Re: [newbie] Installing the new Mozilla

2002-02-20 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
system carefully enough, you shouldn't ever have to use --force. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Are you all on drugs? Get your acts together, guys. Stop blathering and frothing at the mouth -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Desktop

2002-02-17 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Internet cannot be removed from your Desktop. Do you want to delete the Internet now? -- Microsoft Windows 95 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do I get out of X-Windows

2002-02-17 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
to the KDE. Also, how do I change my display resolution in X-Windows. These can all be adjusted in the Mandrake Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself.' That's it. -- Linus Torvalds Want

Re: [newbie] Running slow.

2002-02-17 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
. On the other hand I may just upgrade the machine...things to ponder. I don't think you should use an older distribution, because then you'll be stuck with old packages. Mandrake 8.1 should work fine, but use light applications and window managers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan 640K ought to be enough

Re: [newbie] VCD/Mpeg Application

2002-02-17 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
player is mplayer, available at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe--they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information needed a different program to access

Re: [newbie] Running slow.

2002-02-17 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:23:53 -0500, daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:10:52 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:46:23 -0500, Jeffrey Madore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to say thank

Re: [newbie] par for linux?

2002-02-17 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992, writing to Linus Torvalds. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] File Sharing

2002-02-17 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] question re gtk and skins/themes

2002-02-16 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
it yourself by decompressing the contents to a directory in ~/.themes. They should then show up in the list of themes. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it! -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [OT] saw this one in Sridhar's sig

2002-02-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:56:07 -0500, Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip -- Sridhar Dhanapalan After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator

Re: [newbie] Kernel or Module?

2002-02-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, it will use this .config file as a base for its settings. Modify things however you want, save and compile as usual. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan And I have to say that I absolutely despise the BSD people... Oh, well. Not everybody can be as goodlooking as me. It's a curse

Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, though. There are also plenty of GNU/Linux sites that have lists of supported hardware and descriptions on how to get particular pieces of hardware to work. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Maybe somebody else comes up with a better way to do it, or with a really compelling reason to. Feel free to try

Re: [newbie] gphoto or any digicam apps

2002-02-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
digicam apps? You're probably best off if you install Ximian GNOME (http://www.ximian.com/). Not only will you get a recent version of Gphoto, you'll also get an enhanced GNOME desktop environment :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Internet cannot be removed from your Desktop

Re: [newbie] is there an easier way to install Gnone update?

2002-02-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
with nt and prozgui as of yet). ciao! Downloader for X is a great downloader. GNOME Transfer Manager (GTM) and Prozilla are pretty good too. To download the RPMs, look for a Ximian FTP mirror. The main one is at ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Anyone who says you

Re: [newbie] Question about Sylpheed and -claws

2002-02-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:29:25 -0500, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:06:32 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My favourite enhancements include a vastly improved filtering system (better than Kmail's) and better word wrapping. For more

Re: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Open Office build. If you run the StarOffice setup with the /net flag, you'll only have to install a couple of megs worth of data into each user's home directory (i.e. not the whole suite). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I think that throttling writers is fine and good, but as it stands now, the dirty

Re: [newbie] writing/deleting files to a FAT32 partition

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
FAT32 very well :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 2nd ed, p.25 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
of resources to WINE development. Your US$20 contributes to this development, so in effect you are supporting open source. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Software evolves. It isn't designed. The only question is how strictly you _control_ the evolution, and how open you are to external sources of mutations

Re: [newbie] Disk Problems

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
11 15:08:53 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1996556, sector=149837 Feb 11 15:08:53 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success I think your drive is dying. Back up everything ASAP and start looking for another :( -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Can other people try

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
in active development since 1984. In that time, a complete operating system had been written, complete with a developer tools and a multitude of applications. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Life does not end at 2.4.0. Think of it more as a no more excuses release

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
. This format can be read by most spreadsheets. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company

Re: [newbie] system tray

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
at GNOME's Panel applets? There are several mailchecking applets, and some IM apps (e.g. GnomeICU) can embed status indicators into a Panel. If you want, you can even swallow entire apps into a panel, overriding the window manager. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
world where the 3 points above work perfectly, I guess it is not easy and for them, Mac is still the only solution that works out of the box, without any other config. That's true. I'm sure free software will get there; it'll just take some time :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] Printing problems

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, and then instruct your applications to use 'xpp' as their printing command. XPP is a Mandrake package that allows extra control over your prinitng. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The linux kernel has had an interesting release pattern: usually the .0 release was actually fairly good (there's almost always

Re: Re(2): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, hardware designed for Macs works exceptionally well (often better than how they work in Windows). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I'm a stupid git. I even remember thinking about the syncing issues at some point, and then obviously just forgetting about it completely. -- Linus Torvalds Want

Re: [newbie] My PCI sound card can't work

2002-02-11 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
by aumix and set it to maximum (no mute at all). The card is running properly while in Windows 98. Any one have suggestion for me? If you have a BIOS setting regarding a PnP OS, turn it off. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Help me out, and I won't ever call netfilter a heap of stinking dung again. Do we have

Re: [newbie] Translation

2002-02-11 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
and click Translate. This works fine for me in Mozilla and Galeon. In theory it should work in any good JavaScript-enabled browser. It wouldn't be hard to write a similar bookmark that directly translated a page from one language to another, skipping step 4. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] finding my ip

2002-02-11 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
is the real IP address for that particular device. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I was never a big thinker. One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future

Re: [newbie] Galeon * Mozilla

2002-02-10 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
that is recommended for your version of Galeon. This isn't as bad as it sounds, because support is usually added for a new Mozilla version within a few days of its release. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan And in the end, reality always tends to hit theory hard in the face when you

Re: [newbie] Building a PC.

2002-02-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
price rises, this is still a bargain. Not only will your hard drive be cached, you also minimise HDD accesses by eliminating the need to use swap. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
heat). Any CPU that can operate reliably when overclocked should be super-stable when running at its proper speed. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Did I mention my belief in the true meaning of intelligence? Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done. Lazy programmers

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
off in the BIOS, but these settings have no effect on the CPU chipset. Moreover, GNU/Linux always ignores the BIOS anyway (unless the BIOS decides to interfere with something, of course). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I am Linus Torvalds and yes, I am your god

Re: [newbie] New kernel .. tips?

2002-02-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
before i start with this one? i'm going to back up my whole /boot before starting... but is there any other stuff i have to upgrade along with the kernel? any parameters to the ./configure ? is using a simple make allright? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The number of UNIX installations

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
a download manager. Galeon interfaces extremely well with GNOME Transfer Manager (GTM) and Downloader for X (NT). All you have to do is Shift+Click a link and Galeon sends to to the download manager to be downloaded. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 06 Feb 2002 00:22:20 -0600, Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 21:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: You can give all GTK+ (including GNOME) apps anti-aliasing with gdkxft (http://gdkxft.sourceforge.net). It's a bit of a hack, but it does a decent job. How did you

Re: [newbie] VMWare Workstation 3

2002-02-06 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA| i$ whEn J00 +4lK L!K3 t|-|15. t0 u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo |\/|u5+ be 1337. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N07 5p3A| 0r ReAd +|-|I5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Building a PC.

2002-02-06 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
. Well, this e-mail has gotten kind of long, so I guess I better stop here. All advice is appreciated. Cheers, Brian -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The world's shortest poem: Me, Oui. -- Muhammad Ali Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] nautilus takes up too much memory

2002-02-06 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
at all). The easiest way to choose your desktop manager is to install Ximian GNOME and use the Ximian Doorman configuration tool. Otherwise, you can edit the GNOME session properties by typing session-properties in an xterm. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan You're basically killing each other to see who's got

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-06 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
ports (support 2.0) - NIC Ethernet 10/100 Mbps - Zip Internal 250MB - 17 Viewsonic E70 Cheers, Brian -- Sridhar Dhanapalan MacOS, Windows, BeOS: they're all just Xerox copies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, but they are often quite innovative, incorporating features and methodology that you may not see in the Big Two environments. They also tend to much lighter and faster. Examples of these include XFce, IceWM, Enlightenment, WindowMaker and Fluxbox. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] New problem with Gnome

2002-02-05 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
. Is this a common issue with Gnome? I had this problem about a year ago. Open /etc/hosts in an editor (as root) and make sure the following (or similar) lines are present: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 nightshade.telusplanet.net -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-02-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:22:37 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please let me know where I can download a copy of Evolution 1.0 from Any cooker mirror: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan My girlfriend always laughs during sex

Re: [newbie] personal organizer

2002-01-29 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
missing something in korganizer ? GNOME calendar (gnomecal) and Evolution have worked quite well for me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Ok, the guy who made the netfilter Makefile was probably on some really interesting and probably highly illegal drugs when he wrote it. -- Linus

Re: [newbie] ISO image viewer

2002-01-23 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
://freshrpms.net/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We will get the source code up on the Web - anybody who specifically wants a copy can just ask. -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No sound for window/system events (Gnome/Sawfish/LM8.1)

2002-01-22 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 22 Jan 2002 14:55:05 +1000, Charles Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 15:57, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 20 Jan 2002 14:47:27 +1000, Charles Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, after I had started 'esd' as a background process from a terminal, a little

Re: [newbie] No sound for window/system events (Gnome/Sawfish/LM8.1)

2002-01-20 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 20 Jan 2002 14:47:27 +1000, Charles Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 16:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 19 Jan 2002 14:33:45 +1000, Charles Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 22:35, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Try running GNOME as root

Re: [newbie] Gnome Mouse Scrollig

2002-01-20 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
imwheel running (it runs by default), kill it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] OT: VB on Linux???

2002-01-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
language that runs on linux, I'd like to know it!!! Try Python. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Did I mention my belief in the true meaning of intelligence? Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done. Lazy programmers are the best programmers. Think Tom Sawyer painting

Re: [newbie] No sound for window/system events (Gnome/Sawfish/LM8.1)

2002-01-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 18 Jan 2002 22:49:26 +1000, Charles Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 17:44, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Perhaps EsounD isn't loaded. Try running 'esd' and see what happens with your GNOME sounds. Thanks, Sridhar, I tried 'esd' and it played a short series

Re: [newbie] Linux Laptop maillist

2002-01-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:26:13 -0600, Andy Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I see somewhere that there is a Linux Laptop maillist? If anyone has information, I would appreciate it. I don't know about a mailing list, but try http://www.linux-laptop.net/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] No sound for window/system events (Gnome/Sawfish/LM8.1)

2002-01-17 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
the 'Play' button for any of the sound events, I hear nothing. I'm using LM8.1, with Gnome and Sawfish. Perhaps EsounD isn't loaded. Try running 'esd' and see what happens with your GNOME sounds. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Internet cannot be removed from your Desktop

Re: [newbie] Menu of KDE or GNOME

2002-01-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:00:24 -0600, Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody could help me to find out how to put new programs on menu of KDE or GNOME so I can run them from there? Run 'menudrake'. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Mac OS, Windows, BeOS: they're all just Xerox

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice build 641c

2002-01-11 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, Andre -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- informal Xerox PARC slogan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] File spliter?

2002-01-09 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Widnows and he will want this home movie. I did a search on freshmeat but didn't come up with anything. If you want to split up an MPEG and keep the ability to view the individual parts, take a look at http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/ Otherwise: http://www.linux-tips.net/article.php?sid=75 -- Sridhar

[newbie] nVidia nForce 420D chipset

2002-01-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
). I'm not a fan of closed source drivers, but this chipset looks too good to pass up :-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... the main beneficiaries of mergers in the computer industry have been competitors -- Ben Rosen, Chairman of Compaq Computer Corp., 1991. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] nVidia nForce 420D chipset

2002-01-07 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 09:26:17 -0500, Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I'm not a fan of closed source drivers, but this chipset looks too good to pass up :-) Sridhar, I just saw something today about NVidia seizing computer equipment from some hackers who

Re: [newbie] qtella

2002-01-06 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Stop re-designing something just because you want to. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Where is StarOffice?

2002-01-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
). The newer OpenOffice.org builds are faster and more stable than the SO beta, but they are missing a few (mostly unimportant) SO-only features. Give it a go; it has worked very well for me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan And do you not realize that features never get dropped: they just end up increasing

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable

2002-01-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
check and correct the problem and just how many mounts are too many? What version of NTFS do you have? I don't think the Mandrake kernels support anything over NTFS 4.0 (from NT4). NTFS 5.0 (from Win2K) _may_ work, but 5.1 (from XP) won't work at all. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The number

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable

2002-01-02 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
to mount the drive I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems If it is a bad superblock how do I check and correct the problem and just how many mounts are too many? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I feel that open

Re: [newbie] SO 5.2 won't share

2002-01-01 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
not see that option. You need to run the initial setup routine with the /net flag. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I care about the fact that our internal design has to be robust. It doesn't have to make everybody happy, but it has to be clean both conceptually and from a pure implementation standpoint. I don't

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
long for the filters to reach their present level of quality (which is very good). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The linux kernel has had an interesting release pattern: usually the .0 release was actually fairly good (there's almost always something stupid, but on the whole not really horrible

Re: [newbie] How long to wait???

2001-12-29 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
the file, run lilo and reboot. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- informal Xerox PARC slogan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re: [Galeon-user] Default Browser

2001-12-29 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
PROTECTED] -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Geeks aren't interested in politics because government doesn't double its efficiency and speed once every 18 months. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-28 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
but with application which has definitely become a reductio ad absurdem. Non-productive drones feast off the efforts of the workers, the software writers, and squelch creativity. This is the reality and it is why anything I write is GPL. Civileme -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I don't think it's

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
will not make any promises. But I do know I have alot of users on my network that do it through Outlook. I don't think that's POP, but rather a proprietary protocol that only Lookout/Lookout Express can do. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-27 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
but with application which has definitely become a reductio ad absurdem. Non-productive drones feast off the efforts of the workers, the software writers, and squelch creativity. This is the reality and it is why anything I write is GPL. Civileme -- Sridhar Dhanapalan And do you not realize

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
the idea to use. And which is more valuable, or more worthy of being compensated (for)? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I've always liked penguins, and when I was in Canberra a few years ago we

Re: [newbie] Speed [was Re: Recommended office suites?]

2001-12-27 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
(the default is quite fast), no unnecessary sounds, use small and fast apps, etc. You may also want to try Enlightenment, Blackbox, ROX or XFce. Even GNOME can be quite quick if you disable Nautilus (if you really want you can use GMC instead). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Because I'm a bastard

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
that Turbolinux basically specialises in Japanese support (it has a bigger following in Japan than it does in the US). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan But hey, thats just my 31,000 Turkish Lira. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
to use. And which is more valuable, or more worthy of being compensated (for)? Randy Kramer -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is- Fatal Exception Error in MSBORG32.DLL

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
profits. But, as you have said, the verdict is still out on that. :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... _no_ major software project that has been successful in a general marketplace (as opposed to niches) has ever gone through those nice lifecycles they tell you about in CompSci classes. Have you _ever_

Re: [newbie] Re: Open Source (was Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
have really been halcyon days, comparatively speaking. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-26 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:35:55 -0500, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:52:03 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In the download edition, the only

Re: [newbie] Re[2]: is an anti-virus mandatory ?

2001-12-26 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, ยท which one is recommended. Is there any good open source antivirus (for workstations) ? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If I understood the GNU make syntax correctly (which is possibly not the case - GNU make is possibly the only example of overkill to rival GNU emacs), this looks like a reasonable

Re: [newbie] Re: Cannot send email to list..?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
an ordinary Internet connection using it's own modem. If you can advise, please send it my way, if not hey here goes another install! Sorry, don't know this one. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows 2000, Users Zilch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
? doug -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Technically, Windows is an 'operating system,' which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating. -- Dave Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): MAndrakesoft is committed to free software. All the Mandrake Tools are licensed under the GNU GEneral Public License and source is available. Find another major distro that does that! -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Hey

Re: [newbie] Cron ???

2001-12-24 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
someone help me ...what is my mistake ... ? Best Regards, SKLIM +6012 391 3638 You may want to try a graphical app like kcron. It can be much easier that way. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch

Re: [newbie] Hotline

2001-12-24 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
and didn't find anything. http://gtkhx.sourceforge.net/links.html Or, http://synhxd.sourceforge.net/ Or, http://hx.fortyoz.org/ -- Cheers, Stephen Also: http://fidelio.sourceforge.net/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The box said Requires Windows XP or better. I can't understand why

Re: [newbie] Wrong Choice of Monitor while installation

2001-12-22 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
be fine. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows: The first user interface where you click Start to turn it off. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or On?

2001-12-22 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
into the kernel (i.e. not a module). The same goes for the other journalling FSs, although some (like JFS) have issues when used for /boot. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Geeks aren't interested in politics because government doesn't double its efficiency and speed once every 18 months

Re: [newbie] swap memory guidelines

2001-12-22 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
). Thanks, julian. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan One World, One Web, One Programme -- Microsoft Promotional Ad Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer -- Adolf Hitler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] swap memory guidelines

2001-12-22 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
at once, then you may need a lot of swap. I think I heard somewhere that beyond about 128Meg or so of RAM, matching swap to RAM results in reduced performance. That hasn't been a problem since early 2.2-series kernels (a few years ago). Thanks, julian. -- Sridhar

Re: [newbie] kde/mdk objprelink???

2001-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:14:08 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2001 02:21 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:40:26 +1100, Navin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if Mandrake is planning to compile their rpms the 'prelinked' way

Re: [newbie] kde/mdk objprelink???

2001-12-20 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
are objprelinked. You can install them onto Mandrake 8.1 (with a little tweaking afterwards) or you can wait for the next Mandrake release. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence

Re: [newbie] I've got a strange one

2001-12-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
--nodesktop'. The --sm-disable disables session management for GMC, so that it will _truly_ close when you tell it to. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan In short, Microsoft is no more able to build secure products than England's cricket team is able to withstand the bowling of Australia's

Re: [newbie] Re: 8.1 installation

2001-12-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
you need more information? Thanks very much, Sandy Shapiro It may help if you supply the following info: card make/model card chipset card interface (ISA, PCI, etc.) P.S. Please post directly to the list and not to individual members. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Information Revolution

Re: [newbie] Re: 8.1 installation

2001-12-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, Sandy Shapiro It may help if you supply the following info: card make/model card chipset card interface (ISA, PCI, etc.) P.S. Please post directly to the list and not to individual members. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The nice thing about standards is that you have so many

[newbie] Microsoft Hotmail still runs on U**x

2001-12-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I know we've had this on the list before, but it's always funny to be reminded: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23348.html :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan What's this script doing? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep. Hint: not everything is computer-oriented

Re: [newbie] Searching for Image Browser

2001-11-27 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Gnome included one that was pretty good, but I don't remember what it is called. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Try http://gqview.sourceforge.net/. It's GTK+-based, and darn fast. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Also we should remember that unfortunately free software

Re: [newbie] galeon

2001-11-26 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
. It requires Mozilla 0.9.6. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan HTML needs a rant tag. -- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How can I use gcc 3.01 instead of 2.96?

2001-11-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
in Mandrake 8.1, not 8.0): $ export CC=gcc-3.0.1 CXX=gcc-3.0.1 You obviously require the relavant gcc packages to be installed. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows is not done until Lotus 123 won't run. -- Old Microsoft internal slogan Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] divx

2001-11-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
, including mpg, avi, asf, DivX 3 and 4 ... and so on. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] linux facts for presentation

2001-11-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
performance is bad in Win2K, and worse in WinXP. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe--they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information needed a different program to access it. -- Tim Berners-Lee

Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page

2001-11-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
images in a subdirectory - which I think is what you want. 0.12.8 was released only today, so now micht be a good time to try it: http://galeon.sourceforge.net/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan 133+ w1nd0z d00d Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] proxy servers..squid vs. apache ?

2001-11-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
the other? Again,thank you all for your time,and of course..hava great week all :-) Lee Apache is primarily a web server; Squid is primarily a proxy app. It sounds like you need Squid, not Apache. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more

Re: [newbie] ./configure cannot find QT libraries

2001-11-16 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Do you have the qt2-Xt and qt2-Xt-devel packages installed as well? On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:50:47 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep i've tried pointing --with-qt-libraries to /usr/lib/qt2/ and /usr/lib/qt2/lib On Friday 16 November 2001 01:12, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote

Re: [newbie] What is the long term plan for NS ans Mozilla

2001-11-16 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
and Netscape 4 in mind. Until this situation improves, we will need Netscape 4. Red Hat announced some months ago that they will make Mozilla their default browser once it has reached a very usable state. I'm sure that Mandrake and other distros will do likewise. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] ./configure cannot find QT libraries

2001-11-15 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Is there something else I should have loaded? Derek Is the --with-qt-libraries tag pointing to the right place? It should be pointing to /usr/lib/qt2/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

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