Re: [expert] Antivirus for Linux
According to AMAVIS docs, F-prot is supported - see the docs. I have installed it and use it manually to both mandrake and win9x systems. It is also disinfecting (not deleting) files very well (in win/dos environment). I saw that Amavis was searching for it, so I presumed it was supported. But then Amavis said it couldn't find it. So I installed Sophos instead, and Amavis found it. So I'll got with Sophos. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which CD Burner?
Just got a small windfall, and would like to purchase a CD burner for my Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack installation on a Celeron 533 with 256 megs memory. Is there a brand that is a fast, b cheap, and c known to work with this Linux configuration? Yep. Anything SCSI. :-) Avoids that IDE-to-SCSI emulation layer. Specifically, I really like my Plextor 12x. They do make IDE versions, if you want to go that route. Cheap ... well, depends on what you define as cheap. Mine was like $300. And worth it, to me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Antivirus for Linux
Hey all. I'm trying to get antivirus scanning of my postfix mail server, and need an antivirus scanner. Is it true that TrendMicro's InterScan is free for personal Linux use? the web page doesn't say that, but it was mentioned on a mailing list I'm on. If not Trend, then who would be a good one? Most of the ones I've looked at are either commercial, or are time-demos for Linux, or don't do removals, just scans. I can do commercial, if it's a good one, and not too expensive. Anyone doing this? (I'm going to be using Amavis to call out the scanner; supposedly, it integrates well with postfix. -- O! Water cold we may pour at need down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed; but better is Beer, if drink we lack, and Water Hot poured down the back. The Fellowship of the Ring, JRRT Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] databases for linux
From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] »Harold Hartley« sagte am 2002-02-19 um 08:16:50 -0800 : I was wondering how many database software is there available for linux hmm, i can think of 4 right now. and what the names of them may be.. mysql, postgresql, oracle, cache Also Informix, DB2, and probably others have Linux versions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] File server
Has anyone done this or does anyone have any tips on getting started? Yes, Would I need any hardware besides a hub and Ethernet cards? Could I use No. Well, the cables. :-) Samba to see the served files from Windows? Do I have to use NFS on the server? Any recommended backup strategies? Could I find information Yes, Samba is the way to go. And no, NFS is not required, because the Mdk installations can use Samba to share, just as easily as they can use NFS. However, since Win9x can't use NFS, might as well just stick with 1 sharing solution - Samba. And backups are good. :-) On my work LAN, we do a 3 week rotation of tapes - IOW, we can get back any file within the last 3 weeks. about this subject in any system administration book? Dunno about *any*, but yes, specificially in the Samba book. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] fetchmail / sendmail -- still no love, i got more work to do
Mike Leone grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I just recently got my postfix server up and running, and am using ipopd (which is U of W POP3 server, I believe). All seems to work; even set it so my friend can relay throught it (but no one else). I'm going to be playing around with IMAP and/or webmail, and then will make postfix the mail server for my personal domain. When it comes to a webmail interface for accessing your mail remotely, Squirrelmail is *definitely* your friend. :-) Good to know; I'll keep it in mind. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS corruption due to usb mouse/eth0 crash
This problem is likely to be fixed by editing /etc/modules.conf and replacing the following line: 'alias usb-interface usb-uhci' with 'alias usb-interface uhci' Or just compile uhci directly into the kernel. Haven't had an issue since. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCAnywhere for Linux?
What about the guy that needed help communicating with the PCAnywhere host? There was a suggestion to that already. One of the first in this thread. Try running PCA under WINE, as there doesn't seem to be a pcAnywhere for Linux, nor do the other remote control solutions seem to work with a PCA host. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCAnywhere for Linux?
- Original Message - From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [expert] PCAnywhere for Linux? On Wednesday 06 February 2002 06:59 am, Mike Leone wrote: What about the guy that needed help communicating with the PCAnywhere host? There was a suggestion to that already. One of the first in this thread. Try running PCA under WINE, as there doesn't seem to be a pcAnywhere for Linux, nor do the other remote control solutions seem to work with a PCA host. There is one more solution possible but it costs a little money. Get VMWare and run PCAnywhere from the VMWare virtual machine. That WILL work, for sure. Or Win4Lin, which is less expensive (and less resource intensive) than even vmWare Express. You're right; we were all presuming no monetary cost alternatives, instead of alternatives. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH
I was wondering if the following is acceptable: sshd: ALL Sure; that lets you access via SSH from anywhere in the world. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished
To save words, I haven't been specific in some points. I mean, if you satisfied with good closed-driver (or software solution) why do you use GNU/Linux (most much better solution for a lot of applications). Use Because I chose to. That's my right, just as it's your right. Win2k so! (I use it, and we have PPC - Apple and IBM - here in our Lab too, also SGI). Please don't try and tell me what OS to use; if you do that, you're as bad as the closed source people you maintain are not good. problem, and probably will affect us someday, and I wouldn't be an hostage of them more than necessary (since I bought a nVidia card). I'm a hostage of no one; if I don't like their cards, I'll throw it away and buy another. If I wish to use their cards, and their software (closed or not), that's my choice. And no one - nVidia nor GNU - should try and force me into doing what I chose not to do. I'm not promoting nVidia banishment at all. Simply I won't buy Sure you were. What I don't like is seeing people that uses GNU/Linux and thinks that's fine to use proprietary solution together as long as no charge. Maybe it's a question of philosophy It is. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished
- Original Message - From: Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished Mike Leone wrote: I'm a hostage of no one; if I don't like their cards, I'll throw it away and buy another. If I wish to use their cards, and their software (closed or not), that's my choice. And no one - nVidia nor GNU - should try and force me into doing what I chose not to do. hmmm, if you buy a card, then you are primarily investing in the hardware. You do (should) have a right to be able to make it work in the OS of your choice. If NVIDIA or whoever tells you that you should only use windblows for getting the best out of their cards, then But they don't. They tell me I should use their drivers, for best effect. They don't tell me which OS to use. Unlike, say, Apple, or the companies that make Win-only hardware (winmodems, winprinters, etc). nVidia provides drivers for multiple OSes, so I have a choice of OS to use their product in. something is fundamentally wrong. And while they do provide the drivers albeit in closed source form, there is nothing that will stop them from discontinuing their support for linux leaving all the linux users of their cards in the lurch. That's why life is risky. :-) If they do that, and I decide I don't like it, I get a new card, and chalk the cost up to the price of MY CHOICE in dealing with them. That's a risk you take - that the company continues to support their stuff (*any company, and *any* product) for the amount of time you will be using thier product. You may be able to get other support, in some cases (local consultants, open source community), but there's never a GUARANTEE that the product will be supported by someone until the end of time. If I don't mind their discontinuing, or don't care, I continue on as before. while the original mail in this thread was a more of a rant than an objective view, NVIDIA must be made to realize that a lot of their Must? Should, you mean. You have no right to force the company to do what they (apparently) don't wish to do, as long as what they do is not illegal or harmful. If you don't like the company practices, don't use their products. nVidia is not a monopoly; they are many, just as good and just as effective, choices for other video cards. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished
Listen, I just believe that proprietary software will not disappear, but I strongly believe that GPL will be the majority, no matter if there will be more people thinking like me or like you (and I don't think it's a matter of being right or wrong). I don't think proprietary software will disappear, either. Nor do I believe that GPL will become the majority license in use. A significant number, yes; majority, no. Ok, as a profit company as nVidia are, they understand only one language: money. My first 3d graphic-card recommendation is still nVidia, but only for non GNU/Linux system. All I want is nVidia make programmers life easier. Otherwise, market tendency, as I believe, will bend nVidia. It might, if you can convince enough people to believe as you do, and it becomes economically feasible (short or long term) for them. Defending the nVidia's policy is the same to say that Bill Gates is right. No it is not the same. Do you really think that M$ is right? I never said MS was right; you are extrapolating that from this discussion, which hasn't mentioned MS. To answer your question: No I don't, because what MS did was illegal (proven so in court, twice); they misused their monoply power (remember: in the US, it is *not* illegal to be a monoply; it is illegal to *misuse* the power you have as a result of being a monoply). What nVidia is doing is not illegal. There is no law that states they must issue source code, nor specifications. Now, if they took GPLed code and incorporated it into their closed source drivers, that might be an issue, since they would probably have to open the source code (since that's a provision you agree to, when you chose to use GPL code). However, that appears not to be the case. I really would like to use nVidia hardware but not the way they want, and Then don't use it. You have alternatives, both in capabilities and price. if you do it you sure are a hostage of them, or does your money grow up in a tree in your backyard? You're only a hostage if they are no other options, or if the options available are not on a par with nVidia. Neither is true. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished
You clearly showed agaisnt M$. However I'm not talking about M$ monopoly issue, I'm talking about their policy of closed-software, which I see, was the main instrument that they used, much more than the monopoly. I don't believe that to be the case. Many companies have closed source software; very few companies have monoplies. Just having closed source does not provide enough leverage to do what MS did. It required the monopoly power that only MS had. Who knows what's hidden in the windows code? Why did Netscape never work fine with Windows, even having specs form M$? I could tell about the story of the origin of MMX instructions from Intel, other day. You're only a hostage if they are no other options, or if the options available are not on a par with nVidia. Neither is true. Ok, if you do not consider as a ramson the price paid for your card I agree with you. No, I don't consider it ransom. When you pay a ransom, you get something back which was illegally taken from you, such as paying a ransom to get back someone kidnapped. When buying a nVidia card, nothing was illegally taken from me, since being closed source is not illegal. Perhaps you meant consider it as a closed source tax. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished
I've just got a quick question on this topic: with all of this hoopla on nVidia's closed source Linux drivers, what is wrong with them? Do they not do something right? To the best of my knowledge, they implement OpenGL 1.3 to the letter; is something broken? What is wrong with them is (to some people) the fact that they are not open source; this makes them less good (from a philosophical/ethical point of view) than the equivalent open source. The fact that they work extremely well (if not perfectly), and provide better/faster operation than the open source versions, is immaterial. Because, after this open/closed source debate is over we will still be left with the fact that nVidia's closed source drivers work better than ATi's or Matrox's. The performance of the drivers doesn't count, for some people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NVidia will be bannished
As for NVidia, I don't trust them. They are in close cahoots with M$ via the Xbox and since they don't release specs for developers - if they decide (perhaps as a favor to M$?) to end support for linux then future NVidia cards would be nonstarters. You would be safe for NOW, but who knows about the future? If they're not releasing specs now, what more can they do to end support? Not release closed-source binaries? Then we're right where some want us to be ... no 3D on an nVidia board, since the open source drivers (which will be the only ones available) don't do it (or don't do it well enough to be truly practical). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] oooops -OT-
Livin' in Linux is getting much easier nowadays, no need to scandisk, defrag (thx to reiserfs and ext3), restart, reinstall (when we got win crashed), and As I said ... my Win2K OS never crashes, and I've never had to re-install the OS. In previous versions of Windows, especially the consumer versions (Win9x, WinME), that was true. ps: no more worm, and anti-virus alert if we close all hole, patching, udpating kernel, filtering any package we send and receive from the world to our PC. How bout win? gosh, Billy ask to much. Never had a worm or virus on my Windoes machines, either. As I say, I'm an old Linux user ... since about 1997 or so. So I know how much better it is today, than that point in time. And I give MS grief all the time. But fair is fair. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Separate windows drive possible?
I wonder if it is possible to add a windows NT drive to the primary slave ide port that already has windows NT on it, and add it to my lilo.conf as a boot option? No. NT boots only from 1st primary partition on primary drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Needs advice for upgrading home PC.
Take a serious look at the Soyo Dragon Plus (SY-K7V Dragon Plus) with the KT266A Chipset. This MOBO has the socket A for any of the newest and I'm thinking of that one. Bit expensive, but supposedly well worth it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 is eating memory
Using swap is not a bad thing. It means that the system is intelligent enough to move to disk any processes that don't need to be in memory. Thrashing is of course another thing entirely. Using swap means you don't have enough real physical memory to do what you're trying to do, and so your system has to use disk space as if it were memory. And since disk space is ... what, 100x? 1000x? slower than real RAM, I'd say having to use swap any more than occasionally would be a bad thing, since it would vastly slow you down. A little is OK. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] oooops -OT-
Mandrake has a lot of catching up to do in being as lousy an operating system as Windows 2000 (wife has it on her machine, support it 40 hours each week, it sucks). A lot of stuff is coming out daily about XP also (which is why I See, I gotta disagree. I use Win2K daily at work, and do support it. It ain't a bad OS. It for sure is better than NT or Win9x/ME. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH message not to panic
Jan 16 10:53:17 oscar sshd[27848]: scanned from 207.211.22.19 with SSH-1.0-SSH_Version_Mapper. Don't panic. --- Be paranoid. Be very paranoid. Meanwhile, that IP belongs to www.picantecorp.com. A Leader in Email Enhancement Products and Services. Why would they want to SSH scan you? You work for them? Are a customer? Collect the same baseball cards as the webmaster? What? I'd semi-politely mention to them, to DON'T BE DOING THAT TO ME, please. Of course, they may not even know that they're doing it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup
As for Opera: In a world of free browsers, I refuse to pay for one. :) You don't *have* to pay for Opera. Paying only gets rid of the banner ad at the top. It's fully functional without paying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cooker kernel rpms
Did you try http://rpmfind.net ?? That (usually) won't work, since those are mostly links to places holding RPMs. If the RPMs disappear from the linked site, rpmfind is useless, since the link will now point to a non-existant file. You need a site that deliberately stores copies of all Mandrake kernel (and associated) RPMs, and never overwrites/deletes older versions (as all the mirrors now do). On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:34 am, you wrote: Is there any one out there with late version 2.4.16 kernels from the mandrake cooker? I just went to get one but it jumped up to 2.4.17 and there is an NFS bug when talking to 64 bit OS's. I need to run a non 8.1 default kernel (as it plays better with my GForce3). If any one can help me it would be great, linus kernels seem to hang on the ethernet setup. Just wondering is there any place that these old kernel builds might live? ITs for the soon to be many Linux machines that I run at work. And some kernels play better with others. I have the 2.4.16-16 Kernel and headers, about 15Mb to transfer. If you need it, I'll post it on my web site for you. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 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] kernel 2.4.17 and devfs
Last night I updated to kernel 2.4.17. from kernel.org (plain vanilla sources). Did my usual config and compile, and rebooted. Normally, I use devfs (append devfs=mount, in lilo). However, the boot fails with an error about mkrootdev failing - can't create node - error 17 (I'm working from memory, from last night). Said it couldn't find the init parameter, and to pass it to the kernel during boot. However, if I boot WITHOUT devfs (append devfs=nomount), it works fine. I did check that devfs support is compiled in, and mounted during boot. I have been using devfs since 2.4.8. I think I may have missed a step somewhere, or that something more changed, but I'm not sure where to investigate next. There was no readme that mentioned updating any kernel support programs. Pointers/explanations, anyone? -- Goodbye youth, goodbye dreams, The good times and the friends I used to know. Goodbye freedom, hello fear, A brave new world has suddenly appeared. Salvation Road, The Kinks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW: The @ sign while permitted in the Workgroup Field, is reserved and causes problems for Netbios Samba for reasons I will not go into here, spaces and certain other characters are also no-no's. -JMS First thing I thought of, too. Also try and avoid underscores (_); use a dash (-) instead. Somewhere along the way, support for an underscored changed, I'm told, altho have not personally experienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPBj1cJq0HvZapbzfEQI7kQCeJpzmlTaVFTcWyyOc6PYQKGUjijoAn2tq BxDeLolSpmhAF41hr5M+ITIm =UfHr -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs
No, that won't help. I don't use Word as my email editor - no sane person does :-) - and my Outlook still likes to send in HTML. Outlook Express seems to obey the plain text only wishes of it's users, tho. - Original Message - From: Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs There's an option to use or not use Word as your default editor for E-Mail in Outlook. It's in various locations depending on the version you have at work. Try turning that off and maybe it'll stop doing HTML. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:35:04 -0500 George Jones (IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Some of us (yes, me!) have no choice, it seems. I'm forced to use Outlook George here at Borders corporate offices. Even when set to plain text, it looks George like the Exchange servers are set to convert to either rich text or to html. George George At home, I usually send plain text in outlook express, but I recently George discovered Sylpheed and have adopted it as my primary mail client. George George -Original Message- George From: Michael Scottaline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] George Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:57 AM George To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Subject: Re: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs George George George On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:33:34 + George g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George George hello to all; George George this does not apply to all that receive this, but it does give all George something to think about. George George George ok, you html nuts, George George i am not flaming you, but i am going to blast you, not just you, but George all in general who insist on sending html email to list such as these. George George please do not take offense, but try to understand what you can George cause by sending html. George George i too received virus, which was an html message, but it did not George get into my system. it is still sitting at my isp. George George why? simple. in locking down my system, i have set my maximum George message size to block any messages over 35k bytes. George = George I agree with your diatribe v. html mail, but another solution to at least George 90% of your concerns would be to stop using windows 98 (where you had sent George the message from). Good idea to use Mozilla (as you seem to) and not George Outlook, but Linux is immune to most of the virii out there that are George really designed to exploit windows machines. ;o) George Mike George George George -- George Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. George -- Albert Einstein George George George George _ George Do You Yahoo!? George Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com George George -- Brian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Home Page: http://www.brimac.com/~brianmac Fine Photos: http://www.brimacphotography.com Art for Sale: http://www.artbrowser.com Classified Advertising: http://www.sellit2000.com The term the whole 9 yards came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the whole 9 yards. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB Live Synth?
Yeah, unfortunately I stumbled upon the Midi configuration issue while poking around in the newer ALSA and Kernel sources. I noticed that there is full support for the Midi Synth in the later kernels, but that Mandrake did not seem to configure things properly by default. After much trial and error I first saw the midi devices appear in KDE, then I tried to start cleanly and get back to where I saw them again. This led to the terse doc I put up. Anyway my /etc/modules.conf file looks like this Thanks; I'll dig into some more later tonight. Make sure I have all these alias, etc. Appreciate the help, Jose. /etc/rc.d/init.d/sound uses the auxmix settings in /etc/.auxmixrc created by saving the AUXMIX mixer settings. You might want to also look at this file so you can spot where initialization is taking place... Also look at /etc/sysconfig/alsa and /etc/sysconfig/sound. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB Live Synth?
I don't use Mdk's kernel; I compile my own, since I need Win4Lin kernel patches, and Mdk doesn't come with those kernel patches. And there are no RPMs for the latest version of ALA that I could find - only for the older 0.5 version, so you have to compile the latest ALSA yourself. Also, I believe ALSA itself is working, else I'd hear no sound from any app, since ALSA is what is providing the sound card drivers, correct? Had the same problem using Mdk's 2.4.13 kernel - no MIDI. It's not that big a deal, since I hardly ever use that feature. Just thought it weird that all the other parts seem to work, but not the MIDI. - Original Message - From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:09 AM Subject: RE: [expert] SB Live Synth? Before you started this, did you make sure that you had ALL of the ALSA RPM's installed from the CDs? Not ones you compiled yourself? I.E. all bets are off if you are not using a clean CD installation... -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
expecting an instant barrage of responses from a group of other users is likewise over the top, that's I have an idea that most who send messages like that DON'T realize this is a volunteer mail list; they expect it to be a method that the company uses to provide support. An official channel, if you will. So they get annoyed, when they don't receive even the hand-holding and ego-stroking sympathy that commercial tech support gives, even when commercial tech support can't help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Viewing .wmv files in LInux without using windows???
mplayer, eh? Can it do STREAMING .ASF, for all those sites that only stream Windows Media Player format? I don't mean download a .ASF file, and then play it when it's completely transferred; I mean real-time streaming (like we can with RealPlayer)? - Original Message - From: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Viewing .wmv files in LInux without using windows??? Strangely enough, I got mplayer to play wmv files, but then in the terminal window it tells me: asf format detected so maybe there are more than one kind of wmv files? On Monday 10 September 2001 12:15 am, so spoke Mark: Can windows media files such as .wmv be viewed in Linux other than porting the ms media player across. I really don't have any other need for windows products bar this one and don not wish to install windows at all. I can't seem to find any linux program that plays these files OR is there a way of converting the .wmv to a readable file such as mpg thanx Mark Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bad CD?
Michael Leone wrote: I've made many Linucx CDs of various distros using ISO images under Windows, using NT and Win2K, and Adaptec EasyCD Creator and Nero, and never had a failed CD. YMMV. (I've made Mandrake, RedHat, Debian, OpenBSD, Corel, others) How do you check that a just-burned CD is correct? With Linux it's I install Linux from the CD just burned - I've installed all the OSes listed above from CDs I've burned myself, from ISO images downloaded off the 'net. Haven't had a problem with any file on any of them yet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
