[newbie] Just built a Mandrake 10.1 system for the 1st time. I am getting the error kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!

2004-12-21 Per discussione Randy Paries
Hello, I just finished building a new Box and have been letting it just run to burn in. After running 5 days it crashed, and this was in the error log:: === Dec 19 04:02:01 millhouse kernel: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!Dec 19 04:02:01

RE: [newbie] Just built a Mandrake 10.1 system for the 1st time. I am getting the error kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!

2004-12-21 Per discussione Randy Paries
kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407! Hi Randy What version of the kernel are you running? regards Duncan Randy Paries wrote: Hello, I just finished building a new Box and have been letting it just run to burn in. After running 5 days it crashed, and this was in the error log

RE: [newbie] Monitor Resolution Refresh Rates

2004-03-28 Per discussione Beavers, Randy W.
Beavers, Randy W. wrote: All, How do I tell the Monitor to change Screen Resolution Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 640x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers

RE: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-27 Per discussione Beavers, Randy W.
I'am having the same problem with Mandrake Move can't change the screen resolution. -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen Dear All Some

[newbie] Monitor Resolution Refresh Rates

2004-03-26 Per discussione Beavers, Randy W.
All, How do I tell the Monitor to change Screen Resolution Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 640x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG

[newbie] Screen Resolution Refresh Rate

2004-03-23 Per discussione Beavers, Randy W.
All, How do I tell the Monitor to change Screen Resolution Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 460x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG

Re: [newbie] Need to format new HD?

2003-03-28 Per discussione Randy Kramer
it before starting the install, but there is no point -- during the Mandrake install you will have the opportunity / requirement to divide it into partitions and then format those. Easiest to do it during the install. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] ATI all-in-wonder

2003-01-12 Per discussione Randy J Freitas
Hi I have an old 4MB All-in-Wonder card in my Mandrake 9.0 system and the handler tells me that there is not a supported TV card in the system. Is there a fix? Randy J Freitas PS is there a print driver for the Lexmark Z 12? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] CD Read errors

2002-12-01 Per discussione Randy Kramer
is accelerating to rated speed. Anyway, I've taken to stocking up on 4X or 8X drives when I see them cheap ($5 or less) at computer shows. Randy Kramer On Saturday 30 November 2002 11:24 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Exactly what i was after Randy. Teach me for thinking hdparm was for hard drives only. Am still

Re: [newbie] CD Read errors

2002-11-30 Per discussione Randy Kramer
somewhere else). If you can improve the cited page in any way, please do! (After all, it is a wiki.) regards, Randy Kramer On Monday 25 November 2002 12:05 am, Michael Adams wrote: Following the First -Suspect Me Thread with interest. My Case... Brand new store bought V9.0 pre-installed computer

[newbie] Trash can icon

2002-11-09 Per discussione Randy Donohoe
Is there a way to delete the trash can icon in KDE on 9.0? If there is, how would I recover files I decide not to delete? TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Trash can icon

2002-11-09 Per discussione Randy Donohoe
background. Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?

2002-10-11 Per discussione Randy Kramer
I don't understand. ;-) Randy Kramer On Friday 11 October 2002 09:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: rdate-1.2-1mdk I'm usin that on 9.0+ IIRC, I got it from /contrib, eg, 'urpmi rdate' from a cooker RPMS2/ source. alias tdate='rdate -p -s tick.uh.edu hwclock --systohc' Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?

2002-10-11 Per discussione Randy Kramer
specifically selected nedit, joe, and two other editors as individual packages -- I'm somewhat surprised a time synching utility was not included. (Aside, after I sent my first post I did a locate date | grep bin looking for evidence of a time synching utility -- didn't find anything.) Randy Kramer

[newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?

2002-10-10 Per discussione Randy Kramer
suggestions? Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0

2002-09-28 Per discussione Randy Kramer
! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to set Mozilla as the default browser in KDE (2.2.2 -- Mandrake 8.2)

2002-08-30 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Anybody know how to set Mozilla (or any other browser) as the default browser in KDE (2.2.2 -- Mandrake 8.2)? Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Of coarse again... Mandrake downloads.

2002-08-27 Per discussione Randy Kramer
of mandrake... and install it, ill be on my way. I would consider rsync -- it will clean up one of your bad downloads and make it correct. See: * http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Rsync * http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/RsyncingALargeFile And links on those pages. Randy

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-21 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Seth, Thanks very much! I'll try these out over the next several days (and check the man page for postqueue). Randy Kramer Seth Zirin wrote: Postfix now includes sendmail compatibility commands so you should be able to display all queued mail with the simple command mailq. You can get

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-20 Per discussione Randy Kramer
. Then, IIRC, I heard (read) some people state that maintaining a caching DNS over a dial up line is not a good idea -- I guess because of the traffic needed to update the caching DNS. Can you (anyone) lend any insight into the tradeoffs involved, and when it makes sense and when it doesn't? Randy

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

2002-08-19 Per discussione Randy Kramer
to choose any one of them, if I chose the wrong one the disk was unreadable. Maybe someone else can provide more insight on this. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-19 Per discussione Randy Kramer
to deliver after 5 days (approximately).) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-19 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Thanks! Randy Kramer et wrote: I believe what Ed is referring to is that so much of his current bandwidth is being used by the d/l, that the connection to his ISP's mail server times out (eg, no host...), and Kmail just keeps the post(s) stored in the Outbox folder. I run

Re: [newbie] Modem help

2002-08-18 Per discussione Randy Kramer
et wrote: AOL does not do linux, as I recall. Well, it depends what you want to do -- you can certainly send and receive email on Linux via AOL. (Don't know the details of how, but know a few people who do it.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] How to Create and Use Additional IMAP Folders?

2002-08-17 Per discussione Randy Kramer
) instead of /home/dad/mail to be visible to IMAP? thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] install on Compaq Presario 1240

2002-08-17 Per discussione Randy Kramer
the hard disk from dos. Then try accessing the cd-rom (although you'd need to install some drivers or something, like mscdex or whatever). At least this would give you some indication of hardware condition. sorry, ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Burn an iso to disk

2002-08-17 Per discussione Randy Kramer
or image is not an iso. But, I'm surprised a mirror has something like that. Interesting! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-16 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 16 Aug 2002 3:04 am, Randy Kramer wrote: I was curious so I tried sending you mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- it basically bounced so I assume that is not a good Internet email address for you. (There was also a reference to spews, so possibly it is your

Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-16 Per discussione Randy Kramer
and updating the distro (IIUC). Mandrake would probably have to make some changes to use rsync instead of ftp (or whatever they do use) in their automatic update system, but it could be worth it to us (the downloaders). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness

2002-08-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
-- is that a script or command that you wrote?) Anyway, is there any chance you are checking with something like fetchmail and it is running in a polling mode? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness

2002-08-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
. And getmail can't poll at intervals like fetchmail can? I doubt that the problem could be that I use 00, 04 and 05 instead of 0, 4 and 5 in the time descriptors??? I don't think so, but I am not an expert. I just took one shot in the dark ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness

2002-08-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
specific setup. It cannot run in daemon mode. Thanks (for the info)! I'll shoot again tonight and see what gives. Thanks anyway!! Good luck! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
to disappear (although I suppose it could be at my ISP, waiting to get a nondelivery notice after five days). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Oops, I probably should have mentioned that the problem occurs when I try to send mail to myself addressed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. (I haven't tried addressing it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I will in case it provides a clue.) Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: I've got my email server nearly

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:07 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Oops, I probably should have mentioned that the problem occurs when I try to send mail to myself addressed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. (I haven't tried addressing it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I will in case it provides

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions

2002-08-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
sense of them? regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] hdparm not in Mandrake 8.2?

2002-08-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
it by wiping things like /, /usr, etc. off my disk (preserving things like /home) and then doing a complete reinstall. I would like as few surprises as possible, except for the improvements (but even then, I'd like to know what to expect). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] thinking of installing Mozilla ...

2002-08-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
. Mozilla 1.0 may or may not have solved the problems listed above. (But surely created some new and better problems ;-) ) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] thinking of installing Mozilla ...

2002-08-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Randy Kramer wrote: I'm not an expert, but for my purposes, Mozilla is the best browser on Mandrake 8.2. (Mozilla 0.9.8 comes with Mandrake 7.2 -- if you didn't Oops: ^^8.2 install it originally it should be fairly easy to install from the rpms

Re: [newbie] hdparm not in Mandrake 8.2?

2002-08-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Has hdparm been superceded by something else? What? No that is what is known as a packaging error. You can download hdparm from any Mandrake mirror --just DL the 8.2 version. Civileme, Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] thinking of installing Mozilla ...

2002-08-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
, you are left in the continuous vertical scroll mode, which you have to find a way to get out of. (IIRC, pressing escape or clicking somewhere else on the screen (or both) let you get out of the mode.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] how to setup Mandrake to be a Router

2002-08-12 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Control Center, and I can't find Connection Sharing anywhere under Control Center. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] how to setup Mandrake to be a Router

2002-08-12 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Ah, OK -- there it is -- thanks to you both! Randy Kramer Miark wrote: Ya, what Dennis said. I'm running 8.2 and KDE 3.0.2 and it's the one on the KDE desktop. Miark Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I think he is talking about the Mandrake Control Center wich

Re: [newbie] Help with screen area resolution and ethernet adapter

2002-08-04 Per discussione Randy Kramer
set up in that file (or maybe a subset of those mode lines??). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] md5sum

2002-08-04 Per discussione Randy Kramer
% and in 3 I,ve got several .I am useing cable download at 197 usally have good luck JOE Just a PS: If the md5sums are bad, consider using rsync instead of redownloading the entire files -- see: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/RsyncingALargeFile Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Kmail: how to not flag message as read

2002-08-04 Per discussione Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: I have found something about each to love, but in a rush I drag out SDF every time. What's SDF? (I know that once you tell me I'll say duh, but just doesn't ring a bell for me immediately.) And, what's the 2k editor? Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

2002-08-04 Per discussione Randy Kramer
clarification by the authors, although that might be considered. (But, I am really uncertain about this, and, in addition to all other considerations, it probably depends on what country / jurisdiction the case is tried in.) NOTE: IANAL -- IANAL -- IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer) Randy Kramer Damian G

Re: [newbie] TV Tunner Cards

2002-08-03 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Phillip scott wrote: Is it posible to use a tunner card made for Windoze 98 in MD 8.2? I think you should get the manufacturer and model number and check it against the Mandrake hardware compatibility list (or post it here). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] OT?? Linux or Unix?

2002-08-03 Per discussione Randy Kramer
but not mentioned, or if it is not included, is there some technical or security related reason? regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT?? Linux or Unix?

2002-08-03 Per discussione Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: Well, one of the SNF designers was Jay Beale, and his opinion was that a caching DNS server was a serious security risk. --other good stuff snipped-- Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
if the plugged in load is beyond the rating of the UPS (even while the UPS is running off the mains) -- it is not on, and I've never seen it on. regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
for?) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
significantly more than $10, unless you get them from new $10 UPSs. ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CivilEme petition.

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
to the plate and save the goose that laid the golden egg for them. /.02$ Good advice! Or join the Mandrake Club. oh yea, misspelt is not the correct spelling of miss-spelled Well, it might be -- in England, Australia, Canada, or somewhere similar. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
quite well. (It has a few quirks, but they surprised me.) regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Kmail: how to not flag message as read

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
about that -- AFAIK, there is not much that you (or the developers) can do about that, unless perhaps there is change to the email infrastructure. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
did you choose when you installed? IIUC, in some levels you are not allowed to log in as root directly, but only to su to root from a user account. Try this page for some links to information on msec: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Msec Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
in that particular buffer. I'm hoping they might have implemented some of this in kde 3 (I'm still using kde 2.2 with Mandrake 8.2). If anybody is using kde 3.0 or higher, has any of this been implemented? regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Per discussione Randy Kramer
an insecure mail server to send mail fairly easily. When you enable security (some type of security) your faced with the anonymous relaying problem -- and now, what you so carefully got to work requires reworking. Oh well, sooner or later I'll get this stuff. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-07-29 Per discussione Randy Kramer
your electronic equipment as possible. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OT: MP3 Players Send Info Back to Gracenote?

2002-07-25 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Gracenote, which has software embedded in several popular MP3 software solutions that captures information on what recordings users listen to on their computers and reports this information back to the company. Has anyone heard of this before? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Getting off the list...

2002-07-23 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Error1018 wrote: how to get off this mailing list. Help? Try reading http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RFEs -- Better Ways to Search the Archives

2002-07-23 Per discussione Randy Kramer
a better search / index tool. Randy Kramer Michael Adams wrote: I found that searching the identical list at http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ works for me usually. The attempt 2 minutes ago raised an error message which is unusual for this site. Note: mail-archive.com

Re: [newbie] RFEs -- Better Ways to Search the Archives

2002-07-23 Per discussione Randy Kramer
:( I'm glad the mail-archive site is still archiving these -- in a few trials, the search seems a little more useful -- I'll keep testing it. ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RFEs -- Better Ways to Search the Archives

2002-07-23 Per discussione Randy Kramer
burder (little or no worse than doing the same thing every 24 hours). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RFEs -- Better Ways to Search the Archives

2002-07-22 Per discussione Randy Kramer
typical of what I get. (So I'm still looking for those better ways, or if there are none, I have some RFEs.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-19 Per discussione Randy Kramer
of the author plus 70(?) years, and for coporations, 99(?) years. Randy Kramer I now know that IANAL is intended to mean I Am Not A Lawyer, but before I understood that, I thought it meant I Am Not A Liar. I wondered, for a very brief time, why all these people involved in legal discussions felt

Re: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-07-17 Per discussione Randy Kramer
when I do this, I will add the name of the person I originally quoted to the list of contributors. To learn more about wikis, please see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages and follow any of the links that appear interesting. regards, Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Michael Adams wrote: Only a big blue link at the bottom of the left column called Contact me. MAILTO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow, I am blind! ;-) Thanks! Randy Kramer Now, what was I going to tell him -- ahh, yes -- try nedit! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
windows.. ;) Interesting thought! (Sounds like something I'd mention, but you saw it first.) Anyway, then we need code janitors or refactorers to start reducing the size. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Alastair Scott wrote: iv. 9 is resolved by nedit, which he evidently isn't aware of. Absolutely, and I'm rather annoyed that he doesn't provide an email address to allow feedback. I guess I could search on the web, but why should I have to. Randy Kramer (Guess I'm cranky today. ;-) Want

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Per discussione Randy Kramer
reminding myself that they have been fairly successful to date. I want to see Linux be an effective competitor to Microsoft *on the desktop*. To do that, I believe we need more looking at things from the other perspective, fixing things to make life easy for the user. regards, Randy Kramer Want

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-13 Per discussione Randy Kramer
is there are a lot of alternatives in the Linux world. SuSE and Mandrake are, IMHO, two good choices. There are others, depending on your knowledge, experience, tolerance for frustration, etc., like Red Hat, Slackware, Debian, GenToo, etc. Join a LUG, try a variety of distros. Randy Kramer Want

[newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Per discussione Randy Kramer
to buy something every once in a while, also.) Anybody want to take up the same hobby? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Per discussione Randy Kramer
resist. I wrote the company back and asked why they were burdening their company with the expense and licsensing associated with those products when Linux is available. They didn't respond. Not yet anyway :-) Alright!! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-11 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Joe, Thanks for a masterful job of editing (snipping) previous posts!! (I preserved most of the post below so others can remember what it looked like.) regards, Randy Kramer Joe Harkins wrote: At 08:19 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: is the smaller drive a master or slave and which ide

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Per discussione Randy Kramer
a directory, not files within a directory. Is this the expected behavior? Alias does not show that du is an alias for some other command. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] html help files

2002-07-10 Per discussione Randy Kramer
file, then dvips on the resulting .dvi file, then you end up with a nice printable .ps file. Apologies for the syntax of the last sentence! You mean the first sentence, don't you ;-) (I'm laughing with you -- I may have a new standard to beat ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Inodes

2002-07-09 Per discussione Randy Kramer
where that terminology came from (I mean, like Windows, Unix, Univac, Dec, ...??) regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT Why HTML mail is bad

2002-07-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
, as they are on a wiki (TWiki). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-03 Per discussione Randy Kramer
. (It may not have worked for me as a rank newbie.) Randy Kramer On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:22:29 -0300 Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can interest others newbies) Linux home-user (not IT professional but above dummy in computer

Re: [newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal?

2002-06-29 Per discussione Randy Kramer
.??) that might do the job. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will answer you! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2

2002-06-29 Per discussione Randy Kramer
from the cited post to the one by you == probably will have to re-search the archives and put a new link in. I've probably got several pages with the same problem (square brackets around newbie or expert). Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal?

2002-06-29 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Bill Spatz wrote: minicom maybe? I've used it to configure external modems when I was running MDK 7.0 Yes, I think that's what I was actually trying to remember (as opposed to mintty). Thanks, hope that helps the original poster. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2

2002-06-29 Per discussione Randy Kramer
D. Olson wrote: All you're mail are belong to KMail. ;-) Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Whoopeee

2002-06-27 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Great -- congratulations! Randy Kramer C.Anne Wilson wrote: Major breakthrough - I have to share. My life is bound up in my Lotus Organizer, and this has been a major stumbling block. It seemed that Evolution would be the way forward, but I could find no way of importing my Organizer

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Per discussione Randy Kramer
it, alone and in combination with most combinations of shift, ctrl, and alt, and saw no response. BUT, I'm not real confident my printer is set up properly -- I only recently got it to work at all. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Per discussione Randy Kramer
guess it was dos where printscreen actually printed (?). And, I had a utility installed in Windows, IIRC, that did the same thing. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-25 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Thank you, Nick! Randy Kramer Nick Andriash wrote: I find reading your postings difficult to do because of the excess quoting on your part. In that last message you quoted 134 lines of text to write 4 lines. Is KMail not capable of creating a normal Reply, or are you not paying any

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-20 Per discussione Randy Kramer
.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No Message Collected

2002-06-18 Per discussione Randy Kramer
(timewise), and messages after those were fine. (Unfortunately, I didn't save the messages.) Just thought I'd contribute to the mystery. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-15 Per discussione Randy Kramer
use coax on my network, and the on board NIC is RJ-45 (10/100). Aside: The reason I switched motherboards is that the TX-Pro II could handle a max of two 64 MB DIMMS (plus two SIMMs, IIRC, 32 MB each). I needed more memory. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-13 Per discussione Randy Kramer
dfox wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: And, if spammers wanted to reach people who have specified their preference not to receive HTML / XML mail, they'd have to send plain Spammers could care less. Most of the spam I get now is all html or in chinese. They don't even care if the person

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory

2002-06-12 Per discussione Randy Kramer
have your manual, search the Intel site for more info, or publish the model number here, so maybe somebody with the same motherboard can help you. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory

2002-06-12 Per discussione Randy Kramer
of the slowest type. I've seen the motherboard with a couple of different brand names, I usually refer to it as a TX-Pro II, oftentimes with a manual that simply says Mainboard. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] how can i improve vnc responsiveness?

2002-06-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
experience, products like VNC (PCAnywhere, etc., etc., etc.) are just dogs, and very slow. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs

2002-06-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
motherboards of many years only support 128 MB, so I've replaced a few so far -- the others mostly still run Windows for several reasons.) Another traditional recommendation is to use a lighter weight window manager than KDE or GNOME, like ICEWM, BlackBox, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs

2002-06-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
(the people) need to make sure that Microsoft has viable competition. Randy Kramer The other machine I had tried it on some months ago is a much faster one and at the time had 256 meg. of RAM and a much bigger harddrive partition on which I was dual booting between Linux and Win 2000Pro. I like

Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs

2002-06-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
of Windows, but with none of the problems. (I try not to ask for too much ;-) Have a good day! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs

2002-06-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
robin wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: Just for the record, I didn't write what you attributed to me. I think Dan W. Dooley wrote it, but I'm not absolutely sure. So is it a case of comparing apples and pears (i.e. recent versions of KDE with old versions of Windows)? Perhaps. I've made

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