Re: [newbie] Fwd: Oh, Please

2007-01-12 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Friday 12 January 2007 09:42, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 08:46 am, Robin Turner wrote: I was about to make history by agreeing with LX, then I remembered all those right-wing peeps who were offended by Janet Jackson's nipple a while back. Looks like people of all

Re: [newbie] What have I done now....??

2007-01-11 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:35, JRH wrote: Hi All, The wireless card eventually got installed I had to format reinstall though, before it would think about working! Anyway, now, I appear to have broken KDE! I've lost the top bar on the windows ie, the bar with the close,

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2006-12-29 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Friday 29 December 2006 15:25, ET wrote: knoppix installed on the hard drive is debian... Nothing wrong with Debian..it's just different Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2006-12-29 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Friday 29 December 2006 15:31, ET wrote: Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 15:25, ET wrote: knoppix installed on the hard drive is debian... Nothing wrong with Debian..it's just different would you want some windoze user who is attempting to try and learn linux

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2006-12-29 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Friday 29 December 2006 15:50, CJ Kelley wrote: - Original Message From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:46:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that? On Friday,

Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie) User manual for 2007

2006-12-20 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 17:08, Fr. Johnny Shepherd wrote: John Rye wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:40:57 -0500 Fr. Johnny Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you John- when I do the command I get no package available. It may be because I am not yet a member of the Mandriva club

Re: [newbie] Linus T. at his best

2006-12-16 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Friday 15 December 2006 13:30, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Friday 15 December 2006 08:09, JoeHill wrote: SUSE and Novell can kiss my Geek ass ;-) Damn Joe first you diss them then you want Romance ? OOPs sorry I thought you said Greek ass

Re: [newbie] Linus T. at his best

2006-12-15 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Friday 15 December 2006 08:09, JoeHill wrote: SUSE and Novell can kiss my Geek ass ;-) Damn Joe first you diss them then you want Romance ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Help fast on boot problem - Please

2006-12-13 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:13, Fr. Johnny wrote: One more note for those in the know.I tried to look at the archives first but got the following message. Module not found The requested module linux could not be found. Possible reasons for this are: * The module

Re: [newbie] Help fast on boot problem - reply

2006-12-13 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:35, Fr. Johnny wrote: Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:13, Fr. Johnny wrote: One more note for those in the know.I tried to look at the archives first but got the following message. Module not found The requested

Re: [newbie] Help fast on boot problem - reply

2006-12-13 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
is a doozy] this will give you all the fixes and upgrades Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:35, Fr. Johnny wrote: Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:13, Fr. Johnny wrote: One more note for those in the know.I tried to look at the archives first

Re: [newbie] New virus - beware!

2006-12-05 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 06:21, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: TANSTAAFL because they don't know what that means Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] New virus - beware!

2006-12-05 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 06:52, J. D. Leach wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 08:29 am, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 06:21, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: TANSTAAFL because they don't know what that means Want

Re: [newbie] New virus - beware!

2006-12-05 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 07:28, stuart bell wrote: Thanks Dan, We British had no idea what it meant. Ask Bush's only friend Blair. tsk tsk and this group complains about a mexican virus joke Stuart There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch?? Registered Linux Mangler #001

Re: [newbie] New virus - beware!

2006-12-05 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 08:24, Neill Jones wrote: Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 07:28, stuart bell wrote: Thanks Dan, We British had no idea what it meant. Ask Bush's only friend Blair. tsk tsk and this group complains about a mexican virus joke except

Re: [newbie] The usual suspects...

2006-12-05 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:34, ET wrote: Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 09:36, JoeHill wrote: If you can't see that, you are a moron. and the pejorative comment? you can not spell,,, is that pejorative enough? or did I just jump in because of the great snip

Re: [newbie] New virus - beware!

2006-12-04 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Monday 04 December 2006 15:41, Martell, Larry wrote: On Mon 12/4/2006 8:59 AM JULIO MANUEL JOSE RODRIGUEZ GARCIA DE LA CRUZ INFANTE SALGADO FERNANDEZ wrote: BUENOS DIAS!! JOU HAVE YUST RECEIB A MEHICAN BIRUS! SEENCE WE NOT SO TECHNOLOGICALLY ADBANCED IN MEHICO, DIS IS A MANUAL

Re: [newbie] New virus - beware!

2006-12-04 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Monday 04 December 2006 07:26, julie wrote: On Monday 04 December 2006 10:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: BUENOS DIAS!! JOU HAVE YUST RECEIB A MEHICAN BIRUS! SEENCE WE NOT SO TECHNOLOGICALLY ADBANCED IN MEHICO, DIS IS A MANUAL BIRUS. PLEASE DELETE ALL THE FILES ON JOUR HARD DRIVE

Re: [newbie] OT - Errorsafe File Scan (Scam?)

2006-11-29 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:39, Graham Watkins wrote: ET wrote: So what else does Brazil have more of than any other country? Brazilians, of course.. Oh right. I've never been very good at the bleedin' obvious :-) Got a hullva lot of Japanese too Sao Polo has more Japanese than all

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-10-16 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sunday 15 October 2006 03:37 pm, Robin Turner wrote: On 12/10/06, Mike The Chief [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys: after playing around with Mandriva 2007 for a week I have went back 2006 It's definitely not ready primetime. I got tired of the looks of the desktop configurations not

Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

2006-10-07 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Saturday 07 October 2006 02:26 am, JRH wrote: On Saturday 07 October 2006 03:45, Miark wrote: On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:28:49 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: By brute strength and awkwardness [and xcfe] I managed to reset it to 1024x768 KDE is fine now Pray tell: how? Miark Yes

Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

2006-10-07 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Saturday 07 October 2006 02:52 am, JRH wrote: On Saturday 07 October 2006 11:08, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: boot into xcfe then into MCC turn off your 3D and accelerated options reset the monitor to flatscreen 1024x768 @60 hz then log out and reboot HTH Ok, so now I'm showing my

Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

2006-10-06 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Thursday 05 October 2006 09:08 am, Miark wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:07:56 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 08:40 am, Miark wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:33:07 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 09:41 pm, Miark wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct

Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

2006-10-05 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Thursday 05 October 2006 08:40 am, Miark wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:33:07 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 09:41 pm, Miark wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:08:56 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 05:25 pm, Miark wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct

Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

2006-10-04 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 09:41 pm, Miark wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:08:56 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 05:25 pm, Miark wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:36:14 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: trying Mandriva 2007 now it seems to have difficulty finding my

Re: [newbie] 2007 Official........

2006-10-03 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 10:55 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:55:19 -0400 Christopher Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, Once you have updated your sources you should be able to urpmi --auto-update. It will pull down a lot of files. And I got all opf your

Re: [newbie] Face header Claws

2006-09-28 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Thursday 28 September 2006 08:09 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:47:39 -0400 JoeHill got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: Thanks for all the pointers, man. As God is my witness, I will make this work! I want my 48x48 Che! I'm a subversive, dammit! Woot! Fascists

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandriva Club - Your account expires soon!

2006-09-26 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 02:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:08:50 +0100 stuart bell got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: Sorry for that comment. No need, I know I've been frustrated almost to that point many times :) I never actually BOUGHT anything from

[newbie] Cannot get program to start

2006-09-18 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
trying to get the IDE for programming the basic stamp http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/products/basicstamps/bs1.asp I downloaded and apparently sucessfully compiled this program [no error messages] http://sourceforge.net/projects/bside/ BUT I can't get it to start any pbasic people out there?

Re: [newbie] Cannot get program to start

2006-09-18 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Monday 18 September 2006 04:08 am, ET wrote: Grumpy_Penguin wrote: trying to get the IDE for programming the basic stamp http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/products/basicstamps/bs1.asp I downloaded and apparently sucessfully compiled this program [no error messages] http

[newbie] Small mproblem with K3b

2006-09-17 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
I pulled a boo-boo I did a #urpme k3b -a it un-installed a bunch of stuff then when I did a # urpmi k3b -a it tells me that there is no such program -- Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggy While you look for a rock..Will Rodgers

Re: [newbie] Small mproblem with K3b

2006-09-17 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sunday 17 September 2006 03:49 pm, ET wrote: Grumpy_Penguin wrote: I pulled a boo-boo I did a #urpme k3b -a it un-installed a bunch of stuff then when I did a # urpmi k3b -a it tells me that there is no such program setup your sources with easyurpmi? yes they have been set up

Re: [newbie] Small mproblem with K3b

2006-09-17 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sunday 17 September 2006 03:56 pm, RickS wrote: Grumpy_Penguin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] yes they have been set up also ran updatedb and update -menus no joy Well can you check the /var/log/urpmi.log and see what exactly was removed . Then then try then urpmi --force to see

Re: [newbie] Club sucks

2006-09-14 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Thursday 14 September 2006 04:08 am, ET wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: Well, I got notification yesterday that I had 8 days 'til the old membership was up for renewal. Today I tried to check my torrents and was told that I had to renew to get 'em. Notice to company ah's. You'll never

Re: [newbie] Add-on for windows applications

2006-09-13 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 04:52 am, SANTOS Daniel UTE-CARACOLES wrote: Hello. I´m a new linux user, and i don´t know if there is any posibility of opening a windows application when i´m in Linux. Is there any add-on? Thanks Possibly thru WINE but why would you want too? there are

Re: [newbie] Fresh 2006 install.... issues!

2006-09-05 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 07:57 am, JRH wrote: Hi All, I've just done a complete format and reinstall, owing to a brief flirtation with FC5 (it's crap, don't bother!). 2 issues: Every time I open Kmail up, I now get an email Welcome to Mandriva Linux, and no matter how many times I bin

Re: [newbie] BitTorrent woe....

2006-08-23 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 01:45 pm, JRH wrote: On Wednesday 23 Aug 2006 21:40, JRH wrote: On Wednesday 23 Aug 2006 21:37, Christopher Taylor wrote: Isn't there a bittorrent gui that needs to be installed also? Looking in the BT folder, in /usr/lib/python, there is a file GUI.py.

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall Mandriva

2006-05-21 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
ET wrote: Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 20 May 2006 22:45:19 -0400 JoeHill wrote: ...in good enough condition to *re-stick* it to your shitter! Hell, it's not even worth putting on the one in the backyard; the old that I had to fill in,not the one I just dug, it's a 2 seater. Watch

Re: [newbie] Good eWallet

2006-04-16 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sunday 16 April 2006 03:37, OOzy Pal wrote: Guys/Gals Can you recommend a good eWallet for my pins, credit cards #, etc.? Boy you are just asking for trouble ;-) Gator (ducks) Thank you. -- OOzy Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Re: CD won't mount

2006-04-10 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Monday 10 April 2006 19:17, Miark wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:08:21 -0400, JoeHill wrote: It's a game, commercial software with major copy protection. Wait a minute... you _paid_ for this game? Ain't that the first sign of the Apocalypse?! :-) Miark A true geek would get it the old

Re: [newbie] Interesting

2006-01-15 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sunday 15 January 2006 15:48, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:25:23 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen many occasions when he has been downright ruder to people who were only asking a civil question. Frankly I was appalled, and if he had been my employee

Re: [newbie] Mandriva list management. (was Testing)

2006-01-14 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Saturday 14 January 2006 06:31, Dan LaBine wrote: Just a quick little rant here, but instead of looking for a different distro to jump over to, why don't we consider making one of our own? There's a lot of experts and experienced people on these lists, as well as a lot of newbies who know

Re: [newbie] Moving on

2006-01-14 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Saturday 14 January 2006 07:03, Lee Wiggers wrote: Well, I just ordered a Damn Small Linux stick and subscribed to the pclinuxol mailing list. It's obviously time to start looking around for another home. Lee been running DSL Linux for a year now on one of my other boxes Mini_Itx 600 Mhz

Re: [newbie] Mandriva list management. (was Testing)

2006-01-14 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Saturday 14 January 2006 07:21, Dan LaBine wrote: ET wrote: do you remeber on this list some many years ago we had some of the folks (Yama, Thac, Texstar) who started PClinuxOS? check it out,,, maybe the natural next step... Yup. I know PCLinuxOS very well actually. I've been following

Re: [newbie] Mailing list/new distro discussion

2006-01-14 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:10, Bill Spatz wrote: On Saturday 14 January 2006 10:34 am, Bill Spatz wrote: I have a few gig of storage and 100 gig/mo of transfer available to me along with mailman, that I'd be willing to donate to the cause. I'm also willing to register and host whatever

Re: [newbie] Which modem

2006-01-12 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: jim allAn wrote: I am also having trouble getting a serial modem to work. Mine won't work in windows either. I see a couple lights blink but not long enough to se which they are. The modem I have is a best data smart one

Re: [newbie] since either I got kicked again...

2006-01-12 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:33, ET wrote: or there are no newbie questions since the 11th Sympa'd again Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] Unable to install Mandriva 2006

2006-01-10 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 23:29, Jamie Dobbs wrote: When I try an install Mandriva 2006 (x86 version NOT the 64 bit version) on my PC it gets part way through the initial boot screen then freezes with the error: Exited abnormally - received signal 7 I have Googled, search mailing list

[newbie] test

2006-01-09 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
test Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] compatibility? Mandriva 10.1 or 2006 w/ Inspiron 8600?

2005-10-09 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 09:26 -0600, Glenn wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:00, Laura Callier wrote: Hi Rosemary, Thanks so much for responding to my e-mail and for the information. I'll check the website you recommended. I'll certainly look into LE2005. I live in Colorado in the

Re: [newbie] compatibility? Mandriva 10.1 or 2006 w/ Inspiron 8600?

2005-10-09 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 11:01 -0600, Glenn wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2005 09:43, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 09:26 -0600, Glenn wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:00, Laura Callier wrote: Aww,, she would probably look better in it than you would G Without

Re: [newbie] compatibility? Mandriva 10.1 or 2006 w/ Inspiron 8600?

2005-10-09 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 12:38 -0600, Glenn wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2005 11:30, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: BTW I have been having some problems with 2006 * Kmail is almost broken again and there seem to be some stability problems on my system * Evolution is not in the package (luckly

Re: [newbie] 2006LE ?

2005-10-09 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
-- Grumpy_Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] compatibility? Mandriva 10.1 or 2006 w/ Inspiron 8600?

2005-10-09 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 20:54 +0200, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2005 19:30, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: BTW I have been having some problems with 2006 * Kmail is almost broken again It's not over here...what is the problem? and there seem to be some stability problems on my