Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 03:59 PM 6/27/04, John Drouhard wrote: I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Are you the only user and you have no remote access (apache, mail, ftp, etc) services running? Go with one big partition. Multiple partitions are for

Re: [newbie] Database Recommendations?

2004-06-22 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 03:34 PM 6/21/04, Aidan Holmes wrote: Hello all, Can anyone recommend a good database application for my needs? I have searched the net on the subject and just get myself more and more confused about what I need to run. MySQL seems to be the one everyone raves about, but it's far too powerful

Re: [newbie] Dedicated DNS Server

2004-06-15 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 04:52 PM 6/15/04, Travis Crook wrote: Anyone know of a way to run a dedicated DNS server that can be administrated through a Web interface? I'm thinking something along the lines of Smoothwall (firewall) where I can set up a box to be just a DNS server and nothing else. If it runs

[newbie] Konqueror autocomplete forms

2004-05-27 Per discussione Frank Bax
I cannot find the place in Konqueror to clear the forms autocomplete history. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Konqueror autocomplete forms

2004-05-27 Per discussione Frank Bax
Thanks - that did the trick... At 05:45 PM 5/27/04, bascule wrote: the file that stores them is ~/.kde/share/apps/khtml/formcompletions bascule On Thursday 27 May 2004 10:25 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I cannot find the place in Konqueror to clear the forms autocomplete history

Re: [newbie] undelivered mail notices

2004-05-23 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 06:51 PM 5/22/04, John wrote: I am having problems getting through to the list. I keep getting undelivered mail notices. I have sent several e-mails to the postmaster at mandrax.org but have yet to receive a response. I have posted and had replies and then received the notice. Help please

Re: [newbie] DNS questions

2004-05-12 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 11:04 AM 5/11/04, Frank Bax wrote: At 09:56 AM 5/11/04, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed

[newbie] DNS questions

2004-05-11 Per discussione Frank Bax
I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect

Re: [newbie] DNS questions

2004-05-11 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 09:56 AM 5/11/04, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address

Re: [newbie] SETI

2004-05-01 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 12:14 PM 5/1/04, JRH wrote: I have seen people here and in other places taling about SETI. I'm well aware of who they are, and what they do etc. How can I come by the software to allow me to give some unused bandwidth? http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/unix.html I'm using

Re: [newbie] Access Denied

2004-04-25 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 11:26 PM 4/24/04, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2004 08:09 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2004 07:45 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 10:12, Aron Smith wrote: Wheel sudo? User the MCC User Manager to put yourself into the group called wheel and

[newbie] pnp monitor

2004-03-24 Per discussione Frank Bax
I changed the monitor on a MDK91 system, and the system still retains name of old monitor - both monitors are pnp. Shouldn't the system detect the change and update config? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 11:57 AM 3/24/04, Paul Smith wrote: Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? 1) Buy a bigger monitor 2) Change resolution 3) Memorise how many times you need to hit tab key to get to 'OK'

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-18 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:45 AM 3/16/04, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:39:47 + Olivier Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and I have use the wrong address! My problem was that a same word document does not open

Re: [newbie] Router Question

2004-02-02 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:22 PM 1/31/04, aronsmith wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 16:56, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 aronsmith disseminated the following: OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-30 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 11:35 AM 1/30/04, Viking Skull wrote: Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a week now, but I'm having a major problem. Whenever I try to access the CD-ROM drive it just freezes the desktop.. I cant play music CD's and i cant do anything with data CD's

Re: [newbie] Video Card Problems

2004-01-28 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 09:48 AM 1/28/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again everyone. I've finally got Mandrake 92 up and running, can get to kde, got my video card configured, but somethings not quite right. When I have the resolution at 800x600 my screen is too small for the resolution, I need to move the mouse

Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for?

2004-01-25 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 03:34 PM 1/25/04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: My luck must have run out. I spent 4 days downloading cd1,2,3 and installed Mandrake 9.2 with no obvious problems or errors. 3 cheers for the Mandrake team. I installed all the programs I wanted (No networking) and did not use CD3. I was wondering what it

Re: [newbie] Upgraded to 92 :(

2004-01-20 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 07:00 PM 1/19/04, Mike Adolf wrote: Problem 3: (minor) 92 swiped my control center icon from the lower task bar! Right click on the task bar - you will find options to add MCC icon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MDK92 - cannot print

2004-01-19 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:04 AM 1/19/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 07:51 pm, Frank Bax wrote: No jobs in queue. Konica is a network printer (printing to it from MDK91 Win98 works fine). The same error also happens with a usb printer. Can you give us the exact printer make and model. I

Re: [newbie] MDK92 - cannot print

2004-01-19 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 12:03 PM 1/19/04, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:02:11 -0500 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:04 AM 1/19/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 07:51 pm, Frank Bax wrote: No jobs in queue. Konica is a network printer (printing to it from MDK91 Win98

Re: [newbie] MDK92 - cannot print

2004-01-18 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 10:05 AM 1/17/04, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:43:28 -0500 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to help from Bryan earlier in the week for fixing CUPS so I could add a printer. But on that day, I never bothered to actually print anything. When I try to print a test page

[newbie] MDK92 - cannot print

2004-01-17 Per discussione Frank Bax
Thanks to help from Bryan earlier in the week for fixing CUPS so I could add a printer. But on that day, I never bothered to actually print anything. When I try to print a test page, the following entries appear in /var/log/cups/error_log I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Adding start banner

Re: [newbie] default permissions

2004-01-15 Per discussione Frank Bax
Universidad del PaĆ­s Vasco (UPV/EHU) Aptdo. 644 48080 Bilbao (Bizkaia) Tfno. 94 6015992 Fax. 94 4648500 - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:28 PM Subject: [newbie] default permissions | On a MDK91 system

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer - works!

2004-01-14 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 06:59 AM 1/14/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf BrowseInterval 0 Browsing Off Should have some additional lines: LogLevel Info TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Port 631 Browsing On #(You need to turn browsing on if you want

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 06:43 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 09:06 pm, Frank Bax wrote: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Is it possible that your firewall is disallowing local connections to port 631? How do I check

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:25 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Frank, just to provide some background info, the cups daemon listens on port 631 for connections, both for admin and printing

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 09:29 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Frank Bax wrote: CUPS daemon was not running - it's running now cupsd (pid 2699) is running... A quick check of /var/log/cups/error_log and I found a little problem with hostname, so I fixed

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 02:44 PM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:03 am, Frank Bax wrote: No log entry when accessing browser interface. When trying to add printer through PrinterDrake, I get a shutdown entry (3 times) when Making printer available to cups. In fact, only message

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-12 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 07:09 AM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-12 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:03 PM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10 pm, Frank Bax wrote: In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-11 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 09:59 AM 1/11/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:46 am, Frank Bax wrote: The print server is not connected to parallel port - it has it's own ip address. I am able to physically connect the printer to either print server or the parallel port, but cannot get either one

[newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-10 Per discussione Frank Bax
My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add a printer. When I first click on PrinterDrake in MCC, I get a message saying CUPS is not automatically started during bootup, would I like to enable automatic starting - I select YES. My local printer

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-10 Per discussione Frank Bax
for remotely connected printers. Troy - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2201 N6REJ Subject: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-06 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:22 AM 11/5/03, Anders Lind wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:13:17 -0700 Carl Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the ignorance but what is portsystem. I googled, but the few pages I found were in German and seemed to be about FreeBSD. Yes, it is the packagesystem in FreeBSDit

Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 - Konqueror select boxes

2003-11-03 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 01:07 PM 10/30/03, Frank Bax wrote: I'd also like to hear from anyone using 9.2 to see if same problem presents itself. On web pages with (pulldown) select boxes, what happens when you use the keyboard is difficult to describe in abstract terms, so I'll use an example. If you visit any

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

2003-10-21 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 01:20 PM 10/21/03, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:54 pm, Grant wrote: I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my

Re: [newbie] Maxtor Hard Drive Dual-Slave Jumper Setting?

2003-09-30 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:54 AM 9/30/03, The Other wrote: I have a Maxtor model 4W030H2 30GB drive I would like to make the Slave in a dual Master-Slave setup. What is the correct jumper setting to make the Maxtor the Slave drive? Most Maxtor drives have jumper settings printed on drive itself, but not always.

Re: [newbie] Tight VNC

2003-09-30 Per discussione Frank Bax
I found this message in archives without any solution to help me. I had the same problem with TightVNC from MDK91 cdrom - the solution that worked for me was to upgrade the two qt3 rpms. Frank At 09:04 AM 8/30/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there! i just reinstalled mdk 9.1. after that i

[newbie] MDK91 does not boot

2003-09-30 Per discussione Frank Bax
I have a system that initially had RedHat 7.2 on it, then I installed MDK91 and setup for dualboot. Everything was going very well until the machine lost power this morning. During bootup, the disk integrity checks failed. The machine is in another city which I cannot get to right away. We

[newbie] MDK91 - OpenOffice network printing

2003-08-27 Per discussione Frank Bax
How do I make a network printer defined via printerdrake, the default printer for OOo? http://www.linuxprinting.org/distribution-printing-faq.html#q_4_2 When I double-click the printer there is no option to update OpenOffice? When I try to print from OpenOffice, printers defined via

Re: [newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-18 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 02:33 PM 7/16/03, rikona wrote: I have some old dbase files I may convert too. If you get this to work, please post the result here. Thanks. I have a perl script (from my *bsd system, but should work on Linux) that converts all dBase files in a directory to pgsql tables, you should be able to

Re: [newbie] OT: favorite spyware seeker for windows

2003-07-15 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 02:57 AM 7/15/03, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 3:36 am, Eric Huff wrote: Hi Folks, I'm trying to find out for my dad what the best ( free) spyware finder is for windows. When i google around, i get too many hits (bps, adaware, spybot, spywareinfo, etc). What's your

Re: [newbie] Free of OE! - with IMAP

2003-07-02 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 07:37 PM 6/30/03, Miark wrote: I've used Sylpheed forever for personal and list mail, but I've been somewhat stuck to Outlook Express for all my business e-mail because I could never find an easy _and_ effective way to convert. (KMail's import utility, for example, is easy, but doesn't work for

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

2003-06-18 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 09:21 AM 6/15/03, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS Office appears to

Re: [newbie] genealogy

2003-05-29 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 10:41 PM 5/28/03, Owen Berio wrote: Does anyone know if there is any genealogy software available that works with Mandrake? I haven't tried them, but a search at http://sf.net shows these Linux offerings: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/ -

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 04:51 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:17 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote

Re: [newbie] PostgreSQL

2003-04-01 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:40 AM 3/25/03, Christopher Shaffer wrote: Forgive my silly question, but I'm trying to experiment with PostgreSQL (all I've used till now is MySQL...) on Mandrake 9.0, but I have know idea what the default username/password is. Is it kind of like MySQL, with a root user? Could be postgres

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-22 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 12:49 AM 3/22/03, David E. Fox wrote: That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 command : chmod 777 * . That's because FAT32 doesn't implement permissions the same way - so a chmod wouldn't have any effect, and

Re: [newbie] sundance problems

2003-03-10 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 03:44 PM 3/8/03, Frank Bax wrote: When I installed Mandrake 9.0 - I was able to so via ftp. Now, everytime I startup the system, no network is available until I run the connection wizard in MCC (accepting all default answers). The following entries appear in syslog during bootup: Mar 8 15

Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!

2003-03-09 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 03:57 PM 3/9/03, Azrael wrote: Alternatively, you can use Mozilla or Phoenix, install uabar from uabar.mozdev.org and get the browser to pretend to be IE on win98. Interesting observation - this page only presents sidebar and headings when accessed with IE5 on Win98. Frank Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] VNC

2003-01-03 Per discussione Frank Bax
At 08:16 AM 1/3/03, ivette brusselmans wrote: Hello out there, Installed MDK 9.0 and everything works fine, except for VNC. When I type VNCviewer in terminal and IPaddress of win98 box I get following message: VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3) No authentication needed

[newbie] disappearing nic

2002-12-15 Per discussione Frank Bax
I downloaded Mandrake ISO's to one machine; then used these for an ftp install on a second machine. Sometime after the installation, access to anything through the nic wouldn't work. I finally did get some results when I changed from DHCP to static ip. But now there's a different problem.