[newbie] Can't set nomail!

2005-03-11 Per discussione Keith Powell
to temporarily suspend the postings. I wonder if it is me, or if it is Sympa playing up? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Can't set nomail!

2005-03-11 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 17:04, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:00:08 + schreef Keith Powell: All were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I am certain is the correct address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be better... Good luck! Paul Thanks, Paul, If you don't hear from me again, it's

Re: [newbie] Gnome2.8 problem

2005-03-01 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:03, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 03:10 pm, Keith Powell wrote: In trying to sort the problem, I messed things up altogether and Gnome would not start. So I uninstalled Gnome completely, and reinstalled all from Thac's packages. Now

Re: [newbie] Hard disk error messages

2005-03-01 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Monday 28 February 2005 12:38, riccardo wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 09:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: I know that hard drives are cheap, but I don't want to have to go to the trouble and expense of buying a new one unless I have to. Also, it means salvaging all the data from

[newbie] Hard disk error messages

2005-02-28 Per discussione Keith Powell
seek errors could be rectified. I know that hard drives are cheap, but I don't want to have to go to the trouble and expense of buying a new one unless I have to. Also, it means salvaging all the data from it. Many thanks Keith Want to buy

[newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem

2005-02-28 Per discussione Keith Powell
. The gnome2.6, which is with Mandrake 10.1OE works great - I would just have liked a later version. I installed the upgrade whilst in KDE, but did not uninstall the previous Gnome first. I can't find what the problem is, so any advice will be very gratefully received. Many thanks Keith

[newbie] Gnome2.8 problem

2005-02-28 Per discussione Keith Powell
this message each time. There is no Nautilus desktop. Incidentally, it would not install the Gnome-Control-Center normally. I had to force its installation. And I did want to try the new Gnome :( Help, please, someone. Keith Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem

2005-02-28 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 19:39, john wrote: Keith Powell wrote: I have installed Gnome2.8, using Thac's packages, but have a problem. There's no desktop panel! The gnome panel package was installed, so I have uninstalled it and installed it again. Still nothing, so I have no menus, applets

[newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-29 Per discussione Keith Powell
Some weeks ago, there was a long thread on problems with upgrading KDE using the Thac packages. Since then, I have not seen anything about it. Have the problems been sorted, and can we now upgrade KDE? Many thanks for any information. Keith

Re: [newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-02 Per discussione Keith Powell
reading it are likely to understand it and get help from it. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-02 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:33, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have been a complete failure. So, PLEASE someone

[newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-01 Per discussione Keith Powell
help. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Quanta Fonts

2004-12-24 Per discussione Keith Powell
them, please? I can't find an answer on Google. Thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] A .tar.gz problem.

2004-12-15 Per discussione Keith Powell
either on the disks or in the download sources. My /usr/lib/qt3 folder does not have include or qglobal.h. Please can someone help? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] A .tar.gz problem. [Success]

2004-12-15 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Wednesday 15 Dec 2004 13:48, Nick de Graeve wrote: Keith Powell wrote: I am trying to install a .tar.gz program but, as is usual with me, it is proving a disaster. I can rarely get the things to install, but end up with lots of error messages. I hate these type of files and usually don't

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem (update)

2004-12-11 Per discussione Keith Powell
, but I was tired and the information I was given was a real blow. I had only got my new computer the previous day. Any help will be very gratefully received. Thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem (solved)

2004-12-11 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 16:14, Keith Powell wrote: Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more confusing. I have installed several distributions in turn, on my spare hard drive to see what shutdown problems there are with other distros. There were none with two

[newbie] Shutdown problem

2004-12-10 Per discussione Keith Powell
, there is something to change in the lilo.conf file, but I can't remember what it is - not having needed it before. Please, what is it? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem

2004-12-10 Per discussione Keith Powell
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 11:37, Keith Powell wrote: I KNOW that this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer in the archives or in twiki. Sorry for asking it again. I have a new machine, and now, when I close down, everything closes down correctly

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem

2004-12-10 Per discussione Keith Powell
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 08:53 am, Keith Powell wrote: apic=off has solved it. The append line was already apic=ht, so I first changed it to noapic and then apic=noapic. Neither had any effect. APIC, advance programable interrupt control. If your system works better

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem

2004-12-10 Per discussione Keith Powell
Margot wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 11:37, Keith Powell wrote: I have a new machine, and now, when I close down, everything closes down correctly, but then Mandrake does not actually switch the computer off. If I remember correctly, there is something to change

Re: [newbie] Groups

2004-12-08 Per discussione Keith Powell
Duncan Anderson wrote: Keith Powell wrote: A very basic question, please. How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and add myself to another group. You can look at /etc/group to see which groups you belong to. Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2004-12-08 Per discussione Keith Powell
Thank you for your reply, Carefree. Very much edited, my original posting said: From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound

[newbie] Groups

2004-12-06 Per discussione Keith Powell
A very basic question, please. How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and add myself to another group. Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users and groups doesn't appear do it. Many thanks Keith

Re: [newbie] Groups

2004-12-06 Per discussione Keith Powell
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 06 December 2004 17:14, Keith Powell wrote: A very basic question, please. How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and add myself to another group. Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users and groups doesn't appear

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2004-12-05 Per discussione Keith Powell
the mixer and then restart it. There is sound again. /dev/dsp is a soft link to /dev/sound/dsp. JT From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound problem. Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 + This has probably been

Re: [newbie] Sound problem.

2004-12-05 Per discussione Keith Powell
** An update. ** Keith Powell wrote: I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing

Re: [newbie] Re: Asus motherboards

2004-12-04 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 04 December 2004 1:57 pm, Yvan wrote: Hello Keith, I have a P4P800 ASUS Motherboard. It has a Gigabit Ethernet controller on board. It really sucked with Mandrake 9.0, Ethernet didn't work correctly, no sound support. I recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 and now everything works

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-04 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Friday 03 December 2004 7:47 pm, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: I am running my Mandrake 10.1 on Asus A7V600-X motherboard. Wojciech Podgrni Thank you for your reply, Wojciech. The general answer is that I will have no problems with it, which is good to know. Keith

[newbie] Sound problem.

2004-12-04 Per discussione Keith Powell
-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. Any advice, please? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question, please

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Per discussione Keith Powell
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Per discussione Keith Powell
Dan Gordon wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-22 Per discussione Keith Powell
Debian based distros? I suggest Libranet, a very user friendly version. It's available as a free download. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-22 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Monday 22 November 2004 7:50 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:14:09 + Keith Powell disseminated the following: Debian based distros? I suggest Libranet, a very user friendly version. Yep, forgot about that one. IIRC, it's a Canuck outfit, no? Yes. It is a mixture

Re: [newbie] Broadband router

2004-11-17 Per discussione Keith Powell
DG834 working well here with Force9 Broadband, and it was easy to set up in Mandrake 10.1 - haven't tried it in any earlier versions of Mandrake. -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* SMC7204BRA is working well here, also with Force9 Broadband. Welcome to Force9, Margot! Keith

Re: [newbie] CD burner problems

2004-11-14 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 7:31 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It will play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn with it, I get a message that there is an input/output error. The tray then opens and I get a message

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Per discussione Keith Powell
, burn it to a CD-RW, replace the Linux hard drive with the Windows one (they are on separate caddies) and copy the stuff off the CD. Your idea is much more simple and much better. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] CD burner problems

2004-11-13 Per discussione Keith Powell
to play but not record? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Per discussione Keith Powell
won't need to buy a crossover cable, as the nearest PC World is a 30 minute car ride away. We only have one computer shop round here, and I would rather not comment on it. I went in once! Thank you all again for all the help. Cheers Keith

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 11:32, Alan Dunford wrote: On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 22:12, Keith Powell wrote: The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :( I have 98SE, which I very occasionally run. Would I

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Per discussione Keith Powell
want to use for that session, so they are all completely separate. I think this is a better system than dual booting. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-20 Per discussione Keith Powell
as working well with Linux. (I want to play safe and not have any problems getting going in broadband). Any advice gratefully received as I am itching to get on to broadband but am confused at the moment! Many thanks Keith Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Broadband modems [solved]

2004-10-18 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Friday 15 Oct 2004 9:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Keith The Access runner Conexant chip set is the one I warned you about. It is REALLY HARD to get working. I helped a friend get one working and it took 2 weeks of email support from a guy in New Zealand before it worked

Re: [newbie] Broadband modems [solved]

2004-10-15 Per discussione Keith Powell
I have received the following message regarding a PCI broadband modem, and am forwarding it just for information in case anyone is interested. Keith Not sure if the following refers to the same PCI modem, Keith, but it will hopefully be of some help

Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP [Solved]

2004-10-14 Per discussione Keith Powell
. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Broadband modems

2004-10-13 Per discussione Keith Powell
so that I can study them. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Broadband modems

2004-10-12 Per discussione Keith Powell
be better off going to a computer shop and buying a different modem? If so, what would you recommend? I am running Mandrake 10.0 Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP

2004-10-09 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Thursday 07 Oct 2004 19:33, Keith Powell wrote: I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as WindowsXP. I

[newbie] Dual booting with XP

2004-10-07 Per discussione Keith Powell
of WindowsXP or dual-booting, so don't know what to suggest. If any further information is needed, I will ask him for it. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Spell-checking in Thunderbird (Solved)

2004-08-17 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 22:37, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 21:01, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 15:07, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:06, Keith Powell wrote: I have been trying Thunderbird

[newbie] Spell-checking in Thunderbird

2004-08-16 Per discussione Keith Powell
it. The download site says to use Tools-Options-Attachments to install it. but there is no Attachments item in that menu. How do I install the new dictionary, please? I can't find the answer with Google :-( Many thanks for any help. Keith Want

[newbie] Stopped printing.

2004-08-02 Per discussione Keith Powell
a terminal. None will print :-( This is the error message I get: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: cupsdoprint -P 'EPSONStylusCOLOR670' -J 'Untitled' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'keith' -o ' copies=1 cpi=12 lpi=7 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies

Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.

2004-08-02 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 14:04, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:44, Keith Powell wrote: I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped printing from Mandrake (although it will still print correctly from other distros). I haven't altered anything since it printed correctly

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-26 Per discussione Keith Powell
Thanks Charlie, John and Carroll for your replies. I was off the list for some time and lost track of what was happening to Community. Am now much clearer about the situation. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Per discussione Keith Powell
to find out. I only have a dial-up connection. Many thanks for any information. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about

[newbie] APT for Mandrake

2004-04-25 Per discussione Keith Powell
work, there may be no packages from it, which are not available from the urpmi sources. I though it was worth looking at, though. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up? (Solved)

2004-04-19 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 2:16 pm, Keith Powell wrote: My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10

2004-04-19 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 6:45 pm, RichardA wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:17:08 +0100, Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly, it was mentioned on the list some time ago that the download edition will have adverts which will pop up at any time. This inconvenience

[newbie] Hard drive packed up?

2004-04-18 Per discussione Keith Powell
the hard drive, and tried various things with FDISK. The drive still can't be used. Googling brings up nothing of apparent use. Can the hard drive be sorted, or is it only fit to be thrown away? Any ideas will be gratefully received. Many thanks Keith

Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up?

2004-04-18 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 3:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:16, Keith Powell wrote: My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working

Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up?

2004-04-18 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 2:59 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:16, Keith Powell wrote: My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped

Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up?

2004-04-18 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 3:37 pm, Marc wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:16 am, Keith Powell wrote: I know this isn't strictly Mandrake, so apologies. My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple

[newbie] Mandrake 10

2004-04-17 Per discussione Keith Powell
that as a test to see how things are beforebuying the boxed set. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10

2004-04-17 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 17 April 2004 9:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 08:27, Keith Powell wrote: Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or version 10 (Official) are having problems

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10

2004-04-17 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 17 April 2004 8:47 am, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:27:00 +0100, Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or version 10 (Official

[newbie] Mandrake 10

2004-04-17 Per discussione Keith Powell
replies. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10

2004-04-17 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:17 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I assume that the cheap CDs I would buy from, for instance, The Libranet Emporium, would be the download edition. Whoops! I meant to type The Linux Emporium. Sorry!! Keith Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10

2004-04-17 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 17 Apr 2004 6:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 April 2004 17:09, Keith Powell wrote: In the past and, I assume for version 10, an individually burnt CD with all the updates/bug patches to the date of ordering it, has been

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-05 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 5:02 am, robin wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 13:28, Keith Powell wrote: I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-05 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 1:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:52, Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-05 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 2:09 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:28 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-04 Per discussione Keith Powell
for Mandrake. I would rather use a binary than a tarball. Many thanks. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Per discussione Keith Powell
: 3 Bounce messages received: 3 Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-15 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 13 Mar 2004 2:35 pm, Charlie wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:11 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing wrong with the Aspell

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-12 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 8:26 am, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-12 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 7:37 pm, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably

[newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Per discussione Keith Powell
Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Per discussione Keith Powell
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird

2004-03-08 Per discussione Keith Powell
easy enough. On Sun, Mar 07, 2004, Keith Powell wrote: I would like to try Mozilla-Thunderbird and have found a Mandrake RPM for it on Rediris, which I have downloaded. I hope it's not a Spanish version :-( It's the only one I can find. There's nothing in the usual repositories. Hello

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird

2004-03-08 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 7:40 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 19:28, Keith Powell wrote: I would like to try Mozilla-Thunderbird and have found a Mandrake RPM for it on Rediris, which I have downloaded. I hope it's not a Spanish version :-( It's the only one I can find. There's

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Per discussione Keith Powell
, libqt-mt.so.3, libresolv.so.2, libstdc++.so.5, libz.so.1 I can't find any of them on my CDs. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2004 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:40, Keith Powell wrote: I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about it, having read an article on it in Linux Format magazine. So I

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-03-01 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:58, Keith Powell wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I will be with you all in a minute, I'm just in this forest looking for a bit of wood!!! Many thanks to all who replied

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Per discussione Keith Powell
. This will teach me not to economise! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 8:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Many thanks, Lanman, for the very useful information. I have printed it out for future reference. Scribus is definitely not on my download CDs. I have looked at the actual rpm's on all of them (not just the lists

[newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Per discussione Keith Powell
the things to install. They always stop during ./configure or make with lots and lots of error messages :-( Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-14 Per discussione Keith Powell
. There is only one other TV program watched here during the day, Anne. My wife is a Countdown enthusiast. I come up here to the computer so that I don't have to watch it! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Per discussione Keith Powell
, as they won't want to know. I sign myself A disgusted viewer. Keith. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.

2003-12-08 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 12:04 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2? Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes. I just

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check. (Explained)

2003-12-08 Per discussione Keith Powell
Hoping to reach a wider audience, I have asked on the KDE list if anyone has had problems with KWord spell checking. I have received this reply from Dik Takken: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Keith Powell wrote: Is there a problem with spell checking in KWord1.2.92, please? Yes, there are serious

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-08 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 3:34 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.

2003-12-08 Per discussione Keith Powell
comes up, the Language shows that it is set to English. Scroll through the list and click on English (United Kingdom). It then checks with just the UK spellings. Very simple and everyone else probably already knew this :-( Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-07 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:45 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Hello Charlie. Sorry, but your suggestion does not work. KWord ignores the Control Center/Components/Spell Checker settings, and just starts each time with the English Dictionary, US-ASCII Encoding

[newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.

2003-12-07 Per discussione Keith Powell
, after the crash, it has gone back to these original settings. English-GB Spell checking works with other KDE applications (for example KMail), and it also works in Abiword, which uses ASpell. There was not this problem with Mandrake9.1. Many thanks for any advice. Keith Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-05 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 2:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Dec 2003 1:56 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone got the spell checker to work in KWord, please? I have experimented with various settings in Settings-Configure KWord-Spellings. When it has spell checked the first word

Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2

2003-11-29 Per discussione Keith Powell
. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2

2003-11-28 Per discussione Keith Powell
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 8:54 am, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:18:48 + Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why the Contrib repository was giving the error messages with Mandrake9.2, when it didn't with earlier versions. Should I try to solve the bad

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