Re: [expert] VMWare 4 and USB scanner

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:37:03 +, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 15:33, Miark wrote: I'm trying to use a USB scanner in VMWare, but it reports that Linux won't let it go: The specified device appears to be claimed by another driver (usbscanner

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
Instead of re-starting the router, try re-starting the NIC. If that works, you can set up a cronjob to check and/or fix the problem on a regular basis. Miark On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:52:13 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router On average, about once

Re: [expert] Printing envelopes in OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
. So we ruled out a font problem. try the same font in landscape mode and see how it prints. That works, too. So we've ruled out landscape mode. O, so odd. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] popfile

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
to whatever you chose in POPFile. Miark And i need to go dig up port info to make sure i am not using a used one... Thanks, eric pop3_port 110 pop3_secure_port 110 On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:23:43 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:34:15 -0700, Eric Huff

Re: [newbie] No automatic init 5

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
On 09 Aug 2003 16:33:35 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 14:25, Miark wrote: I installed Direct Connect. During installation it said something about Mesa (graphics) and I just knew I would suffer because of it. Now when I boot, it simply never gets

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
-W1 /dev/hdX (where X is the letter of the device) And make sure you put the second drive on the other IDE channel. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] No automatic init 5

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
I _can_ boot to failsafe, and do a init 5. (That's why it's possible for me to compose this message.) What the hell kind of sense does that make? How do I fix this? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: CUPS and OOo ...Re: [newbie] a cd catalog

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
Thanks Ralph--I'll give it a go, Miark On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:25:21 +0200, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL.. answered the wrong post.. Sorry about that, hehehehe On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:34:58 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11

Re: [newbie] audio software

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
directly using mplayer/mencoder's stream dump option. 'mplayer -cache 64 -dumpstream http:/urlofwhateveritis' should work. Awesome! The downside - you can't hear it at the same time. As long as the site allows you to connect twice, who cares? ;-) Thanks, David Miark Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] OT--General Linux Questions

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
. But in the meantime, it _is_ reasonable position to side with AMD. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No automatic init 5 - FIXED

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
In the process of answering your question of what was in messages, I found the following: Aug 8 23:44:16 miark mdkkdm[1509]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay Aug 8 23:44:16 miark mdkkdm[1361]: Display :0 cannot be opened So that proved it was a graphics problem--although I wasn't sure what. Seeing

Re: [newbie] popfile

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
different accounts, it's all the more happy. :-) Miark This might make it learn better, for example, if different addys get different types of legit email. I don't plan to do it, but it sure is a good feature both on the part of popfile and sylpheed. Thanks for the help! eric

Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
And how did you set it? spadmin is the only tool I see, and it doesn't look like it can do this. Miark On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:55:47 +1000, Graham Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager handle things. works very well for me

Re: [newbie] popfile

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
right. However in Linux, you can run a different instance of it from each user's home directory. To make it work, make sure that each instance uses a different POP3 listen port and web port which you can effortlessly change in the popfile.cfg file. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
before getting the prompt back? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
installed POPFile. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-11 Thread Miark
aware of. Remember when that 3GB of pr0n disappeared? That was because of Reiser. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-11 Thread Miark
I thought OOo and CUPS work together, but when I print, there's no mention of CUPS, and whatever is working in its place does a crap job of printing (draft mode instead of normal, although it's not set to do that). How do I get CUPS to work with OOo? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] SCO

2003-08-10 Thread Miark
Red Hat has a million bucks or more to dump into this--Mandrake doesn't. I'm content to have Mandrake focus on it's own problems and let the big'uns duke it out. Miark On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 00:27:26 -0300, Sergio Javier Belkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I would want to hear something similar

Re: [newbie] [OT]:CD tray doesn't eject

2003-08-08 Thread Miark
rebooted it came back to life. I don't know if it happened because I pushed the tray instead of using the button or what. But I _do_ use the button to close it every time, now :-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [OT]:CD tray doesn't eject

2003-08-07 Thread Miark
On 08 Aug 2003 09:22:54 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open a terminal and type: killall -KILL fam Once that's done, type: eject You might be surprised at the results, mate. I don't see any fam with ps ax. What is it? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Speed test: Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo

2003-08-06 Thread Miark
Funny. So all that talk about Gentoo optimized compiling is a load of crap. Miark On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:30:07 +0100, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The executive summary: They're about as fast as each other. http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq

[newbie] XML coding

2003-08-06 Thread Miark
I was under the impression that one of the benefits of the XML file format is that your data is human-readable. But when I open a OOo text doc that I just made in a text editor, I see only a little human readable stuff, and none of it is my document. Most of it is binary. What's the deal? Miark

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread Miark
that. Where are you seeing it? Yes, I'm getting that, too. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-07-31 Thread Miark
Apparently so. When I loaded KDE today, the KDE bootsplash was a Penguin herding a group of Winblows icons--I must have urpmi'ed some Texstar 3.1.3 RPMs without realizing it. Miark On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:21:51 -0700, Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any rpms to upload? -- Linux

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Miark
Dennis, As a rule of thumb, if your firewall is running NAT (and they usually do) and you're not forwarding ports to Windows machines on your side of the wall, then you're safe from outside-in attacks. Miark On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09 -0500, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http

Re: [newbie] check out Scribus!

2003-07-31 Thread Miark
The most recent version (1.0) can be found at MandrakeClub. Miark On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 00:37:55 -0300, Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed the older version with urpmi but it doesn't want to run. I think there is not an .rpm file of it yet, right ? Pity. I'm fear

Re: [newbie] MS in trouble, sorry it's kinda OT

2003-07-29 Thread Miark
it. Of course, that person would face the certainty of M$ going after _them_ for breaching a non-disclosure agreement. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Epson C62

2003-07-29 Thread Miark
interest. Miark On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:41:24 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: I called Epson and they said put a true Epson replacement cartridge back in it and watch it take off. They were right. They also filled me in on something that I did not know

Re: [newbie] ftp client

2003-07-29 Thread Miark
. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mozilla1.4 packages

2003-07-28 Thread Miark
Fire up rpmdrake, search for mozilla-1.4 and read through the descriptions of the results. You'll probably want plugger and firebird. Miark On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:36:59 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Restored Mozilla 1.4 with a complete headlist and urpmi update

Re: [newbie] M9.1 and Mozilla 1.4 update

2003-07-28 Thread Miark
He means more than twice as long. Miark On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:24:56 -0500, Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if anyone else is experiencing it but since I updated the standard Mozilla version to V1.4 , last night, the download speed for emails

[newbie] UT not accepting connections

2003-07-28 Thread Miark
to him.) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MS in trouble, sorry it's kinda OT

2003-07-28 Thread Miark
Central Point... that rings a bell from my Apple IIc days. Any connection? Miark On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:12, John Wilson wrote: XTree was one product I was thinking of, though if memory serves (which it sometimes doesn't) that was the DOS product not the Windoze one

Re: [newbie] MS in trouble, sorry it's kinda OT

2003-07-28 Thread Miark
the legal system even allows them the luxury of counter-suing in such a scenario. Man. Speaking of which, what's the likelihood that M$ is using GPLed code in their crap? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mbr question

2003-07-27 Thread Miark
of things you can do, one of which is restore LILO. Let us know if you need more help from here. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-27 Thread Miark
Isn't it easier to simply suppress popups (Moz) or use smart denial of popups (Konq)? Miark On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 22:41:34 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying out a technique for ad-blocking i saw on slash-dot: someone made a huge list of common ad-sites and made

Re: [expert] Dumb URPMI question

2003-07-25 Thread Miark
I don't mess with Cooker, but I'm guessing it's as straight-forward as this: 1) Use urpmi.addmedia to add a Cooker urpmi source. 2) Do a: urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpm --media cooker_source_name Miark On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:19:14 -0600, Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[newbie] Installing on a SCSI system

2003-07-25 Thread Miark
CD first, but the SCSI always takes over. How do I exit this loop? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Miark
Try deleting the .xcdroast/ directory. Miark On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:33:48 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I can do anything. Has anyone

Re: [expert] 9.1 and umask fun, NOT!

2003-07-22 Thread Miark
Are you certain the file permissions on /home/james are open on _that_ computer (i.e. james)? I've never done this, but I would expect umask line below to be the second layer of permissions in a two-layer permissions mechanism. shrug Miark On 22 Jul 2003 15:18:30 -0700, James Sparenberg [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Miark
activity on the Linux side. Miark On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:57:38 -0400, Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. Then if we kept all email, browsers, address books etc. out of the Windows layer, then we should be fairly immune? Bob Frankie wrote: No... A virus is just a program

Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.

2003-07-18 Thread Miark
consistent. They're trying to stop the sharing of music between people, not the transferring of music between media of any given person. I'm not agreeing with it--just making the point. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread Miark
Though not particularly insightful, I'd remove the CD media, and then add it again to see if that makes a difference. Miark On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:46:48 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD

Re: [expert] OOo RC1 starts like a rocket compared to 1.03

2003-07-16 Thread Miark
I just installed this. I noticed that oowriter is called swriter. Is that just for testing in the RC? I thought 'swriter was only used in the StarOffice suite. Miark On 16 Jul 2003 21:18:17 +1200, Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things are looking good for OpenOffice.org! It starts up

[newbie] Time changing on dual-boot system

2003-07-16 Thread Miark
When I boot to Winsux, then back to Linux, the time is two hours behind. Why is that, and how to I stop it? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread Miark
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 01:32:10 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, the options are compiling the latest source tarball and praying or...? Out of curiosity, why do you want to do that? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] PETITION: HL for linux?

2003-07-14 Thread Miark
Incidentally, all you FPS gamers out there have -GOT- to see the Half-Life2 trailer. You'll piss yer pants! Miark On 07 Jul 2003 08:47:25 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanna see Half Life for linux - NATIVELY? Check out the link: http://cgi.riblet.plus.com/ Want to buy your

[newbie] lm sensors is lying

2003-07-14 Thread Miark
Here's my sensors output. Note the temperature of 127°C. Call me crazy (shut up, Stephen) but I think this is probably inaccurate :-) How do I fix the reading? Miark lm80-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter +5V: +4.00 V (min = +4.50 V, max

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] lm sensors is lying

2003-07-14 Thread Miark
, check the temp in the bios when the the machine is idle, then check it against lm sensors when idle in Linux. Then if it's still wrong, I'll try Tom's lm75 trick. Miark Subject: Re: [newbie] lm sensors is lying Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:24:33 -0500 From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] [RS] Whois

2003-07-14 Thread Miark
If you have urpmi sources configured, just urpmi whois and you'll be set. Miark On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:42:07 -0300, Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 10:40 PM

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Update about MandrakeSoft status 2003-07-01

2003-07-02 Thread Miark
They believe they can get out of the hole before year-end. That's excellent! Miark On 02 Jul 2003 18:41:39 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...as if we didn't already know that the Mandrake world is looking brighter every day! http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n

Re: [expert] Changes to the ps command

2003-07-01 Thread Miark
on the ps -ax command? I've been wondering that too, except with tar. I've gotten pretty used to tar xvfz but I do think switches are easier to grasp visually and mentally for newbs when they use dashes. shrug Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Preventing Popups

2003-07-01 Thread Miark
, here.) Miark On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:23:20 -0500 , Burrows, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen, How do u prevent the porno popups with Linux? Wife loves it because THERE AIN'T NO MORE PORNO POP-UPS when she's seriously surfing... Thanks Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-07-01 Thread Miark
That sounds like there's simply no manual for checkinstall, in which case the Esc! is acting normally. (I know some have only --help/-h switches instead of actual man pages.) Miark On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:49:28 -0500, John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried man che and returned cheatmake

Re: [expert] FIXED: No 3D with NVidia's driver

2003-06-30 Thread Miark
in the module section, whereas it had alway either loaded glx or the path to the glx library file. Okay, so I added the Load glx line, re-started X, and voila: cube, in all it's glory. A very frustrating ordeal, but it's over. Miark On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:39:26 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-06-30 Thread Miark
By ESC !, Eric mean Escape keyExclamation mark key. :-) Miark On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:39:19 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Eric. Just curious, I have to hit esc twice here, and it asks if I want to display all 102 possibilities :-0 Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Free of OE!

2003-06-30 Thread Miark
DBXConv which is free program for Winsux that converts dbx mail to mbox. It works perfectly and it's plumb easy. So if anybody out there is stuck with OE against their will, give this program a try: http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Window$ free- woo hoo

2003-06-30 Thread Miark
Awesome, Graham! I'm not quite there yet, but I got a step closer today myself! Miark On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:28:48 +1000, Graham Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just like to announce to the list that my three computers are now completely free from the dreaded operating system from redmond. I

[expert] No 3D with NVidia's driver

2003-06-27 Thread Miark
while running the win4lin kernel and the updated stock kernel, but to no avail. I checked XF86Config-4 and glx is a listed module. The modules.conf file has alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia. I've tried an ldconfig. How do I get GLX working? tia, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] No 3D with NVidia's driver

2003-06-27 Thread Miark
Just in case this second line is important: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual I just installed the NVidia kernel and GLX RPMs from MandrakeClub. No difference. Miark On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:51:51 -0400 Miark [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...

2003-06-26 Thread Miark
it with that variable like $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24, 333.444.555.10/24. Is that possable? What is the best solution for this?? I don't know of a way to limit it to a single host rather than a network. Why would you want to? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-26 Thread Miark
a command line. They talk and bitch and gripe about how *ni in archaic and lacks power and is difficult to use, but they try to steal ideas and technology from *nix all the time. Hypocritical two-faced lying bastards. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Updated kernel

2003-06-26 Thread Miark
What does this mean, and how do I fix it? Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# urpmi kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/i586/../../updates/9.1/RPMS/kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk.i586

Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

2003-06-25 Thread Miark
mynetworks is set to what? Miark On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:49:52 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But now, with this setup, anyone can send mail through? i.e. Open Relay. I need it to be able to send mail for the entire domain and some clients outside the domain. Want to buy

Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

2003-06-25 Thread Miark
I'm not a Postfix guru, but I know that on my simple setup relay access is governed by mynetworks. Try messing with it. Miark On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:11:50 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:37 am, Miark wrote: It's not set. Default I guess

Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!

2003-06-25 Thread Miark
We have to put these things in perspective: it's not a scientific pol., It may just be that more Gentoo types hang around Novell. And the Gentoo people probably told all their friends to vote to make it look more popular. How despicable :-D Miark On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:00:59 +0100 Inhabitant

[newbie] Vote for Mandrake!

2003-06-25 Thread Miark
Let Novell know who ya love :-) http://www.novell.com/linux/ See the poll in the right-most column. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-24 Thread Miark
release. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-24 Thread Miark
please correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the gist of the numbering system. When kernel 2.6 (2.5 is development, correct?) Mandrake will probably roll out Mandrake 10 and those binaries will be wholly incompatible with 9.x boxes. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] No CD installer for Unreal Tournament?

2003-06-24 Thread Miark
Joe, If supermount is turned on, turn it off and mount the CD manually. Miark On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:06:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot seem to get the ut linux installer to see the cd in the drive. I once was able to find a version of the installer which just copied

Re: [newbie] More of that nasty anti-MS FUD, LOL

2003-06-24 Thread Miark
Nothing compelling. Outlook is not just an e-mail browser, so it can be difficult to replace. But Outlook Express, even on Exchange systems, can be replaced with Evolution, and OE is far more popular than Outlook. Miark On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:54:15 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Thread Miark
Drew, 1) Configure a Texstar source for urpmi: urpmi.addmedia texstar http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz 2) Use urpmi to install mplayer: urpmi mplayer 3) Enjoy! Miark On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:12:32 +0100

Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag

2003-06-22 Thread Miark
On Saturday 21 June 2003 06:49 pm, JoeHill graced me with: http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1018669.html It's official, Sun is right in there with MS and SCO. SCO and M$ want Linux to die. Sun just wants to take advantage of the FUD to steal some business from IBM. There's a significant

Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag

2003-06-22 Thread Miark
and Linux will prevail. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-20 Thread Miark
Is it my imagination, or has the list spit this message out three times already? Miark On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:52:34 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this guy is a *nutjob*. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2999780.stm -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-20 Thread Miark
IBM's part is obscure at best. What other evidence do you have that IBM is a bad guy? Miark On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:12:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136285,00.html A UK IT industry body backed by Microsoft, IBM, Intel, BAE Systems

Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$

2003-06-20 Thread Miark
. (That did happen, right? It's been years since I read that series.) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-20 Thread Miark
Okay, this message has come up five times now. What the hell is wrong with the Mandrake list server? Miark On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:52:34 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this guy is a *nutjob*. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2999780.stm -- + Joe Hill + Registered

Re: [expert] slow samba

2003-06-19 Thread Miark
to a Linux client, when you can get 8 to 9MBps when transferring files to or from a Samba server using a Windows client? Is this usual, or does it sound like I have something configured incorrectly? Which version of Winblows? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$

2003-06-19 Thread Miark
than the Linux alternative. Oy. http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/06/17/cx_ld_0617linux.html Miark On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:18:30 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-19 Thread Miark
You should get Quake III--it really rocks rocks, using the Winblows CD with the Linux installer. Much less trouble to install than Quake II. Miark On 19 Jun 2003 20:44:41 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Femme, Mr. Ron (I don't live in a trailer up a holler) Hall, and all

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-19 Thread Miark
a high ranking Republican. You really ought to have paid more attention to Joe. sigh Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-19 Thread Miark
It's obviously changed since I look at it last. I remember having to install different tarballed libraries and jumping through other hoops to make it work. Looks like this is cake now, too. Guess I'll have to load another distraction on my machine. Oh well ;-) Miark On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:04

Re: [newbie] OT, new game for linux ppl!

2003-06-19 Thread Miark
such a celebratory place in linux gaming - sad. You must be right--I've never heard of Alice, that I can remember. googling... Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-19 Thread Miark
On 20 Jun 2003 09:28:48 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:28, Miark wrote: You should get Quake III--it really rocks rocks, using the Winblows CD with the Linux installer. Much less trouble to install than Quake II. Miark So when can I expect

Re: [newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching

2003-06-18 Thread Miark
Okay, I was wrong. I've removed 3ddesktop, but I _still_ switch desktops by double-pointing to either edge of my screen. Is that some KDE feature I don't know about and maybe turned on my accident? Miark On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:34:25 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 08:42

Re: [expert] Extracting a URL from a Java applet

2003-06-17 Thread Miark
My solution for normal HTML was to use: lynx --dump http://url-here.com which would spit out the URL yer looking for. I'm not sure about Java applets, though. Miark On 17 Jun 2003 01:12:12 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The scenario is that I would like to pass a url

Re: [newbie] Networking

2003-06-17 Thread Miark
Run drakxservices and turn off zeroconf. Miark On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:20:05 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but mandrake's configuration has bootp, dhcp and zeroconf on the same line. Is there anyway to remove the zeroconf while

Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread Miark
I love putty. Miark (That's a pretty racy statement taken out of context, eh?) On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:46:44 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Anyone have a favorite ssh program for win2000? I need to get it on my machine at work. I googled, but there seemed

Re: [newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching

2003-06-17 Thread Miark
On 15 Jun 2003 08:42:40 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 08:16, Miark wrote: I'm using Texstar's KDE 3.1.2. Every once in a while, the desktop will switch to another desktop by itself. I can't see any pattern to it either, so I don't know what's triggering

Re: [newbie] NVidia and TV out

2003-06-15 Thread Miark
Try yanc. Miark On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:02:26 +0100 Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone had any success with enabling TV out on a NVidia AGP graphics card. I had a quick look around the NVidia website but only found reference to winblows stuff. Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Databases

2003-06-15 Thread Miark
Hey Stephen, Do you mess with databases at all? If so, what what's your take on MpSQL vs. Postgresql? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Linux equivalent of PaperPort

2003-06-15 Thread Miark
I need something like PaperPort. Kooka is along the right lines, but it's too clunky and unsophisticated. Any suggestions? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] urpmi -- I'm impressed!

2003-06-14 Thread Miark
damned impressed! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Texstar' version of KDE

2003-06-14 Thread Miark
One minuscule difference I noticed is Ctrl-U in Konq is a shortcut for View Source, just as in Mozilla. But minuscule as it is, it's really important to me! Miark On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:00:18 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just uploaded 3.1.2 from the Texstar site last night

[newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching

2003-06-14 Thread Miark
I'm using Texstar's KDE 3.1.2. Every once in a while, the desktop will switch to another desktop by itself. I can't see any pattern to it either, so I don't know what's triggering it. Any ideas? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Who really owns UNIX?

2003-06-14 Thread Miark
More like boring if you ask me. What peaked your interest? Miark On 15 Jun 2003 14:12:55 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting... http://www.zdnet.com.au/itmanager/technology/story/0,229587,20275368,00.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread Miark
Sounds like a hardware problem that manifests itself with a lot of heat. Is there some other CPU-intensive stuff you could try to test that theory, like rendering some video? Miark On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:17:33 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, (hate replying to myself

Re: [newbie] NOTICE: CNet no longer support LINUX download !!!

2003-06-11 Thread Miark
Todd's right--who really cares? It's probably a waste of their resources and it's no skin off our noses. Miark On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:51:42 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:47:10 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a mistake in the making

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