Re: [expert] Missing PINE

2002-12-04 Thread Mohammed Sameer
My Inbox Happily Received This From Mark Weaver @ Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:38:46 -0500

> SoloCDM wrote:
> > Why isn't PINE in the Mandrake distribution?  I realize mutt is,
> > but what takes the place of PINE?
> 
> There are licensing issues which prevent MandrakeSoft from including it 
> as part of the distro, however you can easily pick up the tarball from 
> the University of Washington's website or grab the binary rpm's from 
> rpmfind.net.
> 
you can get them from the plf website
plf.zarb.org

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[expert] Files encoded via oggenc are too fast

2002-12-02 Thread Mohammed Sameer
Hi all,
today i was converting some raw PCM files to ogg files
when i noticed that the resulting files plays too fast, i asked one of my friends to 
encode them for me and they were fine!

Mandrake 9.0
# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : CyrixInstead
cpu family  : 6
model   : 2
model name  : 6x86MX 2.5x Core/Bus Clock
stepping: 7
cpu MHz : 189.714
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: yes
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu de tsc msr cx8 pge cmov mmx cyrix_arr
bogomips: 378.47

Any suggestions please ??

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Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Mohammed Sameer
My Inbox Happily Received This From Mohammed Sameer @ Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:55:56 +0200

> My Inbox Happily Received This From Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN @ Wed, 27 Nov 2002 
>13:05:46 -0500
> 
> > Have you tried changing the browser identification?
> > That works for me a lot of times, though this pages 
> > seems to have a lot of java, my java is real bad with 
> > both IBM, and Sun versions.
> > 
> > Brian D. Klar - CVE
> > Multimax 
> > Network Engineer
> > WPAFB
> > 
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:03 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Browsers HTML
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:51, Marek wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I 
> > > experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i 
> > > just get the HTML code on the page and nothing else. I thought this 
> > > might be one of the plugins so i removed plugger and the rest but get 
> > > the same effect. Is it just my settings or do others have this as well /
> > > This is an example of one of them when i click one of the links. 
> > > http://www.wits.ac.za/izangoma
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > /Marek
> > > \\Pawinski.net
> > > 
> > 
> > That site looks fine in Galeon. What browser are you using?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jack Coates
> > Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Works with opera 6.1 "browser identification: MSIE 5.0 what a shame! :-)"
> 
oops
identification: opera not msie
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Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Mohammed Sameer
My Inbox Happily Received This From Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN @ Wed, 27 Nov 2002 
13:05:46 -0500

> Have you tried changing the browser identification?
> That works for me a lot of times, though this pages 
> seems to have a lot of java, my java is real bad with 
> both IBM, and Sun versions.
> 
> Brian D. Klar - CVE
> Multimax 
> Network Engineer
> WPAFB
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Browsers HTML
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:51, Marek wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I 
> > experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i 
> > just get the HTML code on the page and nothing else. I thought this 
> > might be one of the plugins so i removed plugger and the rest but get 
> > the same effect. Is it just my settings or do others have this as well /
> > This is an example of one of them when i click one of the links. 
> > http://www.wits.ac.za/izangoma
> > 
> > -- 
> > /Marek
> > \\Pawinski.net
> > 
> 
> That site looks fine in Galeon. What browser are you using?
> 
> -- 
> Jack Coates
> Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
> 
> 
> 
> 
Works with opera 6.1 "browser identification: MSIE 5.0 what a shame! :-)"

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Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-16 Thread Mohammed Sameer

My Inbox Happily Received This From Gregory K. Meyer @ Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:30:22 -0400

> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 06:39 am, E T wrote:
> > I tried to burn at a very slow speed, figuring that might help (16x cd,
> > 12x writer) found (at least with cd#2) that if I burned at 2x I got all
> > sorts of errors on install
> 
> Most newer drives are not made to burn at very slow speeds.  It seems to me 
> that you could get errors at slow speeds for the same reason you get them at 
> high speeds, they are bing used outside of the tolerance range.  There is 
> probably a sweet spot somewhere in the middle, sounds like in your case it is 
> around 12x.

I usually burn at 8 or 16x "burner supports up to 32x"
it works fine, specially with bad quality CDs

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Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-16 Thread Mohammed Sameer

My Inbox Happily Received This From Pierre Fortin @ Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:33:35 -0400

> Hi,
> 
> I burned some 9.0 CDs, only to uncover a strange problem...  
> 
> Since ((CD1, CD2) > 650MB > CD3); and having both 650MB & 700MB blanks, I
> decided to burn on appropriately sized blanks...  [A while back, I burned
> LM8.2 onto 700MB CDs, so the media should not be an issue.]
> 
> When trying to use the newly "burned" LM9.0 CDs, I got I/O errors...  long
> story short... turns out CD1 & CD2 are *blank* -- not burned at all... 
> tried several times; the only clue that something is not right at burn
> time is that the fixation times out.  Doing a simulation burn, everything
> appears to be OK.
> 
> CD3 burns fine.
> 
> The only difference I can see between 8.2 and 9.0 are the >650MB 9.0
> ISOs...
> 
> Anyone have a clue?  Writer is an HP7500+

I've got the ISOs burned on CDs
but i recreated the ISOs and burned them for some friends, works fine!
ASUS CD Writer/ Samsung color blanks
gcombust, the most important thing i noticed that i have to choose "DAO" when burning 
ISOs
don't know what did you exactly do ! 

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[expert] MDK 9 bug? aumix, mc non-root

2002-10-10 Thread Mohammed Sameer

Hi all,
I'm facing the following two issues
when i run aumix from a terminal "ctrl+alt+f1" i get the following and aumix exits
warning: [gpm.c(857)]:
   Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 500 for vc 
/dev/vc/0
 
Broken pipe

and with mc:
Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 500 for vc /dev/vc/0

last=/home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c   

home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
 BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
src/liblow.c
liblow.c
info: [liblow.c(446)]:
Warning: closing connection

and mc is unusable

they both work good when ran by root!
gpm is running,
when gpm is not running mc is usable although the errors are displayed but aumix is a 
is not usable at all!

are there anyone facing the same problems ?

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Re: [expert] uninstallinlg tarballs

2002-10-04 Thread Mohammed Sameer

My Inbox Happily Received This From Hesham Khonji @ Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:51:07 +

> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
> Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
> 
I use make uninstall to handle the installation from tarballs
# mku -u 
and it'll record what files are copied.

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