Re: [expert] Verizon/GTE DSL and Mandrake

2000-09-16 Thread Mage Grimau
Concentric and they don't - the modem's just another device on my 10baseT lan. (I know, I should use a gateway for security. Don't have a spare ethernet card or the knowhow to configure it if I did.) -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend

Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

2000-09-15 Thread Mage Grimau
/console: exit brings you to the login prompt. Log in. X: logout brings you to the login screen. Log in. -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily

Re: [expert] Automatisation d'installation / Automatic installation

2000-09-13 Thread Mage Grimau
. Regards. At the end of the installation process it asks you if you want to make an install floppy. Select yes. Use that floppy to make future installs. -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend the morning lying to your father

Re: [expert] well now i have a new problem and it sucks

2000-09-10 Thread Mage Grimau
up, i need some serious help, and i shouldnt keep formatting and reinstalling linux thats killing my disk space given that every format kills sets of blocks If format keeps marking more blocks as bad, you've got a bad drive. No software fixes can help you. -- Mage Grimau

Re: [expert] Windows after Linux???

2000-09-07 Thread Mage Grimau
that Win95/98 will NOT work fine - it will trash grub or lilo. -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed

Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk Mandrake

2000-09-05 Thread Mage Grimau
BIOS sees a 1G drive. I have a 20G drive. Linux sees it just fine. -- Mage Grimau Now you could spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed

Re: [expert] forum.mandrakesoft.com

2000-09-05 Thread Mage Grimau
Jon wrote: Have I missed something? The forum seems to be down, but I haven't seen a thing on this list about it. I miss it. -jon- www.mandrakeforum.com -- Mage Grimau Now you could spend the morning lying to your

[expert] ide-scsi and real scsi

2000-09-05 Thread Mage Grimau
I was using ide-scsi to use my cd burner under 7.1 just fine. I added a real scsi (adaptec) card and HD. Now cdrecord -scanbus just sees the real scsi and not my cd burner. Can they work together, or do I have to remove the real scsi to use my cd burner? -- Mage Grimau

Re: [expert] terminal

2000-09-04 Thread Mage Grimau
of any free ones. -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed. .. [EMAIL

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

2000-09-04 Thread Mage Grimau
drive, both of them before my / partition. LILO is in the MBR and works fine. I couldn't get grub to work at all. -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed

Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions

2000-08-23 Thread Mage Grimau
? As he said - he wants to log in as root under one, and as a user under the other. When I need to do a lot of stuff as root I do the same thing, since I don't know much about using linux from the command line. -- Mage Grimau ...

Re: [expert] g++ can't find iostream.h!

2000-08-23 Thread Mage Grimau
ery header file in the /usr/include root directory? The ANSI C++ header is iostream - no .h -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slig

Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.

2000-08-21 Thread Mage Grimau
ernment to be mommy and censor the net for them. First time I agree with you on anything. (there goes that nasty attitude again, I better shut up) Second time. -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father

Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set the default editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-16 Thread Mage Grimau
I must be missing something here. The editor I get when I type "vi" in a console/terminal/whatever is simple to use. Cursor keys work just as I expect them to. If I want to start inserting stuff, I just type an i and the word INSERT appears at the bottom. Then I move around with the cursor keys,

[expert] Gnome - two problems

2000-06-03 Thread Mage Grimau
seconds later. If I terminate, well, obvious. Thanks folks. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] SawFish problem

2000-06-02 Thread Mage Grimau
cooker :p -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered! = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 ___

Re: [expert] Distro improvments: A solid IDE

2000-05-26 Thread Mage Grimau
IDE it would be wonderful. Thanks for your time. Payne Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145

Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles

2000-05-20 Thread Mage Grimau
ecord" (or wherever cdrecord is on your machine.) I had no problems with my SCSI cd recorder being used as a CDROM *and* CDR/W in Mandrake 6.0. It may be a problem with the SCSI emulation. John = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-65

Re: [expert] OT: /root

2000-05-08 Thread Mage Grimau
.. how then would that affect Linux? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ====== = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed

Re: [expert] Changing bootable partition

2000-05-07 Thread Mage Grimau
e bootable partition, but /boot is on /dev/hda1. Can someone tell me how to flag hda1 as bootable without messing up my installation? -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewha

Re: [expert] RE: [newbie] Fix the damn mailing lists already

2000-05-07 Thread Mage Grimau
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Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!

2000-05-06 Thread Mage Grimau
his "blind newbie"! Vern Mage Grimau wrote: That's the same card I just got - I found the drivers that came with Mandrake 7.0 work best. I tried others with little luck, then copied the Mandrake ones from the CD, ran sndconfig, and everything works fine. Next time I need d

Re: [expert] Coordinating Address Books

2000-05-06 Thread Mage Grimau
number). This made the think work, but I do not find it satisfactory. Does anybody know what prevents root form changing permission or ownership of the files belonging to the Windows partition? = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!

2000-05-06 Thread Mage Grimau
of errors. I didn't think it worked but all the little click pops and bangs are now working. It will play MP3's in the Midnight commander mode but KMP3 won't load the .mp3 files. So I'm going to try and get another GUI MP3 player. Thanks for all your help! Vern Mage Grimau wrote

Re: [expert] XMMS

2000-05-06 Thread Mage Grimau
In Windows, you drag-n-drop E:\Track05.cda to the window, and it starts playing, but there's no Linux/UNIX equivalent. I right-clicked everwhere, but I must have something wrong. Thanks so much in advance. Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. -- YOW!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL!

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!

2000-05-06 Thread Mage Grimau
The version I got from the XMMS home page only has CD Audio Player 0.9 and the configure option is just a place to select CD drive point and which sound driver to use. Where would I get the right version of the plugin? --- Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mage Grimau wrote: I use Xmms

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!

2000-05-05 Thread Mage Grimau
Oops - forgot to add: The SB-PCI512 is *not* an SB-PCIxxx card. It's an SBLive! card. --- Mage Grimau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the same card I just got - I found the drivers that came with Mandrake 7.0 work best. I tried others with little luck, then copied the Mandrake ones from

Re: [expert] OT: CERT virus alert

2000-05-04 Thread Mage Grimau
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Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!

2000-05-04 Thread Mage Grimau
er working with this for 2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible. HELP! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Have you hugged your penguin today? *** = Mage Grimau, Strang

Re: [expert] Sorry to beat a dead horse (SBLive!), but...

2000-04-21 Thread Mage Grimau
the SBLive but then tells me that driver emu10k1 is not in the module path. That's as far as I've gotten. I'm hoping for a SIMPLE solution (aren't we all??? g). Thanks in advance Kevin Talley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceM

Re: [expert] 7.0-2 on a 6X86 MX (dual boot NT)

2000-04-21 Thread Mage Grimau
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Re: [expert] USB NIC?

2000-04-20 Thread Mage Grimau
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Re: [expert] reconfiguring disk

2000-04-15 Thread Mage Grimau
. --- Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mage Grimau wrote: Which version of partition magic? 4 doesn't work right for 98 OR linux. 4 should work, because 3.0 did. Actually, I don't know if it worked for win98, but it did work for win95 and linux (ext2), as well as many other operating systems

Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of

2000-04-15 Thread Mage Grimau
anyone has any ideas, or would like to forward whatever 4.61 is using to decihper these files, I guess that we'd both appreciateit! George = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Ya

Re: [expert] reconfiguring disk

2000-04-14 Thread Mage Grimau
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Re: [expert] CD-Rom in VMWare/Linux

2000-04-14 Thread Mage Grimau
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Re: [expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-14 Thread Mage Grimau
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Re: [expert] Netscape from KDE

2000-04-11 Thread Mage Grimau
of the script. While I write lots of things in perl (I even wrote a maze-generation program in perl!), I don't actually know how to get it to change the working directory in-line for the perl code. Do you? #! /bin/csh -f cd /home/bts/xfer /usr/bin/netscape $* = Mage

Re: [expert] Netscape from KDE

2000-04-11 Thread Mage Grimau
know how to get it to change the working directory in-line for the perl code. Do you? #! /bin/csh -f cd /home/bts/xfer /usr/bin/netscape $* = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145

Re: [expert] Need someone to point DNS-Correction

2000-04-11 Thread Mage Grimau
would of course be interested to know what it does mean. Pj = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Mage Grimau
idea, but I have one question. Will Windows software be just as unpredictable and crash-prone when run under Linux? Pj ibi@#greencis.net = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Mage Grimau
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Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Mage Grimau
However, if I use Ctrl-Alt-F2 instead of F1, when I return everything works right. --- Mage Grimau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F7 returns me to X, but none of the buttons or icons work. I can move windows around, but I can't do anything in them. --- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [expert] Trident Video Cards

2000-04-05 Thread Mage Grimau
, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] Trident Video Cards

2000-04-05 Thread Mage Grimau
he Trident 3dImage985 (using suggested XF86_SVGA driver) and have had no success. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax:

Re: [expert] time/date

2000-04-04 Thread Mage Grimau
d to know EXACT time as well, so I guess THEY should know the time. And, they agree with NIST on the time (that is, as close as they can one right after the other -- a couple seconds difference in the amount of time it takes to change the URL G) John = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashe

Re: [expert] invalid major or minor... on mount of FAT32 partition

2000-04-04 Thread Mage Grimau
host which is a network unto itself. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] The ongoing Trash Linux Debate - OT response

2000-04-03 Thread Mage Grimau
and they are WAY overpriced. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-03 Thread Mage Grimau
-15mdk label = mx vga = normal append = "mem=124M" root = /dev/hdb8 read-only -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-04-01 Thread Mage Grimau
--- Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mage Grimau wrote: I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's "Program Files" directories when on the same partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all hap

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's

2000-04-01 Thread Mage Grimau
D] wrote: It's been mentioned that there should be a mini how-to site with information such as what Brian S. provides to the list. I agree and will create a web site for this purpose if anyone is interested. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Mage Grimau, Strange Unw

[expert] No tone control

2000-03-31 Thread Mage Grimau
Why don't tone controls appear on the mixer panels? I have tried an Ensonique AudioPCI (es1371 driver) SB PCI512 (emu10k1 driver) SB Live! (emu10k1 driver) They work fine for everything, but I'm old and need to boost the treble a bit for music to sound right to me. = Mage Grimau, Strange

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Mage Grimau
babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] kppp and Mindspring

2000-03-29 Thread Mage Grimau
: http://help.jps.net/unsupported/mandrake and follow the directions EXPLICITLY (even has pictures!), you shouldn't have any problems from there. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Mage Grimau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Mage Grimau
: "Trevor Farrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98 Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Mage Grimau
ere. :-) John = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] Best audio/video cards for Linux??

2000-03-28 Thread Mage Grimau
s. Uses the same drivers as SoundBlaster Live! = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

[expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-27 Thread Mage Grimau
g anything useful. /dev/hda1 is the 7M partition I mount as /boot. I assume I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what (besides adding Win98, that is). = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to yo

Re: [expert] system commander

2000-03-21 Thread Mage Grimau
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2000-03-13 Thread Mage Grimau
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[expert] Supermount

2000-03-13 Thread Mage Grimau
unt/umount. How can I get supermount to work? Since I work from inside KDE and BlackBox, it's a pain to have to keep typing mount/umount every time I change a floppy or CD. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Ta

[expert] partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Mage Grimau
to resize the partition without having to reinstall? I've still got 6G left to play with but already have 4 primary partitions, so I can't make a new one. Thanks = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your

[expert] wheel mouse

2000-03-09 Thread Mage Grimau
the imwheel -k line to make it run automagically? err - .xsessionrc doesn't work either. Same reasons. Thanks = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] wheel mouse

2000-03-09 Thread Mage Grimau
? John That will work for KDE, but I was hoping for a "one size fits all" solution. I still haven't figured out which window manager I like best. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to y