[newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd
Ciao, un amico mi ha inviato alcuni file, presumo scannerizzati, con estensione .awd. Se provo ad aprirli si avvia openoffice writer ma senza riuscire a visualizzare nulla tant'è che dopo pochi secondi si spegne. Ho provato altri programmi ma senza trovare quello giusto. Qualcuno ha qualche consiglio su come visualizzarli? Grazie in anticipo della risposta ku68
Re: [newbie-it] Dove si trovano le mail spedite/ricevute con kmail/knode?
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:26:23 +0200 Subject : [newbie- it] Dove si trovano le mail spedite/ricevute con kmail/knode? Scusate vorrei sapere dove trovare in futuro le mail/msg che ricevo/s pedisco per poterli salvare all'occorrenza su cdrom. Non riesco a trovarli. Qualcuno mi può aiutare? Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale risposta ku68 Se non sbaglio ci dovrebbe essere una cartella .Mail nella home directory dell'utente. (in questo momento sono sotto la macchina Unix e non posso essere più preciso). Saluti Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.iol.it/mlodirizzini (o_ Membro del FoLUG //\ Forlì Linux Users Group V_/_ http://folug.linux.it Linux Mandrake 8.2 su Celeron 733
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd
On Fri, 24 May 2002 08:25:41 +0200 ku68 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, un amico mi ha inviato alcuni file, presumo scannerizzati, con estensione .awd. Se provo ad aprirli si avvia openoffice writer ma senza riuscire a visualizzare nulla tant'è che dopo pochi secondi si spegne. Ho provato altri programmi ma senza trovare quello giusto. Qualcuno ha qualche consiglio su come visualizzarli? Procedura generale: per prima cosa lancia $ file nome-tuo-file.awd per vedere se ti riconosce in che razza di formato è scritto. Poi, vai su freshmeat.net, metti come chiave di ricerca il nome del formato e vedi se ti dà qualche pacchetto in grado di leggerlo. Comunque, nel caso specifico, visto che ti aspetti un file grafico, prova con i vari gimp, gqview, xnview, ... ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] JVM
Scusate la domanda che probabilmente è stata fatta e rifatta, ma pur scaricando la jvm con mozilla (cioè il plug-in per netscape ... sempre Gecko è ...) non riesco a visualizzare le varie applett :( A dir la verità non riesco proprio a trovare i file scaricati, non ho idea di dove me li abbia scaricati. Qualcuno sa come risolvere? Il plugin dovrebbe essere la java virtual machine se non erro ma pur cercando con locate il pacchetto non si trova: sarà che sono inesperto di Mdk... Grazie dell'attenzione: ciao, Nicholas -- Perhaps the most important achievement of Unix is to demonstrate that a powerful operating system for interactive use need not be expensive either in equipment or in human effort: it can run on hardware costing as little as $40,000, and less than two man-years were spent on the main system software. We hope, however, that users find that the most important characteristics of the system are its simplicity, elegance, and ease of use. The UNIX Time-sharing System* (1974) D.M. Ritchie and K. Thompson
Re: [newbie-it] JVM
Se non erro dovrebbe essere in qualche cartella in /usr/lib/mozilla. se non sbaglio lib/jre o comunque ci dovrebbe essere la cartella jre. Ciao ENx Nicholas Wieland ha scritto: Scusate la domanda che probabilmente è stata fatta e rifatta, ma pur scaricando la jvm con mozilla (cioè il plug-in per netscape ... sempre Gecko è ...) non riesco a visualizzare le varie applett :( A dir la verità non riesco proprio a trovare i file scaricati, non ho idea di dove me li abbia scaricati. Qualcuno sa come risolvere? Il plugin dovrebbe essere la java virtual machine se non erro ma pur cercando con locate il pacchetto non si trova: sarà che sono inesperto di Mdk... Grazie dell'attenzione: ciao, Nicholas
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd
Ciao Andrea Celli alle 12:33, venerdì 24 maggio 2002, hai scritto: cut Procedura generale: per prima cosa lancia $ file nome-tuo-file.awd per vedere se ti riconosce in che razza di formato è scritto. copio e incollo busta.awd: Microsoft Office Document L'ho salvato e se ci passo sopra col cursore viene visualizzato documento microsoft word. Mah! Poi, vai su freshmeat.net, metti come chiave di ricerca il nome del formato e vedi se ti dà qualche pacchetto in grado di leggerlo. Ci farò un salto sperando di capirci qualcosa Comunque, nel caso specifico, visto che ti aspetti un file grafico, prova con i vari gimp, gimp non lo apre non riconosce il formato gqview, xnview, ... non credo di averli installati ciao e grazie ku68
[newbie-it] Fwd: bancoposta imprese
Scusate l'O.T. questa è la mail che ho spedito alle Poste..fatelo anche voi! -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: bancoposta imprese Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:37:44 +0200 From: la mia ditta To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Salve, siamo una società che ha appena aperto il conto bancoposta per poter usufruire dei servizi online. Abbiamo provato ad accedere alla pagina relativa al pagamento dei bollettini ma dopo avere accettato il nome utente e la password la pagina successiva veniva visualizzata solo in parte, in particolare manca il menù di sinistra. Abbiamo contattato un Vs tecnico che ci ha detto che il problema consiste nel nostro browser, in pratica l'unico browser supportato è internet explore della Microsoft e, forse, netscape x windows. Vi ricordiamo che windows è un sistema operativo proprietario cioè per averlo bisogna pagare e francamente ci sembra poco limpido che un ente come il Vostro costringa i propri utenti a comprarsi un sistema operativo per accedere a dei servizi che dovrebbero essere fruibili da tutti. A titolo informativo Vi facciamo presente che siamo migrati su Linux perchè con windows avevamo continui problemi di instabilità e l'accesso ad intenet comportava dei rischi enormi di esposizione della nostra rete aziendale. la maggior parte dei server web (forse anche il Vostro) sono appunto Linux Apache. La quasi totalità dei siti internet supporta tutti i browser, noi accediamo a molti servizi telematici senza particolari difficoltà. Ci vediamo pertanto costretti a chiudere il conto accesso presso di Voi mantenendo la speranza che nel futuro tutti gli utenti possano accedere ai Vostri servizi indipendentemente da chi comprano (se lo comprano) il loro sistema operativo. Distinti saluti Max c' era firma ;-) --- -- ^^^ .-. /v\ Max /( )\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ ^^
[newbie-it] Browser e amministrazioni pubbliche.......che rabbia!
Salve, temp fa chiesi aiuto perche il sito dell' ANAS funziona solo con internet explorer di winzozz, con un giro lungo alla fine si riesce a bypassare il problema. Il punto è che una pubblica amministrazione per erogare dei servizi non deve costringere gli utenti a comprare un sistema particolare operativo. Tralaltro visti i trascorsi (mani pulite) si potrebbe anche sospettare che costringendo la gente a comprare da un unico fornitore possa portare a quel tipo di illeciti che tutti conosciamo. Bene, anzi, male! Ora anche le poste italiane per erogare servizi dal loro sito (bancoposta imprese) come pagamento bollettini, ecc. ecc. ti constringono ad usare internet explorer. Ho telefonato anticipando che avrei chiuso il conto e la risposta è stata di cercare di installare explorer 5.5 in linux No comment! Mandiamo 10.000 email di protesta, mi hanno detto che qualcuno stà già reclamando. max -- ^^^ .-. /v\ Max /( )\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ ^^
Re: [newbie-it] Map-Installer
LukenShiro wrote: Il 23.05.02 alle 23:32, il notabile Giuseppe Ferruzzi proferi' codeste parole: questo comportamento anomalo centra con il fatto che hdb1 è formattato con NTFS e che l'hard disk per la FAT32 è da 60GB ? Hmm, no, nel primo caso perche' non avrebbe senso, nel secondo perche' nell'ipotesi piu' disperata (problemi di riconoscimento da parte del BIOS) non sarebbe proprio visto l'intero disco ... Tuttavia anche questo non è servito a niente... All'avvio di XP con Lilo, hdb2 ritorna dinuovo nascosta. A questo punto ti consiglierei di installare e attivare grub. Non e' difficile, non da' questi problemi e non deve essere reinstallato nel MBR se cambi il file di configurazione relativo. Ha un consistente manualetto di istruzioni (con 'info grub') Ho installato grub e visionato le info. Non l'ho ancora attivato, appena avrò letto bene le istruzioni lo farò. Ciao e grazie di tutto. :-)
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd
On Fri, 24 May 2002 12:49:27 +0200 ku68 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao Andrea Celli alle 12:33, venerdì 24 maggio 2002, hai scritto: cut Procedura generale: per prima cosa lancia $ file nome-tuo-file.awd per vedere se ti riconosce in che razza di formato è scritto. copio e incollo busta.awd: Microsoft Office Document Una rapida ricerca su google di awd format mi ha dato: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part3/section-15.html A questo punto cerca tra i pacchetti tipo klprfax, ..., *fax*, ... gqview, xnview, ... non credo di averli installati il primo è un buon visualizzatore di immagini. Il secondo permette anche di manipolarle un po'. Più completo di ee, gqview kuickview nella visualizzazione. Più limitato di gimp nell'elaborazione. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] Perch s'impianta?
Ciao, oggi linux fa' i capricci. Apro la cartella home e si impianta apro linuxconf e si impianta il tutto 6/7 volte nell'arco di 20 minuti (sia con kde che gnome)da cosa potrà dipendere? Ho trovato che in linuxconf - configurazione - varie nei parametri del kernel ci sono questi dati: memoria condivisa default e nel campo c'è 32 max file aperti 8192 max processes 3070 Questi parametri c'entrano qualcosa con i continui crash? La memoria ram è 256. Lo devo impostare nella memoria condivisa? Avevo letto, se non sbaglio, che linux permette di trovare le cause di crash grazie ad una specie di backup interno (journaling?) come potrei fare a recuperare questi dati per poterli mostrare (ad es copiandoli in una mail) a qualche anima pia? Ho mdk 8.2 Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale aiuto ku68
Re: [newbie-it] Dove si trovano le mail spedite/ricevute con kmail/knode?
nella directory $HOME/Mail Il 08:26, venerdì 24 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Scusate vorrei sapere dove trovare in futuro le mail/msg che ricevo/spedisco per poterli salvare all'occorrenza su cdrom. Non riesco a trovarli. Qualcuno mi può aiutare? Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale risposta ku68
Re: [newbie-it] Perché s'impianta?
- Original Message - From: ku68 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:12 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Perché s'impianta? Ciao, oggi linux fa' i capricci. Apro la cartella home e si impianta apro linuxconf e si impianta il tutto 6/7 volte nell'arco di 20 minuti (sia con kde che gnome)da cosa potrà dipendere? Ho trovato che in linuxconf - configurazione - varie nei parametri del kernel ci sono questi dati: memoria condivisa default e nel campo c'è 32 max file aperti 8192 max processes 3070 Questi parametri c'entrano qualcosa con i continui crash? La memoria ram è 256. Lo devo impostare nella memoria condivisa? Avevo letto, se non sbaglio, che linux permette di trovare le cause di crash grazie ad una specie di backup interno (journaling?) come potrei fare a recuperare questi dati per poterli mostrare (ad es copiandoli in una mail) a qualche anima pia? Ho mdk 8.2 Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale aiuto ku68 io sono tornato a mdk 8.1, ha meno problemi e mdk 8.2 non riconosce la macchina fotografica digitale agfa cl18
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi (grossi) con X
On Thursday 23 May 2002 22:30, pdv, talkin' about [newbie-it] Problemi (grossi) con X wrote: Il sistema riesce pero' a scrivere un log? prova a guardare se c'e' (e cosa c'e' dentro) /var/log/XFree86.0.log bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd
On Friday 24 May 2002 06:49, ku68, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd wrote: busta.awd: Microsoft Office Document L'ho salvato e se ci passo sopra col cursore viene visualizzato documento microsoft word. Mah! perche' probabilmente riconosce l'header del file come qualcosa Microsoft. potrebbe/dovrebbe essere Microsoft Fax At Work Document Extension: AWD Version: Compression: Color Depth: Maintainer: Microsoft Corporation Specification: AWD is an OLE compound object file that stores bilevel facsimile data. The compression algorithm used by AWD is not published, but it is based on CCITT Group 4. The format of OLE compound object files also seems not to be published, but there much OLE information available: http://www.microsoft.com/oledev/oleocx/ole11.htm OLE Control and Control Container Guidelines, Version 1.1 ma cosa dovrebbe essere? gqview, xnview, ... non credo di averli installati beh, l'xnview prendilo, non sara' bellissimo, ma e' piu' veloce (o quasi) dell'Acdsee. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
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[newbie-it] R: [newbie-it] Perch s'impianta?
-Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di ku68 Inviato: venerdì 24 maggio 2002 15.13 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Perché s'impianta? Ciao, oggi linux fa' i capricci. Apro la cartella home e si impianta apro linuxconf e si impianta il tutto 6/7 volte nell'arco di 20 minuti (sia con kde che gnome)da cosa potrà dipendere? Ho trovato che in linuxconf - configurazione - varie nei parametri del kernel ci sono questi dati: memoria condivisa default e nel campo c'è 32 max file aperti 8192 max processes 3070 Questi parametri c'entrano qualcosa con i continui crash? La memoria ram è 256. Lo devo impostare nella memoria condivisa? Avevo letto, se non sbaglio, che linux permette di trovare le cause di crash grazie ad una specie di backup interno (journaling?) come potrei fare a recuperare questi dati per poterli mostrare (ad es copiandoli in una mail) a qualche anima pia? Ho mdk 8.2 Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale aiuto ku68
[newbie-it] R: [newbie-it] Perch s'impianta?
Non so se c'entra, ma a me succedeva lo stesso nel momento in cui ho aggiunto un banco di memoria da 128 M. Nel mio caso la memoria aggiunta o non era compatibile o non funzionava bene; levatala, tutto è filato liscio come l'olio. Guarda se per caso un tuo banco di memoria non si sia guastato, nel senso che ha un funzionamento non sempre corretto. Ciao Ferdinando -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di ku68 Inviato: venerdì 24 maggio 2002 15.13 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Perché s'impianta? Ciao, oggi linux fa' i capricci. Apro la cartella home e si impianta apro linuxconf e si impianta il tutto 6/7 volte nell'arco di 20 minuti (sia con kde che gnome)da cosa potrà dipendere? Ho trovato che in linuxconf - configurazione - varie nei parametri del kernel ci sono questi dati: memoria condivisa default e nel campo c'è 32 max file aperti 8192 max processes 3070 Questi parametri c'entrano qualcosa con i continui crash? La memoria ram è 256. Lo devo impostare nella memoria condivisa? Avevo letto, se non sbaglio, che linux permette di trovare le cause di crash grazie ad una specie di backup interno (journaling?) come potrei fare a recuperare questi dati per poterli mostrare (ad es copiandoli in una mail) a qualche anima pia? Ho mdk 8.2 Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale aiuto ku68
Re: [newbie-it] Perch s'impianta?
Il 24.05.02 alle 15:12, il notabile ku68 proferi' codeste parole: Ciao, oggi linux fa' i capricci. Apro la cartella home e si impianta apro linuxconf e si impianta il tutto 6/7 volte nell'arco di 20 minuti (sia con kde che gnome)da cosa potrà dipendere? Ma per si impianta intendi che va in stallo tutto il sistema o va in crash sistematicamente solo il programma che stai usando? Nel primo caso puoi escludere che sia un problema di surriscaldamento? (guarda se le ventoline nel case e sulla cpu sono funzionanti) Nel secondo avvia quel programma dalla console in modo da avere piu' dati. Ho trovato che in linuxconf - configurazione - varie nei parametri del kernel ci sono questi dati: memoria condivisa default e nel campo c'è 32 max file aperti 8192 max processes 3070 Questi parametri c'entrano qualcosa con i continui crash? La memoria ram è 256. Lo devo impostare nella memoria condivisa? Direi che non c'entrano niente, meglio non toccare nulla di quelle impostazioni. Tutt'al piu' ti converrebbe verificare con un apposito programma di non avere memoria anche in parte bacata (in linux, p.es. c'e' memtest; altrimenti ce ne sono diversi in winz) Avevo letto, se non sbaglio, che linux permette di trovare le cause di crash grazie ad una specie di backup interno (journaling?) come potrei fare a recuperare questi dati per poterli mostrare (ad es copiandoli in una mail) a qualche anima pia? Ehm ... no. Le funzionalita' di journaling permettono solo limitare le perdite di dati in caso di non perfetto smontaggio in sede di chiusura, recuperando gli 'orfani' :) Nel tuo caso bisognerebbe provare a dare uno sguardo ai log di sistema, per es. in /var/log/messages, ma dubito che in questo caso serva a qualcosa. -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - 2.4.18-puro Slackware-current (azz, che fatica :P)
Re: [newbie-it] Condividere la connessione ad internet
Il mar, 2002-05-21 alle 09:56, Andrea Celli ha scritto: On Wed, 22 May 2002 22:15:30 +0200 Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 22:17, lunedì 20 maggio 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Salve a tutti! Mi hanno consegnato ilpacco Alice-senza la ragazza ovviamente- Ehm... non è molto IT, ma potresti togliermi una curiosità? Come ti è arrivato il pacco? Voglio dire, te l'hanno lasciato incustodito, alla mercè di chiunque, fuori dalla porta, anche se eri in casa, comè successo a Vieri?! ^_^ se avevi chiesto esplicitamente un Alcatel, telefonare a Telecom e fartelo sostituire. Tra l'altro, Alice (soprattutto senza ragazza) non mi sembra questo mostro di convenienza. :) In effetti ho notato che non tutti fanno caso al fatto che la cifra esposta durante lo spot televisivo comprende sole 20 ore di connessione al mese... Attualmente l'ADSL è arrivato a circa 6 km da casa mia; a questo punto m'interesserebbe sapere da chi già ne fa uso se alla fine dei conti ne valga davvero la pena... Corrado
Re: [newbie] Console Emulators
I don't remember off-hand where to find it, but if I'm not mistaken, ZSNES comes for Linux. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Console Emulators
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:34, Brian Koppe wrote: I don't remember off-hand where to find it, but if I'm not mistaken, ZSNES comes for Linux. HTH Brian Check out http://plf.zarb.org/ You'll find a whole bunch emulator RPM made for Mandrake. -- /curtis Mandrake Linux 8.3 (cooker) Kernel Version 2.4.18-16mdk Uptime 3 days 8 hours 45 minutes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
AW: [newbie] Console Emulators
of course here ! http://www.zsnes.com/ :)) for m$ , linux and dos :))) ! --- ... if i have read Plato!? I knew him personnaly! --Nosferatu -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Brian Koppe Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Mai 2002 08:35 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [newbie] Console Emulators I don't remember off-hand where to find it, but if I'm not mistaken, ZSNES comes for Linux. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Console Emulators
On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:15 pm, you wrote: Is there any way I can find gaming console emulators for Linux? snip http://linuxemu.retrofaction.com/ has lots of good emulators, from playstation to genesis drwhat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
Brian Koppe wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Ummm, Miark, in august 1999, cryptonym corporation was examining a Service pack release of NT4 from which microsoft had inadvertantly forgotten to strip the data tags. Civileme snip Since the NSA is able to spy on citizens by virtue of the NSA backdoor so thoughtfully provided by M$, would this not be an excellent reason for the government to maintain an ongoing business relationship with M$? snip LX Do either of you have sources to back this up? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, Brian it was all over the internet news, including the Register, August 1999. And you can still find the story at www.cryptonym.com where they exvaluated the security danger from it as nothing abnormal, since the only reason the NSA would want such a key is to save a little time. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dynamic DNS
Now that I finally have an always on ADSL and a 24/7 server attached to it, it would seem to make sense to setup a website and e-mail server. The ADSL uses DHCP of course, so I will need to use a service such as dyndns. I have taken a look at their site and would like to request any experiences / recommendations from the list. I have already registered a domain some time back, so I am after a solution which maps my addy of today with this domain name. From a cursory look at dyndns, it seems that I could be myname.something.com, but that the something bit is predefined. I really want to be www.clicknowconsulting.com.au that's the domain I own. Is this possible with a dynamic service, or are they limited to their own domain space? This may well be a stupid question of course, but as I don't really understand how they work... Anyway, all suggestions much appreciated as always. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPMFind.net down?
I haven't got through sucessfully for ages. Anybody know what's happening there? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMail Attachments
What the... KMail allows three choices for attachments: None (8-bit) Base 64 Quoted Printable Two seem to want to send a few bytes of something. And from what help says it seems Base 64 relates to PGP encryption. I just want to hook a OO.o .doc file to an e-mail to send to the head tutor without embarrassing myself again. How? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
AW: [newbie] RPMFind.net down?
works for me ... ! problem with your connection ? --- ... if i have read Plato!? I knew him personnaly! --Nosferatu -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Michael Adams Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Mai 2002 11:12 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [newbie] RPMFind.net down? I haven't got through sucessfully for ages. Anybody know what's happening there? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMFind.net down?
On Friday 24 May 2002 04:12 am, Michael Adams wrote: I haven't got through sucessfully for ages. Anybody know what's happening there? I can report that it works fine from here. Have you tried the french mirror? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMFind.net down?
On Friday 24 May 2002 05:12 am, Michael Adams wrote: I haven't got through sucessfully for ages. Anybody know what's happening there? http://rpmfind.net comes up here. -- 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] A Qestion of Memory
John Richard Smith wrote: It is reasonable to suspect memory -- I guess the 21 seconds to load the existing data (and 280 days) gives us a hint that there is a large amount of data involved, but it's only a hint -- I think we need to know a little more: I still don't really have an idea how much data you have in each spreadsheet -- here's a list of what I think I know and what I don't know: * You have multiple spreadsheets, each in its own file * Each spreadsheet has: * 12 columns of data about one stock -- I'm guessing one or two columns contain something like the date and time, the other 10 or 11 columns contain numbers. Is each column filled for each row? * An unknown number of rows -- how many rows total for 280 days? How many rows added per day? I don't know how eazy it is to transfer data collated from say kspread to say gnumeric, or what ever, and if I have to start from scratch that is a decision not taken lightly. There should be features to help such a transfer -- Excel and Lotus have them, not sure about Gnumeric and Kspread. It's probably not to be taken lightly, except maybe one or two spreadsheets on a trial basis. I'm wondering if there is something about Kspread that uses much more space than Gnumeric/Excel/Lotus for similar amounts of data, or do you just have a very large amount of data? I think LM8.2 has it as standard issue, correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe I ought to install it and find out what it is about. This would be a good thing to do if you are interested, but I suspect we should concentrate on the spreadsheet issue first. PS, I did a KDE Control Center - info - memory nice visuals on memory, Loaded kspread , loaded a file and when finised and before doing anything with it it said :- Total free + swap = 65% uased = 31% Physical used +shared = 47% buffer= 24% cashed = 22% total 94% virtual free swap = 95% Looks as though I'm about out of physical memory. Don't it ? I don't know -- I always have trouble interpreting Linux memory usage statistics, particularly with the party line unused memory is wasted, etc. If you really want to check on memory usage, I'd suggest you: * reboot * run free from a command line before you start anything (or most anything) else -- record the numbers * start kspread, run free, record the numbers * open one of your spreadsheets, run free, record the numbers Post the numbers here. Do you typically open multiple spreadsheets at the same time, or do you open one, do your thing, and close it before opening the next? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] kde3 taskbar wont work (SOLVED)
Thanks to all who have responded to this. I solved it (I guess) by installing 3.0.1 last night I find it strange though that 3.0 ran flawlessly (as far as it goes) since the install, and yes I do have 2.2 installed as well. Then just one day due to a lockup, this happens. One question though: If I deleted my .kde, and .kderc files shouldn't it have worked as it did upon fresh install on my 8.1 box Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Joseph Braddock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] kde3 taskbar wont work That would be correct, the problem is some conflict between KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0. I don't recall the specifics, but deleting the konsole icon and recreating will fix it. If you don't have 2.2.2 installed, then you won't have the problem. Check Mandrake's web site for more info. Joe I wasn't aware that it is known bug (writes note: must check Mandrakes web page more often) Your solution is almost the same as mine but I dragged from the menu to the desktop edited the new desktop icon and then dragged it to the taskbar, I like to be different :-) However, (and again this might be known, I haven't checked) I have found that when I did an install without Kde 2.2.2 and then installed Kde 3.0 afterwards taskbar icons worked properly and no --noxft errror, so it appears to be an issue between 2.2.2 3.0 -- Poogle. Derby,England Linux MDK 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6 mdk using Kmail 1.4 6:56pm up 54 min, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networki ng
Title: RE: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networking -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Tu Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networking Hi, I'm new to Linux and I love its potential. Anyway, my questions are about establishing a dialup connection to my ISP with Mandrake 8.2. 1. I have a Dell Latitude notebook with a 3com mini-PCI modem (and ethernet, in fact). According to Dell techs, this is a hardware modem, but I couldn't find the model number in the hardware lists. The following is the relevant part of cat /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 16, function 1: Communication controller: PCI device 10b7:1007 (3Com Corporation) (rev 16). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=5. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3ffd400 [0xf3ffd4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3ffd000 [0xf3ffd07f]. So, is this really a hardware modem? 2. If so, how do I test that /dev/modem is set up right? I've read about kppp or minicom, but I can't find these utilities on my system. 3. During install, Mandrake asked for my ISP's phone number, etc. But now, I cannot see any files in /etc/ppp/peers. For system administration, is there a text/console equivalent to the GUI dial-up setup? Of course, there's always the several config files, but I was looking for a shortcut :-) Thanks. Alan Can't answer the question on whether it is a hardware modem, but for text config you can use wvdial. It is quick and seems very stable. The other alternative I use is the Internet connection icon on the KDE desktop. HTH Dennis M.
[newbie] SNF 7.2
Hi Guys Girls, I have just downloaded the Mandrake Singal Network Firewall 7.2 could anyone tell me where I could get some documentation for this OS . I intend to use it for a Internet Cafe to share the ADSL connection and act as a proxy to minimize outgoing bandwidth. a poke in the right direction would be appreciated . I have looked on the Mandrake site but I could not find anything specific to SNF. If anyone has any experience (good or bad) with SNF ,that info would also be much appreciated. cheers and thanks in advance. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2
Erm... dunno I dislike ever using --force because nothing good ever seems to result. I guess the simplest way to install 3.0.1 would be urpmi in your 3.0.1 download directory. Then all the dependencies ought to get sorted out. Personally I will wait for RPMs to install in /opt . I do not want to delete KDE2.2.2 until I am sure KDE3.0.1 is OK, and there are no issues with other applications depending on KDE2.2.2 for their operation. derek On Friday 24 May 2002 1:30 pm, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: So are you saying it is safe to rpm -e all the 3.0 files? I noticed that a rpm -ivh wouldn't work due to 2.2 conflicts so I did a rpm -ivh --replacefiles and for the most part all was fine. I still get caught in the libarts catch 22 where they each want to see the other installed. So a --nodeps --force works Kdevelop needed a couple of things installed that I obviously didn't have, so I didn't install it. My desktop is back to fine now! Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2 Did you do the urpmi.addmedia command? Also note that version of 3.01 will REPLACE your KDE2.2.2 If you do not want to lose your old KDE then wait a few days and a new version will be posted that installs into /opt instead of /usr See www.pclinuxonline.com for a discussion on this. derek On Thursday 23 May 2002 9:20 pm, Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the new KDE3.0.1 and going on the instructions on Mankdrake's site for 8.2 written for KDE3.0.0 (as the instructions haven't been changed yet) I thought that I would upgrade by issuing the command urpmi * in the directory where I had all the downloade files. All looks ok and when the system askes for Disk 1 from the Pro package, I put it into the CD drive, press return, expecting for it to proceed, but all it does is to ask for the disk again and again and... well you get the idea. The CD isn't even being accessed, it just gets ejected straight away :-( Has anyone else seen this ? - is there a fix ? - is it a known problem ? Any help appriciated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Qestion of Memory [OT]
On Thursday 23 May 2002 02:47 pm, Jay wrote: I would refrain from Microsoft SQL (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/22/1312211.shtml?tid=109) or any Microsoft products for that matter (http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp) A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed Further proof that Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 16:01, Derek Jennings wrote: Erm... dunno I dislike ever using --force because nothing good ever seems to result. I guess the simplest way to install 3.0.1 would be urpmi in your 3.0.1 download directory. Then all the dependencies ought to get sorted out. Personally I will wait for RPMs to install in /opt . I do not want to delete KDE2.2.2 until I am sure KDE3.0.1 is OK, and there are no issues with other applications depending on KDE2.2.2 for their operation. Hmm, wish I'd followed this thread before installing - I now have a KDE3 with no icons (either desktop or in apps). Something is stopping it accessing qt3 by the look of it, and it's whinging about lybcrypto and libssl not being installed (which they are). Everything works fine, just iconless. I still get caught in the libarts catch 22 where they each want to see the other installed. I've got a worse one - libarts won't install because it can't overwrite /usr/lib/mcop/kmedia2somethingorother, and I can't even delete that file as root. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2
libarts i had to rpm -ivh --nodeps --force cause between it and the devel pkg, they wanted to see the other before the other would install. I have always had this problem though. As for the menus, you may try update-menus. I deleted my .kde dir though, as it only takes a minute to build a new desktop. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2 On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 16:01, Derek Jennings wrote: Erm... dunno I dislike ever using --force because nothing good ever seems to result. I guess the simplest way to install 3.0.1 would be urpmi in your 3.0.1 download directory. Then all the dependencies ought to get sorted out. Personally I will wait for RPMs to install in /opt . I do not want to delete KDE2.2.2 until I am sure KDE3.0.1 is OK, and there are no issues with other applications depending on KDE2.2.2 for their operation. Hmm, wish I'd followed this thread before installing - I now have a KDE3 with no icons (either desktop or in apps). Something is stopping it accessing qt3 by the look of it, and it's whinging about lybcrypto and libssl not being installed (which they are). Everything works fine, just iconless. I still get caught in the libarts catch 22 where they each want to see the other installed. I've got a worse one - libarts won't install because it can't overwrite /usr/lib/mcop/kmedia2somethingorother, and I can't even delete that file as root. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Friday 24 May 2002 12:18 am, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Well, Brian it was all over the internet news, including the Register, August 1999. And you can still find the story at www.cryptonym.com where they exvaluated the security danger from it as nothing abnormal, since the only reason the NSA would want such a key is to save a little time. and ashcroft is actively fighting to get a backdoor put into rsa encryption. check what the aclu has to say about tech sometime. -- Give me ambiguity or give me something else. 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] SNF 7.2
you might want to try looking for an iso of the doc cd on the mandrake ftp site (or a mirror... most likely you'll get better speed on the mirrors anyway). in the initial folder go into the /pub folder and see if you can find a reference to SNF. the directory structure on their ftp site has links all over it so it can throw you for a loop as to where you are at times. if you're useing a gui ftp client watch for the folder icons with the arrows.. those are links to other folders. i try not to go those routes because you miss sections of the directory tree where your files might be. hth jerry. (ps i'll tool around it a bit and see if i can see) j On Friday 24 May 2002 06:51 am, you wrote: Hi Guys Girls, I have just downloaded the Mandrake Singal Network Firewall 7.2 could anyone tell me where I could get some documentation for this OS . I intend to use it for a Internet Cafe to share the ADSL connection and act as a proxy to minimize outgoing bandwidth. a poke in the right direction would be appreciated . I have looked on the Mandrake site but I could not find anything specific to SNF. If anyone has any experience (good or bad) with SNF ,that info would also be much appreciated. cheers and thanks in advance. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2
Are you logged out of KDE while trying to do so? I logged into a console and updated. I also deleted my .DCOP files too, as well as all files in /tmp. Worked for me, so far at least. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2 On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 16:01, Derek Jennings wrote: Erm... dunno I dislike ever using --force because nothing good ever seems to result. I guess the simplest way to install 3.0.1 would be urpmi in your 3.0.1 download directory. Then all the dependencies ought to get sorted out. Personally I will wait for RPMs to install in /opt . I do not want to delete KDE2.2.2 until I am sure KDE3.0.1 is OK, and there are no issues with other applications depending on KDE2.2.2 for their operation. Hmm, wish I'd followed this thread before installing - I now have a KDE3 with no icons (either desktop or in apps). Something is stopping it accessing qt3 by the look of it, and it's whinging about lybcrypto and libssl not being installed (which they are). Everything works fine, just iconless. I still get caught in the libarts catch 22 where they each want to see the other installed. I've got a worse one - libarts won't install because it can't overwrite /usr/lib/mcop/kmedia2somethingorother, and I can't even delete that file as root. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2
Title: RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Pearce Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SNF 7.2 Hi Guys Girls, I have just downloaded the Mandrake Singal Network Firewall 7.2 could anyone tell me where I could get some documentation for this OS . I intend to use it for a Internet Cafe to share the ADSL connection and act as a proxy to minimize outgoing bandwidth. a poke in the right direction would be appreciated . I have looked on the Mandrake site but I could not find anything specific to SNF. If anyone has any experience (good or bad) with SNF ,that info would also be much appreciated. cheers and thanks in advance. Jason SNF documentation can be obtained by starting here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3. I have had a problem getting into the firewall machine once it is installed. I can't figure out if telnet needs to be used or what, but I can't connect to the LAN with it or from a LAN machine I can't ping the firewall machine. So something is missing in my connection. If you install and it works please post if you had to do anything like activate an additional package or something. Thanks Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networki ng
Thanks, but I checked http://mobilix.org/modem_ci10130.html and my modem (same device number) is stated not to work. Dell hardware modem my ---. And my box cost more than the consumer Inspiron model, you'd think they would use better components. Alan - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 07:53 Subject: RE: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networki ng -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Tu Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networking Hi, I'm new to Linux and I love its potential. Anyway, my questions are about establishing a dialup connection to my ISP with Mandrake 8.2. 1. I have a Dell Latitude notebook with a 3com mini-PCI modem (and ethernet, in fact). According to Dell techs, this is a hardware modem, but I couldn't find the model number in the hardware lists. The following is the relevant part of cat /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 16, function 1: Communication controller: PCI device 10b7:1007 (3Com Corporation) (rev 16). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=5. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3ffd400 [0xf3ffd4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3ffd000 [0xf3ffd07f]. So, is this really a hardware modem? 2. If so, how do I test that /dev/modem is set up right? I've read about kppp or minicom, but I can't find these utilities on my system. 3. During install, Mandrake asked for my ISP's phone number, etc. But now, I cannot see any files in /etc/ppp/peers. For system administration, is there a text/console equivalent to the GUI dial-up setup? Of course, there's always the several config files, but I was looking for a shortcut :-) Thanks. Alan Can't answer the question on whether it is a hardware modem, but for text config you can use wvdial. It is quick and seems very stable. The other alternative I use is the Internet connection icon on the KDE desktop. HTH Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2
Thanks for the replys, jerry Dennis I have now found the docs @ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/72/SNF/en/user.html/index.html I think the part that you are looking for Dennis is @ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/72/SNF/en/user.html/naat-config.html then connecting thanks again I post again when I have got my hands dirty hopefully over the weekend I'll get a chance to do the install. cheers people jason On Saturday 25 May 2002 02:04, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Pearce Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SNF 7.2 Hi Guys Girls, I have just downloaded the Mandrake Singal Network Firewall 7.2 could anyone tell me where I could get some documentation for this OS . I intend to use it for a Internet Cafe to share the ADSL connection and act as a proxy to minimize outgoing bandwidth. a poke in the right direction would be appreciated . I have looked on the Mandrake site but I could not find anything specific to SNF. If anyone has any experience (good or bad) with SNF ,that info would also be much appreciated. cheers and thanks in advance. Jason SNF documentation can be obtained by starting here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3. I have had a problem getting into the firewall machine once it is installed. I can't figure out if telnet needs to be used or what, but I can't connect to the LAN with it or from a LAN machine I can't ping the firewall machine. So something is missing in my connection. If you install and it works please post if you had to do anything like activate an additional package or something. Thanks Dennis M. Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to play vcd's under linux, .dat files on disk.
Hi list, I am very new to linux so please forgive me if this question has been asked before. I want to play Video CD's in the .dat format under linux, when the .dat files are on disk. The xine player only plays them from the CD-ROM PLUS: Are there any other open-source video cd players for linux ? All help appreciated, Tarun Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
the url to cryptonym intentionally left blank. Security is an pet area of interest to me, where have you gotten the info on what Ashcroft is doing? -Original Message- From: shane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$ On Friday 24 May 2002 12:18 am, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Well, Brian it was all over the internet news, including the Register, August 1999. And you can still find the story at www.cryptonym.com where they exvaluated the security danger from it as nothing abnormal, since the only reason the NSA would want such a key is to save a little time. and ashcroft is actively fighting to get a backdoor put into rsa encryption. check what the aclu has to say about tech sometime. -- Give me ambiguity or give me something else. 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] RPMFind.net down?
I know that the gnorpm that came with the 8.2 iso doesn't work... but command line i've had no problems with connecting to rpmfind.net i dont know what to do about gnorpm's weird problem.. anyone else seen it? when it downloads the RDF files it just gives back (was not expecting rdf:Description) or something like that... and then it's saying that the catalog file on my machine has no .. (um... trying to remember) matching schema.. or schema is empty ... something like that Just set a http source on the software manager to http://.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS and the path to hdlist is : syntheses.hdlist.cz and another http source of ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS path to hdlist: ./base/hdlist.cz and the software manager will work like gnorpm (better actually) On Friday 24 May 2002 03:12 am, you wrote: I haven't got through sucessfully for ages. Anybody know what's happening there? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My mouse is pointing to the wrong place.
On Friday 24 May 2002 05:06 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 05:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 05:05 pm, Ricardo Marques wrote: Hi, I'm having a very strange problem. This problem is occurring in all my computers. I turn on my machine and after a while the focus of pointer is shifted to right. When I want to click in a button, I have to look for a position (move to right side) to click. Sometimes I have to click outside of button. It depends on of size of the button. It's occurring with tree different kinds of machines. They have different processors, motherboards, BIOS, video cards, etc. I'm working with Mandrake 8.2 and KDE. Thanks in advance for any help. Ricardo Marques Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com Ricardo, maybe you have different processors etc. etc., but I'll bet you have Trident graphics ! - This phenomenon is well known. The solution is simple : You'll have to edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as root. In this file, there is a section called Graphics device section. Find it and then remove the hash-mark (#) in front of Option sw_cursor. (Which means to uncomment this option, thus enabling the software-cursor). Save the file and restart X. That's all. For a more in-depth explanation, search the list-archive for something like Trident Cyberblade. If still in trouble, feel free to mail me privately, I'll work you through. But please have some patience, 'cause I'm only on-line a few minutes each evening, CET. BTW - I find that sig of yours (not your name, of course) disgusting - ;-) Kaj Haulrich Denmark I find this happens on my wife's laptop (running LM8.2), but only after the kids have grabbed it to access neopets. Once it starts, it seems the only way to get back is to shutdown and cold boot. This is a USB mouse, so maybe that complicates the situation. Am I right in thinking that if it works most of the time without any issues, then the sw_cursor thing is not a useful option? BTW, in case it's relevant, the mouse does get the wanders now and then. Mind of its own I guess. Branded Microsoft, so it probably thinks it knows where we want to go today ;-) Brian LOL Brian ! - Honestly, I don't know if this offset applies to other graphics devices then Trident, but I'm pretty sure it won't harm anything to try my advice on your wife's laptop. But why use an USB-mouse on a laptop ? Don't they usually come with some sort of built-in pointing-device ? Regards Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Friday 24 May 2002 10:44 am, Schwenk, Jeanie opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: the url to cryptonym intentionally left blank. Security is an pet area of interest to me, where have you gotten the info on what Ashcroft is doing? there was a bit on the aclu website, under cyber-liberties. right now i mostly see censorship stuff there though. if i recall he hadn't actually introd a bill or anything, just speaches to congress. again if i recall it was along with a senetor judd greg, and was early october. what i do not know is if the we can force your isp to give us everything they know bill went through. amazing how they skip stuff that matters in the news the patriot act and usa act were they? i imagine the backdoor (they called it key escrow i think) would be step 2. sorry i didn't save more of it. -- Computers are like air conditioners they stop working properly if you open windows. 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
[newbie] OT: UF
ok, so i am not sure how many of you are regular UF readers and how many have no clue what it is, but todays made me laugh pretty hard, so i am sharing. if it is an intro to UF i hope you like it http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020524 -- ...so Mr. Gates, in short, the reason I am not using your software is that I have upped my standards. So up yours. 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] A Qestion of Memory
On Friday 24 May 2002 12:46, you wrote: * reboot * run free from a command line before you start anything (or most anything) else -- record the numbers * start kspread, run free, record the numbers * open one of your spreadsheets, run free, record the numbers Post the numbers here. Randy Kramer Firstly, [root@localhost root]# free --record free: invalid option -- - usage: free [-b|-k|-m] [-o] [-s delay] [-t] [-V] [root@localhost root]# then [root@localhost root]# free -bl -kl -m -o -s delay -t -v free: invalid option -- l usage: free [-b|-k|-m] [-o] [-s delay] [-t] [-V] [root@localhost root]# Hay, I haven't a clue what I'm doing here. So using KDE-info-memory instead :- Desktop Kspread Kspread+file free +swap 83%free 83%free 74%free 16%used 16%25% Physical 57%free 49%23% 21%Cash Ram 23%23% 24%used+share25%51% Virtual 100% 100% 100% the file is measured as 57.0kb and takes 21 seconds to load. This suggests that a 57kb file takes 26% of a 250mbSDRam Can this be right ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help
I got the drivers and everything on linux finally. Now when i put insmod pctel it does whatever its supposed to but when i put insmod ptserial it gives an error something like error: input/output insmod errors are caused by i/o or IRQ something any idea how i can fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK8.2: compile hello.cpp: cannot exec 'cpp0': No such...
try:
g++ -o hello hello.cpp
(gcc is only for c programs)
ciao
From: Steven Boothe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] MDK8.2: compile hello.cpp: cannot exec 'cpp0': No such...
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:30:45 -0700
Hello everyone:
I seem to have a problem compiling a simple hello.cpp program:
#include iostream.h
int main()
{
cout Hello, world. endl;
return 0;
}
The error I get is:
[sboothe@poretz sboothe]$ gcc hello.cpp
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory
[sboothe@poretz sboothe]
For the record here is the output of some hopefully meaningful commands:
[steven]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc rpm -qa | grep gcc rpm -qa | grep libstd
gcc3.0-cpp-3.0.4-2mdk
gcc-2.96-0.76mdk
gcc-c++-2.96-0.76mdk
libgcc3.0-3.0.4-2mdk
gcc3.0-cpp-3.0.4-2mdk
gcc-2.96-0.76mdk
gcc-c++-2.96-0.76mdk
libgcc3.0-3.0.4-2mdk
libstdc++3.0-devel-3.0.4-2mdk
libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.76mdk
libstdc++3.0-3.0.4-2mdk
libstdc++2.10-devel-2.96-0.76mdk
[steven]$
Thanks to anyone who read this message.
Peace,
Steven
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[newbie] What happened?
My company has one server that does everything: web, SMTP, POP, FTP, SSH, etc. I've had zero problems for about 3 years. Not long ago I upgraded to 8.2, and everything has been great except--and I can hardly believe it--it crashed this week! We suspected that the power went out, and the ISP where we are a co-host, didn't turn our machine back on. They maintain that our server just puked because when they came in, the screen was full of junk. We're not sure what to believe. At any rate, I was wondering if there is anything I can do, any log I can browse, etc. to find out what might have caused this. Any ideas? tia, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2
Jerry wrote: you might want to try looking for an iso of the doc cd on the mandrake ftp site (or a mirror... most likely you'll get better speed on the mirrors anyway). in the initial folder go into the /pub folder and see if you can find a reference to SNF. the directory structure on their ftp site has links all over it so it can throw you for a loop as to where you are at times. if you're useing a gui ftp client watch for the folder icons with the arrows.. those are links to other folders. i try not to go those routes because you miss sections of the directory tree where your files might be. hth jerry. (ps i'll tool around it a bit and see if i can see) j On Friday 24 May 2002 06:51 am, you wrote: Hi Guys Girls, I have just downloaded the Mandrake Singal Network Firewall 7.2 could anyone tell me where I could get some documentation for this OS . I intend to use it for a Internet Cafe to share the ADSL connection and act as a proxy to minimize outgoing bandwidth. a poke in the right direction would be appreciated . I have looked on the Mandrake site but I could not find anything specific to SNF. If anyone has any experience (good or bad) with SNF ,that info would also be much appreciated. cheers and thanks in advance. Jason if you wish, email me pvtly i'll give you a file for SNF itself. Not sure if it will help but its worth a shot :) -- 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] My mouse is pointing to the wrong place.
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 05:18, Kaj Haulrich wrote: BTW, in case it's relevant, the mouse does get the wanders now and then. Mind of its own I guess. Branded Microsoft, so it probably thinks it knows where we want to go today ;-) Brian LOL Brian ! - Honestly, I don't know if this offset applies to other graphics devices then Trident, but I'm pretty sure it won't harm anything to try my advice on your wife's laptop. But why use an USB-mouse on a laptop ? Don't they usually come with some sort of built-in pointing-device ? Regards Kaj Haulrich Denmark I'll give it a try sometime. Yes there is a built in pointing device and that's a GREAT reason for using an external mouse. These things are OK for 10 minutes in a plane, but that's about the extent of their usefulness. It has to be USB because there ain't no PS2 interface on this thing. I guess it would have ruined IBM's profit margin ;-) Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help
Are you sure your modem is an i810? I'm pretty sure the modem you gave in your other post should use the pct789 setting, but if you really do have an i810, then use it. As long as you are using kernel 2.4.something, you should be okay. You don't need, nor do you want to go back to, 2.4.0. As for getting things from windows to linux on your dual boot machine. You should have a directory under /mnt called windows or something like that (unless, possibly if your Windows 2000 is using NTFS). If it is there, then you should be able to change to that directory from either the console prompt or through Konqueror or other graphical file manager. That (/mnt/windows) is your windows partition. Anything you download there can be copied to your linux partition and vice versa. Pretty neat, huh? As for your floppy, chances are it either has some bad sectors marked on it or it was formatted as a system floppy and has some hidden files. But, since you can copy from /mnt/windows, your really don't need it anyway. The error you are getting with the insmod ptserial sounds like there was an error when it was compiled. What I would do is go to the directory where you untarred the modem driver and type (without quotes) ./configure hal=pct789. When it finishes, type (without quotes) make and if there aren't any errors type (without quotes) make install. After that, see if your insmod commands work. If they don't, let me know either on the list here or email me direct. BTW, although it is frustrating, the problem you are having, really isn't a linux problem. It's a problem with trying to use hardware designed for a specific OS (windows) on a different OS than what it was designed for. The fact that linux can actually use it (well, once you get it installed) is a testament to how good linux really is! Joe On Thu, 23 May 2002 21:03:15 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i got the modem driver pctel-0.9.2 and i followed the steps but after i type make it says to give a hal so i gave it i810 and then it goes on and stops at linux kernel:too many arguments and then says i must install kernel version 2.4.0 so i downloaded 2.4.0 and its like 23.3mb and i cant fit it on a floppy cause of the size and i cant burn cd's cause i cant find the driver for my cd writer and i dont know how else i can get it from windows2k to linux(I'm dual booting) and i also tried downloading the version of the pctel driver 0.8.6 and when i format a floppy to put it on the floppy only has 1.38mb space(odd cause its a 1.44mb floppy..go figure) and that wont work cause the floppy needs to be at least 1.42mb so im like going nuts here tryin to figure out ways to get the kernel or driver over to linux from win2k and nothing im doin is working =\ guess linux wasnt for me... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NFS and Linux
Hello everyone, I'm having a problem with Linux that I hope someone can help me with. I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a machine with the Intel 810/815 Chipset. I am trying to mount a share through nfs from Solaris 7. I haven't had trouble doing this in the past, but now when I try to mount the share, it will mount, but it takes several minutes. Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone have suggestions? Keith Lynn Systems Administrator School of Computer and Information Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36608 Phone: (251) 460-6390 Fax: (251) 460-7274 Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Floppy error: Read-only file system
Im trying to create a floppy boot disk using Drakfloppy. A new floppy is already inserted in the drive. When Build Disk is selected, the error is: Be sure media is present for /dev/fd0. Then when OK is selected, the error message is: no medium for /dev/fd0 please insert one. When trying to use the KDE Floppy Formatter there is a error message: Cannot format: /dev/fd0u1440 /dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system. Any help appreciated, thanks. Abit KG7; Athlon 1.4Ghz; 512MB Mwave DDR memory; IBM 40G HDD; TEAC 3.5 inch 1.44MB floppy drive. Mandrake 8.2 recommended installation upgrade from 8.1. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy error: Read-only file system
On Fri, 24 May 2002 20:38:46 -0700 (PDT) KMReid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I_m trying to create a floppy boot disk using Drakfloppy. A new floppy is already inserted in the drive. When Build Disk is selected, the error is: _Be sure media is present for /dev/fd0_. Then when OK is selected, the error message is: _no medium for /dev/fd0 please insert one_. When trying to use the KDE Floppy Formatter there is a error message: _Cannot format: /dev/fd0u1440 /dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system_. Any help appreciated, thanks. Abit KG7; Athlon 1.4Ghz; 512MB Mwave DDR memory; IBM 40G HDD; TEAC 3.5 inch 1.44MB floppy drive. Mandrake 8.2 _recommended_ installation upgrade from 8.1. uhm.. did you check the floppy's read-only lock ? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: A question of memory
Wow, very disappointing! I did some testing on your 57 kb file on KSpread 1.1 on Mandrake 8.1, on a 700 MHz machine (AMD) with 256 MB of memory. (With about 280 rows of 12 columns each, I'm guessing about half the cells actually contained data (numbers).) The file took around 30 seconds to load. It was easy to convert the file to Gnumeric and comma delimited format. I don't have Gnumeric on the machine so I couldn't try it. I took the comma delimited file to my Windows 95 machine -- 300 MHz., 64 MB memory, Excel 97. Loaded the file into Excel, saved it as a native Excel file (.xls) -- quit Excel, opened Excel, loaded the .xls file in about 1 second. I noticed you had some colors applied to the columns, I did not apply colors to the Excel file -- if I get ambitious I might try that and see how much that affects the load time. I did try something else -- I did try two other things: * I tried importing the comma delimited file back into KSpread, and it was significantly faster. It took about 10 seconds of machine time to load up, but this consisted of two 5-second periods -- an intermediate menu comes up halfway through the load to allow you to specify any necessary options -- you can just hit enter. * I saved the imported comma delimited file from KSpread as a .ksp file, and then loaded it -- it took about 14 seconds, and the difference between that and the original 30 seconds may be an indication of the extra time due to colors. Anyway, I'd call it a disappointing performance by KSpread. OK, I went back to Excel and applied colors to every two column group, saved, exited Excel, restarted Excel, then reloaded the .xls file. Still under 1 second! I'm taking the liberty of sending this back to the list for other's information -- IIRC, it was on the newbie list. Randy Kramer John Richard Smith wrote: Attatched I send you one kspread file, kspft30.ksp, which is currently 57.0kb, not exactly huge it it, kspread seems to create a backup file called ~kspft30.ksp I guesss this is a safety feature ? Since each file is quite small I find it just incredible that loading one single file of this size demands such an enormous amount of memory. Remenber I have 250Mb of SDRAM. Currently I have 5 such index files stashed in a home directory. I select them in the customery fashion in kspread one at a time, update them and then, save that file in that home directory, and again `save as' , an identicle file on a floppy for backup. I then exit that file altogether and select another file from the home directory and repeat the exercise again for each index held . I don't feel that this kspread programme and the individual index file should clog up my memory to such an extent. I haven't sent this email to the list because of the file attatchment. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2
On Friday 24 May 2002 11:30 am, you wrote: Thanks for the replys, jerry Dennis I have now found the docs @ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/72/SNF/en/user.html/index.html I think the part that you are looking for Dennis is @ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/72/SNF/en/user.html/naat-config.html then connecting thanks again I post again when I have got my hands dirty hopefully over the weekend I'll get a chance to do the install. cheers people jason On Saturday 25 May 2002 02:04, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Pearce Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SNF 7.2 Hi Guys Girls, I have just downloaded the Mandrake Singal Network Firewall 7.2 could anyone tell me where I could get some documentation for this OS . I intend to use it for a Internet Cafe to share the ADSL connection and act as a proxy to minimize outgoing bandwidth. a poke in the right direction would be appreciated . I have looked on the Mandrake site but I could not find anything specific to SNF. If anyone has any experience (good or bad) with SNF ,that info would also be much appreciated. cheers and thanks in advance. Jason SNF documentation can be obtained by starting here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3. I have had a problem getting into the firewall machine once it is installed. I can't figure out if telnet needs to be used or what, but I can't connect to the LAN with it or from a LAN machine I can't ping the firewall machine. So something is missing in my connection. If you install and it works please post if you had to do anything like activate an additional package or something. Thanks Dennis M. Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: OK, I have a firewall. I did not give it a gateway address during install, save that for later when you telnet to it. I then took one of the computers on the LAN off of a dial up account and gave it no info on the gateway. Voila! I can continue to configure and set up the firewall via my other computer. Is that telnet on a LAN or just what do you call it? Now if they would just deliver the cable modem and give me the IP addresses I can convert to broadband. Life is good, just don't weaken. And never give up. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy error: Read-only file system
On Friday 24 May 2002 10:38 pm, you wrote: Im trying to create a floppy boot disk using Drakfloppy. A new floppy is already inserted in the drive. When Build Disk is selected, the error is: Be sure media is present for /dev/fd0. Then when OK is selected, the error message is: no medium for /dev/fd0 please insert one. When trying to use the KDE Floppy Formatter there is a error message: Cannot format: /dev/fd0u1440 /dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system. Any help appreciated, thanks. Abit KG7; Athlon 1.4Ghz; 512MB Mwave DDR memory; IBM 40G HDD; TEAC 3.5 inch 1.44MB floppy drive. Mandrake 8.2 recommended installation upgrade from 8.1. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com You probably need to go into Userdrake and add floppy to your personnal access. In KDE it is ConfigurationotherUserdrake just in case you don't know where to look. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
