Re: [newbie-it] ICQ
Perché non provi Gaim con il relativo plugin per ICQ, io lo uso ima maniera regolare. Ciao Ivo Alle 01:39, sabato 11 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Buona sera oh gloriosa mailinglist ^_^ il tedioso problema ICQ purtroppo al momento credo sia risolvibile solo in 2 modi :'''( il primo è licq 1.1 con tutti i suoi incolmabili limiti (dopo lo scempio made in mirabilis non si può creare nuovi account, autorizzare le persone ad aggiungerci alla loro contact list e tutto il resto... ma almeno funziona) il secondo dovrebbe essere vicq ma non ne ho mai trovato l'rpm e comunque è un programma che funziona in modalità testo (io sono agli inizi con linux e ho ancora il terrore di ciò che non è grafico) per il resto da quando è stato cambiato il protocollo tutti i programmi che non si sono ancora adattati sono inservibili. per quanto riguarda cambiare l'account confermo che è necessario usare il comando licq -b una_directory solo quando si possiede già un account icq perchè la registrazione con licq non funge... bisogna quindi prendersi la briga di fare prima un salto sul sito di icq da cui mi pare proprio che ci si possa registrare ciao ciao ^_^
[newbie-it] Pagine troppo corte?
Posseggo una HP officejet, installata su MDK 8.2 con i suoi driver CUPS, ma ho uno strano problema: indipendentemente dal programma di stampa (CUPS o altro), la nuova pagina inizia con una riga e mezza di quella vecchia. Ho provato a configurare i margini in ppx, ma senza risultato. Non ho trovato nmmeno alcuna segnalazione del genere in rete. Qualcuno sa aiutarmi?
Re[2]: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Trasferire file
Scrive miKe: (Friday, May 10, 2002, ore 11:48:55 PM, a proposito di : Re: [newbie-it] Trasferire file) m -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- m Hash: SHA1 m Il 09:40, venerdì 10 maggio 2002, in merito a Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Trasferire file, Germano ha scritto: Scusate se aggiungo anche un altra cosa: Se una cosa si può fare con Linux perchè consigliare di farla con un programmino per Win--ws? m BRAVO!!! Per disperazione :-))) -- Arwanmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.
Re: [newbie-it] 8.2 - KMail
L'host che ti appare nell'account pop3 dovrebbe contenere il nome del server di posta in arrivo (nel tuo caso direi lo stesso del server smtp), altrimenti non si connette a nulla :) Infatti è quello che avevo sempre fatto, ma visto che non funziona non riesco a capire che cosa non va grazie, g. Guido Milanese - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua - http://www.arsantiqua.org Salita del Passero 11, I-16126 Genova GE, Italy ** GAUDETE IN DOMINO SEMPER *
Re: [newbie] Chkrootkit shows nothing?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 09:19 am, Daniel Stiefel wrote: A few days ago, I got some KWrited docs popping up on my Mandrake 8.1 desktop (Security warning: World Writeable files found followed by a long list of files located on both hardrives). I am a linux newbie and assumed the popups were the product of some kind of monitoring utility that I had inadvertently installed. Although I have a simple workstation setup (except for the extra partitions and triple boot aspect to it) and installed 8.1 with medium security, I went back into the control panel and re-set it to medium security and the Kwrited popups stopped appearing. From the lists of files displayed, I assumed my machine had been compromised and that I would have to partition, reformat, reload the win98, mandrake 8.1 and Redhat 5.1 partition in order to make things right. I downloaded chkrootkit and ran it while booted to the main HD/ Mandrake 8.1 just to see what was up. Surprisingly it showed nothing. I'm not sure why that is. I am not familiar with chkrootkit and may have failed to run it so that it searched all of the drives. Can anyone tell me how to run it to seach RH 5.1 or the win98SE partition? Can that be done from 8.1 on the other drive as I attempted? Does it check comprehensively or does it only check the drive/OS that it is booted to? Secondly, is it possible that, despite the KWrited popops that occured on 2 different occasions, my machine is unnaffected? dan This is one of the checks performed by MSec. World writeable refers to the permissions. When you import a file from windows it's permissions have to be reset and possibly the ownership. man chmod man chown http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/prog-msec.html should get you started. For files that are not executables try 0640. Files from windows are probably 0777. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
I saw that on Red Hat's site when I went to download RH7.3. It didn't phase me one bit. I have RH7.3 on here, but IMHO, it sucks. I am sticking with Mandrake. Mandrake is on my server, my PC (along with RH and Win98SE (which I only have for learning purposes - Samba PDC BABY YEAH!), and my wife's PC. Here are details: http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/upgrade_rebate.html Oh, and if you look at that in more detail, I dont see how that is really a bad thing... If I buy Mandrake PowerPack or whatever, then Red Hat is willing to give me a discount when I buy Red Hat... What's wrong with that? They aren't saying that you can't use Mandrake anymore... They are just being nice and giving a deal. I like that. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Sat, 11 May 2002 03:52:15 +0100, Derek Byram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 May 2002 03:28, you wrote: On Friday 10 May 2002 17:05, Derek Byram opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: i won't argue the dumb part, but i will point out that in his book billyg says that the next big advancement in computers will come when we find a fast easy way to factor prime numbers. ...left as an exercise for the reader. seems to me this has become a flamethrower war :) ? well mostly, but the flames in the post are from linux towards bill gates, so... how many here on this list want to defend bill? don't all speak up at once! ;) i can't defend billy boy, his software went downhill after 3.11 *G* I think the last decent thing they made was Xenix, which was made in collaboration with Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). MS later cut Xenix away to focus on Windows, and it was eventually rebranded to SCO UNIX. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AbiWord 1.0.1
On Fri, 10 May 2002 12:13:32 -0500, Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, me again. :-[ I'm having two problems with AbiWord 1.0.1 - the first has to do with fonts. When I start it up, I get this message: AbiWord was not able to add its fonts to the X font path. This does not mean that there is anything wrong with your system, but you will need to modify your font path manually. Please see Unix Font Path Problems in the FAQ section of the AbiWord help file for more detailed information, including instructions on how to turn this warning off. Now, I looked for above said section and could not find it :( I looked every else where it said stuff about fonts and could not find anything referring to my problem and how to fix it :( After I hit OK in the warning box, AbiWord opens and *seems* to be working fine, but I must admit all I've used it for so far is to type this is a test in a couple different fonts and print it off. Anyone able to help??? On a much lighter and simpler note, the window size that it opens to is a bit annoying. The width is just too small to show the full toolbar on top and it cuts off some of the right side of the page. I know the size window it opens is in a config file somewhere so I was hoping one of you could point me in its direction. Thanks Where did you get your AbiWord 1.0.1? I suggest that you use the RPMs from Mandrake Contribs, which can be found on most Cooker mirrors. You may have to wait a little for 1.0.1 packages to come out (the latest AbiWord contribs package ATM is 1.0). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We're still waiting for the Vatican to officially canonize this kernel, but trust me, that's only a matter of time. It's a little known fact, but the Pope likes penguins too. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake3 in Linux - hot damn!
Joan Tur wrote: I'm downloading the file now. Thanks ;) NP. Feel free to email me pvtly or more on the list if you need more help! :) -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why fsck is not automatic ?
Pupeno wrote: And BTW how can I schedule an fsck to the next reboot ? shutdown -r -F now Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Downloader / nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
NT downloader - This is a new downloader programme to me,like many other people, I had used Getright up until now. It seems to have many similar features and is in some ways better. I like the dialogue windows in particular, they give better blow by blow detail of what is actually happening, and they can remain open to view continuously if you so wish it. NT can handle segmented downloads. It took me a while but I found the facility to choose segmented downloads, I rarely do more than 2 segments, but it seems that there is the facility to do more if that is your wish. The one feature about segmenting that I found less appealing was the lack on information about which segment is downloading from which URL sites. There is a dialogue to give some info but it is displayed in url number form , and I don't have a head for remembering long numbers, getright would give you a cryptic little note which includes a note of the localion as well as the actual web address. NT has a facility to create a list of Mirror sites on it's own.This facility appears to use either something called archie.is.co.za ( a real site ? ) or www.filesearch.ru and I used it to go look for these mirror sites for me, it found about 10 , which was not that great , I know for a fact getright would of come up with about 18 or more.Still a very useful feature. I still haven't found out how to get nt to ping these websites in order to create a list of the best download speeds available, I suspect it can, either it does it automatically, or it needs to be told to do it for you. There doesn't seem to be any limit on the number of active downloads. Now that I have a spare partition set aside for the purpose , I found that nt was quite happy to download my files directly to a directory in that spare partition, which is a good thing because if you should get locked out of your OS for whatever reason during a long download then all is not lost and the partially downloaded file will be there to resume upon OS reinstall. nt also has the means to schedule your downloads .I don't use this facility much, and I haven't tried if yet , but I should think it works OK. All in all, I would say a most welcome addition for linux users like me who live in a country where the facility to download large or numerous files cheaply and quickly just is not available, and where your ISP alone will cut you off on average during a 24hour day, about every 20 minutes or so. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] another 2 distro boot (DONE)
On Saturday 11 May 2002 18:04, you wrote: snip I had created other issues while doing package updates. So i decided to reload 8.2. As i had tarballs of both /home and /root of 7.1, i also decided to repartition and reload it back on to the old 4Gig drive. Loaded it with all docs this time and LILO instead of grub. I had a working stanza for lilo.conf then to import into 8.2. The vga=788 line was causing more greif, it turned out to be unsupported under 7.1. Reinstalled 8.2 (treating package updates gingerly this time, one at a time and not trying to update ghostscript as it locked up X). With all the docs loaded on 7.1 i got konq to do another search for initrd*. Found a kernal doc that was very informative. As Bascule said in the first place initrd is/was entirely optional and it seems under 7.1 it was left to the user to implement if they chose. It is a ram disk image that has various commands preloaded into it that are used during the boot cycle, then dumped - that is if i read it correctly. Anyway copied my vmlinuz-blah-blah across. Installed 7.1' lilo stanza in 8.2 lilo.conf. Typed lilo as su and it is away. Still could not completely recover netscape mail even after installing the /home tarball, but that is another issue... i know what to do next with that. I am a happy chappy and i can go back to my security updates et al now knowing that i have learned something. Thanks Bascule, and thanks for trying John. Michael Thanks Michael, I'm glad you succeded. As I am sure you realised , my actual experience of Silveleme's dual linux boot method , is Zero. I understand the principles, well enough, but there is a mile of difference between understanding principles and practicle reallity. So I for one would like you, since you have achieved it, to write down a step by step method and proceedure script , one we can all follow. I only went with the DrakeX , /boot /root /swap Partition route because that was the way that worked for me and was based upon the small amount of info I could find on the web. It's not a bad method. I don't dislike it , but I am always wanting to learn new tricks. The one great advantage of the DrakX method is that it affords an automated install route that DrakX knows all about and the only thing you need to do is take time and care creating your lilo stanzas before installing lilo with DrakX. Everything else is automatic and you just boot to desktop straight away, in both OS's. Also when you come to replace an older version of LM with a newer one you just go via any OS's /boot directory and delete the kernel and initrd.image file applicable to the OS you want to replace .Then install the newer OS via it's DrakX programme and again create new Lilo stanzas to boot both Linux OS's. Simple. Having other ways of doing things may become helpful. I might get stuck for some reason, and perhaps I only have the one OS to boot, or maybe the other Linux OS's like Debian and Redhat don't have installers that know all about seperate /boot partition and stuffs the kernel and initrd files with the /root partition regardless I do not know. I must get around to experimenting with it. It's on my future list of jobs to be done. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD-ROM Recognition in XCDROAST
I thought I had got this understood, but a re-install has notproduced the same results. Here are my /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf entries:- /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp DVD-ROM Icon / properties = dev: /dev/hdc, Mnt: /mnt/cdrom WRITER Icon / Properties = dev: /dev/scd0,Mnt: /mnt/cdrom2 But the Roast is not recognising the pioneer DVD-ROM at all. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 v i686
On Friday 10 May 2002 09:30 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: I propose that Mandrake writes a program, if such thing does not already exist, to test the CPU and tell the user which rpm to use, i486, i586, i686 or god knows what is next. Already exists, and has for a long time. type 'arch' in a terminal -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to plot orbitals
HI, I'm looking for a linux app to plot orbitals. I haven't found anything in Freshmeat and Sourceforge (I didn't looked page per page, I made a search). Could you suggest some app? I'm looking for an app similar to Atom in a Box, avaiable only for Mac (www.dauger.com/orbitals). Thank you Olaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Friday 10 May 2002 23:05, Dimitris Ioannou opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Can you please post more details about it? Never heard about something like it. You mean a Linux Distro stands against others? I've thought that recently RedHat changed perspective and aimed mostly at server market. well there is http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24915.html or simply find a store with the current redhat version and read th little sticker on the front. -- If someone tells you they possess the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they possess the *only* truth, run for your life. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Friday 10 May 2002 23:15, Damian G opened a general hailing frequency and
transmitted to all open stations:
hmm.. actually i woudn't worry about that.. they will find out this
atrategy will not make a lot of ppl change from suse/mdk to redhat.
IMHO
Linux users tend to be very satisfied with their choices, simply
beacuse we CAN choose, and try a lot of things. a rebate is not enough to
change a mandrake/suse user's mind, unless he/she had a very bad
experience with it. Now, for Windoze users... that's another deal. in
their case it might work. /IMHO
that is my opinion too. still, mandrake has the big market share in linux
right now, and suse compares well with mandrake. redhat well, in many
ways doesn't. is redhat afraid they are on the way out?
if so, why try to keep share by taking other linux users rather than
windows?
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[newbie] Sound Card Rear Speakers
I have several Creative PCI128 sound cards that have two speaker jacks: a main and a secondary or rear jack. I've noticed that I never seem to get any sound from the second jack. I was wondering if this is normal. Does the second speaker output only work in certain games with surround encoding or something? Suppose you were playing mp3s or CDs. Is it normal for only the main speaker jack to have sound? This is with speakers plugged into both jacks. Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 10:55 am, you wrote: that is my opinion too. still, mandrake has the big market share in linux right now, and suse compares well with mandrake. redhat well, in many ways doesn't. is redhat afraid they are on the way out? if so, why try to keep share by taking other linux users rather than windows? They AREN'T. They are simply giving a discount to other Linux users... If I bought Mandrake PowerPack 8.2, then I decided hey, I'd like to buy Red Hat 7.3 as well I would rather pay $10 or $20 less JUST BECAUSE I BOUGHT MANDRAKE. And that is what they are doing. You don't sign any agreement to NEVER use Mandrake again, you don't have to agree that you REMOVE it from your PC, or anything like that. Quit complaining about a company that is giving Linux users a discount. And how could Red Hat be on the way out? They are supported by the big companies, such as IBM. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
They AREN'T. They are simply giving a discount to other Linux users... Do you know that for a fact, or are you just giving them the benefit of the doubt? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Rec question
OK, I was asking about line in recordings yesterday, and someone suggested I use rec...I was having a problem with it at first, until I realized that the channel I was going into the soundcard on, be it mic in or line in, needed to be set as the recording channel. So now I can record. But...when I use rec, it comes out very, very noisy and distorted. Does anyone have any experience with this, and have any troubleshooting tips for me? I'm using a Sharp Mt877 minidisc player into a SB Live 5.1 Platinum card, connected with a 1/8th inch male to male stereo cable (gold plated). Any hints/ideas? - peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 01:16 pm, you wrote: They AREN'T. They are simply giving a discount to other Linux users... Do you know that for a fact, or are you just giving them the benefit of the doubt? Umm... They aren't forcing anyone to give away their Mandrake CDs, and they aren't forcing you to agree to not use Mandrake... You should be a little less hasty toward a company that produced much of Mandrake. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:36, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: On Saturday 11 May 2002 01:16 pm, you wrote: They AREN'T. They are simply giving a discount to other Linux users... Do you know that for a fact, or are you just giving them the benefit of the doubt? Umm... They aren't forcing anyone to give away their Mandrake CDs, and they aren't forcing you to agree to not use Mandrake... You should be a little less hasty toward a company that produced much of Mandrake. i am neither judging their work (i don't like them on the desktop, but that is personal preferance, i also don't like gnome, but many individual gnome products are run by me regularly) nor the company. i am simply pointing out that they off a rebate for upgrading from suse or mandrake as the sticker said. i _am_ going to pass judgement on the fact that while that rebate seems reasonable, why is it not extended to users of, say for example, win95 or win98? -- Doing my part to piss off the religious right. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 10:11, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: And how could Red Hat be on the way out? They are supported by the big companies, such as IBM. i am not saying they are, i do know they have said there is no chance of a linux desktop, that most ppl who use linux as a desktop rather than a server use something else, and that now their desktop offering has a rebate for upgrading from other linux disros. i am asking if redhat perhaps percieves they are losing ground. -- If someone tells you they possess the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they possess the *only* truth, run for your life. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote: i _am_ going to pass judgement on the fact that while that rebate seems reasonable, why is it not extended to users of, say for example, win95 or win98? Because that would be rewarding those people who support Microsoft by buying their software? -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Q3 again... ;-)
Okay, I followed Femme's link and d/l'ed the .sh - 27 meg version of Quake 3. I didn't do exactly like she had posted though... I have been using the full Linux release/version of Quake 3 that I purchased from Loki Software before they went under. I've never had the Windows Q3 CD. So...since I had an existing installation already, I just ran the script on top of it. Well, it seems to have worked. I can play Q3 again without it exiting out with a signal 11. I did notice, following the term window output that there was some errors that I had not seen when I had it working before. I'm not gonna complain though - if it works, it works... grin Thanks to Femme and everyone else who contributed to the cause! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
Visit: http://www.livingwithoutmicrosoft.org -- Encyklopedia multimedialna w prezencie! http://www.e-mail.onet.pl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rec question
all i can think of is the igain setting that i see in kmix with my sblive value, you probably have that slider too, also is the volume from the minidisc player set too high? bascule On Saturday 11 May 2002 7:22 pm, you wrote: But...when I use rec, it comes out very, very noisy and distorted. Does anyone have any experience with this, and have any troubleshooting tips for me? I'm using a Sharp Mt877 minidisc player into a SB Live 5.1 Platinum card, connected with a 1/8th inch male to male stereo cable (gold plated). Any hints/ideas? - peace, Rog -- You're very sure of your facts, he said at last, I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe - if there is one - for granted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:44 pm, you wrote: i am not saying they are, i do know they have said there is no chance of a linux desktop Yes, and their distro SUCKS for a desktop. that most ppl who use linux as a desktop rather than a server use something else, and that now their desktop offering has a rebate for upgrading from other linux disros. i am asking if redhat perhaps percieves they are losing ground. Maybe they are... But so long as they have the support of the big companies, they don't have to worry. Whether you or I like it or not, Red Hat is te defacto standard as far as Linux is concerned. They have done much good work, and as a result, Mandrake was created. I personally prefer Mandrake as a distro, and as a company, because they do believe in the Linux desktop market. I am not going to battle it out with you guys over this stupid Red Hat issue. Red Hat users hate Mandrake users, and Mandrake users hate Red Hat users. It's a brutal war. Get over it. It is a freaking distro of Linux. Use what you want, and stop bitching about the other. Okay... Now, if Mandrake offered a discount for Red Hat or SuSE users, would you all flip out at Mandrake and scream foul! foul! or would you be all Yay Mandrake! You beat up that mean guy in red! I am betting on the latter. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-ROM Recognition in XCDROAST
not sure what your problem is john but in my system i have a 'hdc=ide-scsi' line in lilo.conf and in fstab, instead of /dev/hdc i have /dev/sdc1, from context i'm guessing that the writer on /dev/scd0 is using ide-scsi emulation as well so you can see that the line above should have the same form using /dev/scdN instead of /dev/hdc, i guess that N would be 1 for you, but if you go to /dev and see what scd* files you have and looked at what they're linked too that should help bascule On Saturday 11 May 2002 3:37 pm, you wrote: I thought I had got this understood, but a re-install has notproduced the same results. Here are my /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf entries:- /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp DVD-ROM Icon / properties = dev: /dev/hdc, Mnt: /mnt/cdrom WRITER Icon / Properties = dev: /dev/scd0,Mnt: /mnt/cdrom2 But the Roast is not recognising the pioneer DVD-ROM at all. John -- 'I'll tell you this!' shouted Rincewind. 'I'd rather trust me than history! Oh, shit, did I just say that?' (Interesting Times) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A Kword kwestion on fonts
I have used the font manager to add my Windows fonts. Now Kword shows a list of about 40 fonts in the drop down box on the tool bar, but the Format Font dialog box shows a list of around 144 fonts. If I choose a font from the dialog box to format some text using a font not available in the drop down box, the drop down box continues to show the old font name. Very confusing. Is there an additional step I have to do to make the two font lists identical? TIA, Roger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Saturday 11 May 2002 01:16 pm, you wrote: They AREN'T. They are simply giving a discount to other Linux users... Do you know that for a fact, or are you just giving them the benefit of the doubt? Umm... They aren't forcing anyone to give away their Mandrake CDs, and they aren't forcing you to agree to not use Mandrake... You can't determine with any certainty what a company's goal is based on what they _don't_ say. That's silly. You should be a little less hasty toward a company that produced much of Mandrake. Hasty? _I'm_ not the one who has given a verdict on their motives (either way). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations
Sounds like you'll have to find and install icepref then. It's on LM 8.1 disk 1, which is where I got it. Or you can download it: somewhere on icewm.org are links to icepref and one or two other configuration tools for IceWM. Warren On Thu, 09 May 2002 08:00:53 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Post wrote: Correct. The easiest way is to use the configuration tool icepref, which ought to be on your menu or can be launched from the command line. Select your favorite theme in icepref, press save and then press restart. If you like trying out different themes for IceWM, you might want to check out the collection that Freshmeat has -- over a hundred. Thanks, but icepref isn't in my menu and launching it from the command line I get command not found. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
MandrakeUser does not recommend USB network connections, and talks you through what is recommended. See the gory details at: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmlan.html MandrakeUser is a great site, by the way. If you haven't browsed the docs there yet it's worth checking out. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Thu, 9 May 2002 18:23:49 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 May 2002 8:41 am, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have a desktop with LM8.2 that is connected to a cable modem through a cable wire and a laptop with Win98 that can work with cable also or with a dial-up modem. The cable modem is a Toshiba DOCSIS that also can be hooked up through USB. My laptop has USB so I was wondering if I could hook it up to the cable modem through the USB hook-up so that I could share the internet and network between the laptop and desktop? Does anyone have any ideas how I may set this up? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 09:51 am, shane wrote: On Friday 10 May 2002 23:05, Dimitris Ioannou opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Can you please post more details about it? Never heard about something like it. You mean a Linux Distro stands against others? I've thought that recently RedHat changed perspective and aimed mostly at server market. well there is http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24915.html or simply find a store with the current redhat version and read th little sticker on the front. I don't understand the controversy/hype here. You can go to Cheapbytes and buy either a 3 CD set of ML8.2 or RH7.3 for ~$6 delivered to your front door. So for example, a discount on $60 for RH personal seems like a trap for the gullible to me (?). More power to 'em if it snags some winblows users. Personally I've been thinkin of tryin RH again after a several year hiatus from it. Since I don't have a dialup worthy of the task to d/l it for free, I'm damn sure I'd spend $6 rather than opt for a minor discount on $60. As always, Y'all'sMMV ;) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
now way OT was Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:59, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I am not going to battle it out with you guys over this stupid Red Hat issue. it was never intended as a battle, at least not from my stand point? i thought it odd. it seemed a silly route to me. i am sorry you see it as such a major affront Red Hat users hate Mandrake users, and Mandrake users hate Red Hat users. It's a brutal war. Get over it. It is a freaking distro of Linux. Use what you want, and stop bitching about the other. if indeed users of either distro hate the other, i had no idea. i for one thought redhat made good tech but a poor distro. i would think hate could be reserved for things that are actually wrong, like bigetry say. my mistake. Okay... Now, if Mandrake offered a discount for Red Hat or SuSE users, would you all flip out at Mandrake and scream foul! foul! or would you be all Yay Mandrake! You beat up that mean guy in red! niether, nor am i crying foul now. nor do i think they are the mean guy in red. i questioned a buis. decision. sorry to have stepped into your bad day is there anyone who would like to address the actual (attempted) topic, does redhat feel they are slipping away as a desktop offering? or shall we just play taps and bury this? :) -- For more than 4 generations the IT Professionals were the guardians of quality and stability in software. Before the dark times. Before Microsoft.. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: now way OT was Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
is there anyone who would like to address the actual (attempted) topic, does redhat feel they are slipping away as a desktop offering? or shall we just play taps and bury this? :) Red Hat doesn't try to be a desktop offereing. They made that clear to me at least when they said that Linux will NEVER succeed on the desktop IMHO, of course. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't even get beyond user name!!!
Hi Linux fans, Saturday, May 11, 2002, 7:40:30 PM, you wrote: This is a classic newbuie question, but I'll ask it anyway in hope of a simple answer and Mandrake 8.2 id driving me nuts. OK, I've finally installed, after wrestling with a faulty bootable DVD and I get to a screen that asks for my user name, so I enter it perfectly correctly. I am then asked for my password; again entered perfectly, but nothing appears and I wait. Nothing. SO I press return and some routine starts and then everything stops. Is this normal or weird, or what? Maybe I need to enter some geekie command line stuff; if so, please HELP!!! With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hard drive performance
I've been using hdparm to set my hard drive speed, and it's been working pretty well. This is the command I use: hdparm -c1 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda Everything goes fine, and it tells me that the I/O is 32 bit, whenever I restart it's set back to 16 bit, I know this from running idetool. Is there something I need to add to LILO to keep this setting at boot?
Re: [newbie] DVD-ROM Recognition in XCDROAST
On Sat, 11 May 2002 15:37:37 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had got this understood, but a re-install has notproduced the same results. Here are my /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf entries:- /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp DVD-ROM Icon / properties = dev: /dev/hdc, Mnt: /mnt/cdrom WRITER Icon / Properties = dev: /dev/scd0,Mnt: /mnt/cdrom2 But the Roast is not recognising the pioneer DVD-ROM at all. After you added the append line did you remember to run lilo and reboot. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] access to CD-RW
Last night I upgraded my HD. After doing so, everything worked fine except the fact that I can no longer access my CD-RW drive. My fstab excerpt is below. I have tried all combinations of options that I could think of, nothing has worked so far. The error I get is: You do not have enough permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. Even root gets this same error. Any ideas? $ cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,user 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 -- °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hard drive performance
On Saturday 11 May 2002 13:43, Michael Kovary opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I've been using hdparm to set my hard drive speed, and it's been working pretty well. This is the command I use: hdparm -c1 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda Everything goes fine, and it tells me that the I/O is 32 bit, whenever I restart it's set back to 16 bit, I know this from running idetool. Is there something I need to add to LILO to keep this setting at boot? from mandrake user.org: Once you've found a suitable setting, execute the 'hdparm' command again, adding the 'k' option. This will preserve your settings beyond the current session. hope that helps -- It is increasingly obvious that our techknowledgy is outpacing our humanity. -Einstein shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloader / nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
On Sat, 11 May 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: NT has a facility to create a list of Mirror sites on it's own.This facility appears to use either something called archie.is.co.za ( a real site ? ) or www.filesearch.ru and I used it to go look for these mirror sites for me, it found about 10 , which was not that great , I know for a fact getright would of come up with about 18 or more.Still a very useful feature. I still haven't found out how to get nt to ping these websites in order to create a list of the best download speeds available, I suspect it can, either it does it automatically, or it needs to be told to do it for you. ProZilla / ProzGUI (http://prozilla.delrom.ro/) has these functions too. Imho it's filesearching for mirrors works better, and ProzGUI has not only the ftp-search and multiple thread options, but also threads from different servers at the same time (ideal for users on a high band-width). It does not have the intergration featured that NT has though, but can be invoked my the command line. ProZilla (text based version) has everything except for the multi-thread_with_multi-server option, and is included with the Mandrake distro. There doesn't seem to be any limit on the number of active downloads. Ditto. Now that I have a spare partition set aside for the purpose , I found that nt was quite happy to download my files directly to a directory in that spare partition, which is a good thing because if you should get locked out of your OS for whatever reason during a long download then all is not lost and the partially downloaded file will be there to resume upon OS reinstall. Again ditto ;-) .. Although getting locked out of your distro...?! You must have been a very bad boy to get punished like that... LOL. nt also has the means to schedule your downloads .I don't use this facility much, and I haven't tried if yet , but I should think it works OK. NeitherProZilla or ProzGUI support this feature (yet), and maybe never will. The workaround with the console was to run at with the downloads with the console version. The reason why I reply to this is that many users do not require an over-featured / bloated download manager, when in actual fact all it does is download. If it would wash the dishes, and maybe make the bed now and then I would maybe also use it =) Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 v i686
On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:30 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: i586 will work on machines with a Pentium class processor or newer. That is, anything newer than a 486. i686 will work on machines with a Celeron, Pentium II, or newer. Thus my AMD K6 box can use RPMs for either i586 or i686, but my AMD K5 box can only use RPMs for i586. I propose that Mandrake writes a program, if such thing does not already exist, to test the CPU and tell the user which rpm to use, i486, i586, i686 or god knows what is next. I propose that this program also be part of the os installation hardware detection. The CPU is just a peripheral that requires its own driver, after all! Seedkum Mandrake is one of the few distros that attempts to fix this issue by being Pentium or better compatible. The i686 issue was not created by Mandrake, but by some third party commercial builds. i686 builds according to what i heard have little, if any, benefit for anybody. If you are trying to install 8.2 on a 486 or a 386 as a desktop you will be dissapointed, if you had a theoretical 3 CD 8.2 i486 set you would still be disapointed as it would run like a dog - so would 98, 2000, me or xp. Thus i586 builds are fine to cover 98% of cases people want to try to load Mandrake onto. If i have explained this well enough it should be apparent that there is no real need for such a program. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: now way OT was Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
I can't resist. As for what RedHat is or has been attempting I can say that regardless, of motives many, in general I mean, feel Linux-Mandrake, SUSE, etc are better desktop compared to RedHat who has pretty much just made a presents, but hardly seems to be promoting themselves as such. Here is an example. At my local mega electronic store where I get my software, hardware, and accessories Linux-Mandrake had pretty much disappeared from the shelves. RedHat dominated alongside WindowsXP. I asked why there wasn't any Mandrake and the reply was not enough demand to keep them on the shelves. Most Linux users either get RedHat or SUSE. Saw two kids when I went for mounting brackets and cabling. They had RedHat and LM 8.2 which the store decided to sell. I heard them talkng about it. They were about mid teens. The first said to the other to the effect. Dude, go with Mandrake for everyday stuff and some ***. RedHat for server and some serious **(these two parts I couldn't make out as I was eaves dropping) then go with RedHat. It gives the impression that RedHat seems more heavy duty. Like buying a $200 accounting software just to balance your checkbook. Like I said I just couldn't resist. - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 1:35 PM Subject: now way OT was Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire? On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:59, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I am not going to battle it out with you guys over this stupid Red Hat issue. it was never intended as a battle, at least not from my stand point? i thought it odd. it seemed a silly route to me. i am sorry you see it as such a major affront Red Hat users hate Mandrake users, and Mandrake users hate Red Hat users. It's a brutal war. Get over it. It is a freaking distro of Linux. Use what you want, and stop bitching about the other. if indeed users of either distro hate the other, i had no idea. i for one thought redhat made good tech but a poor distro. i would think hate could be reserved for things that are actually wrong, like bigetry say. my mistake. Okay... Now, if Mandrake offered a discount for Red Hat or SuSE users, would you all flip out at Mandrake and scream foul! foul! or would you be all Yay Mandrake! You beat up that mean guy in red! niether, nor am i crying foul now. nor do i think they are the mean guy in red. i questioned a buis. decision. sorry to have stepped into your bad day is there anyone who would like to address the actual (attempted) topic, does redhat feel they are slipping away as a desktop offering? or shall we just play taps and bury this? :) -- For more than 4 generations the IT Professionals were the guardians of quality and stability in software. Before the dark times. Before Microsoft.. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ 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] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
D. Olson wrote: On Saturday 11 May 2002 10:55 am, you wrote: that is my opinion too. still, mandrake has the big market share in linux right now, and suse compares well with mandrake. redhat well, in many ways doesn't. is redhat afraid they are on the way out? if so, why try to keep share by taking other linux users rather than windows? They AREN'T. They are simply giving a discount to other Linux users... If I bought Mandrake PowerPack 8.2, then I decided hey, I'd like to buy Red Hat 7.3 as well I would rather pay $10 or $20 less JUST BECAUSE I BOUGHT MANDRAKE. And that is what they are doing. You don't sign any agreement to NEVER use Mandrake again, you don't have to agree that you REMOVE it from your PC, or anything like that. Quit complaining about a company that is giving Linux users a discount. And how could Red Hat be on the way out? They are supported by the big companies, such as IBM. Well, last I looked, Intel and IBM were digging in their pockets for $45 million to bail out SuSE, but you are right about just giving linux users a discount. A competitive upgrade makes no sense at all for someone who is using JFS or XFS or Reiserfs and wants to upgrade to RH, so it must be just a discount for dual-booters. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
D. Olson wrote: On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote: i _am_ going to pass judgement on the fact that while that rebate seems reasonable, why is it not extended to users of, say for example, win95 or win98? Because that would be rewarding those people who support Microsoft by buying their software? Ummm soo sorry, but that conjecture seems a bit unreasonable. Most people have 95 or 98 because they perceived at the time that they had no other choice or simply did not know any better. Those who have it because they want to support Microsoft are unlikely to be buying _ANY_ linux distro. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rec question
On Saturday 11 May 2002 15:22, you wrote: Have you connected your minidisc to line or mic input ? Note that the output level of your minidisc is high, line level or higher, so, don't connect it to the mic input. Even connected to the line input, the signal can't be exageratted high, try to adjust it. The computer records the same way a digital recorder does, it doesn't handle so nicely high peak signals as an analog recorder does. Hope it helps you, Rodrigo OK, I was asking about line in recordings yesterday, and someone suggested I use rec...I was having a problem with it at first, until I realized that the channel I was going into the soundcard on, be it mic in or line in, needed to be set as the recording channel. So now I can record. But...when I use rec, it comes out very, very noisy and distorted. Does anyone have any experience with this, and have any troubleshooting tips for me? I'm using a Sharp Mt877 minidisc player into a SB Live 5.1 Platinum card, connected with a 1/8th inch male to male stereo cable (gold plated). Any hints/ideas? - peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't even get beyond user name!!!
On Saturday 11 May 2002 9:37 pm, Dave Conroy wrote: Hi Linux fans, Saturday, May 11, 2002, 7:40:30 PM, you wrote: This is a classic newbuie question, but I'll ask it anyway in hope of a simple answer and Mandrake 8.2 id driving me nuts. OK, I've finally installed, after wrestling with a faulty bootable DVD and I get to a screen that asks for my user name, so I enter it perfectly correctly. I am then asked for my password; again entered perfectly, but nothing appears and I wait. Nothing. SO I press return and some routine starts and then everything stops. Is this normal or weird, or what? Maybe I need to enter some geekie command line stuff; if so, please HELP!!! With best wishes, Dave Dave What you are experiencing is not normal, so you are going to have to be a bit a bit more explicit about what is happening before anyone can help you. Like when does this happen. After the install or during? Is it a text screen or a graphical screen? What precisely do you see? What is your hardware. Do not worry about giving too much information. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
That wasn't the point of my email... I bought Windows 98 SE only three months ago, even though I have been using Mandrake for 6 months... I have nothing against buying Windows... I just mean that Red Hat would be giving a rebate to people who bought MS software, which is stupid. IMHO. On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:51 pm, you wrote: D. Olson wrote: On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote: i _am_ going to pass judgement on the fact that while that rebate seems reasonable, why is it not extended to users of, say for example, win95 or win98? Because that would be rewarding those people who support Microsoft by buying their software? Ummm soo sorry, but that conjecture seems a bit unreasonable. Most people have 95 or 98 because they perceived at the time that they had no other choice or simply did not know any better. Those who have it because they want to support Microsoft are unlikely to be buying _ANY_ linux distro. Civileme -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE3 - Can't start ksmserver
I installed KDE3.0beta1 (Texstar's rpms) but can't log in to KDE2.2 or KDE3. I know others have had problems also but thought that _just maybe_ someone came across the error message Cannot start ksmserver. Check your installation. and was able to solve it. I've been going around in circles trying to fix it (*groan*... more grey hairs). Any help much appreciated. skinky -- Oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spanish lists
Does anyone know why the spanish newbie/expert lists are not working??? Regards, Edgardo Rossetto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??
As you can probably tell. I'm using windows right now... the reason is that I reformatted everything and reinstalled MS so I could use this computer for email etc while I decided which file system I wanted to install on my linux partition. I had a bad experience with ext2 the default file system. 1. I had one of my kids push the power button to shut down my mandrake 8.1 box and I couldn't get the system to boot back up...serious lack of enough knowledge to try to recoup the data and save the file system on my part. 2. lost alot of data.(nothing major..but a PITA anyway) stuff like saved newbie emails that probably told how to recover from a bad ext2 shutdown...stuff like that!! 3. read that reiser fs was better .especially for newbies like me that have bad shutdowns.power outages...etc Any input on that? I want to re install mandrake..but want a file system that recovers fast.and is stable enough to withstand the occasional bad shutdown. I read all the older posts in the newbie archives.and seems like reiserfs is the way to go..but am open to suggestions before I re-install. Reiser FS also should have somewhat faster file access for my large directories of jpegs and html files if I'm not mistakenI went to www.reiserfs.org ...read alot there too, but wanted real life experiences. I trust those more :) THIA Dave
