[newbie-it] Ancora Lin+win
Grazie a tutti per le numerose risposte, ma a questo punto: L'appetito vien mangiando. Un mio amico ha un portatile Acer di generazione successiva al mio, e cosi' ha un Lucent winmodem AMR. E' terribilmente invidioso del fatto che il mio modem funzioni da Linux e cosi' in una crisi di gelosia ha avuto una simpatica idea: Non e' che puo' farlo funzionare usando wine? La sfida e' aperta chi ci capisce qualcosa? Ciao Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake...
grazie mille per i cionsigli ragazzi.ho comprato unmodem esterno seriale della trust ( trust 56k ESP MODEM ) e va CHE UNA MERAVIGLIA. Si configurano dandogli la stringa di inizializzazione o facendogliela calcolare da kppp o altri tools.il modem si colega in internet senza la stringa che dici ,o devo editarla per forza(migliora qualcosa???) ciao a tutti by alby From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake... Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:52:34 +0200 Stefano Salari wrote: Io ho un 3Com - US Robotics (message plus, mi sembra) che va benissimo e non mi ha dato alcun problema di configurazione sulla Mdk 8.0 (fa tutto da sola...). Credo che la Mdk 8.0 supporti senza troppi problemi il 90% dei modem esterni; . I modem esterni sulla seriale vanno tutti bene. Si configurano dandogli la stringa di inizializzazione o facendogliela calcolare da kppp o altri tools. L'unica differenza e` nella solidita` e qualita` dell'hw I 3com-US hanno un'ottima reputazione, non e` pero` escluso che un pippo-economic-modem ti funzioni per altrettanto bene, per altrettanto tempo, ma costi la meta`. Tra gli gli usb e gli interni bisogna stare molto attenti ai soft-modems. C'e` un ottimo elenco di cosa funziona a http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html#Database ciao, Andrea _ Scarica GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer all'indirizzo http://explorer.msn.it/intl.asp
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake...
ALBY @ wrote: grazie mille per i cionsigli ragazzi.ho comprato unmodem esterno seriale della trust ( trust 56k ESP MODEM ) e va CHE UNA MERAVIGLIA. Si configurano dandogli la stringa di inizializzazione o facendogliela calcolare da kppp o altri tools.il modem si colega in internet senza la stringa che dici ,o devo editarla per forza(migliora qualcosa???) ciao a tutti by alby Il modem riceve ordini dal PC tramite delle stringhe ATqualcosa. Puoi pensare ad ATZ come un generico comando accenditi, in realta` c'e` sotto una precedente richiesta cosa vuoi che ti dica per farti accendere? Questa stringa base (fornita dal modem stesso) puo` essere migliorata (o peggiorata) aggiungendo opzioni. Il metodo classico e` individuarla nel driver di windows e copiarsela. Ci sono anche siti internet che danno delle stringhe ottimizzate per vari modem (ad es. molti provider). http://assistenza.tiscali.it/modem/analog/index.html). per il tuo da`: Trust Comunicator 56K fx3 s91=14 %c0 +MS=(11,12),1 dove 11=v.34 e 12=k56 Quindi dovresti usare qualcosa del tipo ATfx3s91=14%c0+MS=(11,12),1 anche se ho qualche perplessita` sul +MS=(11,12),1. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Ancora Lin+win
hehehhehehe allora io sono un very newbie di questo mondo fantastico.ma non credo che wine possa compiere l'impresaper fare questo dovresti (o dovrebbeil tuo amico :) ) usare altri emulatori tipo VMware io ho giocato con vmware per winzoz e ho fatto partire linux.in una finestra ho visto il pc partire e caricare linux come se fosse una macchiana diversa e usavo l'HWare normalmente.come se fosse una macchina linux.di piu' non so. :)) ciao e a presto! by Spider Grazie a tutti per le numerose risposte, ma a questo punto: L'appetito vien mangiando. Un mio amico ha un portatile Acer di generazione successiva al mio, e cosi' ha un Lucent winmodem AMR. E' terribilmente invidioso del fatto che il mio modem funzioni da Linux e cosi' in una crisi di gelosia ha avuto una simpatica idea: Non e' che puo' farlo funzionare usando wine? La sfida e' aperta chi ci capisce qualcosa? Ciao Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [newbie-it] Ancora Lin+win
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Marco wrote: hehehhehehe allora io sono un very newbie di questo mondo fantastico.ma non credo che wine possa compiere l'impresaper fare questo dovresti (o dovrebbeil tuo amico :) ) usare altri emulatori tipo VMware io ho giocato con vmware per winzoz e ho fatto partire linux.in una finestra ho visto il pc partire e caricare linux come se fosse una macchiana diversa e usavo l'HWare normalmente.come se fosse una macchina linux.di piu' non so. :)) ciao e a presto! by Spider Grazie a tutti per le numerose risposte, ma a questo punto: L'appetito vien mangiando. Un mio amico ha un portatile Acer di generazione successiva al mio, e cosi' ha un Lucent winmodem AMR. E' terribilmente invidioso del fatto che il mio modem funzioni da Linux e cosi' in una crisi di gelosia ha avuto una simpatica idea: Non e' che puo' farlo funzionare usando wine? Effettivamente. Pensi che 128 mega di RAM bastino per usare un emulatore di questo tipo? Io ne ho 64 e non bastano. Fortunatamente le nuove generazioni hanno modem piu' ammerdanti ma piu' memoria. Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Ancora Lin+win
--- Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Marco wrote: Effettivamente. Pensi che 128 mega di RAM bastino per usare un emulatore di questo tipo? Io ne ho 64 e non bastano. Fortunatamente le nuove generazioni hanno modem piu' ammerdanti ma piu' memoria. Luigi ...Scusa, ma che cos'e' un modem ammerdante?!? Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il Nokia Game è on line! Clicca qui per iscriverti e partecipare alla nuova avventura multimediale entro il 3 novembre. Vai alla pagina del gioco http://it.promotions.yahoo.com/info/nokiagame.html!
Re: [newbie-it] Ancora Lin+win
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Stefano Salari wrote: Effettivamente. Pensi che 128 mega di RAM bastino per usare un emulatore di questo tipo? Io ne ho 64 e non bastano. Fortunatamente le nuove generazioni hanno modem piu' ammerdanti ma piu' memoria. Luigi ...Scusa, ma che cos'e' un modem ammerdante?!? Si definisce modem ammerdante un winmodem non supportato sotto linux. L'esempio in questo caso e' un Lucent AMR. Sono particolarmente seccanti perche' non solo non sono supportati ma non riesci nemmeno a capire che cosa hai servendoti dei comandi lspci ed lspci -vv CIao Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Ancora Lin+win
--- Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Stefano Salari wrote: Effettivamente. Pensi che 128 mega di RAM bastino per usare un emulatore di questo tipo? Io ne ho 64 e non bastano. Fortunatamente le nuove generazioni hanno modem piu' ammerdanti ma piu' memoria. Luigi ...Scusa, ma che cos'e' un modem ammerdante?!? Si definisce modem ammerdante un winmodem non supportato sotto linux. L'esempio in questo caso e' un Lucent AMR. Sono particolarmente seccanti perche' non solo non sono supportati ma non riesci nemmeno a capire che cosa hai servendoti dei comandi lspci ed lspci -vv CIao Luigi :)) Ah ok, scusami ma ho fatto solo adesso il collegamento col fatto che era un WinModem!!! ...Carino ammerdante!!! ;) Ciao. Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il Nokia Game è on line! Clicca qui per iscriverti e partecipare alla nuova avventura multimediale entro il 3 novembre. Vai alla pagina del gioco http://it.promotions.yahoo.com/info/nokiagame.html!
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Re: [newbie-it] Modem ISDN
Dev'essere proprio un comando che indichi l'uso del protocollo PPP = uso di un canale a 64k [le possibilita' che puoi trovare son tendenzialmente V110, V120, PPP, MPPP], ci deve essere di sicuro, ma non lo metteranno come ho scritto, quello e' cio' che devi scrivere tu nella riga che ho detto :) Su Tiscalinet ho trovato: AT \n3**prot=3, ( http://assistenza.tiscali.it/modem/stringhe.html ) ho provato inserendo questa stringa al posto di ATDT, ma niente ovvero dal log mi da error. in cosa sbaglio. Ciao Maurizio
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RE: [newbie] gphoto and LM8.1
the thing is, that you don't need the gphoto to get access to your USB camera ! all you have to do is to start the USB daemon, then mount your USB device (I think it's /dev/something) and voalla - you can browse the images on your camera with regular konquerror or do an 'ls -lca' in the command prompt and copy the images by 'cp' anywhere you want !! -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:22 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] gphoto and LM8.1 This is the same problem I had in 8.0, I can not get a usb connection with gphoto and my digital camera. It works ok with serial port as a Kodak DC240 but in usb configuration I can not find the add in in the configuration panel that allows the camera to connect. Has anyone had success with usb camera connection. I can not figure out kamera either, and although man pages are supposed to be loaded I get no man page for kamera TIA for any suggestions. -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XMMS in 8.1 and Sound Wierdness
XMMS has been acting weird since I installed 8.1. I load a song, click the play button and nothing happens. If I hit play again or move the slider to move through the song, then it crashes. I changed the output to eSound and it will at least play now. But it's still kinda slow on the pick up. There is a slight delay when I click play or stop. I've also been using FreeAmp which has been giving me zero problems. In the mixer, I can change things, and it basically works, _but_ it identifies my SoundBlaster Live! Value as a Tr something or other, and I've noticed that I'm missing a slider that nomally balances sound between the front and back speakers. These two things may be related--I'm not sure. Anybody else had these problems? Any insight as to what they might be? Cheers, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the reply I posted to them.)
Dude, chill. It's all a joke. I've read Slashdot posts by the same guy and it is obvious that he knows what he is talking about. Great response, though :) On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:03:42 +0800, Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol, I titled this: This guy is on Drugs or Works for Microsoft here is what I posted, anyone correct me if anything I said was incorrect. = Hi, First of all, the guys name was Linus not linux. Second: M$ Office, Outlook and IE are Microsoft software, THEY choose not to supply them for linux because they want people to use windows not linux. Third: There is more then one linux app that will open and save in M$ office file formats, anyone with half a brain can work out how to use them as its pretty much a standard menu system. Try Star Office and Openoffice. Forth:, Mozilla is almost word for word standards compliant, IE is not. (although ie6 is close) so you lied. Fifth: You don't need a Pentium with 32MB ram to run linux, you can do it on a 386 with 8MB of ram. and boot it from a floppy (Trinix and others)you just need 32mb and a pentium to run Mandrake linux, since they rightly assume that people would rather have an OS that is optimised for the system they have, rather then one that is optimised for old hardware, you want to run linux on a 486, get Peanut or possibly Redhat. Also, try loading win2000 or XP on your 486. the versions of linux that were out when 95 came out, ran on 486's just fine, and the fact that some current versions can still run on it says alot, none of M$ recent versions will run on a 486 at all. Sixth: RedHat, Caldera and others are not past names for linux distro's they are Current other distro's. People chose the one they want. which had you read up on, you wouldn't have tried to use Mandrake on a 486. Seventh: Linux doesn't have virus software? thats probably because its nearly impossible to infect a properly linux box with a virus because of users,, you need root or admin access to do that. Windows XP home, like win98,98,98SE and ME make everyone root, so they are affected by virus's Also there are alot of linux virus scanners, like Trend Filescan, the thing is that they all search for windows virus's because there are none on linux that are a threat to anyone. Eighth: Linux doesn't need firewalls like Zone Alarm because the abiltiy is built into the OS, read ipchains and iptables, and Mandrake 8.1 has two firewalls built into it. InteractiveBastille does far more then most just by asking you a bunch of questions from a nice GUI interface. Ninth: Software, Mandrake linux has server software that it would cost over 2000AUD to achieve with Microsoft(tm) software, and you wouldn't have been effected by Code Red or Nimda if you weren't running M$ software. it also comes standard with 2 or more versions of spreadsheets, word processors presentation software, finance stuff, advanced text editors, time management software email clients, graphing software, image editing software and more, and it all comes WITH Mandrake, you don't have to buy it seperatly. Tenth: Games, what to play Quake3 on linux? go ahead, you can buy it for linux, ditto with many other titles. and with WINE, you can run a great many actual windows titles as well. Please, if you are going to review a product at least get someone who knows what they are doing to review it objectively, you don't know because you only know the microsoft way and have a closed mind to anything else. Remember windows has been around in a semi decent form since 1992 or so,, Unix, which is linux's parent has been around since the 60's... you just didn't know about it. That is not the fault of linux. I use both linux and windows, I started with an open mind and I am tipping more and more towards linux because it does everything I want, and I can have the same machine running without a reboot for months just fine (I have seen cases where it has run without reboot for well over a year.). and it didn't cost me 500 bucks to buy. Be objective when you review something, just because its not what you are used to, doesn't mean that its not better, (or conversely that its worse.) Rgds Frank Perth Australia. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992, writing to Linus Torvalds. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:50:10 -0500, Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/17/01 1:35 PM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 11:28, you were observed remarking: on 10/17/01 1:15 PM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT@home gives me from 250-500Kb/s and 8.1 didn't even hiccough...zoom,zoom zoom. Damn. My crappy ass cable connection gives me about 150k tops. That's what I get for living in the city. Matt I live in Cupertino (not a small town...)...I downloaded all 3 8.1 cd's simultaneously in 40 minutes!!! That's got just as much to do with what ftp server you connected to as your internet connection. I downloaded 8.1 at about 40k/s, but that's because that's all the server would give me. I used my remaining 110ishk/s on other stuff. I'd say you were da-amn lucky to find an ftp site that'd give you 500k/s. Call me da-amn lucky then. I pulled all three Mandrake 8.1 ISOs from the same server (which was about 1000Km away) with a combined average download speed of about 700KB/s! I wasn't even using rsync (just wget)! I live in Chicago, and our cable company is way overburdened and isn't making much profit, so they can't increase bandwidth. The DSL situation is even worse. Oh well, I'm moving in two months so hopefully I'll have better luck then. I am in Sydney, Australia. Here we only have two cable providers, Optus and Telstra (who also happen to be the two largest telcos). Telstra is overpriced and underserviced, while Optus is a dream for both price and performance. Telstra also operate ADSL, but I haven't heard anything good about it. We were the first country in the world to have satellite Internet, but not many people use it (in the city, anyway). Take a wild guess which one I use??? Matt -- Sridhar Dhanapalan And I have to say that I absolutely despise the BSD people... Oh, well. Not everybody can be as goodlooking as me. It's a curse. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A megabyte is a thousand bytes? *giggle* Have a cup of coffee! My treat :) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R
If I understand u then check the links http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html -Original Message- From: Mohammed Arafa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R hmmm.. well has anyone any idea of the yamaha 16x, mitsumi 16x or the sony 16x writers? specifically, is there anything bad about them and are they mandrake compatible? i ask as i m thinking of buying a cd rw thanks - Original Message - From: ngn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R Hi folks!!! I have a stupid doubt... but is a doubt at least... I Have a HP CD - R 9300 Series 10x8x32 and i'm wondering how many burnings it will support. I heard from a friend that this number is of 500 copies??? it is true?? I suppose that they are very few Thanks a lot!! Nicolas Gomez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) Since there is no such thing as a millibit, people take mb to mean MB. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:38:12 -0500, Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it was KB == kilobytes and Kb == kilobits... the /s is optional since most folks know what you mean... G = giga M = mega K = kilo k = ??? (don't know if there is such a thing...) m = milli -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1 Yeap I'm getting just shy of 800kbps in the boonies... BTW: It's not 250-500Kb/s it's 250-500Kbps (kilo Bits per second )the latter gives you about 25-50kb/s (Kilo Bytes per second). Otherwise you would have the world's fastest cable modem... 56kbps modems give you ~ 5kb/s xfer rate, etc... |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Wilson |Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 6:07 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1 | | | | Hello List.. |Will Cable modem work with mandrake 8.1?? I am updateing my |box and I am |curious if a cable modem will work and if so which specific |kinds work.. I |am just too far outside of DSL, now that I moved.. So let me know your |feedback.. I am located in Richmond VA. If any one has had |good luck with |one kind of ISP please post..Mark -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I think that throttling writers is fine and good, but as it stands now, the dirty buffer balancing will throttle anybody, not just the writer. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever
You guys might all think that the article was a joke, and I must admit that I can't get too excited about it. B_U_T the views expressed by some of the respondents were enough to make your blood run cold. It seems that a large proportion of them would make us live in a totalitarian state, just because they don't like our choice of operating system. Crazeee petew PS They did a previous article about Mandrake round about Jan/Feb it was equally pathetic(funny if you like) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards -- petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X-Server with Geforce2Go
Hi, I just tried installing 8.1 on my Toshiba 3000-400 which has a Nvidia Geforce 2Go Chipset. This worked perfectly well in 8.0, but in the new release I can´t get right configuration. All I see is some colourful lines, when testing the setup. Mandrake Recognizes the card as a Geforce 2 DDR, and the monitor as a standard 1024 at 70Hz. I tried this and a few other possibilities, like Notebook Display, different Geforces, different colour depths and even using the 3.X X-Server, but it just has no effect. I also tried to get the drivers from nvidia dirctly. But there is no rpm for mandrake newer than 7.2 and the srpms don´t work on my machine. Any clue, what else I could try? Thanks in advance, Patrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X-Server with Geforce2Go
mandrakeuser.org has rpms for 8.1 ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Patrick Meisel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:02 PM Subject: [newbie] X-Server with Geforce2Go Hi, I just tried installing 8.1 on my Toshiba 3000-400 which has a Nvidia Geforce 2Go Chipset. This worked perfectly well in 8.0, but in the new release I can´t get right configuration. All I see is some colourful lines, when testing the setup. Mandrake Recognizes the card as a Geforce 2 DDR, and the monitor as a standard 1024 at 70Hz. I tried this and a few other possibilities, like Notebook Display, different Geforces, different colour depths and even using the 3.X X-Server, but it just has no effect. I also tried to get the drivers from nvidia dirctly. But there is no rpm for mandrake newer than 7.2 and the srpms don´t work on my machine. Any clue, what else I could try? Thanks in advance, Patrick -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed ( was Netscape 6)
Hi Paul, I gave Sylpheed a try.. Well, I like it and all.. but.. the newsgroup crashes when I click on it. So, basically means I can't use the newsgroup.. Do you have any idea of what's going on? Thanks. Valerie On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:56:47 GMT Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sylpheed is really good. I use it and love it. It does mail and news pretty good (news still a bit rough around the edges but improving). And it does Asian languages without a problem. It should, it is written by someone from Japan :) You can download it from http://sylpheed.good-day.net The FAQ is at http://nlpagan.net/sylpheed-faq.html The manual is at http://nlpagan.net/sylman (for reading online or download). Sylpheed is by default set up to run netscape when you click a link to a website. Paul (maintainer of the english FAQ and Manual for sylpheed ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X-Server with Geforce2Go
Thanks, I´ll try them right away... Robert MacLean wrote: mandrakeuser.org has rpms for 8.1 ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Patrick Meisel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:02 PM Subject: [newbie] X-Server with Geforce2Go Hi, I just tried installing 8.1 on my Toshiba 3000-400 which has a Nvidia Geforce 2Go Chipset. This worked perfectly well in 8.0, but in the new release I can´t get right configuration. All I see is some colourful lines, when testing the setup. Mandrake Recognizes the card as a Geforce 2 DDR, and the monitor as a standard 1024 at 70Hz. I tried this and a few other possibilities, like Notebook Display, different Geforces, different colour depths and even using the 3.X X-Server, but it just has no effect. I also tried to get the drivers from nvidia dirctly. But there is no rpm for mandrake newer than 7.2 and the srpms don´t work on my machine. Any clue, what else I could try? Thanks in advance, Patrick -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Folder Icon Color in KDE2 Konqueror
On Thursday 18 October 2001 03:01, Sridhar wrote: In KDE2, I have noticed on my SuSE system that the file manager (Konqueror) shows the folder icons in light blue (top half of folder) whereas my Mandrake box shows the folder icons in a reddish brown color. This causes me to think the folder color can be changed. However, looking in KDE control center, I could not find a setting for the color of folder icons. Does anyone know how the color can be changed? Right-click a folder and select Edit file type. You can change the icon there. I never noticed that Edit file type included that option! Thank you for this helpful information! The next question I have is, can the theme be edited or is there some other procedure to globally change all folder icons (vs. changing one at a time)? ** Powered by Mandrake Linux 7.2 KDE 2.0 KMail 1.1.99 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R
Almost ALL IDE and SCSI burners identify themselves as CDRW devices during the init sequence. As a result Mandrake/Linux has relatively little problems with newer devices... There were a few that did not do this, but newer units are fine. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mohammed Arafa |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:53 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R | | |hmmm.. |well has anyone any idea of the yamaha 16x, mitsumi 16x or the |sony 16x writers? specifically, is there anything bad about |them and are they mandrake compatible? | |i ask as i m thinking of buying a cd rw | |thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing jdk...
Edit your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Watson |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:03 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] installing jdk... | | |On Wednesday 17 October 2001 12:20 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | Unpack the tar.gz into /usr/java | | Then set the path to include the /usr/java/bin directory first. | | That's it. | | |I did that using | | export PATH...etc | |this changes the path as shown by echo $PATH. But the next time I |boot up PATH has reverted to its old form, how do I make the change |persistent? | |Thanks in advance. | |-- | |petew | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] icon font color in gnome?
Hi does anybody know how to change the color of the fonts in gnome (with mandrake 8.1)? Thanx sooo much Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Flip Disk
Hi everyone, I know this may be off topic, but any ideas or help with this would be very useful! Is there any possibility of trying to recover data from my corrupted drive? The drive is a portable 20Gb Amacom 'flip disk', that apparently has a Toshiba hard drive installed. It has USB connectivity is configured for PC (although I used it on a mac it contains about 15Gb of data from a mac). I have already returned it to Amacom but besides saying that the 'FAT' (file allocation table?) was corrupted, they couldn't do anything with it. Many thanks in advance! Dech Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the reply I posted to them.)
I can't believe you lot take this so seriously. I'm very new to Linux yet I found it funny, and there was probably more jokes in it than I'll ever realise. No doubt they are all pating themselves on the back at such an out cry by yourselves. This is exactly what they were hoping for I think!! Ade -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 October 2001 22:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the reply I posted to them.) lol, I titled this: This guy is on Drugs or Works for Microsoft here is what I posted, anyone correct me if anything I said was incorrect. = Hi, First of all, the guys name was Linus not linux. Second: M$ Office, Outlook and IE are Microsoft software, THEY choose not to supply them for linux because they want people to use windows not linux. Third: There is more then one linux app that will open and save in M$ office file formats, anyone with half a brain can work out how to use them as its pretty much a standard menu system. Try Star Office and Openoffice. Forth:, Mozilla is almost word for word standards compliant, IE is not. (although ie6 is close) so you lied. Fifth: You don't need a Pentium with 32MB ram to run linux, you can do it on a 386 with 8MB of ram. and boot it from a floppy (Trinix and others)you just need 32mb and a pentium to run Mandrake linux, since they rightly assume that people would rather have an OS that is optimised for the system they have, rather then one that is optimised for old hardware, you want to run linux on a 486, get Peanut or possibly Redhat. Also, try loading win2000 or XP on your 486. the versions of linux that were out when 95 came out, ran on 486's just fine, and the fact that some current versions can still run on it says alot, none of M$ recent versions will run on a 486 at all. Sixth: RedHat, Caldera and others are not past names for linux distro's they are Current other distro's. People chose the one they want. which had you read up on, you wouldn't have tried to use Mandrake on a 486. Seventh: Linux doesn't have virus software? thats probably because its nearly impossible to infect a properly linux box with a virus because of users,, you need root or admin access to do that. Windows XP home, like win98,98,98SE and ME make everyone root, so they are affected by virus's Also there are alot of linux virus scanners, like Trend Filescan, the thing is that they all search for windows virus's because there are none on linux that are a threat to anyone. Eighth: Linux doesn't need firewalls like Zone Alarm because the abiltiy is built into the OS, read ipchains and iptables, and Mandrake 8.1 has two firewalls built into it. InteractiveBastille does far more then most just by asking you a bunch of questions from a nice GUI interface. Ninth: Software, Mandrake linux has server software that it would cost over 2000AUD to achieve with Microsoft(tm) software, and you wouldn't have been effected by Code Red or Nimda if you weren't running M$ software. it also comes standard with 2 or more versions of spreadsheets, word processors presentation software, finance stuff, advanced text editors, time management software email clients, graphing software, image editing software and more, and it all comes WITH Mandrake, you don't have to buy it seperatly. Tenth: Games, what to play Quake3 on linux? go ahead, you can buy it for linux, ditto with many other titles. and with WINE, you can run a great many actual windows titles as well. Please, if you are going to review a product at least get someone who knows what they are doing to review it objectively, you don't know because you only know the microsoft way and have a closed mind to anything else. Remember windows has been around in a semi decent form since 1992 or so,, Unix, which is linux's parent has been around since the 60's... you just didn't know about it. That is not the fault of linux. I use both linux and windows, I started with an open mind and I am tipping more and more towards linux because it does everything I want, and I can have the same machine running without a reboot for months just fine (I have seen cases where it has run without reboot for well over a year.). and it didn't cost me 500 bucks to buy. Be objective when you review something, just because its not what you are used to, doesn't mean that its not better, (or conversely that its worse.) Rgds Frank Perth Australia. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
on 10/18/01 1:06 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) 1024 bytes. Computers operate on base 2. 1MB = 2^10 bytes. Only hard drive manufacturers use base 10, to artificially inflate the size of their drives (false advertising basically). mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A bit is as small as it gets. A bit is either 1 or 0. mb generally means megabits, which is 1/8 of a megabyte. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown
Hmm... don't know about the Toshiba, but it sounds like a partitioning problem as your computer is trying to save the contents of the RAM during suspend mode. I'm quessing, when you leave it for a while your computer goes into suspend mode to save energy. So one of two things is happening, your computer is really asleep, and clicking the mouse a few times, or tapping the power button once and waiting a little bit will wake it up. Or... You don't have suspend to disk partition. Your computer may need this to successfully enter suspend mode. I know that Dell offers a program to create this partition on their systems, maybe Toshiba does too? I would suggest first checking to make sure that apmd (advanced power management deamon) is starting up on boot. You can go to Mandrake Control Center, go to Services in the System menu, and make sure On Boot is selected for apmd. This is the system service that manages power management on laptops. Also, make sure that you did not disable apmd in InteractiveBastille. The latest version of this program adds an option to disable this service as you don't seem to need it on desktops. If this doesn't work you can disable system suspension in your BIOS. I supose this is more of a short-term sollution untill you manage to get this question resolved. -Paul rodríguez On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 13:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 dech Paul Rodríguez wrote: Out of curiosity, what Laptop are you currently using? -Paul Rodríguez On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 16:12, dwang wrote: Hi I installed Mandrake8.0 on my laptop. But if I do use it for a while, it seems to be shotdown, with the screen black. Then I have to switch on again. Can you advice me how to avoid this? Thanks Dech =_1003331612-1734-950 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1003406531-1734-1197 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:53 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards Crackers have their own 'language' (leet speak), consisting of their own slang and variations of standard English words. Letters are often replaced with similar-looking ASCII characters. 133+ means leet, which is short for elite. Script kiddies like to use this language to sound 1337 (yet another of many ways to spell leet). Sometimes one letter is replaced with several ASCII characters to 'draw' the character. For example, |-| is the letter H, and |\| is the letter N. Here's a longer example: 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA| i$ whEn J00 +4lK L1K3 t|-|!5. t0 u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo |\/|u5+ be lEET. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N0T 5p3A| 0r ReAd +|-|I5. Literal translation: Advanced leet speak is when you talk like this. To understand you must be leet. If you are not leet you cannot speak or read this. Your homework for today: Try to decipher my sig! :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r 73kn!q. ! 0wn j0o ll4m@ +00|z Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the rep ly Iposted to them.)
I agree. I mean *cough* ... look at the rest of the site. Go to the home page. Do some *cough* research about the site before jumping to conclusions that _the author_ didn't know her/his stuff. It's obviously satire. And very good satire. But I did like Franki's response. Seriously: I'm a newbie and got a lot of good info :). --mitch Adrian Lynch adrian.l@thoughtbubbTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Newbie le.net (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: newbie-owner@linux-maSubject: RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is ndrake.com the rep ly I posted to them.) 10/18/01 08:41 AM Please respond to newbie I can't believe you lot take this so seriously. I'm very new to Linux yet I found it funny, and there was probably more jokes in it than I'll ever realise. No doubt they are all pating themselves on the back at such an out cry by yourselves. This is exactly what they were hoping for I think!! Ade -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 October 2001 22:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the reply I posted to them.) lol, I titled this: This guy is on Drugs or Works for Microsoft here is what I posted, anyone correct me if anything I said was incorrect. = Hi, First of all, the guys name was Linus not linux. Second: M$ Office, Outlook and IE are Microsoft software, THEY choose not to supply them for linux because they want people to use windows not linux. Third: There is more then one linux app that will open and save in M$ office file formats, anyone with half a brain can work out how to use them as its pretty much a standard menu system. Try Star Office and Openoffice. Forth:, Mozilla is almost word for word standards compliant, IE is not. (although ie6 is close) so you lied. Fifth: You don't need a Pentium with 32MB ram to run linux, you can do it on a 386 with 8MB of ram. and boot it from a floppy (Trinix and others)you just need 32mb and a pentium to run Mandrake linux, since they rightly assume that people would rather have an OS that is optimised for the system they have, rather then one that is optimised for old hardware, you want to run linux on a 486, get Peanut or possibly Redhat. Also, try loading win2000 or XP on your 486. the versions of linux that were out when 95 came out, ran on 486's just fine, and the fact that some current versions can still run on it says alot, none of M$ recent versions will run on a 486 at all. Sixth: RedHat, Caldera and others are not past names for linux distro's they are Current other distro's. People chose the one they want. which had you read up on, you wouldn't have tried to use Mandrake on a 486. Seventh: Linux doesn't have virus software? thats probably because its nearly impossible to infect a properly linux box with a virus because of users,, you need root or admin access to do that. Windows XP home, like win98,98,98SE and ME make everyone root, so they are affected by virus's Also there are alot of linux virus scanners, like Trend Filescan, the thing is that they all search for windows virus's because there are none on linux that are a threat to anyone. Eighth: Linux doesn't need firewalls like Zone Alarm because the abiltiy is built into the OS, read ipchains and iptables, and Mandrake 8.1 has two firewalls built into it. InteractiveBastille does far more then most just by asking you a bunch of questions from a nice GUI interface. Ninth:
RE: [newbie] gphoto and LM8.1
Hmm... this would work for a digital camera because it can be seen as a storage device. What would you need for a USB webcam? -Paul Rodríguez On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 02:49, Michael Spivak wrote: the thing is, that you don't need the gphoto to get access to your USB camera ! all you have to do is to start the USB daemon, then mount your USB device (I think it's /dev/something) and voalla - you can browse the images on your camera with regular konquerror or do an 'ls -lca' in the command prompt and copy the images by 'cp' anywhere you want !! -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:22 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] gphoto and LM8.1 This is the same problem I had in 8.0, I can not get a usb connection with gphoto and my digital camera. It works ok with serial port as a Kodak DC240 but in usb configuration I can not find the add in in the configuration panel that allows the camera to connect. Has anyone had success with usb camera connection. I can not figure out kamera either, and although man pages are supposed to be loaded I get no man page for kamera TIA for any suggestions. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain
On Thursday 18 October 2001 13:18 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:53 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards Crackers have their own 'language' (leet speak), consisting of their own slang and variations of standard English words. Letters are often replaced with similar-looking ASCII characters. 133+ means leet, which is short for elite. Script kiddies like to use this language to sound 1337 (yet another of many ways to spell leet). Sometimes one letter is replaced with several ASCII characters to 'draw' the character. For example, |-| is the letter H, and |\| is the letter N. Here's a longer example: 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA| i$ whEn J00 +4lK L1K3 t|-|!5. t0 u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo |\/|u5+ be lEET. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N0T 5p3A| 0r ReAd | +|-|I5. Literal translation: Advanced leet speak is when you talk like this. To understand you must be leet. If you are not leet you cannot speak or read this. Your homework for today: Try to decipher my sig! :) Sridhar Dhanapalan phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r 73kn!q. ! 0wn j0o ll4m@ +00|z OK I'm learning something here, but ph34r and ll4m@ have got me beat. Like to help me out . Thanks petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dell Inspiron WinModem?
Hi, has anyone here had luck getting the internal modem to work on their Dell Laptop? I believe it is an LT WinModem with Lucent Chipset. I know that some people have experienced success getting this general type of modem up and running with the drivers from http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/index.html , but on this laptop? Thansk! -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the rep ly Iposted to them.)
Actually, I'm not sure if Frank is taking it seriously or just adding some real facts so the newbs (like myself) know the truths. mitch Adrian Lynch adrian.l@thoughtbubbTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Newbie le.net (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: newbie-owner@linux-maSubject: RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is ndrake.com the rep ly I posted to them.) 10/18/01 08:41 AM Please respond to newbie I can't believe you lot take this so seriously. I'm very new to Linux yet I found it funny, and there was probably more jokes in it than I'll ever realise. No doubt they are all pating themselves on the back at such an out cry by yourselves. This is exactly what they were hoping for I think!! Ade -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 October 2001 22:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the reply I posted to them.) lol, I titled this: This guy is on Drugs or Works for Microsoft here is what I posted, anyone correct me if anything I said was incorrect. = Hi, First of all, the guys name was Linus not linux. Second: M$ Office, Outlook and IE are Microsoft software, THEY choose not to supply them for linux because they want people to use windows not linux. Third: There is more then one linux app that will open and save in M$ office file formats, anyone with half a brain can work out how to use them as its pretty much a standard menu system. Try Star Office and Openoffice. Forth:, Mozilla is almost word for word standards compliant, IE is not. (although ie6 is close) so you lied. Fifth: You don't need a Pentium with 32MB ram to run linux, you can do it on a 386 with 8MB of ram. and boot it from a floppy (Trinix and others)you just need 32mb and a pentium to run Mandrake linux, since they rightly assume that people would rather have an OS that is optimised for the system they have, rather then one that is optimised for old hardware, you want to run linux on a 486, get Peanut or possibly Redhat. Also, try loading win2000 or XP on your 486. the versions of linux that were out when 95 came out, ran on 486's just fine, and the fact that some current versions can still run on it says alot, none of M$ recent versions will run on a 486 at all. Sixth: RedHat, Caldera and others are not past names for linux distro's they are Current other distro's. People chose the one they want. which had you read up on, you wouldn't have tried to use Mandrake on a 486. Seventh: Linux doesn't have virus software? thats probably because its nearly impossible to infect a properly linux box with a virus because of users,, you need root or admin access to do that. Windows XP home, like win98,98,98SE and ME make everyone root, so they are affected by virus's Also there are alot of linux virus scanners, like Trend Filescan, the thing is that they all search for windows virus's because there are none on linux that are a threat to anyone. Eighth: Linux doesn't need firewalls like Zone Alarm because the abiltiy is built into the OS, read ipchains and iptables, and Mandrake 8.1 has two firewalls built into it. InteractiveBastille does far more then most just by asking you a bunch of questions from a nice GUI interface. Ninth: Software, Mandrake linux has server software that it would cost over 2000AUD to achieve with Microsoft(tm) software, and you wouldn't have been effected by Code Red or Nimda if you weren't running M$
RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the rep ly I posted to them.)
Good point, at least some good, apart from a chuckle, has come out of it!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 October 2001 15:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the rep ly I posted to them.) Actually, I'm not sure if Frank is taking it seriously or just adding some real facts so the newbs (like myself) know the truths. mitch Adrian Lynch adrian.l@thoughtbubbTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Newbie le.net (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: newbie-owner@linux-maSubject: RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is ndrake.com the rep ly I posted to them.) 10/18/01 08:41 AM Please respond to newbie I can't believe you lot take this so seriously. I'm very new to Linux yet I found it funny, and there was probably more jokes in it than I'll ever realise. No doubt they are all pating themselves on the back at such an out cry by yourselves. This is exactly what they were hoping for I think!! Ade -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 October 2001 22:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the reply I posted to them.) lol, I titled this: This guy is on Drugs or Works for Microsoft here is what I posted, anyone correct me if anything I said was incorrect. = Hi, First of all, the guys name was Linus not linux. Second: M$ Office, Outlook and IE are Microsoft software, THEY choose not to supply them for linux because they want people to use windows not linux. Third: There is more then one linux app that will open and save in M$ office file formats, anyone with half a brain can work out how to use them as its pretty much a standard menu system. Try Star Office and Openoffice. Forth:, Mozilla is almost word for word standards compliant, IE is not. (although ie6 is close) so you lied. Fifth: You don't need a Pentium with 32MB ram to run linux, you can do it on a 386 with 8MB of ram. and boot it from a floppy (Trinix and others)you just need 32mb and a pentium to run Mandrake linux, since they rightly assume that people would rather have an OS that is optimised for the system they have, rather then one that is optimised for old hardware, you want to run linux on a 486, get Peanut or possibly Redhat. Also, try loading win2000 or XP on your 486. the versions of linux that were out when 95 came out, ran on 486's just fine, and the fact that some current versions can still run on it says alot, none of M$ recent versions will run on a 486 at all. Sixth: RedHat, Caldera and others are not past names for linux distro's they are Current other distro's. People chose the one they want. which had you read up on, you wouldn't have tried to use Mandrake on a 486. Seventh: Linux doesn't have virus software? thats probably because its nearly impossible to infect a properly linux box with a virus because of users,, you need root or admin access to do that. Windows XP home, like win98,98,98SE and ME make everyone root, so they are affected by virus's Also there are alot of linux virus scanners, like Trend Filescan, the thing is that they all search for windows virus's because there are none on linux that are a threat to anyone. Eighth: Linux doesn't need firewalls like Zone Alarm because the abiltiy is built into the OS, read ipchains and iptables, and Mandrake 8.1 has two firewalls built into it. InteractiveBastille does far more then most just by asking you a bunch of questions from a nice GUI interface. Ninth: Software, Mandrake linux has server software that it would cost over 2000AUD to achieve with Microsoft(tm) software, and you wouldn't have been effected by Code Red or Nimda if you weren't running M$ software. it also comes standard with 2 or more versions of spreadsheets, word processors presentation software, finance stuff, advanced text editors, time management software email clients, graphing software, image editing software and more, and it all comes WITH Mandrake, you don't have to buy it seperatly. Tenth: Games, what to play Quake3 on linux? go ahead, you can buy it for linux, ditto with many other titles. and with WINE, you can run a great many actual windows titles as well. Please, if you are going to review a product at least get someone who knows what they are doing to review it objectively, you don't know because you only know the microsoft way and have a closed mind to anything else. Remember windows has been around in a
Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron WinModem?
Hi Paul, I have the winmodem with the Lucent chipset and it works flawlessly on my Inspiron 8000. If you need some help you may contact me directly. Regards, Bill W. On Thursday 18 October 2001 07:24, you wrote: Hi, has anyone here had luck getting the internal modem to work on their Dell Laptop? I believe it is an LT WinModem with Lucent Chipset. I know that some people have experienced success getting this general type of modem up and running with the drivers from http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/index.html , but on this laptop? Thansk! -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] need a Diva ADSL USB driver
I have installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my PC. I use the following modem: Diva ADSL USB Modem Is there a driver for this king of modem? Thanks in advance Corto - Mail.be, Free WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS in 8.1 and Sound Wierdness
On Thursday 18 October 2001 04:18 am, you were observed remarking: Miark wrote: XMMS has been acting weird since I installed 8.1. I load a song, click the play button and nothing happens. If I hit play again or move the slider to move through the song, then it crashes. I changed the output to eSound and it will at least play now. But it's still kinda slow on the pick up. There is a slight delay when I click play or stop. I've also been using FreeAmp which has been giving me zero problems. In the mixer, I can change things, and it basically works, _but_ it identifies my SoundBlaster Live! Value as a Tr something or other, and I've noticed that I'm missing a slider that nomally balances sound between the front and back speakers. These two things may be related--I'm not sure. Anybody else had these problems? Any insight as to what they might be? Cheers, Miark Here - here! I've got nothing but problems with 8.1 and my SB Live card. Xawtv has no sound, nor does anything else. My setup says that emu10k is loaded, and it finds it in hardware from the control center but -silence- reigns here, my friends! Kmix also says that my SB live is a Tri, and it shows it on -TWO- tabs, like I have 2 soundcards. Nasty. I ran sndconfig as root, but it gives a bunch of errors and won't work. Anyone else? Problems/solutions? ;-) I have SBLive 5.1 and am listening to WUNC 91.5 fm chapel hill, an NPR station. I don't know how I managed not to screw it up, but there is hope, evidently. -- -michael- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Folder Icon Color in KDE2 Konqueror
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:08:19 -0400, Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2001 03:01, Sridhar wrote: In KDE2, I have noticed on my SuSE system that the file manager (Konqueror) shows the folder icons in light blue (top half of folder) whereas my Mandrake box shows the folder icons in a reddish brown color. This causes me to think the folder color can be changed. However, looking in KDE control center, I could not find a setting for the color of folder icons. Does anyone know how the color can be changed? Right-click a folder and select Edit file type. You can change the icon there. I never noticed that Edit file type included that option! Thank you for this helpful information! The next question I have is, can the theme be edited or is there some other procedure to globally change all folder icons (vs. changing one at a time)? You can add/remove icon themes in the KDE Control Centre (LookNFeel - Icons). You need KDE 2.2 or above for this feature. You can get icon themes from http://kde-look.org/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that this explains it. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed ( was Netscape 6)
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:56:47 GMT, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It's not just email and NG... I want something that has browser, email, and NG intergrated together plus complete asian language support... That's why Netscape is the best thing so far... but I might check out Sylpheed, since people are saying good things about it. Valerie Sylpheed is really good. I use it and love it. It does mail and news pretty good (news still a bit rough around the edges but improving). And it does Asian languages without a problem. It should, it is written by someone from Japan :) You can download it from http://sylpheed.good-day.net The FAQ is at http://nlpagan.net/sylpheed-faq.html The manual is at http://nlpagan.net/sylman (for reading online or download). Sylpheed is by default set up to run netscape when you click a link to a website. Paul (maintainer of the english FAQ and Manual for sylpheed ;-) And a great manual it is, too :) I used it to get me going with Sylpheed, and now I'm hooked on Claws. Valerie, you may also want to try Evolution. It's nearing the 1.0 stage, and it seems even better than OutLook/LookOut (and virus-free!). Browsers and mailers often can be 'connected' to each other via their preferences settings. For example, I have configured Galeon to open a Sylpheed compose window whenever I click on a mailto:; link, and I have configured Sylpheed to send web links in e-mails to Galeon. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Did I mention my belief in the true meaning of intelligence? Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done. Lazy programmers are the best programmers. Think Tom Sawyer painting the fence. That's intelligence. Requiring almost no effort is a big plus in my book. It's the clever programmer I'm afraid of. The one who isn't afraid of generating complexity, because he has a Plan (capital P), and he knows he can work out the details later. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Still Yurik
Am I the only person still getting these Bounces back from Mail Delivery Subsystem regarding [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Can't someone do something? My l;ittle plan clearly failed somebody? -- -michael- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] icon font color in gnome?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:23:10 +0200, Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi does anybody know how to change the color of the fonts in gnome (with mandrake 8.1)? Thanx sooo much Robert You can't at present. This has been one of the most requested features for GNOME2, and you'll see it in there. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan De gustibus non disputandum. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: [newbie] Still Yurik
I'm still getting them as well .. quite annoying. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [newbie] Still Yurik Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:13:59 -0700 From: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am I the only person still getting these Bounces back from Mail Delivery Subsystem regarding [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Can't someone do something? My l;ittle plan clearly failed somebody? -- -michael- --- -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture [EMAIL PROTECTED] 434.982.3047 -- Registered Linux User #218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown
Hi Paul, Many thanks for your message. But I cannot find apmd from the services in the system menu. Can you tell me how to disable system suspension in my BIOS? Thanks dech Paul Rodríguez wrote: Hmm... don't know about the Toshiba, but it sounds like a partitioning problem as your computer is trying to save the contents of the RAM during suspend mode. I'm quessing, when you leave it for a while your computer goes into suspend mode to save energy. So one of two things is happening, your computer is really asleep, and clicking the mouse a few times, or tapping the power button once and waiting a little bit will wake it up. Or... You don't have suspend to disk partition. Your computer may need this to successfully enter suspend mode. I know that Dell offers a program to create this partition on their systems, maybe Toshiba does too? I would suggest first checking to make sure that apmd (advanced power management deamon) is starting up on boot. You can go to Mandrake Control Center, go to Services in the System menu, and make sure On Boot is selected for apmd. This is the system service that manages power management on laptops. Also, make sure that you did not disable apmd in InteractiveBastille. The latest version of this program adds an option to disable this service as you don't seem to need it on desktops. If this doesn't work you can disable system suspension in your BIOS. I supose this is more of a short-term sollution untill you manage to get this question resolved. -Paul rodríguez On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 13:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 dech Paul Rodríguez wrote: Out of curiosity, what Laptop are you currently using? -Paul Rodríguez On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 16:12, dwang wrote: Hi I installed Mandrake8.0 on my laptop. But if I do use it for a while, it seems to be shotdown, with the screen black. Then I have to switch on again. Can you advice me how to avoid this? Thanks Dech =_1003331612-1734-950 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1003406531-1734-1197 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:24:35 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2001 13:18 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:53 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards Crackers have their own 'language' (leet speak), consisting of their own slang and variations of standard English words. Letters are often replaced with similar-looking ASCII characters. 133+ means leet, which is short for elite. Script kiddies like to use this language to sound 1337 (yet another of many ways to spell leet). Sometimes one letter is replaced with several ASCII characters to 'draw' the character. For example, |-| is the letter H, and |\| is the letter N. Here's a longer example: 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA| i$ whEn J00 +4lK L1K3 t|-|!5. t0 u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo |\/|u5+ be lEET. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N0T 5p3A| 0r ReAd | +|-|I5. Literal translation: Advanced leet speak is when you talk like this. To understand you must be leet. If you are not leet you cannot speak or read this. Your homework for today: Try to decipher my sig! :) Sridhar Dhanapalan phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r 73kn!q. ! 0wn j0o ll4m@ +00|z OK I'm learning something here, but ph34r and ll4m@ have got me beat. Like to help me out . Thanks petew Sure thing. phj34r = fear The letter j is usually either silent or pronounced like a y (e.g. j0o = you) ll4m@ = llama A llama is a luser or loser. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Microsoft? Is that a kind of a toilet paper? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:54:41 -0500, Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/18/01 1:06 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) 1024 bytes. Computers operate on base 2. 1MB = 2^10 bytes. Only hard drive manufacturers use base 10, to artificially inflate the size of their drives (false advertising basically). I'm an idiot! How could I make such a _stupid_ mistake? *whacks own forehead with palm* That's correct. I must've been half-asleep when I wrote that message (I know I am right now :) ). mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A bit is as small as it gets. A bit is either 1 or 0. Yep. I was only giving an example there. mb generally means megabits, which is 1/8 of a megabyte. Strictly-speaking, a megabit should be Mb. It's quite common for people (including myself, I'm afraid) to mix up the cases of the letters. MB (megabyte) and Mb (megabit) is probably the most confusing for people. Matt -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Also we should remember that unfortunately free software is not widely used because people prefers to have something to plug'n'play and not something to configure'n'work. -- Pier Luca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain
is +00|z, tools or fools? ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:24:35 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2001 13:18 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:53 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards Crackers have their own 'language' (leet speak), consisting of their own slang and variations of standard English words. Letters are often replaced with similar-looking ASCII characters. 133+ means leet, which is short for elite. Script kiddies like to use this language to sound 1337 (yet another of many ways to spell leet). Sometimes one letter is replaced with several ASCII characters to 'draw' the character. For example, |-| is the letter H, and |\| is the letter N. Here's a longer example: 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA| i$ whEn J00 +4lK L1K3 t|-|!5. t0 u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo |\/|u5+ be lEET. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N0T 5p3A| 0r ReAd | +|-|I5. Literal translation: Advanced leet speak is when you talk like this. To understand you must be leet. If you are not leet you cannot speak or read this. Your homework for today: Try to decipher my sig! :) Sridhar Dhanapalan phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r 73kn!q. ! 0wn j0o ll4m@ +00|z OK I'm learning something here, but ph34r and ll4m@ have got me beat. Like to help me out . Thanks petew Sure thing. phj34r = fear The letter j is usually either silent or pronounced like a y (e.g. j0o = you) ll4m@ = llama A llama is a luser or loser. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Microsoft? Is that a kind of a toilet paper? -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound card oddity
Maybe LM8.1 chooses an OSS/Free driver for some sondcards and an ALSA driver for others. Muting everything by default is an ALSA tradition :) Any way I can tell, so I can know what is going on?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound card oddity
/mnt/zip to the usual /dev/hdd4 and its fine. Until I reboot. Then its the same way again. Checked fstab of course - it shows /dev/hdd4! Ive not tried my zip 250 yet but I will attempt it tonight. 2. XawTV has no sound. Picture perfect. Took tv card out so no be able to help there. 3. XawTV icon (from Hell) is still on my desktop. Squatters rights, I guess. U can delete the dickens out of it, each restart brings it back. Got to be some kind of dynamic link. I'd search my init scripts for something that may be doing a link.. -scanbus which normally brings up your position in the SCSI chain/lun and whatever device you are using. Mine says. run cdrecord -scanbus as root. ;-) it hates you ron:) Gonna try my burner maybe tonight as well. Lots of problems as u can see. I'm going to wipe /home and reinstall. Wish me luck...Methinks I'll need it. Should have a problem. installed perfectly for great 3D acceleration. Networking, except for my 'Nix box showing up in Network Neighborhood, is good. We can fix the sharing but it works the way you want it right now so you can see the 2 windows machines and such so the rest is just mental candy :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X Bloating...
I have trouble running my work PC for more than 12 hours without a reboot. Using system guard I can see that over time the memory for the X server just grows and grows until all RAM and Swap space are gone followed by a total lockup as the OS has no room to think. Disabling Multiple Wallpapers for the desktop it buys me a few extra hours. Leaving my PC logged in overnight to share my VMWare'd NT4 box guarantees a crash before midnight. Staying logged in without VMWare on means a crash sometime before I get to work in the morning. Logging out completely overnight means I'll have a crash sometime around noon the following day. Even as I write this email my X Server has doubled its memory usage. I don't have this problem at home, both PCs are running LM8.1 final release with Textstar object-prelinked KDE 2.2.1. The biggest difference between the two is my home PC runs on an ATI Radeon and the work PC is using a Matrox G450. Who's got suggestions on how to track down what is bloating X? Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ZIP Problem...
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. Everything seems fine except for my zip drive. HardDrake shows it is on /dev/hdb. When i insert a zip disk and click on the zip icon, I get the following message: mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist Anybody know why i have this problem? I can't seem to solve it. I never had this problem when I tried Suse 7.1... Computer spec: K6-2 500 HP CDRW IBM 15gig HD Seagate 20gig HD Creative AWE64 WinTV Nokia Game is on again. Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new all media adventure before November 3rd. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Speedcom+ 56kbps internal fax/modem Conexant Chipset problem
Hello, everybody! =) I just subscribe to this mailing list hoping that you could help me with my problem. I just installed my first Linux Mandrake 8.1 dual booted with M$ Windows 98 last 2 weeks ago. I bought a Speedcom+ 56kbps PCI internal fax/modem Conexant Chipset and I'm just wondering why I can't connect to the Internet. Please help me with my problem. I hope you can give me a step by step instruction or a how-to of this problem. Thank you very much. More power to you! =) __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] $PATH is wacked
I haven't modified my $PATH, but something sure has (at least I hope so) [michael@michael michael]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/ bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ games:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/ home/michael/bin [root@michael CIS55A]# echo $PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin Very weird. I haven't done anything to anyone's path, but michael's looks over padded and root's looks a bit sparse. 1) what is your root and user path? 2)where do they live? 3)how do i change them for more than the current session (ie so when i reboot they won't revert)? I recall trying with 8.0 and not being able to get it to stick... -- -michael- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I'm progressing
I'm trying to put together a server for our not-for-profit. I've installed 8.1 (from downloaded ISOs, burned into CD-Rs). I used the server choice, but turned off X and related options, (as this box only has a plain vga screen for text console). I have BIND working correctly, (I set it up as a slave zone to my other server, which is master). I think I have samba working correctly, the secretary says her win98 system can see the 2 fat32 drives, (shares). I'm able to telnet into the new box. I need to setup firewalling, I tried to make sense of Bastille but was not successfull. can anyone guide me in setting up IPTABLES? this box can't run X so tools need to be text/curses based. I was able to get webmin running via lynx. I started to setup apache also. thank in advance a fuzzy, Fuzzy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Folder Icon Color in KDE2 Konqueror
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:31:22 -0400, Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In KDE2, I have noticed on my SuSE system that the file manager (Konqueror) shows the folder icons in light blue (top half of folder) whereas my Mandrake box shows the folder icons in a reddish brown color. This causes me to think the folder color can be changed. However, looking in KDE control center, I could not find a setting for the color of folder icons. Does anyone know how the color can be changed? Thanks. Right-click a folder and select Edit file type. You can change the icon there. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound in MDK 8.1?
Hi... I was in the same problem with my CMI8330, I used sndconfig and this app detects very well my card, but I don not why I couldn't hear anything... then I probe with sndconfig --noprobe --noautoconfigure and the detection was very well.. it make the necesary files for me good look El Mar 16 Oct 2001 22:51, escribió: Hello everyone, I recently upgraded from MDK 7.2 to 8.1. Actually, I backed up my home directory, did a clean install, and restored the directory. Anyway, under 7.2, my sound card worked fine. In 8.1, I am having problems. I have an IBM ThinkPad 1400, with an ESS Solo card. HardDrake detects the card properly, but I can't hear the sample sounds. Initially, it seemed that the driver (snd-card-1938) wasn't loading properly -- there was no sound card listed in /proc/asound/cards. I got that fixed, so it loads the alsa drivers. Then, for no apparent reason, the mixer had everything muted, so I fixed that, setting all the items to 80 (my previous settings under MDK 7.2). But I still have no sound! Has anyone else run into this problem? Dave -- Paúl Mancheno. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speedcom+ 56kbps internal fax/modem Conexant Chipset problem
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 03:05:31 -0800 Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] cleverly noted: Hello, everybody! =) I just subscribe to this mailing list hoping that you could help me with my problem. I just installed my first Linux Mandrake 8.1 dual booted with M$ Windows 98 last 2 weeks ago. I bought a Speedcom+ 56kbps PCI internal fax/modem Conexant Chipset and I'm just wondering why I can't connect to the Internet. Please help me with my problem. I hope you can give me a step by step instruction or a how-to of this problem. == That may well be a winmodem. If there's any chance of getting such a software based device to work, check at www.linmodems.org. I hope I'm wrong about its being a winmodem. If I'm correct, you MAY wish to return it and purchase a real modem, possibly even an external. HTH, Mike -- He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you., he really is an idiot. -Groucho Marx _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix config problem?
Ok, so I'm starting to get the hang of this Linux thing. I'm now running Postfix to act as my SMTP service to get e-mail out from my machine. I do this because I'm using the POP3 account from my home DSL provider and they don't allow relaying from machines not on there network for SMTP traffic. Anyway, most mail traffic outbound looks pretty normal, but the headers do include tags with the hostname of the machine (pengo.xxx.com), which is not available in any DNS in the world. I have configured my address and reply-to fields in KMail properly, but Postfix is still attaching the machine's host name to all of the outbound messages. This is causing a problem when I try to subscribe to the snort-users mailing list as the majordomo at sourceforge keeps trying to relay to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and kicking my messages back because it can't reach that e-mail address. Is there some configuration that I must do to Postfix/sendmail to get an actual routable address to show up there? Thanks for any help. David Johnson RLU# 236992 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] $PATH is wacked
The Path statement is built up by the execution of various scripts. PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/bin: Would append the :/usr/java/bin: to the path statement variable as it existed at the start of script execution. Thus if you only looked at on place for this you would not find it. The only thing wrong with your path, is that somewhere the existing path is being appended to itself.. I.E. PATH=PATH$:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games: in one file Is followed by PATH=PATH$:.:PATH$ In another, or something very similar to this... Look at /etc/profile /etc/.bashrc /etc/.bash_profile Etc. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of michael |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:54 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] $PATH is wacked | | |I haven't modified my $PATH, but something sure has (at |least I hope so) |[michael@michael michael]$ echo $PATH |/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/ |bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ |games:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/ |home/michael/bin | |[root@michael CIS55A]# echo $PATH |/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin | |Very weird. I haven't done anything to anyone's path, but |michael's looks over padded and root's looks a bit sparse. | |1) what is your root and user path? |2)where do they live? |3)how do i change them for more than the current session |(ie so when i reboot they won't revert)? |I recall trying with 8.0 and not being able to get it to |stick... |-- |-michael- | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown
Dechao Wang wrote: Hi Paul, Many thanks for your message. But I cannot find apmd from the services in the system menu. Can you tell me how to disable system suspension in my BIOS? snip I couldn't find apmd either. I then installed apmd-3.0final-19mdk (this is on the first LM8.0 CD) still no go, logged out and in again and voila :) -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Megabits, bytes and nibbles
In reply to Sridhar Dhanapalan's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 01:25:59 +1000 Strictly-speaking, a megabit should be Mb. It's quite common for people (including myself, I'm afraid) to mix up the cases of the letters. MB (megabyte) and Mb (megabit) is probably the most confusing for people. Hence megs :) Paul -- Imagination is the weapon in the war against reality http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD3 contents
I spent all day (OK not quite) on the mdk site trying to find out exactly what is on that 3rd CD-ROM. Has anyone found a package list for it? TIA -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC Help Microsoft stamp out software piracy: give Linux to a friend today.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound in MDK 8.1?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 October 2001 11:56, Marco Paúl Mancheno Herrera. opined on the topic: Re: [newbie] No sound in MDK 8.1? Hi... I was in the same problem with my CMI8330, I used sndconfig and this app detects very well my card, but I don not why I couldn't hear anything... then I probe with sndconfig --noprobe --noautoconfigure and the detection was very well.. it make the necesary files for me Thanks, I actually did get the card going eventually. It was apparently conflicting with the IrDA port on my laptop, so I disabled that. Then, I had to tell KDE to use the Alsa driver rather than trying to autodetect -- for some reason, the autodetect was failing, and I only figured that out by accident. Anyway, I got sound now! Woohoo! Dave -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7zx7IA68l26XsZUYRAtReAKDnNhoYE8INN9oBFPfiK104RlYG6wCdErqE wcaO8o5/WRfMZWnaQ4l2pTQ= =ti4n -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CD3 contents
See Below |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel Clasquin |Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:51 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] CD3 contents | | |I spent all day (OK not quite) on the mdk site trying to find |out exactly |what is on that 3rd CD-ROM. Has anyone found a package list for it? | |TIA |-- abuse_sdl-0.4.8-3mdk.i586.rpm aethera-0.9.3-3mdk.i586.rpm AfterStep-1.8.9-3mdk.i586.rpm AfterStep-APPS-2000309-6mdk.i586.rpm AlephOne-0.12.0-0.1mdk.i586.rpm alsaplayer-0.99.36-1mdk.i586.rpm althea-0.5.3-1mdk.i586.rpm amaya-5.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ami-1.0.11-2mdk.i586.rpm amphetamine-0.8.8-2mdk.i586.rpm analog-5.01-1mdk.i586.rpm anjuta-0.1.7-1mdk.i586.rpm Apache-ASP-2.19-1mdk.noarch.rpm apache-source-1.3.20-3mdk.i586.rpm apcupsd-3.8.1-2mdk.i586.rpm aria-0.10.0-1mdk.i586.rpm ash-static-0.2-25mdk.i586.rpm aspell-ca-0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm aspell-da-1.4.18-1mdk.i586.rpm aspell-nl-0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm aspell-no-0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm aspell-sv-0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm balsa-1.1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm BasiliskII-jit-0.9-2mdk.i586.rpm bayonne-drivers-0.6.4-2mdk.i586.rpm bayonne-FrenchF-0.6.4-2mdk.i586.rpm bayonne-FrenchM-0.6.4-2mdk.i586.rpm bayonne-UsEngM-0.6.4-2mdk.i586.rpm bbdb-2.32-1mdk.noarch.rpm BerkeleyDB-2.7.7-6mdk.i586.rpm BerkeleyDB-devel-2.7.7-6mdk.i586.rpm BibTool-2.44-1mdk.i586.rpm biew-5.3.0p1-4mdk.i586.rpm bind-devel-9.2.0-0.rc3.1mdk.i586.rpm blt-2.4u-5mdk.i586.rpm bobobot-0-8mdk.preview3.i586.rpm bombermaze-0.6.6-1mdk.i586.rpm bttvgrab-0.15.10-3mdk.i586.rpm bugsquish-0.0.2-8mdk.i586.rpm bumprace-1.42-3mdk.i586.rpm camlp4-3.01.5-1mdk.i586.rpm camstream-0.25-1mdk.i586.rpm cdrdao-1.1.5-5mdk.i586.rpm cdrdao-gcdmaster-1.1.5-5mdk.i586.rpm centericq-3.35.22-1mdk.i586.rpm cervisia-1.4.1-3mdk.i586.rpm cgicc-3.1.5-1mdk.i586.rpm cgoban-1.9.11-2mdk.i586.rpm chbg-1.5-1mdk.i586.rpm chrony-1.15-1mdk.i586.rpm cilk-5.3.1-2mdk.i586.rpm cint-5.15-1mdk.i586.rpm circuslinux-1.0.1-6mdk.i586.rpm ckermit-7.0-5mdk.i586.rpm clara-0.9.7-1mdk.i586.rpm clips-6.10-3mdk.i586.rpm clips-X11-6.10-3mdk.i586.rpm coda-debug-client-5.3.15-2mdk.i586.rpm coda-debug-server-5.3.15-2mdk.i586.rpm coda-doc-5.2.0-4mdk.noarch.rpm cook-2.17-1mdk.i586.rpm cook-psdocs-2.17-1mdk.i586.rpm cronosII-0.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm cscmail-1.6.1-4mdk.noarch.rpm cttex-1.21-4mdk.i586.rpm daCode-1.2.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm db2-devel-2.4.14-3mdk.i586.rpm db3-utils-3.2.9-2mdk.i586.rpm ddd-3.3.1-1mdk.i586.rpm defendguin-0.0.6-7mdk.i586.rpm dejagnu-1.4.2-1mdk.noarch.rpm dfm-0.99.9-1mdk.i586.rpm dhcp-devel-3.0-0.rc12.1mdk.i586.rpm dnsutl-1.6-4mdk.i586.rpm docbook-style-xsl-1.44-1mdk.noarch.rpm drgenius-0.5.11-3mdk.i586.rpm easytag-0.15-1mdk.i586.rpm emacs-el-20.7-17mdk.i586.rpm emma-0.8-3mdk.i586.rpm ethereal-0.8.19-1mdk.i586.rpm evolution-devel-0.13-3mdk.i586.rpm evolution-pilot-0.13-3mdk.i586.rpm f2c-20001107-3mdk.i586.rpm fftw-devel-2.1.3-8mdk.i586.rpm FlightGear-0.7.8-1mdk.i586.rpm fonts-hebrew-elmar-3.3-5mdk.noarch.rpm fox-0.99.174-1mdk.i586.rpm fpc-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm freeamp-2.1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm freebirth-0.3.2-5mdk.i586.rpm freecraft-1.17-2mdk.i586.rpm FreeWnn-1.1.1-0.a017.10mdk.i586.rpm FreeWnn-devel-1.1.1-0.a017.10mdk.i586.rpm ftnchek-3.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm fvwm-1.24r-20mdk.i586.rpm fvwm2-2.2.4-14mdk.i586.rpm gcal-3.01-4mdk.i586.rpm gcc3.0-doc-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm gcc3.0-java-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm gcc3.0-objc-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm gcc-doc-2.96-0.62mdk.i586.rpm gcompris-0.7.1-1mdk.i586.rpm gda-0.2.10-2mdk.i586.rpm geda-gschem-20010722-1mdk.i586.rpm gemdropx-0.7-7mdk.i586.rpm gfract-0.21-2mdk.i586.rpm ghex-1.2.1-2mdk.i586.rpm gIDE-0.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm giram-0.1.10-1mdk.i586.rpm gkrellm-themes-0.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm glame-0.5.2-1mdk.i586.rpm glaxium-0.3d-1mdk.i586.rpm glibc_lsb-2.2.1-1mdk.i586.rpm glibc_lsb-devel-2.2.1-1mdk.i586.rpm glibc_lsb-devel-static-2.2.1-1mdk.i586.rpm glibc-profile-2.2.4-6mdk.i586.rpm Glide_V3-devel-2.60.15-7mdk.i586.rpm Glide_V5-devel-cvs-3mdk.i586.rpm glimmer-1.0.8-2mdk.i586.rpm gnobog-0.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm gnochive-0.6.2-1mdk.i586.rpm gnome-vfs-extras-0.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm gnugo-3.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm gnus-doc-5.8.8-3mdk.noarch.rpm gnus-emacs-5.8.8-3mdk.noarch.rpm gnustep-make-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm gpgme0-devel-0.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm gqmpeg-0.9.0-2mdk.i586.rpm grany-1.0.0-3mdk.i586.rpm gretl-0.96-1mdk.i586.rpm gri-2.8.0-1mdk.i586.rpm grustibus-0.43-2mdk.i586.rpm gsl-0.9-3mdk.i586.rpm gtkhx-0.8.13-1mdk.i586.rpm gtk+licq-nognome-0.51-3mdk.i586.rpm guavac-1.2-11mdk.i586.rpm hdf5-1.4.2-2mdk.i586.rpm HDF-util-4.1r4-9mdk.i586.rpm heroes-0.12-2mdk.i586.rpm hevea-1.05-5mdk.i586.rpm hh2000-0.6-3mdk.i586.rpm howto-html-el-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-hr-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-hu-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-id-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-ja-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-ko-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-nl-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-pl-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-sl-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-html-sv-8.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm howto-ps-de-8.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm howto-ps-el-8.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm
Re: [newbie] deluxepaintish programs, AOCP, anyone?
on 10/17/01 2:59 PM, Miark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about The GIMP? http://gimp.org/ Thanks to all who replied. I looked at the Gimp first, but it's not really what I'm looking for. It looks like those types of programs died with 2D games and the demo scenes. Oh well, vmware it is. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix config problem?
In reply to Johnson, David's words, written Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:28:22 -0400 snort-users mailing list as the majordomo at sourceforge keeps trying to relay to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and kicking my messages back because it can't reach that e-mail address. Is there some configuration that I must do to Postfix/sendmail to get an actual routable address to show up there? You need to edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and look for the spot where you can change the myorigin parameter. Edit that to what you need it to be. E.g. I have changed that to myorigin=nlpagan.net Then save the file and do a postfix reload to make postfix pick up the change. That should do it. Good luck. Paul -- Imagination is the weapon in the war against reality http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown
In reply to Dechao Wang's words, written Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:44:35 -0400 Hi Paul, Many thanks for your message. But I cannot find apmd from the services in the system menu. Can you tell me how to disable system suspension in my BIOS? Thanks dech Hi dech, Another Paul here. When the pc boots, you are offered an option to enter the setup of the computer. Usually Escape or Delete. Press that when you see the message. In the bios menu look for powermanagement, sometimes that is hidden under chipset options. Good luck Paul -- Imagination is the weapon in the war against reality http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound in MDK 8.1?
I was in the same problem with my CMI8330, I used sndconfig and this app detects very well my card, but I don not why I couldn't hear anything... then I probe with sndconfig --noprobe --noautoconfigure and the detection was very well.. it make the necesary files for me Have you run aumix? I found that 8.1 defaults to very low volume settings. Adjusting the volumes (and saving) using aumix fixes the problem. Cheers --- Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] deluxepaintish programs, AOCP, anyone?
In reply to Jose M. Sanchez's words, written Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:56:03 -0400 Indeed. What would a winders program have that Gimp can't offer, in graphics? Well, Corel has their Corel suite ported to Linux too, if that's what you want... Paul Could you elaborate? How is it that it's not what you are looking for? What does it not do which programs such as DeluxePaint do? -JMS |-Original Message- |Thanks to all who replied. I looked at the Gimp first, but |it's not really what I'm looking for. It looks like those |types of programs died with 2D games and the demo scenes. Oh -- Imagination is the weapon in the war against reality http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 and problems with X11 forwarding
Hello, After installing Mandrake 8.1 I cannot properly access to graphical programs on remote servers. I get many errors 'cannot allocate named color...', and I get only 10 of 106 colors (ex.). On Mandrake 8.0 everything was fine. Do I have to downgrade to 8.0? And here some details: - Mandrake 8.1; XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17 mdk video card: Matrox G200 KDE graphical environment - procedure to get access to remote server xhost +server.domain ssh -l user server.domain (on remote server) program -option Any help will be very appreciable. -- Regards, Arek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Flashing red .DCOPserver_tc
My server is working fine, but I found some flashing red lines when I typed ls -a in my terminal window. I had read that using -a shows you hidden files, so I did it just to see what happeded. I was very interested to see .DCOPserver_janedoe; those of you helped with my hostname problem might be interested too. They refer to old hostnames that I had experimented with when setting up my web server. And they're flashing red!!! :). Just wondering if I need to do anything about these flashing lines: .DCOPserver_janedoe .DCOPserver_tc DCOPserver_tc.company.com The new name is also listed with .DCOPserver_tcob and it's not flashing. I assume that the flashing lines means that I need to somehow get rid of references to old, unused hostnames. Mitch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: Re: [newbie] deluxepaintish programs, AOCP, anyone?
BTW: Killustrator goes by the name of Kontour now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:05:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [newbie] deluxepaintish programs, AOCP, anyone? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/killustrator I found this link to a group who discusses a program called killustrator. Maybe you can use that, or they can offer suggestions. mitch Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: newbie-owner@linux-maSubject: Re: [newbie] deluxepaintish programs, AOCP, anyone? ndrake.com 10/18/01 07:46 PM Please respond to newbie In reply to Jose M. Sanchez's words, written Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:56:03 -0400 Indeed. What would a winders program have that Gimp can't offer, in graphics? Well, Corel has their Corel suite ported to Linux too, if that's what you want... Paul Could you elaborate? How is it that it's not what you are looking for? What does it not do which programs such as DeluxePaint do? -JMS |-Original Message- |Thanks to all who replied. I looked at the Gimp first, but |it's not really what I'm looking for. It looks like those |types of programs died with 2D games and the demo scenes. Oh -- Imagination is the weapon in the war against reality http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video card troubles
I have been using Mandrake for about a year and most recently 8.1. When I installed 8.1 at home, my video card is reported as another. I am using a STB Velocity 4400 w/ 16MB of RAM, AGP bus. XFdrake reports me using a RIVA 128. When I run a couple of games (quake 3 for linux) the screen stays black until I press Alt+Enter and puts the game in a window mode. When I try to change the card type in XFdrake and restart the X server it always comes back as a RIVA 128 card. 1. Is this a problem? 2. Can I make the changes permanent without hosing my install? 3. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, -- Alan Carbutt Applications Programmer Adams State College 719-587-7096 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Themes
Another good relatively new site for KDE themes is: http://www.kde-look.org Regards, Brandon Hutchinson On Sunday 14 October 2001 07:55 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:24:47 +0200, Michael Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody here know where can i get some nice KDE 2.2/2.2.1 themes i know about the kdelook.org and the kde.themes.org, and looking for something else TIA http://kde2.newmail.ru/ http://unixthemes.tucows.com/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Video card troubles
Eh, Maybe you need the Linux drivers from the Nvidia site. You'll need to recompile the RPM which is no biggie... rpm --rebuild does the trick. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of |Alan Carbutt |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:17 PM |To: Mandrake |Subject: [newbie] Video card troubles | | |I have been using Mandrake for about a year and most recently |8.1. When I installed 8.1 at home, my video card is reported |as another. I am using a STB Velocity 4400 w/ 16MB of RAM, |AGP bus. XFdrake reports me using a RIVA 128. When I run a |couple of games (quake 3 for linux) the screen stays black |until I press Alt+Enter and puts the game in a window mode. |When I try to change the card type in XFdrake and restart the |X server it always comes back as a RIVA 128 card. 1. Is this |a problem? 2. Can I make the changes permanent without hosing |my install? 3. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, |-- |Alan Carbutt |Applications Programmer |Adams State College |719-587-7096 |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bigpond adsl + evolution
hi hoping someone on the list in australia can help me im just trying to replace my web based email address (this one) with my email address from big pond and use evolution but i have added the line search vic.bigpond.net.au to etc/resolve.conf as per the excellent tutorial on getting connected to adsl here http://eastwood.apana.org.au/Misc/adsl-bigpond.html but when i add the server names using the wizards in evolution, it goes okay too until i finish and try to send/receive new mail..the i get errors like ërror unable to connect to pop-server.bigpond.net.au (port 995): operation now in progress and error while Fetching Mail: unable to connect to POP server error sending username: unknown domain what am i missing? TIA mikecola ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bounced Yurik
I had to get my own e mail server I don't like leasing someone else's, I don't trust that someone won't read my mail spool, and I don't like the fact that if you lease someone else's mail server that you can't get into the root access and bounce spam mail. To do this one needs a fat pipe (such as dsl or cable or T1 or 3) to the internet and a static IP address, and to register a domain name so that e mail will resolve to your server. On Thursday 18 October 2001 04:06 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2001 01:54 pm, you were observed remarking: Well I solved it on my end, I put namezero in my /etc/mail/access file and said mail-out.namezero.com ERROR:550 I hate namezero Then they can read their own dangbusted bounced mail for once. I'd try it but I don't have an /etc/mail/access file... How come you do? Mom always liked you better! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card oddity
Carl Lafferty wrote: Maybe LM8.1 chooses an OSS/Free driver for some sondcards and an ALSA driver for others. Muting everything by default is an ALSA tradition :) Any way I can tell, so I can know what is going on?? [frans@localhost frans]$ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.5.10b. Compiled on Apr 15 2001 for kernel 2.4.3-20mdk with versioned symbols. -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever ( This is the rep ly I posted to them.)
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 03:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I agree. I mean *cough* ... look at the rest of the site. Go to the | home page. Do some *cough* research about the site before jumping to | conclusions that _the author_ didn't know her/his stuff. It's obviously | satire. And very good satire. | | But I did like Franki's response. Seriously: I'm a newbie and got a lot | of good info :). | | --mitch It may be satire (and funny ;-) ) BUT its probably just as well a few people pointed out the facts for those who are only just thinking about perhaps switching from M$ Windows. I mean, call me stupid, but if I had read that 5 months ago I most likely wouldn't be using linux now - especially since a firewall is so important. I'm talking about the time when I was just toying with the idea of dumping M$ before actually looking into linux. I probably wouldn't have bothered to go any further. In addition, its not often that I check out an entire site unless I have a specific reason for doing so. Oh well, at least WE know the difference! Cheers skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video questions
I have been using Mandrake for about a year and most recently 8.1. When I installed 8.1 at home, my video card is reported as another. I am using a STB Velocity 4400 w/ 16MB of RAM, AGP bus. XFdrake reports me using a RIVA 128. When I run a couple of games (quake 3 for linux) the screen stays black until I press Alt+Enter and puts the game in a window mode. When I try to change the card type in XFdrake and restart the X server it always comes back as a RIVA 128 card. 1. Is this a problem? 2. Can I make the changes permanent without hosing my install? 3. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, -- Alan Carbutt Applications Programmer Adams State College 719-587-7096 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still Yurik
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:45:41 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [newbie] Still YurikReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I never did receive any bounced messages, and I don't think it is fair to remove the guy from the list. Also, it is obvious from one of the posts yesterday (a message someone got in response to their inquiry with oublaze), that it is NOT all people that will be getting these bounces, it is only people who use certain servers for e-mail. On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Paul wrote: In reply to michael's words, written Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:13:59 -0700 Am I the only person still getting these Bounces back from Mail Delivery Subsystem regarding [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Can't someone do something? My l;ittle plan clearly failed somebody? No worries, I still get them also. Civileme, can you do something to take [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the list? We're drowning in bounce mails... Paul i only get the bounced mails when i send to the list. mikecola ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Changing window managers
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm running 8.0 Which brings up another question. Since installing 8.0, something has gone wrong with my computer such that I now cannot use the CD-ROM! I have tried a new unit. I have tried moving the CD-ROM from the secondary IDE channel to the primary. I have tried making it the master, slave, etc., nothing works. Anyway, I'm not trying to solve my CD-ROM issue any more as I think it's more of a motherboard issue or something, but I would still love to upgrade to LM8.1. How can I do this? I know there's a way to do an FTP installation. Can you tell me how to initiate this? Thanks for the advice! -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:45 PM To: 'Johnson, David' Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers It sounds like you did not perform a full installation. 8.1 normally asks you about configuring the system the first time X is run. Removing .drakfw starts this process over again. You may want to go back and install as many RPM's as you can. Did you reformat and re-install? Or did you attempt an upgrade? ;( -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Johnson, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:52 PM |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers | | |I start up in text mode, so idea 1 is out. As for methods 2 |and 3, I don't have either of those files (.drakfw and |.xinitrc) on my system that I can find. | |Is there another way? | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] KDE Themes
Hah! That site pushes viruses at your browser. I happened to be in Winblows when I went to download a KDE theme... NAV came up a LOT! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brandon |Hutchinson |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:24 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sridhar Dhanapalan |Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Themes | | |Another good relatively new site for KDE themes is: | |http://www.kde-look.org | |Regards, | |Brandon Hutchinson | |On Sunday 14 October 2001 07:55 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: | On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:24:47 +0200, Michael Spivak | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | wrote: | Does anybody here know where can i get some nice KDE 2.2/2.2.1 | themes i know about the kdelook.org and the kde.themes.org, and | looking for something else | | TIA | | http://kde2.newmail.ru/ | | http://unixthemes.tucows.com/ | | |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer |Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit |Content-Description: | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Changing window managers
If your computer is connected to the internet by some means external to itself... You could use the network.img disk (which you can download) to install from the internet... But this is going to take a long time. I'd spring for the CD's or download and burn your own. BTW: Your CD is probably not working because of an erroneous /dev/cdrom link... Type dmesg | more and look to see what Linux sees your CD as. Then you'll need to fix the /dev/cdrom link to point to the right device. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Johnson, David |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:02 PM |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers | | |Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm running 8.0 | |Which brings up another question. Since installing 8.0, |something has gone wrong with my computer such that I now |cannot use the CD-ROM! I have tried a new unit. I have tried |moving the CD-ROM from the secondary IDE channel to the |primary. I have tried making it the master, slave, etc., |nothing works. | |Anyway, I'm not trying to solve my CD-ROM issue any more as I |think it's more of a motherboard issue or something, but I |would still love to upgrade to LM8.1. | |How can I do this? I know there's a way to do an FTP |installation. Can you tell me how to initiate this? | |Thanks for the advice! | |-Original Message- |From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:45 PM |To: 'Johnson, David' |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers | | |It sounds like you did not perform a full installation. | |8.1 normally asks you about configuring the system the first |time X is run. | |Removing .drakfw starts this process over again. | |You may want to go back and install as many RPM's as you can. | |Did you reformat and re-install? Or did you attempt an upgrade? ;( | |-JMS | | ||-Original Message- ||From: Johnson, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ||Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:52 PM ||To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ||Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers || || ||I start up in text mode, so idea 1 is out. As for methods 2 ||and 3, I don't have either of those files (.drakfw and ||.xinitrc) on my system that I can find. || ||Is there another way? || | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:31:22 -0400 Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wait...let me get this straight...you want to use a RAID setup with Mandrake on not one, but two Western Digital drives? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions. Author unknown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card oddity
Thanks!! [carl@starfury carl]$ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.5.11. Compiled on Oct 16 2001 for kernel 2.4.8-26mdk with versioned symbols. [carl@starfury carl]$ Looks like me adding the new drivers from alsa-project MAY have worked after all. - -This is a multi-part message in MIME format... - -=_1003442080-1734-1389 -Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - -Carl Lafferty wrote: - - Maybe LM8.1 chooses an OSS/Free driver for some sondcards and an ALSA - driver for others. Muting everything by default is an ALSA tradition :) - - Any way I can tell, so I can know what is going on?? - -[frans@localhost frans]$ cat /proc/asound/version -Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.5.10b. -Compiled on Apr 15 2001 for kernel 2.4.3-20mdk with versioned symbols. - --Frans - - -=_1003442080-1734-1389 -Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer -Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer -Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - -Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? -Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com - -=_1003442080-1734-1389-- - -- 'Tis some script kidd3z, I muttered, tapping at my server port- Only this, and nothing more. - Edgar root Poe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] file search slowed down whole system?
On Thursday 18 October 2001 05:50, Anke Max wrote: Ron Bouwhuis said on Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:58 PM If it IS hogging CPU, just run it with a lower priority. The command to do that is called nice. Simply run: nice find whatever and nice will give it (by default) a priority of 10 (the higher the number, the lower the priority - go figure). The priorities go from 20 (lowest) to -20 As a user you may nice/renice your processes ONLY in a plus direction. Root can of course make processes higher. A Priority of 20 means it will run only if nothing else wants CPU time. Now if you want to have some fun nicing/renicing processes, there is psDoom available where you shoot pidMonsters wounding them to renice processes and killing them to kill processes. It is GPL but you will need to find a Doom WAD file to use. Civileme I guess this leaves you with an open ended range of priorities. Whereas if you started with 10 as the most important where would you go after 1? Max --- Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/16/01 10:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a search, via Find File from KDE tools menu, and the whole system slowed way down for 20 minutes ... it's still barely doing anything. Just closing a window takes a few minutes. Is this related to doing a file search or is something else going on? Did you try running top? Type that into a console and it will show you how much resources each program is taking. If find file is taking a lot of resources, then it's probably the culprit. Although it shouldn't be doing that, I can find files on my machine just fine without any problems. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still Yurik
On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:13, michael wrote: Am I the only person still getting these Bounces back from Mail Delivery Subsystem regarding [EMAIL PROTECTED]? No, I am still getting them also. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain
tools On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:15:38 +0200, Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is +00|z, tools or fools? ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:24:35 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2001 13:18 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:53 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards Crackers have their own 'language' (leet speak), consisting of their own slang and variations of standard English words. Letters are often replaced with similar-looking ASCII characters. 133+ means leet, which is short for elite. Script kiddies like to use this language to sound 1337 (yet another of many ways to spell leet). Sometimes one letter is replaced with several ASCII characters to 'draw' the character. For example, |-| is the letter H, and |\| is the letter N. Here's a longer example: 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA| i$ whEn J00 +4lK L1K3 t|-|!5. t0 u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo |\/|u5+ be lEET. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N0T 5p3A| 0r ReAd | +|-|I5. Literal translation: Advanced leet speak is when you talk like this. To understand you must be leet. If you are not leet you cannot speak or read this. Your homework for today: Try to decipher my sig! :) Sridhar Dhanapalan phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r 73kn!q. ! 0wn j0o ll4m@ +00|z OK I'm learning something here, but ph34r and ll4m@ have got me beat. Like to help me out . Thanks petew Sure thing. phj34r = fear The letter j is usually either silent or pronounced like a y (e.g. j0o = you) ll4m@ = llama A llama is a luser or loser. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Bad design. I'm not touching it with a ten-foot pole. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing window managers
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:29:57 -0400, Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running LM8.0 and have been using KDE since I installed, but I have been playing with Gnome on another machine I have and would like to switch this machine over. How can I change from KDE to Gnome? Thanks David Johnson RLU# 236992 Run startx gnome, or use a display manager like GDM, KDM or XDM. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Geeks aren't interested in politics because government doesn't double its efficiency and speed once every 18 months. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video card troubles
Rerun the xconfig and choose STB velocity 4400. Worked for me. JDRadio On Thursday 18 October 2001 05:17 pm, you wrote: I have been using Mandrake for about a year and most recently 8.1. When I installed 8.1 at home, my video card is reported as another. I am using a STB Velocity 4400 w/ 16MB of RAM, AGP bus. XFdrake reports me using a RIVA 128. When I run a couple of games (quake 3 for linux) the screen stays black until I press Alt+Enter and puts the game in a window mode. When I try to change the card type in XFdrake and restart the X server it always comes back as a RIVA 128 card. 1. Is this a problem? 2. Can I make the changes permanent without hosing my install? 3. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] laptop white screen lock up
Hi, This is just an update to let everyone know that the problem with the white screen lockups on my Dell Inspiron 8000 (ati m4 video card) has been resolved with the installation of Mandrake 8.1. That was one annoying bug! Thanks to the Mandrake team for clearing it up. Regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie]
Lol, sorry Mark, you got the wrong guy. I didn't write that. Besides, I have two Maxtors :^) Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:31:22 -0400 Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wait...let me get this straight...you want to use a RAID setup with Mandrake on not one, but two Western Digital drives? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions. Author unknown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
