agree about the products first. Which one of those are of common interest? Hi Guys, This month, I have emailed 3 different hardware manufacturers asking if they had linux drivers for their product (I pick

Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.

2002-11-13 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
14 2002 06:58, / Franki : Franki Please add DXR3 DVD-Decoder Card of Creative too. I know there is a Linux reverse-engineered driver but it's hard stuff for a newbie to get it working. Plus, there is no gui-application to make it work under Linux. I know many people who have these cards

[newbie] Rebuild kernel 2.4.19-16mdk to get ACPI support!!What am I doing wrong??

2002-10-14 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
help Greetings to all of you Dimitris Ioannou -- ### Dimitris Ioannou.-This is a Microsoft Free PC! Mandrake-Linux 9.0 Dolphin 2.4.19-16mdk kernel. Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] installing true type fonts

2002-10-05 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
06 2002 06:11, / Jonathan Dlouhy : Hi Jonathan The problem with 9.0 is that you have to wait a liillle longer till it gets the job done for you. Open Mandrake Control Center go to System then Fonts and select file where you have thrown in your TTF fonts you want to install and

Re: [newbie] Civilme petition.

2002-07-30 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
30 2002 16:38, / : Count me in, too. In it also and wishing you the best civileme! ### Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org This message was sent from a Micro$oft_Free PC. Micro$oft:The company that made e-mail

[newbie] Infrared working under Linux?

2002-06-10 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Hello to all of you I've been trying to install in a Dell Notebook 300MHZ a Canon BJC-85 Printer and make it work via the infrared port but with no luck. I finally installed it via the USB but I was just wondering if it was possible under Linux to have it working with the infrared thing

Re: [newbie] PPP/PPPOE and on-line woes

2002-06-10 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
10 2002 23:50, / [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Try this, it might help Install linuxconf, and after you install it go there and make it detect your modem. Save, make the changes linuxconf tells you to do by pressing the button Do itand try to connect again. For me it always worked. Hope it helps

[newbie] Gui for MySQL!!!

2002-06-04 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Hello to all of you! I've been wondering if there is any gui for use with MySQL client. Thanks a lot and cheers to everybuddy Dimitris -- ### Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Microsoft_Free PC. Help Microsoft stamp out

Re: [newbie] Gui for MySQL!!!

2002-06-04 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
05 2002 08:18, / Jason Pearce : Thank a lot Jason You really helped a lot!! Have a very nice day (or night in Australia, don't know). Cheers Dimitris Hi Dimitris, try phpmyadmin very cool , easy to use and setup took me about half an hour to set up and configure, and I'm no guru.

[newbie] KDE3! Floppy save locks the PC completely!!!

2002-06-03 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Hi people I remember sometime ago when someone did post that if we should avoid locking up the whole PC while trying to save data to floppy via drag n' drop we should be changing the default fstype to auto from vfat to /etc/fstab that comes with setup. I actually did that. No nothing. PC

Re: [newbie] 2 Q's about KWord: persistent margin settings; word count feature

2002-05-31 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Hello Alan You can create a template from a document name it something (eg.Alan for example) and whenever you open KWord it asks you which one to open A4 or anything else you tell it to open an Alan doc. from the template you just created. As for the counting of words there is an option. Go to

[newbie] OT=to Damian!

2002-05-30 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
{simply put, my guess is a lot of people have billions of green reasons not to let Linux grow. Hello Damian Can you please define that last point of yours? What exactly do you mean by that. I thought of the opposite so far. Greetings Dimitris

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-30 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
--- Henry B. Wangle Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:20, you wrote: Well not wanting to beat my own drum but anyone who say's that Linux is not ready for the desktop needs to relook at it . Case in point my wife of 22 years now age 44 had 2 strokes that paralyzed her

Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone

2002-05-30 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Press Alt+F2 and type aumix. A mixer thing will come up. Check if the volumes are on. If they are on 0 put them up with your mouse. Afraid you have to do it all the time. I had it too on KDE 2.2.2 but not anymore since I'm using KDE 3. Cheers Dimitris --- Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On

Re: [newbie] How Do i uninstall stuff,

2002-05-30 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
--- ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hello, Im a New Linux user, yes i've been using win2k/server for years. I just install Kvirc and want to uninstall and reinstall a different verson is there any documention that could help me or you could send me. Thanks for you time. Ben, Hello Ben

Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation

2002-05-21 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Hi Graham, Winds##t have to be installed first (if we're talking about the 9X series 95,98,ME) because they need to write the boot sector during installation, otherwise setup won't continue.Something that won't happen when you install XP or 2000 or NT4 even, I think. Now, in the case that someone

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-20 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Brian and Jim Please tell us if you have installed any additional fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go to the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy fonts.dir and paste it to the Staroffice directory ovewriting its' own one. Then things should work OK hopefully. Also Jim check

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-20 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
. If you want details on how to I'm always available. Cheers Dimitris --- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:45, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: Brian and Jim Please tell us if you have installed any additional fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go

[newbie] Re:Staroffice:Can't Save files

2002-05-20 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
If you insist on keeping OpenOffice, that's OK, but if you want to give SO 6 another try,I have and I can send it to you, a small batch file that you put it one level up from the dir where you have new fonts to be installed in X and executes the mkfontdir and assign commands automatically,

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-20 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
21 2002 07:04, / Ronald J. Hall : Hi folks, I'm sorry to burst in but I have no problems, thanks God so far, I have an FM801 soundcard (4 Euros it costed when I bought it late 1998),. Only thing sometimes, when I start KDE 3.0 I'm in now, there is no sound but that's because I need to go

[newbie] Audio CD,No Sound Revisited!/FIXED!!!Thanks Charles!

2002-05-18 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Thanks Charles, I opened the box just to find out that the cable that connects the audio from CDROM, well DVD-ROM actually, was pulled out from its proper place on the sound card. Pulled it in and everything works perfect. Thanks again, it seems that sometimes one misses the obvious things

Re: [newbie] Possible stupid question/scsi emulation for parallel port scanner!

2002-05-10 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
- but you knew that! HTH Brian P.S. Not a stupid question! There are none and this was less so than many - most of them mine. On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:51, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: Dear list I know this might be a stupid question but I have to ask it since this list is my last resort

Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-10 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
11 2002 07:31, / shane : Shane firts of all hello Can you please post more details about it? Never heard about something like it. You mean a Linux Distro stands against others? I've thought that recently RedHat changed perspective and aimed mostly at server market. Regards Dimitris

Re: [newbie] Printing Problems

2002-04-30 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
rebooted. Hope this helps temporarily Greetings Dimitris Ioannou Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?

2002-04-29 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
the changes and from console type /sbin/lilo. You're done. Reboot. When your box is up again from console type cdrecord -scanbus. You will see your recorde there recognized under Linux. If you have any further question don't hesitate the list is here. Greetings Dimitris Ioannou-Greece

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-29 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
adding .doc in the extension. MSWord behaves as follows. It actually opens the file as text with courrier fonts and then asks the user to save it in the latest Word format. Note that I've been trying this with Greek language docs and all work fine. Cheers Dimitris Ioannou from Greece

Re:Thank you Charles Femme! [newbie] Problems with Savage4 Graphic_Tuxracer doesn't load!!

2002-04-29 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
28 2002 14:49, / Charles A Edwards : On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 13:49:29 +0300 Dimitris Ioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list I keep having problems with my second PC running LM 8.2 as well as my first one. It has a Savage 4 16MB graphical adapter and refuses to start Tuxracer

Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?

2002-04-29 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
a cdrom or copy files from it. If you have any more problems please post both your lilo and /etc/fstab to the list so we can help you better Greetings Dimitris Ioannou From Greece Registered Linux User 217321 This message was sent from

Re: [newbie]To Civ! You folks are great

2002-04-28 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
leave us for too long. We are all going to miss you my friend. Weird stuff has it's beuty but this list has energy, good people, and really alive and kicking stuff. I'm missing you already. Dimitris Ioannou. from Greece P.S. I've done as you suggested and now my DVD-ROM works fine and it's

[newbie] Problems with Savage4 Graphic_Tuxracer doesn't load!!

2002-04-28 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Ioannou ### Dimitris Ioannou LM 8.2 Registered Linux User 217321 Warning: This is a Microsoft-Free PC 1:48pm up 4:57, 1 user, load average: 0,02, 0,06, 0,01 80 processes: 79 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped

Re:To Sridhar mplayer How To??? [newbie] Ogg Vorbis conversions

2002-04-24 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
this and after that I never tried to install it again since I know 2.96 is the compiler of choice for Mandrake (this actually means that it's not going to work properly on a Mandrake system isn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong). Any hints would be greatly appreciated Sridhar Greetings Dimitris Ioannou

[newbie] DVB-S Sattelite card detection in LM 8.1. Possible???

2002-04-02 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
be greatly appreciated. Dimitris Ioannou Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] To Femme

2002-03-26 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Femme, have you been offended by someone? Well, just tell him to go to hell. Your presence here is a breeze and you're more than wanted in this list. Keep on being yourself above all. Cheers Dimitris from Greece Opinions are like assholes.Everybuddy has got one.

[newbie]

2002-03-26 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Femme, have you been offended by someone? Well, just tell him to go to hell. Your presence here is a breeze and you're more than wanted in this list. Keep on being yourself above all. Cheers Dimitris from Greece Opinions are like assholes.Everybuddy has got one.

[newbie]

2002-03-21 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
I read your letter yesterday. I confess, I'm a bit confused. Don't really understand what you're up to. If you're aiming to pass the message that Linux has to be a lot easier for people with non geek-knowledge, I think you've succeeded that. Now, a question: are doing this effort because you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-12 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Hello to you Richard From what I have read visiting Mandrakes home page I understand that they really are in trouble so I hurried and subscribe myself to the Mandrake Users Club and intending to buy the new 8.2 Release to support them more.They face, I think, the dilemma of cutting out personnel

Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.

2002-03-12 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
letter that you are not interested in using Linux or any alternative OS to Window$. So, stop complaining about Linux and stick to what Big Bill is feeding you with. Cheers Dimitris Ioannou P.S. Forgive me if I'm being too arogant but you managed to piss me off, while I have a lot of work to discover

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-12 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
--- g. sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:48, you wrote: Paul Vortex wrote this on his reply to programs running on wine post, and since there is this trend in the past 2 days in the list where people are posting things that are not neccesarily == ( never mind

Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.

2002-03-12 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç "Rick [Kitty5]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:26, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: I hope that this poisoned letter of yours ...Well, you were the one who posted in HTML :)Yes, because , I'm at work now my friend (Windows based(, and couldn't resist

[newbie]

2002-03-08 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
I have just installed (after downloading the rpm's) the KDE 3BETA2, doing urpmi --force since I was not able to satisfy the dependencies and got it installed in /opt/kde3/bin. Problem is, I had already KDE 2.2.2 installed and KOffice 1.1.1 too. Now, I can't login to KDE 2.2.2 anymore. Only to

Re: [newbie] KDE3BETA2 Installation Help!

2002-03-08 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
I have just installed (after downloading the rpm's) the KDE 3BETA2, doing urpmi --force since I was not able to satisfy the dependencies and got it installed in /opt/kde3/bin. Problem is, I had already KDE 2.2.2 installed and KOffice 1.1.1 too. Now, I can't login to KDE 2.2.2 anymore. Only to

Re: [newbie] virus scanners (again)

2002-03-07 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:19:32 -0800shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: maybe i misunderstand. they are affraid linux will give a virus to novell? fire them, they are brainless mouse jockeys. the number of crossplatform virii is pretty low. like zero. if

Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

2002-03-06 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç Jose Mirles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:16, you wrote: Hi, I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into Linux from within Windows without rebooting??I wonder if

Re: [newbie] deleted partition HELP!

2002-01-08 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
see your data stored in the previous /home that you have dismounted from Kdiskfree even if you mount it again. Dimitris Ioannou Waiting for your newsDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.

Re: [newbie] deleted partition HELP!

2002-01-08 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç Ric Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: YES I DID examine the display, it did notsay which partition was what, all I knowis that it is the third partition, /boot/ then /home, but it was not displayed thatway because it did not even TRY to readthe drive just the damnb partition table,I want

Re: [newbie] file sharing

2002-01-08 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: To be more specific, I am looking for a P2P file sharing client. I haveused gtk gnutella and didn't find it to be particularly compelling,mainly because I have difficulty connecting. Are there any otherclients for gnutella or fast track that work

Re: [newbie] file sharing

2002-01-08 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: samba, nfs, appletalk, ftp, http, scp, sftp all come immediately to mind --it all depends on who you want to share it to, between what operatingsystems, and what it is that you wish to share..Michael--Michael VironRegistered Linux User #81978Senior

Re: [newbie] re: staroffice

2001-11-11 Per discussione Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: Still on the general topic of StarOffice. I am using the 6.0 beta and Iseem to have messed up the database integration some how, or perhaps I'mjust not sure what I should look for if it is working properly. I wentthrough the StarOffice installation