Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Per discussione John Wilson
On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that Mandrake installed. It will open but it won't accept any input from the

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Per discussione John Wilson
On March 26, 2005 09:42 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip No, that's all it says. Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? Eric Jackson Follow the menu System|Configuration|Packaging|Remove

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-21 Per discussione John Wilson
On February 21, 2005 04:54 am, John Layt wrote: snip You might like to check out the following dedicated Realty web software: http://www.open-realty.org/ (demo at http://open-realty.org/demo/index.php) http://freerealty.rwcinc.net/ http://real-estate-management-software.org/ Xoops CMS:

Re: [newbie] how to change the default font?

2005-02-07 Per discussione John Wilson
On February 5, 2005 02:25 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: snip It might. :) It's the console I want to change to make it easier to read what's on the screen. I did actually scoop the answer from someones post in expert yesterday although it still needs a tweak or two but I'm getting there. Cool! I

Re: [newbie] how to change the default font?

2005-02-05 Per discussione John Wilson
On February 4, 2005 09:23 am, Alan Ianson wrote: How can I change the default font from lat0x16 to default8x16? TIA! It might help if you told us which window manager you're using or if you're talking about the shell. Different answers for each one, Alan. :-) ttfn John --

Re: [newbie] firewall

2005-01-07 Per discussione John Wilson
On January 6, 2005 08:53 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:34 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:03:10 -0800, John wrote: I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly

Re: [newbie] firewall

2005-01-02 Per discussione John Wilson
On December 29, 2004 04:09 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: snip Yes shorewall is a good one. I appreciate Mandrake includes it. A little confusing at first, but once we read the tutorial, it's not that hard to setup. And Tom Eastep - the writer - is very active in the shorewall list. However, don't

Re: [newbie] Returning Newbie

2004-11-25 Per discussione John Wilson
Hiya Scott On November 25, 2004 02:48 pm, Scott Manning wrote: Hi ppl, Been about 5 years since my last foray into Linux...heaps has change..2 q's if I may; Dumb question 1. What directory are the How-to pages in again? Click the Star/Foot thingy on the left, More Applications,

Re: [newbie] Netmon and Linux

2004-11-10 Per discussione John Wilson
On November 10, 2004 08:19 am, Manaxus wrote: Hello, I am coming from the Microsoft world and learning LINUX so I am wondering if anyone is familiar with the network monitoring tool called netmon. If so, does LINUX have a tool similar to it? Thanks, -Manaxus Ann has already given you

Re: [newbie] Which distro do you use? (humor)

2004-10-31 Per discussione John Wilson
On October 31, 2004 05:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: :-) http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/137 I love it! Now where is my beret and striped tshirt? :) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer

Re: [newbie] Squeaky wheels and the Daily Show

2004-10-31 Per discussione John Wilson
I guess this means that I get to listen to Dave, Morely and all the rest on they Vinyl Cafe while reading the lists? :) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Per discussione John Wilson
On October 23, 2004 01:27 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes Chances are that the hdlist itself is being updated/renewed when that

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-21 Per discussione John Wilson
On October 21, 2004 04:11 pm, Elliot Somers wrote: This is a pretty general question, I've heard it said by one party that linux/unix is virus proof, other's say it's that virus authors go after the big guys, so MS, wintel servers, etc. What I want to know is what's true and what's not.

Re: [newbie] Default Terminal

2004-10-14 Per discussione John Wilson
On October 14, 2004 01:23 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 00:52, JoeHill wrote: Okay, I've tried google.ca/linux, the list archives, and the Twiki (perhaps not aggressively enough) Anyone got a quick answer as to how to change the default terminal, globally and/or

Re: [newbie] Broadband modems

2004-10-12 Per discussione John Wilson
On October 12, 2004 02:17 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:41, Stephen Kühn wrote: They're simple, fast, web based control and configuration, NO DRIVERS NEEDED(God I love my Netcomm NB-1300) An you don't want to ask what he does to the thing when he's offline!:)

Re: [newbie] MKD 10.1

2004-09-28 Per discussione John Wilson
On September 28, 2004 12:27 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 28 September 2004 19:17, Derek Jennings wrote: snip 1/ and 2/ There are no update mirrors for Community. Updated packages go into the main tree. Go here http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ to select an online source for 'main'

[newbie] Adventures in 10.1

2004-09-28 Per discussione John Wilson
Hi all, There's an amazing lack of screaming about 10.1 CE which is very promising indeed. I've downloaded it and shared out till I've had the time to update which is today. The installation went very smoothly with everything setting up beautifully with the exception of a networked printer

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Per discussione John Wilson
On September 25, 2004 07:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: MAC addresses are at hardware level; if the MAC address has changed, consider disabling the card in BIOS and driving out to Greenville or Pikeville for a new 10/100 card...

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Per discussione John Wilson
On September 15, 2004 07:42 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:25:59 -0400 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: I love my country but I fear my government Amen to that. I think that's something that most people have in common, to varying degrees, all over the world. Having

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Per discussione John Wilson
On September 15, 2004 08:42 am, David T Battler wrote: How about the typical American Shite in this email? I thought this was a discussion list regarding Linux. I am a Canadian, and proud of it; and I find this kind of garbage offensive; and this email list to be worse than useless. Some

Re: [newbie] M$ has beaten Linux?

2004-09-01 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 31, 2004 11:22 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2004/08/31/cz_dl_0831msft.html First off one needs to seriously question whether Newham was at all interested in using Linux or was simly using Linux as a way of bashing a pricing deal out of Microsoft.

Re: [newbie] Problem with MandrakeUpdate

2004-08-29 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 28, 2004 12:43 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I removed all the media and, afterwards, I added all of them. Surprisingly, now, whenever I run MandrakeUpdate, all hdlists are updated at startup, which is not very convenient, specially if they are already updated. Any ideas to solve

Re: [newbie] External Drive

2004-08-28 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 28, 2004 05:46 am, et wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 00:38, John Wilson wrote: On August 27, 2004 08:17 pm, Marc wrote: I just tried to use a USB external drive in ML 10.0 My hopes were that ML would detect it and add a icon to my desktop like my card reader did. I

Re: [newbie] Downloads and Installs

2004-08-16 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 15, 2004 08:24 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, I have a number of books on Linux and find them to be a wealth of knowledge but they are really vague when it comes to downloads and installations. Can someone suggest a good book that will walk me thru a download and installation. I

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-15 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 14, 2004 09:23 pm, Chris wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 11:01 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: snip Odd, my SA 2.63 works fine with maildir. snip Ok, here is how I've got my SA running. Way back when I started running SA I went to, I believe it was Derek Jenning's site where he has/had

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-15 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 15, 2004 03:03 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip John you need to get to the messages for instance on my system the following works: sa-learn --ham /home/hoyt/.Mail/ham/cur You might try konqueror and go down to the individual messages that should give you the path. I am running kontact

Re: [newbie] KDE Headers??

2004-08-15 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 13, 2004 09:33 am, JRH wrote: Help! I'm trying to install Apollon v1.0, using the so called all in one installer (all in one pain in the ass so far!). I have had qt and Xfree related probhlems, which I have managed to overcome. Now it is throwing the mother of all errors

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin (Thanks!!!)

2004-08-15 Per discussione John Wilson
Thanks to all who answered. It's all working now. Chris, I'll be in touch with you off the list about other information you have. Once again thanks to all! ttfn John *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-14 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 13, 2004 09:44 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 13 August 2004 11:36 pm, JoeHill wrote: snip This is my fav part: Microsoft admits that, in some cases, malicious code could indeed switch the firewall off. However, this isn't so much a flaw as a limitation on the role

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-14 Per discussione John Wilson
On August 9, 2004 03:01 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually directory is: Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam Now, I've been into shell and done

Re: [newbie] Current scanners

2004-07-28 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 28, 2004 01:05 pm, Lanman wrote: Dear List; I'm looking to buy a new flatbed scanner which will work seamlessly with Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0. If anyone on the list has recently purchased a new scanner and had an easy time setting it up, could you please let me know? I'm also hoping that

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-27 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 26, 2004 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:36 pm, John Wilson wrote: On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: snip Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard

2004-07-25 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 21, 2004 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my right alt key no longer works, and if I choose US

Re: [newbie] MAC Address

2004-07-25 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 25, 2004 06:26 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a new ECS N2U400-A which will not load either 9.2 or 10.0. I spent 18 hrs trying different combinations and gave up. So I installed win2k on that box, just to prove to myself that the board sucked more than I originally thought. Okay,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: snip Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise that it had

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-25 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 25, 2004 06:24 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote: At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been

Re: [newbie] MS Wants The Skin Off Our Backs!!

2004-07-17 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 17, 2004 06:24 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 15 Jul 2004 8:03 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On July 15, 2004 12:51, Graham Watkins wrote: Literally http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1254911,00.html At least they haven't (yet) started trying to use our

Re: [newbie] Sympatico gives their clients the Microshaft!

2004-07-17 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 17, 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:07, Lanman wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If anyone else wants to submit a complaint, here's the link. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ Just select your language of choice and

Re: [newbie] FW: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2004-07-04 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 4, 2004 01:07 pm, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: gt;From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) gt;Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 13:02:43 -0700 gt; gt;This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. gt; gt;Delivery to

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-04 Per discussione John Wilson
On July 4, 2004 03:30 am, EE wrote: Hi all, What is the most popular langauge that linux gurus are using to make programs under linux? Is it C, C++, Python, Tcl, etc? Best Rgards Just to be a pest..all of the above plus Java, Ruby and, occasionally, the Borland port of Delphi (the name of

Re: [newbie] Un libro bueno en Linux

2004-06-16 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 15, 2004 11:21 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:27, Aron Smith wrote: So ya reckon the snarling little bastard is out picking pot, eh? I diddn say enuythang. Farmer-in the -dell High ho the merry-o

Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?

2004-06-16 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 15, 2004 04:06 pm, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I realize that this isn't a developer's list, but I get the sense that there are more than a few developers here, and some of the sharpest people I've yet encountered online. I'm looking for some sage wisdom. ;) I haven't done any

Re: [newbie] searching for answers....

2004-06-12 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 11, 2004 06:24 am, Curt wrote: I'm scouring the web for answers to several issues I'm having with several programs. To save me searching for yet another little annoyance, can anyone tell me if the archive contains an answer to the reason that I'm (suddenly - as of yesterday) receiving

Re: [newbie] bugy as comunity

2004-06-06 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 6, 2004 09:31 am, robi wrote: Da So 5. Jn 2004 23:32 Brant Fitzsimmons napsal: robi wrote: Same problems arising with off as with comunity, mozilla firefox does not start. Konqueror frozes on some webpages somtimes whole kde hangs. So i dont know what a hell were

Re: [newbie] bugy as comunity

2004-06-05 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 5, 2004 02:32 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: robi wrote: Same problems arising with off as with comunity, mozilla firefox does not start. Konqueror frozes on some webpages somtimes whole kde hangs. So i dont know what a hell were developers doing? I am really thinking to switch to

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Brazil Decries Government Use of Linux

2004-06-05 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 4, 2004 04:19 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 06:31, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello! I'm laughing my head off here... Here's why: Microsoft Brasil's president, Emilio Umeoka, said that ideology led Brazil's government astray when it decided to adopt Linux's free

Re: [newbie] Mozilla-Firefox does'nt work

2004-06-05 Per discussione John Wilson
On June 5, 2004 11:13 am, robi wrote: Hello, I have: mdk10 off, P4 1.8,kernel: 2.6.3-13,kde3.2 I downloaded mozilla-firefox from contrib, and installed with urpmi but it does not start when I execute on terminal window, runing from menu is same. I would thank if sombody could help

Re: [newbie] A-Z Index of the Linux BASH command line

2004-05-29 Per discussione John Wilson
On May 29, 2004 01:42 pm, Eric Huff wrote: This is kind of handy: http://www.ss64.com/bash/index.html Nice, Eric. Thanks :-) ttfn John *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE

Re: [newbie] How make a server ftp

2004-05-26 Per discussione John Wilson
On May 26, 2004 10:31 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2004 08:29 am, LtCdData wrote: if you want an anno-moose log for our Canadian users :-D Is this so that in rutting season we can charge and derail a 1000 car ftp train? :-) ttfn John

Re: [newbie] help configuring onboard net RTL8139 (10.0 Community, MS-6577 Mobo)

2004-05-22 Per discussione John Wilson
On May 22, 2004 04:43 am, Dexter N Muir wrote: OK, if it's in the load order, why hasn't mdk done something to detect slow-to-respond cards and introduced delays or order-reshuffles to compensate? Gates-Doze works every time, why not mdk? Why does the 8029 work, and the more modern 8139

Re: [newbie] help configuring onboard net RTL8139 (10.0 Community, MS-6577 Mobo)

2004-05-21 Per discussione John Wilson
On May 21, 2004 04:01 am, Dexter N Muir wrote: Hi all I have Mandrake 10.0 Community, and am installing to my hp pavilion 713a. It has a Microstar MS-6577 ver.1 motherboard, with onboard LAN. This is a Realtek 8139, and it works fine under the preloaded winXP. It will not work at all

Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus

2004-05-20 Per discussione John Wilson
On May 20, 2004 11:05 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a complaint. How can I get my share of virus laden emails? It isn't right that everyone get's a bunch and I'm only averaging one a week. Who's getting mine? fess up. Lee We wish to apologize to you for our oversight. But after

Re: [newbie] Exporting mail from Kmail

2004-05-09 Per discussione John Wilson
On May 9, 2004 03:16 pm, JoeHill attempted to joke: On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:24:51 -0700 rikona disseminated the following: I'd like to move messages in and out of Kmail, but don't see any export function. Can I just select multiple messages, export as text, and then import as an mbox file?

Re: [newbie] 10

2004-05-08 Per discussione John Wilson
On May 8, 2004 04:39 pm, Phlip J Scott wrote: Hi just a quick question before I start another adventure. I had 9.2 up and running without problems, but as I am trying out different things before deciding which to stick to. So a few weeks ago I got a copy of lindows 4.5 so I decided to try it

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-02 Per discussione John Wilson
On May 1, 2004 11:15 am, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) And a happy May Day to you and your wife, too! After all the May Pole and Morris Dancing would you like to join a fairly large number of British Columbians on the picket line tomorrow? :-) Solidarity Forever!!! ttfn

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Does this bloke work for Microsoft FUD specialists?

2004-04-25 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 25, 2004 04:38 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: JoePill, I know you'll dig this one...ahem... http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/235 stephen kuhn - owner I'm gonna play devil's advocate and agree with the columnnist on this one. You need to remember that Lindows/Linspir

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-24 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 24, 2004 04:11 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: 5.) I LIKE my sendmail. Nyah! Ahhh, if I didn't know you were orginally from Detroit I'd have figured it out with this. Just like the auto industry in the 70s hanging on like grim death to something that isn't as good as the newer stuff. :-)

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-20 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 20, 2004 07:32 am, Edgars Smits wrote: OK, this is getting very frustrating. I've added strasburg via easy urpmi, unchecked the original sources (I installed from the 10C DVD), ran update as advised, then when I do a software update it always dumps me into a screen where I have to

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

2004-04-19 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 18, 2004 11:54 pm, Owain Sutton wrote: Surely an oxymoron? I'm trying hard, really hard, but I've yet to install any software as easily as on XP...oh, apart from Mozilla. Now considering that Mozilla installs exactly the same way as every other package in MDK, I'm starting to

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

2004-04-19 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 19, 2004 11:00 am, Owain Sutton wrote: Glib 2.4, xmms (not the version bundled with Mandrake, which crashed randomly), Odd, they all work fine for me..but never mind. Are you using urpmi or the GUI equivalents called Mandrake Update, Install Software and so on? I'm talking

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

2004-04-19 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 19, 2004 10:53 am, robin wrote: snip Then of course, there is the fun of uninstalling Windows software. Hmm, editing the registry to get rid of crap left by botched uninstalls - now _that's_ what I call user-friendly! ;-) Robin, you are evil and wicked, do you know that? :-)

Re: [newbie] community vs official

2004-04-18 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 18, 2004 08:48 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2004 04:53 am, mdk n00b wrote: between 10.0 community and official what differences are there ? bug fixes i assume ? Right now, nothing really. Not quite. There are some updated packages in 10 Official/Final which you

Re: [newbie] DANGER!

2004-04-18 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 18, 2004 07:34 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 22:39, et wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:07 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 21:50, Paul wrote: On 04/18/2004 12:55 PM, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Warning all list members: the girlfriend has subscribed!

Re: [newbie] community vs official

2004-04-18 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 18, 2004 03:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: snip Those updates are in the community tree too, in fact, 10.0 official forked from Community just recently and I don't think there have been any updates since then. Anyway, the difference between 10.0 official and 10.0 community is basically

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

2004-04-18 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 18, 2004 03:17 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 08:26:03 -0600 Steve Turner disseminated the following: I use and see the advantage of Linux but it will never be a big player as it is too difficult for a layman or typical computer user to use. Okay, is there some kind of

Re: [newbie] DANGER!

2004-04-18 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 18, 2004 07:32 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 12:16, Aron Smith wrote: So we'll just carry on slagging you then. :-) So should we tell her about you and the 'Roo ? Er, well, I told her about the wombat... wombat? What happened to the platypus and the dingo? :)

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

2004-04-17 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 18, 2004 07:54 am, Lanman wrote: Another Canadian city gets smart. Ya gotta love this stuff! http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3340731 Lanman Intresting, given that the cultural reputation of cowtown would lead me to believe that it would stay with UNIX or go with

[newbie] What's this with transparent proxies and bittorrrent?????

2004-04-17 Per discussione John Wilson
As I've about given up on ever updating CE I thought about downloading the final using bittorrent. (My computer has nothing better to do for the next week.) Now it tells me it can't do it because of a transparent proxy and what, to me, is a very cryptic note about opening ports and such. One

Re: [newbie] What's this with transparent proxies and bittorrrent?????

2004-04-17 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 17, 2004 10:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 18:40, John Wilson wrote: As I've about given up on ever updating CE I thought about downloading the final using bittorrent. (My computer has nothing better to do for the next week.) Now it tells me it can't do

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken? (Partially solved????)

2004-04-17 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 17, 2004 09:52 pm, robin wrote: That 2.6 kernel just hums. At one point I considered going back to 9.2, but I decided to fix what I could, and wait for the official edition for the few remaining problems. Sir Robin I think you can now. These two worked for me and Mandrake Update

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 14, 2004 03:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: snip No one expects Mandrake to actually communicate to their customers, even before a major restructure of the mirrors, but it seems they all went home for Easter withour fixing it. So much

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 14, 2004 10:23 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: do something good for the soul...snip more often! :-) Amen. I would just like to add it is especially difficult on us newbies, I havent been able to trust the mirrors for weeks and that has nothing to do with 10. Actually, the mirrors for CE

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-12 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 11, 2004 05:37 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: snip! Thunderstorms are quite common here. (Matter of fact, the weather guys say that they are likely tonight, tomorrow and possibly Tuesday.) In the 37 years that I've lived here, the only lightning damage that we've ever suffered came in on

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-12 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 11, 2004 07:39 pm, Marc wrote: I would not worry about running wiring out side as long as proper methods are used like drip loops and a bit of caulk. I think a outdoor wire run would be only slightly more susceptible to lightning than a indoor run. I will however add making sure

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-12 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 12, 2004 03:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 12 April 2004 01:47 am, John Wilson wrote: On April 11, 2004 07:39 pm, Marc wrote: . In the vast majority of cases two grounds will simply, as you say, make things worse. Can't see that electricity is going to follow Ohms law

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 10, 2004 10:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 11 April 2004 12:17 am, John Wilson wrote: -4. I've yet to run DLink equipment that doesn't work out of the box. For the record: Dlink DWL 650 pcmcia wireless card does not work, except for the very earliest release. Each new

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 10, 2004 09:24 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Good point. Not like I'd actually admit to being a perv. Just hint at it, eh Mate? :) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 11, 2004 02:33 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 18:36, John Wilson wrote: snop YES I'M A PERV AND CAN'T RESIST GOOD PORN. I'm a man. Can't help it. There, there, there. Don't you feel better now that you have that off your chest? Or whatever other part of your anatomy

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 11, 2004 06:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: One caveat, Steve. We had a telephone wire going round the outside of the house like that. One day we had a thunderstorm, lightning found the cable, and the whole system (including a mini-switchboard setup) was fried. Anne My guess, Anne,

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 11, 2004 11:37 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 11 April 2004 09:22 am, Steve Kaurfman wrote: What about having the cable run on the outside of the house for the office? They should be able to split it where it comes into the house on the outside. My home has a box on the outside

Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux

2004-04-10 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 kbps(getting ready for when my iPod comes). When I play it on my MDK 10.0 system, it sounds fuzzy and like it was encoded at 16 kbps. When I booted in Windows and played it, it was

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 8, 2004 05:17 pm, Owain Sutton wrote: Extreme newbie here.. I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a flashing

Re: [newbie] Any update site that works?

2004-04-09 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 9, 2004 08:44 am, Schwartz Avi wrote: Since the switch to the new mirrors hierarchy I am unable to find any sites that actually carry the MDK 10 Community updates. Anyone had any luck? Which site? Thanks, Avi Try looking at this Avi

Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users

2004-04-08 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 7, 2004 05:05 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Guys, What do you think of this: Because you run Mandrake, you didn't invest the 20-30 minutes that most Shorewall users do in learning about Shorewall during the installation process. That is a response I got in the shorewall list. I hate

[newbie] 10CE Updates -- Broken?

2004-04-06 Per discussione John Wilson
Hi all! I know that this has been gone over but I can't find the threads right now. As I recall there is something transit right now with updates to 10CE. The graphical sources manager keeps retrieving either empty lists or seriously broken ones. And all appear to be development sources,

Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books

2004-04-04 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 4, 2004 07:33 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip At the tech college where I work, we have one person that dominates a portion of the IT curriculum. So, if you want to learn about Web publishing, you won't learn any free database or scripting languages, you'll be forced to learn IIS, java,

[newbie] Recording from a microphone in MDK -- Help!!!!

2004-04-04 Per discussione John Wilson
Hi folks, I seem to have hit a brick wall here. I've managed to get a mike up and working, sound coming out of the speaker and all that. The problem is that whenever I try to record from that mike in Audacity or in Rezonds I get nothing..flatline..nada. In Audacity the input is set to

Re: [newbie] mandrake 10 community ISO problem

2004-04-02 Per discussione John Wilson
On April 2, 2004 06:36 am, Pete Doak wrote: snippity, snip, snip When I popped the CD-1 in the CD drive and restarted my computer I found that the computer would not boot off the CD. Just to make sure I had the computer configured right I put CD-1 from the 9.2 version, and it booted right up

Re: [newbie] package name?

2004-03-28 Per discussione John Wilson
On March 28, 2004 09:58 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:42:01 -0700 Charlie Mahan disseminated the following: I just installed Mdk on a new machine and I can't seem to remember what package it is that puts the server config page in Mandrake Control Center. Anyone know?

[newbie] MDK 10 -- Webmin won't start

2004-03-28 Per discussione John Wilson
Hi there! There is probably an issue at my end but...here we go anyway. Whenever I try to start Webmin I get this: An error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 1) What could this be? And yes, webmin is installed. :-) ttfn John

[newbie] More adventures in MDK 10

2004-03-28 Per discussione John Wilson
After a few days of playing with this I'm really starting to love it. Speed is definitely not an issue. This old Dell is acting like it's a young pup again. About the only thing it won't do is direct a missile at a car parked under me whose alarm has been singing at me for the last two

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 -- Webmin won't start

2004-03-28 Per discussione John Wilson
On March 28, 2004 09:24 am, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Your message prompted me to install webmin and give it a try. I used mcc to install it. Then I ran 'webmin' in a cli. Then I tried to connect and voila...it worked. Did you run the program before trying to connect? Regards, Bill W.

Re: [newbie] Problem with MK10 cd1

2004-03-25 Per discussione John Wilson
On March 25, 2004 02:31 am, bmobile40 wrote: I've been trying to install mandrake10 for about a week now. I keep getting a boot failure when I try to boot from cd1. I've re-downloaded the iso image from 4 different locations and i still get the same error. I've tried boot the machine off of

[newbie] Mandrake 10 -- Excellent...but...

2004-03-22 Per discussione John Wilson
First of all I have to say that MDK 10 is very pleasing eye candy. It's fast with the 2.6 series kernel and it's a pleasure to use it. The download via Bittorrent went smoothly and I continued to share it for a couple of weeks. (I'll get it back up soon once I get something here fixed :-) ).

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

2004-03-08 Per discussione John Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 8, 2004 06:57 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Are your ports open? Yep. A curious thing, which I can't understand, is happening. I started the download of the powerpack CDs some 16 hours ago. The speed, with some 60 peers and 19 seeds,

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

2004-03-07 Per discussione John Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 7, 2004 02:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 03:09 pm, John Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I have a Bittorent client up and running but running so slowly that I'll be a very old man

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

2004-03-07 Per discussione John Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 7, 2004 04:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: This is strange, I had both of the powerpack bittorrents downloaded in about 8 hours, the download was running full bore capacity of my broadband so I don't understand unless you are routing through a

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

2004-03-07 Per discussione John Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 7, 2004 10:06 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: how r u seeing all these peers and such? Also I tried the shorewall command that was put in the list and shorewall hated it. With regard to shorewall I've just forwarded the ports that I've been

Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts

2003-11-30 Per discussione John Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 30, 2003 02:23 am, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi, It's now been eleven days since I installed Mandrake, and I'd like to share a few thoughts. This may be a bit long, so I apologize in advance for my sound-byte challenged condition.

Re: [newbie] Local SMTP server?

2003-11-23 Per discussione John Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 23, 2003 01:31 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: On Sunday 23 November 2003 02:43 am, Richard Urwin wrote: Postfix or Sendmail. Of these Postfix is probably the easiest to set up, but the list has plenty of Thanks Richard. Being still

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