Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install
Graham Watkins wrote: Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the internet. He has an NTL cable modem. I've never had a problem downloading support for my ISA linmodem, but he's not a techie, and I've never used cable modems before. I'm trying hard to prevent him from crossing over to the dark side, but he thinks he needs XP to access the net. I thought the Mandrake installation wizard detected modems like that, but I doesn't think it has. Can anyone who has experience please suggest some questions/solutions I can ask/recommend to him? I use NTL Cable modem connected via usb, forget what order the menus come in but when asked select... Cable connection load a manual driver Select usbnet or something like that (there are two usb driver near the bottom of the list) Ok everything else thats it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 Mar 2005 09:54, SnapafunFrank wrote: Just a possibility I've found while vivisimo~ing ( another other than google ), Apparently, I need to turn off all the goodies I got running on my system - that is, supermount, hotplug and the like. Frank, I've been away, so I don't know if you've got this sorted yet. I can say, though, that I have turned off nothing at all on my system and am getting a correct burn from k3b. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLFj0kFAvMr/nNX8RApteAKCS7pfeHdddeKc7QMOqIO1CMNWL6QCePJN1 fw7cCHy4mgAOixm01QOD8q0= =pO05 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Thanks for taking a look Anne. Not sorted yet, though I have tried. XCDRoast gets about 3-4% into a burn then stops ~ another dvd_coaster anyone. Whereas k3b does the prep work and without burning anything, it to stops ~ yet another dvd_coaster. It seems that something is not configured properly on my system so any clues as where to start looking are most welcome. In fact, if anyone finds a good howto burn tutorial for mdk10 that includes troubleshooting, I would be most grateful. I have tried all the following: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/-RW/ ( The discs I am using are dvd-r ) http://k3b.plainblack.com ( Signed up for this one but no feedback yet to my new thread. ) and of course all my forum wanderings, justlinux, linuxquestions, etc. I have installed stuff as a result that I never knew existed - but to no avail as yet. Basically what I'm looking for is stuff that relates to where to look for troubleshooting a system that is not playing ball. I need to clean a partition so as to sandbox 10.1 to take a look at. I thought it would be straight forward to burn 4gigs to a dvd ~ just my luck. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:08, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to organize the quotations I am getting from my readings. Is there such a software? Thanks in advance, Paul Hmmm, not really my area of expertise, but would this be something a bibliographic or citation program would handle? You could try Bookcase or PyBliographer. Something like MySQL is way overkill for something like this, if you do want to go for a DIY database, try Rekall or Kexi. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 10:42, SnapafunFrank wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 09:54, SnapafunFrank wrote: Just a possibility I've found while vivisimo~ing ( another other than google ), Apparently, I need to turn off all the goodies I got running on my system - that is, supermount, hotplug and the like. Frank, I've been away, so I don't know if you've got this sorted yet. I can say, though, that I have turned off nothing at all on my system and am getting a correct burn from k3b. Anne Thanks for taking a look Anne. Not sorted yet, though I have tried. XCDRoast gets about 3-4% into a burn then stops ~ another dvd_coaster anyone. Whereas k3b does the prep work and without burning anything, it to stops ~ yet another dvd_coaster. It seems that something is not configured properly on my system so any clues as where to start looking are most welcome. In fact, if anyone finds a good howto burn tutorial for mdk10 that includes troubleshooting, I would be most grateful. The only things I can think of right now are to check your set-up for things like - Have you got the latest dvd-tools package for cdrecord? Have you run XCDRoast's setup as root so that it knows about your hardware? XCDRoast, on my system, defaults to CD size burns and I have to select 4.7GB from the drop-down box on the burn page. I don't remember where to check similar settings on k3b, but I'm sure they will be there. Not much help, but it might spark something off for you. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLYugkFAvMr/nNX8RAh8GAJ0RKTa6Csaaf7S0BMRdsToTuZtAWgCfXgCf xwoPFGUSzI82QZqLfzkoKAQ= =nPa2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Monday 07 March 2005 19:05, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 22:21, SOTL wrote: Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log of fish's connection to the other computer. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this? Thanks Frank Spelling Correction The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log off [out of] the fish's connection to the other computer. Just close the window derek I tried that. Then I open another and I was still connected. I closed Konqueror and reopened that and I was still connected. I log out of the desk top and log back in and I was still connected. I rebooted and I was still connected. I rebooted the computer I was loged into and the connection was broken. Thanks Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking - OpenOffice
Hi All Well the positive news is that I am able to connect the two computers and transfer files by fish even though I am unable to log off the computer I am SSH into without rebooting that computer so I have fish working with a slight issues. Next item on the Network agenda is to access the Test Data Base that I have on one box using OpenOffice 1.9 database management program in the other box. You may recall that I have two Mandrake 10.1 boxes connected with a router [Fire wall currently turned off. Fire will to be activated after I figure out DB connection procedure.] Anyway I did the following in this attempt to connect: Opened OpenOffice 1.9 selected new DB and then connect to an existing DB. [Why connect to an existing DB is under Create New DB instead of being under Open is beyond my grasp but that is where it is located.] Anyway a dialog box opens where you can either directly enter the file name or select by browse for the directory where the DB is located you want to connect to. I tried entering: http://branch @192.168.1.3/home/Test-DB I received the folowing notice: The file does not exist. Would you like to create it? I tried entering: fish://branch @192.168.1.3/home/Test-DB And I again received the folowing notice: The file does not exist. Would you like to create it? If anyone knows how to use OpenOffice DB manager to connect to a DB in another computer I would appreciate a little guidance in doing such. Thanks Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:27, SOTL wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 19:05, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 22:21, SOTL wrote: Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log of fish's connection to the other computer. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this? Thanks Frank Spelling Correction The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log off [out of] the fish's connection to the other computer. Just close the window derek I tried that. Then I open another and I was still connected. I closed Konqueror and reopened that and I was still connected. I log out of the desk top and log back in and I was still connected. I rebooted and I was still connected. I rebooted the computer I was loged into and the connection was broken. Thanks Frank The ssh protocol (on which fish sits) has two mechanisms to test if the client is still there. TCPKeepAlive - will send packets to the client and will detect if the window has been closed or the computer rebooted. TCPKeepAlive defaults to ON in Mandrake. I think it takes about a minute before tearing down the connection. ClientAliveInterval/ClientAliveCountMax passes encrypted messages to the client to detect if it is still active. In Mandrake this feature defaults to OFF You can see/change the configuration if you look at the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config Where you see a line commented out with a '#' the value shown is the default. If you want to change it remove the '#' and restart ssh service in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. You can read all the options for ssh here http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man5/sshd_config.5.php I have been using ssh and fish now for several years, and have never had a need to change the default behaviour. Just kill a fish window when you are finished with it and everything will be fine. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking - OpenOffice
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:02, SOTL wrote: Hi All Well the positive news is that I am able to connect the two computers and transfer files by fish even though I am unable to log off the computer I am SSH into without rebooting that computer so I have fish working with a slight issues. Next item on the Network agenda is to access the Test Data Base that I have on one box using OpenOffice 1.9 database management program in the other box. You may recall that I have two Mandrake 10.1 boxes connected with a router [Fire wall currently turned off. Fire will to be activated after I figure out DB connection procedure.] Anyway I did the following in this attempt to connect: Opened OpenOffice 1.9 selected new DB and then connect to an existing DB. [Why connect to an existing DB is under Create New DB instead of being under Open is beyond my grasp but that is where it is located.] Anyway a dialog box opens where you can either directly enter the file name or select by browse for the directory where the DB is located you want to connect to. I tried entering: http://branch @192.168.1.3/home/Test-DB I received the folowing notice: The file does not exist. Would you like to create it? I tried entering: fish://branch @192.168.1.3/home/Test-DB And I again received the folowing notice: The file does not exist. Would you like to create it? If anyone knows how to use OpenOffice DB manager to connect to a DB in another computer I would appreciate a little guidance in doing such. Thanks Frank I have no experience with OpenOffice 1.9 or using it with databases, but I know for sure that http://; and fish:// are not the file types you should be using. If it is a local file the file type will be file:// As I pointed out when you first contacted the list, fish:// is only understood by KDE applications. Open Office does not use it. One method you *can* use with OpenOffice is NFS (Network File System) NFS allows you to mount remote folders as if they were local folders. Open Office would not even be aware the database was remote. (If the remote database was MySQL then it would not need to be mounted at all. Open Office could connect to it directly) To set up NFS in Mandrake install portmapper, nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients. On the server edit the file /etc/exports and add lines in the format /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash) This line will advertise that the folder /home may be accessed by computers on the 192.168.1 subnetwork for read and write. Note : There MUST be a TAB character after the directory name NOT SPACES The last line must end in new line Then in a root console enter exportfs -ra This will make the share available to other computers. Now in the client open MandrakeControlCentreMount PointsNFS Click the button to search the network. It should find the directories you just shared on the server. Pick a mount point for the folder (normally somewhere under /mnt ) When you boot the client it will by default automatically connect to the server. If the server is down at boot time you will have to mount it manually. There is a tool in KDE to do this MenuSystemMonitoringKwikDisk an applet will appear in the Quickstart menu. NFS is notoriously insecure and should not be used on a non trusted network. NFS is also VERY particular about file attributes. If a file does not have public permission (777) then the UID (User) and GID (Group) numbers of users on the two computers must match or else you will not be able to read the file. For example on this computer my username is derek and my UID:GID numbers are 501:501 If the remote computer has files owned by user derek with UID:GID of 502:502 I would not be able to read those files over NFS. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problems with ipw2200 and MDK 10.1
Hi. I have a laptop running MDK 10.1. After looking through several howto's/forums/etc. I did the following trying to get my ipw2200 to work: 1) Download and install kernel source 2) $ su # mkdir /lib/hotplug/firmware /etc/firmware # tar zxvf ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz # cp *.fw /etc/firmware # cp *.fw /lib/hotplug/firmware # urpmi ipw2200-dkms-0.19-1mdk.noarch.rpm 3) Use the KDE configuration tool to configure the connection 4) Edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 - since it wanted the MAC address to be loads of zero's. When I do # ifup eth1 I get: grep: /etc/sysconfig/networking/default/ifcfg-*: No such file or directory interface 'eth1' not found Determining IP information for eth1.failed This is not really strange since there is no 'default' directory in /../../networking. Can anyone help me with this? -Henriette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:54 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:17 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: Editing text files is particularly irritating because my fingers operate in vi mode reflexively. I am looking forward to some day soon being able to say the same thing. :) Julie -- you could try mcedit. I like it a lot. -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 10:20:15 up 13:44, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.28, 0.62 ** Aquilo que hoje está provado não foi outrora mais do que imaginado. William Blake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking - OpenOffice
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 15:12, SOTL wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 08:10, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:02, SOTL wrote: To set up NFS in Mandrake install portmapper, nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients. On the server edit the file /etc/exports and add lines in the format /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash) My principal issue with making fish work was having all the correct packages installed. Once I had them installed fish worked. I have verified that I have nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients installed but I am unable to verify the existence of portmapper as being installed or not installed. Is it possible that this package mascaraed under another name or is included with a package under another name in the Mandrake 10.1 distribution? urpmi portmap Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but the remaining Windows boxes could not. The gateway on the Windows boxes was set to 192.168.4.111 which is the static IP of the Mandrake box. I tries setting up the Mandrake box as a proxy (I've been using drakwizard to set these up) using squid, but the the Windows box still could not access the internet. I did change the proxy settings on the Windows box to use ip 192.168.4.111 and the port suggested by drakwizard. What is it that I need to do? My goal is to have everything routed through the Mandrake box under one firewall. Eventually I would like to expose the server to the outside world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:44, Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but the remaining Windows boxes could not. The gateway on the Windows boxes was set to 192.168.4.111 which is the static IP of the Mandrake box. I tries setting up the Mandrake box as a proxy (I've been using drakwizard to set these up) using squid, but the the Windows box still could not access the internet. I did change the proxy settings on the Windows box to use ip 192.168.4.111 and the port suggested by drakwizard. What is it that I need to do? My goal is to have everything routed through the Mandrake box under one firewall. Eventually I would like to expose the server to the outside world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. The gateway is the box that is physically connected to the internet. That is still your Linksys, so you must set 192.168.4.1 as the gateway address regardless which box is the DHCP server. (I assume the Windows boxes are also on the 192.168.4 subnet) If you are using Squid proxy, then the Windows clients will not need the Linksys as a gateway for browsing, but the Windows clients must be configured to use a proxy on 192.168.4.111 port 3128 If you still have problems check you do not have a firewall on the Linux box blocking access to the proxy. BTW: You could keep the Linksys but set it up to do port forwarding to the Linux box for your remote access. Your Linksys manual will describe port forwarding. You can still use dynamic DNS (which is what I assume you mean by dynamic dhcp) by using ddclient to update dynamic DNS servers with the external IP address of the Linksys. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:06:35 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:44, Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but the remaining Windows boxes could not. The gateway on the Windows boxes was set to 192.168.4.111 which is the static IP of the Mandrake box. I tries setting up the Mandrake box as a proxy (I've been using drakwizard to set these up) using squid, but the the Windows box still could not access the internet. I did change the proxy settings on the Windows box to use ip 192.168.4.111 and the port suggested by drakwizard. What is it that I need to do? My goal is to have everything routed through the Mandrake box under one firewall. Eventually I would like to expose the server to the outside world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. The gateway is the box that is physically connected to the internet. That is still your Linksys, so you must set 192.168.4.1 as the gateway address regardless which box is the DHCP server. (I assume the Windows boxes are also on the 192.168.4 subnet) If you are using Squid proxy, then the Windows clients will not need the Linksys as a gateway for browsing, but the Windows clients must be configured to use a proxy on 192.168.4.111 port 3128 If you still have problems check you do not have a firewall on the Linux box blocking access to the proxy. BTW: You could keep the Linksys but set it up to do port forwarding to the Linux box for your remote access. Your Linksys manual will describe port forwarding. You can still use dynamic DNS (which is what I assume you mean by dynamic dhcp) by using ddclient to update dynamic DNS servers with the external IP address of the Linksys. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I'll give the 192.168.4.1 gateway a try. I had the Windows box set to use the proxy at the right IP and port. I checked the firewall settings under the control panel and it showed to let everything through. The real trick to exposing isn't the Linksys Router, but the Westell 2200 DSL modem. This does not seem to want to let anything through. I will try googling and see what I can come up with. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:58 -0800, Fernando wrote: Pardon me? Are you blamming Europe? Haha, wasn't U.$. who allowed Microsoft to become such a huge beast? The US made M$ a beast in the US. Europeans are responsible for what happens in Europe. (News flash: The US is not responsible for every thing that happens in every corner of the world.) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:58 -0800, Fernando wrote: Pardon me? Are you blamming Europe? Haha, wasn't U.$. who allowed Microsoft to become such a huge beast? The US made M$ a beast in the US. Europeans are responsible for what happens in Europe. Haha, yep, that's why many European governments were trying to stop Microsoft's efforts of conquering Europe by increasing taxes... do you know what U.$. did as a counter-offensive? Well, they defended their beloved son by raising the taxes for European steel... that's playing fair, haha! Now, I totally agree that Europe wasn't able to stop the awake gigant, despite many governments effors (i.e. as far as I know, both the German and Spanish governments were only running Unix as their systems; a german and a spanish guy might confirm this). But it seems to me rather excessive blaming Europe when not even the U.$. was able to stop their problem in their own country. Of course, more excessive is to call them Nazis... when the nazism reborn is in the U.$. (shall I remind you the immigrant-hunters in Arizona?) (News flash: The US is not responsible for every thing that happens in every corner of the world.) I know, I know... of course that U.$. is not responsible for everything... usually, U.$. stays away from activities where their greed cannot be satisfied. But if an activity means profit to them, they won't care if people dies, if the environment is destroyed, if they leave entire nations in the poverty, if they divide nations, etc. As proves: 1. U.$. is in permanent war for the oil, i.e. in Afganistan and Irak twice, and now they are threating Venezuela and Iran. 2. U.$. didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol for reducing environment pollution, despite that they produce 40% of the pollution in the world. 3. Kosovo in 1999 and Vietnam in 1970s are examples of countries that U.$. leave in poverty after the war, even when the war started for helping them. 4. Although the blame is shared with the U.S.S.R., it's a shame seeing Korea divided and with too much hate. I do not deny that U.S. has many, many good things. Technology advances such as Internet and in physics and maths (and The Simpsons =D) are remarkable. Unfortunately, U.S. harms more than it helps. Its amazing when you ask U.S. people and they really think that they're helping menkind. Unless U.S. citizens realize that the Empire struggles people around the world, and stop seeking for gold and money and golden money, the Empire will be hated until they fall (as Rome, the Sacre Roman-German Empire, Otoman Empire, the III Reich did. Even the Galactic Empire, with Darth Vader as the leader, fell =D). Anyway, this is not the forum for this discution. And it seems that I made a storm in a glass of water; I apologize. My point is that is excessive to call Nazis to Europe when not even U.S. can fight their own daemons. Miark Best wishes, Fernando Gomez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mac and Linux
Hi, someone just sent me this question. I, (of course) couldn´t answer but no doubt one of you will. Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:08:56 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but the remaining Windows boxes could not. The gateway on the Windows boxes was set to 192.168.4.111 which is the static IP of the Mandrake box. I tries setting up the Mandrake box as a proxy (I've been using drakwizard to set these up) using squid, but the the Windows box still could not access the internet. I did change the proxy settings on the Windows box to use ip 192.168.4.111 and the port suggested by drakwizard. What is it that I need to do? My goal is to have everything routed through the Mandrake box under one firewall. Eventually I would like to expose the server to the outside world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. UNless you are planning on setting up a proxy server on the Linux box, set the gateway setting in the dhcpd config to the address of the Linksys box. (192.168.0.1) You will also want to set the name server address (DNS). You may want to consider running a name server on the Linux box, and having the Windows machines use that. This offers a couple of advantages. You can also have it manage the IP addresses for the local netowork. It can also save haing to go to the Internet to look up the names of common sites. This can make getting to the sites faster. You only have to go to the Internet for the first machine that visits the site. A second machine on the locak network visiting the site gets the address that is stored on the Linux machine. If you are interested, I will look in my notes for the name of the one I used to use. It had nice features like reading the dhcp lease file, and adding the machines from there to its database dynamicly. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Mikkel, My ISP is Verizon Online. I will have to check to see if they are blocking, but I don't think so as you will see below. The Westell modem is also a router with one port. I tried having the modem handling the PPoE and the router set to a static IP in the range of the subnet specified by the modem.The router modem was set with port forwarding to the router and the router was set with port forwarding to the linux box (also a static ip on the subnet). At this point I could ping the assigned dynamic IP (I use http://www.dnsstuff.com). The Linksys router showed nothing in its incoming logs. The Windows boxes could access internet sites by IP only. The name lookup was no longer working. The linux box was fine. This was when the Linksys rep said that the modem had to be in bridge mode. Once put into bridge mode, I could no longer ping the assigned IP, but the Windows boxes could access the named sites. The router is now handling the PPoE and DHCP. My goal is to have the linux box control the other boxes. I think that you are right in that I need to set up DNS. There is a setup for that in drakwizard, but I do not know what to do with it. I believe that it asked me to change the hostname. I explore more when I get home. Thanks for the help everyone. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
On March 8, 2005 11:46 am, M.Schild wrote: Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? Well this is something i have been looking into but not done yet. Answer is yes but with an emulator. Problem is, you need a mac rom file taken from a mac, only mac i have right now is a classic and i don't have a floppy drive on this computer. So for the moment im SOL. I have the emulator (basilisk ll) (there are others) installed and working but no rom to install os with. Short answer is yes but your Friend needs to do some reading to get this to work. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Mar 8 13:37:17 EST 2005 13:37:17 up 17:30, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.00 Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you -- Murphy's Laws on Sex n°39 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
Hello Fernando, Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 10:27:15 AM, Fernando wrote: FAGF Anyway, this is not the forum for this discution. And it seems FAGF that I made a storm in a glass of water; I apologize. My point FAGF is that is excessive to call Nazis to Europe when not even FAGF U.S. can fight their own daemons. The people on the OT list would LOVE to continue this, in all its gory detail. You bring up LOTS of good points that are worth exploring, but not here. Don't stop now, just bring it to the OT list. It's easy: Send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:07:42 +1100, John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a program to organize the quotations I am getting from my readings. Is there such a software? Hmmm, not really my area of expertise, but would this be something a bibliographic or citation program would handle? You could try Bookcase or PyBliographer. Something like MySQL is way overkill for something like this, if you do want to go for a DIY database, try Rekall or Kexi. Thanks, John. I am going to have a look at Rekall and Kexi. I have never used a database; let us see whether it is easy or not... Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
If it's a Mac program written for Mac OSX, it should be pretty easy to run on Linux because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood (well, Unix-like; the guts of OSX is a version of BSD). A lot of Mac OSX programs have Linux equivalents; others that come in source code format can usually be compiled under Linux. For pre-OSX Macs, uh, well, I think you're probably out of luck, unless someone has written some emulator software somewhere that'll do the trick. PG M.Schild wrote: Hi, someone just sent me this question. I, (of course) couldn´t answer but no doubt one of you will. Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
Op Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:20:26 + schreef Paul Smith: Something like MySQL is way overkill for something like this, if you do want to go for a DIY database, try Rekall or Kexi. Thanks, John. I am going to have a look at Rekall and Kexi. I have never used a database; let us see whether it is easy or not... And if you cannot get the hang of that: OpenOffice 2.0 Beta is out and that has a database system in it too. I have not played with it but is should be easy enough to use. Paul -- I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. - Henny Youngman http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:28 pm, Paul Greene wrote: because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood ___ the web page : http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html has stuff about: Running Mac OS on other Platforms .. the emulator BOCHS may be able to do it? best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:28 am, Paul Greene wrote: If it's a Mac program written for Mac OSX, it should be pretty easy to run on Linux because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood (well, Unix-like; the guts of OSX is a version of BSD). A lot of Mac OSX programs have Linux equivalents; others that come in source code format can usually be compiled under Linux. For pre-OSX Macs, uh, well, I think you're probably out of luck, unless someone has written some emulator software somewhere that'll do the trick. PG M.Schild wrote: Hi, someone just sent me this question. I, (of course) couldn´t answer but no doubt one of you will. Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? I think that there is a version of linux fo macs http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
On March 8, 2005 02:29 pm, Paul wrote: And if you cannot get the hang of that: OpenOffice 2.0 Beta is out and that has a database system in it too. I have not played with it but is should be easy enough to use. I am having a look at the beta of OpenOffice 2 now but beware there are some bugs but is going to be real nice when its finished, then i can finally get rid of some other OS and database i have had to use for work. -- Tue Mar 8 15:11:50 EST 2005 15:11:50 up 19:04, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.00 Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
Christopher Taylor wrote: Mikkel, My ISP is Verizon Online. I will have to check to see if they are blocking, but I don't think so as you will see below. The Westell modem is also a router with one port. I tried having the modem handling the PPoE and the router set to a static IP in the range of the subnet specified by the modem.The router modem was set with port forwarding to the router and the router was set with port forwarding to the linux box (also a static ip on the subnet). At this point I could ping the assigned dynamic IP (I use http://www.dnsstuff.com). The Linksys router showed nothing in its incoming logs. The Windows boxes could access internet sites by IP only. The name lookup was no longer working. The linux box was fine. This was when the Linksys rep said that the modem had to be in bridge mode. Once put into bridge mode, I could no longer ping the assigned IP, but the Windows boxes could access the named sites. The router is now handling the PPoE and DHCP. My goal is to have the linux box control the other boxes. I think that you are right in that I need to set up DNS. There is a setup for that in drakwizard, but I do not know what to do with it. I believe that it asked me to change the hostname. I explore more when I get home. Thanks for the help everyone. I would take things in small steps. Get each step working beofre moving on the the next step. If you are going to use the Linux box as a dhcp server, get that set up first. You will have to specify the address of the Linksys box as the gateway, and you also have to specify the name server as part of the dhcp setup. If I remember correctly, the Linksys box acts as a caching name server. If so, you can use that as the name server for the initial setup. If not, take a look at /etc/resolv.conf - you can use the name servers listed there at first. option routers192.168.0.1; option domain-name-servers192.168.0.1; If you are running Samba on the Linux box, and it provides a Wins server, you may want to add: option netbios-name-servers IP of Linux box; You may want to look into running dnsmasq on the Linux box, and having the Windows boxes use the Linux box as their name server. http://www.routerlinux.com/docs/manual/man8/dnsmasq.8.html I like it because it will read the /etc/hosts file on the Linux box, and add that to its database, as well as watching /var/lib/dhcp/dhcp.leases and adding hosts assigned IP addresses there. It works great for small networks. I have not tried it on a large network. It also works good with dialup connections. Once you have this working, set up the services you want to run on the Linux box, and make sure you can access them from other machines on the local network. That way, you will know if you have any firewall issues, or configuration problems. One of the first services I would configure is ssh. Configure the Linksys box to forward incomming ssh connections to the Linux box. Try connecting from a remote host. Is it working? If not, check the logs on the Linux box to see if the connection made it that far. If not, double check the Linksys box to make sure the changes are there. I have noticed that some routers will show the changes when using Firefox, but if you refresh the page, they didn't take. As far as the mode of the modem and router, I would let the modem handle PPPoE, and run the Linksys box set for a dynamic IP WAN connection. But this is more my prefference then anything else. You should be able to set it up, and make it work ether way. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface
I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IP Bytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734 192.168.1.5 1354235 eth1: 10.1.1.352345243 10.1.1.4342433 etc... there is a software that can do this? Thanks, and forgive my poor english. Ivo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
Aron Smith wrote: I think that there is a version of linux fo macs http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ There are dozens of distros for Mac. Yellowdog is exclusively Mac (It's basically Fedora ported to PPC), while other Distros like Debian, and even Mandrake if you hadn't heard, have builds for Mac. When running Linux on Mac dual-booted with a more-or-less recent Mac OS you can use Mac-on-Linux to run Mac OS in a VM-type environment, as if you were running both OS's simultainously. So, yes, it's easy to port apps to Linux from Mac OS X and vice versa when you have the source code, but if you're running Linux on PPC it's often a better alternative to run Mac-on-Linux so you can run your Mac OS apps natively and Linux apps natively without needing a reboot. Cheerio, SigmaX -- Registered Linux Freak #: 366,862 http://counter.li.org If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass Boost and all the music is free. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:28 pm, Paul Greene wrote: because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood ___ the web page : http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html has stuff about: Running Mac OS on other Platforms .. the emulator BOCHS may be able to do it? best rgds _ Last I knew there wasn't any Mac emulator worth-mentioning for x86 that could emulate PPC chips, just 68k. So you could play Lemmings, use MS works 3.0, and connect to a LocalTalk network (As long as you had an old Mac around to grab a ROM image from, or downloaded an illegal un-licensed one)... but nothing much better :-). I think I almost had Starcraft working with Basilisk on Windows 2000 with Mac OS 8.1... almost. But I'd prefer to keep an ol' Mac around in a closet for revival-at-whim then run an emulator like Basilisk. Better yet, Pingus (Lemmings), OpenOffice (Works), and Netatalk (LocalTalk) instead :-). SigmaX -- Registered Linux Freak #: 366,862 http://counter.li.org If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass Boost and all the music is free. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 04:45, Ivo Perich wrote: I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IPBytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734 192.168.1.5 1354235 eth1: 10.1.1.3 52345243 10.1.1.4 342433 etc... there is a software that can do this? Thanks, and forgive my poor english. Ivo urpmi iptraf -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick. [so say said sentence sextuply...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 18:45 +0100, Ivo Perich wrote: I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IPBytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734 192.168.1.5 1354235 eth1: 10.1.1.3 52345243 10.1.1.4 342433 etc... there is a software that can do this? Thanks, and forgive my poor english. Ivo Take a look at vnstat (http://humdi.net/vnstat/) It cant tell you where the traffic come from or to but it gives detailed infomation of how much. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:28 am, Paul Greene wrote: I think that there is a version of linux fo macs http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ Ha! your very own Mandrake 10.1 runs on macs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface
I checked iptraf out and it is great, IMO., but the problem is that i need to export the data (the total traffic until now from each IP) to a file. (to a script, actually) and the log file doesn't help me because iptraf logs every packet, not the summary that i need to proccess. Can I do this with iptraf? or maybe another software? Thanks for your response Ivo urpmi iptraf On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 04:45, Ivo Perich wrote: I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IP Bytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734 192.168.1.5 1354235 eth1: 10.1.1.352345243 10.1.1.4342433 etc... there is a software that can do this? Thanks, and forgive my poor english. Ivo stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick. [so say said sentence sextuply...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] wmv to vcd converter
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 15:22 -0800, Eric Huff wrote: I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. K3b needs mpegs to make a vcd. Have you tried mencoder or one of its front-ends like Gmencoder ? -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 00:39:04 up 4:19, 3 users, load average: 0.51, 0.46, 0.38 ** A televisão é a maior maravilha da ciência a serviço da imbecilidade humana. Barão de Itararé Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
Hi all, For those of you who are interested in installing Linux on extended partition (or in MS terms we call it logical drive), I've successfully do it on installing Suse92 on hda10, where there is already MS Windows, and Mandrake. Here's the brief steps: 1. Install Windows (with 2 partitions in my case) 2. Install Mandrake on its own partition (with 5 partitions in my case, with 1 partition I call /data -- hda10) 3. Install Suse92 on /data. This is the caveat: -- choose LILO (you can use grub too, but I don't know yet the syntax), -- install LILO on the root partition of /hda10, -- format hda10 with any filesystem as long as Mandrake can read it. Suse will reboot once we finish the first installation step. 4. When rebooted, go into Mandrake. Modify /etc/lilo.conf with this: image=/data/boot/vmlinuz label=Suse92 root=/dev/hda10 initrd= /data/boot/initrd vga=788 read-only Modify the above lines that suits your environment. Run lilo -v to see if there's any error. If there isn't, you good to go. Reboot. You will see in the LILO menu that there's Suse92 entry. Choose it, and Voila! You've got Suse92! You dont even bother to create swap partition, Suse will use the swap from Mandrake. I've made an artikel about it in http://linux2.arinet.org (Indonesian) HTH. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 09:46:07 up 1:28, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, For those of you who are interested in installing Linux on extended partition (or in MS terms we call it logical drive), I've successfully do it on installing Suse92 on hda10, where there is already MS Windows, and Mandrake. Here's the brief steps: 1. Install Windows (with 2 partitions in my case) 2. Install Mandrake on its own partition (with 5 partitions in my case, with 1 partition I call /data -- hda10) 3. Install Suse92 on /data. This is the caveat: -- choose LILO (you can use grub too, but I don't know yet the syntax), -- install LILO on the root partition of /hda10, -- format hda10 with any filesystem as long as Mandrake can read it. Suse will reboot once we finish the first installation step. 4. When rebooted, go into Mandrake. Modify /etc/lilo.conf with this: image=/data/boot/vmlinuz label=Suse92 root=/dev/hda10 initrd= /data/boot/initrd vga=788 read-only Modify the above lines that suits your environment. Run lilo -v to see if there's any error. If there isn't, you good to go. Reboot. You will see in the LILO menu that there's Suse92 entry. Choose it, and Voila! You've got Suse92! You dont even bother to create swap partition, Suse will use the swap from Mandrake. I've made an artikel about it in http://linux2.arinet.org (Indonesian) HTH. With this setup, you do not need to install lilo for Suse92 at all. You are using the version of lilo you installed when you installed Mandrake to boot Suse. If you want to use the version of lilo you installed on hda10, then use this: other=/dev/hda10 lable=Suse92 When you pick this option, it will transfere control over to the new version of lilo. The way you have it set up, if you update the kernel in Suse, you then have to boot Mandrake, update /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo before you can boot the new kernel in Suse. Also, if you want to have more then one kernel in Suse, you will have to add the entries in the Mandrake copy of lilo.conf, and run lilo from Mandrake. Also, if you wipe out the boot partition in Mandrake, you will not be able to boot Suse from the hard drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **
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Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:22 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: other=/dev/hda10 lable=Suse92 When you pick this option, it will transfere control over to the new version of lilo. I tried it first, but lilo complained about 'no root partition found' The way you have it set up, if you update the kernel in Suse, you then have to boot Mandrake, update /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo before you can boot the new kernel in Suse. Also, if you want to have more then one kernel in Suse, you will have to add the entries in the Mandrake copy of lilo.conf, and run lilo from Mandrake. Also, if you wipe out the boot partition in Mandrake, you will not be able to boot Suse from the hard drive. Ah interesting, no wonder when I update my Suse kernel with Yast Online Update, it gave me lots of error when rebooting about can't find /lib/modules.. Many thanks Mikkel :) I hope Mdk10.2 will be much better than Suse92. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 11:34:35 up 3:17, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] scribus users, pls help. pasting text longer than 1 page.
Hi all, I tried to make an article using Scribus. First I typed the article in text editor, then copy paste it in scribus. The article is kind of longer than 1 page, so the rest of the article isn't visible. The second page is blank. Can I make scribus to automatically put the rest of the article in the second page? Thanks. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 11:38:15 up 3:20, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] When the Computer is winning
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Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 10:42, SnapafunFrank wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 09:54, SnapafunFrank wrote: Just a possibility I've found while vivisimo~ing ( another other than google ), Apparently, I need to turn off all the goodies I got running on my system - that is, supermount, hotplug and the like. Frank, I've been away, so I don't know if you've got this sorted yet. I can say, though, that I have turned off nothing at all on my system and am getting a correct burn from k3b. Anne Thanks for taking a look Anne. Not sorted yet, though I have tried. XCDRoast gets about 3-4% into a burn then stops ~ another dvd_coaster anyone. Whereas k3b does the prep work and without burning anything, it to stops ~ yet another dvd_coaster. It seems that something is not configured properly on my system so any clues as where to start looking are most welcome. In fact, if anyone finds a good howto burn tutorial for mdk10 that includes troubleshooting, I would be most grateful. The only things I can think of right now are to check your set-up for things like - Have you got the latest dvd-tools package for cdrecord? Have you run XCDRoast's setup as root so that it knows about your hardware? XCDRoast, on my system, defaults to CD size burns and I have to select 4.7GB from the drop-down box on the burn page. I don't remember where to check similar settings on k3b, but I'm sure they will be there. Not much help, but it might spark something off for you. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLYugkFAvMr/nNX8RAh8GAJ0RKTa6Csaaf7S0BMRdsToTuZtAWgCfXgCf xwoPFGUSzI82QZqLfzkoKAQ= =nPa2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Thanks Anne Sorted it with xcdroast ~ one needs to download proDVD and place it as directed to allow xcdroast to burn more than 1gig. Working like a charm now and have got my first 4gig DVD done. Will look to what k3b requires next free time because my mates are not interested in anything but flashy GUIs and k3b seems more to their flavour. I'll try by the weekend to get something up for submitting to TWiki in how to deal with this one on systems similar to mine. But I believe that 10.1 might be working straight out of the box? Can anyone confirm this for sure, ie. you have burned to DVD-R disc burning more than 1gig per session. Now back to backing up properly. KiwiTux? ( Am I allowed to use this as a signature - don't want to step on any toes and google cannot find anything at present. ) -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] When the Computer is winning
Aron Smith wrote: go here ;-) http://www.desktop-linux.net/ Haha; nice. I know some people that need to see that link... but they also think of me as annoyingly pro-Linux, so 'desktop-linux.com isn't a link they'd visit because I told them 'bout it. Cheerio, SigmaX -- Registered Linux Freak #: 366,862 http://counter.li.org If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass Boost and all the music is free. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:58 -0800, Fernando wrote: Pardon me? Are you blamming Europe? Haha, wasn't U.$. who allowed Microsoft to become such a huge beast? The US made M$ a beast in the US. Europeans are responsible for what happens in Europe. Haha, yep, that's why many European governments were trying to stop Microsoft's efforts of conquering Europe by increasing taxes... do you know what U.$. did as a counter-offensive? Well, they defended their beloved son by raising the taxes for European steel... that's playing fair, haha! Now, I totally agree that Europe wasn't able to stop the awake gigant, despite many governments effors (i.e. as far as I know, both the German and Spanish governments were only running Unix as their systems; a german and a spanish guy might confirm this). But it seems to me rather excessive blaming Europe when not even the U.$. was able to stop their problem in their own country. Of course, more excessive is to call them Nazis... when the nazism reborn is in the U.$. (shall I remind you the immigrant-hunters in Arizona?) (News flash: The US is not responsible for every thing that happens in every corner of the world.) I know, I know... of course that U.$. is not responsible for everything... usually, U.$. stays away from activities where their greed cannot be satisfied. But if an activity means profit to them, they won't care if people dies, if the environment is destroyed, if they leave entire nations in the poverty, if they divide nations, etc. As proves: 1. U.$. is in permanent war for the oil, i.e. in Afganistan and Irak twice, and now they are threating Venezuela and Iran. I would consider this an overstatement. I do not deny that the US has become a monster of capitalists and greed-driven polititions and organizations (As, sadly enough, have most governments), but as a whole I don't think that things get quite as far-fetched as all this. I'm not condoning all of America's actions, government wise, American though I be, but I really don't agree with the apparently general European mindset that Bush and the gang are out to conquer the world and control everything within the reach of the US on the slightest pretenses. My sister is in France and, though she's no Bush-lover, she can all the same see how alot of those around her tend to blindly assume that the current US government can do no right, and that Iraq was all a scheme for Bush's glory, or oil, or just a bloody-thirsty move of a powerful nation, or whatever, without really ever considering that maybe the US government... as a whole, not just Bush... really thought that Iraq and Afganistan were threats to our security as a nation and should be subdued. Anyway, this is more suitable for the OT list, so I'll leave it be at that. Back to the original title, Microsoft overrules EU Council, is there really any evidence that Microsoft had anything resembling a direct influence in the matter? Or was it just the assumtion of an M$-dispising soule that anything resembling buisness + money + evil must be of M$. Anywho. That's my three cents. SigmaX -- Registered Linux Freak #: 366,862 http://counter.li.org If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass Boost and all the music is free. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound On Monday 07 March 2005 00:03, Teilhard Knight wrote: The wiring is OK in the three computers. I can listen to CD music in other OSs. Teilhard That is not proof the wiring is OK Windows does not need the analogue cable since it reads audio CDs using the IDE interface. So to save money many computer manufacturers omit the audio cable. The advice Kaj gave is good install xmms-cdread and configure xmms to read audio CDs through IDE See my page here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html Thanks so much, Derek. As it happens there is a home theatre attached to one of my computers and it is configured for digital output only. I know this computer contain the cables properly plugged because I cloned it myself. About the other computers I haven't open, I do not know, but I believe you, and as a matter of fact I consider you solved my problem. I had a go with xmms, but I couldn't make it work. I'll have to do it following your instructions more carefully. About the package I need to install, I get bad signatures, but then again, in all computers and in all cases where I have wanted to install a package, I get this annoying bad signatures error. I install anyhow. Do you know what is happening here? Sorry for my late reply, but I have been kind of busy. Best wishes and thanks for taking the time. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:24 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Windows does not need the analogue cable since it reads audio CDs using the IDE interface. So to save money many computer manufacturers omit the audio cable. The advice Kaj gave is good install xmms-cdread and configure xmms to read audio CDs through IDE See my page here amarok can read audio cd through ide too Thanks for the info. I suppose I have to grab the package because I do not see it in my Multimedia items. I am assuming it is a GUI application, not a command line which would be rather odd. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
Hello SigmaX, Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 9:54:45 PM, SigmaX wrote: S Anyway, this is more suitable for the OT list, so I'll leave it be S at that. This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you like to volunteer? -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] It can't just be me
I have installed Mandrake 10.1 in several computers and I NEVER get into X. I am left with a blue screen with Mandrake 10.1 in the lower right hand corner of the screen and that's it. Someone told me to add the line ServerVTs=-7 to the General section of the /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc file, but is solved nothing. My cure: install Mandrake 10.0 Official and then Upgrade to 10.1 Official. I know it's not as good as a clean install, but . Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
Thank you for all the answers. I passed them on Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Migrating W2K web to MDK 9.1
Dennis Myers wrote: Misko, it has been a while since I did this, but, you should be able to take all of the html pages, such as index.html, page1xx.html etc and all .png, .gif, .jpg, etc save them to a CD or DVD and then install them all in /var/www/html. Then start httpd and Apache should pick them up and bingo you are back on the internet with your web page. Just as an aside though , Dennis, do you mean that web folders structure should remain the same as if it was under Windows? For example, I have some specific folders with pictures made by Picasa software (that makes a kind of a slide show). I also have some FrontPage-made series of slides that also reside in some specific directories. Should I just transfer all that stuff in /var/www/html ? if you used MS FrontPage to do the web site, it will not conform to the W3C standards. Some browsers may not render it properly. It is not to bad to fix if you use Quanta+ and revise some of the html a bit. HTH Ok, will try to do that and report on results. Misko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you like to volunteer? unfortunately, the off-topic list is dominated by people with sectarian views proud of using foul language. also, when people start to compete on the level of which nation/union is better, insights vaporize. the rapid advancement of corporate-fascist take-over is obviously originating in the US and Europe. kind regards philippe -- http://stop1984.com http://AntonySutton.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] wmv to vcd converter
I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. Have you tried mencoder or one of its front-ends like Gmencoder ? I haven't, but I'll give it a shot. It turns out a friend has nero, so i was able to do it there. Now i need to do it with .mov files. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 06:54, SigmaX wrote: snip Back to the original title, Microsoft overrules EU Council, is there really any evidence that Microsoft had anything resembling a direct influence in the matter? Or was it just the assumtion of an M$-dispising soule that anything resembling buisness + money + evil must be of M$. /snip Very good evidence. During a friendly visit to Danish Prime Minister Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen in February, Mr. Gates threatened to close down his Navision branch here if Denmark didn't support the EU Software Patents Directive. http://www.computerworld.dk/default.asp?Mode=2ArticleID=27060 It's in Danish, but I guess Google can translate it for you. As it turned out, the blackmail was successful : although our Parliament mandated the Sec.Trade, Mr. Bendtsen to demand the EU Council take the matter off the agenda, he didn't. Public scandal over here. Mr. Bendtsen will have to come out with some very good explanations next week, being subjected to a hearing in Parliament. So far, the Patents Directive stands. You can read a lot more here : http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050308084230867 In English, that is. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
