Re: [newbie-it] ksirc o altri
Alle 13:56, mercoledì 25 giugno 2003, tom ha scritto: On Wednesday 25 June 2003 00:36, francesco.melo wrote: Alle 23:33, martedì 24 giugno 2003, tom ha scritto: On Tuesday 24 June 2003 22:54, linuxnic wrote: qualcuno usa ksirc o magari altri programmi per KDE e la MDK 9.1 e che mi spiegasse come funzionano visto che con ksirc non ci ho capito molto. ti consiglio Xchat semplice abbastanza snello molto intuitivo,molto simile a mirc per win (b) Grazie a tutti NIC io ti consiglio kvirc www.kvirc.net ed il mio script che trovi qui http://web.tiscali.it/princoscript riusendo a compilarlo sotta la 9.1 sarebbe una favola.. ci ho provato varie volte,ma credo ci sia qualche problema con le qt (forse è una stronzata quella che ho detto).francesco,se mi dai qualche dritta sarei ben lieto di tornare anche io al buon vecchio kivirc (molto pesante ma molto bello.piano piano mi sto abituando a bitchx) ciao diciamo che il tip più diffuso è per mdk : export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3/ export KDEDIR=/usr/lib/kde3/ prima di dare il ./configure nel mio sito c'è un rpm testato della beta due per 9.1 ma si trovano sul sito del kvirc nella sezionee snapshot degli rpm fatti da aronnax che per ora non hanno mai dato problemi . poi se fossi interessato allo script o hai altri prob nella compilazione scrivimi pure oppure mi trovi su azzurra (chan #kvirc) , non vorrei spammare in questa ML per cose non gradite :) ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] Rpm da una tarball
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 15:45, Luigi De Pascale wrote: Posso ottenere un pacchetto rpm direttamente da una tarball? (in modo da non installare schifezze in giro?) sipero lo dovrai sempre compilare a manella prima (per il come,passo.lo ignoro:) Ho installato 3 pacchetti da tarball. Se riesco a compilare un rpm dalla tarball e poi installo l'rpm che succede? forse sono io che non ho capito un tubo della domanda...o magari è solo ignoranza mia... che intendi con Se riesco a compilare un rpm dalla tarball? o è un rpm o è un tarball (forse mi sfugge la differenza) cmq se installi su qualcosa gia compilato,con un rpm,non avrai altro che la sovrascrizzione dei dati gia esistenti -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Corollario alla legge di Murphy: 8. I cretini sono sempre piu' ingegniosi delle precauzioni che si prendono per impedirgli di nuocere. Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
Re: [newbie-it] Rpm da una tarball
* Luigi De Pascale wrote: 1) Posso ottenere un pacchetto rpm direttamente da una tarball? (in modo da non installare schifezze in giro?) Utilizzando checkinstall hai la possibilita' di pacchettizzare nel formato che vuoi tu (quindi anche rpm) partendo dal tar.gz. Naturalmente devi prima compilarti il pacchetto. La doc di checkinstall ti dice tutto ed e' estremamente semplice. 2) Ho installato 3 pacchetti da tarball. Se riesco a compilare un rpm dalla tarball e poi installo l'rpm che succede? Non ho dimestichezza con il formato rpm comunque credo che potresti avere duplicazioni di file che vengono dislocati in dir diverse. L'installazione dei tar.gz ti ha posizionato i file in delle dir che non e' detto coincidano con la struttura rispettata dal formato rpm degli stessi tar.gz. Ripeto.. ne so poco di rpm. Piuttosto: sei sicuro che i tar.gz che hai installato non prevedono un make uninstall? Magari ti conviene disinstallarli prima di installarci _sopra_ gli rpm. Se hai ancora le dir dei sorgenti spulciati i README e gli INSTALL.. quando e' prevista la possibilita' dell'uninstall generalmente in quei file viene dichiarato. Se le dir dei sorgenti le hai cancellate.. scompatta nuovamente i tar.gz. Si tratta di grossi pacchetti? Se la risposta e' no potresti anche operare a manina cancellando i file installati (molti pacchetti installati non sono altro che un binario una dir doc e spesso nessun file lib*). -- syd - LU 285930 * LM 167646 -
[newbie-it] Giocare con Quake
Saluti a tutta la lista, mi sono iscritto da poco alla lista anche se uso linux da circa un anno e mezzo. Sono riuscito ad installare e configurare quasi tutto quanto mi serve per utilizzarlo per lavoro, ma non riesco a far funzionare alcuni giochi tra cui quake, di cui ho la versione completa per win della versione 2 e 3 Arena. Ho provato a scaricare la demo da IDSoftware ho installato quake forge. Ma non cè verso di farli funzionare mi vengono richieste delle librerie tipo la vgalib e le estensioni openGL e una scheda grafica tipo NVIDIA. Non sono riuscito a trovare alcuna istruzione chiara su come far funzionare il gioco con la mia scheda grafica (ho una ATI RADEON 7500). No dovrei aver alcun problema di hardware. Qualcuno e riuscito a far funzionare questi giochi? Avete qualche notizia? anche l'Howto non mi e chiaro, qualsiasi aiuto sarà molto gradito Saluti a tutti. --- Nicola Mt Genova E.Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDK 9.1 ---
Re: [newbie] slypheed: filters
hmmm, that option appears to be greyed out... Hum that is odd - you were definitely clicking right on the top of the tree where it there is a folder icon called Mail or whatever you have called your mail box? Works on mine. John -- Lead me not into temptation - I can find my own way thanks! MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Install results vary
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 01:00, Damian Gatabria wrote: You wanna hear a funny one? If i choose ext3 for the /, my soundcard chipset is not correctly detected... it still works, but the sound is lower quality and choppy... Damian I have the same problem with my sound. Were you able to fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slypheed: filters
hmmm, that option appears to be greyed out... Hum that is odd - you were definitely clicking right on the top of the tree where it there is a folder icon called Mail or whatever you have called your mail box? Works on mine. Careful, though. If i do it on mine, i get a warning about clearing all the folder settings, of which i have many. I haven't tried it in 9.2, but if it's the same as claws, you can get rid of the nasty problem of people filling in their reply-to ... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slypheed: filters (new question)
Ok, i am back on Slypheed 9.2, and have what must be a stupid How do i filter on the entire header? In claws, When you define the condition, you can choose Headers (then pick from a list) or Headers Part. IIRC you can put whatever you want after that and I assume that's the same in the non-claws? Well, that's the problem, it's not the same in non-claws. I got it to work fine in claws. I'm not sure how it id's a header: it may just be that under header, i can type the first few letters of what i wand, then under keyword, the rest. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake juice, anyone?
My gf rented harry potter 2 today. Anyone care for any Mandrake Juice? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
At 09:06 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: snips Femme: Give me a call when the price drops to $10. That must include the necessary adapters and drivers to upgrade the various offsprings' collection of proprietary and two-guys-and-a-goat POS. (Ever try to find a BIOS upgrade for a TMC motherboard?) Until that glorious day arrives, I'll take very good care of my floppies. -- cmg Well damn... ok you got me there... but still i understood there were diskonkeys that don't need drivers. As for $10..ya i see your point there.. sigh - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to config the lilo?
At 04:06 AM 6/24/2003 +, you wrote: snip FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt ^lazy ;) peace out. tc,hago. Guilty as charged. In my defense I haven't run linux in um... a week or more...been too damn busy to screw around with it. Ty. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
At 04:09 PM 6/24/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:11, eric huff wrote: Espanol es muy facil comprender facil? :) Spanish English facil lightly, easy, easily, light Facile=French=easy=me oops..that slipped - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nother sylpheed-claws question
I just built 0.9.0claws. In 0.8.11claws, I could click a message to read it and hit the delete key to delete it and it would automatically open the next message. It doesn't do that anymore, I have to click or hit enter or the space bar for it to open the next message. Mine does that by default too - so its not a problem with your setup. I'll ask the sylpheed-claws list if there is a setting to change it. This is strange: mine did that for awhile, then went back to the normal way: showing the next message... Does it have anyting to do with configuration -- interface -- Always open messages in summary when selected ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
At 09:27 PM 6/23/2003 -0700, you wrote: I had the same alarm bells going off. The ONTRACK disk overlay and Linux have always been incompatible (or so I thought). If your bios has SMART capability, I assume that your mobo is new, so I can't figure out why you would need ONTRACK, except that ONTRACK is installed on your old drive. You must use ONTRACK to remove ONTRACK, if I remember correctly, because a simple dos format won't do the trick. My bet is that the ONTRACK manager is fubaring your installs with modern systems, and your best bet is to use the ONTRACK boot disk to rid your drive of it. Mind you, all this stuff is from memory, because it has been years since I used a disk manager. e. a low level format will fix it too...but most BIOSes dont' allow that anymore. shame. :( - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No CD installer for Unreal Tournament?
At 06:06 AM 6/24/2003 -0400, you wrote: I cannot seem to get the ut linux installer to see the cd in the drive. I once was able to find a version of the installer which just copied the files and created the install dir, then I just copied the required files fromt the cd manually. anyone know where I can find this version of the installer? I've tried Google, Planetunreal, Loki, etc. -- + Joe Hill UT or UT2K3. If the former, ask Ron (aka Darklord). IF the latter i'll email off list a reply. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 17:32, FemmeFatale wrote: Facile=French=easy=me oops..that slipped - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt We already knew that, duh. (g) -- Wed Jun 25 20:55:00 EST 2003 20:55:00 up 20:41, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.17, 0.11 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * According to all the latest reports, there was no truth in any of the earlier reports. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command error
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 20:43, Anne Wilson wrote: What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or directory Anne ANNE BROKE SOMETHING! (Fubar!) -- Wed Jun 25 21:00:00 EST 2003 21:00:00 up 20:46, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.14, 0.10 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Never tell. Not if you love your wife ... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck `Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die'. I didn't know what I was gonna do... -- Lenny Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet and FTP
Please, look at the following scenario: 1. I logon to Linux box 2. in the telnet console I initialize a ftp session, from the Linux box, to another machine (machine 2) 3. I initialize a download from machine 2 to the Linux box 4. I put the ftp process in the background 5. logout from the Linux box In this moment, I expect the download to continue, but it doesn't. I if use the same scenario but I use wget instead of ftp, the download works in background even after I logout the Linux box. Question: it is normal that the ftp download stops after I logout or am I missing something? SK What commands are you using for the ftp - a script? Regular commands SK typed into the console? I use regular commands typed into the console. ftp ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ mget something Ctrl-Z bg logout -- Ciprian A lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at math. - Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install results vary
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 03:33, C. Tresenriter wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:03:55 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 10:30 pm, Allan wrote: Hi, Does anyone know why Mandrake 9.1 seems to come up with different results each time I install it? I installed it twice on my machine and another time on a friend's machine. Glad to hear this, I thought it was just me. Curt Ohmygod the O/S is smarter than I am1 Smitty __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:11:41 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll google for the manual - there has to be one right? Yeah, check here: http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/welcome.html Found one for 0.8.3... maybe I missed it - I'll check again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
I'm running MDK 9.1 on an AMD K6-2/550. Recently, I imported well over a thousand I.E. Favorites into Konqueror. Konqueror has been really stable and smooth up to this point, but now I'm getting a rather weird result whenever I use KEditBookmarks. It takes the better part of a minute for the applet to load. When it finally does, any editing takes around thirty seconds to complete. The first half of that time period, you witness and incomplete screen rewrite. The second half, everything looks normal but the program is locked up as it continues to finish the process. The applet functions, but just takes way too long! Has anyone experienced this and/or have any ideas as to what's happening and should be done to resolve the problem? Is this just a fact of too many bookmarks for my processor and/or Konqueror to handle? Any suggestions as to where to look to solve this problem is appreciated. I have other browsers, but would rather stay with Konqueror for now. TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install results vary
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 5:37 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 14:22, Roland Hughes wrote: I have done 3-4 install's and everyone was different. I think mandrake is becoming like windows ( I am joking!). Roly It's really funny that last October I tried to point this out to people on the list, but no one believed me... I don't remember that, Stephen. I for one would have agreed with you. It's been so since I started using Mandrake with 8.0. Of course, Femme's experience has probably run through all the possible combinations g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command error
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 12:03 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 20:43, Anne Wilson wrote: What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or directory Anne ANNE BROKE SOMETHING! (Fubar!) Yah boo :-P Seriously, though, I need to sort this, as it's part of my backup routine for between cd burns Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install results vary
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 5:37 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 14:22, Roland Hughes wrote: I have done 3-4 install's and everyone was different. I think mandrake is becoming like windows ( I am joking!). Roly It's really funny that last October I tried to point this out to people on the list, but no one believed me... I don't remember that, Stephen. I for one would have agreed with you. It's been so since I started using Mandrake with 8.0. Of course, Femme's experience has probably run through all the possible combinations g Anne So you don't happen to remember that I was testing 9.0 installations on several test machines here and getting different results from different installations and that I was still a RedHatter at the time and was casting doubt upon whether or not I could use Mandrake as my desktop due to problems with the 9.0 installation and that I was awaiting the 9.1 distro before giving it serious consideration - and that I had mentioned NUMEROUS times that I don't trust whole numbers in distros? Geez...I'd have though that heaps of y'all would have remembered that...(and I'm a man! To think that MY memory is better than a woman's eternal memory? Wow...)(g) -- Wed Jun 25 22:10:01 EST 2003 22:10:01 up 21:56, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.14, 0.08 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Have you reconsidered a computer career? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 21:44, Technoslick wrote: I'm running MDK 9.1 on an AMD K6-2/550. Recently, I imported well over a thousand I.E. Favorites into Konqueror. Konqueror has been really stable and smooth up to this point, but now I'm getting a rather weird result whenever I use KEditBookmarks. It takes the better part of a minute for the applet to load. When it finally does, any editing takes around thirty seconds to complete. The first half of that time period, you witness and incomplete screen rewrite. The second half, everything looks normal but the program is locked up as it continues to finish the process. The applet functions, but just takes way too long! Has anyone experienced this and/or have any ideas as to what's happening and should be done to resolve the problem? Is this just a fact of too many bookmarks for my processor and/or Konqueror to handle? Any suggestions as to where to look to solve this problem is appreciated. I have other browsers, but would rather stay with Konqueror for now. TIA, T I'd venture to say it's got something to do with 1.) the amount of bookmarks, 2.) file system performance and 3.) HD optimisation. (Then again, I always say that, don't I?) -- Wed Jun 25 22:10:01 EST 2003 22:10:01 up 21:56, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.14, 0.08 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Have you reconsidered a computer career? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
John Richard Smith wrote: I'm thinking about dual booting the same OS but updating the second to test. I'm not sure of all the implications. I have a /boot partition. That means I will be overwriting the first kernel init etc, with the same, cannot think that is likely to be any problem. Lilo will still be in the MBR, but it will have the script from second install, because there is no option available these days to skip lilo install.Developers please note. Second install will use it's own /etc/lilo.conf file. but this is likely to be the naff OS , especially if it goes wrong with the updates. Not, to my mind, a satisfactory state of affairs. I want to be booting everything from the first OS /etc/lilo.conf. Question is how to do that. F1-rescue - install new bootloader , but it's going to have two identicle OS's each with it's own /etc/lilo.conf how will it know which to choose ? In otherwords how do I tell it which OS /etc/lilo.conf script it's to use ? each OS will have it's seperate partition, lets say for arguements sake, M9.1 OS1 on /hda7 M9.1 OS2 on /hda6 can I pass some arguement in the F1 -rescue - install new boot loader , to tell it which partition to look for an /etc/lilo.conf ? Does say, F1 - rescue /dev/hda7 make anything useful happen to where it reads /etc/lilo.conf ? I bet there is a way round this anyone ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi John; Not sure if I understand all you have said! But to boot two OS: 1st OS install lilo in MBR 2nd OS install lilo in the 2nd OS's hard disk partition. like this root=hda5, boot=hda5 Change hda5 to where ever you installed the 2nd OS Add an 'other' line in the 1st OS lilo to point to the 2nd OS. like this: other=/dev/hda5 label=Debian or whatever In the 2nd OS lilo; boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 everthing else normal Now when you boot, select 'Debian' which will take you to the 2nd OS lilo. then select what you want from the 2nd Os. If you want I will send you my 2 lilo.conf's. HTH Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention
How do I get a response concerning defective Mandrake merchandise? I tried what e-mail and phone number I could find without any response. I bought, The Definitive Manual for version 9.0 just prior to the release of the 9.1 version. The book had nearly no use when the pages began falling out. Not one or two but in groups. It is obvious that the glue holding the pages in the binding has a problem. All I want is a replacement for this older version manual. I'm not trying to ding Mandrake for the 9.1 version. I didn't have any problem having Mandrake take my money when I bought the book, the 9.0 software and the 9.1 software. Does anyone know how to gain satisfaction? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command error
On Wednesday June 25 2003 05:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or directory Anne cp -fpuR *.hjt /home/anne/TreePad/ /Data/Backup/TreePad/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 06:19:21 -0700 owenb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get a response concerning defective Mandrake merchandise? I tried what e-mail and phone number I could find without any response. I bought, The Definitive Manual for version 9.0 just prior to the release of the 9.1 version. The book had nearly no use when the pages began falling out. Not one or two but in groups. It is obvious that the glue holding the pages in the binding has a problem. All I want is a replacement for this older version manual. I'm not trying to ding Mandrake for the 9.1 version. I didn't have any problem having Mandrake take my money when I bought the book, the 9.0 software and the 9.1 software. Does anyone know how to gain satisfaction? If you post a request to the club forum, Deno should take care of it. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:50:58 -0400 Charles Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John; Not sure if I understand all you have said! But to boot two OS: 1st OS install lilo in MBR 2nd OS install lilo in the 2nd OS's hard disk partition. like this root=hda5, boot=hda5 Change hda5 to where ever you installed the 2nd OS Add an 'other' line in the 1st OS lilo to point to the 2nd OS. like this: other=/dev/hda5 label=Debian or whatever In the 2nd OS lilo; boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 everthing else normal Now when you boot, select 'Debian' which will take you to the 2nd OS lilo. then select what you want from the 2nd Os. If you want I will send you my 2 lilo.conf's. HTH Charles Surprising how many question asked here that respond to questions I haven't asked yet. You people are good! Thanks John for asking my question and Charles for the answer. I'd be grateful to get a copy of your lillo.conf's Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command error
On Wednesday June 25 2003 08:15 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday June 25 2003 05:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or directory Anne cp -fpuR *.hjt /home/anne/TreePad/ /Data/Backup/TreePad/ That won't work, don't know what I was thinking. cd /home/anne/TreePad/ cp -fpuR *.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ That should do it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command error
Hi Anne, You forgot your destination. A common error that M$ crap, I mean products, puts us into. When you do command line copies in DOS the default destination is assumed as the local directory. ++alan On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 04:43, Anne Wilson wrote: What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or directory Anne __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alan Carbutt Systems Administrator/Programmer Adams State College 719-587-7741 [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
Charles Roberts wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I'm thinking about dual booting the same OS but updating the second to test. I'm not sure of all the implications. I have a /boot partition. That means I will be overwriting the first kernel init etc, with the same, cannot think that is likely to be any problem. Lilo will still be in the MBR, but it will have the script from second install, because there is no option available these days to skip lilo install.Developers please note. Second install will use it's own /etc/lilo.conf file. but this is likely to be the naff OS , especially if it goes wrong with the updates. Not, to my mind, a satisfactory state of affairs. I want to be booting everything from the first OS /etc/lilo.conf. Question is how to do that. F1-rescue - install new bootloader , but it's going to have two identicle OS's each with it's own /etc/lilo.conf how will it know which to choose ? In otherwords how do I tell it which OS /etc/lilo.conf script it's to use ? each OS will have it's seperate partition, lets say for arguements sake, M9.1 OS1 on /hda7 M9.1 OS2 on /hda6 can I pass some arguement in the F1 -rescue - install new boot loader , to tell it which partition to look for an /etc/lilo.conf ? Does say, F1 - rescue /dev/hda7 make anything useful happen to where it reads /etc/lilo.conf ? I bet there is a way round this anyone ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi John; Not sure if I understand all you have said! But to boot two OS: 1st OS install lilo in MBR 2nd OS install lilo in the 2nd OS's hard disk partition. like this root=hda5, boot=hda5 Change hda5 to where ever you installed the 2nd OS Add an 'other' line in the 1st OS lilo to point to the 2nd OS. like this: other=/dev/hda5 label=Debian or whatever In the 2nd OS lilo; boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 everthing else normal Now when you boot, select 'Debian' which will take you to the 2nd OS lilo. then select what you want from the 2nd Os. If you want I will send you my 2 lilo.conf's. HTH Charles So if I've understood you correctly, in effect you're chainloading two lilo's , one stored in the MBR(to work with windblows , chainloader fashion)and booting M9.1 OS1 from it's /etc/lilo.conf and a second lilo in the M9.1 OS2 situated in it's / partition,it seems a mite complicated. In addition I'm not too sure how you get the second OS install to put the second lilo in it's / partiton, when the installer will be conscious of the windblows/OS1 lilo MBR presence and wanting to shove lilo in the MBR again. currently I have, /dev/hda1 W2000 /dev/hda7 M9.1 (straight install, no updates) /dev/hda6 M9.0 (to be replaced with M9.1 , together with cooker updates) At the moment so long as I have two Different linux OS's I can switch which OS /etc/lilo.conf file is read and run at boot time, by replacing the lilo in the MBR with either F1 - rescue - install bootloader from either CD1 of each OS. The problem here is that I have two identicle OS's and I'm affraid that having just the one CD1 to do the F1 - rescue - install bootloader it will not know which /etc/lilo.conf to run at boot time. This is because each OS has it's own /etc/lilo.conf in the relevant / partition. Maybe it doesn't matter so long as each /etc/lilo.conf is constructed to boot either OS, so that whichever /etc/lilo.conf it chooses to run , it will still have enough script to boot either OS.Still I'd like to be a mite more precise about it. Maybe you are right though. Having two Identicle OS means having to lilo's to boot with. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command error
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 2:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday June 25 2003 08:15 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday June 25 2003 05:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or directory Anne cp -fpuR *.hjt /home/anne/TreePad/ /Data/Backup/TreePad/ That won't work, don't know what I was thinking. You're right - it didn't g But it made me think what else could be wrong - the backup dir is called TreePad, but the origin directory is called Treepad. Duh!! Thanks anyway Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 08:11 am, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: snip Has anyone experienced this and/or have any ideas as to what's happening and should be done to resolve the problem? Is this just a fact of too many bookmarks for my processor and/or Konqueror to handle? Any suggestions as to where to look to solve this problem is appreciated. I have other browsers, but would rather stay with Konqueror for now. TIA, T I'd venture to say it's got something to do with 1.) the amount of bookmarks, 2.) file system performance and 3.) HD optimisation. (Then again, I always say that, don't I?) Stephen! That's not fair! You covered all your bases with that shotgun approach. ;0) I don't doubt all those contribute to my problem. However, I was wondering about the way KDE stores and indexes (if any) the bookmarks. I haven't had the time to sort through all the imported links, but many were three levels down, and therefore are up to four levels down now. Maybe, KDE has a problem working with that kind of hierarchy? I have to sort though all these links, anyway. Many are now dead. As I reorganize them, dropping the dead and no longer intersting ones, I hope to find a workable compromise. Thanks for jumping in, Stephen. Anyone else experienced this? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome
There is a swap partition of about 150 MB. I am running with 128 MB of ram. Wade - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 2:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome I would suggest running with standard security until you understand your system a lot better. On 'High' the Mandrake security system (msec) is going to make quite a lot of restrictions on you. Not being able to log in as root is just one of them. As I said 'Standard' is still pretty darn secure. This is out of date, but still interesting http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php You can switch between security levels from Mandrake Control Centre. Trouble is you need to have X working before you can see it. The command 'df' will tell you how much free space you have on your partitions. And finally. Did you create a swap partition? How big, and how much memory do you have? derek On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 2:33 am, Wade Waldron wrote: I have selected Higher Security, since I am considering using my system as a web server at some point (after I have a much more indepth knowledge). The partition I am using is approximately 1.7GB in size. I did a very minimal install when I installed Linux. I installed the internet package, as well as both Gnome and KDE, but nothing else. I should have had at least 1GB of space left. Wade SNIP -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command error
Hi, Alan. No - it's the wordwrap that split it. It was a silly capitalisation error. Thanks anyway Anne On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 3:04 pm, Alan Carbutt wrote: Hi Anne, You forgot your destination. A common error that M$ crap, I mean products, puts us into. When you do command line copies in DOS the default destination is assumed as the local directory. ++alan On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 04:43, Anne Wilson wrote: What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or directory Anne _ _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Latest version of Opera/Mandrake?
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 05:38, Thomas Williams wrote: On Tuesday 24 June 2003 11:59 pm, rikona wrote: snip Yes, actually there's a version 7.11 available at http://www.opera.com. I can't really recommend it. I tried it and it worked great at first and then for some reason it has slowed way down to the point its a pain to use. snip I have it and use it occasionally as an alternative to Galeon, so far it's good. Just keeping my fingers crossed in view of what you say. DougB Tom Williams __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No CD installer for Unreal Tournament?
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 03:36 am, FemmeFatale wrote: UT or UT2K3. If the former, ask Ron (aka Darklord). IF the latter i'll email off list a reply. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Oops, missed the start of this thread, as usual. :-) Anyways, if its UT2003, the installer is actually (shock! Horror!) on the CDs in the retail box. You just have to look for it. Also, it asks for the disks using different names than whats on the CDs. The CD key entry is very exact as well. It does work (and how - takes almost 3 gigs of HD space!) If its Unreal Tournament, it depends on what version you are using. If its the Game of the Year edition, I use: ut-install-436-GOTY.run If its the other set, I use: ut-install-436.run There is also an installer from Tux Games that is on CD. I've used it a couple of times as well, but sometimes it does not decompress the maps from the CDs like its supposed to. I archived the maps from my existing install, or you can grab them from a Windows install, if available. Burm them to CD and keep them handy. I'd recommend this. Hmm, I know there's a web page that details all this. :-) http://www.lokigames.com/products/ut/updates.php3 Has some stuff, as well as the Linux Gamers FAQ. Its at icculus.org but I can't get there right now. HTHs! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 3:19 pm, Technoslick wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2003 08:11 am, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: I'd venture to say it's got something to do with 1.) the amount of bookmarks, 2.) file system performance and 3.) HD optimisation. (Then again, I always say that, don't I?) Stephen! That's not fair! You covered all your bases with that shotgun approach. ;0) I don't doubt all those contribute to my problem. However, I was wondering about the way KDE stores and indexes (if any) the bookmarks. I haven't had the time to sort through all the imported links, but many were three levels down, and therefore are up to four levels down now. Maybe, KDE has a problem working with that kind of hierarchy? I have to sort though all these links, anyway. Many are now dead. As I reorganize them, dropping the dead and no longer intersting ones, I hope to find a workable compromise. Well, I think I can rule out one possibility. I have several bookmarks at level 4 and one at level5. I've just checked it, and it's functioning normally. I'd say that it's the sheer number of bookmarks combined with resources. As a test, could you copy your bookmarks file to a backup, then simply delete half of them. If it's just numbers that will tell you. If you still have a problem there's something else involved. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll google for the manual - there has to be one right? http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/welcome.html Found one for 0.8.3... maybe I missed it - I'll check again. Yeah, i haven't found any for the 9 series either, now that i have actually gone there myself to read it... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Telnet and FTP
Ciprian Trofin wrote: Hello, I (sort of) administer a Linux box. Please, look at the following scenario: 1. I logon to Linux box 2. in the telnet console I initialize a ftp session, from the Linux box, to another machine (machine 2) 3. I initialize a download from machine 2 to the Linux box 4. I put the ftp process in the background 5. logout from the Linux box In this moment, I expect the download to continue, but it doesn't. I if use the same scenario but I use wget instead of ftp, the download works in background even after I logout the Linux box. Question: it is normal that the ftp download stops after I logout or am I missing something? man nohup ? nohup wget something /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention
owenb wrote: How do I get a response concerning defective Mandrake merchandise? I tried what e-mail and phone number I could find without any response. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/contact/address I bought, The Definitive Manual for version 9.0 just prior to the release of the 9.1 version. The book had nearly no use when the pages began falling out. Not one or two but in groups. It is obvious that the glue holding the pages in the binding has a problem. All I want is a replacement for this older version manual. I'm not trying to ding Mandrake for the 9.1 version. I didn't have any problem having Mandrake take my money when I bought the book, the 9.0 software and the 9.1 software. Does anyone know how to gain satisfaction? -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nother sylpheed-claws question
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:27:56 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just built 0.9.0claws. In 0.8.11claws, I could click a message to read it and hit the delete key to delete it and it would automatically open the next message. It doesn't do that anymore, I have to click or hit enter or the space bar for it to open the next message. Mine does that by default too - so its not a problem with your setup. I'll ask the sylpheed-claws list if there is a setting to change it. This is strange: mine did that for awhile, then went back to the normal way: showing the next message... Does it have anyting to do with configuration -- interface -- Always open messages in summary when selected ? Yes! Before I checked this option and clicked the down arrow, it would just highlight it. When I checked this option, now it opens it! Thanks for finding that! John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 25 11:27:56 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:49:37 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: On the contrary, it said that this growth in Linux would push MS's desktop market share below 90%, implying that only a smalll proportion of this Linux growth would be at the expense of Apple. I missed that, thanks for pointing that out. Another case of info being important in terms of its context not just its content. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention
--- C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 06:19:21 -0700 owenb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get a response concerning defective Mandrake merchandise? I tried what e-mail and phone number I could find without any response. I bought, The Definitive Manual for version 9.0 just prior to the release of the 9.1 version. The book had nearly no use when the pages began falling out. Not one or two but in groups. It is obvious that the glue holding the pages in the binding has a problem. All I want is a replacement for this older version manual. I'm not trying to ding Mandrake for the 9.1 version. I didn't have any problem having Mandrake take my money when I bought the book, the 9.0 software and the 9.1 software. Does anyone know how to gain satisfaction? If you post a request to the club forum, Deno should take care of it. HTH You must be behind on current events. Deno is no longer working with Mandrakesoft, at least not officially. Email is not supposed to be sent to him. However use of the Club forums will probably get some attention paid to the matter. Try that and if that doesn't work then more stringent methods can be explored. --LX __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No CD installer for Unreal Tournament?
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:55:30 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: If its Unreal Tournament, it depends on what version you are using. If its the Game of the Year edition, I use: ut-install-436-GOTY.run I've tried both versions, neither can see the CD in the drive. If its the other set, I use: ut-install-436.run There is also an installer from Tux Games that is on CD. I've used it a couple of times as well, but sometimes it does not decompress the maps from the CDs like its supposed to. I archived the maps from my existing install, or you can grab them from a Windows install, if available. Burm them to CD and keep them handy. I'd recommend this. I'll check that out, thanks! Hmm, I know there's a web page that details all this. :-) http://www.lokigames.com/products/ut/updates.php3 Been there, the links seem dead. Has some stuff, as well as the Linux Gamers FAQ. Its at icculus.org but I can't get there right now. ya, Icculus is worrying me lately. Still, I know I had a no-CD installer, I wish I'd saved it I'll try just running the patch then copying the files. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake juice, anyone?
but we're not petrified yet - Original Message - From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:18 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake juice, anyone? My gf rented harry potter 2 today. Anyone care for any Mandrake Juice? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slypheed: filters
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:02:15 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hum that is odd - you were definitely clicking right on the top of the tree where it there is a folder icon called Mail or whatever you have called your mail box? I think it had something to do with it having probs reading the contents of the folder. Plus I was installing claws right over top of sylpheed main, and vice versa, I bet I've pooched some libs or config files somehow. It crashed, and when it came back, the read/unread was corrected, *without* rebuilding the folder tree! LOL! -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake juice, anyone?
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:18:14 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Anyone care for any Mandrake Juice? Hey, if it'll get me fscked up, send it oon, maaan howzit goin with Pek? that next version of fbpanel looks really sweet, thanks fer turnin me onto that, sometimes nice to have. the latest idesk is really nice too, gonna try it out today... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Drive points / and /home
I am dual booting XP and Mandrake 9.1 on diferent drives. My mandrake drive is a 5 gig drive. When i installed i opted for the default format of / and /home and swap. Now when i do df -h i have only 153 MB left but /home has not changed ad remains at 1.6 GB. Can i convert some of this to / safely and will it give me back some room to work with? How do i do this ? with diskdrake ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Jun 25 12:56:09 EDT 2003 12:56:09 up 53 min, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.05 Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? -- Paul Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Our beloved in glorious action
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/24/2314234 -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:53 am, LeaAnne Kolp wrote: After reading a Mac users post regarding Linux vs Mac on the desktop, I'm faced with countless questions. mega-snip Not knowing anything about this, I spoke with my boss, who has 20+ years in video production and editing experience. He said Avid machines are the defacto standard, and that the Mac isn't used. Furthermore, he said that the major Hollywood studios use equipment that the Mac just can't touch performance-wise. Aren't most of the Hollywood high end graphics houses using Linux? Not because it's cheaper, but because it's faster and more powerful. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
I don't know if the CRC problem is solved with WD, but I have 3 boxes running Linux (Mandrake 8.2 and Mandrake 9.0) with only WD hard drives (40 Gigs ATA 100 and 80Gigs ATA133) with no problem. For now, they are the best HD I've never bought (lot of problems with Maxtor and IBM HDs). Albert -Original Message- From: FemmeFatale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability At 02:19 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 08:34 am, sstubbs wrote: Anyone know different? Don't know if it has anything to do with your problems at all, but Civileme used to say to avoid WD drives like the plague... claimed they did not do CRC stuff right, especially at higher DMA/UDMA levels :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Someone on the OT list was saying that isn't the case anymore... SOmeone care to post a URL to dis/prove this? I have a WD here in my comp now... it was cheap, i'm poor... i'm using the maxtor for linux though. I may experiment after all... on a side note, one partition got toasted by windows jsut this last week... don't know why. Guess which drive it was on? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kvirc
On June 25, 2003 12:27 am, Barry Premeaux wrote: Check this link out. http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=Kvircsubmit=Sea rch+... I tryed some of these and they wanted to remove a lot of kde stuff and window managers and andyikes. Some of the newer Mandrake versions are Beta, but they may be worth a try. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Jun 25 13:03:09 EDT 2003 13:03:09 up 1:00, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.05 Nezvannyi gost'--khuzhe tatarina. [An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion] -- Russian proverb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kvirc
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:05:56 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I tryed some of these and they wanted to remove a lot of kde stuff and window managers and andyikes. 1. Go here and configure all your souces: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php 2. then as root, urpmi kvirc -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] isn't this how OS devel already works?
read the recommendations for software devel change at the bottom: http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_25/b3838630.htm -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Latest version of Opera/Mandrake?
Hi Rikona, There is a new version of Opera it's on their Website,and the Rpm's are there.It installed with no problems,and ended up in the correct short cut folder on the start up in both KDE and Gnome. http://www.opera.com/products/user/index.dml?platform=linux .You need the QT Shared RedHat 8/SuSE 8.1/Mandrake 9. Cheers Drew - Original Message - From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:59 AM Subject: [newbie] Latest version of Opera/Mandrake? Hello, I seem to remember someone mentioning Opera version 7+, but the version in the Club is 6.12. Is there a newer rpm version available? -- Best regards, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Drive points / and /home
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:02:40 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am dual booting XP and Mandrake 9.1 on diferent drives. My mandrake drive is a 5 gig drive. When i installed i opted for the default format of / and /home and swap. Now when i do df -h i have only 153 MB left but /home has not changed ad remains at 1.6 GB. Can i convert 153 MB left on which partition? post the exact output of df -h so we can see what you see. some of this to / safely and will it give me back some room to work with? How do i do this ? with diskdrake ? -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:15:43 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Aren't most of the Hollywood high end graphics houses using Linux? Not because it's cheaper, but because it's faster and more powerful. yep, a lot of the studios are using Linux clusters as render farms I think they call them. The days of SGI being the wizards are fading... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention
At 09:23 AM 6/25/2003 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/contact/address Thanks Alan, The phone # at this site is the one I referred to. What you get is a recorded message asking for your phone #. In my case they have never called back. ** I bought, The Definitive Manual for version 9.0 just prior to the release of the 9.1 version. The book had nearly no use when the pages began falling out. Not one or two but in groups. It is obvious that the glue holding the pages in the binding has a problem. All I want is a replacement for this older version manual. I'm not trying to ding Mandrake for the 9.1 version. I didn't have any problem having Mandrake take my money when I bought the book, the 9.0 software and the 9.1 software. Does anyone know how to gain satisfaction? -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. John -- Lead me not into temptation - I can find my own way thanks! MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] How to run script on KDE start?
Hi all, I have a MDK 9.1 KDE box that I would like to run a bash script on start. Becuase the script in turn plays sound files, I would like it to run at the very end of the KDE start up sequence or as soon as KDE is up and running. TIA! __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to a Zebra LP 2844 thermal label printer
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 7:23 pm, Grant wrote: I've searched the Internet for a Linux driver for my printer and can't seem to come up with one. Is there any chance of getting this thing to print in Linux without one? I just tried to add it manually but Zebra is not one of the make choices (Eltron would work too, but it's not there either). Am I SOL? - Grant If you have a manual, check whether it offers any emulation. You may be able to run a vanilla driver for it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kvirc
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Dan Gordon wrote: On June 25, 2003 01:31 pm, JoeHill wrote: 1. Go here and configure all your souces: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php 2. then as root, urpmi kvirc Did this and output was no package named kvirc lol i dont think someone wants me in irc rofl Use Irssi or Xchat. -- A. Talsta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kvirc
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 7:16 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On June 25, 2003 01:31 pm, JoeHill wrote: 1. Go here and configure all your souces: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php 2. then as root, urpmi kvirc Did this and output was no package named kvirc lol i dont think someone wants me in irc rofl Could it have been dropped in favour of ksirc? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:53 am, LeaAnne Kolp wrote: After reading a Mac users post regarding Linux vs Mac on the desktop, I'm faced with countless questions. -- 1). I thought Linux had passed it already, but perhaps I'm confusing it with some other statistic. Please post a reference link. I'm not too sure on what metric you'd use to compare Linux vs. Mac on the desktop. Sales? Downloads? Registered Users? I don't really have a reference link. I had been reading ZDnet articles and saw things about more linux servers and things than ever before and merely presumed that they had already passed the Mac. 2). OSX is based on the mach kernal, a modular derivitive created by CMU and as such is not necessarily linux, but very close. Darwin uses a monolithic kernel based on FreeBSD 4.4 and the OSF/mk Mach 3, combining BSD's POSIX support with the fine-grained multithreading and real-time performance of Mach. ( ref: http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/darwin.html ) Well, I had originally read about the Mach kernel in a book on linux. In this book, it described the Mach kernel as being layered or modular. Hence, the reason for my description. However, I saw this as putting me to task to answer you. Here is a link I found that describes what I was talking about: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_kernel I won't go into much detail since you can read it for yourself, but if you follow the links back to CMU you'll find that the Mach kernel is the basis for most of what you mentioned. You'll also find that the kernel is broken down into a microkernel and then small servers on top of that. Any time you have to start passing messages or making calls, depending on how you look at it, to servers that in turn must pass messages or calls onto other servers and the microkernel, it is inherently slower than a kernel where it just does it. Were Apple to be on the ball enough (and there's presedence to prove otherwise) they could very well capitalize on the linux movement by making their desktop envrionment run on linux installations and dropping the mach kernel. Apple is a hardware company. Yes, and they are software as well. One of the things they don't talk about much is that they also have a red box version of OSX. It is Mac OS for Intel chips. I read several articles a year or so ago on ZDnet where analysts were saying that Apple should get out of the hardware business and focus on software. I'm not sure that's a good idea, but were they to move the OS to run on Intel and run on linux, they could conceivably do just that. Even just release the Intel version would help accomplish that. but it will never match a straight kernel. I assume you mean Monolithic kernel like linux uses when you say 'straight kernel.' The way I understand it, the Monolithic kernel is an all-in-one controlling kernel and the Mac kernel breaks every system function into bits called servers. Yes, I was fumbling for words a bit when I wrote that. I did mean monolithic. Yes, a monolithic kernel is an all in one kernel. Whereas, the Mach kernel is supposed to be a layered or a server based kernel which consists of a microkernel and then layers or servers on top of that. Can someone explain in more detail how Apple has accomplished both?? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by how Apple accomplishes both. 3).Their niche seems to be graphics as it always has been. How about Music production? Or the Biotech industry? There are plenty of others... Yes, there's music production, Biotech is iffy at best. I was working for a company that made a DNA analysis application that was originally only for the mac. They too had gone to a Windows version and were actually looking at phasing out their Mac version because more and more biotech companies were running windows. Even the companies that make machines that read DNA were hooking them to macs and have switched to using windows. All, I'm saying is that Steve Jobs has said before that Apple would be in a niche market rather than trying to compete with MS. In fact, they sort of have to because MS invested some money in Apple a couple of years ago. They said at the time it was with no strings attached, but is that really true? I doubt it. Until Adobe makes a version of photoshop to run under linux, there will be a need to run Mac. I don't think Adobe's software availability solely directs Apple's future. I purchased an Apple because I wanted something that would work right out of the box. And continue to work every time I use it. Time is money and for every hour I spend fiddling with Linux when I should be working is potential money being taken out of my pocket. Agreed, but again, Apple is staying in a niche market and while Photoshop wouldn't make or break Apple, were Adobe to say they will no longer produce software for the mac, it would seriously affect Apple. In fact, when
Re: [newbie] Drive points / and /home
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 7:14 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 2.6G 2.3G 145M 95% / /dev/hdb6 1.7G 126M 1.6G 8% /home /dev/hda1 29G 19G 11G 64% /mnt/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]# as you can see hdb1 or / is getting smaller everytime i install somthing, hdb6 or /home does not change. You could make one of the larger trees a symbolic link to /home/swhatever. Favorites would be /usr/local /var /usr/local would be fairly easy, but if you install everything from RPMs it may be only small at the moment. If you install from tarballs then it would be perfect. /var is tricky to move, but it can be done. Any experts out there like to say if /var is required at boot-time in the same way that /boot and /bin are? I don't *think* it is. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake juice, anyone?
Hey, if it'll get me fscked up, send it oon, maaan LOL! howzit goin with Pek? I think the latest work solved the rox/crashing problem. I'll try to create a crash again tonite, then if it's good, post back to the pek list as a success. Sylpheed is sooo fast compared to kmail! And it doesn't pollute my process tree, either... that next version of fbpanel looks really sweet, thanks fer turnin me onto that, sometimes nice to have. Yeah, seeing the list at the bottom keeps me informed about my place in the universe.. the latest idesk is really nice too, gonna try it out today... Tell me how it goes. So far i have been using rox. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to run script on KDE start?
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:28:20 -0700 (PDT) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a MDK 9.1 KDE box that I would like to run a bash script on start. Becuase the script in turn plays sound files, I would like it to run at the very end of the KDE start up sequence or as soon as KDE is up and running. TIA! Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't ya just put the script in the ~/.kde/Autostart folder? John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 25 15:45:07 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to run script on KDE start?
BTW: If you are using the OSS sound drivers you might find your sounds from your script do not play. This is because the OSS drivers can only allow 1 application at a time to use the sound system, and the KDE 'arts' sound system will be using the sound card to play the start up sound. If you get this problem. Using the alsa drivers ought to fix it. (You can check your alsa configuration here http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ ) derek On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 9:41 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Right click on your desktop and select CreateNewLink to Application Fill in the details of your script in the window that pops up. You will then have a desktop link to your script. Then drag and drop the desktop link into ~/.kde/Autostart The script will then run after KDE starts. HTH derek On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 8:28 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I have a MDK 9.1 KDE box that I would like to run a bash script on start. Becuase the script in turn plays sound files, I would like it to run at the very end of the KDE start up sequence or as soon as KDE is up and running. TIA! __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake juice, anyone?
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:37:07 -0700 (PDT) eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: howzit goin with Pek? I think the latest work solved the rox/crashing problem. I'll try to create a crash again tonite, then if it's good, post back to the pek list as a success. I've been abusing it since he announced the commit yesterday, no probs whatsoever (crosses fingers). Sylpheed is sooo fast compared to kmail! And it doesn't pollute my process tree, either... oh, dontcha love it?! if it starts with k, throw it away. that next version of fbpanel looks really sweet, thanks fer turnin me onto that, sometimes nice to have. Yeah, seeing the list at the bottom keeps me informed about my place in the universe.. heh, ya, that's about all i use it for...and the clock... the latest idesk is really nice too, gonna try it out today... Tell me how it goes. So far i have been using rox. idesk should be better, less interference with Pek, I can still use my wallpaper script instead of that clunky pinboard... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drive partitions and what they mean
I'm sorry to ask this again, because i asked something along the same lines last week. someone even gave me a link for it, BUTmy hard drive was formatted out and everything is GONE. here's the setup 2 hard drives 20GB partitioned to 5gb for windows and 15gb for anything else 100gb drive unpartitioned and fresh took FOREVER to get the 100gb drive installed, but it's finally up and running. i had formatted out linux and ended up doing a re- install of windows 98. so to get to the questions i have... i need a lnk explaining all the linux partitions or someone to tell me what they are. i know one of the partitions is used for backing up the OS, and i'd like to store that on a separate hard drive. i want to make sure i put that partition separate in case ANYTHING. i've got 15gb to run with on my smaller hard drive. i could dedicate it all to linux if need be. the 100gb drive is a little faster than the 20gb drive. 100gb drive has 8mb buffer, 20gb drive has 4mb buffer, both are 7200rpm and 8.9ms seek time. both are on the primary IDE channel, 20gb is master, 100gb is slave. as i already said, i'm sorry to ask the same questions over again, but i've lost everything, and i really don't know how to do a search for previously asked questions. also the intended use of my computer.(because i'm sure this helps to know) music (constantly) video (getting into editing and burning VCDs) some gaming school work (semester starts Aug 25...been 7 years and i can't wait to get back!) web surfing i plan to share music and video between linux and windows. i'm actually going to partition my 100gb hard drive later on to separate them, or should i do this before installing mandrake 9.1 again? meaning, is it easier to have them partitioned prior to installation than it is to get new partitions working in linux? (btw, diskdrake is MUCH easier to use than fdisk) on a windows related noteafter using linux for only a week and then going back to windows, i find myself utterly lost in windows. i'm addicted. running multiple desktops is REAL nice, and i started to really prefer mozilla over internet explorer. thanks to all! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
We have to put these things in perspective: it's not a scientific pol., It may just be that more Gentoo types hang around Novell. And the Gentoo people probably told all their friends to vote to make it look more popular. How despicable :-D Miark On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:00:59 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Multiboot on same drive
Hi to John Richard Smith , May the following be of assistance - it is part of a previous message I posted.. This is more detailed than the one posted earlier today - use them both.. snip Something else I would like to point out - I used Mandrake9.1 install partitioning to do the disk - when it reached apps to install I reset the PC. I prefer mandrake partitioninig - more friendly for me. This is for information only to someone who may need it. Have installed 3 OS's on one disk - see below I installed dos - then - redhat - then - mandrake. Do not forget make boot disks. They do not see each other or use each others partitions unless mounted. When I installed redhat I let it install lilo - when you install mandrake it will owerwrite the MBR with its version and this way you can test out redhat before you continue. Mandrake was last - I found in the past that mandrake is good at detecting OS,s and configuring them in lilo. This time detected but used mandrakes linuz initrd. All examples refer to my setup. This just show the drive setup. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 101 811251 6 FAT16 - Dos /dev/hde2 102 2494 19221772+ 5 Extended /dev/hde5 102 1261 9317668+ 83 Linux --Redhat8.0 /dev/hde6 1262 1362 811251 82 Linux swap -for both /dev/hde7 1363 2494 9092758+ 83 Linux --Mandrake9.1 What is importend for this to work is the following after all installs done.. 1. With Mandrake loaded.(your last installation) 2. Su in console. 3. mkdir /mnt/redhat. 4. mount -t ext3 /dev/hde /mnt/redhat - THIS IS VERY IMPORTEND otherwise it will just NOT work. If redhat is not mounted by fstab (I dont do - only on console when needed) If you should run lilo -v on another day - repeat 4. 5. cd /etc 6. gedit lilo.conf 7. add the lines as below and save. 8. lilo -v. ( MBR ). 9. What is importend add /mnt/redhat to image and initrd - if you leave it out at initrd -- command lilo -v will complain : fatal: no such file or directory. After a lot of grief I realized this. snip image=/mnt/redhat/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 label=Redhat root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/mnt/redhat/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img read-only Enjoy Johan May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive partitions and what they mean
Michael, if you want to run win 98 or 2000 or any windows os alongside the linux it has to be installed first ( as it seems you have ) the 15 gig remaining is fine for linux set like this : 7gig for / 8 gig for /home ( there are more partitions you could separate out but you will be fine with these. ) If you wanted to run an additional os a /boot partition of 500 meg would be an advantage, but only if you want to run three or more os's this gives you enough room for installs and personal files, and with this setup if you need a reinstall all you need format in the future is the / partition ( don't need to reformat /home each time. ) the 100 gig will depend on what you plan on using it for. for example if you want to do a lot of music or video editing and plan to use a windows based application to do it you could make it a fat32 windows drive and place all of you work there. this would keep it separate from the windows os files so if you needed to reinstall windows you would not lose any work. however if you plan to do the editing in linux then you would have to set at least part of the drive if not all of it as a ext3 linux drive or another linux files system of your choosing. I have a /win_cpartition / partition /home partition /backup partition /tmp partition the extra /backup is for storage and backups the /tmp is because I load and unload allot of apps. but this set up is just me, there are many many different way to set up your partitions. hope this helps some. :~) Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to ask this again, because i asked something along the same lines last week. someone even gave me a link for it, BUTmy hard drive was formatted out and everything is GONE. here's the setup 2 hard drives 20GB partitioned to 5gb for windows and 15gb for anything else 100gb drive unpartitioned and fresh took FOREVER to get the 100gb drive installed, but it's finally up and running. i had formatted out linux and ended up doing a re- install of windows 98. so to get to the questions i have... i need a lnk explaining all the linux partitions or someone to tell me what they are. i know one of the partitions is used for backing up the OS, and i'd like to store that on a separate hard drive. i want to make sure i put that partition separate in case ANYTHING. i've got 15gb to run with on my smaller hard drive. i could dedicate it all to linux if need be. the 100gb drive is a little faster than the 20gb drive. 100gb drive has 8mb buffer, 20gb drive has 4mb buffer, both are 7200rpm and 8.9ms seek time. both are on the primary IDE channel, 20gb is master, 100gb is slave. as i already said, i'm sorry to ask the same questions over again, but i've lost everything, and i really don't know how to do a search for previously asked questions. also the intended use of my computer.(because i'm sure this helps to know) music (constantly) video (getting into editing and burning VCDs) some gaming school work (semester starts Aug 25...been 7 years and i can't wait to get back!) web surfing i plan to share music and video between linux and windows. i'm actually going to partition my 100gb hard drive later on to separate them, or should i do this before installing mandrake 9.1 again? meaning, is it easier to have them partitioned prior to installation than it is to get new partitions working in linux? (btw, diskdrake is MUCH easier to use than fdisk) on a windows related noteafter using linux for only a week and then going back to windows, i find myself utterly lost in windows. i'm addicted. running multiple desktops is REAL nice, and i started to really prefer mozilla over internet explorer. thanks to all! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA == Dual booting 98lite;MDK 9.1 stock kernel Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 liquid/acqua Theme == If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install results vary
At 12:45 PM 6/25/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 5:37 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 14:22, Roland Hughes wrote: I have done 3-4 install's and everyone was different. I think mandrake is becoming like windows ( I am joking!). Roly It's really funny that last October I tried to point this out to people on the list, but no one believed me... I don't remember that, Stephen. I for one would have agreed with you. It's been so since I started using Mandrake with 8.0. Of course, Femme's experience has probably run through all the possible combinations g Anne heh so far ya... sorta i swear each time I install its a new adventure in errors tracking down weirdness. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:19, Technoslick wrote: Stephen! That's not fair! You covered all your bases with that shotgun approach. ;0) (Solly Cholly) I don't doubt all those contribute to my problem. However, I was wondering about the way KDE stores and indexes (if any) the bookmarks. Doesn't it just suck stuff from say, a Galeon .XBEL and convert it into a Konqueror formatted HTML page? I'm trying to figure out now exactly how indexing is done, but not getting very far... I do know, though, that it's stored in ~/home/usernamegoeshere/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml ...so wouldn't that really have to do with parsing a file of large size - albeit an XML, but that would/SHOULD be a function of how Konqueror parses the file...ya? I haven't had the time to sort through all the imported links, but many were three levels down, and therefore are up to four levels down now. Maybe, KDE has a problem working with that kind of hierarchy? It's not really a hierarchy - in a static sense - it's a hierarchy inside of the XML document, though...but overall, it's a static document; Konqueror would be tripping the light fantastic trying to sort through it and present folders as it were, along with their contents... I have to sort though all these links, anyway. Many are now dead. As I reorganize them, dropping the dead and no longer intersting ones, I hope to find a workable compromise. Check Status: All ...that SHOULD find all yer dead links - but from what I understand already, it would take a fair long while, ay? -- Thu Jun 26 08:10:00 EST 2003 08:10:00 up 1 day, 7:56, 2 users, load average: 0.57, 0.40, 0.36 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me. -- Steven Wright Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:45, Anne Wilson wrote: I'd say that it's the sheer number of bookmarks combined with resources. As a test, could you copy your bookmarks file to a backup, then simply delete half of them. If it's just numbers that will tell you. If you still have a problem there's something else involved. Anne If there are thousands of them, I'd still tend to reckon that improving overall system performance, HD performance and drinking better coffee might help... -- Thu Jun 26 08:20:00 EST 2003 08:20:00 up 1 day, 8:06, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.23, 0.28 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * ...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). (By Matt Welsh) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive partitions and what they mean
This is what I'd do...YMMV. See below. 2 hard drives 20GB partitioned to 5gb for windows and 15gb for anything else When you say 15GB for anything else, I assume you mean it is a FAT32 partition, so that the data is accessible by Windows and Windows sees it as d drive. If so, that is fine. I would leave that all as is. Store any data there (say music) that you want to be accessible by both Linux AND Windows. That amount of space will surely turn out to be too much for Windows later on as you use Linux more and more but it is a start and some space can be reclaimed later solely Linux if need be. 100gb drive unpartitioned and fresh Here's what you do, make at leats 4 partitions. Make one of them the / partition (where the OS and programs reside), make that about 3GB, so you can install programs later without running out of space. Then you'll want a linux swap (rule of thumb is double the size of your RAM), things get ugly if you run out of swap space. After that make a /home partition. This is where all user files/data reside. This should be of a size that you think suitable of course. These users can also access data on other partitions if you give them permission to, so it's not necessarily a big deal. I would make that maybe 2GB since you have the space. The reason for making /home a separate partition is so that if/when you need to reinstall/upgrade the OS, the user config's and data stay intact. Partition the rest of the drive how you see fit. Maybe make 3 more partitions just so you have separate places to backup stuff to or whatever. I use the ext3 filesystem and have never had any problems with it, plus it's journalled, so the potential loss of data during a power outtage or system crash isn't as dire. Others may recommend reiserfs or jfs I suppose. Hope this helps!! Regards, Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 03:15, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Aren't most of the Hollywood high end graphics houses using Linux? Not because it's cheaper, but because it's faster and more powerful. -- cmg A good hunk of them are turning to linux because you don't need to be a rocket scientist to get a cluster going - so it's cheaper all the way around - cheaper on hardware, cheaper on support, easier to get up and running in a short amount of time, yadda yadda yadda... -- Thu Jun 26 08:25:00 EST 2003 08:25:00 up 1 day, 8:11, 2 users, load average: 0.51, 0.56, 0.40 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * economist, n: Someone who's good with figures, but doesn't have enough personality to become an accountant. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?
On 26 Jun 2003 08:32:03 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: easier to get up and running in a short amount of time, yadda yadda yadda... apparently with Beowulf, you just pop a CD in one machine in a networked cluster, and it installs itself! -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to a Zebra LP 2844 thermal label printer
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 04:23, Grant wrote: I've searched the Internet for a Linux driver for my printer and can't seem to come up with one. Is there any chance of getting this thing to print in Linux without one? I just tried to add it manually but Zebra is not one of the make choices (Eltron would work too, but it's not there either). Am I SOL? - Grant When I worked for Samsung Telecom America, we had Zebra's in the warehouse - what a programmer ended up doing was to create a script that would generate postscript and then be sent directly to the printer. A distributor somewhere in Dallas tried to help out with the issue, but it basically boiled down to doing it by hand - but in the end, it worked flawlessly (and so much better than the original WinNT server that was in place and had to be mucked with at least three/four times a day). Have you tried contacting the manufacturer for any tips/hints/clues as to how to get this printer working? -- Thu Jun 26 08:30:00 EST 2003 08:30:00 up 1 day, 8:16, 2 users, load average: 0.41, 0.55, 0.44 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. -- Charles-Maurice De Talleyrand Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to run script on KDE start?
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 05:28, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I have a MDK 9.1 KDE box that I would like to run a bash script on start. Becuase the script in turn plays sound files, I would like it to run at the very end of the KDE start up sequence or as soon as KDE is up and running. TIA! Create a link to the script and put it in your ~/home/yournamehere/Desktop/Autostart folder. -- Thu Jun 26 08:35:01 EST 2003 08:35:01 up 1 day, 8:21, 2 users, load average: 0.85, 0.57, 0.47 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * But you who live on dreams, you are better pleased with the sophistical reasoning and frauds of talkers about great and uncertain matters than those who speak of certain and natural matters, not of such lofty nature. -- Leonardo Da Vinci, The Codex on the Flight of Birds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nother sylpheed-claws question
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:36:07 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to click or hit enter or the space bar for it to open the next message. I can't find any setting for changing that behavior--is it supposed to be like that? I liked it better before! Todd the answer to this is: Configuration/Common Preferences/Interface/Always open messages in summary when selected Apparently there is also a FAQ (which contains your question): http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/ best regards John Great, thanks John! Back to (almost) normal now. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
Let Novell know who ya love :-) http://www.novell.com/linux/ See the poll in the right-most column. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
