Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
I was seriously considering buying a Mac until I watched his address. Sure, OSX looks cool, but I have a feeling there are a lot of hidden costs waiting down the road. I'm really happy with Mandrake Linux, and you can't beat the price and the support community. I wouldn't even be surprised to see the Mac fanatics defect at some point. Cheers, Todd Do you not find L-M to be expensive down the road? I am psyched about Linux, but frustrated that I have to go without updates that could really help me just because the new ..? the cat suddenly jumped in and punched 'send' before he could finish! Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:39:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 Aug 2002 9:22 pm, you wrote: This was cleary an essay-test... -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] test On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:05 pm, you wrote: This is a test message because two of my postings have not been presented. But then I never saw the original post of this thread. As for posts not showing up generally, I check my sent-mail folder and usually find that the post had gone back to a poster rather than the list. HTH Anne It is actually good protocol to make sure that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in the *To:* field (unless it is a private reply) as many of us on the list filter our mail to sub-directiories - ie. my filters are set to send all mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a directory named - you guessed it - Mandrake Newbie. When it is sent to another address or CC:'d to more than just [EMAIL PROTECTED] the filter cannot proccess it properly. Nigel Ridley. I AM Bible Studies and Resources http://www.i-amfaithweb.net Messianic E-Cards http://www.i-amfaithweb.net/cardcenter.htm OliveRoot Ministries http://www.oliveroot.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] read a pixel!
i need a suggestion on programming languages. this is how it goes. i need to build a program that can tell me the RGB value of a given pixel inside of an image file. that is, load a graphic from file, and reading color values from it regardless of whether it's showing on the screen or not. i've tried kylix Open edition, but it fails to do it ( probably buggy libs ) as it loads and displays a graphic correctly on the form but when i try to read a pixel from it... the RGB value i get is wrong ( i think it's getting converted to 8-bit palette ) while the same code does run correctly on windoze's Delphi 5, ( so much for cross-plattform programming ) i hate having to reboot my computer ( or even loading a virtual machine ) just for the sole purpose of barfing fome clumsy lines of code -besides i'd like the linux binary- , so i've decided that i need to learn something other than pascal for killing time... can anyone recommend me a programming language that allows me to do this pixel-reading stuff and is as simple as possible? ( i will have to learn C sometime, but for the moment i think is a bit overkill... is there a choice? ) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions
On Friday 16 Aug 2002 3:04 am, Randy Kramer wrote: Derek, Thanks for the followup! I was curious so I tried sending you mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- it basically bounced so I assume that is not a good Internet email address for you. (There was also a reference to spews, so possibly it is your address, but currently blacklisted?) quote Hi. This is the qmail-send program at newmx1.fast.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 212.187.213.75 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 553 [1] misc13, see http://spews.org/ask.cgi?S610 Giving up on 212.187.213.75. /quote I regularly receive mail via cwcom so your mail should have got through, but it looks as if cwcom have managed to get themselves onto a Spammers blacklist. Doh! derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] read a pixel!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri 16 August 2002 8:40 am, Damian G wrote: i need a suggestion on programming languages. this is how it goes. i need to build a program that can tell me the RGB value of a given pixel inside of an image file. that is, load a graphic from file, and reading color values from it regardless of whether it's showing on the screen or not. i've tried kylix Open edition, but it fails to do it ( probably buggy libs ) as it loads and displays a graphic correctly on the form but when i try to read a pixel from it... the RGB value i get is wrong ( i think it's getting converted to 8-bit palette ) while the same code does run correctly on windoze's Delphi 5, ( so much for cross-plattform programming ) i hate having to reboot my computer ( or even loading a virtual machine ) just for the sole purpose of barfing fome clumsy lines of code -besides i'd like the linux binary- , so i've decided that i need to learn something other than pascal for killing time... can anyone recommend me a programming language that allows me to do this pixel-reading stuff and is as simple as possible? ( i will have to learn C sometime, but for the moment i think is a bit overkill... is there a choice? ) Python will do very nicely; it's installed by default and the command line is 'just there'. I strongly recommend it as a grievously underestimated language. A good place to get started is at O'Reilly: http://www.onlamp.com/python/ You'll need to include a graphics manipulation library. I haven't used it in anger, but the Python Image Library: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm certainly does what you need, according to the online manual (see the getpixel method)! Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9XLDXdasIDb/2nMwRAiQSAJsFeQs/nIrpUwyllGJ7ib8HB74g4QCdELLj PN47BOPxA1Kkj1FiNWaa0sM= =I/Ju -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
I read an article recently that suggested that Apple might soon be offering a Intel version of a Mac.. and it wouldn't be hard due to what OSX is actually based on (darwin), to actually do it. The suggestion was that low end mac's would sport Intel CPU's but now doubt Apple would make it impossible to load OSX on anything not Apple, they would just make it so people could load windows on their mac if they were not happy with OSX... it was suggested that this is how they would start luring more windozee users over to Mac... interesting thought, wonder how it will pan out. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:10 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision. On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:02:09 +0800 frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am so sick of crashes and sh!t, and the crap M$ are handing out to people to blind or stupid to realise that what they have been handed is brown, mushy and doesn't smell that hot.. If they think they are in trouble now, wait till they crush their own illusion that people own their windows operating system by introducing their subscription model as their main license.. then people will flock to *nix and macs like never before... I desperatly want that to happen, because once all the commercial companies start releasing their versions for linux (and driver support etc.) then the freefall will begin.. the masses will swarm linux and by then it will be more intuitative then ever and people will be saying Bill who??? anyway, enough raving, I've gone and stayed up all night again surfing the net.. time for bed. rgds frank I watched Steve Jobs keynote address from Mac World in streaming mpeg4 with AAC audio on QuickTime 6, and if it hadn't been for the eye candy, I could have sworn I was watching an M$ show. The new Mac business model looks a lot like the M$ model--moving to subscription services (that were once free). I guess Mac OSX users are especially pissed that they will have to pay full price for Jaguar (or, Jagwire as Steve says). To stay current with Mac OS would have involved several pricey upgrades in a short time. I was seriously considering buying a Mac until I watched his address. Sure, OSX looks cool, but I have a feeling there are a lot of hidden costs waiting down the road. I'm really happy with Mandrake Linux, and you can't beat the price and the support community. I wouldn't even be surprised to see the Mac fanatics defect at some point. Cheers, Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not. (Floyd Dell) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
yeah, I read that last night while looking into my problem.. but the thing they mention in the end, is that even if that program does allow you to load service packs without agreeing to the license, the service pack will still start your machine sending stuff to Microsoft... and that annoys me, I am tempted to install Zone alarm on that machine and see just what it is that sends the stuff to M$ and block it.. but knowing them, it'll be internet explorer or something... (spose I could load Mozilla onto the machine, but then I couldnt' use windows update at all.) its a lose lose scenario... I hate the B@$stards. Judge Jackson had the right idea, split the OS Microsoft up from the IE and Office etc.. software M$, and make it hard for the OS M$ to do deals with the others.. why it got canned is beyond me.. in the end that would help them more then hinder them. bad JokeIf Osama had to send jets to crash into something, why couldn't it have been in Redmond. /bad Joke rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision. On Thursday August 15 2002 06:02 pm, frankie wrote: yeah, someone gave me a cracked corp copy of XP, and I wanted to know how/if it worked, so I installed it.. now my legit win2000pro machine on my network, and my XP machine, (no longer with the cracked version) both find No updates in windows update, even though this time last month, there were a heap of them, including .NET stuff etc.. So I can only assume that M$ has my static IP in a database somewhere and has locked me out of windows update regardless of what OS I have.. (although it did work with a 98SE machine I setup for a friend. (also legit.) (I'm gonna try going through an annonomiser proxy next and see if that works.) http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25996.html might help, I dunno, I haven't given Billy a nickel in a long time. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
I am annoyed with mandrake 8.2 right now, I ran MandrakeUpdate and it told me I had to update some security and bugfix updates, and when I tried to, it wanted to upgrade what amounts to most of my system, including perl, gimp and a ton of other big apps,, and I have no idea why... so I upgraded nothing and I will wait for 9 to come out.. in the mean time I have closed all services to the outside. One thing you can say for M$, they make software that has loads of bugs, but their patches cause far less hassle then Mandrakes.. (I know some have caused errors, but the numbers are smallish...) the most annoying thing about M$ updates is that they ususally result in a reboot... but at least they don't require that you update a dozen apps to fix one issue... I can't afford to waste my limited expensive bandwidth downloading 80mb of dependencies that break when you download a mandrake security or bug fix. Its a shame Someone hasn't released a diff that works on a compiled binary.. how knows, maybe someday... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Isaac Curtis Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision. (response below) I watched Steve Jobs keynote address from Mac World in streaming mpeg4 with AAC audio on QuickTime 6, and if it hadn't been for the eye candy, I could have sworn I was watching an M$ show. The new Mac business model looks a lot like the M$ model--moving to subscription services (that were once free). I guess Mac OSX users are especially pissed that they will have to pay full price for Jaguar (or, Jagwire as Steve says). To stay current with Mac OS would have involved several pricey upgrades in a short time. I was seriously considering buying a Mac until I watched his address. Sure, OSX looks cool, but I have a feeling there are a lot of hidden costs waiting down the road. I'm really happy with Mandrake Linux, and you can't beat the price and the support community. I wouldn't even be surprised to see the Mac fanatics defect at some point. Cheers, Todd Do you not find L-M to be expensive down the road? I am psyched about Linux, but frustrated that I have to go without updates that could really help me just because the new Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] read a pixel!
I think perl with the image magick module can do what you ask... go to search.cpan.org and search for image you'll find a ton of stuff.. you can even generate images with them.. its very cool. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Damian G Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 3:40 PM To: lista-linux-newbie Subject: [newbie] read a pixel! i need a suggestion on programming languages. this is how it goes. i need to build a program that can tell me the RGB value of a given pixel inside of an image file. that is, load a graphic from file, and reading color values from it regardless of whether it's showing on the screen or not. i've tried kylix Open edition, but it fails to do it ( probably buggy libs ) as it loads and displays a graphic correctly on the form but when i try to read a pixel from it... the RGB value i get is wrong ( i think it's getting converted to 8-bit palette ) while the same code does run correctly on windoze's Delphi 5, ( so much for cross-plattform programming ) i hate having to reboot my computer ( or even loading a virtual machine ) just for the sole purpose of barfing fome clumsy lines of code -besides i'd like the linux binary- , so i've decided that i need to learn something other than pascal for killing time... can anyone recommend me a programming language that allows me to do this pixel-reading stuff and is as simple as possible? ( i will have to learn C sometime, but for the moment i think is a bit overkill... is there a choice? ) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] htdig
I've got mdk 8.2 installed on our Intranet server. Which works fine, except that the htsearch doesn't work thru http. It does work ok if i run from a command line. On my old box it ran from http://hostname/cgi-bin/htsearch, this appears not to work now. I believe that i need to make some changes in the apache conf, but as to which i don't know. Any suggestions / ideas ?? Failing that does anyone know of good alternative site search engines?? Thanks Jamie _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re-compiling PHP
I have apache PHP installed from mdk8.2. PHP is installed with safe-mode enabled, how do i re-compile PHP with safe-mode disabled ?? Thanks Jamie _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] localizing EveryBuddy / Gaim
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:31:14PM -0400, Isaac Curtis wrote: Hey all, I'm always annoyed when I've got ten desktops buzzing along, all my work crisply compartmentalized, and all of a sudden I get an IM on a desktop I am trying to do something else with. I have to go to the trouble of closing it, returning to my IM desktop, returning the message and waiting for a response to my response so that I can make the IM stay where I want it to. Then of course I go back about my business, checking in to the IM desktop every minute or so, until I get another message from another person and the whole mess starts all over again. Am I an imbassyl? Isaac, Your window manager should have an option for you to keep/show an app on all desktops. In Fluxbox it's called stick, and I'm pretty sure you can do it in KDE, too. Right-click on the window's title bar, and you should see your options. HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] running X remotely
Greetings ... Okay, I've configured my mandrake box for ssh, and i can reach it from my windows machines using putty ... next step: what is the best approach to running X ... i've seen some windows programs to run X server on the windows box, then access my linux box remotely ... (or at least i THINK that's what i found) what's the best way to achieve this? thanks in advance, kenn __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 16 Aug 2002 3:04 am, Randy Kramer wrote: I was curious so I tried sending you mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- it basically bounced so I assume that is not a good Internet email address for you. (There was also a reference to spews, so possibly it is your address, but currently blacklisted?) I regularly receive mail via cwcom so your mail should have got through, but it looks as if cwcom have managed to get themselves onto a Spammers blacklist. Doh! Ok, and I now understand (not sure why I didn't earlier (when I tried it)) that the right reply address gets taken from the From: header which is set based on your email client. Some things are sinking in. ;-) regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
frankie wrote: Its a shame Someone hasn't released a diff that works on a compiled binary.. Well, rsync can handle that, depending on how widespread the changes are. Try looking at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Rsync. Debian uses rsync as the primary method for downloading and updating the distro (IIUC). Mandrake would probably have to make some changes to use rsync instead of ftp (or whatever they do use) in their automatic update system, but it could be worth it to us (the downloaders). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] localizing EveryBuddy / Gaim
(response below quote) On Friday 16 August 2002 08:38, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:31:14PM -0400, Isaac Curtis wrote: Hey all, I'm always annoyed when I've got ten desktops buzzing along, all my work crisply compartmentalized, and all of a sudden I get an IM on a desktop I am trying to do something else with. I have to go to the trouble of closing it, returning to my IM desktop, returning the message and waiting for a response to my response so that I can make the IM stay where I want it to. Then of course I go back about my business, checking in to the IM desktop every minute or so, until I get another message from another person and the whole mess starts all over again. Am I an imbassyl? Isaac, Your window manager should have an option for you to keep/show an app on all desktops. In Fluxbox it's called stick, and I'm pretty sure you can do it in KDE, too. Right-click on the window's title bar, and you should see your options. HTH, Todd Well I actually never got to finish that email before I sent it (hence the shameful spelling error) but what I'm talking about is sort of the opposite. I know how to allow those windows to pop up on all desktops, but that's the exact opposite of what I want. I want EveryBuddy to stay the hell away from my other desktops. I have all my apps neatly compartmentalized to the same desktops I always keep them on, and I don't want IM windows popping up in the way so that I have to go through the hassle of re-localizing them to the EveryBuddy desktop. Is there any way to force EveryBuddy (or any other IM program, this is so annoying I'm willing to switch software) to keep incoming IMs on its desktop, or should I write the developers as a feature request? I have the same complaint with Mozilla-- I hate popup windows in general, but if I'm flipping between desktops after clicking a link (56k modem... gotta do things while I wait for them to load) the popups come up on other desktops, which isn't as annoying as IMs but a bother nonetheless. Well, I hope that clears up what I was talking about. Again, I apologize for those emails getting out when they were incomlete. I tried to save them as drafts in KMail but then it force-sent them without my permission. My own fault, I'm sure, I've only used KMail for a week because Mozilla 1.0 doesn't let me use SMTP for some weird reason... not even localhost. Oh well. Another issue for another day. Thanks for the feedback and take it easy. Peace, Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User permission changed automatically?
I had something like this happen - other users' home areas suddenly being visible. It had something to do with msec. I was advised to do this: msec -o log=stderr 3 And it was fixed. RichardA Bela Markus, Thursday 15 August 2002 18:51: I want to hide home dirs of users and to assign 700 permission to users home directroy in /home from 755, but changing it manually after some time this is restored. I have umask 020 for users, 022 for root. How can I stop this automatic action? MK 8.2 with SAMBA Regards... Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] localizing EveryBuddy / Gaim
Isaac Curtis, Friday 16 August 2002 16:48: (response below quote) On Friday 16 August 2002 08:38, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:31:14PM -0400, Isaac Curtis wrote: Hey all, I'm always annoyed when I've got ten desktops buzzing along, all my work crisply compartmentalized, and all of a sudden I get an IM on a desktop I am trying to do something else with. I have to go to the trouble of closing it, returning to my IM desktop, returning the message and waiting for a response to my response so that I can make the IM stay where I want it to. Then of course I go back about my business, checking in to the IM desktop every minute or so, until I get another message from another person and the whole mess starts all over again. Am I an imbassyl? Isaac, Your window manager should have an option for you to keep/show an app on all desktops. In Fluxbox it's called stick, and I'm pretty sure you can do it in KDE, too. Right-click on the window's title bar, and you should see your options. HTH, Todd Well I actually never got to finish that email before I sent it (hence the shameful spelling error) but what I'm talking about is sort of the opposite. I know how to allow those windows to pop up on all desktops, but that's the exact opposite of what I want. I want EveryBuddy to stay the hell away from my other desktops. I have all my apps neatly compartmentalized to the same desktops I always keep them on, and I don't want IM windows popping up in the way so that I have to go through the hassle of re-localizing them to the EveryBuddy desktop. Is there any way to force EveryBuddy (or any other IM program, this is so annoying I'm willing to switch software) to keep incoming IMs on its desktop, or should I write the developers as a feature request? I have the same complaint with Mozilla-- I hate popup windows in general, but if I'm flipping between desktops after clicking a link (56k modem... gotta do things while I wait for them to load) the popups come up on other desktops, which isn't as annoying as IMs but a bother nonetheless. Well, I hope that clears up what I was talking about. Again, I apologize for those emails getting out when they were incomlete. I tried to save them as drafts in KMail but then it force-sent them without my permission. My own fault, I'm sure, I've only used KMail for a week because Mozilla 1.0 doesn't let me use SMTP for some weird reason... not even localhost. Oh well. Another issue for another day. Thanks for the feedback and take it easy. Peace, Isaac I'm sure I've seen a window manager option to keep dialog boxes on the same desktop as the parent app. Unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw it. I've just looked in KDE control centre with no luck. BTW, which window manager are you using? RichardA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:50:29 +0800 frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, I thought it was cool too.. (I saw it myself last night when search for onfo on the SP1 for XP and the SP3 for 2000. so you can install the SP, but the SP is still going to send info to M$, so it makes little difference really. rgds Frank h... true, true, you're right.. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla error on loading
Hi I just selected a new skin for Mozilla And geuss what ? I screwed again. All I get at the startup is a message that says: Error launching browser window:no XBL binding for browser What now? are there some files I can edit to restore my previous situation ? thanks Klemm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bugzilla account
with downloading beta 3 bugs should be posted using bugzilla, well the text on that page is not so clear as what to do, what is this bugzilla, where can I find that bugzilla and how do I get such an account: i tried to mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with canpostabug in the body and they replied to me saying I hadn't a valid mail adress??? where do they reply that mail to, then? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla error on loading
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:18:04 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I just selected a new skin for Mozilla And geuss what ? I screwed again. All I get at the startup is a message that says: Error launching browser window:no XBL binding for browser What now? are there some files I can edit to restore my previous situation ? thanks Klemm hmm.. delete the ~/.mozilla directory. i had mozilla do some REALLY WEIRD stuff the day i wanted to install the locale package for spanish.. ( i mean things like creating a window 3 times the size of my screen, with no menu, no widgets, just a white window, and filling up with code -- like HTML or something ) the only solution i found was deleting the dir i mentioned to make it go back to just-installed state. HTH Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] running X remotely
On Fri 16 Aug 2002 16:34, Kenn Murrah wrote: Greetings ... Okay, I've configured my mandrake box for ssh, and i can reach it from my windows machines using putty ... next step: what is the best approach to running X ... i've seen some windows programs to run X server on the windows box, then access my linux box remotely ... (or at least i THINK that's what i found) what's the best way to achieve this? The easiest way(and cheapest) is to install VNC on your winders-machine(I think Mandrake installs it by default). That way you can connect both ways. That is if you're on a trusted LAN, and doesn't need ssh. Trying to run X over an internet connection ranges as AFAIK from deadly s-l-o-w to completely dead, so you'll not be needing ssh for that either. If you'r wanting for a graphical frontend for putty on winders...give iXplorer a go. There's a shareware version and a GPL one. (the latter is downloadable at tucows) Good luck, Harm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nortel VPN Client
Hi, Has anyone successfully used Nortel's VPN Client for Linux? I'm trying to use it with Mandrake 8.1 without much success. Did you have to do anything special or apply any patches to make it work? Thanks. Jeff Chapman Software Engineer Registered Linux User #218160 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kppp locks machine
One of my dial-up machines will be locked up by kppp if I leave it running overnight (it doesn't always do this, but most of the time). Nothing unusual shows in my logs. What happens is, when I wake up my machine in the morning, then click on the connect button in the kppp box, the button will gray out and the machine will just sit there. I can't kill kppp at all--I've tried killing the proc, but when I do that the kppp dialog box grays out completely (no writing inside it whatsoever), but the top bar and the xit square are still there. ktop shows the proc to still be running, no unusual cpu load, no unusual memory usage, etc. Anyway, as soon as the connect button grays out, it becomes impossible for me to logout. And, after I try to kill the proc, I can't even get to another terminal window--I'm dead in the water, except I can still open applications (but not terminal)--weird, huh? My only solution is a hard reboot (alt,SysRq,b). I'm running ext3, so no major problems doing this--yet. But, I'm getting very annoyed. Any ideas? e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] localizing EveryBuddy / Gaim
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:48:26 -0400 Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (response below quote) On Friday 16 August 2002 08:38, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:31:14PM -0400, Isaac Curtis wrote: Hey all, I'm always annoyed when I've got ten desktops buzzing along, all my work crisply compartmentalized, and all of a sudden I get an IM on a desktop I am trying to do something else with. I have to go to the trouble of closing it, returning to my IM desktop, returning the message and waiting for a response to my response so that I can make the IM stay where I want it to. Then of course I go back about my business, checking in to the IM desktop every minute or so, until I get another message from another person and the whole mess starts all over again. Am I an imbassyl? Isaac, Your window manager should have an option for you to keep/show an app on all desktops. In Fluxbox it's called stick, and I'm pretty sure you can do it in KDE, too. Right-click on the window's title bar, and you should see your options. HTH, Todd Well I actually never got to finish that email before I sent it (hence the shameful spelling error) but what I'm talking about is sort of the opposite. I know how to allow those windows to pop up on all desktops, but that's the exact opposite of what I want. I want EveryBuddy to stay the hell away from my other desktops. I have all my apps neatly compartmentalized to the same desktops I always keep them on, and I don't want IM windows popping up in the way so that I have to go through the hassle of re-localizing them to the EveryBuddy desktop. Is there any way to force EveryBuddy (or any other IM program, this is so annoying I'm willing to switch software) to keep incoming IMs on its desktop, or should I write the developers as a feature request? I have the same complaint with Mozilla-- I hate popup windows in general, but if I'm flipping between desktops after clicking a link (56k modem... gotta do things while I wait for them to load) the popups come up on other desktops, which isn't as annoying as IMs but a bother nonetheless. Well, I hope that clears up what I was talking about. Again, I apologize for those emails getting out when they were incomlete. I tried to save them as drafts in KMail but then it force-sent them without my permission. My own fault, I'm sure, I've only used KMail for a week because Mozilla 1.0 doesn't let me use SMTP for some weird reason... not even localhost. Oh well. Another issue for another day. Thanks for the feedback and take it easy. Peace, Isaac Don't know about your IM problem but have you considered Sylpheed as your mail client? Nigel Ridley. I AM Bible Studies and Resources http://www.i-amfaithweb.net Messianic E-Cards http://www.i-amfaithweb.net/cardcenter.htm OliveRoot Ministries http://www.oliveroot.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] error message received from Cron Daemon
For the past two days, I have received this message from Cron Daemon with the subject title Cron root@dads nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily; error: syslog:22 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 I remember a couple of nights ago, while playing some yahoo games (java) my MD8.2 system locked up completly, ctrl-alt-del nor ctrl-alt-backspace could recover it so I had to reboot - which in turned fsck had to be run because of some errors it found during boot. That all went smooth (appears to) and mandrake fixed itself?? correct term? But now this message about duplicate entries, what does it mean? I looked thru /etc/cron.daily and did not find any duplicate entries. Contents of /etc/cron.daily; 0anacron logrotate makewhatis.cron medusa.cron msec postfix rpm slocate.cron tmpwatch There is nothing in /var/log/syslog during the time those messages were sent except for the postfix messages about sending the messages. Also appears that syslog hasn't been rotated for some time now, since Aug 4th. Does anybody have an idea what this error message means and how to fix it and also where I can find some listing of what the error codes mean? TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Support Checklist
On Friday 16 August 2002 07:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you checked the systems at wallmart.com? no monitor (add whatever you want) but the computers w/mandrake installed are a hard price to beat. even as a reseller, with out volume discounts I cannot beat the price. I feel you but I'm building this myself so I get to deduct the cost of labor from those machines. Plus the parts in those systems are garbage. They are good enough to run Linux, but they rarely outlive their warranties. Even when it only saves me $100 or so, I like building it myself to know it was done right and with high quality parts. Peace. Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Messages won't thread in KMail
I can't get my messages to thread in KMail. I've tried unchecking and rechecking the option to no avail, as well as restarting X and the entire machine. Any ideas? Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NFS problem
Hello, anyone willing to explain to me what the following is all about: [root@ollin root]# mount -t nfs ellun:/ext/pub /mnt/ellun mount: RPC: Program not registered I'm trying to configure my workstation to serve my wife's workstation (ellun) as a gateway to the Internet and also as a file sharing server (yes, I know this is not very wise - I should use a separate server), but can't establish a functioning local connection although hardware works fine. My new Mandrake 8.2 box is running on security level 4 (next to the highest) but I have tried to compromise a bit between the security levels to enable NFS and SMB file sharing. msec and xinetd docs didn't help much. Thanks, Olli ___ Mr. Olli Räisänen Address: Kaislakatu 10 S 144 80130 Joensuu Finland Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +358 50 3455505 (mobile), +358 13 743144 (home) ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS problem
On Friday 16 August 2002 11:09 pm, you wrote: Hello, anyone willing to explain to me what the following is all about: [root@ollin root]# mount -t nfs ellun:/ext/pub /mnt/ellun mount: RPC: Program not registered snip Thanks, Olli Hi there. Make sure that portmapper is really running. You can, as root, on your server, do a: rpcinfo -p and you should get something like this: [root@darkforce darklord]# rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 1000241 udp 32768 status 1000241 tcp 32768 status 3910022 tcp 32769 sgi_fam 1000111 udp968 rquotad 1000112 udp968 rquotad 1000111 tcp971 rquotad 1000112 tcp971 rquotad 151 udp 32770 mountd 151 tcp 32770 mountd 152 udp 32770 mountd 152 tcp 32770 mountd 153 udp 32770 mountd 153 tcp 32770 mountd 132 udp 2049 nfs 133 udp 2049 nfs 1000211 udp 32771 nlockmgr 1000213 udp 32771 nlockmgr 1000214 udp 32771 nlockmgr The important thing here is that nfs, mountd, and portmapper are included. Now, you also want to check to see that portmapper is running on your server: rpcinfo -p 192.168.0.1 (or whatever the ip address of your server is) You should be able to get the same results. Check your exports as well, with a cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports Mine shows: [root@darkforce darklord]# cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports # Version 1.1 # Path Client(Flags) # IPs /home/darklord/tmp darkforce2.com(rw,root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.2 /home/darklord/tmp darkforce3.com(rw,root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.3 Also, showmount will help: [root@darkforce darklord]# showmount -a All mount points on darkforce.com: darkforce2.com:/home/darklord/tmp darkforce3.com:/home/darklord/tmp I had the greatest help on setting up nfs at this website: http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ I very highly recommend it - Good luck! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GCombust permissions problem
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:29:21 -0400, Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just successfully created a cdrw backup disk using Gcombust on LM8.2. After it was written I went to open it and I got a message that I did not have access rights to /mnt/cdrom. I have written a disk successfully before without this problem. How can I change the permissions on this disk so that I may open it? How did this happen in the first place? I cannot open it on my other computer either. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am the only user on this computer so would like full permissions for myself as user. I am not sure how to do this. In /etc/fstab, look for /mnt/cdrom line. In the fourth field (fields are tab or space delimited), you should see a set of options. Add ,user to the end. This will allow a user to mount /mnt/cdrom. Reboot, and hopefully everything should be fine. If that doesn't work, open userdrake and add yourself to the cdrom group. Was the CD-ROM burnt using Rock Ridge extensions enabled? If so, then file permissions were recorded to the disc. This means that the files on the disc behave as if they're on your hard drive, in that you need the correct user permissions to access them. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. -- Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unreal Tournament help.
Well, I've had this game for some time. Installed it under 8.0, 8.1, and a while back - under 8.2. Recently, I had to reinstall and I just got around to reinstalling UT as well. I had used the installer disk from Tux games (where I bought it), but this time - no joy. I can't get it to recognize disk changes at all. SI downloaded ut-install-436.run from Loki and ran it on my UT CD's. I've got the Best of Infogrames version, and I also have the GOTY (red) CD version. I tried installing using 436 with both versions. Both times it installed cleanly, and reported success. When I type in ut at the terminal though, this is what I get: [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ ut Unreal engine initialized Bound to SDLDrv.so Joystick [0] : Unknown Joystick SDLClient initialized. Bound to Render.so Lighting subsystem initialized Rendering initialized LoadMap: Entry Failed to load 'Entry': Can't find file 'Entry' Failed to load 'Level None.MyLevel': Can't find file 'Entry' appError called: Failed to enter Entry: Can't find file 'Entry' Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError Executing USDLClient::ShutdownAfterError Signal: SIGIOT [iot trap] Aborting. Exiting. Name subsystem shut down There is an Entry.unr.uz file in /usr/local/games/ut/Maps. Anyone have any experience with this? I did several searches on Google and went to the Linux Game FAQ, but didn't find anything pointing to this. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal Tournament help.
On Friday 16 August 2002 11:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I've had this game for some time. Installed it under 8.0, 8.1, and a while back - under 8.2. Recently, I had to reinstall and I just got around to reinstalling UT as well. I had used the LoadMap: Entry Failed to load 'Entry': Can't find file 'Entry' Failed to load 'Level None.MyLevel': Can't find file 'Entry' appError called: Failed to enter Entry: Can't find file 'Entry' Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError Executing USDLClient::ShutdownAfterError Signal: SIGIOT [iot trap] Aborting. Exiting. Name subsystem shut down There is an Entry.unr.uz file in /usr/local/games/ut/Maps. Anyone have any experience with this? I did several searches on two bells are going off for me. One being a different installer for goty, and the second being a vague recollection of one having to decompress those uz files. Ummm, I used to have a script that someone wrote for that, but I've lost track of it. You may have some luck with google or some of those linux gaming sites. hths, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal Tournament help.
On Friday 16 August 2002 11:42 pm, s wrote: On Friday 16 August 2002 11:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I've had this game for some time. Installed it under 8.0, 8.1, and a while back - under 8.2. Recently, I had to reinstall and I just got around to reinstalling UT as well. I had used the Ummm, I used to have a script that someone wrote for that, but I've lost track of it. woohooo! found it. hope this helps. -- #!/bin/sh # Change this to YOUR install-dir of UT # INSTALLDIR=/usr/local/games/ut cd $INSTALLDIR/System for i in `ls ../Maps/*.unr.uz` do ucc decompress ../Maps/$i -nohomedir done rm ../Maps/*unr.uz mv *.unr ../Maps echo ..:: Done! ::.. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] More UT info.
Don't know how significant it is, but when I run the 436 script, it never asks for a 2nd disk. Also, at the end when it reports that its been successfully installed, and to type in ut to play, it gives this: [root@darkforce Scripts]# chmod +x ut-install-436.run [root@darkforce Scripts]# ./ut-install-436.run Verifying archive integrity...OK Uncompressing Unreal Tournament version 436 Linux install... Unreal Tournament 436 Patch ERROR: No matching delta for /usr/local/games/ut/System/Editor.u -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
