[newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)

2002-09-24 Per discussione Alastair Scott
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3353 It can be got from the various mirrors; I'm downloading mine from the fast and reliable UK academic network ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586 kindly paid for by the

Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'mgetting pretty pissed off with...

2002-09-24 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 01:06, FemmeFatale wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27232.html One of these days when I Can completely stop using windows I will enjoy it very much. Being a non-games-player I stopped a year ago; there was no need to keep a partition to do things. The

Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)

2002-09-24 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:11, Technoslick wrote: I tried the PCLinux On-line link (even logged in as a member) and it came back with an error message that stated that the download area doesn't work. Can you tell me where else you found the real things at? I have looked around some mirror

Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition

2002-09-24 Per discussione Scott Felton
for coasters! (margarittas anyone? :) Scott: I've _heard_ of an alternative to Partition Magic (either freeware or relatively inexpensive shareware) that does the same things as PM. I _believe_ it's called Ranish Partition Manager. That would be one way of setting up a FAT32 common data

[newbie] What can I save from 8.2?

2002-09-24 Per discussione Scott Felton
I have a fairly new install of Mandrake 8.2. If (when) I decide to upgrade to 9.0 what should I or can I save? Is it easier to start from scratch or can I save what is in my /home directory? I'm just not sure if eveything in /home would be compatible with whatever would be installed during an

[newbie] Panel Applet - unadd?

2002-09-24 Per discussione Scott Felton
OK I'm stumped. I've been having a grand time playing with Mandrake 8.2 and I've got many things configured to my liking. Then I did this Right click on panel Add Applet Runaway Process Catcher I now have a smiley on my panel that frowns from time to time. How do I get rid of him? I can't

Re: [newbie] What can I save from 8.2?

2002-09-24 Per discussione Scott Felton
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:37 pm, you wrote: I prefer to find everything on the entire install that I want to keep, including home, any config stuff and whatever else.. and put the lot in its own directory... (say /backup) Then tar that directory up...: tar -zcvvf backup.tar.gz

Re: [newbie] Panel Applet - unadd?

2002-09-24 Per discussione Scott Felton
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:19 pm, you wrote: I now have a smiley on my panel that frowns from time to time. How do I get rid of him? I can't find anything in the help files or menus to make him go away. TIA... Keep left or right? clicking on the left side of the little panel the

Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

2002-09-23 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:00, iggy wrote: I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across this little gem of a linkat http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . I thought I'd share it with everyone as I can state, definatele, I've been guilty of these.

Re: [newbie] E mail bounces

2002-09-22 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 18:11, Poogle wrote: I am trying to reply to an e mail from a friend but I get the following bounce message:- Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: dns; freemail.asda.gr (194.219.142.49) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550

Re: [newbie] Tar or zip?

2002-09-22 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:05, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 19:34, Anne Wilson wrote: I need to send a collection of fonts (about a dozen in all) to a windows user. I thought a zip file would be the easiest way., but I'm not sure

Re: [newbie] Tar or zip?

2002-09-22 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 19:34, Anne Wilson wrote: I need to send a collection of fonts (about a dozen in all) to a windows user. I thought a zip file would be the easiest way., but I'm not sure how to get a zip file in linux (Mdk 8.2). I thought I would temporarily copy the files into a

Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition

2002-09-20 Per discussione Scott Felton
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:20 pm, you wrote: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows Mandrake puts mount points in /mnt, so it may be /mnt/windows. I use /mnt/winnt. /dev/hda is the disk, /dev/hda1 is a partition. you want to mount a partition. BTW, it WILL be

RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page

2002-09-19 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 23:36, Franki wrote: I don't think the answer would be yes... By a strange coincidence a very interesting post from Thor Larholm (of the IE list) regarding Mozilla appeared on [bugtraq]. I reproduce it in full; it would seem that the yes can't be very confident (of

Re: [newbie]ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLin ux-9.0rc3-inst-2.i586.iso

2002-09-19 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:14, John Richard Smith wrote: I notice that MandrakeLinux-9.0rc2 went from the websites this morning, and seems to be replaced by, Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-1.i586.iso

Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE REGISTER?

2002-09-19 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 16:05, Gabriel Gonzalez wrote: Hello all, Just I have installed by first time the mandrake 8.0 and I would like to register this but I get this software thought a magazine and does not had included the Serial Number. What I can do to get one Serial Number or How I

Re: [newbie] Getting to Gnome 2

2002-09-18 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 01:30, Todd Slater wrote: Is there a painless way to move up to Gnome 2? I'm currently running 8.2. If you don't want to move to 9.0, the Mandrake Club has RPMs for 8.2. It's not quite painless - slight sting in the wallet region - but the packager has done an excellent

RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page

2002-09-18 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 12:49, Franki wrote: I would word that better, makes you sound like a fanatic.. perhaps something along these lines. You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (tm) Before you proceed onto the site, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't tell you of the

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:15, Damian G wrote: As i stated in an earlier post, i still have not attempted to load OpenOffice in my 233mhz/32MB Ram machine. however Word97 runs very acceptably on it. There are a couple of preloading applications around for OOo:

Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page

2002-09-18 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 15:42, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Alastair: Wait a couple of days, and you'll get your 20. -- cmg I was internally debating this timescale and thought it was probably right. Although nothing has turned up relating to IE specifically there've been 4 alerts on the [bugtraq]

[newbie] Fwd: [Cooker] rc3

2002-09-18 Per discussione Alastair Scott
For those who have asked. Nice to see extra time taken to get things _right_. It looked as though RC2 was going to be the last one before the spotted handkerchief was dropped, but a number of kernel problems turned up. I have no burning desire to find more showstoppers; I'm completely flaked

[newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition

2002-09-18 Per discussione Scott Felton
a day or two. I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? I created a /windows directory (as root) and tried. [root@whitetrash scott]# mount -t

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 08:13, Patrik Marxer wrote: To be honest, we don't like bush much over here. I guess not many in europe do. In the rest of the world it may be similar. In fact he is the most unpopular leader in the world, as I have heard - even more unpopular than Saddam Hussein.

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 06:16, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Ter 17 Set 2002 01:42, Dennis Myers escreveu: That was before G.W.Bush! I'm Brazilian and I've lived during our so called military period (they were rulling the country for over 30 years!) None of those military

Re: [newbie] html to pdf

2002-09-17 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 10:12, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I should have been more precise... The method you suggest is definetly correct, but I would like a tool which follows the links recursively: for example, index.html contains link to chapter1.html and chapter2.html. I'd like a tool which

Re: [newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2

2002-09-17 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:21, iggy wrote: hi, all! does anyboby know if 9.0 rc 2 will be updatable (is that a real word?) to 9.0 final version or i'll have to download 9.0 when it becomes available? Here's the (complex) answer which, I believe, is correct :) If you subscribe to cooker (as

Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools

2002-09-17 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:58, iggy wrote: was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? Well, _the_ Gnutella

Re: [newbie] Console from X?

2002-09-16 Per discussione scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, im back again but with a sensible question. I am reading some books and i am learning alot of commands, and what they do. I tell ya. Its 10x better then Windows. Anyways I was reading that all the make and compilation commands are in the console/shell

Re: [newbie] bloody Nautilus!

2002-09-10 Per discussione Alastair Scott
shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/10/2002 16:42) i wonder if you install with another file manager and uncheck nautilus what happens? to answer though, i think naut is the assumed newbie friendly manager in gnome, and mandrake does try to be newbie friendly. i mean hey, they could be

Re: [newbie] offsite backup

2002-09-09 Per discussione Alastair Scott
William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/09/2002 12:40) Does any one have information on how to do offsite backup. I would like to backup windows and linux machines. I have a large SQL and exchange data base i would like to store off site. any infomation. Thanks Bill Nash I think this

[newbie] software manager problem

2002-09-07 Per discussione Scott
I just set up the software manager to get security updates so it would't ask me if I want to do it every time I started it up. Now I can't install any software. That is, for every package that there is now a choice of intalling from the ftp site or from the cd, neither one will install

[newbie] usb lan key

2002-09-05 Per discussione scott aitken
I've just installed, a Net Comm USB Lan 10/100 key for my laptop which runs mandrake 8.2. The drake networking wizard dosn't pick it up. ipconf dosn''t reveal anything either Are their files that may need editing? mandrake 8.2.'s drake networking wizard dosn't pick it up Is their anywhere

Re: [OT] Re: [newbie] Insulting Web site messages

2002-09-03 Per discussione Scott Dubose
Maybe you're just late on your membership dues... :-) On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 06:59, John Morley wrote: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote How about this one (opened by accident of course :) ): http://www.playboy.com/tvclub/tour_system_requirements.html : We have detected that

[newbie] 9.0 RC 1 coming closer - observations

2002-08-27 Per discussione Alastair Scott
Interesting things are happening when you rsync cooker :) Assuming no need to back out what's being added: 1. Mozilla 1.1 will be in the final release; 2. OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 ditto and the package is excellent - it solved all the problems I had tried to work out for myself using the generic

Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message

2002-08-25 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 16:15, Charlie M. wrote: People should either whitelist their subscribed mailing list addresses, or learn to set the damned things up before inflicting this crap on the rest of us. It makes almost as much sense as one of those imbecilic content footnotes. If you are

Re: [newbie] URPMI database locked

2002-08-25 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 18:01, David Johnson wrote: I was forced to kill MandrakeUpdate because nothing happened after a long time of it scanning for updates. Now when I try to run it, I get URPMI database locked and can do nothing else with the program. a scan of man urpmi gave no

Re: [newbie] What happened to Mandrakeexpert.com

2002-08-25 Per discussione Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 08:36, Mark Berkwitt wrote: What happened to Mandrakeexpert.com? The icon appears on my desktop, etc after installation. It, and a number of other mandrake*.com sites such as mandrakecampus.com, were 'rationalised' some time ago. At least so far there are no such

[newbie] port 8080 not available

2002-08-25 Per discussione Scott
II just installed Zope from rpms on 8.2. The docs say that Zope should be available at http://localhost:8080/; but when I try to connect I keep getting the error something like can't connect to port 8080. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks, Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] kmail with nested folders - Evolution?

2002-08-22 Per discussione Alastair Scott
of importing 100+ mbox files one by one is apalling. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ZO82dasIDb/2nMwRAsLFAJ9aAVtKqePMn+i4pxGo8f4Bk5gE/wCeO5hr PeO5n9J6OXtud16Z4CiX2so= =ef+W

Re: [newbie] a question of monitors

2002-08-20 Per discussione Alastair Scott
- a gaussmeter - is relatively expensive). As the PH dates from well before NEC took the company over (and improved manufacturing and build quality, not before time) it could well be that it lacks shielding of any sort ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

[newbie] wireless router

2002-08-18 Per discussione Scott
suggest a good router that will work with this set-up? Thanks, Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Vaio Memory Stick card slot

2002-08-18 Per discussione Scott
Hi Everyone- Running 8.2 on a Sony Vaio GRX560 with a Sony Memory Stick card slot..I scanned the archives, but have not seen anyone mention this before, but has anyone gotten it work? Specifically how to access a card once it is in the slot to mount it? Thanks, -Scott

Re: [newbie] read a pixel!

2002-08-16 Per discussione Alastair Scott
/ You'll need to include a graphics manipulation library. I haven't used it in anger, but the Python Image Library: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm certainly does what you need, according to the online manual (see the getpixel method)! Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London

Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error

2002-08-15 Per discussione Alastair Scott
. That should've been shouted from the rooftops, particularly as Microsoft hasn't done anything visible yet (last MS security update 7 August) ... Instead kde.org is out of date, with the Applications list broken (? - not updated this month) :( Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [newbie] Cooker updates - wget or curl?

2002-08-13 Per discussione Alastair Scott
it provides loads of other data ...). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WV1MdasIDb/2nMwRAn9oAJ99shij0l/lMGvLDrOjdx1rBtBKggCff69P IMQJlqonkqgllTlGuTRfPps= =Bhea -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout

2002-08-13 Per discussione Alastair Scott
to a completely different OS'. Thereafter, needless to say, M8.2 ran perfectly on the same hardware. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WV+idasIDb

[newbie] Fifth Open Source office suite

2002-08-13 Per discussione Alastair Scott
it before on Windows, and it's _very_ nice - which is no surprise as it has been developed by former AppleWorks programmers. (The four existing suites are StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Hancom Office). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk

Re: [newbie] oops, konq security

2002-08-12 Per discussione Alastair Scott
use pinches herein' :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9V8xndasIDb/2nMwRAiObAJ0csXG2FvjMU1278vpsTi4p0vppXgCfZcSd oNfCRipwhraJV/FOBdwmjAk= =aRQB -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [newbie] Installing RPMs on 9.0 Beta 2

2002-08-11 Per discussione Alastair Scott
who want a single packaging application). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9Vp7ZdasIDb/2nMwRAl/oAJ9awxnbbEklph7cu8RmeeBVnIZdBACfTWiE u+omhOyHlr7ZUdB4E/iukPo= =Gr4s -END

Re: [newbie] KMail doesn't take the mailto addy

2002-08-10 Per discussione Alastair Scott
, are: %t To %c Cc %b Bcc %k Reference %w News Host %n News Group %p Priority %a Attachment %e Reference %h Html %y Body %s Subject %r Reply %o Follow up %u Whole URL Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7

Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter

2002-08-10 Per discussione Scott
command line menu's and worked pretty well when I tried it: http://www.geocities.com/cddoit/index.html -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter

2002-08-10 Per discussione Scott
like CDDOIT for nothing else other than it scans a directory and lets you pick the files, but I might just write a script to do an entire directory myself and schedule it to go off after I record my show at night. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 840c + Mdk9.0 beta2

2002-08-10 Per discussione Alastair Scott
Centre | System | Printing Manager; select the printer, then the Properties tab, then the Driver icon, then Change ... and, I hope, a list of options appears). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU

Re: [newbie] Ok I installed 9.0beta2, now what? :-)

2002-08-09 Per discussione Alastair Scott
file locally held being different from the contents of cooker). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9U4PXdasIDb/2nMwRAgmjAJ4i1/FfrceZNIotJ+1ejVjLoOvb3ACfeaFV kczURxf3cMnZhPJnbHu4UnU

[newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Per discussione Alastair Scott
, the descriptions of other manufacturers' cards are so poor, and often self-contradictory, it's difficult to find out what Radeon-based and nVidia-based cards are low-profile. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [newbie] LILO disappeared

2002-08-09 Per discussione Scott
Stephane- Sadly, I think you have to install XP first, then go back and install Linux second. Some of the distro's will offer to resize the partition, but only if it is FAT32, they will not touch the new NTFS type partition. -Scott At 01:30 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter

2002-08-09 Per discussione Scott
You made my day! You have no IDEA how much time this just saved me! I have a hard drive FILLED with 1 gig + files of my shows. I would boot into Windows to use Sound Forge to break them apart and it was about a one hour chore for one show! Thank you! -Scott At 02:24 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, Todd

Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter

2002-08-09 Per discussione Scott
use sox to convert to CDr, but need something to convert the mp3 file to wav. Thanks, -Scott At 02:18 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, you wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:14:50PM -0400, Scott wrote: This might be an odd request, but I am looking for a program to take a rather large, over 1 gig mp3

Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Per discussione Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 Aug 2002 9:37 pm, Charlie M. wrote: On Friday 09 August 2002 06:00 am, Alastair Scott wrote: snip Please ignore my previous reply. I pasted something in the wrong box and hit send without looking at it. What I wanted to reply

Re: [newbie] Ok I installed 9.0beta2, now what? :-)

2002-08-08 Per discussione Alastair Scott
to keep testing with respect to the baseline; I strongly suspect that the only people who're keeping fully up to date with cooker have company or university connections with massive bandwidth. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [newbie] Installing Netscape 6.2 from CD

2002-08-04 Per discussione Alastair Scott
an installer very similar to the Linux version (!) In other words, unpack, run a binary file and wizards prompt you for one of Minimal, Full or Custom installation ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6

Re: [newbie] Up2Date

2002-08-04 Per discussione Alastair Scott
for updates configured in Software Manager; if you've already run the SM you will have). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

[newbie] cdom access

2002-08-04 Per discussione Scott
I just installed 8.2 and when I click on the cd-rom icon (and the floppy) I get You do not have access rights to this location. Is this the same problem with supermount that 8.0 had? What's the problem? Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] cdom access

2002-08-04 Per discussione Scott
OK, let's forget I asked. On Sunday 04 August 2002 10:43 am, you wrote: On Sunday 04 Aug 2002 1:50 pm, Scott wrote: I just installed 8.2 and when I click on the cd-rom icon (and the floppy) I get You do not have access rights to this location. Is this the same problem with supermount

[newbie] integrated sound

2002-08-04 Per discussione Scott
I just got a new box from pricepc that is supposed to be 100% linux compatible. It has AC'97 2.2 3D sound integrated into the motherboard. Sound was not detected on install of 8.2 though. How do I go about configuring it? Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] TV Tunner Cards

2002-08-03 Per discussione Phillip scott
Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Phillip scott wrote: Is it posible to use a tunner card made for Windoze 98 in MD 8.2?I think you should get the manufacturer and model number and check itagainst the Mandrake hardware compatibility list (or post it here).Randy KramerWant to buy you

Re: [newbie] automatic printing of email?

2002-08-02 Per discussione Alastair Scott
of the list of Available Filters. This catches every incoming email (all emails have '' somewhere in their header), prints it then continues to execute whatever other filters you have. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [newbie] Quicken and Linux

2002-08-02 Per discussione Alastair Scott
#mycheckbook PocketQuicken is popular but IMO too expensive: http://www.landware.com/pocketquicken/index.asp Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

[newbie] TV Tunner Cards

2002-08-02 Per discussione Phillip scott
Is it posible to use a tunner card made for Windoze 98 in MD 8.2?Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better

Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-07-30 Per discussione Scott
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 30 July 2002 02:00 am, Kenneth wrote: I recommend not dual booting XP and Mandrake.. You have to remember Microsoft is not too friendly.. I had a hard enough time with Windows ME and Mandrake 8.2 In the case of Mandrake 8.1, I am

Re: [newbie] OT: Congress hacking P2P to stop music piracy

2002-07-29 Per discussione Alastair Scott
there are big pretensions about 'software engineering', but no _professional_ engineer, who signs up to a code of ethics on gaining his or her membership, would even consider doing what is proposed and, in fact, would be obliged to try to stop it happening. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-07-29 Per discussione Alastair Scott
Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9RaWRXzGCRjP1DsMRAgxmAJ450G1oRgvSIA6yInC+tzybW5j//ACaAqYq XQas46GA+lweJ0yOo2N3wX0= =bC+G -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want

[newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-07-29 Per discussione Scott
I've been looking all over for info about dual booting M 8.2 and windows XP. The different stuff I've found doesn't seem very consistent. Can anyone help me out or point me to a good tutorial? Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-28 Per discussione Alastair Scott
the old 8.x shi.. err I mean stuff ? The 'stuff' that's moved from old to new is just .rc files and similar (kmailrc and so on); there's many hours of configuration in those. Certainly not any of the desktop icon themes, for example! Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom

Re: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.

2002-07-28 Per discussione Alastair Scott
, for one). drakbackup looks interesting though :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Q85JXzGCRjP1DsMRAnYCAJsGeoLx+K99e8+HjtDx/nw6x4

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-28 Per discussione Scott
On Sunday 28 July 2002 06:59 am, you wrote: I'm looking at a Samsung 96 BDF 19 screen Res 1600x 1200 refresh 65Hz dp .20mm for $190 Anyone know anything about it? Also, its not listed on the Samsung USA site or the rest of the site even under obsolete models! Sorry,

[newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-27 Per discussione Scott
In mandrake's compatible hardware database they do not list monitors. Is this because compatibility is not generally an issue with monitors? Any brand will work? I'm looking at a Samsung 96 BDF 19 screen Res 1600x 1200 refresh 65Hz dp .20mm for $190 Anyone know anything about it? Thanks,

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 for 486 machines?

2002-07-27 Per discussione Alastair Scott
-2.i486.iso (661,743,616 bytes). Is this Mandrake 7.0 for 486 machines? (If so, whoopee! - although the ISO'll take ages to download I have a 486, in extremis and with DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 on it I believe, lying in the cellar which could be doing something :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott

Re: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-27 Per discussione Scott
On Saturday 27 July 2002 12:45 pm, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In mandrake's compatible hardware database they do not list monitors. Is this because compatibility is not generally an issue with monitors? Any brand will work? I'm looking

Re: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-27 Per discussione Scott
On Saturday 27 July 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Saturday 27 July 2002 12:45 pm, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In mandrake's compatible hardware database they do not list monitors

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Per discussione Alastair Scott
is now the default version, so has moved from /opt as installed with 8.2, I think trying to upgrade while keeping .kde and .kde3 intact is too risky (possibility of lots of paths in configuration files breaking) ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk

Re: [newbie] OT: MP3 Players Send Info Back to Gracenote?

2002-07-25 Per discussione Alastair Scott
to the company. Has anyone heard of this before? It's actually good old cddb (gracenote being the licensor thereof) :) And the Linux support is excellent ... http://gracenote.com/developer/registered.html?OS=unx Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [newbie] OT: MP3 Players Send Info Back to Gracenote?

2002-07-25 Per discussione Alastair Scott
capricious or unsound) owner or patents, either floating or submarine. Alastair * To change the old cliche about the Internet and nuclear war, Open Source skips over holes caused by asteroids ... - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [newbie] OT: JVM No longer available for XP

2002-07-25 Per discussione Scott
If you MUST run Windows (like I HAVE to right now) you can open IE and go to http://java.sun.com and it will download the XP Plugin. I think it is about 6 or 9 megs. Once I finish this last thing I will be back on my Mandrake box :) Oh, I think the plugin will also install on Mozilla. At

[newbie] Pauses with FTP and POP services

2002-07-24 Per discussione Scott
it? Running ProFTP for FTP and imap for POP3 on Mandrake 8.2 on an IBM Netfinity Server. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Alarmed

2002-07-23 Per discussione Alastair Scott
and use Outlook! Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9PRnkXzGCRjP1DsMRAjDFAJ45Md1k1+aCW9/lCLoHNXggCrVlxgCfc9dJ /469R/hA8hCaGvsi3Y0mQA4

Re: [newbie] Alarmed

2002-07-23 Per discussione Alastair Scott
possibly! Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9PTWgXzGCRjP1DsMRAsgjAJ4nfRwIoTEd2kZytwhf1tiJpTrtOwCeKv4x 1Vr6IpKXSSFtbDToVWMaRTY= =1FJR

Re: [newbie] Komba2

2002-07-23 Per discussione Alastair Scott
, given that reverse engineering has to be employed to decode the formats, is perilous) ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

[newbie] 9.0 beta 1 is out

2002-07-23 Per discussione Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Three ISO files to download :) http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90beta.php3 Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see

[newbie] integrated sound

2002-07-23 Per discussione Scott
I'm looking at a barebones kit on ebay that has integrated sound. It says: Integrated S3 ProSavage8 8x AGP Graphic Engine Base on S3 ProSavage 8 Architecture Does anyone know what this is, if this is linux-compatible or if it can be disabled and a sound card installed? Thanks, SW Want to

Re: [newbie] integrated sound

2002-07-23 Per discussione Scott
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: I'm looking at a barebones kit on ebay that has integrated sound. It says: Integrated S3 ProSavage8 8x AGP Graphic Engine Base on S3 ProSavage 8 Architecture Does anyone know what this is, if this is linux-compatible or if it can be disabled and

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-19 Per discussione Alastair Scott
JPG to PNG is gaining no value (doing the conversion will in crease the file size but won't undegrade the image) whereas PNG to JPG may be worthwhile. PNG was developed by Compuserve because of the _last_ great image spat, namely Unisys claiming patents on GIF. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott

Re: [newbie] Konqueror 3.0.2 bookmark replacing weirdness

2002-07-15 Per discussione Alastair Scott
in the mirror directories). chmod 644 ...konqueror.xml and it _doesn't_ become overwritten :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9MuV

Re: [newbie] Network security

2002-07-15 Per discussione Alastair Scott
' is ShieldsUp!; there are more complex ones, but they take ages to run and spew gobbledygook everywhere: http://grc.com/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-15 Per discussione Alastair Scott
. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9MumbCv59vFiSU4YRAi+XAJ9hJpicqe34SsgvS511WzS30yX59QCcDPE9 +E0M6Agf5TXdljA7DKqZ+Mc= =qmVD -END

Re: [newbie] three questions

2002-07-13 Per discussione Alastair Scott
). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9L+5vCv59vFiSU4YRAkmzAKDP0vFkpX1eKH4C9MHfWKQgWqsfgwCgjaS0 HsYIh3n4+9mheZ5L5PxwxqI= =MJJj -END

Re: [newbie] systime running slow

2002-07-12 Per discussione Alastair Scott
it and its home page is: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ I don't bother with the daemon but, every so often, do ntpdate ntp0.strath.ac.uk Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info

[newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-12 Per discussione Alastair Scott
easy to fly away and become a cloud-dweller :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9LxdlCv59vFiSU4YRAlm+AJ9NvFjtsImVgwhee7IHvZMgCEm

[newbie] Konqueror 3.0.2 bookmark replacing weirdness

2002-07-11 Per discussione Alastair Scott
/.kde3/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml (after the Mozilla import!) but this is unsatisfactory as the KDE bookmarks can't be updated thereafter from inside Konqueror. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [newbie] App like M$ Project

2002-07-11 Per discussione Alastair Scott
/ This is not similar, but it's an excellent PM approach and worth trying: http://www.suse.de/~freitag/taskjuggler/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

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