[newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to fat32 . I thought on part. magic . But i dont know how to do it neither how to uninstall lilo . Ok thank you Please help . _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 18:43:01 -0700, Ah Pook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 9/8/2001 7:18:43 AM, etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the
> >GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put
> >people in jail for talking about how poor their encryption is under the DMCA.
>
> And a million graphic designers would reply that Gimp doesn't have Pantone
colors, and probably never will.
> It's useless for a lot of people.
> ///
That would be The GIMP's main shortcoming. From my understanding, CYMK support
in PhotoShop is the result of licensing from printer manufacturers, something
which The GIMP can't do.
Besides that, it has _far_ more powerful scripting ("Script Fu") than PhotoShop
and is ahead in a few other areas.
--
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
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Re: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0
On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:10 am, you wrote: > HSP56 MicroModem Normally a HSP means its a software modem that is tied to the OS/Windows and will not work under Linux though some work has been done in this area. Check out http://www.linmodems.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0
Is your modem a 'WinModem' ??? If it does, you better go bye yourself a new one (else - go back to windohs) -Original Message-From: Adilson Nunes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 3:13 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0 Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk I install the Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my computer and have two weeks what can´t use my modem HSP56 MicroModem I need of instructions and drivers for install my modem. I don´t want more use Windows. Please help me have many days and don´t have success. My english is bad I am brazilian. Kernel version 2.4.3-20mdk. If i can´t configure i go format my HD and back to Windows, because without connection i can´t stay. I job with the internet. PLEASE HELP ME. DONT WANT BACK TO WINDOWS !!!
Re: [newbie] Adjusting Display on Laptop
On Saturday 08 September 2001 19:40, Keith Lynn wrote: > Hello everyone, > I have a question about adjusting the screen display on a laptop. I > was able to install Mandrake on my laptop. However the screen is reduced > to a part of what the actual screen size is. On a monitor I can adjust the > visible area so that it fills up the screen. Are there keystroke > combinations that will allow this on a laptop. Thanks for anyone's help. No. The solution will vary from laptop to laptop. Try changing resolutions first, as in from 800x600 to 1024 x768 or to whatever the higher resolutions are. In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 there may be an optuion that can be set, for some video chipsets. Identify the video chipset first and read the readmes at www.XFree.org specific to the particular chipset. The Option is generally called "NoStretch" If it is set, then the notebook will behave by leterboxing as you have described. Opposite behavior can sometimes be triggered by Option "UseModeline", but again this varies from chipset to chipset. So if you need help with a specific piece of hardware, we need to know what it is. Civileme > > Keith Lynn > Systems Administrator > School of Computer and Information Sciences > University of South Alabama > Mobile, AL 36608 > Phone: (334) 460-6390 > Fax: (334) 460-7274 > Alternative E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0
> Adilson Nunes wrote: > > Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk > > I install the Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my computer and have two weeks > what can´t use my modem HSP56 MicroModem I need of instructions and > drivers for install my modem. I don´t want more use Windows. Please > help me have many days and don´t have success. My english is bad I am > brazilian. Kernel version 2.4.3-20mdk. If i can´t configure i go > format my HD and back to Windows, because without connection i can´t > stay. I job with the internet. > > > PLEASE HELP ME. DONT WANT BACK TO WINDOWS !!! Addison: First, please do not post to this list in HTML -- use plain text. Try this link: linux.nf/pctel It explains how to get PCTel HSP winmodems to work in Linux. Regards, Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
OUTPUT dmesg Linux version 2.4.8-12mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.1)) #1 Fri Aug 24 16:18:19 CEST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 0400 (usable) BIOS-e820: fff8 - 0001 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 12288 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount Initializing CPU#0 Detected 265.912 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 530.84 BogoMIPS Memory: 61572k/65536k available (1068k kernel code, 3576k reserved, 393k data, 708k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff , vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff CPU: After generic, caps: 0080f9ff CPU: Common caps: 0080f9ff CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda11, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA2 Sound Chip' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fa1b0 PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:a2b0, dseg at 400 PnP: 14 devices detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized devfs: v0.113 (20010820) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled block: queued sectors max/low 40602kB/13534kB, 128 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: chipset revision 0 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, ATA DISK drive hdc: ATAPI 48X CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 2503872 sectors (1282 MB) w/83KiB Cache, CHS=621/64/63, DMA hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 ide-floppy driver 0.97 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 708k freed PnPBIOS: Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at io=0378, irq=7 dma=-1 parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d Adding Swap: 70524k swap-space (priority -1) ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.7.72 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled. i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.7.72 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total
[newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD
A friend of mine burnt me a copy of the 2-cd version of mandrake 8. I did a full install (expert mode, medium security) and it *never* asked me to put in the 2nd cd (mandrake 7.2 does). Do I have to manually install everything on the 2nd cd (rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/*.rpm) or did I miss something in the install? TIA, George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ctrl+x working
I have both mandrake 8 and pcq 7.1 working on the same machine. When I rec sound in terminal if I press ctrl+c, rec stops in pcq 7.1, but not in mdk 8. What can be the reason? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
sorry if we seem to be going over the same stuff, but what does (in a text console, without the quotes) "ifconfig" say? On Saturday 08 September 2001 18:16, ryan_steffes wrote: > Clarification, it's modprobe that won't work, but I can insmod 3c59x. > > Original Message > Subject: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new > network card] > Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:53:45 -0400 > From: ryan_steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Mandrake Newbies List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Very helpful, thanks. > cat /proc/pci says, in abstract > Device:IRQ > > Video card:11 > 3com LAN:10 > Realtek (which is actually my D-link LAN, go figure):9 > USB Controller:3 > > The on board sound and or parallel port (I think you are right, since > shortly after it mentions lp0, even though I don't have a printer) > aren't mentioned. > > > By the way, after having watched it a dozen times, I can figure out that > there do seem to be two errors in the insmod for the eth0 and eth1 at > boot. (If anyone has a good way to see boot errors besides dmesg, I'm > all ears). > One of the errors is a device does not appear to be present, and the > other is that the irq_param is invalid. > > If I do an "insmod 3c59x" as root, I can ping the internal network. > However, "insmod 8130too" messes that all up, and doesn't bring up the > outside network. > Thank, > Ry > Original Message > Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network > card > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:11:49 -0400 > From: etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port > (also > known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) > "cat > /proc/pci" say? > > On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: > > The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the > > option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem > > to do is locking the IRQ for "An ISA card". I'm not sure how that > > relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and > > seems to need module 8130too. > > > > The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't > > show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how > > to capture them. > > > > I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ > > 7. > > (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, > > irq=7 dma =-1) > > > > The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension > > XPS_h266 if that helps. > > > > Original Message > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network > > card > > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 > > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: > > > I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same > > > problem > > > > > > with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. > > > > > > After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network > > > card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under > > > Mandrake 7.0. > > > > > > What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the > > > Harddrake > > > > > > probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to > > > configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes > > > blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del > > > and that's about it. > > > > > > I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the > > > detecting new hardware stage. > > > > > > Any advice? > > > > > > Ryan Steffes > > > > It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your > > graphics > > card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through > > Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the > > PCI > > 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all > > devices > > comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the > > network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the > > assignment > > of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is > > next > > to the video card, there is your problem. > > > > Civileme > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---
Re: [newbie] apache htdocs and error
thanks Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." -- Henry Kissinger - Original Message - From: "Michael D. Viron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] apache htdocs and error > At 06:17 PM 09/08/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > > >=_87580-7607-2231 > > > >You don't have permission to access / on this server. > > > >what do i need to chmod on this > > > >chmod 600? 755? what I worked till i think my boss chmod 600 > > > >thanks > > > >Brandon Caudle > >-- > >15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) > >Larkhaven Golf Course > >Charlotte, NC > > Brandon, > > Directories must be at least 755 (read/write/execute by user, read and > execute for everything else). > > Individual files (such as .gif, .png, .jpg, .php, and .htm*, excluding perl > and/or cgi scripts) can be 644 (read / write by user, read-only by everyone > else). > > Michael > -- > Michael Viron > Registered Linux User #81978 > Senior Systems & Administration Consultant > Web Spinners, University of West Florida > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: What is a Gateway? - WAS Re: [newbie] Internet Problems and [expert] wuftp server is unresponsive
On Saturday 08 September 2001 20:01, you had thoughts to the concept of: > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:53, etharp wrote: > > that gateway is for the computer you are on, so the gateway would be the > > IP your ISP assigns via dhcp, the gateway to the client computers (the > > rest of your home network that is connecting to the Internet) would be > > the linux box eth0 IP. > > So why can't I set the gateway of my linux box (192.168.1.1) to itself? cause it ain't going outside itself that way, and are you on a dialup connection? on a dialup connection, most often (everytime I ever checked) the server assigns an IP based on an available pool (dhcp). a GATEway is a route to the outside. if you were to build a door that only went inside the same building, you could never leave. kind of an "esher-esque" 2 deminisonal concept don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0
LURKER here, setup your system to dual booting, boot to either Windows or Lunux using the LILO (LInux LOader) then you can use Windows until you have your problems solved in Linux. Also the HSP56 Micromodem is a Winmodem and will not work in Linux without special drivers. The best thing is to get yourself a REAL modem, 3COM/USR is the best I have found for the money and they will work in Linux. You can also purchase an External Modem which I think are all supposed to be REAL modems. At 08:12 PM 9/8/01, you wrote: >Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk > >I install the Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my computer and have two weeks what >can´t use my modem HSP56 MicroModem I need of instructions and drivers for >install my modem. I don´t want more use Windows. Please help me have many >days and don´t have success. My english is bad I am brazilian. Kernel >version 2.4.3-20mdk. If i can´t configure i go format my HD and back to >Windows, because without connection i can´t stay. I job with the internet. > > >PLEASE HELP ME. DONT WANT BACK TO WINDOWS !!! TIA, 'd' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> San Antonio, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0
You cannot set up that modem in linux, because it's a Winmodem, buy a true modem (external better). Naish El Sáb 08 Sep 2001 21:12, escribiste: > Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk > > I install the Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my computer and have two weeks what > can´t use my modem HSP56 MicroModem I need of instructions and drivers for > install my modem. I don´t want more use Windows. Please help me have many > days and don´t have success. My english is bad I am brazilian. Kernel > version 2.4.3-20mdk. If i can´t configure i go format my HD and back to > Windows, because without connection i can´t stay. I job with the internet. > > > PLEASE HELP ME. DONT WANT BACK TO WINDOWS !!! Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Adjuntos: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
9/8/2001 7:18:43 AM, etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the >GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put >people in jail for talking about how poor their encryption is under the DMCA. And a million graphic designers would reply that Gimp doesn't have Pantone colors, and probably never will. It's useless for a lot of people. /// Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
okay i added the line "/mnt/cdrom *.localdomain(ro,insecure)" to my exports file in /etc i dont have a local host name setup, left as default in mandrake... but i want my slackware machine to be able todo a nfs to the mandrake machines cdrom... could i just take out *.localdomain... and put in * and the mandrake machine would allow the slack machine to connect? because whenever i type in mount -t nfs 192.168.1.100:/mnt/cdrom /cdrom it spits out "mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused" what does that mean? i have nfs, portmap running... i added the export line to /etc/exports all i want is for my 486 to be able to install slack on it.. by either nfs (which isnt working either), or just a mounted directory (the above method that im trying. -- nathan _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0
Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk I install the Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my computer and have two weeks what can´t use my modem HSP56 MicroModem I need of instructions and drivers for install my modem. I don´t want more use Windows. Please help me have many days and don´t have success. My english is bad I am brazilian. Kernel version 2.4.3-20mdk. If i can´t configure i go format my HD and back to Windows, because without connection i can´t stay. I job with the internet. PLEASE HELP ME. DONT WANT BACK TO WINDOWS !!!
Re: [newbie] Kmail / Konqueror question / bug report
In KDE, go to:
Configure -> KDE -> File Browsing -> File asociations
and there, look for html extension. Konqueror will appear as
preffered app to open it. Just add or select Netscape Navigator first.
I don't know nothing about that bug...
Naish
El Sáb 08 Sep 2001 15:09, escribiste:
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> Running Mandrake 8.0 with KDE 2.1.1 and Konqueror 2.1.1 and Kmail 1.2
> (all standard with the M8.0 power relase)
>
> When I click in a URL in an email on kmail, it starts Konqueror to
> view the URL.
>
> 1) I want to use Netscape or Opera as my default instead, but can't
> find where to change the default
>
> 2) Konqueror frequently crashes under the following conditions, which
> is why I want to make the change:
>
> I have ads.doubleclick.net (and a couple of varients) resolved in my
> /etc/hosts file to 127.0.0.1 to both speed up downloads and more
> importantly to protest their previously announced intentions to
> harvest personal information from people browsing pages which include
> doubleclick banner ads.
>
> Konqueror sometimes reacts to the inability to find the appropriate
> doubleclick banner(s) by giving me one or more error popup boxes.
>
> On a fair number of occasions when dealing with these intentional
> errors, Konqueror crashes, with the following info showing in the
> SIGSEGV (signal 11) crash handler. I've yet to get these on pages
> that dont have these error boxes popping up, and the offending class
> in the trace is a red flag, which is why I suspect the connection:
>
> 0x40e831d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #0 0x40e831d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1 0x40ef2f2c in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2 0x4061f5a8 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from
> /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3
>
> #3 0x4100b0fe in pthread_sighandler (signo=11, ctx=
>
> {gs = 0, __gsh = 0, fs = 0, __fsh = 0, es = 43, __esh = 0, ds =
> 43, __dsh = 0, edi = 3221222048, esi = 0, ebp = 137306532, esp =
> 3221222012, ebx = 1086195540, edx = 322156, ecx = 1, eax =
> 1090532352, trapno = 14, err = 4, eip = 1919311730, cs = 35, __csh =
> 0, eflags = 66198, esp_at_signal = 3221222012, ss = 43, __ssh = 0,
> fpstate = 0xb000, oldmask = 2147483648, cr2 = 1919311730})
>
> at signals.c:97
> #4 0x40df7b68 in killpg () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #5 0x69007400 in ?? ()
>
> = = =
>
> I've seen suggestions elsewhere that resolving to 0.0.0.0
> instead of 127.0.0.1 to block obnoxious banner ads yields cleaner
> results. Opinions?
>
> I dug thru the KDE bug reports database to see what I can find on the
> topic, found none, and got told that the version of KDE released with
> Mandrake 8.0 is too old for me to report bugs. Interesting. Have to
> see if upgrading buys me anything.
>
> - --
> "What is this talk of software 'releases'? Klingons do not
> 'release' software; our software ESCAPES, leaving a bloody
> trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake!"
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Re: What is a Gateway? - WAS Re: [newbie] Internet Problems and [expert] wuftp server is unresponsive
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:53, etharp wrote: > that gateway is for the computer you are on, so the gateway would be the IP > your ISP assigns via dhcp, the gateway to the client computers (the rest of > your home network that is connecting to the Internet) would be the linux > box eth0 IP. > So why can't I set the gateway of my linux box (192.168.1.1) to itself? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to change default login group
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:03, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:59, George Petri wrote: > > I know this is a very, very trivial question but for some reason I can't > > find the manual for it: > > > > How do I change the default login group for a user? > > > > I've looked in /etd/passwd and man -a passwd but have found nothing > > relevant. > > > > Currently, if I log in my group name is the same as my user name. > > Now, if for some reason I wanted to change the group that I start up in > > (so that new files that I make are owned by george.newgroup), > > how would I do it? > > > > Please point me to the relevant manuals or just give me the answer :) > > > > Thanks in advance, > > George > > Take a look at userdrake. The "Default group:" thing is greyed out. How do I fix this? TIA, George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adjusting Display on Laptop
Hello everyone, I have a question about adjusting the screen display on a laptop. I was able to install Mandrake on my laptop. However the screen is reduced to a part of what the actual screen size is. On a monitor I can adjust the visible area so that it fills up the screen. Are there keystroke combinations that will allow this on a laptop. Thanks for anyone's help. Keith Lynn Systems Administrator School of Computer and Information Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36608 Phone: (334) 460-6390 Fax: (334) 460-7274 Alternative E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 The discussion continues..
not really win hardware, winhardware like winmodems and stuff tend to rely on thee CPU to do alot of the work.. you "might" be able to label them winhardware if they provided no linux drivers at all... at least they have offered us something, that is more then a huge number of other manufacturers who have nothing to do with linux at all. Pick on the extremes before you pick on those who have at least shown some desire to help the linux hoards.. my understanding is that the Geoforce was the first one to move alot of that processing over to the graphics chip away from the CPU... not the definitation of winhardware as I understand it. I don't think its fair to label the whole lot of them winhardware, they are young as a company yet, compared to their competitors, and they have done more then the majority (of graphics chipset providers) to offer at least some help to us... if we complain about the binary drivers too much, you may find that they will remove the drivers altogether and decide that the linux crowd are too hard to please so why bother trying ? We should try to convince then "nicely" these are guys with ego's, if you attack them like I have seen alot lately, they will likely just drop linux altogether... Think about it, Microsoft bought into corel, and corel dropped linux like a hot rock... MS paid heaps to Nvidia and yet they still do provide linux drivers, (something I bet will piss off M$ no end.) They are obviously making something of an effort... You attract more flies with honey as the saying goes.. if everyone wrote to them and thanked them for the binary drivers and asked NICELY if perhaps they would consider coming up with src drivers or some new method of interfacing the binary drivers with all libs and X versions,,, they might do something about it,, IF they get enough requests... Remember they are not short of a dollar now and they won't be for ages because of TNT, TNT2 geoforce, GeoforceII and III and Xbox (love it or hate it..) They don't HAVE to provide linux drivers at all, in fact, it very likely costs them more money then they would recoup for doing it... (linux on desktop MIGHT account for 2 percent of desktop users and why would anyone put a Geoforce on a server?) and since they make chipsets not cards, the card manufactures are not going to buy significantly more just because some linux users reqested it... drivers like the Detonators are very likely quiet complex... so they probably invested 10-50,000 dollars in programmer time just to get the binaries they have on their site... I am not saying that it's the optimal situation, I am just saying that its important to not come accross as a bunch of zealots,,, it does not work and gives linux a bad name.. (ever watched a Mac verses PC pissing contest? the Mac users are such zealots that they come across to the majority of people as idiots...(regardless if what they claim is true.) If I come to your business, called you evil assholes and told you you HAD to change the way you did business, you'd very likely tell me to piss off (or something stronger)... I doubt very much that my complaints would be taken seriously. Most of these people view linux as an unknown, never before have they been expected to provide the src code for their drivers... They problem here is that windows has it all over linux (in this one area, and its also their worst point) the windows detonators are binaries too. but because of windows was created by one company, and there are maybe 5 kernel versions in use today,, win95, 98, NT, 2000, XP,, its no hassle for them to make a binary driver for each one... You can't entirely blame them for being abit cautious about just handing out the code that probably cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop... (I mean all the detonator drivers linux and windows...) If you look at it logically and from both sides of view, you might get a better result... If we are linux zealots, we call ourselves heros of the cause, if they act as zealots as well, nothing will ever improve... a thousand religous wars have proven that fact... Also, it might be worth keeping in mind, that ATI probably has already pulled apart all the versions of the Geoforce and know what it does from a hardware perspective (an electrom microscope could probably tell them quiet alot) so by giving them the driver source, they have just handed them the other half of the picture, ATI or others could then just change a few things around to escape the patents and release the product themselves... I am not saying that would or is or has happened. just that its possible.. Just be reasonable when you think about them. we need to convince them, we have no chance at all to force them... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 9 September 2001 7:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 On Saturday 0
Re: [newbie] Networking setup
Well the thing in Linux, is that if there are problems with an IRQ conflict, your hardware is not going to work. I ran into problems like this with one of my machines. In Windows, if there are IRQ conflicts, it will still manage to find the address for the hardware and send the correct information to it. Linux requires that you have a real IRQ for each piece of hardware. If your motherboards supports shared conflicts, make sure there are only two per IRQ, and they aren't something real serious. So, does your NIC have an IRQ? [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth 3: 263857807 XT-PIC eth0 That means, that my NIC, which is eth0, has an IRQ of 3. If you see that, you have an IRQ. Is it recognized so the correct modules can be loaded? [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth0 alias eth0 3c59x That means that eth0, is actually an alias for 3c59x, which is the module that will be used. If you see those two things, then you need to configure it. You can do this via HardDrake. Going into the section for Network Device Cards, try and find your NIC. If it's in there, select it, and then run the config tool. There's a button for it there. Go through those steps. You can do this if you don't see your NIC displayed in /etc/modules.conf as well. If you've done all of that, you'll need to tell it how to acquire it's IP address. From DHCP, or will you assign one for it? You can use DrakConf, and configure the IP/Internet information there. At that point, log in as root, and type this command at a prompt. /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart It will shutdown all the network devices, and then restart them. If it's trying get a DHCP address that may take a little bit of time for it to gather. I say to do it that way, because you know if it comes back and gives you a weird error message, and you can go on from there. So start out making sure the NIC has an IRQ. If it doesn't you need to fix that first. You may try moving it to another PCI slots on your Motherboard, and then try again. I use DLink cards, 3Com cards, and NetGear cards. The DLinks cost me $20, they're 10/100, and they work beautifully. The 3Com cards are more widely supported though. Hope that helps! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: 7:12pm up 4 days, 4:36, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 | Hi All, | | I am in the process of building a 3 computer network which is as | follows: | Tower acting as server | a desktop as a workstation | and a laptop workstation needs to be removable from network | | That said now the laptop has a problem the linksys EtherFast 10/100 is | not reginized hear a long and short beep when inserting. | Did some checking at Linksys web site,they say to get it to work have to | do | some compiling. heck I can just barely get things done as is. | Have tons of books on Linux,but they all talk way above me. | Does anybody know of a network card that is *no* problem?? | So far I can ping the tower at Ip address and dns. Can ping the desktop | at its IP address but not its dns. | | Hope somebody can lend a hand (not geek) | Thanks | Robert F. Trettel | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache htdocs and error
At 06:17 PM 09/08/2001 -0400, you wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > >=_87580-7607-2231 > >You don't have permission to access / on this server. > >what do i need to chmod on this > >chmod 600? 755? what I worked till i think my boss chmod 600 > >thanks > >Brandon Caudle >-- >15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) >Larkhaven Golf Course >Charlotte, NC Brandon, Directories must be at least 755 (read/write/execute by user, read and execute for everything else). Individual files (such as .gif, .png, .jpg, .php, and .htm*, excluding perl and/or cgi scripts) can be 644 (read / write by user, read-only by everyone else). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Networking setup
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 14:05, Robert F. Trettel wrote: > That said now the laptop has a problem the linksys EtherFast 10/100 is > not reginized hear a long and short beep when inserting. > Did some checking at Linksys web site,they say to get it to work have to > do > some compiling. heck I can just barely get things done as is. > Have tons of books on Linux,but they all talk way above me. > Does anybody know of a network card that is *no* problem?? > So far I can ping the tower at Ip address and dns. Can ping the desktop > at its IP address but not its dns. I have a 3COM CardBus 10/100 that works great. Model 3CCFE57BT. Dave PGP signature
[newbie] apache htdocs and error
You don't have permission to access / on this server. what do i need to chmod on this chmod 600? 755? what I worked till i think my boss chmod 600 thanks Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." -- Henry Kissinger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
Clarification, it's modprobe that won't work, but I can insmod 3c59x. Original Message Subject: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card] Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:53:45 -0400 From: ryan_steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbies List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Very helpful, thanks. cat /proc/pci says, in abstract Device:IRQ Video card:11 3com LAN:10 Realtek (which is actually my D-link LAN, go figure):9 USB Controller:3 The on board sound and or parallel port (I think you are right, since shortly after it mentions lp0, even though I don't have a printer) aren't mentioned. By the way, after having watched it a dozen times, I can figure out that there do seem to be two errors in the insmod for the eth0 and eth1 at boot. (If anyone has a good way to see boot errors besides dmesg, I'm all ears). One of the errors is a device does not appear to be present, and the other is that the irq_param is invalid. If I do an "insmod 3c59x" as root, I can ping the internal network. However, "insmod 8130too" messes that all up, and doesn't bring up the outside network. Thank, Ry Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:11:49 -0400 From: etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) "cat /proc/pci" say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: > The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the > option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem > to do is locking the IRQ for "An ISA card". I'm not sure how that > relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and > seems to need module 8130too. > > The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't > show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how > to capture them. > > I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ > 7. > (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, > irq=7 dma =-1) > > The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension > XPS_h266 if that helps. > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network > card > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: > > I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem > > > > with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. > > > > After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network > > card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under > > Mandrake 7.0. > > > > What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake > > > > probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to > > configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes > > blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del > > and that's about it. > > > > I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the > > detecting new hardware stage. > > > > Any advice? > > > > Ryan Steffes > > It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your > graphics > card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through > Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the > PCI > 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all > devices > comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the > network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the > assignment > of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is > next > to the video card, there is your problem. > > Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-}> *Tom Brinkman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PIO and DMA and PCI and alphabet soup
Hmmm dmesg gives out a message about the ide bus defaulting to 33MHz for PIO and everyone with IDE drives starts to wonder, "Am I really getting all that I should out of my drive?" PIO is Programmed Input-Output It has five modes, PIO0-PIO4 33MHz is PIO4 Programmed Input/Output is reading and writing that is overseen by the CPU. In 1996, most cheap PCs did exactly that. Then came DMA or Direct Memory AAccess where the ancillary hardware transferred data to memory and told the processor when it was done, or transferred memory out to disk from a map provided by the processor and again signalled when done--very little processor load on disk transfers--things got faster. So for almost all of you the ide bus speed default for PIO is irrelevant because you don't use it, not even for a CD-ROM, which are almost all DMA these days. Now the PCI (Peripheral Connect Interface) bus is another standard in PCs. Even some MACs use it. It takes 32 bit (or 64-bit on 64-bit processors) data at a rate of 33MHz and provides it to cards plugged into the bus and to the IDE disk drives (and maybe even to SCSI disk drives through a SCSI adapter card plugged into the PCI bus) Some older Motherboards could not independently clock the PCI bus so that when they overclocked the Front side bus to kick the processor, the PCI bus became overclocked as well. Many PCI cards performed well at 41.5MHz, but that is another story. Anyway, the PCI bus runs at 33MHz on most modern PCs. So how does a 100MHz ethernet card or 100MHz IDE transfer happen? On the disk end, it doesn't. No way. You can get about 220MHz out of a 7200 rpm Disk, and that is the rate at which data spins on and off of it. You need on-controller (the little card attached to the disk) memory for transfer to happen at full burst speed, because the 100MHz refers to an 8-bit wide data bus from controller to motherboard. the 220 refers to a 1 bit wide read or write from or to disk, which is less than 30 MHz when divided by 8. OK. Lets look at some bandwidths in terms of bus... PCI 33MHz x 32 bits wide 1,056,000,000 bits/second IDE 100MHz(max) x 8 bts wide 800,000,000 bits/second Ethernet 1 GHz(max) x 1 bit wide 1,000,000,000 bits/second Whoo! The PCI bus will need another protocol to support the coming 10 GHz ethernet cards, or maybe we will need a new bus for them. As you can see the pCI bus is barely able to support 1GHz ethernet cards but should have no trouble with a 100MHz Ether net card or three and a 100MHz hard disk drive. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512
As much as I dislike the situation, you can't really blame nvidea.. Microsoft offered them huge wads of cash to design the Xbox internals, there were no other big offers and they could certainly use the cash back then... So they did it and Microsoft are now making Nvidea lots of money... so they feel obliged to do it... keep in mind that that relationship has provided us (or will) with the Nforce motherboard chipset, which if the reports are true, will kill anything else around... If they want to keep the linux crowd happy, they at the very least need to provide binary drivers for every kernel/lib/X version possible... and keep it updated... I hope the same situation doesn't happen with Nforce,, that would be a great shame... If we all emailed them about it, it might make a difference... (can't hurt) still, you can't blame a company for wanting to stop ATI (or others) from taking advantage of the src code, for all we know they may have some really special stuff going on in there, how would be know? noones seen the code.. and we can't blame them for wanting to be sucessful either... They are not a software manufacturer primiarly, they are hardware, and good hardware at that... They just need gentle persuasion... :-) rgds Frank PS As linux groupies, we have to be careful to not be seen as Zealots for abusing everyone who doesn't do exactly what they want... Would you guys be happy if they released drivers for linux in src code that lacked ALL the cool features of the windows version and just provided basic 3d??? I doubt it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skinky Sent: Sunday, 9 September 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:30, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] > IMO, this aspect of M$ business practices, not some silly idea of > integrating IE into the Win OS, is M$'s real crime. I hope source > disclosure (API's) is the next focus of DOJ's and EU's remedies for the > M$ monopoly. Then at least, even if vendors like nVidia still won't > provide driver specs and source due to pressure from M$, the info could > be gleaned from M$ source. I'm not holding my breath tho, it'll never > happen. Yeah... most unlikely since Collen Kollar-Kotelly is Gate's best pal ;-) skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card]
Very helpful, thanks. cat /proc/pci says, in abstract Device:IRQ Video card:11 3com LAN:10 Realtek (which is actually my D-link LAN, go figure):9 USB Controller:3 The on board sound and or parallel port (I think you are right, since shortly after it mentions lp0, even though I don't have a printer) aren't mentioned. By the way, after having watched it a dozen times, I can figure out that there do seem to be two errors in the insmod for the eth0 and eth1 at boot. (If anyone has a good way to see boot errors besides dmesg, I'm all ears). One of the errors is a device does not appear to be present, and the other is that the irq_param is invalid. If I do an "insmod 3c59x" as root, I can ping the internal network. However, "insmod 8130too" messes that all up, and doesn't bring up the outside network. Thank, Ry Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:11:49 -0400 From: etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) "cat /proc/pci" say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: > The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the > option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem > to do is locking the IRQ for "An ISA card". I'm not sure how that > relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and > seems to need module 8130too. > > The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't > show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how > to capture them. > > I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ > 7. > (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, > irq=7 dma =-1) > > The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension > XPS_h266 if that helps. > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network > card > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: > > I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem > > > > with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. > > > > After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network > > card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under > > Mandrake 7.0. > > > > What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake > > > > probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to > > configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes > > blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del > > and that's about it. > > > > I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the > > detecting new hardware stage. > > > > Any advice? > > > > Ryan Steffes > > It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your > graphics > card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through > Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the > PCI > 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all > devices > comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the > network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the > assignment > of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is > next > to the video card, there is your problem. > > Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-}> *Tom Brinkman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enabling ATA100 drives
On Saturday 08 September 2001 09:59 pm, civileme escribió: > ON cooker you will find > > drakopt-1.01-0.86mdk.noarch.rpm > > Install and run it. It will squeeze out everything the kernel is > capable of giving you and build an initscript to keep it happening. > It takes about 30 minutes to test most of the settable modes. > > Civileme Yes, good script, but I found it too conservative. I undid it's changes. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
On Saturday 08 September 2001 12:58, jennifer wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: > > On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: > > > Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your > > > efforts.? > > > > ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a > > fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have > > unique serial numbers and Win XP gathers them all up with your name and > > address and sends them to Redmond, WA so you can get an unlocking code in > > return for your copy of the OS. > > > > While it does guarantee a reduction in piracy is is a flagrant disrespect > > on your privacy, forcing you to divulge information for the sake of using > > an OS you've already paid for! This is Totalitarianism at its utmost, > > placing to interests of the individual so far beind their own wishes. > > > > Obtaining a hack for Win XP does not necessarily preclude piracy but > > gives one the CHOICE of what information to divulge to the > > world-at-large. > > > > Of couse, there are lots more choices than that and they begin with > > Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc, etc, etc... > > > > Richie > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > > I am actually curious as to how someone without internet access is supposed > to get this unlock code. has microsoft addressed this or are they only > going to make their product availible to those who live in areas that have > internet access? I know that there are huge areas in the southwest that > still don't have internet access. You can read the activation information to them over the telephone and receive the actiavtion code that way. It is described on their site. Also, while it does a non-unique hash on the hardware, (Not that much violation of privacy after all, since the hash cannot be decoded to a specific configuration--several configurations map to the same hash code)., it stores that and the activation in a file on the system. Guess what copying that file to a floppy and loading it on another system does? Cracked, totally, fatally, finally. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512
On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:30, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] > IMO, this aspect of M$ business practices, not some silly idea of > integrating IE into the Win OS, is M$'s real crime. I hope source > disclosure (API's) is the next focus of DOJ's and EU's remedies for the > M$ monopoly. Then at least, even if vendors like nVidia still won't > provide driver specs and source due to pressure from M$, the info could > be gleaned from M$ source. I'm not holding my breath tho, it'll never > happen. Yeah... most unlikely since Collen Kollar-Kotelly is Gate's best pal ;-) skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bash: java: command not found
On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:33, you wrote: > Isaac, here is what i did: > i located the file "java". on my system it is in /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin > then i exported the path. this i found on the javasun website. here is > what you do: > su to root > #export PATH=/usr/java/path/toyour/java:$PATH > > in my case:#export PATH=/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin:$PATH > after that all i have to do is #sh runlime.sh > Now, this is only a workaround. everytime i start a session i have to > export the path. and limewire only works launched like this from a > console. but it works Hi Antoine I *think* you can define your $PATH in /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile so that you won't have to export the path each time. By coincidence I happened to read the following extract this morning (note the last paragraph): >From Mandrake User Org Docs (Using the Shell III) "One important thing to keep in mind is that variables declared this way are only set for the current terminal. Open another terminal or xterm, export WHIZBANG again. Now switch to the other terminal. echo $WHIZBANG just returns a null-value. If you want to make use of this variable in every terminal, you have to define it either in '/etc/profile' or in '~/.bash_profile'. All this applies to $PATH, too. Have a look at your current $PATH with echo $PATH, append to it with export PATH=$PATH:[newpathname], define it in '/etc/profile' or in '~/.bash_profile'." HTH skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tar & --newer option
Hi there, as usual when I see a problem on my Linux box, I wonder if I am stupid or if there is a bug. Fortunately, I'm stupid more than often. But I was trying to use tar yesterday to do a backup of my /home rep. for files which are newer than August 29 2001. So I issued the following command, which is correct, according to the man page: # tar -cjv -N 28-08-2001 -f 8Septembre2001.tar.bz2 /home/michel However, the content of the tar archive is only made of directories. No files at all. Here's a sample: ... home/michel/GNUstep/Defaults/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/Icons/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/IconSets/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/SoundSets/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Styles/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/ home/michel/GNUstep/.AppInfo/ home/michel/GNUstep/.AppInfo/WPrefs/ home/michel/GNUstep/.AppInfo/WindowMaker/ home/michel/images/ home/michel/images/.etc/ home/michel/images/daumier/ home/michel/images/daumier/.pics/ home/michel/images/daumier/.pics/med/ home/michel/images/daumier/.xvpics/ home/michel/images/.pics/ home/michel/images/.pics/med/ . Etc. So what is wrong? I've picked these commands from the manpage, issued them in a meaningful order, and I get only directories, without any files I'm using -j to compress with Bzip2, but I have used GZip as well, and got similar results. So does anyone has an idea about what is wrong? Please don't tell me that I am stupid, I'll do that for myself ... :-) Michel Hardy-Vallée -- C'est fou ce qu'un python boa, on dirait un cameleon citerne. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
On Saturday 08 September 2001 12:57 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: > Take a look at this article: > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2810195,00.html > > Here's an excerpt: > > "For those who haven't yet experienced it, the new scheme is > concealed under the 'Product Activation' label. At installation, the > package creates a unique code combining the software serial > number with the hardware present in the machine it's running on. > Within 30 days of installing Office or Windows XP, you are > required to contact Microsoft over the Internet or via a call centre > to give them this code number; Microsoft will then give you > another ID code to enter so that the package will keep working. If > you don't, then Office XP will not let you create new documents > or save existing ones after editing, while Windows XP will not stop > working--imagine the squeals from other application software > companies if that happened!--but will have reduced functionality. > > "There's more. If you're not connected to the Internet, then you > will have to read out a 50-digit code to a telephone operator without > errors, and take down another error-free 50-digit code to carry on > using the software you've paid for." Ya know, I hope all this is true, but I keep reading, mainly on register.uk, /., and newsforge.com, that product activation in upcoming M$ OS/apps is a moving target. IOW's the level of scrutiny keeps changing. I hope Billy's finally gotten greedy enough to shoot himself in the foot. BUT, I don't predict the exodus from M$ that some do. I don't have enough confidence in the computer literacy of the average M$ user that some rely on. I even believe a lot of Windoze users will think this, ./NET, and 'Passport', is all innovation and convenience. Most that I know rarely change anything. They're afraid to, and are oblivious to security and privacy issues. M$ is literally banking on that. I believe they're probly right. GEEZZZ, I'm gettin to be a pessimistic old SOB ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT] [Fwd: [Alsa-user] [OT] Announcement: new Linux-Audio-User mailing list]
Original Message Subject: [Alsa-user] [OT] Announcement: new Linux-Audio-User mailing list Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 19:31:57 +0200 From: Jörn Nettingsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Hello everyone ! I'm happy to announce the newly created Linux-Audio-User (LAU) mailing list. It is intended to provide a forum for people using Linux for audio editing, composition, MIDI sequencing etc. Since the old Linux-Sound list has apparently gone into oblivion when the vger.rutgers.edu machine died, some folks on the Linux-Audio-Dev list felt that it might be time to start a new one especially for users. On LAU, we'd like to talk about: * which application is best suited for a particular job * how apps can be made to work together * how to tune your system for low latency * how to get the best audio quality out of your system * sharing tips & tricks for audio editing/synthesis/recording, etc. * how you use your linux box as a guitar FX rack/P.A. equalizer/ line delay/younameit * record release announcements "made with Linux" * announcements for new applications and/or updates * streaming media * audio encoding * We suggest not to post driver issues and very basic "my hardware does not play sounds" questions. There is no better place for this than alsa-user. There are many different lists with audio subjects, but most are project-specific or centered around one special tool (like the Common Music or Csound lists). LAU is intended to be a common exchange point for *all* audio users (although it remains a good idea to follow the mailing list of your favourite programs as well). Another goal is being close to the application developers. Many software authors and contributors to the Linux-Audio-Dev list lurk on LAU, ready to listen to users' woes and wishes :) For the subscription procedure, please visit http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/user.php3 . This site also has a searchable list archive, news, infos and links to many audio-related sites. Thanks for your time, yours sincerely Jörn Nettingsmeier [If you read other mailing lists or newsgroups that might be interested in this announcement, please forward it.] -- Jörn Nettingsmeier home://Kurfürstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany phone://+49.201.491621 http://spunk.dnsalias.org http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Networking setup
Hi All, I am in the process of building a 3 computer network which is as follows: Tower acting as server a desktop as a workstation and a laptop workstation needs to be removable from network That said now the laptop has a problem the linksys EtherFast 10/100 is not reginized hear a long and short beep when inserting. Did some checking at Linksys web site,they say to get it to work have to do some compiling. heck I can just barely get things done as is. Have tons of books on Linux,but they all talk way above me. Does anybody know of a network card that is *no* problem?? So far I can ping the tower at Ip address and dns. Can ping the desktop at its IP address but not its dns. Hope somebody can lend a hand (not geek) Thanks Robert F. Trettel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
from what i understand they removed this a while back... or at least the version used to make OEM systems doesnt have that stupid reg'd thing (actually includes a cd code). -- nathan >From: jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], richied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already >Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:58:30 -0400 > >On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: > > On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: > > > Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your > > > efforts.? > > > > ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking >a > > fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have >unique > > serial numbers and Win XP gathers them all up with your name and address > > and sends them to Redmond, WA so you can get an unlocking code in return > > for your copy of the OS. > > > > While it does guarantee a reduction in piracy is is a flagrant >disrespect > > on your privacy, forcing you to divulge information for the sake of >using > > an OS you've already paid for! This is Totalitarianism at its utmost, > > placing to interests of the individual so far beind their own wishes. > > > > Obtaining a hack for Win XP does not necessarily preclude piracy but >gives > > one the CHOICE of what information to divulge to the world-at-large. > > > > Of couse, there are lots more choices than that and they begin with > > Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc, etc, etc... > > > > Richie > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Content-Description: > >I am actually curious as to how someone without internet access is supposed >to get this unlock code. has microsoft addressed this or are they only >going >to make their product availible to those who live in areas that have >internet >access? I know that there are huge areas in the southwest that still don't >have internet access. >-- >Jennifer >#221463 >Yahoo IM: jlynn2k >#include >void ignorance (it offers no value) > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail / Konqueror question / bug report
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Running Mandrake 8.0 with KDE 2.1.1 and Konqueror 2.1.1 and Kmail 1.2
(all standard with the M8.0 power relase)
When I click in a URL in an email on kmail, it starts Konqueror to
view the URL.
1) I want to use Netscape or Opera as my default instead, but can't
find where to change the default
2) Konqueror frequently crashes under the following conditions, which
is why I want to make the change:
I have ads.doubleclick.net (and a couple of varients) resolved in my
/etc/hosts file to 127.0.0.1 to both speed up downloads and more
importantly to protest their previously announced intentions to
harvest personal information from people browsing pages which include
doubleclick banner ads.
Konqueror sometimes reacts to the inability to find the appropriate
doubleclick banner(s) by giving me one or more error popup boxes.
On a fair number of occasions when dealing with these intentional
errors, Konqueror crashes, with the following info showing in the
SIGSEGV (signal 11) crash handler. I've yet to get these on pages
that dont have these error boxes popping up, and the offending class
in the trace is a red flag, which is why I suspect the connection:
0x40e831d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#0 0x40e831d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x40ef2f2c in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x4061f5a8 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from
/usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3
#3 0x4100b0fe in pthread_sighandler (signo=11, ctx=
{gs = 0, __gsh = 0, fs = 0, __fsh = 0, es = 43, __esh = 0, ds =
43, __dsh = 0, edi = 3221222048, esi = 0, ebp = 137306532, esp =
3221222012, ebx = 1086195540, edx = 322156, ecx = 1, eax =
1090532352, trapno = 14, err = 4, eip = 1919311730, cs = 35, __csh =
0, eflags = 66198, esp_at_signal = 3221222012, ss = 43, __ssh = 0,
fpstate = 0xb000, oldmask = 2147483648, cr2 = 1919311730})
at signals.c:97
#4 0x40df7b68 in killpg () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x69007400 in ?? ()
= = =
I've seen suggestions elsewhere that resolving to 0.0.0.0
instead of 127.0.0.1 to block obnoxious banner ads yields cleaner
results. Opinions?
I dug thru the KDE bug reports database to see what I can find on the
topic, found none, and got told that the version of KDE released with
Mandrake 8.0 is too old for me to report bugs. Interesting. Have to
see if upgrading buys me anything.
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"What is this talk of software 'releases'? Klingons do not
'release' software; our software ESCAPES, leaving a bloody
trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake!"
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Re: [newbie] enabling ATA100 drives
On Saturday 08 September 2001 06:49 pm, Joan Tur escribió: > Es Divendres 07 Setembre 2001 14:03, en Jeremy Davidson va escriure: > > I have an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB drive which is ATA100 compatible, > > but I have a feeling that MDK8.0 is not taking full advantage of > > this feature. My motherboard, an Asus A7A266, also supports this. > > > > A line showed up during installation (might during boot-up too -- > > haven't checked) that says ide bus is assumed to be running at > > 33Mhz, and it gives some variable name to use for changing it. > > Well... bus is really running at 33mhz. Check using dmesg command > and report here! };) > > ATA33, ATA66 and ATA100 all are running on the same PCI slot... Very true, no matter what the HDD, whether SCSI, ATA /33, /66/or /100 they all still run on the 33.3mhz PCI bus. BUT, to help out Jeremy, I'd suggest using hdparm to set the drives to their best UDMA mode the total system can handle. So, 'hdparm -i /dev/hd?' (as root, substitute the proper drive letter for ?) will display the UDMA modes your drive is capable of. Then you can add lines at the end of '/etc/rc.d/rc.local' so that your drive(s) will be optimized at boot. For example: hdparm -c1 -d1 -X68 /dev/hda <-- [ turns on 32 bit, DMA, and sets this drive to UDMA4 (ATA/66)] hdparm -c1 -d1 -X69 /dev/hdb <-- [ turns on 32 bit, DMA, and sets this drive to UDMA5 (ATA/100)] see 'info hdparm' for full information CAUTION: the 2nd example I gave enables UDMA5 and ATA/100. BUT your HDD performance is not just a function of the HDD. As with anything, the rest of the system is involved also. IE, cpu/cache/ram/motherboard/ chipset, cables, power supply, cooling, kitchen sink, etc. Even tho you might have an ATA /100 capable drive, doesn't mean the rest of your system can handle it. Setting ATA / UDMA too high on marginal hardware can cause data loss, and/or corruption, even failure. hdparm won't sort all this out for you, it's your responsibility. OTOH, ATA/100 is obsolete. Google 'Serial ATA' ;~>> -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:58:30 -0400, jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: > > On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: > > > Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your > > > efforts.? > > > > ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a > > fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have unique > > serial numbers and Win XP gathers them all up with your name and address > > and sends them to Redmond, WA so you can get an unlocking code in return > > for your copy of the OS. > > > > While it does guarantee a reduction in piracy is is a flagrant disrespect > > on your privacy, forcing you to divulge information for the sake of using > > an OS you've already paid for! This is Totalitarianism at its utmost, > > placing to interests of the individual so far beind their own wishes. > > > > Obtaining a hack for Win XP does not necessarily preclude piracy but gives > > one the CHOICE of what information to divulge to the world-at-large. > > > > Of couse, there are lots more choices than that and they begin with > > Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc, etc, etc... > > > > Richie > > I am actually curious as to how someone without internet access is supposed > to get this unlock code. has microsoft addressed this or are they only going > to make their product availible to those who live in areas that have internet > access? I know that there are huge areas in the southwest that still don't > have internet access. Take a look at this article: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2810195,00.html Here's an excerpt: "For those who haven't yet experienced it, the new scheme is concealed under the 'Product Activation' label. At installation, the package creates a unique code combining the software serial number with the hardware present in the machine it's running on. Within 30 days of installing Office or Windows XP, you are required to contact Microsoft over the Internet or via a call centre to give them this code number; Microsoft will then give you another ID code to enter so that the package will keep working. If you don't, then Office XP will not let you create new documents or save existing ones after editing, while Windows XP will not stop working--imagine the squeals from other application software companies if that happened!--but will have reduced functionality. "There's more. If you're not connected to the Internet, then you will have to read out a 50-digit code to a telephone operator without errors, and take down another error-free 50-digit code to carry on using the software you've paid for." -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enabling ATA100 drives
Es Divendres 07 Setembre 2001 14:03, en Jeremy Davidson va escriure: > I have an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB drive which is ATA100 compatible, but I > have a feeling that MDK8.0 is not taking full advantage of this feature. > My motherboard, an Asus A7A266, also supports this. > > A line showed up during installation (might during boot-up too -- haven't > checked) that says ide bus is assumed to be running at 33Mhz, and it gives > some variable name to use for changing it. Well... bus is really running at 33mhz. Check using dmesg command and report here! };) ATA33, ATA66 and ATA100 all are running on the same PCI slot... -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512
On Saturday 08 September 2001 04:40 am, s escribió: > On Friday 07 September 2001 05:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > I've got one word for nVidia's Linux support, and like most in > > the wintel-gang, it's DISINGENUOUS. They're just stringin us > > along, with poor, partially capable, closed source secret drivers. > > IMO, out'a fear of losing M$ cooperation. YMMV I'm sort's pi$$'d > > at myself for buyin nVidia crap, even tho I knew all the above > > beforehand. My only excuse is it's gettin harder and harder... not > > to. Billy's winning ;( > > That's just it. What is our alternative? Very little. Most peripheral hardware is sold to ready made manufacturers, and they build Win ready proprietary systems. With 90+% of the desktop users using Windoze, and most all of the 90+% buying ready made Win-junk like Dell, Gateway, Compaq, the 5% or so that run Linux or *BSD have little, almost negligible voice. Add to that M$'s continuing campaign to push Win-hardware, and to discourage full support for quality hardware on non-Win OS's. IMO, this aspect of M$ business practices, not some silly idea of integrating IE into the Win OS, is M$'s real crime. I hope source disclosure (API's) is the next focus of DOJ's and EU's remedies for the M$ monopoly. Then at least, even if vendors like nVidia still won't provide driver specs and source due to pressure from M$, the info could be gleaned from M$ source. I'm not holding my breath tho, it'll never happen. > Voodoo support is not what > it was. I had three machines (just sold one) with the voodoo3 in > them, and they have not had decent acceleration since 7.2. I tried > all the the little tips and tricks other say got theirs to work ok, > but nope... games suck on those machines. Can't comment on problems, other than for years my Voodoo3 was automagically setup with Mandrake and ran 3d accel with no problems. (don't ya hate when people reply "no problems here" ;) Wish I'd kept my Voodoo3 ;( AFAIK, until nVidia bought 3DFX, all their drivers were open source and they fully cooperated with Linux developers. This is sort'a anecdotal, but I can also add that my new GeF2mx doubled FPS, with better rendering in Windoze FS2000 (flight sim) over the Voodoo3. But with 'nvidia' Linux drivers, the GeForce does no better running tuxracer or FlightGear than my old Voodoo3 did. nVidia's Linux drivers suck! Their Windoze drivers are much much better and have many more features including easy overclocking. IMO, that's not an accident, it's on purpose to keep M$ and the rest of the Wintel gang members appeased (ie, licensing agreements). > > What could we get, even if money was no object (within the home user > range)? -s Buy nVidia, and release the source, or convince Linux friendly IBM to get into the high performance desktop video card market. That'd take a sh!+load of home users tho ;~>> -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: > On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: > > Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your > > efforts.? > > ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a > fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have unique > serial numbers and Win XP gathers them all up with your name and address > and sends them to Redmond, WA so you can get an unlocking code in return > for your copy of the OS. > > While it does guarantee a reduction in piracy is is a flagrant disrespect > on your privacy, forcing you to divulge information for the sake of using > an OS you've already paid for! This is Totalitarianism at its utmost, > placing to interests of the individual so far beind their own wishes. > > Obtaining a hack for Win XP does not necessarily preclude piracy but gives > one the CHOICE of what information to divulge to the world-at-large. > > Of couse, there are lots more choices than that and they begin with > Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc, etc, etc... > > Richie Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: I am actually curious as to how someone without internet access is supposed to get this unlock code. has microsoft addressed this or are they only going to make their product availible to those who live in areas that have internet access? I know that there are huge areas in the southwest that still don't have internet access. -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) "cat /proc/pci" say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: > The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the > option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem > to do is locking the IRQ for "An ISA card". I'm not sure how that > relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and > seems to need module 8130too. > > The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't > show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how > to capture them. > > I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ > 7. > (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, > irq=7 dma =-1) > > The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension > XPS_h266 if that helps. > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network > card > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: > > I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem > > > > with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. > > > > After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network > > card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under > > Mandrake 7.0. > > > > What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake > > > > probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to > > configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes > > blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del > > and that's about it. > > > > I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the > > detecting new hardware stage. > > > > Any advice? > > > > Ryan Steffes > > It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your > graphics > card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through > Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the > PCI > 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all > devices > comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the > network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the > assignment > of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is > next > to the video card, there is your problem. > > Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-}> *Tom Brinkman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing nfs on mandrake 7.2
thanks, forgot about that there should be a rpm for that stinkin thing... :) installed it... now... where do i tell the kernel to load it? i put it in rc.sysinit /etc/init.d/portmap start /etc/init.d/nfslock start portmap started fine... nfs locks the machine and gets some stupid error? should i put this into rc.local instead? --nathan >From: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] installing nfs on mandrake 7.2 >Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:31:11 +0100 > >hi, have you installed the nfs rpm packages? >something like nfs-utils or somesuch, > >then you can use the command exportfs to serve an nfs volume: >#exportfs /path/to/export machine:domain >or something similar >this is all from memory as i haven't done this for ages so caveats apply, i >know you can set up nfs serves from linuxconf > >bascule > > >On Saturday 08 September 2001 7:17 am, you wrote: > > okay im trying to get my main machine to use nfs, so that i can install > > linux onto anouther machine (that cant use a cdrom, and not enough space > > for a ftp install). > > > > i did enable nfs in the xconfig... and recompile the kernel... > > > > but when i goto /etc/init.d the closest thing i have to 'nfs' is netfs? > > is that mandrake's renaming of it... > > > > or did they put the nfs command somewhere else... also where do i find > > 'portmap' and 'mountd' or is mountd... just mount? > > > > -- nathan > > > > _ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update
Hi All, Don't know if this has been asked before on here or not, but I have Mandrake 8.1 Beta 3, and when I try to add a source for Security Updates, no matter what mirror I chose, it always tells me that there was an error adding the source. Is there some bug in the Beta that has yet to be worked out, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: > Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your > efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have unique serial numbers and Win XP gathers them all up with your name and address and sends them to Redmond, WA so you can get an unlocking code in return for your copy of the OS. While it does guarantee a reduction in piracy is is a flagrant disrespect on your privacy, forcing you to divulge information for the sake of using an OS you've already paid for! This is Totalitarianism at its utmost, placing to interests of the individual so far beind their own wishes. Obtaining a hack for Win XP does not necessarily preclude piracy but gives one the CHOICE of what information to divulge to the world-at-large. Of couse, there are lots more choices than that and they begin with Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc, etc, etc... Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cron and Stuff
> under the services to start both anacron and crond are setup to start on > bootup. Are both of these services needed? Also what exactly is I am not sure if both are needed. The crond should be the vixie-cron, since that is more common on Linux systems (it is a version authored by Paul Vixie, hence the name). Anacron seems to be specific to mandrake - I haven't seen it used elsewhere yet. > Kevin David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mailbox query
> I have an embarrassing question to ask. I installed Mutt and upon running > the creature it complained that I do not have a mailbox. This is a big > mystery for me. How do I get/make a mailbox? I've never used mutt, but did it ask you if it could create a mailbox? Elm does that upon first run. A mailbox is simply a file in your home directory, usually under the Mail subdirectory. Elm (and probably others) use Mail/inbox as the mailbox You should of course also have a mailbox in the mail spool area - /var/spool/mail. It should be the same as your username, and have the permissions -rw-- (read write by owner), owned by you and the mail groop. If you don't have this file, run as root the following commands: # touch /var/spool/mail/warren (assuming that's your login name) # chmod 600 /var/spool/mail/warren # chown warren.mail /var/spool/mail/warren > -warren David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS support on Linux
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 05:16:11 -0500, Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friends: > > Using dual-boot LM 8.0/Win2000 (with NTFS File System). > > Question: Currently, Linux can only read NTFS files but not write to it. What > is the reason for this? Is there any hope that Linux will be able to both > read and write to NTFS soon? > > Thank you. > > Benjamin As you would know, Microsoft are very secretive when it comes to their intellectual property, like filesystems. Linux NTFS support is the result of a great deal of experimentation and clever reverse-engineering. This is, of course, extremely difficult to do, and it cannot be guaranteed to be 100% reliable. To make matters more difficult, Microsoft have raised the bar a few times, once with Win2K (upgrading NTFS4 to NTFS5) and again with WinXP (NTFS5 to 5.1). NTFS4 is very different from NTFS5, and Linux supports this older filesystem a little better. At present in Linux, NTFS read support is quite reliable, but write support is still considered to be experimental. For this reason, Mandrake (and many other distros) only compile read-only support into their kernel. If you change to another kernel (e.g. by compiling your own) you can get write support. If you decide to write to NTFS in GNU/Linux, you need to unmount the filesystem and run a clean-up script before booting back into Windows to fix corruption issues. -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] Network Card compatibility
On Friday 07 September 2001 08:19 pm, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: > Hi again, I just booted into windows and saw my NIC is listed as 3COM > Etherlink III ISA 3C509B-Combo. Apologies for lack of observance on my > part. S now, can anyone tell me if this NIC is supported by Mandrake 8 > and if so, why is not being picked up.? > > Thanks guys. > > Siavash > I bought two of them things off ebay for two bucks. Then they were shipped in a manilla envelope with no bubble wrap. They worked as good as the $50 590 I got from office depot. As they came off ebay, I have no idea how they were used, if the chipsets had been flashed, and there are no jumpers. I struggled for about an hour until I read an old post from like 97 or something where it was suggested to reserve irq 10 for isa in bios. I was fixed right up. Would you try that please? Set it up in netconf and insmod 3c509, then service network restart. post ifconfig if this don't work. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows and Mandrake on one HDD
On Friday 07 September 2001 12:43 pm, Anders Thoresson escribió: > Hi, > > I would like to put Windows (either Win2k och Win98) on a harddrive > together with Mandrake 8.0. I've got a 20 GB drive, at the moment > empty. Should I install Windows or Mandrake first to get a bootloader > that let me choose os at boot? The usual advice is to install Windoze first, but you don't have to. If you install Linux first, just make sure you make a boot floppy and that your bios allows for booting from floppy. Then when you install, or if you later need to re-install Windoze, and it erases lilo (or grub) from the MBR (master boot record), you can boot Linux from the floppy and re-install lilo (or grub) to the MBR. If for some reason you loose your Linux boot floppy, you can use your Linux install CD to re-install a bootloader (assuming you can boot from CD). -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] Network Card compatibility
this is ISA? reserved a irq? set the jumpers or use the software that came with the card to setup pnp to no On Friday 07 September 2001 21:19, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: > Hi again, I just booted into windows and saw my NIC is listed as 3COM > Etherlink III ISA 3C509B-Combo. Apologies for lack of observance on my > part. S now, can anyone tell me if this NIC is supported by Mandrake 8 > and if so, why is not being picked up.? > > Thanks guys. > > Siavash > > -Original Message- > From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 08 September 2001 02:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [newbie] Network Card compatibility > > > As I mentioned in my previous mail, I still have not managed to install > Mandrake 8 on my system. The installation gets to the point of asigning > root and user password. The problems arise at the NIC detection. > > My card is 3COM ISA Ethernet 10 MB per sec ( not a combo ). I don't know > much else about the model. > It gives me a choice of the following. > > 3COM 3c90x ( Cyclone/Hurricane/Tornado ) > 3COM 3c501 > 3COM 3c503 > 3COM 3c505 > 3COM 3c507 > 3COM 3c509 > 3COM 3c515 > 3COM 3c59x(Vortex) > > I have tried all of the above and none of them seem to work. Sirdhar was > kind enough to suggest I should go into BIOS and set plug & play to "NO". I > cheked and it was already set up that way. Since I don't know the exact > driver name of the NIC I don't know how to check whether Mandrake 8 > supports it. People in the know tell me that Mandrake 8 is so well > supported that if I don't find the spacific drivers under its list, then > LINUX does not support it. This strange since my card is anything but > cutting edge to be supported. Unfortunately I cannot check the exact driver > name in device manager since Mandrake screwed up triple boot menu. I could > not boot into anything. Kept getting messages to the effect ..."This is not > a bootable device, insert a bootable floppy and try again" Since I > neglected to create a Windows 2000 repair disk, there was nothing else I > could think of but to wipe everything and start again. > > This is not my main machine ( just for practice ) so even though drastic, > it did't have huge loss implications. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance > > Siavash > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael D. Viron > Sent: 07 September 2001 15:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Network Cards > > >I do want to start using Mandrake, and I'm willing to pick up a new > >network card if that's what I have to do. If I do, I was wondering if > >there was a list somewhere that I could bring into a shop so I would > >choose a card that Mandrake would recognize. > > If you can't get the dlink card to work (and I remember having problems > with dlinks and the ne cards), you should pick up a 3com card. I've never > had any problems with everything from the early 3c509's to the newer > 3c905's. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Viron > Registered Linux User #81978 > Senior Systems & Administration Consultant > Web Spinners, University of West Florida Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put people in jail for talking about how poor their encryption is under the DMCA. you might also consider that while dreamweaver sites appear just hunky dory in IE5.x, they are NOT standard HTML and do NOT appear the same in all browsers, which is one of the goals of the HTML spec. I am not all that familiar with the abilities of UltraDev, so I really can not comment on that. but like I say I am not a big fan of flash, bells and whistles taking up the bandwidth when really what i want is informantion Plug and Pray in Mandrake is pretty good, (try kudsu) but it uses the pci spec, (as opposed to M$ closed source (protected secret) PNP specs) and so you have to turn off plug and pray aware OS in the computer BIOS so that the BIOS will go ahead and "initialize" the cards and assign Irq. in your case, I would think you might have to have the BIOS assign (or reserve) the IRQ for your network cards isa slot. On Friday 07 September 2001 20:59, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: > Hi, I would want applications like Dreamweaver UltraDev and to a lesser > extent PhotoShop before I could comfortably abandon Windows. Someone ought > bring pressure to bare on Macromedia and thier ilk. > > Another issue would be that of plug n play. If LINUX could have that and > take the headache of driver configuration it would be a real dream come > true. I still have not managed to install Mandrake 8 yet on account of NIC > detection/installation. It's an old ISA 3COM 10 MB ethernet ( none combo ) > that is easily picked up in windoz. > > I am very new to LINUX. > Siavash > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dr. Evil > Sent: 07 September 2001 04:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already > > > Tom, other than gaming what uses do you see for Windows? I've been > > looking forward to scrubbing it from my hd's, but your comment gives > > me pause. > > As far as I know, for most users, there is no use aside from gaming, > and even for gaming, there are native Linux games, and apparently > quite a few Windows games run under Wine. The other exception is that > there are quite a few applications that can ONLY run on Windows for > some specific purposes. Perhaps you need Autocad, or some other > specific app which is Windows only. > > But if you're just an ordinary user who surfs the web, does word > processing, this kind of thing, you don't need Windows at all. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Proxy Server
Not so dumb. If your Linux box is your only PC in the house, it won't do much. It might increase your web-browsing when viewing the same sites many times, but that's probably it. Notice I said it "Might". Primarily, it is intended for use on a server/PC which is used as a gateway for multiple PC;'s , in which case, commonly-viewed web-pages would be loaded from cache memory on the proxy-server, instead of from the actual web-site. Once someone has viewed the site, that page is stored in the cache and offered to other PC's behind the proxy to cut down on Internet performance requirements. So, if you have 4 computers being fed by the proxy-server, and the users all like going to amazon.com, the web-pages from amazon would be stored on the proxy when the first PC went to that site, and subsequently handed off to other PC's when they also wanted to go to amazon.com. Going to another page on the amazon web-site would repeat the process. Having never tried it on a "stand-alone" PC myself, I'm not sure it would provide this function to that one PC, but then again, your browser would perform the same function on it's own. Lanman On Saturday 08 September 2001 09:29 am, you wrote: > Maybe a dumb question, but... > > (Apart from using a Linux box as your home network gateway) what do you use > a proxy server for on the same machine as you access the net? > > Cheers, Rod. > > At 13:23 04/09/2001 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > >Squid is great. http://www.squid-proxy.org. Mandrake comes with Squid > >however. > > > >Arthur H. Johnson II > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The Linux Box > >http://www.linuxbox.nu > > > >On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > May I know which proxy server would u recommend for > > > mandrake, and where do I get information to configure it? > > > Thanks > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake: rpm installed error
On Saturday 08 September 2001 14:55 pm, Mohammed Arafa wrote: > whenever i try to install an rpm ..software manager (rpmdrake) tells me > that the install generated errors: program already installed > but this is the first time i install the program (not part of the > distribution and/or update). > > i uninstalled rpmdrake and d/l the latest version adn installed that, i > still had the same problem. > > i have also done an rpm -rebuilddb twice to no avail. > > has anyone got any ideas to fix this? > > and b4 i forget, is there any way rpmdrake (or any other program) can > install the program and its dependencies? > > thanks > > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: I've given up on rpmdrake. It never works, not always for the same reason, but always something goes wrong. I've appealed for help many times but to no avail. The good news is that both kpackage and Gnorpm work a treat and using rpm or urpm from the command line work and are really not too difficult. I suggest that you try these alternatives,. Good luck. -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? If not Zhiang Zemin and Chinese polit bureaux would really like to hire you...that part of the world is Mecca for this sort of thing. I don't mind paying £100 for a developers application. However I realize that's wishful thinking, I do agree that like pop and movie stars some developer's incomes are disproportionate. As long as we are prepared to tame the beast of capitalism and market forces there should be no reason why we can't have fair recognition of ones labour. Human worth over profits. ( note my avoidance of the term HR, the latter has come to mean different beast altogether ). Sincerely S.S. -Original Message- From: Rick [Kitty5] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 September 2001 10:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already > Hi, I would want applications like Dreamweaver UltraDev and to a lesser > extent PhotoShop before I could comfortably abandon Windows. Someone ought > bring pressure to bare on Macromedia and thier ilk. as far as desktop machines go, windows boxes rule the world, Macromedia (or any other big player) are not going to port their product line until to any platform until its commercially viable and then there is going to be pressure for the software to be free, and the possibility that some clever open source bods will ape the entire product and give it away - in many ways Linux is a commercial developers nightmare, damned if you do and damned if you don't Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Proxy Server
Maybe a dumb question, but... (Apart from using a Linux box as your home network gateway) what do you use a proxy server for on the same machine as you access the net? Cheers, Rod. At 13:23 04/09/2001 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: >Squid is great. http://www.squid-proxy.org. Mandrake comes with Squid >however. > >Arthur H. Johnson II >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >The Linux Box >http://www.linuxbox.nu > >On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > May I know which proxy server would u recommend for > > mandrake, and where do I get information to configure it? > > Thanks > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake: rpm installed error
try installined with rpm -Uvh if i remember that does Update, verify, h... --nathan >From: "Mohammed Arafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Mandrake Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [newbie] rpmdrake: rpm installed error >Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:55:29 +0200 > >whenever i try to install an rpm ..software manager (rpmdrake) tells me >that >the install generated errors: program already installed >but this is the first time i install the program (not part of the >distribution and/or update). > >i uninstalled rpmdrake and d/l the latest version adn installed that, i >still had the same problem. > >i have also done an rpm -rebuilddb twice to no avail. > >has anyone got any ideas to fix this? > >and b4 i forget, is there any way rpmdrake (or any other program) can >install the program and its dependencies? > >thanks > > >_ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SiS 630 on Notebooks
civileme wrote:
> Hmmm, well the 630/730 is supposed to be commonly supported by SiS GPL
> drivers, but not generally on notebooks where the manufacturer has to do some
> special dodges just to get things to work (then writes special drivers for
> windows).
>
> I wish I had a place I could direct you for more advanced tweaks. If someone
> out there is running a wiki, maybe people could begin posting their tricks
> there for others to enjoy.
civileme,
Wow, thanks, what an opening! Unfortunately I'm not quite ready to take
advantage of it. I'm planning to run a TWiki on SourceForge for just
this kind of thing (and other similar things). I just haven't gotten it
off the ground yet.
Some of it's been inertia (laziness?), but I have a todo list which
includes writing some scripts and cron jobs, investigating ways to
shorten the URL (maybe actually buying a domain name), getting
SourceForge to consider the tweaks that would be needed to shorten the
URL, finishing mods to the templates, writing the home pages for each
web, getting SourceForge support to set the file permissions properly
(after I confirm them one more time), and making a final decision about
how I want to license the thing.
After it's up and running, I'd probably like to have some help in the
administrative tasks. Some being pure administrative, like making sure
backups are done and work, fixing problems, considering and then working
towards upgrades (I'm currently planning on basing the system on a
snapshot of the TWiki software taken in about March of this year --
their is a new version due out yesterday or today, but I wouldn't plan
to immediately upgrade -- it's taken me too long to get to this point,
changing horses would just delay things even further. Some other tasks
are more along the lines of moderation or content management. I plan to
put notes on a topic as I learn the topic. In the beginning there is a
good chance they will be wrong. I will have a mechanism to apply
ratings to the content, and want to maintain information about which
versions of software a statement applies to. (The ratings currently
include things like "Tidbits", "First Draft", "First Release", etc. (we
can consider different names). This is one of the todo tasks that needs
finalizing and clean up.
Maybe some debate on licensing might be among the most useful thing.
Some points:
- SourceForge has already approved the project (generally based on my
words which, from memory, were along the lines of "a documentation
project to support free and open source software").
- Most (many?) wikis state something like "Copyright © 2001 by the
contributing authors. All material on this collaboration tool is the
property of the contributing authors." This is OK, and probably exactly
what I want to do ...
- ... except that because of my present postion ("between jobs"), I'd
like some chance of making money from the thing, if it is successful
enough to develop commercial interest. I may need to consider:
- Asking that contributors to "signed pages" either donate
contributions (with a "signed" waiver if they are "substantial" (over
ten lines?), or agree that their modifications may be incorporated in a
"package" (a business?) that is sold (or rented) to a commercial
business (on an ongoing basis -- that is the twiki continues to run),
and with the proviso that their content continues to remain freely
accessible (with at most some advertising or a "true" micropayment type
thing (fractions of pennies, not multiples of whole dollars), and theirs
to also use for other purposes, etc.
- I guess really the same for contributors to unsigned pages.
- The same for originators of signed pages?
- The same for originators of unsigned pages
In the meantime, I've put a few pages on Peter Thoeny's (the creator of
TWiki, which is a variety of wiki) TWiki, specifically the Test web.
See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/AboutThesePages.
If anyone out there is interested in pushing this effort along (by
helping), let me know -- I can publish my ToDo list, and elaborate a
little on any tasks anyone is interested in. (Some of them are close
enough to completion that if I just go back and restart them, I can
probably finish them quickly -- if you ask about one, I might describe
it by finishing it. ;-) I am committed to some other things for the
next week or so.
Randy Kramer
PS: Maybe Mandrake would be interested in hosting and sponsoring this --
I know someone who would be willing to help set it up, get it started,
and run it (with help as needed). ;-)
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