Re: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Sounds like a great idea, although I'd be the kind of BOFH that puts a format or
fdisk command into the script. It's their fault for not securing their system
and then trying to infect me, after all ;)

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:05:40 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is what I have done...
> 
> I created a file in /sbin called aptly enough, nimda
> 
> make the file executable and put the code at the bottom of this mail in it..
> 
> then make a file called /var/tmp/blocked and make it writable...
> 
> make sure the path to your http error log directory is correct in the
> script..
> 
> and make a cron job to run this often, (I have been doing it every couple of
> minutes as it doesn't seem to chew alot of cpu or memory, even if it is
> parsing a 500mb error_log, (and I am doing it on my test server with a
> Ppro200 and 48mb of ram...)
> 
> it will create ipchains rules for each nasty nimda server and block them, it
> will also add their IP address to /var/tmp/blocked
> 
> you will need to change the rule alittle if you are using IPtables.. nothing
> too difficult though..
> 
> I am also using the hack that shuts down any server with root.exe on it..
> and that has made a substantial difference too..
> I only get scanned once by those servers because they shutdown immediately
> upon trying to infect my box works great..
> 
> I didn't want to do that.. but there are now 3500 IPaddress listed in my
> /var/tmp/blocked file, and ALL of them are infected and the amount goes up
> dramaticily each day, (altough it has backed off alot lately.)
> 
> I have some other scripts here that were donated to me, but I have yet to
> try them..
> 
> if you are using the stop iss server trick, you need to do what I did, check
> your httpd error log, (/var/log/httpd/error_log_ and see what directories
> the IIS servers are looking for,,, then create those directories and put the
> php script in there..
> 
> I have versions of it called Admin.dll, root.exe, default.ida and cmd.exe in
> each created directory structure...
> 
> all the php script does, is open linx to the url of the server and issue the
> shutdown code to root.exe on that box, (I figure any box that now has nimda
> previously had CoderedII and will still have root.exe, seems to be true
> too...
> 
> hope this helps..
> 
> I don't know of the legalities of the shutdown code, but I look at it this
> way,, I just put the file on my server, I am not infecteding anyone with it,
> if their servers request it, thats their problem, not mine,,
> 
> I could just as easily but a bat file up for download that said "format c:\"
> or something similiar on my server and if someone was dumb enough to
> download and run it, its not my problem because I didn't infect them, they
> downloaded it.
> 
> same diff with the stop server php script, it is on my server alone, I don't
> promote it, if a infected server comes to mine and grabs it,, that is not my
> problem,, I held of doing this for ages in the hope that it will stop, but I
> am now going to get a huge ISP bill for my permanent connection and what do
> I do,?? charge it to the infected servers
> 
> They wouldn't pay even if I could get them all,,, ,(most of the pages on
> those servers are default NT/2000 iis pages, meaning that the people don't
> even know they are running a web server...)
> 
> if shutting down their server, (rather then hacking and damageing it, or
> leaving it up so that others can.) does not get their attention and get them
> patched,,, then nothing does.. I view this as doing them a favour as if
> there server gets shutdown, then other nasty types can't use the root.exe to
> install back doors and such.
> 
> does anyone else have an opinion on this??
> 
> rgds
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
> Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 9:57 PM
> To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
> Subject: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...
> 
> 
> 
> You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are affecting
> me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my weblogs.
> I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response time and
> connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully slow.
> 
> If I open up port 80 on my firewall my weblogs are flooded with these
> viruses.  A lot of the ip addresses are coming from my ISPs subnet.  Is
> there anyway that I can let my ISP know about this and have then contact the
> people infected by these viruses to let me know.  I would imagine that they
> already know about it.  How can we get this stuff cleaned up?
> 
> 
> Will this insanity ever end?
> 
> 
> 
> 



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Re: Sig file, was Re: [newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP

[Roger Sherman]

Cool! Thanks, man! Wonder if that'll work in my pinerc...

Only one way to find out, eh? ;-)



On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Tim Holmes wrote:

> I have a line in my ~/.muttrc that goes in and adds that to the end of
> my signature.  There are various ways to do this, but here's how I do
> it.
>
> set signature='cat /home/timh/.signature ; echo  "Uptime: " ; echo
> ""
> ;uptime; echo "
> "|'
>
> I put that all on one line in my ~/.muttrc and it adds that in there.
> You can off course get rid of some of the information, or change how
> it's presented, or even just print out the uptime by cutting out what
> you want with a command like:
>
> [timh@eric timh]$ uptime | awk '{print $2,$3,$4}'
> up 4 days,
>
> That's not my home workstations, which has a much better uptime to look
> at, but I've not going through and created a script to pull that
> information.  But:
>
> [timh@r2d2 timh]$ uptime
>  11:09pm  up 58 days,  2:41, 23 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.08
>
> Would like a lot better at the end of a signature! ;0)
> tdh
>
>


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RE: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

[Franki]

Hi,

Here is what I have done...

I created a file in /sbin called aptly enough, nimda

make the file executable and put the code at the bottom of this mail in it..

then make a file called /var/tmp/blocked and make it writable...

make sure the path to your http error log directory is correct in the
script..

and make a cron job to run this often, (I have been doing it every couple of
minutes as it doesn't seem to chew alot of cpu or memory, even if it is
parsing a 500mb error_log, (and I am doing it on my test server with a
Ppro200 and 48mb of ram...)

it will create ipchains rules for each nasty nimda server and block them, it
will also add their IP address to /var/tmp/blocked

you will need to change the rule alittle if you are using IPtables.. nothing
too difficult though..

I am also using the hack that shuts down any server with root.exe on it..
and that has made a substantial difference too..
I only get scanned once by those servers because they shutdown immediately
upon trying to infect my box works great..

I didn't want to do that.. but there are now 3500 IPaddress listed in my
/var/tmp/blocked file, and ALL of them are infected and the amount goes up
dramaticily each day, (altough it has backed off alot lately.)

I have some other scripts here that were donated to me, but I have yet to
try them..

if you are using the stop iss server trick, you need to do what I did, check
your httpd error log, (/var/log/httpd/error_log_ and see what directories
the IIS servers are looking for,,, then create those directories and put the
php script in there..

I have versions of it called Admin.dll, root.exe, default.ida and cmd.exe in
each created directory structure...

all the php script does, is open linx to the url of the server and issue the
shutdown code to root.exe on that box, (I figure any box that now has nimda
previously had CoderedII and will still have root.exe, seems to be true
too...

hope this helps..

I don't know of the legalities of the shutdown code, but I look at it this
way,, I just put the file on my server, I am not infecteding anyone with it,
if their servers request it, thats their problem, not mine,,

I could just as easily but a bat file up for download that said "format c:\"
or something similiar on my server and if someone was dumb enough to
download and run it, its not my problem because I didn't infect them, they
downloaded it.

same diff with the stop server php script, it is on my server alone, I don't
promote it, if a infected server comes to mine and grabs it,, that is not my
problem,, I held of doing this for ages in the hope that it will stop, but I
am now going to get a huge ISP bill for my permanent connection and what do
I do,?? charge it to the infected servers

They wouldn't pay even if I could get them all,,, ,(most of the pages on
those servers are default NT/2000 iis pages, meaning that the people don't
even know they are running a web server...)

if shutting down their server, (rather then hacking and damageing it, or
leaving it up so that others can.) does not get their attention and get them
patched,,, then nothing does.. I view this as doing them a favour as if
there server gets shutdown, then other nasty types can't use the root.exe to
install back doors and such.

does anyone else have an opinion on this??

rgds

Frank


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 9:57 PM
To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
Subject: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...



You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are affecting
me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my weblogs.
I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response time and
connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully slow.

If I open up port 80 on my firewall my weblogs are flooded with these
viruses.  A lot of the ip addresses are coming from my ISPs subnet.  Is
there anyway that I can let my ISP know about this and have then contact the
people infected by these viruses to let me know.  I would imagine that they
already know about it.  How can we get this stuff cleaned up?


Will this insanity ever end?





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Re: [newbie] Bastille-related problem: can't log in as su . . .

[Paul Rodríguez]

The file size limit you are experiencing is a result of an option you
set "Would you like to put limits on system resource usage?"  In the
past I have had to choose "no" in order to avoid the issue you are
experiencing.

-Paul Rodríguez


On 21 Sep 2001 22:16:57 -0700, WCBaker wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I used InteractiveBastille.   Subsequently I could not go into a terminal in
> a non-root account and log in as su.   As soon as I enter the correct
> password I get the message "File size limit exceeded".   I don't think that
> the log files could be so big (I only re-installed a few days ago and have
> not been on the system much)
> 
> Also, when I returned to Interactive-Bastille in another session, to reset
> some options, there seemed to be no effect. . .   Is there something like a
> "Bastille-reload"?
> 
> I'm clearly clobbering myself but I'm not sure how.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -warren
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Try running "update-menus -v".

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 20:02:35 -0700 (PDT), Manuel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Yea, save session was my very first thought.
> 
> As I said, this ONLY happens with launchers that come from the "mandrake
> menu", gnome apps work fine, and if I manually create the launcher it
> stays as well...
> 
> Panel > Add to Panel > Launcer from Menu > Mandrake menus
> 
> ANYTHING added from that mandrake menu leaves after you logout.
> 
> Please, somebody try it on a fresh 8.0 install :)
> 
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Charles A. Punch wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried to "save session" before exiting? Sometimes, (probably
> > not in this instance) it helps to specify if you are in GNOME or KDE.
> >
> >
> > ShalomOut
> >Chal
> >
> > Elder PCUSA
> > Registered Linux user #217118
> >
> > The computer can't tell you the emotional story.  It can give you the exact
> > mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
> > - Frank Zappa
> >
> >
> > Manuel Drake wrote:
> >
> > >I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to
> > >my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a
> > >launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next.
> > >
> > >>From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing
> > >it.
> > >
> > >Anything I can do to fix this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
> > >
> > > message.footer
> > >
> > > Content-Type:
> > >
> > > text/plain
> > > Content-Encoding:
> > >
> > > 8bit
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 



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LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
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Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?

[Manuel Drake]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, s wrote:

> On Friday 21 September 2001 10:46 pm,  Manuel Drake wrote:
> > What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU?
>
> Please do a search, this has been discussed to death on all the forums.

Ok, read up... Hrmm, so I guess it's only an illusion?

Eek.




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Re: [newbie] Bastille-related problem: can't log in as su . . .

[WCBaker]

Hi!

I used InteractiveBastille.   Subsequently I could not go into a terminal in
a non-root account and log in as su.   As soon as I enter the correct
password I get the message "File size limit exceeded".   I don't think that
the log files could be so big (I only re-installed a few days ago and have
not been on the system much)

Also, when I returned to Interactive-Bastille in another session, to reset
some options, there seemed to be no effect. . .   Is there something like a
"Bastille-reload"?

I'm clearly clobbering myself but I'm not sure how.

Cheers!

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Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

[Manuel Drake]

> > error: failed dependencies:
> > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by pan-0.10.0-1
> >
> > And when I tried to upgrade glibc, it fought me, and I just don't have the
> > time to update everything... I got work to do :)
> >
> > Good luck, pass back a success story!
>
> Assuming that you're trying to install a Cooker package, this problem would be
> because Cooker uses GLIBC 2.2.3, whereas Mandrake 8.0 uses 2.2.2. You have
> several options here:

Correct.

> 1. You can upgrade your GLIBC. The best way to do this would be to install
> Mandrake Freq3.
> 2. Better yet, wait for Mandrake 8.1, which is due early next week.
> 3. Compile PAN from source. You can get the Cooker SRPM and issue a "rpm
> --rebuild" to it.
> 4. Get a binary package from elsewhere (e.g. Red Hat or Ximian packages).
> 5. Install Ximian GNOME.
>
> I took option 5, because I am a GNOME user as well.

I've been looking at it, but I think I'll take option 2 and hope that the
upgrade scheme works better than it does in 8.0, which takes a long time
to determine what's installed, and then tells me nothing is.  I've been
loathe to start over with 8.0 this week, had work to do.

Thanks for the options.

BTW: What's Freq3?




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Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

[Manuel Drake]

Good call, I guess, it hangs here:

Can't stat /home/manuel/.kde/share/applnk-mdk: No such file or directory

dunno why I'd need KDE though, guess that could be the root of more than a
couple of current problemsthough.??

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:

> Try running "update-menus -v".
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 20:02:35 -0700 (PDT), Manuel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Yea, save session was my very first thought.
> >
> > As I said, this ONLY happens with launchers that come from the "mandrake
> > menu", gnome apps work fine, and if I manually create the launcher it
> > stays as well...
> >
> > Panel > Add to Panel > Launcer from Menu > Mandrake menus
> >
> > ANYTHING added from that mandrake menu leaves after you logout.
> >
> > Please, somebody try it on a fresh 8.0 install :)
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Charles A. Punch wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried to "save session" before exiting? Sometimes, (probably
> > > not in this instance) it helps to specify if you are in GNOME or KDE.
> > >
> > >
> > > ShalomOut
> > >Chal
> > >
> > > Elder PCUSA
> > > Registered Linux user #217118
> > >
> > > The computer can't tell you the emotional story.  It can give you the exact
> > > mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
> > > - Frank Zappa
> > >
> > >
> > > Manuel Drake wrote:
> > >
> > > >I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to
> > > >my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a
> > > >launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next.
> > > >
> > > >>From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing
> > > >it.
> > > >
> > > >Anything I can do to fix this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> > > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
> > > >
> > > > message.footer
> > > >
> > > > Content-Type:
> > > >
> > > > text/plain
> > > > Content-Encoding:
> > > >
> > > > 8bit
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> 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] What program for news ??

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:49:41 -0700 (PDT), Manuel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > IMHO, PAN is the best for this.
> 
> I agree wholeheartedly, PAN (Pimp Ass Newsreader) is the best, but
> mandrake has thusfar fought me in installing the latest version.
> 
> There's a built in older version in Mandrake 8 if you installed it, just
> type 'pan'
> 
> Now to figure out why I couldn't get the latest version installed...
> 
> Oh yea:
> 
> error: failed dependencies:
>   libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by pan-0.10.0-1
> 
> And when I tried to upgrade glibc, it fought me, and I just don't have the
> time to update everything... I got work to do :)
> 
> Good luck, pass back a success story!

Assuming that you're trying to install a Cooker package, this problem would be
because Cooker uses GLIBC 2.2.3, whereas Mandrake 8.0 uses 2.2.2. You have
several options here:

1. You can upgrade your GLIBC. The best way to do this would be to install
Mandrake Freq3.
2. Better yet, wait for Mandrake 8.1, which is due early next week.
3. Compile PAN from source. You can get the Cooker SRPM and issue a "rpm
--rebuild" to it.
4. Get a binary package from elsewhere (e.g. Red Hat or Ximian packages).
5. Install Ximian GNOME.

I took option 5, because I am a GNOME user as well.

-- 
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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[newbie] E-mail importer

[Admin]

Hello:

Does anybody know of a utility which will import the email addresses in 
Outlook Express into the KDE mail client?  Thank you

Dexter



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Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

[James R. McKenzie]

Not to ask a dumb question but why did you want a 5.25 inch drive?  No one
makes the disks any more and they're slower than hell in hot.
 T H A N K   Y O U


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To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:43 PM
Subject: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help


> I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive.  (I
> really wanted a 5.25 drive.)  ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up
> to my system.  It has a PCMCIA drive socket.  I thought that was for
> laptops.  ANybody know how to hook this up to my machine?  Not even the
> power chords seem to fit.
>
> -Paul Rodríguez
>
>
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Re: [newbie] sound blaster live

[Paul Rodríguez]

Thanks!  I forgot about sndconfig, didn't even have it installed.  You
know, this is the first time I've successfully heard Linus' voice via
the program?  I remember my first try at Linux, Linus refused to speak,
and ever since then, my sound cards have been detected automagically.

Thanks again.

-Paul Rodríguez

On 21 Sep 2001 23:26:11 -0400, s wrote:
> On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:08 am,  Paul Rodríguez wrote:
> > I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the
> > box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right?  What I mean by this is installing a
> > new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think).
> > If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card
> > *after* I have already installed the os?
> >
> > -Paul Rodríguez
> 
> Just make sure kudzu or hardware detection is turned on in services before 
> you shut down to install.  As an alternative, you might try sndconfig after 
> booting.
> -s
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] sound blaster live

[s]

On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:08 am,  Paul Rodríguez wrote:
> I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the
> box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right?  What I mean by this is installing a
> new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think).
> If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card
> *after* I have already installed the os?
>
> -Paul Rodríguez

Just make sure kudzu or hardware detection is turned on in services before 
you shut down to install.  As an alternative, you might try sndconfig after 
booting.
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Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

[Manuel Drake]

Gnome, actually, and yes, you're probably right... once I figure out
what's what with versions.

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Joseph Braddock wrote:

> If you are using KDE 2.1, then this is a bug.  2.2 (and 2.2.1) fix it.
>
> On Friday 21 September 2001 08:44 am, you wrote:
> > I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to
> > my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a
> > launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next.
> >
> > From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing
> > it.
> >
> > Anything I can do to fix this?
>
>




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[newbie] sound blaster live

[Paul Rodríguez]

I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the
box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right?  What I mean by this is installing a
new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think).
If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card
*after* I have already installed the os?

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Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

[Joseph Braddock]

If you are using KDE 2.1, then this is a bug.  2.2 (and 2.2.1) fix it.

On Friday 21 September 2001 08:44 am, you wrote:
> I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to
> my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a
> launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next.
>
> From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing
> it.
>
> Anything I can do to fix this?



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Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

[Joseph Braddock]

Whata PCTel chipset is on your 3Com modem?  I've using several different 
winmodems based on the PCTel chipset on several linux boxes and haven't had 
any problem.  What problems did you have with the driver?

Joe

On Saturday 18 August 2001 12:33 am, you wrote:
> I'm using both COM ports already and my board only has 1 ISA slot, and
> I have a SBAwe 64 on it.
>
> Ok, I'm willing to do the setserial and symlink combo thingies
> But PCI is the only thing I have left...really.
> I have a 3Com winmodem and I hate it.
> I've even tried the PCTel driver, in desperation...no luck.
>
> I haven't tried USB externals, how do those work in MDK?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >yes, his name is mario and he lives just down the street from here... :-)
> >
> >As for the Modem, externals are really no config.. linux conf has a modem
> >detect that creates a symlink that links /dev/ttysX to /dev/modem and
> > thats most of your config done there..
> >
> >As for the internals, I have had some success with non PNP isa cards, but
> >you would very likely find an external easier to get sorted.
> >
> >
> >On another note, I have just "bought" my first linux distro,, I have been
> >using links for many many years, but always got it from somewhere, never
> >paid for it before..
> >
> >but I just lashed out and preordered/prepaid 165 odd bucks AU for Mdk8.1
> >powerpack,,, I am sorta excited... :-)
> >hopefully I will soon make a flawless leap from mdk7.2 and 2.2kernels to
> > 8.1 and 2.4 on all our servers... (thats why I didn't swap with mdk8, we
> > worry about major new releases on first versions)
> >
> >woooh not as good as buying shares in mandrake I supose, but at
> >least I am supporting the movement.
> >
> >rgds
> >
> >Frank
> >
> >-Original Message-
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp
> >Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 7:01 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem
> >
> >
> >I don't think you are gonna find a cheap OR a pci modem that does not
> >require
> >any configuration. you might look at e-bay and find an old 28.8 external
> >cheap, and an external requires LESS config than PCI. I want a pizza maker
> >that spits out a pizza on nights that i am to tired to fix dinner, without
> >me
> >having to even open the box or tell it I am tired too, and I want it to
> > have the correct popings when the pizza is done,,, know where I can get
> > one of those? 
> >
> >On Friday 17 August 2001 18:10, you wrote:
> >> Anybody know of a "cheap" PCI non-winmodem supported by kernel
> >> 2.2.?
> >> While I'm at it, how about for 2.4.xxx?
> >>
> >> I've been to http://./~gromitkrc and linmodems, but can't make
> >> a suitable choice.
> >>
> >> I want one that configures itself...doesn't make me have to load any
> >> modules.
> >>
> >> TIA.
> >>
> >> __
> >> www.edsamail.com
> >
> >
> >Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer"
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?

[s]

On Friday 21 September 2001 10:46 pm,  Manuel Drake wrote:
> What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU?

Please do a search, this has been discussed to death on all the forums.
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[newbie] Gphoto and usb connection

[Dennis Myers]

Hi all, I am trying to use my digital camera with a usb connection.  It is 
a Kodak DC3400 and works great with the serial connection. It just 
downloads kinda slow and I know the usb connection would be faster 
but.. If I check the "other" box in the config camera what do I put in 
the blank for the usb port? Is it something like ttyxx? TIA for any help. 
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Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

[Paul Rodríguez]

Thanks, Randy.  That sounds like it.  I live in the NY Metro area, I'll
look arround.  I don't really know of any hobbyist places, but there
must be some.

Thanks!

I guess this betrays my age a bit.  I'd never seen one of these before.
:)

-Paul Rodríguez

On 21 Sep 2001 22:58:02 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Paul Rodríguez wrote:
> > Ooops, not a PCMCIA card.  That's why it seemed so confusing, I was
> > reading bogus information.  My 5.25" is more like an ISA or AGP slot (on
> > the back instead of side) and only 3" long.  I think it is called a
> > 34-pin edge connector.  WHat is this and can I get some sort of adapter?
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I assume that you are talking about the connector on the drive?  And it
> looks like a printed circuit board with 17 copper traces on the top and
> 17 copper traces on the bottom, and a slot cut between the 2nd and 3rd
> trace from one end?
> 
> I suspect that what you have is the "old style" standard floppy disk
> connector, for which you need an "old style" floppy disk cable.
> 
> There was also a period of time when floppy cables were made with both
> types of connectors, and there were also adapters made.
> 
> I don't know where you live, but a computer store with something of a
> "hobbyist" slant should certainly be able to help you. 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Randy Kramer
> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] another 5.25"floppy question

[etharp]

did you set the BIOS to recognize the other size drive? 
]On Friday 21 September 2001 22:47, you wrote:
> I am testing a bunch of floppy drives on my system.  With the
> 3.5"drives, all I had to do was swap them and my system couldn't tell
> the difference.  With the 5.25" disks, I just get a input/output error.
> Is there anything I need to do to get my system to recognize it or
> should it not be making a distinction?
>
> -Paul Rodríguez
>
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Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

[Manuel Drake]

Yea, save session was my very first thought.

As I said, this ONLY happens with launchers that come from the "mandrake
menu", gnome apps work fine, and if I manually create the launcher it
stays as well...

Panel > Add to Panel > Launcer from Menu > Mandrake menus

ANYTHING added from that mandrake menu leaves after you logout.

Please, somebody try it on a fresh 8.0 install :)

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Charles A. Punch wrote:

> Have you tried to "save session" before exiting? Sometimes, (probably
> not in this instance) it helps to specify if you are in GNOME or KDE.
>
>
> ShalomOut
>Chal
>
> Elder PCUSA
> Registered Linux user #217118
>
> The computer can't tell you the emotional story.  It can give you the exact
> mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
> - Frank Zappa
>
>
> Manuel Drake wrote:
>
> >I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to
> >my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a
> >launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next.
> >
> >>From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing
> >it.
> >
> >Anything I can do to fix this?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [newbie] Need to install all the developers packages

[Manuel Drake]

> On Friday 21 September 2001 18:45, Robt. Miller wrote:
> > When I did the install I left out the developers packages. Is there a way
> > to install all of them without screwing up my system?
>
> urpmi *-devel-*


Hrmm, thought it might help me too, but no such luck...  seems upgrades
elsewhere didn't help it.

PAGES of this:

file /usr/lib/libldap.so conflicts between attemped installs of
libldap2-devel-2.0.7-5mdk and libldap1-devel-1.2.11-2mdk
file /usr/share/man/man3/lber-decode.3.bz2 conflicts between attemped
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Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

[Randy Kramer]

Paul Rodríguez wrote:
> Ooops, not a PCMCIA card.  That's why it seemed so confusing, I was
> reading bogus information.  My 5.25" is more like an ISA or AGP slot (on
> the back instead of side) and only 3" long.  I think it is called a
> 34-pin edge connector.  WHat is this and can I get some sort of adapter?

Paul,

I assume that you are talking about the connector on the drive?  And it
looks like a printed circuit board with 17 copper traces on the top and
17 copper traces on the bottom, and a slot cut between the 2nd and 3rd
trace from one end?

I suspect that what you have is the "old style" standard floppy disk
connector, for which you need an "old style" floppy disk cable.

There was also a period of time when floppy cables were made with both
types of connectors, and there were also adapters made.

I don't know where you live, but a computer store with something of a
"hobbyist" slant should certainly be able to help you. 

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Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

[Manuel Drake]

> > Thanks!
>
> IMHO, PAN is the best for this.

I agree wholeheartedly, PAN (Pimp Ass Newsreader) is the best, but
mandrake has thusfar fought me in installing the latest version.

There's a built in older version in Mandrake 8 if you installed it, just
type 'pan'

Now to figure out why I couldn't get the latest version installed...

Oh yea:

error: failed dependencies:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by pan-0.10.0-1

And when I tried to upgrade glibc, it fought me, and I just don't have the
time to update everything... I got work to do :)

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[newbie] another 5.25"floppy question

[Paul Rodríguez]

I am testing a bunch of floppy drives on my system.  With the
3.5"drives, all I had to do was swap them and my system couldn't tell
the difference.  With the 5.25" disks, I just get a input/output error.
Is there anything I need to do to get my system to recognize it or
should it not be making a distinction?

-Paul Rodríguez


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[newbie] kapm-idled?

[Manuel Drake]

What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU?




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Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:12:58 +0200 (CEST), fred august <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael
> 
> thanks for the advice. Gee, I'm really Newbie!
> ok, so var is full and I guess that's where the 
> man would decompress... Is it easy to change the space
> allowed for var or do I need to repartition the HD?
> 
> the output is
> 
> FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 486M   50M  411M  11% /
> /dev/hda5 3.8G   14M  3.6G   1% /home
> /dev/hda6 2.9G  938M  1.8G  34% /usr
> /dev/hda8  45M   46M 0 100% /var
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> f

I'm afraid that if you're not using LVM, a repartition is the only real way out.
When you repartition, make sure that you allocate enough room for future growth.

Alternatively, you can set up a symlink farm from /var to another partition
(which can become quite confusing). You can also go through /var and delete old
logs which would be taking up space. This is only a short-term solution, though.

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Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:20:14 -0400, Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I apologize;  I stand corrected.  I got the following from
> > http://linux.com/develop/man/1/su
> > 
> 
> > 
> > From this, I take it that it stands for "Substitute User".
> > 
> > (I got "Super User" from a book, and when I remember which one it was, I
> > will post its name here)
> 
> David,
> 
> No need to post the name of the book.  Referring to SU as the "Super
> User" seems to be a common thing to do, among users and books.  I
> suspect that civileme gave the correct original answer in his post, but
> I forget exactly what he said -- was it "Switch UID" (or substitute UID?

It was SetUid (an old command from libc), which means "Set User ID". Therefore,
su means "Set User".

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Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

[Paul Rodríguez]

Ooops, not a PCMCIA card.  That's why it seemed so confusing, I was
reading bogus information.  My 5.25" is more like an ISA or AGP slot (on
the back instead of side) and only 3" long.  I think it is called a
34-pin edge connector.  WHat is this and can I get some sort of adapter?
-Paul Rodríguez


On 21 Sep 2001 20:23:48 -0500, Matt Greer wrote:
> On Friday 21 September 2001 17:43, you wrote:
> > I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive.  (I
> > really wanted a 5.25 drive.)  ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up
> > to my system.  It has a PCMCIA drive socket.  I thought that was for
> > laptops.  ANybody know how to hook this up to my machine?  Not even the
> > power chords seem to fit.
> 
> You're gonna need something like this
> 
> http://www.pccard.co.uk/pci/wirelesslan.html
> 
> I have no clue on what linux would think of that thing.
> 
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Re: [newbie] 8.0, PPC, and USB Zip

[A V Flinsch]

On Friday 21 September 2001 05:34 pm, you wrote:

>
> mount won't mount /dev/sda; it says 'unknown device'.
>
> How can I fix this?

try /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4


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[newbie] MD Walkman & USB connection

[Tim Holmes]

This may be slightly off topic, but since there are so many people on
the list, maybe somebody has heard of something that might help me.

I just replaced my portable MiniDisc player.  The newer ones of course
support a USB connection so you can load MP3s and record CDs to the
MiniDiscs.  Does anybody know of anybody that's gotten this to work?
Where they can transfer MP3s over to the MiniDisc player?  Or anything
like that.

My sister's machine is a dual boot machine.  She only uses Windows to
play Unreal Tourey & The Sims.  I could use that, but I'd rather just
use Linux.

Does anybody have any experience of suggests about this?  Thanks
everybody!
tdh

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Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

[Matt Greer]

On Friday 21 September 2001 17:43, you wrote:
> I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive.  (I
> really wanted a 5.25 drive.)  ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up
> to my system.  It has a PCMCIA drive socket.  I thought that was for
> laptops.  ANybody know how to hook this up to my machine?  Not even the
> power chords seem to fit.

You're gonna need something like this

http://www.pccard.co.uk/pci/wirelesslan.html

I have no clue on what linux would think of that thing.

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RE: [newbie] Bastille firewall

[Paul Rodríguez]

Did you choose the option in setting up Bastille that said "Disable SUID
for floppy" or "mount and unmount" or some something like that?

-Paul Rodríguez

On 19 Sep 2001 00:11:53 -0400, Vinh N. Pham wrote:
> Thank you, I know it works now.  And as a result, my cdrom and floppy disk
> do not work anymore.  I can still read the Windows partition though.  Do you
> know how I can fix this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vinh N. Pham
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Rodríguez
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Bastille firewall
> 
> 
> As root run logview, also accessible from the menu at Applicaions >
> Monitoring > System Log Viewer.
> 
> Not sure about a write-as-you-go firewall scripter like ZoneAlarm.
> 
> -Paul Rodríguez
> 
> On 18 Sep 2001 11:35:39 -0400, Vinh N. Pham wrote:
> > How can I know whether my Bastille filewall is working at all.  I can't
> > find any process when I do a "ps aux" that name bastille.
> >
> > Seem to me (through what I see in the interactive setup) that Bastille
> > only block certain service  Is there anything similar to ZoneLabs in
> > Window where I can approve or not base on certain application?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Vinh N. Pham
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

[Linus Drouhard]

On Friday 21 September 2001  6:02, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> I'm not sure what I'd tweak...
> It seems to print ok, but it has no pure ascii mode. It does everything
> as graphics (nice grey scale text, and lines...), and it's hopelessly slow.
>
(snip)
You should be able to fix the slow part by INCREASING the resolution.  For 
some reason, the Epson printer drivers default to a non-supported resolution 
of something like 180 dpi.  Change that to 360 or higher and you'll probably 
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Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap

[Michael D. Viron]

There are a few things you can do:

1.  Repartition the drive (which pretty much means a re-install) as follows:

/ approx 600 - 700 MB
/usr approx 3.5 GB (gives you a little more room in case you decide to load
more programs down the road)
leave your swap size the same
give the rest to /home.

2. Take a look in /var/log, and see if there are any .[1-9] files or .gz
files.  If so, they can be deleted (since they are nothing more than old
copies of your log files).  Also check in /var/spool/mail, and do an ls -al
to see how large your mail spool files are getting.  The 'root' user
account gets a lot of e-mail from various cron jobs that occur regularly
(if the machine is on 24/7) and so therefore might be kind of large.

3.  Try to figure out where it is trying to uncompress the man files (I
think /var/tmp maybe? or /var/cache) and make that a symbolic link to a
similarly named directory on /home (where you have plenty of room).

Michael

At 01:12 AM 09/22/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Michael
>
>thanks for the advice. Gee, I'm really Newbie!
>ok, so var is full and I guess that's where the 
>man would decompress... Is it easy to change the space
>allowed for var or do I need to repartition the HD?
>
>the output is
>
>FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda1 486M   50M  411M  11% /
>/dev/hda5 3.8G   14M  3.6G   1% /home
>/dev/hda6 2.9G  938M  1.8G  34% /usr
>/dev/hda8  45M   46M 0 100% /var
>
>
>thanks
>
>f
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Re: [newbie] staroffice print

[Linus Drouhard]

On Friday 21 September 2001 10:47, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> belcoop wrote:
> > How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed
> > fine, but how can I make it print?
> >
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[newbie] Epson 105+ printing problem

[L.V.Gandhi]

We wanted to utilize  Epson 105+ for printing with Linux. Printer driver 
selected for epson 9 pin med res. Other epson dotmatrix options don't work.
I get in a particular line top half of line is printed separately and then 
bottom half. How to avoid it and get normal printing?
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Re: [newbie] Modem Not Responding

[Carroll Grigsby]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I'm a new convert to Linux who jumped right in and deleted all Windows from
> my computer. Everything works fine and I love the LM 8.0 interface. All
> programs work...except for the most important thing of connecting to the
> internet. I get a "Sorry, modem not responding" message each time. I've tried
> to configure the connection several times but no change. My modem isn't
> listed in the database, so I don't know if it's unsupported, but I do know
> that I'm using the Conexant SoftK56 PCI Modem.
> 
> I'm hoping (praying) that the "Soft" doesn't mean that it's the kind of
> software modem that's not supported by Linux. That's probably wishful
> thinking, huh? But I'm holding out hope there's something else I can do. If
> there are any ideas out there I'd appreciate it. Is the only other option to
> buy a new (probably external) modem? Thanks for any help.
> 
> BTW I'm using my roommate's computer to write this...
> 
You may not be completely out of luck -- there are some Conexant modems
that have been made to work under Linux. It depends on the chipset. Go
to:
www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
About half-way down the page, click on the "View the entire table"
label, and then search out your particular model. Conexant shows up in a
number of places in the list -- most of them are winmodems for which no
cure has been found, but there are a few that will work with some effort
on your part. (If you're using Netscape, the Find/Find Again function
will speed things up.)
In the meantime, be very nice to your roomie.
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Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

[Ben Bayer]

- Original Message -
From: "etharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem


> zoom and aktiontec both make less expensive pci (and linux compatible)
> modems. the call waiting from actiontec wipes a$$ in linux, in my opinion
and
> experience
>

I'll second that.  The actiontec call waiting modem was the cheapest
real-modem I could find back when I first started using linux, they are
about $70 US.  The call-waiting part saves you having to get a second phone
line for the modem.  It works transparently in linux or windows--the modem
rings when you get a call, you can answer and talk briefly, or hang up and
keep surfing.  The only difficulty I've had is having to put a setserial
line in rc.local to configure the irq and i/o port.  Actiontec's website
describes how to do that.

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Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

[Charles A. Punch]

Have you tried to "save session" before exiting? Sometimes, (probably 
not in this instance) it helps to specify if you are in GNOME or KDE.


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>I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to
>my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a
>launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next.
>
>>From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing
>it.
>
>Anything I can do to fix this?
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Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap

[fred august]

Michael

thanks for the advice. Gee, I'm really Newbie!
ok, so var is full and I guess that's where the 
man would decompress... Is it easy to change the space
allowed for var or do I need to repartition the HD?

the output is

FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 486M   50M  411M  11% /
/dev/hda5 3.8G   14M  3.6G   1% /home
/dev/hda6 2.9G  938M  1.8G  34% /usr
/dev/hda8  45M   46M 0 100% /var


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Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

[Ric Tibbetts]

I'm not sure what I'd tweak...
It seems to print ok, but it has no pure ascii mode. It does everything 
as graphics (nice grey scale text, and lines...), and it's hopelessly slow.

I still have my old HP. So the thought is to only use the Epson for 
photo work (from winders (ugh)), and use the HP for ascii.

I really dislike that solution. But reprots are that the photo print 
quality on the HP Photosmart 1000 is not as good as the Epson 785EPX. So 
I guess I'll have to accept the limitations to get the quality I was 
looking for.

Ric


s wrote:

> On Friday 21 September 2001 12:07 pm,  Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for all the suggestions.
>>For some pretty lame reasons, I ended up with the Epson 785EPX.
>>Does a great job... From Winders. Linux doesn't fair so well. It works
>>"kind of", but it's not actually supported. I had to configure it as a
>>780, with so - so  results.
>>I may take it back and get the HP. I KNOW it's supported.
>>Or... I'll just wait a short time for Linux to catch up. :) It's a very
>>new printer, so I'm not surprised it's not supported "yet". But a short
>>wait should fix that problem.
>>
>>
>>
>>Ric
>>
> 
> Depending on your problems, maybe you could tweak it in qt-cups > properties.
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Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap

[Michael D. Viron]

>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:55:40 -0500
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: "Michael D. Viron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap
>
>At 12:45 AM 09/22/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hi, 
>>I've been running Red Hat Linux 7.0 with 2.4 kernel
>>for a couple of months now, very happily. Two weird
>>things have recently happened:
>>
>>1) when I try to use man I get an error that says
>>
>>gzip: stdout: No place left on the device
>>Error executing formatting or display command.
>>
>>et.c. et.c.
>It would be useful to see your partition information.
>
>Run df -h, and post the output.
>
>Also, try updating to the most recent man rpm, available from 
>ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/man-1.5i2-0.7x.5.i386.rpm

Sorry...that should have been:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/i386/man-1.5i2-0.7x.5.i386.rpm

>(They just released the update today)
>Michael
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Re: [newbie] so many shells?

[Randy Kramer]

David E. Fox wrote:
> You might try echoing the text rhrough printf, or getting the output of
> printf %4d $i into another shell variable for execution. Echoing the
> valur to printf deosn't seem to work; that jsut prints zeros on my
> system.

Thanks, I'll have to try that.

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[newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

[Paul Rodríguez]

I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive.  (I
really wanted a 5.25 drive.)  ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up
to my system.  It has a PCMCIA drive socket.  I thought that was for
laptops.  ANybody know how to hook this up to my machine?  Not even the
power chords seem to fit.

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Re: [newbie] so many shells?

[David E. Fox]

> I once had the need to format a number with leading zeros.  (I wanted
> the script file to create file names like file001, file002, ... file010,

You might try echoing the text rhrough printf, or getting the output of
printf %4d $i into another shell variable for execution. Echoing the 
valur to printf deosn't seem to work; that jsut prints zeros on my
system.

> Randy Kramer

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Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

[Rick [Kitty5]]

> When you first logged into Ximian GNOME, you would have been greeted with
the
> Ximian Doorman. The Doorman would have given you the choice of having
Nautilus,
> GMC or nothing at all to manage your desktop. If you chose the third
option
> (nothing at all), you will not have any desktop icons. You can invoke the
> Doorman again with the command "doorman".

or as I recently found on the ximian site

in a terminal window "doorman-reset", then quit gnome (and X) logout and
back in again, you will get a fresh doorman, and pick the second option (for
custom options)

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Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

[s]

On Friday 21 September 2001 12:07 pm,  Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions.
> For some pretty lame reasons, I ended up with the Epson 785EPX.
> Does a great job... From Winders. Linux doesn't fair so well. It works
> "kind of", but it's not actually supported. I had to configure it as a
> 780, with so - so  results.
> I may take it back and get the HP. I KNOW it's supported.
> Or... I'll just wait a short time for Linux to catch up. :) It's a very
> new printer, so I'm not surprised it's not supported "yet". But a short
> wait should fix that problem.
>
>
>
> Ric

Depending on your problems, maybe you could tweak it in qt-cups > properties.
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[newbie] 8.0, PPC, and PPP

[David Chart]

I got the CDs for 8.0 PPC today, and tried installing it. I had quite a few 
problems, so I'll go through them in order of importance, one email each.

I installed most of the Workstation packages, but only GNOME, because I 
don't use KDE. (No reason, just I started with GNOME and thus far have had 
no reason to change.)

First one: PPP doesn't work.

I've got a '99 iMac DV SE, which has a built-in modem, and thus shouldn't 
cause problems.

pppd won't run because the kernel doesn't have ppp support (according to 
the error message I got by running it in a terminal).

modprobe ppp revealed that the kernel doesn't have ppp support because 
there's an unresolved symbol in ppp-generic.o, so it doesn't get loaded.

Any ideas as to how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

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Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

[Randy Kramer]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I apologize;  I stand corrected.  I got the following from
> http://linux.com/develop/man/1/su
> 

> 
> From this, I take it that it stands for "Substitute User".
> 
> (I got "Super User" from a book, and when I remember which one it was, I
> will post its name here)

David,

No need to post the name of the book.  Referring to SU as the "Super
User" seems to be a common thing to do, among users and books.  I
suspect that civileme gave the correct original answer in his post, but
I forget exactly what he said -- was it "Switch UID" (or substitute UID?
-- it was something "uid").

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Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

[Matt Greer]

on 9/21/01 2:41 PM, Joan Tur at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> What program do you use to read and write from the news lists?  I'm thinking
> on reading messages from Fido again...  ;)
> 
Do you mean what program do I use to access usenet/newsgroups? I use knode.
It's pretty good. I dunno if it will work with anything besides KDE. If
you're using KDE, look under kmenu:networking:news:knode. It should be
there.

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Re: [newbie] Modem Not Responding

[skinky]

On Saturday 22 September 2001 04:44, you wrote:
> I'm a new convert to Linux who jumped right in and deleted all Windows
> from my computer. Everything works fine and I love the LM 8.0 interface.
> All programs work...except for the most important thing of connecting to
> the internet. I get a "Sorry, modem not responding" message each time.
> I've tried to configure the connection several times but no change. My
> modem isn't listed in the database, so I don't know if it's unsupported,
> but I do know that I'm using the Conexant SoftK56 PCI Modem.
>
> I'm hoping (praying) that the "Soft" doesn't mean that it's the kind of
> software modem that's not supported by Linux. That's probably wishful
> thinking, huh? But I'm holding out hope there's something else I can do.
> If there are any ideas out there I'd appreciate it. Is the only other
> option to buy a new (probably external) modem? Thanks for any help.
>
> BTW I'm using my roommate's computer to write this...

Yup, I think that probably is wishful thinking.  I have the exact same 
modem.  I couldn't find anyway of getting it going in linux so I bought an 
external serial modem which worked instantly with no probs.  I haven't 
even removed the offending piece of #@! equipment yet... its sitting 
inside the box doing absolutely nothing... waiting until I get another pc 
for our surveillance system that only runs in Windows.

Cheers
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[newbie] What program for news ??

[Joan Tur]

What program do you use to read and write from the news lists?  I'm thinking 
on reading messages from Fido again...  ;)

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Re: [newbie] Modem Not Responding

[Michael Scottaline]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:44:08 -
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was inspired to comment:

> I'm a new convert to Linux who jumped right in and deleted all Windows
> from 
> my computer. Everything works fine and I love the LM 8.0 interface. All 
> programs work...except for the most important thing of connecting to the
> internet. I get a "Sorry, modem not responding" message each time. I've
> tried 
> to configure the connection several times but no change. My modem isn't 
> listed in the database, so I don't know if it's unsupported, but I do
> know 
> that I'm using the Conexant SoftK56 PCI Modem.
> 
> I'm hoping (praying) that the "Soft" doesn't mean that it's the kind of 
> software modem that's not supported by Linux. That's probably wishful 
> thinking, huh? But I'm holding out hope there's something else I can do.
=
I'm afraid that's precisely what "soft" means.  You can check
www.linmodem.com but I think your best bet is to pick up an external
hardware modem.  It's a few bucks you'd probably not like to have to
spend, but once you do (assuming you have no reasonable access to some
type of broadband) you feel it was money well worth spending.
Mike

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[newbie] Adding bcc to kmail ?

[Joan Tur]

Hallo!

I'd like to send a copy (bcc) of any mail sent from my laptop to an email 
address... can this be done using kmail??  8-?

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Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

[ddcharles]

Hi,

I apologize;  I stand corrected.  I got the following from
http://linux.com/develop/man/1/su
 NAME
 su - run a shell with substitute user and group 
IDs
 SYNOPSIS
 su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...]
 DESCRIPTION
 Change the effective user id and group id to that 
of USER.
 -, -l, --login
   make the shell a login shell
 -c, --commmand=COMMAND
   pass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c
 -f, --fast
   pass -f to the shell (for csh or tcsh)
 -m, --preserve-environment
   do not reset environment variables
 -p same as -m
 -s, --shell=SHELL
   run SHELL if /etc/shells allows it
 --help display this help and exit
 --version
   output version information and exit
   A mere - implies -l. If USER not given, assume root.

From this, I take it that it stands for "Substitute User".

(I got "Super User" from a book, and when I remember which one it was, I
will post its name here)

David Charles


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> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:40:08 -0400 (EDT)
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>
> > Hi,
> >
> > su stands for Super User;
> >
> > David Charles
> ==
> Isn't is "switch user"?  If you su  and give that user's
> password, you go to that users account rather than root.  If you simply
> su, I believe root simply acts as the default and that password works.
> Mike
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Re: Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem [OT]

[Allen Joseph M Hernandez]

Hehehesorry just did CMOS clear,
problems overclocking my Celeron.
Thanks for the info Carroll.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Allen:
>Either your system date is set wrong or we're in some kind of a time
>warp.
>Regards,
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Re: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

[Carroll Grigsby]

Robert MacLean wrote:
> 
> IMHO the problem isn't the virus it's windows admins.
> patches from M$ were available for months before all this started, but
> guess who is too lazy to download a patch and install it?
> i work for a hosting company so we have some client dedicated servers
> and they still haven't patched there servers. we email them, phone
> them and unplug there machine to get there attention and they promise
> to do it but never do. why?
> if you ask me it's cause windows makes you lazy, not enough text files
> to edit ;)
> 
> 
> Robert MacLean
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 3:57 PM
> Subject: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users
> too...
> 
> >
> > You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are
> affecting
> > me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my
> weblogs.
> > I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response
> time and
> > connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully
> slow.
> >
> > If I open up port 80 on my firewall my weblogs are flooded with
> these
> > viruses.  A lot of the ip addresses are coming from my ISPs subnet.
> Is
> > there anyway that I can let my ISP know about this and have then
> contact the
> > people infected by these viruses to let me know.  I would imagine
> that they
> > already know about it.  How can we get this stuff cleaned up?
> >
> >
> > Will this insanity ever end?
> >
> >
> 

IMHO, the root cause is the crappy Windows software, aided and abetted
by the windows admins. I've been wondering why ISP's and hosting
companies don't shut these sites down as being in violation of the TOS.
Maybe I'm missing something here (and I have to admit that I don't have
any experience in site administration), but with all of the publicity
that there has been about these worms over the past two months, it seems
to me that anyone who hasn't patched their system by now is either
grossly negligent, utterly incompetent or both. (The scary part is that
these same idiots are allowed to vote, drive and breed.)

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Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

[Ric Tibbetts]

I've always had excelent luck with US Robotics Sportsters. No too 
expensive, and rock stable.

Even though I'm on DSL now, I still have my USR hooked up. I use it for 
faxing now. :)

JMHO.

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Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron

[Jamie Kerwick]

thanks, how would i now go about setting these as cron jobs, i need to stop 
at 3 am and start at 5am.

cheers

Jamie


>From: Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron
>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:26:52 -0700
>
>On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:10:29 +0100
>"Jamie Kerwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cleverly noted:
>
> > because of a network problem that i keep having with my linux box i need
> > to
> > de-activate the network card for a the period between 3-5 am, what
> > command(s) would i use to do this??
>
>su
>
>ifdown eth0
>
>should do it
>
>Later:
>
>su
>
>ifup eth0
>
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Re: [newbie] cd record

[Frans Ketelaars]

chris swain wrote:
> 
> Can anyone direct me to a good explanation of how the cdrecording process
> works and what the features of various programs mean?
> 
> I am currently still using winslows to burn because of CDclones ability but
> this is one more function Id like to switch to windows

Hi, I have this HOWTO installed from the 2 Mandrake 8.0 CD's:
file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
It's also availablle at 
http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/linux/howtos/cd-writing/

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[newbie] Ximian Gnome

[David Robertson]

I've just installed Ximian on to my LM 8.0 system (updated with the last 
MandrakeFreq) and all my desktop icons and links have gone. I don't really 
like a "bare" desktop and can't see how to create new icons/launchers, so how 
do I rescue things and get back the old Mandrake ones?

Thanks

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Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 beta and MandrakeFreq

[Tom Brinkman]

On Friday 21 September 2001 09:23 am, Terry escribió:
> Thanks for the info Sridhar.  So which one would you recommend for
> someone who wants to keep up on the latest software developments?  If
> I want to be mostly compatible with the software I'm using now, would
> it be best to use the Freq's?  I ask because I had KDE 2.2 alpha, and
> now want the final version of KDE 2.2.  When I tried to upgrade it, I
> had several dependency errors, none of which could be satisfied, and
> I mucked with my system enough to kill it, so I had to reinstall LM
> 8.0 from scratch.

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Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron

[Michael Scottaline]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:10:29 +0100
"Jamie Kerwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cleverly noted:

> because of a network problem that i keep having with my linux box i need
> to 
> de-activate the network card for a the period between 3-5 am, what 
> command(s) would i use to do this??

su

ifdown eth0

should do it

Later:

su

ifup eth0

HTH,
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Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 beta and MandrakeFreq

[Terry]

Thanks for the info Sridhar.  So which one would you recommend for someone 
who wants to keep up on the latest software developments?  If I want to be 
mostly compatible with the software I'm using now, would it be best to use 
the Freq's?  I ask because I had KDE 2.2 alpha, and now want the final 
version of KDE 2.2.  When I tried to upgrade it, I had several dependency 
errors, none of which could be satisfied, and I mucked with my system enough 
to kill it, so I had to reinstall LM 8.0 from scratch.

Thanks!

Terry

On Friday 21 September 2001 05:54, you wrote:

> Freqs are essentially Cooker snapshots optimised as an 'upgrade' to the
> most recent Mandrake release. The Mandrake tools and key packages like rpm
> and gcc are not changed in many major way, so as to remain compatible with
> the previous official release. They can get quite bleeding-edge (Freq3 had
> an alpha of KDE 2.2), and are not tested as rigorously as official
> releases.
>
> Betas are true Cooker snapshots, released when Cooker has developed to a
> stage where it can almost be packaged into an official release. The purpose
> of betas are to debug them so that the official release can be as
> error-free as possible. Since these are precursors to a new official
> release, major structural differnces can exist when compared to the
> previous release.


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Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron

[Tim Holmes]

Do you want to bring down the network period, or just the NIC?

To shut down the network:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop

To start it again, just replace the 'stop' with start and it will come
back up.

To drop the network device here's the command you'll need.

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down

Again, replace the 'down' with up and it will do the job for you.  I
would suggest going more with the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop/start
then the ifconfig command.

Not sure why'd you'd need to do this, but necessity is the Mother of all
invention huh?
tdh

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| because of a network problem that i keep having with my linux box i need to 
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| command(s) would i use to do this??
| 
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| 
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Re: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

[Robert MacLean]

IMHO the problem isn't the virus it's windows admins.
patches from M$ were available for months before all this started, but
guess who is too lazy to download a patch and install it?
i work for a hosting company so we have some client dedicated servers
and they still haven't patched there servers. we email them, phone
them and unplug there machine to get there attention and they promise
to do it but never do. why?
if you ask me it's cause windows makes you lazy, not enough text files
to edit ;)


Robert MacLean

- Original Message -
From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 3:57 PM
Subject: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users
too...


>
> You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are
affecting
> me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my
weblogs.
> I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response
time and
> connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully
slow.
>
> If I open up port 80 on my firewall my weblogs are flooded with
these
> viruses.  A lot of the ip addresses are coming from my ISPs subnet.
Is
> there anyway that I can let my ISP know about this and have then
contact the
> people infected by these viruses to let me know.  I would imagine
that they
> already know about it.  How can we get this stuff cleaned up?
>
>
> Will this insanity ever end?
>
>


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Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

[etharp]

zoom and aktiontec both make less expensive pci (and linux compatible) 
modems. the call waiting from actiontec wipes a$$ in linux, in my opinion and 
experience





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[newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

[Mark Johnson]

You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are affecting
me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my weblogs.
I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response time and
connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully slow.

If I open up port 80 on my firewall my weblogs are flooded with these
viruses.  A lot of the ip addresses are coming from my ISPs subnet.  Is
there anyway that I can let my ISP know about this and have then contact the
people infected by these viruses to let me know.  I would imagine that they
already know about it.  How can we get this stuff cleaned up?


Will this insanity ever end?



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[newbie] Bug in 8.0 installer? or just poor CD's

[Marius Schrecker]

Quoting a thread in anothe mailing list:

OK, then there is a bug in the installer!

The format trick didn't work for me if I followed-up by trying to install a
lot of packages on a lot of partitions. Had to do the format (as you said)
then do a minimum install on a minimum number of partitions (just /boot, /
and /usr). Mounting the bigger partitions for /usr/home  etc. later.


Marius
- Original Message -
From: "David Kennelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Adam Kett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [mk] Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Special 8.1
Preorders (fwd)


> I have had the same 'No hdlists found' problem a number of times on a few
> different pcs if I tried to install over an older or even the same version
of
> Mandrake, haven't tried the upgrade. The only solution I found was to
> format /var & /usr partitions during the start of the install process, not
> ideal but it seems to work
>
> Quoting Adam Kett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Marius Schrecker wrote:
> > >
> > > Yeah, saw that.
> > >
> > > My problems with installing 8.0 and freq's  ('No hdlists found' in
> > the
> > > middle of installing the packages) could be due to:
> > >
> > > a) Cheap CD's (home burned)
> > > b) A worn-out/dirty CD drive
> > > c) a combination of the two (probably)
> > > d) something completely different (bug in the
> > > installer/indigestible hardware, etc)
> > >
> > > Assuming the answer is a) or c). what are the easiest cd r's to read?
> > Make
> > > / colour.
> > >
> > > Marius
> >
> > i'v always found memorex cd's to
> > suite me best quite cheap and reliable
> >
> > i think you can buy a spindal of
> > 50 cd's for just over £15
> >
> > they even read happy in an old
> > 4x goldstar :)
> >
> > adam
> > --
> >  -- 110010100 --
> > 
> > MK LUG official website: www.mk.lug.org.uk
> > MK LUG meeting details:  www.mk.lug.org.uk/meetings.html
> > MK LUG mailing list FAQ: www.mk.lug.org.uk/faq.html
> >
> 
> MK LUG official website: www.mk.lug.org.uk
> MK LUG meeting details:  www.mk.lug.org.uk/meetings.html
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[newbie] de-activating network card in cron

[Jamie Kerwick]

because of a network problem that i keep having with my linux box i need to 
de-activate the network card for a the period between 3-5 am, what 
command(s) would i use to do this??

cheers

Jamie

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[newbie] abiword and locale

[Jeffery Chapman]

Hi, 
I'm using Mandrake 7.2. I installed the latest version of AbiWord (9.2
static) from a tar file. The installation succeeded but when I try to run it
I get the following GDK error: 

locale not supported by C library 

Nothing happens after that. 

Has anyone else experienced this problem? 
Thanks.

Jeff Chapman
Software Engineer
Registered Linux User #218160




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Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem [OT]

[Carroll Grigsby]

Allen Joseph M Hernandez wrote:
> 
> I'm using both COM ports already and my board only has 1 ISA slot, and
> I have a SBAwe 64 on it.
> 
> Ok, I'm willing to do the setserial and symlink combo thingies
> But PCI is the only thing I have left...really.
> I have a 3Com winmodem and I hate it.
> I've even tried the PCTel driver, in desperation...no luck.
> 
> I haven't tried USB externals, how do those work in MDK?
> 
Allen:
Either your system date is set wrong or we're in some kind of a time
warp.
Regards,
Carroll



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Re: [newbie] staroffice print

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:43:58 +0200, "belcoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed fine,
> but how can I make it print?

Run "spadmin" (in the "program" dir where you installed SO) as root. Set the
printer driver to plain PostScript, and set the target command for printing to
"xpp" instead of "lpr". Make sure that you have the "xpp" package installed.

> Is it possible to install it for multiuser? It takes a lot of drivespace if
> I have to sintall it separately for each user.

Append "/net" to the command to run the SO installation.

> Geert

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Re: [newbie] so many shells?

[Randy Kramer]

David E. Fox wrote:
> > On my system I have ash, sash, tcsh, zsh...  Do I need these if I always
> > use bash???
> 
> No, you shouldn't need them. 

Beside the point, but maybe someone can answer this question:

I once had the need to format a number with leading zeros.  (I wanted
the script file to create file names like file001, file002, ... file010,
etc., so I could easily sort / maintain them in order by number (instead
of file1, file2, ... file10, etc.).

Someone showed me how to do it in, IIRC, ksh, so I have a bash script
with one line (IIRC) that calls a ksh command.

Anybody know how to format a number with leading zeros in bash?

Thanks,
Randy Kramer



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[newbie] cd record

[chris swain]

Can anyone direct me to a good explanation of how the cdrecording process 
works and what the features of various programs mean?

I am currently still using winslows to burn because of CDclones ability but 
this is one more function Id like to switch to windows



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Re: [newbie] SU .. was Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

[civileme]

On Friday 21 September 2001 12:42, etharp wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > > I assume that by "localhost" you mean the login prompt. If so, you need
> > > to log in as "root", not su. su is a console command which stands for
> > > "switch user"; it is not a user in itself.
> > >

Ummm, not that it matters but it actually originates with SetUid (set User 
ID), the name of a libc function.

Most of these cryptic looking names have a simple origin.

(Note to prospective authors--book opportunity--Unixspeak (category Humor))

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Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

[Allen Joseph M Hernandez]

I'm using both COM ports already and my board only has 1 ISA slot, and 
I have a SBAwe 64 on it.

Ok, I'm willing to do the setserial and symlink combo thingies
But PCI is the only thing I have left...really.
I have a 3Com winmodem and I hate it.
I've even tried the PCTel driver, in desperation...no luck.

I haven't tried USB externals, how do those work in MDK?


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>yes, his name is mario and he lives just down the street from here... :-)
>
>As for the Modem, externals are really no config.. linux conf has a modem
>detect that creates a symlink that links /dev/ttysX to /dev/modem and thats
>most of your config done there..
>
>As for the internals, I have had some success with non PNP isa cards, but
>you would very likely find an external easier to get sorted.
>
>
>On another note, I have just "bought" my first linux distro,, I have been
>using links for many many years, but always got it from somewhere, never
>paid for it before..
>
>but I just lashed out and preordered/prepaid 165 odd bucks AU for Mdk8.1
>powerpack,,, I am sorta excited... :-)
>hopefully I will soon make a flawless leap from mdk7.2 and 2.2kernels to 8.1
>and 2.4 on all our servers... (thats why I didn't swap with mdk8, we worry
>about major new releases on first versions)
>
>woooh not as good as buying shares in mandrake I supose, but at
>least I am supporting the movement.
>
>rgds
>
>Frank
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp
>Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 7:01 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem
>
>
>I don't think you are gonna find a cheap OR a pci modem that does not
>require
>any configuration. you might look at e-bay and find an old 28.8 external
>cheap, and an external requires LESS config than PCI. I want a pizza maker
>that spits out a pizza on nights that i am to tired to fix dinner, without
>me
>having to even open the box or tell it I am tired too, and I want it to have
>the correct popings when the pizza is done,,, know where I can get one of
>those? 
>
>
>On Friday 17 August 2001 18:10, you wrote:
>> Anybody know of a "cheap" PCI non-winmodem supported by kernel
>> 2.2.?
>> While I'm at it, how about for 2.4.xxx?
>>
>> I've been to http://./~gromitkrc and linmodems, but can't make
>> a suitable choice.
>>
>> I want one that configures itself...doesn't make me have to load any
>> modules.
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>> __
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RE: [newbie] Samba- problem - asking for an unkown password

[John Clegg]

Try running smbpasswd

> -Original Message-
> From: Roderick Scotto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Samba- problem - asking for an unkown password
> 
> 
> 
> I managed to run samba and to see the linux machine on my 
> windows explore, 
> but when I click on the linux machine .. it prompts me for a 
> password, I had 
> tried all the passwords used in the linux box and windows 
> machine, but still 
> without success.
> I had try to tweak directly with the /etc/smb.conf file.. but It was 
> useless..
> I had also shared folders.. but I still cannot access the 
> linux machine
> 
> I had then tried to modify the setting from the 
> drakeconf>network>samba... 
> but still for nothing.
> 
> Can you please help me!
> 
> regards
> Roderick scotto
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

[Franki]

yes, his name is mario and he lives just down the street from here... :-)

As for the Modem, externals are really no config.. linux conf has a modem
detect that creates a symlink that links /dev/ttysX to /dev/modem and thats
most of your config done there..

As for the internals, I have had some success with non PNP isa cards, but
you would very likely find an external easier to get sorted.


On another note, I have just "bought" my first linux distro,, I have been
using links for many many years, but always got it from somewhere, never
paid for it before..

but I just lashed out and preordered/prepaid 165 odd bucks AU for Mdk8.1
powerpack,,, I am sorta excited... :-)
hopefully I will soon make a flawless leap from mdk7.2 and 2.2kernels to 8.1
and 2.4 on all our servers... (thats why I didn't swap with mdk8, we worry
about major new releases on first versions)

woooh not as good as buying shares in mandrake I supose, but at
least I am supporting the movement.

rgds

Frank

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp
Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 7:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem


I don't think you are gonna find a cheap OR a pci modem that does not
require
any configuration. you might look at e-bay and find an old 28.8 external
cheap, and an external requires LESS config than PCI. I want a pizza maker
that spits out a pizza on nights that i am to tired to fix dinner, without
me
having to even open the box or tell it I am tired too, and I want it to have
the correct popings when the pizza is done,,, know where I can get one of
those? 


On Friday 17 August 2001 18:10, you wrote:
> Anybody know of a "cheap" PCI non-winmodem supported by kernel
> 2.2.?
> While I'm at it, how about for 2.4.xxx?
>
> I've been to http://./~gromitkrc and linmodems, but can't make
> a suitable choice.
>
> I want one that configures itself...doesn't make me have to load any
> modules.
>
> TIA.
>
> __
> www.edsamail.com


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[newbie] PPC Installation, DrakX and boot loader

[Dirk Hoppe]

Hello,

I try to install LM 8.0 on PPC G4 433 MHz. I used the graphic installer
DrakX and everything went fine until I reached the last but one point:
building the boot loader. When I try to build it I get the error message:

Installation of bootloader failed. Error: hmount: /dev/hdb10:not a Macintosh
HFS volume (Invalid argument) ybin:An error occured trying to access
/dev/hdb10 as HFS

The Linux volumes are /dev/hdb11 for / /dev/hdb12 for swap and /dev/hdb13.
The MacOS volumes are /dev/hdb9 for MacOS X and /dev/hda9 for MacOS 9.2.1.

So the installer tries to take a non HFS volume to put the boot loader on
and I didn´t find a way to change the volume in the graphic installer. I
don´t want to do an 'install-text' install, because I´m new to Linux and
there isn´t much documentation for the PowerPC machines. I only have some
experience with NetBSD on mac68k, but that´s different.
I hope someone can help me.

Thanks in advance!
Dirk




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Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

[etharp]

I don't think you are gonna find a cheap OR a pci modem that does not require 
any configuration. you might look at e-bay and find an old 28.8 external 
cheap, and an external requires LESS config than PCI. I want a pizza maker 
that spits out a pizza on nights that i am to tired to fix dinner, without me 
having to even open the box or tell it I am tired too, and I want it to have 
the correct popings when the pizza is done,,, know where I can get one of 
those? 


On Friday 17 August 2001 18:10, you wrote:
> Anybody know of a "cheap" PCI non-winmodem supported by kernel
> 2.2.?
> While I'm at it, how about for 2.4.xxx?
>
> I've been to http://./~gromitkrc and linmodems, but can't make
> a suitable choice.
>
> I want one that configures itself...doesn't make me have to load any
> modules.
>
> TIA.
>
> __
> www.edsamail.com


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[newbie] koffice filters install

[belcoop]

Apparently the Koffice filters don't work. I upgraded to koffice 1.1, and
when I ask to open a Msword file, it says the msword filters are not
installed. What to do?

Geert




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[newbie] staroffice print

[belcoop]

How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed fine,
but how can I make it print?

Is it possible to install it for multiuser? It takes a lot of drivespace if
I have to sintall it separately for each user.
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[newbie] Installation kills after Laoding mandrake 8.0

[belcoop]

I tried to install mandrake 8.0 on a second computer (the fisrt went fine).
The screen shows a lot of things, then comes loading mandrake 8.0.

He tries to make a line with stars, and says that he could not load,
somewhat like error 11 and :(
Then he shuts down.

What could be wrong? I want Mandrake on that machine.

Geert




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Re: [newbie] ISA sound balster card not decated

[etharp]

turn Plug and pray aware os off in bios, in a text console, as root, run 
(type at prompt,without the quotes) "sndconfig" and follow the directions. 
also note that on that sound card, the default mixer settings might be so low 
that you can not hear the sample, if that is the case,no errors just no 
sound, you might go into the multimedia > sound > kmix on the "K" menu 
(assuming you are running KDE and set the settings all about 2/3 up and 
makesure none are muted.
On Thursday 20 September 2001 21:52, Roderick Scotto wrote:
> hi ppl!
> I need to now how to configure a 16bit ISA sound blaster with linux
> mandrake 7.1 It is not detecting it in the HardDrake
>
> thanks in advaced
>
> Scotto
>
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Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

[etharp]

ehhh.. I could have sworn it stood for SWITCH user and the defualt user to 
switch to is root, since I can su to any other user by "su anyotheruser" and 
it asks for and confirms the password. 

On Thursday 20 September 2001 20:40, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> su stands for Super User;
>
> David Charles
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > I assume that by "localhost" you mean the login prompt. If so, you need
> > to log in as "root", not su. su is a console command which stands for
> > "switch user"; it is not a user in itself.
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:36:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > You answered all my questions and It hinders on
> > > one factor only.  Initial installation I left almost
> > > all checkboxes unchecked.  I did not want items
> > > installed that I do not need.  So I must assume
> > > when I cannot log in at localhost as the su,
> > > something is lacking. So it is best to add all
> > > then go back and remove.  I assumed doing it
> > > the other way would work.  A good learning
> > > experiment.
> > >
> > > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:14:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > Hope you have broad shoulders.  I am getting no where and
> > > > > it may be your fault. You are helping me, because of  the
> > > > > problems you are dealing with.
> > > > > Is it possible to have more than one desktop?
> > > >
> > > > Of course. GNU/Linux is all about choice :-)
> > > >
> > > > > KDE bye, bye.  The help section is beautiful. As I get to
> > > > > items such as type in the following command, it is unreadable.
> > > > > (special code?!!)
> > > > > I have no internet hook up on the linux yet.  Checking out
> > > > > Gnome, I visited there site.  Is the version you downloaded
> > > > > the one that has all the Java capabilities?
> > > >
> > > > Java has nothing to do with the desktop environment. You can get a
> > > > Java
> >
> > Runtime
> >
> > > > Environment at java.sun.com.
> > > >
> > > > > Is it possible to log in as su at localhost instead of user?
> > > >
> > > > Localhost is your computer name, not a user name. You _can_ log in
> > > > directly
> >
> > as
> >
> > > > root (that's the superuser's name), but it is recommended that you do
> >
> > everything
> >
> > > > as a user and su ("switch user") to root only when you need to (e.g.
> > > > when installing RPMs).
> > > >
> > > > > I am getting lazy.
> > > > > I too have the CD's.  I noticed when checking out the rpm's
> > > > > installable, installed windows nothing that I have installed is
> > > > > showing.
> > > > > If the RPM is on your system doing an upgrade manually
> > > > > will ignore or override RPM?  I guess we are to assume
> > > > > that the RPM and manual installs if done correctly will place
> > > > > files in the same locations on the file system?
> > > > > I did find a site that explained the drawbacks of using RPM.
> > > > > Do you know of a way to get the items off of the CD's
> > > > > without using RPM's?
> > > >
> > > > I'm not too sure what you mean here. If you want to look _inside_ RPM
> >
> > packages,
> >
> > > > you can do this with mc (Midnight Commander), a console file manager.
> > > > Tools
> >
> > like
> >
> > > > Mandrake's Software Manager, GNOME's gnoRPM and KDE's KPackage all
> > > > interface with the RPM system, and so can correctly install RPMs.
> > > > Upgrading Mandrake
> >
> > as a
> >
> > > > whole (e.g. from the CDs) respects the existing RPM database, and
> > > > upgrades rather than replaces it. Also, you can use the console RPM
> > > > app to install packages.
> > > >
> > > > > Kathy
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter Rymshaw wrote:
> > > > > > The serious problems with gnome seemed to be fixed (I
> > > > > > did find still another gnome RPM. Maybe that did it I
> > > > > > still can't understand why it was necessary to do it
> > > > > > manually, though.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- Peter Rymshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > > I've decided that I like Gnome more than KDE and
> > > > > > > want
> > > > > > > to learn and begin using it. But I'm having problems
> > > > > > > beyond the normal (like getting CD & floppy access
> > > > > > > from the desktop or panel. I won't have to manually
> > > > > > > monunt/unmount will I?)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > That's not the "problem." When I try to select many
> > > > > > > of
> > > > > > > the Gnome features, the computer
> > > > > > > freezes--completely,
> > > > > > > I have to turn the power off and on (which I worry
> > > > > > > about each time).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I've found that some of these problems have gone
> > > > > > > away
> > > > > > > after I've installed more gnome files from the RPMs
> > > > > > > on
> > > > > > > CD-ROM, so that might be the heart of the problem
> > > > > > > (and
> > > > > > > also what I would consider a serious bug in the
> > > > > > > program). But I have installed everything that  I
> > > > > > > can
> > > > > > > find named gnome and

Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x installer

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

CD lens cleaners often do more harm than good to drives. Try using some better
quality CDs. If that doesn't work, buy a can of compressed air and give your
drive a bit of a squirt to dislodge dirt that may have built up.

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:04:15 +0200, "Marius Schrecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Does that mean that the installer found packages it couldn't read from the
> CD (hence installing a smaller number of packages helped)?
> 
> Strange that the problem appeared both on the 8.0 and freq. attempts, albeit
> with cheap CD's and an old CDdrive. Perhaps I should invest in both a lens
> cleaner and some better CD's before the next attempt??
> 
> Marius
> - Original Message -
> From: "John W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x installer
> 
> 
> >   Most often that problem is just a bad CD.
> >
> > John W
> >
> >
> > At 10:08 AM 9/21/01 +0200, you wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > > With the release of 8.1 just around the corner, and with my 8.0
> > > version badly battered after a failed attempt to upgrade to KDE 2.2, I
> am
> > > looking forward to a partial re-install as soon as practically possible.
> > >
> > >
> > > My box is a Compaq deskpro 6000 p.pro 180 (don't laugh), 106MB RAM
> > > and about 10 GB of HD spread over 3 IDE disks and about 10 partitions
> > > including doze and swap.
> > >
> > > The trouble is that the installer for 8.0 and freq. June. crashes
> > > somewhere in the package analysis procedure giving a 'no hdlists found'.
> > > The only way around this seemed to be doing a minimum install on freshly
> > > formatted partitions (minimum number of packages on a minimum number of
> > > partitions), then mounting the extra partitions, /var, /usr/local, /home
> > > etc.  afterwards, and installing the extra packages from software
> installer.
> > >
> > >Is seems that the problem is either in diskdrake or the package manager
> > >since avoidance is dependant on choosing a small enough number of
> packages
> > >to install, and the installer falls back to diskdrake on hitting the
> > >problem, At this point, however, I have to abort the installation and
> > >start again.
> > >
> > >Is this a known bug in 8.0, or is it just me being stupid?
> > >
> > >If it's a bug is it fixed in 8.1, or is there a better workaround than
> > >mine (which is complicated and unreliable)?
> > >
> > >Cheers
> > >Marius
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:16:26 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E.
Fox) wrote:
> > Most servers on the Internet or serving industries that need 24/7
> > service must run 24/7.  I don't know if Linus originally was aiming for
> > the server market, or what his intent was. ;-)
> 
> Well, he wanted a way to run Unix cheaply using a desktop environment, and
> one of the features of Unix is that it is multiuser, and unlike other
> systems (i.e., "personal" computer OSes) is designed to run 24/7. I remember
> one of the first Unix books I picked up stressed this point. And since it
> has services like crond, logging, and so forth, the system needs to be on
> to process these events. (DOS at that time had no such features; the closest
> we came to that was a robot comm program we could use to autodownload stuff
> at 3 am or whatever.) 
> 
> I think this rationale predates the notion of "server" as we use it today.
> 
> > Randy Kramer

If you have anacron running, cron jobs which were unable to be run at their
scheduled times will run the next time the CPU is idle. This can get annoying
if, say, you boot up your computer in the morning to do some work and anacron
kicks in to execute a cron job that should've run at 4am.

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Re: [newbie] DVD-R/Ram software?

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:35:36 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hello,
>i was just wondering if anyone knew of any linux software for writing 
> to a DVD-r and (or) DVD-RAM. if anyone could help or point me in the right 
> direction, i would be much appreciated. 
> thank you in advance. 
> ( i would also like to thank all of the people on this list, it has been a 
> great help to me; thank you all)
> 
> 
> Joe

I'm pretty sure that cdrecord can do this. It is already used as a backend for
most CD recording apps in *nix.

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Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 beta and MandrakeFreq

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:59:21 -0400, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the difference between these two?  Are the MandrakeFreq's just an 
> interim between versions? Or are they something completely different?

Freqs are essentially Cooker snapshots optimised as an 'upgrade' to the most
recent Mandrake release. The Mandrake tools and key packages like rpm and gcc
are not changed in many major way, so as to remain compatible with the previous
official release. They can get quite bleeding-edge (Freq3 had an alpha of KDE
2.2), and are not tested as rigorously as official releases.

Betas are true Cooker snapshots, released when Cooker has developed to a stage
where it can almost be packaged into an official release. The purpose of betas
are to debug them so that the official release can be as error-free as possible.
Since these are precursors to a new official release, major structural
differnces can exist when compared to the previous release.

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Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

There's an active discussion about printers at http://www.mandrakeforum.com
right now.

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:08:18 -0700, Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> All;
>  I just picked up a decent digital camera, and now I need a photo 
> printer to go along with it. Does anyone have any suggestions for a 
> decent photo printer in the $200-$300 range? (spent all my money on the 
> camera.. [:)]
> 
>  I've been looking at the following 3: Any comments/suggestions 
> about which of these (or others) is best would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> HP Photosmart 1000
> Epson 785EPX
> Canon S800
> 
> All have good results in the price range, and only the Epson is 
> unsupported (but in fairness, it's very new). The Canon "seems" to be on 
> it's way out, and is getting hard to find. Perhaps there is an upgrade 
> in the wings on that one(?).
> 
> Any thoughts, or input would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA!
> 
>  Ric

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Re: [newbie] Adaptec 1510 scsi card

[Daryl Johnson]

On Friday 21 September 2001 05:38, you wrote:

After extensive experience with this card, I can report that it is possible 
to get the card recognised by the system but I failed completely to get the 
equipment plugged in to it to be recognised.

Eventually I gave up and spent thirty quid ($45) on an Advansys card which 
was recognised immediately along with the tape drive plugged in to it.

If you want to give it a go then e-mail me and I will send some further 
details.

regards

Daryl

> Hello,
>
> my Adaptec AHA 1510 SCSI adapter(ISA bus) is not being detected at install,
> so cannot install mandrake 8.0!!
>
> The Adaptec 1510 is not in the Hardware database, but a very similar model,
> Adaptec AHA 1520
> (also ISA bus) *is* in the database as "reported to be supported", but not
> as "tested by mandrake team".
> The install program gives a list of drivers and asks which of these should
> be used to detect the SCSI adapter. 3 of these are AHA, but none are the
> exact model. However I feel that one of these will probably work. After I
> try them though, it then asks for parameters, and I do not know what to
> type next.
> I have used windows device manager to find the I/O range and IRQ, but I am
> not sure in what form/syntax to pass these paramaters to the install
> program and/or kernel, or even if these are the paramaters it wants!
>
> Finally, I also read somewhere (actually, it was in the install guide) that
> if your ISA card is PnP then you may have to reset the card to non PnP
> using the floppy that came with it from the manufacturer. I have this
> floppy and may be able to do this, but am unsure how to do it, if it's
> really necessary, or really what I'm doing at all at this stage!
>
> What should my next step be??
>
> Thanks
>
> Wendy Langer
>
>
>
>
> --
> "The average home computer user now has more processing power, storage and
> bandwidth than was available to the US Government scarcely a generation
> ago..."
>
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[newbie] Adaptec 1510 scsi card

[Wendy Langer]

Hello,

my Adaptec AHA 1510 SCSI adapter(ISA bus) is not being detected at install,
so cannot install mandrake 8.0!!

The Adaptec 1510 is not in the Hardware database, but a very similar model,
Adaptec AHA 1520
(also ISA bus) *is* in the database as "reported to be supported", but not
as "tested by mandrake team".
The install program gives a list of drivers and asks which of these should
be used to detect the SCSI adapter. 3 of these are AHA, but none are the
exact model. However I feel that one of these will probably work. After I
try them though, it then asks for parameters, and I do not know what to type
next.
I have used windows device manager to find the I/O range and IRQ, but I am
not sure in what form/syntax to pass these paramaters to the install program
and/or kernel, or even if these are the paramaters it wants!

Finally, I also read somewhere (actually, it was in the install guide) that
if your ISA card is PnP then you may have to reset the card to non PnP using
the floppy that came with it from the manufacturer. I have this floppy and
may be able to do this, but am unsure how to do it, if it's really
necessary, or really what I'm doing at all at this stage!

What should my next step be??

Thanks

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RE: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating

[Franki]

My Laser printer, (kyocera fs800) goes into sleep mode when its not being
used.. so I don't worry about that..

The Monitor I leave off all the time unless I am actually using it..

good for power and good because the vast majority of computer related files
are caused by the monitor...
The box itself, (some call it the CPU, but that is not strictly correct) is
on all the time.

except for the power supply in a PC, all other items use 5 or 12 volts (not
counting things like speakers which have their own power
supply/transformer)... like hard disks and cdroms and stuff..

No a huge danger of fire there and less power connsumption overall then the
monitor.

I have had many ordinary PC's with IDE hard drivers left on for huge lengths
of time without problems.

There is a theory that states that because turning on and off a PC is bad
for it anyway, since all the components heat up then cool down then heat up
then cool down etc etc.. and that causes more wear then warm
continiously,,,
Its a logical theory too.. altough it probably doens't relate to Hard disks,
but since all hard disks now come with a 3 year warranty, we can assume that
most of them will run ok for at least 3 years + one day :-)

rgds

Frank



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David E. Fox
Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 12:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating


> So, energy consumption wise, it is far better to turn the computer off
> and back on twice a day.  That may result in an early failure of your
> computer or some part of it.Whether the increased cost for

Well, electricity is pretty expensive here in California. (Tip: move to
Oregon :)

Nevertheless, I've habitually left my computer on 24/7. But, the electricity
use for the whole system is much more than that for the cpu 'box', and I
only leave the 'box' on 24/7; I routinely turn the monitor off when it is
not in use. With today's systems, the energy cost in running the monitor is
just as much (if not more) than the cost of just the cpu box itself.
And you might have fancy attachments like speakers, laser printers (those
don't use all that much power when on unless they are printing, I would
think). That's an additional factor to consider.

> Randy Kramer

David E. Fox  Thanks for letting me
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Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x installer

[John W]

  Most often that problem is just a bad CD.

John W


At 10:08 AM 9/21/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
> With the release of 8.1 just around the corner, and with my 8.0 
> version badly battered after a failed attempt to upgrade to KDE 2.2, I am 
> looking forward to a partial re-install as soon as practically possible.
>
>
> My box is a Compaq deskpro 6000 p.pro 180 (don't laugh), 106MB RAM 
> and about 10 GB of HD spread over 3 IDE disks and about 10 partitions 
> including doze and swap.
>
> The trouble is that the installer for 8.0 and freq. June. crashes 
> somewhere in the package analysis procedure giving a 'no hdlists found'. 
> The only way around this seemed to be doing a minimum install on freshly 
> formatted partitions (minimum number of packages on a minimum number of 
> partitions), then mounting the extra partitions, /var, /usr/local, /home 
> etc.  afterwards, and installing the extra packages from software installer.
>
>Is seems that the problem is either in diskdrake or the package manager 
>since avoidance is dependant on choosing a small enough number of packages 
>to install, and the installer falls back to diskdrake on hitting the 
>problem, At this point, however, I have to abort the installation and 
>start again.
>
>Is this a known bug in 8.0, or is it just me being stupid?
>
>If it's a bug is it fixed in 8.1, or is there a better workaround than 
>mine (which is complicated and unreliable)?
>
>Cheers
>Marius




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RE: [newbie] Nimda virus

[Franki]

yeah, who is going to release a virus that only propogates one way now???

This is the start of some really nasty virus's we will start seeing now...

The writers know that alot of people have protection now, and that means
they need to
reach as many people as possible before the virus companies release the
pattern updates...

So using miltiple methods of propagation speeds things up no end...


A sad day for software in general and Microsnot software in particular.

rgds

Frank

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 10:35 AM
To: Newbie Mailing List
Subject: Re: [newbie] Nimda virus


From:   David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>The closing sentence of a San Francisco Chronicle writeup on the virus
> said that server users should contact Microsoft for patches :).
>
>It's yet another instance of the Outlook Virus Transmission software.

Not quite.

Nimda can and does propogate via Outlook attachments, and embedded HTML;
However it *also* propogates as Javascript on infected web pages, which
has no dependency on Outlook (altho does depend on MS's IIS web server
to house it's infection). Also, it can spread across MS network shares,
again with no dependence on Outlook.

Nimda is REALLY thorough in exploiting many ways to propogate.

--

--
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Re: [newbie] LiLo conflicts with Win NT - What to do?

[Marius Schrecker]

This is a known problem. Haven't tried it myself, but, as I understand it,
you have to install LILO somewhere other than the MBR, probably on your
Linux boot partition, then point the NT loader at that. There's a nice
little utility called bootpart http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

which may help you do this.

Cheers Marius
- Original Message -
From: "quaylar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] LiLo conflicts with Win NT - What to do?


> At 10:54 20.09.2001 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hi there!
> >
> >I recently tried to install Mandrake on the very same HD (3GB for WinNT
> >boot(C:), 20 GB for NT (D:), 18GB for Mandrake) like my current Win NT.
> >Everything worked fine, until I tried to start NT again. NT could not
find
> >Disk D, where all the applications are stored. The Diskmanager told me,
> >there was an unknown partition. setting the FS type under linux from 85
to 5
> >enhanced the problem not significantly. After removing LiLo from the mbr
NT
> >worked again.
> >Now my question is: Does anybody know how to install LiLo without harming
> >the partitiontable information NT requires? I would appreciate any hint
on
> >how to do this. Couldn't really find anything...
> >
> >Andreas
> >
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>
> hiho andreas
>
> well - u mean u were able to boot into windows nt ?
> but u werent able to start any applications ?
>
> hmm - under win98 i know this problem doesnt exist because it doesnt "see"
> the linux ext2 partitions at all.
> under win2k one is able to "hide" the unknown partitions, thus making them
> invisible to windows - so they are not occupying drive letters.
>
> under win NT  arent u able to "hide" the unknown partitions ?
> or - assign the unknown partition another drive letter than D ?
> (i assume that the unknown partition is a primary and your former D part.
> is a logical drive)
> so win nt re-assigns the drive letters - making the first 2 primary
> partitions C and D and then following your partition with your windows nt
apps.
>
> u could also try to re-install linux - installing it *not* to a primary,
> but secondary(logical) partition (i think it should be possible - consult
> your manual)
>
> hth
>
> --quay
>
>
>






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