RE: [newbie] ppp established but...

2000-11-01 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I've been having the same problem. I don't think it's the ISP because before I reinstalled Linux (this time in expert mode, though still mostly using the defaults)this ISP worked fine. Is there something I have to setup special to get acess to the internet? My security level is set to medium,

[newbie] virtual desktops

2000-11-23 Thread Paul Rodriguez
For some reason I don't have the settings set to switch between virtual desktops using keystrokes. How can I set my linux box (using 7.1) to switch between these using alt+function keys? I'm particularly interested in going to console or text mode (full-screen). Also, is there any way to do

[newbie] Bastille Firewall pop-3

2001-10-18 Thread Paul Rodriguez
How important is adding pop-3 to the list of TCP services to audit in InteractiveBastille? -Paul Rodríguez __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] problem remembering program states?

2002-05-06 Thread Paul Rodriguez
small and won't remember preferences across sessions. What's going on? My drive is not full, and I haven't made any major system changes. - Paul Rodriguez New York Linux Scene www.NYLXS.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] laptop volume control after resume

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I can control my laptop's volume with the fn+PageUP/PageDOWN keys. But after i resume my laptop from sleep (it sleeps when i close the cover) I lose keyboard volume control. Gnome multimedia applet still works, though. Anybody know how i can fix this? Is there some sort of deamon that needs to

Re: [newbie] Linux version of Windows Media Player

2002-05-18 Thread Paul Rodriguez
You can download realplayer 8 from the following link. http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?src=serviceandsupport You probably are looking for the red hat version (compatible with Mandrake). - Paul On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 13:05, Thomas Beno wrote: Graham Watkins wrote:

Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question

2002-05-26 Thread Paul Rodriguez
If you have ethernet network cards instead of modems, you can bring down/up your device with the ifup eth0 or ifdown eth0 commands. This is assuming you only have on network card. For each subsequent card you can raise the integer after eth by one. - Paul Rodriguez New York GNU/Linux Scene

Re: [newbie] Mandrake PPC question

2002-05-28 Thread Paul Rodriguez
From a reliable source: On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 15:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm considering either Mandrake 8.2 or YDL 2.2, and am hoping someone here can help with some questions. On YDL's web site, they suggest placing Linux and Mac OS 9 on separate disks, and making

Re: [newbie] Instant Messengers

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Rodriguez
You can try gtm (Gnome Transfer Manager) http://gtm.sourceforge.net/ - paul On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:20, Matt Blake wrote: Thanks for those answers - have just picked up CCMSM and am just getting everybuddy - so i'll give them a go. Cheers. Another question: For downloading in windows i

Re: [newbie] ATI vs. Nvidia drivers [OT]

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Rodriguez
, it takes 1 minute to load X when I load it with the Nvidia supplied driver. Just a quirk. Small but annoying. I would love to be able to fix it by helping debug the issue. Needless to say Nvidia is not exactly very interested or polite about trying to resolve the issue. - Paul Rodriguez Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Power Pack 8.2 question

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Not what you want to hear, but for what it's worth, I find that rpmfind.net is also a great resource for finding Mandrake rpm's. - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I like this Mozilla1!

2002-06-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I think I'll just have to wait. - paul On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 15:00, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have to say, I really love using Galeon. I never really saw the use in it till I tried it a little. It's just so much faster (being a gtk-native mozilla basically). And I really love having those

[newbie] rpmdrake peculiarities

2002-06-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
1:0.5. Why is this? And can we stop doing this? I find that it gets in the way when I'm looking for updates. And more than once have I downgraded by accident because of it. - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Tips or Shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ...

2002-06-11 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Actually I may be wrong, but I think this is set up in your window manager, not the desktop environment (i.e. sawfish, instead of gnome). These sorts of key bindings are usually configurable and you should be able to make your own no matter what keybindings you use. I don't have too much

Re: [newbie] Tips or Shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ...

2002-06-11 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I should mention as well, that you in the Gnome/Sawfish setup it seems you are using you can configure these in: Gnome Control Panel:Sawfish Window Manager:Shortcuts - Paul Rodriguez New York Linux Scene On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 02:18, FARSHAD wrote: hi any body have a list of usefuly shortcut

[newbie] DV Cameras for tthe holidays

2002-12-17 Thread Paul Rodriguez
editing software for Linux? - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] burning ISOs

2002-09-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I have attempted to burn the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs several times. In all occasions, the CD was not readable on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. The CD did, however, work on my desktop. When I put the CD in the laptop tray, it seeks for approximately 15 seconds before giving up. I have tried

Re: [newbie] burning ISOs

2002-09-30 Thread Paul Rodriguez
exclusively on your Linux box. Good Luck, Paul. I hope you find your answer... T Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have attempted to burn the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs several times. In all occasions, the CD was not readable on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. The CD did, however, work on my desktop. When I

[newbie] resizing photos

2002-09-30 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Is there a way to resize a bunch of photos at the same time? I have a folder with 42 photos from my digital camera and would like to make them 1/3 the size to put on the web in as few strokes as possible. Ok, at least in an easy and reproducable way. - Paul Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] burning ISOs

2002-10-01 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Thanks, T. I appreciate your kind consideration throughout all of this. Do you know where I can find a searchable archive of the list? The link from the Mandrake site seems to not have a search function. - paul On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 14:55, Technoslick wrote: I am going to step away and hope

Re: [newbie] resizing photos

2002-10-02 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Thanks! Had never seen that command before. Worked like a charm! - paul On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 17:38, Alastair Scott wrote: On 30 Sep 2002 17:16:24 -0400 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to resize a bunch of photos at the same time? I have a folder with 42 photos

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Rodriguez
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:31, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi. Sorry to but in here, but to add another perspective... It's not just a question of buying new hardware (something that Linux tends to pride itself in not requiring). In some cases, for example, there is no new hardware available

[newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS, and would like to install Mandrake 9.0. It does not seem to recognize the 700Mb ISO cd (or at least boot from it), so I'd like to find out if a boot floppy would help to get it to boot from the cd. How do I make one of these in this scenario?

Re: [newbie] that 700MB iso thing

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Well, I tried several emails and forum postings, but was never able to get a copy of the 650Mb ISOs. I did however get 700Mb disks burned for me by someone else which works on my system. But none of my cd-burners here at home can burn 700Mb ISOs. (HP EZ-Writer Plus) - Paul On Thu,

[newbie] windows or start key in 9.0

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Ever since installing 9.0, the windows or start key doesn't open up the menu. Anyway to get it back to full functionality? - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Gnome config

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
All of the gnome config programs seem to be broken up among the menus. Is there a way to open up the main gnome config program so I can take care of several things at once? - paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] detachable menus in gnome

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Anybody know how I can get the menus to be detachable in Gnome? - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] grrr... One more pet peave... (menus)

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
return this properties functionality to the menu? - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] that 700MB iso thing

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
1:45 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Well, I tried several emails and forum postings, but was never able to get a copy of the 650Mb ISOs. I did however get 700Mb disks burned for me by someone else which works on my system. But none of my cd-burners here at home can burn 700Mb ISOs. (HP EZ

Re: [newbie] detachable menus in gnome

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Wow! What a great catch! Thanks! - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:29, Terry Sheltra wrote: Paul, If you go to the website: http://art.gnome.org Under the tips section (I believe), there is an walkthrough explaining just that. Terry Paul Rodriguez wrote: Anybody know how I

[newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
, or something else? I hear Nvidia's are good. 2) Who makes a good Nvidia card? 3) Should I go with a Geforce3 or a Geforce4? I have a Hercules Geforce3 at home, and I am not happy with it. I hear that people are very happy with Geforce3's from other manufacturers. - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy

[newbie] xscreensaver not getting images from directory

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hi, I have noticed that in Mandrake 9.0, xscreensaver is not properly getting images from the specified directory. When it needs an image from there, it just works with the checkerboard default. It will, however, capture a screen image just fine. - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Wow, so a Geforce4 MX will run worse than a Geforce2 vanilla? That's not a very good naming convention then. Thanks for giving me a heads up. I'll have to do some more digging and see what's available. - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:59, FemmeFatale wrote: Oops... forgot to say skip it in

[newbie] 9.0 upgrade - internet sluggishness

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I just did a recent upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0. And I have been experiencing some internet sluggishness from this box. None of the other computers on the network 8.2's are experiencing the slowdowns. What could this be? - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Rodriguez
If I upgrade my Mandrake box from 8.2 to 9.0 what steps should I take to integrate these 2 firewalls. Since I am currently running Bastille, can I turn of bastille and turn on shorewall? Absent the hardening features, will this present me a good firewall? Will turning off bastille, and the

[newbie] Mandrake menu

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Anybody know of a way to get rid of the Mandrake menu on the gnome panel? - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] detachable menus in gnome

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hi, terry. I tried this, but it didn't work. Is it working for you? - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:29, Terry Sheltra wrote: Paul, If you go to the website: http://art.gnome.org Under the tips section (I believe), there is an walkthrough explaining just that. Terry Paul

Re: [newbie] detachable menus in gnome

2002-11-05 Thread Paul Rodriguez
. Terry Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, terry. I tried this, but it didn't work. Is it working for you? - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:29, Terry Sheltra wrote: Paul, If you go to the website: http://art.gnome.org Under the tips section (I believe), there is an walkthrough

[newbie] switching video cads (what do i need to do?)

2002-11-05 Thread Paul Rodriguez
, switch cards, and install nvidia drivers, then switch back to runlevel 5? - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Has anybody gotten sawfish configuration to work in 9.0? Anytime I click on any of the sawfish config programs in the gnome config menu, none of the programs open. - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] sawfish configuration

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

[newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable? Happen to know when an update will come out? - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
It crashes several times during use. (of the just disappears variety) This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth between them. - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote: ANybody else notice that Galeon

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Also, with the new version, it no longer will take me to the .com address of a site that I type in. For example, if I type in mandrake it does not take me to mandrake.com. Know how to fix this? - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Rodriguez wrote: Has anybody gotten sawfish configuration to work in 9.0? Anytime I click on any of the sawfish config programs in the gnome config menu, none of the programs open. - Paul Rodriguez Same here. Been wondering 'bout that myself... -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy

Re: [newbie] mdk 9 with tamil

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
A related question... (not an answer, unfortunately) Is it possible to switch on-the-fly from roman letters to devanagari when writing a file in openoffice (or any other word processor)? Is it just a question of switching fonts usually? - Paul On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:15, L.V.Gandhi wrote:

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Grr.. I've been selling stuff on ebay and it crashes ALL the time. - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 18:57, Paul Rodriguez wrote: It crashes several times during use. (of the just disappears variety) This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth between them. - Paul

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Any way to check which wm is running, though? - P On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:03, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I hadn't thought of that, Sephen. I assumed since I upgraded from a system with sawfish, sawfish would remain. I see no option in any

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
You can also delete the .galeon directory from your home directory which will cause Galeon to have to reconfigure itself for you... I wanted to try this from the beginning, but am not sure what file needs to stay to keep the bookmarks. I'll try the other commands first. tHnaks. - paul

[newbie] TOTAL MESS! [was: switching video cads (what do i need to do?)]

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
to initialize IPv6), and I also noticed that it would not save my bash history when I restart my computer. I think the only thing I can do is try a fresh reinstall. But no clue what happened. - Paul On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:04, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I just swapped my incompatible ATI 8500

[newbie] galeon search

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Whenever I type a word in the address bar of my galeon browser, I expect it to go to [word].com. Instead I am taken to http://www.ultimatesearch.com/ not ultimate or much good at all. How do I change this? - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] galeon search

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Nope, not a search box, I've been typing it in the address pane. Typing a word in the window that pops up when I press Ctrl+O also takes me to http://www.ultimatesearch.com/ . - Paul On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:32, Michael Scottaline wrote: On 07 Nov 2002 22:28:39 -0500 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] galeon search

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Rodriguez
a word in the window that pops up when I press Ctrl+O also takes me to http://www.ultimatesearch.com/ . - Paul On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:32, Michael Scottaline wrote: On 07 Nov 2002 22:28:39 -0500 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Whenever I type a word

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-10 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I gave this a try and for a while it seemed somehwat more stable, but on normal use it still crashes. - Paul Try starting galeon from a console. When you start galeon from the menu it actually runs soundwrapper /usr/bin/galeon That was found to cause instability in Galeon in 8.2 The

Re: [newbie] galeon search

2002-11-10 Thread Paul Rodriguez
to do what the other would do automatically. It may be a function of the using the Geiko engine that they both now share. Half a dozen of one, six of another --- what's more important to you? :-) T - Original Message - From: Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] galeon search

2002-11-10 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hi, Charlie, changing the preferences in Mozilla was a really good guess, and I thought it would work. But it did't change the bahavior. - Paul On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:26, Charlie wrote: On Friday 08 November 2002 07:35 am, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Actually, http://mandrake will take me

Re: [newbie] galeon search

2002-11-10 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Message - From: Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] galeon search Actually, http://mandrake will take me to http://www.ultimatesearch.com/ as well. - paul On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:17, Marty

[newbie] Galeon instability revisited.

2002-11-17 Thread Paul Rodriguez
writing now again, because I am being told by several users that the program is becoming so inconvenient as a result of the crashes to be almost unusable. It seems to happen most often when selling on Amazon and EBay, but frequently occurs on other sites as well. - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your

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

[newbie] In-Wall home networking question

2003-07-09 Thread Paul Rodriguez
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[newbie] Attn: Lanman: In-Wall Home Networking

2003-07-19 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hi, Lanman I missed your response to my question about in-wall home networking and Leviton products. Please email me personally if you can, I'd like to ask you some questions. Thanks. - Paul __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!

[newbie] Hardware problem. Keeps rebooting/freezing.

2004-08-26 Thread Paul Rodriguez
(from Crucial, specifically for my new mobo), my computer doesn't even boot properly, and never gets to the menus in the mandrake install cd. -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http