Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-27 Thread giamgax
Il Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:59:17 +0100 Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Alle 00:44, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Certo! ecco ke mi hanno detto. ---

[newbie-it] comando lpr

2002-11-27 Thread mk
Ciao! Ho installato da poco la M9.0... tutto bene, tranne il fatto che non posso stampare. Il comando lpr non funziona. La risposta che ricevo e': unable to print file: client-error-not-found Per favore, se qualcuno conosce il problema... Grazie

[newbie-it] NO RECIBIR MAS CORREOS

2002-11-27 Thread MANUEL CUSCU
HOLA: NO DESEARIA RECIBIR MAS CORREO EN LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCION: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UN SALUDO MANUEL MSN. Más Útil Cada Día Haz clic aquí

[newbie-it] piccolo problema con limewire

2002-11-27 Thread alberto
Salve a tutti innanzitutto ringrazio freefred e francesco melo per un aiuto datomi in precedenza, ma veniamo al dunque : dopo aver lanciato limewire mi appare uno scipt, che per la lunghezza invio in allegato,dove probabilmente dice che non trova qualcosa di java, inoltre ogni volta che lancio

Re: [newbie-it] comando lpr

2002-11-27 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 10:16, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, mk ha scritto: Ciao! Ho installato da poco la M9.0... tutto bene, tranne il fatto che non posso stampare. Il comando lpr non funziona. La risposta che ricevo e': unable to print file: client-error-not-found Per favore, se qualcuno conosce il

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-11-27 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 20:22, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Scusa se ti utilizzo da cavia da laboratorio ma ormai hai fatto il salto dell'emulazione e insomma vediamo che succede; potresti per favore vedere se grip funziona bene poiché anche questo fa riferimento a /dev/cdrom e dunque

Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-27 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 10:13, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, giamgax ha scritto: Non vorrei dire una castronata ma mi sembra che chiedendo diano un router (me l'ha detto mio cuggino) Ciao. Gpaolo Di solito, gli ISP che offrono l'accesso ADSL consentono di scegliere tra un modem esterno su porta USB o un modem

Re: [newbie-it] comando lpr

2002-11-27 Thread MK
Qualche informazione in più: che stampante hai? dovrei stampare con diverse macchine, che stanno attaccate ad una rete. Esiste un server di stampa che fa da intermediario tra me e le stampanti, quindi eventuali problemi dovrebbero essere tra me ed il server. Dovrei usare il comando lpr

[newbie-it] Mandsrake desktop

2002-11-27 Thread giampietro
Sono nuovo della lista e mi presento con un quesito Ho usato per diverso tempo Mandrake 9 con mia grande soddisfazione poi in un giorno di pioggia ho deciso di reinstallare Mandrake per varie ragioni..e sorpresa sul desktop sono sparite tutte le icone ad eccezione di Xaw TV e una orribile

Re: [newbie-it] Mandsrake desktop

2002-11-27 Thread Andrea Celli
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:18:48 +0100 giampietro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sono nuovo della lista e mi presento con un quesito Ho usato per diverso tempo Mandrake 9 con mia grande soddisfazione poi in un giorno di pioggia ho deciso di reinstallare Mandrake per varie ragioni..e sorpresa

Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-27 Thread tom
Alle 11:35, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Alle 10:13, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, giamgax ha scritto: Non vorrei dire una castronata ma mi sembra che chiedendo diano un router (me l'ha detto mio cuggino) Ciao. Gpaolo Di solito, gli ISP che offrono l'accesso ADSL

Re: [newbie-it] piccolo problema con limewire

2002-11-27 Thread freefred
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 1:26 pm, alberto wrote about [newbie-it] piccolo problema con limewire: dopo aver lanciato limewire mi appare uno scipt, che per la lunghezza invio in allegato,dove probabilmente dice che non trova qualcosa di java, inoltre ogni volta che lancio il programma devo

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-27 Thread LukenShiro
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:09:15 +0100 From: LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 23:43, martedì 26 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Qualcuno sa se il su detto modem adsl abbia una ben che

Re: [newbie-it] Mandsrake desktop

2002-11-27 Thread paolo brusasco
perdona se mi intrometto senza consigli ma con domande. ho letto che usi xaw tv. se per caso ci guardi la televisione per piacere mi dici che scheda tv usi e come si comfigura? (io ho una matrox marvel g450 etv che va benissimo con mand 9 ma la tv me la sogno magari cambio tutto) grazie. ciao.

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-27 Thread tom
Alle 19:59, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:09:15 +0100 From: LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 23:43, martedì 26 novembre 2002, tom ha

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

2002-11-27 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 01:12, mercoledì 20 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: 1) Allora, ho trovato cose mooolto interessanti sul mio modello di portatile... dunque pare che l'acpi sia sconosciuto e che non lavori correttamente finché non viene configurato al kernel 2.4.19 che include l'acpi

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-27 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 22:37, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: se ho capito bene il cipset e suportato ma quelli del sito non l'hanno testato. i driver sono in CVS ma cosa vuol dire? questo non l'ho ancora capito! qualcuno mi puo illuminare? Sta per Concurrent Version System, in

RE: [newbie] Postfix Config

2002-11-27 Thread Franki
No you couldn't.. first of all, if you tried to use (for example) mail.yahoo.com any mail that was supposed to go to your server would instead end up at yahoos server. it has to be a domain that will resolve back to your IP address... if it doesn't, your out of luck. then you get servers like

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Franki
try swapping the url to the image and css from relative to absolute, and move both out of the cgi-bin. they should be somewhere like /var/www/html/images in the script they should link to the URL.. http://mydomain.com/images/gandhi.jpg see how you go with that. some setups will not server

RE: [newbie] OT Mailing list, what if...

2002-11-27 Thread Franki
I think the mandrake servers would reject it with a mail loops back to self message.. what you suggest is similiar to what alot of newbies do accidently when they first setup a mail server. postfix sortof expects it and knows that it shouldn't start an endless mail loop with it. rgds Frank

[newbie] updating postgres without mandrake-specific rpm?

2002-11-27 Thread tek1
hello. just wondering what steps to take if i want to upgrade to the latest version of postgresql (using binaries/tar) instead of using a mandrake-specific rpm (which is not yet available)? any possible pitfalls to watch out for? thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] supermount investigation

2002-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
This is deliberately top-posted. There have not been many answers to this suggested roll-call, and I wonder if it is because many people filter the incoming messages to their own area of interest/expertise and so didn't see it. I'm wondering if we should start a new thread, in the hope of

[newbie] alcatel speed touch pro Mand9

2002-11-27 Thread greg
Hi list, new to linux, and Mandrake. I am having a problem trying to get my internet working in Mandrake. Previously I used Red Hat 8, and the connection was established automatically, with no input from me, and worked faultlessly. With Mandrake, it just does not want to work. With the install

[newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Nikunj Bansal
Hi all, I recently upgraded the motherboard and the CPU on my PC and am unable to use or install Mandrake (tried versions 8.2 and 9.0) after that. On the other hand, the previous RedHat 9.0 install on another partition on the same PC works fine as well as RedHat 9.0 Install CD works fine too.

Re: [newbie] Prolink PixelView linux compatibility

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 12:45, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: HI! I've found this tv board: Prolink PixelView (PV-BT878+w/fm) a real bargain! THE question is is it supported on MDK9 ? I was just browsing on google and so far nothing was said about being compatible or

[newbie] graphic card and MDK 9.0

2002-11-27 Thread ivette brusselmans
Hello world! Can anyone tell me if SIS 300 graphic card is supported by MDK 9.0. Searched the web but got contradictory information. Thanks _ Ontvang je Hotmail Messenger berichten op je mobiele telefoon met Hotmail SMS

Re: [newbie] I need to choose from a multiple network profiles ata booting my MDK9. HOW?

2002-11-27 Thread Marcos Nobre
Ok Derek, I will proceed with your advises about Cooker`s softwares. Suppose that I develop 3 profiles with "Network Connect GUI" of Mdk9 as you sad : 1=Home / 2=Office-A / 3=Office-B. My big doubt is how can I inform (setting up) some of them at boot (login) time ? I need to power-on my

RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Hubbard
Have you experimented with master/slave/cable-select settings on the CDROM? Are you sure the MDK CD's are good? Check for bios updates for the motherboard? Just some ideas, hope they help. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \

Re: [newbie] I need to choose from a multiple network profiles at a booting my MDK9. HOW?

2002-11-27 Thread Derek Jennings
A script placed in ~/bash_profile will execute when you log in, but I do not know how to select a networking profile from a script. You would also have to consider how you would tell the system it was being used at Home or Office? I think I would just use the drop down list of profiles in the

RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Nikunj Bansal
Hi Jim, Thanks for the response. I do not have any of the devices as slaves. I have 3 IDE devices - 2 HDDs and 1 CDROM/RW (Plextor 12/10/32). Apart from the 2 slots for IDE on board I also have a PCI-IDE bridge for the extra device. Here is my problem. The Mandrake Install CD does not recognize

Re: [newbie] supermount investigation

2002-11-27 Thread Technoslick
I had such thoughts when I started to see us all posting replies using the supermount Subject line. When I first posted my one system's specs, I made the Subject line long and as specific as possible. My hope was that we would use that Subject only for posting system specs and supermount usage

RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Alexander Rayborn
This sounds a lot like the problem I'm having with the Asus P4B533-E. I had to install Mandrake via FTP server (I copied the CDs to a share on my home network and connected to it during the install). I have also updated to the latest BIOS to no avail. --Alexander -Original Message-

Re: [newbie] supermount investigation

2002-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
A thought that came to mind was to duplicate the subscription process of a listserv. Let's assume that the Subject line of system info postings will be Supermount - Systems Results. The first lines of the form include verbiage something like: Do not reply to this post! All replies are to be

[newbie] more on Asus P4B533-E

2002-11-27 Thread Alexander Rayborn
Title: Message I'm starting to think this is a bug in Intel's chipset design. Mandrake refuses to recognize the IDE controllers are located on IRQs 14/15... then it complains on every boot: PCI Resouce collisions 00:1F (I'll post a complete dmesg if anyone is interested). Alan Cox claims

RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Nikunj Bansal
Are you able to boot into Mandrake normally after the install is completed? I worry because my existing Mandrake installation is also not booting up presumably because it does not seem to recognize the hard disk plugged into the IDE slots on board. --- Alexander Rayborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Alexander Rayborn
Yes, I can boot into Mandrake after installing from FTP, but my CD-ROM drives still do not work. I haven't tried any manual nudging (mostly because I have no idea what to try). My drive hookup is as follows: MBFastrack33 (onboard UltraDMA 133): /dev/hda (works fine, even with UDMA mode)

Re: [newbie] more on Asus P4B533-E

2002-11-27 Thread Nikunj Bansal
If thats the case, then redhat seems to have done something right. Coz I am able to use my existing install of redhat from before my motherboard replacement adventure and also I am able to get the redhat 9.0 install CD to recognize all devices on the onboard IDE controllers. --- Alexander Rayborn

Re: [newbie] Linux and pre-schoolers

2002-11-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:39:28AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Looks great, Todd. I would like to see projects like this reported in computer mags - at least those with an open mind. I would suggest possibly forwarding this post to Linux Format, Linux Magazine, PCPlus and Computer

Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-27 Thread Charlie
On November 26, 2002 07:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Charlie, Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions. Unfortunately i got stuck after choosing Expert installation where after which it couldn't read my partitions properly. u might want to refer to my mail t stephen for a

Re: [newbie] supermount investigation

2002-11-27 Thread Technoslick
A-OK with me on using Comment instead of Replies. I will make up a blank form that mimics the one that you used, post it under the new Subject, with our proposed header starting the form off. All those interested in this investigation can use that one form to minimize their typing. Thanks for

RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Wait, if your hard drive is hda then it has to be the master on ide1 so your cdrom can not be set as master also, you would have to set it as slave, your HP could be set master if there is no other hard drive on the ide2 bus. Have you tried setting the jumpers on the CD and DVD drives to slave?

Re: [newbie] alcatel speed touch pro Mand9

2002-11-27 Thread Charlie
On November 27, 2002 03:48 am, greg wrote: Hi list, new to linux, and Mandrake. I am having a problem trying to get my internet working in Mandrake. Previously I used Red Hat 8, and the connection was established automatically, with no input from me, and worked faultlessly. With Mandrake,

RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Alexander Rayborn
Well, if this is true, then it's Mandrake's confusion over the onboard UDMA133 controller versus the standard IDE. (Works fine in Windows! *groan*)... so I'll set them to slave and see if Mandrake is just confused... will try this later since I'm away from that computer right now... --Alexander

Re: [newbie] Network Printers?

2002-11-27 Thread robin
Chey wrote: I got four computers. One iBook with OS X, AMD Box running Linux-Mandrake 8.0, and a HP Pavilion laptop running XP. One year old iMac is not going to be part of the network. There is only one printer to share between the three in the yet to be network. I have an HP 970Cse scanjet

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Aaron
Since were on the subject of cgi. I setup apache and put a test site in the var/www/html/ directory. I added some cgi scripts and programs I download from the net. However non of them will work for me. I checked that I have the correct path to perl But I still get Internal Server Error from the

Re: [newbie] Linux and pre-schoolers

2002-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 2:10 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:39:28AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Looks great, Todd. I would like to see projects like this reported in computer mags - at least those with an open mind. I would suggest possibly forwarding this post to Linux

Re: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 2:27 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Wait, if your hard drive is hda then it has to be the master on ide1 so your cdrom can not be set as master also, you would have to set it as slave, your HP could be set master if there is no other hard drive on the ide2 bus. Have

[newbie] ~/.xsession-errors ??

2002-11-27 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I have a newbie question about the file, ~/.xsession-errors. Just what is the purpose of this file? I haven't heard it mentioned, and I was wondering if it is useful for debugging. I keep an eye on it and notice some messages that seem significant. The following is an excerpt of

Re: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 06:36:56PM +0200, Aaron wrote: Since were on the subject of cgi. I setup apache and put a test site in the var/www/html/ directory. I added some cgi scripts and programs I download from the net. However non of them will work for me. I checked that I have the correct

Re: [newbie] Linux and pre-schoolers

2002-11-27 Thread Aaron
While on the subject for kids here are some links I ran accross. kidsforge page http://www.linuxforkids.org/ The KDE project http://edu.kde.org/ http://telematique.org/ft/kids.htm This is a lego clones which I was unable to get running on md 9.0 If anyone is able let me know how.

Re: [newbie] OT avi to mpeg?

2002-11-27 Thread Ibly Piblo
Oh blimey, I don't understand why no one told me this before.. Egg on my face! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Franki
here are some steps to try. 1. Check the error log.. open a console: tail /var/log/httpd/error_log 2. Make sure the file was uploaded as asci not binary.. if you used an ftp client. 3. Make sure /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf or httd.conf has a section for /cgi-bin/ and that its set to ALLOW.

[newbie] Trendware Gigabit NIC

2002-11-27 Thread Barry Michels
Anyone have experience with these? They claim Linux compatability. At $50/card, it would make for some speedy file transfers... Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Aaron
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:18, Franki wrote: here are some steps to try. OK here is the output but I am not sure what it means 1. Check the error log.. open a console: tail /var/log/httpd/error_log [Wed Nov 27 21:05:15 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist:

[newbie] P4B533-E IDE problem: still no go

2002-11-27 Thread Alexander Rayborn
Okie, I've changed my jumpers for master/secondary numerous times today over lunch, still no go... still resource collisions. Full dmesg paste below: Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002 BIOS-provided

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Franki
is your IP address either of those?? the vti and mem and msadc look like a frontpage application of some sort.. just what is the script you are trying to run??? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron Sent: Thursday, 28

[newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD this month, so I gave it a go. Installation on my old Pentium III was totally painless, and DVDs are definitely the way to go. Then up came the user interface and what a nasty shock that was! I had seen complaints on the list

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Aaron
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:29, Franki wrote: is your IP address either of those?? my ipaddress?? I am using localhost do I need an ipaddress for this and if so??? I am using apache to locally test a site I built. I would also love to let others see it. Am I barking up the wrong tree?? Or is the

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Franki
no,, 127.0.0.1 should woek.. but it means those entries in your error log have nothing to do with you.. give us more details.. 1. where exactly is the file installed?? (eg /var/www/cgi-bin ) 2. Where did you get the script, whats it called, where did you get it and what does it do (supposed to)?

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 12:35 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: What this means is that Mandrake has lost a customer, and others will vote with their feet as well unless Mandrake or somebody influential applies pressure on the Gnomes to change their heading. By my calculation they are at least 90

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Aaron
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:12, Franki wrote: no,, 127.0.0.1 should work.. but it means those entries in your error log have nothing to do with you.. give us more details.. 1. where exactly is the file installed?? (eg /var/www/cgi-bin ) {There are two parts in two directories the

[newbie] Locate utility problem on mndrke 9.0

2002-11-27 Thread Nathan .
Hello All, I have 9.0 Mandrake installed. I successfully compiled the application on 8.2. I have noticed problems while compiling on 9.0. I am getting compilation errors because somehow the compiler cannot find standard librarires. I have checked for there installation and it is fine. For

[newbie] Technical drawing tools

2002-11-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] hdparm?

2002-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a root console, then typed hdparm - command not found. I tried man hdparm - no manual entry for hdparm. Am I finally, totally over the top? If that wasn't the command, what was? Anne Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Meliton
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:35, Len Lawrence wrote: This is what I found: Double-clicks all over the place - I HATE doubleclicking. Open Nautilus. Go to Edit | Preferences. Under Iconlist views you find click behaviour. It affects both Nautilus and the desktop icons. No

Re: [newbie] hdparm?

2002-11-27 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:26, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a root console, then typed hdparm - command not found. I tried man hdparm - no manual entry for hdparm. Am I finally, totally over the top? If that wasn't the

RE: [newbie] hdparm?

2002-11-27 Thread Alexander Rayborn
You have to use this as root... So make sure you're root when you try to run this. Aside from that, make sure the hdparm package is installed. Mandrake 9.0 doesn't install it by default. Afterwards, the command is: Hdparm -Tt /dev/hda (or whatever your hard drive is) --Alexander

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Miark
Len, If Gnome is the problem, leaving Mandrake won't help because all other modern distros will use Gnome2 as well. Moving to a new distro would be a pain and wouldn't get you anywhere, and moving to Winsux is out of the question. So what are your options? Miark On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:35:54

Re: [newbie] hdparm?

2002-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 8:36 pm, Alexander Rayborn wrote: You have to use this as root... So make sure you're root when you try to run this. Aside from that, make sure the hdparm package is installed. Mandrake 9.0 doesn't install it by default. Doh! - never thought of that Afterwards, the

RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake

2002-11-27 Thread Brian Parish
But have you verified that all devices a jumpered to master - not cable select? Linux doesn't like cable select. Brian On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:57, Nikunj Bansal wrote: Hi Jim, Thanks for the response. I do not have any of the devices as slaves. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] hdparm?

2002-11-27 Thread Charlie
On November 27, 2002 01:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a root console, then typed hdparm - command not found. I tried man hdparm - no manual entry for hdparm. Am I finally, totally over the top? If that wasn't the

Re: [newbie] alcatel speed touch pro Mand9

2002-11-27 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:48, greg wrote: Hi list, new to linux, and Mandrake. I am having a problem trying to get my internet working in Mandrake. Previously I used Red Hat 8, and the connection was established automatically, with no input from me, and worked faultlessly. With Mandrake, it

Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools

2002-11-27 Thread Miark
dia On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:22:52 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-27 Thread seanygoh
thanks stephen, but i still got the same problem. i believe there is something wrong with my mbr coz mandrake can't read the partition table. I don't know much about this thing but i'm willing to do it. I read that windows will somehow leave itself on a certain part of the harddisk even if you

Re: [newbie] Mouse problems at boot

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:46, Gordon Bradbury wrote: G'day all, I've just got a new P4 box at home, and successfully loaded xp and mandrake 9 onto it. I'm a long-time windows user, but this is my first exposure to linux/mandrake. I have a 2-button ps-2 mouse installed. The machine is

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:35, Len Lawrence wrote: Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD this month, so I gave it a go. Installation on my old Pentium III was totally painless, and DVDs are definitely the way to go. Then up came the user interface and what a

Re: [newbie] I need to choose from a multiple network profiles ata booting my MDK9. HOW?

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:48, Derek Jennings wrote: A script placed in ~/bash_profile will execute when you log in, but I do not know how to select a networking profile from a script. You would also have to consider how you would tell the system it was being used at Home or Office? I think

Re: [newbie] Linux and pre-schoolers

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 02:08, Anne Wilson wrote: Well, we have been discussing how we can get more media coverage. I think something like this would be invaluable - a real application of how to use it for a specific market. There are obvious packages for kids under windows, but it's not

RE: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 03:36, Aaron wrote: Since were on the subject of cgi. I setup apache and put a test site in the var/www/html/ directory. I added some cgi scripts and programs I download from the net. However non of them will work for me. I checked that I have the correct path to perl

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 28 Nov 2002 15:26:37 +1100, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:35, Len Lawrence wrote: Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD this month, so I gave it a go. Installation on my old Pentium III was totally painless, and DVDs are

Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-27 Thread Erik Farnsworth
If you are going to use fdisk, ONLY use it if you are going to install XP on a Fat32 partition. NTFS and fdisk don't play together very well. I've had to fix more installs of Win2000 and XP because a customer decided to do it themselves and fdisked. The WinOs installed, but refused to correctly

SV: [newbie] Missing PINE

2002-11-27 Thread Anders Lind
Why isn't PINE in the Mandrake distribution? I realize mutt is, but what takes the place of PINE? I think it should be on the CD's somewhere, otherwise just go to the webpage and download it. I don't have the exact link but I can fix that when i get to work /Anders Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Locate utility problem on mndrke 9.0

2002-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:01:37 + Nathan . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have 9.0 Mandrake installed. I successfully compiled the application on 8.2. I have noticed problems while compiling on 9.0. I am getting compilation errors because somehow the compiler cannot find

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:09:48 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len, If Gnome is the problem, leaving Mandrake won't help because all other modern distros will use Gnome2 as well. Moving to a new distro would be a pain and wouldn't get you anywhere, and moving to Winsux is out of the

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:22:02 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 12:35 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: What this means is that Mandrake has lost a customer, and others will vote with their feet as well unless Mandrake or somebody influential applies pressure on

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
On 27 Nov 2002 21:29:11 +0100 Meliton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:35, Len Lawrence wrote: This is what I found: Double-clicks all over the place - I HATE doubleclicking. Open Nautilus. Go to Edit | Preferences. Under Iconlist views you find click behaviour.

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:58:11 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Nov 2002 15:26:37 +1100, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:35, Len Lawrence wrote: Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD

Re: [newbie] Missing PINE

2002-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:11:43 -0700 SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't PINE in the Mandrake distribution? I realize mutt is, but what takes the place of PINE? It is missing from Mandrake 9.0 because of licensing issues apparently. I had used it for years, back before Linux, but have got

Re: [newbie] hdparm?

2002-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:26:46 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a root console, then typed hdparm - command not found. I tried man hdparm - no manual entry for hdparm. Am I finally, totally over the top?

Re: SV: [newbie] Missing PINE

2002-11-27 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:23:21 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it should be on the CD's somewhere, I stand corrected I see, I know that Debian and Debian-based dists has not included Pine or have had it in Non-Free, anyway just download it from http://www.washington.edu/pine