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RE: [newbie] ADSL?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Ty C. Mixon wrote: USWest, the not-so-baby Bell only supports Windows, and won't even give hints for other OS's, but everything works fine under my Linux installation. I pay USWest for the dsl line, and Datawest (a local ISP) for the service with a static IP. I'm my own smtp (using yi.org as a redirect), ftp, and telnet server. Still need to figure out how to do POP3, but that's not as important to me, as when I move next time I may not have the dsl connection. You shouldn't need any more than the ip, gateway and dns for any OS. If they ask the OS simply repeat the question, and emphisize that you didn't ask where to input them, you only want to know what they are :) oh yeah why i answered, pop-3 is provided by the imap rpm rpm -ihv /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/imap-* -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
The way I learned it, the number zero is neither odd nor even. But 10 would be even b/c it's divisible without remainder by 2. The place holder thing is a significant digits idea,which is not always the same between math and science (physicas, chem). -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 11/20/99, 10:51:45 AM, "Ken Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS): Using this logic then the number 10 is not an even number digitally because it is just a combination of 1 and a place holder. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of PadLocke Sent: November 20, 1999 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS) zeros aren't odd or even. They're Pretty much just place holders.
Re: [newbie] Printing with an HP 722C
At 07:56 20.11.99 -0600, you wrote: Hi all, Is anyone using an HP DeskJet 722C with Mandrake? I realize that this is a 'windows only' printer (PPA) but i remember someone working on getting it to go under Linux. anyone know? any ideas? Thanks, Mark E Hood Works ok in b/w, color support is in development. Take a look at http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ for more info. Terje
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Oder Santos wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder. Hmm..Pentium 200mmxI don't see anything obvious here Have you tried from a console window within X as well as from console prompt? IIRC, the directory names sound correct...how did you unpack it? John Hi John, I tried from a console window within KDE and I unpack it whit tar xfv file.tar Oder. try testing the archive "tar tvf foo.tar" (isn't that supposed tobe a tgz though?) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Quake
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: How/where does one get Quake for linux?? Presumeably in the software store. :-) John If you've been unfortunate enough to buy the windows only version, you will find the binarys and insctructions proliferate just about all the linux gameing sites. I'm still waiting (myself) to find out where/when I can buy the Linux version of Q3 Arena. :-) I called Id software on Friday and they said they don't have a release date yet. :-( John CompUSA, Bestbuy, and Linuxmall will all carry it when it's released i'd wager. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] ADSL?
USWest, the not-so-baby Bell only supports Windows, and won't even give hints for other OS's, but everything works fine under my Linux installation. I pay USWest for the dsl line, and Datawest (a local ISP) for the service with a static IP. I'm my own smtp (using yi.org as a redirect), ftp, and telnet server. Still need to figure out how to do POP3, but that's not as important to me, as when I move next time I may not have the dsl connection. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 11/20/99, 10:14:20 AM, Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: [newbie] ADSL?: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: Locally (BellSouth) is one of those that has required a Windows box to set up your ADSL, although that may be changing. Another friend of mine has a Linux box and they're coming to install the ADSL line today for him. I think one problem in the past has been that a LOT of "kiddies" set up Linux boxes on ADSL and Cablemodems and leave 'em *wide* open for hacking and spamming. This causes problems down the road for the cable/phone co. So, as a result of this "problem" they have developed "windows-only" policies. What the INSTALLER thinks may be a different matter. ;-) John Ok true but theres easier ways, i Know lots of isp's that block port 25, for those reasons, to all their customers ip's -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] ADSL?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: While this is fine if you have a box to destroy, I mean put windows on. I'm sure they have a tech that can verify the ethernet connection with a laptop. Setting up the network card is truly trivial, no matter what OS good ones don't even require a reboot. Do you already have a home network, or ethernet card? Yes to both. :-) I have a Windows box and a Linux box hooked to my ISDN router. I've got to start paying more attention :) i didn't realise this was your question The problem is, I think, that they "key" the ADSL to the MAC address of your ethernet card and some "Baby Bell" companies won't install ADSL if they don't have a Windows box to use. :-) You can always set up "dual-boot" and then wipe the Windows partition afterwards. ;-) The dsl modems here in Denver aren't that much different than the cable modems, with the exception the dsl modems you can get one with upto 4 eth ports. Hardcodeing the mac address of the nic, I really doubt is going on, and if they do really do it they need smacked cause they're just causeing more work for them selves. It may be the case the've skimp'd on them, and got cheap ones without arp support Locally (BellSouth) is one of those that has required a Windows box to set up your ADSL, although that may be changing. Another friend of mine has a Linux box and they're coming to install the ADSL line today for him. I think one problem in the past has been that a LOT of "kiddies" set up Linux boxes on ADSL and Cablemodems and leave 'em *wide* open for hacking and spamming. This causes problems down the road for the cable/phone co. So, as a result of this "problem" they have developed "windows-only" policies. What the INSTALLER thinks may be a different matter. ;-) John Ok true but theres easier ways, i Know lots of isp's that block port 25, for those reasons, to all their customers ip's -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The quality of oddness or evenness only applies to whole numbers, i.e. positive integers. MB
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The quality of oddness or evenness only applies to whole numbers, i.e. positive integers. MB
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The quality of oddness or evenness only applies to whole numbers, i.e. positive integers. MB
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The quality of oddness or evenness only applies to whole numbers, i.e. positive integers. MB
Re: [newbie] Hauppauge, BTTV, BT848, WinTV, KWintv... Any Expertsout there?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm hoping one of you guys/gals have had experience with the Hauppaugh WinTV PCI card. I just can't figure out why my tuner won't change channels. I get snow and that's it. KwinTV, BTTV BT848 software and drivers were installed. Any insights or suggestions? Seve This is probably unreleated as my TV card doesn't use v4l, but i've just recently had similar problems with gatos/xatitv. I have to click "scan channels" and cancel it, untill i do i'm stuck on the channel i started on -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux
David wrote: dump 2 gallons water out fo bucket a and 3 out of bucket b, then dump bucket b into a giving 4 galons ;) *snicker* I know,its not the right answer, but it does give 4 gallons Hello All... Ok maybe this is not a "Factoid" per sebut just a little quiz to burn some brain cells, ( then again for some maybe not even that :) ) U have 1, 3 gallon bucket " " " 1, 5 gallon bucket u absolutely need "exactly" 4 gallon's of water How to do? Rule: the only measuring device allowed r the buckets unlimited water supply "best to do while sober" as far as i know there r 2 answer's.. it does help to straighten out your thoughts though actually what i am looking for is if anyone would be able to translate that into a wee app for X,.. Written in C, as the song goes enjoy.. David
Re: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux
The buckets were built by automated machines being run by a Linux machine AND the water is straight from Linus T's faucet :) On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: David wrote: U have 1, 3 gallon bucket " " " 1, 5 gallon bucket u absolutely need "exactly" 4 gallon's of water Fill the 3-gallon bucket, empty it into the 5-gallon one. Fill it again, empty what will fit into the 5-gallon bucket. Pour the remainder (in the 3-gallon bucket, which will be 1 gallon) wherever you need it. Refill the 3-gallon bucket and pour it wherever you need it, which will give you 4 gallons there. What does this have to do with a Linux list? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
zeros aren't odd or even. They're Pretty much just place holders. On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: By placement alone they would have to be odd wouldn't they? - Original Message - From: Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS) But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? J On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta what about 1/9/2001? is that not odd a nod number? 1 is odd, 9 is nod and oh yeah 2001 is a odd number ;-P bluebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/19/99 11:55:40 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS) Today - Friday, 19/11/1999 - will be the last day that has all odd digits in it's date until 1/1/3111. That's right, you will have seen the last "odd digit day" in your lifetime, and for approximately 37 generations to come! -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
Re: [newbie] X-server (2)
make that switchdesk honestly... I don't speak with a lisp, although I can program in lisp ( a little) On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: mandrake and probably redhat distributions have a neat little app called swithdesk. It will allow you to change environments from whatever environment you happen to be running. Nota ben. I'm not an expert or anything like that... yet. Just sharing my exp. l8r On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, you wrote: I am also a beginner in Linux as well, as some of you had the mistake of speaking to me. I am curious, "How do I change Windows Managers?" I read up on GNOME and you can do it from the manager itself, but, from what I can tell, you can't from KDE, the wm I am using now. From my installation, I think I have FVWM, GNOME, and KDE atleast. To answer that last message, I would like to say that XF86Setup, or something similar, works well. I just used it to mess around. Actually, you can from w/in KDE. The same way you do within Gnome. Change to Gnome, and from there, I think you can select different ones. John -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board.
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I have a ESS1888 on my compaq. The only thing that got it to work is that $20 driver from OSS. Once in a while it would cut out on me. Also, when you play realmedia, the sound is good for a few seconds and you get silence. Then the only way to get the sound back is to reboot. I even tried ALSA. It only worked for my CD player but none of the PCM MP3 stuff. For MP3s, you would hear a bit of sound then silence. At the same time you could see the counter go crazy. Seve I've just been to the url you've given, They seem to have a standalone tarball module, but the link is broken the only linux link i found on the site that works is the one to OSS -Original Message- From: Dreja Julag [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board. Sorry, sir, I have a home built. Just a cheap board I my bro gave to me. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, you wrote: Speak my friend. What would you like to know? I take it you have a Crampaq? Seve -Original Message- From: Joe Marcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board. My 'board has an ESS1888 integrated...it's equivalent to a winmodem. I suspect that this is generally true, but I would like to hear from those who know more than I (almost everyone) :.) -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20177604 -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board.
This Gateway Solo P133 w/ 32mb RAM notebook that I use as my linux box has an integrated ess1888 as well. By chance did you find any free solutions as far as linux device drivers for your ess1888? Right now I'm using an ess1868 driver which works rather poorly. Thanks On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I have a ESS1888 on my compaq. The only thing that got it to work is that $20 driver from OSS. Once in a while it would cut out on me. Also, when you play realmedia, the sound is good for a few seconds and you get silence. Then the only way to get the sound back is to reboot. I even tried ALSA. It only worked for my CD player but none of the PCM MP3 stuff. For MP3s, you would hear a bit of sound then silence. At the same time you could see the counter go crazy. Seve -Original Message- From: Dreja Julag [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board. Sorry, sir, I have a home built. Just a cheap board I my bro gave to me. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, you wrote: Speak my friend. What would you like to know? I take it you have a Crampaq? Seve -Original Message- From: Joe Marcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board. My 'board has an ESS1888 integrated...it's equivalent to a winmodem. I suspect that this is generally true, but I would like to hear from those who know more than I (almost everyone) :.) -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20177604 -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
Re: [newbie] Samba
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: Sounds like an "encrypted password" problem. I bet when you click on the sahre in Network Neighborhood it asks for a password for the a share with "$" in it. If so, you must enable password encryption in your Samba setup. Keith wrote: Or, I think, if the "windows" machines are NT, disable encrypted passwords. :-) John
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder. Hmm..Pentium 200mmxI don't see anything obvious here Have you tried from a console window within X as well as from console prompt? IIRC, the directory names sound correct...how did you unpack it? John
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: StarOffice 5.1 is included as a 30 day full-trial pending your registration. Don't know if registration is free or not as my trial isn't up yet. -Josh If you download it, it's free, so I would assume that the version on the CD is free. John
Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board.
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: ESS and Crystal Audio and several others I can't think of right now make chipsets that OEM's stick on their cards. Does Linux support the chipset directly or the OEM's card which in some cases has a slightly modified version of the chipset? For Crystal Audio, etc it's probably better to get the OpenSound utility. I think it's something like $10 and IIRC, the upgrades are free. John
Re: [newbie] Hauppauge, BTTV, BT848,WinTV,KWintv... Any Experts out there?
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm hoping one of you guys/gals have had experience with the Hauppaugh WinTV PCI card. I just can't figure out why my tuner won't change channels. I get snow and that's it. KwinTV, BTTV BT848 software and drivers were installed. Any insights or suggestions? Seve That occurs when my input connection is loose or not connected. I have found it almost impossible to receive channels without an attached antenna or cable connection. Jim
Re: [newbie] Quake
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: How/where does one get Quake for linux?? Presumeably in the software store. :-) John If you've been unfortunate enough to buy the windows only version, you will find the binarys and insctructions proliferate just about all the linux gameing sites. I'm still waiting (myself) to find out where/when I can buy the Linux version of Q3 Arena. :-) I called Id software on Friday and they said they don't have a release date yet. :-( John
Re: [newbie] FW: Bouncing!! (991117-8324497)
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote: Looks like a lot of #$@# to me!! I have a feeling that either they don't know what they are doing, or we are in a lot of trouble :-( The problem is NOT with mindspring.com. The problem is with In part it actualy is, they shouldn't be bounceing them back to both the list (majordomo /dev/null's these) and to the sender (the crap in our mailboxes) Ahh...wasn't aware they were ALSO bouncing it back to the majordomo server... I agree then. :-) You da man, Axalon! :-) John
RE: [newbie] ADSL?
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: While this is fine if you have a box to destroy, I mean put windows on. I'm sure they have a tech that can verify the ethernet connection with a laptop. Setting up the network card is truly trivial, no matter what OS good ones don't even require a reboot. Do you already have a home network, or ethernet card? Yes to both. :-) I have a Windows box and a Linux box hooked to my ISDN router. The problem is, I think, that they "key" the ADSL to the MAC address of your ethernet card and some "Baby Bell" companies won't install ADSL if they don't have a Windows box to use. :-) You can always set up "dual-boot" and then wipe the Windows partition afterwards. ;-) Locally (BellSouth) is one of those that has required a Windows box to set up your ADSL, although that may be changing. Another friend of mine has a Linux box and they're coming to install the ADSL line today for him. I think one problem in the past has been that a LOT of "kiddies" set up Linux boxes on ADSL and Cablemodems and leave 'em *wide* open for hacking and spamming. This causes problems down the road for the cable/phone co. So, as a result of this "problem" they have developed "windows-only" policies. What the INSTALLER thinks may be a different matter. ;-) John
Re: [newbie] ISP connection good...FIRE BAD
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: Boy, people thought I was a 'puter geek when I was using windoze... After several re-installs and reconfigurations of internet sofware, I think I've finally gotten pretty close to where I'd like to be. I can use my ISP connection as an unpriveleged user! Linux also doesn't gobble 73% of my HD. I'm learning alot, and when I get some more cash, I'll be getting some better books. I guess my "Mastering Windows 95" book is pretty useless now as well as "The Expert Guide...". This has been somewhat fun, if not frustrating for me and my family. I'm learning alot, and am thinking about finding another ISP that offers Linux/Unix support. There's plenty of smaller ISP's, and I'd think some of them would be more inclined to offer support. Mindspring tries to help, but let's face it, Linux hasn't quite gotten the market share as Microsoft and Mac. JoshI work for a LOCAL ISP in Chattanooga. We're also proponents of the Linux alternative. We've helped one or two people configure their Linux boxes for dialing into Mindspring. Standard PPP stuff works with Mindspring. :-) If you'd like to contact me off-list (or even on-list...just trying to help conserve bandwidth G) I'll be glad to try and help you with anything you need to configure Linux for Mindspring. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Samba
Just a note. There is a bug in Windows 95-98 that sometimes makes it impossible to log in. There is a fix .. goto http://www.samba.org They have a area that list problems and fixes. Jeff Bruce Endries wrote: I've seen the same thing many times. Here are some suggestions: 1. Make sure you have a linux username and password that exactly matches your windows username and password. 2. Make sure that you have a samba share that is useable by the particular user. 3. Make sure that you have the samba share configured in smb.conf for the particular user, or make it a public share (writable). 4. Make sure smb.conf is configured to use encrypted passwords. 5. Make sure you add the linux/windows user to the encrypted password file by using the command: smbpasswd -a XX where XX is the linux/windows username. You will be prompted for the password. Then try it again. Bruce Date sent: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:23:31 -0600 (CST) From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Samba Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you log in as your unprivileged user? If so, your problem is probably that you aren't allowing guest logins to your share (you can do this by adding "guest ok" or something like that to the share). Also, check which user account you have set as your Samba guest account. DvB On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Gerry Doyon wrote: Sounds like an "encrypted password" problem. I bet when you click on the sahre in Network Neighborhood it asks for a password for the a share with "$" in it. If so, you must enable password encryption in your Samba setup. Keith wrote: Hi all, I seem to have Samba up and running after many days of pulling my hair out,and now have another problem.I can see my 2 windows machines and my linux files (i am using LinNeighborhood) and can mount and use the windoze file systems no problem.Now on my windoze boxes i can see the linux box but cannot access it,its asking for a password and i cant for the life of me find out where to put this password.Swat has no offering for a password when i set up my shared linux files.Any suggestions welcome. Thanks -- Keith
[newbie] Hauppauge, BTTV, BT848, WinTV, KWintv... Any Experts out there?
I'm hoping one of you guys/gals have had experience with the Hauppaugh WinTV PCI card. I just can't figure out why my tuner won't change channels. I get snow and that's it. KwinTV, BTTV BT848 software and drivers were installed. Any insights or suggestions? Seve
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Re: [newbie] ISP connection good...FIRE BAD
josh mccaffrey wrote: Boy, people thought I was a 'puter geek when I was using windoze... After several re-installs and reconfigurations of internet sofware, I think I've finally gotten pretty close to where I'd like to be. I can use my ISP connection as an unpriveleged user! Linux also doesn't gobble 73% of my HD. I'm learning alot, and when I get some more cash, I'll be getting some better books. I guess my "Mastering Windows 95" book is pretty useless now as well as "The Expert Guide...". This has been somewhat fun, if not frustrating for me and my family. I'm learning alot, and am thinking about finding another ISP that offers Linux/Unix support. There's plenty of smaller ISP's, and I'd think some of them would be more inclined to offer support. Mindspring tries to help, but let's face it, Linux hasn't quite gotten the market share as Microsoft and Mac. Josh Atlanta, GA I would have to highly recommend Corecomm.net as an ISP that provides support to the Unix/Linux community. They were and have been very helpful as well as providing the necessary info to setup my ppp connection. Jim
Re: [newbie] Install problems...
go to http://www.linux.org and do a search for laptops. It will give you the Linux laptop page. There are some links there that go to pages that give info about installing linux on a winbook. - Original Message - From: Michael D. Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 2:48 PM Subject: [newbie] Install problems... I have a WinBook Laptop computer and I am trying to figure out how to install Mandrake RH6.0. I can not get the computer to recognize the CD-ROM drive. Here is what is going on... 1. I insert the removable floppy drive and boot from the boot disk. 2. When I get to the point where it asks me to pick which cd-rom drive to use, I remove the floppy drive and insert the cd-rom drive with the CD #1 in it. 3. I went through the entire list for CD-ROM drivers and it can not find the cd-rom. 4. It is not SCSI. I have an external CD-ROM drive as well that hooks up to the parallel port as well. I tried it and it can not be found. The CD-ROM is a "Backpack". I tried Fdisk the hard drive and copied the 9 files from the boot disk to it to see if it may be a problem from swapping the CD-Rom with the Floppy drive. I can not get it to boot from the hard drive. I fdisked the hard drive using DOS 6.0 fdisk utility and formatted it. I copied the boot disk to the hard drive and it would not boot from the hard drive. I just need to install Apache web server and X-Windows so I can show off a working copy of my web site when I am on the road. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote: I am really new to linux and I have just downloaded Star Office 5.1a but after "untar" so51a and try ./setup in office51 I saw this message: segmentation fault (core dumped). What is this? Does anyone could help me? Thanks in advance, Oder. Hmm...sounds like a bad/grunged archive, or something similar. Mine worked just fine out of the archive. What processor are you on? How much memory? How much free drive space? John Thanks John, My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder.
Re: [newbie] K Desktop
Dennis Robertson wrote: Steve, I have tried all possible combinations of IP, DNS and Gateway entries in Kppp and still find that the panel and desktop icons do not work after using Kppp. Is there anything else I can try, please? Thanks. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first. I had this too, All you have to do is make sure the box "Autoconfigure hostname from this account" in the IP tab is not checked. Mind you, It seemed to "revert" for some reason... I have had no problems since I reinstalled Mandrake (for something else);-). Perhaps you could try uninstalling/reinstalling kppp with kpackage -Warren.
Re: [newbie] Instructions to Compile Mandrake 6.1
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: Do you know it the later kernels (later than 2.2.13-7) support dma transfers by default? I know the 2.2.13-7 does not. Just interested. Larry I remember seeing it in some of them Larry, but I don't remember which ones or if it actually worked. I have this line at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local to enable, among other things, dma: hdparm -m4 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a64 /dev/hdb The 'd' switch enables dma. 'info hdparm' has good explainations for the various switches, specially for WD HDD's. -- .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tom, thanks for that info. I wasn't aware of what file to change to make it permanent. I had previously done it manually and used the k1 switch to make it permanent (which didn't work) so I recompiled the kernel. But I needed to do that anyway for sound card reasons. Larry
Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board.
I have a ESS1888 on my compaq. The only thing that got it to work is that $20 driver from OSS. Once in a while it would cut out on me. Also, when you play realmedia, the sound is good for a few seconds and you get silence. Then the only way to get the sound back is to reboot. I even tried ALSA. It only worked for my CD player but none of the PCM MP3 stuff. For MP3s, you would hear a bit of sound then silence. At the same time you could see the counter go crazy. Seve -Original Message- From: Dreja Julag [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board. Sorry, sir, I have a home built. Just a cheap board I my bro gave to me. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, you wrote: Speak my friend. What would you like to know? I take it you have a Crampaq? Seve -Original Message- From: Joe Marcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board. My 'board has an ESS1888 integrated...it's equivalent to a winmodem. I suspect that this is generally true, but I would like to hear from those who know more than I (almost everyone) :.) -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20177604
Re: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux
That is one method, there other is to pour off 3 gallons from the 5 gallon leaving 2 gallons. Empty the Three gallon bucket and put the 2 gallons of water into it. Fill the five and pour off 1 galolon into the three. probably the most meaningful contribution I can make to this list G R - Original Message - From: Andrew M George [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 7:12 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux hmmm 1. Go to video Store 2. Rent Die hard III 3. Fast Forward to the park scene 4. Take notes (sorry...couldn't resist) On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: 1. Fill the 5 gallon bucket using the 3 gallon bucket. Now there is 3 gallon of water in the 5 gallon bucket. And you can add 2 more gallon of water to fulfil it. 2. Once again fill the 5 gallon bucket using the 3 gallon bucket. Now you have exactlt 1 gallon of water left in your 3 gallon bucket. (it's only take 2 gallon of water to fulfil the 5 gallon bucket. 3. Empty the 5 gallon bucket. Then put your 1 gallon of water into it (it was in the 3 gallon bucket). 4. Add exactly 3 more gallon of water (of course using the 3 gallon bucket). 5. Now you have exactly 4 gallon of water. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Sent: November 19, 1999 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux Hello All... Ok maybe this is not a "Factoid" per sebut just a little quiz to burn some brain cells, ( then again for some maybe not even that :) ) U have 1, 3 gallon bucket " " " 1, 5 gallon bucket u absolutely need "exactly" 4 gallon's of water How to do? Rule: the only measuring device allowed r the buckets unlimited water supply snip
[newbie] Re:
You are more than welcome to leaave our camp anytime you want. GO back to your BSOD if that is what you want. "Mike J. Kesow" wrote: I LOVE THE HUMOR AND SARCASM, BUT I HATE YOU ALL AND WANT OFF OF THIS CRAP!
[newbie] Re:
"Mike J. Kesow" wrote: I LOVE THE HUMOR AND SARCASM, BUT I HATE YOU ALL AND WANT OFF OF THIS CRAP! So remove yourself asshole, o rwere you too stupid and ignorant to remember how? (hint, it's NOT rocket science)
[newbie] K Desktop
Steve, I have tried all possible combinations of IP, DNS and Gateway entries in Kppp and still find that the panel and desktop icons do not work after using Kppp. Is there anything else I can try, please? Thanks. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
[newbie] Scanner
Hello List, I am trying to get my Mustek 60011N scanner to work. I have installed SANE on initial install (and Kpackage confirms) and have printed the notes on how to configure, build and install SANE as well as sane-mustek 5, which I printed when I was running Caldera2.2. Problem is the files which should be in /usr/local/lib/, /usr/local//etc/sane.d/ and /usr/local/man/ do not exist. GIMP cannot see the scanner. Can anyone tell me what to do from here ( to get my scanner working, that is ), please? TIA. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
Re: [newbie] Blackbox
Sean Armstrong wrote: Hello Blackbox Users, I was impressed by the supporting comments for blackbox, so I installed it with KDE enabled. Here is the dumb question. I read the install and run notes but nothing tells me how to actually start it ie get it on my desktop. Has the install not worked or am I missing something obvious? Please be kind. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first. I just changed my Xclients file to read: #!/bin/bash kpanel kfm -d /usr/local/bin/blackbox Of course you don't have to add the lines kpanel and kfm -d , I added these so that the desktop icon for kde and the kpanel would appear. These are my own tastes. The blackbox binary was located in my /usr/local/bin file. Make sure that you place the bsetroot bin somewhere where the OS can access it ie. /bin . Then just save this to your Xclients file, remember to back up the original Xclients file in case something goes wrong. Then just run startx from the command line prompt and you will be on you way. left/right clicking the desktop will pull up the blackbox menu, which probably needs to be edited to work properly with your system (..very easy to do), or the iconify menu. Have fun, and spread the word. Blackbox is the fastest and easiest to modify GUI out there. SA Thanks Sean, It works and I am evaluating it. I appreciate the kpanel and kfm additions. It seems faster, but not markedly so. I find it cumbersome to shut down - is there a way of having it start (run level 5) and shutdown by default if I decide to go with it. Regards. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
Re: [newbie] 128MB becomes 64MB when overclocked
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Supprised it booted, what flavor video card? A lowly Matrox Mystique PCI (and Rainbow Runner daughtercard). The original, not the 220 model. Windoze and linuz use totaly different methods for determining the available ram, simply append="mem=128M" in your lilo.conf I shall endeavor to apply said instructions, and will report forthwith (sorry, beer factor mode enabled! :)
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack
Hi benjamin, thanks to purchased mandrake powerpack. Yes you get 6 CD's. One for installation, 2 for Application program including demos and all source. Yes you find StarOffice 5.1 alongwith key number, please regist. SO 5.1 by online for use unlimited times. you may also get help directly from L-mandrake by online or telephone. thanks satyajit Benjamin wrote: Dear friends: I just purchased the Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack this afternoon (from LinuxMall). I won't be getting it till Wednesday. Just curious: Mandrake says on their web page that the PowerPack includes the installation CD, 1,800 rpms and a third CD with commercial applications (plus a CD for the source code for each of the above, making for a total of 6 CD's). Does the CD with commercial applications include any that are not normally available on the Net or at www. freshmeat.net or elsewhere? And are they demos, shareware or what? And is StarOffice 5.1 included? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
RE: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux
hmmm 1. Go to video Store 2. Rent Die hard III 3. Fast Forward to the park scene 4. Take notes (sorry...couldn't resist) On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: 1. Fill the 5 gallon bucket using the 3 gallon bucket. Now there is 3 gallon of water in the 5 gallon bucket. And you can add 2 more gallon of water to fulfil it. 2. Once again fill the 5 gallon bucket using the 3 gallon bucket. Now you have exactlt 1 gallon of water left in your 3 gallon bucket. (it's only take 2 gallon of water to fulfil the 5 gallon bucket. 3. Empty the 5 gallon bucket. Then put your 1 gallon of water into it (it was in the 3 gallon bucket). 4. Add exactly 3 more gallon of water (of course using the 3 gallon bucket). 5. Now you have exactly 4 gallon of water. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Sent: November 19, 1999 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux Hello All... Ok maybe this is not a "Factoid" per sebut just a little quiz to burn some brain cells, ( then again for some maybe not even that :) ) U have 1, 3 gallon bucket " " " 1, 5 gallon bucket u absolutely need "exactly" 4 gallon's of water How to do? Rule: the only measuring device allowed r the buckets unlimited water supply snip
Re: [newbie] Samba
I've seen the same thing many times. Here are some suggestions: 1. Make sure you have a linux username and password that exactly matches your windows username and password. 2. Make sure that you have a samba share that is useable by the particular user. 3. Make sure that you have the samba share configured in smb.conf for the particular user, or make it a public share (writable). 4. Make sure smb.conf is configured to use encrypted passwords. 5. Make sure you add the linux/windows user to the encrypted password file by using the command: smbpasswd -a XX where XX is the linux/windows username. You will be prompted for the password. Then try it again. Bruce Date sent: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:23:31 -0600 (CST) From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Samba Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you log in as your unprivileged user? If so, your problem is probably that you aren't allowing guest logins to your share (you can do this by adding "guest ok" or something like that to the share). Also, check which user account you have set as your Samba guest account. DvB On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Gerry Doyon wrote: Sounds like an "encrypted password" problem. I bet when you click on the sahre in Network Neighborhood it asks for a password for the a share with "$" in it. If so, you must enable password encryption in your Samba setup. Keith wrote: Hi all, I seem to have Samba up and running after many days of pulling my hair out,and now have another problem.I can see my 2 windows machines and my linux files (i am using LinNeighborhood) and can mount and use the windoze file systems no problem.Now on my windoze boxes i can see the linux box but cannot access it,its asking for a password and i cant for the life of me find out where to put this password.Swat has no offering for a password when i set up my shared linux files.Any suggestions welcome. Thanks -- Keith
[newbie] segmentation fault ?
I try ./setup in office51 to install StarOffice51a but receive this message: segmentation fault (core dumped). What it is? Does anyone know how to help me? Thanks, Oder.
[newbie] OS
Q: How many Internet mailing list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? Nice one David. At the same time as I posted the odd digit fact I sent a copy to Bill Gates. I've had an email from an M$VP assuring me that Windows 3111 will correct this problem but it's too far ahead to give me a price in the UK. I read all the group mail. Problem is that both my linux boxes run OK and do all I want of them. John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
re: Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
It has a two in it - all the digits have to be odd. John the Nadger ** Original Subject: Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS) ** Original Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:00:47 -0500 ** Original Message follows... From: Ronald A. Yacketta what about 1/9/2001? is that not odd a nod number? 1 is odd, 9 is nod and oh yeah 2001 is a odd number ;-P bluebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/19/99 11:55:40 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS) Today - Friday, 19/11/1999 - will be the last day that has all odd digits in it's date until 1/1/3111. That's right, you will have seen the last "odd digit day" in your lifetime, and for approximately 37 generations to come! ** - End Original Message --- ** John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
[newbie] Re:
"Mike J. Kesow" wrote: I LOVE THE HUMOR AND SARCASM, BUT I HATE YOU ALL AND WANT OFF OF THIS CRAP! [EMAIL PROTECTED] "remove" in body of text.
Re: [newbie] Please remove my address from your list
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Re: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux
David wrote: U have 1, 3 gallon bucket " " " 1, 5 gallon bucket u absolutely need "exactly" 4 gallon's of water Fill the 3-gallon bucket, empty it into the 5-gallon one. Fill it again, empty what will fit into the 5-gallon bucket. Pour the remainder (in the 3-gallon bucket, which will be 1 gallon) wherever you need it. Refill the 3-gallon bucket and pour it wherever you need it, which will give you 4 gallons there. What does this have to do with a Linux list? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] FW: Bouncing!! (991117-8324497)
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote: Looks like a lot of #$@# to me!! I have a feeling that either they don't know what they are doing, or we are in a lot of trouble :-( The problem is NOT with mindspring.com. The problem is with In part it actualy is, they shouldn't be bounceing them back to both the list (majordomo /dev/null's these) and to the sender (the crap in our mailboxes) racetrac.com, who is a client of mindspring.com. Racetrac.com had an employee who signed up for the list with their work address @racetrac.com. Now that they are no longer there, their email address no longer exists. That is why the mail is bouncing. John -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
True enough, but zero is BY DEFINITION neither odd nor even. :) Original Message On 11/20/99, 2:45:55 PM, Peter Heckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS): PadLocke wrote: zeros aren't odd or even. They're Pretty much just place holders. If you define even as: "can be divided by 2 without remainder" then 0 is even. 0 div 2 = 0, remainder = 0. Pretty long thread! ;-) Peter
Re: [newbie] xconfigurator help
At 01:35 PM 11/20/99 -0800, you wrote: I need to configure my computer's video card settings to get a better resolution. The help documents told me to do it in "xconfigurator". The problem I have is that I can't find xconfigurator anywhere and so I can't run it. I even used the find feature to find it and tried typing it in the terminal. Could you please tell me where I might find it or another way I could change my monitor settings to get a better resolution. I really appreciate it. Ryan Gardner It is "Xconfigurator", not "xconfigurator".
Re: [newbie] X-server (2)
try desktopcfg, its by us and it runs from a console unlike switchdesk --Axalon OK...I asked this once before but didn't get a reply how do you add a window manager to the KDM/XDM list and get it working? KDM configure llows you to add a menu item, but I can't find any doco as to what else has to be changed...
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
when divided by two, odd numbers have a remainder, even numbers don't. zero divided by two has no remainder, so it's even
Re: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux
"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: David wrote: dump 2 gallons water out fo bucket a and 3 out of bucket b, then dump bucket b into a giving 4 galons ;) *snicker* I know,its not the right answer, but it does give 4 gallons Hello All... Ok maybe this is not a "Factoid" per sebut just a little quiz to burn some brain cells, ( then again for some maybe not even that :) ) U have 1, 3 gallon bucket " " " 1, 5 gallon bucket u absolutely need "exactly" 4 gallon's of water How to do? Rule: the only measuring device allowed r the buckets unlimited water supply "best to do while sober" as far as i know there r 2 answer's.. it does help to straighten out your thoughts though actually what i am looking for is if anyone would be able to translate that into a wee app for X,.. Written in C, as the song goes enjoy.. David ops! (3- 2 = 1) + (5 -3 = 2) = 3 *blush* should have been (3 -2 = 1) + (5 - 2 = 3 ) = 4
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RE: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
0 is in fact an imaginary number. Try and imagine having zero of something. 0 x 1 implies there are some ones, but there are none of them. Having a zero quantity of something is in its self contradiction. You can't have nothing of something. Or have i just drank too much coffee today... -Original Message- From: Peter Heckert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 1999 21:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS) PadLocke wrote: zeros aren't odd or even. They're Pretty much just place holders. If you define even as: "can be divided by 2 without remainder" then 0 is even. 0 div 2 = 0, remainder = 0. Pretty long thread! ;-) Peter
[newbie] eth0
Hey everyone. When booting, it takes FOREVER to start interface eth0.
Re: [newbie] xconfigurator help
Been in the same predicament. Finally decided to look veeery carefully at the docs and then tried typing Xconfigurator and [enter]. Notice the capital X. Hope its that simple for you too. Antonio C T Rocha Brasil -Mensagem original- De: Ryan Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: Sábado, 20 de Novembro de 1999 20:13 Assunto: [newbie] xconfigurator help I need to configure my computer's video card settings to get a better resolution. The help documents told me to do it in "xconfigurator". The problem I have is that I can't find xconfigurator anywhere and so I can't run it. I even used the find feature to find it and tried typing it in the terminal. Could you please tell me where I might find it or another way I could change my monitor settings to get a better resolution. I really appreciate it. Ryan Gardner __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] eth0
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hey everyone. When booting, it takes FOREVER to start interface eth0. dhcp sucks in general, use static if posible. Ok i know thats not practical for everybody, try setting the BOOTPROTO to pump and see if you get a fast response. Theres not much tobe done about this. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] 128MB becomes 64MB when overclocked
I don't know if the Abit board fully supports faster FSB setting than 66mhz, as it's a Celeron only board. I run a Tyan Tiger100 S1832, with dual MSI Socket to slot converters, and 2x Celeron 466 clocked to 85mhz (1200+bogomips)on the fsb and that works fine. BUT I am using a board that designed to run at 100mhz over the FSB. I am planning to add some serious (cryogenic) cooling, and run to 95mhz (1340+ BogoMIPS. Sorry I digress. The point is, I am not sure how well the Mobo will handle the frequency, considering it's not a P2 or P3 board. My reccomendation is to change your ETC/LILO.CONF, and add the statement APPEND="MEM=128M". Then run /SBIN/LILO. If that doesn't work, try dropping your FSB speed down a notch, untill the memory come back. Regards Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Boze Sent: 18 November 1999 11:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 128MB becomes 64MB when overclocked Hi, folks. I've got an Abit BP6 motherboard with two Celeron 466MHz processors and 128MB of PC133 ECC RAM. At normal clock speed, Linux reports 128MB RAM, as expected. But when I started overclocking, Linux immediately reported 64MB! Currently running at 574MHz, nice and comfy, with Linux Mandrake 6.1, kernel 2.2.13-7mdksmp, compiled #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 16:38:50 CEST 1999. With version 6.0, I compiled (not entirely successfully) an SMP version of the standard kernel. I seem to recall something about enabling enhanced Real Time Clock support, due to the SMP. Right now I'm using the installed SMP kernel. Windoze reports 128MB at the same overclock, so I wonder if Linux is relying on the bus speed? Currently it's 82MHz, instead of the standard 66MHz. Any thoughts appreciated. Doug
Re: [newbie] X-server (2)
You have to edit the file /usr/bin/fndSession
[newbie] Netscape Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 - Is it worth it?
I'm curious as to how much of an improvement Netscape 4.7 is over 4.6. For all of you that upgraded, was it worth the time? Did it fix the problems of it suddenly shutting down and all the other annoying stuff? Seve
Re: [newbie] X-server (2)
Correction: In my system I had to edit /usr/sbin/fndSession
Re: [newbie] xconfigurator help
RyanXconfigurator is spelled with an uppercase X. Alan Ryan Gardner wrote: I need to configure my computer's video card settings to get a better resolution. The help documents told me to do it in "xconfigurator". The problem I have is that I can't find xconfigurator anywhere and so I can't run it. I even used the find feature to find it and tried typing it in the terminal. Could you please tell me where I might find it or another way I could change my monitor settings to get a better resolution. I really appreciate it. Ryan Gardner __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Quake
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm still waiting (myself) to find out where/when I can buy the Linux version of Q3 Arena. :-) I called Id software on Friday and they said they don't have a release date yet. :-( Yah rumor was nov 24, then dec 7. . .according to folks at all the comp shops i been to. What i understand from reading the plans of id staff, it seems that the Elite (tin box) edition won't have linux binaries, additionally, the Linux version WILL NOT ship simultaneously with the Win/Mac versions as originally planned. Linux binaries will not be able for dload until post xmas, mainly for the purpose of collecting stats. -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
Re: [newbie] Netscape Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 - Is it worth it?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm curious as to how much of an improvement Netscape 4.7 is over 4.6. For all of you that upgraded, was it worth the time? Did it fix the problems of it suddenly shutting down and all the other annoying stuff? Seve Not really. If you've got some extra time then go ahead and upgrade but don't go out of your way to do so... don't know if it fixed the 128 bit encription problem or not. DvB
Re: [newbie] Quake
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm still waiting (myself) to find out where/when I can buy the Linux version of Q3 Arena. :-) I called Id software on Friday and they said they don't have a release date yet. :-( oh yeah the demo should be out tonite too! (20-11-99) -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
[newbie] Words Of Wisdom
Dear Everyone: Recently I have been in involved in an email discussions with one of my friends about OS theory, mainly linux and UNIX Design Theory. Id like to share with you all something he said that for me personally says it all. . . -- Forwarded Message -- Is Linux UNIX? I don't know. But its beautiful. Its rebellious. Its free. Its a slap to the face of the corporate world. Fuck you bill. Fuck you scott. We don't need your feature bloated OS nor your designs on world domination thank you. We have our own visions, our own view of perfection which we work together to achieve without tainting our dreams with greed. You can take your avarice, your hate, i'll just take linux and go where i want to go. today. :) hehe. that was fun. silly me. -- Nuff said. . .you go, stephen -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
Re: [newbie] eth0
Ok, thanx. Im just on a home lan so using static is no prob. How to i go back to configure my network settings? Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hey everyone. When booting, it takes FOREVER to start interface eth0. dhcp sucks in general, use static if posible. Ok i know thats not practical for everybody, try setting the BOOTPROTO to pump and see if you get a fast response. Theres not much tobe done about this. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] make dep error (was Problems patching the kernel...)
I applied the "ide.2.2.13.1999.patch" patch file to the kernel. I then typed "make mrproper" then "make xconfig" and then "make dep" When I typed "make dep" I received the error message: snip ../../.config: no such file or directory ***no rule to make target ../../.config stop [_sfdep_fc4] error 2 [fastdep] error 2 [sfdep_drivers] error 2 [dep_files] error 2 What do I do to get rid of these error messages so I can recompile my kernel? What do these error messages mean? If anyone could even point me to a webpage that has help on these error messages, I'll take that too. thanks all, Matt From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems patching the kernel... Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:09:23 -0700 (MST) On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, M Thompson wrote: I'm trying to patch my kernel with a patch file. I placed the patch file in /usr/src. I ran the command "patch -p0 (patch file)" and received the following message---"File to Patch:" What should I type when I receive that message? Is there anything else I should be doing to accomplish this task? BTW - I am using the file "ide.2.2.13.1999.patch" to add support for my Promise Ultra66 IDE controller. I thought patching the kernel was a painless procedure. do it like zcat ide.2.2.13.1999.patch.gz | patch -p1 or patch -p1 ide.2.2.13.1999.patch With the later you'll recieve a few of the same messages skip them (they should all refer to different archs), the prompting gets skiped if you zcat, because stdin is not a tty Thanks all, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
Sorry... can't let my old math profs down on this one. Zero isn't imaginary either. An imaginary number is a multiple of a quantity called "i" which is defined by the property that i squared equals -1. Zero squared is Zero and the square root of Zero is still Zero. Some people get confused, because it is hard to imagine any number having a negative square. It is tempting to believe that i doesn't really exist, but rather it's just a convenient mathematical hoop de doo. This isn't the case. Imaginary numbers do exist. They are not really imaginary at all. The name dates back to when they were first introduced, before their existence was really understood. At that point in time, people were imagining what it would be like to have a number system that contained square roots of negative numbers, hence the name "imaginary". Eventually it was realized that such a number system does in fact exist, but by then the name had stuck. On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: 0 is in fact an imaginary number. Try and imagine having zero of something. 0 x 1 implies there are some ones, but there are none of them. Having a zero quantity of something is in its self contradiction. You can't have nothing of something. Or have i just drank too much coffee today... -Original Message- From: Peter Heckert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 1999 21:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS) PadLocke wrote: zeros aren't odd or even. They're Pretty much just place holders. If you define even as: "can be divided by 2 without remainder" then 0 is even. 0 div 2 = 0, remainder = 0. Pretty long thread! ;-) Peter -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
Re: [newbie] Quake
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm still waiting (myself) to find out where/when I can buy the Linux version of Q3 Arena. :-) I called Id software on Friday and they said they don't have a release date yet. :-( Yah rumor was nov 24, then dec 7. . .according to folks at all the comp shops i been to. What i understand from reading the plans of id staff, it seems that the Elite (tin box) edition won't have linux binaries, additionally, the Linux version WILL NOT ship simultaneously with the Win/Mac versions as originally planned. Linux binaries will not be able for dload until post xmas, mainly for the purpose of collecting stats. If a software dealer gives you a hard date for the release of any Id game, they are making it up.. Anyone that has followed John Carmack and co. over the last few years knows that they never give hard release dates. They always release the game "When Its Done". Todd Hollenshead, the CEO for Id software had this to say in a recent finger update. ( you can see it for yourself by going to the console or xterm window and typing 'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more') Here is Todds update: 11-14-1999 Demo Test notes: As Graeme indicated, this is a preliminary release. We are retaining the prohibition on physical media distribution until we release the final or "gold" demo. That means that magazines will NOT be allowed to distribute this version of the demo on coverdisks. This is marked all over the test, however I would appreciate it if all of the Quake 3 and game site webmasters that are mirroring or covering the release would lend me a hand and make sure our friendly neighborhood game and computer magazines understand this. Rest assured, we will allow physical media distribution of the final demo, once it is released, but not yet. Second, although the 1-800-idgames number is on the screen, we (id) aren't accepting orders yet. Also, please remember that number is not for technical support for Quake III Arena, the demo test, or any other id game. Feedback, bugs, etc., in the demo test should still be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, before the crazy speculation starts, we aren't done with the game yet. We will be finished "when it's done!" Again, anyone besides id claiming to have the official release date is just pulling your chain.
Re: [newbie] OS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q: How many Internet mailing list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? Nice one David. At the same time as I posted the odd digit fact I sent a copy to Bill Gates. I've had an email from an M$VP assuring me that Windows 3111 will correct this problem but it's too far ahead to give me a price in the UK. Now THAT's humor! Thanks for the laugh John -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ISP connection good...FIRE BAD
Jim Vaughan wrote: josh mccaffrey wrote: Boy, people thought I was a 'puter geek when I was using windoze... After several re-installs and reconfigurations of internet sofware, I think I've finally gotten pretty close to where I'd like to be. I can use my ISP connection as an unpriveleged user! Linux also doesn't gobble 73% of my HD. I'm learning alot, and when I get some more cash, I'll be getting some better books. I guess my "Mastering Windows 95" book is pretty useless now as well as "The Expert Guide...". This has been somewhat fun, if not frustrating for me and my family. I'm learning alot, and am thinking about finding another ISP that offers Linux/Unix support. There's plenty of smaller ISP's, and I'd think some of them would be more inclined to offer support. Mindspring tries to help, but let's face it, Linux hasn't quite gotten the market share as Microsoft and Mac. Josh Atlanta, GA I would have to highly recommend Corecomm.net as an ISP that provides support to the Unix/Linux community. They were and have been very helpful as well as providing the necessary info to setup my ppp connection. Are you in the Atlanta area? I'll be visiting in a couple weeks and I'm looking for some suggestions of things I should check out over a weekend. Anything you could recommend? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Netscape Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 - Is it worth it?
I got the 4.7 128-bit and it worked pretty well for a couple weeks, although today it crashed so much I got frustrated and started using Windows/ IE5 so I could get what I had to do, done. - Original Message - From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 - Is it worth it? On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm curious as to how much of an improvement Netscape 4.7 is over 4.6. For all of you that upgraded, was it worth the time? Did it fix the problems of it suddenly shutting down and all the other annoying stuff? Seve Not really. If you've got some extra time then go ahead and upgrade but don't go out of your way to do so... don't know if it fixed the 128 bit encription problem or not. DvB
[newbie] benchmark
At workI use an app by SiSoft called Sandra to diagnose, and benchmark computers (processors, bus, bridge, video, register dumps, harddisks, etc etc etc) that I have to fix. It's a really good app for Windoze. Is anyone familiar with it and does anyone know if there is a similar app for X systems? -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
[newbie] Mailing list problem
Would someone please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the mailing list until his email client problems are resolved? I'm sure we're all a little tired of reading how his client is unable to read messages with forwarded content... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack
Satyajit Das wrote: Hi benjamin, thanks to purchased mandrake powerpack. Yes you get 6 CD's. One for installation, 2 for Application program including demos and all source. Yes you find StarOffice 5.1 alongwith key number, please regist. SO 5.1 by online for use unlimited times. you may also get help directly from L-mandrake by online or telephone. thanks satyajit Benjamin wrote: Dear friends: I just purchased the Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack this afternoon (from LinuxMall). I won't be getting it till Wednesday. Just curious: Mandrake says on their web page that the PowerPack includes the installation CD, 1,800 rpms and a third CD with commercial applications (plus a CD for the source code for each of the above, making for a total of 6 CD's). Does the CD with commercial applications include any that are not normally available on the Net or at www. freshmeat.net or elsewhere? And are they demos, shareware or what? And is StarOffice 5.1 included? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Hello Benjamin, I wish you better luck in registering SO5.1 than I have had. Online registration would not work for me. Star Division replied to my complaint that they wish everyone would download SO5.1a from Sun because it does not require registration and is the only version that will be supported in future. If you insist they will give you a company registration method and number for SO5.1 which will give you unlimited use, but from then on you will be on your own - no patches or upgrades. You can download SO5.1a if you have the time and patience or buy it for $9.95. I am going to wait until I can get it on a magazine cover disk as I did with SO5.1 (Sun version) for Windoze. Maybe your experience will be different - I hope so. Regards. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
Re: [newbie] K Desktop
Warren Doney wrote: Dennis Robertson wrote: Steve, I have tried all possible combinations of IP, DNS and Gateway entries in Kppp and still find that the panel and desktop icons do not work after using Kppp. Is there anything else I can try, please? Thanks. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first. I had this too, All you have to do is make sure the box "Autoconfigure hostname from this account" in the IP tab is not checked. Mind you, It seemed to "revert" for some reason... I have had no problems since I reinstalled Mandrake (for something else);-). Perhaps you could try uninstalling/reinstalling kppp with kpackage -Warren. Thanks Warren, I don't know how many installs I have done with Caldera and Mandrake, so I was rather hoping that would not be the fix. But maybe I can stand just Kppp. Regards. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
Re: [newbie] Scanner
John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello List, I am trying to get my Mustek 60011N scanner to work. I have installed SANE on initial install (and Kpackage confirms) and have printed the notes on how to configure, build and install SANE as well as sane-mustek 5, which I printed when I was running Caldera2.2. Problem is the files which should be in /usr/local/lib/, /usr/local//etc/sane.d/ and /usr/local/man/ do not exist. GIMP cannot see the scanner. Can anyone tell me what to do from here ( to get my scanner working, that is ), please? SCSI or Paralell? John Sorry, John, parallel. How's this from the SANE-mustek.5 notes: "Note that this scanner comes with its own ISA card that implements a funky parallel port (in other words the scanner is not connected to the printer parallel port. The code present in this release has not been tested so proceed at your own risk! Be prepared to pull the scanner cable on short notice in case the situation grows dangerous and/or noisy." Talk about a beta release. Maybe that's why I can't find any files. Anyway, I'm prepared to have a go if I can find a way. Another reason not to use Windoze. Regards. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
[newbie] It's here
Hey John, quake3 official demo (test version anyway?) is out. . .grab it now before everyone finds out about it!!! yes i know it's sad ive been sitting here the last 2 hrs waiting for carmack's announcement. . .no, i have no life(:-D -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
Re: [newbie] Words Of Wisdom
Hey, is it just me? Or do you experience a renewed sense of excitement when messing with Linux that you haven't had since the early days of DOS? I know M$ will remain as a player of some sorts but the question has now evolved from "which is the better OS" to "why be confined with M$?" Seve BTW, who is Scott? -Original Message- From: Seth Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 9:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Words Of Wisdom Dear Everyone: Recently I have been in involved in an email discussions with one of my friends about OS theory, mainly linux and UNIX Design Theory. Id like to share with you all something he said that for me personally says it all. . . -- Forwarded Message -- Is Linux UNIX? I don't know. But its beautiful. Its rebellious. Its free. Its a slap to the face of the corporate world. Fuck you bill. Fuck you scott. We don't need your feature bloated OS nor your designs on world domination thank you. We have our own visions, our own view of perfection which we work together to achieve without tainting our dreams with greed. You can take your avarice, your hate, i'll just take linux and go where i want to go. today. :) hehe. that was fun. silly me. -- Nuff said. . .you go, stephen -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
ok, i'm no math whiz, but i seem to remember imaginary numbers being used for something else. it is the set of numbers used to describe the square root of negative numbers. think of what the square root of -4 is. zero isn't an imaginary number because it has a square root, zero. 0 is in fact an imaginary number. Try and imagine having zero of something.
Re: [newbie] Mailing list problem
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Would someone please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the mailing list until his email client problems are resolved? I'm sure we're all a little tired of reading how his client is unable to read messages with forwarded content... Did it yesterday when the first looped message went thru -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Quake
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: update. ( you can see it for yourself by going to the console or xterm window and typing 'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more') Oh yah. . .totally. . .ive worked in the software industry hehe. . ."when its done" is quite a mantra there. . .yah i been following plans and stuff. . .was pretty disappointed to see no simultaneous ship date): -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
Re: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: what i was thinking of, was more or less an interative game type, which will take user input too move the buckets around ie: poring water between them , with both sollutions incorperated into the game. Does this make sence? Oh yes most definitely. trying to visualize a bit to see how UI needs to be setup. . .this could be neat. . .im seeing all kinds of possibilities. . .might be a WHILE b4 i have some workable code but i'll see if anything comes up. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
Re: [newbie] Mailing list problem
I seem to remember a message stating that he was removed yesterday. mark - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 10:57 PM Subject: [newbie] Mailing list problem Would someone please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the mailing list until his email client problems are resolved? I'm sure we're all a little tired of reading how his client is unable to read messages with forwarded content...
Re: [newbie] Netscape Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 - Is it worth it?
Dear Mrs. Karen Heiby: The Netscape and IE 128 encryption versions are only valid for sites that support 128 encryption. To get FULL protection for ALL SITES, see Fortify encryption. Add is below. I would recommend checking out the Fortify 128 encryption program. It's free for non-commercial use. Please read the README file from A to Z. Address: http://www.fortify.net Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Netscape Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 - Is it worth it?
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you fingered: I'm curious as to how much of an improvement Netscape 4.7 is over 4.6. For all of you that upgraded, was it worth the time? Did it fix the problems of it suddenly shutting down and all the other annoying stuff? Seve Not for me, it doesn't. Same shit different bull.. Others may differ -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Words Of Wisdom
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: BTW, who is Scott? I think he's making a reference to Scott Sellers of 3dfx. . .i think i'll have to go with him on that too. . .next gen feature in a video chipset i want. . .hardware geometry engine or hardware accumulation buffer. . .hmmm. . .let me think. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
Re: [newbie] Words Of Wisdom
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Hey, is it just me? Or do you experience a renewed sense of excitement when messing with Linux that you haven't had since the early days of DOS? I know M$ will remain as a player of some sorts but the question has now evolved from "which is the better OS" to "why be confined with M$?" Seve BTW, who is Scott? Sun's CEO?
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack
Dear Dennis: Thank you so very much for your info about StarOffice. I already downloaded StarOffice 5.1a from Sun's site about two weeks ago using my ADSL. I was curious whether that version, i.e. 5.1a was available in the Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack. But, more importantly, I was curious about the other commercial software on the last CD. But I guess I'll find out when I get my package on Wednesday. Thank yo so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] Re: [expert] ipchains and ip_fw.c
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, James Lewis wrote: On the ipchains home page, there is an alert regarding fragmented packets and ipchains. I need to know if this bug affects Mandrake 6.0 (2.2.9) - as there is a patch supplied for 2.2.10 but not 2.2.9 Any help appreciated. James Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not aplicable(wee! my spelling sux), We've enabled the defragment all packets (we ship kernel with masq) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
