Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM

2003-04-04 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 03 April 2003 07:53 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Depends what U wanbt to run... Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative

[newbie] Mounting compressed DOS Hard Disks

2003-03-26 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I have the following old Double Space compressed DOS disk: -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 20393984 Jul 18 2001 386spart.par -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 128761856 Jul 18 2001 Dblspace.000 -r-xr-xr-x1 root root64246 Jul 18 2001 Dblspace.bin -r-xr-xr-x1 root

Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found.

2003-03-04 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 2:57 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 01:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:35, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running

Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found. SLOVED

2003-03-04 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 07:45 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 2:57 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 01:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:35, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi

[newbie] VIM in KMAIL and KNODE

2003-03-03 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, How do I make KMAIL and KNODE use VIM instead of the default? I know that KMAIL allows the use of an external editor. KMAIL configuration has a place where to specify the editor required but I do not know what to put in there. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found.

2003-03-03 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Monday 03 March 2003 07:15 am, et wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 02:35 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect to the network

Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found.

2003-03-03 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Monday 03 March 2003 01:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:35, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect

[newbie] network name cannot be found.

2003-03-02 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect to the network: WORKGROUP not accessible The network name cannot be found The network was working fine before. Can someone

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:33 pm, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 26 2003 11:23 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs of ram, there's also already Linux

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What

Re: [newbie] Unauthorized link.

2003-02-19 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:32 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:52, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I was surfing some web sites last night using Konqueror and I warning window popped up saying that something or other has an unauthorized link to my machine. What does

Re: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler

2003-02-18 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Yes. I remember the Ferranti Pegasus. I ran Fortran II and earlier on it. That is one machine that I used paper tape for. I also remember the Algfol60. I was in England then. Seedkum On Monday 17 February 2003 10:54 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:11:18 -0800 Seedkum Aladeem

Re: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler

2003-02-17 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Monday 17 February 2003 08:06 am, Terry Smith wrote: Six inches thick! musta been runnin' some paltry code :-)). Ahh.. the grand old days (late 1970s),,, I was in grad school working in an ecosystem modeling group. We ran, and re-ran and re-ran (usually a keypuch error!) a FORTRAN IV

Re: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler

2003-02-17 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Sorry I do not have a 9-track drive. Seedkum On Monday 17 February 2003 02:23 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Sorry, no paper tape reader:-( Do you have a 9-track drive?...I still have those programs on a reel laying about someplace here... Terry Smith On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 14:11, Seedkum

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-04 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:23 pm, civileme wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 08:54 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: OK I just read some stuff about VI Emacs. Now I'm not one for super complex editors of text. Having said that I realize it behooves me (Correct context for behooves? sp!?) to

[newbie] WINE.

2003-01-23 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I have a dual boot system and I am getting tired rebooting from one OS to the other. How good and how reliable is wine in a system that already has the DLLs of W2K? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Fwd: NDN: [newbie] WINE.

2003-01-23 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, When I post a message it gets posted and at the same time I get this message saying that it did not get to some place. Why am I getting this message? Is there someting wrong with the Mandrake server? Thanx, Seedkum -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: NDN: [newbie] WINE.

Re: [newbie] WINE.

2003-01-23 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 23 January 2003 06:26 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Thursday 23 January 2003 17:16, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot system and I am getting tired rebooting from one OS to the other. How good and how reliable is wine in a system that already has the DLLs of W2K

Re: [newbie] WINE.

2003-01-23 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 23 January 2003 07:02 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: I was happy with Open Office for a while but, because I started to run into incompatibility issues, I dual booted for the Redmond Office Suite. Well, there's a rumour that the latest wine release can do MS Office pretty well.

Re: [newbie] WINE.

2003-01-23 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 23 January 2003 08:40 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Do you know if this latest WINE will be in LM9.1? Probably. There was some discussion about it on the cooker list not too long ago. why? Damian If this new version of WINE is going to be in LM9.1 then I may persevere a bit until

[newbie] Mandrake Update.

2003-01-15 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, Is it ok to use the KDE Mandrake Update to update KDE? Or do I have to use URPMI for that? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update.

2003-01-15 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 19:30, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, Is it ok to use the KDE Mandrake Update to update KDE? Or do I have to use URPMI for that? Thanx, Seedkum That should work alright - but if you really want

[newbie] RPM GPG.

2002-11-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I was trying to install an rpm package using the software installer that came with LM9.0 and its KDE gui. Using Konqueror, I right clicked on the rpm package on the source ftp site then I selected software installer from the pop-up window. A short while later I got this message No GPG

Re: [newbie] Sound

2002-10-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:40 pm, Brandon wrote: I have a SoundBlaster 16 and I have just installed Mandrake 9, i have no sound. What can i do to fix this? Is it an ISA card? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Keyboard lock/screen saver behavior.

2002-10-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I have LM90 installed and the KDE that comes with it. I disabled screen saver in favor of the power saving features and keyboard lock (lock screen). However when I lock the keyboard I get screen saver like display until the monitor gets powered down by the power saving features I

Re: [newbie] Sound

2002-10-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 10:04 pm, Brandon wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 03:44, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:40 pm, Brandon wrote: I have a SoundBlaster 16 and I have just installed Mandrake 9, i have no sound. What can i do to fix this? Is it an ISA

Re: [newbie] Sound

2002-10-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Brandon, some people find it necessary to switch to a Virtual Console. You may find that too. Seedkum On Thursday 10 October 2002 02:31 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I did something similar, even though I did not find it necessary to switch virtual console. Just open a shell under X and type

[newbie] Ksirc

2002-10-09 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I get the following error messages when I try to run Ksirc. Can someone tell me how to get it to work. I installed Ksirc with LM9.0 install. I did not do anything fancy. The documentation does not help. Thanx, Seedkum [11:06:43] Welcome to sirc version 2.211; type /help for help

Re: [newbie] Kmail issue.

2002-10-08 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
I understand that is the way Kmail behaves now. It is nice that those files grow and shrink with the amount of mail kept in Kmail window mail folders. But it does not sound to me a good thing that the files remain even when the mail folder is deleted from the Kmail window. The user can have a

[newbie] LM9.0 Xtart, Virtual Console and sndconfig problems.

2002-10-07 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I re-installed LM9.0 and I took the option to boot without X. I installed the Xtart command for use when starting KDE. I booted the machine and before starting X I logged in as root and issued the sndconfig command because the install program gave me the message that I should run

[newbie] Kmail issue.

2002-10-07 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I noticed that if I delete a mail folder from the Kmail window, the corresponding files index, index.ids and 'index.sorted in the Mail directory do not get deleted. As far as I am concerned those files are just clutter. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] cdrom eject.

2002-10-06 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Sunday 06 October 2002 01:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 05 October 2002 07:04 pm, you wrote: Hi, When I try to eject the cdrom using the eject in a popup menu or an eject entered on the command line, the CD pops out from the CD drive but it quickly gets pulled back into

Re: [newbie] cdrom eject.

2002-10-06 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Sunday 06 October 2002 04:56 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2002 01:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: [Deleted] Hi, I tried the command line eject in the following two forms and I got the same result: eject cdrom eject /dev/cdrom Then I went and pressed the button

[newbie] Kmail select all messages does not work with closed threads.

2002-10-05 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I noticed that if you select all messages from the Messages menu, messages in closed threads are not selected. Is that intentional? Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Kmail import.

2002-10-05 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, How do you import mail folders from Kmail 2.2 of LM8.2 into Kmail 3.0 of LM9.0? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] no sound in MDK9.0 with ESS1688 ISA card

2002-10-05 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 12:44 am, Kristjan Klementi wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:23:21 -0700 Seedkum Aladeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 12:53 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 03:38 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have an old

Re: [newbie] no sound in MDK9.0 with ESS1688 ISA card

2002-09-30 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Monday 30 September 2002 12:53 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 03:38 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have an old ISA ESS1688-based sound card. That same audio card worked fine in MDK8.2. After MDK9.0 installations, I see that: - kernel detects an ISA PnP card, but

Re: [newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.

2002-09-28 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Saturday 28 September 2002 04:39 am, et wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 11:08 pm, you wrote: s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 09:17 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0

[newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.

2002-09-27 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked me about the directory or ISO file of the Mandrake Linux Distribution. I gave it the

Re: [newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.

2002-09-27 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 09:17 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked me

Re: [newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.

2002-09-27 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 10:08 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked

[newbie] C++

2002-06-30 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Assalamu alaikum, can you compile these programs and tell me what you get? Ayoub //: C13:PStashTest.cpp // From Thinking in C++, 2nd Edition // Available at http://www.BruceEckel.com // (c) Bruce Eckel 2000 // Copyright notice in Copyright.txt //{L} PStash // Test of pointer Stash

[newbie] Cannot mount file system messages.

2002-06-15 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, When I boot LM8.2 from hard disk I get the message that the local file system mounting has failed. Later, before the boot up is completed, I get a message that amother file system mounting has failed. However the boot up goes to completion. I am able to login and seemingly the system

[newbie] How can I speed up Konqueror?

2002-06-08 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I am using Konqueror to browse HTML documents on my hard disk and the speed is painfully slow, especially when the file is first read. How can I speed it up? I am not out of CPU cycles, I am not out of memory, I am not out of swap and the machine is not the problem. BTW. I am too

[newbie] Integerateed Development environment.

2002-05-20 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, Can somebody share some wisdom on which to use, Xbasic, KDE IDE or other integrated development environment for C/C++ primarily. I looked up the KDE sites and it appears to my newbie eyes that the KDE IDE is optimized for producing software very narrowly targeted at the KDE platform. I

Re: [newbie] Supermount survey...

2002-05-13 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Monday 13 May 2002 08:27 am, you wrote: I'm just curious, and would like to get everyone's input on Supermount. After running so long without it under v8.1, and now using it again under v8.2, well - I'm just about ready to disable it again. Can everyone just comment on whether or not they

Re: [newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-12 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: i586 will work on machines with a Pentium class processor or newer. That is, anything newer than a 486. i686 will work on machines with a Celeron, Pentium II, or newer. Thus my AMD K6 box can use RPMs for either i586 or i686, but my AMD K5 box can

Re: [newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: i586 will work on machines with a Pentium class processor or newer. That is, anything newer than a 486. i686 will work on machines with a Celeron, Pentium II, or newer. Thus my AMD K6 box can use RPMs for either i586 or i686, but my AMD K5 box can

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Monday 06 May 2002 12:50 pm, you wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 11:51, Anne Wilson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have often wondered why people hold The Register in such regard. because the other choices are what... zdnet? cnet? when the

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 02 May 2002 04:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Just a quick note on SO6. I have seen claims here that it opens everything faultlessly and that it crashes and is totally useless. It turns out that both are true :-) Try to open a word doc file received as an attachment with the Open

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem.

2002-05-01 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 10:50 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:50:38 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 30 April 2002 01:44 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Try manually editing /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg. On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:58:46 -0700

[newbie] urpmi problem.

2002-04-30 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, When I use urpmi I keep getting the message that some media files do not exist. In an attempt to eliminate those messages, I used rpmi.removemedia trying to remove the problem media, I got the same messages urpmi gives. I show these error messages below. Further down I show the files

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem.

2002-04-30 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 01:44 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Try manually editing /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg. On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:58:46 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I use urpmi I keep getting the message that some media files do not exist. In an attempt

Re: [newbie] Software Manager crashing.

2002-04-28 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Saturday 27 April 2002 07:44 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Friday 26 April 2002 01:00 pm, civileme wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do

Re: [newbie] Software Manager crashing.

2002-04-27 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Friday 26 April 2002 01:00 pm, civileme wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do that.. I have, for example, the e2fsprogs-1.27-1.1mdk.i586.rpm

[newbie] Software Manager crashing.

2002-04-26 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do that.. I have, for example, the e2fsprogs-1.27-1.1mdk.i586.rpm and the e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm on my system by the Software Manager.

[newbie] Moving the home directory.

2002-04-12 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, For some reason (most likely my self), the home directory ended up in a partition where I do not want it to be. Can I move the home directory to the partition where I want it to be? Can I log in as root and move the home directory? the home directory for the root user is on the partition

Re: [newbie] way to pin windows to dekstop in gnome?

2002-04-11 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Right clik on the top window frame (bar) and select always on top. On Thursday 11 April 2002 02:59 pm, you wrote: Is there a way, or a window manger/window manager theme that would let me pin a window to the dekstop (i.e. keep it always on top) in a convenient way? - Paul Rodriguez

[newbie] Redundant files. (long listing).

2002-04-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, To overcome LM 8.2 install problems I faced, I have had to perform a series of installs, upgrade installs and package upgrades. I ended up with some directories that had superfluous entries. I have listed out the contents of lilo.conf and the contents of some directories. There is

[newbie] Software upgrade.

2002-04-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I am trying to use the KDE software upgrade utility. I have the three CDs iso files in the /home directory and I am having a problem telling the software upgrade utility to use them as sources. Can someone please give me a hint? I have selected to use a local source in the popup New

[newbie] Partial ISO file.

2002-04-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I have this: [root@grumpy urpmi]# du -h /var/cache/urpmi/ 1.0K/var/cache/urpmi/headers 264M/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso.cz 264M/var/cache/urpmi/partial 1.0K/var/cache/urpmi/rpms 264M/var/cache/urpmi [root@grumpy urpmi]# What on earth is

[newbie] MS Windows system files in ext3 partition.

2002-04-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I have a MS pagefile.sys in my ext3 partition. I did not put it there and I do not know how it got there. The LM 8.2 install program was probably caching iso files and the MS windows pagefile.sys also got cached but it did not get deleted in the end. Is it ok to delete these files?

[newbie] SWAP not mounted.

2002-04-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I cannot tell why the swap partition is not mounted. I list the fstab and the mtab files below. I have not touched these files since I installed LM 8.2 recently. Cant somebody tell me why the swap is not mounted? By the way, When I down installed LM 8.2, other partitions got formatted to

[newbie] Memory test.

2002-04-08 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, How do you run the memory test that comes with the CDs? Could not install more than a minimal LM 8.2. No qui. Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.

2002-04-06 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Saturday 06 April 2002 01:02 am, you wrote: Damian wrote: El sáb, 06-04-2002 a las 03:46, Seedkum Aladeem escribió: Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. It might be a good idea to have a bug fix release before the boxed version

Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.

2002-04-06 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Saturday 06 April 2002 04:17 am, you wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 12:46 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. Very true, but keep in mind most problems are user, then hardware. 'Least ways I've

Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.

2002-04-06 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
On Saturday 06 April 2002 09:00 am, you wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before the install is done. B- Make the installer utility do the memory test (and any other inportant test that may be neseccary) before the install is done

Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.

2002-04-05 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
of the boxed version if need be. Seedkum On Friday 05 April 2002 09:53 pm, Damian wrote: El sáb, 06-04-2002 a las 01:59, Seedkum Aladeem escribió: Hi, Is there a chance that there may be an LM 8.2.x bug fix version.released? Seedkum ... you think we may need one? Damian Want

Re: [newbie] Thread delete in Kmail.

2002-03-30 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
: On Friday 29 March 2002 06:56 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: How do you delete a whole message thread in Kmail? Seedkum Seedkum: Assuming that your messages are sorted by subject, click on the first message in the thread. Then move down to the last message, hold the shift key, and click again

[newbie] Thread delete in Kmail.

2002-03-29 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
How do you delete a whole message thread in Kmail? Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Java path for Konqueror.

2002-03-27 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
for Mandrake wasn't it? Sorry for giving you bad info,, but at least now you know what to do if KDE suddenly starts to not find some fonts ;-) derek On Wednesday 27 March 2002 22:03, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Will I lose my bookmarks and my kmail addresses and old emails? That is all what I am

Re: [newbie] Java path for Konqueror.

2002-03-26 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
. It causes problems loading konqueror. 3/ Finally if you want to use Java applications such as MoneyDance or Lime Wire you need to create a path to Java. ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.0/bin/java /usr/bin/java (or similar) HTH derek On Tuesday 26 March 2002 06:29, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: I have

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2002-03-20 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Ok Shane. How did the upgrade go and how did you go about doing it? I may follow your foot steps; so try not to make me fall in hole. I have downloaded the three 8.2 iso files. How can I mount them on my directory tree? I looked up the man page for mount and I am not any wiser. I would need

[newbie] Reading ISO files.

2002-03-20 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I down loaded the LM 8.2 CD ISO files and I am about to do an upgrade from hard disk. I need to read the hd.img file from the first CD ISO and write it onto a floppy disk but I could not find out how. It was not obvious to me how to mount the ISO files; the mount man pages were no help. I

Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

2002-03-11 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
created there are shortcuts to openoffice and so on. I think the rest is pretty straight forward. The version I use is : http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/641c/install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz but others should work too. Greetings Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Ralph, | | You mentioned

FREE AT LAST Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

2002-03-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
. In the folder created there are shortcuts to openoffice and so on. I think the rest is pretty straight forward. The version I use is : http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/641c/install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz but others should work too. Greetings Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Ralph, | | You

Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly

2002-03-09 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
09 March 2002 02:03 am, Charles Muller wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 16:20, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Or you can define an alias in your shell rc file. This way you can start openoffice from the command line. For csh the line would go in the .cshrc file in your home directory

Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

2002-03-09 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Does it also come with an uninstall utility? | | Thanks, | | Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

2002-03-08 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
I down-loaded the openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk rpm and got the following messages when I tried to install it on Mandrake 8.1 using the Package Manager in KDE: rpm -U --replacepkgs /home/rpmdir/openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk.i586.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: lpddaemon is needed by

Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

2002-03-08 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Ralph, I used the www.rpmfind.net site to search for openoffice. The site kept timing out today. I do not have the URL unfortunately. There was only one site with the i586 rpm out of a total of 4 sites. I do not know what kind of directroy the rpm came from (contrib or not). I just clicked

Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly

2002-03-08 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Or you can define an alias in your shell rc file. This way you can start openoffice from the command line. For csh the line would go in the .cshrc file in your home directory and it will be: alias soffice /OpenOffice.org641/soffice This way whever you type soffice in a terminal window, Open

Re: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.

2002-02-12 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
? Greetings, Jeroen v.d. Westelaken EXEcute-IT Internet: http://www.execute-it.nl -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Seedkum Aladeem Verzonden: dinsdag 12 februari 2002 8:08 Aan: Newbie at MDK Onderwerp: [newbie] Disk partitioning

[newbie] Disk partitioning problem.

2002-02-11 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, Harddrake says that a drive is taking the full space of a partition but the visible size is about half the size of the partition. The other half is not visible and I cannot reach it. The following is a description of what I did and what I observed. Hopefully someone can tell me what is going

[newbie] Where did my partition go?

2002-02-10 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I had an NT4 NTFS partition (~1.9 Gig) and a FAT32 partition (~1.9 Gig). I used Harddrake to delete both of them and create a single FAT32 partition out of them (~3.8 Gig). When I looked at the properties of the directory mount point using Konqueror I got a size of ~1.9 Gig! Rebooting did

Re: [newbie] etc/resolv.conf is overwritten during start

2002-01-19 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, You are probably using DHCP and your router is probably configured as the DHCP server. If that is the case then your router will cause the update of the resolv.conf file every tim you boot. make sure that the router is configured correctly. When you do that, the router will update the

Re: [newbie] Another Wine Question

2002-01-17 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Why do you want to use the windows quicken when there is the compatible native GPL Linux application. I forgot what the application is called but it exists. Maybe someone else can tell us what it is called. Rich wrote: I have Wine (CodeWeaver's) set up and it runs most of my Windows apps OK,

Re: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, No doubt. Usually if you have no bottleneck limitations, when you up the MGHz with the same architecture you get better speed of program execution. AMD apparently has better architecture and they are planning to introduce products working at higher speed. They were planning to move to copper

[newbie] Installing LM 8.1 from HD.

2001-10-05 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I have LM 8.0 on my machine together with Bill's NT4.0. I wanted to do a clean install of LM 8.1 because I had problems with LM 8.0. I had no success. I outline the steps of the attempted hard disk install below. Can someone please tell me where I goofed? 1) I used NT4.0 to download the

Re: [newbie] Installing LM 8.1 from HD.

2001-10-05 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, There was no reply to the message. Does this mean there was no goof? Thanx, Seedkum Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have LM 8.0 on my machine together with Bill's NT4.0. I wanted to do a clean install of LM 8.1 because I had problems with LM 8.0. I had no success. I outline the steps

[newbie] Install from NTFS partition.

2001-10-05 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi all, Should it not be possible to do a hard disk install from an NTFS partition? or is it possible only from a Linux native partition? Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Win X Client

2001-09-05 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Try this http://tnt.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/ It is not free. Seedkum Olly Marshall wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a free X client so that I can connect to my Mandrake box from my windows machine ? Olly Marshall

Re: [newbie] Automatically updating Mandrake 8.0?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi Andrew, I tried to do as you say but it did not work for me. I think the Mandrake web site says you need a username and a password to update from any of the ftp sites. Don't you have to have a username and password for the ftp site you choose to update from? I gave anonymous as username and I

Re: [newbie] Automatically updating Mandrake 8.0?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, The Mandrake web site also mentions a Security Key. What do you do with that? Thanx, Ayoub Andrew wrote: hi Eduardo, From the menu, try Configuration-Packaging-MandrakeUpdate. The program asks for root password then you could download the security updates and cooker. Before you

Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-07 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, Through my efforts to find a way around the problem, I tried to re-install mdk 8.0 several times. The last time I re-installed mdk linux 8.0 I used w*ndo*s NT, that happened to be on another hard disk on the same machine, to delete all the linux partitions and not just the / partition and

Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-06 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, Because of the resolver problem and other problems, I have decided to try version 7.2 instead of 8.0. I have D*S and W*ndo*s NT4.0 installed on the machine. I need to keep those UNFORTUNATELY :( I am going to take the following two steps to uninstall mdk 8.0 and install mdk 7.2 instead:

[newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-01 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system

Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-01 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I tried editing the file /etc/resolv.conf manually but the result was exactly the same as when Linuxconf did it. What could be the problem? Michael D. Viron wrote: Try editing /etc/resolv.conf directly. Michael At 08:16 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I

Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-01 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
. Regards, Ayoub Franki wrote: look in resolve.conf that is in /etc/ppp that one is what ppp will insert when you start it,, so go with that... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seedkum Aladeem Sent: Thursday, 2

[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 updating Encryption Key.

2001-08-01 Per discussione Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I am trying to update my installation and I do not know what to do with the encryption key on the mandrake down load pages. Can someone enlighten me please? The down load instructions say I have to have a password to use any of the ftp sites. I tried to use anonymous for use name and then