Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was once there. I don't seem to find my way around there

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-18 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:33:21 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I install sylpheed-claws2, will I be able to use my current Claws mail and configuration without any hiccups? when I installed claws2, it first removed my previous sylpheed install, then after installing the new version, a

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:50:12 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I prevent syslogd from showing events on the screen? Is it not normal to simply pass these events to the correct log file in /var/log ? question, can you confirm that any of the messages being displayed on the

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-09 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with Linux on it in the machine when you

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-08 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:42:49 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get

Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo

2005-02-08 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:42:49 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get

Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?

2005-02-07 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD

Re: [newbie] Bootloader

2005-02-07 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:39:20 +1300 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO? When I tried Linux a few years ago I had some problems with boot loader and ended having to do fresh

Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?

2005-02-07 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:12:46 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if

Re: [newbie] partition

2005-01-16 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:14:09 +0100 Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: other than my unasnwered kword problem ... what is the ebst way to resize a partition and make another one? Martin, You can use MCC to setup your partitions. Open up Mandrake Control Center, Mount Points, Partitions -

Re: [newbie] partition

2005-01-16 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:59:40 +0100 Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve I tried it with MCC but I only have the one partition set up (eg swap home and /) so I think I need to resize it with the boot disk to start with -NO? you are correct, I was unaware of what number and or active

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues and the hassle isn't worth it even after I complain and ask for a better way to sync. just seen it myself and am trying

Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone

2004-12-18 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:36:34 -0600 Dennis Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy did I hose THAT post up. Try http://urpmi-addmedia.org Thanks Dennis I was thinking there had to be another site because they called it a mirror - just didn't know how to find out what site they mirrored. --

Re: [newbie] Apache2

2004-09-13 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:06:16 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:44:12 -0500 Steve Jeppesen disseminated the following: Hmm- thread hijack. It was?? Showed up as a new post for me...weird. Otherwise I woulda been *all over that shite* ;-) showed up

Re: [newbie] Apache2

2004-09-12 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:56:03 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:41:16 -0500 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Hmm- thread hijack. It was?? Showed up as a new post for me...weird. Otherwise I woulda been *all over that shite* ;-) showed up as a hijack

Re: [newbie] Apache

2004-09-10 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:57:48 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is an file index.html at http://www.mysite.org/mypage and it loads fine without the trailing / There is also an index.php file under /mypage. When I type in http://www.mysite.org, the browser appends a / in the

Re: [newbie] Can't get out of X Video Test in Installation

2004-08-26 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:26:49 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have the problem of the X Graphical Server test freezing in the installation. This used to happen to me every time I would install a new version of MD. Live and learn after x number of times (probably 10 for me) and

Re: [newbie] looking for print server distro that runs off floppy

2004-08-26 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:52:17 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run it from a floppy on an old pentium. I need to share a printer with a bunch of windows boxes (samba I suppose). Is this possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am determined to use OSS in some

Re: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site?

2004-08-22 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:15:54 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 00:28, Steve Jeppesen wrote: this relates to the link Todd S. posted to which I cannot connect to; http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png whack TIA Steve I would tend

Re: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site?

2004-08-22 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:57:08 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By putting '192.168.1.15 steve.homeip.net steve' in your hosts table you are claiming that the domain homeip.net is on the subnet 192.168.1.x so whenever you try to visit Todds site it will be looking on 192.168.1.x

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-21 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:06:23 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, may have been something temporary, everything seems OK here now? for some reason I am still getting that cannot connect message. I checked my hosts file to be sure your web address wasn't listed (one of those

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard

2004-07-23 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:29:39 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International -

Re: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.

2004-07-23 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
anybody find the mp3 file? I gotta get that one! Wonder how long before someone starts whining about it! On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:33:42 -0400 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think that Linspire is just trying to open some doors. Bill On Friday 23 July 2004 06:28

Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day

2004-07-21 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:20:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok now I know more than I did do you know of a reference that lists all ports and their use? check /etc/services it doesn't go into great detail, but it's a starting point. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825

Re: [newbie] visual linux

2004-07-15 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
File System Viewer (fsv) - displays your files system as 3d blocks...not sure if it is the same program that was mentioned b4. On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:22:47 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody remember a program that gave a visual representation of your system IIRC it was about

Re: [newbie] visual linux

2004-07-15 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:10:47 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just bear in mind that unless you can reconfigure the source code, you're not going to get it installed properly on MDK 10.0; I've done my trying for the alloted 10 minutes with no go...so I have only fond memories of

[newbie] testing...no mail coming thru

2004-07-12 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
sympa down again? -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] test

2004-07-05 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
ignore -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] allow users to halt from comman line

2004-06-10 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you allow users to halt from the command line? I've seen the click box a million times, but now i can't find it! Or, where is the config file? I just did a fairly minimal install on a box with ML 10.0, and it doesn't allow user halt by default.

Re: [newbie] allow users to halt from comman line

2004-06-10 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Sorry Eric, just woke up and didn't read thru your post completely. Never mind. Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you allow users to halt from the command line? I've seen the click box a million times, but now i can't find it! Or, where is the config file? I just did

Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall

2004-04-29 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:23:41 +0300 Klemens Arro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server or Smb4K (guess that shorewall blocks it). When I take the whole firewall down Everything (no firewall) then samba works perfectly, but then I can't share my ADSL

Re: [newbie] Wizdrake, where is it?

2003-06-04 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:07:03 + KVPSTAFF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to find wizdrake...I thought I installed everything I needed for configuring things...but I happened to caLL up the server_conf_guide.pdf on the docs of mandrakes site...and it says to install wizdrake , so that I

Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] collisions reported by ifconfig

2003-06-01 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 31 May 2003 16:03:41 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:33 PM 5/31/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Saturday 31 May 2003 2:17 pm, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Right, these ARP requests are being directed to my external interface, eth0, from the Internet - they are not entering my

Fw: Re: [newbie] collisions reported by ifconfig

2003-05-31 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Sorry, meant to send this to the list as well Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 20:52:38 -0500 From: Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] collisions reported by ifconfig On Thu, 29 May 2003 13:05:28 +0100 Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] sluggish dial-up

2003-02-01 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On 01 Feb 2003 12:30:29 + Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A second request from a very ignorant newbie - how do I search the Newbie Mailing List Archives for author, or subject, or message content? Then I won't have to bother you with a lot of silly questions that I know have been

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Linux Distro, thoughts on...O.T.?

2003-02-01 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 07:55:47 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone heard of http://www.mslinux.org/ I have known about this site for about 2 years now and the date keeps changing. I havent looked at it for over a year and i remember that it did not have a date on it to

Re: [newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs

2003-01-29 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:04:36 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that thought came to mind recently about not using smbusers as a name for a group but then again alot of things have passed thru my mind and am sort of feeling overwelmed about all this! When I create smbusers group on

Re: [newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs SOLVED

2003-01-29 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Please, anybody reply if they know of problems that could arise out of this fixed premission problems. What I ended up doing, is to set create mask and directory mode to 0777 (even with public = yes) for the samba side and for NFS, I (big gulp here) ran the command umask 000 from my p.c. - what

Re: [newbie] Documentation

2003-01-28 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Thank you for the reply! sort a thought maybe your filter/s might have run wild and tossed it! about the only thing different was I did not have a write list. I have sinced moved the printer upstairs since nobody wants to come downstairs into the realm of an alt. O.S. domain...actually they do

Re: [newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs

2003-01-28 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:56:26 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know anything about nfs really, but I just wondered if this suggestion would help. Why not make a group for those users and make your default group to be that one? I would have thought that all of them would be

Re: [newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs

2003-01-27 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On 27 Jan 2003 16:25:43 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a truly open/public share, you can do like this: [ddrive] comment = D Drive path = /mnt/d-drive read only = No public = Yes I changed that share to this; [shared] writable =

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Not to correct you Stephen, but isn't it something like fdisk -mbr or something? Hate to see somebody run fdisk without that mbr option and ruin their current setup.. OTH Steve On 27 Jan 2003 05:55:24 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:15, Russ wrote: Hi

Re: [newbie] OT

2003-01-26 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Scroll down to the bottom, hit the back button and you will see what this is all about LOL On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:48:36 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 09:40 am, Lee wrote: http://w3.one.net/~sunlion/linuxriot.html This appears to be a bullsh*t page.

[newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs

2003-01-26 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
I have just searched thru about a year and a half worth of posts concerning this subject, but have not found a simple way of fixing this. We have a trusted home network, 3 Win98 clients, 1 WinME client, 1 MD 9.0 client and a MD 9.0 server/router/firewall setup. You can guess whom the MD 9.0

Re: Sylpheed filter on color, was Re: [newbie] Commands for the Newbie List

2003-01-24 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Thanks Todd, will check it out this weekend. This will be my chance to config with spell checking to! Steve On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:45:44 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:52:45 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Using Sylpheed 0.8.5claws

Re: [newbie] Video Card

2003-01-24 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
I have the same exact card and it has no problems what so ever in linux. And I too purchased it for T2...but now I am addicted to Bzflags! LOL Follow the instructions on the nvidia site for installing the drivers for it and you shouldn't have any problems. If you do, write back and we can help

Re: [newbie] Internet security Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-23 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:58:28 +0100 Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my PC, that is connected to my internet provider via an ADSL USB modem. I don't have a network, just a simple PC. The security level was put to 'high' during installation, but I don't

[newbie] msec level 4 and samba help

2003-01-21 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Howdy list members, I recently merged our home firewall/router and fileserver into one computer using mandrake 9.0 (with latest updates). Because I am not sure if I should use a lower level of msec, I set it to 4 because of the recommendations given during the install stating that was level to

Re: [newbie] what do I need to do to get rc.firewall loaded upon bootup?

2003-01-19 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On 18 Jan 2003 16:42:23 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or you can link the script to the rc.local - so after the rc.local fires up, it'll fire up the rc.firewall as well (I tend to put everything I want started in my rc.local as it's all in one place, easily found, and easily

Re: [newbie] what do I need to do to get rc.firewall loaded upon bootup?

2003-01-19 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:03:04 +1300 Sharrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # chkconfig --add /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall # chkconfig --level 345 /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall on the 2nd line starts your firewall in run levels 3, 4 and 5. HTH Sharrea Something isn't right here; [root@internet steve]#

Re: [newbie] Documentation

2003-01-10 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:15:25 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I have seen some documentation on sharing a printer with Windows, but I can't find it. I have the printer set up in samba, and it is seen on the windows box OK. Now I need to know what to do at the win98 end.

Re: [newbie] Selective download of mail/filtering on server

2003-01-09 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Dunno where I'd be without ya Todd! Am filing this away as a keeper! Thanks for finding this out, I too am using the same version of Sylpheed. Steve On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:45:52 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I lost the thread where this was being discussed, but I was poking

Re: [newbie] ximian red carpet

2003-01-09 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
I tried it back when I had Mandrake 8.2, and at first it was ok, till I noticed it completely wiped out the stock menu entries for Gnome. At the time there wasn't a fix for it, so I did a complete reinstall to get rid of it. Things may have changed since then. I for one will never give it

Re: [newbie] ximian red carpet

2003-01-09 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On 10 Jan 2003 14:53:41 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being that the Mandrake menu system - for all WM's installed - excluding XFCE - are all attempting to make it so that you don't have to edit menus, you MAY loose something there - but editing a menu ain't all that hard, is

Re: [newbie] Kaspersky Anti-Virus

2003-01-08 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Anne, As root, did you do a updatedb in a terminal afterwards? Somebody else had asked this, but you did not mention it here. Haven't tried Kaspersky myself. Steve On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:08:14 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone installed this? I have their windows version

Re: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis

2003-01-04 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Sorry David and Stephen (and any other list members who are interested in seeing it) I was one of those people who went the first night it was released here in the states...and when I got the chance I checked to see if anything had been posted on the web. I realized that nobody wants to hear

Re: [newbie] OT - installing mdk rpm's

2003-01-04 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
From Minnesota (still) here, I have considered the prospect of moving down under but seems there are some strict rules in place in which Aussies will only allow certain people to move there - something about the technical (or lack of) jobs. Not counting the cost! On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 17:49:46

Re: [newbie] Msec security configuration

2003-01-03 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
may jump in here. On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 18:01, Steve Jeppesen wrote: hehe, I was just attempting to do something like this, but from what I was reading tonight, you need to create /etc/security/msec/level.local which would contain PROMISC_CHECK=yes then restart msec by typing msec

Re: [newbie] Msec security configuration

2003-01-02 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
hehe, I was just attempting to do something like this, but from what I was reading tonight, you need to create /etc/security/msec/level.local which would contain PROMISC_CHECK=yes then restart msec by typing msec in a terminal I may be wrong in that level.local might be for a higher security

Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera

2003-01-01 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:08:59 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hehe, we're all newbies here (at least almost all). Perhaps others with chip in with ideas that you could try for me, but for the moment, could you please run cdroast --scanbus and post up the output? It may help

Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera

2002-12-31 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Dec 2002 4:32 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Ok, my problem was that instead of /dev/sda1, it needs to be listed in fstab as /dev/sdb1...discovered that by accident after doing a cdrecord-scanbus with the camera turned on. It now (sound of knocking on wood here) remembers the settings and I

Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera

2002-12-29 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Steve Jeppesen wrote: Thanks for the update Todd, tried the previous script out last night and it works great! 'Cept for I still have a problem where after a reboot, my system did not remember that I had the camera connected to the usb port - so I had to reboot once more

[newbie] howto configure synaptic apt-get to run as user?

2002-12-25 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Merry Christmas list members, I am running Fluxbox windowmanager with Roxfiler filemanager (using a panel launcher for common apps) and my question is, how can I configure something like synaptic apt-get to run from a icon on the panel as a user? Apt-get requires root priv's to run. The icon I

[newbie] synaptic apt-get reports conflict between iptables and ipchains

2002-12-25 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
I recently installed apt-get after reading about it through the list here. Great program, but I have not attempted to even fix the things it is reporting as broken. The main one I am concerned about is that it states there is a conflict between ipchains and iptables - which I would have thought

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-24 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Anne, Sorry if you had posted this and/or noticed something like this but did you try and plug the camera into a usb slot and reboot? I had set up my fstab according to the instructions I believe Todd posted (create a fstab entry with /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,owner,ro,user 0 0) and

Re: [newbie] Commands for the Newbie List

2002-12-22 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
I filter the entire list into one folder called Newbie (orig. huh? LOL) but filter threads within? Is there another filter which can be put in place? All I do is click the subject button above all the emails, and it sort of filters by subject - not very effective though. Using Sylpheed

Re: [newbie] Commands for the Newbie List

2002-12-22 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:01:00 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another filter I would like to use is something like, if I have not marked (right now, by color marking) a message, I would like it to be deleted after a week has gone by since the message was received. Does anybody

Re: [newbie] Scanjet 3200c almost working...

2002-12-22 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 20:34:34 +0100 Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no need, anymore: two years after my first attempt, IT WORKS! :-D Now, apart from just one thing I can't avoid using $windows$ for... I'll be happy if there's a way to scan whitout root permission; of course Xsane prompt

Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera

2002-12-20 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
on the camera afterwards. Thanks again, Steve On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:53:31 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:41:47 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Todd, Sorry, I should have done a search on getpix - I would have found that you have

Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera

2002-12-19 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:03:11 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have searched the archives and cannot locate who sent this script. I have a question about the part of the script which mounts the camera... CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your

[newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera

2002-12-18 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
I have searched the archives and cannot locate who sent this script. I have a question about the part of the script which mounts the camera... CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-15 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Anne, for what it is worth, this is what I did in order to get the .jpg and .avi files off my Fuji FinePix A303 (early x-mas gift for the family!) All I had to load was usb-storage, the same other two you have loaded; usb-uhci and usbcore were already loaded - I have no idea about usb-scsi and

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-15 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:29:22 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comments in-line snip dmesg seems to see it, it certainly lists enough devices, but doesn't seem to know much about them. The 4-port hub has printer, scanner, LS120 drive and now camera. Sorry I cannot help you here,

[newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake

2002-12-06 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2076592341 Check out this sellers other items using the view sellers other items link on that page Is this a person associated with Mandrake or did this person download the free thing (or even buy one set of disks) then make copies and is

Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake

2002-12-06 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
that too.. given a choice I would then (if I was going to) buy from Mandrake via ebay rather than nameless-person via ebay. On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:00, Steve Jeppesen wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2076592341 Check out this sellers other items using the view

Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake

2002-12-06 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:32:00 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope...if I have understood GPL correct, you can charge money for burned copies, unless of course Mandrake has some kind of copyright rules that might in that case breach GPL. I might also misunderstand what you are

Re: [newbie] 5 stars but ...

2002-11-29 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:57:57 -0500 Rainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by all means send the xconfig-4 script and the exact version of the tar file you used. thanks Hope this helpsGood Luck! # File generated by XFdrake. # **

Re: [newbie] 5 stars but ...

2002-11-29 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Sorry, forgot to include the version of tar files I used: Version: 1.0-3123 on both the GLX and kernel files. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

2002-11-06 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Ok, I took my own suggestion and attempted importing the windows fonts. After some trial and error, I was able to import the fonts (and after reading your message Derek, I discovered I do not have perlftlib installed???) but now I have a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/tmp directory which

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

2002-11-06 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
When I go back into Mandrake control center-system-fonts, they do not show up thru there. I do have the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 directories, and I was able to choose the new fonts in Gedit. Is there another place where I could check?

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

2002-11-06 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Sorry for not including this earlier, but my Type1 directory is empty, ttf is full of ttf fonts (is that repetition? LOL) and my /drakfont/tmp/ contains various types of fonts, not all ttf. I suspect the import process did not complete itself. Not sure. On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:29:32 -0600 Steve

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-02 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' in my config for launching an external web browser. From what I understand, galeon launches the web browser, and '%s' adds the link you click on. Hope this works! Myself, am using Sylpheed claws version 0.8.5 As for your address

Re: [newbie] Problems Installing NVIDIA drivers on a DELL laptop

2002-11-01 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Go to step 2. on this page, http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123 and you will find all instructions needed for either src.rpm or tar.gz formats. And it is explained in detail easy enough for a NooB like me to understand! In fact, I bookmark that web page so I can refer to

[newbie] blocking popup windows using Guidescope or Junkbusters

2002-10-26 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Hello list, I am curious if anybody is using either of these programs to block popups on a firewall/router? I am currently using MD8.2 as a firewall/router to share our cable connection with clients running MD 9.0, Win98se2 and WinMe and would like to know if anybody has any prefs or things to

Re: [newbie] blocking popup windows using Guidescope or Junkbusters

2002-10-26 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Thank you for your help Dave, I now have Privoxy up and running and so far so good! I did have to update chkconfig and install rpm-helper in order to install the privoxy rpm you sent me. I just have to figure out a way of using privoxy without hampering my daughters web creation process! I do

[newbie] install problems of either Rox filer 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 on MD 9.0

2002-10-09 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Hello list, I made the jump up to 9.0 hoping that I would be able to install rox with no problems...however that is not the case. I downloaded both rox-1.3.3-1mdk.src.rpm and rox-1.3.4-1mdk.src.rpm (1.3.4 being a cooker package). First I ran rpm --rebuild rox-1.3.3-1mdk.src.rpm (and also tried

[newbie] MD 9.0 installed without a hitch!!!

2002-09-30 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Sorry for wasting bandwidth, but just wanted to yell from the tallest building around...NO PROBS installing MD 9.0! And that was on a computer which I built from scratch a few yrs back (which I might add, I tried RH back then and could not get that working) It is a P2, 400Mhz, 128 megs - and

Re: [newbie] HOWTO compile kernel FAQ's for Mandrake on the web?

2002-09-27 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
After reading up I decided not to mess with something that already works just fine ;) Thank you for that pointer Tom. Steve On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:12:44 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday September 24 2002 06:54 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Hello all, in preparing

Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror (d/l file size limit using MD 8.2?) (SOLVED...sort of)

2002-09-27 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
I ended up using LinNeighborhood and sharing my wifes hard drive I was able to copy the last two iso files to my computerstill interested as to any suggestions to my problems though! I am thinking there might have been a timeout setting in my samba which prevented copying the files from her

Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror (d/l file size limit using MD 8.2?)

2002-09-26 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Does anybody know if there is a setting in MD 8.2 which limits file size when downloading? I have used Galeon and Gftp, and they both make it up to approx. 102,400,000 bytes then they just crash or exit. I have attempted CD1 and CD2 thru a couple of different mirrors - including this one

[newbie] HOWTO compile kernel FAQ's for Mandrake on the web?

2002-09-24 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Hello all, in preparing for MD 9.0, I am looking for any howto's, faq's or anything that lists all the steps needed for compiling a kernel specifically for Mandrake on the web (or blush is the howto already on my system?) I have found some links, but it seems each one contains different

Re: [newbie] trouble receiving email....

2002-09-10 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:12:30 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Maybe their reply got sent to /dev/null like all the missing posts ;-) Didn't think of that one! LOL -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] No luck for linux

2002-08-29 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
What did you use (exact name of program) to download those two .iso files? Wouldn't surprise me if AOL has something to do with it. What is the exact wording or the errors you get - including the exact name of something? Buying it doesn't sound like it will provide you a solution, other than

Re: [newbie] I want to be a dialup server

2002-08-18 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:06:20 -0400 Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not interested in getting in any trouble (and certainly not in losing my cable internet!) so I won't do anything too rotten. Still, most every ISP, broadband or otherwise, explicitly bars one from sharing their

Re: [newbie] error message received from Cron Daemon (FIXED)

2002-08-17 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
$ Windblows! On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:36:46 -0500 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the past two days, I have received this message from Cron Daemon with the subject title Cron root@dads nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily; error: syslog:22 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog run-parts

[newbie] error message received from Cron Daemon

2002-08-16 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
For the past two days, I have received this message from Cron Daemon with the subject title Cron root@dads nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily; error: syslog:22 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 I remember a couple of nights

Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:00:14 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Dell Optiplex GX150. It's a good machine - quiet, fast, uses only 145W at full tilt with the flat panel, runs Mandrake effortlessly - but its sole weakness is the onboard i815 graphics chipset, which has no

Re: [newbie] dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

2002-08-01 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Try setting up X with known values that should work ;) and do not test it during the install. That has happened to me before with various computers - when attempting to test the graphics, the screen goes blank and never recovers. If one of the values does not work after completing the

Re: [newbie] how to disable eth0 in PROMISC mode

2002-07-23 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
:30, Steve Jeppesen wrote: As you can see, eth0 is in promisc mode. I have tried ifconfig eth0 -promisc to turn off promisc with no luck. msec level is set to 4, and I am running prelude (which I noticed civilmee stated in another post that prelude could cause this) #1 how do I turn

Re: [newbie] How to hard reset a modem from command line???

2002-06-30 Per discussione Steve Jeppesen
Check out this guys page. He has created scripts to do some of what you suggested - only for the Linux Router Project. Not too sure if they work for anything outside of LRP. http://65.29.126.224:81/lrp.html Good Luck! Steve On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:37:57 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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