Re: [newbie-it] Player video AVI MPEG
10:14, martedì 24 luglio 2001, freefred: il media player del kde e' veramente troppo fragile. mi hanno parlato benissimo di mplayer (lo trovi a freshmeat) vede tutti i formati e' veloce ecc. Anch'io l'ho scaricato e sto provando a installarlo. Purtroppo configure mi avverte subito: Checking version of gcc ... 2.96, bad Please downgrade(upgrade) gcc compiler to gcc-2.95.2+ or gcc-3.0+ version che fare? qualcuno ricorda che gcc c'era sulla mandrake 7.2? sarà indolore l'upgrade al 3.0+ ? il + cosa significa? ciao, Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] Player video AVI MPEG
Il 16:42, mercoledì 25 luglio 2001, Tommaso Leddi scrisse: stallarlo. Purtroppo configure mi avverte subito: Checking version of gcc ... 2.96, bad Please downgrade(upgrade) gcc compiler to gcc-2.95.2+ or gcc-3.0+ version che fare? qualcuno ricorda che gcc c'era sulla mandrake 7.2? [cova@cagnina t]$ gcc --version 2.95.3 sarà indolore l'upgrade al 3.0+ ? Mica tanto... diversi programmi hanno bisogno di sistematine per essere compilati, non ultimo il kernel e lo stesso kde. Non so se abbiano già fatto gli rpm per il gcc 3.0. Ricompilare un compilatore è un'impresa, compilare il kernel al confronto è una cosa ridicola. :-)), quindi non consiglio di farlo se non per divertimento e sperimentazione... il + cosa significa? + - o successive -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie-it] Problemi con KDE e update in linea
Mandrake 8.0 funzionante ha parte qualche problema di contorno. Ho eseguito l'update dei pacchetti con il Software Manager scaricando da un mirror. Alla fine dell'installazione l'utente da cui ho effettuto l'update non riesce più ad utilizzare il KDE. In pratica alla partenza del KDE appare lo splash screen e poi rimango con il mouse sullo sfondo azzurro senza la possibilità di cliccare su icone, menù ecc... . Immagino sia un problema di privilegi su files di configurazione e/o risorse di KDE. Qualcuno sa suggerire dove andare a vedere e in che modo tracciare le chiamate? ( strace fornisce un uscita un po' troppo corposa ). Grazie, Ciao.
[newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] Secondo voi si può fare?
- Original Message - From: Mercury [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:16 AM Subject: [newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] Secondo voi si può fare? Secondo suggerimento: Non proporre l'idea windows in questa ML (è mattina presto mi rovini la giornata ;-) ) ;-D Terzo suggerimento: Cerca una belle versione antica di linux ... la distribuzione la lascio a tua discrezione ... l'importante che essa veda il tuo notebook Come faccio ad assicurarmi la compatibilità? dove devo guardare?? una versione antica invece dove la trovo? :)) Sesto suggerimento: credo che il tuo amico voglia anche stampare ... se hai la possibilità di farlo con una stampante in rete o passando il dischetto ad un computer linux va bene ... altrimenti non devi trascurare questo particolare ... doc lo leggono cani e porci ... il contrario NO! Sì, stavo valutando anche questo. L'idea sarebbe usare un dischetto per passarlo ad un altro pc, ma non sono sicuro sia fattibile per ora. Tu che versione mi consiglieresti? :) Hola Hola Mercury Grazie per l'aiuto, Luko
R: R: [newbie-it] Problemi con KDE e update in linea
Ho avuto un problema simile con LM7.2 e l'aggiornamento del KDE: KDE partiva ma il desktop ed il pannello risultavano compromessi. Ho risolto il problema come proponi tu stesso (la mia Linux box a 2 soli utenti: io e mia moglie). Ciao Frank :-) -Messaggio originale- Da: Leonardo Orazi Oggetto: Re: R: [newbie-it] Problemi con KDE e update in linea Solo l'utente in questione da cui ho fatto partire il Software Manager ( ovviamente ho fornito la password di super user ). Potrei ovviamente creare un nuovo utente, trasferire tutto nella sua cartella e cancellare quello che non funziona. Mi chiedevo se vi era un sistema più elegante. Ciao, Leo. Tulissi Franco wrote: Ma solo l'utente in questione o tutti gli utenti non riescono ad accedere a KDE? Ciao Frank
Re: [newbie-it] Mailreader + gpg
On Tuesday 24 July 2001 15:58, you wrote: Salve a tutti i newbies (chi piu`, chi meno :) ) Sto cercando un mailreader che *non* sia kmail e che includa il pieno supporto al gpg/pgp... chi me ne sa indicare uno? non ne ho pratica ma di certo pine e mutt hanno il supporto, magari con moduli esterni, sono pero' testuali. Evolution non l'ha? bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Mailreader + gpg
Il 21:51, martedì 24 luglio 2001, scrivesti: On Tuesday 24 July 2001 15:58, you wrote: Salve a tutti i newbies (chi piu`, chi meno :) ) Sto cercando un mailreader che *non* sia kmail e che includa il pieno supporto al gpg/pgp... chi me ne sa indicare uno? non ne ho pratica ma di certo pine e mutt hanno il supporto, magari con moduli esterni, sono pero' testuali. Evolution non l'ha? Mutt non ha bisogno di moduli esterni, e credo sia uno dei pochi a poter gestire firme in mime attach (credo però esista una tale patch per kmail) -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie-it] PANIC
dicevo che la MDK allo shutdown non mi smonta + il filesystem...e dopo 5-6 volte di check forced all'avvio ora non parte + il serverx evviva... cosa faccio? piallo tutto? do' fuoco? help help cmq.. 1-un filesystem non puo' essere cosi' fragile cazzo! 2-non puo' non smontarmi il filesystem cosi' senza motivo 3-usando un raiser cosa ci guadagno? gra
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?
Il giorno 25-07-2001 6:06, Fabio Coatti, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Argh, l'upgrade, ho sentito storie dell'orrore al riguardo... ;-) Anchio... Beh l'ho fatto!!! E' (quasi) tutto ok. Il difetto e' rimasto solo per il floppy e la cosa non mi preoccupa molto... L'unico vero problema e' che credo di aver incasinato la rete tre linux e Macintosh... ma la vedremo con calma. Ho notato di avere anche tre versioni di uno stesso programma(?!?!). Probabilmente mi sono rimasti della versione 7.2, quelli dell'8.0 e quelli che ho aggiornato... :-)) Come ultima spiaggia potresti disabilitare il supermount, io me lo cavo sempre dalle scatole :-) Avevo provato ma rifiutava anche il mount manuale. Ciao (sperando che tutto continui a funzionare) Franco
[newbie-it] PANIC
dicevo che la MDK allo shutdown non mi smonta + il filesystem...e dopo 5-6 volte di check forced all'avvio ora non parte + il serverx evviva... cosa faccio? piallo tutto? do' fuoco? Magari cerca di capire cosa è successo. Di solito un hint lo si trova in /var/log/XFree-qualchecosa. Oppure lancia startx in questo modo: startx pippo e quando ti ritorna il prompt leggio cosa c'è scritto in pippo. help help cmq.. 1-un filesystem non puo' essere cosi' fragile cazzo! Non è così fragile. migliaia e migliaia di servers lo usano costantemente e ci smazzano milioni di files, quindi non è così fragile... 2-non puo' non smontarmi il filesystem cosi' senza motivo Infatti il motivo c'è d sicuro. Ad occhio qualche processo rimane su (per qualche baco o robe del genere) e quindi impedisce di smontare il filesystem. Prova a dare un' occhiata ai logs (messages, etc... per vedere se nella sequenza di shutdown va storto qualcosa) 3-usando un raiser cosa ci guadagno? Si tratta del Reiser filesystem. Ha la caratteristica di essere journaled. In breve significa che ha accorgimenti tali per cui lo stato è sempre coerente. Se va via la corrente o la macchina si pianta, al reboot non è necessario alcun check del filesystem. Attenzione, eventuali files aperti potrebbero non essere completamente aggiornati, ma non presentano errori di lettura. gra -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
Re: [newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] Secondo voi si può fare?
Il 07:35, mercoledì 25 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Cercherò qualche informazione su questo mulinux: che tu sappia posso poi usare un programma con interfaccia grafica adatto allo scopo? Anche io pensavo ad AbiWord (che conosco già perchè lo uso sotto win :P) , ma avevo in mente anche editor già inclusi. I testi da scrivere sono di stampo universitario. Altri suggerimenti? Con 8mb rh5.2 non va proprio? Grazie per l'aiuto, Luko Sinceramente non me lo ricordo esattamente, installai la rh 5.2 molto tempo fa e credo che l'ho fatto su un 486 DX2, ma non ricordo quanta RAM avevo installata. Puoi comunque fare una prova, non costa niente. Se il formato per scrivere testo può essere del semplice testo ascii va bene qualsiasi editor. Comunque credo che allegato alla vecchia 5.2 ci fosse qualche programma di scrittura, ma non ne sono sicuro. Ciao e se provi, fammi sapere come è andata, Sandro - Original Message - From: Sandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Secondo voi si può fare? Il 19:36, martedì 24 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Mi è arrivato tra le mani un portatile omnibook hp 486dx 75 con 8 mb di ram. Questo sistema io dovrei usarlo unicamente per scrivere testi con un programma tipo word e poco altro. I problemi che si pongono sono 2: il primo è che non dovendolo usare io di persona ma un mio amico totalmente digiuno di informatica ho bisogno di evitare ogni tipo di complicazione; il secondo è che con 8 mb di ram (vorrei provare a portarlo almeno a 16, ma non sono sicuro di trovare la memoria) non so minimamente cosa montare come OS. Tralasciando qualsiasi soluzione MS (anche se avevo fatto un pensierino a win 3.11 che dite? potrebbe andare?) mi sono orientato su Linux, ma se anche fosse cosa posso installare?? Avrei bisogno di qualche parere da qualche luminare in materia :)) Grazie mille, Luko Sinceramente è un bel problema, mi spiego. Per quanto riguarda una distribuzione da installare sulla macchina descritta no problem, potresti utilizzare mulinux che è contenuto (secondo quanto mi ricordo) in soli due dischetti e che puoi trasferire sul disco rigido. Il problema è, eventualmente, una qualsiasi interfaccia grafica. Chiaramente non potrai ultilizzare KDE o Gnome ma, eventualmente, un w.m. molto più leggero (sempre se 8 Mb possono bastare, ma.). Il problema è che se il tuo amico è completamente digiuno di informatica stenterà a muoversi in un ambiente completamente testuale (oddio, niente di impossibile) però Un altro problema è il formato dei documenti che, ovviamente, dovranno essere letti anche in altri sistemi. Potresti utilizzare StarOffice ma, viste le risorse di sistema di cui disponi, è improponibile. Forse utilizzando una vecchia distribuizione di Linux (a parte Mulinux) e scartando Mandrake, Suse e redHat. Potresti utilizzare Debian o Slack. Per quanto riguarda l'utilizzo di win 3.1 (a parte il fatto che rovini la giornata a qualcuno - sto ovviamente scherzando!! :-)) rimane il fatto che devi utilizzare un software di scrittura tipo word o simili nella versione adatta a win 3.1, programmi che credo sia difficile da reperire (a meno di versioni pirata. ma conto sul fatto che tu non faccia questa scelta). Se riesci a reperire altra RAM e portarlo a 16 Mb già sarebbe un risultato. Resta difficile, comunque, reperire quel tipo di RAM, scomparsa ormai da tempo. In questo caso credo che una distribuzione tipo RedHat 5.2 (ad esempio) con un window manager leggero posssa funzionare. Magari accoppiata ad una versione non recentissima di AbiWord che può salvare in formato rtf (a proposito ne esiste una versione anche per win). Ciao e spero di esserti stato, in qualche modo, utile, Sandro Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Allegato: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048 -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
Re: [newbie-it] Mailreader + gpg
Il 05:58, mercoledì 25 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Se non ti serve l'interfaccia grafica allora mutt. Non e` male come idea (prima o poi studiero` anche mutt :) ), ma per il momento preferisco qualcosa di grafico... O:-) Grazie cmq. :-) -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R: [newbie-it] Problemi con KDE e update in linea
Ma solo l'utente in questione o tutti gli utenti non riescono ad accedere a KDE? Ciao Frank -Messaggio originale- Da: Leonardo Orazi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: mercoledì 25 luglio 2001 12.10 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Problemi con KDE e update in linea Mandrake 8.0 funzionante ha parte qualche problema di contorno. Ho eseguito l'update dei pacchetti con il Software Manager scaricando da un mirror. Alla fine dell'installazione l'utente da cui ho effettuto l'update non riesce più ad utilizzare il KDE. In pratica alla partenza del KDE appare lo splash screen e poi rimango con il mouse sullo sfondo azzurro senza la possibilità di cliccare su icone, menù ecc... . Immagino sia un problema di privilegi su files di configurazione e/o risorse di KDE. Qualcuno sa suggerire dove andare a vedere e in che modo tracciare le chiamate? ( strace fornisce un uscita un po' troppo corposa ). Grazie, Ciao.
[newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] Secondo voi si può fare?
Cercherò qualche informazione su questo mulinux: che tu sappia posso poi usare un programma con interfaccia grafica adatto allo scopo? Anche io pensavo ad AbiWord (che conosco già perchè lo uso sotto win :P) , ma avevo in mente anche editor già inclusi. I testi da scrivere sono di stampo universitario. Altri suggerimenti? Con 8mb rh5.2 non va proprio? Grazie per l'aiuto, Luko - Original Message - From: Sandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Secondo voi si può fare? Il 19:36, martedì 24 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Mi è arrivato tra le mani un portatile omnibook hp 486dx 75 con 8 mb di ram. Questo sistema io dovrei usarlo unicamente per scrivere testi con un programma tipo word e poco altro. I problemi che si pongono sono 2: il primo è che non dovendolo usare io di persona ma un mio amico totalmente digiuno di informatica ho bisogno di evitare ogni tipo di complicazione; il secondo è che con 8 mb di ram (vorrei provare a portarlo almeno a 16, ma non sono sicuro di trovare la memoria) non so minimamente cosa montare come OS. Tralasciando qualsiasi soluzione MS (anche se avevo fatto un pensierino a win 3.11 che dite? potrebbe andare?) mi sono orientato su Linux, ma se anche fosse cosa posso installare?? Avrei bisogno di qualche parere da qualche luminare in materia :)) Grazie mille, Luko Sinceramente è un bel problema, mi spiego. Per quanto riguarda una distribuzione da installare sulla macchina descritta no problem, potresti utilizzare mulinux che è contenuto (secondo quanto mi ricordo) in soli due dischetti e che puoi trasferire sul disco rigido. Il problema è, eventualmente, una qualsiasi interfaccia grafica. Chiaramente non potrai ultilizzare KDE o Gnome ma, eventualmente, un w.m. molto più leggero (sempre se 8 Mb possono bastare, ma.). Il problema è che se il tuo amico è completamente digiuno di informatica stenterà a muoversi in un ambiente completamente testuale (oddio, niente di impossibile) però Un altro problema è il formato dei documenti che, ovviamente, dovranno essere letti anche in altri sistemi. Potresti utilizzare StarOffice ma, viste le risorse di sistema di cui disponi, è improponibile. Forse utilizzando una vecchia distribuizione di Linux (a parte Mulinux) e scartando Mandrake, Suse e redHat. Potresti utilizzare Debian o Slack. Per quanto riguarda l'utilizzo di win 3.1 (a parte il fatto che rovini la giornata a qualcuno - sto ovviamente scherzando!! :-)) rimane il fatto che devi utilizzare un software di scrittura tipo word o simili nella versione adatta a win 3.1, programmi che credo sia difficile da reperire (a meno di versioni pirata. ma conto sul fatto che tu non faccia questa scelta). Se riesci a reperire altra RAM e portarlo a 16 Mb già sarebbe un risultato. Resta difficile, comunque, reperire quel tipo di RAM, scomparsa ormai da tempo. In questo caso credo che una distribuzione tipo RedHat 5.2 (ad esempio) con un window manager leggero posssa funzionare. Magari accoppiata ad una versione non recentissima di AbiWord che può salvare in formato rtf (a proposito ne esiste una versione anche per win). Ciao e spero di esserti stato, in qualche modo, utile, Sandro Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Allegato: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
[newbie-it] Scanner HP
Ciao a tutti, ho un problema con lo scanner HP Scanjet 4100 C (collegamento USB vi è installata anche una stampante USB) ovvero... non riesco a farlo funzionare... so che qualcuno di Voi è già riuscito a fare funzionare questo tipo di scanner, per voleste dare una mano anche a me :))) Grazie a TUTTI The Viking
Re: [newbie] some install questions
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:19, Randy Kramer wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:20, Robert MacLean wrote: What is postfix? It keeps telling me it's going to have it run as a server, but what is it/does it do. I'm worried to let it run (cause I don't know what it does), but I'm also worried to not let it run. If you don't know what it is, then you don't need it. Go to Software Manager and uninstall the postfix package. You shouldn't be bothered again. Sridhar (or anyone else), I have one concern and two questions. As you know, postfix is the MTA (Mail Transport Agent). IIRC, when I had postfix disabled, I did not receive the various email messages that Linux may send to root (warnings, cron job failures, etc.) (well at least as AFAIK, but I may not have looked). (When logging in at a console, I never received any of those You have mail messages.) 1. Will those messages get delivered to root even if postfix is not running? 2. If not, are they filling some queue somewhere that one should look for, review, and periodically empty? Thanks, Randy Kramer Postfix is required to deliver the messages. Without it, the system will recognise that there is nothing to deliver the massages and so will not do anything. It will, however, print a message to the screen (tty12). I recommended that Robert uninstall postfix because he obviously doesn't know what it is, and so it wouldn't be of any use to him. It it was installed, and he didn't check his mail, the messages would just pile up and steal hard drive space. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Re: WinXP is better....My reply to this BS
Sridhar, I'm beginning to worry that you are becoming a cybical young fellow! New Rigby word - cybical adj., from old Amerenglish: cynical: meaning to think ii. molecular brain changes as a result of (a) exposure to too many (unofficial) other ideas (b) Radiation from the new idiot boxes :-) No gumnit of mine would do *that*!! (nah, surely not...) interactive parts, if any). One major reason why the government wants to cut off analogue television is so the spectrum it used will revert back to them. They can then sell it to somebody else and make $billions. Cheers, John -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] Mozilla (was Best browser for linux?)
Netscape is also programmed in a sloppy way. It is famous for its memory leaks. This is the case with Netscape 4.x. Netscape 6 is bad because it is based on an early version of Mozilla (Milestone 18, released late last year). As I mentioned before, Netscape 6.x is simply Mozilla code with extras bolted on. There is nothing new or innovative about it. AOL decided to use the latest version of Mozilla at the time, M18, for Netscape 6 instead of waiting until Mozilla was complete (which wasn't such a bad idea because Mozilla _still_ isn't finished now). Netscape 6.1, is based on Mozilla 0.9. The Mozilla code is not forked in any major way (which would be harmful). All that happens is that from time to time Netscape will take the most recent Mozilla release and add some junk on top. I noticed that the Mozilla with MDK8 is pretty good. So far NS4.x was the only browser in Linux with which I could do my internet banking. Mozilla works too, I tried that last night and there was no problem whatsoever. Even better: the fonts on Mozilla seem more legible with the internet banking site than in NS. So I will be working with Opera and Mozilla for now :) Mozilla also loads faster than NS it seems. Paul
Re: [newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0 DOWNLOADING IT??
Hi folks, Down near Antarctica where I live, I couldn't imagine being able to get a monster like M8 downloaded!!! In fact, my ISP would disconnect me - we are only allowed a max of 1.5 gig per month - and you get dumped after 60 mins without action and after 12 hours anyway... On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:07, you manipulated electrons to produce: Where did you get your copy of Mandrake from? I had that problem when I downloaded from an FTP site using Internet Explorer. I read that Internet Explorer corrupts huge FTP downloads. When I burned the iso of Mandrake into a CD, it was corrupted. Started the installation and it doesnt load up properly. I then redownloaded using a FTP program, reburned the CD and all my problems are solved. Hope this helps -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
[newbie] newbie and hardware questions
Good Morning Bunnies ;) Okay I got Mandrake installed and all seems well, played around a bit and I got some more questions. BTW If any of this stuff is in a manual that comes with Mandrake, I'm very happy to just accept page numbers. Firstly and most worrying is my modem doesn't work under Linux. Under HardDrake it tells me it is a CONEXANT Modem Emulator, and then says it can't use Winmodems (and gives a link to a page that doesn't exist). Here the weird thing, my modem is a CNET modem (http://www.cnet.com.tw/product/cn5614rc.html), and there was no mention anywhere that it is a Winmodem so I doubt that is it, maybe I just got scammed? My next one is also hardware. I have a Genius Netscroll Optical mouse. But for some reason I can't select it, when I tried it during install it stuffed the mouse up. So I choose std mouse. Any way to fix this? I miss my mouse wheel :( My last hard ware question is it possible for my machine to switch it self off when I shut down? I used to do this in windows (not that I shut my machine down that often, because it usually crashed before then), it just made life that much sweeter. Next questions will probably seem really basic, so here goes using GNOME, how do I change/delete/add desktop icons? Is there a way I can setup Linux to automatically start the CD Player software, and start playing the CD when an Audio CD is inserted? My computers name is localhost.localdomain? How/Where do I change this? Also Many Thanx for you time with my last email, it helped a lot :) Robert MacLean
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:52, Paul wrote: It was Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:15:59 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Netscape 6 is _not_ a clone of Mozilla, or vice-versa, as has been suggested before. Mozilla is an open source (in fact, it is GPL) project to create a fully standards-compliant, cross-platform browser. Netscape 6 is Mozilla with a few enhancements made by AOL (who own Netscape). Netscape 6 is not updated nearly as often as Mozilla, and it is slightly heavier on a system (because of the unnecessary enhancements). If you want to use the Gecko engine, use Mozilla, Nautilus or Galeon. Don't bother with Netscape 6. Netscape is also programmed in a sloppy way. It is famous for its memory leaks. Paul This is the case with Netscape 4.x. Netscape 6 is bad because it is based on an early version of Mozilla (Milestone 18, released late last year). As I mentioned before, Netscape 6.x is simply Mozilla code with extras bolted on. There is nothing new or innovative about it. AOL decided to use the latest version of Mozilla at the time, M18, for Netscape 6 instead of waiting until Mozilla was complete (which wasn't such a bad idea because Mozilla _still_ isn't finished now). Netscape 6.1, is based on Mozilla 0.9. The Mozilla code is not forked in any major way (which would be harmful). All that happens is that from time to time Netscape will take the most recent Mozilla release and add some junk on top. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
RE: [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo
there are cheaper places, and it pays to have a look around... Tuan Duc Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:26:59 -0700 [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo Hi all, I am going to buy a Domain Name (registered Domain) for my Web Server. I have a plain to buy it from Yahoo. Has anyone bought it from Yahoo? Is this a good way to do? It's cost about $35.00 USD/year. Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com
Re: [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo
Do you want to host one on your server? or do you want a domain name hosted by another company? 9ug.com domains go for 15US(not sure if its an anual fee) You can look for more here http://www.100best-free-web-space.com have fun
[newbie] Lin4Win
Where can i find the Lin4Win ? *** Michael Spivak ***
[newbie] Viruses.
Hi folks, Everybody except Linux Users has heard about SirCam a new EXTREMELY annoying virus. Seems a very popular one out there at moment - can send random giant file attachments ! Which brings me to the point: I don't border on - I AM paranoid in the Doze world - I executed the MEDIUM option of security on my M8 setup. Is there anything else advised at this stage? -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Re: WinXP is better....My reply to this BS
LOL! I'll try my _very_ best to take that as a compliment! :-) On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:40, John Rigby wrote: Sridhar, I'm beginning to worry that you are becoming a cybical young fellow! New Rigby word - cybical adj., from old Amerenglish: cynical: meaning to think ii. molecular brain changes as a result of (a) exposure to too many (unofficial) other ideas (b) Radiation from the new idiot boxes :-) No gumnit of mine would do *that*!! (nah, surely not...) interactive parts, if any). One major reason why the government wants to cut off analogue television is so the spectrum it used will revert back to them. They can then sell it to somebody else and make $billions. Cheers, John -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] newbie and hardware questions
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:53, Robert MacLean wrote: Good Morning Bunnies ;) Okay I got Mandrake installed and all seems well, played around a bit and I got some more questions. BTW If any of this stuff is in a manual that comes with Mandrake, I'm very happy to just accept page numbers. Firstly and most worrying is my modem doesn't work under Linux. Under HardDrake it tells me it is a CONEXANT Modem Emulator, and then says it can't use Winmodems (and gives a link to a page that doesn't exist). Here the weird thing, my modem is a CNET modem (http://www.cnet.com.tw/product/cn5614rc.html), and there was no mention anywhere that it is a Winmodem so I doubt that is it, maybe I just got scammed? Here's a quote from the link you gave: These models include controller-less modems and internal software modems. This is a fancy way to call it a winmodem. No manufacturer actually uses the term winmodem; this is a term used primarily by non-Windos users, often as a way of deriding them. Try these sites for possible solutions: http://linmodems.org/ http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html My next one is also hardware. I have a Genius Netscroll Optical mouse. But for some reason I can't select it, when I tried it during install it stuffed the mouse up. So I choose std mouse. Any way to fix this? I miss my mouse wheel :( Run mousedrake as root. My last hard ware question is it possible for my machine to switch it self off when I shut down? I used to do this in windows (not that I shut my machine down that often, because it usually crashed before then), it just made life that much sweeter. If it does this in Windos, it should in GNU/Linux as well. My machine can do this in both OSs. Next questions will probably seem really basic, so here goes using GNOME, how do I change/delete/add desktop icons? Right-click the desktop and select New - Launcher. You can also add .desktop links or symbolic links to your /home/user/.gnome-desktop directory. Is there a way I can setup Linux to automatically start the CD Player software, and start playing the CD when an Audio CD is inserted? I'm not too sure on this one. It should be possible if you add the CD Player applet to a panel. My computers name is localhost.localdomain? How/Where do I change this? Computers are a bit like people. When someone wants to call you, they'll say Robert (or maybe a nickname). When you wish to refer to yourself, you wouldn't refer to yourself in the third person (unless you're weird). Most people would use a personal pronoun, like I, when referring to themselves. With networked computers, things are similar. When your computer refers to itself, it uses localhost.localdomain (the full local name), or just localhost (a 'nickname'). This must not be changed. However, the external host name can be changed. Try typing hostname in a terminal. The resulting optput is what other computers on a network will call your computer in order to communicate with it. Also Many Thanx for you time with my last email, it helped a lot :) Robert MacLean -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Lin4Win
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:36, Michael Spivak wrote: Where can i find the Lin4Win ? http://www.netraverse.com/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] 3dfx on Voodoo 3 3000
Hi All I'm trying to configure my Voodoo 3 3000 3dfx card to work, but nothing helps I've tried to configure the XF86Config-4, didn't help I looked in all the web sites related, didn't help My machine configuration : Celeron 466 + 192 MB SDRAM USR ISA 33.6 modem Voodoo 3 3000 3dfx + 16 MB Real Magic Hollywood Plus DVD decoding card Creative Vibra 128 Sound card Quantum Fireball 13 GB HD Smart Friendly 4x4x24 CDR/W My XF86Config-4 file : # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section ServerFlags # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom # This allows the server to start up even if the # mouse device can't be opened/initialised. AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection # ** # Input devices # ** # ** # Keyboard section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option AutoRepeat 250 30 Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout es EndSection # ** # Pointer section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolIMPS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option ChordMiddle EndSection Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe Loadglx Loaddri # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod #Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Loadtype1 Loadfreetype EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection # ** # Monitor section # ** # Any number of monitor sections may be present Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Unknown ModelName Unknown # HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified. # HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a # comma separated list of ranges of values. # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS. HorizSync 30-70 # VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified. # VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a # comma separated list of ranges of values. # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS. VertRefresh 50-160 EndSection # ** # Graphics device section # ** Section Device Identifier Generic VGA Driver vga EndSection Section Device Identifier Voodoo3 (generic) VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Driver tdfx #VideoRam16384 # Clock lines # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block # instead of the cursor! #Option sw_cursor Option DPMS EndSection # ** # Screen sections # ** Section Screen
Re: [newbie] How I Set up a Linux box with kids in mind (games)....
Yeh! Yeh! That's what we need!!! Right out of a box! On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:05, you manipulated electrons to produce: Yes, when you have all that power, you can make custom applications that give most of it up and are as close to monkey-proof as can be had in practice. Civileme -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] Viruses. - Booting Doze
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:09, you manipulated electrons to produce: snipped: In the Windos world, many of the most successful and most devastating virii have exploited old (often years old) security holes. Windos sysadmins, many of them incompetant (you would have to be if you use Windos), refuse to install security patches because it will require rebooting the system. In the *nix world, a reboot is only required if one wants to change the running kernel. *** In the Doze world, if it is running, running at all, you don't do nuthin', nuthin at all. It will stop soon enough of its own accord... -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
[newbie] win4lin
Ha folks, This is not hidden somewhere in Powerpak 8 is it?? -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] THat stuck message from Kmail - again.
Hi there, On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:15, you manipulated electrons to produce: Leave interval checking off in kmail, then set up fetchmail as a cron job. When you need your mail fix, just retrieve it from local. ***Thanks, but I have no idea what you mean here! :-) THIS is a real Newby out here.. -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
RE: [newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0
Title: Message I have 8.0 running on an AMD 1.33Ghz w/512MB or DDR PC2100 RAM, so I know it works fine. Assuming your motherboard does NOT have an integrated Promise UDMA100 controller... A signal 11 normally indicates a problem with the CPU or RAM (usually the RAM, except for some early AMD CPU chips...) Try going into the BIOS and cranking UP things like the refresh periods, etc. Turn off anything which sets the RAM configuration automatically and instead set everything related to RAM timings to their maximum (you can set them back down later). -JMS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:12 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0I just built a new system, a AMD 1Ghz with 256 MB of RAM and I went to install LM 8.0 on it, and it freaked out. The error is as follows: Loading program into memory [***] install exited abnormally :-( -- recieved signal 11 sendind termination signals . . . done and then it reboots. I dont know what the problem is, I tried expert mode, and every other one and I couln't get it to work, could someone please tell me whats going on. Once it said something about not being able to load the second stage ram disk. Thanks in advance! ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Viruses.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:03, Paul wrote: Hi folks, Everybody except Linux Users has heard about SirCam a new EXTREMELY annoying virus. Seems a very popular one out there at moment - can send random giant file attachments ! Which brings me to the point: I don't border on - I AM paranoid in the Doze world - I executed the MEDIUM option of security on my M8 setup. Is there anything else advised at this stage? I have heard of it too, even though I don't do winders. It is a bad one, indeed. You would not have to worry if you are not running a mailserver for other people. Otherwise you should install an antivirus program. They do exist, because many winders mail clients pull mail from *nix boxes. If the server can eliminate a viral mail, it will reduce the amount of spreading through the winders pc's. You can consider Amavis, McAfee, AvP/Linux Paul Most GNU/Linux antivirus apps are designed to find Windos virii, not GNU/Linux ones. This can be useful if you're running a GNU/Linux server and Windos clients. I know that there is a version of AntiViral Toolkit Pro that claims to be able to find GNU/Linux virii. I would argue that it is mostly unnecessary, and that the bulk of its advertising is based on FUD. The vast majority (and perhaps all) of GNU/Linux virii are designed to exploit well-known security holes for which there has long been a fix. If you keep your system up to date with the latest security packages (Mandrake does a good job of releasing these), you should have little to fear. In the Windos world, many of the most successful and most devastating virii have exploited old (often years old) security holes. Windos sysadmins, many of them incompetant (you would have to be if you use Windos), refuse to install security patches because it will require rebooting the system. In the *nix world, a reboot is only required if one wants to change the running kernel. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: Re: [newbie] Viruses
Chernobyl (a CIH virus) would have to be favourite. It can render a Windos machine totally unbootable, necessitating a format (to remove the virus fully) and a reinstall. Not big deal ; Bill Gates did too .
Re: [newbie] Alternatives help like Win4Lin?
John wrote: VM is dearest by miles. Not sure of this one - seems to be similar in CPU demand to Windoze . I think they have a version called VMWare Personal or something like that. I saw it on their Web site. It is a lite version of the full VMWare that gives you, I think, just one virtual computer, whereas the expensive version lets you have a bunch of them. There are other differences, but for a single user it seemed to do the basics--let you run a real version of Windows without leaving Linux. I think the price was US $90 to $99. You do, of course, have to supply a copy of Windows if you want it to run under VMWare. --Judy Miner
RE: [newbie] RPM Drake Multiple CDROMS - Again
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Darren Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RPM Drake Multiple CDROMS - Again Ok, first of all thanks to everyone that is trying to help. Now here is where we are. I am saving the whole taking the system apart moving cables til last. Now, One of you said to check in HardDrake see if they are registering, here is the interesting part. It is registering Three (3) CD drives, and there is only two. Here is something else I noticed. LTN 526 (Is my regular CDROM) Vendor: Unknown Model: LTN526 Device: /dev/hdd Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE Lite-On LTR-12101B (Is appearntly another burner?) Vendor: Unknown Model: Lite-On LTR-12101B Device: /dev/hdc Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE Lite-On LTR-12101B(Is the one that works) Vendor: Lite-On Model: LTR -2101B Device: /dev/scd0 Bus Type: SCSI Any1 think it is using the incorrect drive cause maybe there are no drivers for it? But there somhow are for the 3rd one? You should have 3 listed. Your CD-RW is listed twice. As /dev/hdc so that it may be used to read as a normal CD-Rom. And as /dev/scd0 so that it may be used as a burner. RPMDrake will call for the cd to be inserted into the first drive on the chain. With the Primary Master as the 1st possible entry and Secondary Slave as the last. If you you wish for it to use your CD-Rom your CD-Rom must be connected in the chain prior to your CD-RW. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] root user is no-no?
Hello I've seen every Linux book and manual and doc say that using the machine as Root is a big no-no. All suggest creating an extra user. Okay I create extra user. But what should his settings be? What group should he belong to? I'm hoping that there is something as powerful as root (so I don't get messages that say please log in as root - or only a few messages), but I can't stuff up my machine. Many Thanx Robert MacLean
Re: [newbie] Alternatives help like Win4Lin?
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:24, Judith Miner wrote: John wrote: VM is dearest by miles. Not sure of this one - seems to be similar in CPU demand to Windoze . I think they have a version called VMWare Personal or something like that. I saw it on their Web site. It is a lite version of the full VMWare that gives you, I think, just one virtual computer, whereas the expensive version lets you have a bunch of them. There are other differences, but for a single user it seemed to do the basics--let you run a real version of Windows without leaving Linux. I think the price was US $90 to $99. You do, of course, have to supply a copy of Windows if you want it to run under VMWare. --Judy Miner VMware Express is not worth getting. It is basically VMware Workstation cut down to a level comparable to Win4Lin, both price and feature wise. Like Win4Lin, it can only run Win95/98 and only one at a time (VMware Workstation can handle a number of different OSs and can even have several open at once). Unlike VMware Workstation, VMware Express doesn't allow you to use a pre-existing Windows partition. Instead, you must install Windos into a virtual partition in a file, slowing things down. In contrast, Win4Lin lets you install Windos _directly_ onto your GNU/Linux partition (this is the only way you can install), so you can benefit from the superior speed of filesystems (in comparison to FAT) like Ext2 and ReiserFS. A quick check of the VMware site shows that VMware Express costs $US49.95, which is cheaper than Win4Lin's $US79.99. In comparison, VMware Workstation costs $US299. If I had the choice between VMware Express and Win4Lin, I would pick Win4Lin, despite its higher price. It has been said that it is as fast or even faster than running Windos natively. There is also Connectix Virtual PC (http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc4w.html), but I know very little about this product. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] HP USB scanjet
Depends on which one you have. Check here: http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html -s On Wednesday 25 July 2001 08:11 am, you wrote: hi, is there any way to make an USB Scanjet work under Mandrake Linux? Its provided driver and software set are only for windows that I had to reinstall my windows back... Eric
[newbie] Debugging print jobs
I downloaded and installed a pretty cool calendar application (pcal, to be exact) that produces PostScript calendars in various formats. I have verified that 1) The output of pcal prints just fine under Solaris 2.7 2) My Mandrake 7.2 box is able to print PostScript produced by other applications However, PostScript produced by pcal apparently just goes to the bit bucket on the Mandrake box. No stuck print job; the printer (Epson Stylus Color) doesn't move; nothing. Where should I begin debugging this? Thanks
[newbie] Geforce 2 mx
if some one has the exact configuration and got it to work , plz let me now ! Creative Geforce 2 MX (PCI) mdk8, XFree86 4.0.3 (but also could install 4.1 if needed..while i might do that anyway) plz only sent a reply if you have the same configuration , as i cannot risk to fuck up my box in any way...not for a day , and not for an hour. Thx in advance for any replies !
[newbie] Interesting problem with Webmin
I'm experiencing a fairly weird problem with webmin ... When I connect to my computer @ work (LM 8.0) from my computer @ home (also LM 8.0) via Webmin, I am unable to connect to it, regardless of who I try to log in as. If I were to roll my chair across the room and get on my wife's windows PC, I can access my work computer just fine. I am using https instead of http like I'm supposed to. Any thoughts? -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User # 218330
FW: [newbie] Interesting problem with Webmin
Turn off the proxy server on the computer that can't connect. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terry Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2001 11:37 PM To: Linux Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Interesting problem with Webmin I'm experiencing a fairly weird problem with webmin ... When I connect to my computer @ work (LM 8.0) from my computer @ home (also LM 8.0) via Webmin, I am unable to connect to it, regardless of who I try to log in as. If I were to roll my chair across the room and get on my wife's windows PC, I can access my work computer just fine. I am using https instead of http like I'm supposed to. Any thoughts? -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User # 218330
Re: [newbie] root user is no-no?
I just use root. In fact, my four year old uses root. Of course, once my wife deleted /etc, but never did anything happen that a simple reinstallwouldn't cure. jim Quoting Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I've seen every Linux book and manual and doc say that using the machine as Root is a big no-no. All suggest creating an extra user. Okay I create extra user. But what should his settings be? What group should he belong to? I'm hoping that there is something as powerful as root (so I don't get messages that say please log in as root - or only a few messages), but I can't stuff up my machine. Many Thanx Robert MacLean Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] locked drives
I've got something that is really starting to irritate me. It seems like quite often, for whatever reason I just don't know, that my floppy and my CDRom drive gets 'locked' and I cannot access it. I go through and do my things like mount and unmount it and delete stuff out of fstab and eventually get them to unlcok, but I want to know of the proper way to do this and why does this happen? jim Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] Netscape 6.1 java
Hi i'm Nathan Fortner, I like to play chess alot on the internet. I visit pogo.com and chesscorner.com, I have recently downloaded the new netscape v6.1 and it ask me if I want to enable the java. I said yes and then restarted me computer and then started my netscape and went to chesscorner.com and I got the jave error again. The same one as I get in the mozilla browser. Please help me. Thanks, Nathan Fortner
[newbie] IMAP server
I have a strange error, plaese help me.. Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /var/www/html/webmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 141 FOUT: kan IMAP server localhost niet initialiseren: 111 : Verbinding geweigerd Its mean.. Error can't IMAP server localhost not initailisize 111: Connection refused
Re: [newbie] Interesting problem with Webmin
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 11:57, you wrote: try doing it with netscape 4.7, don't use konqurer or other.. possibly opera would work as well... worth a shot, I know that konqurer doesn't work as well as IE and netscape for SSL stuff, for example, most banks don't work with it... other then that I don't know... I have always had no problem from using it no matter where I am, as long as I have no proxy server setup... is the browser you are using ssl capable? rgds Frank Well, I did as you had suggested, and it turns out that it does work using Netscape 4.x (at least trying it locally at my work machine), but doesn't work with either Konqueror or Mozilla. I'll have to give it a try when I get home to my machine, but I'm going to remain confident that it will also work using Netscape. I wonder why that is? If Mozilla and Netscape are almost identical, why would one work and the other one not? Many thanks, Terry
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 mx
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:26:08 +0100 Adams, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you supply information on the rest of your hardware too? Thanks -- Jamie -- From:arro[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:25 July 2001 16:21 To: mandrake list Subject: [newbie] Geforce 2 mx if some one has the exact configuration and got it to work , plz let me now ! Creative Geforce 2 MX (PCI) mdk8, XFree86 4.0.3 (but also could install 4.1 if needed..while i might do that anyway) plz only sent a reply if you have the same configuration , as i cannot risk to fuck up my box in any way...not for a day , and not for an hour. Thx in advance for any replies ! 700mhz Pentium 3 , 256meg ram , the reast should not matter as it should not influence anything
[newbie]: kmail 1.2 address book - printing
Hi All Have set address book at Traditional kmail interface with KAB database - the idea of having some sort of data base appealed. Can I access this data base, reorganise if necessary and print out in A5 (1/2 letter sized page) so that I have a hard copy. Put another way - which address book format can I use that I can easily convert into a hard copy. Which programme would I need to run to interpret the address book data base and have the facility of doing a proper layout for printing. Regards Alan Smith South Africa.
[newbie]: Konqueror - embedded test viewer font
Hi All How do I change the text font in the embedded font text file viewer that comes up by default when you click on a pencil icon file in the File Manager view of konqueror It is very difficult for me to read the text, I have to manually select kedit to read the file. The same text font comes up in the 'Advanced Editor' as in the embedded konqueror text viewer - I cannot use this programme because I cannot read the writing. How do I change the font in this programme? Thanks for your help Alan Smith South Africa
[newbie] Creative Soundblaster Live 1024
i posted this before but got no replies , i have a Creative Soundblaster Live 1024 in my LM8 box , i did not install any drivers for it at all , now installed those alsa drivers , but i still do not have any sound if someone got any advice i welcome it !
Re: [newbie] Lin4Win
in the intallation type lnx4win and thats all.. well if u got the mandrake cds/// :p - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lin4Win Close :-) Lin4Win is, I'm pretty sure, on the first Mandrake install disk. Win4Lin, on the other hand, can be purchased at Netraverse. Miark - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lin4Win On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:36, Michael Spivak wrote: Where can i find the Lin4Win ? http://www.netraverse.com/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] telnet and ftp question
Hi to all, I recently installl LM 7.1, and everything is fine.. well.. almost everything, only I have 2 problem. 1- I can make telnet to other hosts/machine but other hosts/machine can't access my address, check the hosts.allow and hosts.deny but I don't that can I do. 2- When I make a ftp to my address in the server with LM 7.1but it's take a while to prompt me for the user name(about 1 or 2 mins.) What can I do? or check? Thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] Creative Soundblaster Live 1024
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:55:38 -0500 john YochanonATyahooDOTTEcom wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 July 2001 01:40 pm, arro wrote: i posted this before but got no replies , i have a Creative Soundblaster Live 1024 in my LM8 box , i did not install any drivers for it at all , now installed those alsa drivers , but i still do not have any sound if someone got any advice i welcome it ! I haven't followed this thread, so I'm not sure if anyone suggested it, but...if you use KDE, click the 'K', then 'multimedia', then 'sound', then 'sound mixer'. Raise the volumes on some of those sliders, it may need that. If that doesn't work or wasn't the problem, do a search on Yahoo (or Google or whatever you want) for your particular sound card and add 'for linux' with it. IIRC, there was a small tarball out there for the 10k(something) for linux and kernel 2.1.19 (at least I had to look for it when I used Peanut Linux). I'm sorry I can't be more help friend. John well i fixed it now ... from all imaginable problems it has been(as usually) the most weird one ...as all driver or whatsoever have been installed i was goin again into HArddrake having a look at the setting -running the config tool , and as the selected option was right i never pressed ok again there...so this time i did and WOW here comes the sound...GREAT but the funny thing is , each time i reboot i have to do this again , to let's say reinitialize my sound...but well at least there is sound now , that's what counts ! But thanks to all the help of you people !
Re: Re: [newbie] HP USB scanjet
to make usbscanner work. 1)install sane the libs (get em from rpmfind.net) 2) edit /etc/sane.d/hp.conf to read /dev/usbscanner option connect-device 3) su to root and type mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48 chown user/group /dev/usbscanner insmod scanner fire up xsane and go rob Depends on which one you have. Check here: http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html -s On Wednesday 25 July 2001 08:11 am, you wrote: hi, is there any way to make an USB Scanjet work under Mandrake Linux? Its provided driver and software set are only for windows that I had to reinstall my windows back... Eric
[newbie] upgrading or patching my linux kernal
Hi, is there a way to update my kernal via a mandrake blessed method. i mean i've read all about doing it on other howto's, but i'm concerned that i do not have all of the appropriate compile tools... has mandrake a mandrake specific up to date how to on kernals? i'd like to get my sddr-9 smartmedia reader to work, and it's remmed out in the 8.0 kernal.. but its in there and i'd like to get it to load.. thank you, chris
[newbie] LILO problem
Hi all, Been persuaded by the release of Kylix (Delphi for Linux) to take a look at Linux, but I'm running into a problem with multi-booting Mandrake 8.0 and Windows. The system is a Dell PIII/600, 512 MB RAM, AMI BIOS, with a single H-P CD-RW hanging off the motherboard controller, and all of the drive space hanging off a Promise ATA/66 card. The first two drives are my Windows 2000 Pro. setup, and I was intending to use the third drive for Linux. I go through the setup, everything installs just fine, and the setup routines tells me that my system will be rebooted. It finds the Promise controller and all the drives, but then all I get is a blank screen except for the two characters 'LI' at the top left of the screen - presumably this is part of the LILO prompt. The system hangs at that point, and I have to boot off my Win 2K Pro CD and overwrite the MBR in order to get Windows back again. Anyone got any ideas what's going wrong? Make no assumptions, I'm a total novice at Linux. Thanks, Brian.
Re: [newbie] LILO problem
It was Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:46:36 -0400 when Brian Meadows wrote: I go through the setup, everything installs just fine, and the setup routines tells me that my system will be rebooted. It finds the Promise controller and all the drives, but then all I get is a blank screen except for the two characters 'LI' at the top left of the screen - presumably this is part of the LILO prompt. Perhaps this link will help you further: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/lilo_dual.html Paul -- No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] THat stuck message from Kmail - again.
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 06:26, John Rigby wrote: Hi there, On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:15, you manipulated electrons to produce: Leave interval checking off in kmail, then set up fetchmail as a cron job. When you need your mail fix, just retrieve it from local. ***Thanks, but I have no idea what you mean here! :-) THIS is a real Newby out here.. run fetchmailconf from an xterm, and fill in the blanks. This should be the same info that you put into kmail to get your mail. then run kcron to create a crontab entry. Set it ro run every 15 minutes or so. Exit kcron, and save the crontab. Finally go into kmail/settings/configuration/network and create a local incoming email account. Now when you want to read mail, just click file/check mail in/local from the kmail menu. -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
[newbie] ISP
Right now I have Juno as my dial up ISP. I tried connecting to Juno by typing modem commands like, atdt . I get connected. When I enter the user/passwd it says there is a user/passwd mismatch. I asked customer service and they said, I have to use their dialing software because their dialing software encryptes my password. So they said their software supports Windows only. Can anyone suggest me a dial up ISP where there is no kind of special dialing software I am forced to use for encryption. This would help me get connected to the internet from Linux. Regards, Karthigan. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems
s wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2001 07:08 pm, you wrote: I was reading that this only works with Matrox cards. Is this true? Also, are you using a TV tuner card? Nope, a Asus V7700 (nvidia geforce2 gts chipset). I've always wanted to try a tv tuner card. Can I hook that up to my cable service and get all my movie channels? -s If you have the TV tuner, you should see your channels. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo
Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Hi all, I am going to buy a Domain Name (registered Domain) for my Web Server. I have a plain to buy it from Yahoo. Has anyone bought it from Yahoo? Is this a good way to do? It's cost about $35.00 USD/year. Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Check out godaddy.com. It's only $9 and change. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] Interesting problem with Webmin
maybe passwords encrypted in one box and not the other? widers that is.. On Wednesday 25 July 2001 11:57, Terry wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2001 11:41, you wrote: Turn off the proxy server on the computer that can't connect. I actually don't have any proxy server settings on my linux box at home, nor do I have them set on my work box either. I should have rephrased my problem. I can connect to my work computer from my home one, but cannot log into it, no matter what user I use. It just keeps telling me that Access is denied. Please try again. But if I use my wife's windows machine, I can log in with any user that has an account on the machine.
Re: [newbie] ISP
probly would help to know where you are (what country at least) I have use Earthlink for some time now, they are not much bettter than anyone else i guess, but i have no real problem connecting (after I fix all the stupid screwups I try at my end) On Wednesday 25 July 2001 17:04, karthigan srinivasan wrote: Right now I have Juno as my dial up ISP. I tried connecting to Juno by typing modem commands like, atdt . I get connected. When I enter the user/passwd it says there is a user/passwd mismatch. I asked customer service and they said, I have to use their dialing software because their dialing software encryptes my password. So they said their software supports Windows only. Can anyone suggest me a dial up ISP where there is no kind of special dialing software I am forced to use for encryption. This would help me get connected to the internet from Linux. Regards, Karthigan. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo
No! Go to Dotster.com, 15 clams a year... On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Hi all, I am going to buy a Domain Name (registered Domain) for my Web Server. I have a plain to buy it from Yahoo. Has anyone bought it from Yahoo? Is this a good way to do? It's cost about $35.00 USD/year. Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com peace, Rog
Re: [newbie] Creative Soundblaster Live 1024
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:55:20 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is kudzu installed on your box? It should automatically detect and help you set it up on boot. Miark yes it seems that kudzu is installed , is there any configuration possible ?
RE: [newbie] locked drives
Out of curiosity, after you've unmounted it, after one of these episodes, have you tried the EJECT command? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James S Bear Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] locked drives I've got something that is really starting to irritate me. It seems like quite often, for whatever reason I just don't know, that my floppy and my CDRom drive gets 'locked' and I cannot access it. I go through and do my things like mount and unmount it and delete stuff out of fstab and eventually get them to unlcok, but I want to know of the proper way to do this and why does this happen? jim Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0
I have had LM on another computer, it was AMD 300 w/ 40GB (another time I had a 10GB in there and it worked on both) The new computer that 8 doesnt work on specs go as follows: AMD 1Ghz 256 C2 Ram(as long as the guy didnt rip me off) ATI Rage Pro 3d AGP 32 MB 3d accelerator Simmantec PCI networking card onboard sound Western Digital 10GB hard drive(ive had linux on this before) generic cd-rom(going to try another CDROM to see if that is the problem) all the jumpers seem to be set ok thanks for all your guys help! ~Lance
Re: [newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0
I got it working, it was the CDROM drive. For anyone who wants to know, the CD ROM was: ACER 32X MAX, using the ATAPI device driver MOdel No: 632a 002 mfg date: 1998
Re: [newbie] ISP
I use bellsouth for dialup and adsl. Works great, only complaint is with their ng service. Of course that's the southern/southeastern US, yaw'. :-) -s On Wednesday 25 July 2001 04:04 pm, you wrote: Right now I have Juno as my dial up ISP. I tried connecting to Juno by typing modem commands like, atdt . I get connected. When I enter the user/passwd it says there is a user/passwd mismatch. I asked customer service and they said, I have to use their dialing software because their dialing software encryptes my password. So they said their software supports Windows only. Can anyone suggest me a dial up ISP where there is no kind of special dialing software I am forced to use for encryption. This would help me get connected to the internet from Linux. Regards, Karthigan. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Modules eth0
what is the output of ifconfig? On Tuesday 24 July 2001 20:36, Dennis Myers wrote: My ethernet card is detected and shows up in harddrake, but I can not seem to get it to make a lan connection. it is a generic rtl8139 card by NetSurf. When I hit configuration tool in Mandrake Control center it gives the error message can't find module eth0 . I've tried insmod eth0 and insmod rtl8139 and gone to linuxconf where it actually shows the rtl8139 module and tried to config from there, but nothing seems to work. How to install the module? Or do I just have a bad card. It came with a floppy with linux driver on the floppy but I don't know where or how to install it. If rtl8139 shows in the linuxconf setup I would think that the module anddriver are in the box. Any help is appreciated. I'm trying to set up samba and I think this must be what is stopping me.
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 mx
I have a GeForce II Ultra 64 MB. Is that the same? I'm not sure exactly what configuration you need, but if I can help, let me know. The four letter word makes you sound less intelligent than you probably are and the context you use it in makes you sound tense and anxious. Try to chill, enjoy life and express yourself in a more creative manner. It's all good, in da *nix neighboorhood. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 arro wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:57:56 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude, watch your language on Newbie. Miark - Original Message - From: arro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:21 AM Subject: [newbie] Geforce 2 mx if some one has the exact configuration and got it to work , plz let me now ! Creative Geforce 2 MX (PCI) mdk8, XFree86 4.0.3 (but also could install 4.1 if needed..while i might do that anyway) plz only sent a reply if you have the same configuration , as i cannot risk to fuck up my box in any way...not for a day , and not for an hour. Thx in advance for any replies ! is it offensive in any way to say i cannot risk to fuck up my box in any way ? i don't think so.
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6.1 java
Firstly, I _strongly_ suggest that you use Mozilla instead of Netscape 6.x. Netscape 6.1 is Mozilla 0.9 with some advertising courtesy of AOL (who own Netscape). Mozilla is currently at version 0.9.2, which is faster and less buggy than Netscape 6.x (and probably always will be). Installing Java requires root privileges. Run Netscape/Mozilla as root, install Java, close it, and reopen it as an ordinary user. This is probably the only time you should ever run Netscape/Mozilla as root (it is a security risk). On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:52, NMF wrote: Hi i'm Nathan Fortner, I like to play chess alot on the internet. I visit pogo.com and chesscorner.com, I have recently downloaded the new netscape v6.1 and it ask me if I want to enable the java. I said yes and then restarted me computer and then started my netscape and went to chesscorner.com and I got the jave error again. The same one as I get in the mozilla browser. Please help me. Thanks, Nathan Fortner -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie]: Konqueror - embedded test viewer font
The embedded font text file viewer in Konqueror _is_ the Advanced Editor (kwrite), that is why they look the same. Open the KDE Control Centre and go to LookNFeel - Fonts. Change the fixed width font. On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:44, Alan Smith wrote: Hi All How do I change the text font in the embedded font text file viewer that comes up by default when you click on a pencil icon file in the File Manager view of konqueror It is very difficult for me to read the text, I have to manually select kedit to read the file. The same text font comes up in the 'Advanced Editor' as in the embedded konqueror text viewer - I cannot use this programme because I cannot read the writing. How do I change the font in this programme? Thanks for your help Alan Smith South Africa -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Debugging print jobs
If printing is correctly configured for everything else, try running xpp filename.ps. On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:01, Mark Shaw wrote: I downloaded and installed a pretty cool calendar application (pcal, to be exact) that produces PostScript calendars in various formats. I have verified that 1) The output of pcal prints just fine under Solaris 2.7 2) My Mandrake 7.2 box is able to print PostScript produced by other applications However, PostScript produced by pcal apparently just goes to the bit bucket on the Mandrake box. No stuck print job; the printer (Epson Stylus Color) doesn't move; nothing. Where should I begin debugging this? Thanks -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] locked drives
Try eject /mnt/cdrom, where '/mnt/cdrom' is your CD-ROM drive's mount point. On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:10, James S Bear wrote: I've got something that is really starting to irritate me. It seems like quite often, for whatever reason I just don't know, that my floppy and my CDRom drive gets 'locked' and I cannot access it. I go through and do my things like mount and unmount it and delete stuff out of fstab and eventually get them to unlcok, but I want to know of the proper way to do this and why does this happen? jim Ignorance is underrated -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Lin4Win
I am always getting confused on this issue. In short: Lin4Win - http://www.netraverse.com/ Lnx4Win - Tool to install Linux-Mandrake on a Windos partition So I was right this time :-) On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:31, Miark wrote: Close :-) Lin4Win is, I'm pretty sure, on the first Mandrake install disk. Win4Lin, on the other hand, can be purchased at Netraverse. Miark - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lin4Win On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:36, Michael Spivak wrote: Where can i find the Lin4Win ? http://www.netraverse.com/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] a big duh
im just now beginning to run GNOME (was using KDE) and id like to change the color of my fonts on my desktop but cannot find an option anywhere to let me change this! GACK! is it possible to do so? thanks! im using Sawfish and also letting Nautilus draw my desktop. so im not sure whats up. if i turn off that nautilus feature, my text goes from white ot black, but i cant seem to get any other text colors on my desktop. luke
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Netscape is a clone of Mozilla from way back. Nope; Mozilla is the open source REWRITE of the original Netscape Navigator code. And it's so much better now than the original code, that Netscape has thrown away their old code, and used the Mozilla code. In fact Mozilla is one of the grandaddys of web browsers Nope; that was Mosaic. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure.
Re: [newbie] Lin4Win
Let's try that again, shall we? On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:56, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I am always getting confused on this issue. In short: Lin4Win - http://www.netraverse.com/ Win4Lin (NOT Lin4Win) - http://www.netraverse.com/ Lnx4Win - Tool to install Linux-Mandrake on a Windos partition I was right here, though :-) So I was right this time :-) On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:31, Miark wrote: Close :-) Lin4Win is, I'm pretty sure, on the first Mandrake install disk. Win4Lin, on the other hand, can be purchased at Netraverse. Miark - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lin4Win On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:36, Michael Spivak wrote: Where can i find the Lin4Win ? http://www.netraverse.com/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] Good LM Tutorial
Hello Does anyone knows a good web site that has Linux tutorials? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 mx
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:42:27 -0400 Charles A. Punch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a GeForce II Ultra 64 MB. Is that the same? I'm not sure exactly what configuration you need, but if I can help, let me know. The four letter word makes you sound less intelligent than you probably are and the context you use it in makes you sound tense and anxious. Try to chill, enjoy life and express yourself in a more creative manner. It's all good, in da *nix neighboorhood. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 arro wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:57:56 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude, watch your language on Newbie. Miark - Original Message - From: arro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:21 AM Subject: [newbie] Geforce 2 mx if some one has the exact configuration and got it to work , plz let me now ! Creative Geforce 2 MX (PCI) mdk8, XFree86 4.0.3 (but also could install 4.1 if needed..while i might do that anyway) plz only sent a reply if you have the same configuration , as i cannot risk to fuck up my box in any way...not for a day , and not for an hour. Thx in advance for any replies ! is it offensive in any way to say i cannot risk to fuck up my box in any way ? i don't think so. I just wated to pass a little Thank you for forming so many letters into words.
RE: [newbie] AMR modems
Eh, I believe that AMR's make Winmodems look like highly intelligent devices. At least there is a DSP on most Winmodems... AMR's have none. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] AMR modems If I'm not mistaken, AMR modems are winmodems. Most of these do not work in GNU/Linux. For more info, you may want to look at these sites: http://linmodems.org/ http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is Linux support on AMR modems, my new motherboard has one of those slots and I wanted to know if it would work OK. ~Lance -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Permissions help
On July 26, 2001 12:34 am, Scott Olfert wrote: Hey all, Why would i be unable to launch the adsl-start script as a user? It's permissions are as follows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root If i'm reading this correctly, the script then should be readable and executable by my user account? When i try to run it from bash i get adsl-start: you must be root to run this script. Why would i not be able to run this script as user? Thanks for your input, i'm a relative newbie trying to figure out these permissions. Scott To use the adsl-start script as a user, you have to configure it with tkPPPoE. Changing permissions won't do the job. Get the latest version from Roaring Penguin and be sure to install the GUI interface. Cliff
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:06, Michael Leone wrote: Netscape is a clone of Mozilla from way back. Nope; Mozilla is the open source REWRITE of the original Netscape Navigator code. And it's so much better now than the original code, that Netscape has thrown away their old code, and used the Mozilla code. Close, but not quite :-) In 1998, Netscape released the alpha-level code for their version 5 Communicator suite as open source. The Mozilla Project was formed to turn this into a functional product that Netscape could use with minimal alteration. After about a year of trying to comprehend and work on this code, the Mozilla developers deemed it more prudent to start afresh. This is a major reason why Mozilla has taken so long to take shape. Other reasons include its aims of being cross-platform and of becoming an entire platform, not just a browser suite (e.g. there are office suites being made to work inside Mozilla). Netscape, as they originally planned, are using Mozilla as their base for their Netscape 6 product. Only very minor alterations have been made, with the addition of extra advertising and sidebar content. In fact Mozilla is one of the grandaddys of web browsers Nope; that was Mosaic. That is correct. Marc Andressen (a Netscape Communications founder) was one of the leaders of Mosaic's development. Both IE (all versions) and Netscape Navigator (up to version 4.x) are based on this code. Netscape 6 is the first browser from the browser wars competitors (namely, M$ and Netscape) that does _not_ contain any Mosaic code. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Good LM Tutorial
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:25, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Does anyone knows a good web site that has Linux tutorials? = Regards, OOzy These two are the best, IMHO: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/ http://www.linuxdoc.org/ These are good as well: http://mandrakeforum.com/ http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org/ http://www.freezer-burn.org/ http://www.linux.com/ http://linuxnewbie.org Just to start you off :-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] cannot re-edit XF86Config-4
I had a problem with the X font server (Mandrake 8.0)starting so I took someone's advice (not on this list) to change the port for xfs from "unix/:-1" to port "7100". I changed this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs. It didn't work. I opened the files from the command line with vim and tried to put them back the way they were but I cannot write changes to the file. I get error messages like "write error in swap file" and "write error (system full?)" During shutdown I get the message "segmentation fault in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs". Can someone tell me how I can re-edit these files (If possible) and what to do to fix the original problem, that suddenly xfs will not start? The original error message was something like "default font fixed". I tried commenting out "FontPath uix/:-1" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and x started, but then I couldn't connect to the internet because of the font I was running. This has been a problem with two differnt installations.ThanksSW
Re: [newbie] Good LM Tutorial
Of course, as I mentioned in an earlier post, there is the IBM document Transitioning from Windows to Linux: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-faq/?openl=252,t=grl,p=LinuxFAQ This can be very useful, particularly for newbies. Note, however, that the references to KDE are for KDE1, not KDE2. On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:52, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:25, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Does anyone knows a good web site that has Linux tutorials? = Regards, OOzy These two are the best, IMHO: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/ http://www.linuxdoc.org/ These are good as well: http://mandrakeforum.com/ http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org/ http://www.freezer-burn.org/ http://www.linux.com/ http://linuxnewbie.org Just to start you off :-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] Viruses
Hi I would just like to add on to Johns question (hopefully he doesn't mind), is there anti-virus software available, and which is the best (in terms of updates, power etc). And does M8 install any anti-virus? Thanx in advance Robert MacLean
Re: [newbie] Viruses.
Hi folks, Everybody except Linux Users has heard about SirCam a new EXTREMELY annoying virus. Seems a very popular one out there at moment - can send random giant file attachments ! Which brings me to the point: I don't border on - I AM paranoid in the Doze world - I executed the MEDIUM option of security on my M8 setup. Is there anything else advised at this stage? I have heard of it too, even though I don't do winders. It is a bad one, indeed. You would not have to worry if you are not running a mailserver for other people. Otherwise you should install an antivirus program. They do exist, because many winders mail clients pull mail from *nix boxes. If the server can eliminate a viral mail, it will reduce the amount of spreading through the winders pc's. You can consider Amavis, McAfee, AvP/Linux Paul
[newbie] write permissions in gui.
Hi folks, With MY memory I NEED cutnpaste. Can't do it on Emacs. In M8 GUI how do we assign root/su permissions to a file like modules.conf? Esp. on a temp basis? -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 03:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just built a new system, a AMD 1Ghz with 256 MB of RAM and I went to install LM 8.0 on it, and it freaked out. The error is as follows: Loading program into memory [***] install exited abnormally :-( -- recieved signal 11 sendind termination signals . . . done and then it reboots. I dont know what the problem is, I tried expert mode, and every other one and I couln't get it to work, could someone please tell me whats going on. Once it said something about not being able to load the second stage ram disk. Thanks in advance! ~Lance You have a bad CD. get it replaced. Register and contact tech support. Civileme Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] General Compiling/Linking question
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 00:27, Brandon wrote: I'm beand new to Linux. Also, I've always been a scripting, never really worked much with compiled codeso this is a prety basic question. I'm trying to build Pyshout, its a Python wrapper for libshout (a C API for Icecast server). When I run make I get: gcc -shared pyshoutmodule.o -lshout -o pyshoutmodule.so /user/bin/ld: cannot find -lshout collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [pyshoutshoutmodule.so] Error 1 I understand this much: The linker can't find a library it needs to build the python shared object. Now, I have libshout installed...I installed the libshout RPM. I saw in some of the C modules that there is a #include shout/shout.h, so I placed the shout.h file in /user/include/shout. Generally speaking, what is going on here? http://www.helsinki.fi/~pakaste/software.html 1. make sure you run ldconfig -v and that you can see the library 2. If you still have a problem try --with-ldflags=-Ldir(path to library) on the ./configure command line Civileme
Re: [newbie] THat stuck message from Kmail - again.
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 01:28, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, For those who came in late: :-) I keep getting at odd times a message block in the middle of the screen saying Queued messages have been sent A most annoying bug(?) and hard to shift. HOWEVER due to other activities, this morning, I left it there for an unknown period (being away from the box) and it has dissolved itself, leaving a blank echo of itself to display only momentarily as I switch windows... It is not a bug, it is a feature. When you send messages, they drop into the queue (outbox). They stay in the outbox until the next mail check, at which time they are transmitted. If your video is a little slow, the image may not clean up for a while from the pop-up notice. To avoid this, click on Settings(MenuBar)=Configuration=Network+Default Send Method=(set it to Send now) Or otherwise on the same screenclick on your account and Modify then uncheck the box that says Enable Interval Mail Checking Civileme
Re: [newbie] How I Set up a Linux box with kids in mind (games)....
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 04:26, Dave wrote: ___ I just wanted to post somthing that I thought was really nice about linux mandrake. After using linux mandrake for a short while I conviced my friend that he should try it... he agreed..we set it up and it wasn't but a day and he brought back his computer to me to re-install mandrake for him because his kids started playing with it and messed somthing up(still not sure it was the kids! :).. So I spent an hour or so and re-installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 all over again.but this time a made a few adjustments. 1. I set up a username KIDS along with a few others. 2. I had the KIDS username set up as the default user so mandrake boots automatically into it. 3. I installed all the games I could find on the install and the extension disk. 4. I deleted all the icons from the desktop and had the taskbar autohide. 5. Created icons to all the games on the 1 desktop I had showing. 6. Edited the K menu to show very few options (log off and a few others) The final result is that his 4 year old kid (or his wife...she likes the games) can turn on the computer and just play the games and not worry about messing anything up...(nothing else shows up on the screen but game icons).and when he wants he can just logoff the KIDS username and login to his own desktop So basically his 4 year old can run a linux box..just by clicking the mouse. :) This worked so well for them a couple days later.. I did the same thing to mine.(4 kids in my house) While we had it at work... alot of employees stopped to take a look...with the most asked questions...what's this??? After answering many had no idea Linux could do this kind of stuff .. games and more! Might just convert a few more in the coming days! :) Maybe this isn't the place to post this.(if not -- I apologize)... but it works so well for them/and us I thought I would pass it along in case any other newbies (like me) had inquisitive children that like games. WOW the power of Linux and KDE..I'm just begininng to understand! :) Yes, when you have all that power, you can make custom applications that give most of it up and are as close to monkey-proof as can be had in practice. Civileme
Re[2]: [newbie] deleting user
Hello Tim, Tuesday, July 24, 2001, 11:19:38 PM, you wrote: TH Personally I would have tried and fixed the corrupted userID before I TH would have deleted the user. That should always be the very last option TH when all else fails. But at this point it's a bit late for that huh? :0) TH Never go through an just vi /etc/passwd, or whatever editor you use. TH Learn basic movements in vi and use the command vipw. It's a command TH that all *nix systems. It will edit the /etc/passwd and then make sure TH it's propigated to /etc/passwd.master, or whatever the system decides to TH call that database. TH From there delete the line that contains the userID. Then use vigr and TH remove the line with the userID there as well. It will do the same thing TH about updating /etc/group. TH From there change the permissions to the /home directories. I'm assuming TH you'd like to keep those. Change them to root. chown root:root -R TH /home/$USER. TH Then create the user using adduser. The syntax would look like adduser TH userID. Set the passwd, and then change the permissions to the home TH directory. chown userID:userID -r /home/$USER. From there make sure TH everything in the directory is owned by the NEW userID. TH Now su - userID. Make sure you can move through, run a few commands and TH make sure you don't have .*rc files that don't have access to things like TH /tmp or something like that. TH Make sure you correct all those issues and then login. It's a bit of TH work around, but at this point it appears to be the only way you can TH really accomplish what you want here. TH Hopefully that leads you in a better direction. TH tdh TH -- TH T. Holmes TH - TH UNIXTECHS.org TH [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH - TH Real Men Use Vi! TH Uptime: TH TH 9:07am up 4 days, 9:34, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 TH TH | Hi, TH | I am trying to delete a user account (mine) which got corrupted. TH | userconf gave an error, so I deleted manually every thing I could find TH | relating to this account (in retrospect, probably a mistake) TH | Now when I go to recreate the account (adduser cj) I get vipn TH | lockfile (etc/ptmp) is present. TH | I mchecked that file, but it doesn't appear to have any reference to TH | the account. TH | Any suggestions on how I can fix this ? TH | TH | TH | Colin Jenkins TH | ICQ: 650611 Voice: +61 97351410 Mob: 0409196144 TH | You can't get the wood, you know. --Minni Bannister TH | TH | TH -- Thanks for that, I'll print out your instructions for next time I stuff up :) btw, when I use userconf, I get errors about not being able to read certain files, but I seems to work ok. I have password length set to 4, and userconf tells me its too short, but accept the password anyway :/ Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 Voice: +61 97351410 Mob: 0409196144 To be or not to be is true. Or maybe not.
Re: [newbie] Viruses.
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 07:58, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, Everybody except Linux Users has heard about SirCam a new EXTREMELY annoying virus. Seems a very popular one out there at moment - can send random giant file attachments ! Which brings me to the point: I don't border on - I AM paranoid in the Doze world - I executed the MEDIUM option of security on my M8 setup. Is there anything else advised at this stage? Well, tiny firewall can block ports for you, and it would be wise to watch http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/ and to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so you get email when new fixes are available. We generally manage to stay 3-6 months ahead of the worm/trojan makers with fixes for the exploits they use, but if you don't update, you can become a victim. But don't worry very much about viruses. They are an academic speculation for linux. A really effective virus is theoretically possible on a machine that does compilation, by sitting in memory and watching for a make and streaming in its code, but direct pollution of executables is another matter, not very easily done. Civileme
