Re: [newbie] Do I need these?

2002-10-12 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hello Angus, if you wonder what is running on your system and what it does, check out http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-Quickstart-HOWTO/appendix.html which describes ports and services. And of course: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/print/service.html which show and explains all the

[newbie] XFree86 and resolution change

2002-10-09 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, after some time I finally got around to try again to change my X settings, so that I can have a resolution of 1024x768 on my thinkpad. I want to make a presentation with Staroffice. But the beamer only allows a 1024x768 resolution. This is what I tried so far: -Alt+Ctrl+-/+ only changes

[newbie] cut big files into smaller chunks

2002-10-03 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, I think this may be a simple command, but I havent found it so far. I want to backup the vmware files on cdr so I need to cut them into pieces that I can burn on cd and later put those together into the original files again. What is the program/command to cut files and put them together?

Re: [newbie] cut big files into smaller chunks

2002-10-03 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, I seem to get into the habit of answering my questions myself, so I have to just stop posting them :) One last question nevertheless: is this the right way to split files that are larger than a cdr and to put them together again? (the cat command is listed as text-utility in my book) to

Re: [newbie] cut big files into smaller chunks

2002-10-03 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
October 2002 14:16, Chris Spackman wrote: Patrik Marxer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I think this may be a simple command, but I havent found it so far. I want to backup the vmware files on cdr so I need to cut them into pieces that I can burn on cd and later put those together

Re: [newbie] JRE Versions?

2002-10-01 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 11:47, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all Bit of a poser for you. I'm installing and re-installing some stuff on my system. Limewire requires the JRE 1.3.1, whereas Arachnophilia requires 1.4. What I want to know is: 1. Can Limewire be installed with JRE 1.4?

Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty pissed off with...

2002-09-24 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi femme, I just sent a Palladium/TCPA reminder to most of my friends. It seems there are two dominant opinions among windows users, that I know: 1) sombody will write a crack 2) fuck them, that's horrible - but I am helpless. there is no 3) I have had enough of this shit, I quit !! They

Re: [newbie] crontab and xmms?

2002-09-20 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, Just in case there is somebody out there who is also not smart enough to understand that cron doesn't get the environment variables from the bash: one must set it manually. So the crontab now works and looks like this: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=pm

[newbie] crontab and xmms?

2002-09-19 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, I tried to set up a cronjob without using /etc/cron.d and the like. But I just don't get some things. Why can't I start xmms? Why doesn't printf \a work? I did this: cd ~ touch somefile crontab somefile crontab -e this is my crontab: * * * * * /bin/bash /home/pm/bin/showMe this is the

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 06:42, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 16 September 2002 10:27 pm, Marco Nadal wrote: Shane! you've just decribed better then half the people reading this list, myself included! ;) Mark Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:47, Alastair Scott wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 08:13, Patrik Marxer wrote: To be honest, we don't like bush much over here. I guess not many in europe do. In the rest of the world it may be similar. In fact he is the most unpopular leader in the world, as I

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 15:05, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 17 September 2002 03:13 am, you wrote: To be honest, we don't like bush much over here. I guess not many in europe do. In the rest of the world it may be similar. In fact he is the most unpopular leader in the world, as I

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 09:26, Miark wrote: Marco, Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or does, is automatically considered a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser, and can be detained indefinitely without a shred of evidence, legal representation or even

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] xcdroast: how-to copy cd]

2002-09-13 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
What puzzles me is why your straight copy of the original boot disc fails to initalise on boot up as the original does.It seems a bit strange if the original boots up it cannot be a bios setting getting in the way, so it has to be something about the copy that is different. I copied many

Re: [newbie] xcdroast: how-to copy cd

2002-09-12 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
On Thursday 12 September 2002 15:53, John Richard Smith wrote: Patrik Marxer wrote: On Thursday 12 September 2002 13:53, John Richard Smith wrote: Patrik Marxer wrote: In the first xcdroasr window , do a, setup - Device Scan, does it show your device listed there. snip

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] xcdroast: how-to copy cd]

2002-09-12 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
You wrote: Patrick, I don't know why I didn't think before, anyway, your doing it wrong, Select Create CD, then Master tracks,then in Master source, then in file directory view, then trace the tree to/mnt/cdrom/file to be copied (having first decompressed the radio button,display

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] xcdroast: how-to copy cd]

2002-09-12 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi John, thank you for your patience. The commands you supplied work - they copy the _content_ of a cdrom to an iso which is then burned. But they do not make a 1:1 copy, the cd that is created with your commands is not bootable but the original cd was. I may have missed a command line option

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] xcdroast: how-to copy cd]

2002-09-12 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
On Thursday 12 September 2002 23:14, Erylon Hines wrote: On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:00 am, Patrik Marxer wrote: You wrote: Patrick, I don't know why I didn't think before, anyway, your doing it wrong, What do you think of this: pm@merlin:~$ /usr/bin/readcd bash: /usr/bin

Re: [newbie] MP3 conversion

2002-09-11 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, Thank you for the tip, now I can record web-radio. Is there a way to listen to the music while writing to a file? You know maybe a good tool to work with the sound files (cutting off silent parts and the like)? Patrik On Wednesday 11 September 2002 18:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: On

Re: [newbie] MP3 conversion

2002-09-11 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, Thank you both for the suggestions, I tried audacity and it looks good. I haven't tried SoundStudio or Gramofile yet but I sure will. Patrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] qtopia - zaurus /usb-lan connection - it works!

2002-09-09 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi everybody, this mail started out as a call for help, but since I was finally able to do it myself, I changed it to a 'yeahh-it-works' kind of mail. Trolltech released the qt-desktop for linux: ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qtopia/qtopia-desktop-1.6.0beta1-1.i386.rpm after the installation, the

Re: [newbie] Insulting Web site messages

2002-08-29 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
I have just been on their website: you have to read the help page: http://help.iwin.com/contact/contact.asp?s=contact8 This is what they write when you click on Netscape compatibility: Netscape We are of the informed opinion that Microsoft Internet Explorer is a superior web browser for

[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 and Linux Standard Base

2002-08-21 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, I like Mandrake, I use it and support it as much as I can. I mention this to say that this is no flame mail. Nevertheless I am bothered by an article in a computer magazine: On http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq2 there is mentioned a lot about The importance of

Re: [newbie] mandrake-linux-compatibility-test-version-CD

2002-07-27 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Thank you all, so there is a Mandrake live distrbution (I didn't know the expression, so I could not do a search on this - sorry). I am going to try it when I buy something new. Patrik On Saturday 27 July 2002 00:41, shane wrote: On Friday 26 July 2002 2:19 pm, Patrik Marxer did speak unto

Re: [newbie] ImageMagick: trying to compile ImageMagick

2002-06-26 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
I installed gcc-cpp and then the program, worked fine. Thank you Patrik You wrote on Wednesday 26 June 2002 01:00: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 03:32:59 +0200 Patrik Marxer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having a problem compiling ImageMagick. When I autoconf -- ./configure it then I get

Re: [OT] [newbie] i am so glad i use linux

2002-06-25 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
looks too me like they are building the Berlin wall again, the arguments are the same: protection against some outside evil, while actually just locking their own people in. The scary part is, that they are on 90% of the computers so it may very well work. So instead of free linux users

[newbie] ImageMagick: trying to compile ImageMagick

2002-06-24 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, I am having a problem compiling ImageMagick. When I autoconf -- ./configure it then I get: [root@merlin ImageMagick-5.4.6]# ./configure configuring ImageMagick 5.4.6 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system

Re: [newbie] anybody tried vmware and mandrake 8.2? Plus samba and gnome and XFree86

2002-06-21 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, At one time yesterday I could get a connection to my vmware with windows 2000 Professional on it. I had to install samba on linux and share a folder. Now it is gone again but it seems to be a smb.conf configuration issue. But something else is interesting: vmware says: Could not get

Re: [newbie] VMware/ LM8.2 and Win98 Guest OS

2002-06-21 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi Alan, it's me again - I can't help but the problem is the same in windows 2000 professional and LM8.2. And with suse7.3 and vmware the sound didn't work either. Patrik You wrote on Thursday 20 June 2002 17:07: Anyone else having sound problems with win98? The install goes fine. The

[newbie] set global shortcut keys to applications in KDE?

2002-06-21 Per discussione Patrik Marxer
Hi, I wonder if it is possible to set keyboard shortcut globally in KDE. I have looked in the control center but only predefined actions can be reassigned to other keys. I would like to start any application just by pressing a key. Something like Ctrl+i for my image browser. Or Ctrl+t for