[newbie] Duel graphics cards
On my windows PC I can have two graphics cards which will let me have twice the desktop space, one is an S3 2mb card and the other is a ATI Mach64 1mb card. Any suggestions how I can do this with Linux? Cheers Steven Mileham
Re: [newbie] Many questions (with apologies).
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, RDM wrote: Ok, here goes, gang . . . I'm a 42 y/o (male) RN on my 5th or 6th computer, now. (So much for knowing computer programming, etc.) I have done Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, and some version of Mac once, on one "Macintosh" I had (at home), and Windows NT at work. I understand basic options, with Windows, for management, scandisk, defrag, Norton's Utilities, etc. The other day, I gave up on Windows 98, and installed Linux-Mandrake 6.5, and let me say, first, that I LOVE it. It is SO much more stable! How right you are! I think that only people unable to understand how it works or only willing to play games prefer windows to linux. That said, onward . . . (1) I've no sound, except rare beeps from the main computer when I click on something I'm not supposed to click on. I can't hear anything at all from the speakers; Try to run sndconfig from a command line. If it doesn't work give us more details about the card you are using. (2) How to get "out" of KDE into basic text=driven Linux to run command lines; Two choices : you can run a terminal emulation from within your wm. There is xterm, kterm, rxvt, eterm, and still more. Or you can just hit ctrl+alt+F1 (or F2, F3, ..., F6) to go to a fullscreen text console. ctrl+alt+F7 will bring you back into your Xwindow. (4) how to decompress *.gz files, and install, because I wanted to upgrade my Netscape to a 128 bit encryption, and I don't know how; You can find rpm versions of netscape. But you have to know how to handle archives : If there is just a .gz extension, you can decompress it with gunzip. If there is a .tar.gz suffix, you can unzip and untar in only one command: tar zxf filename.tar.gz. This also works for .tgz files. (5) how to work with WINE - I got WINE in a RPM format, ran it (via "root"), and it said it installed, but I couldn't find anything to click on, and never knew how to access it; First, you configure it by editing the /etc/wine.conf file, then you run your program by giving its name as an argument to wine : wine /mnt/DOS_hda1/windows/notepad.exe (6) I tried to install gnucash and xaccount, and the OS called for libXm.so.1, libjpeg.so.6, and libXXm.so.2, which, upon research, I found out to be "Motif" files, not that I know what that is, of course (I don't); You have to install some packages (that stand on the mdk CD). I can't remember which one. To find that, mount your mdk CD and try this command line : for i in /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/*.rpm ; do rpm -qp --provides $i |grep libjpeg echo $i done and it should tell you what package provides the libjpeg libraries. confused? Run man rpm (- query options) HTH Flupke Thank you. Robert, South Carolina, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Running Linux from a Jaz drive
Any idea how I can run a Linux setup from my Jaz drive, so I can just turn it on, put in the Jaz disk and boot Linux. It's a Scsi disk and I can install and put Lilo in the first Linux Partition but when it boots it starts but then stops, this is all it displays; LI And thats it, so it's almost there. Anybody been sucessfull with this? Cheers Steven Mileham
Re: [newbie] monitor brightnes
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Omar Rodríguez wrote: does any one know of a program to set the monitor brightnes higher my problem is a simple one i have a voodoo 3 3000 on my pc and got it to work, the thing is that when i run games (unreal tournament) the picture looks way too dark, ive seen UT run on other linux machines and it looked really good with a voodoo 3 card any suggestions? Can't you change that from within the game? HTH Flupke thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem in X
Ok, I have a problem with X-Windows How can I write the $, ] and } in X? When I try I only get a 4, a 9 and a 0. I'm writing this in the console, and as you can see it works fine there. I just can't get it to work in X (Using KDE). I've already tries to change the usual rows in the XFConfig file, but that obvioustly didn't help. I'm from Sweden, so I'm using the swedish keyboard layout, only if I change to english layout nothing happens either. Help wanted! Anders I had the same trouble and resolved it as follows: In console type X /var/log/x.out 21 ( nothing will be happen so type CTRL-C) Then read this file with your tex editor. Probably there is a message : .. no access to /var/ Because you logged in as user and have no access writing to this. So, set the permissions to the dirs as owner and group.(not to root) Let me now if it worked. Eric Hmm, well, I'm sure it will work, but I havn't got a clue what you mean. Could you explain a little better how I'm suppose to do it? Anders
Re: [newbie] A funny thing I noticed
Actually, this is working with all GTK-based applications. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Hi all, Perhaps most of you already know this, but it is new for me. I just noticed something funny with the mouse and scrolling in large windows. Netscape can sometimes show very long pages. The Windoze version supports Ctrl-Home / Ctrl-End to jump up and down to top and bottom. I have not found those shortcut keys in the Linux version. BUT... there is a way to navigate fast! Put the mouse cursor at the top of the scrollbar and click the middle mouse button (people with a 2-button mouse: click both buttons at the same time). And POOF, you're at the top of the page. This works for any spot on the page. Of course I had to check this out, opened a term, did a bunch of ls -l, and tried it there. And yes, it is standard functionality. With one (or a double-button) click you can position the scollbar indicator anywhere. Thought some people would like this info :) Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] linux versus windows
I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc. But I've have enough of the critism that is passed around by the linux community, whats the matter with you people Bill Gates made a system that is so easy to use that an idiot could use it and add to it on the fly, and as for servers all companies that I have been to don't use linux for their servers they use NT, When I spend the time and the money which is scarce to download software for my linux off the Internet and run the installation it never works and what's more is that in order to get it to work if have know all about programming and text based linux/Unix if you like, and yet If you don't use this flavor of linux well too bad now you have have to learn a new flovour so that you get the feature you like. And 4 months later ... If you which to compete with windows you have to create a product that has have builtin server tools that an idiot can use, a graphic frontend that an idiot can understand, easy software addition that is idiot proof and just works No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. So if you want to come and watch how when I insert a picture into netscape composer or office 2000 or even wordperfect eight how it crashes, the program just disspears off the screen and one has to start all over again. Star Office is so slow that I could go and have a 3 course meal while it eats up my cpu time and slows my pc down to the speed of a 486 sx before its ready to use. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement back. What more is that I did my courses on windows before I changed my bussiness to linux and I promise that windows is fussy about they condition of hardware and if your hardware is perfect windows will run well and without to much trouble bearing in mind it is only a machine. Freezing and hanging etc.. in win95 was fixed in 98 and yes buggered up in 2000. So in conclution I ask anyone out there If there is a flavour of linux that has server and tools built in for use as a pdc dns etc. the grapghic front end that i easy to understand and if i try to run the vmware that i bought for 400 dollars will it work with out telling me my kernel is an asshole and i must now try mdk, and loose the nice file manger that did my networking for me in corel os. Or Ihave a nice set of graphic tools suse but (cad3d) it's to complicated and takes months wich no in modern times can afford to spend learning . So now I'll just have corel because I can manage my network in the network neighbourhood that is like windows but now I cant do my graphic design because corel only provides me with and unstable gimp . this is where I would much prefer to just put windows back on all my pcs becuase I just cant win with this linux. so here is my final attempt I want a file manager that works just like the one in corel linux os v1.1 in my mandrake. I want a graphic ppp dialer that does not give the deamon died error all the time i want a download manager of some description and I want stability. More I want somethong that does not require me to try and be what I am not Iam not a c++ programer or software research and devepement, I am a user and thats what I do I run my bussiness and I play games and I download things to playwith then I sort the in network neighbourhood a pass on the good stuff to the others on my network simply by means of drag and drop or cut and paste ( quick and efficient)and that is what I do with my pc every night until 2am. Please Dont take this mail as an Insult or as an attack Iam simply stating the factsas I have experienced them PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . thanks Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 012 3332276
[newbie] Quanta HTML editor
Hi all, I have gotten and installed Quanta. It works really good!! At this point I am using it to make a webpage about my uses of Linux (Mandrake of course!), and it behaves pretty good. It did keel over and disappeared at one point, not sure what happened there, but I ran it again and so far no problem. So, if you intend to start using it, hit ctrl-s (save) often! Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Can you upgrade to different distributions?
Hi there, Sorry if this is a dumb question but hey... Since I can't get Mandrake 7 installed (read my other post about how it crashes when it gets to installing shadows utils'), could I install say Red Hat and 'upgrade'? How about if I stick with the same distribution, and upgrade RedHat 6.1 to the latest version? Any thoughts on this? Mad Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mail me for my PGP key! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Direct to my mobile phone! http://www.madmarty.co.uk
Re: [newbie] Can you upgrade to different distributions?
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Mad Marty wrote: Sorry if this is a dumb question but hey... Not asking is dumb. Since I can't get Mandrake 7 installed (read my other post about how it crashes when it gets to installing shadows utils'), could I install say Red Hat and 'upgrade'? How about if I stick with the same distribution, and upgrade RedHat 6.1 to the latest version? I have found out that upgrading Redhat to newer Redhat is no problem. Also upgrading Redhat to newer Mandrake is no problem. I would not advise on upgrading Mandrake to newer Redhat, Mandrake has more options than Redhat afaik. Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Upgrading packages
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, flupke wrote: It's complaining about broken dependencies during the desinstallation of the old package. To resolve this problem, just add the "--nodeps" option to your rpm command line : rpm -Uvh --nodeps gnole-libs-...mdk.rpm Ah, Great!! Didn't know that!! Thanks! :) Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] WinAmp for Linux??
"Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! I've been enjoying several radio stations using the ShoutCast technology (www.shoutcast.com) over my WinAmp. I assume that "Win"Amb is just for Windoze .. . .I was wondering if anyone knew of a WinAmp like download that could play ShoutCast radio stations. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Mike Mike, XMMS does a fine job of it, and it is included on the distribution. Just set it up for the mime type in your Netscape preferences, under applications, and you'll be done. There are (or at least were) instructions for the setup on the xmms homepage, if you have problems. Carl Kehley ICQ 1412676
Re: Re: [newbie] Can you upgrade to different distributions?
I have found out that upgrading Redhat to newer Redhat is no problem. Also upgrading Redhat to newer Mandrake is no problem. I would not advise on upgrading Mandrake to newer Redhat, Mandrake has more options than Redhat afaik. By upgrading, do you mean getting another cd and running the install program, ala Windows 98 (a collection of bugfixes), or downloading an update(s) from the web, like WindowsUpdate (a device to pump more crap into your system, slowly and surely)? The first option would inccur expense... Mad Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mail me for my PGP key! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Direct to my mobile phone! http://www.madmarty.co.uk
Re: [newbie] Quanta HTML editor
Hi! I have to agree Paul, I'm using Quanta+ too since it was on the CD of the german mag "PC Intern" 5/2000, it's very self explaining. It's made for people who know HTML and who don't need the unnecnessary code StarOffice for example produces. Hellmut Hi all, I have gotten and installed Quanta. It works really good!! At this point I am using it to make a webpage about my uses of Linux (Mandrake of course!), and it behaves pretty good. It did keel over and disappeared at one point, not sure what happened there, but I ran it again and so far no problem. So, if you intend to start using it, hit ctrl-s (save) often! Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not much time each day to do some work on this system. I am NOT complaining most of this is MY prob, but I sympathize with Chadley on this and would like to read some constructive assistance for this... don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:31:49 -0700 Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc. But I've have enough of the critism that is passed around by the linux community, whats the matter with you people Bill Gates made a system that is so easy to use that an idiot could use it and add to it on the fly, and as for servers all companies that I have been to don't use linux for their servers they use NT, When I spend the time and the money which is scarce to download software for my linux off the Internet and run the installation it never works and what's more is that in order to get it to work if have know all about programming and text based linux/Unix if you like, and yet If you don't use this flavor of linux well too bad now you have have to learn a new flovour so that you get the feature you like. And 4 months later ... If you which to compete with windows you have to create a product that has have builtin server tools that an idiot can use, a graphic frontend that an idiot can understand, easy software addition that is idiot proof and just works No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. So if you want to come and watch how when I insert a picture into netscape composer or office 2000 or even wordperfect eight how it crashes, the program just disspears off the screen and one has to start all over again. Star Office is so slow that I could go and have a 3 course meal while it eats up my cpu time and slows my pc down to the speed of a 486 sx before its ready to use. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement back. What more is that I did my courses on windows before I changed my bussiness to linux and I promise that windows is fussy about they condition of hardware and if your hardware is perfect windows will run well and without to much trouble bearing in mind it is only a machine. Freezing and hanging etc.. in win95 was fixed in 98 and yes buggered up in 2000. So in conclution I ask anyone out there If there is a flavour of linux that has server and tools built in for use as a pdc dns etc. the grapghic front end that i easy to understand and if i try to run the vmware that i bought for 400 dollars will it work with out telling me my kernel is an asshole and i must now try mdk, and loose the nice file manger that did my networking for me in corel os. Or Ihave a nice set of graphic tools suse but (cad3d) it's to complicated and takes months wich no in modern times can afford to spend learning . So now I'll just have corel because I can manage my network in the network neighbourhood that is like windows but now I cant do my graphic design because corel only provides me with and unstable gimp . this is where I would much prefer to just put windows back on all my pcs becuase I just cant win with this linux. so here is my final attempt I want a file manager that works just like the one in corel linux os v1.1 in my mandrake. I want a graphic ppp dialer that does not give the deamon died error all the time i want a download manager of some description and I want stability. More I want somethong that does not require me to try and be what I am not Iam not a c++ programer or software research and devepement, I am a user and thats what I do I run my bussiness and I play games and I download things to playwith then I sort the in network neighbourhood a pass on the good stuff to the others on my network simply by means of drag and drop or cut and paste ( quick and efficient)and that is what I do with my pc every night until 2am. Please Dont take this mail as an Insult or as an attack Iam simply stating the factsas I have experienced them PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . thanks Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 012 3332276 YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE
Re: [newbie] WinAmp for Linux??
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: "Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! I've been enjoying several radio stations using the ShoutCast technology (www.shoutcast.com) over my WinAmp. I assume that "Win"Amb is just for Windoze .. . .I was wondering if anyone knew of a WinAmp like download that could play ShoutCast radio stations. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Mike Mike, XMMS does a fine job of it, and it is included on the distribution. Just set it up for the mime type in your Netscape preferences, under applications, and you'll be done. There are (or at least were) instructions for the setup on the xmms homepage, if you have problems. Carl Kehley ICQ 1412676 Thanks very much for the information . . . I tried XMMS and it played the file just fine. I tried to set up Netscape to automatically bring up XMMS with this type of file but had no luck. Could you please give me the settings under Mimetype and extension so I can plug them in. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks again!
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
Fully understandable. Despite some of these frustrations, we are still drawn to linux because it represents the right thing to do. This way the next generation won't live under Microsoft protocols anymore than we have to. Seve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux versus windows Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not much time each day to do some work on this system. I am NOT complaining most of this is MY prob, but I sympathize with Chadley on this and would like to read some constructive assistance for this... don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not much time each day to do some work on this system. I am NOT complaining most of this is MY prob, but I sympathize with Chadley on this and would like to read some constructive assistance for this... I agree with both. I have seen people that can't hold a keyboard do all kinds of things with Windows. I have seen people who have university degrees give up on Linux. It is not a matter of what is best. It is a matter of what is best _for_you_. Use what works for you. It is as simple as that... Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Word processors
Hi all, Some people here have brought up Star Office. I have that on PC2 (I am using PC1 now, in my little network). I have to agree that S.O. is bringing things to their knees. My P-II 350 acts rather sluggish loading it, and running it. If you look for a good wordprocessor, I use AbiWord. http://www.abisource.com. It is free, and there are ports for all kinds of Linux, windows, Macintosh, the works. It is still a work in progress, but the latest version (0.7.9) which I am downloading now, has a lot of fixes. It contains the essence of wordprocessing (in my eyes). I don't need all the options of Word (raise hands who uses more than 25% of the options in there). Nor do I need all the wobbles of Excel. Gnumeric is enough for me. But that is off topic. Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] C programming problem
Can anyone help? I have decided to learn C and have followed the examples in the books C in 24 hours by Tony Zhang and Running Linux by Welsh and co. The problem is, after following the text for the first program very carefully (I used vi ) I compiled the program with gcc -o hello hello.c as I was told to. This worked fine and when I went to test it with the command hello at the prompt it came back that hello is not a command. I can not understand my mistake as I have followed the book to the letter. In saying that, if I start up x and open my home file, click on hello and then close x the phrase 'hello world' (it is my first program) appears above the prompt. Why can it not appear when I type I hello at the prompt as the two books mention? -- scotchpie
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
Well, guyz, you seem to have a lot of problems with your linux boxes (espacially Chadley), but I can tell you that they ARE solvable. You CAN setup the servers you want with linux. I think that if you don't want to spend time configuring your system and understanding how it works, you'd better ask someone to help you. You got linux for free (or at least you could), so you could spend a part of the money you saved to pay a pizza to a linux guru near your place and ask him gently if he could do something for you. Or go to a linux party with your comp and see if you can get help there. But about the Win vs linux debate, I don't think this is the place to open such a thread here. It's a place to help linux users, not to have endless discussion about knowing if linux (or any un*x) is better than windows (I can tell you that MY opinion is done, and I don't think anybody will ever be able to make me change my mind) HTH Flupke On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not much time each day to do some work on this system. I am NOT complaining most of this is MY prob, but I sympathize with Chadley on this and would like to read some constructive assistance for this... don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:31:49 -0700 Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc. But I've have enough of the critism that is passed around by the linux community, whats the matter with you people Bill Gates made a system that is so easy to use that an idiot could use it and add to it on the fly, and as for servers all companies that I have been to don't use linux for their servers they use NT, When I spend the time and the money which is scarce to download software for my linux off the Internet and run the installation it never works and what's more is that in order to get it to work if have know all about programming and text based linux/Unix if you like, and yet If you don't use this flavor of linux well too bad now you have have to learn a new flovour so that you get the feature you like. And 4 months later ... If you which to compete with windows you have to create a product that has have builtin server tools that an idiot can use, a graphic frontend that an idiot can understand, easy software addition that is idiot proof and just works No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. So if you want to come and watch how when I insert a picture into netscape composer or office 2000 or even wordperfect eight how it crashes, the program just disspears off the screen and one has to start all over again. Star Office is so slow that I could go and have a 3 course meal while it eats up my cpu time and slows my pc down to the speed of a 486 sx before its ready to use. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement back. What more is that I did my courses on windows before I changed my bussiness to linux and I promise that windows is fussy about they condition of hardware and if your hardware is perfect windows will run well and without to much trouble bearing in mind it is only a machine. Freezing and hanging etc.. in win95 was fixed in 98 and yes buggered up in 2000. So in conclution I ask anyone out there If there is a flavour of linux that has server and tools built in for use as a pdc dns etc. the grapghic front end that i easy to understand and if i try to run the vmware that i bought for 400 dollars will it work with out telling me my kernel is an asshole and i must now try mdk, and loose the nice file manger that did my networking for me in corel os. Or Ihave a nice set of graphic tools suse but (cad3d) it's to complicated and takes months wich no in modern times can afford to spend learning . So now I'll just have corel because I can manage my network in the network neighbourhood that is like windows but now I cant do my graphic design because corel only provides me with and unstable gimp . this is where I would much prefer to just put windows back on all my pcs becuase I just cant win with this linux. so here is my final attempt I want a file manager that works just like the one in
[newbie] Enlightenment update
Hello! When I try to upgrande E from 0.16.3 to .4: rpm -Uvh name it says: broken dependencies: fnlib = 0.5 needed ... (a translation from Russian, not sure) What's wrong?
[newbie] Lost
Hi, all Have a question and many answers. When installing I setup for the use of my whole hard drive 4.3gig for Mandrake to use . When I checked using df -k it said only 33% used. The reason for my using all the drive is for furture expansion. Why didn't it do what I told it to do also , how do I correct this. Willing to do a reinstall if nessary. Tried to setup my drive with Partition Magic 4.0 ,but have problems setting separate partitions for Linux ( root,user, home and such). Please anybody out there that has a good idea let me know. I am going to get this setup right if it kills me. ROTFL Thanks Robert F. Trettel
Re: [newbie] WinAmp for Linux??
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Thanks very much for the information . . . I tried XMMS and it played the file just fine. I tried to set up Netscape to automatically bring up XMMS with this type of file but had no luck. Could you please give me the settings under Mimetype and extension so I can plug them in. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks again! Thats a "feature" of XMMS - it doesn't automatically edit the MIME types. You can either edit them manually (which is long and tedious) OR download and install Freeamp. Freeamp is another very good MP3/Shoutcast player. When you run it for the first time it will ask if you want it to change the MIME types. Say Yes, then you're done. If you still want to use XMMS, at this point go into Netscape-Edit-Preferences-Navigator-Applications and change all of the freeamp %s to xmms %s. Thats what I did and it worked fine -Chris
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
Snippets: No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement back. What more is that I did I cant do my graphic design because corel only provides me with and unstable gimp . this is where I would much prefer to just put windows back on all my pcs becuase I just cant win with this linux. so here is my final attempt I want a file manager that works just like the one in corel linux os v1.1 in my mandrake. I want a graphic ppp dialer that does not give the deamon died error all the time i want a download manager of some description and I want stability. More I want somethong that does not require me to try and be what I am not Iam not a c++ programer or software research and devepement, I am a user and thats what I do I run my bussiness and I play games and I download things PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . Webster makes a good spellchecker. Your post is nice attempt at a troll, but a little obvious. First try? Regards, Nathan
Re: [newbie] C programming problem
It will work if you run ./hello on the command line. The ./ directory (which means 'the directory where I am') is usually not included in the path where the shell looks for executable files. HTH Flupke On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Scotchpie wrote: Can anyone help? I have decided to learn C and have followed the examples in the books C in 24 hours by Tony Zhang and Running Linux by Welsh and co. The problem is, after following the text for the first program very carefully (I used vi ) I compiled the program with gcc -o hello hello.c as I was told to. This worked fine and when I went to test it with the command hello at the prompt it came back that hello is not a command. I can not understand my mistake as I have followed the book to the letter. In saying that, if I start up x and open my home file, click on hello and then close x the phrase 'hello world' (it is my first program) appears above the prompt. Why can it not appear when I type I hello at the prompt as the two books mention? -- scotchpie
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment update
It means you're missing some of the features included in the newer version of fnlib. Download and install the latest imlib version from http://ww.enlightenment.org and it will work. HTH Flupke On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hello! When I try to upgrande E from 0.16.3 to .4: rpm -Uvh name it says: broken dependencies: fnlib = 0.5 needed ... (a translation from Russian, not sure) What's wrong?
[newbie] Bookmarks have changed on disk...
Dear friends: I guess I am getting sick (and tired) or maybe just dizzy seeing this message appear in Netscape 4.7 every five or ten mintues for no reason at all. Any idea how to correct this annoying message! Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: FWD: FW: [newbie] difficulty getting 2nd cd working
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Todd Wells wrote: Okay, now how can I make it so that I just have to type "mount /mnt/cdrom2" rather than "mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0/mnt/cdrom2"? Hi Todd, Easiest thing to do is write a scriptfile, e.g. mtcd2, and put that in /usr/bin, or in another directory in your path: #!/bin/sh mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0/mnt/cdrom2 Make it "chmod a+x file" and then you can mount it from anywhere by typing "mtcd2". Can't think of an easier way than that. It's how I handle zip disks and floppies too. Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] kuduz on boot
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Shamuu wrote: during bootup linux mandrake 7.0 (air) ...Checking for new hardware /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/so5kudzu 145 segmentation fault line 46 /usr/sbin/kudzu -t 30 the above error message appears during boot would like to resolve this issue. Looks like the kudzu executable has been damaged. I'd suggest to reinstall it. kudzu-0.23-11mdk.rpm on the Mandrake installation disk, in /cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS Do an 'rpm -Uvh ' on it and see if it helped. (I hope so!) Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by a patch
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, SM FOO wrote: Greetings! Can anyone advise, now with this patch, how to install a fresh version of Linux on a computer beyond the 1024th cylinder? How do we go about this? Many thanks SM Foo Create a new small (about 25 megs) partition on your disk, anywhere, and make that the BOOT partition when you install Mandrake. Good luck! Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Hyperterminal
Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch Eunice
Re: [newbie] A funny thing I noticed
flupke wrote: Actually, this is working with all GTK-based applications. Wanna try again? Netscape is not a GTK-based application. It's Motif. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Perhaps most of you already know this, but it is new for me. I just noticed something funny with the mouse and scrolling in large windows. Netscape can sometimes show very long pages. The Windoze version supports Ctrl-Home / Ctrl-End to jump up and down to top and bottom. I have not found those shortcut keys in the Linux version. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lost
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Robert Trettel wrote: Hi, all Have a question and many answers. When installing I setup for the use of my whole hard drive 4.3gig for Mandrake to use . When I checked using df -k it said only 33% used. The reason for my using all the drive is for furture expansion. Why didn't it do what I told it to do also , how do I correct this. Willing to do a reinstall if nessary. Tried to setup my drive with Partition Magic 4.0 ,but have problems setting separate partitions for Linux ( root,user, home and such). Please anybody out there that has a good idea let me know. I am going to get this setup right if it kills me. ROTFL I wouldn't bet my hand on it, but I'm pretty sure your whole HD has been partitionned with ext2 file systems. The 33% you see are no doubt the used space on those partitions. That means that you still have 66% of your drive to add parsonnal datas or programs. To be absolutely sure, you could post the output of the 'df -h' and 'cat /proc/partitions' commands. HTH Flupke Thanks Robert F. Trettel
Re: [newbie] Word processors
I still go for Word Perfect Office 2000 It does the easy stuff and it does the hard stuff.,... Installs easy, and I use all the modules (STD edition) AND it pays back Corel for all the hard work that Corel is doing for Linux After messing with SANE... The "easy" scanner program for hours last night, I really appreciate the easy install. It got me WORKING in Linux much faster than any other program... MarkP Paul wrote: Hi all, Some people here have brought up Star Office. I have that on PC2 (I am using PC1 now, in my little network). I have to agree that S.O. is bringing things to their knees. My P-II 350 acts rather sluggish loading it, and running it. If you look for a good wordprocessor, I use AbiWord. http://www.abisource.com. It is free, and there are ports for all kinds of Linux, windows, Macintosh, the works. It is still a work in progress, but the latest version (0.7.9) which I am downloading now, has a lot of fixes. It contains the essence of wordprocessing (in my eyes). I don't need all the options of Word (raise hands who uses more than 25% of the options in there). Nor do I need all the wobbles of Excel. Gnumeric is enough for me. But that is off topic.
Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal
minicom - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 11:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Hyperterminal Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch Eunice _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by apatch
Paul wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, SM FOO wrote: Greetings! Can anyone advise, now with this patch, how to install a fresh version of Linux on a computer beyond the 1024th cylinder? How do we go about this? Many thanks SM Foo Create a new small (about 25 megs) partition on your disk, anywhere, and make that the BOOT partition when you install Mandrake. Good luck! Paul Or wait for L-M 7.1.. Should be soon... MarkP
Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch 'hyperterminal' is a telnet application under windows, am I right? What are the features present in 'hyperterminal' that you can't have in a normal terminal emulation like kterm, xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, ...? Flupke Eunice
Re: [newbie] A funny thing I noticed
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Steve Philp wrote: flupke wrote: Actually, this is working with all GTK-based applications. Wanna try again? Netscape is not a GTK-based application. It's Motif. ouch! Didn't know that. (but note that I wrote 'all GTK-based...' , not 'all other GTK-based...' I was aware that it could be the case) What I know is that, in the gtk manual, they describe the above behaviour as being the default behaviour of the gtk scrollbar. Perhaps it is also the case for Motif applications. Flupke On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Perhaps most of you already know this, but it is new for me. I just noticed something funny with the mouse and scrolling in large windows. Netscape can sometimes show very long pages. The Windoze version supports Ctrl-Home / Ctrl-End to jump up and down to top and bottom. I have not found those shortcut keys in the Linux version. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lost
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Robert Trettel wrote: Have a question and many answers. When installing I setup for the use of my whole hard drive 4.3gig for Mandrake to use . When I checked using df -k it said only 33% used. The reason for my using all the drive is for furture expansion. Why didn't it do what I told it to do also , how do I correct this. Hi Robert What do you want to correct? df's output of 33% _used_ means exactly that. That 1/3 of the harddisk's space is full. That means that 67% is still not used. So you can expand all you want there. The way to correct this, to answer your question though, is to load a lot more programs on it. Then the % used will go up. *grin* (Sorry, could not resist!) Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Snippets: Bit onesided like Linux Lewis fight :-) -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
[newbie] kppp
Hello all, I've just installed Mandrake 7.1beta (hydrogen) on two computers and it looks great! One problem is that, as root, I can connect to the internet with kppp just fine; as user, I get the error message 'Sorry, can't create modem lock file'. Any guesses? I would imagine that it has to do with permissions, but I'm not sure what to change. I did try to chmod the /dev/modem permissions but that did nothing. Mike
[newbie] Timidity problem?
Hi all, I have another one for you. Question I mean. When I netscape to a page that has 'built-in autoplaying' Midi, tons of windows keep popping up with the message "timidity.cfg no such file or directory'. I can run timidity (gives out a message), so it is installed, but how do I set up a cfg file for it, and where do I put it? Thanks for the help, Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal
From the command line, type 'minicom' (without the quotes) as root. If you need anymore help, write back. Mike Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch Eunice
Re: [newbie] Quanta HTML editor
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Hellmut wrote: I have to agree Paul, I'm using Quanta+ too since it was on the CD of the german mag "PC Intern" 5/2000, it's very self explaining. It's made for people who know HTML and who don't need the unnecnessary code StarOffice for example produces. Hi Hellmut, did you ever see code produced by Frontpage? Clean that out and you keep about half the pagesize that you started with... Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 712C
Try setting it up as a different type of HP printer, say an HP660C for example. MY HP DJ610C is quite happy with Linux believing it is a 660c On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: During setup, I could not get my printer to respond. It is a HP Deskjet 712C. Any suggestions? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
[newbie] ISP
Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?
Benjamin, That's my son's name! Anyway, I remember getting this message a long time ago and I don't really remember how it went away. However, I'm using the 128bit version of Netscape now (I need it for some sites I visit) and I don't remember having that problem for quite some time. You can get the mandrake rpms at: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-crypto/RPMS Make sure you get the common and communicator packages (I don't thing you need the navigator package, try without it and see). You'll also have to remove your original packages (common, communicator and navigator) before you'll be able to install the new ones. Mike Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I keep getting the following message from Netscape every five or so minutes: "Bookmarks have changed on disk and are being reloaded". Then I have to press OK. I am getting sick (and tired) or maybe just dizzy seeing this message appear in Netscape 4.7 every five or ten mintues for no reason at all. Any idea how to correct this annoying message! Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net -- = The Penguins are coming!!! = Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA.
Re: [newbie] ISP
yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called freenet.check it out. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ if you try it tell me what you think. === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === - Original Message - From: "The Buckster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ISP Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode
hi alan, files as below Alan Shoemaker wrote: basculeok, now please see if all of the needed boot files are actually there in the boot directory and if they're actual files. /boot/map yes /boot/boot.b yes /boot/uk.klt yes /boot/message yes /boot/vmlinuz yes points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk /boot/initrd.img yes points to /boot/initrd.img-2.2.14-15mdk But I still think the best chance is to dual boot drom the IDE drive. Alan you are probably correct which is why i think that unless anyone has a suggestion not tried before i will give up trying to boot from scsi for now, i've taken up quite a bit of your time and to be frank (or maybe shirley) i feel i must be getting a little tiresome! i have other questions for people and i would like to open a new thread(s) on them. you have been most encouraging and the feeling i get from this mailing list is very positive, i think that this time around i might actually get a linux system that does what i want it to do! bascule
[newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT
I still haven't Lilo configured to identfy my windows(on a seperate Hard Drive). More questions come up, than are satisfied, but I learn as I go. I just ran /sbin/lilo and received the following: seperation (core dump). No idea what that means. Would like to copy and paste from Pico to Kde's default mailer. Your suggestions please. This is the current attempt: root = /dev/hda1 delay = 100 #messaage = /boot/bootmesg.txt root = current timeout = 50 prompt vga = normal read-only map=/boot/map #install=/boot/boot.b image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486 label = linux read only append="mem=128m" other = /dev/hda table = /dev/hda label = w Machine is a Gateway 500p, linux modem installed. If install=/boot/boot.b is the default then why does KDE place it in the linux.conf file? Unable to determine the reason for "timeout = 50", but I did place in the file. :) Thank you
Re: [newbie] ISP
Also another i saw with no ads but havent used http://www.isps-free.com/ - Original Message - From: doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called freenet.check it out. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ if you try it tell me what you think. === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === - Original Message - From: "The Buckster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ISP Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] mounting drives
I've just upgraded to the latest version from RH 6.0 I'm having trouble getting the floppy drive and the cdrom mounted Both of these worked perfectly under Red Hat When the supermount option is used there is nothing in the directory and when I try to mount by editing the fstab file I get the error mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device. please help
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?
Dear Michael:
Thanks so much for trying to help.
I am using the Mandrake versions of Netscape 4.7 with Fortify SSL to
provide 128-bit encryption. See http://www.fortify.net ( Readme file)
for the reason.
I just started getting this annoying Netscape message today ("Bookmarks
have changed on disk and are being reloaded"). I have been using
Netscape 4.7 for several months now. No problem. No message until today.
I installed a new counter for my web site. Could that have something to
do with it? Can't think of any other variable.
Thank you so much.
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd)
Thanks! I'll be giving it a try and let you know how it flies. There may be an added complication/ step as the empty partition is mounted at /home at the moment, but I'll sort that out before I start. Don J. At 08:26 AM 4/30/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi Don, This is one of the mails I got to help me in this, and it worked all great. Hope it helps you too! Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:03:10 +0200 From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home Paul wrote: Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2. Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my entire system? Thanks for the help and advice you can give me. Paul First of all, if you're not confident with linux, read the whole mail before proceeding, and make sure you understand everything (if you don't, read the related man pages). I mean, don't do it "blindly". Let's say your / partition is on /dev/hda1 and you want to move /usr to /dev/hda2. All the following should be done ad root, so TAKE CARE AND THINK TWICE BEFORE HITTING YOUR 'ENTER' KEY! You should take one more precaution by going into single user mode (by typing "init 1") before doing this. Ok. Here we go. - First, you create a ext2 file system on /dev/hda2 with mke2fs. mke2fs /dev/hda2 - Then you mount this partition. (Let's say in /mnt/tmp) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/tmp - You now have to transfer your /usr to /mnt/tmp. To do this, I'd use a command as : (cd /usr tar cpf - .) | (cd /mnt/tmp tar xpf -) Once this is done, rename your /usr directory (for instance in /usr.old), create a new /usr directory, umount your /dev/hda2 partition, and remount it into /usr. mv /usr /usr.old mkdir /usr umount /mnt/tmp mount /dev/hda2 /usr Finaly, update your /etc/fstab and add the line : /dev/hda2/usr ext2defaults1 2 Voila! You're done! Useless to say that you do exactly the same for your /home partition. To go back to your previous runlevel, type init 3 (console login) or init 5 (graphical login). ONCE YOU'VE SEEN THAT YOUR NEWLY CREATED PARTITIONS ARE OK, you can delete your /usr.old and /home.old directories. If you need more infos, take a look at the Hard-disk-upgrade mini-HOWTO HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] monitor brightnes
Omar Rodríguez wrote: Yes, i alredy maxed it out on the game setup and also manually on my monitor but its still way too dark on windows the drivers came with a tweaking tool for gamma correction it does look a little better but not quite the way its supused to The X Windows System also includes the ability to set gamma correction. Try the -gamma flag to startx (check the X manpage for more information). -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Bob wrote: I still haven't Lilo configured to identfy my windows(on a seperate Hard Drive). More questions come up, than are satisfied, but I learn as I go. I just ran /sbin/lilo and received the following: seperation (core dump). No idea what that means. Would like to copy and paste from Pico to Kde's default mailer. Your suggestions please. This is the current attempt: I don't think you'll ever get lilo to work with such a file. Here are my suggestions : (each comment concern the line preceeding it) root = /dev/hda1 This line should be under the 'image=/boot/vmlinuz...' section delay = 100 #messaage = /boot/bootmesg.txt root = current I think you should remove this line timeout = 50 You should here add the line 'boot=/dev/hda' prompt vga = normal read-only This line should also be under the 'image=/boot/vmlinuz...' section map=/boot/map #install=/boot/boot.b image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486 label = linux read only append="mem=128m" other = /dev/hda this line should be 'other = /dev/hda1' table = /dev/hda label = w Machine is a Gateway 500p, linux modem installed. If install=/boot/boot.b is the default then why does KDE place it in the linux.conf file? Unable to determine the reason for "timeout = 50", but I did place in the file. :) It is the time (in 1/10 second) you have to enter what you want to boot. After that time, lilo boots the default image. Thank you HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] virtual store set-up
MC_Vai wrote: I hope anybody can help me with this trivial issue: How a WWW server running Apache can make sure a client connection?, Let me explain this straight, this is a project where a www server running mdk-7.0 acts like a virtual store it has to validate the client credit card number stuffs (from a win machine). I was thinking this must be in PHP or something like that but, this is what my question is about: is there another way to do this? (I can't even know if I'm going right or wrong) Where can I get documentation about this? I hope no one bothers about this trivial question, I really appreciate your help. Thanks! Yes, you'll need to have a CGI or server-side script of some sort to validate the information returned from the client-side. That script/program/applet/servlet/etc would take the credit card number offered from the client and verify it against a credit card processing service. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
I realize you're venting but let's go over some of these: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc. But I've have enough of the critism that is passed around by the linux community, whats the matter with you people Bill Gates made a system that is so easy to use that an idiot could use it and add to it on the fly, and as for servers all companies that I have been to don't use linux for their servers they use NT, Yes, the windows bashing does get pretty intense at times but you've got your opinions too, so.. Besides I have had several experiences with windows where if I wasn't very familiar with the OS I would have given up in frustration, sometimes just because the OS was designed for idiots, that it made it harder. When I spend the time and the money which is scarce to download software for my linux off the Internet and run the installation it never works and what's more is that in order to get it to work if have know all about programming and text based linux/Unix if you like, and yet If you don't use this flavor of linux well too bad now you have have to learn a new flovour so that you get the feature you like. And 4 months later ... If you which to compete with windows you have to create a product that has have builtin server tools that an idiot can use, a graphic frontend that an idiot can understand, easy software addition that is idiot proof and just works No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. This I just don't get. RPM's are as easy or easier than any setup program in windows, and will warn you if you need something on you system. Sure, every program could include all the libraries etc. it needs but can you imagine how much of your scarce time that would involve? Besides what MSWindows bundle includes just about every application you'll need on one or 2 CD's for 0 - 70 bucks? So if you want to come and watch how when I insert a picture into netscape composer or office 2000 or even wordperfect eight how it crashes, the program just disspears off the screen and one has to start all over again. Star Office is so slow that I could go and have a 3 course meal while it eats up my cpu time and slows my pc down to the speed of a 486 sx before its ready to use. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement back. -snip- I would agree with you here, because the distributions out of the box Are configures to run too much at boot time for a newbie and there is no evident way to configure it otherwise, or to tell what everything does. Cleaned up though I would think a 486 with 16 MB is reasonable. Every tried to run windows on that set-up. I have. Slow. How about a 386 with 8 MB, win95 minimum configuration. A Joke. So in conclution I ask anyone out there If there is a flavour of linux that has server and tools built in for use as a pdc dns etc. the grapghic front end that i easy to understand and if i try to run the vmware that i bought for 400 dollars will it work with out telling me my kernel is an asshole and i must now try mdk, and loose the nice file manger that did my networking for me in corel os. Or Ihave a nice set of graphic tools suse but (cad3d) it's to complicated and takes months wich no in modern times can afford to spend learning . So now I'll just have corel because I can manage my network in the network neighbourhood that is like windows but now I cant do my graphic design because corel only provides me with and unstable gimp . this is where I would much prefer to just put windows back on all my pcs becuase I just cant win with this linux. You are mixing Linux and the applications. Some administrative tools are distribution specific but the applications can be used with almost any distro. Get'em and install them. -snip- Please Dont take this mail as an Insult or as an attack Iam simply stating the factsas I have experienced them PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . Works for me but I don't need it : ) thanks Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 012 3332276
Re: [newbie] mounting drives
On Mon, 1 May 2000, mat rooney wrote: I've just upgraded to the latest version from RH 6.0 I'm having trouble getting the floppy drive and the cdrom mounted Both of these worked perfectly under Red Hat When the supermount option is used there is nothing in the directory and when I try to mount by editing the fstab file I get the error mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device. please help /dev/hdc is the name of a whole hard drive. Instead, you have to mount a partition inside this HD. For instance : /dev/hdc1 for the first primary partition in this drive. HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] ISP
One I have used and it works pretty well is freewwweb.com. I'm not sure of the url for the sign-up page, but I'll post it when I find it. This one is good, because you don't need any software. You sign up and get a pop3 account and a phone number to configure your dialer or scripts with. Don J. At 05:22 PM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote: Also another i saw with no ads but havent used http://www.isps-free.com/ - Original Message - From: doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called freenet.check it out. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ if you try it tell me what you think. === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === - Original Message - From: "The Buckster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ISP Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT
Bobyou say that windows is on a seperate drive, yet your /etc/lilo.conf file indicates (is that really /etc/lilo.conf, or is it a hand typed copy with typos and omissions in it?) it's on the same drive (both on hda, where,from your description, I'd think that there'd be a hdb involved) as linux. How about posting an image of your /etc/fstab file as well? Alan P.S. Most copying and pasting can be done by selecting with the mouse cursor and left mouse button, then pasting (while the window you copied from is still open and the text still shows as selected) with the mouse cursor and the middle mouse button. Alan Bob wrote: I still haven't Lilo configured to identfy my windows(on a seperate Hard Drive). More questions come up, than are satisfied, but I learn as I go. I just ran /sbin/lilo and received the following: seperation (core dump). No idea what that means. Would like to copy and paste from Pico to Kde's default mailer. Your suggestions please. This is the current attempt: root = /dev/hda1 delay = 100 #messaage = /boot/bootmesg.txt root = current timeout = 50 prompt vga = normal read-only map=/boot/map #install=/boot/boot.b image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486 label = linux read only append="mem=128m" other = /dev/hda table = /dev/hda label = w Machine is a Gateway 500p, linux modem installed. If install=/boot/boot.b is the default then why does KDE place it in the linux.conf file? Unable to determine the reason for "timeout = 50", but I did place in the file. :) Thank you
[newbie] pilot hotsync with korganizer problem
hi all, i have successfully setup kpilot and also installed korganizer, i did a backup of everything on my pilot which went fine, i opened organizer and saved the empty *.vcs file as the name of the user on my pilot (to be on the safe side) i set up the todo and vcalendar condiuts in kpilot to point to this *.vcas file and pressed hot sync on my pilot cradle feeling very good about myself too! everything appeared to sync; but when i opened korganizer and opened the .vcs file i got a message saying it was not there, unreadable or corrupt, now the first two don't apply as i have checked (unless korganizer DOESN'T run wiht the user permisions -surely it does?- ), i opened the vcs file in a text editor and i could see that all my info was there, but not knowing the format of such files i can' say if it is corrupt. kpilot ver3.1 korganizer 1.1 pilot = professional, os=2.05 any experiences of syncing, good or bad would be helpful, this activity is a major one for me, i need my stuff! bascule
[newbie] RPM of QT 2.1
Does anyone know of an RPM for QT 2.1? I tried installing Licq, but the RPM said 2.1 was needed. I can only find the RPM for 2.02. I've checked the Red Hat site, trolltech (the makers of QT), and rpmfind.net. Regards, Nathan
Re: [newbie] pilot hotsync with korganizer problem
i just downloaded ver 3.02 of kpilot and decided to try my first
compiling operation (compiling-is that the word?)
it didn't go well, here is what happened:
[root@localhost kpilot-3.0.2]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type;
you must specify one
[root@localhost kpilot-3.0.2]# ./configure --host=i586
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i586-pc-none
checking target system type... i586-pc-none
checking build system type... i586-pc-none
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for a C-Compiler...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
cannot create executables.
[root@localhost kpilot-3.0.2]#
two apparent problems there:
1. makeinfo - is this an rpm because i've searched my install cd and i
can't find it
2. C compiler - please explain
where am i going wrong,what other info should i give?
bascule
Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Bobyou say that windows is on a seperate drive, yet your /etc/lilo.conf file indicates (is that really /etc/lilo.conf, or is it a hand typed copy with typos and omissions in it?) it's on the same drive (both on hda, where,from your description, I'd think that there'd be a hdb involved) as linux. How about posting an image of your /etc/fstab file as well? /dev/hdb1 / ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb5 /usrext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 /usr/local ext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb9 /usr/scrext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7 /varext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb8 swapswapdefaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autouser, noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 none/proc procdefaults 0 0 none/dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0 I have made the corrections suggested by flupke. The original was hand typed, trying to make the original setup to work. :)) Bob wrote: I still haven't Lilo configured to identfy my windows(on a seperate Hard Drive). More questions come up, than are satisfied, but I learn as I go. Your suggestions please. This is the current attempt: root = /dev/hda1 delay = 100 #messaage = /boot/bootmesg.txt root = current timeout = 50 prompt vga = normal read-only map=/boot/map #install=/boot/boot.b image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486 label = linux read only append="mem=128m" other = /dev/hda table = /dev/hda label = w Machine is a Gateway 500p, linux modem installed. If install=/boot/boot.b is the default then why does KDE place it in the linux.conf file? Unable to determine the reason for "timeout = 50", but I did place in the file. :) Thank you
Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT
BobI believe that the below /etc/lilo.conf is correct for your machine, but you should check that each file specified in it is actually where it is said to be and named correctly in the /etc/lilo.conf file. Is there a file /boot/map? Is there a file /boot/boot.b? Is there a file /boot/us.klt? Is there a file /boot/bootmesg.txt? Is there a file /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486? Is there a file /boot/initrd.img? Then when you've put the below file in the /etc/ directory as lilo.conf, and checked that all the specified files are actually there with the specified names, as root, type in a console, /sbin/lilo and then let's hear what happens. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/bootmesg.txt other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486 label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="mem=128M" read-only Alan Bob wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Bobyou say that windows is on a seperate drive, yet your /etc/lilo.conf file indicates (is that really /etc/lilo.conf, or is it a hand typed copy with typos and omissions in it?) it's on the same drive (both on hda, where,from your description, I'd think that there'd be a hdb involved) as linux. How about posting an image of your /etc/fstab file as well? /dev/hdb1 / ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb5 /usrext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 /usr/local ext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb9 /usr/scrext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7 /varext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb8 swapswapdefaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autouser, noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 none/proc procdefaults 0 0 none/dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0 I have made the corrections suggested by flupke. The original was hand typed, trying to make the original setup to work. :)) Bob wrote: I still haven't Lilo configured to identfy my windows(on a seperate Hard Drive). More questions come up, than are satisfied, but I learn as I go. Your suggestions please. This is the current attempt: root = /dev/hda1 delay = 100 #messaage = /boot/bootmesg.txt root = current timeout = 50 prompt vga = normal read-only map=/boot/map #install=/boot/boot.b image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486 label = linux read only append="mem=128m" other = /dev/hda table = /dev/hda label = w Machine is a Gateway 500p, linux modem installed. If install=/boot/boot.b is the default then why does KDE place it in the linux.conf file? Unable to determine the reason for "timeout = 50", but I did place in the file. :) Thank you
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]
Hyperterm is not a Telnet exactly...it is a small dialer to dial into say a BBS, or other small dial-up service. And yes I think Minicom is the answer Jaguar flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch 'hyperterminal' is a telnet application under windows, am I right? What are the features present in 'hyperterminal' that you can't have in a normal terminal emulation like kterm, xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, ...? Flupke Eunice The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
Just my 2 cents, I think everyone should have the choice to run what os most suitably fits them, so that they can use their computers in the most efficient way. Whether someone runs windows, macOS, Linux, OS2, Unix SVR4, minix or whatever, I noticed that the 3 most popular platforms have been Mac, win, and Linux, more software is being written for the Linux users, as there is already a buttload of stuff being developed for windows/dos, mac comes in 2nd, then Linux. Whenever these 3 platforms are the closest to being as equalised as is humanly possible, will we have the best cross-compatibility. Windows works for some, Mac works for some, and Linux works for some just to name a few. I use Linux because it works for me, my buddie in town uses mac because it works the best for him and my buddie in Idaho uses windows because it is what works the best for him and they are both still my buddies and I am barely affected by what OS they use, sure some .exe self extracting utilities I have to send to my windows using buddie so he can extract the soundfiles that I would like, and he takes a copy if he wants to also, if I can't use wine to extract it, but my wish is for things to become less proprietary, (I know I sound like a dreamer, but if I don't dream, I die) but when we can all use our own OS's and have more 'universal' formats of data transfer, it will make things easier I think. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: so here is my final attempt I want a file manager that works just like the one in corel linux os v1.1 in my mandrake. I want a graphic ppp dialer that does not give the deamon died error all the time i want a download manager of some description and I want stability. More I want somethong that does not require me to try and be what I am not Iam not a c++ programer or software research and devepement, I am a user and thats what I do I run my bussiness and I play games and I download things to playwith then I sort the in network neighbourhood a pass on the good stuff to the others on my network simply by means of drag and drop or cut and paste ( quick and efficient)and that is what I do with my pc every night until 2am. Please Dont take this mail as an Insult or as an attack Iam simply stating the factsas I have experienced them PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . thanks Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 012 3332276 Hey Chadley, I feel your pain! I've spent MANY late nights working to no avail (because of the same reasons you list) and I've gone to bed frustrated more times than I can count. I guess you just have to decide what you're looking for; Windows does offer a lot more indirect support in that everyone uses it, everybody makes drivers for it, and it's available everywhere. Mac, from what I hear, offers much greater stability, much easier to use, and not nearly as many people use it. Linux has tremendous potential, it's free, there are always upgrades available (if you know where to find them) and one of the greatest features - it's fun! Yeah, I know, fun? I've already said how frustrating it can be, what I'm say now is, it's still a fairly new system, and the people that are doing the developing aren't sitting in huge building in Redmond, Washington making a million a year. It's people that, for the most part, have other jobs and just happen to take some of their expertise and share it with rest of us. There is also a lot of developing going on at places like Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake, but that's not where most of it is coming from. I would suggest this; until you become more familiar with Linux, use it as a dual boot set up on one machine. Pick one machine and repartition your drive into two sections, then install WinNT or whatever as your first OS, then install Mandrake on the last part of the drive. Do your regular work on your comfortable system, then when you have some spare time, just play with Linux. After all, if you don't enjoy it, why bother? If after a few months, you find that Linux is just a waste of time, delete that partition and reformat it as an extended dos partition and move on happily with the blue screen of death (sorry, had to put that in there!) Good luck! Mike -- ** Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?
Benjamin MikeI'm currently using the 4.72 (128 bit)
version from a Mandrake crypto mirror site. The few times I've
had problems, I've renamed the ~/.netscape directory and then
launched netscape and let it recreate that directory and all the
files in it. I still had the files in the renamed directory and
was able to recover my mail (or anything you feel you need).
It's always (twice now since 4.02) worked like new after this
procedure.
Alan
Michael Holt wrote:
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear Michael:
Thanks so much for trying to help.
I am using the Mandrake versions of Netscape 4.7 with Fortify SSL to
provide 128-bit encryption. See http://www.fortify.net ( Readme file)
for the reason.
I just started getting this annoying Netscape message today ("Bookmarks
have changed on disk and are being reloaded"). I have been using
Netscape 4.7 for several months now. No problem. No message until today.
I installed a new counter for my web site. Could that have something to
do with it? Can't think of any other variable.
Hmmm... I wouldn't think so, but I could be wrong. Have you tried
rebooting? I've been thinking all day, and I just can't seem to
remember the circumstances around when I had that problem. It seems
like that would mean something in Netscape got broken, or possibly
something with your network settings? Have you changed *anything*
besides your web counter? (Is your web page actually on your computer
or is it hosted on someone elses site? If it's on your computer, then
it could actually have something to do with it)
I know that's probably not much help; usually what I do when things stop
working is try a reinstall of the program itself, but that's a last
resort.
Good luck!
Mike
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[newbie] HELP!!!
I know that you all don't have the rest of your lives to help with this, but if anyone can help, I surely need it! I took a UNIX class about 4 years ago some of it has stuck in my brain, but not enough to get me by! Ok, two problems right now. Most important: I just installed Mandrake 7 a couple of days ago am not having too many problems. I have an Iomega SCSI Zip drive. When I installed 7, it asked me for SCSI info. I just have what Win98 tells me: ADAPTEC AHA150X/1510/152X/AIC-6X60 SCSI HOST ADAPTER I/O: 0340-035F IRQ: 10 I tried the default settings (in Linux) for the IOMEGA ZIP the 152X. Linux just laughed at me! Actually, it didn't find anything. Since there was a setting for the IOMEGA ZIP in the list, I'm thinking that Zip drive are probably supported in Linux. Although that means nothing! Can anyone help with this? Second Problem: Maybe I shouldn't even be playing with this right yet, but I asked earlier today if the is any FREE ISP's that support Linux "Doom" was gratious enough to tell me about http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ . I downloaded their little program (130K) installed it in Linux. It has very little doc's with it I'm lost. (Go figure!) Problem is that I use 98 to get on the net right now because I can't figure out how to do it in Linux. I won't be offended if somebody ells me to wait for the net for a while so I can get used to Linux! (At least I'll know what I'm geting myself into!) Thanks, Buckster _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
You make good sense Vic. A little tolerance goes a long way :) Diversity is the spice of life. We are not all alike, thank goodness. Bambi Vic wrote: Just my 2 cents, I think everyone should have the choice to run what os most suitably fits them, so that they can use their computers in the most efficient way. Whether someone runs windows, macOS, Linux, OS2, Unix SVR4, minix or whatever, I noticed that the 3 most popular platforms have been Mac, win, and Linux, more software is being written for the Linux users, as there is already a buttload of stuff being developed for windows/dos, mac comes in 2nd, then Linux. Whenever these 3 platforms are the closest to being as equalised as is humanly possible, will we have the best cross-compatibility. Windows works for some, Mac works for some, and Linux works for some just to name a few. I use Linux because it works for me, my buddie in town uses mac because it works the best for him and my buddie in Idaho uses windows because it is what works the best for him and they are both still my buddies and I am barely affected by what OS they use, sure some .exe self extracting utilities I have to send to my windows using buddie so he can extract the soundfiles that I would like, and he takes a copy if he wants to also, if I can't use wine to extract it, but my wish is for things to become less proprietary, (I know I sound like a dreamer, but if I don't dream, I die) but when we can all use our own OS's and have more 'universal' formats of data transfer, it will make things easier I think. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: so here is my final attempt I want a file manager that works just like the one in corel linux os v1.1 in my mandrake. I want a graphic ppp dialer that does not give the deamon died error all the time i want a download manager of some description and I want stability. More I want somethong that does not require me to try and be what I am not Iam not a c++ programer or software research and devepement, I am a user and thats what I do I run my bussiness and I play games and I download things to playwith then I sort the in network neighbourhood a pass on the good stuff to the others on my network simply by means of drag and drop or cut and paste ( quick and efficient)and that is what I do with my pc every night until 2am. Please Dont take this mail as an Insult or as an attack Iam simply stating the factsas I have experienced them PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . thanks Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 012 3332276 Hey Chadley, I feel your pain! I've spent MANY late nights working to no avail (because of the same reasons you list) and I've gone to bed frustrated more times than I can count. I guess you just have to decide what you're looking for; Windows does offer a lot more indirect support in that everyone uses it, everybody makes drivers for it, and it's available everywhere. Mac, from what I hear, offers much greater stability, much easier to use, and not nearly as many people use it. Linux has tremendous potential, it's free, there are always upgrades available (if you know where to find them) and one of the greatest features - it's fun! Yeah, I know, fun? I've already said how frustrating it can be, what I'm say now is, it's still a fairly new system, and the people that are doing the developing aren't sitting in huge building in Redmond, Washington making a million a year. It's people that, for the most part, have other jobs and just happen to take some of their expertise and share it with rest of us. There is also a lot of developing going on at places like Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake, but that's not where most of it is coming from. I would suggest this; until you become more familiar with Linux, use it as a dual boot set up on one machine. Pick one machine and repartition your drive into two sections, then install WinNT or whatever as your first OS, then install Mandrake on the last part of the drive. Do your regular work on your comfortable system, then when you have some spare time, just play with Linux. After all, if you don't enjoy it, why bother? If after a few months, you find that Linux is just a waste of time, delete that partition and reformat it as an extended dos partition and move on happily with the blue screen of death (sorry, had to put that in there!) Good luck! Mike -- ** Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]
Thanks Jag, you are correct. A number of us were using HyperTerminal in our Networking Lab to configure the Cisco routers, I wanted to do it from my Linux box, unfortunately either I didn't have minicom installed or I just was unable to locate it. I am able to telnet into the router from Linux , it's just basically a different interface and initial setup. So where did you say 'minicom' was located? Eunice - Original Message - From: "Jaguar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal] Hyperterm is not a Telnet exactly...it is a small dialer to dial into say a BBS, or other small dial-up service. And yes I think Minicom is the answer Jaguar flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch 'hyperterminal' is a telnet application under windows, am I right? What are the features present in 'hyperterminal' that you can't have in a normal terminal emulation like kterm, xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, ...? Flupke Eunice The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?
Hey, good thought. I'll keep that in mind.
Mike
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Benjamin MikeI'm currently using the 4.72 (128 bit)
version from a Mandrake crypto mirror site. The few times I've
had problems, I've renamed the ~/.netscape directory and then
launched netscape and let it recreate that directory and all the
files in it. I still had the files in the renamed directory and
was able to recover my mail (or anything you feel you need).
It's always (twice now since 4.02) worked like new after this
procedure.
Alan
Michael Holt wrote:
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear Michael:
Thanks so much for trying to help.
I am using the Mandrake versions of Netscape 4.7 with Fortify SSL to
provide 128-bit encryption. See http://www.fortify.net ( Readme file)
for the reason.
I just started getting this annoying Netscape message today ("Bookmarks
have changed on disk and are being reloaded"). I have been using
Netscape 4.7 for several months now. No problem. No message until today.
I installed a new counter for my web site. Could that have something to
do with it? Can't think of any other variable.
Hmmm... I wouldn't think so, but I could be wrong. Have you tried
rebooting? I've been thinking all day, and I just can't seem to
remember the circumstances around when I had that problem. It seems
like that would mean something in Netscape got broken, or possibly
something with your network settings? Have you changed *anything*
besides your web counter? (Is your web page actually on your computer
or is it hosted on someone elses site? If it's on your computer, then
it could actually have something to do with it)
I know that's probably not much help; usually what I do when things stop
working is try a reinstall of the program itself, but that's a last
resort.
Good luck!
Mike
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Re: [newbie] FTP
yes i can log on anonymous! Paul wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, City of Warren-IS Department wrote: I am trying to use win98 ftp. I also tried the Tun FTP that we use with our HP9000 UNIX server. Same result. Perhaps a dumb question, but are you sure there is an FTP server running on the remote machine? Paul On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, City of Warren IS Department wrote: How do i configure FTP access. I want to be able to send web pages to /home/httpd/html. When i run the ftp command it connects ok, then i never get a logon prompt. eventually it times out. It comes back with connection closed by remote host. )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]
just type minicom at the prompt while root...if it starts you have it...if not you have to install it - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal] Thanks Jag, you are correct. A number of us were using HyperTerminal in our Networking Lab to configure the Cisco routers, I wanted to do it from my Linux box, unfortunately either I didn't have minicom installed or I just was unable to locate it. I am able to telnet into the router from Linux , it's just basically a different interface and initial setup. So where did you say 'minicom' was located? Eunice - Original Message - From: "Jaguar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal] Hyperterm is not a Telnet exactly...it is a small dialer to dial into say a BBS, or other small dial-up service. And yes I think Minicom is the answer Jaguar flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch 'hyperterminal' is a telnet application under windows, am I right? What are the features present in 'hyperterminal' that you can't have in a normal terminal emulation like kterm, xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, ...? Flupke Eunice The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] lilo
is there any thing special i have to do to get lilo installed and installed properly? === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT
Alan, Entered, checked for errors, and rebooted system, no change in results Is my BIOS causing problems??
[newbie] Netscape
Have spent most of the weekend playing with my new Linux. Downloaded the new 128-bit netscape. Think I got it to install but have not figured out how to point the icon on my kde to the right spot. When I click on Netscape I seem to get ver 4.7 56 bit. How do I fix this. Thanks for any help
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I have a bit of a problem with ppp. Using Lnx4Win, the version the doesn't require a partition, I can dial my isp, but it never connects and always gives me a message the operation is taking more then 15 seconds. I used netconfig to set up the connection. I triple checked the obvious things such as the DNS, my username and pword, made sure I didn't typo the phone number, etc. Anybody have any suggestions or know any possible reasons for my being able to dial but not actually connect? Or is it possible that this version just runs so slowly it times out? I have had friends tell me that I need a chatscript, but the manual didn't say anything about a chatscript. It just mentioned netconfig and kppp. So do I need one ore not? Now comes my really dumb question...where's kppp? I looked in the K menu but couldn't find it
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Mike Thompson wrote: Have spent most of the weekend playing with my new Linux. Downloaded the new 128-bit netscape. Think I got it to install but have not figured out how to point the icon on my kde to the right spot. When I click on Netscape I seem to get ver 4.7 56 bit. How do I fix this. Thanks for any help It sounds like you didn't upgrade. I would uninstall the 56bit version using kpackage then point your icon to /usr/bin/netscape and you should be set. Mike -- = The Penguins are coming!!! = Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA.
Re: [newbie] Netscape
If you are talking about netscape 6 its all binary... you have to right click on netscape icon, properties, then put in the directory where netscape 6 is hope this helps. I'm just as new as you but after some playing around I found this worked :-) Kenny - Original Message - From: "Mike Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 10:47 PM Subject: [newbie] Netscape Have spent most of the weekend playing with my new Linux. Downloaded the new 128-bit netscape. Think I got it to install but have not figured out how to point the icon on my kde to the right spot. When I click on Netscape I seem to get ver 4.7 56 bit. How do I fix this. Thanks for any help _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] No subject was specified.
kppp is in the knetwork...you need to install it.
Ok download WVDIAL it'll sovle your problem I had problems such as yours
until i got wvdial. Its great :-) I'm going ot attach it here if its
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Subject: [newbie] No subject was specified.
I have a bit of a problem with ppp. Using Lnx4Win, the version the
doesn't require a partition, I can dial my isp, but it never connects
and always gives me a message the operation is taking more then 15
seconds. I used netconfig to set up the connection. I triple checked the
obvious things such as the DNS, my username and pword, made sure I
didn't typo the phone number, etc. Anybody have any suggestions or know
any possible reasons for my being able to dial but not actually connect?
Or is it possible that this version just runs so slowly it times out?
I have had friends tell me that I need a chatscript, but the manual
didn't say anything about a chatscript. It just mentioned netconfig and
kppp. So do I need one ore not?
Now comes my really dumb question...where's kppp? I looked in the K
menu but couldn't find it
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Re: [newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by a patch
First install Linux wherever you want. Don't worry about it being past the 1024 cylinder. BUt just make sure that during installation you make a boot disk. Then, after you finish installing, reboot and use that boot disk to get to Linux. Then once in Linux, install the new LILO. Can anyone advise, now with this patch, how to install a fresh version of Linux on a computer beyond the 1024th cylinder? How do we go about this? Many thanks SM Foo -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Modem Insatallation - Help -
G'day miguel 1) Only a small % of internal modems are winmodems 2) Rockwell chipset works fine with Linux 3) Comm 3 is exquivelent to ttys2 (check modem settings in kppp) 4) Try 115200 for port speed (yes port speed NOT modem speed) 5) Modem may be unavailable as user (try chmod a + wr /dev/modem) Dunno, kppp isnt exactly user friendly (Flame invitation) - Original Message - From: Miguel Olmeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:13 AM Subject: [newbie] Modem Insatallation - Help - Hi !! I just installed Mandrake 7.0. (This is my very first Linux installation). I have an internal modem: US Robotics 56K, ISA, COM3, IRQ 5 . When I try to connect with my ISP (using KPPP) I receive the messages: Modem Ready Sorry, the modem doesn't respond Can somebody give me some tips.. Thanks. Regards, Miguel
[newbie] Any Windows Media Player for Linux?
Hi Foiks! Just surfing around the Net and was trying to listen to a local radio station but it only has Windows Media Player format. Does anyone know what program (if any) might be out there that could work with Mandrake 7.0? Thanks! Mike
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks have changed on disk...
I tend to get those after Netscape crashes. Did Netscape crash on you? If so, then to fix it just log out and then log back in. I guess I am getting sick (and tired) or maybe just dizzy seeing this message appear in Netscape 4.7 every five or ten mintues for no reason at all. Any idea how to correct this annoying message! Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT
Bobthen that's been the real problem all along. Is there any file resembling /boot/us.klt? You might find a usuable one on your boot floppy and copy it to the /boot/ dirctory. Change the entry in /etc/lilo.conf to match a different name or if you can'find it at all then remove the line in /etc/lilo.conf. Is there any file resembling /boot/bootmesg.txt? This one might be there as just message or something similar. Change the line in /etc/lilo.conf to match or if you can'find it at all then remove the line in lilo.conf. Is there any file resembling /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486? Maybe just vmlinuz? If not try the one on your boot floppy and change the line in /etc/lilo.conf to match. If you can't find one then we're out of luck. Is there any file resembling /boot/initrd.img? maybe it's /boot/initrd.img-2.2.14-24mdk_i486? If not try the one on your boot floppy and change the line in /etc/lilo.conf to match. If you can't find one then we're out of luck. When you get all of the above resolved then type, as root, /sbin/lilo and let's hear what happens when you reboot. Alan root wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: BobI believe that the below /etc/lilo.conf is correct for your machine, but you should check that each file specified in it is actually where it is said to be and named correctly in the /etc/lilo.conf file. Is there a file /boot/map? Is there a file /boot/boot.b? Is there a file /boot/us.klt? Is there a file /boot/bootmesg.txt? Is there a file /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-24mdk_i486? Is there a file /boot/initrd.img? Alan, The last four files aren't there, using: # ls /boot/ Isp has been slow entering(copying I hope) to Lilo.conf Maybe the files will show up then???
[newbie] Install problems with cdrom
Hi. I Having problems installing Mandrake from my cdrom. The installation runs fine until i get to library gclib (GNU clib) then my cdrom shutsdown(!) and the installation freezes. I have a goldstar 8X cdrom on a amd k6-2 200 mhz system. I hace tried the different install methods described on the cd (a free edition from the swedish computermagazine pc-extra) with no luck. plz help! /Jimmi _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Jimmi WimmersjöE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ Granängsringen 57Tel hem: 08-7984842 _/ _/ 135 44 Tyresö Tel mob: 070-7328947 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT
Bobnope, /etc/lilo.conf is telling lilo that certain files are in a certain place and if they are not there then a successful bootup will not occur. See my last message for some solutions. Alan Bob wrote: Alan, Entered, checked for errors, and rebooted system, no change in results Is my BIOS causing problems??
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Is there a 128bit version of Netscape 6? I believe there is still only the beta of the regular version. Mike kenny wrote: If you are talking about netscape 6 its all binary... you have to right click on netscape icon, properties, then put in the directory where netscape 6 is hope this helps. I'm just as new as you but after some playing around I found this worked :-) Kenny - Original Message - From: "Mike Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 10:47 PM Subject: [newbie] Netscape Have spent most of the weekend playing with my new Linux. Downloaded the new 128-bit netscape. Think I got it to install but have not figured out how to point the icon on my kde to the right spot. When I click on Netscape I seem to get ver 4.7 56 bit. How do I fix this. Thanks for any help _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- = The Penguins are coming!!! = Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA.
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Mikego to this page of Mandrake's web site: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3 and download the following three files from any of the crypto mirror sites listed: netscape-128-common-4.72-2mdk.i586.rpm netscape-128-communicator-4.72-2mdk.i586.rpm netscape-128-navigator-4.72-2mdk.i586.rpm And install them instead of whatever you just installed and all will work as intended. Uninstall the current netscape rpm's first. I'm not sure how to uninstall the version you just installed, maybe you won't have to. Alan Mike Thompson wrote: Have spent most of the weekend playing with my new Linux. Downloaded the new 128-bit netscape. Think I got it to install but have not figured out how to point the icon on my kde to the right spot. When I click on Netscape I seem to get ver 4.7 56 bit. How do I fix this. Thanks for any help
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]]
If it's installed...it should be in the K menu of INTERNET, or the GNOME menu also in INTERNET. HTH Jaguar "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jag, you are correct. A number of us were using HyperTerminal in our Networking Lab to configure the Cisco routers, I wanted to do it from my Linux box, unfortunately either I didn't have minicom installed or I just was unable to locate it. I am able to telnet into the router from Linux , it's just basically a different interface and initial setup. So where did you say 'minicom' was located? Eunice - Original Message - From: "Jaguar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal] Hyperterm is not a Telnet exactly...it is a small dialer to dial into say a BBS, or other small dial-up service. And yes I think Minicom is the answer Jaguar flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch 'hyperterminal' is a telnet application under windows, am I right? What are the features present in 'hyperterminal' that you can't have in a normal terminal emulation like kterm, xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, ...? Flupke Eunice The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Thanks Jag, you are correct. A number of us were using HyperTerminal in our Networking Lab to configure the Cisco routers, I wanted to do it from my Linux box, unfortunately either I didn't have minicom installed or I just was unable to locate it. I am able to telnet into the router from Linux , it's just basically a different interface and initial setup. So where did you say 'minicom' was located? Eunice On my machine it is in /usr/bin Good luck! Paul )0(---)0( Atheism: a non-prophet organization. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] ISP
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, The Buckster wrote: Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! An ISP is not depending on a certain OS. (If the ISP was, they should be taken out of business ;) Paul )0(---)0( Atheism: a non-prophet organization. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Bookmarks have changed on disk... -- Solution?
Dear Anthony and friends: You may be right. Just came home, turned on Linux and Netscape and the messages seem to be gone. If they don't come back within the hour, then you will have been proven right. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?
Dear Michael: Thanks so much again. I think you guessed right. After turning on Linux this evening and launching Netscape, things seem to be back to normal. So, it might well be the rebooting that did it. My thanks to all of you for your help. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?
Dear Alan: Thanks so much for the advice about renaming ~/.netscape and recreating the ~/.netscape directory and then copying files back into the new directory. That's excellent advice. Will keep that in mind for any future eventuality. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
