Re: [newbie] More on Sympatico Microsoft.

=content.viewcategory_id=60content_id=2109 The plot thickens? Kind of ironic for a service whose name means friendly. Sir Robin -- I have detailed files. - Terminator II Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want

Re: [newbie] CD playing? :-\

supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. Anybody know how I can fix this? Have you checked your mixer setting in aumix or kmix? The CD is on a different channel, and may be muted. Sir Robin -- I have detailed files. - Terminator II Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara

Re: [newbie] URpmi

: command not found Looks like either urmpi is not installed (very unlikely) or you are trying to use it as a normal user rather than root (it lives in /usr/sbin, so it's not in PATH for a normal user). Sir Robin -- I have detailed files. - Terminator II Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

are popular for smaller applications (see the recent thread on scripting languages). Then of course there's Java, which is a world unto itself. It all depends on what you want to do - you can compare the relative merits of, say, Perl and Python, but you can't really compare Perl and C. Sir Robin -- I

Re: [newbie] Good C/C++ tutorial?

kind of a guy myself. Sir Robin -- I have detailed files. - Terminator II Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

this means you can do an install without scratching your existing settings, but I've never tried it). Sir Robin -- Time is an illusion - lunch time doubly so. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Mandrake OT

Michael Davis wrote: How do I subscribe to the mandrakeot list? The traditional method is to go to a crossroads at midnight, draw a pentagram on the ground and sacrifice a goat. Otherwise, the method Joe suggests will probably work. Sir Robin -- Time is an illusion - lunch time doubly so

Re: [newbie] OT - music lovers beware

in what they think is your MP3 player. Sir Robin -- A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. - James Madison Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Most efficient, fastest scripting language...

Asa Rossoff wrote: From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asa Rossoff wrote: This is helpful, thanks.My reason for being concerned about both speed and memory are that currently my hardware is on the ancient side (P200 56MB ram), and secondly, I know those issues are both of great consequence in larger

Re: [newbie] Can't download LM10

OOzy wrote: My Internet connection sucks slow and I would like to but LM10 from online. I found one site that sells (I think the download version) for $8.95. What do you think? Is there a trustworthy site that you recommend? Cheapbytes is good. Sir Robin -- A popular Government, without popular

Re: [newbie] Most efficient, fastest scripting language...

, but that's probably an advantage. BTW, I'm not trying to start a Perl/Python war here. Apart from anything else, if we get going on that, those weirdo Ruby hackers will join in ;-) Sir Robin -- A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue

Re: [newbie] Bad signature

than spent ages hitting Y-Return! For some strange reason, the 10.0 Official Cds I burnt all had bad signatures. Sir Robin -- A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. - James Madison Robin Turner

Re: [newbie] Can't download LM10

Ali Fay wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 03:20, robin wrote: OOzy wrote: My Internet connection sucks slow and I would like to but LM10 from online. I found one site that sells (I think the download version) for $8.95. What do you think? Is there a trustworthy site that you recommend? Cheapbytes

Re: [newbie] Most efficient, fastest scripting language...

the C of scripting languages. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

on your hands, and you feel like contributing to the community, make an RPM from it. It's not as easy as just doing configure-make-make install, but it's not rocket science either. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

from the Mac world - IN TIME they will see a market share for Adobe products on the GNU/linux platform - but until MicroSuck starts to crumble in the marketshare, they'll only give us GNU/linux freaks a taste and that's all. BTW, xpdf works faster anyways... Kghostview is also very nice. Sir Robin

Re: [newbie] I can't send e-mails

can get messages. The only message that got through was one I sent to myself. Strange, isn't it? Any help appreciated. TIA Are you sure you have SMTP set up correctly? Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn

Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.

of printing options. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Good PHP Editor

development. Quanta Plus has PHP syntax highlighting and code auto-completion with a less dramtic learning curve than KDevelop. Agreed. I've been playing around with KDevelop, but it's really overkill for PHP, Perl etc. Looks like it might be good for C/C++ developers, though. Sir Robin -- I'm

Re: [newbie] What is Cooker?

. In other words, stay away from Cooker for a while! Later, you might want to help test it by setting it up on a separate partition (or even a separate computer). Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS

Re: [newbie] libcrypto.so.0

version of libcrypto, in which installing an earlier version might solve your problem. The best place to look for these things is http://rpmfind.net. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS

Re: [newbie] Email Client

Chipo Hamayobe wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Anders Lind wrote: What is a good email client beside Evolution? try pine I don't go for these new-fangled clients - it's elm for me ;-) Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Editions

it join the club. Several proprietary programs also ... if I'm not mistaken Only if you buy the Powerpack, I think. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi

[newbie] A friend with sympa problems

mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Title of 8.2 disks?

the disk name into the library thingy for me to be able to install from the 8.2 disks. Anywho, the point is, I want to install to 9.1 from 8.2 disks with the control center installation utility. You can enter any name you like. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold

Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

. Sounds absurd, but it's the only other theory I can come up with. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

.) and delete the whole lot, so you when you next run OO, it will give you a brand new configuration directory with the standard settings. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO

Re: [newbie] Re: Installing tar for winmodem

. You should find instructions to procede further. 5. Nine times out of ten, the next stage is to type (as root) configure make make install Hope this helps, Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spear's early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS

Re: [newbie] web based database program

programs/languages to start with... The best thing is probably to use MySQL for your data, then scour Sourceforge and Freshmeat for a front-end that suits your needs (most of them are PHP, so you can hack them to your heart's content). Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spear's early work, before

[newbie] OT: Really dumb Sourceforge question

This is embarrassing. It's been so long since I did anything with my Sourceforge site, I've forgotten how to use it. Specifically, I can't remember how to upload files, and the help pages are pretty unhelpful. Can anyone here who has a SF account remind me of what I'm supposed to do? Sir Robin

Re: [newbie] OT: Really dumb Sourceforge question

Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 06:27, robin wrote: This is embarrassing. It's been so long since I did anything with my Sourceforge site, I've forgotten how to use it. Specifically, I can't remember how to upload files, and the help pages are pretty unhelpful. Can anyone here who has

Re: [newbie] OT: Really dumb Sourceforge question

robin wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 06:27, robin wrote: This is embarrassing. It's been so long since I did anything with my Sourceforge site, I've forgotten how to use it. Specifically, I can't remember how to upload files, and the help pages are pretty unhelpful. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Remote Kontact

Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 26, 2004 12:35 pm, robin a écrit : Klemens Arro wrote: Hy, I was wondering if there is a way to use my Kontact over web. So I could read my mail, check my appointments, view my contacts, read notes etc. over web? I think you need an LDAP-enabled server. There's something

Re: [newbie] Remote Kontact

Klemens Arro wrote: Hy, I was wondering if there is a way to use my Kontact over web. So I could read my mail, check my appointments, view my contacts, read notes etc. over web? I think you need an LDAP-enabled server. There's something about it in the KOrganizer Help pages. Sir Robin -- When I

Re: [newbie] Community to Official?

security-related updates, though. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

as spam. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 11:24 am, robin wrote: I don't think spam filters take this into account (in fact I don't see how they could). Since our mail server has started using spamassassin, I've had to put in procmail recipes to stop a large number of mail services I've opted

Re: [newbie] How to fsck your KDE menus, and fix them in one easy lesson

and everything was back as it was before. So, lesson learned, if you put in a menu entry, never leave it blank. If you're not going to use it, delete it. Thanks for the tip. How about adding it to the wiki? Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

, and then urpmi them up to final update status? I did that on my office machine, which has an ethernet connection, but I wouldn't want to try that at home with a modem connection! Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert

Re: [newbie] MD 10 success story

that? By running a mail server. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

. 512MB is plenty for anything short of advanced video work - I have 512MB and have hardly ever used swap space. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533

Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus

, but a real nuisance and a lot of disk space taken up. It was a real pain deleting them all. It's a good idea to have a special sandbox user for times that you feel like flirting with the Dark Side. Sir Robin of the Mixed Metaphors -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show

Re: [newbie] spyware, cookies, etc

fairly incriminating cookies on Windows) but there's no real danger of that on a properly set up Linux box. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey

Re: [newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player

the Totem media player. Only when I try CD Player (gnome) or xmms do I not hear anything. The fact that it works with Totem means the hardware is okay. Do these apps point to the right device? Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

. You'll probably find the Windows key will open a menu; from there you can navigate with the arrow keys. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey

Re: [newbie] geforce mx4000/nvidia

, set your computer so that it doesn't start X on boot and back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (it does that automatically, but it's easy to lose the original one). You might need to install the kernel headers as well. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show

[newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash

on, but the third line obviously has the wrong syntax, as I get [!: command not found. Any ideas? Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash

Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:18:32PM +0300, robin wrote: I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a directory, find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd thought

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

in a twenty-message thread). Unless it's on the OT list, of course ;-) Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

a legal copy of Windows be vulnerable to the attacks that this service pack prevents, if non-licensed (ie; pirated) copies don't have the service pack installed? Maybe when Longhorn finally comes out, they'll release a special pirate edition. Long John Silverhorn, perhaps. Sir Robin -- Doubt

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

respectable 'nix company. Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

with no security and bringing down the whole domain. God knows what they'll make of Longhorn. BEAVIS: Huh huh, he said horn. BUTTHEAD: Uhuh huh, is your horn long, Beavis? Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi

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

could see. Might be worth checking bugzilla for OO, or perhaps it's time to upgrade to 10.0. OO, like most things, works faster in 10.0. I'm using OO (slowest Linux app ever) on KDE (slowest desktop ever) awnd it still opens in seconds on a comparable machine. Sir Robin -- Corruptissima

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

installation or just in your own settings? OO is not, and never will be, a speed king, but it should not be doing this. Sir Robin -- Corruptissima in republica plurimae leges. - Tacitus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Slow openoffice

Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] bin

if this is an overly simple explanation, but you did say you didn't use the command line much ;-) Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Another Xfce convert!

to work and I've finshed reading the OT list? Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] MS: We know we suck, and we don't really care.

that much broadband to a user-base? This could be very amusing. Anyone remember Win98's active desktop? You make your whole dektop environment dependent on the thing that is most likely to crash. Even Windows users didn't buy that for long. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

et wrote: On Monday 19 April 2004 10:51 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 19 April 2004 06:15 pm, John Wilson wrote: On April 19, 2004 10:53 am, robin wrote: snip Then of course, there is the fun of uninstalling Windows software. Hmm, editing the registry to get rid of crap left by botched

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

asked for a bare box and specified that all the hardware had to be Linux-compatible. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

-unix look ;-) Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

and commenting on student papers - I have a bunch of macros and autotext set up for common operations, which is a big timesaver. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

the message came up to exit all Windows programs, I was going Huh? Why? Then of course, there is the fun of uninstalling Windows software. Hmm, editing the registry to get rid of crap left by botched uninstalls - now _that's_ what I call user-friendly! ;-) Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we

Re: [newbie] Anyone have experience with this tool?

Aron Smith wrote: http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/512350/RIP.html Aron, be careful about your subject lines - that one could get caught by a lot of people's spam filters ;-) Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent

Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree

having no contents AND permissions NOT preserved. Is there a much simpler way to do this? I haven't used it, but you might want to check out mirrordir. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey

Re: [newbie] DANGER!

for that? ;-) Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

consider that 10CE is a public beta. In fact, it's gorgeous. :-) That 2.6 kernel just hums. At one point I considered going back to 9.2, but I decided to fix what I could, and wait for the official edition for the few remaining problems. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

all here -- but the company... The best thing the company could do, IMHO, is have someone hang out in this forum, like the much-missed Civileme. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey

Re: [newbie] To distribute a bulletin

. Anything bigger and you probably want to be using something like postfix, but that's definitely not for the newbie, as misconfiguring it can have embarrassing results (like sending your log messages to everyone in your domain). Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand

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

is that there was a timeout connecting to the server, meaning you have to resend your data. A less cryptic error message would have been a good idea. Sir Robin -- The other major kind of computer is the Apple, which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you basically just plug in and use

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

Mozilla/Firefox or Konqueror. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

in the new structure are they? Whatever sources I use, I get a curl error message. I live in hope ... Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] RPM Installed...Now how do I run the app??

that might be a bundle of commands (like pstricks). Try opening a console and typing man mjpegtools, or type mjpeg and hit the tab key - either a progrma will open or you'll get a list of alternative commands which start with mjpeg. Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

heard. And here was innocent little me thinking Tom was calling him a Document Object Model ;-) Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

to recognize it. On Saturday 10 April 2004 3:30 am, robin wrote: I sit just me, or is multimedia totally screwed up in 10.0? I can't even listen to an audio CD. I sorted out my soundcard after a lot of tweaking some time ago, but now I try to listen to a CD and Xine and KsCD give me no sound, and Totem

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

et wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:52 pm, robin wrote: et wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

by looking at the version of just about any package you installed (the kernel being an obvious choice). Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

why it only happens occasionally - used to be Linux developers wrote bugs you could rely on ;-) Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Seems Sun and Microsoft are making nice nice...slightly OT

Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 07:20, robin wrote: ...just wonder what type of resource it's going to require...and how fast it'll run on my sad little AMD XP2000... Well, if you thought KDE was resource-hungry Sir Robin Cray-DE and Guh-nome can't live in my world. Dog-awful

Re: [newbie] Seems Sun and Microsoft are making nice nice...slightly OT

Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 01:30, robin wrote: Any see the demo of the new 3D Java desktop? http://see.sun.com/Apps/DCS/mcp?r=70042PiZ42XOk0120003Z3_042PiZ0mKH71KHB4 Sexy! Sir Robin ...just wonder what type of resource it's going to require...and how fast it'll run on my sad

Re: [newbie] Billy aint the richest man anymore...

title as world's richest man Last modified: April 28, 2000, 6:30 PM PDT Bad javascript? Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Seems Sun and Microsoft are making nice nice...slightly OT

of the new 3D Java desktop? http://see.sun.com/Apps/DCS/mcp?r=70042PiZ42XOk0120003Z3_042PiZ0mKH71KHB4 Sexy! Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

for situations where security is a major issue, such as a server, but then how many people run servers via a modem? Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: [newbie] /dev/ppp problem

robin wrote: Under 9.2 I could connect to the Internet on boot by adding /usr/bin/wvdial to /etc/rc.local. However, under 10.0 it won't connect, and /var/log/daemons/errors gives the following: Mar 31 18:15:03 localhost pppd[4425]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid argument Mar 31 18

[newbie] /dev/ppp problem

should do? Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Still no sound

Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:38, robin wrote: ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin Is there not a means by which - such as in 9.1 - to change the driver in MCC/Hardware to utilise a different driver

Re: [newbie]

boot system was to install Windows (which always insists on being installed first) with only one partition, then install Mandrake with a FAT32 partition next to Windows (i.e. /hda2), then divide the rest of the disk between my various Linux partitions. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

drivers, for which you have to download the latest versions. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Supermount in 10.0

common bug was that it wouldn't release the CD tray, and/or recognize when a media was inserted. Thanks - I uninstalled magicdev, turned on supermount and everything was back to normal. Now if I can get sound and my nvidia drivers working, I'll be a happy little Robin! Sir Robin -- Have you

[newbie] Still no sound

and --alsa give sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy

Re: [newbie] Still no sound

Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 13:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process

Re: [newbie] Still no sound

Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process

Re: [newbie] Still no sound

Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:46:54 -0500 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what /etc/modules.conf says If you are running any of the 2.6.x kernels, they use modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload Not modules.conf Hah! That was it - thanks. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

RedHat 6.0 (Oh, those happy days of hacking modelines!). Still, I'd say the Community Edition is for the established community, not for anyone trying out Linux for the first time. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

about British Telecom shortly after it was privatised, IIRC. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

where he shops. M$ OSs for $50? XP Pro is £98.25 here. Maybe he was quoting OEM prices. Here in Turkey, Windows costs around $2 (Mandrake costs a bit more, because there are more CDs). To quote a local comedy show, Please don't use the word 'pirate'. We are art distributors. Sir Robin -- Have

Re: [newbie] Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

downloaded the 10.0 ISOs a while ago, and I am concentrating my willpower on refraining from upgrading until I have some free time to do the install and sort out any glitches. But those files are sitting there on my hard drive saying Burn, baby, burn! Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's

Re: [newbie] MP3 - audio CD

JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:21:20 +0200 robin disseminated the following: Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch of mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. For that, I wouldn't want a program to make CDs, I'd want a program that could

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