Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 April 2005 23:14, Tim wrote: Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 08 April 2005 01:14, Rafa Kamraj wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move Well, maybe there is a method in this madness. Anyone knew anything about thouse

Re: [newbie] kernel with support for sata raid

2005-04-06 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:49, Isak Lyberth wrote: i have a Fujitsu-siemens server (primergy Econel 50) with a Intel fw82801fr chipset, that supports some raid settings. I have seen on a debian install that it worked with a 3ware driver, but couldn't get it to work with this on mandrake.

Re: [newbie] To su or not to su

2005-04-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:57, Robert Yu wrote: If I try to install a WIndows program with Wine, should I su to root before doing so? NO Read the documentation at http://www.winehq.org to learn how to install Windows programs. http://www.frankscorner.org/ can help you get some specific

Re: [newbie] KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent re-install I had been using the graphical login page, and I noted that it would not retain the faces

Re: [newbie] Re: KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 13:59, Russell Butler wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent re-install I had been using

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 23:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles Ctl+Alt+F1 only moves you

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 20:40, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select Thanks in advance, Paul Put the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:24, Isak Lyberth wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:21, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:25 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select To always skip it, enter the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list.

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 02 April 2005 14:49, Philippe Landau wrote: Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, and how to disable their snooping system: http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html kind

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:13, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:50, Derek Jennings wrote: It seems that by disabling Javascript in acroread and applying this patch we can stop acroread spying on us. Of course a better solution is to stop using acroread. I tried out

Re: [newbie] Where is the DrWeb Antivirus Directory in Mandrakelinux 10.0

2005-04-01 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 01 April 2005 22:33, Edward Rochon wrote: I receive update files from DrWeb. I am supposed to add them to their directory but cannot find it. The Search option cannot find DrWeb on the disk. I have mailed DrWeb without any answer. I am unable to use Mandrake Expert. Am I supposed to

Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner

2005-03-31 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:36, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005

Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner

2005-03-31 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:09, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 02:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic

Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner

2005-03-30 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone

Re: [newbie] xmms and sound

2005-03-29 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 00:44, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:27 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Any ideas why I can't get any sound out of xmms but realplayer, totem, and the system sounds work fine? TIA Paul Have you tried resetting it to the arts output plugin? or one of

Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem

2005-03-29 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 02:32, Tim wrote: Hello all, My 10.1 system has developed a strange problem. I have to set up a new modem connection every time i reboot, it just seems to forget that i set one up, but if i go into Manage connections its there but i can't do anything with it.

Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files

2005-03-26 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio file formats? TIA Paul Grip is best if you want to rip

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 13:58, Simon wrote: I am running the following cron job: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 I get the following message : Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 .. /bin/sh: line 1:

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:38, Simon wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:15, Derek Jennings wrote: Try /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | /bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 If that does not work check the mail package is installed. Derek I tried that but it failed with : /bin/sh

Re: [newbie] LDAP server

2005-03-26 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:25, Anthony Brooks wrote: I'm trying to setup a LDAP server. I've installed the server package and phpLDAPAdmin but I have no clue on what I'm doing. I've googled and looked at faq's but I was just wondering if there is an easy tutorial somewhere that I could look

Re: [newbie] changing host/user name???

2005-03-26 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 16:20, Simon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ how do I change the above to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of my mac?? address? Simon. MandrakeControlCentreNetworkInternet to set a hostname If you did not set your MAC address as the hostname yourself,

Re: [newbie] configuring advx (apache) on Mandrake

2005-03-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 March 2005 02:45, Joe wrote: Dear all, is there anyway i can configure ADVX on Mandrake easily without going through it's many conf files and without using webmin? is there a gui based, wizard based or something??? i have a problem setting up vitual host (name host not ip

Re: [newbie] VNC Server startup script

2005-03-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 March 2005 13:34, DAN WALKER wrote: My vnc server now sort of works! I set the password, edited hosts.allow and my pc side now asks me for a password and presents me with a red screen. The problem I have is that it looks as though it has nothing to do when it opens the window. It

Re: [newbie] VNC Server startup script

2005-03-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 March 2005 14:51, DAN WALKER wrote: I did as you have suggested but I am still getting nowhere... This is what my xstartup now says (so you can trust I have done it right): #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc startkde You

Re: [newbie] VNC Server startup script

2005-03-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 March 2005 15:07, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 14:51, DAN WALKER wrote: I did as you have suggested but I am still getting nowhere... This is what my xstartup now says (so you can trust I have done it right): #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session

Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1

2005-03-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 March 2005 08:42, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a package manager for 10.1 that allows me to look inside the rpm file to view folders and files. I liked kpackage in the older versions but I can't find it's equivalent. tia, Bill W. kpackage is still available.

Re: [newbie] Getting packages...

2005-03-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 March 2005 08:52, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, I have a system running Mandrake 10.1. I tried installing samba 3.0.11 on the system, but it failed as follows: # urpmi samba samba-3.0.11-1.i386.rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: samba-3.0.11-1.i386 (due to

Re: [newbie] Getting packages...

2005-03-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:51, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hello Derek, Could you please point me to the update server from where I could pull down the samba kit? Thanks, Madhu SNIP It is on all the update servers. All you have to do is define an update urpmi source and then run the Software

Re: [newbie] Getting packages...

2005-03-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 March 2005 11:00, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hello, I downloaded the samba source RPM, and when I tried to install it on my system, it resulted in an error: # rpm -i samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 26752624 error:

Re: [newbie] Getting packages...

2005-03-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: First you should be installing as a user not root. Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has the right to install or delete (system) software

Re: [newbie] Getting packages...

2005-03-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:04, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, Second you must have the directory structure defined in your /home as described in that link I gave you. Sorry, but I didn't quite get this. Thanks, Madhu I gave you the link

Re: [newbie] SCSI module change from 2.6 to 2.4

2005-03-23 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:38, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hi , Is it possible to successfully change the kernel on Mandrake 10.1 64 bit from 2.6 to 2.4. I do know that 2.4 modules run my scanner whereas the 2.6 will not run module dmx3191d. Is there a downside to doing this. Thank you

Re: [newbie] Fixing an application--?

2005-03-21 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 21 March 2005 06:02, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, all. Wasn't sure how to title this post, as I've never run into this situation before. The application in question is Bookcase (v.0.6.6-1; I believe the applciation is now called something else). It's kind of a specialized thing, so I'm

Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-21 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 21 March 2005 18:10, Christopher Taylor wrote: I am debating whether or not to upgrade to the 10.2 beta. Primarily the updates in KDE are appealing and some of the others as well. I know that I can get the iso's via bittorrent. Once burnt, how do I go about doing the upgrade? My

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-21 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 21 March 2005 22:31, SOTL wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:42, SOTL wrote: Hi All I have created a partition on one of my computer to store critical system data files called /System_Data. I am trying

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Move question...

2005-03-21 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:09, SigmaX wrote: Hey; I'm headed on a 5-week vacation next month, and downloaded Mandrake Move this weekend to see what it'd do for me. I think it's coolio, and I have a little 64MB USB pendrive, that it mounts automatically under /mnt/windows of all

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:36, Robert T. Yu wrote: Since urpmi has a feature to keep updated packages in a cache directory for later, does RPMDrake adopt this feature as well? Thank you. Yes Put the text no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never remember) on a line between the first set

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. If you open MandrakeControlCentreHardwareScanners and select 'Add a

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 10:52, Robert T. Yu wrote: Yes Put the text no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never remember) on a line between the first set of {}in the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg You mean typing (--noclean) like so? No I mean what I said. Edit the file

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:26, Robert T. Yu wrote: Thank you for the answer and I hope I am not overstaying my welcome. If I were to do something like configuring Samba shares, do I have to login or SU as root? I figure that because I need to alter the smb.conf file. Once you have su'd to

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:53, Robert T. Yu wrote: Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? No Logging in as root is never necessary. Mandrake goes out of its way to make logging in as root as difficult and

Re: [newbie] networking two mandrake 10.1 PC systems

2005-03-17 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:29, Carlton Matthew wrote: I have two PCs sharing the same internet router, which I would like to network together. Both PCs are running mandrake 10.1, but I can't seem to make any network connections. Do I need to install something like samba on both machines?

Re: [newbie] printer recognition.

2005-03-17 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:25, Carlton Matthew wrote: I have a HP laserjet 4 printer attached directly to the parallel port of my PC, Runing windows XP, the printer operates correctly. Mandrake 10.1 fails to locate the printer at all. any ideas? Thanks in advance Carlton Laserjet 4 is

Re: [newbie] Enlarging / partition

2005-03-15 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 13 March 2005 21:18, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How can I enlarge the / partition? Thanks in advance, Paul diskdrake in MandrakeControlCentreMountPointsPartitions can resize a Linux partition, but that assumes that you have contiguous free space available on your drive at the

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-15 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:42, SOTL wrote: Hi All I have created a partition on one of my computer to store critical system data files called /mnt/System_Data. I am trying to configure MySQL so that it will use /mnt/System_Data as its default file storage. I looked for /etc/my.cnf;

Re: [newbie] --noclean

2005-03-15 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 05:38, Julie Sloan wrote: how would I go about making the --noclean option default for urpmi'ing, so I don't have to remember to add it each time I d/l a program? ty In /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg add the line noclean between the first set of {} (or is it no-clean ?) derek

Re: [newbie] Enlarging / partition

2005-03-15 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:40, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:01:31 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I enlarge the / partition? diskdrake in MandrakeControlCentreMountPointsPartitions can resize a Linux partition, but that assumes that you have

Re: [newbie] /etc/hosts

2005-03-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 13 March 2005 05:53, SnapafunFrank wrote: Some time ago I got this working OK and only recently discovered that the /etc/hosts file has been re-written ~ possible still more stuff left over from the corruption of my .ICEauthority. Here's what I posted to assist someone at the time

Re: [newbie] devfs and udev

2005-03-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 13 March 2005 03:13, SnapafunFrank wrote: I understand that devfs and udev ought not be running at the same time, but how do I stop devfs ? Within MCC I have stopped devfsd and unchecked it re boot up at start up, but still it runs. Question: I'm not even sure if devfsd and devfs

Re: [newbie] Can't find win32-codecs

2005-03-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could someone please tell me where can I find win32-codecs? I have tried several plf mirrors but with no success. Thanks in advance, Paul PLF has split into 'free' and 'nonfree' sections. (nonfree as in subject to patents or

Re: [newbie] Permissions

2005-03-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 13 March 2005 15:46, SOTL wrote: Hi All Little bit by little bit this system is beginning to work. As some of you may recall I set this box up with a data storage partation of /mnt/System_Data. From a operation perspective I have found that using a separate partition for data

Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode

2005-03-10 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 10 March 2005 03:16, Amy wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:58:43 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command modinfo 3c59x lists the options for that driver, and we can refer to this page for a description http://www.scyld.com/vortex.html To force this driver

Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode

2005-03-10 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:57, Amy wrote: SNIP Part of the reason I left windows was to avoid stupid things like restarting my computer. Ug. That and I liked that my computer doesn't go funny on me just because it's been on for hours and/or days at a time. I ended up getting help from a

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent setup

2005-03-10 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 10 March 2005 14:03, Christopher Taylor wrote: Some of the sites that I am looking at only have downloads via bittorent. Can someone explain what this is and how it is setup? Thanks. Bittorrent is a peer2peer file transfer protocol that is especially good for big files such as iso

Re: [newbie] E mail server

2005-03-10 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 10 March 2005 19:06, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello folks, I'm installing a web server, apache, and nowadays its running quite well. The next step is to provide full email service for those domains (nowaday we have two, zeti.net and kendersoftware.net). I've been

Re: [newbie] xmms

2005-03-09 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:00, Gica wrote: hi, I'm trying to install xmms for mandrake 9.2 in kde, but I have this error message. Can somebody told me what's wrong and what do I have to do? thanks Gica At a guess I would say you need to install gcc-c++ I assume there is a reason why you

Re: [newbie] Strange occurance with Firefox install

2005-03-09 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. Before I did I backed up my home folder onto CD. After re-installing, I installed firefox and thunderbird with urpmi. I also restored the home folder from the CD.

Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install

2005-03-09 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 07 March 2005 10:53, Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the

Re: [newbie] Strange occurance with Firefox install

2005-03-09 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:53, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:12:17 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. Before I did I backed

Re: [newbie] xmms

2005-03-09 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:39, Gica wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:23 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:00, Gica wrote: hi, I'm trying to install xmms for mandrake 9.2 in kde, but I have this error message. Can somebody told me what's wrong and what do I

Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode

2005-03-09 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:03, Amy wrote: Hey guys! I noticed recently that my linksys router isn't showing the connection between my computer and the router as being functional in full duplex mode. This occurred after last friday when my Dad was having a new heater and air conditioning

Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode

2005-03-09 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:45, Amy wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:34:13 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selection of half/full duplex is autodetected by the card itself. If it was working before, and now it isnt, then that would suggest something physical, a dodgy

Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode

2005-03-09 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 10 March 2005 00:26, Amy wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:55:30 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:45, Amy wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:34:13 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selection of half/full duplex

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-03-08 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:27, SOTL wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 19:05, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 22:21, SOTL wrote: Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do

Re: [newbie] Networking - OpenOffice

2005-03-08 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:02, SOTL wrote: Hi All Well the positive news is that I am able to connect the two computers and transfer files by fish even though I am unable to log off the computer I am SSH into without rebooting that computer so I have fish working with a slight issues.

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:44, Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled

Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install

2005-03-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 07 March 2005 10:53, Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the

Re: [newbie] Script for iptables

2005-03-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 07 March 2005 11:09, Dennis wrote: How do I create a script for iptables? You can google for one. But is not the sort of thing a newbie needs to do. There are perfectly good front ends for iptables such as the shorewall firewall built into Mandrake that makes writing your own

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-03-07 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 07 March 2005 22:21, SOTL wrote: Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log of fish's connection to the other computer. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this?

Re: [newbie] Problems with Ipw2200 BG

2005-03-06 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 06 March 2005 18:23, Henriette Holm wrote: Hi. You've probably all seen a question like this before, but here goes I have a laptop running MDK 10.1. I'm trying to get my wireless adapter to work. I've been looking through different mailing lists, forums etc. but what I really

Re: [newbie] workgroup

2005-03-06 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 06 March 2005 20:11, Michel Leunen wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: You don't Linux does not use workgroups. I assume that you are running Samba somehow, as Samba uses workgroup names to meet Windows networking conventions. The default samba workgroup is 'mdkgroup',that's what I

Re: [newbie] Problems with Ipw2200 BG

2005-03-06 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 06 March 2005 22:49, Julie Sloan wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 03:35 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: download the correct .tar.gz file To uncompress the file just click on it with konqueror. You will need to be root user to do that so open up a root copy of konqueror with Alt+F2

Re: [newbie] CD sound

2005-03-06 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 07 March 2005 00:03, Teilhard Knight wrote: The wiring is OK in the three computers. I can listen to CD music in other OSs. Teilhard That is not proof the wiring is OK Windows does not need the analogue cable since it reads audio CDs using the IDE interface. So to save money

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:23, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:25:53 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:04, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: SNIP Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 20:30, rikona wrote: Hello Derek, Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:29:09 AM, Derek wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up

Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices

2005-03-04 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 23:07, Paul Kaplan wrote: Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for replacement applications

2005-03-03 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:04, hackhound wrote: I am slowing making the transition from W2K to Linux. Two of the applications that I miss the most are MS Money and Macromedia Dreamweaver. I am looking for a good Linux alternative. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, JB Both

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for replacement applications

2005-03-03 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:50, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:04, hackhound wrote: I am slowing making the transition from W2K to Linux. Two of the applications that I miss the most are MS Money and Macromedia Dreamweaver. I am looking for a good Linux alternative

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2005-03-03 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:33, Phlod wrote: Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. After searching through the list archive, I couldn't find an answer to my question, so I

Re: [newbie] Setting up virtual IP address

2005-03-02 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 04:18, Antony Paul wrote: Hi all, I need to have multiple IP address for the same ethernet card for development purposes in MDK 10.1. I was unable to set up it using the Configure application. SO I googled and learned how to do it manually. I added following

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:51, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 22:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek

Re: [newbie] postifx not receiving outside mail

2005-02-26 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 February 2005 21:44, hackhound wrote: Okay, I have postfix installed and configured (I think correctly). I can send email between local users, and out to the world, but I cannot receive any messages. I have ports 25 and 110 open on my firewall (router). I am stumped about

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-02-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 February 2005 12:37, SOTL wrote: I doubt very much if your hub is directly connected to the internet. You mean it connects to a DSL modem or router? Both computers seem to work, so they must both have IP addresses, and something is performing NAT (Network Address Translation)

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-02-25 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 February 2005 15:58, SOTL wrote: SNIP I can NOT find kio_fish when I check for installed package or for packages that I have NOT installed yet. I am thus assuming that this package was not included with Mandrake 10.1 or that I am not searching for the correct package. Before I

Re: [newbie] connecting to another computer

2005-02-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:38, Jose Rafael Carrero Leon wrote: Hello ! I installed 10.1 for a friend and it would be wonderful if I could access his computer from here because he lives very far. How could I do that ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques Use SSH, you must be an user in

Re: [newbie] Installing PHP

2005-02-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 February 2005 18:19, Christopher Taylor wrote: I'm new to Linux and I just got a 1.8GHz pc with no OS so I downloaded the 3 iso's and installed 10.1. I see that Apache is running. Is there a resource available that would tell me how to install php and mySQL? I would really

Re: [newbie] connecting to another computer

2005-02-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 February 2005 01:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:13 -0500, Paul Greene wrote: It's easier if they have a 24/7 broadband connection. We both are, but IP adresses change every time a new connection is made. Then get him to get a dynamic domain name from

Re: [newbie] Networking

2005-02-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 February 2005 00:17, SOTL wrote: Hi All As a user not a geek I have worked with and used Linux for some time but until recently I have not had the opportunity of using my computers on anything but dial up internet connections. Currently I have that opportunity. I would purchase

Re: [newbie] How do you stop urpmi from cleaning download cache?

2005-02-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 February 2005 01:23, Mark Cooke wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this question has been asked a thousand time, but I cannot find any details on how to do this (probably wrong search terms), but.. Is there a way to stop urpmi from cleaning out the cache of rpm's it has downloaded into:

Re: [newbie] logging off

2005-02-23 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 14:54, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: riccardo wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 08:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time? ~ maybe, it is stopping starting that puts most wear on PC . .

Re: [newbie] Does CUPS automatically detect network printer

2005-02-23 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 February 2005 03:00, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use CUPS through mcc. When it searched for network printer, it found nothing. I'm totally new with this CUPS thing. Could you give me some direction? Does CUPS automatically detect network printer, or is there

Re: [newbie] email problems

2005-02-23 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 24 February 2005 02:05, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded Thunderbird but have had nothing but problems with not storing profile, freezing, and not opening links - well not connecting to browser to open links. So have come back to Kmail but now having the problem with

Re: [newbie] Courier-imap in xinetd (was Bad gateway)

2005-02-22 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 05:54, Paul wrote: SNIP Derek wrote: In squirrelmail did you set $domain = 'cp143764-a.mill1.nb.home.nl'; That is what I tried last night, and that at least got me to the loginscreen of Squirrelmail. From there I got the problem that the

Re: [newbie] DHCP, Firewall and Proxy

2005-02-22 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:11, Dennis wrote: Hi, I want to setup a DHCP, Firewall and Proxy server. What do I need to install first? Thanks Install drakwizard and your MandrakeControl Centre will have a new 'Server' section to allow you to install the DHCP and Proxy servers. For the

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