Re: [newbie-it] OT (Fwd) Re: richiesta info linux

2002-11-20 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 07:05, mercoledì 20 novembre 2002, Claudio Duchi ha scritto: --- Forwarded message follows --- Gent. Cliente normalmente sono gli utenti linux che si ingegnano di far riconoscere le periferiche USB dal loro s/o. Per il prodotto in questione in particolare non abbiamo dati, è una

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia

2002-11-20 Thread LukenShiro
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:40:30 +0100 From: LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 12:10, domenica 17 novembre 2002, Beppe ha scritto: ci terrei che la cartella dove kmail mette

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia

2002-11-20 Thread Andrea Celli
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:05:52 +0100 LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:40:30 +0100 From: LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 12:10, domenica 17

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-20 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 01:12, mercoledì 20 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Aggiunge inoltre che un problema al quale non è riuscito a trovare soluzione è che la batteria se inserita quando il sistema al boot non la possiede non verrà più vista dal sistema stesso... Questo nel mio caso non vale

Re: [newbie-it] mplayer e la GUI (per ora)

2002-11-20 Thread tom
Alle 20:52, martedì 19 novembre 2002, freefred ha scritto: mh l'hai configurato con la gui? cioe' hai dato configure --enable-gui, o qualcosa del genere? perche' di default e' disabilitata. il configure, alla fine ti da' dei messaggi, cosa ha trovato e cosa no. Li' c'e' qualcosa? Si in

Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-20 Thread parisig
Scusate, ma per cancellarsi dalla mailing list... in genere la procedura è rimandata da un link in coda ai messaggi CIao a tutti - Original Message - From: Emiliano La Licata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it]

Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-20 Thread Andrea Celli
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:25:21 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scusate, ma per cancellarsi dalla mailing list... in genere la procedura è rimandata da un link in coda ai messaggi non in coda ma nelle intestazioni/headers complete. ciao, andrea

[newbie-it] masterizzare sotto kde3

2002-11-20 Thread asapi
Sapete come si chiama il programma che permette di masterizzare direttamente sotto kde3 e ha la Gui simile ad EasyCD Creator?Non ricordo più come si chiama. Ciao, Alessandro -- Vedere un mondo in un granello di sabbia e un cielo in un fiore selvatico. Tenere l'infinito sul

Re: [newbie-it] OT (Fwd) Re: richiesta info linux

2002-11-20 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 13:03, mercoledì 20 novembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: Alle 07:05, mercoledì 20 novembre 2002, Claudio Duchi ha scritto: --- Forwarded message follows --- Gent. Cliente normalmente sono gli utenti linux che si ingegnano di far riconoscere le periferiche USB dal loro s/o.

[newbie-it] installare java

2002-11-20 Thread alberto
salve a tutti potreste indicarmi la procedura corretta per far eseguire il file j2sdk- 1_4_0_01-linux-i386.rpm.bin (cliccandoci sopra non succede niente,ovviamente) grazie

Re: [newbie-it] installare java

2002-11-20 Thread francesco.melo
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Re: [newbie-it] installare java repost

2002-11-20 Thread francesco.melo
francesco.melo wrote: tom wrote: Salve alla lista Ieri girando per il web sono incappato nel sito di radio 105 che ha una chatt e web camma il mozzillone non riusciva a visualizzare nullaanzi per dire la verita il sito rimaneva monco(mancavano parecchie parti della pagina). Ora

Re: [newbie-it] Kylix 3

2002-11-20 Thread Fabio Z.
From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Kylix 3 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:20:41 +0100 On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:35:38 +0100 Benedetto Santarella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti, ho scaricato il seguente file dal sito

Re: [newbie-it] installare java

2002-11-20 Thread freefred
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 7:04 pm, alberto wrote about [newbie-it] installare java: salve a tutti potreste indicarmi la procedura corretta per far eseguire il file j2sdk- 1_4_0_01-linux-i386.rpm.bin (cliccandoci sopra non succede niente,ovviamente) grazie da una console dai #bash

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-20 Thread miKe
Alle 00:23, mercoledì 20 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: infatti sul desktop c'è l'icona che segnala sempre e comunque il fatto che sono attaccato alla corrente... ti ripeto può dipendere questo dal fatto che in fase di installazione di linux la batteria era staccata del tutto

Re: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 4:14 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote: Greetings. I want to access my linux box from my windows computer using X ... I've installed cynwin/XFree86 but i'm unclear how to actually start a session of X from my windows computer ... what am i missing? can anyone point me in the

Re: [newbie] Great Win for Mandrake 9.0 APC mag.

2002-11-20 Thread Aaron
Hi just read what Stephen wrote about tweaking kde and I honestly am finding it a bit slow. I would rather stick with it than change windowing but since most of my time is taken with working I haven't put much thought to fiddling with kde. However I would like to hear some pointers on this. Cause

RE: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
yeah, its a piece of cake.. install vncserver on the linux box, and download the win vnc package from the tightvnc website... log on as the user that you want the session started as... then just run vncserver from a console prompt... I actually made a starting file.. called startvnc made it

[newbie] Backup

2002-11-20 Thread Lee
Hi everyone Any suggestions for gui backup of a small network. I'm tired of living on the edge. Lee -- Registered Linux user #223705 Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 12:38 pm, Technoslick wrote: Tell us more about the specs for this older box, Anne. This the perfect place to find if anyone has had any problems with older components in Linux. T OK - this is what I have gleaned so far - M'board - Mainboard Pentium MMX - driver disk

Re: [newbie] Backup

2002-11-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 12:48 pm, Lee wrote: Hi everyone Any suggestions for gui backup of a small network. I'm tired of living on the edge. Lee drakbackup It is in the drakxtools RPM Performs incremental backup to ftp, ssh, CD, tape or NFS derek Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 11:46 am, Franki wrote: yeah, its a piece of cake.. install vncserver on the linux box, and download the win vnc package from the tightvnc website... log on as the user that you want the session started as... then just run vncserver from a console prompt... I

RE: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
why not just swap to pop3?? I know for a fact that outlook has no probs with it.. I am writing this mail on lookout via my linux mail server... easier to setup and less crap on the server as a result. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [newbie] OT? Tech Support Letter - A good laugh

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
troubled user needs to reinstall, and this time, if he installs wife he should do it in a chroot jail... Thats would I did so I could run with twins 2 :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Baker Sent: Wednesday, 20

RE: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-20 Thread Lanman
Something else to consider is a Windows client called Calypso It's totally free, no adware/spyware, and runs like a charm. Hasn't screwed up once with my customers. Allows for all the normal bells and whistles of Outlook Express, without the hassles. Does a tidy job of avoiding the usual virus

RE: [newbie] PPPoE and Modem in tandem

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
my current problem is that my ADSL seems to drop out once a day, nothing in the logs to say why.. I had to write a perl script from crontab that queries google and then yahoo, and if it gets nothing from either.. it restarts the ADSL... works so far, but its a pain.. The only hint I get is a

[newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Aaron
Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp mirror how do I set this up. I have tried using Mandrakes control center but with no success. Thanks Aaron Want to buy

[newbie] UserDrake on 9.0

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
Now the dust has settled I wanted to resetup my lan, so I began to add users. Now I find that UserDrake will only acces lowercase logins (not so in 8.2, except at install time). Is there any way round this, or will I have to get my users to change their login on their own machines? That

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:43 pm, Aaron wrote: Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp mirror how do I set this up. I have tried using Mandrakes control

[newbie] 'Unable to save...

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
In KMail - I could not save a document - Reason: Not able to write maindoc.xml Is this a permissions problem? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 'Unable to save...

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 1:15 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: In KMail - I could not save a document - Reason: Not able to write maindoc.xml Is this a permissions problem? Anne Sorry - forget it. I was trying to save to a restored directory, which had, of course, been set to root only. Anne

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Technoslick
Good work on the specs, Anne! Here's my two cents: A 233 MHz processor, even with the memory, is going to be really slow in X-windows in MDK 9.0, and tolerable in MDK 8.2. Again, this is based on using KDE, not lighter, more streamlined versions of WMs. As I mentioned before, I have a similar

RE: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-20 Thread Kenn Murrah
no, outlook has no problems with pop3, i agree. but in typical corporate fashion, i have one camp insisting that i not outlookexpress, and another group of know-it-alls demanding that i use imap ... so i'm trying to find some solution that more or less pleases everyone ... --- Franki [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] ImageMagick display KDE menu

2002-11-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:53:12AM -0500, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: I'm having an odd problem. I can run ImageMagick display from a command line, but it won't launch from the KDE menu. The only way it will run from the menu is if I put the full command to the program in the little command box

[newbie] Another OT...Sort Of

2002-11-20 Thread Technoslick
You people are just so-o-o-o-o smart, I can't help but ask: If I want to install Xconfigurator on an RH 8.0 system, and I have all the RPMs I need on a CD, could I install them all like this: rpm -ivh --force --nodeps /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm Or am I going to have to install each RPM individually;

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 1:24 pm, Technoslick wrote: Stick with DIMMs. Mixing the two is not simply a matter of placing the memory physically in the slots. There are several factors that are very technical, and not worth the bother. Your board is setup to run PC100 memory, or memory that

[newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice

2002-11-20 Thread John Richard Smith
I would like to ask of you all your opinion and experience of Open Ofice as supplied my Mandrake 9.0 , and installed in the main mandrake installer. Besides the issue of spellcheckers which we have heard of recently, is there a completeM9.0 OO install, because for the life of me I cannot find a

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Aaron
thanks, Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:17, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:43 pm, Aaron wrote: Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Technoslick
There's some timing, density and type issues with mixing SIMMs and DIMMs together. If you have the manual for the motherboard, it probably tells you this, although cryptically so. I have tried it, not always with success. Even with initial success, you can have problems later on. If you don't have

[newbie] Another OT...Sort Of

2002-11-20 Thread Technoslick
You people are just so-o-o-o-o smart, I can't help but ask: If I want to install Xconfigurator on an RH 8.0 system, and I have all the RPMs I need on a CD, could I install them all like this: rpm -ivh --force --nodeps /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm Or am I going to have to install each RPM individually;

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice

2002-11-20 Thread Miark
John, Besides the issue of spellcheckers which we have heard of recently, is there a completeM9.0 OO install, because for the life of me I cannot find a spreadsheet. Yes, there certainly is a complete install. What happens when you type oocalc Enter in a terminal? Miark Want to buy

Re: [newbie] PPPoE and Modem in tandem

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 10:40 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I used MCC to set up the modem, since I occasionally need to send a fax. In fact I don't want it connected most of the time - just the ability to get it working quickly when I do need it. Does anyone know if there's

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I would like to ask of you all your opinion and experience of Open Ofice as supplied my Mandrake 9.0 , and installed in the main mandrake installer. Besides the issue of spellcheckers which we have heard of recently, is there a

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:14 pm, Technoslick wrote: There's some timing, density and type issues with mixing SIMMs and DIMMs together. If you have the manual for the motherboard, it probably tells you this, although cryptically so. I have tried it, not always with success. Even with initial

Re: [newbie] apache2, choosing html file to use

2002-11-20 Thread Miark
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:38:26 -0800 (PST) ivo jorris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed apache 2.0.43 successfully. When I test the apache by opening http://localhost/ the English version of Apache page was displayed. I want the Japanese version of Apache page to be displayed, what

Re: [newbie] flash

2002-11-20 Thread Alexa Pongracz
Went to there and they said, or the message said there was no document? On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:55, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Alexa Pongracz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:08:29 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Cloning Stuff

2002-11-20 Thread Tru64 User
Also Look at http://partimage.org --- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:07, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, I am just curious as to the existance of PC deployment software that will run in Linux such as ImageCast of Ghost. I am looking to convert my

Re: [newbie] flash

2002-11-20 Thread Alexa Pongracz
Hi I went to Macromedia, the instructions said to save the installer to my desktop, which I did, then it says, unpackage the file...the reading I'm doing says that there could be some sort of unzip utility to run file ends in tar.gz macromedias instructions are clear if I knwe what I was doing I

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice

2002-11-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: John, Besides the issue of spellcheckers which we have heard of recently, is there a completeM9.0 OO install, because for the life of me I cannot find a spreadsheet. Yes, there certainly is a complete install. What happens when you type oocalc Enter in a terminal?

Re: [newbie] No battery message with Gkrellm/wmapm/wmapci

2002-11-20 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimecres 20 Novembre 2002 00:49, en Peter Spotts va escriure: I've just installed Mdk8.1 on a Toshiba 1905-S303 laptop and find that battery monitors don't seem to see the battery-charge status. I've tried Gkrellm's monitor, as well as two

[newbie] refreshing of local dir and from ftp site

2002-11-20 Thread Maarten Vanraes
I use mdk9 and KDE3 and the package manager from mdk9 control center. the problem is that when I choose refresh sources, the window that had jumped up then just dissappears, so that I can't press updatesave. how do I solve the problem? before It worked fine, but now not anymore. rpm files

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Technoslick
From: Anne Wilson I have used them together once or twice, but feel that it is better avoided if you can. What about the DIMM clock speed issue, though? T: Sorry! I forgot that you asked that. The best answer I can give you on whether you really need to buy PC100 memory: If your motherboard

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Aaron
I did it and this is what I got root@adsl aaron]# urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz added medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD (disk1).cz] examining synthesis file

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Hi, Can you tell me how to correct this. I tried running: urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz and got: added medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u).cz]

RE: [newbie] flash

2002-11-20 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] flash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexa Pongracz Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] flash Hi I went to Macromedia, the instructions said to save the

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 20 Nov 2002 20:08:36 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any idea what went worng?? Use: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist.cz Use another mirror if desired the above is only an example. Do not use ftp.nmt.edu, the

RE: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
exactly what is your problem with imap and outlook??? As I understand it, imap works well with outlook. give us your versions, (imap) etc and the error details when it doesn't work.,. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

RE: [newbie] Another OT...Sort Of

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
what are you talknig about?? your post doesn't make sense... can you not download an xconfigurator src rpm from rpmfind.net and just rebuild it?? *.rpm will screw your system. conflicting packages and stuff... perhaps your question would be better asked on a redhat list. -Original

[newbie] Problems w/ Mandrake Update

2002-11-20 Thread Ryan Moe
Any time I try and connect to Mandrake Update it tells me There was an error adding the medium to urpmi. or some such thing. It won't work regardless of which mirror I pick. I've tried looking on the Mandrake site but couldn't really find anything. Thanks Ryan Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Derek Jennings
Whoops.. sorry my mistake. I cannot even cut and paste properly it should be urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz I do recommend that rediris server. It is really fast. :) derek On Wednesday 20 Nov

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-20 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I had a similar problem getting extra language dictionaries. The folks in #openoffice.org at irc.openprojects.org were very helpful. In Mandrake, we just need the appropriate myspell packages to be installed, so make sure that the corresponding myspell package for the language you are looking

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
Having an installation only a few days old, this was new to me. I can confirm, however, that after installing the UK dictionary and hyphenation tool, and enabling them under Tools Options Language Settings Writing Aids the spellchecker picked up all the deliberately inserted mis-spellings.

[newbie] KOffice doubts

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
Although the various elements of KOffice do seem quite good, I am seriously concerned that there is little or no ability to communicate with other programs. About a week ago John raised the question of a KOffice spreadsheet, which he neede to try in another format because it was getting to

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 3:55 pm, Technoslick wrote: From: Anne Wilson The external bus speed on a 233 MHz processor is 66.6 MHz, so I would think that you should be able to use PC133 memory. I think it will be OK if I can't get PC100. I'll just stick to the one DIMM, I think - mixed speed

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 6:08 pm, Aaron wrote: I did it and this is what I got root@adsl aaron]# urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with snip retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of Distro_9.0... curl: (19) Can't open synthesis.hdlist.cz:

Re: [newbie] PPPoE and Modem in tandem

2002-11-20 Thread PBone
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:50 am, Peter Spotts wrote: Anne, I share your pain. I was running MDK8.1 with ASDL as my default on a Compaq laptop. But I take my show on the road quite a bit and needed to use the dialer. Problem was, while the dialer would connect, the browser, email program or

Re: [newbie] M$ and 85%

2002-11-20 Thread meteor
Could you provide a link to validate that this is a true MS report? But anyway, from the open source standpoint of view we could only break the dominance if we produce software, that will be accepted by the masses. A exotic thing like the linux OS will never do this job! Just yesterday my

Re: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-20 Thread Jim Dawson
Have you looked at Mozilla Mail? I admit earlier versions left something to be desired but in the latest versions it seems to work pretty good. On top of that Mozilla seems to have fewer security issues than IE (If your users seem reluctant to use Mozilla rather than IE just show them how to

Re: [newbie] font size in konqueror

2002-11-20 Thread meteor
Hmm, I'm using 3.0.3 and it enlarges even text, which size is set explicitly by a style sheet. Perhaps to you have to press multiple times the +/- buttons? On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:44, bascule wrote: is the minimum font size set in konqueror overidable by individual web sites? i've set my

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Thanks, Derek. That worked. Derek Jennings wrote: Whoops.. sorry my mistake. I cannot even cut and paste properly it should be urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz I do recommend that rediris

Re: [newbie] copying audio cd on the fly

2002-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 1:12 pm, Miark wrote: X-CD-Roast works well for me. Miark With audio CDs? When I try it it says it can't copy audio CDs on the fly. Is there a setting somewhere, or are you just a lucky guy? G Jon On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:57:47 -0500 Jonathan Dlouhy [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
also, if you apply the IE theme, your users will think they are using IE anyway.. its sorta cool, I can't use it though cos I have mozilla 1.2b and they are not compatable (yet) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Dawson

Re: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 6:14 pm, Jim Dawson wrote: Have you looked at Mozilla Mail? I admit earlier versions left something to be desired but in the latest versions it seems to work pretty good. On top of that Mozilla seems to have fewer security issues than IE (If your users seem reluctant

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-20 Thread Aaron
thanks to everyone. just appears that I tried the wrong directory. next question. Is there a way I can add a non mandrake ftp to urpmi?? I am interested in multimedia and would like to be able to update from the net. Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 20:19, Carl J. Bauman wrote: Thanks, Derek.

[newbie] Running kppp as root- is it a problem?

2002-11-20 Thread PBone
I used to run kppp as a user to access my dial-up modem without any problems. After installing a LAN card I found that I when I ran kppp as user the connection would be made but the browser and email would not work. Mandrake control centre insisted that I was not connected to the internet. I

Re: [newbie] flash

2002-11-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:00 am, you wrote: Alexa, the file is in a tar zip format. you can upackage it by going into a console and navigating to the folder that the installer is in. Do a change directory command like: cd Documents . Then at the prompt type tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz

[newbie] 'Always on Top' in Gnome?

2002-11-20 Thread Barry Michels
Am I wrong in the assumption that there's no such concept in Gnome? No windows have that option and the few apps that have their own 'on top' function don't work. (XMMS comes to mind) Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday November 20 2002 11:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 3:55 pm, Technoslick wrote: From: Anne Wilson The external bus speed on a 233 MHz processor is 66.6 MHz, so I would think that you should be able to use PC133 memory. Ram is what it'll do. The PC66,

Re: [newbie] Another OT...Sort Of

2002-11-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 00:34, Technoslick wrote: You people are just so-o-o-o-o smart, I can't help but ask: If I want to install Xconfigurator on an RH 8.0 system, and I have all the RPMs I need on a CD, could I install them all like this: rpm -ivh --force --nodeps /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm Or

[newbie] Is a restart necessary?

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
If I make alterations to fstab, do I need to reboot, or can I cause it to be read some other way? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice

2002-11-20 Thread Robin Turner
John Richard Smith wrote: But anyway, how do you feel about it, is it all there , does the spreadsheet work as well as excell, what about the word processor, does it work as well as kword. Give me expreiences please,your likes and dislikes, how it works,what are the quirky things, does it

Re: [newbie] Running kppp as root- is it a problem?

2002-11-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 7:29 pm, PBone wrote: I used to run kppp as a user to access my dial-up modem without any problems. After installing a LAN card I found that I when I ran kppp as user the connection would be made but the browser and email would not work. Mandrake control centre

Re: [newbie] copying audio cd on the fly

2002-11-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 04:57, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Is there any way to make a direct copy of an audio CD on the fly? Either from the command line or (preferably) a GUI program. Thanks, There's heaps of rippers for linux - GRip is one - then there are heaps more - both GUI and commandline.

Re: [newbie] Is a restart necessary?

2002-11-20 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:17:59 +: If I make alterations to fstab, do I need to reboot, or can I cause it to be read some other way? Depends on the alterations. Usually logging all users out and as root doing a mount -a will suffice. Found this in man mount: (i)

Re: [newbie] copying audio cd on the fly

2002-11-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Is there any way to make a direct copy of an audio CD on the fly? Either from the command line or (preferably) a GUI program. Thanks, K3b will do it. It is a *really* nice writer RPM available from Texstar.

Re: [newbie] KOffice doubts

2002-11-20 Thread Robin Turner
Anne Wilson wrote: Although the various elements of KOffice do seem quite good, I am seriously concerned that there is little or no ability to communicate with other programs. About a week ago John raised the question of a KOffice spreadsheet, which he neede to try in another format because

Re: [newbie] Openoffice and .doc files

2002-11-20 Thread Robin Turner
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Quick question...LM 9.0 and OO were a fresh install. I received an email with a .doc extension but OO won't open it under any MS (or other) extension label. I get pages of codes but at the top is the statement'This file must be converted using Binhex 4.0'

Re: [newbie] KOffice doubts

2002-11-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 8:50 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Although the various elements of KOffice do seem quite good, I am seriously concerned that there is little or no ability to communicate with other programs. About a week ago John raised the question of a KOffice

[newbie] 'Save All Attachments' in KMail?

2002-11-20 Thread Barry Michels
I've googled and come up with nothing... I have collected several attachments in a folder that's getting pretty big. I'd like to save all the attachments to a directory and then empty the mail folder. Any ideas? Thanks, Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] 'Always on Top' in Gnome?

2002-11-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 06:55, Barry Michels wrote: Am I wrong in the assumption that there's no such concept in Gnome? No windows have that option and the few apps that have their own 'on top' function don't work. (XMMS comes to mind) Barry Because Gnome2 is the desktop and

Re: [newbie] copying audio cd on the fly

2002-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 3:33 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Is there any way to make a direct copy of an audio CD on the fly? Either from the command line or (preferably) a GUI program. Thanks, K3b will do it. It is a *really*

SV: [newbie] Is a restart necessary?

2002-11-20 Thread Anders Lind
If I make alterations to fstab, do I need to reboot, or can I cause it to be read some other way? You don't need to reboot, when you try to mount each time it will read /etc/fstab at that time /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No battery message with Gkrellm/wmapm/wmapci

2002-11-20 Thread Fabrice Mous
[snip] Your laptop's probably using acpi instead of apm, so you have to compile latest mandrake kernel (acpi and swsusp prepatched) 2.4.19-19mdk with acpi support and try again (if you haven't already done so) ;) - -- sorry to interfere .. but how can I check if my laptop uses acpi or apm?

Re: [newbie] Another OT...Sort Of

2002-11-20 Thread Technoslick
I didn't think of Linuxconf! Though, I doubt it will matter much in this case. :-( It's not that I am excited about using Xconfigurator. I think it is a better non-graphical tool for targeting video problems in X than xf86config is. xf86config makes me go through setting that I don't need to

Re: SV: [newbie] Is a restart necessary?

2002-11-20 Thread Luke Vandervort
go to a terminal sheel and type mount -a this will force linux to reread the fstab and remount everything On Wednesday 20 November 2002 04:36 pm, Anders Lind wrote: If I make alterations to fstab, do I need to reboot, or can I cause it to be read some other way? You don't need to reboot,

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice

2002-11-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Robin Turner wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: But anyway, how do you feel about it, is it all there , does the spreadsheet work as well as excell, what about the word processor, does it work as well as kword. Give me expreiences please,your likes and dislikes, how it works,what are the

[newbie] radeon 7000 and mandrake 9

2002-11-20 Thread Sean Hegar
Hello All I just installed mandrake 9 on my work computer, and can't seem to resolve the video card issue. It is a pci version of the radeon 7000 32 meg. Has anyone run into similar problems? If so, what was the magic cure or is there one? Any help would be appreciated. Sean Ignorance

Re: [newbie] No battery message with Gkrellm/wmapm/wmapci

2002-11-20 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimecres 20 Novembre 2002 21:18, en Fabrice Mous va escriure: Your laptop's probably using acpi instead of apm, so you have to compile latest mandrake kernel (acpi and swsusp prepatched) 2.4.19-19mdk with acpi support and try again (if you

Re: [newbie] copying audio cd on the fly

2002-11-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 08:23, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: I have k3b installed and when I run it from a command line I get this error: k3b: undefined symbol: static_QUType_varptr. If I run the setup program I get this: k3bsetup: undefined symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpC1EPKcPFP11QMetaObjectvE

Re: SV: [newbie] Is a restart necessary?

2002-11-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 08:34, Luke Vandervort wrote: go to a terminal sheel and type mount -a this will force linux to reread the fstab and remount everything Sheel? Is this a new feature thats undocumented? Some package that I forgot to install? Wow...going to have to search for a terminal

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