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Need an SMTP server to send email

Whiskers
I use an pop3 email provider which differs from my ISPs, and they (my isp) has disabled relaying, so I cant send my email through their smtp server. WHen I ran Windows I had to use a personal SMTP server.
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Install Mandrake 9.0 into compaq nx9010

ipax
Good day, I have any problem. I can install Mandrake 9. 0 into my notebook (compaq nx9010), where W xp is running. If I insert the first install disk into drive and restart my machine, I`ll see the Mandrake install dialog box.
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architecture

deviant_prick
now what the hell is architecture? I now what platform my computer is, it’s a pc x86, I even know what my processor speed is and how much ram in Mb I have. But I have no clue what is architecture… googleing revealed no results.
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my rant

deviant_prick
yes hello gentlemen (i don't say ladys because the ladys have enough common sence to stay away from linux) and welcome to my rant against linux. Let me first of all start by asking everyone why the hell linux is better than os/2 or windows? Now for all you people who immediatly jumped up and screamed cost or someth ...
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Need help with my Redhat Linux 9 installation

oracle_master
Hi, I'm really new to linux and this is the first time I'm installing it. Basically heres what I did: 1. Dowloaded redhat linux 9. 0 from redhat website (shrike-386-disk1. iso to disk3. iso) 2. Convert 3 iso's to CD image (cd 1 bootable).
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can access only 13 gb out of 40 gb hard drive from rh 9.0

shobhit
i have a 40 gb hdd installed as pri. master on my system. i installed rh 9. 0 on it. everything works fine. but i can only access around 13 gb of my hdd. 5 gb / 5 gb /home 384 mb swap 3gb as fat32 which i have mounted on /mnt/fat32 how do i access the rest of my hdd.
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SuSE 9.1 Pro Gnome battery status problem

MOGua
I am a newbie to linux and I have just installed SuSE 9. 1 pro and when I try to start the battery charge applet from the panel it gives an error about acpid. socket not available. (if I type powersave -b in gnome console, powersave reports the battery status correctly) However, from what I read online, acpid is in ...
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linux on ibm thinkpad

ULIKEIT
hello everyone. well my question i, is there a way to import the drivers from my windows partition to my linux partition. I have a ibm think pad with a pentium II. what i need to get workin on my linux box is the sound and a better video picture.
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Help with MandrakeMove

dbrandt01
I am in the process of downloading MandrakeMove and it appears that there are 2 files to download. MandrakeMove - i586. iso and MandrakeMove-i586. md5. After I download these files, how do I burn these to a CD and make it bootable so I can try out MandrakeMove?? Thanks in advance for any help ! Dave.
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Fedora 1 Modprobe messages

fletchjp
When Fedora 1 boots I get a lot of modprobe messages cannot find block-major-nnn for various nnn. These happen when it is checking for new hardware. This does not prevent the system booting but it would be nice to stop this.
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How to Burn Mandrake on CD

rfsoulrebel
Hi I am very new to linux. I just finsihed downloading mandrake 10. And when I extracted the files it all came out in folders. I though it was going to be 3 iso. files that I could just burn on to a cd.
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Agustin's Linux Manual -Second Edition

optimus
Have you seen or read Agustin's Linux Manual -the Series if yes I bet you loved it. My teachers at school asked me for a copy of it and I gave it to them. They were very excited when they saw how easy it was to follow directions from these manuals.
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Fedora install problem

bobeverywhere
I just finished burning the Fedora iso's. It starts to boot from the first cd, then I get a bad media/check cable error. Are the iso's bad?.
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Apache & Loging Web Farm

eng007
Apache & Loging Web Farms I have multiple load-balanced servers and I want to generate one web report for the whole farm, but each server generates its own log file Webalizer will not work the log files are 500Gb's each I get about 160 hits a sec Is there some other software out there what will work with very big logs?
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Fedora Core2 wont start Xserver

voltmer
I can't get FC2 to boot. It brings me to, localhoas: login and I have to put in root and PW then I type startx and it give me the error cannot start xserver, cant configure pointer device. I have tried to select my mouse from the config list, but it still hangs tryin to display the desktop.
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Mandrake 10 Hangs Durring Boot

voltmer
Mandrake 10 Hangs Durring Boot. Durring boot it keeps trying to disable IRQ #11 just before it runs some part of the software intill it fianally gets to localhost mylogin: login: Disabling IRQ #11 and then it is stuck in a rut trying to disable the IRQ.
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I would just like to thank the Linux comunity

LordStark
I have only been using Linux for a short time (Fedora 2), and I have found answers to every question that I need an answer to on the Linux help forum community. That says a lot. For those of you who go out of the way to help us “newbies” out I thank you.
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