Re: [newbie] Beware, Firefox is a spyware :)

2005-02-28 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:23:52 -0500 Alex Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we know that image is real? It's probobly just a joke. If MS Anti-spyware actually did mark Firefox as spyware, we would have heard alot on it by now. Unless

Re: [newbie] Connecting a Linux computer to a MS Windows network

2005-01-28 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 02:28, Bryan Phinney wrote: snip Luckily for me, the screensaver was up and I use a generic one so Goober didn't even know what OS I was running. I booted back over to Windows, let it update and then switched right

Re: [newbie] File Systems

2004-10-25 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? Jfs LX -- Trouble with sound? Dump Alsa with an upgrade to the best: get your free high quality OSS drivers at www.opensound.com Superior

Re: [newbie] Strange things are afoot.

2004-10-16 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 12:17, Lanman wrote: I've been seeing some strange activity going when trying to install Mandrake 10.0 or 10.1CE on a few older systems and I was wondering if anyone here had seen the same thing? Both systems are running AMD CPU's, and had previously had Mandrake 9.2

Re: [newbie] Using Midnight Commander

2004-10-15 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 09:36, Amichai Rotman wrote: No problem, Et, But you have to realize not all of the ppl on the list know the two of you are friends off-list and such answers (including RTFM) remind me of the BOFH answers I used to get from the SysAdmin I used to work with. There

Re: [newbie] ProFTPD?

2004-10-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 15:47, Miark wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:41:20 -0500, Eric wrote: I want to set up my /var/www/html directory with limited FTP access. I can't figure out or find howtos on the webmin module for proftpd, and apparently I don't know how to work the

Re: [newbie] Apache and blocking Referrer spam

2004-10-13 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 06:19, frankieh wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: Don't know if anyone else here is running Apache with web logs, or 'blogs' and has had trouble with referrer spam but I thought I would mention my latest experience. Blogs are one of the more interesting developments

Re: [newbie] What Ritter says

2004-10-11 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 07:26, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm __ It's more or less expected from Joseph PM Goebbels. :) LX --

Re: [newbie] What Ritter says

2004-10-11 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:38, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 11 October 2004 07:26 am, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm roflol! So what other list are you posting such drivel to? (and by a man who was on Saddams payroll, no

Re: [newbie] What Ritter says

2004-10-11 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:34, Ian wrote: On Monday 11 Oct 2004 12:26, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm Very informative, though :-) Saddam paid him to do this stuff -- check out the OT list. LX

Re: [newbie] Partitioning new HD

2004-10-05 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 04:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to install the 10.1 release of Mandrake on my new notebook. I would like to partition my HD so I will not have to format partition with my data each time I try to fully reinstall linux distribution. My question is, how

Re: [newbie] Partitioning new HD

2004-10-05 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Citát Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 04:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36703918080 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512

Re: [newbie] Audio Query

2004-10-02 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 02:12, Graham Watkins wrote: Morning All, Anybody here know which, if any, Linux media program will play a file with an .asx extension? Have you tried the PLF version of mplayer? LX -- Trouble with sound? Dump Alsa

Re: [newbie] Audio Query

2004-10-02 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 03:58, Graham Watkins wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 02:12, Graham Watkins wrote: Morning All, Anybody here know which, if any, Linux media program will play a file with an .asx extension? Have you tried the PLF version of mplayer? LX

Re: [newbie] Re: data cd's

2004-10-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:11, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:59:02 +0100, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed udftools and checked its project site, but I did not find any documentation. So, does somebody here know how to use udftools for writing on cd-rw

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-10-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 07:31, Lanman wrote: LX, snip, snip, snip, and more snippage. Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Without that, MDK would be just another gray distro. Definite words of wisdom! How old is this guy? Should we be calling him *Master* ? Personally I'd just settle for being Ann

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-10-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:27, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:31:20AM -0400, Lanman wrote: LX, whack Lyvim is one of the few who maintains a relatively even composure compared to some of us and constantly offers help, suggestions and tactful nudges as to list etiquette

Re: [newbie] Re: data cd's

2004-10-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:18, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:50:33 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed udftools and checked its project site, but I did not find any documentation. So, does somebody here know how to use udftools for writing on cd

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-10-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:19, Margot wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:27, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:31:20AM -0400, Lanman wrote: LX, whack Lyvim is one of the few who maintains a relatively even composure compared to some of us and constantly

Re: [newbie] archiving to multi volumes

2004-10-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:55, hugenots wrote: welcome newbie, can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other (no file spliting);

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-10-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 05:57, et wrote: On Friday 01 October 2004 01:01, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Without that, MDK would be just another gray distro. We need to keep the newbie list the friendliest list on the net, so that we can continue to remain a haven for new users. To that end we have

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-10-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 00:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 01 October 2004 09:55 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Shortly after that, they set up a script at mandrake to kill bouncing addresses, so the two are linked, though it's funny that was the last post! It's a shame mandrake

Re: [newbie] Thats a relief!

2004-09-30 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 12:26, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The US Patent office has *rejected* all claims by Microsoft to the FAT filesystem. :-) http://linuxtoday.com/news/2004093003026NWLL That means they don't have the power to kill it like they want to. LX --

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-09-30 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 19:15, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 00:50:35 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: Hey jerkoff, you might want to actually visit those URL's and notice they are *out of date*. heh heh,trust you to notice!;) It should be in the welcome message:

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-09-30 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 19:08, David B. Carter wrote: Thanks, Joe. I appreciate the help. To the other not-so-kind poster: perhaps you should read the RTFQ(uestion) before spewing acronyms. It clearly said in my post, that I HAVE visited those URL's and they don't contain any archives from

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-09-30 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 01:14, Eric Huff wrote: Looks like they updated the Expert list, but Newbie is still showing nothing for September. Joe: I dug a little deeper, and found that the last message indexed at archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie was by Eric Huff at 04:29 on November

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-29 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:38, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:31:48 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: I second that. Mileage varies on other players, mplayer always just works on all sorts of distro's and plays almost anything you throw at it. I'd be way pleased

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-29 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 08:56, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:38:41PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:31:48 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: I second that. Mileage varies on other players, mplayer always just works on all sorts of distro's and

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-29 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:36, Lanman wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 08:56, Todd Slater wrote: When I try to view a clip, I get 'loading movie...', but that turns out to be a damned lie! ;-) It's a conspiracy perpetrated by the U.S. and Canadian governments and a handful

Re: [newbie] Off Topic?

2004-09-28 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 00:42, Stephen Kühn wrote: Anyone know the address for re-addressing the off-toping crud? What's off-toping crud? LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-28 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:59, Sevatio wrote: How does Real Player 10 compare with Helix Player? Neither one of them hold a candle to Mplayer. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-28 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:42, Sevatio wrote: So, you use Mplayer to play Real codecs? Sevatio Correct, and use the plf version of mplayer also. That will give you the best functionality. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-28 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:39, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 28 September 2004 21:42, Sevatio wrote: So, you use Mplayer to play Real codecs? Sevatio Frankly, they haven't crossed my path for the last 2 years. So I don't knowI doubt it. Yes, I just played some cspan stuff today.

Re: [newbie] iso

2004-09-28 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 20:12, Melvin M wrote: Can anyone help me with an iso file?..i downloaded mandrake 10.1 and got all three disks but i dont know how to open them or instal Is there a difference in iso files or am i doing something

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 21:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, all of a sudden my 13 year olds comp refuses to get on the Internet. This is a system loaded with v9.2 (download editon) of Mandrake. I've got cablemodem service, with a DLink router. I've always used static ip addresses and MAC

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-21 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 22:19, JoeHill wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical,

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-21 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 22:55, Lanman wrote: JoeHill wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is...

Re: [newbie] Good, Intuitive developement platform?

2004-09-18 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:43, JoeHill wrote: On 16 Sep 2004 01:39:02 + Eric Scott disseminated the following: Though I'm not a proficient or experience developer, I like to tinker with code every now and then and learn what I can. What are some of the best development environments

Re: [newbie] Good, Intuitive developement platform?

2004-09-18 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 21:39, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; Though I'm not a proficient or experience developer, I like to tinker with code every now and then and learn what I can. What are some of the best development environments can I run on my Mandrake 9.1 box that have something like the

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-18 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4 and 5 very quickly but the CD1-3 torrent is very slow. At best I get 10kbs. I have checked all the settings and do not know what to do to make it d/l faster. Any suggestions? TIA

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

2004-09-16 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 12:06, Eric Scott wrote: You have been paying too much attention to CBS the like we still havent given up to the neocomms. I know how you feel, as I had just about the same view a year or so ago. But I've found that if you give it a second chance... and turn a

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:11, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 19:26, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:29:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And thanks for the roses for my daughter. Actually she grew up with Linux, and when she got her brand new

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 19:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Never mind Barbie. Check this out: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=314966pfp=BROWSE After all, shouldn't a Mickey Mouse operating system be run on a genuine Mickey Mouse computer? -- cmg Wow...I thought

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

2004-09-15 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 22:35, John Wilson wrote: On September 15, 2004 07:42 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:25:59 -0400 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: I love my country but I fear my government Amen to that. I think that's something that most people have in

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 22:05, aron Smith wrote: On Monday 13 September 2004 04:18 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 13 September 2004 04:14 pm, JoeHill wrote: The next time someone tries to come at you with the old 'well, Microsoft has helped the economy by creating jobs and expanding

Re: [newbie] Rootkit Hunter

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 21:21, Chris wrote: Found this little app in my Freshmeat daily newsletter. Seems to check much more than chkrootkit. That being the case, you or someone else should go to Mandrakeclub and propose this program as an rpm for packaging by the contributors in the rpm voting

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:34, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:05:41 -0700 aron Smith disseminated the following: Joe: Kinda makes you want to go out and buy a copy of Suse, doesn't it? Resist the urge. Tried SUSE didn't work near as good as mandrake Shite, it doesn't

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:35, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:52:26 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: You can argue with Lyvim's point of view, but only if you like being wrong. So, are you taking over Lyvim's arrogant side now? G I don't think anyone is arguing with his

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:30, Lanman wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:03, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: They're a fiendish, murdering, pillaging lot, they are. Rape, murder and steal. Entire villages at that. Swindlers unlike no other. Ruffians and roughnecks

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 04:09, frankieh wrote: I think in some ways Debian has it all over Mandrake (and SUSE and REDHAT).. As an example, I can load Debian Woody on a machine, (woody is a couple of years old) And then use sources like backports.org to load the newest packages I need on that

Re: [newbie] Ya don't know ehat you got til its gone

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:23, Marc wrote: I had ML 9.0 running dual boot with XP on a Mach speed mobo P4 2.5 ghz cpu and a 90 GB IBM hitachi HDD. All was well and good. I just went to wipe out the whole ML installation installation and replace it with ML 10.0.2 and it hangs on formatting

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:40, David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 14:26:47 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other applications then the most common, such as Office. Derive is a very special beast. It might

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 13:17, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:56, Lanman wrote: JoeHill wrote: So, are you taking over Lyvim's arrogant side now? G I don't think anyone is arguing with his point of view anyhow, *he's* arguing against a point *that no one made*, at least

Re: [newbie] Ya don't know ehat you got til its gone

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 21:50, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 14 September 2004 06:36 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:23, Marc wrote: I had ML 9.0 running dual boot with XP on a Mach speed mobo P4 2.5 ghz cpu and a 90 GB IBM hitachi HDD. All was well and good. I just went

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

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 00:04, aron Smith wrote: No ...Power is the guiding word guess we'lll just have to start encrypting our mail Charles Edwards' gpg Standard Operating Procedure is looking better and better all the time. If they do manage to usurp the public will on this and institute

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

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 00:16, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:04:57 -0700 aron Smith disseminated the following: No ...Power is the guiding word I know, I know, I'm just yankin' the ol' neocon chain ;-) guess we'lll just have to start encrypting our mail That's the problem:

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:10, David T Battler wrote: Too Much Reading between The Lines With One Another's Thoughts, Motives, Actions is Bad For Your Health. You guys should all stick to Linux Discussions. I would enjoy that more, and learn something more worthwhile. Point taken. Now

Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase

2004-09-13 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 06:33, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 13 September 2004 09:38, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:13, Derek Jennings wrote: Marvellous new for all HitchHiker fans is the broadcast of a new radio series based on the last three books starting on 21st Sept

Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?

2004-09-12 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 15:38, Vincent Voois wrote: Eric Scott wrote: Anybody know of a program that will let me format a given partition as NTFS? Fat32 might do it, I don't know. I'm trying to deal with a faulty Windows installation, and as I'm sure you know, Windows' installer/rescue

Re: [newbie] Ghost in the machine?

2004-09-12 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 23:07, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I had something strange occur today as I was doing some downloading with Apollon on my Mandrake10 system. Suddenly my cd burner drive spun up for no reason. I didn't have a cd in the drive, and wasn't doing anything with the drive

Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?

2004-09-12 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 14:18, John Richard Smith wrote: Eric Scott wrote: Anybody know of a program that will let me format a given partition as NTFS? Fat32 might do it, Put Windows OS on the first partition on hda. You do NOT have to have the Windows OS on the first partition on the

Re: [newbie] Apache2

2004-09-12 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 16:12, Katinka Peter wrote: Hi, I`ve downloaded the latest Apache version httpd-2.0.50, but when I try installing it with ./configure, I get the foloowing message: configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH [...] configure failed for srclib/apr. Any

Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase

2004-09-12 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: Marvellous new for all HitchHiker fans is the broadcast of a new radio series based on the last three books starting on 21st Sept http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/ Now the question is. How can I record a real audio stream?

Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

2004-09-11 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 00:13, Aldous Huxley wrote: When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked, but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap stereo system with the volume too high. I tinkered with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I was doing in order to undo if

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-09-11 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 17:45, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well I finally had to reboot my system because of something I did in the console and it froze up. On the reboot I was watching the screen and there was a bunch of hd errors so I went into Mandrake Mount Points and here is what I

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-04 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 20:30, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:07:00 -0400 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: I thought they where a good serve as a cup-placemat. snip Using Win CDs for target practice is not good destroys the environment (the M$ crap not the

Re: [newbie] Okay, one more on SP2...

2004-09-02 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 20:23, JoeHill wrote: I promise, my last post on this subject, but this is just hilarious. Not only does SP2 *break* functionality, to varying degrees, on many XP machines, but it does absolutely nothing, according to this review, to improve security:

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:04, SnapafunFrank wrote: OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet. Re partitions:] /dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended /dev/hda3

Re: [newbie] [Blondes protection] Linux Pitfalls.

2004-09-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 06:55, Vincent Voois wrote: We've been talking about Linux security issues... i'm just wondering how many fool-traps are in there and how they can be recovered, i mention one: -bash-2.05b$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# chmod +444 -R *

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 04:42, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hmmm. First I had WinMe then using Mandrake9.1 I was able to repartiton the HDD for dual booting. Having got 9.1 settled I had to make a choice, dump WinMe and use the space for Linux storage or start again with another HDD. I still

RE: [newbie] [Blondes protection] Linux Pitfalls.

2004-09-01 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 07:31, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I have, on a production server at work. With the unix guru sat on my shoulder and he let me su and then rm *. So evidently you were not held culpable. (??) LX Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 14:26, JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:29, Asa Rossoff wrote: Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: snip Second, Windows boots from the first boot-device, but it can be configured to have it's OS on another drive by altering the MSDOS.INI and in case of WinNT 4.x, 5.x you can alter

Re: [newbie] File System Problem

2004-08-31 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 11:01, David Johnson wrote: Hi all, We had a power failure the other day and now my ML10.0 system barfs out messages every so often to the main screen (presumably when it does an FS check) that look like the following: INFO : [2004-08-31T06:33:15-0700]

Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-08-31 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 21:25, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of the X-Screensavers was running. I noted

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-30 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 20:40, Paul Smith wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G

Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question

2004-08-30 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 19:51, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 00:35, Richard Urwin wrote: Sorry if I jumped down your throat. I'm following this SCO et al debacle fairly closely, and you hit a trigger phrase. (as you know, Ken Brown, [probably bank-rolled by MS,] has accused

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 05:58, Amy wrote: Hey everyone! Anyhow, thanks for all the help you've given me thus far, and thanks in advance for putting up with me as I start off on this adventure of bringing my technologically inept father out of the evil embrace of windows. ^_^ Amy

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 07:28, Lanman wrote: Now for my 2 cents,... Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! Lanman Yah

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-26 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 17:35, charlie wrote: Something strange happened to me this morning as I was downloading mail into Kmail. I deleted one of Lanman's mails and the Kmail desktop locked up solid, my CPU usage went into the 100% and stayed there. But nothing was happening in Kmail that I

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-26 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 03:25, frankieh wrote: Ok, well I'll just have to settle for blaming you for everything that is wrong in Australia. Your a yank, so you should be used to that sort of thing. :-) Nice. I like that. g LX

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-26 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 02:59, frankieh wrote: First off, let me say that not everything MS does is bad. Windows does do some stuff well, usually with regards to usability. (before anyone calls me an MS shill, check the list of my stories on: http://htmlfixit.com/article_index.php ) I slag

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-25 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dale... Right now I've re-installed this XP crap on her box. I did it with the ethernet cable unplugged. that seemed to cause some issues, but we'll see. I have downloaded most of all those AV/firewall/spykillers from my linux box and

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-25 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you purchased this box with XP on it and they didn't give you XP installation discs then they usually supply backup file somewhere on the HD in a spare partition.If so it might well be worthwhile reinstalling from that. they are usually

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-25 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 05:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: Good heavens : and Windows should be user-friendly ??? - Wonder how my old aunt and Joe Sixpack use this OS. Thanks again Kaj Haulrich. Kaj

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-25 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Lyvim and John... maybe I screwed things up again : When doing the re-install, I used the built-in function from HP to create the restore CDs. Could that mean I transferred all the Trojans, Worms, Viruses and Spyware to the restore disks ?

Re: [newbie] Emails are being sent with my username but I didn't send them :(

2004-08-24 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:33:58 +0200 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Bofore doing any further USA-bashing, I'd like you to consider : I did not intend any 'bashing', as I said, I only meant to point out that this phenomena is present and

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: downloading the database that was when I got all kinds of infection once the database was installed it was AOK. They do have on their website removers for most infections, IIRC you have to be a paid up member to get them ($15

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed Windows in

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-20 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 02:07, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:55:46 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You remind me of a 44 magnum revolver with two chambers loaded hollow point. You spin the cylinder and pull the trigger. You either hear a click or you blow a hole in the target

Re: [newbie] OT - OT

2004-08-19 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 15:44, PM wrote: Could someone please remind me of the OT list address? I'm suffering badly from abuse withdrawal. LOL! Funny, Paul. :) http://mdw1982.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot LX Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-19 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 00:33, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:14:15 -0400 JoeHill wrote: Only 3 I can see, and I can't see my name mentioned, for better or worse There may be only 3 but for those who are as familiar with your disposition and demeanor as I, there is no

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

2004-08-14 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 04:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 14:50, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You mean like sendmail? ;) Cheap potshot; can't help it mate. Just cuz I'm familiar with it and I feel it does what I WANT it to do quite quickly...NYAH! I did put a winkie in after all. g

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

2004-08-13 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 23:36, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:13:52 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: More on the complete stupidity of SP2 for XP: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117380,00.asp ...and yeah, Stephen, it's this kind of crap what pays

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

2004-08-13 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 00:23, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 14:00, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: So, keep it up MS and Norton! I made 700 bucks this week! I had a very similar experience very recently. Some virii bypassed Symantec's NAV scans entirely and were stopped by an open

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

2004-08-06 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:45, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:26:54 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Go easy, Charles; this is the newbie list and we don't know anything about him. I meant no offence to him personally only to his usage of applications. Were there no linux MUA

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 09:34, Julie Sloan wrote: 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,

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

2004-08-05 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:08, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:09:48 +0100 Tomas Tudja wrote: BTW I am using winxp2k2, because I like it : Since I am in the mood and no one else has stated it if you are so enamored of xp2k2 what the fuck are you doing on a MandrakeLINUX

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 14:59, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello Oh Great Guru Types, What the hell should I be doing now? Checking `lkm'... You have48 process hidden for readdir command You have48 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Back up your data and

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:14, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 3, 2004 12:59:12, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello Oh Great Guru Types, What the hell should I be doing now? Checking `lkm'... You have48 process hidden for readdir command You

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