[newbie] OT websites

2005-02-17 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I have a server here at home that I mess around with running a none too interesting family site :-) I have a second site that i would like to get up and running. I was wondering if its possible to run two totally separate websites from one server on the same IP. Cheers -- John Willby

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-Claws

2005-02-14 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I believe its found in Configuration/preferences/receive and there is a check box for don't show error messages. HTH -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Range Rover just keeps getting newer and newer... every day I'm replacing

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
I do not get any that are not picked up by either my filters or clamav. They get picked up but I get an annoying message sent to me by Clamav saying a message with a virus was sent and has been quarantined. So I get a mail to me to delete and a .msg and a .log file to get rid of from the

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again! :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Yes, your MSN monicker is indeed correct. You are a sillydilly. Well OK then rather that telling me how stupid I am why not make some sort of constructive suggestion. I did a who-is search on host14-206.pool8172.interbusiness.it and got bugger all. Found out the IP to be 81.72.206.14 I

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi OK I've read with interest some of your replies. It would seem that what I have actually been doing is rejecting any emails sent to me whereby the user is not registered on my server. It would seem that the option in my server manager panel that handles postfix and that I thought was

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Its a windows virus - Zafi.D It seems it gets your address from somewhere and then starts sending you an email every 2 seconds. I have set up so they all go straight to the trash but it sure is a pain in the neck as I am having to remove from the trash about 1800 every hour. Glad I've got

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I have been getting a load from Germany and also a shed load yesterday from DHTMLcentral. Nice... -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 07:27:01 up 3 days, 22:35, 1 user,

Re: [newbie] Updates

2004-12-06 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Ah... I am running 0.9.12a. Maybe I need this newer version you are running is it available from the club site? I can't see a 10.1a claws rpm on your site. Anyway here goes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] williamblake]$ sylpheed ** CRITICAL **: file fetchinfo_plugin.c: line 93 (mail_receive_hook):

Re: [newbie] Updates

2004-12-05 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Here is the crash log - Sylpheed version 0.9.12a GTK+ version 1.2.10 Features: gdk-pixbuf IPv6 libcompface GPGME OpenSSL LDAP JPilot GNU/aspell Operating system: Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp (i686) C Library: GNU libc 2.3.3 -- (no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library

Re: [newbie] Updates

2004-12-05 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Yes it happens everytime I exit Sylpheed. Everytime I get the message that its crashed. Cheers -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 07:08:24 up 12 days, 15:24, 1 user,

Re: [newbie] Updates

2004-12-04 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Charles do you know if there is an update for Sylpheed-claws around the corner for 10.1? I'm using the rpm's from 10.0 off your site at the moment and they do work but I get one or two odd things in 10.1 that were not there in 10. Like for example every time I exit the program it throws a

Re: [newbie] *.exe files aren't recognize

2004-11-08 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Well I am guessing that you are not asking why Microsoft .exe files won't work in Linux. You do realise that Microsoft programs won't work under Linux unless you use some sort of windows emulator like Wine don't you? Or are you saying now when you boot into Windows all the .exe files in your

[newbie] 10.1 Official

2004-11-01 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi 4 CD set from the club installed and working without incident. Impressed so far. :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 00:10:10 up 2:05, 1 user, load average:

Re: [newbie] Updates for 10.1

2004-10-30 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Charles, Will your Sylpheed-Claws rpm's for 10 work with 10.1? Cheers -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 08:57:04 up 5 days, 23:25, 1 user, load average: 0.74, 0.67,

Re: [newbie] i'm getting bored

2004-08-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
This is usually achieved by unsubscribing. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 07:52:04 up 3 days, 21:21, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.01

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message: Odd just tried this myself and it runs fine for me... -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a

Re: [newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact

2004-07-26 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
I believe you set a date that restricts the length of time Kmail stores a email in a folder before an automated deletion process takes place. Must be in the settings someplace but as I don't use Kmail can't help there. Hence it expires (i.e. ceases to exist, kicks the deleted bucket, runs out

Re: [newbie] K3B

2004-04-30 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Have you tried burning at a slower speed? I've never had it fry an audio CD on my cheap and cheerful Iomega. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no

[newbie] Mozilla-firefox and its files

2004-04-27 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Finally decided to give firefox a try and am now totally stumpoed. I can't see anything in my home folder that suggests to me as being where firefox hids its fiules. I want basically to put a copy of my bookmarks from ./mozilla into whereever it needs to go so that I have all my bookmarks

Re: [newbie] Mozilla-firefox and its files

2004-04-27 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Try ~/.phoenix. Leftover from one of its 50 name changes. ROTFL! I actually managed it using a neat import option with bookmark manager :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is

[newbie] Burning CD image question

2004-04-23 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Anybody here know of a Linux program that does the same job as Alcohol 120% in Windows (i.e. can handle and use *cough cough* .MDF and .MDS file extensions). :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber:

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
What I want to know is can you add something to the code of your sig.txt at I guess footerfile= that will effectively do the same as this: #bin bash echo `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel `uname -r` -- John Willby Oxon GLASS rep Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912

Re: [newbie] Way OT Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-26 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Well IMHO those dudes have some serious thrill issues! In my homeland we have a treatment for various deseases and proofed to be exceptionally good.That is drinking your first urine after you wake up in the morning. One of the Ghandi's said something about that if I recall, and asked if

[newbie] URPMI oddity

2004-03-26 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I keep getting this message whenever I use URPMI: unable to take medium distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_10.0 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_10.0] exists I am sure its something benign and unimportant but it annoys me (I'm like that!) and

[newbie] Mozilla FTP oddities

2004-03-26 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I am setting up an FTP page for some of my friends to use. Only thing is it works fine for Internet Explorer but in Mozilla when you click the link you just get a new page open with what looks like raw code. I do come across this occasionally with some ftp sites. You can download using

[newbie] I need my scanner

2004-03-23 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi All I need to use my scanner and despite my best attempts I can't get Xsane to work under MDK10. When ever I try to use it I get all kinds of silly errors (The scanner worked last week under 9.2). What I need is an alternative to Xsane that I can try to get working. Anybody seem anything

[newbie] OT Email problems

2004-03-23 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I seem to be having problems with my emails being rejected by loads of different people. It would seem somebody has reported my IP as being that of a spammer. I get this message: Connected to 137.205.128.7 but sender was rejected. Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 Rejected: 82.36.99.231 listed at

[newbie] test

2004-03-23 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Just in case this dongle gets through. Sorry about this. Been having trouble with my IP being reported as a spam relay. All my mails to this list have been returned undelivered. Think I have sorted it now - just need to make sure. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ:

Re: [newbie] OT Email problems

2004-03-23 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
I think the problem is with your ISP been consider a spammer, not you. Yes somebody told me that many people are blocking my ISP en-bloc. I beleive its because they have a very poor security policy (I suspect they have been used for relaying spam?) and the amount of spam I get in my official

Re: [newbie] File Sharing

2004-03-21 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi all Well I found if I installed gift-openft it solved the problem with Apollon not connecting. I installed it (and apollon) using the plf with urpmi Worked for me anyway! Regards -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM:

Re: [newbie] Mail clients

2004-03-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I suspect the general split will probably be between Sylpheed, Kmail, Moz Mail and Evo. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache

[newbie] Microsoft in trouble with EU

2004-03-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Heard a report on the radio that Microsoft are in trouble with the EU who are thinking of taking it to court it over its anti-competition practises or something. Regards -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley

Re: [newbie] no CD audio

2004-03-15 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Excellent! Josenildo, my man, I owe you a beer token. I have beep (Charles 9.2 RPM) running under 10 and its the only app that wil play an audio CD since I did something trying to get Xine to play an audio CD and screwed Xmms up! I have the cable, but I have just found out that Xmms

Re: [newbie] no CD audio

2004-03-15 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Doing the same with Xmms made it work for me too. I have the cable, but I have just found out that Xmms doesn't work D here, too. However, Beep Media Player does. If you install it, Crtl+P will open the Preferences dialog. Click on CD Audio Plugin and Preferences. Under Play Mode, choose

Re: [newbie] Problems with MDK 10

2004-03-14 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Right sofar - Managed to get updates to work from the terminal using one of the club mirrors. Xsane now recognises my scanner after I unpluged it and pluged it back in again but still does not work. Seems to be seriously broken - its a HP scanjet 6200C and was working fine under 9.2. The GUI

Re: [newbie] Problems with MDK 10

2004-03-14 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I managed to get Xmms to work. I downloaded and installed xmms-cdread rpm and it works. So in theory there is no reason why I can't get Xine and Totem to work. I am convinced its a plugin problem I.E. that I don't have the necessary plugins installed. Can sombody who is familiar with these

[newbie] Problems with MDK 10

2004-03-13 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Well as usual with every upgrade nothing works properly. So far: Update won't work. I have sound in KDE but not in Gnome. None of the Audio or Video players work. Xsane won't recognise my scanner. Still at least K3b works... Ohh what joy I am going to have now trying to sort this mess

Re: [newbie] mdk10 urpmi problems

2004-03-13 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I beleive there is a list of mirrors available from the club site if you are a member. I used the club-internet paris one to do my updates and it worked very well and only barfed on 4 RPMs. Regards -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL

[newbie] 10 iso ftp Bittorrent

2004-03-10 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi The ISO are available for all to download now on the FTP sites... Hooorraaa! I gave up with bittorrent in the end. I still had 37% to go this morning so I just went to the FTP sites and started downloading from there. Should take about 10 hours to do what I have been trying to do 24/7

Re: [newbie] 10 iso ftp Bittorrent

2004-03-10 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Are these the final article M10's or just further test versions ? I beleive they are the final articles. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no

Re: [newbie] Updated rpms for 10.0

2004-03-10 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
I have not set-up a 10.0 dir yet so the rpms are available from the cooker dir. It can be added to urpmi by: urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/cooker/ with hdlist.cz Do you want me to make you a new set of pages for mandrake 10? -- John Willby Registered Linux user number

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent help -- some detail please

2004-03-08 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Somebody on here said that it is possible by special request to get an FTP download of the ISOs. Well I an a club member and want to make that request - so whoever it was could you point whoever sets this up in my direction. No matter what I try I can't get a decent download going via

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-07 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
36hrs? Still seems like a very broken way of distributing files. My torrent is still open. I don't know what I'm helping to do since the files I downloaded are zero bytes in size. Mine has been open for 56 hours and I have got 700M so far. Even with the upload throttled right back I am

[newbie] joke

2004-02-26 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~shane/stasj/pics/humor/div/329.html -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 21:06:59 up 8 days, 6:12,

Re: kwintv was Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-06 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Have you tried any of the other tv rpms xawtv or mythtv and I think xine can even be used for such? I get no further with any of them. Personally I think its a more fundamental problem with the way the kernel uses/recognises TV tuners especially those that are built into graphics cards. But I

Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!

2004-02-06 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Also, there's no way to set the account to send from per folder...I thought Claws was everything in Sylpheed but more... To be honest, I've never seen that feature. It would be nice to have though. Don't you right click on the folder and then go into properties - compose and set the

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Derek, I can't find Apollon or giFT on the plf mirrors I checked. I am interested to try it. Could you tell me where I may get it? Have you tried urpmi? -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is

[newbie] any xfce users on here?

2004-01-20 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Been playing around with xfce and I quite like it. One thing that I can't work out is where to find the xml file that you are supposed to edit to add option to the menu. There are some pretty useful things missing from it like any office stuff etc... I read in the help pages that the file is

Re: [newbie] any xfce users on here?

2004-01-20 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
/etc/X11/menu.xml Got it! Its actually in /etc/X11/xfce4 on mine and is called menu2.xml :-) but it will not help you the edit that file. I see what you mean! Its got everything listed there but only about 1/3rd actually appears on the menu when you right click it. If you used my rpms

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Thank you for the reply John. Yes, I have tried urpmi. For apollon I get, no package named apollon. That's odd it comes up for me. Are you using 9.2 or 9.1? -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is

[newbie] editing Mpeg home video

2003-12-27 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. However a lot of water under the bridge since then and I'm in a new install of 9.2 for a while now and find myself in the same boat but unfortunatly can't remember what the name

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-0.9.7claws-2.3mdk

2003-12-11 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
If you should decide to manually dl the pkgs rather than use urpmi you will need to also dl and install libetban0-0.31 which is also on the site. I am not sure if its linked to the etban or not, but for those who manually download and install these, I had to load a couple of rpms to satisfy

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-11 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 18:29:15 up 14

Re: [newbie] Sound question this time

2003-12-10 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Have you looked in /etc/modules.conf to see if the relevant stuff for the alsa driver is in there? Without this the sound card won't work. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No

Re: [newbie] Sound question this time

2003-12-10 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
What *relevant stuff* might that be? :-) You should have something similar to this (This is for my card) - alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-cs46xx alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 cs46xx alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss

[newbie] Gdesklets (again!)

2003-12-09 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Ok Joe et al.. If I try to load Gdesklets from the menu it does nothing. Running it from terminal gets this: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr//bin/gdesklets, line 4, in ? from main import HOME File /usr/share/gdesklets/main/__init__.py, line 39, in ? import gnome.ui

Re: [newbie] Gdesklets (again!)

2003-12-09 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] williamblake]# urpmi gnome-python Everything already installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] williamblake]# urpmi pygtk2.0 Everything already installed Tnink my other option is to go get the gdesklets tarball and try installing that. See what happens I guess... -- John Willby

[newbie] Fw: How Queer......

2003-11-30 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi all Anyboidy help me to help this guy out. I introduced him to Linux so I feel I ought to try and help him. Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:40:18 + From: James Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How Queer.. Yup, all running as it should be.

[newbie] To be sung to Ode to Microsoft

2003-11-19 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO

2003-11-08 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Has anyone ever made a Mandrake webcam server? I could not get a Linux driver for my _really_ obscure webcam. I could not get the winblows software to work with wine so in the end I bunged XP on a old Digital Ppro 200 and networking it to my server. XP seems to be able to manage it and it

[newbie] You know your ebay item...

2003-11-06 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
You know you are dealing with farmers on Ebay when your items come wrapped in plastic fertiliser bags... -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside.

[newbie] re: You know your ebay item...

2003-11-06 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Sorry chaps that went to the wrong list... -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 10:57:31 up 2 days, 2:55, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[newbie] how many...

2003-11-06 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb? None, they merely change the standard to darkness and then they upgrade the customers. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Yes its great if you don't mind waiting 5 days for everything to compile (even on a relativly fast machine like my dual 1Ghz wintel box - unless of

[newbie] Sound modules, kernel source and my head hurts!

2003-11-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I am trying desperatly to get my sound card to work under 9.2. ALSA seems to load OK and I don't get any error messages. I have set up modules.conf as per the details page for CS46XX. However when I start Kmix I get a blank GUI with no functions and if I go into gnome it tells me there is

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs and they're not visible in the control center. Phew! So I am not the only one then! There is a screensaver of sorts that works automatically - the mandrake slideshow thing (not to my taste TBH!). I migrated to

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
mkdir /usr/share/applnk-mdk.hidden ln -s /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers /usr/share/applnk-mdk.hidden/ Sorted - cheers. Just when I was getting used to gnome :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM:

Re: [newbie] Ping kopete users

2003-10-19 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
part again, or to use gaim or licq until it's sorted. Personally I wouldn't bother with msn anyway, but it's the only way to get a word in edgewise when I need to get a message to the grandchildren g Gaim 0.71 works well and is a lot less bug prone IMHO. Don't have any trouble

[newbie] 9.2 download edition...

2003-10-17 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Have to say lads I am not all that impressed with the new 9.2. Does not seem all that much of a step forward from 9.1 and I am particularly disappointed by the selection of RPMs that come with it. Many of them are well out of date. [ducks flames] -- John Willby Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Texstar's break

2003-10-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Well I for one am gutted I won't be getting KDE 3.1.4 RPMs from Texstar for use with 9.2. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 3:52pm up 30

Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!

2003-10-15 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
After ca. 6 hrs, I've still only got about 10% downloaded (with DSL). Only got about 43 hours to go. Wooo h!! Not too impressed with Bittorent so far g. Yes BT is a bit hit and miss. I got 45kb/s no problem with the test but am now getting a paulty 4kb/s with the real thing. No

Re: [newbie] Sound problem - again!

2003-10-07 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
You should do this as root. HTH, I get this then: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boudica]# /etc/init.d/alsasound start Starting sound driver: snd-cs4236 /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk modprobe: insmod

[newbie] Sound problem - again!

2003-10-06 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Trying to get alsa to work on the wifes machine. Loaded the latest drive, lib and utils but it won't load at boot up. Anybody able to help me to interpret and give me some suggestions how I fix this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boudica]$ /etc/init.d/alsasound start Starting sound driver: snd-cs4236

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

2003-09-05 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
what would that have to do with anything? And how? Well the whole point of urpmi is it works out dependencies and goes and gets the needed rpm's and installs it all. Now if its scuttling off and getting the wrong rpm's, which in your case it is, then something is broken somewhere. This is

Re: [newbie] Jeez!

2003-09-05 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
This list has been nuts lately! The Kopete one has gone balistic! I bet the gaim one is the same. Lot of stressed out developers putting in extra hours! -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM/AIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam

Re: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake

2003-09-04 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
I think the main reason I stick around is this list. Its just too entertaining and interesting! So much so its addictive! ROTFLMAO! -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM/AIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows,

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

2003-09-04 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Well John went to install kopete but got a bit leery about it ... I have available ver 0.61a yet it wants to install as a dependancey 0.71tex (from texstar)!? WTF? It lists the proper dependancy for 0.61a too (lib.061.a)... wth is going on? I do not have a ver 0.62 available from

[newbie] MSN old protocol with stop on Oct 15th

2003-09-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
After that you have to sign the new EULA or have your access barred apparently. Which is nice. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 07:26:31 up 21:01, 3 users,

Re: [newbie] MSN old protocol with stop on Oct 15th

2003-09-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
or simpley use the new kopete(still under construction, but will be released soon) wich supports the msn protocol: http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/index.php what's the news EULA? r. You obviously have not been following this thread. Basically the new protocol will only work, even

Re: [newbie] MSN old protocol with stop on Oct 15th

2003-09-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
BUT: kopete will be able to run AFTER 15th of Oct, cause you can sign the eula in kopete.(information from a worker in my company. he read this on www.kde. org/kopete he said it will be version 0.8 of kopete. i didnt found something, i've to trust him ;) Yes but who in their right mind

Re: [newbie] Torvalds feat. Colifornia

2003-09-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Does this mean he is going to bring all government services under the GPL and ban Microsoft, Microsoft products and any of its employees from the state of California unless they sign a EULA agreeing to give up everything including their basic human rights and turn over all their material

Re: [newbie] MSN old protocol with stop on Oct 15th

2003-09-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
i didnt found some detailed information bout the eula. in google i only get some trash... what is eula for? wich targets? why? Microsoft may wish to update or change the terms, conditions, and notices for the .NET Passport Services from time to time to reflect changes in the Services,

Re: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake

2003-09-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Gentoo is about 4 light-years ahead of the stable Debian. I agree with that. Emerge and Portage is a way better system than apt and .deb because it uses source in a simple, uncomplicated and efficient way. Personally I hate debian with a passion.. yes, sorry to say it, I _don't_ like it at

Re: [newbie] Torvalds feat. Colifornia

2003-09-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Linus: Don't mess with me Arnie, I'll do a rm -fr / Isn't it rm -rf / or does it not matter where the f comes in the command? :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM/AIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no

Re: [newbie] mldonkey

2003-09-03 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Are you referring to the MLDonkey program or a file you downloaded with it? If its the MLDonkey program you should be able to start it with the command mldonkey. I added a button to the menu with that command. If its a program you have downloaded with MLDonkey then its in .mldonkey/incoming

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

2003-09-02 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I assume you have it now? Let me know if you still want a copy I recommend doing urpmi kopete-0.6.2. I have gone back to the 6.2 version. I have no end of trouble with the later versions causing sever instability. I suspect maybe its an issue with some of the plugins on 0.7.1. Setting the

[newbie] Host not connecting to server (DHCP)

2003-09-02 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I have my server configured as a DHCP server. Recently I found out that using a non standard internal IP might be the caused of some of my cacheing sp: caching? problems. I changed the IP to a bog standard one and when I do that none of my host machines (including my mandrake host) can ping

Re: [newbie] SMS message and other things

2003-09-02 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Oh right. Bugger. I'll get onto the Kopete list and see what they are going to do about this. May have to adapt the plugin or something for the new settings. Seeing as I am not using MSN on a Microsoft machine I can see myself being able to apply this fix somehow! -- John Willby Registered

Re: [newbie] SMS message and other things

2003-09-02 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Kopete are releasing a 0.7.2 version that will use the new MSN protocol. Looks like I'll have to try and get that to work on all my systems. Bo ho ho... -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates,

Re: [newbie] SMS message and other things

2003-09-02 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
How soon do you think we'll need to do this? No idea but if they do pull the plug then there is a stable build of 0.7.2 on CVS. Just wish I knew what CVS is or how to do it even! -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 YIM: vicarofwibley

Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-01 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
aaah, yes, Outhouse Express... Lookout! Express... well, it's more just to say, I did it, set up a mailing list that is. Plus, I'm fairly fluent with most of the bigger names out there, ie. Quake, er...uh, well, Quake. I think the really cool thing would be if we could get a

Spamassassin rule was Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-01 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
My ISP uses Spamassassin, and maintains the rules. It is about 99+% effective if it is kept up to date. It does scoring, and places the score in the email, which allows me to place 'probable spam', with a marginal score, in a separate folder. This has been very helpful in preventing the

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds

2003-09-01 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
... please somebody explain to what's that part about Linus Torvalds ... I thought he was the founder of Linux ... and suporter of free software .. stuff lik that ... I can't be sure but as others have expressed it may be something to do with the name (i.e GNU/Linux vs Linux). If

Re: [newbie] Lost New Mozilla

2003-09-01 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Can you (or someone else who might be a K expert!) please explain, in VERY simple terms, exactly how I simply do this? I know how to drag and copy an icon from the menu, but as the menu icons no longer work at all, is it possible to create new ones from scratch? Right click on start

Games was Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-01 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
I tried that cube game on my PC - graphic were so jerky I could not play it and this is a high spec machine (well it was a while back!) 2 x PIII 1Ghz, 500mb ram 128mb video card. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 Linux is like a wigwam - No

Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-01 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
And hell, if you cant play GTA vice city, how can I show you the neighborhood I grew up in? Oh dear! I think I may have clubbed to death your nephew. My apologies. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no

Re: [newbie] Apps not showing in panel

2003-08-31 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Does the panel work correctly if you log-in as another user? Yes it does. If so, the easiest fix might be to delete the ~/.kde directory for your user and then restart the Xserver and log-in as your user again to recreate the directory from scratch. Righty ho! -- John Willby

Re: [newbie] Apps not showing in panel

2003-08-31 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Which means If it isn't broken, why fix it ? Exactly! Zion ? So you're in the biblical promised land ! Now that is a deeply theological question, and as to whether I am, or not, depends on the religious suppositions of the person asking! -- John Willby Registered Linux user number

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Sounds to me like its the old directors, panicking that SCO can't cut it, do something to bump up the share price, sell at inflated price and then watch it all go under and hope nobody notices that they made a tidy little earner on the side. Trouble is they have upset to many people for that kind

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