Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti

2003-02-07 Thread Andrea Celli
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:54:59 +0100 Alessandro Piaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Io avevo pensato di installare la Mandrake 8 o la 9, ovviamente con interfaccia grafica magari KDE 3 e magari con OpenOffice, ma ho subito capito che il suo computer non le regge. Pentium 166,

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi scheda audio

2003-02-07 Thread Eraser Head
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, miKe wrote: mandaci il risultato di #lsmod via82cxxx_audio18144 1 uart401 6336 0 [via82cxxx_audio] ac97_codec 9568 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 57292 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] soundcore

Re: [newbie-it] I soliti casini con OO

2003-02-07 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 20:28, giovedì 6 febbraio 2003, Arwan ha scritto: Intanto, grazie a tutti i consigli per il problema della stampante; sto scaricando il pdf995 e a breve lo testero'. Il motivo della mia mail, pero', e' il seguente: ho un file fatto con kspread, e dovrei convertirlo in un formato leggibile

[newbie-it] richiesta molto stupida

2003-02-07 Thread Enrico Piccinini
Ciao a tutti, sto provando di iniziare a scrivere qualche riga di codice C/C++ ma... non ricordo assolutamente come si faccia a fare la {, }, e quegli apicetti storti che si trovano ngli script in altre parole sono messo da panico! Qualcuno mi può dire qual'è la combinazione di tasti? (con

Re: [newbie-it] I soliti casini con OO

2003-02-07 Thread Andrea Celli
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:02:43 +0100 Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Il motivo della mia mail, pero', e' il seguente: ho un file fatto con kspread, e dovrei convertirlo in un formato leggibile da OO. Ovviemente, posso esportarlo come file di testo oppure come un csv, ma a quel punto

Re: [newbie-it] richiesta molto stupida

2003-02-07 Thread Mark Barda
in genere pigiando il tasto alt-gr ti si aprono orizzonti nuovi... alt-gr 8 alt-gr 9 dovrebbero essere le graffe, il 7 e lo 0 le quadre... l'apice storto credo che sia a destra dello zero... bye, M. --- Enrico Piccinini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, sto provando di iniziare a scrivere

Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti

2003-02-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:54:59 +0100 Alessandro Piaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Io avevo pensato di installare la Mandrake 8 o la 9, ovviamente con interfaccia grafica magari KDE 3 e magari con OpenOffice, ma ho subito capito che il suo computer non le regge. Pentium

[newbie-it] Problemi col lettore Cd: la fine

2003-02-07 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
Finalmente ho risolto il poroblema col Cd per il quale vi ho stressati fino ad oggi. Ho scoperto quale fosse il problema: semplicemente il lettore è rotto... :( Chiedo scusa a tutti per la rottura di cosiddetti, ma me ne sono accorto solo questa mattina avendone bisogno sotto Windows :(

[newbie-it] Mandrake 9.0 Problemi con lettore cdrom

2003-02-07 Thread wseccaf
Ho installato Mandrake 9.0 e tutto va bene... si fa oer dire, perchè non funziona il lettore cdrom e il masterizzatore: a volte non mi da addirittura accesso dicendo che non ho i permessi ( anche come root ), altre volte mi da accesso ma non "vede" nulla dentro ( ossia si apre la

[newbie-it] Modem USB: altro capitolo

2003-02-07 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
Allora Ho scaricato i driver dal sito che mi era stato consigliato, ma si riferiscono ad un altro modem, per cui e info su come installarlo non vanno bene. Non posso decommentare nulla in rc.modules, dato che non ci sono moduli o cose simili da decommentare Ho provato ad utilizzare

Re: [newbie-it] richiesta molto stupida

2003-02-07 Thread gianni piazza
Alle 16:25, venerdì 7 febbraio 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, sto provando di iniziare a scrivere qualche riga di codice C/C++ ma... non ricordo assolutamente come si faccia a fare la {, }, e quegli apicetti storti che si trovano ngli script in altre parole sono messo

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 9.0 Problemi con lettore cdrom

2003-02-07 Thread Fabio
Alle 19:15, venerdì 7 febbraio 2003, wseccaf ha scritto: Ho installato Mandrake 9.0 e tutto va bene... si fa oer dire, perchè non funziona il lettore cdrom e il masterizzatore: a volte non mi da addirittura accesso dicendo che non ho i permessi ( anche come root ), altre volte mi da

Re: [newbie-it] richiesta molto stupida

2003-02-07 Thread Arwan
Alle Friday 07 February 2003 16:25, a proposito di [newbie-it] richiesta molto stupida (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: non ricordo assolutamente come si faccia a fare la {, }, e quegli apicetti storti che si trovano ngli script in altre parole sono

Re: [newbie-it] I soliti casini con OO

2003-02-07 Thread Arwan
Alle Friday 07 February 2003 16:26, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] I soliti casini con OO (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Andrea Celli ha scritto: Non so se ci sia un modo più semplice, comunque: Non so, ma credo ceh questo sia quello corretto. - lancia calc - menu inserisci - dati

Re: [newbie-it] I soliti casini con OO

2003-02-07 Thread Arwan
Alle Friday 07 February 2003 13:02, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] I soliti casini con OO (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Daniele Micci ha scritto: * salva il file di KSpread come file di valori separati da virgola; * apri il file appena creato con Gnumeric; * salvalo come foglio di

Re: [newbie-it] Manutenzione stampante Epson (MTINK)

2003-02-07 Thread francesco.melo
Daniele Micci wrote: Alle 09:51, giovedì 6 febbraio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: In Mandrake9.0 esiste un programma MTINK per manutenzione delle stampanti Epson, utilizzato da root funziona ma se tento di usarlo da utente compare una finestra con le seguenti scritte. 'Errore nessun

[newbie] plug-ins

2003-02-07 Thread Nathan Lewin
To whom it may concern I am new and very exited about the Linux Mandrake world. My primary concern is to retrieve certain plug-ins for software and applications I have already written ie Director 8 and lingo. How would I go about achieving this or could you point me in the right

Re: [newbie]

2003-02-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 11:13 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 12:38 PM 2/6/2003 +, you wrote: snip Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the written portion of, and leave the

[newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-07 Thread cowinacape
Howdy, I have d'loaded two disk images from the Mandrake site, both are iso's, what exactly do I have to do to to make these iso's into somehtign I can use to boot off of for my mac? I tried doing it through Toast 5.0.2. But have had no luck with that, my machine would not boot from the disks,

RE: [newbie] starting mplayer

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
As far as I know the input.conf is the file that matters. I mostly installed (g)mplayer using the tarball and following the ./configure;make;make install road. There the input.conf file was present somewhere in the directory tree of mplayer. I simply had to find it and then copied that it to

[newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
A few weeks ago I had a memory module, a 512MB DDR-333MHz (from Seitec?), replaced because it gave troubles to the GA-7VRXP mother board I had then. Memory was replaced by a new SIMM. As later the motherboard also had started to forget how to connect to a PS/2 mouse, I had it replaced by a

Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients

2003-02-07 Thread Vahur Lokk
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:03, you wrote: Ya theres a trend here... its called Learn things on the CLI bang your head against a wall for a while till you know this stuff cold. And you can do this anywhere/anytime on any system. :) hey! Good to see someone else on exactly the same trip! I

Re: [newbie]

2003-02-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Chuck Burns wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote: *snip* Petty sure, as I say I have never got it to fix the data only on a linux programme, but all of the windblows proggies can fix the data only amount ofa cd and leave the rest of the blank cd open to add

Re: [newbie]

2003-02-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 05:13 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 12:38 PM 2/6/2003 +, you wrote: snip Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the written

[newbie] Modeline for AOC720A anyone?

2003-02-07 Thread Richard Urwin
OK, I've just bought an AOC720A 17 LCD monitor. I swapped it out for my Windows 2000 monitor at work and it was fine at 1280x1024. (75Hz) Mandrake install seems to find it OK, seems to read its valid frequencies OK (but not its name,) but then chooses a mode which causes the monitor to display Out

Re: [newbie] Shorthand

2003-02-07 Thread Douglas B.
Charlie, Rob, Kesar, Todd, Tom, Many thanks for all the help! Cheers, Doug On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:56, Charlie wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 10:32 am, Douglas B. wrote: Being a newbie AND thick, I get mystified by quite a lot of the shorthand used in Newbie e-mails. Is there a

[newbie] xmms et netscape 7.0

2003-02-07 Thread Rooms Frederic
Hello, When I surf on the internet with netscape 7.0 and use at the same time Xmms, my browser freezes: the page is not downloaded. I have to stop to play music (I don't even need to quit Xmms) and it works fine. Has anyone the same problem or a clue to solve this problem ? Thank you, Fred

Re: [newbie] mgetty+send fax configure

2003-02-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On 06 Feb 2003 09:48:25 -0500 William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up mgetty to work as a answer machine and fax machine. I have the following hardware. Hayes accura external v.90 fax/voice modem This modem also has integrated voice mail linux mandrake 9.0

Re: [newbie] xmms et netscape 7.0

2003-02-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 Feb 2003 11:58 am, Rooms Frederic wrote: Hello, When I surf on the internet with netscape 7.0 and use at the same time Xmms, my browser freezes: the page is not downloaded. I have to stop to play music (I don't even need to quit Xmms) and it works fine. Has anyone the same

Re: [newbie] xmms et netscape 7.0

2003-02-07 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:58:14 +0100 Rooms Frederic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I surf on the internet with netscape 7.0 and use at the same time Xmms, my browser freezes: the page is not downloaded. I have to stop to play music (I don't even need to quit Xmms) and it works fine. Has

Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread et
while I would have to say anything is possible, I have not yet heard of a linux virus or trojan that could cause that kinda damage, and I would be looking for heat, or strain on the cables, or a case that was bent or kicked around. I would also STRONGLY suggest that when you open the case, make

Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread civileme
On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:53 pm, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: A few weeks ago I had a memory module, a 512MB DDR-333MHz (from Seitec?), replaced because it gave troubles to the GA-7VRXP mother board I had then. Memory was replaced by a new SIMM. As later the motherboard also had started

RE: [newbie] Searching 101

2003-02-07 Thread linux
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2003 06:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Searching 101 [...snip] If you wish I can send you some URL's I've found in the last year or so that

RE: [newbie] Searching 101

2003-02-07 Thread linux
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Wideman Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Searching 101 If you wish I can send you some URL's I've found in the last year or so that

RE: [newbie] Searching 101

2003-02-07 Thread linux
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher Sent: Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Searching 101 [...snip] It may be a bit late at this point but Mandrake has a Excellent

[newbie] UML and having fun with virtual servers

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytit le/7E31B64596CDAAFB86256CB7004E9978?OpenDocument Just thought you guys might like info on UML. I am following it myself and it is sweet as hell. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Searching 101

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
Top 10 what? HOWTO sites for linux? I just sent a hefty email under the same thread that has like 50 of them in it. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 7:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
As a general principle, viruses don't propagate on a linux system unless you connect as root. A few exploits exist to put in trojan worms, but if you stay updated you can avoid those. Portsentry is an intrusion detector which could be well enhanced by iptables. There are soe good,

RE: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Richard Urwin
after one or two weeks of use, the memory check indicates errors in the memory module. this sounds to me a lot like a static electricty problem. I agree, failure after one or two weeks is a classic symptom of static damage. Get yourself a wrist-strap and use it. Also how do the staff at

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored (OT)

2003-02-07 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 11:32, FemmeFatale wrote: *giggles* Mike: I'd love to say theres no flames cause I put my foot down in the subject line. I can't say that though cause this list really is civil most days.

RE: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: vrijdag 7 februari 2003 14:10 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp: RE: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time after one or two weeks of use, the memory check indicates errors in

Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients

2003-02-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:15:08PM -0700, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:37 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: I really like Mutt. I use it over ssh when I'm away from home. I found a good resource file for themeing the interface, which makes it much easier for me to read than Pine. Todd hm

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:33:44 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would the hearders be older than the kernel, unless they are using the same header files to compile the kernel? If you want a full disclosure answer you can find it in the newbie/expert archive. The short answer is

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored (OT)

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
OMG, did i start a flame war for the Canadians? HEHE. How funny. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Angus Auld Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 7:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any

Re: [newbie] Searching 101

2003-02-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 February 2003 08:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher Sent: Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Searching 101 [...snip] It

Re: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 February 2003 08:37 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: vrijdag 7 februari 2003 14:10 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp: RE: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

[newbie] Problem Running 9.0...

2003-02-07 Thread Julian Templeman
Hi... I've just tried my first installation of 9.0 onto a Windows 2000 machine. The installation didn't show up any problems, and the boot manager lets me happily boot up into either 2000 or Linux. The problem occurs when Linux starts up. All the startup text appears OK, and then the screen goes

Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 February 2003 08:19 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: As a general principle, viruses don't propagate on a linux system unless you connect as root. A few exploits exist to put in trojan worms, but if you stay updated you can avoid those. Portsentry is an intrusion detector

RE: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
Now the only time it is necessary to update the kernel--header pkg is for an update version of glibc. AH, ok. Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problem Running 9.0...

2003-02-07 Thread et
next time, when it tries to start, when you have the chance to chose between windows and linux, hit tab, then type without the quotes, linux 3. this will cause the GUI (XFree86) to not start. login as your root user, and type XFdrake' (note the caps, very important in *nix). this will bring up

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT

2003-02-07 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:37:59 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:03:39 -0600 Marc Oestreicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06 Feb 2003 15:25:14 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under configuration/common preferences/other you'll find a few

RE: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
in the screw me once, same on you, screw me twice, shame on me vein, why in the name of fsck would you be going there a third time? Since I spent over 3000 EURO there in 2.5 year... And the fact that I once contacted Dell Netherlands to ask if they could me a PC with Linux on it. A

RE: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: vrijdag 7 februari 2003 14:53 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time On Friday 07 February 2003 08:19 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: As a general

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT

2003-02-07 Thread Anders Lind
Mine just reads opera What is the -n '%s' for ? I do not know what it stands for more then that % stands for opening in the background. Regarding Opera, do you have it installed on your system? /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] UML, wanting to install a distro from cd's

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
I have DLed and installed user_mode_linux-2.4.19.5um-0.i386.rpm from http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ and have played with the tomsrtbt image. I am satisfied there. I am now wanting to install a distro from cd's inside UML. Basically i want to run RH 8.0 inside UML but not from a

RE: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
Have you tried man opera? Not trying to be a jack ass but the man pages usually have the info on the CLI switches. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anders Lind Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Problem Running 9.0...

2003-02-07 Thread Julian Templeman
et said... next time, when it tries to start, when you have the chance to chose between windows and linux, hit tab, then type without the quotes, linux 3. this will cause the GUI (XFree86) to not start. login as your root user, and type XFdrake' (note the caps, very important in *nix). this

RE: [newbie] Need good Message Log filter program recommendation

2003-02-07 Thread T E
Wow thanks for the suggestion - and fwlogwatch is looking very nice! One last general question: Is it OK to install Mandrake 9.0 RPMS on an 8.2 system? This box must run 8.2 yet I can only find RPMs for 9.0. -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 February 2003 09:12 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: in the screw me once, same on you, screw me twice, shame on me vein, why in the name of fsck would you be going there a third time? Since I spent over 3000 EURO there in 2.5 year... And the fact that I once contacted Dell

Re: [newbie] ac 97 audio

2003-02-07 Thread John Richard Smith
fifner the dragon wrote: Hi, I have an integrated ac 97 sound card on my computer. Can this be used in linux (Mandrake9 KDE)? If it can, how do I know if it is configured properly, and how do I configure it if it is not? Thanks in advance, Fifner Do you mean your sound chip is

Re[2]: [newbie] ? Is it possible

2003-02-07 Thread mbot
Hello Derek, Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 10:48:15 PM, you wrote: DJ On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 12:28 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 14:35, mbot wrote: Hello, My LM9 discs have scratch, so some progie can't be installed. Is it possible to install those progie from my

Re[2]: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread mbot
Hello Damian, Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 7:30:11 PM, you wrote: DG On Tuesday 04 February 2003 14:35, mbot wrote: Hello, Not a long ago, don't know how, I could open my winblowz files in LM9. But today, after reinstalling LM, I lost it. Could you tell me how to get it back? (kdiskfree is

RE: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
All rpm --rebuild ~rpm does is just build the src rpm for your box as much as possible. It does not install anything at all, thats where the rpm -U or i or F come into play. I have done this a few times with no problems at all. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] kmail went awol on me

2003-02-07 Thread magnet
I have no idea what went wrong or why it happened, but I was reading through my emails and on some when read the header disappeared and the message appeared blank. Strange but didn't give it much thought at the time so I closed kmail down. When I tried to restart it a little later it just

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: Thanks, Damian. Although it's not what I really mean, still ... it helps a lot. Thanks again. Btw, there's a little problem. Why my computer always hang (so I must use Xkill) when my mouse pointing into this /mnt? To others, no problema. Do

Re: [newbie] fluxbox configuration

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
Also for configuration i found Whitebox. It is a GUI for configuration. There are rpms, found on rpm.pbone.net. They are a year old but it still looks like it works, havent tried it yet. WOW, i LOVE Fluxbox... Ok, now for the real question. I want a toolbar so i can have all my shortcuts/icons

Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question

2003-02-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:07:22 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to RTFM about rpm, but find it thoroughly confusing. Any advice/help would be truly appreciated. To create an rpm build directory in your /home/you open a terminal and enter: mkdir -p

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT

2003-02-07 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Friday 07 February 2003 08:18, Anders Lind wrote: Mine just reads opera What is the -n '%s' for ? I do not know what it stands for more then that % stands for opening in the background. Regarding Opera, do you have it installed on your system? /Anders Yep generaly after I

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT

2003-02-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 06:33:26 -0600 Marc Oestreicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will try adding the -n '%s and see what happens. I use both claws and opera and configured claws to use opera with: opera -newwindow '%s' But whichever you use you Need the single quotes on both ends of %s

Re: [newbie] fluxbox configuration

2003-02-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 Feb 2003 6:23 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Also for configuration i found Whitebox. It is a GUI for configuration. There are rpms, found on rpm.pbone.net. They are a year old but it still looks like it works, havent tried it yet. WOW, i LOVE Fluxbox... Ok, now for the real

Re: [newbie] Shorthand

2003-02-07 Thread Charlie
On Friday 07 February 2003 04:58 am, Douglas B. wrote: Charlie, Rob, Kesar, Todd, Tom, Many thanks for all the help! Cheers, Doug snip Thanks for an easy question! g You're very welcome Douglas. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org Conway's

[newbie] ISO Downloads

2003-02-07 Thread Craig Deline Jr
I just downloaded Mandrake 9 ISOs from mirror.aca.oakland.edu The first image, Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso, after I burn it to a CD (Using Nero 5.5), does not boot, and I cannot see any files on it in windows as I can on the other two (Discs 23). I am using Nero 5.5 with a Philips 8x4x32

Re: [newbie] ISO Downloads

2003-02-07 Thread Anthony Abby
Craig Deline Jr said: I just downloaded Mandrake 9 ISO's from mirror.aca.oakland.edu The first image, Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso, after I burn it to a CD (Using Nero 5.5), does not boot, and I cannot see any files on it in windows as I can on the other two (Disc's 23). I am using Nero 5.5

RE: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question

2003-02-07 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Angus Auld Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question Greetings, I would like to know if there

RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Wideman
Ths would be the FileBurn Image, select the ISO in the list and click open option in Nero. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Abby Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ISO

Re: [newbie] ISO Downloads

2003-02-07 Thread Miark
Put the burned CD in a running computer and open it. If you see the file Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso, then you need to reburn it, but this time burn it as an image, not as a file. If, on the other hand, you see nothing, then CD is probably no good and you'll have to burn it again. Miark On

RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads

2003-02-07 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Deline Jr Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ISO Downloads I just downloaded Mandrake 9 ISO's from

[newbie] wizdrake

2003-02-07 Thread ivette brusselmans
how can I install wizdrake? tried urpmi wizdrake in console, message told me package was not available. tried search wizdrake in MCC software packages installation. Got message Wizdrake not found Is wizdrake not on the 3 download CD's? Thought it was. Thanx

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: Thanks, Damian. Although it's not what I really mean, still ... it helps a lot. Thanks again. Btw, there's a little problem. Why my computer always hang (so I must use Xkill) when my

[newbie] d4x

2003-02-07 Thread et
I have just started to try/use d4x, mainly cause I heard it resumes downloads. I just had 27% of a iso downloaded, when I had to restart (had to get some info out of a winfax fax view file, so I had to reboot into win). anyway, when I restarted d4x, it had saved the info about the ISO file it

[newbie] OT javascript gurus?

2003-02-07 Thread Todd Slater
I need to develop a template for a self-correcting javascript quiz. 1. 3 radio button responses per question 2. on submit, validate that all questions have been answered 3. display correct/incorrect feedback in a textbox next to each question 4. display explanation in textarea next to each

Re: [newbie] wizdrake

2003-02-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 Feb 2003 8:10 pm, ivette brusselmans wrote: how can I install wizdrake? tried urpmi wizdrake in console, message told me package was not available. tried search wizdrake in MCC software packages installation. Got message Wizdrake not found Is wizdrake not on the 3 download CD's?

[newbie] A small doubt about Dual processor.

2003-02-07 Thread Lucio_Costa
Greetings All. I bought a Dual Athlon MP box and some guys told me something about problems during the installation, or kernel problems!!! What I need to do to install MDK 9,0 in this box? Do I need to change something in kernel, maybr rebuild it? Thanks in advance. = []'s Lucio Costa

Re: [newbie] A small doubt about Dual processor.

2003-02-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 February 2003 04:25 pm, Lucio_Costa wrote: Greetings All. I bought a Dual Athlon MP box and some guys told me something about problems during the installation, or kernel problems!!! What I need to do to install MDK 9,0 in this box? Do I need to change something in kernel,

Re: [newbie] OT: Shorthand

2003-02-07 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Fri 2003-02-07 at 20:30:49 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To us Newbs acronyms are a PITA FWIW IMHO Really? Having had English as third language only in school, I had no particular trouble with acronyms when I first hit the internet - I had trouble with a lot of words, but acronyms where not

Re: [newbie] d4x

2003-02-07 Thread John Richard Smith
et wrote: I have just started to try/use d4x, mainly cause I heard it resumes downloads. I just had 27% of a iso downloaded, when I had to restart (had to get some info out of a winfax fax view file, so I had to reboot into win). anyway, when I restarted d4x, it had saved the info about the

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-07 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2003-02-07 at 00:31:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I have d'loaded two disk images from the Mandrake site, both are iso's, what exactly do I have to do to to make these iso's into somehtign I can use to boot off of for my mac? I tried doing it through Toast 5.0.2. But

Re: [newbie] d4x

2003-02-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 February 2003 04:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: et wrote: I have just started to try/use d4x, mainly cause I heard it resumes downloads. I just had 27% of a iso downloaded, when I had to restart (had to get some info out of a winfax fax view file, so I had to reboot into

RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads

2003-02-07 Thread Craig Deline Jr
Title: RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads I did burn it as an image. I started downloading another image, it has about 20 mins left. I will have to see how it works. Thanx, craig -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO

Re: [newbie] d4x

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday February 7 2003 04:06 pm, et wrote: On Friday 07 February 2003 04:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: et wrote: I have just started to try/use d4x, mainly cause I heard it resumes downloads. I just had 27% of a iso downloaded, when I had to restart (had to get some info out of a

Re: [newbie] d4x

2003-02-07 Thread civileme
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:06 pm, et wrote: On Friday 07 February 2003 04:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: et wrote: I have just started to try/use d4x, mainly cause I heard it resumes downloads. I just had 27% of a iso downloaded, when I had to restart (had to get some info out of a

Re: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: Thanks, Damian. Although it's not what I really mean, still ... it helps a lot. Thanks again. Btw, there's a little problem. Why my computer always hang (so I must use Xkill) when my mouse

Re: [newbie] d4x

2003-02-07 Thread John Richard Smith
et wrote: On Friday 07 February 2003 04:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: et wrote: I have just started to try/use d4x, mainly cause I heard it resumes downloads. I just had 27% of a iso downloaded, when I had to restart (had to get some info out of a winfax fax view file, so I had to

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1

2003-02-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:31 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi wher can i download KDE 3.1 ? Gil If you join Mandrake Club there is a special package for ML9.0 that you can get. It was painless and seems to be working well. KDE 3.1 is working well so far. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to

Re: [newbie] plug-ins

2003-02-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 07 February 2003 02:02 am, Nathan Lewin wrote: To whom it may concern ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office / I am new and very exited about the Linux Mandrake world. My primary concern is to retrieve certain plug-ins for software and applications

Re: [newbie] fluxbox configuration

2003-02-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:23:07 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also for configuration i found Whitebox. It is a GUI for configuration. There are rpms, found on rpm.pbone.net. They are a year old but it still looks like it works, havent tried it yet. WOW, i LOVE Fluxbox... Ok,

Re: [newbie] kmail went awol on me

2003-02-07 Thread David Williams
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:01 pm, magnet wrote: I had this happen several times to me. What I found out my problem was --- It turned out that there was a corrupt message in the mail folders. I used Kong to look at the files and noticed that there was one more file than Kmail showed as

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored (OT)

2003-02-07 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 07 February 2003 11:34 am, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 09:32 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:21 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Wouldnt they just be called Canadians? Thats what i have always

Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question

2003-02-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:07 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I would like to know if there is a command for rpm that will allow me to rebuild from a source rpm, but not have the resulting rpm package install. That is, when I am rebuilding as su. I have read, somewhere, that one should

Re: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread et
I like Michael's idea better than mine,,, I just leave a cd in the drive, it finds it much quicker than if it is empty On Friday 07 February 2003 06:16 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: Thanks, Damian.

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