Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: Goat steak, goat stew, goat pie, goat cheese, goat ala mode, goat ala carte, goat burgers, goat kebabs, goat gyros, goat sausages, goat patties, goat casserole...the list goes on. My barbie is primed up and ready. MMMmm. I'm rowing. Expect me sometime in March.. Julie --

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Paul wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: In the re-install, make a separate /home dir this time ;) Also, IME, one real big /stor dir is better than many. BTW, when you re-install I recommend ReiserFS. And make a separate /boot partition (~50mb's, ext3). Ratio of '/' to '/home

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: My barbie is primed up and ready. MMMmm. I'm rowing. Expect me sometime in March.. Julie Dunno if anyone's ever rowed from the west coast of the US to the east coast of Australia before...interesting thought, but. Hmmm... down

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:02, Julie Sloan wrote: What about a ReiserFS? Or is that something else, not a type of partition as I thought? thanks, Julie Let's make it as simply put as possible. Create the partitions: /boot (ext3) / (ReiserFS) SWAP /home (ReiserFS) Bear

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: Julie Sloan lied: [sorry - anything further I'll post to the OT list] Down the mighty Mississip, into the Gulf, through the Panama Canal, head directly SSW and don't stop till you smack into Windang Island. Else, ship the goats to Knott County, KY and a mate of mine will git'em

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:26 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? What I've done is in my ignorance begun updating 10.1 when what I had was six-month-old 10.0 installed from

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 08:42 am, Julie Sloan wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:26 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? What I've done is in my ignorance

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: fine so far, but then !AAACK!! restarting urpmi One of the following packages is needed: 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) 2- ssmtp-2.60.7-1mdk.i586 : A minimal mail-transfer

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: restarting urpmi One of the following packages is needed: 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) 2- ssmtp-2.60.7-1mdk.i586 : A minimal mail-transfer agent which forwards mail to an SMTP

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:04, Julie Sloan wrote: KMail and Kontact will not open. My addressbook is in KMail. I am using Mozilla now, and that is fine, but I need to get into KMail to get my addresses and contact information! Cannot get into MCC No screensavers Gnome

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Julie Sloan
mike wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: fine so far, but then !AAACK!! restarting urpmi One of the following packages is needed: 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) 2- ssmtp-2.60.7

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: MCC won't open? Gnome is broken? That definitely sounds like some problems. Can you run rpmdrake? Does that do anything? Because I'm wondering if perl might be borked. when I run rpmdrake I get this: $ rpmdrake Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path:

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: First, check what version of kdebase you have installed - if any! Open the Mandrake Control Center, Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exist. Then, report back here...

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Margot wrote: On another list you mentioned that you bought the Mandrake CDs last summer - as 10.1 didn't exist then, are the CDs for 10.0? Because you now say you're running 10.1 - did you just install 10.0 from the CDs and then set your urpmi sources

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Lanman wrote: Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Aha. Yes. Oops. Help? Julie OK Julie, decision time! You have vital parts of Mandrake missing (Mandrake Control Center) as well as vital parts of KDE. You can go one of 2 ways: - Complete reinstall of 10.0 from the CDs (wipe out absolutely

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 04:52 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: I hate reverse gear, so if I can get some advice along the way I'll just plan to plow ahead... Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? Hi Aron

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? What I've done is in my ignorance begun updating 10.1 when what I had was six-month-old 10.0 installed from discs. The 10.0 was fine :( until I messed it up with this update. Now

[newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-19 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Hi all - - I see this mentioned in the Cooker archives, May and December 2003, but if someone also posted a solution I either missed it or am too dense to recognize it for what it is. FWIW the archive subject lines are: [Cooker] urpmi bug or not? (probably something with virtual packages...) and

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-12 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 06:12 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Monday 09 August 2004 12:50, Julie Sloan wrote: thanks for your help.Right now I'm in command-line culture-shock, but luckily I don't have a deadline to get comfortable with it. Just remember that linux is a subset of unix

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-12 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Thursday 12 August 2004 01:34 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:14, Julie Sloan wrote: I've got a desktop set up just for stuff I need to read learn (it's crammed full), I guess we all have such a file mine is 11.8MB and 21 emails to print. Such is life

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-10 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 08:19 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:58:31 -0400 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: Maybe I'm just lucky? :) Very lucky. I have a saying, kinda nasty, but... 'Running XP without a firewall is like bending over to pick up the soap in the shower

Re: [newbie] Connecting to the net

2004-08-10 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 07:42 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 09 August 2004 07:19 pm, jedson wrote: After working through the program, providing the info they wanted as well as I could, I clicked the button to test the connection. Got the message The system doesn't seem to be

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-09 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 12:30 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 21:52:09, Julie Sloan wrote: That was my fault. When I install a system one of the first things I do is change the display manager from mdkkdm to kdm. don't tell me how - maybe I'll find it on my own :) (like

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 12:47 pm, JoeHill wrote: I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they stopped functioning properly after doing a full 'Windows Update', so I'm not surprised at this: dumb question #8765432: I haven't used IE while online in years, but do have it

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:31 pm, Rob Toner wrote: Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be used for both Windoze and Linux?I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is getting ugly. My ISP

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 04:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:23:23 -0400 Well, all I can say is, my wife's machine is a default install of XP, has been for a few years, and we've never had a virus, worm, or otherwise. The only thing protecting the box is my firewall

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:08 pm, Thereidos wrote: Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 19:55, Julie Sloan napisa: snip snip snip So... if I do occasionally go online on the winxp side (but with the Mozilla or N7 browser) and I don't have IE on quickstart or anything, is there any reason at all

Re: AW: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 06:03 pm, Sebastian Martin wrote: If you use two different mail programms or just two different installtions of the same email client, your solution would only have the incomming mails in both programms, it would not help to have a common history of the emails sent

[newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to Gnome and they open just fine. How did I screw this up? Uh, and how did I manage to change my line width to 45 characters (in Ximian)? thanks, J --

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 17:25, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 August 2004 14:06:02, Julie Sloan wrote: Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Per discussione Julie Sloan
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 18:06, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 06:06, Julie Sloan wrote: Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to Gnome and they open just fine. How did I screw this up

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: PS I am here because someone on the linuxchix mailing list said this is a good forum for newbies Glad you made it over here, Julie - welcome! Margot Thanks for pointing me here, Margot - you probably thought I forgot. That's why I seem to have so much clutter

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 06 August 2004 05:54 am, simon wrote: Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre didn't recognise my hcf modem, it would not configure my internet connection properly. I used Kppp dialer instead and manually configured (most settings are default). http://pricewatch.com

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Bryan Phinney wrote: http://pricewatch.com and search for external 56k modem and you will find a list of places that are currently selling a cendyne external serial modem for around $17 US. Granted, that is not a top of the line modem, but it uses an equivalent chipset to a Zoom external

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Per discussione Julie Sloan
simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: The modem's a conexant hsf and I've d/l'd the apropriate driver from the linuxant site into the window$ partition Hi Julie, I have a Conexant modem running on Mdk10. It is an hcf modem and I also downloaded the driver from

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Per discussione Julie Sloan
simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: now in GUI... in MCC - hardware - hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as unknown device. in MCC - network - make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 (yes, 3), automatic on the IP, DNS, etc Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre

[newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-05 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the information out there and so far have made it through just a few of the info man pages. I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but trying to make this work from the KDE GUI) dual booting with WinXP

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Tomas Tudja wrote: Are really everybody upset because of me? I just wanted to demonstrate the topic. I though it will be a good help for the people to understand the problem. I'm not :) BTW what is wrong with outlook? Aha even I can answer that. Outlook Express is the most virus-prone program

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Per discussione Julie Sloan
Tomas Tudja wrote: 1. you really are not? I can't believe that : ! Well, 1) I haven't been here very long (just today) ...and 2) I'm 99.9% sure you speak english better than I speak your first language. 2. I am running winxp2k2 in vmware virtual machine. Vmware is running on mdk10.1.

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