Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. | | Dan OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - $1650, which is probably

Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.

2005-03-29 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On March 29, 2005 09:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Having something like a newsletter would also allow people to compile their own libraries on a variety of technical topics, which can be reviewed offline at their leisure, while cutting back on some of the redundant posts

Re: [newbie] command line disappears in konsole

2005-03-21 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On March 21, 2005 02:02, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Every now and then this has happened. I open konsole and there is no [EMAIL PROTECTED], I reboot when this happens and usual appearance returns. Am I inadvertently doing something to cause this? Thanks Rosemary Just a guess, but it

Re: [newbie] Auld lang syne.

2005-03-21 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On March 21, 2005 10:41, Duncan Anderson wrote: ... Learning to use vi never killed anybody. ... No, it just made them wish they were dead! 8^} Vi is one of those necessary evils, because sometimes when your system is really messed up, it's one the few things that will still work, and that can

Re: [newbie] Sympa!!! What the ....

2005-03-02 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 28, 2005 12:52, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 28, 2005 10:16, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Why is Sympa requesting confirmation on every email I send? It wasn´t like that Is there anything I can do to avoid this thing? TIA Ricardo Castanho

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk and Nvidia don't work

2005-03-01 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 28, 2005 22:13, Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone had a problem with getting the Nvidia drivers to work with the -24 kernel? I can not get an install on this and it does not give a real reason in the logs. This is the installer log print ... I've gotten the 6629 NVidia driver working

Re: [newbie] Sympa!!! What the ....

2005-02-28 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 28, 2005 10:16, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Why is Sympa requesting confirmation on every email I send? It wasn´t like that Is there anything I can do to avoid this thing? TIA Ricardo Castanho Brazil It's always done that to me, since I joined almost a

Re: [newbie] Resumption of DSL Connection

2005-02-25 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 24, 2005 06:54, SOTL wrote: Hi All I have Mandrake 10.1 using an eathernet RJ45 DSL input. If I am connected to the internet and the RJ45 plug is unplugged and plugged back in I loose my Internet connect and the ability to reconnect to the internet. The only method I have

Re: [newbie] ntfs

2005-02-25 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 24, 2005 23:03, Lee Wiggers wrote: Finest list in computerland, I haven't seen an ntfs write question in a year. Has the write issue been resolved? Can I safely share with an ntfs partition now? Lee Last I heard (a month or two ago), they had experimental write capability. But

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

2005-02-15 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 15, 2005 09:15, Tango Echo wrote: ... Install went fine using the Higher security level. However, I am unable to ssh into the box even though the service is running. A quick look into the hosts.deny and it's set for ALL. Changes to this file only seem to be reverted back thanks

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-14 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 14, 2005 06:09, Michel Leunen wrote: De: Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Thanks, I've done a whole update without any result. Then I tried to uninstall and reinstall konqueror. The problem is there is no package for konqueror. It's part of the kdebase package. Reinstalling

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-14 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 14, 2005 12:32, Michel Leunen wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Oh, I didn't think of that. Trying to urpme kdebase will probably try to uninstall half the packages on your system, so that's not practical. Yeah, that's the case. I did it and now, my whole kde is completely

Re: [newbie] Script for burning DVD images

2005-02-13 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 11, 2005 00:41, David G Stevenson wrote: ... Anyway, I took a few minutes and turned it into a reusable script. I've attached it here for anyone who might find themselves in a similar situation. Maybe someday this missing feature will get added to K3b. In the meantime, enjoy.

Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware

2005-02-13 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 11, 2005 05:11, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got welcome to first boot window. Now boot justs stops at checking for new hardware. I waited five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? Thanks in advance Rosemary

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-13 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 12, 2005 09:05, Michel Leunen wrote: Hi, When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: $ konqueror webbrowsing konqueror: relocation error:

Re: [newbie] alternative programs

2005-02-10 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 10, 2005 05:48, Mohammed Badran wrote: Hello i need to know if there is an alternative program like 'autoCAD'and 'orCAD' as I couldn't find a linux version for them and I don't like to use wine to run these programs because of so much errors Thanks Mohammed There's QCad,

[newbie] Script for burning DVD images

2005-02-10 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
I ran into an interesting problem today. I have some wedding DVDs that family friends keep asking for copies of. I had been using K3b's Copy DVD tool. But I realized I could shave about 20 minutes off the time for each disk if I saved the image and reused it, instead of rereading the originals

Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?

2005-02-09 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 8, 2005 16:25, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 21:09, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 8, 2005 00:30, Anne Wilson wrote: ... I meant the Community TWiki :-) Look at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes. That page is a child page of http

Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?

2005-02-08 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 8, 2005 00:30, Anne Wilson wrote: ... I meant the Community TWiki :-) Look at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes. That page is a child page of http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/Hardware Compatibility, which you might also want to look at (use the tree link

Re: [newbie] Problems starting M10.1 - it freezes

2005-02-08 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 8, 2005 12:44, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: ... Anyway, although it was rather late and I was sleeping, I decided to install Mandrake. ... Proves that Mdk is so easy to install you can do it in your sleep! 8^} -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions

Re: [newbie] Problems starting M10.1 - it freezes

2005-02-08 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 8, 2005 12:44, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: ... It loaded all Linux, and led me to a blue screen with the Mandrake logo. After that, it didn't happen anythig. It actually does not freezes, because I can move my mouse, and if I press the shut down button of my laptop, it

Re: [newbie] Isn't ~/.bash_profile sourced only at login ?

2005-02-01 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On January 31, 2005 16:53, RickSisler wrote: ... I'm not sure if I'm hijacking this thread, but, for my interest, could someone who does know explain what this script does/how it works? (It's the stuff in the [*] that isn't obvious to me...) Thanks, I'll take a stab at it .. This

Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??

2005-01-21 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On January 20, 2005 12:28, Graham Watkins wrote: Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? ... Here's what I did: 1. Open the url you want as your home page (I think this technique would even allow you to

Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages

2005-01-12 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On January 11, 2005 18:22, Dan Gordon wrote: ... Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and follow the instructions its very easy. http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Regards, Dan Gordon That web site has

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: ... Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible support for Linux. ... Personally, I avoid Epson because of their business practices (not for technical

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-11 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
... Thanks for the links above, I have gotten to the point now where the NVidia installer reports that it has installed a driver for my kernel, but that the driver conflicts with a module called rivafb. Can anyone tell me how to disable the rivafb module in my kernel? Thanks in advance,

[newbie] Humorix: Windows 2003 Outperforms Red Hat

2005-01-11 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
This is hilarious: http://humorix.org/articles/2005/01/red-hats/ My favourite line was ...such Linux distros as Seuss Linux (embedded in children's books) -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. As you know, necessity is the mother of

Re: [newbie] K3b not burning CDs (Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack)

2004-12-15 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 15, 2004 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 15 Dec 2004 18:40, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 19:15, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: Hi, it's still me. I've just tested K3b with 5 Philips CD.RWs. Same results. There are others who know a lot more about this than

Re: [newbie] K3b not burning CDs (Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack)

2004-12-15 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 15, 2004 16:05, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 20:14, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: ... Sorry, but no cderecord in http://www.eslrahc.com/ K3b and XCDRoast not working -as usual! Pablo Interesting. When I was dealing with all this I was on 10.0

Re: [newbie] digikam Sony P73 set up

2004-12-14 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 14, 2004 00:43, Martin Hardie wrote: Hi All I am still struggling with this digikam thing. When i set up the camera as the usb mass storage and open the window it says it is conencted but nothing appears. I hav tried this: tail -f /var/log/messages and nothing appears when i

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official crash at startup

2004-12-14 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 14, 2004 17:43, Danesh Daroui wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 14 December 2004 10:50 pm, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I have a print server with mndk 10.1 official. Sometimes when I restart the server before it shows the login page it crashes and the error message is:

Re: [newbie] CD-burning

2004-12-13 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 12, 2004 21:25, RickSisler wrote: Graham Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: .. Hi Graham, k3b works for me, both DVD and CD's and the RPM's are from Charles. http://www.eslrahc.com/ Hope it works for ya. A couple of months ago, under 10.0 Official Download edition, I could burn

Re: [newbie] CD-burning - semi-hijack

2004-12-13 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 13, 2004 12:47, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 13 Dec 2004 18:56, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On December 12, 2004 21:25, RickSisler wrote: Graham Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A couple of months ago, under 10.0 Official Download edition, I could burn data CDs, but not audio

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.

2004-12-10 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 10, 2004 05:40, Dennis Myers wrote: ... Also, it seems clear the 6629 driver is broken. You might want to make a note of that on your page. Thanks for the help, Done and done. Thanks for the alert. derek Not totally broken, I have been using the 6629 driver for

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.

2004-12-09 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 6, 2004 00:31, Derek Jennings wrote: ... Derek, I just bought a slightly newer computer (PIII-533), and it happens to have a video card that NVidia claims is supported by their latest driver, a Riva TNT2 64, so I decided to try the nvidia driver. I have been using the

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.

2004-12-06 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 6, 2004 00:31, Derek Jennings wrote: ... Hmm.. I tried out the new 6629 version of the Nvidia driver today. It compiles OK, but when it starts the splash screen does not go away. I had to revert to the 6111 driver again. derek Okay, that's the same problem I had. It seemed to

Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1

2004-12-06 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
I sent this last night, but sympa never sent me a confirmation, so here it is again... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1 Date: December 5, 2004 23:00 From: Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On December 4, 2004 14:05

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.

2004-12-04 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 3, 2004 03:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 09:30, you wrote: ... I have a page on installing the nvidia driver here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/nvidia.html At the moment there is a bug in the Nvidia driver which requires you to modify it

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.

2004-12-04 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 3, 2004 03:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 09:30, you wrote: ... I have a page on installing the nvidia driver here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/nvidia.html At the moment there is a bug in the Nvidia driver which requires you to modify it

[newbie] Lying BIOSes and Linux install problems

2004-11-30 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
Just read an interesting article: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/18/2012237 It describes the dmidecode tool, and the fact that the info provided by BIOSes is not reliable. What caught my attention was the mention of Red Hat 5 installing fine, but Red Hat 6 having a problem

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 22, 2004 15:38, Lanman wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: ... Just a wild guess, but it sounds like there might be something in the BIOS or the drive (or something to do with the BIOS/motherboard/drive combination) that's preventing writing to the MBR. Perhaps something intended

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-22 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 20, 2004 08:02, Lanman wrote: ... But the fact that something is preventing me from writing to the MBR has me very curious too. This is the first time I've ever seen this at all in about 10 years, and re-doing the BIOS would usually kill any TSR or other virus embedded onto the

Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM

2004-11-19 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 19, 2004 13:29, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several times and googled for the

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-18 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 17, 2004 20:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 03:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I have encountered this problem too. The network in my office and home is different in respect of network class and thus subnet and default gw. So, to make things easier

Re: [newbie] anyone have a dwl122 working with 10.1 ppc?

2004-11-16 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 16, 2004 14:09, Lincoln Rutledge wrote: I have a dwl122 Dlink 802.11b usb dongle and an iBook. It's a prism2 chipset, supposed to be supported by linux wlan-ng. Does anyone have this working on Mandrake? I just installed 10.1 and it didn't automatically work, which did not

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-10 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 10, 2004 05:06, Anne Wilson wrote: ... There has been a long thread about this on Expert. It is agreed that it is 'unfixable' for the moment, and it was suggested that gmail users should have a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. Please be aware of

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] User Agent

2004-11-02 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
, and it is this server that rejects non-IE access. They may not even tell the customers about this feature of their software. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-28 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
breakes things that worked well before Cheers Kaj Haulrich. Because the rule for Linux is if it ain't broke, you're not trying hard enough :^) -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
at: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On October 27, 2004 11:32, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 17:52, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Just saw this on Linux Today: Mandrakeliux 10.1 Official Released http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2004102701526NWMDSW Might be worth downloading and doing a clean install (you've

Re: [newbie] ordered new laptop

2004-10-25 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
, and a Dell Dimension XPS R400 desktop. I can also boot Knoppix on the Inspiron. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want

[newbie] Kernel update source/binary mismatch

2004-10-25 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
! What's up with that? auto-select doesn't work with kernel binaries, but it does with kernel source? Shouldn't the two always be kept in sync? And why doesn't urpmi kernel find the latest version of the kernel? Why should I have to specify which version I want? Very strange. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-22 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
kind of like Spy vs. Spy. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Chat Client

2004-10-18 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
, I'm not firewalled, other than the NAT in my router (haven't had time, and right now a break-in to this machine would not gain anyone anything particularly valuable). -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions

Re: [newbie] After locking screen password won't resolve.

2004-09-30 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
the change didn't take effect. If because of a typo you don't know what your password is now, you can do the following to change it as root: su passwd youruserid This will let you set a new password without knowing the old one. Hope this helps. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice language problem

2004-09-28 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
it back to English, but no luck yet. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] archiving to multi volumes

2004-09-22 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On September 22, 2004 12:55, hugenots wrote: welcome newbie, can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other (no file spliting); that

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-20 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On September 18, 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:02, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone

Re: [newbie] Rootkit Hunter

2004-09-15 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On September 14, 2004 18:17, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 14 September 2004 12:35 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On September 14, 2004 07:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: ... urpmi rkhunter I have contrib defined (using proxad.net, b/c all the North American mirrors seem to be unreliable

[newbie] Red Screen of Death

2004-09-15 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
set). 3. I installed checkinstall, and was trying to use it to build an rpm (for qhacc). Which failed on some error I hadn't yet figured out. Something during all this seems to have borked my system. Any suggestions, short of a full re-install? -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
buying! LOL! Yeah, we need our doughnuts and bacon. It gets cold up here, and a good layer of blubber helps keep us warm! -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL

Re: [newbie] Rootkit Hunter

2004-09-14 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
was slightly off, but there's nothing that resembles rkhunter showing up. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy

[newbie] Desktop shifted up on laptop screen

2004-07-29 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
know how to adjust this? -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-27 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
the iso's there at the moment. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script

2004-07-27 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On July 22, 2004 07:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 05:54 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I don't want to run my own mail server (not at the moment). I rely on my isp for sending and receiving email. Is there a simple way to do this? Can I somehow tell kmail to do

[newbie] Sending email from a script

2004-07-21 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
? If not, can someone point me to some good instructions for configuring postfix to do what I need without interfering with email to/from my isp, and without opening up security holes in my system (e.g. an open relay). Thanks, -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed

Re: [newbie] Ethernet problem on ASUS motherboards

2004-07-16 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On July 15, 2004 20:06, Lanman wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I've seen some people on this list having trouble getting their network interfaces working. This may be unrelated, but FYI: http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html The moral of the story is don't

Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?

2004-06-24 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] laptop won't shut down completley

2004-06-04 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
to actually pull the power plug! Fortunately, I don't power off very often (usually only during lightning storms or vacations), so I haven't bothered trying to fix it. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions

Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-02 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
thing, but the behaviour was something else. When this happened, often just changing the setting to something else, applying the change, then changing it back and applying again would fix the problem. Wouldn't hurt to try. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions

Re: [newbie] AMD64 and K8V Bios Issues - help!

2004-06-02 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
to recall seeing release candidate announcements for it (it's a little behind the x86 version). -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL

Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-02 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
://www.workorspoon.com/default.asp -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Boson 10 compile errors

2004-05-27 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
to use this as you see fit. Hope this helps. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. buildsrc Description: application/shellscript

Re: [newbie] Opera and my bank

2004-05-26 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
interesting behaviour ;^}. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Colinux, run linux natively inside windows.

2004-05-20 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
up with all the reliability, security, efficiency and power of Linux :^}. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Colinux, run linux natively inside windows.

2004-05-20 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 20, 2004 10:35, frankieh wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On May 20, 2004 00:45, frankieh wrote: Hi guys, I just found something pretty interesting.. http://www.colinux.org Allows you to run linux from inside windows.. Very cool, I am currently running Debian 3 inside XP, have

Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-19 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 11, 2004 10:35, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I'm trying to install the KDE game mahjongg 3D (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12553PHPSESSID=23d79a4e78002 9a6433767155a41f066) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhd]$ /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing

Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?

2004-05-19 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
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Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-13 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 11, 2004 15:54, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2004 23:33, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem

[newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-11 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
state of transition. Oh well, keeps it interesting! -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-09 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
to load the firmware. 5. The loaded firmware does some black magic with the usb modules to get itself recognized as a cd burner. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL

Re: [newbie] Lucent Module wont autoload

2004-05-07 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
anything else? -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Got my sound working, sort of

2004-05-06 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
. The only confusing thing in there is that it tells you to run aumix, but this isn't installed by default. You have to urpmi alsa-utils to get this installed before you can run that step. We need a Mandrake for Dummies who were Smart Enough to Dump Windoze book :^). -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
(cr)apps. They're not going to care about competition from Linux if they're still racking in the cash. Of course, few of us can influence what our employers do anyway. But I'm determined to do whatever I legally can to harm their cash flow. I believe in voting with my dollars. -- Ron Hunter

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2004-05-05 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 4, 2004 04:35, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 20:12, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Finally got updates working with 10.0 Official. I see a completely different list of mirrors now in Mandrake Update, so I guess they've finally straightened that mess out. I updated my kernel

[newbie] Got my sound working, sort of

2004-05-05 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
the reduced right channel instrumental. If anyone has any thoughts on how to improve the sound, I'm listening. Otherwise, I'll live with it the way it is. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under

Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-04 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
to see if there's a message saying that fxload is missing. If so, download it from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679 Hope this helps. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions

Re: [newbie] Problem with the PPC Kernel?

2004-05-04 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
with Macs or PPCs, so I could be way off base, but did you check the BIOS settings? I'm looking at some notes I scribbled during 10.0 CE install, and it was hanging on boot until I disabled the BIOS power management. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here

Re: [newbie] cdrecord with MD10.0 CE

2004-05-04 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
to contradict the above quote. I'm definitely confused. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-04 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
things broke from 9 to 10. I don't know whether that's issues with the new kernel or what the story is. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL

[newbie] Kernel upgrade

2004-05-03 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
? Why do I not have an updated kernel.h? Most importantly, is it safe to boot up to this new kernel with this configuration? Any experienced kernel upgraders out there who can help me out? -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights

Re: [newbie] Problem with the PPC Kernel?

2004-05-03 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
. But that was 2 months ago, which is ancient history for my tired old brain cells, so I could be wrong. I remember having to hard reset several times after the first install. Something to look at anyway. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights

Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-03 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
Resend... sent this earlier today, during the email server hiccup, and never got a confirmation, but I've gotten confirmations since then, so it seems this got lost. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6 Date: May 3, 2004 14:34 From: Ron Hunter-Duvar

Re: [newbie] 10.0 CE printing problems

2004-04-30 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
, it wouldn't find the printer again (though I discovered some way in MCC to make it connect again; can't remember now). Both the driver and the hotplug problem were fixed when I went to 10.0 Official. I recommend this. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here

Re: [newbie] Installed Mandrake 10.0 Official

2004-04-30 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
click to enter my password). Lots of other options in there I haven't even explored yet too. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL

[newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del, which on Windoze 2K usually at least allows me to gain enough control to do a clean shutdown (I'm not a Windoze fan, my employer makes me use it, I just like to have that particular feature available). -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net

Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
On April 21, 2004 14:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21:40, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: snip Is there a Mandrake equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del, which on Windoze 2K usually at least allows me to gain enough control to do a clean shutdown (I'm not a Windoze fan, my employer

[newbie] Trying to get usb cd burner working

2004-04-21 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
, or should hotplug do this for me? How do I know what device this would be in /dev? Anything else I should be looking at? Ron -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Trying to get usb cd burner working Date: April 20, 2004 17:43 From: Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] chmod directory and file?

2004-04-21 Per discussione Ron Hunter-Duvar
this: find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; where the . indicates the current directory. Put any other path there if you're not in the directory where you want to do this. I might not have the syntax exactly correct (could be you need a \ before the {} too). -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot

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