Re: [newbie] mandriva 2007 acpi install

2007-02-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:22:18 +1100 Gregg wrote: halted and then the power button has to used to shut down. I've had similar issues which in most cases was caused by a BIOS setting. Check that out first for a shutdown option. -- Good luck, HarM.

Re: [newbie] mandriva metisse install?

2007-01-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:01:57 -0500 Walt wrote: Thanks!!! I am writing this from Mandriva. The install was flawless! Drake-live install worked like a charm Dang, shouldn't have been THAT easy ... we want you here groveling for help. Gives us that nice warm snug feeling. ;-) -- Good luck,

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:57:20 -0500 Miark wrote: would have died without ActiveState's Perl for Win32. Don't forget ssh . THE program I could honestly not live without. IMO the best program OSS has spawned, ever! -- Good luck, HarM. Want

Re: [newbie] kpdf

2007-01-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:33:44 -0500 Lee wrote: In Acroread I can shrink the page size to the size available in the printer as an option. Is there a magic way to do this with kpdf, xpdf, or... ? Dunno whether you accept the commandline as magic but: I use the following in scripts; texexec

Re: [newbie] 2007 iso

2006-11-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:28:19 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can I do to get things working?? All help appreciated. Paul Are you downloading to a vfat partition? If so, remember 4.3 G could be too big. Otherwise maybe your partition is full? -- Good luck, HarM.

Re: [newbie] LAN card not deteced when tried to install Mandriva 2007 on IBM Thinkpad T20

2006-11-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:30:00 -0700 Pranav Sanghadia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I installed Mandriva 2007 (4 CDs) on IBM T20 laptop, everthing works fine but the LAN card is not detected during installation. After the isntallation was over I tried to detect network connection from Control

Re: [newbie] Wifi and Acer Aspire 1680

2006-11-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:53:52 -0300 christophe Rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed MDV 2007 Power Pack and I have no wifi with my Acer Aspire 1680. I did all the MDV07 internet upgrades. When I try to setup a connexion as Managed the program always turns the setup as Master.

Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies

2006-11-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:24:46 -0800 Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone get libdvdcss working on a x86_64 running 2007? I have googled and searched the web and no luck. Thanks Roly Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva?

Re: [newbie] [OT]WineX Install

2006-11-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:52:37 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ironically, HL2 has been sitting--unused--on my desk for almost two months, now. (Yes, I'm a dumbass, too.) Miark Makes you almost (just barely) human, this does. ;-) -- Good luck, HarM.

[newbie] saa7134 card has no sound

2006-11-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, I've just stuck a saa7134 based TVcard in my desktop box. After taking in a few hours to find the needed module .. I eventually found it in the multimedia-kernel. Lo, it found my channels again. :-) Nice extra is that my choppy video problem disappeared using the mm-kernel, so

Re: [newbie] The Re: in subject

2006-10-31 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:40:50 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about anyone else but I am getting a lot of spam starting with Re: So I wonder if it would help to drop that on our mail list so it doesn't go into the spamdrop. Hopefully, Well in this case you could

Re: [newbie] Network access under qemu?

2006-10-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 30 October 2006 15:17, grumpypenguin wrote: tastes like chicken? like Tux. ;-) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] about bittorrent

2006-10-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 30 October 2006 22:51, JoeHill wrote: One thing they don't show there, I just noticed it myself because I flipped to tty1 to check something, and saw that Azureus was detecting certain hosts spamming me with 'keepalive' requests, and dropped them automatically. Not sure what that

Re: [newbie] torrent and encryption

2006-10-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:37, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:09:09 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: Can anyone tell me what the advantages are for using this encryption, besides the obvious (easily circumvented) anonymizer ones? In a lot

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent

2006-10-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:01, JoeHill wrote: You know I's just yankin' yer chain, eh? Nah! Ktorrent and azureus are almost identical . just installed azureus to see what you were yacking about. 196Mb install including all the java stuff, sheesh!! -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent

2006-10-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 October 2006 10:11, JoeHill wrote: You have to use Azureus (I think), but hell, it's worth the one piece of bloatware. Yep, they refuse ktorrent makes you wonder why, heh. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] about bittorrent

2006-10-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 October 2006 22:29, grumpypenguin wrote: I ran across this comparison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients Nice, thank you. :-) Azareus does indeed stand out rather well hearing Joe rubbing his grubby little hands in glee, in the backgound. -- Good

Re: [newbie] version for p3

2006-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:15, stuart bell wrote: Hi, I'll probably upset the Mandy purists but PCLinuxOS is a very good development of Mandriva. It works well on my old laptop and has a tremendous automatic downloader/installer that does away with all the newbie problems. S

Re: [newbie] version for p3

2006-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:13, stuart bell wrote: HJB, Kubuntu. I'll look for a download tomorrow (if my '8Mb' connection will run faster than 512!) Surely even I can't get in any more trouble with that any other distro. Stuart Mine doesn't do faster then 245 k/s, still no pain

[newbie] torrent and encryption

2006-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 23 October 2006 10:01, JoeHill wrote: Can KTorrent do encryption? ;) Joe was on about encryprtion and I found out ktorrent supports protocol encryption. Can anyone tell me what the advantages are for using this encryption, besides the obvious (easily circumvented) anonymizer ones?

Re: [newbie] browser redirects to spam

2006-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 27 October 2006 04:22, magnet wrote: When I pull out the eth0 cable, this all stops so there must be a script or something causing this to be pulled from the web, or triggering it. Im running 2006 if that helps anyone? it's a DNS redirect. Nothing you can do about it except

Re: [newbie] USB external hard drive

2006-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 26 October 2006 20:17, JoeHill wrote: including installing a newer kernel, and finding that it had rewritten LILO so that the only entries were for the SOS kernel, leaving me with very few easy options at the time Now that sounds like a top PEBCAK case to me. -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] browser redirects to spam

2006-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 26 October 2006 21:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could really use some help as I cannot identify how this has infiltrated my system, what is causing it, and what else it might now be sending/receiving from here. Those are web based redirects not local ones. If I enter fhfhfh I

Re: Possible SPAM (2): Re: [newbie] USB external hard drive

2006-10-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 26 October 2006 22:13, Owen Berio wrote: Thanks Ian, This is what I found in the desktop Devices folder Devices / Konqueror CD-Rom (hdc) CD-Rom (hdd)   Floppy (fd0) Local Network Network Samba Shares Kooka Cannon Inc. Kooka Cannon Inc. try disconnecting and rhen

Re: [newbie] Locale nix'd after glibc update, anyone ?

2006-10-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 05:42, Charles A Edwards wrote: good idea I had a nice greasy meal so I'm about in the mood for a good hurl and you'd make the perfect repository ;)     Charles Don't!! Joe just loves getting clobbered. He does that for kicks. Anyway, a few more days of the

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent

2006-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 23 October 2006 06:13, Paul wrote: hi everyone, Has anyone gotten Bittorrent to work in Linux? I installed the latest RPM, but get this message when I run it: A BitTorrent package for the wrong version of Python is installed on this system. The default version of Python

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent

2006-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 23 October 2006 10:01, JoeHill wrote: Can KTorrent do encryption? ;) LOL wierdo!! ;-D It does save in encrypted partitions if need be. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to

[newbie] wpa encryption on ralink card

2006-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, I've got an Asus card with a ralink chip on it. Mandy 2007 configures it fne as ra0, using the rt2500 module. I just can't get my shared key accepted. Googled around and found references to raconfig which has apparently become RutilT but neither are anywhere to be found as mdv.rpm.

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent

2006-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 23 October 2006 19:09, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:57:05 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: LOL wierdo!! ;-D Sorry, I know, I promised I would stop with the anti-K thing... But in all seriousness, I didn't bother with encryption

Re: [newbie] wpa encryption on ralink card

2006-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 00:45, bascule wrote: last time i played with wpa_supplicant it didn't support the ralink chip directly but via ndiswrapper, wpa_supplicant had to be compiled with support for ndiswrapper (i beleive the mandriva version is comiled for all supported chipsets) and an

Re: [newbie] wpa encryption on ralink card

2006-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:33, bascule wrote: i'm surprised at that because the wpa_supplicant site specifically mentions: Supported wireless cards/drivers Linux drivers that support Linux Wireless Extensions v19 or newer with WPA/WPA2 extensions Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3 (WPA

Re: [newbie] System Insanely Slow with Composite Extension

2006-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 22 October 2006 18:55, JoeHill wrote: Anyone? Tap tap, is this thing on? LOL! I got ATI hardware wadyathink? Anyway I don't like proprietary modules in the first place. Look in yer archives you'll find a post by civileme why not to trust 'em near your kernel. He always had a way

Re: [newbie] Installation: always reboot after click Installation

2006-10-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 21 October 2006 13:48, ET wrote: next time, burn the disks at about x4 speed. my bet is the problem is more from well worn cd reader or writer drive spindle wear and the difference between the 2 (reader and writer drives). I agree with Harm, if you had moved the CD reader that

Re: [newbie] Installation: always reboot after click Installation

2006-10-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 21 October 2006 17:59, ET wrote: I gotta agree, but I might offer the boot.iso for whatever arch. saves downloading a whole slew of files you will never use. have you tried that yet? about a 13 meg download, starts the installer, then ftp install from the mirrors of your

Re: [newbie] Installation: always reboot after click Installation

2006-10-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 20 October 2006 17:47, Dennis Myers wrote: I can not really be more specific. I have had a problem installing and then finally redownloaded the iso and reburned my disks and been good to go.  It is weird and I have no explanation. I have not been successful with the 2007 DVDs

Re: [newbie] Installation: always reboot after click Installation

2006-10-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 20 October 2006 22:39, Muhamad A. Martoprawiro wrote: Solved! Thanks all Let me summarize THE PROBLEM: Everytime I tried to install Mandriva 2007.0 from CD, and click Installation, the computer reboot, and this occured again and again. I've tried to add: pci=nomsi

Re: [newbie] Problem during install of Mandriva 2007

2006-10-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 October 2006 05:31, Phil Savoie wrote: Well, I am glad I am not the only one that is getting the seg fault/'memory errors.   If it's any help I have went to the vendors web page of my pc's and have downloaded their diagnostics software and ran it on all my 3 pc's .  Not a

Re: [newbie] Success story: Capturing DV over Firewire

2006-10-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 October 2006 01:02, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: don't have a website to make them available on. As is, where is 8^). As Anne would say: Why not put it on the wiki? The text is very clear as is and could help those with a similar problem. -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-10-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 October 2006 11:29, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: built in ATI radion 200 M2007 will select a different driver every time most of which are promptly out of range If in doubt use the framebuffer driver after which you at least have an X-server running. XOrg's own generic ATI

Re: [newbie] Iso image

2006-10-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 October 2006 11:34, stuart bell wrote: Hi, Yes it's an LXF dvd. I want to take just the PCLinuxOS from the dvd and create a cd to install on my laptop. Yep, I remeber that one but haven't got it on hand here. IIRC there was a prob with the jigdo scripts i.e. that some files

Re: [newbie] 2007 x86-64 DVD

2006-10-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 05:06, Dennis Myers wrote: Wondering if anyone has been able to get this to install? I have tried 3 different mirrors and all md5sums are correct but it hangs on loading to ramdisk. The system is AMD Sempron 2800 with 1gig of ram and a 256mb video card, NVidia

Re: [newbie] Kmail passwords

2006-10-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 05:18, Dennis Myers wrote: Here is another 2007 problem, on my main comp kmail asks for the passwords to each of my three email accounts every time I pull up Kmail. I have used the store passwords in the kmail config gui and also when it asks for the passwords at

Re: [newbie] 2007 dual boot installation

2006-10-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 09 October 2006 03:19, Richard Denton wrote: Can I install 2007 but keep 2006 (it works...) and choose which to boot from? I've got 2 hard drives and can set up a new partition for 2007 to go in but I'm not quite sure exactly how it should work. Any help would be good,

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

2006-09-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 September 2006 07:05 pm, stuart bell wrote: This is the company website http://www.c-map.com/ I would very grateful if someone could come up with a bright idea as I really don't want to have to sail with M$oft again. Stuart Well there was a DOS version before the

Re: [newbie] Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2

2006-05-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 06:43 pm, Neill Jones wrote: Mmm interesting. Works fine on mine. I did the following test touch a file with spaces.txt touch another file with spaces.txt then ran find . -iname *.txt which resulted in ./a file with spaces.txt ./another file with

Re: [newbie] a test --Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2

2006-05-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 25 May 2006 10:06 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 24 May 2006 06:43 pm, Neill Jones wrote: Just testing as I' seeing my own posts double . (yes, I'm definitely sober; ;-) ) I noticed that the other post had these headers as an extra layer: Received: from

[newbie] test ---again for double posts

2006-05-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
The subject says it all. -- Geluk, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2

2006-05-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 03:29 pm, Neill Jones wrote: Just for info and clarity: A minor extra to H.J.Bathoorns post ... in the above, it is not the -iname which causes problems with the spaces, it is the use of xargs. For example, find . | grep filename works as pointed out by

Re: [newbie] oowriter2

2006-05-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:20 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Exciting stuff, but oo2 is still a dead puppy. sigh try running it with the --debugger flag thus: ooo-wrapper --debugger and see if that gives helpfull output if it indeed has that flag. I'm still a bit leery of you only having the wrapper

Re: [newbie] Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2

2006-05-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 11:50 am, Neill Jones wrote: find . -iname *.* -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i searchitem Yep, that's the sledgehammer. ;-) Isn't the CML effective? I love this OS. :-) Now to get this integrated into a kommander widget so's the wife can use it too. -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2

2006-05-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 12:24 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: Where I seem to pick up problems with find on its own is when a file name contains a single quote '. played around a bit and found it's the -iname flag that loses the space_files, not xargs. A simple find . | grep -i pattern does find

Re: [newbie] Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2

2006-05-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:54 pm, Neill Jones wrote: Yes and no. The version I gave was for scanning inside the files for the pattern I sort of gathered that; ;-) - yours is for finding the pattern amongst the file names themselves. Different job, different solution :-) IMHO I don't

Re: [newbie] 64 bit?

2006-05-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 19 May 2006 04:47 pm, Tango Echo wrote: 3) Any other thoughts you guys would like to add on the subject would be greatly appreciated. Just moved over to 64 bit. an AMD opteron on an Asus MB no onboard video but a Radeon PCI card. No real problems found nor can I see/feel any

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall Mandriva

2006-05-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 May 2006 05:59 pm, SigSolutions, Inc. wrote: Load mandriva and the disk spins and spins and spins .. the wireless doesn't work .. and haven't even taken the time to look at other stuff .. but boy you can type on it G Next time use a live distrib like mandriva-one or Ubuntu or

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall Mandriva

2006-05-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 May 2006 08:04 pm, JoeHill wrote: Charles! Holy Shite, dood, we thought you'd dropped off the face of the Earth! Maybe he did and we've just all fallen over to his side, now. ;-) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] oowriter2

2006-05-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 May 2006 10:05 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: If you ever need to find the executables Just open a console (or xterm) and type in the first few characters and hit TAB for auto-completion. In this case just oo and then TAB would do. To get the complete path: which oowriter or whatever

Re: [newbie] Bloated .thumbnail directory

2006-05-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 18 May 2006 01:48 am, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I'm running Mandriva 2006 and have noticed a new problem: my .thumbnail folder off of /home has bloated to the size of over 45 GB!! I use Digikam, but highly doubt that I have *that* many pictures. Reviewing some of the

Re: [newbie] Bloated .thumbnail directory

2006-05-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 18 May 2006 01:42 pm, Paul wrote: It's to do with icon previews enabled in konq. Also with the previews generated by the Gimp. Paul As with sound, video and pdf previews . it's a lot of bloat and considering the power of the average PC this might be handled a little

Re: [newbie]Mandriva 2006 rebooting problems

2006-04-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 28 April 2006 01:55 pm, Roy, Ansuman wrote: Hi, I have installed mandriva 2006 x86_64. My motherboard is intel d101ggc with Sata hard drive with intel processor of 2.8 Ghz. Now when I shutdown from KDE it happens normally but when I try to reboot from the KDE, the term signals

Re: [newbie] GPS software

2006-04-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 28 April 2006 03:50 pm, Rosa wrote: Hi all Can anyone recommend a GPS package that will work with my Garmin Etrex. I am currently using a Windows based package but want to move it to Linux. (I need to be able to print routes). Thanks. gpsdrive ... is the only one at the

Re: [newbie] USB drive.

2006-03-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 08:27 am, ayoub890 wrote: I see the USB drive in Konqueror but not in the devices folder on my desktop (I am using KDE). Is there a problem with my setup? sounds more like a problem initializing your device. Sometimes removing and re-inserting the device helps.

Re: [newbie] USB drive.

2006-03-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 27 March 2006 01:49 am, ayoub890 wrote: Hi, I have a USB drive plugged into mdk2006. I want to plug it out. How do I tell linux to let go of it? Go into the devices folder on your Desktop, select removable with a right-click and choose safely remove in the pop-up menu. After

Re: [newbie] News: Mandrake Linux Founder Fired

2006-03-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 March 2006 06:27 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Damn, I have been here since the 6.X days and hate to see this happen. I sub'd to ULTEO and will watch that but I guess PCLINUXOS  it is, or SUSE not sure just now. My VIP membership only has 4 months left unless they cancel it. Dennis M.

Re: [newbie] News: Mandrake Linux Founder Fired

2006-03-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 March 2006 09:49 am, Scara wrote: I just wanted to do this clarification because it's finally boring the read comments from people that don't really know what is happening. It's not about Gael being fired but about how a business has to be run to be profitable. Laying off

Re: [newbie] News: Mandrake Linux Founder Fired

2006-03-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 March 2006 01:14 pm, Paul wrote: Me I'm not interested in financially supporting just another Distro vendor along the lines of RH and Novell. I think I am going to testdrive Ubuntu and OpenSuse on a spare disk... I don't seen any difference between OpenSuse, Fedora and the

Re: [newbie] Unable to create files on usb external drive

2006-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 16 March 2006 11:43 am, Peter Vollebregt wrote: SnapafunFrank schreef: Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, I seem to have a problem creating files as a normal user on the ext drive. My /etc/fstab has this entry in it: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removableext3

Re: [newbie] News: Mandrake Linux Founder Fired

2006-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 04:17 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3591621 Usually this is a sign that the financial and/or marketing people have wrested control of the company from the techie founder(s). Often a bad sign for the long term health

Re: [newbie] CD's do not automount

2006-03-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 10:12 pm, JoeHill wrote: But from the CLI, I cd to /mnt/cdrom and...nothing. Yeah, removing KDE tends to do that for you ;-) Haven't found (or actually searched) for a CML option as mount /mnt/cdrom and eject cdrom (or umount /mnt/cdrom) do the trick quite well.

Re: [newbie] Connecting a new display

2006-03-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 06 March 2006 02:00 am, JoeHill wrote: I think it's worse than that. I just plugged it in, not connected to the comp at all, like I say, I can't even get the display's onboard menu's to come up :-\ Not sure if the OSD menu can come up when it's not connected to a comp. Mine

Re: [newbie] Connecting a new display

2006-03-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 06 March 2006 10:26 pm, JoeHill wrote: Went and exchanged the new display, just selected generic FP display and set the res and refresh. We'll see. So far it's lasted 4 hours longer than the last one :-))) Crossing my fingers for ya. ;-) -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] Connecting a new display

2006-03-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 05 March 2006 05:11 pm, JoeHill wrote: One question popped into my head about the getting a new LCD display issue. I'm assuming I can just quit X, connect the new monitor, then run XFdrake to configure? Surely I don't have to shut down my machine or reboot! LOL! Well be sure

Re: [newbie] Connecting a new display

2006-03-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 05 March 2006 11:46 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:09:44 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: Surely I don't have to shut down my machine or reboot! LOL! Well be sure not to fumble too much when you insert the thing, you might

Re: [newbie] DVD Authoring

2006-03-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 04 March 2006 00:22, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:57:44 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: Had some fine results with converting wmv files tho. ;-) What wmv files would you want to burn to DVD?? A guy here overhere in my town used

Re: [newbie] DVD Authoring

2006-03-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 03 March 2006 15:38, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Did you, or anyone, ever see something on how to convert a regular mpeg file into a DVD-mpeg file? I used to think an mpeg was an mpeg, but I discovered that's not so. DVDs require special control info to be scattered through the mpeg.

Re: [newbie] DVD Authoring

2006-03-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 03 March 2006 21:27, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Hmm, I have plf sources configured, but urpmi tovid gives me no such package, and urpmf tovid returns nothing. Perhaps it's only available for 2006? I'm still on 10.1. I guess I'll have to bite the bullet one day soon and upgrade again.

Re: [newbie] DVD Authoring

2006-03-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 03 March 2006 23:17, JoeHill wrote: Wow, that's way cool. So, IIUC it automagically outputs an MPEG that can be burned to DVD using growisofs? It should, but I'm getting different results every now and then and I'm not sure whiy. must be my settings or a wrong flag. Admittedly I

Re: [newbie] [OT] LCD Displays...Acer?

2006-03-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 March 2006 05:01, JoeHill wrote: Hmmm, that's the funny thing. The screen blanks after 10 minutes, as per xscreensaver. When it comes back up, the text is crisp as a winter mornin', but after about 5 or 10 minutes it starts to get blurry. I wonder if it's the age of the

Re: GPG Sig (Again) WAS- [newbie] Working wireless music?

2006-02-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:24, Bill Mudry wrote: Would people please at least start their subject line with (newbie), even if you want to rename the subject. It is bad netiquette not to. At least that way when I sort by Subject for all mail coming from this list, all the messages

Re: [newbie] Resize partitions...

2006-02-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 February 2006 09:17, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Hello, I have Mandriva 2006 partitioned default at the installation time (/, swap, /home). I would like to enlarge the / partition. This means to move the swap and /home's start. How could I do it safely? The safest way, if you

Re: [newbie] test

2006-02-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 February 2006 23:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Absolutely a great time. Civileme is one of the best. :-) Yeah, isn't it a drag that mandriva has come along so well. Hardly any bugs or stupid mistakes (well uhmmm, aside from kat and a few more) that needed fixing. We'll be remembering

Re: [newbie] test

2006-02-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 February 2006 23:30, ET wrote: I think Till may still be around on cooker... Prolly, . and I think he's on the german lists as well, still. Haven't visited either cooker or other languages (not even dutch) in a long time. -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] From the 'Tips Tricks' department,...

2006-02-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 20:52, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:15:48 +0200 Duncan Anderson got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: I have found that one may experience a smoother transition from a given release of an OS to a later release by backing up the config files

Re: [newbie] Memorex Traveldrive

2006-02-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 05 February 2006 20:00, Paul wrote:   do device=`ls --full-time | grep $datum|awk '{print $9}'` Paul, I must be getting dense what's this line supposed to do? -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Memorex Traveldrive

2006-02-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:13, Paul wrote: Before the 'do device' is executed, a cd to /mnt is done. That's where I went wrong missed the cd /mnt , hence didn't savvy what the use of ls was nor the connection to date. Thanks for the explaination. -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 files

2006-02-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 04 February 2006 06:51, deedee E wrote: Hi all, I have an MP3 file that I would like to put on a 60-minute audio cassette and play from a regular cassette player. I have a CD player that will let me record an audio cassette from a CD. My question is what format does the MP3

Re: [newbie] Cron type of activity

2006-01-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 09 January 2006 10:27, Duncan Anderson wrote: David wrote: Periodically, I have the system basically lock up with massive disk activity at odd times. I have checked Cron, Crond, and have un-installed Kat. Cron, Crond, doesn't have anything scheduled at all. What else would I

Re: [newbie] Sorry

2006-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 09 January 2006 01:09, JoeHill wrote: It's *not* funny to impersonate someone, in fact it's against the law, especially for the slanderous purposes it has been put to. This is *not* 'zinging Joe' anymore. This is seriously fucked up, and it has to stop. I'm not sure I follow this.

Re: [newbie] Sorry

2006-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 09 January 2006 01:50, ET wrote: THANK YOU sir Anytime, just holler. You know that. ;-) you made my entire week, I am  blushing and had to take off my baseball cap because my head is swelling... but this really does belong on the OT list now... Yup, you're very right

Re: [newbie] 1 linux 2 users,how discreet can it be..

2006-01-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 06 January 2006 23:38, Margot wrote: Should we start a fan club for him? ;-) Nah, It'll go to his head and he'll hurt himself; ;-) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com

Re: [newbie] 1 linux 2 users,how discreet can it be..

2006-01-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 05 January 2006 23:08, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:42, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Let me see if I understand you correctly. You want to know how to hide from your boss the fact that you are stealing from him by using company resources to visit porn

Re: [newbie] 1 linux 2 users,how discreet can it be..

2006-01-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 06 January 2006 00:11, Aron Smith wrote: That you JoePill ? You be the nicest big bastard on this list since long. ;-) Wish I thought of that one. C'mon Joe: Give him hell!! Have some fun in 2006. -- Good luck, HarM Want to

Re: [newbie] 1 linux 2 users,how discreet can it be..

2006-01-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 06 January 2006 01:17, ET wrote: you know, I remember Joes first post, and it was an awful lot like this one... Yeah, before that he was haywire. ;-) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to

Re: [newbie] Gimp running away

2005-11-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 14 November 2005 02:36, Aron Smith wrote: has anyone else had the problem of gimp suddenly using 80 to 90% of your cpu time. wasn't doing anything special just editing 1 small 800x 400 image They say Joe's been having a creative spell and using the gimp intensively lately. From what

Re: [newbie] Kmail notification

2005-11-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 13 November 2005 14:43, M.Schild wrote: On my ´old Kmail , I used to get a notice on how many messages were going to be downloaded and their weight. This new version 4.3.2 doesn´t do it or I haven´t found out how to cinfigure it. Any way of finding out? I like to destroy heavy

Re: [newbie] Windows for school was: (Watch out for Slow keys)

2005-11-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 11 November 2005 00:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 11 November 2005 00:03, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2005 23:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: That is precisely why every daughter, wife, guest and cat has an individual user account on my box.  Forgetting to log out

Re: [newbie] Windows for school was: (Watch out for Slow keys)

2005-11-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 11 November 2005 09:35, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 11 November 2005 09:15, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snip They do get some sort of computer lessons but they're all in Dutch and using windows. Admittedly most of the info they've gotten during those lessons is fairly OS independant

Re: [newbie] [OT] Weird Headers in Spam

2005-11-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 11 November 2005 19:04, JoeHill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for newbie@mandrivalinux.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:45:31 -0500 Received: from node1.freeyourmachine.org (unknown [192.168.0.4]) ah, so no reason to be paranoid. Thanks to all who replied! Ya, mean that was all? I thought

Re: [newbie] Watch out for Slow keys

2005-11-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 10 November 2005 23:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: That is precisely why every daughter, wife, guest and cat has an individual user account on my box.  Forgetting to log out is a capital crime here.. ;-) And that again was the reason everyone got his/her own laptop here. It just got too

Re: [newbie] Linux - Spyware

2005-11-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:43, rikona wrote: Also, privoxy comes with only a few names. If you're serious about protecting your privacy, you might want to check out a good privacy-oriented hosts file. You might be surprised how many snoopers are trying to track you. Check out mvps.org.

Re: [newbie] Linux - Spyware

2005-11-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 21:35, rikona wrote: As a test, go to ebay, and you should see some doubleclick ads blocked [there will be a note on the screen for each one.] Nice, very nice. :-) Had to go to some trouble finding doubleclicks, though. E-bay was a good one. -- Good luck, HarM

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