Re: [newbie-it] Slack

2002-11-12 Thread guido
in maceratese: me vene da piagne ciao guido allora!! la slackizziamo un pò questa lista ?? ;P ..se gli altri non hanno problemi.. bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932

[newbie-it] simulazione scasi

2002-11-12 Thread mario
finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi dove ho sbagliato giuropoi non vi rompo + (almeno con questo problema) un grazie a tutti /dev/hdd1 / ext3

[newbie-it] modem ISDN

2002-11-12 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, proseguo la mia email di qualche giorno fa. Sto montando un PC, e cerco di assicurarmi che tutti i pezzi siano in grado di funzionare con Linux. Vorrei acquistare un modem ISDN interno ASUS (PCI)... dalle informazioni trovate in rete sembrerebbe che i modem ASUS ISDNLink 128k PC

[newbie-it] Colori !!!

2002-11-12 Thread Mino
Cari amici, come posso cambiare i colori nella shell, esempio i file tar.gz(sono rossi), ed eventualmente attribuire un colore ad un altro tipo di file. Vi ringrazio Mino Mitrugno

Re: [newbie-it] Re: simulazione scsi

2002-11-12 Thread gianni piazza
ciao andrea! Ho visto la risposta subito dopo aver inviato la domanda! Ho fatto le aggiunte che hai scritto effettivamente al riavvio il cdrom veniva riconosciuto come scsi da x-cd roast il problema è che ora non riesco piu' ad aprire il cd rom e quindi a leggere i cd!!Mi appare un

Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi

2002-11-12 Thread Andrea Celli
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:19:47 +0100 mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi dove ho sbagliato giuropoi non vi

Re: [newbie-it] ortografia e openoffice su mdk9.0

2002-11-12 Thread pigi
Si', a me. Ho anche installato il corettore in italianom _seguendo le istruzioni di Mike_ (che raramente fallano), ma senza risultati. Poi non ho piu' avuto tempo di indagare oltre. Io ho poi risolto perfettamente usando le indicazioni di emiliano, e cioe': Devi attivare il controllo

Re: [newbie-it] modem ISDN

2002-11-12 Thread Germano
Il 12:31, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, proseguo la mia email di qualche giorno fa. Sto montando un PC, e cerco di assicurarmi che tutti i pezzi siano in grado di funzionare con Linux. Vorrei acquistare un modem ISDN interno ASUS (PCI)... dalle informazioni

Re: [newbie-it] Slack

2002-11-12 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 22:36, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 05:49, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Arwan ha scritto: Sto cercando di imparare a muovermi sulla Sackware, e ho tre-quattro domande abbastanza banali da porre. Qualcuno puo' aiutarmi? In

Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi

2002-11-12 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 12:19, martedì 12 novembre 2002, mario ha scritto: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi dove ho sbagliato giuropoi non vi rompo + (almeno

Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9.0 ed il modem

2002-11-12 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 17:07, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 11:45, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Vai in /etc/shorewall, apri policy ed al posto di loc scrivi fw; quindi, in fin qui tutto a posto... interfaces imposta, togliendo #, l'ultimo esempio

Re: [newbie-it] modem ISDN

2002-11-12 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 14:44, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Germano ha scritto: Il 12:31, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, proseguo la mia email di qualche giorno fa. Sto montando un PC, e cerco di assicurarmi che tutti i pezzi siano in grado di funzionare con Linux. Vorrei

Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi

2002-11-12 Thread mario
Alle 15:19, martedì 12 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Alle 12:19, martedì 12 novembre 2002, mario ha scritto: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi

Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi

2002-11-12 Thread mario
Alle 14:33, martedì 12 novembre 2002, hai scritto: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:19:47 +0100 mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle

[newbie-it] kmail smtp

2002-11-12 Thread tom
Salve alla lista Qualcuno saprebbe darmi dritte sul fatto che Kmail non vuole spedirmi la posta? sembrerebbe un errore imputabile all' indirizzo smtp ma quest ultimo è corretto!! magari sto sbagliando la configurazione di kmail (mi sembra strano anche se ultimamente sto diventando parecchio

R: [newbie-it] modem conexant hsf e devfs??

2002-11-12 Thread tom
Alle 11:38, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: si, al riavvio il devfs pialla il dispositivo creato manualmente ... puoi risolvere in 2 modi: E' strano, perchè io, nonostante abbia devfs attivato, ed abbia un HSF, dopo l'installazione del

Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto

2002-11-12 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Quando lancio startx, mi viene dato come errore (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected Cosa significa??? Ho come scheda grafica una ATI R128 PRO e come monitor uno Studioworks 775N! Alle 23:18, domenica 10 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Alle 17:46, venerdì 8 novembre 2002, Benedetto Santarella ha

[newbie-it] Pentium 200MHz

2002-11-12 Thread Ste
Salve a tutti, cerco consiglio dai piu' anziani per che release ( se fosse possibile mandrake meglio )optare nel resuscitare un pentium 200MHz con 32 Mb Ram e 4 Mb di scheda video. Dovra' solo occuparsi di scaricare mail da un server e spedirla ( e nemmeno tanto traffico ) e dare la

Re: [newbie-it] Mozilla ... si incazzato

2002-11-12 Thread freefred
On Monday 11 November 2002 9:21 pm, Emma e Gigi wrote about [newbie-it] Mozilla ... si è incazzato: Salve, sono sempre io. Risolto un problema eccone un altro, sempre con Mozilla, ma stavolta penso più grave. Ecco il problema: clicco preferenze dal menù e Mozilla. si chiude. mh,

Re: [newbie-it] kmail smtp

2002-11-12 Thread freefred
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:21 pm, tom wrote about [newbie-it] kmail smtp: Salve alla lista Qualcuno saprebbe darmi dritte sul fatto che Kmail non vuole spedirmi la posta? sembrerebbe un errore imputabile all' indirizzo smtp ma quest ultimo è corretto!! magari sto sbagliando la

Re: [newbie-it] Pentium 200MHz

2002-11-12 Thread freefred
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 8:13 pm, Ste wrote about [newbie-it] Pentium 200MHz: macchina. Se non ricordo male la mandrake e' forse un po' avida di risorse appena si parla di grafica... alla fine non credo sia la mandrake quanto gli ultimi desktop environment. Ovviamente sulle mdk nuove

Re: [newbie-it] modem ISDN

2002-11-12 Thread aragon
Il mar, 2002-11-12 alle 16:11, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Alle 14:44, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Germano ha scritto: Il 12:31, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, proseguo la mia email di qualche giorno fa. Sto montando un PC, e cerco di assicurarmi che

Re: [newbie-it] modem conexant hsf e devfs??

2002-11-12 Thread miKe
Alle 15:05, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: controlla se per caso il RPM ha modificato modules.devfs e devfsd.conf dicendo al demone di generare il dispositivo, Effettivamente, in /devfs/conf.d (richiamato da devfsd.conf), è presente un file di configurazione di

Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi

2002-11-12 Thread miKe
Alle 12:19, martedì 12 novembre 2002, mario ha scritto: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi ls -l /dev/scd* se non ne sei il proprietario (ovviamente) e non hai il permesso di

Re: [newbie-it] kmail smtp

2002-11-12 Thread miKe
Alle 17:21, martedì 12 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Salve alla lista Qualcuno saprebbe darmi dritte sul fatto che Kmail non vuole spedirmi la posta? sembrerebbe un errore imputabile all' indirizzo smtp ma quest ultimo è corretto!! è un problema di email.it o meglio di kmail che non si

Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto

2002-11-12 Thread miKe
Alle 00:57, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: Quando lancio startx, mi viene dato come errore (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected Cosa significa??? è un errore di X diceh che la tua scheda 0 (la Rage) non trova un digital flat panel... ma non credo possa bloccarti...

Re: [newbie-it] Slack

2002-11-12 Thread Arwan
Alle 15:11, martedì 12 novembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Slack, Fabio Manunza hai scritto: ...non per fare la pigna in c..., ma ci sono mailinglist apposite per questo (specialiste e generaliste); Uh? Liste per la Slack non ne ho trovate (ma ammetto di non aver

Re: [newbie-it] Slack

2002-11-12 Thread Beppe
scusate ma posso fare una domanda da profano? cos'ha di interessante la slack? mi sembra che venga considerata un punto di arrivo da molti ma a quanto ne so è la distro in cui ci sono meno tools grafici. Intendo, se invece di usare un tool grafico apro il terminale e lavoro da lì non è come

Re: [newbie] OT: Rendering spreadsheet cells

2002-11-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:49, Joseph Braddock wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:42:56 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way in OpenOffice Calc to convert a cell from a formula (=A5*1.15) to a string (2.30)? To, in effect, render it? Thanks, Miark Highlight what you want to

[newbie] open source strikes back.

2002-11-12 Thread Franki
Hello, check this site out in IE if you can (or set your browser to detect as IE), I just found it by accident. http://alon.wox.org/adminlec.html its good to see the shoe on the other foot for a change. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] staaarting databases

2002-11-12 Thread Aaron
I installed it and it needs to connect to the server with a username which i have not figured out how to set (I assume in mysql) Also of interest is an article on the mysql documents page www.mysql.org about using openoffice as the front end like ms access. I started it but it appears that alot

Re: [newbie] newbie

2002-11-12 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 01:23:20 -0500 chad ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i take my email off this emailing list. it is good information and all, but I am getting over 100 emails a day. i still have dial-up and it takes forever. I am about to change my email address. will someone

[newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 10:22 am, you wrote: Hi, In regards to your recent email, unfortunately none of our products will support

Re: [newbie] installing contrib rpms from tex

2002-11-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:14, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I wanted to install contrib rpms from tex site ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/ I downloaded rpms and did urpmi. I get following error. [root@localhost lvgandhi]# urpmi

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:47, Jose wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 02:29 am, Noah Hicks wrote: how does one install and enable the flash plugin for Konqueror? It was very easy to do in Mozilla but I prefer to use Konqueror. Hopefully someone will answer that question. I have been using

Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI

2002-11-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:02, Gary Montalbine wrote: Installed lm_sensors1. It appears to be working. Installed gkrellm. It is not picking up the lm sensors. There is a proc/sys/dev/sensors directory. Any suggestions? Gary Have you checked to see if you have the GKRELLM plugins for it -

Re: [newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?

2002-11-12 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:09 am, you wrote: Thanks for the tip. I've been using xscreensaver since the day I received your response and really enjoy it. However, I've been playing around with Enlightenment the last couple of days and was wondering if you know how I would set up

Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI

2002-11-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Gary Montalbine wrote: Installed lm_sensors1. It appears to be working. Installed gkrellm. It is not picking up the lm sensors. There is a proc/sys/dev/sensors directory. Any suggestions? Gary gkrellm works for me in M8.2, just type gkrellm into a terminal and up comes this grey column

RE: [newbie] .NET under Linux ?

2002-11-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 16:41, Franki wrote: So it will just make linux look bad... (remember when M$ made it so Netscape would crash windows just to make IE look good?) rgds frank Pls tell me you are kidding? I mean really... did that happen? I was going ot reply offlist but said

Re: [newbie] Aspell problem

2002-11-12 Thread Dale Morris
* Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-11 21:26]: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:08:33 -0800 Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why but when I try to use aspell to check my mail spellings, I get an error message, unable to start Aspell, check Path.. I have aspell installed

Re: [newbie] Wireless

2002-11-12 Thread Patrick Griffin
Hi All, After a bit of playing and the purchase of a new pci-pcmcia adapter I have a single beep when cardmanager starts followed by a low tone. I guess the adapter is recognised but not the wireless card. Can anyone help me with that. Running a skynet global roamabout wireless lan card.

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne Anne, look - for all intents and purposes, you're swimming upstream here.

Re: [newbie] Wireless

2002-11-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:39 am, Patrick Griffin wrote: Hi All, After a bit of playing and the purchase of a new pci-pcmcia adapter I have a single beep when cardmanager starts followed by a low tone. I guess the adapter is recognised but not the wireless card. Can anyone help me with

Re: [newbie] about DMA Mdk Linux

2002-11-12 Thread Technoslick
Angus, All of us like to see things snap at our beck and call. It's part of being human. Sometimes, there's a fix, though. You don't know unless you ask. ;-) The answer to your question was provided earlier by a couple of people, but I like Tom Brinkman's earlier post, best. I have paraphrased

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne Anne, look - for all intents

Re: [newbie] tulip driver installation help?

2002-11-12 Thread Derek Jennings
Marcia The tulip driver supplied with Mandrake 9.0 is already version 0.9.14 (released Feb20 2001) You can see this if you take a look at /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl It may simply be that the system does not realise that your card needs the tulip driver.

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 23:45, Anne Wilson wrote: In the end, lost sales do count. Mine alone will do nothing, but the more often we can tell them that we have gone to a competitor who does better and the sooner they will take notice. This is true - and has held true for quite a number of

[newbie] Configuring Hauppage Bt846KPF in MDK 9.0

2002-11-12 Thread Technoslick
Someone posted to this listserv that they were using a Hauppage video capture card in Linux. I can't seem to find that posting so...I am asking for help from anyone, especially anyone using this card to capture analog video from a VHS-C camcorder... I have an older version (Bt848KPF) Hauppage

Re: [newbie] OT: Rendering spreadsheet cells

2002-11-12 Thread Jan Wilson
* Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02 13:38]: Is there a way in OpenOffice Calc to convert a cell from a formula (=A5*1.15) to a string (2.30)? To, in effect, render it? If A5 contains 2, and B5 contains =TEXT(A5*1.15;0.00) then B5 will show the string 2.30. If you copy this to the clipboard, and

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Alastair Scott
Aaron wrote: my 2 cents the pro audio field is a good example of a group of people making drivers (ALSA) and apps that are beginning to make waves. I ended up giving my pro audio card away because the manufacturer wouldn't even help others make drivers. And this is something that only adds

Re: [newbie] typist

2002-11-12 Thread Robin Turner
Kesav Tadimeti wrote: HI all, I had installed an RPM called typist using package manager. Now when I run this program from bash I get an error that typist is not a recognized program. However, apropos typist shows that typist has been installed. 99% of the time the name of an executable package

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday November 11 2002 08:47 pm, Jose wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 02:29 am, Noah Hicks wrote: how does one install and enable the flash plugin for Konqueror? It was very easy to do in Mozilla but I prefer to use Konqueror. Hopefully someone will answer that question. I have been

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Franklin
Have to agree on the printer choices.  I bought into an article i read about 3 years ago on the Lexmark 3200 being a great value for a "high quality" ink jet printer.  So they were on sale at best buy and I bought 2 of them.  One for us and one for my roommate's daughter.  They are total

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:45:44PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll

Re: [newbie] Funny Mouse in MDK 9.0

2002-11-12 Thread Technoslick
Just wanted to let you know that I JUST got your post, and wasn't ignoring you. You must have already noticed that I resolved my problem by adding an Option line to my XF86Config file, increasing the resolution so the mouse wouldn't skip or stall. However, for whatever it's worth, I did try

[newbie] KDE KMail 1.4.3: Unknown Host Error Message---R E P L Y 0 4

2002-11-12 Thread Daniel P Wheeler
SNIP I take it, this computer only has a dial up interface? There is no networking to other computers? An external MODEM only is used to access an ISP. There is just the one PC and there is not a network interface card installed. The system file resolv.conf was edited to

RE: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Franki
The point is that it SHOULDN'T be legal for M$ to have them sign agreements like that... in fact, it should be punishably illegal. thats like telling GM that all your cars must have firestone tyres if you ever plan on having firestone on any of them.. Its ridiculous and only in the IT industry

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Alastair Scott
Todd wrote: Have to agree on the printer choices. I bought into an article i read about 3 years ago on the Lexmark 3200 being a great value for a high quality ink jet printer. So they were on sale at best buy and I bought 2 of them. One for us and one for my roommate's daughter. They are

[newbie] virtual console dropping characters

2002-11-12 Thread Marty McFly
Here's a weird bug for you. I just installed mandrake on my computer last night. I was able to log in to both xwindows and the virtual consoles. I logged into a virtual console, switched to xwindows, and then later back to the vc. When i switched back, every 'y' in the screen was

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Charlie
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 03:45 am, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne snip In interactions between human beings and corporate non-entities it's

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:28 pm, you wrote: The problem is when people switch from Windows to Linux (or MacOS, or any other OS) and bring with them all sorts of hardware which has assumed Windows but hadn't made that assumption clear. Then they try to use the hardware outside Windows and it

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 8:30 am, you wrote: Here's a number 18,000,000. That's only the machines registered on The Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org/ Here's how we can make a difference. Marketing people don't ignore numbers that big. And if all of us have all our machines registered on

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Noah Hicks
Well I applied the method you described and no joy. Going to the URL: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ Gives me the message: Unable to load Netscape plugin for www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/' I get this message in the Macromedia Flash Player box under the

[newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files

2002-11-12 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into wget. It goes

[newbie] Flash player

2002-11-12 Thread Ongkie Singgih
Dear Friends, Where can I download the flash player for Mandrake 9.0 Thx, Ongkie _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 11:56 am, Charlie wrote: snip To quote Heinlein: Don't let the bastards grind you down. (I'd use the Latin phrase he did, but my Latin sucks. : ) snip Charlie: IIRC, it goes, Illegitimae non carborundum. I doubt that it's real Latin; carborundum is GE's trade

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Franklin
You should look into getting one of those walmart Microtel machines if you want something cheap. What gets me is that alot of the reviewers bash them because they're slow. HELLO!?! Look at the price! Of course they're not going to have the speed and performance of a 2GHz + computer. But if you

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:28 pm, you wrote: The problem is when people switch from Windows to Linux (or MacOS, or any other OS) and bring with them all sorts of hardware which has assumed Windows but hadn't made that assumption clear. Then

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 3:11 pm, you wrote: In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan for plugins at KDE startup unchecked. Done, go to Google

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 5:43 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:28 pm, you wrote: The problem is when people switch from Windows to Linux (or MacOS, or any other OS) and bring with them all sorts of hardware which has assumed

Re: [newbie] Compiling KDE apps

2002-11-12 Thread Jordan Elver
Thanks, I'll try that. How do I upgrade autoconf and automake with urpmi? It says already installed, which it is I know :) But, how do I upgrade? Thanks, Jord On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 10:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Hi, Sorry

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Powerpack

2002-11-12 Thread Miark
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:06:55 -0800 Ralph F. De Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got my DVD today. Me too. Oh wait, no, I'm thinking about Attack of the Clones :-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday November 12 2002 11:45 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 3:11 pm, you wrote: In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday November 12 2002 11:43 am, Derek Jennings wrote: To be fair to HP, they have seen the error of their ways, and no longer make win-printers. What is more they actively fund the development of opensource drivers for their products. When the ink runs out in my deskjet, the next

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 5:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 3:11 pm, you wrote: In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan for

Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:32:37PM +, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the

Re: [newbie] Flash player

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:33:28PM +, Ongkie Singgih wrote: Dear Friends, Where can I download the flash player for Mandrake 9.0 Thx, Ongkie http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files

2002-11-12 Thread Jordan Elver
This is an example. How else could I download these files? I know of the crossover plugin, but I really would like a pay free laternative. Also, I want to watch the movs offline. Jord OBJECT CLASSID=clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=236

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 6:24 pm, you wrote: search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF THE FLASH PLAYER INSTALLED This site

[newbie] Sylpheed-Claws spell checking

2002-11-12 Thread Miark
Someone told me Sylpheed Claws wouldn't perform spell checking without aspell 0.5. Well, I've got that now, but I still don't see any option for spell checking in Claws. What should I do? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:00:30AM +0800, Franki wrote: The point is that it SHOULDN'T be legal for M$ to have them sign agreements like that... True, but that's a battle I'm unable to fight. The only possible way I can fight that is by voting for a President that won't appoint a bunch of

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Noah Hicks
Well I'm not having a problem with the flash version. The problem for me seems to be that Konqueror is not using the plugin. I am pretty sure I did what I was supposed to: untared the files, put them in ~/.mozilla/plugins, put that dir in the Konq settings, scanned for new pugins, and still

[newbie] Planning ahead

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
Lanman - When discussing my cleanup and redistribution of installs and data on my 3 hdds, you advised me to 'change the Mount Point' (of the 4 Gb drive) 'to something like /temp'. Just to put my mind at rest - I presume this is done during the install? I seem to remember that I was invited

Re: [newbie] Flash player

2002-11-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:33:28PM +, Ongkie Singgih wrote: Dear Friends, Where can I download the flash player for Mandrake 9.0 Thx, Ongkie http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ T Please pardon my ignorance, but what does flashplayer

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2002-11-12 Thread lynch00
I just installed Mandrake 9 over the weekend on my laptop. The installation went fine and had no problems. I was able to log into Mandrake and run programs. Now, I have an existing Windows XP Professional installation on the HD I wanted to keep, so I wanted to dual boot between them. I found an

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:26 pm, you wrote: That's why I think it's important to let businesses know that they are losing sales due to their agreement with MS, that's the only language they understand: the almighty dollar. Perhaps we should also point them at the Linux counter, to see just

[newbie] Lilo problems on Dual boot system

2002-11-12 Thread lynch00
Sorry for the dual post, but I didn't include the subject line. I just installed Mandrake 9 over the weekend on my laptop. The installation went fine and had no problems. I was able to log into Mandrake and run programs. Now, I have an existing Windows XP Professional installation on the HD I

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:26 pm, you wrote: Well I'm not having a problem with the flash version. The problem for me seems to be that Konqueror is not using the plugin. Sorry for hijacking your thread. You could be right - Mozilla and Galleon perform fine, but Konq freezes every time I try

[newbie] CUPS Help

2002-11-12 Thread Tom
I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just fine as

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday November 12 2002 01:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Well, I always forget somethin ;) I also am usin Flash 5.0r51, but have yet to come across a site where it didn't work. For flash6 try here for some info (I haven't bothered with 6 yet).

Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror

2002-11-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 6:24 pm, you wrote: search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE

[newbie] Sylpheed vs Sylpheed Claws

2002-11-12 Thread Anders Lind
Excuse a noninformed question, but as a Sylpheed user I am interested, what is the difference between Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws (I know I could look it up myself but I am to lazy right now LOL), is it that the Claws version is like a beta or a developer version? /Anders Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:20:28PM +, Jordan Elver wrote: This is an example. How else could I download these files? I know of the crossover plugin, but I really would like a pay free laternative. Also, I want to watch the movs offline. Jord You want the second link (the href= part of

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed vs Sylpheed Claws

2002-11-12 Thread Miark
Yes, the latter. But's it's exceptionally stable. Miark On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:18:30 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse a noninformed question, but as a Sylpheed user I am interested, what is the difference between Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws (I know I could look it up

Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files

2002-11-12 Thread Miark
You can copy it out of your cache while it's still open in QuickTime. Miark On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:17:59 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want the second link (the href= part of the embed). The problem is I can't download it directly, either. I can open it as a url in

Re: [newbie] Flash player

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:34:37PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: snip Please pardon my ignorance, but what does flashplayer do for you ? John It lets you see 90% more ads than the Internet surfer without the flashplayer. Oh, there is some good flash out there that does animation and some

Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files

2002-11-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:25:03PM -0500, Miark wrote: You can copy it out of your cache while it's still open in QuickTime. Miark I've seen temporary Internet files in Winblows, but where do you find the cache on Linux (never had a reason to check it). Like for instance, Mozilla or Phoenix?

SV: [newbie] Sylpheed vs Sylpheed Claws

2002-11-12 Thread Anders Lind
Yes, the latter. But's it's exceptionally stable. Thanks, then one should go and look for it :o) /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!

2002-11-12 Thread Charlie
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:47 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 11:56 am, Charlie wrote: snip To quote Heinlein: Don't let the bastards grind you down. (I'd use the Latin phrase he did, but my Latin sucks. : ) snip Charlie: IIRC, it goes, Illegitimae non

Re: [newbie] Flash player

2002-11-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:34:37PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: snip Please pardon my ignorance, but what does flashplayer do for you ? John It lets you see 90% more ads than the Internet surfer without the flashplayer. Oh, there is some good flash out there

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