Re: [newbie] Boot manager

2005-04-04 Per discussione poogle
On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:09, Teilhard Knight wrote: Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together with a Drive Overlay. Teilhard. Grub ?

Re: [newbie] back to Windows (Curios)

2005-04-02 Per discussione poogle
Just seen the April Fool stories on Linux Today and I see that some of them are dated/timed AFTER midday on 1st April, in my part of the world (Derby, U.K) tradition has it that the trick must be played before noon, anyone playing the trick after noon is traditionally the Fool. does the

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Per discussione poogle
On Friday 01 April 2005 15:35, Anders Lind wrote: Bubbai troll - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:32 PM Subject: [newbie] back to Windows I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible

Re: [newbie] way of deleting the history of bash commands

2005-03-29 Per discussione poogle
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 15:24, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of deleting the history of bash commands? Thanks in advance, Paul Yes, just look in /home and you will see file called .bash_history - note the . it's a hidden file, open it with the editor of your choice and

[newbie] New Naming convention release cycle

2005-03-21 Per discussione poogle
Just came across this (cross posted to expert) http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005032100826NWBZMD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Per discussione poogle
On Friday 18 March 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? TIA -- Charles DVD burners can be picky with the brands they will work with e.g. the Optorite in my PC will not work with

[newbie] OT humour

2005-02-22 Per discussione poogle
If this is old I apologise but it's new to me. http://nolte-net.de/en/article/unix_hotline.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] DVD burning - this might be useful

2005-02-10 Per discussione poogle
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-06 Per discussione poogle
On Thursday 06 January 2005 07:18, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:37:31 +1100, John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:55, julie wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:59 am, Curt Tresenriter wrote: On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:44:37 +0530 Mrugesh Karnik

[newbie] VCR - PC - DVD

2004-12-11 Per discussione Poogle
Since VCR appears to be rapidly being overtaken by DVD, I would like to transfer quite a few VHS tapes to DVD in anticipation of the day when my VCR dies and I need to replace it with a DVD recorder. I have plenty of HD available, AMD 2400xp 512mb so the pc should be up to it, what I don't

Re: [newbie] Integritycheck of the disks

2004-12-07 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 06:59, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Sometimes the power goes,and my PC is brutaly shut down. When rebooting I press [esc] to get informative mode when strarting the system. Then I can press [Y] to confirm the system shall start an intergritycheck of my hda* partitions.

[newbie] Maybe this is old news

2004-12-03 Per discussione Poogle
But came across this http://www.google.com/linux, gives a search box which only searches for matters which are Linux relevant . There are others for microsoft, bsd, mac, firefox -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] DVD Burners

2004-12-02 Per discussione Poogle
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 05:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: Hi everyone On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks at work) but I don't

Re: [newbie] Java and konqueror

2004-12-02 Per discussione Poogle
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:37, Paul Kaplan wrote: I installed jre-1.5.0 from sun onto mdk 10.1. I am able to get the java plugin to work for firefox 1.0 and for opera 7.54, but not for konqueror. I tried having konqueror look for the java plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0/plugins/

Re: [newbie] CD-RW Problem

2004-12-01 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 23:09, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Well I have been trying to copy a couple of Cmas CD's to play in my vehicle and don't seem to be having any luck(running MDK 10.0). Every time it gets 91% done and gives the following: unknow error 254 listed below is the copy of the

[newbie] USB keys/Kde in 10.1 - Workaround

2004-11-03 Per discussione Poogle
Found this on the forums and it does work, you get an error message popup when you start/restart kde but it can be ignored and closed. Go to usr/share/services/kded/ and edit the last line of mountwatcher.desktop from X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=true to X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=false The

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official

2004-11-02 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 02 Nov 2004 09:57, Richard Gelling wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:14 +, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi 4 CD set from the club installed and working without incident. Impressed so far. :-) Plain text document attachment (message.footer)

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Per discussione Poogle
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 20:27, frankieh wrote: Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to

[newbie] Creating an installation DVD

2004-10-12 Per discussione Poogle
I'm downloading 10.1 Community iso's and would normally create installation CDs, but I'm sure I've read that it's possible to create 1 installation DVD, Google has not been my friend here (probably me rather than Google) so could someone point me in the right direction please ? --

Re: [newbie] Creating an installation DVD

2004-10-12 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 11:03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 10:45, Poogle wrote: I'm downloading 10.1 Community iso's and would normally create installation CDs, but I'm sure I've read that it's possible to create 1 installation DVD, Google has not been my friend here (probably

Re: [newbie] Creating an installation DVD

2004-10-12 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 12:41, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 12:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: Thanks for trying Anne but I can't see it there My mistake - it was Bryan that wrote up how to do it (sorry Bryan). See http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MakingOwnDVD Anne Thanks

Re: [newbie] Creating an installation DVD

2004-10-12 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 16:59, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 12 October 2004 07:53, Poogle wrote: On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 12:41, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 12:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: Thanks for trying Anne but I can't see it there My mistake - it was Bryan

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-03 Per discussione Poogle
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 20:31, Margot wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK then I bow to experience. Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to,

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Per discussione Poogle
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote: I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech support didn't scream in horror when I asked!). They

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

2004-08-29 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 28 Aug 2004 13:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip That is one good reason there are others. Have you considered Win4linux or Crossover Office? /snip Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other applications

Re: [newbie] W32.Netsky - Linux really better protected than windows? [OT]

2004-08-23 Per discussione Poogle
On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 23:45, Vincent Voois wrote: Huge Snip Hmmz, i had a collegue with MCSE certificate that considered servers on a hardware technical base were the same as desktop pc's. The guy was fired after he excuted the system erase utility on a Compaq system, taken by the hand by

Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem

2004-08-20 Per discussione Poogle
On Friday 20 Aug 2004 16:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 07:54 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 07:38 am, PM wrote: You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15) they will give

[newbie] New Printer = bios error

2004-08-13 Per discussione Poogle
Saw an HP PSC2175 printer/copier/scanner at a greatly reduced price, I expected a bit of a challenge getting it working in 9.1, but no, it was a no brainer to get printing and scanning working, the cardreader slots work as well- I can even read smartmedia from it. However if the printer is

[newbie] We can close this list - we're all experts now :-))

2004-08-02 Per discussione Poogle
1st Paragraph - in brackets http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=267 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful

2004-07-26 Per discussione Poogle
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Perl module

2004-07-26 Per discussione Poogle
Just updated to the latest f-prot and the old check-updates.sh script has been replaced by one called check-updates.pl. Upon issuing as root ./check-updates.pl I get the following error ./check-updates.pl Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'. Please install this module and

Re: [newbie] Perl module

2004-07-26 Per discussione Poogle
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 17:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Poogle wrote: ./check-updates.pl Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'. Please install this module and try re-running this script. (Hint: man CPAN) Fatal error. Exiting... I can't take the Hint as I can't find

Re: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.

2004-07-24 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 00:24, Steve Jeppesen wrote: anybody find the mp3 file? I gotta get that one! Wonder how long before someone starts whining about it! On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:33:42 -0400 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think that Linspire is just trying to open

Re: [newbie] Monitoring quantity of internet usage

2004-07-17 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 12:29, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 10:44 am, Margot wrote: I'm considering upgrading to a broadband service sometime later in the year. Many of the packages available seem to be limited by *size* - eg Wanadoo has a package for 17.99 a month with

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-10 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 10 Jul 2004 11:55, Martin Foster wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:26:21 +0100, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John

Re: [newbie] OT Typing program for linux

2004-07-06 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 07:19, Greg wrote: Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 Jul 2004 07:22, Greg wrote: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2004 01:25, PM wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 09:08, Greg wrote: Hi evryone i hope evryone is having a nice weekend

Re: [newbie] Konqueror history

2004-06-30 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 16:33, David Robertson wrote: I may be missing something here, but one of the things that irritates me with Konqueror as a web browser is the fact that it doesn't seem to maintain a drop-down list of recently visited sites from the address bar, nor can I find a history

Re: [newbie] Konqueror history

2004-06-30 Per discussione Poogle
On Wednesday 30 Jun 2004 14:05, Poogle wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 16:33, David Robertson wrote: I may be missing something here, but one of the things that irritates me with Konqueror as a web browser is the fact that it doesn't seem to maintain a drop-down list of recently visited sites

Re: [newbie] Konqueror history

2004-06-30 Per discussione Poogle
On Wednesday 30 Jun 2004 17:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2004 11:05, David Robertson wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2004 18:26, Poogle wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jun 2004 14:05, Poogle wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 16:33, David Robertson wrote: I may be missing something

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z33

2004-06-29 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 06:34, Marc Lijour wrote: Hi Any of you had some luck with the Lexmark Z33. I tried to install it with the driver provided to the Lexmark site. 1) I disabled CUPS and installed LPRng 2) I run the driver from lexmark Problem: it does not print when it says it should

Re: [newbie] Emergency Reboot tricks

2004-06-23 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 20:06, Edgars Smits wrote: Someone posted the following info earlier today (of course I already deleted itG) to the effect that if the system freezes the correct procedure is to use: ALT+SysReq+r,s,e,i,u,b (I'm assuming not all of them at once) Where is this

Re: [newbie] Purchase enquiry

2004-06-20 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 22:50, Terence Golightly wrote: List, http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=27-182-024depa=1 After reading the posts concerning cooling, I started looking around a fans and said well I could use a CD/DVD player and I was just wondering about the

Re: [newbie] Purchase enquiry

2004-06-20 Per discussione Poogle
Sears Roebuck made anything themselves?) that Optorite and other 'names' contracts their manufacture to another but puts their name on it. I don't think this is quite rebadging, but? Anybody else have a comment? Terry On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 05:38, Poogle wrote: On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 22:50

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 DVD w/ Linux Magazine

2004-04-17 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 17 Apr 2004 17:23, Rory wrote: There's an MDK 10 DVD with Linux Mag for May. Does anyone know which version of MDK? I'm assuming it's Official, of course. But, does anyone know if it would be the MDK Powerpack or MDK Powerpack+, etc? http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/42

[newbie] Anyone else get this ?

2004-04-09 Per discussione Poogle
Subject is [newbie] is that your wife? The image.zip attachment (removed) is identified by f-prot as W32/Netsky and is followed by the usual mandrake message footer. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp.mandrake.com ([212.85.147.176]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com

Re: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)

2004-03-12 Per discussione Poogle
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 19:36, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Poogle Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish) All snipped Dennis, Thanks

Re: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)

2004-03-12 Per discussione Poogle
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 23:58, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:21 pm, Poogle wrote: Thanks, but this was bittorrent, md5sums on the ISO's said O.K, I forgot to add in my original post that I had tried booting from CD 2 and then changing to CD 1 when asked, that gave

[newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)

2004-03-11 Per discussione Poogle
I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent worked for me), md5sums checked o.k and then burnt them from the command line using cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject /home/(path snipped)/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Powerpack-CD1.i586.iso CD1 boots to press enter to install etc then gives a message could not

Re: [newbie] cpuinfo

2004-02-23 Per discussione Poogle
On Monday 23 Feb 2004 15:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 06:44 am, Poogle wrote: Does cpuinfo show the actual cpu MHz that the cpu is running at or does it only show what it is rated at ? What it's actually running at. My 3000+ is rated at 13x166, 2166Mhz. I run

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Move 9.2 and the key drive

2004-02-20 Per discussione Poogle
On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 22:48, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:54 am, Bill Lawrence wrote: Hi Everyone, Apparently Mandrake Move is quite picky about what USB drive one uses. I have a San Disk Cruzer 128 MB and a Lexar Media device that accepts SD memory cards. Move

[newbie] sort of OT but nice to see

2004-02-12 Per discussione Poogle
My local PC World (Derby, U.K.) has both Discovery Powerpack on the shelves -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DVD -RW

2004-02-09 Per discussione Poogle
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 19:02, Ron Stodden wrote: Poogle wrote: Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K

[newbie] DVD -RW

2004-02-08 Per discussione Poogle
Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K. Now here's the problem - Packard Bell DVD-RW's cause a complete lock up,

Re: [newbie] DVD -RW

2004-02-08 Per discussione Poogle
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 18:24, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:31 am, Poogle wrote: Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K

[newbie] Mandake Move to the rescue

2004-02-07 Per discussione Poogle
Prepare to snigger... My existing installation was fairly full so I created a new partition for the purpose of creating back ups for burning to dvd. Created on an unused part of /hda using diskdrake, said yes to write fstab and then shutdown and left the house.(I don't leave electrical

Re: [newbie] KDE animated cursor

2004-01-22 Per discussione Poogle
On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 14:47, Doug wrote: Hi all I was wondering, is there a way to get KDE to use animated cursors? I have looked a bit, but have not found any docs that might explain a way to use them, or for that matter any ani cursors out there on KDE's site. The one thing I do like

Re: [newbie] 92 iso download problem

2004-01-19 Per discussione Poogle
On Monday 19 Jan 2004 17:09, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:59:25 -0800 Michael.Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded cd 1,2,3 iso for 92. The problem is cds 2 and 3 are greater than 650 meg. Are there CDs that hold more and still writable by the same burner? Use CDRs

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-17 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 17 Jan 2004 03:50, Joe wrote: I am giving up on getting my friends integrated intel NIC working on his VAIO under mandrake. He is willing to shell out cash for a network card that works well with 9.2. A local mom and pop shop here in Edmonton sells an Asus wl-100 pcmcia nic for $40

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Per discussione Poogle
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 14:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any drive, until I ran into some problems with my

Re: [newbie] Confused

2003-12-29 Per discussione Poogle
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 09:23, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 03:17, John P. Santucci wrote: I get the Mandrake boot up screen. It loads up till the last section of the loading screen and then the black screen and I hear the KDE music. This is a 3 disk package I received from

[newbie] Hardware Advice Please

2003-12-05 Per discussione poogle
My partner needs a cheap PC at work, a local supplier offers a base unit as below for £175 +vat - it appears just what they need, the intention is to install 9.1. The PC will be used mainly for sending/receiving e mail and occasional web browsing, I intend that they use OO for word processing.

[newbie] Is the list down ?

2003-11-21 Per discussione Poogle
Received no posts since yesterday morning (and the archives show no updates since 15 Nov) so I re-subbed and still nothing, if this hits the list can somebody reply to me please? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] re: is the list down

2003-11-21 Per discussione poogle
Thanks to those who replied to me, I only got your CC'd replies. Have subscribed again and will wait nad see Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Is the list down?

2003-11-19 Per discussione Poogle
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 H:00 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: No messages here for several days. Mandrake's archives show nothing since the 15th (evidently that was the last time that they were updated; MARC shows just one yesterday (18th) and nada since then. -- cmg Coming through here --

[newbie] [OT] found on the forums

2003-11-08 Per discussione poogle
http://www.HImandrake.com/cd_distribution.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2

2003-10-31 Per discussione Poogle
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 H:45 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:28:47 + Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, instead of the login screen saying Welcome to localhost as normal and a terminal prompt showing [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ it shows

Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2 (SOLVED)

2003-10-31 Per discussione Poogle
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 H:36 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:26:47 + Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: NIC - Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have setup something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though. There seems to be a pattern I'm

[newbie] Hostname in 9.2

2003-10-30 Per discussione poogle
I can't make my hostname stick at localhost, my IP is dynamic. I've edited various files (see below) and thought I'd solved it but then I rebooted and it changed back to public1-derb2-3- The edited files :- /etc/sysconfig/ network HOSTNAME=localhost NETWORKING=yes

[newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-28 Per discussione poogle
Just got my copy of Linux Format magazine it comes with 9.2 d/l edition on it's DVD. I'm wondering where they got it, could they be subscribed to MandrakeClub ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] List weirdness

2003-10-02 Per discussione Poogle
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 H:02 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:49, mooney wrote: I, too, am getting weird responses to mails. snip Finally, I'm off on 2 weeks hols, and I can't seem to unsub from the site. snip Join the club. I've never found the 'set newbie

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-16 Per discussione Poogle
On Friday 15 August 2003 17:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had Windows on my box - and never will. But right now I have a problem : My oldest daughter just started in

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Well, when i reboot, i get kernel panic for no INIT= (i think) and when i upgrade i find that hda6 (which is where /boot is) has errors that the install cd can't fix. Ok, so what

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:30 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030614 08:24]: Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel or the onboard sis630 on my PC, I can't even get

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:07 pm, Poogle wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:30 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030614 08:24]: Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-10 Per discussione Poogle
very big snip I wonder where to try next. No use trying me, I've run out of ideas (Big Sigh) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-09 Per discussione Poogle
On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 H:24 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:11, Poogle wrote: snip When I do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get exactly that, except for the ProdID that is different from yours e26. My ProdID 0x208f is similar to that shown on http

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-08 Per discussione Poogle
snip When I do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get exactly that, except for the ProdID that is different from yours e26. My ProdID 0x208f is similar to that shown on http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ so that part seems to be in order. Marco O.K. Make sure that your snape50.bin is executable

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-07 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 H:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 1:06 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi, I couldn't use my flatbed scanner on mdk 9.0 and I still can't on 9.1. The scanner is a AGFA SnapScan e50, which is listed by SANE as supported. Here is what I did sofar:

[newbie] slightly OT Random Lockup

2003-02-21 Per discussione Poogle
For some time my partner's company were experiencing system crashes using Win98/2000, I persuaded them to install MD 8.0 on one lesser used PC to hopefully eliminate the problem. It didn't work as I expected, the MD PC didn't crash but sufferred from random screen freezes. As the building takes

Re: [newbie] slightly OT Random Lockup

2003-02-21 Per discussione Poogle
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 H:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday February 21 2003 04:06 am, Poogle wrote: Now to the point, yesterday while typing an e mail the screen froze on the standalone MD system but the recently installed network which runs through a new UPS was unaffected. About 1-2

[newbie] OT but amusing (I think)

2003-02-21 Per discussione Poogle
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/evolution.html?ca=dgr-lnxw10ev olution http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/meditation.html?ca=dgr-lnxw10 meditation http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/penguinstein.html?ca=dgr-lnxw 10penguinestien

[newbie] OT Nigerian spam scam

2003-02-12 Per discussione Poogle
IIRC someone on this list collected these scams, I've got a new variant which is allegedly from Angola if you want it for your collection please e mail me off-list -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Openoffice printing with Lexmark Z25

2003-01-23 Per discussione Poogle
I have set up a friend with MD 9.0 and a Lexmark Z25 printer, the printer needs Lexmark drivers and is not compatible with CUPS and requires the use of LPR, I managed to get this set up and printing both BW Colour form other apps but I cannot get it to print using OpenOffice. A print job

Re: [newbie] Openoffice printing with Lexmark Z25

2003-01-23 Per discussione Poogle
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 H:43 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:25, Poogle wrote: I have set up a friend with MD 9.0 and a Lexmark Z25 printer, the printer needs Lexmark drivers and is not compatible with CUPS and requires the use of LPR, I managed to get this set up

[newbie] OT - Civileme

2003-01-17 Per discussione Poogle
I'm surprised nobody has already commented on his return, so I'd like to just say Welcome Back -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Per discussione Poogle
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 H:30 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Mandrake has filed for bankruptcy... Follow this link... :-( http://lwn.net/Articles/20061/ And on a more positive note http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2405 -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to

Re: [OT]: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which i s better:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-07 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 H:10 am, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:33, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: On the other hand, I believe Bush is going to war in the hope that it will revive the economy. Preperations for the war will boost the defence industry, and when the war is over lots

[newbie] Mandrake Club (Troll)

2003-01-03 Per discussione Poogle
After all of the recent proclamations of undying support for Mandrake, why are there (nearly) alway more guests than members online ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Using a Cyrix cpu with MMX

2002-12-27 Per discussione Poogle
On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: How likely is it that I could get 9.0 or 8.2 to install with this cpu? Has anyone got a working system with this architecture? Anne Anne, I installed it on a Cyrix box without problems (something like a 366 IIRC but I don't have access to it

Re: [newbie] Using a Cyrix cpu with MMX

2002-12-27 Per discussione Poogle
On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 1:32 pm, Poogle wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: How likely is it that I could get 9.0 or 8.2 to install with this cpu? Has anyone got a working system with this architecture? Anne

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-24 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote: I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new releases and reporting back to Mandrake in a concise and relevant way. While all feedback is important I see a problem

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:28 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] John[EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA Ingo Bauer

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-22 Per discussione Poogle
On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 H:35 am, Joseph Braddock wrote: Jerry, Maybe you would be willing to contribute some of your time to improve Mandrake's stability. There were numerous beta and release candidates for Mandrake 9.0. If you are having stability issues, the time to have them fixed is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-21 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 H:51 am, Sascha Noyes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm considering upgrading to silver membership. Not sure yet though. Sascha On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Mandrake got slashdotted today, I just saw the

Re: [newbie] scanner problems

2002-12-18 Per discussione Poogle
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 H:38 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:38, Andy wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down.

Re: [newbie] Now the good news

2002-12-16 Per discussione Poogle
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 H:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Today I found this comment: It's been a few weeks since Civileme started taking care of MandrakeExpert support. Good to see him back. Anne Sounds too good to be true, where did you see it ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)

2002-12-08 Per discussione Poogle
On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 H:02 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette: I

Re: [newbie] KAddressBook

2002-12-07 Per discussione Poogle
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 H:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA,

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-29 Per discussione Poogle
In a word yes. I have a Zio USB SM reader which is RW in Windows but read only in Linux - (Pauses to plug it in, insert SM card and check that it is readable) For my convenience I created a mount point /mnt/Zio which uses /dev/sda1 as it's device, then I just go to Removable media, click on

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