On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 7:48 pm, Dick Gevers wrote:
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:18:48 +, Keith Powell
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signatures in
9.2:
I installed the download edition of 9.2 from magazine cover disks
On Sunday 23 Nov 2003 7:40 pm, Dick Gevers wrote:
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:56:07 +, Keith Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Bad signatures in
9.2:
However, if I try to install anything from the rediris contrib
mirror, I get the Invalid Signature message on each package
Greetings all.
For family reasons, I have been off the list (and rarely on the
computer) for about ten weeks, and have just joined again.
I wanted to try Mandrake9.2 so, before spending my hard-earned pension
on the package, I have installed it from three magazine cover disks
just to test.
On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 9:58 am, Anders Lind wrote:
Ah well, there's always IceWM or Gnome.
XFCE 4 is gonna be off the chart, use that instead ;o)
/Anders
Hello Anders.
Thanks for the reply.
I have tried XFCE for the first time, and have mixed feelings about it. It may
be because I have not
Yesterday, I sent three postings to the list. None of them have appeared, so
here is another try.
On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 1:54 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Sunday 31 August 2003 08:10 am, Keith Powell wrote:
On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 2:21 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
And here comes the bad news
I sent three postings yesterday, but none of have appeared on the list. So
here goes again.
On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 5:10 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
People, before we go tarnishing a good company due to spurious rumors, can
we please make sure that we have *ALL* of the facts straight. While it
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:53 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:33 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
Is the Ibiblio APT repository no longer available? I have been trying to
access it for some time, but all I get is a 404 error.
On an associated note, is the PLF source no longer
2003 16:19:20 + Keith Powell I am running KDE3.1.0 as
came with 9.1, but I see that Texstar has a
version 3.1.2.
Are there many improvements in his version? I have only got a dial-up
connection, so the download would take several hours and I want to be
certain that it would be worth
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings
wrote:
There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as
enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default
because of a patent issue)
Derek.
The fonts in 9.1 look
Using the Recommended method of installation, and letting Mandrake sort out
its own partitioning, it uses ext3 and noatime. From the information I have
been able to find, noatime speeds things up with ext2, so presumably with
ext3 also.
I am wondering whether to do my own partitioning as I
On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 11:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 10:31 am, Keith Powell wrote:
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings
wrote:
There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more
such as enabling the bytecode
I have been trying to set up a URPMI source list for 9.1, by modifying the 9.0
list changing 9.0 to 9.1. The sources are found, except for texstar and plf.
I am entering these commands in a terminal (as root):
urpmi.addmedia texstar
I have just changed my monitor from a CRT one to a TFT one.
The old monitor was running with the same settings as the new one requires -
1024x768 at 75Hz.
The new one works well with Windows98 and with Libranet. I did not have to
change anything in Libranet, the new monitor just worked.
Just over two weeks ago, for no apparent reason, I suddenly stopped receiving
anything from either the newbie or the expert lists.
After a lot of work and co-operation between Mandrake and my ISP, they appear
to have sorted the problems and things now seem to be back to normal. At
least, I am
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote:
Big snip
Also BTW Dan your email address looks like a ham call Great to see
another amature radio fan on the list. I wonder how many more hams are
here.
Enjoy
Marc KM5KW
Add me to the list!
Cheers (or should I say 73)
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 10:20 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:48 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote:
I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which
needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get
I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to
access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message:
Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy.
I have checked permissions and they are correct.
Any ideas to overcome this error,
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:46 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:49 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs
to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message:
Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:48 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote:
I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs
to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message:
Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound
On Saturday 25 January 2003 11:09 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 01:05, Keith Powell wrote:
I have just spent about two and a half hours downloading a package and
all its dependencies, using MCC Install Software.
When it tried to install the packages, it couldn't, saying
On Saturday 25 January 2003 7:49 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Saturday 25 January 2003 04:24 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
snip
For information, the package was the Texstar
Phoenix. I have heard some good reports about
Phoenix and would like to try it.
I am feeling very frustrated
I have just spent about two and a half hours downloading a package and all its
dependencies, using MCC Install Software.
When it tried to install the packages, it couldn't, saying that there was an
installation fault. It then abandoned the installation.
How can I find out what the fault was,
et asked what package I was trying to install.
Thanks for your reply. It is Phoenix from the Texstar site.
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 2:14 pm, David Robertson wrote:
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 14:05, Keith Powell wrote:
I have just spent about two and a half hours downloading a package and
all
On Friday 24 Jan 2003 11:40 am, John McQuillen wrote:
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 20:56, Keith Powell wrote:
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 9:30 pm, John McQuillen wrote:
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 02:30, Keith Powell wrote:
I have been investigating the Gnome desktop, and have been trying to
get
I have been investigating the Gnome desktop, and have been trying to get the
Modem Lights applet working to use it for dial-up. I can't get it to work.
When I click on it, nothing happens.
It gives pppon (without the speech marks) as the connect command. I assume
that pppon is a script, but it
On Thursday 16 January 2003 5:50 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 5:12 pm, Carlos Cifuentes wrote:
I like mandrake club two years ago. Is very difficult to be mandrake´s
member and i haven´t time for this (the process isn´t clear; i cann´t pay
in dollars nor euros, my money is
On Saturday 11 January 2003 6:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 4:10 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
On Saturday 11 January 2003 3:22 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:07 pm, RichardA wrote:
I live in Leeds now, where if someone says fuck off you can be fairly
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 5:09 pm, RichardA wrote:
A couple of thousand more of us and we can make our own Tyke distro!
Richard
What! In Yorkshire dialect? That should generate some interesting postings
from bewildered users!
Keith
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On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 5:23 pm, Jerry wrote:
SNIP!!!
If Sylpheed had the facility of scrolling through the message headers and
messages using just the arrow keys, as with KMail, then it would be a
winner. This makes KMail so fast and easy to use.
I know that there are various key
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 2:45 am, Todd Slater wrote:
I lost the thread where this was being discussed, but I was poking around
Sylpheed because I was pretty sure that it can do just about everything
(and fast).
S, under Configuration Preferences for Current Account (assuming
it's POP or
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 6:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
This is the same for 8.2 and 9.0 (i just checked).
Open KMail
Open a composer window (New or Reply)
Settings Configure Toolbars
Highlight the 'spelling' option in the left 'Available actions' pane.
Click the [-] arrow button to move
Thanks Anne!
On Friday 10 January 2003 2:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 2:18 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
On Friday 10 January 2003 11:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
SNIP
BTW, I'm getting a '--' between your quoted text and your reply. This
has the effect of your reply
On Thursday 09 January 2003 5:23 pm, Jerry wrote:
SNIP!!!
If Sylpheed had the facility of scrolling through the message headers and
messages using just the arrow keys, as with KMail, then it would be a
winner. This makes KMail so fast and easy to use.
I know that there are various key
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Keith Powell wrote:
I once read that KMail could be filtered to send messages straight into
the Black Hole which is /dev/null. Ideal for spam!
Has anyone tried it, and got it to work? If so, how do you do it, please?
I can't work out how to do it.
This is only
I once read that KMail could be filtered to send messages straight into the
Black Hole which is /dev/null. Ideal for spam!
Has anyone tried it, and got it to work? If so, how do you do it, please? I
can't work out how to do it.
This is only for experimenting with. I wouldn't dream of using it
On Sunday 01 December 2002 07:11, RCD wrote:
SNIP
The one really awsome thing about debian and I'm not bashing mandrake
at all is their upgrade, update system. Using apt-get you can upgrade your
system to a testing version, or unstable version and then back again
(although going
On Saturday 30 Nov 2002 1:41 pm, Thought Progress wrote:
Hello All,
I am hearing a lot about how apt-get is the end all be all of
dependency resolution. Can someone tell me..
1. What is apt-get ?
2. Does it really work (ie is it worth learning about)?
and
3. A good source to find out
I have been trying to enhance the Mandrake9 fonts using the Getting libqt3
compiled with Xft-2 instructions on Derek's site, but can't connect to the
Texstar site to download the necessary packages.
I get an error message with each package:-
FTP user password incorrect.
I have no problems
I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0.
Installation went very well; then the problem started.
I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install from
the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the Commercial Disks. But
not from the Supplementary
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
(Small quote)
then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings.
Anne, do I take it that somewhere on the Mandrake site are Warnings and Work
arounds regarding problems with 9.0?
I can't find this, but there are so many
Thanks, Anne.
I like graphical tools. I can never remember all those commands!!
Keith
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 11:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:57 am, Keith Powell wrote:
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
(Small quote)
then re-read Mandrake's
On Monday 18 November 2002 6:51 pm, Michel Clasquin wrote:
On Monday 18 November 2002 14:34, Keith Powell wrote:
Should I have been connected to the Internet when I first entered
the sources in the command line?
Yes, and running console or xterm as root.
Thanks Michel.
I thought
Hello Tony.
Thanks for your reply in answer to my problem that I could not get urpmi or
the Control Panel Software Management to recognise the new sources I had
entered.
I removed the old ones, and entered them again when connected to the Internet,
as you said I should.
It now works - at
Sorry for such very newbie questions, but I am lost!
Is there a good tutorial on downloading and installing packages from the
Internet? The Package Manager section of the Mandrake manual is far too
sketchy for me: it hardly mentions it.
I have no problems installing from the disks, or doing an
Linux user you might like to consider adding Xft2
support as described here :-
http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie;linux-mandrake.com/msg107698.html
derek
On Sunday 10 Nov 2002 10:05 am, Keith Powell wrote:
I have just installed the 3 CDs Download Edition of Mandrake9, as I am
thinking
Hello Randy.
In the past when I have sent things like that abroad, I have added to the
contents description:
Of no commercial value
This, I think, helps to make things as clear as possible to customs. I have
never had any problems.
Hope that helps.
Keith
On Sunday 06 January 2002 8:11,
- Original Message -
From: nathan wainwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.
I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place would
be perfect for
On Friday 21 December 2001 10:56, you wrote:
I don't know, if this
message reaches anybody.
Can anybody tell me, if
my mail has been received
by someone?
Thanks
Michael
It has been received in England!
Cheers
Keith
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