I'm so looking forward to KDE2.0. Konqueror is shaping up to be like the IE of
Linux and Kmail like Outlook Express. Then there's KOffice as well, hopefully
replacing the bloated Star Office on my desktop. If Konqeror can do Java
without all the crashing Netscape does it'll be invaluable. :)
The best I could do was "install as user, run as user". So right now I've got a
250 MB office52 directory in ~/. If anyone knows how to install it into
somewhere like /usr/local/office52 as root so it can be run by everybody could
you share how you did it?
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Vic pushed some
You could set up a NFS share on a remote machine to save the files to and use a
GUI editor on the local system. I'm not exactly sure how to do this so you'll
need to refer to other documentation. This would have the effect of only
letting you save files into a certain part of the filesystem
Any services that don't use the inetd super server (from /etc/inetd.conf)
are not covered by hosts.allow or hosts.deny.
Tony
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) pushed some tiny letters in this
order:
My primary way of securing my home Linux box (which is on a wireless
broadband
Yes that's right, though others have pointed out applications that are
exceptions to this rule. But it's prudent to assume that the hosts.deny and
hosts.allow files aren't being consulted by applications not under inetd's
control.
Tony
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) pushed some
It's a problem with your video card, XFree86 is trying to display a cursor
using hardware routines but something isn't going well. As root, edit your
/etc/X11/XF86Config file and scroll down to the section named "Device" and
you'll see a few lines that start with `#Option`. It's easy to find
Not only can you complete commands but bash is smart enough complete filenames
arguments to commands too. I recall hearing somewhere that Windows 2000 was
going to have tab completion now but I don't know if this came to be. In any
case it's about time they did!
Tony
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000,
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Phil Risby pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Would some kind person tell me what to do with the iso file?
Do I burn it straight to CD or what?
Please instruct a first time iso downloader :-)
Thanks
Phil
If you don't have a burner (or forever forgetting to buy
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Abe pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Anybody know what extra cool new versions of old favorites this puppy sports?
X 4.01? 2.4 kernel? There is no read me in the directory that refers to the
ISO's.
Abe
Xfree 4.01 is very likely since initial 4.0 support
To compile you'll need to link in the GL and GLU libraries too:
gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -L /usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU someprogram.c -o
someprogram
different than other distros. Does anyone know where these files
usually
reside, and any additional setup I may need to do to get
After re-reading the GPL it does state that there is no absolute requirement to
have the source code available for download on a public ftp site, there only
needs to be a written offer of a source code distribution made available on
request (ie. a cdrom sent out by snail mail). This source code
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Fergal Daly pushed some tiny letters in this order:
At 22:22 29/08/00, Svante Signell wrote:
How many SRPMS for MDK-7.1 do you find at:
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/SRPMS/
About 150, whereas there should be more like 1000, eg there are no
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, John Rye pushed some tiny letters in this order:
This is useful BUT...
Where/how does one find more info as to what is actually causing these
seg
faults, or even some kind of diagnostic routine?
I've been getting lots recently, even after popping every ic on I can
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Mike Rambo pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Alan N wrote:
lorne schachter wrote:
I've got two copies of the Mandrake 7.1 CD, one from Maximum Linux mag
and one from Linux
Labs. In either case, when I try to boot from them, it gets past 2nd
stage
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, flupke pushed some tiny letters in this order:
If it can help you, I'll tell you already that you can list all the
package from a certain group with the "-g" option :
rpm -qg Applications/Text
You create a list of all the groups on your system you can run:
rpm -qa
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Henry Stanaland pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Does someone know how to turn off those #$@* auto-menu's in Mandrake?
I am surprised nobody else ever mentions this. But whenever I install an RPM
it returns my system KDE menu to some default.
This annoys me so
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. pushed some tiny letters in this order:
As he said - he wants to log in as root under one, and as a user under
the other. When I need to do a lot of stuff as root I do the same thing,
since I don't know much about using linux from the command line.
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Peter M Aarestad pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Now, this is weird. I'm trying to compile a program (yudit, in
particular) that has
#include iostream.h
in one of its header files. Pretty normal header file for C++, right?
Well, g++ chokes back that it can't
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tyler Longren pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Hey everybody,
Does anybody know if there is a tool like WinRoute, only for Linux? You can check
winroute at http://www.winroute.com. Thanks!
Yes, the answer is it's either built into the operating system or
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Andreas Müller pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Hallo all,
does anybody have kvirc working on a Mandrake distribution?
I suppose that I have all the necessary rpms, but unfortunatly kvirc just
crashes.
I get some errors, but I have no idea what I'm missing or
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Tom Massey pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
Actually, I thought it was "New Technology" - no jokes intended.
Yeah, that's what MS say it means. And it was that, in that they got rid
of the old DOS stuff, and NT and its children is
I'm pretty sure this error message means that the kernel can't understand a
type of executable that needs to be run. A fix suggested on the
kernel mailing list required an addition of the line 'alias binfmt-
binfmt_aout' to your /etc/modules.conf file.
Tony
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, BillK
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Alan N pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Times are a bit different now, I have my own burner at home, and also a
cable modem.. I needed to upgrade my HD, so I bought a new 20Gig and
dloaded RH 7.1 beta.. After numerous attempts to get my Voodoo Banshee
working
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, maxtor pushed some tiny letters in this order:
To all:
I have been using kmail, and I have to say that I am very pleased
with all the features and the filtering. The only thing: Is there a
way to have kmail to default to netscape when you click on a url in a
message?
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Sarang Lakare pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Very 'Outlook'ish but without the nasty VB :)
its not outlook-ish.. its eudora-ish and thats what i love :)
'Outlook Express'-ish rather.
Whatever it's compared to it looks very spiffy.
Tony
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Mallard pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Thanks for wasting the two hours I had today to do some programming!
Ahh, now I'm beginning to understand. You must have a grudge against Linux that
helps to justify any money spent on buying MS Windows. You might have some
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root pushed some tiny
letters in this order:
I tried installing the latest initscripts just now, and got five more
dependency problems. Several of these I have no idea what rpms I need
to install to get the files.
Eeek!
Is there
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, cavall_fort pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Hello again :
Please ... Thank you, Merci ..., but a condition is *don't write
link's*.
I know this is more difficult, but I wish to do a discussion. And this
mailing list "thread" can be used by the
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Austin L. Denyer pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Re-set due to bounce...
Hi.
I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the
following error:
Dependency Problem:
/sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk
Oops! I still have painful memories of when my silly tinkering achieved a
similar effect. :-)
You could use a rescue floppy disk to use as a root filesystem until you can
mount the offending partition and edit /etc/fstab. Maybe the rescue image in
the images directory on the Mandrake cdrom may
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Mallard pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Fredrik Nilsson wrote (in part):
I have made a short list of some useful commands.
WOW, that convinces me, let's see...
I want to copy this word so yw, but wait, I have to tell it what word,
so Mj on
Apologies in advance for the long rant... :-)
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Gavin Clark pushed some tiny letters in this order:
An installation choice has been the best idea to come out of this thread. This
How do we get this into 7.2?
I'm sure there's at least *some* developers at
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joseph S. Gardner pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Is it practical / advisable to set up a single machine to act as
a firewall/email/web server or am I looking for MAJOR trouble.
I'm trying to run a SOHO with limited resources/computers but
still need all the
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Aldrich pushed some tiny letters in this order:
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote:
No-one is forcing you to use vim. If you don't like it use something else! Can
we kill this thread please? The best thing to come out of it would be for
Mandrakesoft to take the
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joseph S. Gardner pushed some tiny letters in this order:
For a small SOHO network it doesn't sound bad at all. What
sort of trouble were you expecting?
Linux." ? Any operating system is better than Win3.x! ;-)
Tony
Just concerned about the firewall
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mallard pushed some tiny letters in this order:
People shouldn't need to know ANYTHING about computers to use one, or
read all sorts of documentation to get something done on one. The next
generation of OS that makes it will the one that is programmed to
interface with a
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Adam Koch pushed some tiny letters in this order:
In the tradition of applying an automotive analogy...do you know how the
tumblers in the cylinder of the switch on your steering column work? Do you
know how that switch activates your starter motor? Do you know what
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Gavin Clark pushed some tiny letters in this order:
-- but don't trash it without having a damn good reason. "It's
too hard for me" is not a good reason.
neither is "that's the way we've always done it".
I'm not saying get rid of it at all, just make something
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Sparks, Charley pushed some small plastic letters in this order:
Some time ago, someone posted a link to a page that listed and defined all
the port numbers and their purpose. Does anyone still have that link please
?
Thanks, Charley
If you are running any form of
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Rob Fleetwood pushed some small plastic letters in this order:
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to make changes permanent
in ifconfig? Example: my default ifconfig reports the MTU setting at 1500.
Using DSL, this setting will not let me transmit
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] pushed some small plastic letters in this
order:
Hello,
I just changed my main HD drive and had to play a bit with drakboot to get it to
work again after copying everything on the new disk.
Now everything is fine but grub disappeared and I'm back
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Daniel Woods pushed some small plastic letters in this order:
test it with something simple. I should have though of that. ;-) I 'm in to
much of a hurry.
do you know if I can do something every 30 seconds or am I limited to 1 min.
intervals
Why bother using
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, J A Shamsi pushed some small plastic letters in this order:
HI
I am new to shell scripting,
I would like to create a script in bash shell.
that would do the following
1) find out the latest file ( text file)in a directory
( there are bunch of files in a dir)
ls -t1
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order:
As I was saying before I got sidetracked, I'd use `at` for one-time
appointments, but unfortunately, my Linux-Mandrake 7.0 doesn't seem to
have it. Did I just overlook it, or it not available?
-Matt Stegman
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order:
How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when
I'm a regular user?
I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user.
Thanks,
Lorne
To do that you need a line like
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order:
Guten Tag zusammen!
Ich habe folgendes Problem:
Mandrake 7.1 auf dem Notebook installiert, kppp funktioniert
einwandfrei.
7.1 uebrigens auf der Messe in Stuttgart geschenkt bekommen.
Das gleiche System auf meinem
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Vic wrote:
OK coolacious, thanks!!
Just to verify (sorry) I put 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * play /Data/wavs/bong.wav
in my 0anacron file just like you typed it?
I'm not familiar with the 0anacron part - perhaps someone more
knowledgeable will
Sarang Lakare wrote:
Hi,
After rebooting my machine (had to move the machine at a diff place), I am
not able to mount my cdrom drive. I hda problems with supermount and so i
disabled it and then I played a lot with autofs.. I dont' know if that is
causing this problem..
This is waht I
When I am compiling something large, like a new kernel or Apache, GCC/make
has
a tendency to receive a signal 11 several times during the process,
forcing
me to restart make. I did not observe this when running RedHat so I was
wondering
if it could be the Mandrake optimisation of the kernel.
As long as your /boot partition is in the first 8GB of the disk I think you
shouldn't have trouble. Once the boot process is finished Linux uses it's
own disk I/O to address large drives.
- Original Message -
From: Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: expert mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
AFAIK you can't restrict the running of background processes and if you
could it would create more problems with legitimate processes than it would
solve. Probably the best you can do is display a login message to users
informing them that the use of eggdrops etc. are prohibited with penalties
Make sure there is a /dev/modem symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0 if your modem is
on COM1 or /dev/ttyS1 if your modem is on COM2. I believe kppp uses
/dev/modem by default and straight after installation of 7.1 there is no
link.
If there is no /dev/modem link then create it by running 'ln -s
Given that I've copied my /usr/man directory to a windows partition, would
anyone know of a tool for Windows 98 to read man pages in this format?
If there's nothing to read the files with then I'll have to accept that,
it's just for the convenience of not having to dual boot into Linux every
In XF86 version 3.3.x you should have been using the latest version of the
'SVGA' X server. Now the architecture has changed so instead of using the SVGA
server there's only one X server called 'XFree86' and multiple loadable driver
modules. You need to use the 'tdfx' driver module for Banshee
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