[newbie-it] Bug in ark con kde 2.2.2
Ciao a tutti, ho riscontrato un problema con ark che si ripete ogni volta che io faccio i seguenti passi e mi fa apparire la finestra che segnala un bug nell'applicazione: - Clicco su un file compresso (con estensione .gz .zip ecc ecc fino ad ora si è verificato con tutti i file che ho aperto, quindi è indipendente da essi) - Quando mi viene visualizzato il contenuto del file compresso clicco su visualizza - Il file che ho chiesto di visualizzare si apre correttamente, ma dopo averlo chiuso, quando vado a chiudere anche la finestra di ark mi compare il messaggio che dice l'applicazione è andata in crash e ha causato il segnale 11 (SIGSEGV). Prima di comunicarlo a Mandrake vorrei chiedervi se, eseguendo le stesse procedure, si verifica anche a voi lo stesso problema, in modo da esser che sia effettivamente un bug dell'applicazione e non un problema del mio sistema.
[newbie-it] Messaggio all'avvio di kde3
Ciao a tutti, ho un altro problemino don kde3 che mi piacerebbe risolvere! Quando avvio kde3 mi appare il seguente messaggio: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: couldn't auto detect which audio I/O method to use The sound server will continue, using the null output device.. Ho capito che si tratta un errore che riguarda l'audio e il sound server di kde3, ma non ho capito il motivo dell'errore! Qualcuno mi saprebbe dare un mano per risolverlo? Ciao a tutti e grazie. ENx P.S.: l'audio funziona benissimo con tutti quei programmi che non usano il sound server di kde!
Re: [newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf
Ciao miKe alle 19:46, martedì 21 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ringrazio tutti delle risposte. In effetti non capivo perché in openoffice non comparisse la stampante virtuale come invece avviene con kword ecc. Comunque con openoffice (penso anche con SO) ho trovato (grazie alle risposte ricevute) questo sistema: salva su file - premo il tasto accanto sfoglia - scrivo il nome del file con il .pdf finale e tipo di file pdf. Ecco che ho il mio bel pdf salvato. Ho notato che se nel nome del file non inserisco il .pdf finale e metto comunque il formato di salvataggio pdf il file viene salvato come ps. Magari può essere utile a qualcuno. Ciao ku68
Re: [newbie-it] Mantenere le impostazioni
Il 21.05.02 alle 02:33, il notabile Emiliano La Licata proferi' codeste parole: Dunque, ho configurato la stampante su porta usb, e ho creato lp0 in /dev/usb ed editato il file /etc/printcap e poi ho utilizzato cups per configurare la stampante. Il tutto ha funzionato bene, solo che al reboot ho perso le impostazioni di /dev/usb ed /etc/printcap Sapete come posso fare per mantenerle? Per perso le impostazioni di /dev/usb... intendi proprietario, gruppo e/o permessi? se e' quello, credo che il responsabile sia il solito msec. Per risolvere dovresti AFAIK abbassare il livello di sicurezza [es. a msec 1], che e' il principale responsabile della restrizione automatica dei permessi. Per printcap non capisco perche' te lo sovrascriva, AFAIK sembra che ad ogni avvio parta un programma di configurazione della stampante (guarda tra i servizi all'avvio se c'e' qualcosa di illuminante: puoi disattivare p.es. linuxconf, kudzu, harddrake). Al massimo puoi fare una copia che poi sostituirai. -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK semi-cooker / 2.4.18-ac3
Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!
Alle 21:10, martedì 21 maggio 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: Il 21.05.02 alle 20:15, il notabile Giovanni Mazzamati proferi' codeste parole: ARRRGGGHH!! gli allegati corposi non vanno _mai_ postati in lista (non e' un problema mio, ma pensa a chi ha un modem della prima industrializzazione e ci mette anni a scaricare la posta). Altra opzione: non e' che hai poca RAM per i lavori che svolgi e il frullio e' provocato dal continuo accesso allo swap? dai free per vedere l'occupazione della memoria. Innanzitutto mi scuso per l'occupazione di banda, ma pensavo che un'immagine fosse più descrittiva... Farò ancora altre prove. P.S. Ho 256M di RAM e una partizione di swap di 500M che praticamente non viene mai usata (come si vede anche dall'immagine allegata al precedente msg). -- saluti Giovanni Mazzamati mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux Mandrake 8.2 KDE 2.2.2 user Registred User #183142 Un giorno le macchine riusciranno a risolvere tutti i problemi, ma mai nessuna di esse potrà porne uno. Albert Einstein
[newbie-it] Abilitazione TVOUT TNT2
Qualcuno di voi è riscito ad abilitare l'uscita TV della su citata? Preciso che ho installato gli ultimi driver della NVidia e che ho letto la documentazione e non sono riuscito ad arrivare a dama... Comunque La TNT2 va meglio sotto Linux che sotto Win... ;-) -- saluti Giovanni Mazzamati mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux Mandrake 8.2 KDE 2.2.2 user Registred User #183142 Un giorno le macchine riusciranno a risolvere tutti i problemi, ma mai nessuna di esse potrà porne uno. Albert Einstein
[newbie-it] Fw: winmodem...
- Original Message - From: barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:36 PM Subject: winmodem... salve a tutti e' il mio primo messaggio questo anche se seguo la lista da alcuni mesi... Espongo il problema: Ho un notebook asus con un ahime' winmodem della ess technology ES56CVM-PI ho effettuato le ricerche del caso e purtroppo credo proprio che non sia supportato (ho trovato dei driver ricostruiti e validi per il kernel 2.2.12 ma di un modem simile al mio, non uguale...) Vorrei sapere innanzitutto se qualcuno ha avuto esperienza con il modem in questione ed infine dato che vorrei installare cmq una distro mdk suse o slack sul notebook (in questo momento ho slack) vorrei sapere se qualcuno di voi ha un modem o un ta isdn pcmcia (marca e modello) sicuramente supportato almeno da una delle 3 distro in oggetto... P.S. ho dato uno sguardo sul sito www.linmodems.org e sul hardware database di suse e mdk ma mi sembra piu' rassicurante, visto che poi dovro' procedere all'acquisto, conoscere le esperienze fatte da chi ha magari lo stesso notebook oppure modem grazie 1000
[newbie-it] Palmare Palm m105 e MDK 8.2
Alle 10:46, venerdì 24 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Salve, ancora una domanda da niubbone... ho un palmare Palm m105, ho letto della possibilita' di utilizzarlo anche sotto Linux (sto progressivamente abbandonado Win, la mia intenzione e' utilizzare quel SO solo per giocare... :D), la cosa mi risulterebbe estremamente utile visto che il palmare lo uso molto spesso. Ho collegato il tutto (nella casella della porta ho messo /dev/ttyS1) e pare che il programma vede il palmare ed inizia l'operazione di hot synch, salvo poi fermarsi per dirmi che non riconosce l'utente, a questo punto il niubbone (io) s'e' bloccato. Ho cercato in rete ma non sono ancora riuscito a trovare nulla. Qualcuno mi puo' dare una mano per cortesia? Grazie. -- Vincenzo TheJack Tiziani www.stargazer.itwww.iammol.com
[newbie-it] Map-Installer
Premetto questo: - Ho Linux installato sul primo hard disk collegato al primary master /dev/hda su 4 partizioni primarie hda1, hda2, hda3, hda4; - Ho creato due partizioni primarie FAT32 su un secondo hard disk collegato al secondary master /dev/hdb ossia hdb1 con punto di mount /xp e hdb2 con punto di mount /xptrans; - Su hdb1 ho successivamente installato WinXP riformattando con NTFS; - hdb2 formattata con FAT32 è rimasta invariata. Lo scopo di /xptrans era quello di appoggiare i file scaricati da internet con Linux per farli poi vedere e poter trasferire su XP. Tutto mi ha funzionato come previsto e solo dopo aver eseguito quanto dirò di seguito XP non mi ha fatto più vedere questa directory, ora sono costretto e limitato ad usare il floppy disk per questi transiti :-( In pratica o eseguito questa operazione. Ho voluto rinominare una label nel file lilo.conf e poi ho reistallato lilo con il map-installer. Sostanzialmente non è cambiato niente nella mia configurazione, da lilo posso avviare Linux o XP oppure senza Lilo posso caricare XP con il suo avvio automatico semplicemente settando il BIOS di fare il boot da disco D anzichè da C. Ho provato a riformattare la partizione su hdb2 ma senza risultato. Il MBR dell'hard disk slave non è stato cancellato o modificato altrimenti XP non si sarebbe avviato da solo. Potete dirmi cosa può essere successo ?
Re: [newbie-it] Map-Installer
Il 22.05.02 alle 22:35, il notabile Giuseppe Ferruzzi proferi' codeste parole: - Ho creato due partizioni primarie FAT32 su un secondo hard disk collegato al secondary master /dev/hdb ossia hdb1 con punto di mount /xp e hdb2 con punto di mount /xptrans; [..] In pratica o eseguito questa operazione. Ho voluto rinominare una label nel file lilo.conf e poi ho reistallato lilo con il map-installer. Sostanzialmente non è cambiato niente nella mia configurazione, da lilo posso avviare Linux o XP oppure senza Lilo posso caricare XP con il suo avvio automatico semplicemente settando il BIOS di fare il boot da disco D anzichè da C. *** attenzione ESTREMA perche' quello che ti diro' e' potenzialmente distruttivo se sbagli tasto. E' sempre consigliabile fare una copia della partizione su cui dovrai lavorare *** Ho bisogno di una conferma per una teoria che avrei: da root avvia fdisk /dev/hdb, poi dai p per visualizzare la tabella delle partizioni. Controlla in corrispondenza di /dev/hdb2: c'e' scritto (tra l'altro) 'nascosto' o 'hidden' ? Se e' cosi', e' uno scherzetto che purtroppo lilo combina in presenza di una seconda partizione windows (ci ero passato anch'io tempo fa, ed e' anche per quello che da allora sono affezionato all'ottimo grub; per la verita' cmq credevo che fosse un problema superato ...). Bisogna quindi cambiare l'identificativo della partizione, da nascosta [sara' forse 1b o 1c] a non nascosta [b o c]. Dai il comando t, poi il numero della partizione (2), poi il nuovo id: direi che puo' andare bene c, che corrisponde al WIN95 FAT32 (LBA); poi salva la tabella delle partizioni con w e riavvia il sistema. Se non e' cosi', invece, non saprei ... -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - K 2.4.18-ac3 - MDK semi-cooker in attesa di saltare alla Slack-current :)
Re: [newbie-it] prova per compilare
Alle 13:30, lunedì 13 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Credo che su sourceforge.net e su freshmeat.net potrai trovare diversi pacchetti compressi utili sia a scopo didattico che da usare. Scompattali nella tua $HOME, magari in una subdirectory ad hoc e parti Salve a tutti Per motivi di studio e altri impegni avevo abbandonato il tentativo di una prima compilazione. Ora ho scaricato un programmino abbastanza semplice (lettore mp3) e la mia intenzione è quella di ri provarci, ma il mio problema è che non so da dove cominciare!!! ho dato uno sguardo al makefile ma per me è come se fosse cirillico! ho riletto per l'ennesima volta il manuale utentee come prima,buio! C'è qualc'uno che abbia voglia e pazienza per spiegarmi passo passo quello che c'è da fare?(magari anche in privato visto che le mie domande saranno sicuramente tra le piu banali) O in alternativa qualcuno mi puo rimandare a documentazioni per principianti in italiano? Grazie gia da ora. Ciao , Tom
[newbie] Locked cdrom and floppy drives
I have upgraded to 8.2 on both my desktop and my laptop. I have used the cdrom on my desktop and used my floppy drive as well. I did some work on my laptop that I wanted to add to my desktop but now the floppy and both cdrom's (one is a burner) are locked. The only changes I have made were security updates through their mandrakeupdate utility. I have checked permissions and they state that I am user and group. I have tried everything I know and cannot figure out why they have all of a sudden become locked. I have done the same updates on my laptop and I can still use the cdrom and the floppy. Has anyone ran into this before. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I tried multiply cd's and floppys to make sure it was the machine not the media. Thanks, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
Maybe it's because I have a lousy cold and a foggy brain (please insert sympathy here), but shouldn't installing kdebase-nsplugins result in Konqueror finding a flash player? There must be a really obvious step that I missed. I know there was a thread on the list (or was it expert?) recently, but I'm damned if I can find it in the archives. Probably the topic was It doesn't work or something equally useful for searching. Anyway, could one of you kind people save me from the Macromedia popup curse? I don't much want flash, but I want multiple download windows even less. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VPN Connection
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO.html On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 21:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at setting a VPN also so i could use my server resource like printer and connect to my PIM. Bill VPN = Virtual Private Network, i.e. one based on PPTP or L2TP protocols. It allows you to create a secure tunnel (i.e. encrypted) through an unsecure medium (the internet, for example). VNC = Virtual Network Computing, as you say, is a tool that only allows a remote display. I guess Bill wants to avoid FTP since it is insecure. That said, I don't know how to set up a VPN :-( raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, VNC isn't really for transferring files--it's for using a computer remotely. I think what you need to do is run a FTP server on your Linux box. Miark William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Hello, I would like to set up a VPN so I can connect to my computer from work. This is what I have . I have a laptop with windows XP that I take to work. I need to be able to connect Via VPN so I can get some files from my Linux mandrake 8.0 server at home. I do not how to set up a VPN to allow windows users to connect. any help thanks Bill Nash. Bill Nash 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] Locked cdrom and floppy drives
I have had similar problems on my Dell Inspriron 4100 notebook. This i think is caused by the floppy and CD sharing hardware interfaces. I did read somewhere on the Mandrake website about this and have solved the problems i was having by changing the method the floppy is mounted from automatic using supermount to user with noauto. This can be done via the options selection of the Mount Points option in Mandrake Control Panel, or editing /etc/fstab. This means that the floppy will have to mounted and unmounted manually, but i don't find this a problem I hope this helps Simon Matthews On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 14:17, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I have upgraded to 8.2 on both my desktop and my laptop. I have used the cdrom on my desktop and used my floppy drive as well. I did some work on my laptop that I wanted to add to my desktop but now the floppy and both cdrom's (one is a burner) are locked. The only changes I have made were security updates through their mandrakeupdate utility. I have checked permissions and they state that I am user and group. I have tried everything I know and cannot figure out why they have all of a sudden become locked. I have done the same updates on my laptop and I can still use the cdrom and the floppy. Has anyone ran into this before. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I tried multiply cd's and floppys to make sure it was the machine not the media. Thanks, Maureen 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] Flash plugin in Konq again
Hi Brian, try nsplugin at the command line I think that is what i did but it was a while ago good luck cheers jason On Wednesday 22 May 2002 17:02, you wrote: Maybe it's because I have a lousy cold and a foggy brain (please insert sympathy here), but shouldn't installing kdebase-nsplugins result in Konqueror finding a flash player? There must be a really obvious step that I missed. I know there was a thread on the list (or was it expert?) recently, but I'm damned if I can find it in the archives. Probably the topic was It doesn't work or something equally useful for searching. Anyway, could one of you kind people save me from the Macromedia popup curse? I don't much want flash, but I want multiple download windows even less. TIA Brian Content-Type: text/plain; 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 again
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 05:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 12:53, Nicolas VERITE wrote: Le mer 15/05/2002 à 10:59, Robin Turner a écrit : Has any one here had any success getting Mandrake to download from a camcorder via USB? Sir Robin With or without Mandrake, you can't up/download moving pictures (vidéo) from/to a camcorder via USB. You must use Firewire/iLink/IEEE1394. Nÿco Not true. You can use a Firewire to USB adapter. Example URL: http://www.simplesi.com/video2usb.htm And I said (or at least I think I did - could've been when the SMTP server was screwing me around) many newer camcorders give you the choice of Firewire and USB. So far, though, I haven't managed to get my Sony TRV740 to send to either Linux or Windows (the latter being with the drivers and viewer that came with the camera). Sir Robin -- The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever heard. - Bill Gates Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 04:04, you wrote: Anyone else notice that from the Control Center - Look n Feel - System notifications, that if you preview an AU sound file that it not only doesn't play, but you lose sound until the next time KDE is restarted. Is this a known bug or just something about my setup? Thanks! ;-) I read with interest and have used myself many of the anachronisms mentioned, but quite honestly I do not understand what the relationships are with one another. For instance Alsa, OSS, aRts, etc etc. I wonder whether someone could write a short potted history/technical explanation of what they actually do and how they relate. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slow keys
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:45 am, Michael Adams wrote: It not the memory thing. It may be to do with my choice of the US(international) keyboard. All KDE apps wait to see what the next character typed is and then place accents (grávès?) on the vowels. Nice feature, but how do i turn it off! Redhat has a KickStart config file that has keyboard type, now mandrake must have something similar. found /etc/sysconfig/keyboard mine looks like the folowing; KBCHARSET=iso-8859-1 DISABLE_WINDOWS_KEY=no BACKSPACE=Delete KEYTABLE=us -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 02:39 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: Mind you, the Stallman piece is interesting; his line is that, as Linux contains rather a lot of GNU material, it should be called GNU/Linux and not enough credit is given for the involvement. It is called GNU/Linux. Only the kernel can be called Linux. Everything else on the download edition of Mandrake is GNU in the sense it's GPL licensed or it's dropped. Tack a binary only driver onto your kernel, install StarOffice, and you can no longer claim to be usin GNU or Linux. He also has a characteristic argument that binary-only drivers (here comes the Alcatel Speedtouch USB once again :) violate the GPL so should be reverse-engineered and rewritten under the GPL to maintain a 'pure' 'free' Linux and, by a rhetorical trick, manages to blame Linus Torvalds for this situation. Nvidia, Lucent, Netscape, . they do violate the spirit, security, and dependability of free software. Too much of this crud, and GNU/Linux will run no better, or be any more secure than Windoze. Probly less so. The extremity of his arguments is most unusual and refreshing but, in the end, self-defeating because the arguments are not convincing; there are much more important things to do than writing device drivers twice. Unfortunately you're right. All too many are willing to take the softer easier way out and taint their system with closed source proprietary insecure buggy closed source drivers and software. I'm not excused either, but I am aware of the consequences and dangers in doin so. http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=427lang=en http://www.gnu.org/ OTOH you're wrong (ie, 'more important things to do') I'd offer OpenOffice as opposed to StarOffice, 'nv' vs. 'nvidia' drivers as examples. And anyone in a campaigning position has to destroy the self and not get into wrangles about names, precedence, purity of motive and so on; once you start doing that people switch off and you're finished :/ Alastair Unfortunately you're in the mainstream along with most of us. RS's delivery is often a turn off. His PR sux. Consider tho public perception of what he advocates. His ideals are poo poo'd, yet when a Peruvian politician introduces a bill to make free software mandatory by law he's all of a sudden a world wide hero. A matter of 'selling the ideals'? Yes to some extent, but the real problem is the unwashed masses don't understand or are ignorant of the situation, and don't care. The majority of M$ users worldwide aren't of the opinion that GNU/Linux isn't ready for the desktop, they don't even know it exists. Even if they do, they have no idea and/or misconceptions of the difference between open and closed source, free or proprietary software and hardware. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs
Civileme, Problem is now solved. I dropped my clock rate back to normal (350, sniff) and I got past the hanging point. Then I think I got as far as selecting the security level, and the fsck of my Linux partitions kept giving a code 4 or signal 0 error (that may not be exact, sorry again). So I booted rescue and fsck'ed my partitions manually, correcting errors like no lost+found and several other things. I was then able to complete the install successfully. FYI, the ide0=noautotune didn't seem to have a visible effect and I found the hard drive CHS values reported by the BIOS and fdisk were the same. Thanks for steering me in the right direction, and for the valuable hard drive info. (I assembled this machine long before I even considered Linux.) - Kathy From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs Date: 17 May 2002 12:01:05 -0800 That is really a partition check hang. 1. Drop your clock rate. 2. make sure you have a 40-pin cable on the drive, not an 80 to limit UDMA to 33MHz or less. 3. Next drive acquisition, please consider NOT buying a brand which supports (officially) only Windows and Solaris (and the Solaris for SCSI drives at that). There is more trouble with WDs than all the others combined, in linux. 4. F1 at the splash screen and linux ide0=noautotune because WDs usually rate themselves higher than they run well at. (Example WD200AB on a PIII 933 with VIA KT133A running RH 7.1 was set to UDMA66 and producing a rousing 1.6M/sec when tested with hdparm -t /dev/hda 5. By dropping the data rate to 33MHz, a slight performance improbvement was noted, from a 1.6Mb/s at 66 to 9.4 Mb/s at 33. Obviously there were many errors and rereads at the higher speed. Finally on some WDs, there is a problem with estimation--since they are single-platter with two heads physically, their Cylinder, Head ans Sector numbers for Logical Block Addressing must be calculated. A few models show more capacity (closer to tru physical capacity) at a solution that provides 240 heads rather than 255. The difference is between the 32-bit math of the kernel and the 16-bit math of the BIOS. So see what the CHS numbers are in the BIOS and compare those to F1 at the splash screen and rescue booting a normal rescue and # fdisk -l /dev/hda anfd looking at the reported CHS numbers. By now, we think we have closed off those approximation errors but there is always the chance that there is a cheap drive out there that we missed in the exception table, and there is a method of overriding the calculated CHS numbers with a kernel message, so check. If the numbers are different, bingo. linux has much tighter timing that Windows in its drivers, so overclocking is often enough to kill a few devices... It is better unless you have top-notch hardware to run linux at designed clock speeds. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A little advice.
Thanx. I didn't know about Easynews until now. I'll have to check it later. Right now, I have a truck that needs a new water pump desperatly. I've never tried Pan, so I'll have to take a look at it. This whole thing is a learning experience. I had Mandrake once before, but my roommate who loaded it neglected to tell me how to install stuff, or how to get rid of it. I was running Mandrake 6 at the time, and while my roommate was instructing me, he suddenly up and left for Wisconson. I had nothing - no docs, no knowledge of the man pages, nothing. I ended up giving the HD that had it to a friend of mine at work after I bought the one I have now. I finally got tired of Winblows crashing on me several times a day, so I changed into something more advanced and far superior, not to mention more stable. It's only the occasional program that screws up, not the entire OS. Iceburgh69 - Recent releases of Pan have yEnc capabilities. But if you prefer to use Mozilla, can't help you there. You've checked out http://www.easynews.com/yenc/tools.htm? You can get Pan at http://pan.rebelbase.com/ or from rpmfind. Unfortunately, it's a GNOME newsreader ;-) which I left on my system after my experiences in Ximian Hell. It'll run in KDE, Blackbox, and Fluxbox, too. Think of it as a learning experience! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM FILES
I believe it means that package file was built (optimized?) specifically for the PowerPC (Apple) architecture, as opposed to, say, i586 (Intel). - Kathy On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 11:55, John Richard Smith wrote: What does the does .ppc mean as in package.ppc.rpm John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: Now in this article he's warning us about non-free software in other areas. My personal opinion is that although he seems rather extreme at times, it's merely because he's ahead of his time. These are problems that will come to pass either sooner or later if allowed to continue; it's just a matter of time. I was fortunate enough to hear RMS speak during the last Linux Lunacy cruise, and he is a very solid speaker, very convincing... I for one never knew until then that Linux was built using the GNU tools... I don't understand why Linus can't just say, (and thus credit) I used GNU to make the kernel, wouldn't have been able to do it without these tools AND I don't know why RMS can't say and Linus (successfully!) took it places that I never imagined Seems this would help bury the hatchet/feud whatever. Of course, I realise that this is probably over-simplification but...it would surely be a start. We do need unity, thats for sure... Just my 2 cents worth, as always. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 00:02, Brian Parish opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Maybe it's because I have a lousy cold and a foggy brain (please insert sympathy here), but shouldn't installing kdebase-nsplugins result in Konqueror finding a flash player? There must be a really obvious step that I missed. if you are suffering foggy brain, first check that you have flash. :) i know that would be were i would mess up. the most obvious place, cot copying the flash files to /usr/lib/netscape/plugins then, did you run the nsplugins thing and tell it to scan for plugins? -- We know what we are, but not what we may become -William Shakespeare 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] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 15:04, daRcmaTTeR wrote: LX, I'm sorry, but I'm coming into the thread a little late. Whats this about freedom and BB conections? The other messages that have hit the list may not have made it to your ISP yet; as of this message Tom Brinkman and I both have more contributions posted to this thread; yours showed up sometime early this morning. You may not be seeing our messages, tho; for some reason that's the way it works. The article is by Richard Stallman and deals with the free software philosophy and also the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Protection Act, which is a bill designed to further seperate us from our current freedoms and rights as Linux, computer, and digital media users. It will effectively abolish our fair use rights with respect to any digital media we buy. It also has other connotations which Stallman expounds on in his article. daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User #186492 Best Regards, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
Brian: According to my notes, it's nspluginscan, not nsplugin. Then you'll have to close and reopen KDE. If all has gone well, the Netscape Plugins option will show up in the Konqueror configuration menu. However, I've found that those damn popups still appear on some sites. I'm not sure why, but I'm inclined to blame it on the HTML at the other end. Of course, I could be wrong on that. The original thread was on this list as LM 8.2, Konqueror and Flash; there was a later thread Flash in Konqueror. -- cmg On Wednesday 22 May 2002 04:06 am, Jason wrote: Hi Brian, try nsplugin at the command line I think that is what i did but it was a while ago good luck cheers jason On Wednesday 22 May 2002 17:02, Brian wrote: Maybe it's because I have a lousy cold and a foggy brain (please insert sympathy here), but shouldn't installing kdebase-nsplugins result in Konqueror finding a flash player? There must be a really obvious step that I missed. I know there was a thread on the list (or was it expert?) recently, but I'm damned if I can find it in the archives. Probably the topic was It doesn't work or something equally useful for searching. Anyway, could one of you kind people save me from the Macromedia popup curse? I don't much want flash, but I want multiple download windows even less. TIA Brian Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lilo vanishes
I installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 on th D drive of a compaq deskpro 2000 Pentium 166 with a standard Compaq P50 monitor, and in doing so my Windows 98 installation on the C drive suffered quite a bit. However I got Linux running, it worked just fine,and at Boot up Lilo would give me the choice of Linux or Windows. Fine for a while, but then, after an accidental disconnection of the machine, Lilo disappeared, and I could not get in to Linux. At boot up Windows 98 appears as if the D drive does not exist. I had to tweak Windows a bit to get it back to complete working form, as I need it for work and study, but I don't have access to my D: drive or to Linux. I took a look at rebooting Linux from the CD, but gave this up as the setup pretends that I have a bigger monitor than I actually have, and does not give me access to some crucial parts of the setup screens, and I did not want to risk screwing up my machine any further. Can anyone help me either to rescue Linux without further risk to my Windows 98 setup, or to get access to my D: drive from within Windows again?? Thanks Ian
Re: [newbie] harddrake new video card
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 05:59 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002 01:40, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 20 May 2002 02:11 pm, s wrote: You wouldn't know the exact video ram of a 128mb card or how I could find it, do you? That's what I was looking around for when I discovered the harddrake hiccup. 128 * 1024 == 131072 If you can't get 3d accel support for the card yet, or even if you can, you might try setting 'aperature' in bios to 4mb. That effectively disables sidebanding sometimes fixes some problems. 128 * 1024 * 1024 = 134,217,728 Bytes exactly the above calculation supplied by Tom give KBytes Depends on what you want doesn't it. Nope, not really ;pS was asking for XFree86 purposes, and it wants the ram size in MB * 1024. The correct multiplier is a single 1024 if the MB's are sort'a kind'a real in the first place ;) Mostly only HDD manufacturers think a MB equals 1 million bytes, or 1000 KB. Ram manufacturers tend to think it's 1024 KB. Somethin to do with 2's compliments ;~ For example, hardrake correctly sees my Gef2 Section Device Identifier NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Driver nv VideoRam65536 65536/1024 == 64MB which is what the card's got. Hopefully ;) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hercules Fortissimo II
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 10:14 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2002 18:07:19 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google loves: Bsd - http://www.google.ca/bsd Mac - http://www.google.ca/mac.html Linux - http://www.google.ca/linux US Govt. - http://www.google.ca/unclesam M$ - http://www.google.ca/microsoft.html Femme have you seen this, http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html It explains how they are able to achieve such excellent search results. Charles Sort'a explains why usin a penguin is much better than computing with a dirty busted piece of glass locked in a frame. Penguins and pigeons are cousins, no ? ...and I don't believe either care for windoze all that much ; -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cable modem question
I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable modem. I have internet through att broadband. Could someone give me a step by step instructons? Thanks. Raymond
[newbie] kde3 taskbar wont work
I posted this on the expert list and got no responses. Let's see how it goes here. I really like kde I have Mandrake 8.1 with kde3 installed. All has been fine until a couple of nights ago when I decided to scan some pics with kooka. I had problems with this in 2.x, however tried it. Well my system locked solid, couldn't ssh, telnet, nothing. So after reboot I find that no users have real access to their taskbar icons. You can click one, once that one is running, the taskbar seems locked (nothing but a nice image). I have tried making a new user, same results. What do I do to get kde functioning again. I have deleted relevant items in /tmp. Shutdown system safely. Nothing works All things work if I bring them up in konsole So currently I run kde progs through konsole Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cable modem question
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 03:16 pm, Raymond Whipple wrote: I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable modem. I have internet through att broadband. Could someone give me a step by step instructons? Thanks. There is NO Linux 7.1, you may have mandrake 7.1 go to http://www.google.com/linux and enter dsl network howto this one looks prittie good; http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/ If you have trouble - come back with some specific questions -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cable modem question
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 21:16, you wrote: I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable modem. I have internet through att broadband. Could someone give me a step by step instructons? Thanks. Open 'linuxconf' , go/click 'networking', go'hostname IP networking', select 'adaptor 1', enable it and select 'Dhcp'. Close linuxconf and 'yes' to restart network. Done!!!:o) Good luck, Harm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slow keys
Michael Adams said onto me: -- |On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote: | On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: | Michael Adams wrote: | When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a full | second to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like [] and [']. | I am running KDE on a P3 500. Only some of the punctuation keys are | like this. Full stops, commas and even the square brackets i just used | are fine. If i am tapping at normal speed (i am not a touch typist) the | letter after gets missed as well. Anybody else had this one? | | It's a bit of a pain because i have to remember to slow for those keys. | Then all of a sudden i have three of them. | | I dont mind a RTFM, just tell me which FM. | | How much memory does the machine have? can you tell if its swapping as you | type? | |Thanks for the reply Gerald. | |It not the memory thing. It may be to do with my choice of the |US(international) keyboard. All KDE apps wait to see what the next character |typed is and then place accents (grávès?) on the vowels. Nice feature, but |how do i turn it off! | |Michael | | | -- K-menu | applications | configuration | other | Mandrake Control Center | hardware | keyboard This will let you choose your keyboard layout just as when you installed Mandrake. HTH -- °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.5claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 08:41 am, K Montgomery wrote: Civileme, Problem is now solved. I dropped my clock rate back to normal (350, sniff) and I got past the hanging point. Then I think I got as far as selecting the security level, and the fsck of my Linux partitions kept giving a code 4 or signal 0 error (that may not be exact, sorry again). Well, FWIW, I started to reply to your post, then saw Civileme had already suggested setting the system back to default. That's always the first thing to do when you have problems on an oc'd system. I don't believe your problem was overclocking per se, but I suspect it was due to bad overclocking. By bad oc'ing, I mean upping the FSB to the point of getting the PCI bus all harddrives run on, way out'a spec. IOW's 3.5x126 (442mhz) is a terrible oc, the PCI is then 126/3 or 42mhz, and drive corruption is inevitable, probly takin the video card with it (agp or pci). The only good oc for a PII 350 is to up the FSB all the way to 133 mhz. That gives you 3.5x133 == 467 mhz. The clock generator on the mobo will then switch from 100/3 to 133/4, both which equal 33 mhz for the PCI bus, and right on spec. Same for the AGP (which runs on PCI). I suspect you were usin a FSB somewhere less than 133, but substantially over 112, and your PCI was consequently way off spec. Fsck's up all kind's of stuff, but mainly drives, IDE, SCSI, or CD. SCSI drives, Maxtor, Seagate, and Fujitsu are the least tolerant. Probly couldn't even stand 112 (37mhz PCI bus). So, make a memtest86 floppy, set the FSB to 133, and boot memtest86, from floppy, not harddrive. If your ram will do 133mhz you should be fine. Set it to 3-3-3, if memtest86 returns no errors then you can try Cas2 (2-3-3). A quality mobo is a must, as is a good heatsink/fan on the cpu. The PII was all the same core (Deschutes) from 333 thru 450 mhz. If you've got a decent 350 it should do 467 without complaint. Anything less than 467, and over 392, you'll have bad problems. Mostly true for Intel chipset boards (BX), VIA chipset boards allow for switching to a 1/4 PCI divider at 126 to 133+ FSB. The main idea is to keep your PCI bus within a few mhz of 33. If all the above is about as clear as mud, consider not oc'ing ;) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konqueror rolling up its windows?
I recently upgraded to both KDE 3.0 and ML 8.2, so I'm not sure which is causing the problem. However after about 3 weeks of more-or-less error free operation, Konqueror has begun to display some strange behavior, no pun intended. I got home one day to find the Konqueror window I had been using in the morning strangely ... shorter. The toolbars had begun to disappear behind the title bar. Fiddling with their sizes did nothing but aggrevate the problem, and now the Toolbar has completely disappeared and the Address bar is only 3/5 visible so I can barely see what site I am at. I am told by a friend that this is a confirmed problem with Mandrake and KDE 3 but cannot find any verification of this online. Is there a solution, a file edit, or a fix? I am not adverse to trying a different WM or Browser, but I'd love to know what's going on. Any further information you need will be gladly supplied, but I am not sure what would be helpful at this point. It hasn't affected any other KDE programs as of yet but he said it would eventually roll up the entire desktop. This seems like a rather serious problem not to be fixed... Regards, David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.
Franki wrote: I'd love some tips,,, is this a question for the expert list? I suspect so, especially if you don't get any answer in the next 24 hours. I can't help you, I can spell DNS, I've read about it, but never set it up. Uuh, wait: Maybe I can help on squid -- it can save on total bandwidth if you call the same (static) pages multiple times. Most likely scenario is if you have a LAN with several users with similar interests. I say static pages but that's not absolutely necessary. The point is, the HTML headers, or squid, or something will recognize when the page should be considered out-of-date (expired) at which point a fresh page is fetched from the Internet. To state what I didn't quite say earlier, the bandwidth savings come from multiple views of the same (exact) page. If a page has headers that say it will expire in 30 minutes, you will save a lot of bandwidth if 50 users all call it within the same half hour, but you will save nothing if each view is, for example, 31 minutes apart. The other thing for those 50 users in the same half hour is that 49 of them will get very quick response, even if the LAN connection to the Internet is a dial up. The first caller will suffer the dial up slowness. Randy Kramer (-: === The Question === :-) Hi guys,, I have a question.. the only slow thing about this new ADSL setup is the dnslookups, it takes about 4 or 5 seconds when I enter a link before it starts loading.. (resolving dns.) I know that its possible to setup a dnscache for the local network. but I am not sure how to go about it. I ran the wizard for dns in the control center of 8.2 but I have no idea if its working.. is it supposed to be bind?? if I do a: service named status I get this message: rndc: connect failed: connection refused and thats as root. Does anyone know what I am talking about??? or what I can do to speed up the lookups? Also, is it worth setting up squid for the internal network? will it save me on total bandwidth for the month? (I am on a limit..) any tips would be much appreciated. regards Frank --- Name: message.footer Part 1.2 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: 7bit --- 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] Slow keys SOLVED
On Thu, 23 May 2002 16:56, David wrote: Michael Adams said onto me: -- |On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote: | On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: | Michael Adams wrote: | When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a | full second to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like [] | and [']. I am running KDE on a P3 500. Only some of the punctuation | keys are like this. Full stops, commas and even the square brackets | i just used are fine. If i am tapping at normal speed (i am not a | touch typist) the letter after gets missed as well. Anybody else | had this one? | | It's a bit of a pain because i have to remember to slow for those | keys. Then all of a sudden i have three of them. | | I dont mind a RTFM, just tell me which FM. | | How much memory does the machine have? can you tell if its swapping as | you type? | |Thanks for the reply Gerald. | |It not the memory thing. It may be to do with my choice of the |US(international) keyboard. All KDE apps wait to see what the next | character typed is and then place accents (grávès?) on the vowels. Nice | feature, but how do i turn it off! | |Michael -- K-menu | applications | configuration | other | Mandrake Control Center | hardware | keyboard This will let you choose your keyboard layout just as when you installed Mandrake. HTH Perfect, Thankyou David A trap for young players (MENTAL NOTE: US(international) keyboard doesn't mean New Zealand). Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SNF access
Title: RE: [newbie] SNF access Sorry, windows 2000 did it again. It doesn't seem to retain the plain text setting from boot up to boot up. My appologies for the html. Dennis m.(small m cause I feel a bit small for making this mistake again.HeHe) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:20 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] SNF access Hi all, it's me again. I have now determined that the problem with Single Network firewall is it is not talking to the LAN. I can not ping the SNF machine and It Cannot ping the other boxes. So the question is what editor does SNF use so I can look at say, Hosts.allowed or Hosts? It has to be something simple and/or stupid that I have done in the config to make it a destination unreachable. I have it listed in Hosts and Hosts.allowed on the other computers. Oh, it detects the 3Com nic and the netgear nic just fine. The light on the nics are on as well as the lights on the hub so juice is flowing. I can't see the forrest for the trees, any help is appreciated. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Am I back on???? (and a mini ADSL router question.)
I got a static IP address with this account.. I also have my own NS server on one of my other servers, and I have two domain names.. my posting troubles have ended forever. Incidently, does anyone know if there is a ADSL router like the Cisco 827 that can do full adsl routing, (as opposed to bridging) my ISP will not allow bridging, so if I want multiple IP's, I have to get a router that can do the job.. A Cisco is ridicously expensive so I was hoping there were cheaper alternatives.. has anyone dealt with this? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2002 2:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NEWBIE Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] Am I back on Franki wrote: Hi guys, Just got my ADSL tonight.. set up my linux box and my network.. and it all seems to work fine.. I have just resubscribed to the lists and I'm waiting to find out if I can post again.. I am gonna be sooo pissed if I can't.. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com heeheehee, list starvation drove me to DSL as well. well, next buy yourself a static IP and a domain name (they are cheap these days) and arrange that your ISP do DNS hosting for you, then configure postfix and never worry about depending on others for reverse resolution again. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.
thanks Mr Randy... I don't think squid is necessary in retrospect.. first of all, there are only currently 5 other systems on the network, and two of them are test servers that serve no other purpose but testing cgi scripts. (win2000 and linux) the others are workstations, and we have very different usage patterns, so squid would not be much help. a dns speedup would be great, so if there isn't an answer here by tomorrow, I guess I'll try the expert list.. I don't want a howto, just some tips, I tried STFW and RTFM but didn't find anything useful really.. I know how to setup bind already, just not a cache for local network. rgds Frank. -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2002 3:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache. Franki wrote: I'd love some tips,,, is this a question for the expert list? I suspect so, especially if you don't get any answer in the next 24 hours. I can't help you, I can spell DNS, I've read about it, but never set it up. Uuh, wait: Maybe I can help on squid -- it can save on total bandwidth if you call the same (static) pages multiple times. Most likely scenario is if you have a LAN with several users with similar interests. I say static pages but that's not absolutely necessary. The point is, the HTML headers, or squid, or something will recognize when the page should be considered out-of-date (expired) at which point a fresh page is fetched from the Internet. To state what I didn't quite say earlier, the bandwidth savings come from multiple views of the same (exact) page. If a page has headers that say it will expire in 30 minutes, you will save a lot of bandwidth if 50 users all call it within the same half hour, but you will save nothing if each view is, for example, 31 minutes apart. The other thing for those 50 users in the same half hour is that 49 of them will get very quick response, even if the LAN connection to the Internet is a dial up. The first caller will suffer the dial up slowness. Randy Kramer (-: === The Question === :-) Hi guys,, I have a question.. the only slow thing about this new ADSL setup is the dnslookups, it takes about 4 or 5 seconds when I enter a link before it starts loading.. (resolving dns.) I know that its possible to setup a dnscache for the local network. but I am not sure how to go about it. I ran the wizard for dns in the control center of 8.2 but I have no idea if its working.. is it supposed to be bind?? if I do a: service named status I get this message: rndc: connect failed: connection refused and thats as root. Does anyone know what I am talking about??? or what I can do to speed up the lookups? Also, is it worth setting up squid for the internal network? will it save me on total bandwidth for the month? (I am on a limit..) any tips would be much appreciated. regards Frank --- Name: message.footer Part 1.2 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: 7bit --- 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] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)
On Thu, 23 May 2002 02:09, darklord wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: Now in this article he's warning us about non-free software in other areas. My personal opinion is that although he seems rather extreme at times, it's merely because he's ahead of his time. These are problems that will come to pass either sooner or later if allowed to continue; it's just a matter of time. I was fortunate enough to hear RMS speak during the last Linux Lunacy cruise, and he is a very solid speaker, very convincing... I for one never knew until then that Linux was built using the GNU tools... I don't understand why Linus can't just say, (and thus credit) I used GNU to make the kernel, wouldn't have been able to do it without these tools AND I don't know why RMS can't say and Linus (successfully!) took it places that I never imagined Seems this would help bury the hatchet/feud whatever. Of course, I realise that this is probably over-simplification but...it would surely be a start. We do need unity, thats for sure... Just my 2 cents worth, as always. ;-) Hmmm... I think we need slightly smaller egos in those two, unity results in no competition and is ultimately counterproductive. My 2 cents NZD is worth 1 cent USD... LOL Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info
Title: RE: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info start looking at postfix.. if you don't need sendmail for a specific reason, and you don't know sendmail.. then postfix is for you. reasons.: 1. Postfix is really easy to setup and in most cases the defaults will get you most of the way there. 2. Postfix is the MTA choosen for Mandrake. its default and sendmail packages are not. 3. Postfix is great for using with stuff like amavisd mail virus scanning, much easier then compiling sendmail for support (see content_filter in postfix docs.) 4. Postfix is faster then sendmail. 5. Postfix is far more secure, can run in a chroot jail and has had far less exploits publishedabout it. 6.Postfix is perfectly backwards compatable with sendmail for cgi scripts and such and even includes a sendmail binary file for that reason and others. 7. Postfix is better for spam solutions. there are tons of them and they are easier to setup. 8. Postfix is far smaller in size then sendmail. 9. Postfix has very well commented config files, (main.cf and master.cf) 10 postfix.org has alot of excellent info and webmin has a postfix config section. If thats not enough reasons, I can think of others.. but load it off the mandrake CD's, and go look in /etc/postfix/main.cf its very well commented, just answer the questions, and when finished type: service postfix restart thats it, you now have a mail server. (not finsihed though, you need to seup your aliases,(if any) your virtual domains (if any) your cannonical redirections (if any) regards Frank -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWOSent: Thursday, 23 May 2002 2:04 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info Hi All, I am interested in setting up Sendmail on my linux machine to provide email for my domain. As I have never set this up I am interested in how to do this. Can anyone provide me with good websites that will help me, books, RTFM but tell which FM please. I did a search on Google and came back with like 40,000 hits. Thanks MIke Mike, start here HTH http://www.sendmail.org/
Re: OT: signatures WAS: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found
ha! never guessed that such an innoculous qn can generate a discussion that delves into physics. anyway, thanks for all the answers. :) - Original Message - From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:48 PM Subject: Re: OT: signatures WAS: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found Damian G said onto me: -- snip | |this 'resistance' that a given material offers when you try to make an electric current |run thru it depends on the length of the path that the electrons should take | snip | |p.s. i had a little trouble with my english this time so forgive any inaccuracies | that you may find. ;o) -- Damian, I'd like to say that your explanation is one of the best explanations that I have heard. Right on the money, and very easy to understand. But I wanna add something. The strength of the bond between the electrons and the atom (IIRC, proportional to the number of free electrons) is also a direct factor in determining resistance. e.g. 1 foot of rubber has exponentially more resistance than 1 foot of gold -- °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.5claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.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: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.
Franki wrote: thanks Mr Randy... You're welcome! Just to be clear, I've never set up squid either, but I have done a fair amount of reading on it -- I plan (hope?) to set up a squid server for use in a classroom environment with (intentionally) limited access to the Internet. We expect that most users will be calling up exactly the same pages, at just about the same time. And our squid will be cached -- we'll pre-download the pages that the students will have access to, possibly on a different computer. The classes are held in a church, I think we'd have some PR problems if the students downloaded the wrong pages. ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CheckInstall 1.5.1 on ML8.2
I got it working. Turns out that the RPM I installed from ML CD's was
causing the problem. I had to force removal of the broken RPM before
building the software from source. Now it's working fine.
Thanks for the help
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 03:29 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:28 am, David Johnson wrote:
Hello all,
I've been out of Linux for a while, but just got an extra machine to play
with again.
I've installed CheckInstall 1.5.1 from source per instructions. When I
run checkinstall, I get the following:
[root@timmy checkinstall-1.5.1]# /usr/bin/checkinstall -R
checkinstall 1.5.1, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
This software is released under the GNU GPL.
Installing with make install...
= Installation results
=== This script has not been installed
Please run make install
Installation failed. Aborting package creation.
Cleaning up...OK
Bye.
Does anyone have an idea what I've done wrong? I know that in past
versions, a minor change had to be made to the script after installation,
but this is different from what I remember in that instance...
Thanks
Well I'm using checkinstall 1.5.1 compiled from source like you, and I did
not have to tweak the script at all. (I agree it was necessary with
previous revs)
Looks like you are trying to make an rpm of checkinstall itself, so you
obviously have already done './configure and make'
When I use checkinstall I do not use the -R parameter, so maybe that could
be the issue?
The checkinstall-1.5.1-2mdk on the Mandrake 8.2 CD is broken, but there is
a checkinstall-1.5.1-3mdk in cooker you might like to try out.
HTH
derek
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Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info
As always Mandrake user is your friend http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/index.html#mtuw Having played with it recently I can vouch for Postfix being significantly easier to configure than sendmail. derek On Wednesday 22 May 2002 6:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am interested in setting up Sendmail on my linux machine to provide email for my domain. As I have never set this up I am interested in how to do this. Can anyone provide me with good websites that will help me, books, RTFM but tell which FM please. I did a search on Google and came back with like 40,000 hits. Thanks MIke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info
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RE: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.
hi !
i hope this can help you . it's a very simple simple cache that i used once and it
worked as far as i recall. you can download a file called root.hint from the
authoritive organisation in your country , mine is internic.se , and place it in
/var/named/
1. install bind9
2. copy the secret from your /etc/rndc.conf an creat named.conf in /etc/
my named.conf is as following. note that 10.0.0.1 should be replaced with your real ip
adress.
named.conf
--
acl my_net {10.0.0.1/;} ;
key rndc-key {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret a_combination_of_letters_and_numbers_u find_in_rndc.conf;
};
options {
directory /etc/namedb;//working directory
pid-file named.pid; //put pid file in working dir
allow-query { my_net; } ;
} ;
//root server hints
zone . { type hint; file root.hint;} ;
//provide a reverse mapping for the loopback adress 127.0.0.1
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file db.127.0.0.1;
notify no;
} ;
3. creat db.127.0.0.1 in /var/named/
edit db.127.0.0.1 to make it look like this
db.127.0.0.1
; db.127.0.0
$TTL 3h
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
2002040600 ;serial
3h ;refresh
1h ;retry
1w ;expire
1h) ;minimum
IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.
---
4. in console type service named start
5. pray to god that i might be right for once
goodluck
/Zeynal Bandari
Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi people,
I am bumping this email back to the top in the hopes that someone address's
it..
I'd love some tips,,, is this a question for the expert list?
rgds
Frank
(-: === The Question === :-)
Hi guys,,
I have a question.. the only slow thing about this new ADSL setup is the
dnslookups, it takes about 4 or 5 seconds when I enter a link before it
starts loading.. (resolving dns.)
I know that its possible to setup a dnscache for the local network. but I am
not sure how to go about it.
I ran the wizard for dns in the control center of 8.2 but I have no idea if
its working..
is it supposed to be bind?? if I do a: service named status
I get this message:
rndc: connect failed: connection refused
and thats as root.
Does anyone know what I am talking about??? or what I can do to speed up the
lookups?
Also, is it worth setting up squid for the internal network? will it save me
on total bandwidth for the month? (I am on a limit..)
any tips would be much appreciated.
regards
Frank
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Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 16:25, Tom Brinkman wrote: OTOH you're wrong (ie, 'more important things to do') I'd offer OpenOffice as opposed to StarOffice, 'nv' vs. 'nvidia' drivers as examples. OpenOffice only came into existence because Sun were enlightened enough to release the code of all the parts of star Office that weren't owned by other companies (e.g. Adabas). Thus one of the most impressive (in mainstream, end-user terms) Open Source apps has a closed-source background. It's possible that the NVIDIA drivers could eventually become Open Source, which would be good, because if we compare nv and nvidia, as you recommend, there is a simple difference: in 3D, nvidia works and nv doesn't. Unfortunately you're in the mainstream along with most of us. RS's delivery is often a turn off. I'd say it was half turn-on and half turn-off. The man's enthusiasm and idealism are infectious (I saw him here in Turkey and was impressed) but his dogmatism and bile are off-putting. Stallman is the Bakunin of software. the Same goes for Eric Raymond - he has some good ideas (notably about Lojban and Elvish) and some kooky ones (notably his good ol' gun-totin' pioneer spirit). However, PR disasters aside, perhaps it's good that we have such colourful and disparate personalities in the Open Source / Free Software movement, since then it can strike a chord with different people. We have Stallman, the hairy radical who appeals to the hippy element, Torvalds, the hygienic Scandinavian who goes down well with the technocrats, and Raymond to get us the NRA vote. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Brian: According to my notes, it's nspluginscan, not nsplugin. Then you'll have to close and reopen KDE. If all has gone well, the Netscape Plugins option will show up in the Konqueror configuration menu. However, I've found that those damn popups still appear on some sites. I'm not sure why, but I'm inclined to blame it on the HTML at the other end. Of course, I could be wrong on that. AFAIK, it's bad javascript. I wrote to the webmaster of a site that filled my desktop with twelve macromedia popups, and he fixed it the same day. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet Networking
Here is my problem as best I can define it. Running Mandrake Linux 8.2 Pro Suite Connected to a Linksys BEFR41 4 port router with a NAT firewall, DHCP Server (Running) When set up everything was fine and I could get to the internet. However, I was not able to log onto the local net and could not open a port on my router to the machine so that people could come in. I don't really understand the networks on Linux. How can I hook to the intranet and the internet through the Linksys Router? Help would be appreciated. John --- Sender: John P. ChambersBusiness: Discovery Center, Inc. Hm. Ph. (713) 465-4209 Bus. Ph.: (713) 963-0043 Texas Licenses:Fax Ph.: Same - CALL FIRST LMSW-ACP, LMFT, 6024 Fairdale LPC, LCDC Houston, Texas 77057 http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpc/ Main Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hounix, Inc. (Unix User Group) Houston, Texas Past President Virtual FoxPro User Group (VFUG) Public Relations Mgr. http://www.vfug.org/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AFP (Active FoxProPages) http://www.afpweb.com/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member HAL-PC BOD and FoxPro SIG Flunky http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpc Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Solution Group, MS Solution Providers --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.363 / Virus Database: 201 - Release Date: 5/21/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 18:44, Robin wrote: I'd say it was half turn-on and half turn-off. The man's enthusiasm and idealism are infectious (I saw him here in Turkey and was impressed) but his dogmatism and bile are off-putting. Stallman is the Bakunin of software. the Same goes for Eric Raymond - he has some good ideas (notably about Lojban and Elvish) and some kooky ones (notably his good ol' gun-totin' pioneer spirit). However, PR disasters aside, perhaps it's good that we have such colourful and disparate personalities in the Open Source / Free Software movement, since then it can strike a chord with different people. We have Stallman, the hairy radical who appeals to the hippy element, Torvalds, the hygienic Scandinavian who goes down well with the technocrats, and Raymond to get us the NRA vote. Sir Robin Looks like you got my kooky pioneer-spirit vote. ;) LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo vanishes
Boot off of CD1 and when the installer displays, type rescue (instead of doing an install or update). Once rescue mode loads, you should have an option to reinstall lilo. Select that and follow any prompts or directions. When done, you should be able to reboot and have lilo be the boot manager. Joe On Wed, 22 May 2002 15:52:58 +0100 Ian Brooksbank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 on th D drive of a compaq deskpro 2000 Pentium 166 with a standard Compaq P50 monitor, and in doing so my Windows 98 installation on the C drive suffered quite a bit. However I got Linux running, it worked just fine, and at Boot up Lilo would give me the choice of Linux or Windows. Fine for a while, but then, after an accidental disconnection of the machine, Lilo disappeared, and I could not get in to Linux. At boot up Windows 98 appears as if the D drive does not exist. I had to tweak Windows a bit to get it back to complete working form, as I need it for work and study, but I don't have access to my D: drive or to Linux. I took a look at rebooting Linux from the CD, but gave this up as the setup pretends that I have a bigger monitor than I actually have, and does not give me access to some crucial parts of the setup screens, and I did not want to risk screwing up my machine any further. Can anyone help me either to rescue Linux without further risk to my Windows 98 setup, or to get access to my D: drive from within Windows again?? Thanks Ian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] New Frozen Bubble and js question
Frozen Bubble 0.9.3 came out today, as far as I know... Does anyone know if you can emulate keystrokes somehow with a joystick? I REALLY want to play this game with my joystick. Thanks! -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Outlook is a petri dish. I don't know why anyone uses it. -- James Gosling, Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Heavy Gear II binaries.
I just spent a whole 4.95 on my windows copy of Heavy Gear II in the hopes that i'd be able to find binaries for the linux version of the game. But alas my search has produced nothing and i fear that my 4.95 has gone to waste. Can anyone help me out here, or am gonna have to reboot? KIRT -- Where'd you get your CPU? A box of Crackerjacks!? - Wierd Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:47 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Brian: According to my notes, it's nspluginscan, not nsplugin. Then you'll have to close and reopen KDE. If all has gone well, the Netscape Plugins option will show up in the Konqueror configuration menu. However, I've found that those damn popups still appear on some sites. I'm not sure why, but I'm inclined to blame it on the HTML at the other end. Of course, I could be wrong on that. AFAIK, it's bad javascript. I wrote to the webmaster of a site that filled my desktop with twelve macromedia popups, and he fixed it the same day. Sir Robin Sir Robin: Thanks. As I said, I wasn't too sure if it was me or them. In cases like that, I usually take the easy way out, and blame it on them. Your comment about writing to the webmaster is interesting. When I first started using the Net (six years ago), almost every site had a link to the webmaster; failing that, there would be something like Mail us, Comments, etc. Have you noticed that those links have pretty much vanished -- particularly on major commercial sites? Not a good trend. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.
thanks heaps, I'll give that a go...
I heard somewhere that djbdns has some sort of caching server as well, so I
might look into that too...
thanks again.
rgds
Frank
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2002 5:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.
hi !
i hope this can help you . it's a very simple simple cache that i used once
and it worked as far as i recall. you can download a file called root.hint
from the authoritive organisation in your country , mine is internic.se ,
and place it in /var/named/
1. install bind9
2. copy the secret from your /etc/rndc.conf an creat named.conf in /etc/
my named.conf is as following. note that 10.0.0.1 should be replaced with
your real ip adress.
named.conf
--
acl my_net {10.0.0.1/;} ;
key rndc-key {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret a_combination_of_letters_and_numbers_u find_in_rndc.conf;
};
options {
directory /etc/namedb;//working directory
pid-file named.pid; //put pid file in working dir
allow-query { my_net; } ;
} ;
//root server hints
zone . { type hint; file root.hint;} ;
//provide a reverse mapping for the loopback adress 127.0.0.1
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file db.127.0.0.1;
notify no;
} ;
3. creat db.127.0.0.1 in /var/named/
edit db.127.0.0.1 to make it look like this
db.127.0.0.1
; db.127.0.0
$TTL 3h
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
2002040600 ;serial
3h ;refresh
1h ;retry
1w ;expire
1h) ;minimum
IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.
---
4. in console type service named start
5. pray to god that i might be right for once
goodluck
/Zeynal Bandari
Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi people,
I am bumping this email back to the top in the hopes that someone address's
it..
I'd love some tips,,, is this a question for the expert list?
rgds
Frank
(-: === The Question === :-)
Hi guys,,
I have a question.. the only slow thing about this new ADSL setup is the
dnslookups, it takes about 4 or 5 seconds when I enter a link before it
starts loading.. (resolving dns.)
I know that its possible to setup a dnscache for the local network. but I
am
not sure how to go about it.
I ran the wizard for dns in the control center of 8.2 but I have no idea if
its working..
is it supposed to be bind?? if I do a: service named status
I get this message:
rndc: connect failed: connection refused
and thats as root.
Does anyone know what I am talking about??? or what I can do to speed up
the
lookups?
Also, is it worth setting up squid for the internal network? will it save
me
on total bandwidth for the month? (I am on a limit..)
any tips would be much appreciated.
regards
Frank
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Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Jim Dawson wrote: I suspect that it may be the security level that LM is configured for. -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 May 2002 15:29:26 +1000 Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 03:24, Jim Dawson wrote: I think I found the problem with StarOffice crashing on saves. It seems that the default configuration specifies directories that either don't exist or I don't have rights to. I changed all the directories (particularly the temp and backup directories) to directories that I have rights to and it seems to work fine now. Sounds like you've found the problem Jim. I might install SO again and give it a try, although what I can't understand is that it worked fine when I first installed and for at least a few days of regular use. Once the can't save crash started though it wouldn't save anything. Makes me a little dubious if the default install can expose the user to that kind of garbage! ...and OpenOffice seems to do everything that SO does from what I've seen so far. Anyway, for the hell of it, I'll reinstall and have a look at all those directories it references before trying to open anything. Dimitris sent me a script to fix up some fonts problems which may also help, but I suspect that's not THE problem causing the crashes. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a solution to the problem. This attitude will be the downfall of Linux!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem Installation Help
I just got a copy of mandrake 8.2 and it says my modem is a winmodem (PCTel HSP56 Micromodem) and will not install it. I have the linux driver for my modem but I don't know how to install it. I'm very new to linux cans omeone please help me out? Derek
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:44 pm, Dick Mazierski opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a solution to the problem. This attitude will be the downfall of Linux!!! they did, it is called openoffice, and is on your 8.2 cds :) -- There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't. 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] VPN Connection
Thanks for you help setting it up was not that hard. i was just overlooking 1 routing table. Thanks for your help. Bill Nash Message__ BestRegards, William R. Nash. Consultant Century Solutions Group, INC. Tel: 770-420-5546 Cell: 678-910-4505 Fax: 770-420-3376 Web: www.Century Group - Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] VPN Connection http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO.html On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 21:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at setting a VPN also so i could use my server resource like printer and connect to my PIM. Bill VPN = Virtual Private Network, i.e. one based on PPTP or L2TP protocols. It allows you to create a secure tunnel (i.e. encrypted) through an unsecure medium (the internet, for example). VNC = Virtual Network Computing, as you say, is a tool that only allows a remote display. I guess Bill wants to avoid FTP since it is insecure. That said, I don't know how to set up a VPN :-( raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, VNC isn't really for transferring files--it's for using a computer remotely. I think what you need to do is run a FTP server on your Linux box. Miark William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Hello, I would like to set up a VPN so I can connect to my computer from work. This is what I have . I have a laptop with windows XP that I take to work. I need to be able to connect Via VPN so I can get some files from my Linux mandrake 8.0 server at home. I do not how to set up a VPN to allow windows users to connect. any help thanks Bill Nash. Bill Nash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Heavy Gear II binaries.
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 21:11, Kirtis B wrote: I just spent a whole 4.95 on my windows copy of Heavy Gear II in the hopes that i'd be able to find binaries for the linux version of the game. But alas my search has produced nothing and i fear that my 4.95 has gone to waste. Can anyone help me out here, or am gonna have to reboot? KIRT Have you tried Transgaming Winex? LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 on ATI 8500DV?
Hi Guys, I'm wondering if anyone has installed 8.2 on a computer using the 8500DV video card? I just tried installing a few minutes ago and it passed the inspecting serial devices stage, went to go graphical, then just a black screen. I know my monitor can do the resolution it's asking for, so I'm wondering if anyone else has managed to install w/ this video card. NB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] re: java runtime environment
could you simply paste the contents of your text file into a mail message, because whenever I try to download it Hotmail send me into an endless loop of re-entering my password. From: Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Kovary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] re: java runtime environment Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:38:47 -0500 message1.txt _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 on ATI 8500DV?
Nelson Bartley wrote: Hi Guys, I'm wondering if anyone has installed 8.2 on a computer using the 8500DV video card? I just tried installing a few minutes ago and it passed the inspecting serial devices stage, went to go graphical, then just a black screen. I know my monitor can do the resolution it's asking for, so I'm wondering if anyone else has managed to install w/ this video card. Sometimes, you have to run the install of the xfree86 ( Xconfiguration part ) twice. on two card I have I had to do that for both. also try the 3x version not the 4x first do it twice . additionally , don't test the resolution configuration. skip that part. then see what happens. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] java runtime environment
Allright. After copying the file into the mozilla plugins directory, both mozilla and galeon completely crash and exit whenever I try opening a page with java. I've also tried symlinking to the files, and they don't crash but want me to install it. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 08:58 pm, you wrote: I just got a copy of mandrake 8.2 and it says my modem is a winmodem (PCTel HSP56 Micromodem) and will not install it. I have the linux driver for my modem but I don't know how to install it. I'm very new to linux cans omeone please help me out? Derek Hi Derek, what form is the driver in? a .tar.gz file, an .rpm gzip or other? It shouldn't be too tough once you provide a little more info. The list can help. We are the List, giving up is futile. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help
Maybe I am missing some of the files i gotit off a "bobo"(lol) site where did you get yours?
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help
Its in .c format so i did a make and itsaidihave to edit the "makefile" and I have no idea what to edit in it.
Re: [newbie] 8.2 on ATI 8500DV?
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 08:10 pm, Nelson Bartley opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I'm wondering if anyone has installed 8.2 on a computer using the 8500DV video card? I just tried installing a few minutes ago and it passed the inspecting serial devices stage, went to go graphical, then just a black screen. I know my monitor can do the resolution it's asking for, so I'm wondering if anyone else has managed to install w/ this video card. while i don't have that card, i have 3 other ATI cards and i have found that sometimes it is better to simply not test your display with ATI, everything seems to work anyway -- Microsoft claims 92% of all PCs have windows installed. I have learned that being outnumbered doesn't always mean you're wrong. There are more cockroaches than humans, but it doesn't make them a higher life-form. 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
