[newbie-it] prova-non leggere
Sorry! -- syd slack 8/2.4.17
Re: [newbie-it] montaggio CD
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:03:34 +0200 miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. user non users vanno bene entrambe la prima permette ad ogni utente di montare, diventando quindi proprietario del dispositivo, che solo lui potrà smontare la seconda di smontare un disco montato da altri (ed occhio, non è poco che un utente smonti un disco montato da root) si impara sempre qualcosa :-) Però, lavorando prevalentemente in una lan, preferisco user: ognuno deve gestirsi il proprio CD senza che altri glielo smontino sotto il naso ed essere responsabile di toglierlo quando ha finito. Eventualmente root può intervenire quando serve. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] scelta database richiesta consiglio
Buongiorno a tutti. vorrei installare un database ad uso personale monoutente FACILE e che possibilmente supporti dei campi contenenti suoni o voci. Dispongo del powerpack 8.1 e della download 8.2. Vedo diversi pacchetti installabili. Qualcuno sa consigliarmi quale usare tenendo conto che per me le priorità sono: 1) possibilmente non scaricare nulla perchè poi non voglio impazzire a farlo funzionare 2) facilità d'uso grazie! paolo brusasco.
Re: [newbie-it] Download KDE3
Il sito che devi tenere costantemente sott' occhio (ci sono spesso delle novita' riguardanti kde molte applicazioni per il wm) e': www.kde.org e non www.kde.com! ciao ENx Andrea Celli ha scritto: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:22:28 +0200 (CEST) LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Benedetto Santarella esclamo': Salve a tutti, dove posso scaricare il KDE3??? Sono andato sul sito www.kde.com, ma non ho trovato nessun link, sono 'cecato io' ho non e' il sito giusto? Per esempio da qui http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/KDE/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/ possibilmente, cerca 3.0.2. E` uscita ieri. ;-) ciao, Andrea Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: clicca qui Sponsor: Cerchi l'Eldorado? Entra nella miniera d'oro pi ricca del web!!! Clicca qui
Re: [newbie-it] Download KDE3
On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:05:33 +0200 ENx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il sito che devi tenere costantemente sott' occhio (ci sono spesso delle novita' riguardanti kde molte applicazioni per il wm) e': www.kde.org e non www.kde.com! ciao ENx Non ho capito perché abbia risposto a me. Comunque, visto che i siti esistono entrambi e entrambi si occupano di kde per Linux, qualcuno sa quale è la differenza politica tra i due? Poi, entrambi i siti, per gli aggiornamenti sulle applicazioni, rinviano a apps.kde.com. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Download KDE3
Andrea Celli wrote: On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:05:33 +0200 ENx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il sito che devi tenere costantemente sott' occhio (ci sono spesso delle novita' riguardanti kde molte applicazioni per il wm) e': www.kde.org e non www.kde.com! ciao ENx Non ho capito perch abbia risposto a me. Comunque, visto che i siti esistono entrambi e entrambi si occupano di kde per Linux, qualcuno sa quale la differenza "politica" tra i due? Poi, entrambi i siti, per gli aggiornamenti sulle applicazioni, rinviano a apps.kde.com. ciao, andrea kde.org l'indirizzo diretto per i "cecati " (senza offesa per nessuno ovviamente) penso che era questo il senso di ENx, con kde.com si deve trovare e spingere un pulsante in pi . ;-) Saluti da Giuseppe.
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare un cd misto
Alle 18:39, mercoledì 3 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Ragazzi per favore sapete se... Posso creare, utilizzando uno dei programmi di masterizzazione della mandrake 8.2, un cd audio, che quindi possa essere letto dal normale lettore cd di uno stereo casalingo o di un automobile, che contenga però anche delle tracce non audio e quindi dei files? Mi date qualche dritta? Grazie. cdrdao Crea un'immagine del CD (a meno che non sia protetto). -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] kde3
Alle 21:53, domenica 30 giugno 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] kde3, caro luigi hai scritto: Ciao a tutti e grazie in anticipo Ho scaricato il paccozzo di rpm di kde3.0.1 per la mia mdk8.2 E' tanto grosso da scaricare? Oppure e' piu' comodo aspettarlo in qualche rivista? (appropo', quello che danno con LinuxC funzia solo sotto red hat, vero?) -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare un cd misto
??? - Original Message - From: Fabio Manunza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare un cd misto Alle 18:39, mercoledì 3 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Ragazzi per favore sapete se... Posso creare, utilizzando uno dei programmi di masterizzazione della mandrake 8.2, un cd audio, che quindi possa essere letto dal normale lettore cd di uno stereo casalingo o di un automobile, che contenga però anche delle tracce non audio e quindi dei files? Mi date qualche dritta? Grazie. cdrdao Crea un'immagine del CD (a meno che non sia protetto). -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Download KDE3
[cut] Per esempio da qui http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/KDE/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/ possibilmente, cerca 3.0.2. E` uscita ieri. ;-) ciao, Andrea Ok, ho cliccato sul link, e mi sono comparsi 20 - 30 file sa scaricare, li devo scricare tutti o solo uno Se uno quale, ho un MDk 8.2 P.S. Sono praticamente alle prime armi Grazie \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://www.santarella.too.it Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] montaggio CD - III e ultimo
Ragazzi, devo proprio ringraziarvi, ed anche ammettere di aver fatto da solo tutto il casino. Infatti ho scoperto che il mio linux funziona perfettamente con l'opzione supermount, e che aveva smesso di funzionare (cioè non consentiva più l'uso di CD e floppy all'utente generico) perché io avevo modificato fstab. Rimesso questo file come l'avevo trovato all'inizio, l'utente generico può accedere a CD e floppy semplicemente cliccando sui rispettivi collegamenti sul desktop, senza bisogno di dare alcun comando per il montaggio. Le cartelle relative, invece, tipicamente nella directory /mnt, rimangono inaccessibili da parte dell'utente generico. Se invece si elimina da fstab l'opzione supermount e se ne riscrivono le righe secondo la sintassi tipica, inserendo i consueti user, noauto, allora per accedere a CD e floppy occorre dare il comando di montaggio, comando che però può dare solo il superutente. In definitiva, ora va tutto bene. Ringrazio Giuseppe, Andrea, Fabio e chiunque avesse nel frattempo scritto. Porrò a breve altre domande, spero un po' meno ovvie. Ciao Giorgio
RE: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
With Hard disks the size and price they are now,, it would be great to see a system like that with a 20 or 30 gig in it, loaded to the hilt with all of the apps that people use.. evolution, mozilla etc etc etc.. and madrake are not far off the ball with all this... They should take what inovations Lindows introduced (like the C drive button, which I suggested on this list over a year ago..) and the network neighbourhood setup and copy it.. (adjusted to suit) and any of the auto config stuff.. then they can do the same thing as Lindows without the mistakes Lindows made, like running as root. a: The Menu system should be tweaked so that a default application is listed in each category, and a like to Alternatives under it.. so as an example, Kmail is the default mail reader in the menu, and under it is a menu directory of the other mail clients, and the menu app monitors which one gets used the most and makes it the default.. so if the user uses Evolution the most, Evolution becomes the default in the menu... that would work. b: Not run as root.. Mandrakes use of the password box whenever a admin task is run is much bettter. c. Prefab install makes the install issue moot anyway.. but the auto monitor detection in Lindows is great. copy that. d. Make OpenOffice.org a default part of the install.. the lack of it (MS Office compatable product) will be a major annoyance to windows users, the first time someone sends them a Word document. e. Autodetection and setup of printers needs to be improved bigtime.. ditto scanners. f. Lots of links to linuxdoc.org and www.google.com/linux would be a good idea too.. since nearly every problem I have had was resolved by seaching one of those.. (and mandrakes huge repository of docs as well) put them all together into a Help application.. where you type in a question, and it does its best to find an answer..) (thats simplified, but you get the idea.) Mandrake could fairly easily make an OEM Mandrake that does all that and more.. and sell it as an OEM package where the merchant Tailors the package to their hardware.. and works more or less like Windoze preinstall... Linux is ready for the desktop in some cases.. it just needs the right approach.. and the linux crowds attitude of RTFM and STFW just can't be used with newbies.. they need at least 2 months linux experiance before you tell them that.. :-) Just some thoughts.. long live linux... The day I read that linux has 50 percent marketshare of destops as well as the majority of servers is the day I start having faith in human nature again. regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Olson Sent: Thursday, 4 July 2002 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK? On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:51 pm, you wrote: If that was true, yes, you would be more open to viruses (virii isn't a word), but since Lindows has made it clear that users log in using usernames and passwords, I think that they have fixed this hole. Unless I read their FAQ wrong... Well paint me purple and call me Barney. Looks like they didn't bother changing it, but they did mention it in the FAQ... The lurking terror of Root So far I haven't addressed the questionable design decision to make the user run as root. This opens the door for viruses and insecurities like the ones that have plagued Windows for years. The Unix system of limited privileges has been an effective means of restricting viral code. To throw all that away now seems very foolish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
Something glares at me. can you set your BIOS for APIC instead of PIC? Not sure, but will try. I have noticed some instability, filesystem dependent, on the binary-only NVIdia drivers from the distro, somewhat but not completely removed by the more recent Mandrake-specific drivers from the site. The XFree drivers do not sem to be subject to this problem. Now this strikes me as possibly being an issue. I've run free at various points today to have a look, and there certainly appears to be a memory leak from what I can tell... I'll include results here, if someone can analyse I'd appreciate it: free before starting X (12pm): [Note that this was after shutting X down, not after a complete system restart, so it looks like most of the memory's already leaked away...] total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255844 203200 52644 0 11368 76844 -/+ buffers/cache: 114988 140856 Swap: 262544728 261816 free after starting X (12pm): total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255844 224312 31532 0 11512 82264 -/+ buffers/cache: 130536 125308 Swap: 262544728 261816 free (6:49pm): total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255844 233508 22336 0 11576 86804 -/+ buffers/cache: 135128 120716 Swap: 262544728 261816 free after closing X down (6:50pm): total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255844 211584 44260 0 11576 84936 -/+ buffers/cache: 115072 140772 Swap: 262544728 261816 free after restart and no X (~6:52pm): total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255844 35752 220092 0 1768 19896 -/+ buffers/cache: 14088 241756 Swap: 262544 0 262544 free with X running (7:06pm): total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255844 78500 177344 0 2488 41332 -/+ buffers/cache: 34680 221164 Swap: 262544 0 262544 Sorry for the amount of text here... it certainly looks to me like memory leaks away while X is running, and isn't restored when X quits, until you restart and reset everything. This could well be the NVIDIA drivers? So I'm going to download the source and recompile. I ran this card with Mandrake 8.0 and no problems, but compiled the nvidia drivers from source that time. Maybe that's it. Thanks very much for the help so far! Pippin -- And I said 'Oh boy... right... again.' - Laurie Anderson, Let X=X http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~chikken/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 102.4 Mb limit with ftp?
Hi When connecting on the LAN of my working institute, I can transfer files with ftp (much faster than sftp) up to 102.4 Mb, then connection is closed. This is apparently true for sftp as well. I remember that there was a limit in old kernels, but since I use Mandrake 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6, this wonders me. Can somebody give a hint how to get rid of the limit? Please CC me since I am not registered to the mailing list. Regards Marc PS: Is there any rcp in the Linux distr? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] New to Linux
Title: New to Linux Hello, I'm new to the Linux world and I've been trying to get used to it. I like the capabilities that it offers. I bought Mandrake 8.2, because I didn't know anything and it said it was easy to install. Which is was. My question is... How do I install software onto my computer? I've tried downloading BTERM, because I need a good telnet session for my work. Once it was been downloaded, I found it on my Desktop (file system), not ( Desktop ), but I couldn't get it to do anything. Probally because lack of understanding, but it's frustrating. Is there software (drivers) for DVD's. The computer I am currently using has this and I would like to use it if possible. One last question. Mandrake included a lot of Installation sources and commercial software. How do I know what to install ( not knowing the naming convention that is given to all the RPM's ) and once it is installed, how do I find it? I installed what was said to be Common C++, but I can't find it. Please help. Thank you for your time. Vaughn E. Harrigan
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
Alastair Scott wrote: On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:46 pm, robin wrote: But surely the locale info you get when you type locale is independent of the window manager. I have the Turkish locale package installed, and localedrake sees it,it just won't make any changes. Is KDE interfering, I wonder? It seems there are _two_ locales; the command-line/X one and the window manager one (presumably Gnome, which I don't have installed, has similar issues). I would guess that you have to log out and restart X before localedrake takes effect. Oh yes. Duh. BTW, I can change things with set, but they always return to the default when I log in again. Should I be doing this as an export line in bash_profile? It appears that you need a ~/.i18n file to fix the command-line/X language. This page looks useful for the general technique: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stefanss/japanese/ Thanks - useful site. Duh again - need to use export rather than set for permanent changes. Sir Robin -- So I repeat myself? I am great, I contain tautologies. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.
Contacting offending websites is a good idea. I can normally only be bothered to do it with sites I visit regularly, or ones I'm related to in some way (e.g. departments at my university). If you can spare the time, it's very good to explain what it is in the site that is causing the problem (this is not always a Linux/w3c issue - it might be related to general web design problems, such as setting an absolute font size which comes out as gigantic or microscopic at the wrong resolution). For example, in the days when I didn't have Flash installed, some bad javascript would cause the Download Flash popup to open in over ten boxes - I wrote to one offending site and it was fixed within the hour. Similarly, when I started out on the web (well before my Linux days) I made the mistake of thinking I could use MS Word's Save as HTML feature. A few polite emails started me on the long road to Linux ... Sir Robin Josef Lowder wrote: The protest message I send to offending websites: Do you realize that limitations you have built into your website cut off more than half the world from being able to access your website? How savvy is that? Why in the world would you design your website to require visitors to use any one type of browser (and/or specific add-on functions like flash) when more than half of the computer users in the world cannot access your website as a consequence? -- Furthermore, when they require a bunch of personal info that I do not want to provide, I just put X's in each field and for an email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;)) On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 9:35 am, you wrote: Michael Adams wrote: I tried to visit this site. http://www.bet365.com The result upset me so much i sent them this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- So I repeat myself? I am great, I contain tautologies. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to Linux
On Thursday 04 Jul 2002 10:48 am, Harrigan, Vaughn wrote: Hello, I'm new to the Linux world and I've been trying to get used to it. I like the capabilities that it offers. I bought Mandrake 8.2, because I didn't know anything and it said it was easy to install. Which is was. My question is... How do I install software onto my computer? I've tried downloading BTERM, because I need a good telnet session for my work. Once it was been downloaded, I found it on my Desktop (file system), not ( Desktop ), but I couldn't get it to do anything. Probally because lack of understanding, but it's frustrating. Is there software (drivers) for DVD's. The computer I am currently using has this and I would like to use it if possible. One last question. Mandrake included a lot of Installation sources and commercial software. How do I know what to install ( not knowing the naming convention that is given to all the RPM's ) and once it is installed, how do I find it? I installed what was said to be Common C++, but I can't find it. Please help. Thank you for your time. Vaughn E. Harrigan Welcome.. Hope you enjoy the power of your new environment. It is new and confusing, but hopefully you will find it fun. If you prefer to use a GUI environment the best way to install software from your CDs is using Mandrakes Software Manager Just click on Mandrake Control CentreSystemSoftware from here you can browse through all the packages both installed and uninstalled The 'Files' Tab on the right allows you to see where the files from that package are/would be, and the little question mark on the top line tells you if the files are actually present or not when you click on it. The 'Brief' Tab gives you a text description of what the package does. I do not recommend downloading and installing any application which is not a 'Mandrake RPM package' There are over 3000 applications on your install CDs so the probability of your needing something not on the CDs is quite low (for the moment) So for example you want a Telnet client. On your CDs is gnome-telnet ktelnet telnet-server-krb5 and telnet-client-krb5 Simply searching for 'telnet' in Software Manager will find these. When you install them they will appear in your KMenu. When you first run Software Manager it will nag you to define a security update source. It will fetch a list of sources and you just pick one. Some are frankly very slow. I always use sunet.se because it is fast and reliable. You should press the 'Mandrake Update' button every now and again so it can search the web for security updates and bug fixes. Unlike Microsoft the Linux world is very open about security hazards and publishes fixes very quickly. If you cannot find what you need on the CDs then search at www.rpmfind.net You will find thousands of Mandrake RPM packages there. (Avoid ones marked 'Cooker', They are 'bleeding edge' packages intended for the next release of Mandrake) Just clicking on an RPM on a web page using konqueror browser will cause it to be downloaded and installed. But beware.. Some RPMs have dependencies on other RPMs. When you install from CD using Software Manager these will be automatically installed at the same time. When you install from the web it is up to you to locate and install any required dependency. If you do not know the name of packages you want to install then do a linux google search http://www.google.com/linux? using keywords of what you want to do and you will get lots of hits. As for the commercial Software... well the only one I ever install is the Opera browser (which if you have not tried in the Windows world you really should :-). And there is a newer version of that available online. (Get the RPM with static QT) I think the commercial CDs also contain Acrobat reader and Nvidia drivers. Again there are newer versions available on-line. Have fun derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 6:03 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 12:10 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 9:35 am, you wrote: Michael Adams wrote: I tried to visit this site. http://www.bet365.com The result upset me so much i sent them this. (Justifiable complaint snipped) --- I am still miffed but i feel better for doing something. I've fired off a few e-mails along similar lines myself in the last week or so. I've got conciliatory though ultimately unhelpful replies - generally along the lines of the use of Windows Media Player being due to circumstances beyond their control. (This was particularly galling with the live coverage from Glastonbury - I had really wanted to see the White Stripes). One of the more knowledgeable respondents suggested I get the CrossOver plugin. I think we should all complain every time we are shut out of a site or other resource due to exercising our right to choose non-MS software. Eventually they might conclude that it's easier to provide platform independent content than to keep having to answer (if answers they can be called) the complaints. On similar lines, though Windows based, I complained to HSBC bank that I was unable to access the on-line bank whilst using Netscape 6.2. I was told that it was not and would not be supported as it was inherently insecure i.e. could save login/passwords. I guess I should have pointed out to them that I could just as easily do that from any number of my linux browsers, if I were stupid enough to do so, but I didn't. I regret that now, although they would probably have just seen that as an excuse to block out linux browsers as well. You could just as well say that I can't have a PIN nu,mber, because I might write it down. How stupid can you get? Anne have you tried it with the browser reporting that it is ie4+? if they are going to tell me I cann't come in without the right key, and the only thing that makes it the right key is me telling them it's the right key then if I want in still, I will tell them; heck yea, it's the right key, and it fits and i have been using this key for x number of months I guess so - but since I'm in Linux most of the time now it really isn't an issue. Mozilla and Konq both can access, so what the hell? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 6:40 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:10:13 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On similar lines, though Windows based, I complained to HSBC bank that I was unable to access the on-line bank whilst using Netscape 6.2. I was told that it was not and would not be supported as it was inherently insecure i.e. could save login/passwords. I guess I should have pointed out to them that I could just as easily do that from any number of my linux browsers, if I were stupid enough to do so, but I didn't. I regret that now, although they would probably have just seen that as an excuse to block out linux browsers as well. You could just as well say that I can't have a PIN nu,mber, because I might write it down. How stupid can you get? Insecure? Have they read ANYTHING about IE. Besides you can save passwords with IE just like any browser. Bill 'Ignorance is bliss! 'Tis folly to be wise' Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OO cut and paste
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 10:45 pm, you wrote: Hi all. voice inflection=desperation A! I can cut, but not paste in OpenOffice Calc or Writer. I uninstalled 1.0-3mdk, installed 1.0-5mdk. No change. It happens in KDE, and Fluxbox both. Why?! /voice Thank you. Miark Strange - I use Ctr-C and Ctrl-V in OO Calc without problems, but middle-button paste doesn't seem to work. I think inconsistencies like not knowing which 'paste' to use, and the face that Find can be in almost any menu list, are really offputting to the newbie. I would like to see agreements on these lines. To me it is logical to have Find on the Edit menu, though I would be open to persuasion that there was a better place for it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 10:32 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote: Thanks - that's a great help. At least it has started up (fresh login) without the error messages. Any other recommendations while we're on the subject? Anne Is your sound working ok, or are there still problems with the XMMS plugins. aRtsd is used by ALSA, so if you choose that in KDE control center, then it will definitely use aRtsd. I advise putting it back on OSS or Autodetect. ALSA has many errors a lot. I find OSS to be the best. John Drouhard I think I'm OK now, it's certainly better. I have Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup enabled. Should I take this out? How do I put it onto OSS or Autodetect? The Sound I/O is on Autodetect - is this the one you mean? Sorry to be so clueless Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Web page print issue
When reading a long document like Mandrake's recent answer to United Linux I prefer to print it out. With some sites I have found that it is more readable if I print from Mozilla rather than Konq, but I suspect that it depends upon the length of line being used in the web page. So here I am with a document printed out in, I would think, about 6 point font - almost unreadable. Does anyone know of a workround for this? Of course I don't really need the side-bars, so the ability to print just the centre section would be find. I used to use Print Frame in Wins to get round problems like this, but maybe this is not an option because people use frames less? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web page print issue
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 12:45:13 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When reading a long document like Mandrake's recent answer to United Linux I prefer to print it out. With some sites I have found that it is more readable if I print from Mozilla rather than Konq, but I suspect that it depends upon the length of line being used in the web page. So here I am with a document printed out in, I would think, about 6 point font - almost unreadable. Does anyone know of a workround for this? Of course I don't really need the side-bars, so the ability to print just the centre section would be find. I used to use Print Frame in Wins to get round problems like this, but maybe this is not an option because people use frames less? Anne well... given the trouble it is to save a whole web pages with images and all, i never even tried to print a webpage directly. instead, i copy the text, and paste it to OpenOffice or Kword. once you are there changing the font and it's size is trivial, but i doubt you will even need it, as they print quite well ( what you send to the printer ends up looking very much alike what you were looking at in the monitor ) i know this is not a fix to your problem, but i don't think you can change that from any satting that i'm aware of. oh btw do you have a preferred font set and size and have configured the browser to only use those? in that case there is that option of not allowing fonts any smaller than ... whatever you need. look out for that one... (mozilla) Preferences - Appearance - fonts and enter a reasonable value for the minimum font size. apart from that, i pretty much think you could be stuck with using other apps to finish up the text before printing it... ( oh and here's a second idea, if the text renders readably in your screen, try print to .ps file, open it to make sure it looks nice, and then print that one... ) HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web page print issue
Anne Wilson wrote: When reading a long document like Mandrake's recent answer to United Linux I prefer to print it out. With some sites I have found that it is more readable if I print from Mozilla rather than Konq, but I suspect that it depends upon the length of line being used in the web page. So here I am with a document printed out in, I would think, about 6 point font - almost unreadable. Does anyone know of a workround for this? Of course I don't really need the side-bars, so the ability to print just the centre section would be find. I used to use Print Frame in Wins to get round problems like this, but maybe this is not an option because people use frames less? Various alternatives: 1. Edit the HTML source. Somewhere you'll find something that sets the base font size (either in the body or in the style section in the head). Change the size to whatever you want. Incidentally, absolute font sizes are a key factor in bad web design - you should always let the browser determine the base font size and set your own sizes relative to that. 2. Over-ride the source. As was pointed out, you can get Netscape/Mozilla to set a minimum font size. If you have other preferences, you can make your own stylesheet to over-ride any features you don't like. See http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/07/21/magazine/css_anarchist.html for some fun ideas. 3. Import into something else. Alternatives in decreasing order of ease and increasing order of print niceness: - Netscape/Mozilla Composer - OpenOffice - LyX (you'll need to install html2latex for this). Sir Robin -- So I repeat myself? I am great, I contain tautologies. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:51:37 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with you though, in not liking the lindows idea. I've never used it, but I keep hearing that it forces you to run as root. I hope this doesn't catch on. IMHO, they're taking one of the greatest security features and throwing it away. Running as a root makes your system much more vulnerable to virii, it would seem. If that was true, yes, you would be more open to viruses (virii isn't a word), but since Lindows has made it clear that users log in using usernames and passwords, I think that they have fixed this hole. Virii is most definitely a word. Unless I read their FAQ wrong... For what I have read, I don't think there is any login whatsoever. Even if there was, that doesn't change the fact that everything is running as root, which is just as insecure as using Windows. No amount of firewalling can change this. Their Click-n-Run scheme is also a potential security vulnerability, since software is being downloaded and installed as root. It is similar in concept to Ximian's Red Carpet and MandrakeUpdate, but I am not convinced that it is as secure. When you are downloading and executing code from the Internet, security is of paramount importance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan In short, Microsoft is no more able to build secure products than England's cricket team is able to withstand the bowling of Australia's bowlers. -- John Leyden, MS firewall is holier than the Pope, The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), 2001-08-20. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] update dhcp via Mandrake update
I have the 8.2 prosuite DVD install, and I guess the dhcp alinka packages, as when I use the Mandrake Update in Software Manager, I get an error about the conflict between the dhcp of the alinka packages and the update dhcp. should I keep using the alinka stuff or should I uninstall it and use the update again? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Upgrading 8.1. to 8.2
hi! I am planning to upgrade our server running 8.1 to 8.2. Is this a straight forward task? Is it possible that the upgrade breaks something that was working? I do not have weird things on my machine. Just bugzilla, a couple of mysql databases, and apache with various virtual servers. The upgrade will not change my configuration, right? Will it fix existing problems? For example, I am not able to start xwindows. The graphical terminal displays a gray background and the cross mouse pointer. Regards, Casco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
Try flexbackup MS On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 00:02, dfox wrote: My problem is that I have no idea how to use the tape drive. Could someone give me some pointers please. I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you just use the /dev/st0 (it is scsi, right?) or /dev/nst0 devises - the second is the no-rewind device. Is it worth playing with? Do yuo like to make backups? Or do you want to risk losing your data? :) Which tape would work with it? My surestore drive uses 4mm DAT tapes - they are DDS-2 and capacity is 2 gigs uncompressed. When I got the drive, that was just right for copacity; nowadays it is a bit small. But I rarely need to back everything up. The tapes I've been using are Imation 4mm tapes - $5 bucks a pop when I got the drive. What backup software could I use with it? Lots support tapes - since it is a device you can just use 'tar'. I've found that 'tar' is just as easy to use, and probably preferable over other backup software. Plus, Arkeia would need X, which translates to a pretty big system build before you could restore a tape. Tar can fit on a rescue diskette. 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] New to Linux
I'm new to the Linux world and I've been trying to get used to it. I like the capabilities that it offers. I bought Mandrake 8.2, because I didn't know anything and it said it was easy to install. Which is was. My Vaughn, welcome to Linux, and the list! question is... How do I install software onto my computer? I've tried downloading BTERM, because I need a good telnet session for my work. Once it was been downloaded, I found it on my Desktop (file system), not ( Desktop Most Linux software is either distributed in RPM or tar.gz type files. If you're familiar with downloading software in a Windows environment, these are somewhat like ZIP files but they contain more information. As with ZIP files, they need to be unpackaged before installation. Depending on where you wnet, you may haev a file 'bterm ... rpm' or 'bterm ... tar.gz' (the dots represent intervening characters, version information and such - in general, filenames used for linux packages indicate the version, what kind of machine it's for, whether it's source, and so on. For instance, WhizBang Eidt might be called 'wed-1.0.0.tar.gz' or 'wed-1.0.0.i386.rpm'. Mandrake does include 'telnet' which does do a telnet session, but does your work prefer SSH? It should - in which case you can just install OpenSSH, then you just 'ssh' to create a session. You really don't need a terminal emulator like you do on Windows. ), but I couldn't get it to do anything. Probally because lack of understanding, but it's frustrating. You should find a file in Desktop starting with bterm. My guess is that it's a tar.gz file, and you'll have to uncompress it, and then install it. It may contain source code, in which you'll have to compile it, and then install it. Is there software (drivers) for DVD's. The computer I am currently using has this and I would like to use it if possible. For most people, xine works well. There's been quite a bit of list activity recently concerning xine. I don' have a DVD player on my computer, but it works well for playing DivX encoded CD's - I have a few of those. Their web site is http://xine.sourceforge.net. Sourceforge.net is a huge repository of open source and linux coding projects. One last question. Mandrake included a lot of Installation sources and commercial software. How do I know what to install ( not knowing the naming convention that is given to all the RPM's ) and once it is installed, how do You might be more comfortable installing by using the software manager, which lest you browse through packages by types. That way you don't need to know just how the filename you're lookign for is spelled. If anything, linux filenames / RPMs can be somewhat unindicative of their function, and one generally gets this familiarity by simple exposure. I find it? I installed what was said to be Common C++, but I can't find it. Please help. What you probably installed was 'g++-common-soemthing.i586.rpm' which is one of the necessary RPMS for the GNU C++ compiler. You'll need to install the rest of the RPMS for gcc/g++ - best way to do that is to use the package manager. The files are on your installation CD, in the RPMS directory. there are a bunch of files that start with 'gcc3.0' or 'gcc2.96' - that's the gnu C compiler files. One final word of advice - don't double post in text and html :). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 102.4 Mb limit with ftp?
This is apparently true for sftp as well. I remember that there was a limit in old kernels, but since I use Mandrake 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6, this Your institute may have set up some sort of scheme that won't let you transfer big files. But I am unawhere of any such limit in ftp or sftp. PS: Is there any rcp in the Linux distr? There probably is, but the r-series of commands are genearlly viewed as security risks. If you want to transfer a lot of data in a hurry, like a whole directory structure, give 'rsync' a try. It's very fast, probably fastrer than ftp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web page print issue
On Thursday 04 Jul 2002 2:37 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: When reading a long document like Mandrake's recent answer to United Linux I prefer to print it out. With some sites I have found that it is more readable if I print from Mozilla rather than Konq, but I suspect that it depends upon the length of line being used in the web page. So here I am with a document printed out in, I would think, about 6 point font - almost unreadable. Does anyone know of a workround for this? Of course I don't really need the side-bars, so the ability to print just the centre section would be find. I used to use Print Frame in Wins to get round problems like this, but maybe this is not an option because people use frames less? Various alternatives: 1. Edit the HTML source. Somewhere you'll find something that sets the base font size (either in the body or in the style section in the head). Change the size to whatever you want. Incidentally, absolute font sizes are a key factor in bad web design - you should always let the browser determine the base font size and set your own sizes relative to that. 2. Over-ride the source. As was pointed out, you can get Netscape/Mozilla to set a minimum font size. If you have other preferences, you can make your own stylesheet to over-ride any features you don't like. See http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/07/21/magazine/css_anarchist.h tml for some fun ideas. 3. Import into something else. Alternatives in decreasing order of ease and increasing order of print niceness: - Netscape/Mozilla Composer - OpenOffice - LyX (you'll need to install html2latex for this). Sir Robin Thanks for both your replies. I'll try out all suggestions Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 July 2002 02:27 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I guess so - but since I'm in Linux most of the time now it really isn't an issue. Mozilla and Konq both can access, so what the hell? mozilla works but netscape is insecure? they are truely clueless.. - -- Microsoft, the RIAA, the TCPA, Palladium, etc. ad nausium, these are assaults on our basic rights as humans. They are all efforts to control us. They must be fought. You can have peace or freedom, but rarely both at once. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JH4DBwq+ZwvIN/oRAn+CAJ4q7+UTXNV1IcZH4zonX/WvYijLmwCeIqRl m5gdSNQ35lWpROGDnGaEmwA= =2DKR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading 8.1. to 8.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 July 2002 07:09 am, Alejandro Fernandez did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: hi! I am planning to upgrade our server running 8.1 to 8.2. Is this a straight forward task? Is it possible that the upgrade breaks something that was working? it can be, but it depends on many other things, like how you have partitioned your drive. it can break working things. I do not have weird things on my machine. Just bugzilla, a couple of mysql databases, and apache with various virtual servers. The upgrade will not change my configuration, right? again depends. what are your partitions like? Will it fix existing problems? For example, I am not able to start xwindows. The graphical terminal displays a gray background and the cross mouse pointer. errr, that rather sounds like x, but without a windows manager choosen. how are you starting x? do you have kdm or gdm installed and have you tried those? - -- Gartner recommends that enterprises... immediately investigate alternatives to [Microsoft] IIS, including moving Web applications to Web server software from other vendors, such as iPlanet and Apache... [which] have much better security records than IIS... Gartner remains concerned that viruses and worms will continue to attack IIS until Microsoft has released a completely rewritten, thoroughly and publicly tested, new release of IIS. -- John Pescatore, Information Security Strategies, Gartner Group, 2001-09-19. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JI5ABwq+ZwvIN/oRAqZ1AJ0fGL56Bzb5s6UJ9KzZuRveTViUWwCfS/Fr 49YPuyHbbkXQ0Nu5tCoJLWw= =IR7f -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla Icons
I need to find out where to put the Mozilla icons, or how to get Mandrake control Center's menu utility to find then, currently in /usr/local/mozilla/icons. I thought if I added them to say KDE icon folder, but I cannot find it, anyone got any ideas. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.
Bill Davidson wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:10:13 +0100 Insecure? Have they read ANYTHING about IE. Besides you can save passwords with IE just like any browser. Bill Oh man, they are pathetic. Mozilla is much more secure then any version of IE. And if they don't know You can set Mozilla to encrypt all passwords that are saved. So it would be very hard to get passwords even if someone tried it on your own machine. Oh yeah and not to say that IE also can save passwords and I don't trust it one bit. And so much security problems with IE. Damn they should ban IE users :) -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Icons
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 11:33, John Richard Smith wrote: I need to find out where to put the Mozilla icons, or how to get Mandrake control Center's menu utility to find then, currently in /usr/local/mozilla/icons. I thought if I added them to say KDE icon folder, but I cannot find it, anyone got any ideas. John Check out the /usr/share/icons directories. I'm not completely sure how menudrake sorts through the directories there, but place your icons in one of the directories and see what turns up in menudrake. -- /curtis Mandrake Linux 8.3 (cooker) Kernel Version 2.4.18-20mdk Uptime 4 days 15 hours 27 minutes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla using External Email Client?
How do you get mozilla to use an external email client when you click an email hyperlink? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
Well guys I understand a lot more about tape drives now than I did 3 days ago. A pity more of the people who think MS means computing don't see how much more there is to it than re-installing screwed up DLL's, VXD's etc. I feel sure the great slew of ideas from just this one thread would open a few eyes. thanks to all, norm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 g2 wrote: | Hi, | | can you help me on how to setup a private network. My linux server has | 2 NICs and I want to share my internet connection to my subnet. | | I did some googling, read some howtos and visited mandrakeusers.org but | I cant seem to make it work. | | I run mcc, and enables Internet Sharing, I chose eth1 as the one | connected to my LAN. I think I have a problem my routing table. | | from the client side, well I can ping the IP Add of eth0 as well as the | IP Add of eth1. hereis my ifconfig : | | | eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:36:42:45 | inet addr:158.202.49.147 Bcast:158.202.49.255 | Mask:255.255.255.0 | UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 | RX packets:14759 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 | TX packets:5596 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2 | collisions:306 txqueuelen:100 | RX bytes:4874410 (4.6 Mb) TX bytes:663386 (647.8 Kb) | Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000 | | eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:40:0A:0F:EA | inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 | UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 | RX packets:1196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 | TX packets:864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 | collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 | RX bytes:101950 (99.5 Kb) TX bytes:80060 (78.1 Kb) | Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc400 | | loLink encap:Local Loopback | inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 | UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 | RX packets:1585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 | TX packets:1585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 | collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 | RX bytes:117535 (114.7 Kb) TX bytes:117535 (114.7 Kb) | | And my route table | | 158.202.49.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 | eth0 | 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 | eth1 | 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 | lo | 0.0.0.0 158.202.49.10.0.0.0 UG0 00 | eth0 | | | when i do [root]#route add -host 192.168.0.1 gw 158.202.49.147 eth1 it | says Network Unreachable. | | Is this what is suppose to have? eth1 will have eth0 IP Add as its | gateway. client (subnet) pc will have eth1 IP Add as its gateway. | | help. | | g2 g2, Did you install and start dhcpd? this is necessary for the client machines. and can you ping any of the client machines from the server? - -- daRcmaTTeR - -- Registered Linux User 182496 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9JEwwJuZ1geTzHgERAnpiAKCJyyAjkuoF911OgB+MmAyZ9WPI6wCghYdm Q+W5zUbws9+dkP0JXX0y4K4= =4NSE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
