Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking

2001-02-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2001 08:06 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: isn't there a way to filter HTML mail from the list? We could issue 12 ga shotguns ? -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Now there's an idea...but why stop at shotguns

Re: [newbie] I could calculate faster on my finger then the 2.4.1 Kernel!!!!!

2001-02-15 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Adam Greene wrote: I just installed kernel 2.4.1 onto Linux Mandrake 7.2 and now it is slower than all get out. I downloaded, extracted, ran make mrproper, make menuconfig, didn't change much (sound, ethernet, etc) and then compiled, installed, rebooted, and it takes a LOOONNN time to

Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking

2001-02-15 Per discussione Mark Weaver
isn't there a way to filter HTML mail from the list? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] remove me

2001-02-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Richard Davies wrote: Ok...you're removed! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] Help with upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2

2001-02-11 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Terence Golightly wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: Hello, I have been unsuccessfully trying to upgrade to 7.2 from 7.1. I have read a few posts regarding upgrading and am forewarned about some of the issues involved here. However, my problem is during the installation the

Re: [newbie] Newly compiled 2.4.1 kernel won't boot- grub to blame?

2001-02-11 Per discussione Mark Weaver
"Daniel B. Haun" wrote: Hi Michael, For us really green newbies, those that have never recompiled a kernel. What would be your best stepxstep? You seem to have a pretty good handle on this stuff:) I have LM 7.2 installed, just the stock one, I guess. Daniel in Nj... :) On

Re: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-11 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Tom Brinkman wrote: Other than there seems to be all kinds of webpages and opinions on how to compile a kernel, I don't know what all the fuss is about. IMO, compiling 'vanilla' source, like from kernel.org is often, but misguidedly advised. Mandrake, like most major distros has a

Re: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-11 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Romanator wrote: s wrote: Tom, I have been trying to use the 'vanilla' kernel and believe as you suggest that this is where my supermount troubles lie. I have checked all the cooker mirrors that will work for me and can only locate source-rpms and not the src.rpms. Would you be

Re: [newbie] File and command for auto-login in KDE2.1 beta 2?

2001-02-11 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 10 February 2001 12:07 pm, Romanator wrote: Also, once I logged out to console to upgrade to KDE2.1 beta 2, I was always in console mode and the shutdown command was not recognized. I always had to type in "startx". I'm sure it's something

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Vic wrote: Cool. How did you get your kcontrol to work? I could not figure it out and no one helped me with it so I gave up and downgraded. I agree that Konq was very stable in beta2 tho, only crashed once or 2wice on me. I do wish I had an experimenting machine so I could offer

Re: [newbie] unusual syslog entries can someone help?

2001-02-11 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Fireman71 wrote: was checking my /var/log/messages file earlier and noticed some unusual stuff and thought i would send it out and see what you all thought /var/log/messages #1 Feb 11 04:03:02 hp1 kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 207.144.156.152:631 255.255.255.255:631

Re: [newbie] Path

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
no...you take out yourself. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Victor Parra wrote: Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 23:29:17 -0800 From: Victor Parra

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
well now...let me re-download the critter and see what happens. As I remember Beonex ran great out-a the box for me and I didn't need to get any plugins at all. I had a catastrophe since I loaded the thing and hadn't gotten around to reinstalling it since. I'm still using good ole Netscape 4.75.

Re: [newbie] Desktop

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
O heavens..I've used Blackbox before, but over all I like KDE the best. plus, with the new updates for KDE I've put a lot of work into getting KDE to where it is at the moment on this system. But as far as functionality I think KDE is way ahead of Blackbox. I don't have to work as hard to get

Re: [newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
/ (root partition) about 500MB /usr 2.5 - 3GB is a good start. I'd be more interested to know how to enlarge them once they get full. that seems to be the tricky part. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them

Re: [newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
this is a good plan too. but here again..what to do when things get too cramped? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 15:01:46 GMT

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Michael, Last I heard Netscape used an internal Java machine to take care of all that stuff. I don't know that you need java external to Netscape. When I get a chance this evening I will load Beonex Communicator and see what happens. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Michael, ok...I've got it installed and it's running just fine. Other then enabling Java and Javascript I don't know of anything else that needs to be done with Java and Communicator. Is there someplace that you had in mind that is very Java intensive that I could test drive this thing to find

Re: [newbie] Distro

2001-02-08 Per discussione Mark Weaver
actually, it "used" to be that way. but no longer. there are many differences between the two now-a-days. RPM is one of the biggest differences that really sticks out. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them

Re: [newbie] Desktop

2001-02-08 Per discussione Mark Weaver
K D E ! There -- is -- no -- other. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Ribbo wrote: Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 01:39:58 +0700 From: Ribbo [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] telnet and ftp access

2001-02-08 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Ok...first, did you install a server, workstation, or developer install when you installed Mandrake? Very likely the reason you can't connect to your box on with either of these programs is because the servers for these services are not installed on your system. If you didn't specify the servers

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-08 Per discussione Mark Weaver
best fix I know of is to totally remove the miserable POS and never use it again. If you've really got yer heart set on it you'd likely do better with Mozilla, or Beonex Communicator. The latter one is totally un-AOL-afied. They took all the crap AOL code out of the Netscape 6 code and produced a

Re: [newbie] remove me

2001-02-07 Per discussione Mark Weaver
me too Me too!!! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 03:37:36 +1100 From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] remove me

2001-02-07 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Dude! read the bottom of the email. there are directions on how to do that there; on the original message you got when you signed up; AND at the mandrake site where you most likely signed up to get "on" the list. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being

Re: [newbie] remove me

2001-02-07 Per discussione Mark Weaver
split up between us all what does that come to a person. That is assuming that we don't want to keep them around for the sheer entertainment value. I think Brian is about to bust a nut. He's sounding REAL anoyed. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being

RE: [newbie] remove me

2001-02-07 Per discussione Mark Weaver
good one Charles! :) -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:41:00 -0500 From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] remove me

2001-02-07 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Brian, sounds like you need to unplug for a while and follow the direction given by that poster cause they were correct directions. you could also "read" the directions that you received when you first signed up for the list. They state quite clearly how to get removed from the list. O, and I

Re: [newbie] How do I uninstall Linux?

2001-02-04 Per discussione Mark Weaver
kill the partition and you kill the installation. to clean your MBR of the bootloader at an A:\ prompt type "fdisk /mbr". -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Deception wrote:

Re: [newbie] Enabling Aurora

2001-02-04 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Oknow, where would one find info on how to "use" and operate Aurora? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Romanator wrote: Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 22:22:43 -0500 From:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3

2001-02-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
why? is 7.2 broken? it's been my experience that upgrade-itis is hazerdous to your computer's health. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Romanator wrote: Date: Fri, 02 Feb

Re: [newbie] missing swap file

2001-02-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
yes...including an operating system that works! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Goldenpi wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 08:40:14 - From: Goldenpi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Linuxworld Expo NYC

2001-02-01 Per discussione Mark Weaver
I wish I could go...Say! any chance of one or all of you getting some pictures and then posting them? I would love to see what it all looks like. I can't get away because of work and school. :( -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing

Re: [newbie] CompuPic and Mozilla

2001-02-01 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Riker, Launch Mozilla from a terminal window and post the output to the list so's we can get a gander at it. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Riker wrote: Date: Sun, 28

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

2001-02-01 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Rob, have you used XFdrake yet to setup your display? That is an awesome tool. In console mode type "setuptool" as root user and you have a whole menu of tools with which to do basic config of your Linux system. Xfdrake is just one of the items on the menu. -- Mark "If you don't share your

Re: [newbie] What other linux os's are there?

2001-02-01 Per discussione Mark Weaver
aside from Mandrake there are "no" other distros worthy of your attention and admiration. However, there are of course ones that long to be what Mandrake is and is becoming. SuSE, RedHat, Slackware, Caldera, VaLinux, OpenLinux...these are the ones that I can think of right off the top of my head

Re: [newbie] Mozilla question

2001-02-01 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Hey s...you got a firewall up and running cause Mozilla doesn't come with the KDE upgrades? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, s wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:52:21 +

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3

2001-02-01 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Skye, that's just a vicious rumor dripping with conjecture and wishful thinking. :) -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Skye Louey wrote: Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:52:05 +0800

Re: [newbie] Notice: heimdall firewall* pm Firewall

2001-02-01 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Anthony, Check the permissions on /etc/ppp/ip-up.local. The permissions should be at least 700. Next, check to make sure that pmfirewall is selected in startup services to start when the system is booted. These are two things that will keep PMfirewall from operating. You may also want to test

Re: [newbie] How do i get rid of grub?

2001-02-01 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Aaah heavens...thats easy. But before you do it make sure you have a boot disk before you get rid of the bootloader. (grub) then load your DOS boot disk into the floppy drive, boot to an A:\ prompt, and issue this command. fdisk /mbr Now, boot linux to runlevel 3, by typing

Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-31 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Jan 2001, Romanator wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:30:50 -0500 From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions? Mark Weaver wrote: Roman, Thats all I use are the themes for the

Re: [newbie] Is it so much to ask---

2001-01-31 Per discussione Mark Weaver
s, I'm using a Canon BJC 6000 and the filter that works for this one is "Canon BJC 600 and Canon BJC 4000" The res is set at 360x360, the color settings are set to black and white. Mostly for speed reasons, however color does work for this filter. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts

Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-30 Per discussione Mark Weaver
different. I'll log in as 'root' but I was wondering if I could download some the earlier themes from the previous KDE versions. Will they still work? The search on the kdethemes.org isn't too hot. I was trying to look up themes for KDE2 and KDE2.1 but I could not find any. Any ideas? Mark Wea

Re: [newbie] Does AbiWord crash on you?

2001-01-30 Per discussione Mark Weaver
not to worry. Abiword crashes on everyone. Mostly cause it's still in beta and there are HUGE bugs in it yet. It's a nice looking app, but its not quite there yet. They're working on it though. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing

Re: [newbie] Acroread 4 is juts plain ugly

2001-01-30 Per discussione Mark Weaver
ya ever notice how things are easier to "uninstall" in Linux as opposed to "other" places? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Romanator wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001

Re: [newbie] Is it so much to ask---

2001-01-30 Per discussione Mark Weaver
If you're talking about using Lpr it will indeed. At this point in Cups' developement, as far as Canons are concerned at least, Lpr is still the method of choice. At least for those who wish to retain more then 70% of the sanity they were born with while they're still under the age of 80! Please

RE: [newbie] More problems as if I did not have enough

2001-01-30 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Well darn it I wish they would-a done something like this for Canon printers. How's come they're always the odd man out? it ain't fair! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jose

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-29 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Jan 2001, Romanator wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:33:04 -0500 From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1? Mark Weaver wrote: Vic, Yes...use the URL that Roman posted, only take one the "/

Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2

2001-01-29 Per discussione Mark Weaver
the post from Chris. Thanks for all the info On Saturday 27 January 2001 01:41 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Vic, Have you done any of the KDE updates from the batch that Chris has posted to the list about? Since coming from KDE2.0 to KDE2.1beta2 I've noticed Konqueror's

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Per discussione Mark Weaver
au come-on Vic...give the guy a break. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Vic wrote: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:22:31 -0600 From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-27 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Roman, To tell you the truth the older KDE themes work TONS better then the themes put together for KDE2.0 and above. In fact, that's all I've been using are the themes for previous versions of KDE. These work great! enjoy... -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up

Re: [newbie] KDE2.1 Beta 2 win2000 Look

2001-01-27 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Roman, You will have to "add" that theme to the lineup in theme manager for root to use this theme. The themes don't load globally. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Romanator wrote:

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Vic, Have you done any of the KDE updates from the batch that Chris has posted to the list about? Since coming from KDE2.0 to KDE2.1beta2 I've noticed Konqueror's stability increasing. That might be a help if you haven't installed the upgrades yet. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts

Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-27 Per discussione Mark Weaver
don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Romanator wrote: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:06:24 -0500 From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Per discussione Mark Weaver
n did and got me a bad rap with another list. Well anyway I might give him another chance unless he blows it again. On Saturday 27 January 2001 01:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: au come-on Vic...give the guy a break.

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Per discussione Mark Weaver
h ones have you installed onto 7.2 ? My install is on a AMDK6 400 64M ram kernel 2.2.17-21mdk installed from the download of 7.2 iso Should I download from the post that Romanator did ? I can't find the post from Chris. Thanks for all the info On Saturday 27 January 2001 01:41 pm, Mark

Re: [newbie] Tape drive problem

2001-01-22 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Actually, I do have another idea. Try the command the other way. taper -T st0 I think you'll find that it works. I too have a SCSI tape device and that is the command that I use to start the program and tell it where and what it is. Mark On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Dan Shanahan wrote:

Re: [newbie] Setting a mail server

2001-01-22 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Mazen, Actually, if you've got Postfix, or Sendmail running on your Linux box it's already to go. If you've got a static IP address, or you're using a service like I am, dyndns.org, the only configuring that you "have" to do at that point is to give your computer a host name. Other than

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
All of the above and anything else that folks can think of to do with Linux. For me there is no other OS worth my time or energy. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
David, In many ways Linux is nothing like what you're used to. And much more like the mainframes you've programmed for all these years. What protocols are you using to get the boxes to talk to the Linux box. I'm assuming that you're using the Linux box as a file server, right? -- Mark "If

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Oliver, Hey man! that's great!! way to hang in there. Feels good, doesn't it? Now...where'd I put that ballpeen hammer?... -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Yes... all that and I can have icing too! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Romanator wrote: Ahh.. Yes and no D

RE: [newbie] Re: GNOME or KDE

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Hmmm...that's just a vicious rumor. It's not true. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Thio Yu Jin wrote: Why is Enlightenment so much

Re: [newbie] drakxtools

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
I would think that it would be one of two things that cause this. 1) plain old American arrogance 2) a very "small" world view caused mainly by spending too much time in ones own back yard and not having enough contact with the outside world. America being as big "physically" speaking as it is

Re: [newbie] Darn Upgrades

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Jay!...I can't believe that a good Celt like yourself would have forgotten all the previous posts to this list advising against "upgrades" as opposed to fresh installs of Mdk 7.2. too many differences between 7.1 and 7.2 to make an upgrade a reasonable, stable alternative to a fresh install. O

Re: [newbie] Darn Upgrades

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Vic, Why not just point everything back to the /home dir instead of getting used to things being in /var? Change the config files of the ftp, httpd servers to point to the /home dir. That's where mine are pointing to. That or you could make sym-links to point back to those directories. -- Mark

Re: [newbie] Tape drive problem

2001-01-20 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Dan, try using Taper. as root use this command. taper -T st0 thats the program I use for my tape drive and it works fine. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] Re: soundcard

2001-01-18 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Thursday 18 January 2001 06:09 am, you wrote: How do you do a Google search? http://www.google.com -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-18 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Heavens! don't do that. ToJams don't wash down too easily. And I happen to agree with what you said. All things have a purpose and I, like you, don't want Linux to be anymore like windows then the next guy. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"

Re: [newbie] Is the Korn shell freeware?

2001-01-17 Per discussione Mark Weaver
6 January 2001 07:39 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: I'm a little ignorant here but very curious. What is the "korn shell"? http://www.kornshell.com/ excerpt "The KornShell language was designed and developed by David G. Korn at ATT Bell Laboratories. It is an interactive com

Re: [newbie] Is the Korn shell freeware?

2001-01-17 Per discussione Mark Weaver
t for know the most of the linux distributions include the Bash shell as the default one. This is not much information, but you can read that in any book about Linux or Unix. Greetings from Mexico. Fabian. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: I'm a little ignorant here but very curious. What is the "korn shell"?

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Adrian, :) I have the same problem with my fingers. Except sometimes my fingers are too fat for the keys and they miss altogether. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-17 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: How embarrassing Mark heehenot for you though, but for me..grin When running fetchmail (with a connection) I can see the mail being downloaded much as before with all the other mail programs.. However now I get another

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Per discussione Mark Weaver
s them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, -michael- wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Script kiddies, and the folks that just can't grasp the concept of a mouse let alone what the mouse is connected to. And I know a few that fall into the second cat

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Vic, My friend...sounds like you need to unplug for a little bit. Are you sure that your hardware, namely the CDRW is ok and not broken? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] Leaving

2001-01-17 Per discussione Mark Weaver
It was good having and reading you Paul. Keep it real and come back when you can... God Bless, -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Paul

Re: [newbie] What does this mean??? Security Violations

2001-01-17 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 06:08 am, you wrote: Hi, I got this mail from root. The mail repeates the same message. Could someone tell me what is wrong?? -10.110.6.17 is my gateway to the internet -eth0 is my networkcard to the internet What does this mean??? BR, Steve Security

Re: [newbie] Burning CD - not from ISO

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
I have all the time in the world :-) I would like to avoid having to download 2*650 MB. I don't need support for any other languages, for a start. I just don't know what I need for the base system, and where I should put them. Ardavan If that's the case you could make a directory on

Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux]

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Monday 15 January 2001 11:31 pm, you wrote: On 15 Jan 2001 23:25:49 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: argument that linux can not be used in a M$ world is also bogus (or FUD). I can't help it any longer...what in the world does FUD stand for? Fear, Uncertainity and Doubt. Cool...thanks

Re: [newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
yes i didbut in my case XFdrake=Xconfigurator...both commands start Xconfigurator ( i did a server install), maybe this is the reason why XF86Setup didnt get installed ? ) meanwhile i solved the problem otherwise..by reinstalling and choosing the graphic card at install

Re: [newbie] HTML

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Matt, Your message look just fine. Thanks for caring. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Matt Schroeder wrote: I have Outlook Express

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Robert, My latest developer install on my workstation at work was a little over 2GB. That sucker is loaded to the gills. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds

Re: [newbie] GNOME or KDE

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
given the choice between the two I prefer KDE. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Joel Fitzgerald wrote: What do most people prefer to

Re: [newbie] Is the Korn shell freeware?

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
I'm a little ignorant here but very curious. What is the "korn shell"? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Fred Schroeder wrote:

Re: [newbie] x-config.

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Andres wrote: Hi, is there a way of changing the xfree server(4.0.1) back to the 3.3.6 using drakonf? or the only way is by "upgrading" the O.S.?

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Where are you telling it to go when you download the mail from the server? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Oliver L. Plaine Jr.

[newbie] Sendmail command line options

2001-01-15 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Hi List, I'm curious about something. Would anyone know what the Sendmail command line option would be for bouncing a message back to it's origin? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-15 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Well said Abe. couldn't have said it better. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, abe wrote: Over here at my house Linux IS, right now,

Re: [newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-15 Per discussione Mark Weaver
in my case neither of them does allow me to set my video card.instead both let me choose a monitor is there any other way to select the video card ?..XF86Setup doesnt exist on my system, only xf86config which crashes all the time quay Quay, Have you tried to do

Re: [newbie] META - how the list works

2001-01-15 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Monday 15 January 2001 08:26 pm, you wrote: My assumption is that it is the newest variation on the multiple-posting thing, and just part of the charm of this list. (Oh, hell, here comes another one...) cmg :) I've taken to bouncing them back to where they're coming from. I fugure in

Re: [newbie] Burning CD - not from ISO

2001-01-15 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Monday 15 January 2001 07:00 pm, you wrote: Greetings! I am new to this list, and to Mandrake/Linux as well. My first question (even before installing): what files do I need to download from ftp from the 'RPMS' directory for CD 1? (the directory is 1,08 GB all together - too much for a

Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux]

2001-01-15 Per discussione Mark Weaver
argument that linux can not be used in a M$ world is also bogus (or FUD). I can't help it any longer...what in the world does FUD stand for? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software

2001-01-14 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Ok, but if one upgrades RPM to version 4 will it have problems with packages compiled with an earlier version of RPM? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software

2001-01-14 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Sunday 14 January 2001 10:44 am, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok, but if one upgrades RPM to version 4 will it have problems with packages compiled with an earlier version of RPM? Be very carefull here. This is a newbie list, and I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software

2001-01-14 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:02 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Then why in the world is there even anything being compiled for Mdk 7.2 in an RPM4 format? to begin with I was mostly just curious about RPM4 packages what-nots, but now I'm absolutely convinced

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software (EVERYONE PLEASE READ!)

2001-01-14 Per discussione Mark Weaver
No, I think there is a common mis-understanding here that is worth clearing up. A lot of the packages people mention in any of the lists is from our "cooker" development tree. For those folks who like living on the bleading edge (dangerously) they have access to the development tree and get

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
yes...thank you MandrakeSoft. I'm in 100% agreement there with Dennis. I love what you're doing with this Distro. Absotlutely the best. :) Even if it does make me nuts sometimes. Just means I have more to learn. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Come now...taking over the world PC market isn't going to happen over night. It has to progress normally one PC and one user at a time. In my opinion what really needs to happen is that all the different distros and window managers need to quell "aLL" of the infighting and fussing that is going

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
yes, and not to mention that is what this list is all about. by the way...I think the reply-to us broken on here. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Thu,

Re: [newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just type in Switchesk, and then choose Gnome from the menu and tell it to apply the change. that's all

Re: [newbie] Visor, jpilot, usb, and Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
I've been trying for a few weeks now to do the same thing at work on my workstation but I've been unsuccessful so far. Is there a problem doing this with the Mdk 7.2 kernel that it requires kernel 2.4 to be able to sync with the Visor? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they

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