[newbie] Sylpheed key bindings

2004-06-30 Per discussione RichardA
I wanted a macro which would select a thread and then mark it read, but I don't see how to do that. In fact, although the manual explains how to change the key binding for a menu item, it doesn't seem to work. I right-click on a message, hover the mouse over Select Thread, press CTRL + E, the

Re: [newbie] Re: OT: annoying spam filters

2004-06-14 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:37:15 -0700, rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jonesy, Monday, May 24, 2004, 11:03:40 AM, you wrote: J Just what I like to see: My email addy in a monstrous To: list to J be found on gawd-knows how many infected Winder$ boxes. STOP! You're going to give me

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-05 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:27:42 +, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I deleted the ~/.openoffice folder which contains my personal OpenOffice configuration. Whenever something gets messed up, one of the first things I normally do is delete the personal config files. Do a ls -a to see all the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10

2004-04-19 Per discussione RichardA
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:17:08 +0100, Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one thing, which I am hoping that you, or anyone else with a greater knowledge of Mandrakesoft than I, can answer. I assume that the cheap CDs I would buy from, for instance, The Libranet Emporium, would be

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:08:00 -0400, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RichardA wrote: Different update sites seem to have different structures. Also, the Mandrake Club mirrors page doesn't seem to work. What's going on? Which sites are up to date? Wasn't this meant to be fixed by today

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] What Does The Document Contains No Data Mean?

2004-04-14 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:12:11 +0100, David Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Robin, This still occurs in Firefox 8 - looks like there is a problem that cannot be fixed by the developers - uness they don't care about the User Interface I don't think it's the fault of the browser

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:12:15 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: There are some very angry people on the forums, and I don't blame them. Frustrated, definitely. Angry. No one

[newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-13 Per discussione RichardA
Different update sites seem to have different structures. Also, the Mandrake Club mirrors page doesn't seem to work. What's going on? Which sites are up to date? Wasn't this meant to be fixed by today? Also, how the hell does the new structure work? Everything I read gives different advice. I

[newbie] cdrecord errors

2004-03-23 Per discussione RichardA
This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf to add hdc=ide-scsi. If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied: WARNING: Cannot set

Re: [newbie] cdrecord errors

2004-03-23 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:05:51 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf to add hdc=ide-scsi. If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot

Re: [newbie] cdrecord errors

2004-03-23 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:05:51 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf to add hdc=ide-scsi. If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot

Re: [newbie] Router Question

2004-02-18 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:09:51 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:40:27 -0600 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Oh and BTW, what the hell is 'Icop'? He means IPCop I think. : ) Looks pretty cool. I might choose that instead of Smoothie when I finally get

Re: [newbie] Good virus program?

2004-02-14 Per discussione RichardA
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:44:12 +1100, _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [OT] Question: My brother would like to know where the Tupac quote comes from :-). To know your enemy, you must become your enemy... Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. - Sun Tzu Want to

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-02-10 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:32:33 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm firing up the Tom Brinkman Signal as we speak ;-) Hmmm, what *would* the Tom Brinkman Signal look like anyway? Easy. A Penguin shape projected onto the clouds. HTH. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Open Sylpheed links in background (in Galeon)

2003-12-16 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:13:26 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:41:13 + RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, on a related note, how can I get anti-aliased text in Sylpheed? Would I need a GTK2-enabled Sylpheed? If so, does one exist? Yep, check

Re: [newbie] Open Sylpheed links in background (in Galeon)

2003-12-15 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:40:41 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I middle-clicked on a URL in Sylpheed with Mandrake 9.0/Gnome 2.2, it would open in a new tab in the background, and Sylpheed would keep focus. With Mandrake 9.2/Gnome 2.4 the link opens in a new tab, but Galeon gets

Re: [newbie] Display flickers on laptop ( F-siemens Amilo D 6820 - Ati radeon mobility 9000 vga )

2003-11-14 Per discussione RichardA
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:28:03 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. If you know the correct values for horizontal and vertical refresh rates, become root and edit this file : /etc/X11/XF86Config in the section screen. Don't choose the exact values, but allow an (conservative)

Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-12 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:09:19 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:45 am, HaywireMac wrote: Stallman's answers really strike a chord with me, though I have to say I think his stance on Debian is a bit much. Anyway, he has some interesting things to

Re: [newbie] Gcombust Question

2003-10-30 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:20:18 -0500, Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Dang it, I know I checked dev. Is there anything that would change it back when I wasn't looking? Maybe I'm losing it? Early senility? msec changes permissions, as discussed endlessly on this very list. Richard --

Re: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-30 Per discussione RichardA
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 ? It's RC2. (and I've never managed to get that jigdo program to write proper iso images, anyway). Richard -- Art is not a

Re: [newbie] Re: How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-30 Per discussione RichardA
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:43:03 +, Exiddor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:41:17 +, RichardA wrote: [...] It's RC2. Are you sure? In the magazine it says Note that the screenshots are from an install of Mandrake 9.2 RC2, the final release candidate

Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.

2003-10-24 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:43:47 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Oct 2003 11:24:06 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have alearted several friends who use win$ux most of them don't care Here's a scary (true) story: A friend of a friend has some minor

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:51:00 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. It's been mentioned before, but is there a link somewhere to a higher directory, making a loop? If

Re: [newbie] OT, Discovery Edition

2003-10-16 Per discussione RichardA
I've read that it doesn't install any servers, just the desktop stuff. Also, no package selection on install, and a task-oriented instead of app-oriented menu. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Shelf...

2003-10-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:02:55 +0200, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I just now was extremely glad to have a proper backup. With a filemanager called FR (File Roller), I checked out a strange directory in $HOME called 'shelf'. I don't know where that dir came from. But

Re: [newbie] SCP software

2003-10-05 Per discussione RichardA
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:37:18 +0100, Ronan O'Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recomend a SCP program simular to WinSCP please. You mean secure copy? It's part of ssh (secure shell). Install that, and you can scp at the comand line Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] USB not hot-swappable in Linux?

2003-10-02 Per discussione RichardA
On 02 Oct 2003 06:45:23 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I find that unless I have my USB external hard drive connected and powered up *before* booting, Linux won't find it. Is that the way it normally is, or is there something wrong with my system? This works for others, so

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-28 Per discussione RichardA
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:41:32 +, Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon me for saying so but a/ there is no man sudoers, at least not on my MD 9.1; b/man sudo can be read for sure. If it looks too hard to comprehend remember to visit it at a later stage. I have a man page for sudoers,

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies

2003-09-28 Per discussione RichardA
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:07:29 +, Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you, (or anyone else) have any suggestions for an automated backup to CD-RW that I could fit and forget I would love to hear about it. Part of the problem is that it is so labour intensive to do the backup. If I had

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-28 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:41:34 -0400, yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad idea, If your computer connected to the Internet. Even though, the number of viruses/trojans for LINUX is miniscule it not 0. Given all user root rights will increase chance for getting your box compromise. I was

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-27 Per discussione RichardA
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:25:27 +0300, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd like to do is a little less drastic than previous posts. I use korganizer to access a calendar stored on a remote server, but this means that whenever I login, KDE presents me with a password request. The KDE Control

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-26 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:52:43 +0900, Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. But absolutely no one can get near my computer. ^_^ And I do mean no one. Then put your user account in /etc/sudoers. Don't read man sudoers -- your head will explode. Instead, add this line: username

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Per discussione RichardA
On 24 Sep 2003 05:30:42 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the helpful answerers expect things too. Someone suggested [I'm sorry, I don't know who - Evolution is acting up again: emails open up with blank windows - but that's a topic for another thread] that I try locate, but

Re: [newbie] installing anacron - newbie question...

2003-09-24 Per discussione RichardA
On 24 Sep 2003 20:00:52 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I don't know where to go next from here... I got slocate installed ok but not anacron: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi anacron no package named anacron You should be able to install it. Do you have a 'main'

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-23 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:01:19 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is --update. I apologize for the mistype in my example. I don't think it would do anything at all if you typed in --updates. I believe it would exit and tell you that --updates is not a valid option. As

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-21 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:20:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The --update switch tells urpmi to update the system from the *update urpmi source only*. Examples: urpmi --updates --auto-select will update everything from the *updates* urpmi source. urpmi --auto-select

[newbie] Converting pictures for Palm OS

2003-09-17 Per discussione RichardA
Is there a way to convert pictures from jpg to prc for a Sony Clie, under Linux? I rushed into this, and now I've got the wrong format (jpg) in the wrong place (root of the memory stick). Also, I thought I had to mount the memory stick to get anything across, but if I can convert on my PC, I

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source - upgrading to MD 9.1

2003-09-16 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:03:16 -0700, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the iso's (md9.1) but each one said it stalled instead of finished (I used Konquerer). However, the size of each file was correct and it seemed to burn ok (I can read each disk in Konquerer). Is it safe? Compare

Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?

2003-09-13 Per discussione RichardA
On 13 Sep 2003 06:40:23 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 05:41, RichardA wrote: [...snip] Is the directory in your path (almost certainly, use the full path), and is the script executable? (use ls -l). I'm sorry I don't know. I've only really been

Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?

2003-09-13 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:06:10 -0400, Mathieu Frenette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, I already have Mozilla Mail and Mozilla AddressBook installed. However, when I go to Tools-Import-Address Books, the only choice I have is to import Text file (LDIF, .tab, .csv, .txt). Do I need to install

Re: [newbie] Re: USB memory stick

2003-09-13 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:15:06 +0200, Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I saw the thread about USB mass storage devices, but I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is the same thing, so I apologize if it is. Did you check the thread 'USB key drives and

Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?

2003-09-13 Per discussione RichardA
On 13 Sep 2003 19:30:30 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:04, RichardA wrote: [...snip[ed lots of useful info - thanks, Richard] chmod: failed to get attributes of `/home/merlin/cvs2vcard.pl': No such file or directory Puzzled. Is the script

Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?

2003-09-13 Per discussione RichardA
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:19:49 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't need 'ls -l'. Check to see, type 'alias ll' in a console, EG, tom $ alias ll alias ll='ls -l' It's long been a standard alias that Mandrake uses. To see all of 'em (including any you've

Re: [newbie] Using LAME for ripping audio from CD's

2003-09-12 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:53:27 -0600, Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So lemme get this straight: you can't rip directly to MP3 in linux at all?? Only OGG? (which I am still leery about using...)... That seems very odd if I'm right. FF No, you can rip to mp3. Presumably Mandrake

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick

2003-09-12 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:41:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I saw the thread about USB mass storage devices, but I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is the same thing, so I apologize if it is. I'purchased one of those USB memory sticks (made by GE) and it works great for my laptop

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick

2003-09-12 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:57:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By not recognize I mean, I get nothing from the computer showing the memory stick. /mnt/removable does not get created (not that I can see, anyway) and here are the results of trying the mount command per your instructions:

Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?

2003-09-12 Per discussione RichardA
On 13 Sep 2003 03:50:31 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to import my contacts from Outlook into Evolution. I've exported the contacts to a .CSV file and followed the instructions to convert to file to a vcard file but this is the error I get: bash: csv2vcard.pl:

Re: [newbie] how to find files and look everywhere except /mnt?

2003-09-12 Per discussione RichardA
On 13 Sep 2003 04:20:54 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is something broken somewhere - all I get is: bash: updatedb: command not found bash: slocate: command not found Not sure if slocate is installed by default. Try urpmi slocate. Richard -- Get up and turn I

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:47:24 -0500, Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might try opening a terminal and issuing a service -f devfsd which will restart devfs and recreate the links to the devices. It may, and I repeat may, cause the new card to be read without having to crawl around to unplug

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:38:09 -0500, Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I just tried this with my smart media reader. I don't have supermount or auto enabled for the device (ie I have to manually mount/umount it). I put in a card and issue a mount /mnt/smedia and as expected the card

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:38:09 -0500, Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I just tried this with my smart media reader. I don't have supermount or auto enabled for the device (ie I have to manually mount/umount it). I put in a card and issue a mount /mnt/smedia and as expected the card

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:24:04 -0500, Wilson, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok so if I backup /home, does that also backup the user information (username and passwds?) I know each user has a directory under /home. If you back up /home, you do back up personal data, but usernames and passwords

Re: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:23:50 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's the rub - so many go along to PCWorld (or whatever the equivalent is in other countries) and buy what they are given by salesmen who may, just, have heard of macs, but nothing else. A friend of mine demo'd Macs

Re: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:37:00 -0600, Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:25:16 +0100 RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Womp! Do support remotely. Supply a rescue CD so even a broken system can get online for support Control installs -- if the user does anything

Re: [newbie] Intel |Unveils

2003-09-10 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:24:28 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Twin 1 Ghz processors does not a 2 GHz system make. It's still a 1GHz system. Same speed, just more lanes on the highway. If they're open to traffic (software). Anything above 600 Mhz, single processor is good for

Re: [newbie] smtp works in kmail but not evolution

2003-09-10 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:05:49 +0200, Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can send mail using my isp's smtp server in kmail (smtp.ispdomainname) but using the same smtp server name and the same configuration values in evolution I get an unspecific error and mail doesn't get sent. In KMail, are

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-10 Per discussione RichardA
On 09 Sep 2003 20:22:59 -0700, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny my USB pen drive is shown on the desktop as harddisk sda1 and I have to mount and un mount it manualy. I didn't do anything I just plugged it in. But what if you plugged in a different pen drive? Richard -- Get up and

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-10 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:23:51 +0100, Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 6 in 1 card reader (well it has 4 slots init) sda, sdb, sdc and sdd are the devices the extra number on the end is the partition on the disk. Since all card reader use the scsi module they are treated as

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-10 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:16:37 +0100, Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think this is a cross between a hotplug error and a removable source being treated as a harddisk You shouldn't need to run diskdrake each time, hotplug should do it all automatically. Yes, that's a different

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-10 Per discussione RichardA
On 10 Sep 2003 09:24:41 -0700, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 07:06, RichardA wrote: On 09 Sep 2003 20:22:59 -0700, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny my USB pen drive is shown on the desktop as harddisk sda1 and I have to mount and un mount

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Per discussione RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:53:15 -0500, Wilson, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the Redhat kernels. I am assuming you CANNOT compile a RedHat kernel in Mandrake. Linux

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-09 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:54:56 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With supermount you cannot rightmouse click the desktop down to create newwhater device. Instead KDE-look'n'feel - behaviour, then put an |x| against the device, only if it's anything like my experiece it don't

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-09 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:56:08 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's an older motherboard, it could be that APM might have shutdown power to the USB port? (only ran across that issue once, and got rid of APM as well...) stephen kuhn - owner That's good troubleshooting/lateral

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-09 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:53:59 +0100, Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunatly I can't find my other mmc card to test any of this out. Could you tel me what's in your /dev/scsi all the way do disk for each card when they're actually working Also has anyone figured out how to

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-09 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:03:09 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KwikDisk is useful if you want to mount/umount when combined with automount. It may not have a bearing on your problem, but it's one thing you could try. I'd have to install KDE first. I don't think supermount is

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-09 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:56:50 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any indication that it actually unmounting? Anne Well the umount command doesn't error, and /mnt/removable empties, so I think it is. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-08 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:27:09 +0100, Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you checked that the second card doens't have any other partitions on it. Either card works, as long as it is used first. Alternativly you could set up up to use super mount, which would negate the need to use

Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-08 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:40:58 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ mount /mnt/removable/ mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified fam is doing this - you can disable it as a system service - or stop it from a term - either

Re: [newbie] palm

2003-09-07 Per discussione RichardA
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:17:52 +0300, Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so this will also add a .txt file? and how do I get the software inside the palm to read it? http://gutenpalm.sourceforge.net/ Process the text file on Linux with makeztxt, then upload the reader, zlib and your pdb file.

[newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

2003-09-07 Per discussione RichardA
Hi, I can mount an sdram card using a USB device (camera or card reader), but once I've looked at one, if I unmount it, and try to mount another: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ mount /mnt/removable/ mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified I can still mount the

[newbie] Trident Cyberblade i1 MDK 9.1

2003-08-17 Per discussione RichardA
I'm trying to install MDK 9.1 on a VIA C3. I get an insmod error during hardware detection when it reboots, but I don't think that's my problem (I can't find anything in the logs about IO or IRQ errors). If I use a 15 CRT monitor, the install seems stable. If I use my LCD screen, it crashes very

Re: [newbie] VMWare Workstation 3.2.0 Serial Number

2003-08-16 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:29:26 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday August 15 2003 04:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Look - sometimes serials numbers fall out of the sky especially when you're surfing around sites like http://www.astalavista.com - don't know where they come

Re: [newbie] reading books on my palm

2003-08-14 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:21:24 +0300, Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I've got a palm m105 ... and though I have found software for it in linux ... it doesn't have the most important thing for me: I used my palm for reading novels ... and this software I found for linux only

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:00:00 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 computer, and my wife has hers and several of my daughters each have computers that float in and out according to presence in the family.I don't propose upgrading them, but the 4 that sit at home will all

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-21 Per discussione RichardA
On 21 Jun 2003 10:21:39 +0100, Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:13, RichardA wrote: snip .. bookmarking in Galeon. You can open a folder in tabs, save a bookmark directly into a subfolder, order them non

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-21 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:30:13 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Langsley T Russell wrote: OK John. I've done everything up to /then copy your new fstab file to /etc directory./ The only way I could find to change the name of the fstab file to fstab1 was to log on as

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-21 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:22:43 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but I get concerned that any time the government gets involved One of my favourite quotes, I still have no idea where it came from: When I

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-20 Per discussione RichardA
On 20 Jun 2003 13:52:33 +0100, Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 04:24, eric huff wrote: snip Galeon: From the pulldown, there's no easy way to file a bookmark while at the same time changing the name. There's a choice in the preferences to ask the user

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-19 Per discussione RichardA
On 19 Jun 2003 16:39:10 -0400, Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 8:36 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Were you using the most recent version of Mozilla released for 9.1? I believe it's version 1.3.1. It's

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Per discussione RichardA
On 12 Jun 2003 13:11:00 +0200 Chris Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Steven, I`ll try the link you`ve supplied Thanks for your time in responding... Regards On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:46, Steven Broos wrote: I don't think that's flash, but a Java Applet. (www.sun.com)

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Per discussione RichardA
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200 Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote: Aren't shockwave and flash almost the same thing

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Per discussione RichardA
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:43:24 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 10:25 pm, RichardA wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Per discussione RichardA
On 12 Jun 2003 17:38:12 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:25, RichardA wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200 Steven Broos

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-11 Per discussione RichardA
Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which Bay Area? Whitley Bay? Richard I wish S.F. Bay area (where being a millionaire just means

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-11 Per discussione RichardA
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:48:24 +0200 MARTIN HENDRIK RAD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Win 98 at work and I'm constantly being attacked by virii/worms/trojans (through email and an open share on the network), also gatorware, which once infected my pc and was a pain to disinfect... I have lately

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-09 Per discussione RichardA
On 09 Jun 2003 09:13:25 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:00, Anne Wilson wrote: Look, even out of the box or brownbag - literally any linux distro upon initial installation and configuration (granted that passwords HAVE been put in place) is going to be able

Re: [newbie] Whilst on the music files subject

2003-06-09 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:41:13 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have some shn files on my system and can't seem to find a program that will deal with them and that works. John shn - lossless compressed wav file format. Xmms will play them with a plugin, or a tool called

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Per discussione RichardA
On 08 Jun 2003 17:53:26 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which Bay Area? Whitley Bay? Richard --

Re: [newbie] urpmi: You may want to update your urpmi database

2003-06-09 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:49:25 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your mirror for 9.0 contrib is still there. A lot of the 9.0 mirrors have been disappearing off the web recently. derek Got it - the message isn't update the details of your sources, it's update the actual

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-09 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:26:55 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:15:42 +0100 RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I think that's a wild exaggeration. I surfed for years using Win98 and never once had a problem. Admittedly I was cautious, and later started using

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-08 Per discussione RichardA
On 08 Jun 2003 15:15:44 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ONLY OS that's brainlessly installed is MacOS. Wait, sorry, I used to so Solaris setups on Sparcs, and that was BRAINLESS as well - I only had to know how to configure the networking - which I had to say yes to DHCP and

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-07 Per discussione RichardA
On 06 Jun 2003 22:05:17 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:28, RichardA wrote: On 05 Jun 2003 18:29:37 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:21, Femme wrote: lol i didn't notice till a few mins ago that it was loading Phoenix. Now

Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem

2003-06-06 Per discussione RichardA
On 05 Jun 2003 18:29:37 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:21, Femme wrote: lol i didn't notice till a few mins ago that it was loading Phoenix. Now called Firebird. Oops. Still... I can't get it to open links in new tabs...yet Phoenix is setup that way...or

Re: [newbie] probs mounting cds mandrake 9.1 supermount

2003-06-06 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:42:15 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 3:12 pm, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:11:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem with supermount is that if you mount/umount anything manually you will upset

Re: [newbie] probs mounting cds mandrake 9.1 supermount

2003-06-06 Per discussione RichardA
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:03:27 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I killed it. Then I stopped the service. It's possible that I now press refresh in Nautilus more often than I did, but I'm not bothered. Richard And supermount has behaved sincethen? Anne I haven't used it

Re: [newbie] Laptop Question

2003-06-05 Per discussione RichardA
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:28:13 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:34 PM 6/2/2003 -0300, you wrote: Whats her face has left the building me thinks is no longer in the mood to help. beleive me i tried. Hehehe. Kids of today, no manners. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658

Re: [newbie] ssh

2003-06-02 Per discussione RichardA
I don't know what was wrong, but I fixed it - I did so much typing I was either going to write the complete works of Shakespeare or get ssh running. Luckily, it was the latter. Actually, I'm not sure if I had everything installed and running at each end. 'Connection refused' might not always mean

[newbie] ssh

2003-06-01 Per discussione RichardA
I seem to remember ssh Just Worked when I used it before, but this time I got 'Connection refused'. So I generated keys, put both host and remote public keys in 'authorised_keys', and this happens: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ssh]$

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed keyboard focus

2003-05-31 Per discussione RichardA
On 30 May 2003 08:52:03 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 23:09, RichardA wrote: the message list not the message. Is there an easy way to jump to each unread message N for Next, P for Previous (like Pine does) , and then page within it using only the keyboard

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed keyboard focus

2003-05-31 Per discussione RichardA
On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:58:18 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already answered Paul's post, but I've just noticed: The space bar not only pages down in a long message, if you're at the bottom and press it again, it jumps to the next message too! Someone has given this a lot of

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