Re: [newbie] Odd Konqueror config problem

2003-12-17 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 6:40 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: In recent days, the behavior of the Forward, Back and Up buttons in Konqueror (9.2, / KDE 3.1.3) has changed. Formerly, when I clicked on any of the buttons I would move to the previous or next page/directory viewed or up to the parent

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk

2003-12-17 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:34 pm, Lee wrote: I had Mandrake 9.2 running fine with two disks. (hda) has the root filesystem, (hdb) had only one directory I used for Samba. Both were ext3 fs. I suspected problems with hdb, but WDDiag test results were ok, so I wiped the hdb disk with zeros

Re: [newbie] Installing with a (new) second Hard drive

2003-12-11 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 11 December 2003 5:39 pm, j wrote: Hi there, I know this question has been asked under different titles, but believe me, I could not find a CLEAR answer: I am about to install Mandrake 9.2 and I got a new HDD thinking to disturb as little as possible my existing XP. I have

Re: [newbie] God help us all...

2003-12-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 01 December 2003 12:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: We'd like to have one of our operating systems in every car on Earth, said Dick Brass, vice-president of Microsoft's automotive business unit. It's a lofty goal. 'Dick Brass'?! Nice name...

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 and a SMS 2662W USB NIC

2003-11-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 29 November 2003 6:52 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 11:44 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to

Re: [newbie] USB iomega cdrw

2003-11-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 4:44 pm, Dooggie wrote: Hi I finally got Mandrake 9.0 to recognize the drive(I don't know how). What can I do to prevent it from not recognizing it again? Also, do I need to mount the drive so I can start using it? It all depends on whether you are using

Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem

2003-11-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 7:09 pm, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mine does. Or at least Intel says it will. It's got the Intel 586EP chip set. I put a message on here, asking about getting mgetty to work, but haven't heard from anyone yet. But Intel says specifically that it works with Linux as well

Re: [newbie] CD Player

2003-11-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:19 am, Adam wrote: Does Mandrake have a CD player? Probably the easiest way is to use KsCD which is in KDE's Multimedia pack. XMMS can also handle CDs it's configured properly. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Installing Java 1.4.2.x

2003-11-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 6:48 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: Greetings all What I did. Downloaded java re 1.4.2_02 and installed the RPM in the self extracting file. Using grpmi it seemed to install well enough into /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/bin.(Yeah I'm coming from a Win/Dos background and

Re: [newbie] Installing Java 1.4.2.x

2003-11-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
tried that and got backbash: java: command not found the command java --version also returnsbash: java: command not found First check your path statement with echo $PATH you should get the path for yourself, and it should not contain /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/bin. If it does, then

Re: [newbie] unsubbed by accident

2003-11-22 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 22 November 2003 8:10 pm, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about [newbie] unsubbed by accident Two days ago I stopped getting newbie mail. That is very strange. If this message goes through -- Eric, can you look into it? Ditto - this happened to me as well - all lists (newbie,

Re: [newbie] cdroms: how to check firmware rev

2003-11-16 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 16 November 2003 4:15 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Is there a way to check the firmware revison of ide cdroms? On scsi emulated ones, cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 tells all. Is there a way to do this for ide drives? I have a utility in windows that does it, but it's not as complete,

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 1:31 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hertas, I think this is an Asus problem as I have the same MB as you and am having problems with Mandrake. I have not been able to find the cause yet, but W2k is stable (unusually). I have a A7N8X Deluxe mobo and I have no problems

Re: [newbie] Weird things in 9.2

2003-11-11 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 7:06 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Yesterday I received my 7 cd's with 9.2. Installed without formatting my /home. Works fine and maybe even faster than 9.1. But : 1. where is file manager - super user mode. 2. why does kdf list my partitions twice ? 3. In 9.1 I could

Re: [newbie] LAN not recognized on asus a7n8x-x MB

2003-11-09 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 07 November 2003 8:03 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2003 12:29 pm, gt wrote: Hi folks, I am one of those really really newbees you keep hearing about that. I am just trying out linux for the first time. 9.1 does not support the A7N8X mobo lan connection. 9.2

Re: [newbie] Driver for Fuji FinePix 2650 Camera

2003-11-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:49 am, Christopher Taylor, PE wrote: Does anyone know if drivers exist for the above camera? I am currently running ML9.1 and did not find this model listed in Mandrake Control Center. Any chance it was added in 9.2? You don't need a 'driver' for the 2650. I

Re: [newbie] LAN not recognized on asus a7n8x-x MB

2003-11-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 06 November 2003 12:29 pm, gt wrote: Hi folks, I am one of those really really newbees you keep hearing about that. I am just trying out linux for the first time. 9.1 does not support the A7N8X mobo lan connection. 9.2 does. I own the same mobo, and was quite bummed that the LAN

Re: [newbie] U gotta read this!

2003-11-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 07 November 2003 9:45 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: A parody of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas with SCO substituted for the Grinch. A must read! :-) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031106164630915 I read it earlier today, it rocks I especially liked the SCO Dinner they

Re: [newbie] Modem Dialer for Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:39 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: I loved KPPP in 9.0, so easy to use and very reliable. in 9.2 I cannot find KPPP but GnomePPP is there instead. GnomePPP crashes about 10 seconds after connecting every time. DrakConnect works fine, but is painful to get to since the

Re: [newbie] Autostart programs in KDE

2003-11-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 11:29 pm, Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello Mandrake group, I remember in one of the previous releases of Mandrake I could configure certain programs to be started automatically when KDE is started. Where can I find this feature in 9.1 or 9.2? You can

Re: [newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound

2003-11-04 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
By means of employing gramofile I have created a set of .wav files from an audio tape. When I come to load the .wav files into Rezound I get an error message, Install Audacity. Rezound is listed on its site as being Alpha software. Audacity is pretty well matured, and has been good to

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-04 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
From: finalfiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/04 Tue PM 06:05:11 CST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe I know this is a MDK list, but having just read http://www.open-mag.com/1726339824.shtml I tried SuSE about 2 years ago. They were using a set of init

Re: [newbie] LAN problem

2003-11-03 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 03 November 2003 3:50 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I have a home network w/ MDK 9.1 and W2K using Samba. Periodically, all the connections disappear. (I haven't yet figured out what the trigger is.) In order to get them back I have to re-stop the iptables service even though it is

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 01 November 2003 1:50 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things

Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about?

2003-11-02 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 02 November 2003 3:21 pm, robin wrote: Curt Tresenriter wrote: ARS Technica had a complaining piece about 9.2 http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/index.html I read this article, and I suspect that he is pretty clueless about Mandrake. I even sent him this: Diss Mandrake? From: Rob

Re: [newbie] Download Managers

2003-11-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 31 October 2003 11:06 pm, Johan wrote: Hi, I use Flashget in XP to down load - 3 similtanious at 5 channels each. Would there be something similar in linux I could use with same results? I would really like to do this inMDK 92. If you use KDE, you can run KGet, which with set

Re: [newbie] Why is it..

2003-10-31 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do

Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-10-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 11:19 am, Anarky wrote: I'd like to influence the to ogg transition of the world by converting all my mp3s to oggs ... .. is there anybody here who's good at scripting that could maybe give me a script that I could run on a folder and it would traverse all it's

Re: [newbie] Moving Home partition

2003-10-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 1:33 pm, Kelly McCormick wrote: Heather/Femme wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:16:50 -0500 Kelly McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIPPAGE Was afraid of that, thanks Femme. Can this be done within mandrake? Dax easiest way if you have an existing

Re: [newbie] Gramofile

2003-10-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 27 October 2003 3:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK , so that looks good. I gave the files song names to see if it would give me the same songs titiles in a CD player, it doesn't, so that will not work, next time I'll stick to track1 etc. Obviously I really need to build a CDDB

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent Install

2003-10-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 27 October 2003 4:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've successfully installed Bittorrent but can't install the Bittorrent-gui because I'm missing a file called wxPythonGTK. As far as I can determine, all of the Python files are on my machine. Where would this file be located? The

Re: [newbie] tar.gz.tar

2003-10-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 26 October 2003 00:19, Borys Radzyminski wrote: Hi , Can anyone tell me which command i can unpack this file??? Interesting. Try running tar -x whatever.tar.gz.tar should generate whatever.tar.gz Then running tar -xvzf on whatever.tar.gz should unpack it as it is meant to be

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host

2003-10-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 24 October 2003 19:22, Russ wrote: Hi Rob, The 2 that Mozilla won't go to anymore are Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) and Umpqua Bank (www.umpquabank.com). I use Yahoo BillPay and of course Umpqua is the bank I go through. I have been to both sites with Mozilla. Why would it suddenly say say

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host

2003-10-24 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 24 October 2003 10:30, Russ wrote: Hi All, What would cause Mozilla (1.3.1) not to load a page (resolving host) but Konq goes right there? These are pages I go to all the time (in Mozilla). Suddenly it wants to be stubborn and refuses to open the pages (plural, more than one). Yet

Re: [newbie] More Stupid Questions(XMMS)

2003-08-14 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 03:07 pm, Lanman wrote: Has anyone suggested Zinf? It will trap streaming audio, and if I remember correctly, it will do it by default. In addition, it plays CD's, MP3's, Ogg Vorbis, supports multiple and mixed playlists, and has about 60 skins. IIRC, it even comes

Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem

2003-08-08 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 07 August 2003 02:40 pm, Dale Starr wrote: Hi, I was hoping that someone could help me with this question. I have a redhat box as a fileserver I was just wondering something about the EXT3 filesystem (or maybe them all in general). After a power outage, the machine started up with

Re: [newbie] import messages from OE6 into Kmail

2003-08-02 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:08 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to import messages from OE6 into Kmail without success. The process just stopped after some times. Has anyone got any idea how to import it? I use the ToolImport menu from Kmail. I would attempt to either

Re: [newbie] SSH Session tasks dying

2003-08-02 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:58 pm, Jeff wrote: In Mandrake I'm having trouble running tasks remotely. I connect using SSH and I start a background task normally, with the on the end and as long as I don't log off its fine. If I log off, everything I started dies. This does not happen in

Re: [newbie] MP3 Sound Problems

2003-07-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 July 2003 08:51 am, Aron Smith wrote: CD player works fine Alunix enabled Kaboodle will give me No sound Boo Hoo wanted to hear Moose Turd Pie :-( I don't know what you mean by Alunix enabled. If this is for a new installation of MDK 9.0 or 9.1, then the default will have Alsa

Re: [newbie] Linux frindly printers

2003-07-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:19 am, Aron Smith wrote: Has anyone had any success setting up multi function devices? (eg. printer-fax-copier-scanners with linux) there are some great deals on refurbished HP equipment around. Check out www.linuxprinting.org and be ready with the name and model

Re: [newbie] IEfavorites to Mozilla (or any browser) bookmarks

2003-07-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 July 2003 06:08 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I've searched for this seemingly simple question and I have yet to find an answer. Is there a way to convert IE favorites to Mozilla bookmarks? It is not obvious in any of the browsers (Galeon, Mozilla, Firebird, Konq).

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 20 July 2003 11:05 am, Brooks Family wrote: Hi all. I've got Mandrake 9.1 and I'm currently using Gnome2.2 for my desktop. However, I've noticed that there are a lot more things that seem to be written for KDE (themes, applications, etc.). What makes KDE so much more popular than

Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)

2003-07-19 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 18 July 2003 09:08 am, aron smith wrote: what would be the best system that one could put together for under $1,000.00 USD Rules of the game 1 Commercially available Hardware (no surplus SGI 2 It has to run Mandraike : How about this? I decided to let you recycle your monitor,

Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)

2003-07-19 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 19 July 2003 06:40 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:55 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB Or you could get yourself a TbredB 1700+ for $45 and clock it to 2400+ at 333fsb. That processor comes multiplier unlocked and is the easiest

Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)

2003-07-19 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:55 am, aron smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 09:08 am, aron smith wrote: what would be the best system that one could put together for under $1,000.00 USD Rules of the game 1 Commercially available

Re: [newbie] Broken KDE

2003-07-19 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 19 July 2003 05:10 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 09:30, drew wrote: Hello All, I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it?

Re: [newbie] Broken KDE

2003-07-19 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 19 July 2003 04:30 pm, drew wrote: Hello All, I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it? Try running Kpackage from a console terminal, just type kpackage at the

Re: [newbie] [RS] Whois

2003-07-14 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 14 July 2003 06:24 pm, Cody Harris wrote: This message didn't get through, so i'm resending it. - Original Message - From: Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:09 AM Subject: Whois Is there a program that i

Re: [newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 27 June 2003 02:57 am, Aron Smith wrote: I know that this sounds pre newbie but how do I take a screen from a root terminal session and print it for further study? All you need to do is highlight the text with your mouse, then right click the screen to reveal a context window, and

Re: [newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 27 June 2003 05:09 pm, Chris wrote: On Friday 27 June 2003 06:37 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 27 June 2003 02:57 am, Aron Smith wrote: I know that this sounds pre newbie but how do I take a screen from a root terminal session and print it for further study? All you

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
One of the things I often do is try to get in on discussions where no one has responded, or no solution has been found. That is, if I can shed light on the problem. I have had my questions forgotten on this list, and many others, and I try not to let that happen to anyone else. A question

Re: [newbie] DVD still not working (Mandrake 9.1)

2003-06-22 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Output : - Playing /dev/dvd libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device:

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-21 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 21 June 2003 05:58 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: Ok, here's the situation. my new 100GB hard drive showed up today. i need to put it into the computer and get everything set up. here's the way i plan to set up. 20GB hard drive i currently have - all for windows 100GB hard

Re: [newbie] Texstar' version of KDE

2003-06-14 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 09 June 2003 09:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: Sorry if this has been asked before, but I have been off the list for three weeks and can't find the answer in the archives. I am running KDE3.1.0 as came with 9.1, but I see that Texstar has a version 3.1.2. Are there many improvements

Re: [newbie] Streaming

2003-06-10 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:31 am, Desmond wrote: How can i stream live music on linux like a did on windows. www.5fm.co.za it says it needs windows media player and that i can't use of course. You can also use Shoutcast to stream music from a Linux box. see www.shoutcast.com. -- Linux: For

Re: [newbie] NOTICE: CNet no longer support LINUX download !!!

2003-06-10 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Here's a mistake in the making! http://download.com.com/1200-2002-997312.html Who needs them? Cnet sucks. ZDnet sucks. Microsoft sucks. Linux rocks! -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up

2003-06-08 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 07 June 2003 06:53 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I am assuming a recent upgrade of KDE from 3.1 to 3.1.2 may have caused some undesired changes. Before the desktop shorcuts for my CD drive and CD-RW drive functioned as expected, CD players saw CD's in my drive, abcde ripped and encoded

Re: [newbie] Konqueror Pulldown menus problem

2003-06-05 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 07:23 pm, Femme wrote: I lost mine. I shouldn't be allowed near linux I think. I swear... I don't know how to get it back either. yOU know hte ones with File, Edit.. etc? I lost mine...Made it go away now 10 mins later can't figure out how to get it back. help an

Re: [newbie] MP3s

2003-06-04 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Dennis, I use xmms to play mp3s in 9.1. Is it specifically giving you error messages? Give us a bit more info on what you do and see, and I'll compare it with mine. Anne That is part of the problem. I get no messages in konsole and all that happens is xmms locks up but not the

Re: [newbie] DVD doesn't work (Mandrake 9.1)

2003-06-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Is something wrong with libdvdcss? where can I get the latest verion of libdvdcss ? I am unable to run dvd through xine or mplayer either. Based on what you told us, I would suggest that you got a newer version of libdvdcss. The source for DVD packages most of us use is PLF via urpmi. You

Re: [newbie] mozilla flash (again)

2003-06-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 31 May 2003 11:54 am, barting wrote: About: Plug-ins in Mozilla says: Shockwave Flash snip AND I also followed the instructions on mozdev.org (copying files to the plugins-dir etc.). I have libflashplayer.so, libnullplugin.so and a symlink to libjavaplugin_oji.so in

Re: [newbie] DVD doesn't work (Mandrake 9.1)

2003-06-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 31 May 2003 12:45 pm, Pradeep Sethi wrote: when I do uprmi libdvdcss, it says everything already installed . how can I force update to the latest version ? If you want to force the upgrade, try rpm -Uvh --nodeps libdvdcss the other thing to try would be to delete libdvdcss by

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 31 May 2003 04:55 pm, charles wright wrote: how do you setup a dsl for mandrake linux 9.1 Well, that's a little generic for a question, as what sort of DSL connection are you planing on? If you are getting a DSL Modem that links to the computer with a 10Mb LAN connection, its as

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav

2003-05-31 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 30 May 2003 08:15 am, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Hi all is there a tool for converting mp3 to wav format ? It can be done in a graphical environment using Audacity, but I have never reseached what application actually does the conversion. There must be one. Rob -- Linux: For the

Re: [newbie] Perl Script in Background

2003-05-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 05:40 pm, Cody Harris wrote: How do i tell a script (perl script) to start in the background and stay running? At the command line, starting a file with a ending will make it run in background. As in ./setiathome . I hope that helps. -- Linux: For the people, by the

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick

2003-03-24 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
by running (as root), tail -f /var/log/messages when you stick the memory stick in. That is, if USB is configured for your memory stick. If not, check www.linux-usb.org for more answers. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything

2003-03-09 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
are running 3.1, try it. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] OT ipod, ogg

2003-03-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
, and I found that the Neuros Audio Player was coming out designed to work with Linux and ogg/vorbis! http://neurosaudio.com/ I'm am seriously jonesin' for one of these. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows

Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...

2003-02-16 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
no idea where that comes from. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] KDE3.1 totally messed up

2003-02-15 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
else before you jump to nuking it all. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] Quake 2 under 9.0????

2003-02-13 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Is it possible to get Quake2 running under 9.0? I have fussed with it, but haven't figure out each and every step. it seems to want stuff that does not exist anymore, like /dev/svga/. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 PNY GeForce4 MX 440-SE

2003-02-12 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
lock up the keyboard, but I can't see anything but a black screen. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks for your time. Humm, my Chaintech G4 MX 440 was detected automagically and has run flawlessly, Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System

Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5

2003-02-09 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
column on total can be shut off by right clicking on the folder header, and unselecting total column. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after

Re: [newbie] Installing Java...

2003-02-09 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
the files over to the /usr/bin/java directory, as they are installed in a block, in what ever directory they get put. Or you can just add the new java directory to your path. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires

Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)

2003-02-09 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
to say that I did not get a bootable bootdisk from there. I was lucky however to have the other boot levels in LILO. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived

Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux

2003-02-08 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
. I only play linux games. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I can't install anything !!!

2003-02-08 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
for a file, with less hassle. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux

2003-02-08 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 08 February 2003 02:18 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 08 February 2003 02:14 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Yikes, just what I learn from posting first. Yes, I game, but not much, and certainly not with winex. I only play linux games. Rob I guess I missed something

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1

2003-02-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
-devel-3.1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm libqt3-odbc-3.1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm libqt3-psql-3.1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm lisa-3.1-1mdk.i586.rpm lsbdev-1.0.6-1mdk.i586.rpm mandrake-mime-0.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm in order to get the dependancies resolved on my machine. And I installed 9.0 last Saturday. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland

Re: [newbie] How long to download 9.0

2003-02-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
it takes about 8 hours to upload 3 CD sized iso images. Do it before going to bed, and there is no waiting. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily

Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux

2003-02-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
there. A good spot to start a search is at happypenguin.org, or at google.com. I am pretty sure that you will find some answers there. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1

2003-02-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
to KDE 3.0.5 on RH8.0, and I never got it perfect. RH broke KDE, and I left. Now, maybe I need to add more sources to urpmi, but its not all that convienent to yell about, as to befuddle me is to really lose a newbie. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1

2003-02-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
, and see that everything is installed in the right order. That's how I do it. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] New Asus A7N8X board, help!

2003-02-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
I just got a new machine up and running. A AMD 2100+ on a Asus A7N8X board, but I am having problems with the soundcard and the LAN connection. The LAN connection is NVIDIA MAC+ Realtek 8201BL PHY chipset, and I understand that I should use it with the NVIDIA driver, which I assume is the nvnet

Re: [newbie] HD size

2003-01-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
, Koffice and Gnome Office. I don't know what size Windows 2000 is on you system, but you should get plenty of toys with 1.3 Gb to spare. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed

Re: [newbie] HD size

2003-01-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
I have a hard disk with 3.9 gigs. How much bytes I need for install Mandrake 9.0 with Windows 2000 in one disk??? Depending on just how much you want to install, as there is a good bit of overlapping stuff, such as the three office suites, I would guess that you could have a good working

[newbie] Abiword in 9.0

2003-01-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
not available as an official rpm from Mandrake, is there a way around it other than source? Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] 9.0 screensavers?

2003-01-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
on, but I would guess it is in the Mandrake screensaver settings in the .kde directory. And poking around in the directory sure didn't help, that directory under Mandrake is far more complex than under KDE originally. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] OT

2003-01-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 26 January 2003 09:40 am, Lee wrote: http://w3.one.net/~sunlion/linuxriot.html This appears to be a bullsh*t page. Microsoft doesn't have much if any office space in downtown Seattle, their space is all in the suburbs. Besides, it never made the papers here. -- Rob Blomquist

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