Miark wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:23:19 -0500, Jack wrote:
On another tack... would Bittorrent Windows version be as safe
as it is in Linux?
It's not the OS version you need to concern yourself with as much
as the _kind_ of software. Being Win32 software does not make any
software risky--
I'm downloading the DVD-ISO and am going to copy its contents into an
empty partition. I plan to add a line to the boot loader pointing to
that partition.
1. I have two paths to vmlinuz in the isolinux directory, alt0 or
alt1. Does anyone know which I should point to, or how to det
On Thursday 11 November 2004 08:01 pm, Dan Gordon wrote:
> On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:16 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
> > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S200
> > lists it as a paperweight (bad)
>
> Ummm yes thanks Aron I did see that, it just made me drink more beer to
>
On Thursday 11 November 2004 06:45 pm, Dan Gordon wrote:
> On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > Dan:
> > Canon printers are not noted for being Linux friendly, but sometimes
> > they work. (My wife has a BJC3000 which does work, although at
> > glacial speed.) Perhaps t
On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:16 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S200
> lists it as a paperweight (bad)
>
Ummm yes thanks Aron I did see that, it just made me drink more beer to
forget about how hardware vender's have us by the short and well
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:23:19 -0500, Jack wrote:
> On another tack... would Bittorrent Windows version be as safe
> as it is in Linux?
It's not the OS version you need to concern yourself with as much
as the _kind_ of software. Being Win32 software does not make any
software risky--it's whether or
On Thursday 11 November 2004 05:39 pm, Dan Gordon wrote:
> Hey all, I'm having a strange problem with my printer. The printer
> works just fine except for one thing, I can not print color from the
> computer it is connected to. The printer is a Canon S200 connected to
> Mandrake 10.1 Official,
On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> Dan:
> Canon printers are not noted for being Linux friendly, but sometimes
> they work. (My wife has a BJC3000 which does work, although at
> glacial speed.) Perhaps this will help:
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recn
When I can copy large files to my external USB 2 drive at about
10 MB/sec, which is fine. But I cannot read faster than 1
MB/sec--sometimes 1.5.
This is annoying because I can't, for instance, watch videos with
mplayer. Is there a way I can improve the read performance of the
drive? Or is there pe
On Thursday 11 November 2004 08:39 pm, Dan Gordon wrote:
> Hey all, I'm having a strange problem with my printer. The printer
> works just fine except for one thing, I can not print color from the
> computer it is connected to. The printer is a Canon S200 connected to
> Mandrake 10.1 Officia
Hey all, I'm having a strange problem with my printer. The printer
works just fine except for one thing, I can not print color from the
computer it is connected to. The printer is a Canon S200 connected to
Mandrake 10.1 Official, I can print black or shades of Grey only from
this computer.
On Thursday 11 November 2004 05:01 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:51:39 -0500
>
> Jack disseminated the following:
> > >Just from what I've seen on this list, Mandrake is implementing a new X
> > >window system, a new device management system (devfs to udev), keeping
> > > up (trying)
JoeHill wrote:
Oh, and Bittorrent is *not* a security risk. In fact, I would imagine,
downloading via FTP is probably more 'insecure' than Bittorrent.
Then it's different from most peer to peer. Running ad-aware or other
such often picks up a few hits after I
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:51:39 -0500
Jack disseminated the following:
> >Just from what I've seen on this list, Mandrake is implementing a new X
> >window system, a new device management system (devfs to udev), keeping up
> >(trying) with all the latest gadgets, all the while operating with a lot le
On Thursday 11 November 2004 22:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> On Thursday 11 November 2004 23:10, Derek Jennings wrote:
>
>
>
> > If you go to http://scan.sygatetech.com/ you can check which
> > other ports are open.
>
>
>
> Derek, on a related note : when doing so from my box - which isn't a
> serve
JoeHill wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:54:01 -0500
Jack disseminated the following:
I see great potential in Linux and I will maintain my dual-boot system,
slowly learning to survive in Linux while waiting (and hoping) for the
operating system to mature to a more usable state...
Remember,
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:54:01 -0500
Jack disseminated the following:
> I see great potential in Linux and I will maintain my dual-boot system,
> slowly learning to survive in Linux while waiting (and hoping) for the
> operating system to mature to a more usable state...
Remember, yer on the 'ble
Op donderdag 11 november 2004 15:43, schreef David Feldman:
> > Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there
> > isn't
> > enough RAM.
>
> Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19" monitor...can normally run 1600x1200
> at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. T
On Thursday 11 November 2004 17:54, Jack wrote:
> 4 - I use voice recognition extensively (Dragon NS and IBM ViaVoice). I
> don't believe this even exists for Linux.
viavoice was included in the powerpack for version 7.2 and 8.0, and worked
much better than the same time frame viavoice available
Okay, I've spent a couple of months playing with Mandrake Linux (10.1
community) and here are my (unsolicited) impressions:
1 - I like the interface a lot. It is very customizable and, well...
downright fun!!!
2 - It appears to be rock solid in the programs that it will install,
and incidenta
> Yo;
> Once again, another question to be applied on my Mandrake 9.2 server
> box,
> which you're probably starting to become friends with. I leave KDE System
> Guard open at times on my SuSE box monitoring the Mandrake server
> remotely.
> I've noticed that a TCP connection opens occasion
On Thursday 11 November 2004 23:10, Derek Jennings wrote:
> If you go to http://scan.sygatetech.com/ you can check which
> other ports are open.
Derek, on a related note : when doing so from my box - which isn't a
server - the scan invariably warns me that my ports 80 (http) and
port 113 (ide
On Thursday 11 November 2004 17:59, Eric Scott wrote:
> Yo;
> Once again, another question to be applied on my Mandrake 9.2 server
> box,
> which you're probably starting to become friends with. I leave KDE System
> Guard open at times on my SuSE box monitoring the Mandrake server remotely.
On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 19:07, Stephen Kühn wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:19, Q.H. Wang wrote:
>
> Yeah - some folks try to assign their understanding of how *nix uses
> it's memory to that of how MSDOS/MS Windows uses it's memory - two
> different dogs altogether.
>
I remember being entirely s
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:07:23 +1100
Stephen Kühn disseminated the following:
> > > Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but
> > >
> > > if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority
> > >
> > > app. It is not a problem and should caus
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:19, Q.H. Wang wrote:
> > Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but
> > if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority
> > app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns or hangs.
>
> I like this one. S
> Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but
> if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority
> app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns or hangs.
I like this one. Some times ago I bought a 512 MB memory chip for my des
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:03 pm, Eric Scott wrote:
> Yo;
> I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server. As
> time passes the available memory steadily goes down. For example: I
> rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB
> of free me
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:24:59 +
Anne Wilson disseminated the following:
> I think there's a way of creating a boot floppy disk from the CD, but I can't
> tell you exactly how to do it. I'm sure someone else will be able to.
Just look on the 1st CD, there should be a dir called 'images' with
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 01:00, David Feldman wrote:
> I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to
> novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been
> recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions.
>
> I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried
Yo;
I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server. As
time passes the available memory steadily goes down. For example: I rebooted
it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB of free
memory. Now KDE System Guard tells me it has ~50 MB of free memor
Yo;
Once again, another question to be applied on my Mandrake 9.2 server
box,
which you're probably starting to become friends with. I leave KDE System
Guard open at times on my SuSE box monitoring the Mandrake server remotely.
I've noticed that a TCP connection opens occasionally, co
On Wednesday 10 Nov 2004 09:04, H.ERTAS wrote:
> >> Hello Friends,
> >>
> >> I am trying to install Mandrake 10.1 CE but there seems there is a new
> >> LG problem with the new distro. When I boot from Mdk first Cd ; System
> >> boots and begins to install but after some few seconds , it gives an
>
On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 14:43, David Feldman wrote:
>
> Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19" monitor...can normally run 1600x1200
> at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. The
> monitor is connected through a KVM switch, though.
>
A kvm isn't a problem, assuming that it works wit
> > > It's supposed to be equivalent to 10.1 x86 download edition.
> >
> > Is that the Community or the Official?
>
> Basically official, except PPC is not a supported platform, so you
> probably won't see it being referred to as an "official" edition anywhere.
> The PPC port was a community driven
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 11:52 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no
> acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put
> in 'Load "glx" and "nvidia" in the proper places but get a failed to load
> the Nvidia
Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 04:06, Peter Davis wrote:
So after a month, I haven't had time to make much headway in getting an
IMAP server set up. I'm starting to think I should just buy the
Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack. It seems to come with Cyrus IMAP, and even
Kol
Hello Friends,
I am trying to install Mandrake 10.1 CE but there seems there is a new LG
problem with the new distro. When I boot from Mdk first Cd ; System boots
and begins to install but after some few seconds , it gives an error
saying
" No Cd Rom detected , Please insert a boot floppy" .
I hav
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Feldman wrote:
> > Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there
> > isn't
> > enough RAM.
>
> Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19" monitor...can normally run 1600x1200
> at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. The
> monitor
Mandrake would definately be one of the top ones for novice users, in
my
experience. I can sympathize with your installation problems, however,
though I've never had the same with Linux. I had similar problems
installing
RedHat 8 on a certain box, but on others it installs flawlessly. I've
ha
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:52 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no
> acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put
> in 'Load "glx" and "nvidia" in the proper places but get a failed to load
> the Nvidia
On Thursday 11 November 2004 08:00, David Feldman wrote:
> I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to
> novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been
> recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions.
>
> I downloaded 10.1 Community and tri
On Thursday 11 November 2004 02:42 am, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:13 pm, Eric Scott wrote:
> > I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for
> > Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. Anybody know of a particularly good
> > mirror? Or a bittorrent/jig
Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there
isn't
enough RAM.
Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19" monitor...can normally run 1600x1200
at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. The
monitor is connected through a KVM switch, though.
- If 10.1 Official m
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Feldman wrote:
> I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to
> novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been
> recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions.
>
> I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried to in
I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to
novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been
recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions.
I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried to install but have been unable
to do so. First I got a t
Margot wrote:
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 17:39, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Hi folks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] monmon]# urpmi --auto-select
To satisfy dependencies, the following package is going to be
installed (3 MB):
urpmi-4.6-1mdk.noarch
Is this OK? (Y/n) y
ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pu
On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:12 am, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
hi
i wanted to attend the full time linux course which instituition that can
offer me full time training on linux technical support site including
networking.
regards > I read on a recent MDK press release that: "Mandrakelinux 10.1
Howdy
I need help with OCR in Kooka, actually it won't cooperates with me. I
got many pages to scan and convert to documents, i'm doing everything by
the book, first i scan in black/white preview and final image, then run
"make OCR from image", select spell checking and everyting but then OCR
d
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:29:45 +
Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:09:17 +0100, Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've just reinstalled MDK (don't ask why) and I've got this problem
> > with auto-completion :) in urpmi in terminal.
> >
> > Befo
Dennis Myers wrote:
I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no
acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put
in 'Load "glx" and "nvidia" in the proper places but get a failed to load the
Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-ker
I read on a recent MDK press release that: "Mandrakelinux 10.1 for
x86-64 will be available exclusively through Mandrakestore and our
retail channels."
Is that indicating a different strategy compared to the 32bit version,
which is available for free download some time after the official releas
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