Re: Re(6): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-08 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
it into Indonesia for you, at a reasonable price. (and not having customs gouge you too badly on it..). -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: Re(4): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
to order it from Singapore. I used to get all my stuff there. :) (I lived in Bandung for a couple years. Seemed everytime I needed something, it was being ordered from Singapore.). -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
. (anyone remember Windows 2.x? Now there was a usless product! ;) -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] fstab problem

2002-02-06 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] saytime - no /dev/audio

2002-01-29 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
. Can I assume that the above is a typo? You want to link /dev/sound/dsp - /dev/dsp You indicated /dev/sound.dsp -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] No sound for window/system events (Gnome/Sawfish/LM8.1)

2002-01-18 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
up as: /dev/sound/dsp. A link fixed it. There's probably a better way though. Any suggestions on why /dev/sound/dsp was set up, rather than the more standard /dev/dsp? -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http

Re: [newbie] lost drive?

2002-01-04 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
in the browser is an invitation to put in a password for the IPC$ share! I'll keep poking at it ;-) j. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts

Re: [newbie] alias 'ls --color -F'

2001-12-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
/profile.d/alias.sh If it's not there on 7.2, try /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile (NOTE: No leading dot on those) Hope that helps! -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version

2001-12-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
computing! Some folks aren't ready for the power, and flexability. To them I say: Buy a Mac. JMHO-YMMV -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] alias 'ls --color -F'

2001-12-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [junk] Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
== Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] places to put stuff

2001-12-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
mounted. But at the early boot stages, only / is mounted, so of those programs are not located there.. you can't boot. Simple enough. Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-19 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
users, who don't want to have to learn anything else :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] environment variables not loading?

2001-12-06 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Another TuxRacer question

2001-12-06 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help

Re: [newbie] Importing Fonts

2001-11-27 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Ah.. the new generation of Linux users... Y'all can't do anything without a GUI. Want to know what's going on under the covers? Then when you want to add fonts, you can.. any time, any type. :) Ok... Here goes: Off in the land of daemons is one called xfs (for X Font Server). It, as it's name

Re: [newbie] MODEMS vs Winmodems

2001-10-01 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
You've actually missed the point about winmodems. It's not that they need a driver to work (If they'll work at all). The problem with them is that they shift the work that normally done by the modem, over to the main system processor, thus sucking valuable CPU cycles. They're parasitic by

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-26 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
ROTFL!!! Good one Mark! When I'm home, on my Linux box, VI Pine are tools of choice. Unfortunately here at work, I'm on a Win2k PC (shudder), and Mozilla is the best I can do from here... It serves the purpose. Ric Mark Weaver wrote: :) i'm told that real men us VI and Pine.

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Forget gphoto. You don't always need it. I have an Olympus 4040Z. All I do to make it work is: 1) Plug it in (USB) (and turn it on of course) 2) Run modprobe usb-storage 3) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cam (set up the mount point ahead of time). 4) cd /mnt/cam/... And enjoy the pictures. Want to just

Re: [newbie] Multiple nics

2001-09-25 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Just my 2 cents: Makes no difference at all. I use the same cards baceause I know trust the brands. Also, I only need to update 1 driver if an upgrade is required. I can also depend on getting similar performance from them (not all NICs are created equal!). JMHO Ric Paul wrote: Hi all,

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Randy Kramer wrote: george wrote: surely, a newbie to a list will note that majority of messages are written in text mode. even if they do start out under msos, if they can read, they must be aware. and surely, if they are under osbs, they have been sending and receiveing email and know

Re: [newbie] Running W$/DOS Apps on Samba

2001-09-24 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Yes, and no. If you install Windoze software from a Windoze machine onto a samba share, then yes, you can mount that share, and run the application, and save to that disk space from the windoze box. This is commonly done. If you're asking if you can run the app from the LInux box, then no,

[newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-24 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
I recently made the serious error of replying to a question (on this list), to a person seaking advice on a modem. I did make the mistake of recently switching my mail software, and I missed turning off HTML. I've corrected that. However, I don't think I did anything to warrent being called

Re: [newbie] Other screens than :0?

2001-09-24 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
No, you don't need a second card. You can run multiple X sessions on a single card. I had a quick glance at the log file, but am unsure of the nature of the problem. How do you start X now? (xdm?, or startx?) Ric Jesse Hepburn wrote: The :0 represents display 0 on your system. If you had

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Check in /etc/inittab for prefdm (I don't remember where prefdm is, and I'm not near a linux box at the moment). Within that file, is the definition for which login manager you will be using. Just change it to the desired login manager kdm,gdm, or xdm... Ric Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
I've always had excelent luck with US Robotics Sportsters. No too expensive, and rock stable. Even though I'm on DSL now, I still have my USR hooked up. I use it for faxing now. :) JMHO. Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

2001-09-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. For some pretty lame reasons, I ended up with the Epson 785EPX. Does a great job... From Winders. Linux doesn't fair so well. It works kind of, but it's not actually supported. I had to configure it as a 780, with so - so results. I may

Re: [newbie] Digital Cameras

2001-09-19 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
. What's the price (I'm window shopping for future reference)? And How do you get The GIMP to recognize it? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Barth's Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't. Ric

Re: journaling and upgrading (Re: [newbie] a filesystem question)

2001-09-19 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Charles A. Punch wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 17 September 2001 10:57 am, Matt Greer escribió: on 9/17/01 10:20 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I'd recommend switching to a journaling FS ASAP. You should have already. What exactly is a journaling file

[newbie] Digital Cameras

2001-09-18 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
All; I just thought I'd pass this along. Over the weekend I picked up the new Olympus S4040 Digital Camera (impressive little camera!). If any one is interested in these cameras, rest assured, it worked with Linux right out of the box! I just hooked it up to the USB, and mounted the device

Re: [newbie] telnetscript

2001-06-15 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Paul wrote: Hello! I want to write a script that makes telnet to log in and send some commands How do I do? Hi Magnus, I think redirecting would work: your script could be open your-host-name-here command1 command2 command3 exit and then you simply do telnet scriptname

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-05 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Same problem here. StarOffice used to install itself into the KDE panel. In fact the installation still claimes it does that, but it doesn't actually work. I suspect that the problem is with KDE 2.x. Too many changes. Ric Simon Zarate wrote: You can run StarOffice in konsole, go to

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-05 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
tester8080 wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2001 19:50, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Same problem here. StarOffice used to install itself into the KDE panel. In fact the installation still claimes it does that, but it doesn't actually work. I suspect that the problem is with KDE 2.x. Too many changes. Ric

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-05 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Ed Kasky wrote: This is exactly the issue. Anyone figure out why yet? Ed At 11:59 AM 6/5/2001 -0700, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Yes, but you shouldn't have to. That's the point. StarOffice claims that it installed the icon to the panel during install, and it doesn't work. The question

Re: [newbie] monitor resolution

2001-06-01 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Edit the order of the fonts in the xfs config file: vi /etc/X11/fs/config (it probably has the 75 point first and the 100point second. Reverse that, and put the 100 point first.). Then, stop restart xfs: service xfs restart Then stop restart X (a little trickier). If you're using kdm/gdm

Re: [newbie] newaliases error..

2001-05-31 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Probably a formatting error in /etc/aliases. Send along an example. Ric Franki wrote: Hi all, I am getting these messages whenever I try to run newaliases I was getting it with my normal file, so I changed it to a clean file from the rpm update, and it still does it..

Re: [newbie] cdrom trouble =/

2001-05-31 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
If it burned the first one, then I doubt that the problem with the second is the burner. I would more suspect that the ISO image was damaged before you tried to burn it (fairly common to see them get corrupt on download. You should always check the md5sum before you burn them. I'd suggest

Re: [newbie] OT: Network Hub Question

2001-05-31 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
There are many. Personally, considering the prices, I'd look at a switch, not a hub. For just a little bit more money, you get much better performance. It just depends on the size of the network. Linksys makes a good one, as does 3com. Ric Jamie Kerwick wrote: We are looking at setting up

Re: [newbie] More hardisk space

2001-05-30 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
The short answer: Yes, it's possible. The slightly longer answer: You need to look into LVM (or Logical Volume Manager) to do this. The following links should help you along with that. Part 1 of Logical Volume Management by IBM. This is part 1 of a 2 part set. (note: there are many white

Re: [newbie] More hardisk space

2001-05-30 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
This is exactly where LVM comes in. You set up a Volume Group. This can combine multiple disks (or even partitions) into a single logical unit, which you then work with as a single disk. The articles I indicated outline the philosiphy of Logical Volumes Volume Groups much better than I will

Re: [newbie] Windows Font Installer takes a very long time to install fonts in LM8

2001-05-29 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
A V Flinsch wrote: On Monday 28 May 2001 20:45, Romanator wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install the Windows fonts in Mandrake Control Center. I have been waiting 15 minutes and it is still installing. Is this normal? The version of drakfont included with 8.0 takes a very long time to

Re: [newbie] Compressing files with zip

2001-05-25 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Use tar. tar -czvf /destination/archive name.tar.gz /directory to tar.zip So if you wanted to zip up /home into /tmp: tar -czvf /tmp/home.tar.gz /home Will create a compressed tar file named home.tar.gz (or alternately home.tgz) in /tmp containing all of /home You can open these on Win98

Re: [newbie] OT: Intel Performance

2001-05-24 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Wow, some great comments! Thanks to everyone who has replied to this. Something to keep in mind on this: I'm not representing this data as authoritative, nor as a help me fix this performance problem. I'm presenting it only as a topic of interest. It seemed to touch a note with me. To address

Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences

2001-05-23 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
for this. -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

2001-05-23 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
-- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __

[newbie] OT: Intel Performance

2001-05-23 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
I thought this was interesting. I have an older 400 PII, and a newer 650 PIII (laptop). Using Setiathome as a performance curve to compare by, there is something amiss with PIII processors. My 400 PII will complete a set of Seti data is an average of 8 hours (my dual 266 PII will complete one

Re: [newbie] mount win files

2001-05-23 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
kaab kaoutar wrote: By the way how to unmount :() umount /mnt I mean if i delete the mounted files does it delete from windws ? :( Yes it will! Don't do that!

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-21 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Windows is loaded but it might give a clue to why the system is so slow when I start Linux. Please advice! Regards, Pelle Poluha Sweden -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server

Re: [newbie] How do I start kde2?

2001-05-18 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
If you're startde from graphical login, there is a drop down selector. Ric marshall weber wrote: Hi folks, I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0. I thought I configured it for kde2 but gnome comes up. I would prefer using kde2. I think it's installed but I'm not sure. Thanks.

Re: [newbie] test

2001-05-17 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
moses wrote: test Response

[newbie] New Install, can't find CD

2001-05-16 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Ok, this is so bad it hurts. I'm trying to load Mandrake 8.0 on an older box (an aging 75mhz Pentium), to set up as a firewall box. I've run Linux on it in the past, but it's been retired for a year or so. Anyway. I have to boot it from a floppy (it won't boot from a CD). So I made the floppy,

Re: [newbie] How to unnstall Linux?

2001-05-09 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
to all of you who tried to help me along the way. This is still to advanced for me. Ya never know unless you try. Maybe when it gets to LM 10.0 I'll try a dual boot system Good Luck on your continued development. G -- __ Ric

Re: [newbie] How do I track what has happened after: make install

2001-05-09 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
that helps. -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __

Re: [newbie] KOffice Problem

2001-05-08 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
anything to get a result? -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __

Re: [newbie] Switching from LM 7.0 to Win2000 Pro

2001-05-04 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
. __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __

Re: [newbie] Thanks to everyone for helping w/ the Win2000 install

2001-05-04 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
. -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __

Re: [newbie] Install Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs

2001-05-04 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
to do) run: rpm -Fvh whatever.pkg.rpm -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

2001-05-02 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
you ask it to do somehting that isn't cached. So.. Watch your typing when you use rm -rf. It can be dangerous. -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __

Re: [newbie] Newbie Question

2001-05-02 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
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