Re: [newbie] various issues

2005-03-01 Per discussione Len Lawrence
that it can be accessed from any workspace and fullscreen application. It is a one level hierarchical notepad, simple, clean, and functional. KDE has something similar; kjots maybe? -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because

Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT

2005-02-07 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:48:42 + David G Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and DVD media is by far a complex topic when

Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT

2005-02-04 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:48:42 + David G Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk

[newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT

2005-02-03 Per discussione Len Lawrence
for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner

Re: [newbie] Mandrakelinux Mailing List Etiquette

2005-01-30 Per discussione Len Lawrence
out on the subject != thread business. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner

Re: [newbie] oooqs and GNOME - for information only

2005-01-17 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On 17 Jan 2005 07:45:38 +0100 frengoGorgia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il lun, 2005-01-17 alle 01:39, Len Lawrence ha scritto: Under GNOME and Mandrake 9.2 I have managed to get OpenOffice to start up in 3 or 4 seconds, which is fine. But, out of curiosity I installed oooqs from

[newbie] oooqs and GNOME - for information only

2005-01-16 Per discussione Len Lawrence
applications which fail under GNOME. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner

Re: [newbie] Where is libdvdcss?

2005-01-16 Per discussione Len Lawrence
? Thank you Christophe Very strange. Should be in /usr/lib. John. As John says. Look for /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so On my system libdvdcss.so.2.0.3 installed from libdvdcss2-1.2.4-1plf. Your version numbers may differ. -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3

2004-12-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:54:47 + Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 07:11, Len Lawrence wrote: libxfree86-devel Hi Len, Thanks for the suggestion. I d/l'd the libxfree86-devel from rpmfind.net and tried to install it with rpm -Uvh ... the following

Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3

2004-12-18 Per discussione Len Lawrence
to get it working on 10.1? Can anyone figure out what I'm missing? Have you installed libxfree86-devel? You might need other packages but that is a start. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] 64bit architectures

2004-11-25 Per discussione Len Lawrence
in the decade we had 600 MHz Alphas when the fastest PC was a 32bit 200Mhz Pentium Pro. They produced bulky code but they were fast man, for their day. Fairly sure that both RedHat and Mandrake supported the Alpha processor. -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] Casio QV3500 digital camera

2004-09-12 Per discussione Len Lawrence
, but it would be worth looking at if you use supermount. I hope you find a solution. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] fuji finepix in LM10

2004-09-12 Per discussione Len Lawrence
/mnt/camera because I am always swapping USB storage devices. harddrake2 shows what device corresponds to which scsi emulated disk. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] SpinRite 6.0

2004-09-11 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:09:28 -0400 Allan Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 07 September 2004 01:29, Len Lawrence wrote: This is a bit off-topic maybe. Somebody mentioned SpinRite the other day in the context of disk recovery so I

Re: [newbie] SpinRite 6.0

2004-09-07 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:28:57 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: This is a bit off-topic maybe. Somebody mentioned SpinRite the other - snip - The grc.com is directed to Windows users and all tools

[newbie] SpinRite 6.0

2004-09-06 Per discussione Len Lawrence
at bootdisk.com all seem to be .exes, which I assumed are self-extracting versions of DOS to be copied to a floppy, which would require Windows or DOS to run, and a FAT partition as well. So, should I ask for my money back? -- Len Lawrence Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Mozilla misbehaving

2004-08-29 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:53:03 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:37, Len Lawrence wrote: I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop

Re: [newbie] Mozilla misbehaving

2004-08-29 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:09:33 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 00:37, Len Lawrence wrote: I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop

[newbie] Mozilla misbehaving

2004-08-28 Per discussione Len Lawrence
they had never seen or heard of such behaviour. Using GNOME on both machines. Cheers -- Len Lawrence -- Xerox never comes up with anything original

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-07 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:40:56 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Further to that. The router is now plugged in and running fine. Apart from service network restart there was very little action required. The hostname reverted to localhost.domain so

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-07 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 03:04:03 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:40:56 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did understand what it meant, but thanks for the clarification. What I meant

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-06 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:04:37 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Len Lawrence Sent: Thu 8/5/2004 10:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router? On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:50:22

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-05 Per discussione Len Lawrence
access. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-05 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:30:41 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: This simpleton needs help again! desktop: Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack - stock kernel 2.4.22-10 laptop: Mandrake 9.2 download edition - empkernel 2.4.22 I have a desktop system

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-05 Per discussione Len Lawrence
automatically locally on your network. How far have you progressed then with the router? Are things working? Haven't had time today - 24/7 job looking after invalid wife - probably have a go tomorrow morning. Thanks to you and everybody else for hints and encouragement. Cheers -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-05 Per discussione Len Lawrence
recommended that. Will repost the link if you are interested. -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-05 Per discussione Len Lawrence
. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] link is http://folding.stanford.edu -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-04 Per discussione Len Lawrence
that the new MAC address will be registered with BlueYonder automatically when the router is plugged in (?). -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses

Re: [newbie] what is vcsa

2004-07-01 Per discussione Len Lawrence
--- virtual console memory owner. -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses

Re: [newbie] BATCH FILE

2004-06-10 Per discussione Len Lawrence
Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything

Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C

2004-05-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
: filesystem type: EF53 block size : 4096 free blocks: 9070563 Your numbers look as if they have been divided by 12.5 = 8%. Could somebody else check this out under Mandrake 10? -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 May 2004 00:27:33 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg) wrote: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:23, Greg wrote: - snip - Is there any way to monitor network traffic Greg You could try /usr/sbin/net_monitor. -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] Kernel update woes

2004-04-08 Per discussione Len Lawrence
| Fatal: volid read error. Thanks for the encouragement Pablo. Will give it a go. -- Len Lawrence -- QOTD: Every morning I read the obituaries; if my name's not there, I go to work

[newbie] Kernel update woes

2004-04-07 Per discussione Len Lawrence
kernel, which would probably lead to a kernel panic. The next stage would be to try and restore the old links. -- Len Lawrence -- There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Re: [newbie] compile asm in C

2004-03-13 Per discussione Len Lawrence
to resolve this problem??? btw, mine is MDK9.2 OK, Mandrake 9.2. I tried it like this and it compiled without errors. int main() { __asm__( mov $0x0, %ebx\n mov $0x1, %eax\n int $0x80\n ); return 0; } -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] compile asm in C

2004-03-13 Per discussione Len Lawrence
to resolve this problem??? btw, mine is MDK9.2 OK, Mandrake 9.2. I tried it like this and it compiled without errors. int main() { __asm__( mov $0x0, %ebx\n mov $0x1, %eax\n int $0x80\n ); return 0; } -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-25 Per discussione Len Lawrence
module. Have you any idea how you would test the actual transfer speed? I have an Amacom USB2.0 drive. It would be interesting to see how close to 480Mbs it gets. -- Len Lawrence -- I have never understood this liking for war. It panders

Re: [newbie] bmp to jpg?

2004-02-22 Per discussione Len Lawrence
are 300 dpi. Lee mogrify -format jpeg *.bmp Check the man pages for mogrify and ImageMagick (the parent package for mogrify). -- Len Lawrence -- I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within

Re: [newbie] bmp to jpg?

2004-02-22 Per discussione Len Lawrence
about that - non standard BMP files. I tried mogrify on one of the small BMPs which comes with OpenOffice.org; no problem. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
DEC Alpha machines as UNIX workstations and those did seem to run faster than the Sun hardware; but they did have the advantage of 500+ MHz processors. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] lpr problem in 9.2

2004-02-09 Per discussione Len Lawrence
it - the latter raises a server error (? CUPS ?). -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]

2003-12-25 Per discussione Len Lawrence
, / and /home as Anne says. Have a good Christmas, and the same goes for everybody on the list. And my personal thanks to everybody who contributes and makes this such a welcoming environment for new and older hands. Merry Christmas -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] DVD regions

2003-11-01 Per discussione Len Lawrence
it probably is only available for North America. -- Len Lawrence -- I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. -- Brigid Brophy

Re: [newbie] Mandrake preinstalled systems

2003-11-01 Per discussione Len Lawrence
preloaded systems gave this: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2315 http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux_News03/HP-Mandrake-Linux-Desktop-PC_Story01.html For laptops/notebooks you could try http://www.emperorlinux.com/. Installing Mandrake 9.1 just now. -- Len

[newbie] Googling

2003-10-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
Is Google still alive? For several weeks, or maybe months, mozilla here has been timing out on www.google.com, so some of the links posted in the list have been failing. Has anybody else seen this problem? -- Len Lawrence -- Sometimes I

Re: [newbie] list nazi: hijacking

2003-10-17 Per discussione Len Lawrence
topic. I don't get worked up about it but it *is* bad manners. Or simple ignorance. It was in my case - did it several times before getting my knuckles rapped. -- Len Lawrence -- There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation

Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo

2003-10-17 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:11:20 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:49, Len Lawrence wrote: working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. That was all

[newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo

2003-10-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo

2003-10-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:11:20 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:49, Len Lawrence wrote: working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. That was all

Re: [newbie] DVD encryption

2003-09-10 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:19:36 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 06:54:00 +0100 Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Its a joke on a band called Tears for Fears that I dearly love. I'm corrupting their band name. shrugs. And I'm queer. So why

Re: [newbie] DVD encryption

2003-09-08 Per discussione Len Lawrence
the win32 codecs too What's with the Queers For Fears stuff? Mike snip Its a joke on a band called Tears for Fears that I dearly love. I'm corrupting their band name. shrugs. And I'm queer. So why not? Thx. Femminux And the rest of us are very odd! -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] Gnome out to get X?

2003-08-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
the correspondence on this list it looks like KDE is a major reason why MS Windows refugees find it easy to slip on their new coat. Forking X, the kernel, or whatever, sounds like a recipe for chaos. Like Linux really needs more choices! -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank

2003-08-01 Per discussione Len Lawrence
. What the hell is error 202? And is there a chance that the file could be cached somewhere? Apologies for hijacking the thread. -- Len Lawrence -- Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate

Re: [newbie] changing wm with gnome2

2003-07-29 Per discussione Len Lawrence
Gnome Mandrake. -- Len Lawrence -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] changing wm with gnome2

2003-07-28 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:32 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:08:17 +0100, Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: killall -9 metacity No process killed (or something like that) The 'exec sawfish ' failed with Cannot run two window managers

Re: [newbie] USB 2.0? 1.1?

2003-07-09 Per discussione Len Lawrence
. No experience of tape drives. Other people may know, but the omens are good. -- Len Lawrence -- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones

[newbie] RAID slot = IDE

2003-06-26 Per discussione Len Lawrence
in any way, on either ide0 (hda) or ide2 (hdc)? -- Len Lawrence -- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones -- Want

Re: [newbie] USB Flash disk

2003-06-21 Per discussione Len Lawrence
attempt, before modifying fstab, was mount -t ext2 -w /dev/sda1 /z which failed with a message indicating that the device was write protected. It objected to the -w option. This implies that 8.2 either does not check for write protection or ignores it. -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-12 Per discussione Len Lawrence
. If no name is specified the last component of the file name is used. In this particular case the link will be named win_d in whichever directory the command is invoked. -- Len Lawrence -- Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-12 Per discussione Len Lawrence
). -- Len Lawrence -- Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. -- Marlo Thomas -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie]

2003-06-05 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:31:40 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I like KDE. In fact I can't get on with Gnome at all. I was wondering if its because I started out as a windows user and migrated to *nix as I had a friend who really raved about Gnome and he was from a Unix

Re: [newbie] BlueYonder

2003-05-31 Per discussione Len Lawrence
hope some of this helps you. It sure does Charlie. Will go right ahead and order the service. Thanks for your help, and thanks to the other posters as well. -- Len Lawrence -- Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-31 Per discussione Len Lawrence
to get to know anybody new. Cheers. -- Len Lawrence -- Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash -- Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] SanDisk USB CF/SM readers work?

2003-05-31 Per discussione Len Lawrence
, Flip2Disk and Zennox memory pen drive, both work on either interface, but you are correct; data transfer is noticeably slower on 1.1. -- Len Lawrence -- Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long

[newbie] BlueYonder

2003-05-30 Per discussione Len Lawrence
Windows. Well, really! So, has anybody here done it for a standalone Mandrake only box? If not, goodbye BlueYonder. -- Len Lawrence -- Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-30 Per discussione Len Lawrence
and branches, making it possible to recover a complete version at any stage or even summarize the history of the project. I dimly recall that CVS was based on an earlier system called RCS (?). -- Len Lawrence -- Things will get better despite

Re: [newbie] Greetings to the mandrake community!

2003-05-30 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Thu, 29 May 2003 21:07:30 -0400 Joe Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just answer the ones that have been answered 10 billion times before! copy -- paste Nice one Joe! -- Len Lawrence -- Things will get better despite our efforts

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-10 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:33:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 9:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your comments John

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:58:55 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:51 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:59:46 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:56:45 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-08 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip

Re: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Per discussione Len Lawrence
site has RPMs, some specific to ogle. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-05 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. --- big snip Understanding linux printer

[newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-04 Per discussione Len Lawrence
be appreciated and would surely be of interest to other members of the list. -- Len Lawrence -- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. -- Want

Re: [newbie] dead pppd (was OT: M$: Bugs are cool)

2003-02-21 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:49:46 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the hope that the bug will be fixed that occasions the need to reboot 8.2 every couple of days

Re: [newbie] OT: M$: Bugs are cool

2003-02-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
that the bug will be fixed that occasions the need to reboot 8.2 every couple of days; pppd goes into a sulk and refuses to get off the machine. Luddites? Yes, if that means refusing to misuse modern technology by installing Window$. -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] - should have been Multisession CDRs

2003-02-06 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:37:32 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out snip snip -- Ummm if you do multisession

Re: [newbie]

2003-02-06 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:12:11 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 11:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME toaster. A clear, friendly

[newbie] jerky DVDs

2003-02-04 Per discussione Len Lawrence
this be a hardware problem, like a jumper setting? No manual for the drive. The invoice describes it as a 16X generic DVD drive. -- Len Lawrence -- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't

[newbie]

2003-02-04 Per discussione Len Lawrence
seems to be operational, not explanatory. -- Len Lawrence -- The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
* xineplug_vo_out_opengl.so* xineplug_dmx_avi.so* xineplug_vo_out_sdl.so* xineplug_dmx_cda.so* xineplug_vo_out_syncfb.so* xineplug_dmx_film.so* xineplug_vo_out_vidix.so* xineplug_dmx_fli.so* xineplug_vo_out_xshm.so* xineplug_dmx_idcin.so*xineplug_vo_out_xv.so* -- Len

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
? Anne Anne: As user (not root) run 'xine-check'. Thanks for that command Pilaga. Brilliant! -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-20 Per discussione Len Lawrence
on the DVD. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Xine

2003-01-19 Per discussione Len Lawrence
need to uninstall anything either. Does that help? -- Len Lawrence -- We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium

Re: [newbie] DeCSS

2003-01-18 Per discussione Len Lawrence
. For xine you might also need the xine_d4d_plugin, available from PLF. The Captain CSS website used to be THE place to go but as Anne points out, that and similar sites seem to have gone offline. -- Len Lawrence -- The day-to-day travails of the IBM

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-16 Per discussione Len Lawrence
not even support it?), and the audio track was that of the director's commentary, and not the movie audio track. How can I go about fixing these? Thanks again Len! :-) Len Lawrence wrote: It's dependent on how the DVD was created. I like Final Fanstasy, but constantly have

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:45:49 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi really

Re: [newbie] [OT] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
. But, obviously, HTML should be avoided. -- Len Lawrence -- On the subject of C program indentation: In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. -- Blair P. Houghton

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-14 Per discussione Len Lawrence
a Windoze user - been using X, Motif, guis, and Tcl/Tk etc. from years back on Sun Solaris. -- Len Lawrence -- Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose. -- Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-14 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:26:25 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Slooten wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on - snip

[newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-13 Per discussione Len Lawrence
the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. Len Lawrence

[newbie] Contribs - 8.2

2003-01-10 Per discussione Len Lawrence
Good morning(?) lads lasses Have just started investigating urpmi since everybody recommends it so highly. Successful addmedia for PLF but could not find contrib source for Mandrake 8.2. Mandrakesoft only seems to have version 9.0. Anybody know where to find contribs for 8.2? Len

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
. No, the sd bit means SCSI disk. IDE drives come up under /dev/hd*, SCSI under /dev/sd*. /dev/sg* seems to refer to SCSI graphical devices like scanners. ... -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
JAZ disk is not loaded. Any type of drive supporting removable media should report the same when the storage medium is absent. Are you saying that the LS120 is not working any more or have you just now noticed the warning messages? Cheers Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] usb diskonkey

2002-12-03 Per discussione Len Lawrence
11512 4 scsi_mod 93244 6 [usb-storage sg sr_mod ide-scsi aic7xxx sd_mod] You can ignore the aic7xxx if you don't have any SCSI cards but you should have ide-scsi and scsi_mod loaded I think. On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 07:25, Len Lawrence wrote: On 02 Dec 2002 19:49:06 +

Re: [newbie] Has anyone had trouble

2002-11-29 Per discussione Len Lawrence
south from the distributor i.e. South Africa, all I'm doing is waiting for them to debit my credit card for the order. All I'll be able to do then is wait for the postage, which normally would take anything from 2-5 weeks from Europe. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Per discussione Len Lawrence
applies pressure on the Gnomes to change their heading. By my calculation they are at least 90 degrees off course. I shall buy the 8.2 Power Pack, as a last gesture of support for Mandrake. But that is the end, finish, no more. Sorry for the rant - hope I have not offended anyone. -- Len Lawrence

Re: [newbie] Locate utility problem on mndrke 9.0

2002-11-27 Per discussione Len Lawrence
use the -I option to specify other include directories? -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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