Re: [newbie-it] Altro file non visualizzabile
Alle 12:14, sabato 25 maggio 2002, hai scritto: 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. A me è sembrato che quel vilsualizzatore non funzioni sempre bene. Prova a caricarti dal cd della distribuzione il programma xpdf. ciao
[newbie-it] Rete locale con Linux
Ho intenzione di realizzare per l'oratrio del mio paese una piccola rete locale linux con una quindicina di pc per far divertire un po di ragazzini e spigare loro un po' loro come funziona Linux. Il mio problema è che non so neanche da che parte iniziare... Qualcuno saprebbe spiegarmi brevemente come procedere? Sapreste consigliarmi qualche link con tutorial semplici e pratici? Un'altro dubbio: i pc sono dei vecchi pentium 100; con pc così datati si riesce a far girare il server grafico? Si riesce ad usare KDE o richiede troppe risorse? Grazie, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] prova per compilare
Molto più facile di quello che pensi. Dovrebbe esserci un readme o un INSTALL o cose simili, l'estensione è secondaria. Leggilo e segui le istruzioni :) Molto facilmente sarà qualcosa tipo ./configure make e da root make install e il gioco è fatto. uhmm si la cosa si presentava abbastanza semplice, ma poi.il risultato è questo!!! voi che ci capite? io niente! altra piccola domanda...se io volessi disinstallare il programma, che dovrei fare? manina e santa pazzienza? Ciao , Tom - [***@*** mjs]$ make gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c mjs.c mjs.c: In function `main': mjs.c:97: warning: implicit declaration of function `time' gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c misc.c gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c info.c gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c config.c gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c playlist.c gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c inputline.c gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c mpgcontrol.c gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c tokens.c In file included from tokens.c:4: include/tokens.h:10:22: warning: no newline at end of file include/tokens.h:10:22: warning: no newline at end of file gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c window.c In file included from window.c:7: include/tokens.h:10:22: warning: no newline at end of file include/tokens.h:10:22: warning: no newline at end of file gcc -O2 -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -mpentium -DVERSION=\3.0-rc1\ -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -c files.c gcc -mpentium -o mjs mjs.o misc.o info.o config.o playlist.o inputline.o mpgcontrol.o tokens.o window.o files.o -L/usr/local/lib -lncurses -lpanel [***@*** mjs]$ su Password: [***@*** mjs]# make install install -c -o 0 -g 0 mjs /usr/local/bin install -c -o 0 -g 0 findmp3 /usr/local/bin touch /var/log/mp3log chmod a+rw /var/log/mp3log touch /var/state/mp3active touch: creazione di `/var/state/mp3active': No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1
[newbie-it] R: [newbie-it] Perch s'impianta?
Ho letto i test. Da quanto ne so, il malloc significa, letteralmente, memory allocation, e quindi significa che non riesce ad allocare la memoria, se non tutta almeno alcune locazioni. Cerca di fare lo stesso test anche sotto win e controlla se non vede le stesse locazioni. Sempre per quanto riguarda win, c'è da considerare che è lo stesso sistema che si incarica di gestire tutta la memoria, e quindi, probabilmente, è il sistema che è in grado di riconoscere e saltare le parti difettose. Se vuoi fare una prova più drastica, leva un banco alla volta (suppongo che tu abbia due banchi da 128 M) e vedi come si comporta il sistema. Ciao e fammi sapere. Ferdinando
Re: [newbie-it] Rete locale con Linux
On 26 May 2002 17:00:15 +0200 Pollo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho intenzione di realizzare per l'oratrio del mio paese una piccola rete locale linux con una quindicina di pc per far divertire un po di ragazzini e spigare loro un po' loro come funziona Linux. Il mio problema è che non so neanche da che parte iniziare... Qualcuno saprebbe spiegarmi brevemente come procedere? Sapreste consigliarmi qualche link con tutorial semplici e pratici? Un'altro dubbio: i pc sono dei vecchi pentium 100; con pc così datati si riesce a far girare il server grafico? Si riesce ad usare KDE o richiede troppe risorse? Grazie, Pollo. Direi che ciò che vuoi fare è assolutamente encomiabile ^^ Purtroppo però KDE richiede molte risorse per girare sia come clock del processore che come RAM. Dipende certamente dall'età dei tuoi ragazzi ma il mio (personalissimo) consiglio è di installare una Mdk piuttosto castrata. Innanzitutto lascia stare Kde ma tenta di installare BlackBox. Se le configurazioni dei pc sono simili (o ancora meglio uguali) è meglio se inizi a installare il tutto su un solo computer per testare le eventuali compatibilità e incompatibilità per non trovarti con brutte sorprese poi. Ricompila il kernel per avere una configurazione ottimizzata per le tue macchine, è la cosa migliore da fare per avere prestazioni degne. Nel caso (senza nulla togliere a Mdk che è più indicata a sistemi più potenti) puoi recuperare a) una Mdk più vecchia b) una distro pensata per funzionare anche su sistemi meno potenti (Debian potato potrebbe fare al tuo caso). Per quello che rigurada il networking non è il mio campo quindi ti rimando alla Linux network administrator guide e a un consiglio spassionato: certamente anche nella tua città sarà presente un Lug, contattalo e fatti aiutare ^^ Saranno sicuramente felicissimi di aiutarti. Ciao e buon divertimento 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
[newbie-it] wine
Salve ragazzi! Come avrete capito dal oggetto mi sto cimentando con questo emulatore... ma non funge! ok dovrebbe emulare programmi MS-bindows...magari si rifiuta,o cosa ancora piu probabbile io non l'ho saputo configurae a dovere! l'errore che mi riporta è questo di seguito. Capite a cosa fa riferimento l'errore? Grazie degli eventuali chiarimenti Ciao , Tom --- [root@*** HOME]# wine /mnt/windows/Programmi/TinMessenger/TinMessenger.exe err:module:map_image Could not map section .text, file probably truncated err:module:PE_fixup_imports Module (file) socks5.dll (which is needed by C:\Programmi\TinMessenger\TinMessenger.exe) not found p.s. se servono altre infoditemenelolo'
Re: [newbie-it] Java
La kaffe di mandrake 8.2 è la 1.1.8 (se non erro), che come veriosne di java è alquanto vecchia! Quindi non ci pensare su due volte, usa quella di sun, la 1.4!! Se poi vuoi usare un tool di sviluppo visuale di consiglio Jbuilder di borland che è scaricebile gratuitamente (in versione personal: non ha tutti i componenti delle altre versioni) dal sito di borland. Ciao ENx Nicholas Wieland wrote: 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
Re: [newbie-it] Rete locale con Linux
On Sunday 26 May 2002 11:00, Pollo, talkin' about [newbie-it] Rete locale con Linux wrote: Ho intenzione di realizzare per l'oratrio del mio paese una piccola rete locale linux con una quindicina di pc per far divertire un po di ragazzini e spigare loro un po' loro come funziona Linux. Il mio problema è che non so neanche da che parte iniziare... che conoscenza hai di linux e di reti? comunque ti consiglio di leggere (trovi tutto in rete partendo magari da http://www.pluto.linux.it/ildp/) qualche howto classico poi ti consiglio Linux Facile di D.medri http://www.linuxfacile.org/ il quick and easy conf. di Mr. shark http://www.mrshark.it/howto.html per le domande le LDR (linux domande e risposte) di Paolone. Ora sono anche in appunti Linux, quindi magari procuratene una copia cosi' li hai entrambi. Poi come ti hanno detto la Linux network administrator guide anche se come per appunti linux ti consiglio di cominciare con qualcosa di piu' breve. Sulle reti in italiano c'era anche (forse un po' datato) un bel doc di una dottoressa (forse una tesi), ora purtroppo non ricordo quasi nulla, se mi viene in mente te lo scrivo. In generale, poi http://www.tuttoreti.com Anch'io eviterei il kde con dei P100. Andrei su black box, o window maker. E pensare che io all'oratorio giocavo a pallone o a ping pong:-) bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Rete locale con Linux
On Sun, 26 May 2002 21:12:54 -0400 freefred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anch'io eviterei il kde con dei P100. Andrei su black box, o window maker. WMaker succhia più risorse di quello che sembra :)) -- 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
[newbie-it] piccoli dubbi vari
buona sera oh gloriosa mailinglist! ho qui una bella serie di quesiti da porvi... buon divertimento! 1) ho una matrox g400 e mi piacerebbe poterne sfruttare il dual head per vedere i file video a tutto schermo sulla televisione. sul sito matrox è disponibile un software per la gestione del dual head ma di full screen non se ne parla e tra l'altro il contenuto dello schermo di xine sulla seconda uscita non viene visualizzato. esiste un software generico che mi permetta di gestire le schede video dual head una volta che queste sono riconosciute come tali? o comunque qualcuno riesce a sfruttare degnamente il dual head di questa scheda? 2) da quando ho installato kde3 i cd audio non vengono più letti: grip, ogni tipo di lettore multimediale, qualunque software sfrutti il cddb si rifiuta di leggere il minimo straccio di informazione da qualunque cd audio... immagino manchi qualche pacchetto visto che i cd contenenti dati vengono tutti letti tranquillamente... ma quale? 3) se dico a kmail di visualizzare le email come html lui mi mette la cornice che indica lo spazio che sarebbe stato occupato sul foglio dalle immagini ma le immagini stesse sono ancora viste soltato come allegati... posso farci qualcosa? 4) sempre in kmail eiste un modo per variare le dimensioni del carattere con qui le email vengono visualizzate? sono riuschito a cambiare tutti i caratteri ma non quello 5) qualcuno sa come funziona esattamente vmware? soprattutto le periferiche che linux non riesce a riconoscere funzionano sul windows emulato? 6) si può fare qualcosa per il java sia con mozilla che con konqueror? almeno per far andare i javascript più elementari... grazie per l'aiuto ^_^
Rif: [newbie-it] Rete locale con Linux
Se hai un PC più grosso degli altri potresti provare la soluzione ltsp ... (disk less). Dovrebbe essere abbastanza valido per recuperare i tuoi PC e dargli delle prestazioni migliori di quelle che potrebbero permettersi. La tua causa è buona quindi se sei alla portata potrei venire a darti una mano ... dimmi di dove sei! Come sempre, per il mio suggerimento, mi rimetto al giudizio dei + esperti. See you, Mercury!
[newbie-it] Se hai un PC più grosso degli altri potresti provare la soluzione ltsp ... (disk less). Dovrebbe essere abbastanza valido per re
Sembra non riuscire a fare il #touch /var/state/mp3active Controlla se hai la cartella /var/state ... se non ce l'hai la fai con #mkdir /var/state/ e poi riprova l'install See you, Mercury!
Rif: [newbie-it] prova per compilare
Ho leggermente scappellato con il subject del messaggio precedente ... sorry! Sembra che install non riesca a fare il #touch /var/state/mp3active Controlla se hai la cartella /var/state ... se non ce l'hai la fai co n #mkdir /var/state/ e poi riprova l'install See you, Mercury!
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sat, 25 May 2002 23:13:18 -0700, shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. GNOME is much faster if you turn Nautilus off. You can use GMC instead, or just have nothing at all (if you don't mind having a bare desktop). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Before you complain to us about how this stupid game won't just install and run the way you're used to, please bear in mind that we have been seeing a strong correlation between use of abusive or indecent language in complaints, and use of the MS Windows platform. -- From the Freeciv FAQ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. 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 19:14, Tim Ford wrote: Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. any help would be appreciated. Sounds like you are nearly there. In the config file there is a line commented out by default that reads: localport 5050 Have you uncommented this? If not, the port can be random I think. Just running bpalogin as root should make it run as a daemon. In fact it will probably already have set itself up like this and be running when you reboot. Any messages will end up in your syslog. Try: tail /var/log/messages and you should see something about bpalogin there. bpalogin will relogin whenever the connection times out, so that should be all you require. HTH Brian 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 19:14, Tim Ford wrote: Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Forgot to address this point. bpalogin should be owned by root and only needs to be executable by root. Try chmod 700 as root. Sounds like msec is setting perms back to some default state. Maybe 700 won't upset it ;-) 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 19:14, Tim Ford wrote: Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. any help would be appreciated. Sounds like you are nearly there. In the config file there is a line commented out by default that reads: localport 5050 Have you uncommented this? If not, the port can be random I think. Just running bpalogin as root should make it run as a daemon. In fact it will probably already have set itself up like this and be running when you reboot. Any messages will end up in your syslog. Try: tail /var/log/messages and you should see something about bpalogin there. bpalogin will relogin whenever the connection times out, so that should be all you require. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, i now have it working. The config file is setup properly, firestarter is working and i have been connected for more than a few minutes. I didn't understand that it ran as a daemon (i do now), and all i need to do is learn how to configure it to run as soon as i login as my user. But i'll work that out myself. Thanks for all your help brian, i wouldnt have been connected if it weren't for your help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
Tim Ford wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 19:14, Tim Ford wrote: Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. any help would be appreciated. Sounds like you are nearly there. In the config file there is a line commented out by default that reads: localport 5050 Have you uncommented this? If not, the port can be random I think. Just running bpalogin as root should make it run as a daemon. In fact it will probably already have set itself up like this and be running when you reboot. Any messages will end up in your syslog. Try: tail /var/log/messages and you should see something about bpalogin there. bpalogin will relogin whenever the connection times out, so that should be all you require. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, scrap that last message (ARRRHH!!). I obviously didn't wait the full 5 mins before firing that email off. I still have my internet disconnect after 5 mins. I've opened up everything i think in firestarter, the localport is uncommented, and i still get kicked off. And i tried reconnecting, and i cannot. I know im probably annoying, but im trying everything i know and can do, and it still not giving me proper connectivity. Do you know a way to ensure im not killed by the hearbeat? 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 20:00, Tim Ford wrote: Tim Ford wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 19:14, Tim Ford wrote: Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. any help would be appreciated. Sounds like you are nearly there. In the config file there is a line commented out by default that reads: localport 5050 Have you uncommented this? If not, the port can be random I think. Just running bpalogin as root should make it run as a daemon. In fact it will probably already have set itself up like this and be running when you reboot. Any messages will end up in your syslog. Try: tail /var/log/messages and you should see something about bpalogin there. bpalogin will relogin whenever the connection times out, so that should be all you require. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, scrap that last message (ARRRHH!!). I obviously didn't wait the full 5 mins before firing that email off. I still have my internet disconnect after 5 mins. I've opened up everything i think in firestarter, the localport is uncommented, and i still get kicked off. And i tried reconnecting, and i cannot. I know im probably annoying, but im trying everything i know and can do, and it still not giving me proper connectivity. Do you know a way to ensure im not killed by the hearbeat? Hmmm. I can't think of anything I did that you haven't. First time I connected one of these I used the newsgroup to find out about bpalogin. That might be your best bet. I think if you follow the support links on Telstra's bigpond pages you will find a reference to the lists there. There was at least one specifically on bigpond cable access from linux. If I think of anything else I'll post again. Let us know the resolution. I'll probably hit the same problem with my next customer! Brian 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 Sunday 26 May 2002 12:16 am, shane wrote: 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. Today I'll remove the remaining fragments then try to build koffice 1.1.1 (not 1.2 beta 1) from source. Will see how it goes. 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. Thanks for the offer, but I downloaded the tar.gz file from mosfet.org and all appears to be well after the usual ./configure ... BTW do you see 'root' and 'nobody' in the logon window, as well as existing users? 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 iD8DBQE88KGhCv59vFiSU4YRAtbhAJ9h5jGxO4lZIv/Dz3Qu0WXwDvKN4QCeLpZz /0EQuIS5TVBpPrCWV0r5E2Y= =wito -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ummm, remember what happens in 7.2 if you open some GNOME programs under KDE??? You watch GNOME icons invade your desktop! In 8.0 that was resolved, (almost) but opening Nautilus and calling for help from WM or KDE again caused the invasion (OK if you did not invoke help) But you can run without Mandrake Desk if you want, and you can use the local menu editors, too (just NEVER use the Mandrake one). The operative command is urpme mandrake_desk It will likely take the Mandrake icons with it, but if it does not, you can delete them and they won;'t come back. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
On 26/05/2002, Have you been and readup the www.ozcableguy.com site? he has a whole section on linux and the bpalogin and telstra -- Regards, Mark Van Bruggen [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is always a way, it's just reality that's the problem !! == Mark Van Bruggen Microsoft OEM Certified Phone : 07 4926 4900 Computer Systems Supplier Mobile: 04 3886 4900 Internet / Computer Technician E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockhampton QLD AU == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ISP help
On Saturday 25 May 2002 15:41, you wrote: - 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? I cannot be certain, I don't use AOL, but if it's anything like one of my email address where a similar you must use our install software dictate prevails, I just ignore it, I assume you still have your windows configuration, then just go there and copy down all the entries in OE , in tools- accounts, and in the dialup dialogue -settings, takes a bit of hand writing but when your got it all together on a couple of sheets of paper go back to Linux and use the info. Believe me you will not get it right first time. Just keep playing around with it eventually you will not only be able to log on and surf the net but also download and sendyour emails. Once you have it right , then back up the .rc file in home directory for your emailer and browser. Then in future all you need to do is overwrite those files each fresh new OS install. Dead quick and simple. It's easier than M$. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Qestion of Memory
On Saturday 25 May 2002 17:01, you wrote: 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. Oh, yes, That's the nature of averages, you have to start the first line so many horizontal (H)columns down, so 10day moving average starts at horizontal line 10, 30 at H30, 50 at H50, 89 at H89,200 at H200, and so on, 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? I suppose I could, though I'm hardly a racing hot computer buff. To be honest I don't know anything about how to go about it. Still, I will, and suggestions how? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
On Sunday 26 May 2002 03:29, Dale Huckeby wrote: 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. As others have pointed out, 7.2 was a classic, but I'd still consider going forward rather than back, as a lot of apps now need libraries which aren't in 7.2, and updating libraries piecemeal is usually more trouble than it's worth. 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. I have to say I didn't like 8.1 much - I have it at work (I'm waiting for the university to mirror 8.2, as this box doesn't have a CDROM drive). The bugs were less Mandrake's fault as a number of problematic software versions coming together in a kind of negative symbiosis (supermount was a case in point). 8.2 is pretty good - I'm using it at home but with the 8.0 kernel. GNOME/sawfish displays some of the silly behaviour with backgrounds you described, but there's probably a way round it - I couldn't be bothered because I was only trying GNOME out of curiosity. KDE 2.2.2 is fine. I've just installed KDE 3.0 into /opt and it also seems to be playing nice, apart from the known bug with Konsole and Kicker. It even saved my old KDE icons and backgrounds. I'll upgrade it to 3.0.1 when the /opt version comes out (installing over 2.2.2 was a disaster - I had to uninstall it and reinstall 2.2.2). In short, like others here, I'd recommend an upgrade rather than a downgrade. The download set is, if nothing else, a cheap and convenient way of getting a lot of new software. Sir Robin -- The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever heard. - Bill Gates Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Down-grade to XFree86 4.1
On Sunday 26 May 2002 00:02, 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). 3DImage975? You have my sympathy - I spent a month working out how to configure XFree for this monster back when I was using RedHat 6.0. You could try the noaccel option, though I don't know if 4.* still supports this (the acceleration in this card is so minimal you probably won't notice the difference). Hacking modelines might also do the trick. If you have the money, upgrade your card to one of the lower-end NVIDIA cards, and you _will_ notice a difference. Sir Robin -- The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever heard. - Bill Gates Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Qestion of Memory
On Saturday 25 May 2002 17:01, you wrote: 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 Randy, you mentioned earlier in the thread about database programmes, like MySQL. I find I have MySQL ,it comes with the distro. I installed it and find that it's a command line programme, and well yes, I know if you look in mysql --help you will get a list of commands and options etc, but you know it's a bit like going up to a chef and asking him to create a dish he has never heard of with nothing but a collection of ingredients to go by, not even a hint of what combination of command s to start with. I assume one puts up a shell and begin there. ? So as it stands I haven't a clue what to do to use the programme. Now I also wondered whether there was such a thing as a gui front end to this backend type programme. Anyone got any knowledge ? Also, I would like to understand, what if any is the difference between using a spreadsheet programme and using a database programme. What is the technical difference between them, do they work in different ways. In the spreadsheet programmes it would seem , the programme and the data are all loaded into memory, perhaps database programmes like MySQL work differently ? I don't know ! But if database programmes exist they must offer some technical advantage, what is it ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Qestion of Memory
On Sunday 26 May 2002 00:57, you 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 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. Well the idea had occured to me, but for the moment, I don't just want to dump kspread at the first hurdle.So to speak. I will keep this option open, the one factor is that it's yet another install every time you replace the OS, but as I say I don't rule it out. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS
On 26 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: Roger, Sorry - no answer to your problem, but your post raises another question for me. From my reading of the dyndns page, I thought that they could only redirect to an address within predefined domains. Hence my post and Civ's reply. From what you say above though, it sounds like dyndns could in fact associate my IP with my registered domain. So now I'm confused as to what whyI does that dyndns does not. I'm not concerned really about who I end up using, just about understanding the difference. Brian Hi Brian - yes, dyndns.org can associate your domain with your PC...just go to Custom DNS. It has a one time donation fee of $30. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Opera 6.0 doesn't load any page
Hi all, Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this. I installed the latest opera 6.0 in mdk 8.2 but it doesn't load any page. I tried both types of packages, with qt static and shared and the result is the same, it hangs with looking up host name ... and never contacts any host name. It worked fine in mdk8.1, does anyone know what is wrong ? The other browsers I have here are working without any problems. Thanks in advance, Rodrigo 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: Oh, yes, That's the nature of averages, you have to start the first line so many horizontal (H)columns down, so 10day moving average starts at horizontal line 10, 30 at H30, 50 at H50, 89 at H89,200 at H200, and so on, Ahh, OK, now I understand what your data is -- originally I didn't know whether you were perhaps collecting data for example every 15 minutes and generating, for example, a 2 hour moving average. (I guess I could have pieced this out by looking at your sample file more closely ;-) BTW, just for the record, I would characterize your spreadsheets as very small at this point in time, and would expect that you can use a spreadsheet (something faster to load than KSpread) for a long time to come. 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? I suppose I could, though I'm hardly a racing hot computer buff. To be honest I don't know anything about how to go about it. Still, I will, and suggestions how? Well, I'll give you some hints -- for me now it would involve a fair amount of searching to recall how to do it -- basically: * Go to the kde website (IIRC) it's www.kde.org. * Look for something about reporting bugs, or, look for something specific about KSpread (IIRC, they keep one common database buglist (bugzilla) to report bugs for all their applications * Are you using the most recent version of KSpread? Last time I tried to report a bug, the instructions didn't want to allow it because I was using an older version of whatever application I was going to report on (it was probably konqueror), because I've taken to upgrading kde when a new Mandrake install includes an updated version -- and, my experimental machine is still at Mandrake 8.1 (my production machine is at Mandrake 7.2). * When you get to the place where you can report bugs, they will want you to make a reasonable effort to confirm that you are not reporting a bug that is already reported, I ususally try a search on a few likely key words, if no duplicate bug is found, I'll report my bug, but I usually say something like I tried a search on [slow loading] and [something else] (for example), and could not find a duplicate -- it lets them know you tried. * Describe the bug, tell them the version of KSpread you're using, the processor speed, amount of RAM memory, in this case something about the disk size and type (IDE vs. SCSI). Maybe a good clue to mention is that the same size spreadsheet loads in 1 1/2 seconds in Gnumeric on the same hardware, 1 second in Excel on slower hardware. Let me know how you make out. regards, Randy Kramer 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: Randy, you mentioned earlier in the thread about database programmes, like MySQL. I find I have MySQL ,it comes with the distro. I installed it and find that it's a command line programme, and well yes, I know if you look in mysql --help you will get a list of commands and options etc, but you know it's a bit like going up to a chef and asking him to create a dish he has never heard of with nothing but a collection of ingredients to go by, not even a hint of what combination of command s to start with. I assume one puts up a shell and begin there. ? So as it stands I haven't a clue what to do to use the programme. I just responded to one of your other emails, and mentioned that your spreadsheet is quite small and you should be able to stick with a spreadsheet for years to come (but something faster than the current speed of Kspread). I was somehow envisioning a much bigger spreadsheet, with you perhaps collecting 10 or 100s of data samples per day -- at this point I'd stick with a spreadsheet, but you may still wish to learn more about a database just for general knowledge or possible future use. One point you mention below is correct -- AFAIK, most spreadsheets load all their data into RAM memory, a database keeps the data on disk, and only loads specific things when required -- thus, it can handle much larger quantities of data. I learned databases more or less in the dos/Windows world, with things like dBase III, III+, and IV, Paradox, Rbase, and Access. They basically come with a built in GUI (well, maybe that's not a real accurate statement to make for the earlier things -- not a GUI like we're used to, but stuff to make it easy to set up programs to interface to the data without very much programming). I'm just getting into Linux, but MySQL and Postgres are more like the raw database engine behind programs (applications) like dBase, Paradox, and Access -- I'm not aware that they have a GUI front end unless you (or somebody else) has built one to serve your specific purpose. Hopefully, someone else can provide additional information. Randy Kramer Now I also wondered whether there was such a thing as a gui front end to this backend type programme. Anyone got any knowledge ? Also, I would like to understand, what if any is the difference between using a spreadsheet programme and using a database programme. What is the technical difference between them, do they work in different ways. In the spreadsheet programmes it would seem , the programme and the data are all loaded into memory, perhaps database programmes like MySQL work differently ? I don't know ! But if database programmes exist they must offer some technical advantage, what is it ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Opera 6.0 doesn't load any page
Opera 6 shared works great for me, but I have read of some users who have to enable 'Synchronous DNS' in the preferences. HTH derek On Sunday 26 May 2002 3:19 pm, you wrote: Hi all, Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this. I installed the latest opera 6.0 in mdk 8.2 but it doesn't load any page. I tried both types of packages, with qt static and shared and the result is the same, it hangs with looking up host name ... and never contacts any host name. It worked fine in mdk8.1, does anyone know what is wrong ? The other browsers I have here are working without any problems. Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Opera 6.0 doesn't load any page
On Sunday 26 May 2002 11:57, you wrote: Thanks a lot !!! That solved the problem ! Rodrigo Opera 6 shared works great for me, but I have read of some users who have to enable 'Synchronous DNS' in the preferences. HTH derek On Sunday 26 May 2002 3:19 pm, you wrote: Hi all, Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this. I installed the latest opera 6.0 in mdk 8.2 but it doesn't load any page. I tried both types of packages, with qt static and shared and the result is the same, it hangs with looking up host name ... and never contacts any host name. It worked fine in mdk8.1, does anyone know what is wrong ? The other browsers I have here are working without any problems. Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1022381743-1501-508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I restart my Internet Daemon from a Term window? Which one? There's several. If you cannot connect to anyone (can you try pinging your gateway?) you probably should try checking the DSL connection hardware. Usually you don't need to reestablish it like a ppp / modem connection. Once in a while it gets fouled up, and the (usual) solution is to cycle power on the DSL modem (mine's external) and then to try a few pings to see if you can get through to the 'outside'. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rocks and hard places...(or tossing the wine out the window)
we've all been at the beginning of my story... Sitting in the chair.. blank look on your face then all of a sudden IT DOES IT AGAIN!!! ARGH. that annoying BSOD. One day you decide yoiu've had enough. that's it. Where's the number to the computer store to see if they have a Linux distro that'll work with your machine. After about 3 weeks of spending nearly every free moment trying to get just one little last detail of my system to work ...my fileserving script on mIRC / or a clone thereof for a *nix client... I'm about tearing my hair out. first off was the disappointment of Wine not liking Mandrake_Desk (the menu part of it) and crashing with a whole whopping 6 minute record of emulation (i got 3 hours on redhat... but my soundcard doesn't work with their distro). Last week it was fighting with bochs-1.4 and finally giving up after sitting here for days just trying to get it to load some kind of boot floppy or image of one to make an image of a windows install. I still haven't got the slightest clue why that won't work. The third option, finding a script for kvIRC/BitchX/ircII/epic_ircII/kIRC/smIRC/x-chat/etc has turned out to be about the most frustrating. Do *nix'ers not do filesharing? i found one script that was half there (no kind of listmaker for an index of your files) and one that I can't get the installer binary to open even after having downloaded/configured/compiled/installed all the latest versions of c... c++.. compilers... parsers...fortran.. perl, python, and tcl/tk et cetera, trying different shells... (yep... i checked the permissions.. .it's 777). so... here i am back in Winblows writing this on OutCast Express 'cause i don't feel like re-installing linux for the 4th time in 3 days (at least it's pretty easy to do with those replay discs). I know.. it's just one chat room out of a million that i can't work with.. but it's a lot of friends in there too. I like Linux when it's running smooth. I had my last linux box up for months without a reboot. So.. I guess my question comes down to 2 things.. does anyone have either a fileserving script for x-chat or ircII(or its clones) or a disk image of a running windows 98 with samba access... or any resources they could point me towards. If it's going to cost me 300 dollars to get VMware Workstation, I think I'll just deal with the BSOD. (at least i got mine to be green instead of blue lol). oops i wrote a book. i'll shut up now. thx in advance! if there's an answer it's here. Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Qestion of Memory
Now I also wondered whether there was such a thing as a gui front end to this backend type programme. Anyone got any knowledge ? They probably exist. StarOffice has a data wizard kinda like Access in the front end -- in other words, the interface works more or less like Access, For a backend, there are a variety of possibilities. It seems though, that the 'right' way to do it is to use Web-based forms to do the data entry or whatever, and have CGI scripts to do the actual insertions or queries or whatever. Also, I would like to understand, what if any is the difference between using a spreadsheet programme and using a database programme. They both can be used for the same thing. Obviously, some things are better suited for a database. For a lot of people, spreadsheets are easier, because yuo don't need to define any of the relationships betweeen data - just making column headers is sufficient, and putting the necessary formulas for the other columns and so forth. And as a plus, the reporting is in the sheet itself - no need to use an external app to produce nice looking reports from the database. This alos presents problems: in a spreadsheet, if you want to change the report, you change the spreadsheet - and change it back, or make a new sheet from the data in the old one. With a database, you just create a different report (or view). Spreadsheets are better if there's mostly computation going on, less so if there's going to be a lot of lookups/finds and so forth. A real-world expample: one of my main tasks at a temporary position I had ca. 18 months ago was to set up reporting and tracking methods for a 'database' of parts. I got some of the original data from our internal database, some from outside sources (f.e., outstanding parts reports over the Net) and combined all this in a way that was useful for other engineers and management. My platform was a P-100 with 64 emgs of RAM, running Windows 98 probably, and Excel. Plus, the real-world databases I have used at work would likely be way too cumbersome as a spreadsheet, or series of related spreadsheets. But a sheet would make some things easier if just a subset of the data were available. Like if you just have a simple list of names/addressses/etc., you really don't need to go out and get Oracle :). The data overall ended up at many megabytes worth - it was probably 5 megs or so xls file. Inside, there were quite a few lookups (i.e.., =vlookup() ) to external tables (i.e., spreadsheets) to derive things like part name-part number translation, price info, availability, return status and so forth. Of course, these 'forests' of vlookups and so sort made working with the spreadsheet extremely cumbersome at times, and setting up a database, especially given the 2000+ vlookup formulas in the sheet, might have made better sense. There were several times when the machine simply swapped itself for hours, and I couldn't do anything. I did manage to find out that Excel thought the file much bigger than it was originally (I had highlighted some rows and such) -- which no doubt contributed to the heavy memory use, and might be something worth looking into in your kspread issue. different ways. In the spreadsheet programmes it would seem , the programme and the data are all loaded into memory, perhaps database Correct. All the spreadsheet needs to fit within memory. VM does exist, of course (back in the DOS days, I evaluated some VM extras on 1-2-3 and the like) but as someone more knowledgeable than I at the time said, '' spreadsheets have poor locality of reference'' which loosely means that a formula in cell AE2156 might reference one in cell G23, and the poor box has to swap parts of the sheet back in and out to resolve everything. John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Download To Be Removed (FYI)
News about it: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-25-006-26-NW-DT-SW to download: http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/get/get.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to play vcd's under linux, .dat files on disk.
On Friday 24 May 2002 6:39 pm, you wrote: Hi list, I am very new to linux so please forgive me if this question has been asked before. I want to play Video CD's in the .dat format under linux, when the .dat files are on disk. The xine player only plays them from the CD-ROM PLUS: Are there any other open-source video cd players for linux ? All help appreciated, Tarun Hi Taran... I use Nonton VCD. The RPM I have is called vcd-0.3.5-3mdk.i586.rpm. Mark Evans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Worm
I may be wrong but I think I have received a new twist to the Klez.e worm in which case I think cross posting to warn others is appropriate, if I'm wrong I apologise for cross posting. I paste below the text of the e mail which came with an attachment called width.exe which I will e mail off-list to anyone who wants to look at it at their own risk of course, a second attachment in html read Read the OEM Privacy Statement This page is unavailable. Please check with your computer manufacturer.To continue to register your computer and Microsoft Windows, click Back. and a back button followed. I am Windows free so I can't virus scan the attachment and I'm not a programmer so although I could look at it it would mean nothing to me. The text:- Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerous by corrupting your files. Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV software can't detect or clean it. We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus. You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your PC. NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you run it. If so,Ignore the warning,and select 'continue'. If you have any question,please [there was an e mail link here] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rocks and hard places...(or tossing the wine out the window)
finding a script for kvIRC/BitchX/ircII/epic_ircII/kIRC/smIRC/x-chat/etc has turned out to be about the most frustrating. Do *nix'ers not do filesharing? i found one script that was half there (no kind of listmaker Sorry to hear you're having trouble. Personally, I'm not that much of an IRC type person, and I don't do any scripting with IRC as such. I guess unixers are the type to use ftp/scp etc. You could share files that way too. I just recently got on AudioGalaxy and people are already downloading stuff from me :). for an index of your files) and one that I can't get the installer binary to open even after having downloaded/configured/compiled/installed all the Wwhat errors are you getting? If it's complaining that it can't find a specific library, than post that error, perhaps oomeone can find out what rpms you forgot to install. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Opera 6.0 doesn't load any page
Es Diumenge 26 Maig 2002 16:19, en Rodrigo va escriure: Hi all, Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this. I installed the latest opera 6.0 in mdk 8.2 but it doesn't load any page. I tried both types of packages, with qt static and shared and the result is the same, it hangs with looking up host name ... and never contacts any host name. It worked fine in mdk8.1, does anyone know what is wrong ? Try setting File - Preferences - Network - Synchronous DNS -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
If you have ethernet network cards instead of modems, you can bring down/up your device with the ifup eth0 or ifdown eth0 commands. This is assuming you only have on network card. For each subsequent card you can raise the integer after eth by one. - Paul Rodriguez New York GNU/Linux Scene http://www.NYLXS.com On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 01:30, Dale Huckeby wrote: 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worm
You received the Klez.h variant. http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=4292 I received this and dozens of other infected emails from a friend whose Windows computer got infected. Naturally, I was not affected since I am using Linux, but it was a real mess for him to clean up. It even sent out a few copies of itself with my email address (which it obtained from his address book) as the return address. Mike poogle wrote: I may be wrong but I think I have received a new twist to the Klez.e worm in which case I think cross posting to warn others is appropriate, if I'm wrong I apologise for cross posting. I paste below the text of the e mail which came with an attachment called width.exe which I will e mail off-list to anyone who wants to look at it at their own risk of course, a second attachment in html read Read the OEM Privacy Statement This page is unavailable. Please check with your computer manufacturer.To continue to register your computer and Microsoft Windows, click Back. and a back button followed. I am Windows free so I can't virus scan the attachment and I'm not a programmer so although I could look at it it would mean nothing to me. The text:- Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerous by corrupting your files. Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV software can't detect or clean it. We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus. You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your PC. NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you run it. If so,Ignore the warning,and select 'continue'. If you have any question,please [there was an e mail link here] 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] Worm
To answer your question, yes, to the best of my recollection, this is one of the methods used to propagate the worm. Rather an insidious method, and one relying on the ignorance/gullibility of the recipient to be fooled into thinking it is legitimate. Belgarius --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 5/24/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!)
Dale Huckeby wrote: 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. Dale...I hear what you're saying here, however, had you taken a few extra minutes during the install to carefully inspect the packages available for the install you'd notice that many, if not all of the programs you've come to appreciate in 7.2 are available for an 8.1 or 8.2 install. There are just changing default programs that are being used for the newer version. As for the take the poor dumb user by the hand attitude seems to permeate the latest version thing you mention is the MandrakeSoft response to a great many new Mandrake users coming from the windows environment. People have been asking for a more intutive install. MandrakeSoft, seeking to satisfy the greatest amount of people with what the thought according to the people's choices, were the best and most wanted choices to populate a default install item list. As always, with Linux and especially Mandrake Linux, the users get what they ask for. Moreover the choices that are offered are Still THE best in all the land. I've got a Windows XP installation that I'm quite impressed with and happy with. I've got scads of boxes running Mandrake Linux that absolutely RULE the roost and one Redhat 7.3 install that I really don't care for. While attempting to configure this new RH install I found that many of the old config tools simply aren't there any more in RH. Very disappointing - back in 1997 I started out the RedHat 5.2 ( After Mandrake there just isn't anything to compare in my opinion ) If I come across as scolding I really don't mean to. All I mean to say is that if one takes the time to search out and make the choices that suit them they really can have the best of all worlds with Mandrake. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worm
Followed your link, you are absolutely right and I was also right to be suspicious. John On Sunday 26 May 2002 18:58 pm, Mike Larson wrote: You received the Klez.h variant. http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=4292 I received this and dozens of other infected emails from a friend whose Windows computer got infected. Naturally, I was not affected since I am using Linux, but it was a real mess for him to clean up. It even sent out a few copies of itself with my email address (which it obtained from his address book) as the return address. Mike poogle wrote: I may be wrong but I think I have received a new twist to the Klez.e worm in which case I think cross posting to warn others is appropriate, if I'm wrong I apologise for cross posting. I paste below the text of the e mail which came with an attachment called width.exe which I will e mail off-list to anyone who wants to look at it at their own risk of course, a second attachment in html read Read the OEM Privacy Statement This page is unavailable. Please check with your computer manufacturer.To continue to register your computer and Microsoft Windows, click Back. and a back button followed. I am Windows free so I can't virus scan the attachment and I'm not a programmer so although I could look at it it would mean nothing to me. The text:- Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerous by corrupting your files. Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV software can't detect or clean it. We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus. You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your PC. NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you run it. If so,Ignore the warning,and select 'continue'. If you have any question,please [there was an e mail link here] 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] A Qestion of Memory
On Sunday 26 May 2002 17:40, you wrote: Now I also wondered whether there was such a thing as a gui front end to this backend type programme. Anyone got any knowledge ? They probably exist. StarOffice has a data wizard kinda like Access in the front end -- in other words, the interface works more or less like Access, For a backend, there are a variety of possibilities. It seems though, that the 'right' way to do it is to use Web-based forms to do the data entry or whatever, and have CGI scripts to do the actual insertions or queries or whatever. Also, I would like to understand, what if any is the difference between using a spreadsheet programme and using a database programme. They both can be used for the same thing. Obviously, some things are better suited for a database. For a lot of people, spreadsheets are easier, because yuo don't need to define any of the relationships betweeen data - just making column headers is sufficient, and putting the necessary formulas for the other columns and so forth. And as a plus, the reporting is in the sheet itself - no need to use an external app to produce nice looking reports from the database. This alos presents problems: in a spreadsheet, if you want to change the report, you change the spreadsheet - and change it back, or make a new sheet from the data in the old one. With a database, you just create a different report (or view). Spreadsheets are better if there's mostly computation going on, less so if there's going to be a lot of lookups/finds and so forth. A real-world expample: one of my main tasks at a temporary position I had ca. 18 months ago was to set up reporting and tracking methods for a 'database' of parts. I got some of the original data from our internal database, some from outside sources (f.e., outstanding parts reports over the Net) and combined all this in a way that was useful for other engineers and management. My platform was a P-100 with 64 emgs of RAM, running Windows 98 probably, and Excel. Plus, the real-world databases I have used at work would likely be way too cumbersome as a spreadsheet, or series of related spreadsheets. But a sheet would make some things easier if just a subset of the data were available. Like if you just have a simple list of names/addressses/etc., you really don't need to go out and get Oracle :). The data overall ended up at many megabytes worth - it was probably 5 megs or so xls file. Inside, there were quite a few lookups (i.e.., =vlookup() ) to external tables (i.e., spreadsheets) to derive things like part name-part number translation, price info, availability, return status and so forth. Of course, these 'forests' of vlookups and so sort made working with the spreadsheet extremely cumbersome at times, and setting up a database, especially given the 2000+ vlookup formulas in the sheet, might have made better sense. There were several times when the machine simply swapped itself for hours, and I couldn't do anything. I did manage to find out that Excel thought the file much bigger than it was originally (I had highlighted some rows and such) -- which no doubt contributed to the heavy memory use, and might be something worth looking into in your kspread issue. different ways. In the spreadsheet programmes it would seem , the programme and the data are all loaded into memory, perhaps database Correct. All the spreadsheet needs to fit within memory. VM does exist, of course (back in the DOS days, I evaluated some VM extras on 1-2-3 and the like) but as someone more knowledgeable than I at the time said, '' spreadsheets have poor locality of reference'' which loosely means that a formula in cell AE2156 might reference one in cell G23, and the poor box has to swap parts of the sheet back in and out to resolve everything. John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to thank you all very much in helping me to get to grips with the whole question of data and how you use it. It is quite obvious to me that spreadsheets are OK, But, and here think I am beginning to see the wood from the trees, that they will do for the moment, but in the long term I need a database setup. One thing I have not mentioned to date is that , moving averages is only one small element of a far wider programme of achievement in the use of Computers to upgrade and assist me in the provision, use, and dissemination of a whole lot of mainly financial data. Being a newcomer to the world of computers, indeed I have only owned a computer , for just over 2 years, I now have 5 (some are on behalf of others) . I made all the usual mistakes learners make,the first computer had mainly the wrong programmes, but my very newest I built myself from parts,together with the help and assistance of my son in law. I cannot afford to keep buying a $1,000 OS's every couple of years which comes with so many restrictions as to use and ownership. It is not
Re: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS
Roger Sherman wrote: 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... Rog, I think what Frank is saying is that you can have the port number appended to your domain name that is registered. I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like to me. If that is the case then this would be the cat's meow for you brudda. daRcmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS
yup :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark D. Weaver Sent: Monday, 27 May 2002 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS Roger Sherman wrote: 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... Rog, I think what Frank is saying is that you can have the port number appended to your domain name that is registered. I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like to me. If that is the case then this would be the cat's meow for you brudda. daRcmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rocks and hard places...(or tossing the wine out thewindow)
Jerry wrote: we've all been at the beginning of my story... Sitting in the chair.. blank look on your face then all of a sudden IT DOES IT AGAIN!!! ARGH. that annoying BSOD. One day you decide yoiu've had enough. that's it. Where's the number to the computer store to see if they have a Linux distro that'll work with your machine. After about 3 weeks of spending nearly every free moment trying to get just one little last detail of my system to work ...my fileserving script on mIRC / or a clone thereof for a *nix client... I'm about tearing my hair out. first off was the disappointment of Wine not liking Mandrake_Desk (the menu part of it) and crashing with a whole whopping 6 minute record of emulation (i got 3 hours on redhat... but my soundcard doesn't work with their distro). Last week it was fighting with bochs-1.4 and finally giving up after sitting here for days just trying to get it to load some kind of boot floppy or image of one to make an image of a windows install. I still haven't got the slightest clue why that won't work. The third option, finding a script for kvIRC/BitchX/ircII/epic_ircII/kIRC/smIRC/x-chat/etc has turned out to be about the most frustrating. Do *nix'ers not do filesharing? i found one script that was half there (no kind of listmaker for an index of your files) and one that I can't get the installer binary to open even after having downloaded/configured/compiled/installed all the latest versions of c... c++.. compilers... parsers...fortran.. perl, python, and tcl/tk et cetera, trying different shells... (yep... i checked the permissions.. .it's 777). so... here i am back in Winblows writing this on OutCast Express 'cause i don't feel like re-installing linux for the 4th time in 3 days (at least it's pretty easy to do with those replay discs). I know.. it's just one chat room out of a million that i can't work with.. but it's a lot of friends in there too. I like Linux when it's running smooth. I had my last linux box up for months without a reboot. So.. I guess my question comes down to 2 things.. does anyone have either a fileserving script for x-chat or ircII(or its clones) or a disk image of a running windows 98 with samba access... or any resources they could point me towards. If it's going to cost me 300 dollars to get VMware Workstation, I think I'll just deal with the BSOD. (at least i got mine to be green instead of blue lol). oops i wrote a book. i'll shut up now. thx in advance! if there's an answer it's here. Jerry. Hi Jerry, Ok...lets start with the most obvious. Does your hardware appear on the Mandrake Linux HCL? Usually when a user is having this amount of trouble there inevitably only two reasons for it. Hardware is the second. I feel your pain my friend. I really do. I know as well as every other Linux user on this list that the learning curve is very steep, and can be nerve racking the first few weeks. Tell us a little bit about the hardware on your system and what it is you're trying to get Mandrake to do on that system. O, and we do do file sharing. Quite well I might add. Samba is the cat's meow for Linux and file sharing. the only thing I know thats better is a full-blown Novell Network. And Linux will do IPX also. Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is this my ISP's (DNS?) problem? (long)
Howdy; I'm not certain whether I have a problem; Shaw FibreLink (my cable/broadband ISP) has a problem, or if we both do. I apologize for the length of this message but I don't know how else to show the information that may let some one help me figure this out. Starting some time last night the two DNS servers that have always been used started attempting to connect to my box. Lease is up? Whatever, the firewall blocked it and I didn't think anything of it. But now when I try to surf to some web sites I get a time out connecting or unknown host message, as though there was no DNS server to query for the address to connect to. Also repeated blocks of the two IPs that are the DNS server addresses. First 3 untoward entries (time is MDT AM): May 26 12:10:37 h24-68-xxx-xx kernel: auditIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:a0:0c:c1:d1:b6:00:00:77:8f:32:bc:08:00 SRC=24.70.95.195 DST=24.68.xxx.xx LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=253 ID=18609 DF PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=282 SEQ=56796 May 26 12:10:37 h24-68-xxx-xx kernel: PUB_IN DROP 2IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:a0:0c:c1:d1:b6:00:00:77:8f:32:bc:08:00 SRC=24.70.95.195 DST=24.68.xxx.xx LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=253 ID=18609 DF PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=282 SEQ=56796 May 26 12:10:38 h24-68-xxx-xx kernel: PUB_IN DROP 4 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:a0:0c:c1:d1:b6:00:00:77:8f:32:bc:08:00 SRC=24.70.95.195 DST=24.68.xxx.xx LEN=351 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=253 ID=18610 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=331 Also the most recent two log entries from today when I had difficulty reaching web sites (time is MDT PM): May 26 12:24:17 h24-68-xxx-xx kernel: PUB_IN DROP 4 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:a0:0c:c1:d1:b6:00:00:77:8f:32:bc:08:00 SRC=24.70.95.212 DST=24.68.xxx.xx LEN=61 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=253 ID=12133 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=32770 LEN=41 May 26 12:24:27 h24-68-xxx-xx kernel: PUB_IN DROP 4 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:a0:0c:c1:d1:b6:00:00:77:8f:32:bc:08:00 SRC=24.70.95.212 DST=24.68.xxx.xx LEN=91 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=253 ID=12134 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=32770 LEN=71 Strangest part of this is that while I was running InteractiveBastille to set the firewall those two IPs were the DNS server entries that I entered. I mean the 24.70.95.212 and 24.70.95.195. Have I broken something unbeknownst to me by accident, or is the whole bleedin' system going insane because of vulnerabilities in MS bug-ware? Thanks for any suggestions and once again sorry for the length of this missive. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Pittsburgh Driver's Test (7) The car directly in front of you has a flashing right tail light but a steady left tail light. This means (a) one of the tail lights is broken; you should blow your horn to call the problem to the driver's attention. (b) the driver is signaling a right turn. (c) the driver is signaling a left turn. (d) the driver is from out of town. The correct answer is (d). Tail lights are used in some foreign countries to signal turns. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Franki wrote: yup :-) OK, I'm not sure I understand...you are saying I could have my domain name appended to include the new port #? How would one go about doing that? I tried to include it at dyndns.org once, but it didn't take... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark D. Weaver Sent: Monday, 27 May 2002 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS Roger Sherman wrote: 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... Rog, I think what Frank is saying is that you can have the port number appended to your domain name that is registered. I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like to me. If that is the case then this would be the cat's meow for you brudda. daRcmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rocks and hard places...(or tossing the wine out thewindow)
On hardware: I did check on hardware, having been on/off of Linux for a few years now that was the first place I looked. Here's some stats: BOX: Asus A7v Socket A Motherboard with an AMD Athlon (kernel compiled for p3, not athlon-- went thru THAT bug already lol), 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP videocard, Cnet Pro200 ethernet (tulip/dmfe drivers written for this chipset), Cendyne (*sp) 8x4x24 CD-rw (burned tons of cd's with it.. mostly backups.. under mdk8.2-works great) generic 36x cdrom (hardly ever used) that i've used with redhat for the last 3 years. Mouse-logitec marble mouse (generic ps2), standard no-frills us 104key keyboard. Generic monitor: horiz 31.5-48.5/vert 50-70 (noninterlaced svga@60hz) an intel easycam (usb-can't find any drivers--need to just throw that piece of crap away lol) no scsi devices, got my ide=scsi (or is it scsi-ide.. something like that) line in linuxconf. Yeah, i got looking around again today, and see there's a lot of individual machine/small network servers on the web and of course the AGSatellite which I've used/still use, it's just so... cold and impersonal i guess.. not what i'm used to. I op on some mp3 chans and I've made a lot of friends there over the last 5 years and it'd be nice to be able to stick with it ;-) I'm going to just have to learn tcl or perl and write my own script i guess. (check back with me in oh.. about 15 years and see if i've picked up the manual yet). Hehehe... oh sorry folks i re-read my mail and i was whining like a little kid. Been up way too long--about 30 hours of non-stop *nixing can get to ya. Thanks for the replies... wish I had the syslogs of what was going on with that program i couldn't get to work... it's called MP3Tools (for epic4/BitchX/mirc/etc) if anyone wants to torture themselves trying to get a binary in a set of tcl scripts to work. Uck but i've got other things now, gotta at least get a boot that comes up. i haven't changed the location of anything, and been installing from a replay install... checked for bad blocks on disk... i had to have done something somewhere but _right_before_ init changes to runlevel 3 I hang until i hit the Print Screen/SysRq button (only time i've *ever* seen that button actually DO something lol) (will hang for hours) and then at shutdown/reboot when it tried to sync the clock (locks-can't recover) anyone know the package that does the clock sync? i'm going back and checking archives.. i know there was clock stuff since i already had a clock issue but it was different. I don't know if it's on this list or expert@linux-mdk but someone highly recommends Winex from transgaming.com. Any experience with this from others? does it work better than codeweavers wine or the latest versions from winehq? the only thing i can get those to run anywhere close to stable is notepad, all because of Mandrake's menu system (hmpf). [or. has anyone taken mandrakes menus off and still got it to work with gnome or kde?] I seem to have more work to do. EK! another book. going and sitting in the corner Jerry. (No jerry, that penguin doesn't remind me of Charles Manson.. it's gotta be just you) - Original Message - From: Mark D. Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SNIPi'm not gonna make y'all read that again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla dependencies
Tim Ford wrote: Me, being the clueless newbie I am, forced a Mozilla 1.0rc3 install on LM 8.2. This stuffed many of my other programs, such as galeon, mozilla mail et.al. Is there revert my system back to 0.98 so the dependencies work fine, or uninstall mozilla without the entire GNOME system being uninstalled as well? If so, how do i go about it. Thanks To Brain Parish: I got the internet connection working properly. I uninstalled BPAlogin completely, unistalled my firestarter, rebooted as root, installed it, editied the config file too my specifications, then resinstalled firestarter with my correct specifications. Doing a log check revealed BPAlogin connecting properly every time, and the heartbeat was now being facilitated. So if theres any problems like mine, just completely uninstall and reinstall. Don't do this until you get confirmation, however you may investigate doing an rpm -e mozzila* at the cmd prompt. Then reinstall your packages for .98 mozzilla. Worth a look to see if that is possible? Thats what I'd do. Course I break my system regularly which makes me think I shouldn't offer this advice, and should just scrap this email. Too late! I sent it! -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Port 80 was Re: [newbie] Dynamic DNS
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Franki wrote: I dont' think dyndns do it.. its a tough situation to be in.. a dns server doesn't supply any info on ports. its just supplies the IP address from a domain name.. (I don't know honestly if the returned IP can be in the format 123.123.123.123:8080 but I doubt it.. (and then any call to any port smtp or pop3 or whatever would end up on your web server.) you need an interim server that can do a port redirect for you... port 80 to whatever.. so your server gets called domain.com and your website is www.domain.com the later is attached to an IP on that interim server and any requests to it on port 80 are directed to to port whatever on your setup.. dyndns don't do it.. but I vaguely remember hearing about one of the online services that do it.. (had something to do with proxy redirects.. but I didnt' need it so I didn't pay alot of attention.) like I said, any web host can do it.. you can set it up in the web server itself, or use a page on a server to use meta tags or JS to change www.domain.com to domain.com:8080 or whatever port you want..(even a iptables firewall rule can do it..) its not a perfect answer, but it would work well enough. Actually, it seems as though all that may be unnecessary now...my ISP may not be blocking port 80 after all...it might just be my router. Do I feel silly? Yes. But thats fine, if I can run my website off my own server. Now if I could just figure out what I'm doing wrong with this bloody router...lol... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy error: Read-only file system
--- KMReid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to create a floppy boot disk using Drakfloppy. A new floppy is already inserted in the drive. When Build Disk is selected, the error is: Be sure media is present for /dev/fd0. Then when OK is selected, the error message is: no medium for /dev/fd0 please insert one. When trying to use the KDE Floppy Formatter there is a error message: Cannot format: /dev/fd0u1440 /dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system. Any help appreciated, thanks. Abit KG7; Athlon 1.4Ghz; 512MB Mwave DDR memory; IBM 40G HDD; TEAC 3.5 inch 1.44MB floppy drive. Mandrake 8.2 recommended installation upgrade from 8.1. UPDATE: Thank you Dennis Myers and Damian G. for your responses. As it turns out, it was a bad floppy drive. I swapped in a new one and all is well. KR __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!), OT to KDE3 users Robin
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 00:45, FemmeFatale wrote: Robin Turner wrote: I've just installed KDE 3.0 into /opt and it also seems to be playing nice, apart from the known bug with Konsole and Kicker. It even saved my old KDE icons and backgrounds. I'll upgrade it to 3.0.1 when the /opt version comes out (installing over 2.2.2 was a disaster - I had to uninstall it and reinstall 2.2.2). Sir Robin If I may make an aside Robin, 3.01 is out afaik. Saw an announcement on it the other day on a linux news site. Is that the normal, install-over-everything KDE, or the promised install-discreetly-into-/opt KDE? Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla dependencies
On Sun, 26 May 2002 16:24:51 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't do this until you get confirmation, however you may investigate doing an rpm -e mozzila* at the cmd prompt. close Femmme It should be rpm -e --nodeps from the cmd. Many apps are built with a versionless require for mozilla, the rc3 would be a depend and rpm would give you list of failed dependencies if using only the -e option. Then reinstall your packages for .98 mozzilla. Worth a look to see if that is possible? Thats what I'd do. Course I break my system regularly which makes me think I shouldn't offer this advice, and should just scrap this email. Too late! I sent it! Never admit things like that. The excuse is I was not finished yet and hit send by mistake :-) Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla dependencies
LOL Femme, sounds like me (see below) the replay disk is my best friend! (even if it does just make manson clones hahahaha) At least a basic saved-/home install only takes a short time if using the 'standard' kernel instead of the 3-4 hours it take me to get the same machine to bring up the display under winblows. ever tried installing an ethernet card, a sound card 2 usb expansion cards and a video card on mircosoft's auto detect wizards (idiot savant's more like it) just by remembering the keystrokes you did last time you installed before windowsupdate decided it didn't like your monitor? hehehehe. hey if it ain't broke, you're not learning anything, huh? Jerry. Worth a look to see if that is possible? Thats what I'd do. Course I break my system regularly which makes me think I shouldn't offer this advice, and should just scrap this email. Too late! I sent it! -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake_Desk (Grrrr!), OT to KDE3 users Robin
On 27 May 2002 01:48:29 +0300 Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that the normal, install-over-everything KDE, or the promised install-discreetly-into-/opt KDE? It the install over everything. Mandrake is Supposed to release a 3.0.1 for 8.2 that Will install in /opt. Sorry but I do not have any time-frame Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla dependencies
May 26, 2002 06:06 pm,Tim Ford wrote: Me, being the clueless newbie I am, forced a Mozilla 1.0rc3 install on LM 8.2. This stuffed many of my other programs, such as galeon, mozilla mail et.al. Is there revert my system back to 0.98 so the dependencies work fine, or uninstall mozilla without the entire GNOME system being uninstalled as well? If so, how do i go about it. Thanks To Brain Parish: I got the internet connection working properly. I uninstalled BPAlogin completely, unistalled my firestarter, rebooted as root, installed it, editied the config file too my specifications, then resinstalled firestarter with my correct specifications. Doing a log check revealed BPAlogin connecting properly every time, and the heartbeat was now being facilitated. So if theres any problems like mine, just completely uninstall and reinstall. ~ Did you get the package from Mozilla.org or from Cooker? I ask 'cause I had release candidate 2 from Cooker on for a while and found it nice in some respects but buggier than the .9.8 that comes with MDK 8.2 in others. I just used the software manager to uninstall it and re-install .9.8 with no trouble. I did, however, also install RC3 from mozilla.org (the installer download) and ran it for a while. It fixed a few of the things that bugged me about RC2 but seems to have developed a few other bugs of it's own. I found the bugs that were obvious to me had already been reported so I just deleted the directory it was in and will wait for the full release. Again, no trouble since the second method (install from the tar file with the installer download from Mozilla) installs in it's own directory. Doesn't affect .9.8 at all. Any of the methods will stuff Galeon though because of unsatisfied dependencies. Later; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Samuel Johnson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Changing the mouse drivers in Linux
Is there anyone that knows how to use a Microsoft Optical Trackball (USB) for Mandrake 8.2? What driver would work? Nothing listed in the hardware compatibility for this particular model, however there are other USB mice listed. Thanks! (By the way, I can use the PS/2 plug converter instead, but preferred the USB on the keyboard if possible). Steve Weltman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] shareing access
I,m new to linux and didn,t understand what someone was trying to tell me the other day.I have two system,s a Win2000 and built a linux box to learn on so not to have to duel boot after getting the linux box running I haven,t be able to connect thur cable internet ISP and I have the windows information right next to it net card shows ok everthing looks right but no connection .someone wrote and told me I could access thee internet thur the 2000 system that would be ok I can only get on one at a time but I,m wanting to access the internet with the linux box not access the files on the win2000 box.Can somebody clear this up for me.
Re: [newbie] Changing the mouse drivers in Linux
Steve Weltman wrote: Is there anyone that knows how to use a Microsoft Optical Trackball (USB) for Mandrake 8.2? What driver would work? Nothing listed in the hardware compatibility for this particular model, however there are other USB mice listed. Thanks! (By the way, I can use the PS/2 plug converter instead, but preferred the USB on the keyboard if possible). Steve Weltman Steve, I hav the M$ Trackball ;p Same thing cept a trackball. I had to to this in this order to get it to work: Install MDK, using the ps/2 adapter. Get to gui login, ignore it. Flip to CTRL-ALT-F1 Login. Run drakconf or Mouseconf. Select teh USB mouse. Logout or stay there Flip back to the GUI login screen You may need to restart X or reboot, i didn't ahve to do much cept restart X *CTRL-END iirc*. Login through gui, all should be fine. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla dependencies
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2002 16:24:51 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't do this until you get confirmation, however you may investigate doing an rpm -e mozzila* at the cmd prompt. close Femmme It should be rpm -e --nodeps from the cmd. Many apps are built with a versionless require for mozilla, the rc3 would be a depend and rpm would give you list of failed dependencies if using only the -e option. Then reinstall your packages for .98 mozzilla. Worth a look to see if that is possible? Thats what I'd do. Course I break my system regularly which makes me think I shouldn't offer this advice, and should just scrap this email. Too late! I sent it! Never admit things like that. The excuse is I was not finished yet and hit send by mistake :-) Charles *laughs* Ty Charles. I knew I might be missing a small hyphenated command in there ;p -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla dependencies
Jerry wrote: LOL Femme, sounds like me (see below) the replay disk is my best friend! (even if it does just make manson clones hahahaha) At least a basic saved-/home install only takes a short time if using the 'standard' kernel instead of the 3-4 hours it take me to get the same machine to bring up the display under winblows. ever tried installing an ethernet card, a sound card 2 usb expansion cards and a video card on mircosoft's auto detect wizards (idiot savant's more like it) just by remembering the keystrokes you did last time you installed before windowsupdate decided it didn't like your monitor? hehehehe. hey if it ain't broke, you're not learning anything, huh? Jerry. More like if it ain't broke I haven't done something right today. :P Hm ya M$ stuff isn't that intuitive either come to think of it. I suspect I can break an install in 30 minutes flat. Either OS. Pretty sad. However you don't learn if you don't just try things. Heh, next up is breaking apache having it whine for mercy on its knees before me :P -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worm
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 03:14, poogle wrote: I may be wrong but I think I have received a new twist to the Klez.e worm in which case I think cross posting to warn others is appropriate, if I'm wrong I apologise for cross posting. I paste below the text of the e mail which came with an attachment called width.exe which I will e mail off-list to anyone who wants to look at it at their own risk of course, a second attachment in html read Read the OEM Privacy Statement This page is unavailable. Please check with your computer manufacturer.To continue to register your computer and Microsoft Windows, click Back. and a back button followed. I am Windows free so I can't virus scan the attachment and I'm not a programmer so although I could look at it it would mean nothing to me. The text:- Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerous by corrupting your files. Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV software can't detect or clean it. We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus. You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your PC. NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you run it. If so,Ignore the warning,and select 'continue'. If you have any question,please [there was an e mail link here] Yeah, it is Klez, but not new. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X forwarding
i'm wondering if anyone knows whre there is a quick faq, walkthrough on doing this for the beginers out there like me thanks rand Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Qmail problem
I finally got my Linux machine out of a VMWare virtual machine and into some real hardware. Windows XP kept crashing and taking Linux with it... Anyway, after several hours working on getting qmail running, I finally got it up, but one feature won't work. In tcp.stmp, you're supposed to be able to put 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= and get it to bypass rcpthosts for local machines. Well, that doesn't work. Any ideas? What info would you need to see to help diagnose the problem? Barry 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 11:32 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Carroll, OK - I have it working! Turned out that there were two problems: 1. Some plugins from mozilla were somehow getting in on the act and confusing things. 2. By installing kdebase-plugins, I thought I was installing flash. It was only when reading your message that I realized there must be an additional rpm for flash. So, to make it work, I only had to install the flash rpm using software manager, remove all the paths in Konq for plugins apart from /usr/lib/netscape/plugins, then scan. Thanks for your perseverance! Brian I looked in help and found the following, Netscape® Plugins Currently, Konqueror supports Netscape® 4.x plugins. If you select Preferences-Web Browsing-Netscape Plugins from the K menu you will get a dialog box with two tabbed pages; Scan and Plugins. I can't do this because I don't have Netscape Plugins option. WHY? -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks, Web Site Hosting, Cobalt Consulting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States:wq Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drakbackup
Hola. Is there anybody out there using drakbackup? I want to backup to my standard SCSI CD writer (Matsushita 7502), but I don't know how to. I only can backup to HD. Is there any option to 'check' that I'm missing? Regards. el charlie -- Carlos Arigós Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina Linux MDK 8.1 Kmail 1.3.2 ---Atención: Usted ha movido el mouse. ---Windows se reiniciará para que los cambios sean aplicados. 12:19am up 7:16, 2 users, load average: 0.47, 0.91, 0.68 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New dumb CLI question
On Sun, 26 May 2002 15:51:02 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dfox wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1022381743-1501-508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I restart my Internet Daemon from a Term window? Which one? There's several. If you cannot connect to anyone (can you try pinging your gateway?) you probably should try checking the DSL connection hardware. Usually you don't need to reestablish it like a ppp / modem connection. Once in a while it gets fouled up, and the (usual) solution is to cycle power on the DSL modem (mine's external) and then to try a few pings to see if you can get through to the 'outside'. Femme I suspect its my ISP dropping me off or a kiddyhacker trying to get in flooding my bandwidth. What I have to do usually is power off the modem, go to the Man.Control Centre hit the STOPButton for Internet. Wait a bit, turn on modem Hit the start button for Internet in the Control Centre. Was wondering if there was a way to do so by term window. Someone suggested ifup eth0. I hope that works. Sorry if I wasn't specific enough in my first post. :) -- Femme uhm.. dunno about how your connection works, but maybe you could doit using 'services'? like service network restart? HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla dependencies
On Mon, 27 May 2002 10:06:45 +1000 Tim Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me, being the clueless newbie I am, forced a Mozilla 1.0rc3 install on LM 8.2. This stuffed many of my other programs, such as galeon, mozilla mail et.al. Is there revert my system back to 0.98 so the dependencies work fine, or uninstall mozilla without the entire GNOME system being uninstalled as well? If so, how do i go about it. Thanks To Brain Parish: I got the internet connection working properly. I uninstalled BPAlogin completely, unistalled my firestarter, rebooted as root, installed it, editied the config file too my specifications, then resinstalled firestarter with my correct specifications. Doing a log check revealed BPAlogin connecting properly every time, and the heartbeat was now being facilitated. So if theres any problems like mine, just completely uninstall and reinstall. yeah, just force the mozilla uninstall rpm -e --force --nodeps mozila ( whatever the name was ) and then urpmi mozilla will install it off your cd's. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shareing access
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I,m new to linux and didn,t understand what someone was trying to tell me the other day.I have two system,s a Win2000 and built a linux box to learn on so not to have to duel boot after getting the linux box running I haven,t be able to connect thur cable internet ISP and I have the windows information right next to it net card shows ok everthing looks right but no connection .someone wrote and told me I could access thee internet thur the 2000 system that would be ok I can only get on one at a time but I,m wanting to access the internet with the linux box not access the files on the win2000 box.Can somebody clear this up for me. In order to do what you're talking about you must enable Connection sharing on the win2000 box. The process is wizard driven so it should be fairly straigh forward. I do know that it's fairly easy on a Mandrake machine, and I've heard that it can be a pain to do on a windows machine. At any rate you can do what you want to do. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cannot get modem device ID with cat /proc/pci
Hi, I'm using Mandrake on two computers. On the first, with cat /proc/pci, I got vendor and device ID's of the communications controller: Communication controller: PCI device 10b7:1007 (3Com Corporation) (rev 16). Using this, I was able to search the WinModem docs on the Web and conclude that my modem doesn't work under Linux. On the second computer, Windows calls the PCI modem Lucent WinModem, and cat /proc/pci returns the bus number, IRQ, and Communications Controller Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 1). No vendor or device ID. I've heard people can maybe use some Lucent modems, but how can I tell which driver I need? Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to install connexant modem driver with the .tar extention
Hi everybody, As a new user to ML8.1, I wish to have some hepl, how to install the connexant modem driver (hsflinmodem-4.06.06.01beta.tar) to get my winmodem working. Can someone inform me if internet browsing under Linux isquicker than browsing under Windows9X.
[newbie] g++ problems
Hi, I just installed mandrake 8.2 and I have some problems. When I try to run g++ compiler it gives the message: g++ installation problem, cannot exec 'cpp0': no file of this type. Can someone help me? 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 15:17:52 -0500 (CDT), Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KDE is cool is some ways. Multiple wallpapers for multiple virtual desktops is a kick! This is a window manager dependent feature. Sawfish, GNOME's default WM, likes to leave such 'unnecessary' features to external programmes (e.g. GNOME). You can either find an app which will allow you to do this, or you can change your window manager. For example, Enlightenment can do this. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? -- Mohandas Gandhi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Down-grade to XFree86 4.1
On Sun, 26 May 2002 16:33:44 +0300, Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 May 2002 00:02, 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). 3DImage975? You have my sympathy - I spent a month working out how to configure XFree for this monster back when I was using RedHat 6.0. You could try the noaccel option, though I don't know if 4.* still supports this (the acceleration in this card is so minimal you probably won't notice the difference). Hacking modelines might also do the trick. If you have the money, upgrade your card to one of the lower-end NVIDIA cards, and you _will_ notice a difference. I had the exact same problem a few years ago. I was just starting my GNU/Linux 'experience' with Red Hat 6.0, and I couldn't get my 3DImage975 to work properly. I searched all over the place, but I couldn't find a solution at the time. I finally caved in and changed my video card to a Matrox Millennium II, which has worked like a champ ever since. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Are you all on drugs? Get your acts together, guys. Stop blathering and frothing at the mouth -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
