Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-06 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:49, WauloK wrote: Yes! Definitely! Thanks :) Now you can get back into IRC and tell'em how great having TWO resources for Mandrake issues is, eh? (g) YankDownUnder -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales

Re: [newbie] New Kernel installation.

2005-04-06 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:10, Gonzalo Mdk wrote: Hi all, i'm new to this list (I usually use the expert) because i think this Q doesn't qualify for the expert list. I have a laptop (doesn't have a brand, is assembled in a place here in Chile) that has ACPI support, but when i recompile the

Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-05 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:26, WauloK wrote: Hi. I'm trying to set up my XF86Config. I've tried entering the data from a Modelines generator website, but it doesn't seem to be using the entered info. If I look at the OSD of the monitor at the moment it says: 44.1kHz / 55.0Hz It's in

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles ctrl-alt-F7 or ctrl-alt-F8

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:27, Charles Rodgers wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will

Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-05 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 09:42, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is working fine? Thanks in advance, Paul Why not something fun? http://speculativevision.com/arcade/tailgunner/tailgunner.html -- stephen kuhn

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:30, mike wrote: I know this is actually a no...no... but sometimes I get these emails meant for a windows box with attachments like joker.exe or whatever. Anyways I dont open the attachments, but I view the message source just to see what it looks like. I know :-|

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:30, mike wrote: Ahh... thanks Steven. Never happened to me before at least since I been using Linux. I guess I thought I was safer than I really was. Not sure how to turn that off in mozilla will look around. Again thanks, Mike Not quite sure in Mozilla Mail

Re: [newbie] IRC channel, Mandrake

2005-04-04 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:36, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been asked to remind everyone that there is an IRC channel for Mandrake, on Freenode. It was #mandrake, but is now ##mandrake. I haven't tried it myself, but I'm told it is a good place to try when you need urgent help. Anne Thank

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:52, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am experiencing a very weird thing when I try to make urpmi.update, because I am at work I cannot make an update with the CD's in the drive, anyway, I have commented those rows out and just have Charles site left as a media,

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:03, Anders Lind wrote: Why not remove ALL media, then re-add Charles site...?? Thanks Stephen, it could have worked LOL, now I get this error...when Charles have the time, maybe you could help me [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# urpmi.addmedia eslrahc

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:50, Derek Jennings wrote: It seems that by disabling Javascript in acroread and applying this patch we can stop acroread spying on us. Of course a better solution is to stop using acroread. I tried out the patch. It seems to work. derek I just don't like

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 10:25, Derek Jennings wrote: I gave up spying on you when you started sitting at your terminal naked. Now if only Anne and Margot would stop... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales ---

RE: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 15:56, Hugh Dixon wrote: [JDOW] April Fools has existed since the days of the Roman Empire. {^_-} Did the Romans get to Brazil? Where do you think the Brazilians came from? Rome had been there. Etruscans had been there. Phoenicians had been there. Egyptians had

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 23:35, Simon wrote: I am running the following cron job: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 I get the following message : Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 .. /bin/sh: line 1:

Re: [newbie] Checking the Internet activity

2005-03-19 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 05:24, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of seeing the Internet activity, i.e., the number of the connections and the implied programs? Thanks in advance, Paul urpmi iptraf ...also trafshow, etherape, ethereal, nessus... -- stephen kuhn mobile:

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:15, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:49, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 06:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list.

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-18 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 Charles Dang...nothing ever for 10.0 again, eh Charles? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-18 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:20, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 07:02 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 Charles Dang...nothing ever for 10.0 again, eh Charles? I second that dang. So

Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut

2005-03-17 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 03:07, Julie Sloan wrote: Last time I saw a happy Kiwi he was standing by the fence of a sheep station with all the sheep backed up to the fence...(bad bad bad joke) Shouldn't that be baaa-d baaa-d joke? I stand corrupted. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-17 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 04:23, Julie Sloan wrote: I found a new-newbie oriented tutorial at http://www.linuxcommand.org/ which everyone here probably already knows about. But just in case some lurker doesn't, there's the link. I may not be pestering y'all with questions for a while. I'm

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-17 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 09:27, Julie Sloan wrote: Dang. Didn't know they taught reading in Kentucky. (http://linuxfordummies.org) They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and

Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine

2005-03-17 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:37, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 05:11, eric jackson wrote: I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled on a link to it somewhere. www.tuxmagazine.com. It is a free linux magazine distributed in PDF format aimed at new users.

Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut

2005-03-16 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:14, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've installed k3b and would like to have a desktop shortcut as it is not listed in my menus (that I have found yet). I can start it okay from command line, but thought there has to be another way. I found instructions to right

Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut

2005-03-16 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:26, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Please ignore my first post. I went back to google and found another set of (easier for me as a newb) instructions. Have my icon, it works, and I am happy. cheers Rosemary Ah, but Grasshopper - are you TRULY happy...? --

Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut

2005-03-16 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:46, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Wednesday 16 Mar 2005 22:30, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:26, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Please ignore my first post. I went back to google and found another set of (easier for me as a newb) instructions

Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut

2005-03-16 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:02, Graham wrote: Stephen you are one sick puppy! keep up the good work - we need your acerbic wit to keep us sane regards Graham Someone's gotta fill in the spots that Aron, ET and Joe miss. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new

Re: [newbie] X Compile Error

2005-03-13 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 01:31, JRH wrote: Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure:

Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer

2005-03-12 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:09, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to KookieJar for Windows. Thank you, I use the fortunes database for my random sigs; echo --br echo stephen kuhnbr echo mobile: 0410-728-389br echo illawarra and

Re: [newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface

2005-03-08 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 04:45, Ivo Perich wrote: I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IPBytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734 192.168.1.5

Re: [newbie] workgroup

2005-03-07 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:28, Duncan Anderson wrote: The other newbie way is to install the drakwizard package and then use the Configure Samba wizard from MCC. cheers Duncan Erg...that's WAY too easy...gotta be more cryptic than that...(grin) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software Patent from an

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well Stephen, the on-line communities here are glowing with rage already and the upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution faces even harder resistance. Kaj Haulrich. I think a BIG STINK is about to hit the world - especially with good

Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before

2005-03-06 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 20:23, Al wrote: I also have a KVM switch. I use CTRL CTRL F2 to switch between computers. CTRL CTRL F1 sets auto scan and it switches every 4 seconds for me too. To switch off auto-scan, I just have to hit CTRL CTRL HTH Al I have a strange feeling that Mr. Aron

Re: [newbie] MS warns of 'rootkits'

2005-02-23 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:28, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 22 February 2005 6:39 pm, Chris wrote: Hm, if the authors of chkrootkit and rootkit hunter can come up with a windows version they'd give MS some competition. http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,99843,00.html

Re: [newbie] Xfce4 user login broken

2005-02-20 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 06:47, Margot wrote: When I try to login to Xfce4 as user, either from the login manager or by using 'startxfce4' from a terminal, I get a few seconds of the Xfce 'mouse' (or is it meant to be a rat?) logo flashing, and then I just get the blue screen with the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(

2005-02-19 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote: MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html Er...that's kinda old news mate...you should have been able to see that from the beginningeh? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south

Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(

2005-02-19 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 07:34, rikona wrote: Perhaps, but the number of PO'd people is relatively small, and M$ really doesn't have to worry about them too much. They are extending their political (and media) influence a lot, and that may be more effective in keeping 'the linux enemy' at bay.

Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(

2005-02-19 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 10:43, Aron Smith wrote: I'm hoping that by the time Longborn hits the streets, I'll have a nice comfy permanent job somewhere in a linux/unix environment. Spoken like a True Lord of the Drunken Penguins Er...I thought we were The Knights of the Drunken Penguin?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 03:34, et wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:01 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: whack I'd like to thank all of you for reminding me why the OT list was created. -- cmg maybe we should take a round of thanks on the other lists that so greatly benifit from Mark

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 11:16, Amy wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:57:38 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry arses

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:52, JoeHill wrote: Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or a masochist to go through that gate... 'Abandon all Hope...' Dot why we tain't been seein' ya round those ports, eh Joe? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:57, JoeHill wrote: Just tryin' to impart some good ol' Canuck wisdom on them thar 'mericans, as per usual. Futile effort, I know, but there's a fine line between hope and delusion, eh? You really DO enjoy futility, don't ya kiddo? -- stephen kuhn mobile:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:03, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 Feb 2005 12:53, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 04:50, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:36 pm, Michael Davis wrote: Can somebody give me a link or something

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 02:37, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 04:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Go be a good lad and take your medication now. :-) Shock treatment won't commence until Monday. (Which, by the way, is SUNDAY in yer neck of the woods. Always a day late and a dollar short over there...) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 12:59, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:50:19 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. Er, yer talkin 'bout ARON here mate. Limited creativity. He's

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:39, rikona wrote: Hello Hugh, Friday, February 11, 2005, 6:09:21 PM, Hugh wrote: -Original Message- From: Marek Pawinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2005 1:33 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:55, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Stephen Kühn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2005 2:44 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:39, rikona wrote: Hello Hugh

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 15:07, rikona wrote: SK And BEWARE Rikona on the OT list...dangerous that one is... Don't ruin it. We're about to get a new victim... e, subscriber. :-) Dang. Forgot about that. Ok. I'll keep it quiet and not tell anyone. It HAS been a while since a new vic, er,

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 16:06, Hugh Dixon wrote: Naw hes an ozzie same difference except for the sheep Nothing wrong with sheep... Hugh.au Especially when they're chopped up really nicely and slapped on the barbie for a few minutes to char'em up. Yep. Aussies and sheep. Unlike Kiwi's and

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 16:36, Hugh Dixon wrote: I tend to go emu, local tucker, not that foreign muck... Hugh You live in Victoria, don't you? Didn't know that there was much emu in Victoria...unless I'm mistaken about the location of Listech... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:08, Hugh Dixon wrote: Outer east of Melbourne. Some (other) states have reasonable laws concerning their food preparation. I'm not parochial enough to care which side of the Murray dinner comes from! I gather it (emu) also gets packaged as ostrich and sent

Re: [newbie] interesting news story

2005-01-31 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:34, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:10:42 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: Activists Urge Free Open-Source Software http://tinyurl.com/5hezf Now why would those poor starving people want to miss out on this?:

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:55, njcross wrote: I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? Nev If you're using the graphical login, you can always hit

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-26 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:39, Andy Yankovich wrote: Hi Stephen, Before the file installed a message said it hd bad signatures. I clicked install anyway. (1) should I have not gone ahead with installation? (2) what does bad signatures mean? Andy You'll be right mate. Don't worry about

Re: [newbie] updates

2005-01-26 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:46, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 09:18, Dave Needham wrote: i have just done an update through the madrake control center.3 lists security bux fixes normal updates theres a list as long as your arm

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. Greed, Huh? Andy There is Evolution 2.0, Sylpheed-Claws, Balsa, Mozilla-Mail, Netscape-Mail - and actually a slew of

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. It does not seem to matter what condition the disc is in (i.e. scratched

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:58, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:17, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: huge snip 2) Install thundirbird urpmi mozilla-thunderbird http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1md k.i586.rpm snip Avi When I typed step 2 as

Re: [newbie] Nav packets...

2005-01-25 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:15, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:43, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:33, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:58, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird

Re: [newbie] 10.1 missing icons

2005-01-25 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:21, Mike Adolf wrote: I was doing the QT designer tutorial, it directed me to browse to locate an icon called tabwidget.png. This icon and others used in the tutorial are not in my installation of 10.1, which includes the development packages. All autoupdates were

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: It should already

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 16:32, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Julie Sloan lied: [sorry - anything further I'll post to the OT list] Down the mighty Mississip, into the Gulf, through the Panama Canal, head directly SSW and don't stop till you smack into Windang Island

Re: [newbie] help

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 06:13, dave needham wrote: hi margot i think it was john or sumone to goto http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ follow instructions which was copy and paste txt which i did but i found some small print which said urpmi.removemedia -a if you had broadband which i have but i did

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 06:35, Julie Sloan wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:31, Julie Sloan wrote:consider Stephen's advice Gonna start from scratch. I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD and should probably wait

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:38, Julie Sloan wrote: Well, after sleeping on the harddrive I am confusing the two ;) Stephen Kühn wrote: Linux causes you to tear out hair? Are you sure you're not confusing linux with men? Men causing you to tear your hair out I can fully understand

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:59, Lanman wrote: Damn Stephen! Did you have to list every one of our flaws? There's honesty and then there's Brutal honesty! Nest thing you know, women will be dating their hard drives, Sigh! Well, maybe I can just increase my support contracts instead! Grin!

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:54, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Difference between a hard drive and a man:snip Thanks for the explanation! BTW, sorry for my earlier top-posting, I'd forgotten it is preferable to bottom-post on this list? Julie It's quite alright

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 09:18, Margot wrote: Can I sign up for a 'support contract'? Goats are accepted in lieu of cash, Margot. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 09:42, Julie Sloan wrote: Goats are accepted in lieu of cash, Margot. Pssst, Margot - - my nextdoor neightbors are raising goats and wouldn't miss a couple! J Goat steak, goat stew, goat pie, goat cheese, goat ala mode, goat ala carte, goat burgers, goat

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:09, Margot wrote: Nooo! I think we'd better transfer any further 'goat' discussion to the OT list... Speaking of the OT list - what the heck ever happened to those that initially screamed for an OT IRC channel - which exists, but no one on this list ever goes

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:38, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:59, Lanman wrote: Damn Stephen! Did you have to list every one of our flaws? There's honesty and then there's Brutal honesty! Nest thing you know, women will be dating their hard drives, Sigh

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:02, Julie Sloan wrote: What about a ReiserFS? Or is that something else, not a type of partition as I thought? thanks, Julie Let's make it as simply put as possible. Create the partitions: /boot (ext3) / (ReiserFS) SWAP /home (ReiserFS) Bear in mind that MS

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:02, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Goat steak, goat stew, goat pie, goat cheese, goat ala mode, goat ala carte, goat burgers, goat kebabs, goat gyros, goat sausages, goat patties, goat casserole...the list goes on. My barbie is primed up and ready

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:26, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: My barbie is primed up and ready. MMMmm. I'm rowing. Expect me sometime in March.. Julie Dunno if anyone's ever rowed from the west coast of the US to the east

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:49, Julie Sloan wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: restarting urpmi One of the following packages is needed: 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) 2- ssmtp-2.60.7-1mdk.i586 : A

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:04, Julie Sloan wrote: KMail and Kontact will not open. My addressbook is in KMail. I am using Mozilla now, and that is fine, but I need to get into KMail to get my addresses and contact information! Cannot get into MCC No screensavers Gnome desktop is

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:38, Julie Sloan wrote: when I run rpmdrake I get this: generous snip IF it were me, at this stage, I would backup what I could, and format the HD and start fresh. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales

Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling

2005-01-20 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 15:00, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: I just installed XFCE 4.2 from Charles Edwars RPMS - thanks Charles! I am absolutely thrilled, yet I do have one problem. Under Gnome while browsing web a web page in Firefox and Epiphany too, I do believe, I'd scroll down or up the web page

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-19 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:10, JoeHill wrote: Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, it'll fit right in ;-) And here I assumed Joe was going to give his down pat answer: USE PEKWM! Guess I was wrong today. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:57, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. That's why we have hammers. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:42, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:02:33 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. That's why we have hammers. Now, would the proper technique be to *hammer* the MoBo til the CMOS battery

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-19 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:48, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:53:55 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, it'll fit right in ;-) And here I assumed Joe was going to give his down pat answer: USE

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-14 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:26, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm too

Re: [newbie] Is sending remote bash commands across LAN possible?

2005-01-14 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 06:03, magnet wrote: Hi all, bit of a problem here with sending console commands across my LAN to my local group of machines. I have 4 identical machines all set up and happy to chat to each other across the lan using Smb4k. They are totally secure and not accessible

Re: [newbie] removing iconify button in TWM xterm.

2005-01-13 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:29, rasta rasta wrote: hi! i'm very sorry for my initial email. i forgot to set yahoo mail to send emails in plain text format. my apologies again. i want to remove the iconify button in TWM xterm but still retain the resize button. can anyone tell me how to do it?

Re: [newbie] Problem with Menudrake.

2005-01-13 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:00, Amy wrote: PLEASE REMEMBER, I AM A GMAIL USER, SO YOU NEED TO CHECK THAT THE REPLY IS GOING TO THE LIST. Okay, so some of you may remember that I'm trying out Enlightenment right now. I did post about it a week or three ago, asking for recommendations on where

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:10, Aidan Holmes wrote: Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in the same boat. Install went

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:53, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Thanks for the tip, you're right I don't

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 05:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error message. I had to kill it via controlaltesc. Nothing seemed to come of this for a few moments - then I started

Re: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 00:43, David Reynolds wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 05:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 11:10, Hugh Dixon wrote: I am tempted to go ATI next time I need a card I forgot to say that my third Mandrake box has an ATi card - and I doubt if I

Re: [newbie] Is this possible?

2005-01-07 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 04:55, Ian wrote: I'd second the request for a linux based program similar to DVD shrink. I take it Stephen has never used this ripper, it automatically reduces a dual-layer DVD to the size required to fit on a normal DVD--/+r disk , writing the vob's as well. It can

Re: [newbie] Is this possible?

2005-01-06 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 20:41, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have a question, I might have to go back to W2K for a short period of time because I cannot find a software that is similiar to DVDShrink in Windows for Linux (If somebody has an idea for a program that can do the same thing

Re: [newbie] PC Crash

2005-01-05 Per discussione Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 22:16, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Not sure what happened to my PC today. Being a newbie to Linux, I need help. At first my mouse froze then the PC, so I hit the restart button after nothing would work. On the start up the boot loader came up and then I got a

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