[expert] Microsoft Project Equivalent
Does anyone know if there is anything like Microsoft Project for Linux? Brian. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Microsoft Project Equivalent
Brian Schroeder wrote: > Does anyone know if there is anything like Microsoft Project > for Linux? > > Brian. I was asking the same some time ago. And the closest to M$ Project is MrProject. -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Deleting printers
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 15:26, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... > > OK, this should be simple but I am finding it is not as simple as it should > be (SHAME on you KDE developers in particular). > > I want to delete a host of defunct printers (CUPS). I have tried running > kups and printerdrake and DrakConf. In no case am I given an option to > delete a printer. In kups, if I try to run it as superuser, it dies with > an inability to connect to the DCOP server or some crap, and I REFUSE to > logout and login as root to do this - this should flat-out not be required > EVER. This error - I guess - comes the (su=root) calls kups of kde2. Look on your PATH as root. You should put something like "export PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH" in .bashrc in root. I had similar problems when starting kde-programs as su and found as su/root I did not have the correct path to kde3 programs. > > In kups, the button that would otherwise permit the deletion of printers is > greyed out when I run it as user, which is apparently my only option. If I > run printerdrake, there is no option to delete printers, only add printers, > modify the printing system, etc (this appears to be an oversight by > Mandrake developers - that one might actually want/need to delete a printer > as well as add one). > > How does one go about deleting printers? > > praedor W. Kasberg -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] memory problems with pptp-connection
Am Dienstag, 23. Juli 2002 13:13 schrieben Sie: > Hans could you have top running on this box. Then as it starts to > slow down, grab a copy of top and post it to the group. Top will > tell you what the process is that is consuming more and more > memory and CPU kill that process if you can to restore things > to normal without a reboot. Again posting top will help us in > finding out what is causing your problem. > > James hi james, have you received my email ? is the description useful or do you need the original output from top ? do you know, how I can stop the eating of memory through "net_monitor.rea" or is there a new version available, which doesn't have this bug ? hope you can find out some possibilities for help bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Console timeout
Can someone refresh my memory. I want to stop the powersave feature on the local console so I can watch iptraf. Was it powersave=off or set timeout=0, I can't remember and those two don't work. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Microsoft Project Equivalent
Go to http://www.linuxapps.com and search for project, planning and such. Brian Schroeder wrote: > Does anyone know if there is anything like Microsoft Project > for Linux? > > Brian. > > _ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > > > > 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
[expert] Curl vs Wget
All, To do something we need internally (maybe later externally I don't know) we need to use either wget or curl. The question is what are the advantages of each? I notice that urpmi defaults to curl, and usually Mandrake has a viable justification for what it does,(that I trust) so perhaps someone could tell be just what is the advantage of one over the other? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget
James Sparenberg wrote: > All, >To do something we need internally (maybe later externally I > don't know) we need to use either wget or curl. The question is > what are the advantages of each? I notice that urpmi defaults to > curl, and usually Mandrake has a viable justification for what it > does,(that I trust) so perhaps someone could tell be just what is > the advantage of one over the other? > > James Seriously, you should use rsync. One user states that "rsync is everything that ftp (ie curl, wget, etc) ought to have been". It is also much faster downloading a new version with unchanged name by using a special incremental download and update-in-place technique that none of the ftp or html downloaders have. See "man rsync". -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget
rsync is what we are moving away from because, it doesn't have what is needed. (Can't go into details sorry) I'm not trying to sync. I'm trying to download specific pieces of data or other products. wget and curl both work but I'm tasked with finding out which one other developers/users prefer. James On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:51:26 +1000 Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > > All, > >To do something we need internally (maybe later externally > >I don't know) we need to use either wget or curl. The > >question is what are the advantages of each? I notice that > >urpmi defaults to curl, and usually Mandrake has a viable > >justification for what it does,(that I trust) so perhaps > >someone could tell be just what is the advantage of one > >over the other? > > > > James > > Seriously, you should use rsync. One user states that "rsync > is everything that ftp (ie curl, wget, etc) ought to have been". > > It is also much faster downloading a new version with unchanged > name by using a special incremental download and update-in-place > technique that none of the ftp or html downloaders have. > > See "man rsync". > > -- > Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] > > Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget
Rod was right. I use rsync over ssh and it works great. /usr/bin/rsync -avrpogtl --delete -e ssh samnite:/home/ftp/pub/mandrake-devel/ /var/ftp/pub/mandrake-devel/ In scripts I use expect. For a single file I use scp. Jim Tarvid > > Seriously, you should use rsync. One user states that "rsync > > is everything that ftp (ie curl, wget, etc) ought to have been". > > > > It is also much faster downloading a new version with unchanged > > name by using a special incremental download and update-in-place > > technique that none of the ftp or html downloaders have. > > > > See "man rsync". > > > > -- > > Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] > > > > Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget
James Sparenberg wrote: > > rsync is what we are moving away from because, it doesn't have > what is needed. (Can't go into details sorry) I'm not trying to > sync. I'm trying to download specific pieces of data or other > products. wget and curl both work but I'm tasked with finding out > which one other developers/users prefer. > > James James, it sounds like you are doing nothing more than a survey on curl vs wget. My vote is with wget. Why, you ask? I have used it a long time. I am comfortable with it, and I like the way it displays info about downloading data. I don't really think that there is much difference in what occurs with the actual transmission of packets between the two methods, i.e. same tcp/ip implementation, same flags set in the ip headers, and most likely (I have not run a test so don't hold me on this one) the same tos, ttl, iplen, and dgmlen. In other words, you pick em drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:22:41 -0500 "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > rsync is what we are moving away from because, it doesn't have > > what is needed. (Can't go into details sorry) I'm not trying > > to sync. I'm trying to download specific pieces of data or > > other products. wget and curl both work but I'm tasked with > > finding out which one other developers/users prefer. > > > > James > > James, it sounds like you are doing nothing more than a survey > on curl vs wget. My vote is with wget. Why, you ask? I have used > it a long time. I am comfortable with it, and I like the way it > displays info about downloading data. I don't really think that > there is much difference in what occurs with the actual > transmission of packets between the two methods, i.e. same > tcp/ip implementation, same flags set in the ip headers, and > most likely (I have not run a test so don't hold me on this one) > the same tos, ttl, iplen, and dgmlen. In other words, you pick > em thanks DrJung... that's what I needed. Seems like the conclusion is go with the one that my developers are comfortable with and it will come out fine. If urpmi didn't default to curl I wouldn't have asked. James > > drjung > > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration > http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html > Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Digest for list expert
My comments are interspersed. Alastair Scott wrote: :: On Tuesday 23 Jul 2002 5:08 pm, Daniel Woods wrote: :: :: > Do Dell's LCD 15" and 17" monitors work ok :: > (recognized) under LM8.2 ? :: :: Flat panels tend not to be recognised per se; however, there are generic The recognition of a flat-panel doesn't depend on Mdk8.2 per se, but on X, what modules X is instructed to load, what video card you have, and whether you monitor/card is EDID-capable. I do LCD FP research and so I'm constantly plugging different LCD monitors into my Mdk 8.2 system. (I currently have four on my desk!) I run the new nvidia GeForce4 Titanium card (VisionTek) with dual VGA/DVI-I outputs and the nvidia binary driver (which was needed 4 months ago to drive the digital DVI-I port). I have even hot-swapped panels (not recommended!!) without a problem. :: settings for laptop LCD screens in the M8.2 Expert setup and these work :: perfectly. :: :: I have an 18.1" iiyama and 'Generic LCD panel 1280x1024' does the job. :: (I :: would expect fewer problems than with CRTs as you don't have to worry :: about :: refresh rates, horizontal and vertical sync etc. etc.). Well this is not strictly true. They certainly have a refresh rate (60 Hz, mostly, even if they say something other than 60) and horizontal and vertical sync rates. It is true that there is no flying spot like a CRT but source and gate drivers (for TFT panels) still need to be synchronised to something. For example the (experimental) monitor I've got next to me at this moment says its H rate is 64kHz. :: > What about Dell's Optiplex computers for Linux ? :: :: This is being written using an Optiplex G150 (curious little desktop :: case) on :: which Mandrake 8.2 installed in 20 minutes, straight through, without :: any :: problems. :: :: > Any problems with the 32X-DVD/CD-RW drives ? :: > :: > And their default "Integrated Intel Pro 1000 MT Gigabit" :: > network card ? :: :: These I can't comment on because my hardware is slightly older (3C905 :: Ethernet :: card, integrated, and Teac 24xCD-ROM). Generally what's inside the box :: is :: more important than who the OEM is. There are many many things to consider when buying a FP if you plan to use it for serious work. I will only mention here that you should not believe the "response time" that is advertised by Dell or anyone else. They are constantly being joked about at the display conferences. One of the monitors I have on my desk is from Dell (but branded by someone else who will go unnamed). The panel cost more than $1k and they advertise a response time below 25ms which sounds very nice. This turns out to be true for black --> white and white --> black transitions. But what do you suppose the black --> mid-grey response time is? Would you believe 140ms!!! So a moving black object on a grey background will level a black comet tail as long as your arm. Lots of other things to consider but I can't go into them now. If your goal is to run KDE and do day-to-day text processing/programming, just about any FP monitor will be fine. But if you do serious gaming, or professional graphics design, (where colour is important), or motion research (where response is important), or medical X-ray work (where Dynamic range and contrast ratio are important) well, caveat emptor. :: Alastair :: - -- :: Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) :: http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ :: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- :: Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) :: Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org Dean S. Messing Center for Displayed Appearance Information Systems Technologies Dept. Sharp Laboratories of America E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] printing problems
I have downloaded a pdf file that I wish to print. It is only 8 pages long and 306k in size. I have an HP Deskjet 845C, Mandrake 8.2, using cups. I have also tried different drivers - CUPS and Gimp print, foomatic and Gimp print, and Gimp print and hpij. None have worked to print this file. It is not corrupted, I can view it with acroread or kghostview without difficulty. What happens no matter what I do is the printer prints all of one line: the page number and journal title from which it derives. From then, my printer light simply blinks and blinks as if it is accepting/processing a file but nothing comes of it no matter how long I wait. If I run "lpq" I get: active praedor 2 KDE Print System103424 bytes I assume the file size difference from 306k to 103k is due to changing from pdf to ps for printing (?). Anyone have any ideas? I can print other pdfs but not this one...but I need this one. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] printing problems
On Thursday 25 July 2002 05:08 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I have downloaded a pdf file that I wish to print. It is only 8 pages long > and 306k in size. I have an HP Deskjet 845C, Mandrake 8.2, using cups. I > have also tried different drivers - CUPS and Gimp print, foomatic and Gimp > print, and Gimp print and hpij. None have worked to print this file. [...] > > I assume the file size difference from 306k to 103k is due to changing from > pdf to ps for printing (?). Oops. My bad. The size is 103k because I selected to try printing only one page of the eight, hoping to get it out one page at a time. > Anyone have any ideas? I can print other pdfs but not this one...but I > need this one. > > praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
