[expert] EXCELLENT Linux laptop resource
Hi all! I stumbled across this today while searching for some information on my ancient Gateway Handbook 486 laptop. Given the number of posts on the list about installing Linux on various laptops, I figured this page would be of use to some people: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Have fun! Jon 8^) - I don't need no one to tell me about heaven, 'cause I look at my daughter and I believe; I don't need no proof when it comes to God and Truth, 'cause I can see the sunset and I perceive. -- "Heaven", Live Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Pentium4 motherboards keeping ISA slots
I don't know about a P4 version, but Biostar's M6 series of motherboards all supported various Celeron/P3/Athlon configurations and each had an ISA slot. They just recently discontinued this particular line, though, so you may have call around to some different suppliers to find one. I got mine (Celeron 1.2ghz, 1 ISA, 3 PCI) through a local whitebox shop and am currently using it in a RAID-based Novell server, but I had Red Hat 7 and Mandrake 8 running on it for a while without any problems. Hope this helps! Jon 8^) - Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this? -- Theoden King, The Two Towers >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/03 08:43AM >>> Hi everybody, I'm enrolled in a project for automating a telescope for robotic use. It's our aim to control the whole system under Linux. Most of external devices we're going to use (motors, encoders) are commercialy available with their corresponding controller cards either via PCI or ISA bus. However, most of linux device drivers which are availables are for ISA bus only. So we are forced to consider a PC Pentium4 with a motherboard which would contain ISA slots. I've looked for such kind of motherboards in my nearest local distributors without success. Does anybody know any motherboard in the market which meet those requirements, AND which is known to be COMPATIBLE under Linux? If you think such message is out of list purpose, please could you address me to our more specific mailing-lists? Thanks in advance, Octavi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
Now *this* is the kind of linux application development that gets me giddy. *grin* Once you can make a business case to replace the back-end systems of a business with linux, *then* you have a real shot at converting the desktops (you listening Mark? *hehehe*). I might have to have Mr. Weaver see if he can't get an installation of this running on one of the boxes at work so we can do a real comparison study with Best/Sage MAS-200 SQL. It'd be interesting to see how this stacks up against a MSSQL mid-range accounting system. Hmm...another spring project... Jon 8^) Mark wrote: Looks like some people need to discover SQL-Ledger for their accounting system..http://www.sql-ledger.com been using it for some time and it is excellent, and even if I was forced to use M$ Win, I would still use SQL-Ledger as my accounting system. Cheers Mark On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 04:07, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 21:10, Mark Weaver wrote: ... If I wouldn'tn have to interact with the accounting system I wouldn't have to boot back into windows at all. I bought VMWare 2 for 89 bucks when it first came out and have been using it ever since to keep a Windows system around for Visio. If you don't have the cash for VMware or Win4Lin, try Bochs. Or if you like to hit yourself in the head with a cinderblock for fun, you could try to get the accounting app to run in Wine :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bandwidth partitioning
Hi! Within Morpheus you can set it to only use a certain amount of bandwidth. For the most part, it's fairly good about it (except that the bandwidth controls don't apply to the spyware/leechware portions of the program). The only other way to do this is with an expensive router with bandwidth-control filters, like the ones Packeteer makes. I don't know of any free software implementations that will allow you to do bandwidth limiting through a standard mandrake (or linux of any kind) router/firewall/workstation. Jon 8^) - Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this? -- Theoden King, The Two Towers >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/07/03 12:54PM >>> How can I limit my roomates computer to half the bandwidth? It's no biggy but she keeps forgetting to turn off Morpheus and this is a trick I would like to learn anyway. Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Something that just might work for Mandrake...
Hi all! Here's a small plan that could help Mandrake get out of some of its financial woes and possibly help to make Mandrake an even larger force in the Linux community and help Linux in general (but Mandrake specifically) to make some serious inroads into the business desktop market. This idea is is just that--an idea--and would probably take some serious work on the part of Mandrake and their contributors to make it a reality, as well as some serious corporate politics, to make it a reality. By now I'm sure all of you have heard of Grid Computing, the new plan to turn processor cycles into a commodity resource that can be resold. Grid ideology borrows heavily from Open Source ideology, namely, that each individual works to enhance the whole. Part of the Grid ideology is that of shared resources--each processor only does a small amount of work, but added together multiple processors can create an entire working application/processing platform. IBM has already announced the beginnings of their Grid network. HP has just released a set of Grid toolkits for creating Grid applications. There is an important item missing in all these systems, though, and that is the Grid itself: the computers that will act as the distributed Grid computing platform. IBM has the beginnings of a small one, a series of Unix Mainframes networked together into a small cluster. What I believe Mandrake may be able to do is to work with HP, IBM, Sun, or even SGI to help them build their Grid networks. HP can provide the toolkits and the coproate clout while Mandrake can provide the client-side Grid processing. In essence, HP would be like an electric company and Mandrake would be like the actual power plant that the electric company buys power from. This is where we, as Mandrake users, come in. If Mandrake is able to find a partner like this, it will be the *users* whose spare cycles will be going to the Grid. Mandrake provides us with an excellent OS and fantastic support, but how many of us have actually paid for anything that we have gotten from Mandrake? I think that continuing to release Mandrake Linux as a free download, but requiring the use of the built-in Grid Computing Client, would be more than a fair trade. Those of us who actually purchased Mandrake Linux could then have the option of turning the Grid Client off. HP or Sun provide the corporate cover, sales force, and network access like an electric company. Mandrake supplies the raw power to run the system (through those of us who run Mandrake Linux with the Grid Client on) much like an electric power plant. What do the rest of you think? Jon 8^) - Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this? -- Theoden King, The Two Towers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Local CUPS printer S..L..O..W
Hi! Okay, I think I know what you've got going on here. Do you have your systems set to automagically share their printers over the network? If so, what is happening is that the linux boxes with no local printer are attempting to share the network printer back to the box hosting the printer. So essentially each computer is trying to share the network printer with all the other computers, which is why you have so many "ghost printers" showing up that still work to print to. Another way to look at it: Computer 1 is sharing its printer with computers 2 and 3. Computers 2 and 3 see the network printer. Computers 2 and 3 also try to share their printers, which just so happens to be the network printer, with the other computers. Since Computer 1 does not recognize either of these shared printers as actually being its own printer, it goes ahead and makes them available locally. Therefore, if you print to one of the "remote" printers from computer 1, the print job goes from computer 1 to computer 2 or 3, then back to computer 1 before it hits the printer. The only computer that should be running printer sharing is the one acting as the printer host, that is, the computer local to the printer. All the other computers *should not* have printer sharing turned on. I'm not quite sure where you change this setting at since I'm not using Mandrake 9, but it should clear up the problem of the local printer showing up as a remote printer repeatedly. Hope this helps! Jon 8^) - Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this? -- Theoden King, The Two Towers >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/03 01:51PM >>> Wondering one thing. If this is related to something I've noticed on my systems here. I've got a single printer and multiple linux boxes. So what happens is that box one a windows box has the printer local. Box 2 3 and 4 all do remote printing... So far so good.. Except each box has 3 printers 2 are the remote printers listed as remote cups printers, which are actually the other Linux boxes on the net and 1 is the real printer. No Matter what I do I cannot remove the remote cups printers (even though the one on the windows box is a remote samba print.) If I do somehow manage to remove them... it get "auto" restored later on. IF I don't specify the samba printer as the default all over the place I can have this same time problem. At the office it's all linux boxes and 1 has the printer 5 others do remote, and yes even the box that has the local printer refuses to release those remote printers from it's database. Again I have to make sure I connect a default all over the box. Funny part is ... I can print to any one of them.. just takes longer. James On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:48, et wrote: > hmmm, in hosts, is localhost defined? and in MCC > hardware, > printer,> cups > configuration, did you allow auto Cups Configuration? or does it have an IP > or name? maybe the easiest _answer_ would be to remove the current cups > printer and then "add new printer" but that sounds so mickysoft. > > > On Friday 10 January 2003 12:04 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: > > My local parallel attached printer takes over a minute to start printing > > jobs. Here's part of strace on xpp... my question is WHY should CUPS be > > trying to access my gateway to print locally. There is nothing in > > printerdrake that takes an IP address for a local printer. Even > > printerdrake takes a long time to get its info... what gives?? > > > > To get a more complete trace, I did: > > $ ps aux | grep xpp > > pfortin 29339 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z23:27 0:00 [xpp > > ] > > pfortin 30031 2.5 0.5 5584 2788 ?S23:50 0:00 xpp > > > > The defunct process was from the previous print job... > > send(5, "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n", 17, 0) = 17 > > send(5, "Content-Length: 202\r\n", 21, 0) = 21 > > send(5, "Content-Type: application/ipp\r\n", 31, 0) = 31 > > send(5, "Host: localhost\r\n", 17, 0) = 17 > > send(5, "\r\n", 2, 0) = 2 > > time(NULL) = 1042174357 > > send(5, "\1\1\0\v\0\0\0\1", 8, 0) = 8 > > time(NULL) = 1042174357 > > send(5, "\1G\0\22attributes-charset\0\niso-8859"..., 34, 0) = 34 > > time(NULL) = 1042174357 > > send(5, "H\0\33attributes-natural-language\0\5"..., 37, 0) = 37 > > time(NULL) = 1042174357 > > send(5, "E\0\vprinter-uri\0\33ipp://localhost/"..., 43, 0) = 43 > > time(NULL) = 1042174357 > > send(5, "B\0\24requested-attributes\0\25printer"..., 79, 0) = 79 > > time(NULL) = 1042174357 > > send(5, "\3", 1, 0) = 1 > > recv(5, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nDate: F
Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...
Boy does this bring back the memories! [sits back and has fond memories of his old Amiga Toaster] *sigh* And yes, Babylon 5 and Reboot were primarily done on old off-the-shelf (well, at least as "off-the-shelf as you can get with a computer that you have to have a couple laying around of for spare parts) Amiga boxes (primarily 4000's) running Lightwave. Lightwave 3D, interestingly enough, was originally written for the Amiga, and is now the de-facto standard for 3D on most platforms. If any of you remember the initially good (and degrading to horribly bad) SeaQuest series, the special effects and all underwater sequences were rendered using Lightwave on Amiga's. The company that did Reboot, Mainframe Entertainment, also did the short-lived War Planets (which was surprisingly good and had a very sophisticated plotline...kind of a "Titan AE" tv precursor) and the current 3D incarnations of Transformers. Whether or not Mainframe still uses Toasters I don't know, but I do know that Netter Digital still does. Rumor even has it that there's a whole room full of them over at ILM that their 3D people do a lot of their protyping on...but that's just rumor. Gateway was even going to release a new version of the Amiga OS for a while...they worked on it for more than 2 years and then killed the project just a couple months before BeOS went under. And while we're on the other-than-linux OS front...rumor is rife (although unconfirmed yet) that next summer's MacWorld is going to be one to watch. Jaguar got finished early because Apple supposedly hired *alot* more programmers, who haven't been laid off now that OS X 10.2 is done. The prevailing rumor, which one can almost believe outright based on Apple's hardware moves over the last year-and-a-half, is that all these extra programmers were brought in to write hardware drivers for the OSX port to Intel hardware. It wouldn't be available for at least another year yet, and the hardware would be limited, but it's possible. Of course, Palm could always enter the fray too, since it owns Be lock, stock, and barrel. Well, enough of that for one night, I think. :) Jon 8^) Ken Hawkins wrote: >AMIGA VIDEOTOASTER! > >too bad they went belly up...played with back in the old days (94?) >had A/B/C tape editor control, transition effects, 3D animation with a >whole sh*&load of models and sets, character generator, stereo sound etc >etc etc; essentially a whole studio at your desk. > INCREDIBLE machines. If people bought computers based on quality and >capability rather than con-job, MS would be history, and we would be all >animating complete movies on our desktops. WHILE checking email, >printing War & Peace, balancing our checkbook, and pumping tunes. > >I dream of a time machine and a wooden stake with the initials B.G. on >it.. >Ken > >PS FWIW, Babylon 5 and (i think) ReBoot were done on essentially >off-the-shelf Toasters > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...
Hi! Sounds like you want an SGI or Sun Solaris workstation. The kinds of tools you seem to be looking for really aren't in a mature (if they even exist yet) stage on the linux platform. If you want to do professional, high-end audio/video/animation editing (which you seem to be hinting at) you need to look at something other than Linux. Jon 8^) - "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." - Douglas Adams >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/13/02 03:55AM >>> hi, am looking for a really good and special graphicsworkstation, running linux with OpenGL, a very good graphiccard with OpenGL and sound-abilities. Has anyone an idea, which equipment is commendable. what I should do with it : making animations, making pictures (combine together) and sound which software do I need for that purpose and is that software available on mandrake ? The reason asking this is, I have downloaded some graphicspackages, but a lot of them needs some requirements, which I have not found yet or does not run on my "testenvironment", which is a 350 MHZ AMD, mdk 8.0, about 50 Gigs HD, an ATI Rage Card and a USB-connection. USB does NOT run, ATI Rage have a lot of problems with 3D-Accelerating and have damaged 3 ATI's right now with the hardware-accelerator of mdk's 8.0 4.0.3-version of XFree86. Hope to get some experiences and advicements thanks for helping and ideas bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building a New Server..
Hi! If this is "just" a server, and not a workstation, then there really isn't a reason to put a CDRW in it. However, with the amount of disk space you're dropping into this box I would get some kind of high-capacity tape backup system, as you are mmore than likely going to need to back up files stored on the server. (If you aren't storing any files on this server then I think (4) 120GB drives is *way* overkill.) What is the load on this box going to look like? How many users? What kind of throughput? I'd agree with Kwan on looking at a higher quality NIC...possibly something from SMC or 3Com. I would also consider scrapping the Celeron processor and get a P3 Xeon, as there is a *huge* difference in the server-level performance of these processors. This, of course, depends on what you are using the server for. Hope this helps! Jon 8^) - "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." - Douglas Adams >>> Gavin Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/30/02 11:31AM >>> Dear Experts, I'm planning on building a Server for my School, here are the parts I plan on using, please give me your feedback on my selection of parts list. CPU:Celeron 1.8GHz 478 pin MB: ASUS P4B533/WA Memory: PC2100-512/CL2 HDD:MAXTOR MX4G120J8 (120GB) X4 FDD:NEC1231H /NEC CD-RW: BCE4012M (for got the maker..sorry) VIDEO: XPERT 2000 B/K (ATI) LAN:NIF-100R REALTECH BOX FAN: D12A-12PHA (sorry again for got the maker's name) I you know for sure that these parts are bad, please direct me to the url for more information.. thanks for your help and GOD BLESS ALL, near and far! Gavin Gavin's English School Fukushimaken, Fukushima City Nankodai, 2-34-1 Japan Zip Code 960-8143 phone 0245-21-6220 Fax 0245-22-3264 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 8.2 Registered Linux user #199865 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] file system on quantum snap servers
Hi! Does anyone here happen to know which file system Quantum Snap servers use? We've got one in-house one of our users managed to delete a *very* important file, and because of a way the Snap server runs we didn't have a good backup on DLT, and so we're trying to run some linux utilities against the box to retrieve our files. If we know what the filesystem is we might be able to retrieve the deleted file and then maybe not look quite so frelling bad. :) Thanks in advance! Jon 8^) - A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux and netware
Thanks for the info :) We are now in a heated battle with our local Mandrake test-box to coax and cajole it into allowing it to be seen by the rest of the network. Thanks again for the info! Jon 8^) - A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/10/02 05:56PM >>> On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jonathan I. Nori wrote: > Hi! > > Now, I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, so just bear with me for a minute. > > Can I set up a linux box, Mandrake or otherwise, that will emulate a > Netware Bindery box and allow drive mapping through NDS? > > I want to be able to move some storage space off the netware boxes > and onto a linux box without having to make my end users jump through > 15 hoops. I want to move the files and then just change the drive > mappings in the login scripts. > > I do this now with a Snap server, but my assistant (who's the real > linux mind around here; I'm a Netware sysadmin) and I aren't sure how to > make our current Mandrake installation appear as a Netware server to NDS. > I set one up about a year ago to help in the migration from a 4.x box. It required a rebuild of the kernel to support IPX and netware. From what I recall it was a bindery only. I'm not sure about NDS support but you may not need it to just map drives. http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/networking/100080111.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] linux and netware
Hi! Now, I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, so just bear with me for a minute. Can I set up a linux box, Mandrake or otherwise, that will emulate a Netware Bindery box and allow drive mapping through NDS? I want to be able to move some storage space off the netware boxes and onto a linux box without having to make my end users jump through 15 hoops. I want to move the files and then just change the drive mappings in the login scripts. I do this now with a Snap server, but my assistant (who's the real linux mind around here; I'm a Netware sysadmin) and I aren't sure how to make our current Mandrake installation appear as a Netware server to NDS. Any pointers? Thanks! Jon 8^) - A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
