[expert] did the list die?

[Bill Gerber]

No mail from the list since Friday, what gives?
Bill

Re: [expert] I'll be back

[Bill Gerber]

Ron Stodden wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Civileme wrote:
> 
> > A political appointee has decided that he can't use kmail and must have
> > outlook.  Today he showed his power by dismissing me and four other employees
> > to scrape together enough money to convert to Microsoft.
> >
> > I'll be moving from place to place for a while, and I won't have a steady
> > address. So take care folks.  I'll catch up when I can.
> 
> Civileme,
> 
> This is bad luck, but still you are better off not being there when he
> does his MagicS.. Doesn't even realise that Outlook has no threading, so
> how can anyone follow a thread?  How can anyone manage anything by Outlook
> email withiout threading???
> 
> Such bad-seeming events often turn out in hindsight to be turning points, so
> build on it!
> 
> Ron.

One day that political appointee will realise what happens when the wind
changes.  May that day be soon!  Gonna miss you, Civileme.

Bill

Re: [expert] ANNOUNCE: voting for a forums name

[Bill Gerber]

just http://mdk-forum.com - short and sweet :)
Bill

Janar Kokk wrote:
> 
> www.mandrake-forum.com or something?
> 
> Regards,
> Janar Kokk
> Tel: +372-641-9552  +372-539-13896,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Denis Havlik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Expert list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:24 AM
> Subject: [expert] ANNOUNCE: voting for a forums name
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > Gael thinks that forum.mandrakesoft.com name should be replaced by a
> > shorter one - easier to remember. You can vote for the one which you find
> > best/easiest to remember/nicest on the "forum":
> >
> > http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
> >
> > thx
> > Denis
> > --
> > -
> > Dr. Denis Havlik
> > Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Quality Assurance  (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
> > visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
> >

[expert] hd partition size difference

[Bill Gerber]

Hi all
When I installed 7.1 I put it on hdc, which had 2 W98 fat32 partitions
on it.  I reduced the second partition with diskdrake and made a 2635MB
linux partition in the remainder.  During the install I had to reduce
the packages installed because it said I had only about 1400MB
available.  I have checked with df and it says 1.4GB.  I have had
another look with diskdrake and it still says the partition is 2635MB.
Any clues on what has happened here?

Also, probably as a consequence of using diskdrake to resize a fat32
partition, that partition is no longer visible to windows, but I can
access it from mdk, so I can live with that.

Thanks
Bill

Re: [expert] Can't Pinpoint Problem - Experts Please Help.

[Bill Gerber]

The culprit is a part of netscape called ld-linux.so.2 that goes berserk
every so often and hogs cpu etc. Go into task manager and kill it (it
will kill netscape too) and things will return to normal (till the next
time).  The only permanent solution at the moment is to replace your
netscape with the 128 bit version.

Bill.

Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> 
> I have yet to figure out why my Mandrake 7.0-2 does this...  Perhaps some of you 
>will have a solution.
> 
> This happens in both Gnome and KDE.  When I'm using several apps at once 
>(Staroffice, Gimp, Toppage, Netscape - not necessarily all
> of these at one time), some process would just take over and use all the CPU to 
>process something that makes the harddrive work real
> hard.  Meanwhile I can barely get the mouse or keyboard to respond.  Usually not 
>enough of a response to do anything.  If I don't
> reset the machine, this can go on for up to an hour and then it would end up at the 
>Penguin Login prompt.  What is causing this?
> It's driving me crazy!!!
> 
> Thanks,
> Seve