[newbie] Mozilla 1.4

2003-07-01 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Anyone else experiencing problems with installing the new mozilla (1.4) on mdk9.1? I'm getting all sorts of .xpm errors, and it won't let me specify an install directory. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2003-06-22 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Aron Smith wrote: Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there what do you need from urpmi that rpmdrake doesn't provide? also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to spread it out amoung 3 or four servers? urpmi will just download

[newbie] Gimp fonts

2003-06-22 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I have a whole bunch of fonts installed that other programs see but that the Gimp does not. when I use the text tool in the gimp, the fonts are listed, but when they're selected it sez they're not available. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] NVidia and TV out

2003-06-15 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Mark Annandale wrote: Funnily enough, a quick search on google brought the following link up 'http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/29/2147241mode=thread'. Sorry if I wasted anyones time. Didn't waste mine, I will eventually need to know how to do this. Thanks! Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Annoying Problem in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Zariyan Zephyr wrote: Why my Mandrake 9.1 can't be reboot or shutdown in text mode (non-Xwindow). I typed shutdown -r now or halt but the output is ;2R. I must type shutdown -r now many times to reboot my PC. Why should I do to fix it ?. I think it defaults to only let root reboot from the

Re: [newbie] how to install Nvidia unified drivers

2003-06-12 Per discussione Jason Guidry
JoeHill wrote: sorry, taken, if anybody is a Homer around here it's me...ask my wife! great, now you two can go vote for yourselves: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/wtwta/2959462.stm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Carroll Grigsby wrote: It is a minor problem here. I do some surfing with 3 year old grandson at various kiddie sites that intermingle Flash and Shockwave stuff (mostly www.nickjr.com). Will doesn't want to hear about OSS vs proprietary, nor the evilness of all things Microsoft; he just wants

Re: [newbie] DVD playing fits!

2003-06-08 Per discussione Jason Guidry
LeaAnne Kolp wrote: Check out my site for the Xine Tutorial on how to get it working, it can't hurt to try it again with an older version. Tutorial looks good, but where do they have the versions of Xine that you refer to? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Spammers

2003-06-08 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I must say that I'm becoming increasingly more satisfied with mozilla mail's junk mail filters. just train it for a few days and you just won't see spam again. people rave about spam assassin, but my eyes cross when I real the install instructions. Gil Katz wrote: Hi Is there any way to

[newbie] DVD playing fits!

2003-06-07 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Trying to play a dvd from the library on 9.1 with vlc and get the picture but no sound. after fiddling with the sound through the preferences menu, still no go. Xine: crashes. Mplayer: no audio every other one: won't even start with ogle I get the following from the term: snip libdvdread:

Re: [newbie] MP3s

2003-06-03 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Dennis Myers wrote: Can anyone suggest what works to play mp3s in ML 9.1? I have xmms loaded but apparently don't have a plugin for mp3s. Don't know what it is called Make sure you have the volume turned up and the sound server is set to start on boot. including which window manager you're

Re: [newbie] Installing dictionary

2003-02-17 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 05:10, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 17 Feb 2003 2:42 am, Jason Guidry wrote: How does one install a dictionary, like for evolustion, OO, abiword and the like? First, go to install software, and install aspell and ispell in your required language. Then ask

[newbie] Installing dictionary

2003-02-16 Per discussione Jason Guidry
How does one install a dictionary, like for evolustion, OO, abiword and the like? -- Jason Guidry www.gmaestro.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lost X

2003-01-20 Per discussione Jason Guidry
, and x wont start anymore. I am running Mdk 8.1. I tried running mcc but there was no entry for GeForce4 in the list and none of the avaiable entries would work. Previously I was only using the generic nvidia driver. -- Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

2003-01-18 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 15:03, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For any POM's and Yanks that have a whinge, /dev/null I think I speak for all the americans on the list when I say...HUH??? -- Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.

2002-12-11 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:53, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... be nice...not all of us refresh slashdot every 2 minutes. besides, I signed you up for a few enter to win things, too. |:-0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Ardour

2002-12-09 Per discussione Jason Guidry
try this http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/ it has ardour On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:27, Pilagá wrote: Is there anybody out there using 'ardour' (a multitrack, multichannel audio recorder/non-linear editor). I need it, a lot. But the list of failed dependencies is

Re: [newbie] Ardour

2002-12-09 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 18:48, Jerry wrote: On 09 Dec 2002 22:10:38 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/ That just refers you back to the sourceforge site... hmm. yes, yes it does, UNTIL YOU READ THE WEBSITE!!! sorry, it's the middle

Re: [newbie] Difference between 8.0, 8.2, 9.x

2002-12-09 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 23:18, Fish Fash wrote: What is the difference between ver 8.0, 8.2, 9.x? 8.2 works. use it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Dual monitors

2002-12-02 Per discussione Jason Guidry
this is possible, http://www.google.com/search?num=20hl=enlr=lang_enie=ISO-8859-1safe=offq=mandrake+%22dual+monitors%22+%22how+to%22btnG=Google+Search start there and then check the mandrake website. i'm sure there's a howto around there somewhere. On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 13:30, Dan Cox wrote:

Re: [newbie] minimal download

2002-12-02 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 07:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, hi Do i need to install all the cd's no Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Video card upgrade

2002-10-13 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 09:12, Smiley wrote: I'd like to buy a new video card, keeping my current cpu and mainboard; I can also upgrade my K6 II 400 to a K6 II 533, anyway... GeForce 2 400mx and 3D Prophet (Kyro II) are sold at good prices near my home :) Do you think does it worth such kind of

Re: [newbie] XMMS

2002-10-10 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:28, Brandon wrote: Yes ! I got my sound working! thanks you guys for helping, but i just have one problem, i cant play mp3s with XMMS, what can be causing this? When i try to play the files, nothing happens. Teach a man to fish... When you are having problems

[newbie] libstdc++ deps

2002-10-05 Per discussione Jason Guidry
error: failed dependencies: libstdc++.so.4(GLIBCPP_3.1) is needed by audacity-1.0.0-3mdk This is on a fresh install of 9.0, and I have the regular ol' libstdc++.so.4 dep taken care of. several google searches yield nothing WTF are these libs??? TIA -- jason gmaestro.org

[newbie] KDE Headers

2002-10-05 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I'm trying to install Rosegarden form source and it is complaining about KDE headers. KDE is installed, and prefix=/opt/kde3/ doesn't take. where can I point the compiler to KDE headers? -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP

2002-10-02 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:09, shane wrote: That souns familiar I jut got also that mail with all the attachements. and viruses as I know now. Yeah, it's that new linux virus that strips random consonants from your outgoing email... hey i have had the nocaps worm and bad

Re: [newbie] Path Variable

2002-09-27 Per discussione Jason Guidry
try putting the following in the command field of your launcher properties. export PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.3.1/bin:$PATH limewire On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 09:48, John Bodden wrote: I am trying to install LimeWire. Where to I configure the path variable. LimeWire is telling me that I do not

RE: [newbie] Install 9.0 from hdd?

2002-09-26 Per discussione Jason Guidry
exactly do you do that? BAT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Guidry Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install 9.0 from hdd? 2 thoughts- one, yes, you can do that, just

Re: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?

2002-09-25 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:38, et wrote: and went to BestBuy, and had a couple of strippers come up to me and press a business card into my hand, and asked if I might know how to set up a webcam, since you (I) know linux, and that is the stuff the internet runs on, ahem, do you still have

Re: [newbie] galeon and mozilla

2002-09-24 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Yes, upgrade to 1.1. there is quite a bit of funkiness with 1.0 that is fixed with the new one, including that privacy leak problem. On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 07:01, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a problem in mozilla that does not occur in galeon - When visiting a site like amazon.co.uk the tabs

Re: [newbie] giving up the ship?

2002-09-20 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Unless I'm mistaken, what you are suggesting to do is illegal in most barrios, but if you snoop around in the right places i'm sure you can find someone to play enabler to your skr1p7 k1dd33 lusts. don't expect anyone on this list to give you some magic script that thwarts the bad guys. just

Re: [newbie] Conflict help

2002-09-12 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 11:46, Marcia wrote: access a terminal right now. I can access Mozilla again but not the terminal. Before I rebooted, I could access the terminal but not Mozilla. I cannot seem to get everything working all together. what terminal are you trying to open? do all of

Re: [newbie] harddrive ???

2002-09-11 Per discussione Jason Guidry
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 on that system the bottleneck will be the hard drive, so yes, you will

Re: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-27 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I am considering upgrading my MB and CPU and would like to know which would be a better choice for LM8. I am looking for AMD Duron 900 - 1GHz or Athlon T-bird 1GHz. well, I think since the 1gig duron came out yesterday, it's way too expensive to buy right away (for the performance

[newbie] looking everywhere for urpmi help

2001-08-25 Per discussione Jason Guidry
`i've read everything I can get my hands on involving urpmi.* including man pages and list postings nothing i've done will add the rpms on the web to my rpm list. ive tried the following... [root@localhost jasong]# urpmi.addmedia RPMfind http://www.rpmfind.net and I get the following...

[newbie] Unable to surf...

2001-08-23 Per discussione Jason Guidry
OK, Kppp (LM8) sees my Modem Blaster External, dials out to my ISP. most of the time Kpppd crashes somehow (no connection timer) but is still running when I look for it with $ top. I try killing the processes, but they won't die. when Kpppd doesn't crash and I get the timer, etc, I'm unable

RE: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Per discussione Jason Guidry
That message indicates a defective disk--register your product and notify tech support. We have replacements. aaahh. I think that's why the GPL is more customer service friendly. but apparently it also takes people who know how to serve. It may seem simple, but I've had my experience with

[newbie] Audio conference

2001-08-17 Per discussione Jason Guidry
sice we've had some on and off-list discussion of audio and linux, I'd like to point some of you to http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/workshops/linux2001/ I will definately be spending some time here. as soon as the hell that is the first few weeks of school dies down. This is particularly

RE: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I contacted the webmaster at his domain. mandrake claims to go after people who spam people on this list. I think if we all write a letter to the webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED], that should take care of it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] UDA33-66-100

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Hey guys, don't mean to beat a dead horse, but UDMA XXX dosent mean anything. no one's hard drive is fast enough to utilize all that throughput. so don't worry about what kernel supports who, It doesn't matter. you will see no performance boost. if you want the most performance from a hard

[newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jason Guidry
sweet. I put all of my partitions on ReiserFS after last month's discussion on filesystems. I'm glad to hear that there is no worry for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie]

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jason Guidry
how do i get off this list? uhhh- check www.linux-mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Linux Commands

2001-08-09 Per discussione Jason Guidry
make sure you are typing ./ibmgr or make sure that it's directory is in you path. non-bash commands must be executed ./command. only commands in your path (/usr/bin, etc) can be executed w/o ./

RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I find this to be an interesting discussion. The media tends to label Red Hat as a serious and corporate linux; while mandrake is dubbed the baby linux. I guess I should know better than to trust what I hear on TV and the like, but since trying both myself, I know this is a bit exagerated. I

[newbie] ACPID misery

2001-08-06 Per discussione Jason Guidry
My K-6 based laptop is haveing some power management problems. The ACPI daemon fails on boot (Not found). I tried reinstalling it and it says that it's already there. tried uninstalling it (in GUI) and it says it's not there :P is there some variation on an rpm command with a --force switch

[newbie] Re: Beowulf question

2001-08-06 Per discussione Jason Guidry
check the following www.beowulf.org www.beowulf-underground.org dig around and you should be able to find a point by point cookbook for a cluster. also, mail.beowulf on google unsenet (discussion groups) should be a good place to direct questions. I gather if most people on this list know

RE: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-06 Per discussione Jason Guidry
wait, that cant be right. linux runs big honkin servers that use a MINIMUM of 4 GB of memory. I'm researching this, but I wanted to chime in for the meantime.

RE: [newbie] A job using linux?

2001-07-24 Per discussione Jason Guidry
first, thanks to those who have replied to my post. each of you has supplied a lot of valuable and thoughtful info. second, it appears as though i did not word my original post correctly. i was not trying to ask the list to tell me how I could make millions because i could install mandrake 8

RE: [newbie] Fwd: Re: WinXP is better....My reply to this BS

2001-07-24 Per discussione Jason Guidry
this is just one of a laundry list of concerns about this particular product. I'm actually hoping that they go through with everything they promise (no java, anti-piracy, bloted code). perhaps this will provide some momentum to our beloved linux and others. check out some benchmarks

RE: [newbie] Re(newbie)Linux Magazine 8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated

2001-07-18 Per discussione Jason Guidry
MACK , if this was a cover version from news vendor , the disk was corrupt! Do you live in UK or USA? If UK could send a working copy. Let me know *Ouch* well, I guess they tried... anyway, looking at your system specs you may want to be cautious. I installed 8.0 on a system very similar to

RE: [newbie] Fonts very small everywhere

2001-07-18 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I had this problem on my laptop and felt like a dork when I figured it out. go into your desktop (KDE or gnome, whatever) configuration tool (where you change the colors and all) and select fonts on the right hand side. you should be able to choose what fonts and sizes you want where. if you

RE: [newbie] Mandrake V8 PowerPak

2001-07-14 Per discussione Jason Guidry
However: I can't get the logic of adding all the extra programs that came with it. E.G. I know somewhere in there is IBM's ViaVoice program. snip yes yes, I had the same trouble finding kDelvelop and the like. try, when you're in your software manager, toggling between the catagorized

[newbie] Gettin' certified

2001-07-01 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I know that no one on this list has any problems sharing opinions... So I wanted to know if anyone had an opinion on a good A+ cert book, hopefully leading to *nix networking (ie not MCSE). Or maybe a website that's not looking to suck down a month's worth of my meager rural texas teacher

RE: [newbie] Gettin' certified

2001-07-01 Per discussione Jason Guidry
, July 01, 2001 5:25 PM To: Jason Guidry Subject: Re: [newbie] Gettin' certified On Sunday 01 July 2001 15:35, you wrote: I know that no one on this list has any problems sharing opinions... So I wanted to know if anyone had an opinion on a good A+ cert book, hopefully leading to *nix networking

[newbie] Some reviews for those looking into hardware...

2001-06-27 Per discussione Jason Guidry
As per recent discussion, I thought I'd drop these by. No, I don't work for anandtech.com (as should be obvious from my posts) but here are some reviews that should be of interest... Note, there are for the people who love plowing through pages of benchmarks, but if it makes your head hurt, you

RE: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...

2001-06-26 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on the remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and healthy or it will give you problems. If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize. Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe

[newbie] Internet access/insmod problems

2001-06-24 Per discussione Jason Guidry

[newbie] CD Burning Trauma

2001-06-18 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I just installed a ricoh MP9060 CDRW/DVD drive on my P667 system. Both bios and Linux detect the drive by name on boot. I have poured over the CD Burning HowTo at LDP and I'm either too uninitiated or too stooped to make the commands work. So, there are basically 2 questions... I have the Iso

RE: [newbie] ISO help

2001-06-18 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Hmmm….I just asked basically the same question and I spent the last few hours banging my head against the monitor trying to figure it out. What you need is a boot disk…the installer will allow you to install from an ISO on your HDD only on 8.0 (I tried on 7.0). I’m hesitant (wisely, I

RE: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded

2001-06-18 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Of course, one could always check thinkgeek.com and linuxmall. I know thinkgeek has some classics. -Original Message- From: Tim Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:54 AM To: Ed Tharp Cc: Dan LaBine; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin