[newbie-it]
Ehmmi rendo contoma sai com'è. Si sono presentate due signorine(siamo lontani dallo stereotipo femminile :-( e mi hanno consegnato un modem Ericsson B-Quick - come ho detto non supportato da linux - ma perfettamente funzionante sotto win(sono in attesa che quelli della Telecom mi diano il modem che avevo chiesto -il Manta usb -). Si,infatti avendo subdorato qualche fregatura,ho scelto alice flat;nonè eccezionale ma è veloce abbastanza per le mie necessità. Ciao a tutti, Alessandro. p.s.in verità spero che stavolta venga Alice!! -potenza dell'immagine- On 25 May 2002 at 1:03, Corrado wrote: 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 - Università di Catania - C.E.A. Servizio di WebMail http://www.cea.unict.it
R: [newbie-it]
io ho adsl bbb e vi assicuro ke la velocita' e il servizio lasciano a desiderare ma nel mio caso mi serve per lavoro skariko di antivirus protezioni driver ecc. quindi mi sta bene un canone fisso kon una leggera velocita' di skariko. il modem ke ho scelto e' un'alcatel di rete ke funge benissimo kon linux visto ke non cerka driver al mio serverino. consiglio quindi a tutti di montare una sk di rete nel pc e passare al modem oppure router (qualsiasi marca) . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 9:44 AM Subject: [newbie-it] Ehmmi rendo contoma sai com'è. Si sono presentate due signorine(siamo lontani dallo stereotipo femminile :-( e mi hanno consegnato un modem Ericsson B-Quick - come ho detto non supportato da linux - ma perfettamente funzionante sotto win(sono in attesa che quelli della Telecom mi diano il modem che avevo chiesto -il Manta usb -). Si,infatti avendo subdorato qualche fregatura,ho scelto alice flat;nonè eccezionale ma è veloce abbastanza per le mie necessità. Ciao a tutti, Alessandro. p.s.in verità spero che stavolta venga Alice!! -potenza dell'immagine- On 25 May 2002 at 1:03, Corrado wrote: 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 - Università di Catania - C.E.A. Servizio di WebMail http://www.cea.unict.it
[newbie-it] Rubrica di KMail
Salve a tutti!! Mi è capitato di reinstallare tutto il sistema (e mi capiterà ancora...!!) ed ho faticato a ricostruire.. la mia rubrica di KMail. Insomma, come devo fare per salvarla e recuperarla tale e quale??? Ho provato e riprovato, ma non è mai ben ordinata come prima è sempre diversa da come la compilo io. Dove sbaglio?? Come devo salvarla e come devo recuperarla? Altra cosa: i segnalibro di Konqueror, possono venire esportati in Galeon? Non ci riesco!! Ciaooo Gigi
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd
Ciao freefred alle 22:30, venerdì 24 maggio 2002, hai scritto: cut beh, l'xnview prendilo, non sara' bellissimo, ma e' piu' veloce (o quasi) dell'Acdsee. Ciao e grazie, l'ho installato ma non riesco comunque a visualizzare l'.awd pazienza. Un ultimo favore: il prg non viene aggiunto nel pannello di controllo ma devo lanciarlo da terminale. Qual'è la procedura esatta per aggiungere un prg al pannello? Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale risposta ku68
[newbie-it] Altro file non visualizzabile
Ho ricevuto un altro file stavolta con estensione .pdf che non riesco ad aprire. Ho controllato nelle proprietà ed ho visto che ha le solite del file .awd cioè application/octet-stream e codifica base64. Qualcuno ha qualche suggerimento?
Re: [newbie-it] R: [newbie-it] Perch s'impianta?
Ciao Ferdinando alle 22:48, venerdì 24 maggio 2002, hai scritto: cut Guarda se per caso un tuo banco di memoria non si sia guastato, nel senso che ha un funzionamento non sempre corretto. Non credo perché sotto win, dove uso programmi anche più pesanti tipo staroffice, funziona tutto che è un piacere e dove gli unici problemi che ho avuto sono stati dei piccoli crash quando aprivo in contemporanea OE e il mailer di staroffice. Insomma c'è qualche piccola incompatibilità ma nulla di preoccupante :-) Ciao ku68 ps vedi anche l'altra risposta in cui riporto alcuni test
Re: [newbie-it] Perch s'impianta?
Ciao LukenShiro alle 22:48, venerdì 24 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ma per si impianta intendi che va in stallo tutto il sistema Esatto a un certo punto muovo solo il mouse e basta. Le cartelle non si aprono, non posso fare + nulla se non resettare. Mi succedeva con openoffice quando provavo a salvare un file nella partizione win. Pensavo dipendesse da quello invece mi è successo anche in fase di lettura della posta e dei newsgroup (mentre scarico la posta leggo alcuni ng). Ieri per esempio mi è successo ogni volta che tentavo di aprire la home. Nel primo caso puoi escludere che sia un problema di surriscaldamento? Si la ventola funziona 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) Copio e incollo una parte del memtest: Unable to malloc 1307574272 bytes. Unable to malloc 1303379968 bytes. Unable to malloc 1299185664 bytes. Unable to malloc 1294991360 bytes. Unable to malloc 1290797056 bytes. Unable to malloc 1286602752 bytes. Unable to malloc 1282408448 bytes. Unable to malloc 1278214144 bytes. continua poi diventa cut troppi dati da incollare:-) Allocated 140488704 bytes...trying mlock...failed: insufficient resources. Allocated 139436032 bytes...trying mlock...failed: insufficient resources. Allocated 138383360 bytes...trying mlock...failed: insufficient resources. Allocated 137330688 bytes...trying mlock...failed: insufficient resources. Allocated 136278016 bytes...trying mlock...failed: insufficient resources. Allocated 135225344 bytes...trying mlock...failed: insufficient resources. Allocated 134172672 bytes...trying mlock...failed: only root can lock pages. Continuing with unlocked pages. This program runs much faster and results are more reliable when running with locked pages. quindi ... Testing 134168576 bytes at 0x40301000 (4088 bytes lost to page alignment). Run1: Test 1: Stuck Address: Testing...Passed. Test 2: Random value: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 3:XOR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 4:SUB comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 5:MUL comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 6:DIV comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 7: OR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 8:AND comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 9: Sequential Increment: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 10:Solid Bits: Testing...Passed. Test 11: Block Sequential: Testing...Passed. Test 12: Checkerboard: Testing...Passed. Test 13:Bit Spread: Testing...Passed. Test 14: Bit Flip: Testing...Passed. Test 15: Walking Ones: Testing...Passed. Test 16:Walking Zeroes: Testing...Passed. Run1 completed in 1819 seconds (0 tests showed errors). Run2: Test 1: Stuck Address: Testing...Passed. Test 2: Random value: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 3:XOR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 4:SUB comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 5:MUL comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 6:DIV comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 7: OR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 8:AND comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 9: Sequential Increment: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 10:Solid Bits: Testing...Passed. Test 11: Block Sequential: Testing...Passed. Test 12: Checkerboard: Testing...Passed. Test 13:Bit Spread: Testing...Passed. Test 14: Bit Flip: Testing...Passed. Test 15: Walking Ones: Testing...Passed. Test 16:Walking Zeroes: Testing...Passed. Run2 completed in 1763 seconds (0 tests showed errors). Run3: Test 1: Stuck Address: Testing...Passed. Test 2: Random value: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 3:XOR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 4:SUB comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 5:MUL comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 6:DIV comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 7: OR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 8:AND comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 9: Sequential Increment: Setting...Testing...Passed. Test 10:Solid Bits: Testing...Passed. Test 11: Block Sequential: Testing...Passed. Test 12: Checkerboard: Testing...Passed. Test 13:Bit Spread: Testing...Passed. Test 14: Bit Flip: Testing...Passed. Test 15: Walking Ones: Testing...Passed. Test 16:Walking Zeroes: Testing...Passed. Run3 completed in 1779 seconds (0 tests showed errors). Run4: Test 1: Stuck Address:
Re: [newbie-it] Altro file non visualizzabile
Alle 10:31, sabato 25 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ho ricevuto un altro file stavolta con estensione .pdf che non riesco ad aprire. Ho controllato nelle proprietà ed ho visto che ha le solite del file .awd cioè application/octet-stream e codifica base64. Qualcuno ha qualche suggerimento? Certo, è un file Acrobat. Puoi leggerlo con il visualizzatore PS/PDF, o cliccandoci direttamente sopra. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Altro file non visualizzabile
Ciao Fabio Manunza alle 12:14, sabato 25 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Certo, è un file Acrobat. Puoi leggerlo con il visualizzatore PS/PDF, o cliccandoci direttamente sopra. Non lo legge... copio e incollo anche se non proprio allineato... Ciao ku68 Error: /undefined in 0g\000g\000i\000a\000t\000e\000:\000 Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1035/1476(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:67/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local GNU Ghostscript 6.53 : Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd
On Saturday 25 May 2002 04:30, ku68, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: file .awd wrote: Un ultimo favore: il prg non viene aggiunto nel pannello di controllo ma devo lanciarlo da terminale. Qual'è la procedura esatta per aggiungere un prg al pannello? per pannello intendi lo start menu, immagino. Dovresti usare menudrake, che trovi in configuration/other altrimenti, col kde, puoi lanciarlo dando alt+F2 e scrivendo il nome del programma 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
[newbie-it] kmail
io ho più di un indirizzo di posta: il mio + uno di yahoo ma non riesco ad inserirlo eppure i dati li ho tutti! in outlook mi funziona sono impedito ciao grazie luigi
[newbie-it] konqueror
il mio konqueror si rifiuta di navigare gli altri browser vanno... help!!!
[newbie-it] Java
Ciao a tutti: vorrei smanettare un po' con java e volevo sapere se mi conviene usare kaffe e i tool di sviluppo contenuti in mdk o se è meglio scaricare jdk dal sito Sun :) Se qualcuno ha esperienza in proposito vorrei anche sapere quali sono le differenze tra i due. Ciao a tutti, 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 $40,000, and less than two man-years were spent on the main system software. We hope, however, that users find that the most important characteristics of the system are its simplicity, elegance, and ease of use. The UNIX Time-sharing System* (1974) D.M. Ritchie and K. Thompson
Re: [newbie-it] Map-Installer
Ciao LukenShiro, finalmente il problema di Lilo è stato risolto :-) , ci sono riuscito quasi per caso. Mi mancava solo un'ultima prova che mi è stata ispirata dalle tue parole [ ... e' uno scherzetto che purtroppo lilo combina in presenza di una seconda partizione windows ...]. Prima di passare a Grub, ho voluto provare di fatto una partizione estesa al posto di quella primaria di hdb2 e adesso, quasi per miracolo, Lilo non da più problemi. Evidentemente non gli garba, come dicevi tu, di trovare due partizioni, che io penso però primarie, di Windows. Pertanto quando con Lilo avvio XP, non mi modifica più la tabella delle partizioni mettendo nascosto in /dev/hdb2. Con XP posso vedere questa device diventata hdb5, ma sempre con punto di mount /xptrans, e fare i transiti di files da XP a Linux e viceversa. Attendo un tuo commento su questo risultato e se la spiegazione che ne ho dato possa essere accettabile. Ciao da Giuseppe.
Re: [newbie] lan browsing /samba
- Original Message - From: LtCdData [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] lan browsing /samba On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:13 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:22 pm, LtCdData opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Ive set up Samba on here (MD8.2) on KDE to (2k) pc. Access from windo$e to Linux is fine, however getting lan browsing the other way is being a pain to get working, are there any good HowTo for the LISa ResLISa config. as all i seem to get is could not connect to host localhost personally i find lisa to be a pain. you might try komba2. it should be on your cd's if not installed already. cheerz komba2 works well..took 2 mins to get access set up :- -- magnet use above -- Lt Cheers data, will look into this at weekend :) [connection sporadic atm this end :(] regards magnet 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] Console Emulators
I didn't even think about the DosEmulator. I'm goingto have to see how that works now. Thanx for the thought! Iceburgh69 -- have you tried using the DosEmulator in linux? sometime ago i heard someone who successfully used it to run genecyst and nesticle. your milleage might vary. sorry if most of my rant was second hand. its all that i have to offer. ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] refuse permission
Dear ones, i have installed mandrake or is it mad drake?! in its latest avatar and found that even when there is no fire wall it is refusing acceptance of email from outsied users. Say for example I send a mail to my machine which is running sendmail daemon nicely and sending mails to all the recipients in the world at large, it is refusing to accept mails sent to it. The reason given is that my machine is refusing to accept mails with the reason, access denied. Can any one help me how to solve this problem? -- S.Ganesan Principal Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-625237 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail Attachments
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 May 2002 2:47 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ok, i was wrong again. Base 64 does not relate directly to PGP encryption. This still seems to be the only method that will attach the whole file though and not just 6 to 8 bytes. This is a hex dump of the 6 bytes attached if i try the None (8-bit) method on a .doc 51K file. d0 cf e0 a1 b1 e1 What is happening here? Is this method only relevant for ASCII? Can Outlook Express users accept Base 64 encoded attachments? The names used are not the best (a problem I've noticed elsewhere in kde :) The familiar ones are: Base 64 = uuencoded Quoted printable = MIME encoded Outlook and OE (and nearly every other email package) will understand both. '8-bit', I presume, attaches the file without any encoding. As the following page (Extended Character Sets) explains, it's not clear why this option exists at all and, in any case, it can be ignored for normal (Internet-based) usage ... http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.format.html Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE875qCCv59vFiSU4YRAnshAKCZQC8EX38IP+u8oG4evBTL7U9Y5gCfUwe0 a3h8H3dhaObXrlt7zCLqNOo= =Y2VL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ISP help
Not right now. Oddly enough AOL runs on FREE BSD (A UNIX flavor) but they
won't do a Linux client because (supposedly) the adds and promos that they
pester your brain to death with won't work in Linux. Oh darned, no more
credit card offers, or chances to buy stuff I don't want and can't use
anyway. 8-{
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: [newbie] ISP help
Ok i finally got the modem installed but now the only isp i have is aol and
it makes you use a .exe is there any way i can get aol to work on linux?
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Re: [newbie] ISP help
On Saturday 25 May 2002 05:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Ok i finally got the modem installed but now the only isp i have is aol and it makes you use a .exe is there any way i can get aol to work on linux? not really. aol uses their own special tcp/ip stack if i recall correctly. infact it was the case (still is) that installing it on winders made your networking go all screwy. you may need to look into getting another connection if you wanna surf in linux -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy. Give Linux to a friend today. 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: There should be features to help such a transfer -- Excel and Lotus have them, not sure about Gnumeric and Kspread. On Sat May 25th , you wrote: 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 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 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. Well I do have gnumeric on my machine and I opened the kspread file in kspread and saved as gnumeric file , which I then opened in gnumeric. About 1.5 seconds. However it was not flawless. the 50total,89total,and 200toal columns were duds, every figure gone. I also remade the colour scheme which is not so delightfully sensitive as kspread and does not look so nice, however the saved file reopened in gnumeric in about 1.5seconds. I would say the developers at kde resposible for kspread need to look into this urgently. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modem,s
On Saturday 25 May 2002 08:59 am, you wrote: Anyone know where I could buy online a modem 56k that is easy install with 8.2. the one I,ve got is only 33.6 and its hardware modem but not going to work. E-bay has some good buys on modems if you can wait out the bidding. An external modem is an excellent choice. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ATI Radeon Allin Wonder video card
Does anyone know if the ATI radeon 7500 All-in-wonder(TV in/out) works with LM 8.2? Especially if the TV functions work. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ISP help
On Saturday 25 May 2002 08:26 am, you wrote:
Not right now. Oddly enough AOL runs on FREE BSD (A UNIX flavor) but they
won't do a Linux client because (supposedly) the adds and promos that they
pester your brain to death with won't work in Linux. Oh darned, no more
credit card offers, or chances to buy stuff I don't want and can't use
anyway. 8-{
Somewhere out there, there is a 2.0 version that has been modified to work
in Linux.
B
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: [newbie] ISP help
Ok i finally got the modem installed but now the only isp i have is aol
and
it makes you use a .exe is there any way i can get aol to work on linux?
--
Virus checker? I don't need no steenkin virus checker! No M$ here!
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Re: [newbie] modem,s
Thank,s deninis but thats were I got this one and I,m trying agian right now but i don,t think null,s going to find it.I,d like to be sure next time. Are aleast able to take it back. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 7:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] modem,s On Saturday 25 May 2002 08:59 am, you wrote: Anyone know where I could buy online a modem 56k that is easy install with 8.2. the one I,ve got is only 33.6 and its hardware modem but not going to work. E-bay has some good buys on modems if you can wait out the bidding. An external modem is an excellent choice. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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] Dynamic DNS
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 20:11, civileme wrote: Look at what my old friend Crackerjack is doing, though... $4 per year through PayPal http://www.whyi.org/about/faq.html will host your domain name with a dynamic IP. Yep you can do it. Civileme He provides a script in Perl to set it up. Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modem,s
pricewatch.com should do the trick for you.. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 6:59 AM Subject: [newbie] modem,s Anyone know where I could buy online a modem 56k that is easy install with 8.2. the one I,ve got is only 33.6 and its hardware modem but not going to work.
Re: [newbie] ISP help
On Saturday 25 May 2002 08:31 am, you wrote: Ok i finally got the modem installed but now the only isp i have is aol and it makes you use a .exe is there any way i can get aol to work on linux? I googled for linux aol install, and got almost 200K hits. Here's a link I found on page 2 how one guy did it: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAOL.html Note that he's starting with just the AOL CD's, so that you should be able to skip some of the steps about setting up an account. If I were you, I'd do a lot more searching before I'd dive into this particular pond. And, FWIW, I'd consider changing ISP's. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail Attachments
On Sun, 26 May 2002 02:04, et wrote: just where in kmail are you seeing these choices? (the menu is different between a compose window to send mail and the mail client window to read mail, but for me, all I have to do to send an attachment is click on the paper clip and find the file base 64 and rot 13 have more to do with how *nix systems tranfer info over the net than anything else, and as long as the reciever can recieve in base 64 or rot 13 it should have no problem. do you recive attachments ok? On Saturday 25 May 2002 09:47 am, you wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2002 21:18, Michael Adams wrote: 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? Ok, i was wrong again. Base 64 does not relate directly to PGP encryption. This still seems to be the only method that will attach the whole file though and not just 6 to 8 bytes. This is a hex dump of the 6 bytes attached if i try the None (8-bit) method on a .doc 51K file. d0 cf e0 a1 b1 e1 What is happening here? Is this method only relevant for ASCII? Can Outlook Express users accept Base 64 encoded attachments? I do not connect the virus catcher to the net. I really want to use KMail to post these attachments to people that do (use Outlook). Running KMail 1.3.2 on 8.2 The menu in Composer (or the paperclip) bring up a File i/o dialog box. Once the file is selected, then there is another dialog box Message part properties that gives you the encoding options. Base 64 seems to be the only one that attaches the file. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail Attachments
On Sun, 26 May 2002 02:06, Alastair Scott wrote: On Saturday 25 May 2002 2:47 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ok, i was wrong again. Base 64 does not relate directly to PGP encryption. This still seems to be the only method that will attach the whole file though and not just 6 to 8 bytes. This is a hex dump of the 6 bytes attached if i try the None (8-bit) method on a .doc 51K file. d0 cf e0 a1 b1 e1 What is happening here? Is this method only relevant for ASCII? Can Outlook Express users accept Base 64 encoded attachments? The names used are not the best (a problem I've noticed elsewhere in kde :) The familiar ones are: Base 64 = uuencoded Quoted printable = MIME encoded Outlook and OE (and nearly every other email package) will understand both. '8-bit', I presume, attaches the file without any encoding. As the following page (Extended Character Sets) explains, it's not clear why this option exists at all and, in any case, it can be ignored for normal (Internet-based) usage ... http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.format.html Alastair Thanks Alastair... But it still doesn't explain why using these encodings won't attach the file correctly. At least i now know that if i always select Base 64 the mail will get through. -- Michael 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: Well I do have gnumeric on my machine and I opened the kspread file in kspread and saved as gnumeric file , which I then opened in gnumeric. About 1.5 seconds. However it was not flawless. the 50total,89total,and 200toal columns were duds, every figure gone. I presume you scrolled to the bottom of the file -- I was worried the first time I opened the file until I scrolled down -- as you know, only one (or two) columns are filled in at the top of the file. I also remade the colour scheme which is not so delightfully sensitive as kspread and does not look so nice, however the saved file reopened in gnumeric in about 1.5seconds. I would say the developers at kde resposible for kspread need to look into this urgently. Yes, I wonder if anybody has filed a bug -- are you willing to try it? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
Brian: When I ran nspluginscan, a bunch of unfriendly messages also flew by, but I decided to ignore them, and so far I have not had any problems. Let's make sure we're talking about the same things here -- I have a (fairly) clean new install of 8.2 and KDE 2.2.2. I installed Flash from the PowerPack Commercial CD. (Netscape 6 had already been installed.) This put ShockwaveFlash.class and libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins; it also put README and readme.html in /usr/share/doc/FlashPlayer-5.0. I then downloaded kdebase-plugins-2.2.2-93mdk.i586.rpm and installed it with Software Manager, ran nspluginscan and rebooted. After that, it was just a matter of running the Scan for new plugins function from Konquer -- Settings -- Configure -- Netscape Plugins. Possible problems: 1. Check that /usr/lib/netscape/plugins does contain the two Flash files mentioned above. It's possible that Flash may have put them someplace else -- perhaps a /flash_linux directory. 2. Did you close and re-open KDE after running nspluginscan? (Hmm -- my notes show that I did a reboot -- old habits are hard to break. Think it makes any difference?) 3. Did then you run the Scan for new plugins in Konqueror? -- cmg On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:30 pm, you wrote: Sorry to have appeared dim here, but after another careful look I think maybe it's not me - something is screwy. I have visited the path you describe before (also available from the KDE config menu). After clicking on the Scan for nsplugins button I see under the plugins tab: Mozilla's real audio plugin Mozilla's pdf plugin Netscape's real audio plugin Netscape's pdf plugin No flash or whatever. For the record, when I run nspluginscan, I get: kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: NP_GetValue kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/raclass.zip: file=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/raclass.zip: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/raclass.zip: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: NP_GetValue kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so: file=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so: /usr/lib/lib1: shared object not open kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: NP_GetValue kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/raclass.zip: file=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/raclass.zip: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/raclass.zip: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: NP_GetValue A look at the rpm shows that the plugin files end up in /usr/lib. Presumably they are linked to other locations, but just for fun I added /usr/lib to the paths in the nsplugins window and clicked the scan button again. Took a long time, but eventually it finished and made no difference at all. Still the same four listed in the plugins windows. Still no flash. Any more ideas anyone? Can anyone shed some light on whether the warnings from nspluginscan are normal or fatal? TIA Brian On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 01:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Brian: Open Konqueror. Select Settings and then Configure Konqueror. There should be a Netscape Plugins icon in the left hand column. Open it; there will be a sheet with two tabs. On the Scan tab, click Scan for Nsplugins. Then, under the Plugin tab, there will be a list -- mine shows that the Shockwave Flash and FutureSplash Player have been installed. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sat, 25 May 2002 11:22:06 -0500 (CDT) Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post to the list. Can anyone tell me how to install Gnome and Kde, but especially Gnome, without having Mandrake_Desk shoved down my throat. I can't even install Midnight Commander without it, for Chrissakes! This is for 8.1. If I can't get my desktop to be MY desktop, I'm going back to 7.2, which unlike 8.1 is lean and mean, or to another distro. Thanks, Dale Huckeby mandrake desk? wth are you talking about? if you are having a lot of trouble installing KDE by yourself ( BTW there are howto's Everywhere! try any mandrake related site...), try booting the installation CD, make no changes to the filesystems, choose only KDE and GNOME related packages, and install... HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail Attachments
On Saturday 25 May 2002 08:54 am, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Thanks Alastair... But it still doesn't explain why using these encodings won't attach the file correctly. At least i now know that if i always select Base 64 the mail will get through. i must be doing something wrong, i can choose any of the methods for attaching and they are all readable by both my machine, my wife at home, and her machine at work. -- 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] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Saturday 25 May 2002 09:22 am, Dale Huckeby opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: This is my first post to the list. Can anyone tell me how to install Gnome and Kde, but especially Gnome, without having Mandrake_Desk shoved down my throat. I can't even install Midnight Commander without it, for Chrissakes! This is for 8.1. If I can't get my desktop to be MY desktop, I'm going back to 7.2, which unlike 8.1 is lean and mean, or to another distro. if by mandrake_desk you mean the rpm, well it is only some icons and backgrounds. don't use them, choose other theme/styles, delete the mandrake shortcuts, whatever. but 800k of icons and backgrounds seems like a poor reason to go back a few versions to me. -- one mans theology is anothers belly laugh -heinlein 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] Flash plugin in Konq again
Brian: If I may chip in my two cents worth I've had a great deal of success with flash by downloading the Macromedia Flash Player from http://macromedia.com to my home directory and just unpacking the files there. This will leave you with /home/myname/flash_linux folder, then the directory to be scanned for plugins in my case as /home/tom/flash_linux. Substitute the myname for whatever you've named your home directory of course. Works flawlessly for me. Tom On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 11:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Brian: When I ran nspluginscan, a bunch of unfriendly messages also flew by, but I decided to ignore them, and so far I have not had any problems. Let's make sure we're talking about the same things here -- I have a (fairly) clean new install of 8.2 and KDE 2.2.2. I installed Flash from the PowerPack Commercial CD. (Netscape 6 had already been installed.) This put ShockwaveFlash.class and libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins; it also put README and readme.html in /usr/share/doc/FlashPlayer-5.0. I then downloaded kdebase-plugins-2.2.2-93mdk.i586.rpm and installed it with Software Manager, ran nspluginscan and rebooted. After that, it was just a matter of running the Scan for new plugins function from Konquer -- Settings -- Configure -- Netscape Plugins. Possible problems: 1. Check that /usr/lib/netscape/plugins does contain the two Flash files mentioned above. It's possible that Flash may have put them someplace else -- perhaps a /flash_linux directory. 2. Did you close and re-open KDE after running nspluginscan? (Hmm -- my notes show that I did a reboot -- old habits are hard to break. Think it makes any difference?) 3. Did then you run the Scan for new plugins in Konqueror? -- cmg On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:30 pm, you wrote: Sorry to have appeared dim here, but after another careful look I think maybe it's not me - something is screwy. I have visited the path you describe before (also available from the KDE config menu). After clicking on the Scan for nsplugins button I see under the plugins tab: Mozilla's real audio plugin Mozilla's pdf plugin Netscape's real audio plugin Netscape's pdf plugin No flash or whatever. For the record, when I run nspluginscan, I get: kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: NP_GetValue kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/raclass.zip: file=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/raclass.zip: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/raclass.zip: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: NP_GetValue kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so: file=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so: /usr/lib/lib1: shared object not open kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: NP_GetValue kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/raclass.zip: file=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/raclass.zip: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/raclass.zip: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: NP_GetValue A look at the rpm shows that the plugin files end up in /usr/lib. Presumably they are linked to other locations, but just for fun I added /usr/lib to the paths in the nsplugins window and clicked the scan button again. Took a long time, but eventually it finished and made no difference at all. Still the same four listed in the plugins windows. Still no flash. Any more ideas anyone? Can anyone shed some light on whether the warnings from nspluginscan are normal or fatal? TIA Brian On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 01:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Brian: Open Konqueror. Select Settings and then Configure Konqueror. There should be a Netscape Plugins icon in the left hand column. Open it; there will be a sheet with two tabs. On the Scan tab, click Scan for Nsplugins. Then, under the Plugin tab, there will be a list -- mine shows that the Shockwave Flash and FutureSplash Player have been installed. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Tom Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS
I use dyndns.org to redirect people to my PC when they type in my domain name, so thats not a problem. What is the problem is, due to the nimda type stuff, my ISP (Optimum Online) has blocked port 80. Now, I know I can change the port that Apache runs on, but since browsers by default go to port 80, it seems I can't use my PC as a server for my website anymore...which sucks, since I definilty don't want to pay for virtual hosting, even as cheap as it's gotten. Hell, even if it was free, I'd still want to host it myself... Does anyone have a solution for this? Is there any way around the port 80 blockade, where someone could type http://www.rogersherman.com instead of having to type http://www.rogersherman.com:newport#? - peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS and Linux
Keith Lynn wrote: 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 Yes, use ext2. Reiserfs in 8.0 is broken w/r/t nfs, and a delay of days is possible. Civileme Of course you could try 8.2 which has no such problem. 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
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 May 2002 2:01 pm, 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. They are, but there are undesirable side-effects (in my setup). The worst was that koffice appears broken for the time being. Once I saw this I removed (using rpm -e) all three versions that were present, namely 1.1.1 for KDE 2.2.2, 1.1.1 for KDE 3.0.0 and 1.2 beta 1 for KDE 3.0.0. I then put back 1.1.1 for KDE 3 using the Mandrake RPMs, but still no luck - nothing happens when I click an icon, and there are errors galore when I run it from a konsole. So, after an attempt to compile 1.2 beta 1 from source which also failed, I've moved to openoffice.org 1.0. I also had to rebuild a couple of panel applications (knetmonapplet and the liquid theme), which gave a similar shower of errors, and kxicq2 also failed. That isn't a problem - I've moved to gaim, which is better supported anyway. Finally, Mozilla 1.0.0 RC2 (Mandrake RPMs) no longer worked; I did rpm - -e then downloaded the generic installation package for 1.0.0 RC3 from mozilla.org and installed; it worked straight off. I think I'll stop installing new versions of KDE and wait for Mandrake 8.3 (9.0?) which, presumably, will have KDE 3.0.1 or 3.1, Mozilla 1.0 and so on prepackaged and will not have KDE 2.2.2 available by default (I hope). There are two things happening at the moment which are stoking up trouble: - - both KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0.x (with incremental upgrades thereof) being present on the same machine; - - MandrakeSoft moving from gcc 2.9.x to gcc 3.1.x for package-building. Still, when the new Mandrake appears I'll be able to reformat / and install everything from scratch without touching the application settings or personal data in /home. This is one of the least publicised yet most remarkable features of Linux, and is entirely a result of strong architecture; try doing it with any flavour of Windows ;) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE879bFCv59vFiSU4YRAomAAJ9AbaEz9ykm2q1KA3Zt97IbBiKEmACeLHDM se11cfiENQTKpgL151CoXoQ= =tafO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ISP help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok i finally got the modem installed but now the only isp i have is aol and it makes you use a .exe is there any way i can get aol to work on linux? Yes, just go to www.transgaming.com and sign up for a subscription then download the binary winex 2.0 and install it on your linux system. Now put in an AOL 5.0 CD ((DEFINITELY not the 7.0)) and if you don't have one just call the AOL number for cancellation of service; they'll be HAPPY to send you one just to keep you as a customer. OK equipped with the 5.0 CD and running linux, open the CD on the desktop and look all the exe's have a wineglass icon! Find the icon that says setup and voila`. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMFind.net down? Thanks
Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2002 21:12, Michael Adams wrote: I haven't got through sucessfully for ages. Anybody know what's happening there? Yeah and now my bookmark works again... I am thinking twilight zone stuff here. I have tried on and off for days. No Mandrake RPM of the XBasic Civileme liked though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The one from 8.1 still works, though it needs updating to XBasic 6.2 It was included last-minute in 8.1 and was on the commercial disk 2 which of course is nowhere on any rpmfind site But you can find it here www.civileme.com/Software where it is called xb-6.2.1-2mdk.i586.rpm Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modem,s
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 25 May 2002 08:59 am, you wrote: Anyone know where I could buy online a modem 56k that is easy install with 8.2. the one I,ve got is only 33.6 and its hardware modem but not going to work. E-bay has some good buys on modems if you can wait out the bidding. An external modem is an excellent choice. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MLINK56K Yes this one works in linux. The supplied internet phone software works only in windows but you really don't need that. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] interlink versapoint rf wireless keyboard
Has anyone gotten this wireless keyboard/mouse to work correctly under linux? The basestation interfaces through usb. I turned on bios support for usb keyboards. The keyboard works fine until linux starts to boot... I get a kernel message that states the device (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc00e) doesn't have an associated driver. I've gotten a corded usb keyboard and mouse to work, but this thing is being stubborn. I'm running a cleanly (freshly) installed 8.2. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ports for samba filesharing...
Hi all, In order to get my network card going again.. I had to upgrade my win2000 laptop to winXP.. surprisingly enough, its faster then it was, and I am surprisingly impressed in spite of myself.. for an M$ OS.. its not that bad.. its not linux.. but its ok, ,and i have lots of USB burners and scanners and stuff so I need winblows on at least one PC.. anyway,, onto my question.. All the windows PC's on this network connect via a linux box hooked to my ADSL.. works fine.. I just enabled the winXP firewall on my pcmcia network interface.. and all PC's have just dropped of samba access to this box... I added port 139 to the open ports, but still can't access any shares on the linux box.. What ports do I need to open to allow samba or smb shares to be available on the xp box??? rgds frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS
There might be some port redirection service you could use, but I don't know what it is.. you can set apache to use a different port.. then somewhere online.. use one of the free webhosting accounts with friendly URL's like http://go.to/franki (or get a real domain.) put a page up there and use meta tags or javascript to redirect it to your other port.. that way people only need to remember the go.to address and the other port still gets used.. other then that, another ISP??? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, 26 May 2002 1:50 AM To: newbie Subject: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS I use dyndns.org to redirect people to my PC when they type in my domain name, so thats not a problem. What is the problem is, due to the nimda type stuff, my ISP (Optimum Online) has blocked port 80. Now, I know I can change the port that Apache runs on, but since browsers by default go to port 80, it seems I can't use my PC as a server for my website anymore...which sucks, since I definilty don't want to pay for virtual hosting, even as cheap as it's gotten. Hell, even if it was free, I'd still want to host it myself... Does anyone have a solution for this? Is there any way around the port 80 blockade, where someone could type http://www.rogersherman.com instead of having to type http://www.rogersherman.com:newport#? - peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] interlink versapoint rf wireless keyboard
Actually, that device number is associated with a corded usb mouse I had hooked up. Disregard that. I tried this wireless keyboard on my Mac OSX machine and it worked. On Saturday, May 25, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Anthony Loeppert wrote: Has anyone gotten this wireless keyboard/mouse to work correctly under linux? The basestation interfaces through usb. I turned on bios support for usb keyboards. The keyboard works fine until linux starts to boot... I get a kernel message that states the device (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc00e) doesn't have an associated driver. I've gotten a corded usb keyboard and mouse to work, but this thing is being stubborn. I'm running a cleanly (freshly) installed 8.2. 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] ISP help
HAHAHAHAHA the aol 5.0 cd thing worked perfect lol thanks people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Down-grade to XFree86 4.1
I've just upgraded from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2. Actually it was a clean install. It appears that XFree 4.2 doesn't work well with my video card(Tridend 3DImage975). My screen appears very dark and is impossible to read if I try to go higher than 8-bit colour. Are there any other packages I need to install if I downgrade to XFree 4.1. drakxtools perhaps. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Down-grade to XFree86 4.1
On Sat, 25 May 2002 17:02:06 -0400 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just upgraded from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2. Actually it was a clean install. It appears that XFree 4.2 doesn't work well with my video card(Tridend 3DImage975). My screen appears very dark and is impossible to read if I try to go higher than 8-bit colour. Are there any other packages I need to install if I downgrade to XFree 4.1. drakxtools perhaps. Bill If its a Trident card *I'm assuming a spelling error here from you*, you will have to use 3.36 xfree IIRC. The archives tell of many others with similar cards that have the same problems in 8.x. Just fair warning ;p Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
On Saturday 25 May 2002 01:47 pm, Tom wrote: Brian: If I may chip in my two cents worth I've had a great deal of success with flash by downloading the Macromedia Flash Player from http://macromedia.com to my home directory and just unpacking the files there. This will leave you with /home/myname/flash_linux folder, then the directory to be scanned for plugins in my case as /home/tom/flash_linux. Substitute the myname for whatever you've named your home directory of course. Works flawlessly for me. Tom Tom: But does this work in Konqueror? I see that you use Ximian Evolution, and that's a somewhat different kettle of fish. The hassle Brian's having is not so much installing Flash as it is getting Konq to find it. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Down-grade to XFree86 4.1
On Sat, 25 May 2002 15:25:46 -0600 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 17:02:06 -0400 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just upgraded from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2. Actually it was a clean install. It appears that XFree 4.2 doesn't work well with my video card(Tridend 3DImage975). My screen appears very dark and is impossible to read if I try to go higher than 8-bit colour. Are there any other packages I need to install if I downgrade to XFree 4.1. drakxtools perhaps. Bill If its a Trident card *I'm assuming a spelling error here from you*, you will have to use 3.36 xfree IIRC. The archives tell of many others with similar cards that have the same problems in 8.x. Just fair warning ;p Femme Yes it is a Trident card. XFree3.3.6 doesn't work well with it either. Although it works better than 4.2 does. 4.1 works well. I just wondered if I would need to downgrade drakxtools as well. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Down-grade to XFree86 4.1
Bill Davidson wrote: I've just upgraded from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2. Actually it was a clean install. It appears that XFree 4.2 doesn't work well with my video card(Tridend 3DImage975). My screen appears very dark and is impossible to read if I try to go higher than 8-bit colour. Are there any other packages I need to install if I downgrade to XFree 4.1. drakxtools perhaps. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com IIRC, the 975 works even better in XFree 3.3.6 provided you tune it correctly. Try that first or get the source rpms for 4.1 and make sure you are setup for development urpmi rpm-build urpmi rpm-rebuilder rpm -ivh (each of the XF4.1 source modules AND XFdrake ) urpme XFree86-server rpm --rebuild (each of the XF4.1 nodules AND XFdrake) and put all the new binary rpms in a separate directory, cd there, then urpmi ./* That woll build XFree4.1 for this distro and install it. Fome there you need XFdrake --expert Civileme 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 Saturday 25 May 2002 11:24 am, Alastair Scott opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: The worst was that koffice appears broken for the time being. Once I saw ack! just found that out myself. I also had to rebuild a couple of panel applications (knetmonapplet and the liquid theme), which gave a similar shower of errors, and kxicq2 the liquid 9.5-5.mdk works fine here. i forget where i found it but if you want it i can send it. -- Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right? --Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems 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] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 11:22:06 -0500 (CDT) Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post to the list. Can anyone tell me how to install Gnome and Kde, but especially Gnome, without having Mandrake_Desk shoved down my throat. I can't even install Midnight Commander without it, for Chrissakes! This is for 8.1. If I can't get my desktop to be MY desktop, I'm going back to 7.2, which unlike 8.1 is lean and mean, or to another distro. Thanks, Dale Huckeby mandrake desk? wth are you talking about? if you are having a lot of trouble installing KDE by yourself ( BTW there are howto's Everywhere! try any mandrake related site...), try booting the installation CD, make no changes to the filesystems, choose only KDE and GNOME related packages, and install... HTH I appreciate the thought, but no, it doesn't. I'm NOT having trouble installing KDE all by myself, or Gnome either, for that matter. I've installed 7.2 dozens of times and 8.1 four or five. The problem is the way Mandrake 8.1 tries to take over the desktop. With 7.2, in Gnome, I could drag and drop icons from the menus to the desktop, a very nice feature. With 8.1 I can't. When it loads I can see the blue background screen, then my wallpaper covers it, then another blue screen covers that, then my wallpaper again covers the whole mess, this time with the Mandrake icons rather than the ones I'm used to. And these icons can't be changed, at least not by the methods I'm used to, nor can I drag and drop from the menus. I'm assuming, perhaps erroneously, that the difference between this and the previous behavior is the Mandrake_Desk package, which didn't exist in 7.2. There are other aggravations, too, but I'll spare you. Regards, Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Qestion of Memory
On Sun, 26 May 2002 03:30, John Richard Smith wrote: On Friday 24 May 2002 12:46, you wrote: There should be features to help such a transfer -- Excel and Lotus have them, not sure about Gnumeric and Kspread. On Sat May 25th , you wrote: 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 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 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. Well I do have gnumeric on my machine and I opened the kspread file in kspread and saved as gnumeric file , which I then opened in gnumeric. About 1.5 seconds. However it was not flawless. the 50total,89total,and 200toal columns were duds, every figure gone. I also remade the colour scheme which is not so delightfully sensitive as kspread and does not look so nice, however the saved file reopened in gnumeric in about 1.5seconds. I would say the developers at kde resposible for kspread need to look into this urgently. John John, OpenOffice.org may be the answer. Never mind the question. Open Office includes a spreadsheet that has been tried and proven in a successful office suite for years (Suns Star Office). It will import and export in Excel format with little loss of quality. Plus you get a word processor that can read MS Word files and others thrown in. Help is available on the list for installing it. I believe Tom posted an address to download the latest version from as a Mandrake RPM within the last few days. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Franki wrote: There might be some port redirection service you could use, but I don't know what it is.. you can set apache to use a different port.. then somewhere online.. use one of the free webhosting accounts with friendly URL's like http://go.to/franki (or get a real domain.) put a page up there and use meta tags or javascript to redirect it to your other port.. that way people only need to remember the go.to address and the other port still gets used.. other then that, another ISP??? Thanks Franki, but those answers aren't for me. I don't want to have to deal with a free hosting page, even as just a redirect...nor do I want to attatch my domain name to a free webpage, and then not have that domain name associated with my server. And with the one exception, my ISP offers really good service. Thanks anyways... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, 26 May 2002 1:50 AM To: newbie Subject: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS I use dyndns.org to redirect people to my PC when they type in my domain name, so thats not a problem. What is the problem is, due to the nimda type stuff, my ISP (Optimum Online) has blocked port 80. Now, I know I can change the port that Apache runs on, but since browsers by default go to port 80, it seems I can't use my PC as a server for my website anymore...which sucks, since I definilty don't want to pay for virtual hosting, even as cheap as it's gotten. Hell, even if it was free, I'd still want to host it myself... Does anyone have a solution for this? Is there any way around the port 80 blockade, where someone could type http://www.rogersherman.com instead of having to type http://www.rogersherman.com:newport#? - peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 11:22:06 -0500 (CDT) Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post to the list. Can anyone tell me how to install Gnome and Kde, but especially Gnome, without having Mandrake_Desk shoved down my throat. I can't even install Midnight Commander without it, for Chrissakes! This is for 8.1. If I can't get my desktop to be MY desktop, I'm going back to 7.2, which unlike 8.1 is lean and mean, or to another distro. Thanks, Dale Huckeby mandrake desk? wth are you talking about? if you are having a lot of trouble installing KDE by yourself ( BTW there are howto's Everywhere! try any mandrake related site...), try booting the installation CD, make no changes to the filesystems, choose only KDE and GNOME related packages, and install... HTH I appreciate the thought, but no, it doesn't. I'm NOT having trouble installing KDE all by myself, or Gnome either, for that matter. I've installed 7.2 dozens of times and 8.1 four or five. The problem is the way Mandrake 8.1 tries to take over the desktop. With 7.2, in Gnome, I could drag and drop icons from the menus to the desktop, a very nice feature. With 8.1 I can't. When it loads I can see the blue background screen, then my wallpaper covers it, then another blue screen covers that, then my wallpaper again covers the whole mess, this time with the Mandrake icons rather than the ones I'm used to. And these icons can't be changed, at least not by the methods I'm used to, nor can I drag and drop from the menus. I'm assuming, perhaps erroneously, that the difference between this and the previous behavior is the Mandrake_Desk package, which didn't exist in 7.2. There are other aggravations, too, but I'll spare you. Regards, Dale Huckeby Have you thought about trying 8.2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail Attachments
On Sun, 26 May 2002 05:25, shane wrote: On Saturday 25 May 2002 08:54 am, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Thanks Alastair... But it still doesn't explain why using these encodings won't attach the file correctly. At least i now know that if i always select Base 64 the mail will get through. i must be doing something wrong, i can choose any of the methods for attaching and they are all readable by both my machine, my wife at home, and her machine at work. No Shane, you are doing it right. It may be a setup thing that i have done. I am pretty sure that i am not trying to send a link :-). I tried sending the same file from a fat32 partition and it did the same thing with the 8-bit and Quoted-printable encoding options. I am simply bemused. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sun, 26 May 2002 05:02, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 11:22:06 -0500 (CDT) Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post to the list. Can anyone tell me how to install Gnome and Kde, but especially Gnome, without having Mandrake_Desk shoved down my throat. I can't even install Midnight Commander without it, for Chrissakes! This is for 8.1. If I can't get my desktop to be MY desktop, I'm going back to 7.2, which unlike 8.1 is lean and mean, or to another distro. Thanks, Dale Huckeby mandrake desk? wth are you talking about? if you are having a lot of trouble installing KDE by yourself ( BTW there are howto's Everywhere! try any mandrake related site...), try booting the installation CD, make no changes to the filesystems, choose only KDE and GNOME related packages, and install... HTH Damian If you are talking about the background image then replace it. For KDE: Control Centre Look 'n' feel Backgrounds. If you are talking about the icons then right click on them and delete them. If it is a popup welcome window there may be a checkbox on it to prevent it coming up. P*ssed off attitudes usually draw p*ssed on replies Dale. It is worse when nobody understands what you are talking about. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sat, 25 May 2002, shane wrote: On Saturday 25 May 2002 09:22 am, Dale Huckeby opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: This is my first post to the list. Can anyone tell me how to install Gnome and Kde, but especially Gnome, without having Mandrake_Desk shoved down my throat. I can't even install Midnight Commander without it, for Chrissakes! This is for 8.1. If I can't get my desktop to be MY desktop, I'm going back to 7.2, which unlike 8.1 is lean and mean, or to another distro. if by mandrake_desk you mean the rpm, well it is only some icons and backgrounds. don't use them, choose other theme/styles, delete the mandrake shortcuts, whatever. but 800k of icons and backgrounds seems like a poor reason to go back a few versions to me. If it's only some icons and backgrounds, why does Mandrake threaten to uncheck so many other packages, such as GMC and MC, when I uncheck it? It's not just 800k of icons and backgrounds. It's an overall difference in behavior between 7.2 and 8.1. With 7.2 I type in my userid, then my password (at the console), and Bam!, I have a prompt. With 8.1 it takes about 10 seconds. With 7.2, in Gnome, I can put in one of the install CDs, double-click on the CD icon, and GMC pops up and in very short order I can browse RPMs. In 8.1 the same actions bring up Nautilus, which is a bloated pig of a program, and I wait and wait while it loads the same info in about three times the time it takes GMC. Granted, this is Gnome rather than Mandrake per se, but this graphics intensive, take the poor dumb user by the hand attitude seems to permeate the latest version. In 7.2, for instance, if I wanted to run a program that needed root permission while in a GUI as user, up pops a window that lets me type in root's password, then the program itself comes up. Now, after I type in root's password, nothing happens, so I have to exit the GUI, type, say, xinit /usr/bin/startgnome from a root console, then watch the GUI scold me for running it in root as I do what I tried to do unsuccessfully from the user GUI. Can you spell b-u-g? Don't get me wrong. I have used and loved Mandrake for several years. And I appreciate that one of the 8.1 wizards was able to recognize that my new ISP (I just moved cross-country) required a PAP login with the password twice, not once, something tech help (We don't support Linux) was too incompetent to tell me, and thus got the connection going. But Mandrake_Desk, if that's the package that's doing it, interposes an extra layer of control over the desktop, giving me the icons IT wants me to have and taking away some of the functionality I had in 7.2. The reason I abandoned Microshaft several years ago in the first place was that, in addition to MS's outrageous corporate behavior, I got tired of having my software dictate to me. Well, 8.1 is getting uncomfortably close to that same sort of behavior. It's buggy, it's bloated, it's slow, and it's too inclined to take me, the user, by the hand because it knows so much better than me what's good for me. Just my subjective impression, of course. That's why I'm seriously considering going back to 7.2, or even Redhat (again), or SUSE, or Slackware, or even Debian. Dale Huckeby ps. I'm also thinking of reinstalling 7.2, and then upgrading specific packages, such as replacing the older Gnome with 1.4. But the point is, I want *only* Gnome 1.4, without Mandrake's own desktop aps trying to run the show. The problem with this is the (shudder) download time over a dialup connection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 11:22:06 -0500 (CDT) Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post to the list. Can anyone tell me how to install Gnome and Kde, but especially Gnome, without having Mandrake_Desk shoved down my throat. I can't even install Midnight Commander without it, for Chrissakes! This is for 8.1. If I can't get my desktop to be MY desktop, I'm going back to 7.2, which unlike 8.1 is lean and mean, or to another distro. Thanks, Dale Huckeby mandrake desk? wth are you talking about? if you are having a lot of trouble installing KDE by yourself ( BTW there are howto's Everywhere! try any mandrake related site...), try booting the installation CD, make no changes to the filesystems, choose only KDE and GNOME related packages, and install... HTH I appreciate the thought, but no, it doesn't. I'm NOT having trouble installing KDE all by myself, or Gnome either, for that matter. I've installed 7.2 dozens of times and 8.1 four or five. The problem is the way Mandrake 8.1 tries to take over the desktop. With 7.2, in Gnome, I could drag and drop icons from the menus to the desktop, a very nice feature. With 8.1 I can't. When it loads I can see the blue background screen, then my wallpaper covers it, then another blue screen covers that, then my wallpaper again covers the whole mess, this time with the Mandrake icons rather than the ones I'm used to. And these icons can't be changed, at least not by the methods I'm used to, nor can I drag and drop from the menus. I'm assuming, perhaps erroneously, that the difference between this and the previous behavior is the Mandrake_Desk package, which didn't exist in 7.2. There are other aggravations, too, but I'll spare you. Regards, Dale Huckeby Have you thought about trying 8.2? I bought the 7.2 powerpack several years ago. I turned my daughter and son-in-law on to Linux, they bought the 8.1 poerpack, and I burned copies and installed from that. But having just moved and not having a job yet, I don't have the wherewithall to buy 8.2, and I'm a little chary of the download time and possible difficulties in upgrading to 8.2. But yes, it's still an option that I should consider. Thanks for mentioning it. I hope it fixes some of 8.1's bugs, such as refusing to give me the console resolution I ask for during setup, or even by editing the relevant GRUB file in the /boot directory. If I want 80 by 23, I can only get it by using the nonfb image. Thanks, Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMFind.net down? Thanks
On Sun, 26 May 2002 06:37, civileme wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2002 21:12, Michael Adams wrote: I haven't got through sucessfully for ages. Anybody know what's happening there? Yeah and now my bookmark works again... I am thinking twilight zone stuff here. I have tried on and off for days. No Mandrake RPM of the XBasic Civileme liked though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The one from 8.1 still works, though it needs updating to XBasic 6.2 It was included last-minute in 8.1 and was on the commercial disk 2 which of course is nowhere on any rpmfind site But you can find it here www.civileme.com/Software where it is called xb-6.2.1-2mdk.i586.rpm Civileme Thanks, now i expect a huge gap from my previous AmigaBasic experience to this. Never mind, i am off to RTFM. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Dale Huckeby wrote: Have you thought about trying 8.2? I bought the 7.2 powerpack several years ago. I turned my daughter and son-in-law on to Linux, they bought the 8.1 poerpack, and I burned copies and installed from that. But having just moved and not having a job yet, I don't have the wherewithall to buy 8.2, and I'm a little chary of the download time and possible difficulties in upgrading to 8.2. But yes, it's still an option that I should consider. Thanks for mentioning it. I hope it fixes some of 8.1's bugs, such as refusing to give me the console resolution I ask for during setup, or even by editing the relevant GRUB file in the /boot directory. If I want 80 by 23, I can only get it by using the nonfb image. Another option would be to buy it from Cheapbytes, or some other place like that...you just get the download disks, but it only costs about $5. Judging from another one of your posts, I really think you'll like 8.2 a lot better - I think it's the first Mandrake version to wrest the title of Best Ever Mandrake from 7.2. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, need a file or help/pointer
In the noble (or not-so noble if you prefer) tradition of plinking around in my system I decided *stupidly perhaps* to install a network-cracking tool. Now, you're wondering why right? Simple, I want to learn more about security issues where holes are in my system a legal hack it till you drop system on the net www.sec33.com. Fine, so I got a program called Nessus (conveniently its on MDK's cd's). However a newer version adds some functionality. Now, I have 2 problems to solve. I have RTFMed the site their tutorial *Only good for the current version I may add*. It tells me how to setup a user/admin get my Nessus running. Problem: If I try to install it from teh CLI it informs me it will NOT install/run the GUI tool because I don't have gtk-config in my path. Now, being a good little dooby (watch Romper-room, they have all sorts of dooby's), i searched Searched my cd's, my directories, my whole system. I even did a find *gtk*. That got me a huge list, one of which was libconf-gtk-xx. Fine, tahts it I say to myself. Wrong. So... went to teh web, searched google some other RPM sites *Like sourceforge RPM.net*. No joy. anyone know where I can find this #^@#$ file!? Problem 2: Assuming problem one is solved, I am unable to start the program as a user itself because it tells me my host isn't up or correct. If I input my IP # instead of my HOST in the Host box, I get an SSL error, telling me its unable to open SSL. So, back to my cd's Web I go in search of SSL. It seems I do have SSL installed (how to tell though exactly? I searched for SSL on my system and it tells me open-ssl is installed, teh package I need). So what the hell am I doing wrong here? If anyone has some suggestions/ideas/knowledge about Nessus or how to sovle this crap, please let me know. Thx Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
On Sat, 25 May 2002 23:26:20 -0400 darklord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:57 pm, you wrote: How do I restart my Internet Daemon from a Term window? I am using the MDK Control Center atm cause i keep getting cut-off (still don't know why). Its rather tedious i'd rather just enter a few commands @ a prompt. Ty. Femme Hey. If you're using KDE (or the KDE stuff) then you can do a: kppp and it will give you the usual interface for logging on to the 'Net. You should also be able to use /usr/sbin/pppd. I'm not sure about the syntax (read the man files) as I've never used it like that... HTHs... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ well... Not really. But thx, I'm on DSL you see, and I connect through a switch to a 3man LAN. So in effect I'm on a second IP address we lease through our ISP. Sorry I wasn't more specific DL :) Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
Tom: How did you convince Konqueror that Flash was available? I didn't have any problems installing Flash in Mandrake 8.1. Perhaps that's because 8.1 installed Netscape 4.x as part of the default installation, so that the necessary file structure was present when Flash was installed. In 8.2, however, Netscape is _not_ installed unless it is explicitly specified (which I didn't do). Konqueror seems to want the necessary Flash references installed in /netscape/plugins. And, if you don't go through the kdebase-nsplugins installation and then run nspluginscan, there isn't any way to tell Konqueror to look for Flash -- at least from the GUI side. -- cmg On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:36 pm, you wrote: Carrol, Sorry, I should have clarified that, yes it does work extremely well for Konqueror. Tom On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 16:41, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 25 May 2002 01:47 pm, Tom wrote: Brian: If I may chip in my two cents worth I've had a great deal of success with flash by downloading the Macromedia Flash Player from http://macromedia.com to my home directory and just unpacking the files there. This will leave you with /home/myname/flash_linux folder, then the directory to be scanned for plugins in my case as /home/tom/flash_linux. Substitute the myname for whatever you've named your home directory of course. Works flawlessly for me. Tom Tom: But does this work in Konqueror? I see that you use Ximian Evolution, and that's a somewhat different kettle of fish. The hassle Brian's having is not so much installing Flash as it is getting Konq to find it. -- cmg 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] Program help
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 12:43, Tim Ford wrote: A few quick questions - Im trying to get internet connectivity through Telstra Big Pond cable. I have run ifconfig, and it showed me which one was connecting. For the second part, i needed to run a program which allows me to access the cable line. It came in RPM fashion, i installed it, and now i cannot run the program, as it doesn't show up in my run list, and the binary has the descritption application/x-octetstream. i was wondering how i could go about running the program (i run gnome, btw), and/or finding where i went wrong in the installation. Tim, I have set up bigpond cable for customers. I had to use a thing called bpalogin. It's easy to set up and use. Can mail it to your privately if you like. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 12:57, Femme wrote: How do I restart my Internet Daemon from a Term window? I am using the MDK Control Center atm cause i keep getting cut-off (still don't know why). Its rather tedious i'd rather just enter a few commands a prompt. Ty. Femme Femme, I am using a DSL connection too. Didn't use MCC to set it up though. In my case I ran adsl-setup to enter the config info. then adsl-start to make it go. Both from the console, both text based. Didn't know there was another way :-) HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
On 26 May 2002 13:52:39 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 12:57, Femme wrote: How do I restart my Internet Daemon from a Term window? I am using the MDK Control Center atm cause i keep getting cut-off (still don't know why). Its rather tedious i'd rather just enter a few commands @ a prompt. Ty. Femme Femme, I am using a DSL connection too. Didn't use MCC to set it up though. In my case I ran adsl-setup to enter the config info. then adsl-start to make it go. Both from the console, both text based. Didn't know there was another way :-) HTH Brian I hate you.. you know that don't you? *S* K Thx, I assume adsl-stop works then too? And I suppose you need to be root too? Anywhere I can get info on this little gem? I found only one adsl file on my system, called /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/adsl.pm. Is that it? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
Carroll, I removed all the defaults from Konqueror then clicked on add new and that brought up my /home/tom, double clicked on flash_linux and basically gave Konqueror no other options when I scanned for plugins. BTW, this is Flash 5.0 also, I also copy it to my mozilla plugins. My nine year old son likes to visit a site or two that Flash 4.0 can't seem to deal with. Tom On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 22:43, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Tom: How did you convince Konqueror that Flash was available? I didn't have any problems installing Flash in Mandrake 8.1. Perhaps that's because 8.1 installed Netscape 4.x as part of the default installation, so that the necessary file structure was present when Flash was installed. In 8.2, however, Netscape is _not_ installed unless it is explicitly specified (which I didn't do). Konqueror seems to want the necessary Flash references installed in /netscape/plugins. And, if you don't go through the kdebase-nsplugins installation and then run nspluginscan, there isn't any way to tell Konqueror to look for Flash -- at least from the GUI side. -- cmg On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:36 pm, you wrote: Carrol, Sorry, I should have clarified that, yes it does work extremely well for Konqueror. Tom On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 16:41, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 25 May 2002 01:47 pm, Tom wrote: Brian: If I may chip in my two cents worth I've had a great deal of success with flash by downloading the Macromedia Flash Player from http://macromedia.com to my home directory and just unpacking the files there. This will leave you with /home/myname/flash_linux folder, then the directory to be scanned for plugins in my case as /home/tom/flash_linux. Substitute the myname for whatever you've named your home directory of course. Works flawlessly for me. Tom Tom: But does this work in Konqueror? I see that you use Ximian Evolution, and that's a somewhat different kettle of fish. The hassle Brian's having is not so much installing Flash as it is getting Konq to find it. -- cmg 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 -- Tom Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 14:15, Femme wrote: On 26 May 2002 13:52:39 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 12:57, Femme wrote: How do I restart my Internet Daemon from a Term window? I am using the MDK Control Center atm cause i keep getting cut-off (still don't know why). Its rather tedious i'd rather just enter a few commands @ a prompt. Ty. Femme Femme, I am using a DSL connection too. Didn't use MCC to set it up though. In my case I ran adsl-setup to enter the config info. then adsl-start to make it go. Both from the console, both text based. Didn't know there was another way :-) HTH Brian I hate you.. you know that don't you? *S* K Thx, I assume adsl-stop works then too? And I suppose you need to be root too? Anywhere I can get info on this little gem? I found only one adsl file on my system, called /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/adsl.pm. Is that it? Femme Yes, you need to be root. Have a look for these: $ l /usr/sbin/adsl* /usr/sbin/adsl-connect* /usr/sbin/adsl-start* /usr/sbin/adsl-stop* /usr/sbin/adsl-setup*/usr/sbin/adsl-status* Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 14:15, Femme wrote: On 26 May 2002 13:52:39 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 12:57, Femme wrote: How do I restart my Internet Daemon from a Term window? I am using the MDK Control Center atm cause i keep getting cut-off (still don't know why). Its rather tedious i'd rather just enter a few commands @ a prompt. Ty. Femme Femme, I am using a DSL connection too. Didn't use MCC to set it up though. In my case I ran adsl-setup to enter the config info. then adsl-start to make it go. Both from the console, both text based. Didn't know there was another way :-) HTH Brian I hate you.. you know that don't you? *S* K Thx, I assume adsl-stop works then too? And I suppose you need to be root too? Anywhere I can get info on this little gem? I found only one adsl file on my system, called /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/adsl.pm. Is that it? Femme Addendum to my last post. adsl-* came as a result (I think) of installing one of these: ppp-2.4.1-3mdk rp-pppoe-gui-3.3-2mdk rp-pppoe-3.3-2mdk Probably the last, but if you are running DSL, you should probably have them all installed. They are on the distro CDs. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 12:43, Tim Ford wrote: A few quick questions - Im trying to get internet connectivity through Telstra Big Pond cable. I have run ifconfig, and it showed me which one was connecting. For the second part, i needed to run a program which allows me to access the cable line. It came in RPM fashion, i installed it, and now i cannot run the program, as it doesn't show up in my run list, and the binary has the descritption application/x-octetstream. i was wondering how i could go about running the program (i run gnome, btw), and/or finding where i went wrong in the installation. Tim, I have set up bigpond cable for customers. I had to use a thing called bpalogin. It's easy to set up and use. Can mail it to your privately if you like. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, thats the problem. I have Bpalogin rpm, and i installed it, however i cannot run it. When i go to the binary of it, it says its not an application (it says its an octetstream), and i am unsure how to run it, delete it or reinstall it. Any help would be appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 17:12, Tim Ford wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 12:43, Tim Ford wrote: A few quick questions - Im trying to get internet connectivity through Telstra Big Pond cable. I have run ifconfig, and it showed me which one was connecting. For the second part, i needed to run a program which allows me to access the cable line. It came in RPM fashion, i installed it, and now i cannot run the program, as it doesn't show up in my run list, and the binary has the descritption application/x-octetstream. i was wondering how i could go about running the program (i run gnome, btw), and/or finding where i went wrong in the installation. Tim, I have set up bigpond cable for customers. I had to use a thing called bpalogin. It's easy to set up and use. Can mail it to your privately if you like. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, thats the problem. I have Bpalogin rpm, and i installed it, however i cannot run it. When i go to the binary of it, it says its not an application (it says its an octetstream), and i am unsure how to run it, delete it or reinstall it. Any help would be appreciated. Sounds like the rpm installation didn't make it executable. If so, all you should need to do is: chmod +x /where/ever/it/lives/bpalogin You will need to be root to do this. You also need some settings in /etc/bpalogin.conf IIRC. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 14:32, Tom Sparks wrote: Carroll, I removed all the defaults from Konqueror then clicked on add new and that brought up my /home/tom, double clicked on flash_linux and basically gave Konqueror no other options when I scanned for plugins. BTW, this is Flash 5.0 also, I also copy it to my mozilla plugins. My nine year old son likes to visit a site or two that Flash 4.0 can't seem to deal with. Tom OK, this worked nicely for me too. You're right - the flash player that comes on the distro doesn't work at all sites. My 7 year old can now happily click away on neopets. thanks Tom and Carroll Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
From the command line. I use ifup ppp0 to establish a connection, and ifdown ppp0 to kill it. Actually, I've put aliases in my .bashrc for u and o, so that's what I type, but those commands are what they stand for. Dale Huckeby On Sat, 25 May 2002, darklord wrote: On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:57 pm, you wrote: How do I restart my Internet Daemon from a Term window? I am using the MDK Control Center atm cause i keep getting cut-off (still don't know why). Its rather tedious i'd rather just enter a few commands a prompt. Ty. Femme Hey. If you're using KDE (or the KDE stuff) then you can do a: kppp and it will give you the usual interface for logging on to the 'Net. You should also be able to use /usr/sbin/pppd. I'm not sure about the syntax (read the man files) as I've never used it like that... HTHs... ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail Attachments
On Saturday 25 May 2002 05:16 pm, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: No Shane, you are doing it right. It may be a setup thing that i have done. I am pretty sure that i am not trying to send a link :-). I tried sending the same file from a fat32 partition and it did the same thing with the 8-bit and Quoted-printable encoding options. I am simply bemused. maybe the at32 is the key, do you have the same trouble sending from a linux part? not that it will help much, but i admit i am curious now -- The linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself.' That's it. -L. Torvalds 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] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Saturday 25 May 2002 05:29 pm, Dale Huckeby opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: If it's only some icons and backgrounds, why does Mandrake threaten to uncheck so many other packages, such as GMC and MC, when I uncheck it? It's not just 800k of icons and backgrounds. It's an overall difference in behavior between 7.2 and 8.1. With 7.2 I type in my userid, then my password (at the console), and Bam!, I have a prompt. With 8.1 it takes about 10 seconds. With 7.2, in Gnome, I can put in one of the install CDs, double-click on the CD icon, and GMC pops up and in very short order I can browse RPMs. In 8.1 the same actions bring up Nautilus, which is a bloated pig of a program, and I wait and wait while it loads the same info in about three times the time it takes GMC. Granted, this is Gnome rather than Mandrake per se, but this graphics intensive, take the poor dumb user by the hand attitude seems to permeate the latest version. ah i see, you want the minimul thing. i got ya now! i agree, nautilus is a pig (and i am a bloated kde user most of the time!) i do think that is partly gnome, but i see you point. In 7.2, for instance, if I wanted to run a program that needed root permission while in a GUI as user, up pops a window that lets me type in root's password, then the program itself comes up. Now, after I type in root's password, that sounds like perhaps a missing suid or some such. i haven't had that trouble in any version. The reason I abandoned Microshaft several years ago in the first place was that, in addition to MS's outrageous corporate behavior, I got tired of having my software dictate to me. agree there! though the wizards are getting close to out-o-control there are signs they are getting smarter. it is nice to see the kde wizard want to walk me through everything first boot, but still include the cancel button -- 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
