Re: [newbie] Hardware question

Thanks, filed for reference. I'll have to make a decision soon, so I'll follow this up. Anne On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 9:46 pm, you wrote: > (Dark Lord -- sorry for hijacking your post, but I never got Anne's...) > > Anne, > > It says on the largest chip of the small video capture card Bt??.

Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs

Have you tried ps aux ?? There are often processes running that don't show up in top...and a process that has not gone zombie can be stopped ( kill -HUP , kill -15 , or kill -9 ), allowing you to restart the program (most of the time) without a log out/in On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:31, Bil

[newbie] new install of mandrake 9.0

Hey guys .. just a quickie .. I hope. I've installed mandrake 9.0 on two machines .. the first one has almost the same as the second. I thought I've chosen all the same information on startup, but there's one difference on the 2nd machine I need to get working. There seems to be some commands m

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

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 J

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

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? Just

[newbie] Limewire installation

Anybody been able to do install Limewire 2.7 successfully? I get a bunch of errors. I'm running j2re 1.4 from Mandrake Club. The error: Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... Launching

[newbie] http install

How can I find what 'drivers' (sorry for the windows language) ML 8.2 is using to connect to the Internet so that I can use them to make a boot disk for doing an Internet install of ML 9.0? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.to

[newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories

I was wondering about /tmp directories and the directories and files they contain. Is it necessary or a good idea to delete these once in a while? Any other stuff that needs deleting? I like to keep things clean ;-) TIA's for any thoughts. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or fo

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

Steve wrote: > 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/

Re: [newbie] Compile/install issues

I've tried to compile a proggie for the KDE panel - FireApplet - which SEEMS to compile nicely, and SEEMS to put itself where it's supposed to live - BUT, it isn't registering in KDE at all...even after I've wiped out my ~/.kde* files and the likes in order to rebuild them, the applets just ain't s

[newbie] Permissions Problems?

I'm having a couple of problems that I believe are permissions related. During my ML 8.2 install, Apache was also installed with all the defaults. I want to operate the server on a private IP address so I modified the NAT in my router to send all traffic on port 80 to the private IP. When I conne

[newbie] restarting crashed programs

Hi again, I have experienced occasional crashes (freezes) in KMail and OO from a new LM9 install. Everything went cleanly on install. Anyway my question is. Is there a way to restart the programs after a freeze? It seems that I have to logout then login again before I can res

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 14:14, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Stephen: > My understanding is that the 1024 cylinder limit hasn't applied to Mandrake > since 7.1 (assuming a 1998 or later BIOS). > -- cmg That could be more than true, but I still like to play "better safe than sorry". Generally speaking, I

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: >>> snip > ... and I always make sure that I move my FAT/VFAT/NTFS partitions > to the end of the first disk so that my free space is always below the > 1024 cylinder for linux. ... > > Stephen Stephen: My understanding is that the 1024

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

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 appear

[newbie] mdk 9 with tamil

I installed mdk 9 with tamil language support. As user, in control center selecting various keyboards didn't allow me to type in tamil. As root I changed the keyboard in hardware. Then I could type tamil letters. But unfortunately, by trial and error also I couldn't find all tamil letters. ie th

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

Some times a non-gimp generation of graphics files do not generate a thumb-nail ajunct file which is what most thumb nails are. When I find one I push the generate thumb nail button and then it has one from then on. Roly On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:08:03 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [newbie] getting mail from spool to sylpheed

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:42:52 -0500 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I access e-mail remotely using ssh and mutt. With mutt, I'm actually > reading the spool, so I can't read old messages I have in my sylpheed > folder, and messages I send using mutt do not go to my sylpheed outbox. > > Is

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

Stephen Kuhn, Wednesday 06 November 2002 19:15: > Downloaded - going to have to try this on a customers computer to see ^ So /you're/ the model for the BOFH stories! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrak

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

> Howdy Angus, list memebers, > > I am curious if anybody knows will this work if I do not have Windows > installed on my system, can I still "import" windows fonts into mandrake > 9.0? > > I do have a computer in the house which has WinME (that is the > newest version of windows I have access

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So does that make this an official bug? Anybody know how to file it? > > - Paul > > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 13:41, Sharrea wrote: >> On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 4:34 am, Paul Rodriguez wrote: >>> Has anybody gotten sawfish configura

RE: [newbie] Donation suggestion

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an HP SureStore T4 tape drive with accompanying SCSI > card. I have no use for it and thought there might be an open source > project, site, whatever that can get some use out of it. Any > suggestions? > > Miark Why not

Re: [newbie] Donation suggestion

Mark If you want to you can send it to me and I will throw it in my machine.. Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] (586) 945-3801 You Finally Have A Choice In Local Telephone Service Ask Me How. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Miark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL P

Re: [newbie] sawfish configuration

So does that make this an official bug? Anybody know how to file it? - Paul On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 13:41, Sharrea wrote: > On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 4:34 am, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > Has anybody gotten sawfish configuration to work in 9.0? Anytime I > > click on any of the sawfish config programs

[newbie] Donation suggestion

I have an HP SureStore T4 tape drive with accompanying SCSI card. I have no use for it and thought there might be an open source project, site, whatever that can get some use out of it. Any suggestions? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.

Re: [newbie] news ticker

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Here's the URL for WinBar: http://www.winbar.nl/index.php > Just so's to keep ya from having to surf too hard... Passed along to the interested party; thanks again. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at ht

Re: [newbie] Really important suggestion for mdk9.1 installation.

I have just finished installing RH 8.0 on and old P233 with one of those not-to-be-spoken-of CD-RWs that cannot read over 650 MBs. All the RH distros to current are less than 650 MBs for some reason. ;-) Ahem! AnywayI can't speak highly enough about RH 8.0 allowing you to check all your CDs for

RE: [newbie] news ticker

> That's the one I was looking for to answer this same question from a > friend. He's stuck sitting behind Windoze all day or night (Compaq > Hell Desk) and I couldn't remember the name of it. > > Too long since I ran anything other than a real operating system I > s'pose. > > Thanks Stephen.

Re: [newbie] Hardware question

(Dark Lord -- sorry for hijacking your post, but I never got Anne's...) Anne, It says on the largest chip of the small video capture card Bt??. Mine is an older card, so it has a different set of numbers than what you might find around now. Here's the site I found that gives me some direction

Re: [newbie] news ticker

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:19 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Hi Stephen; > > > > Wasn't the question the other direction? A Windows app that will work > > as well (yeah, right ;->) as the one he uses in Mandrake? > > > > C. > > Newsticker in Windoze? Gads...sorry...if I'd have known that, I'd no

Re: [newbie] Zip drive/hdc=ide-scsi ramblings...(long post)

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:47 pm, you wrote: > Anyway, I am so glad that your conclusions mirror that of what a fresh > install did for me. I just wish that you could have come over for a couple > of beers and some of the best Italian pizza in the world. I know you would > have been able to

Re: [newbie] Hardware question

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote: > This is all sounding fairly encouraging. I know that there are many > hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree > chipset? Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to > bring a lead forward? > > An

RE: [newbie] news ticker

> Hi Stephen; > > Wasn't the question the other direction? A Windows app that will work > as well (yeah, right ;->) as the one he uses in Mandrake? > > C. Newsticker in Windoze? Gads...sorry...if I'd have known that, I'd not have made a suggestion...(grin)...oh wait, but there IS a nifty utility

[newbie] Really important suggestion for mdk9.1 installation.

Hi guys, I am installing 9.0 on a box that was having some probs after updating 8.2 security updates.. Anyway, my CD's were burnt at 2x speed, the checksum's matched and it worked on another system I have.. Occasionally, with some hardware, the installer has probs with some packages.. and instea

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

I'll be interest to know what happens. It's going to be Friday or maybe weekend before I can take time to explore the effect of reducing size. I want to play about to see if I can really get an idea whether there is a maximum size for KView. The 'don't display' files are about 2.2Mb. Anne O

Re: [newbie] Hardware question

This is all sounding fairly encouraging. I know that there are many hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree chipset? Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to bring a lead forward? Anne On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 3:10 pm, you wrote: > I have a

Re: [newbie] news ticker

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Mate, I've seen heaps of different "news tickers" for either > Gnome/Gnome2, KDE or even gKrellm - and some that just nicely sit off in > a little window somewhere on your desktop...last one I used was with > KDE3 - worked like a champ..

[newbie] screen/menu resolution problem

I'm using a A-B switch box between two computers. One is dedicated to WIN2000, the other is dedicated to Mandrake 8.2. The box allows me to utalize the same monitor, keyboard and mouse.   Even though the monitor resolution is set the same for both boxes, some of the menue boxes run off the scr

Re: [newbie] Installing Zope-zserver

Glad to hear you got it going. The Zope.org website is a phenomenal resource of add-on products, how-to's, e-books etc. The Zope mail list is also a tremendous help to get your questions answered that you can't find answers for in the how-to's. Zope is a powerful and flexible development env

[newbie] Changing screen resolution

I'm using a A-B switch box between two computers. One is dedicated to WIN2000, the other is dedicated to Mandrake 8.2. The box allows me to utalize the same monitor, keyboard and mouse. Even though the monitor resolution is set the same for both boxes, some of the menue boxes run off the scre

Re: [newbie] Zip drive/hdc=ide-scsi ramblings...(long post)

I tried to manually add my external zip drive to MDK 8.2, following the HowTo, as well as the information given on the Iomega Web. The two clashed a bit on what to do, so I probably never made the right combinations happen for it to work for me. When I decided that I didn't have anything to lose in

Re: [newbie] Installing fonts

Guilherme Cirne wrote: Miark wrote: Does Linux suffer at all if you load in a mountain of fonts? Other than perhaps slowing things down a bit, there should be no probvlem if they're good fonts - broken fonts can make X hang. Oh, and don't try to make them all accessible to OpenOffice unl

[newbie] getting mail from spool to sylpheed

I access e-mail remotely using ssh and mutt. With mutt, I'm actually reading the spool, so I can't read old messages I have in my sylpheed folder, and messages I send using mutt do not go to my sylpheed outbox. Is there a way I can have mail sent from the spool to sylpheed (without even running s

RE: [newbie] news ticker

Title: Message Mate, I've seen heaps of different "news tickers" for either Gnome/Gnome2, KDE or even gKrellm - and some that just nicely sit off in a little window somewhere on your desktop...last one I used was with KDE3 - worked like a champ...(If you read the news, you know!) - or you cou

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 09:20 am, Miark wrote: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 > > Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It must > > be the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept a lower > > speed and a lo

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 10:07 am, Technoslick wrote: > Charlie, > > Have you used the newest version (beta)? If so, did you think that it was > stable enough to trust as a beta partitioner? Or is the version before it > able to work with NTFS as well? > > As for M$'s attitude on changing the

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

On Wednesday November 6 2002 08:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Technoslick wrote: > >I tend to forget as much as I remember anymore, so when Tom Brinkman > >mentioned the problem was actually stemming from the motherboard's > > chipset, I remembered reading about that a long time ago. If you >

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 4:31 am, qhwang wrote: > I have found something interesting in the FAQs of Ranish Partition > Manager. It says, > > "18. What about resizing of NTFS partitions? > > Unfortunately, there are no free utilities yet to do this. So you need > to go for commercial/shareware util

RE: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

Spot on Richard. Yep there was a single directory named janet.d, and the files sat in the root were .tiff's. Many thanks oh bright one :o) here's a this week story. Student scanning. I saw her on the scanner for 3 hours. Mmmm i thought, lets see what she's been scanning. So on me samba serve

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

On Wednesday November 6 2002 10:20 am, Miark wrote: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 > > Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It > > must be the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept > > a lower speed and a low

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

Charlie, Have you used the newest version (beta)? If so, did you think that it was stable enough to trust as a beta partitioner? Or is the version before it able to work with NTFS as well? As for M$'s attitude on changing the O/S to make it hard to use freeware on it I think you may be givin

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 am, QingHua Wang wrote: > Hi there, > > Can you explain in detail about what you do for the dual booting? I am > struggling with this problem. I have asked about it but the answer is to > find some disk tools such as PatitionMagic to make a partition for Linux >

RE: [newbie] Way, way of topic

Title: RE: [newbie] Way, way of topic -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic On Wednesday November 6 2002 05:41 am, Sil

Re: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time

I think it does not matter if you use your lokal UK server or something else. If your UK server does not work for you just use something else. I am using one server in Norway and secondary in France, I have 2 hours time difference between me and Norway. I have specified my timezone and my sytem t

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It must be > the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept a lower speed and > a lower intensity laser for a CD-RW. I've never had that problem s

Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

On Wednesday November 6 2002 05:41 am, Silent Bob wrote: > My Mandrake freezes without warning shortly after reboot. But this > one is a hardware problem. I tested the harddrive in other machine. Booting into X, or to level 3 ? Booting into X it could be a video problem. Configure to boot t

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:53 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Dear Charlie, > > Thought I would let you know that the problem is solved!!! Nothing very > technical simply the CD-RW in the writer did not function. It was a > Memorex High speed 8X 12X, nor would it work with WinXP/Nero. Other > C

[newbie] sawfish configuration

Has anybody gotten sawfish configuration to work in 9.0? Anytime I click on any of the sawfish config programs in the gnome config menu, none of the programs open. - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

I have found something interesting in the FAQs of Ranish Partition Manager. It says, "18. What about resizing of NTFS partitions? Unfortunately, there are no free utilities yet to do this. So you need to go for commercial/shareware utilities. Bootit Next Generation: http://www.terabyteunli

Re: [newbie] Hardware question

I have a hauppage tv tuner with the brooktree chipset and it seems to work fine. I never use the card in linux but i do get the "blue screen" from the yellow jack and i get "snow" from the coax. So it does work. I haven't actually tried capturing video with it Linux but I assume that it will work.

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

>From what little I have gathered here, you are making a change to the original image and that is the only way it is viewable through KView. Right? If this is really true, you are making a change to the file that makes the difference, whatever that may be. I cannot think of anything specific that w

Re: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

What happens if you do tar cvf /dev/nst0 "*.*" ? Miark On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:54:51 - Ken Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to Tar to dat from a smbmount and use the following, > > tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.* > > It stopped after about 400mb Want to buy your Pack or Services fr

RE: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

You're showing your roots. *.* is a MS pattern. The corrosponding Unix pattern is * I guess that tar backed-up everything with a dot in it? -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [newbie] Shared directories

There could be. I would make myself a different user on the second distro and access data files of the original user using group permissions. Miark On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:43:36 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 4:17 am, you wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 2

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

Technoslick wrote: No breakage. What I have noticed is that a CD-ROM drive becomes unreliable in reading. It works sometimes, other times not. Can't tell that the contents of the drive has changed. Or stops working. With storage mediums that you write to, like hard drives, it will begin to scramb

[newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

I tried to Tar to dat from a smbmount and use the following, tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.* It stopped after about 400mb Tried it again and it did the same, so i tar'd to the hd such as tar cvf /usr/Cad12/tartest *.* and it did the same thing, stopped at about 400mb. It tar'd one folder and the loose

Re: [newbie] Installing fonts

>Miark wrote: >> Does Linux suffer at all if you load in a mountain of fonts? > >Other than perhaps slowing things down a bit, there should be no >probvlem if they're good fonts - broken fonts can make X hang. Oh, and >don't try to make them all accessible to OpenOffice unless you have a >very

Re: [newbie] Installing fonts

Miark wrote: Does Linux suffer at all if you load in a mountain of fonts? Other than perhaps slowing things down a bit, there should be no probvlem if they're good fonts - broken fonts can make X hang. Oh, and don't try to make them all accessible to OpenOffice unless you have a very fast sy

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

No breakage. What I have noticed is that a CD-ROM drive becomes unreliable in reading. It works sometimes, other times not. Can't tell that the contents of the drive has changed. Or stops working. With storage mediums that you write to, like hard drives, it will begin to scramble it, until you are

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

...but I have read many complimentary reviews about it. It must be worth checking out. Anne On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 12:50 pm, you wrote: > It is interesting to note that the new Xandros distribution can apparently > resize NTFS partitions. > > However since Xandros have decided not to publish

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

Nope Anne On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 12:30 pm, you wrote: > Did you change the color or grayscale depth between the two? > > T > > - Original Message - > From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:23 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Th

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

It is interesting to note that the new Xandros distribution can apparently resize NTFS partitions. However since Xandros have decided not to publish any of their work under the GPL, and to not allow downloads of their distro, then I shall never find out how effective it is. BTW: There are che

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

Technoslick wrote: If turning DMA on works, and you are satisfied --- use it! T :-) - Original Message - *From:* gikoreno *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

It seems to me that someone has suggested here before that there is a shareware/freeware tool that will resize an NTFS partition safely. I think the reference was not very detailed, so I may have assumed that it was 'free' and not a commercial product.   Have you tried to do a search through

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

Did you change the color or grayscale depth between the two? T - Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:23 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler Could be - but pic00039 and pic00039a were both edi

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed 0.8.5-compilation problems

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:19:09 + Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry Anders. Can't help, but you should know that this seems to be a common >problem. I have had similar messages with many other installs, in particular > with packages from magazine cover disks. The GLIB one has cer

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

Could be - but pic00039 and pic00039a were both edited and re-written by Gimp, so if the compression was being changed I would have expected it to be so in both pics. Anne On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 12:20 pm, you wrote: > Anne, > > I haven't got around to trying to view many images under MDK that

RE: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

If you don't want to re-install Windows, probably the easiest thing is to add a hard drive and put Linux on that drive. As far as I know, there is no freeware tool to re-partition a drive without losing the data. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandr

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

Anne, I haven't got around to trying to view many images under MDK that were made elsewhere (camera, webcam or under a different O/S). But, I have experienced oodles of problems in Windows working with bitmaps under several graphics programs and with files that came from other O/S (like Macs). If

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed 0.8.5-compilation problems

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:18:02 +0100 Anders Lind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello friends, > > now with the keen help of this list I have managed to solve > my NFS-problems and now I encountered something else: > > I wanted to upgrade my Sylpheed-version to 0.8.5 from 0.8.2 > that I am using toda

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 10:53 am, you wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 10:53 pm, you wrote: > >>Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:38 pm, you wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when working > > with images, >

Re: [newbie] Hardware question

Thanks, Bryan. My MDK 9.0 machine is now a dual-boot with Win XP Pro. Having found drivers for Win 2K/XP for this card, I am going to install it today, get both O/S's running the card, and see what I can do in MDK to find the apps I need. I am glad to hear that you didn't have to do any weird danc

[newbie] Way, way of topic

My Mandrake freezes without warning shortly after reboot. But this one is a hardware problem. I tested the harddrive in other machine. Does anyone know what is the normal operating temperature for AMD duron 1300. Mine is running at 59C and I think that over heating could be the problem. Although I

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

If turning DMA on works, and you are satisfied --- use it!   T :-)   - Original Message - From: gikoreno To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning frustration Hey John,sorry to have taken so long to reply.I tr

Re: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time

actually, what's appearing on the timestamp of your email is 1/19/2038. you're almost 4decades ahead of us LOL, no offense =) j/k just made me laugh after another frustrating day. Maybe it has something to do with the public time server, not on your side. magnet wrote: Hi all, Digging thru Webm

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

Hi there,   Can you explain in detail about what you do for the dual booting? I am struggling with this problem. I have asked about it but the answer is to find some disk tools such as PatitionMagic to make a partition for Linux from the predefined NTFS partition(WinXP). However, PartitionMag

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

Dear Charlie, Thought I would let you know that the problem is solved!!! Nothing very technical simply the CD-RW in the writer did not function. It was a Memorex High speed 8X 12X, nor would it work with WinXP/Nero. Other CD-Rs work well. It appears that a 4X speed writer will not work on a higher

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

Anne Wilson wrote: >On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 10:53 pm, you wrote: > > >>Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> >>>On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:38 pm, you wrote: >>> >>> Anne Wilson wrote: >I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when working with images, >but have come across a real puzzle

RE: [newbie] Windowmanager

It would seem that it was updated in March of this year, go here for info, http://udeproject.sourceforge.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original

RE: [newbie] Windowmanager

I think the UDE project rather died...I was trying to follow it...that was back in '98 or '97 I think... November 3rd 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ |"| |'. `\ |

Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk

You can import Windows fonts using Samba. Just mount the remote windows directory with Samba and then use the 'Advanced' button in Drakfont to point to individual font files. Or else copy the font files to any media and import from there. NOTE: There is an issue with drakfont - A required RPM

Re: [newbie] Windowmanager

> just my preference, but I'd try icewm if i were you... > > it small, its fast and its configurable... > > I like it because generally most of the time I need a GUI on linux its on > simple servers for running MandrakeUpdate and such.. > > since it only runs when I need it, I don't want to spe

RE: [newbie] Windowmanager

just my preference, but I'd try icewm if i were you... it small, its fast and its configurable... I like it because generally most of the time I need a GUI on linux its on simple servers for running MandrakeUpdate and such.. since it only runs when I need it, I don't want to spend alot of time g

Re: [newbie] Windowmanager

Thanks a lot for all the input. I will be trying out the windowmanagers you mentioned and see what suits me better. Guess I'm slowly starting to realize that there are plenty of things that Linux offers that Windows doesnt. Might take some time till I get used to that, tho. Want to buy you

[newbie] Wireless Tools

Hello I couldn't find wireless tools wlancfg and wlanctl-ng for prism2 after replace Mandrake 8.2 with Mandrake 9.0. Which rpm can I find them or how to configure prism2 after new install without re-compile the prism2 source code? Thanks. MJH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

Re: [newbie] Shared directories

On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 4:17 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:01:47 -0500 > > Paul Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know if it's possible to share partitions between distros? > > For example, if I choose to have two distros, e.g., a production distro > > and an experimental

Re: [newbie] Windowmanager

> > > > > Why not just settle for something like say, Enlightenment? It's fast, > > highly configurable, has heaps of themes, low on resource, has heaps of > > "epplets" with it...(it is in your package if you want to install it) > > Because I don't like Enlightenment LOL, Enlightenment is the