[newbie] MSN Broadband
Does anyone know how I can configure ML to use my MSN Broadband service? Is there a way to load the MSN Explorer stuff? I don't even know how to install anything on ML. I need this info in stupid newbie terms. I am using ML 9.0 RC2, on a Toshiba Satellite 1605CDS, with a LinkSys PCMLM56 Etherfast 10/100 PCMCIA Card. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] AnswerPhone Software
I've been looking for some Answerphone Software and have failed. Can anyone point me in the right direction please. Thanks Steve -- VX800 Muffins Rule !!! http://www.ethos.muffin.btinternet.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Permission problems with Apache
Over the weekend, I fried a hard drive on the Dell notebook I've been using as a web and mail server for my DSL line. Won't tell you the whole long story, but I've almost got it back to where it was, except that I have a permissions problem with the directories containing the several web sites. I have set permissions to 755, with the user and group names set to user and apache. These are in user's home directory, home/user/html/ and I keep getting an error message when trying to access the sites: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Can anyone offer any suggestions? I'm stumped. Andy Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] http mirror
I'm looking for a package to mirror a web site (i.e. able to parse the html pages for links). Any suggestion? I have not seen anything in like that in MDK8.2. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't ftp to my linux-system
When I try to open a ftp-session from a windows-machine to my linux- system, I get the following error message: 'connection refused'. The network itself is running (when I try to ping the system everything looks allright) Any suggestions for simple file transfer to and from my linux-system? Corstian van Roest Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't ftp to my linux-system
Corstian van Roest ha scritto: When I try to open a ftp-session from a windows-machine to my linux- system, I get the following error message: 'connection refused'. The network itself is running (when I try to ping the system everything looks allright) Any suggestions for simple file transfer to and from my linux-system? Corstian van Roest Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com hi! try to connect from the linux box itself to test is the server ftp is running correctly ftp://localhost.localdomain if yes check in your ftp client on windows for pasv mode and deselect it or select bye francesco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't ftp to my linux-system
--- Corstian van Roest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to open a ftp-session from a windows-machine to my linux- system, I get the following error message: 'connection refused'. The network itself is running (when I try to ping the system everything looks allright) Any suggestions for simple file transfer to and from my linux-system? Corstian van Roest First you need to have an ftp server running on your linux box (you didn't say whether you did or not - so let's start with the obvious). If you DO, then you'll need to post more information on your settings, etc. Secondly, if all you are looking for is simple file transfer between Linux and Windows on a LAN, I suggest you use Samba. HTH, Ron. __ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't ftp to my linux-system
big snip First you need to have an ftp server running on your linux box (you didn't say whether you did or not - so let's start with the obvious). If you DO, then you'll need to post more information on your settings, etc. snip Also check that the /etc/hosts.allow file has the IP address, if you are in a secure environment then, ALL:ipddress would be ok. It would not hurt to also put the ip in /etc/hosts. (replace ipaddress with the client ip) HTH David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3
At 16.57 10/09/2002, you wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. Ron. I agree 152% with you here. I have everything as ogg on my computer now. I use giFT for downloading (it's like Kazaa, but console and of course for Linux) where there are quite a few ogg's to be found. Anything I cannot find in ogg format is usually to be found in a high MP3 bitrate, which I convert to oggs. Many users are againt this as it's supposed to reduce quality even more, but I strongly dissagree with that. If I take a 192kb/s MP3, and re-encode it to +-128kb/s ogg (Quality 4) it sounds just the same, no matter if I play it though the computer speakers, the expensve headphones I have attached to the computer, or the sterio that the computer is connected to! Probably you don't have very good earing equipment. NEVER reencode from a compressed file. You'd only add artifacts. Ok, ogg's artifacts are very difficult to notice, but they are there. Whether you can't ear them or not it's a different matter. This is what ogg's creators say and what it's almost obvious. Olaf olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tool to force write raw data in a CD-R
I need to write datas in the circular corona left empty (about 2,5 cm in my CD, 1). I'd like to try to write there even if the CD has been closed. Is there a way to do so? In this case I don't care about already written data, but is there even a way to write in that area without touching exixtent data? Thank you Olaf LG 8080B or Combi RW16x10/DVD olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http mirror
ok, thanks to an off-list reply I found wget and httrack. For sure ehe first one is on the MDK cd, so I should look better next time raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a package to mirror a web site (i.e. able to parse the html pages for links). Any suggestion? I have not seen anything in like that in MDK8.2. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quark Express
Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, robin wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: Is there a linux equivalent of this program? Not yet, though Scribus looks promising. A lot depends on why you use Quark (I'm guessing here, as I've never used it). If it's because you like frame-based layout, then KWrite is fairly functional in this area. OTOH, if your layout needs are not very complex and you just want to produce professional-looking PDF or PostScript files, then I'd give LyX a try. Sir Robin Heh...well, actually, all I want to do is change my business card around from time to time. No idea whatsoever about what programs are good for that; I just know that it was originally done on Quark Express. And that I'm tired of being a slave to the graphics people at Kinkos! Gah!!! For a business card, I imagine the GIMP would work fine - treat it as a graphic with added text rather than a text document with inserted graphics. Work in XCF (the GIMP native format) then convert to whatever format your printers will handle. 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] AnswerPhone Software
--- Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 07:49:09 +0100 Steveb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for some Answerphone Software and have failed. Can anyone point me in the right direction please. Thanks Steve http://alpha.greenie.net/vgetty/ HTH, -Frans also try http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/~schaefer/vgetty.html regards, russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AnswerPhone Software
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 07:49:09 +0100 Steveb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for some Answerphone Software and have failed. Can anyone point me in the right direction please. Thanks Steve http://alpha.greenie.net/vgetty/ HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MP3 conversion
Is there a program or Xmms plugin that will convert mp3s to wavs? I'm sure I used to have such a thing but I can't, for the life of me, remember what it is. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper
Damian G wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:15:38 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV uhm.. you mean you need a program that plays a movie thru the TV output? i don't have such video card, so i might be wrong, but AFAIK MPlayer can do this as well. just to make sure, take a brief look at www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS Damian My Son in law and I have been working on getting our geforce3 TVout to work without much success, you are going to need the Nvidia drivers for a start,in addition there are at least three types of tvout versions of geforce3, some come with silutaneous monitor and TV display, and some(in Linux) cannot do simultaneous , and have to have the monitor off while the TV is in use and , it is further complicated because the screen resolutions for TVout is relatively low , and I for one, would not wish to have my monitor screen resolutions compromised to enable me to have a working TV output, and so the need is to set up two seperate Xwindows screen outputs one to display the monitor, the other to go via tvout to the TV, these (in the Windblows versions) are simultaniously displayed.So far we cannot get even anything in mandrake to display to the tv at all. It's complicated. I guess we will have to wait on the experts. After you get the dual output working it's just a question of using whichever app suits your needs. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1 with hard drive on an ATA133 card
Hi, My computer currently only has windows, but I am trying to installing Mandrake 8.1 on it. When I try and install it fails to detect my hard drive. I believe this is because it is connected to a Highpoint Rocket 133 card. I have the linux drivers for this card but was not sure how to get the installer to use them. In the readme for the drivers it says 4. Using the driver - 1) Load module scsi_mod and sd_mod if they are not built into kernel: # modprobe sd_mod 2) Load the driver. # insmod ./hpt302.o Where would I type this, or did I need to do something different. Thanks Martin Mitchell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Question
don't know if its what you want, but you can tell postfix to send a copy of all emails to one account, that would do what you want??? postfix.org has the details. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Elliot Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 6:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Question Hi there guys. I am thinking of implementing Mandrake in my office network. Want it to act as the domain using samba.Which antivirus should i get? .. Also my boss wants to read everyone's email. Whats is the alternative version to Exchange 2000? ... i just wanna setup a folder on his outlook so that he can read whenever he wants to. Heard that Caldera can do that. Someone advise please? ... heard its expensive about 1800USD for about 20users. My email server is hosted outside. So i am just thinking of pulling the mails from the pop server and dropping it onto the users here in my office. can i do that with Caldera Volution? .. or is there a easier or cheaper alternative. Cheers guys. cheers` Elliot Williams IT Executive - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper
dfox wrote: This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i never encoded using PRMs temd to be conservative sometimes. And mencoder does a ton of computations. I don't know how long it would take on a reasonably- powered box with mencoder, but my brother did some dvd encodings with some Windows software; he said it took about 18 hours to rip a DVD, on a Pentium 3/700 (I think that's what he has). Damian Using Mencode on a 3 hour full length feature film with my Athlon1800 takes about 4to6 hours. At least something in that order. I tend to do it overnight, or set it up and go out for the evening. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 conversion
I normally use # mpg123 -w output filename.wav input filename.mpg I'm not aware of an xmms pluging. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a program or Xmms plugin that will convert mp3s to wavs? I'm sure I used to have such a thing but I can't, for the life of me, remember what it is. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question
I assume you want to scan for Windows viruses since Linux is not susceptable to viruses itself. Kapersky anti virus is popular. It interfaces directly in with the postfix mail server. I believe a copy of Kapersky is on the Powerpack version of the Mandrake Cds, or you can get it here. http://www.kaspersky.com/ As for a mail server. No need to spend $1800 Postfix comes on your Mandrake Cds for free. POP3 or IMAP access to mails no problem, and your boss can get copies. If you want something that does all the other (non mail) features of Microsoft Exchange then take a look at Bynari http://www.bynari.net derek On Wednesday 11 Sep 2002 11:13 am, Elliot wrote: Hi there guys. I am thinking of implementing Mandrake in my office network. Want it to act as the domain using samba.Which antivirus should i get? .. Also my boss wants to read everyone's email. Whats is the alternative version to Exchange 2000? ... i just wanna setup a folder on his outlook so that he can read whenever he wants to. Heard that Caldera can do that. Someone advise please? ... heard its expensive about 1800USD for about 20users. My email server is hosted outside. So i am just thinking of pulling the mails from the pop server and dropping it onto the users here in my office. can i do that with Caldera Volution? .. or is there a easier or cheaper alternative. Cheers guys. cheers` Elliot Williams IT Executive - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:57, Ralph Slooten wrote: I use giFT for downloading (it's like Kazaa, but console and of course for Linux) where there are quite a few ogg's to be found. Ralph, Do you have a URL for giFT? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permission problems with Apache
Hi... How you configure the apache web server ( httpd.conf ), I have some suggestion to you. you should re-setup your apache configuration. you can setup there in the line were tell you like Document /home/*/public/html... .. /Document you should put your web files in there and restart your apache daemon. try access it from lynx or konqueror like this : http://your.hostname.domain/~user_name/ OK, i hope you understand my english, because i'm from Indonesia, and still learn about english language.. Have fun :) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the weekend, I fried a hard drive on the Dell notebook I've been using as a web and mail server for my DSL line. Won't tell you the whole long story, but I've almost got it back to where it was, except that I have a permissions problem with the directories containing the several web sites. I have set permissions to 755, with the user and group names set to user and apache. These are in user's home directory, home/user/html/ and I keep getting an error message when trying to access the sites: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. __ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permission problems with Apache
Actually, in LM 8.2 it's already there in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttp.conf and it links to /home/*/public_html So make a folder in your home directory called public_html, add an index.html file in to test with, and then log in like said below. What I would like to know is: I am using dyndns.org to add a DNS to my computer. Let's say it's called thiscomputer.homelinux.org What I would like to do is add a directory somewhere, and have a link of let's say: other_directory.thiscomputer.homelinux.org Dyndns supports this, because I'm running a jabber server here, and jabber uses these locations to run it's different protocols (ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo). Does anyone have any idea to maybe alias it or something, so when a user goes to other_directory.thisconputer.homelinux.org he get's transferred not to the standard apache root, but another folder? Thanks Ralph On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, teddy wl wrote: Hi... How you configure the apache web server ( httpd.conf ), I have some suggestion to you. you should re-setup your apache configuration. you can setup there in the line were tell you like Document /home/*/public/html... .. /Document you should put your web files in there and restart your apache daemon. try access it from lynx or konqueror like this : http://your.hostname.domain/~user_name/ OK, i hope you understand my english, because i'm from Indonesia, and still learn about english language.. Have fun :) -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband
You don't need the MSN exporer garbage. You should configure your gateway router to supply the username/password to the DSL service, then all machines behind (in your private network) can use the DSL service as normal. I have accomplished this feat on a friends network without problem. If you don't have a broadband router, you'll need one. On Tuesday 10 September 2002 11:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how I can configure ML to use my MSN Broadband service? Is there a way to load the MSN Explorer stuff? I don't even know how to install anything on ML. I need this info in stupid newbie terms. I am using ML 9.0 RC2, on a Toshiba Satellite 1605CDS, with a LinkSys PCMLM56 Etherfast 10/100 PCMCIA Card. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: I have downloaded lame-encoder-3.92-3tex.i586.rpm from above, and can confirm that it does work with Mplayer (mine is the CVS version) . Great... you did recompile MPlayer I'm guessing with the lame RPM, or just used a self-compiled/pre-compiled (with another version lame) MPlayer? Umm, does that make scence.. hehe, what I mean is after installing this lame, did you recompile MPlayer with mencoder, or was the MPlayer already installed, thus compiled with another version of lame? Ralph No I just took the old lame lame-20020408cvs-1mdk. off and put the lame-encoder-3.92-3tex.i586.rpm on ,using the usual commands, went to mplyayer , encoded a chapter , then played it back in the usual way. As you know I use the CVS version, though it's perhaps a month or so since I last updated.Otherwise I did nothing with mpl;ayer at all.I did think I might have to go on the net and update to get it to find the newer version but ,no, I suppose it's because it's essencially in the same old place /usr/bin/lame, that's where it looks for it and that's where it finds it. I did check before I did this, I didn't want to make it install in a different place , if possible. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - MPlayer
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: No I just took the old lame lame-20020408cvs-1mdk. off and put the lame-encoder-3.92-3tex.i586.rpm on ,using the usual commands, went to mplyayer , encoded a chapter , then played it back in the usual way. Ok, this answers my question... at least I know it doesn't ;-) Don't worry, I will try it myself in about 30 minutes. Talking about CVS versions, I cannot compile the CVS versions of Lame from 2 days ago. Mine is also a month or 2 old, and although there probably haven't been that many changes, I descided to test it out for my mencoder-dvd-divx-manual. But I can't compile :-( It keeps bombing out here when it comes to compiling the frontend, which turns out to be the lame binary itself. If I choose --without-frontend, it compiles fine but only installs the libs and so on, but no actualy lame binary itself :-( I know mencoder would probably work with this, but that's not the point I think... at least if someone is going to have the lame installed, they should be able to use it too separately. John, would you mind just trying to ./configure and make a fresh downloaded version? No need to install it though, as my question is purely based of the fact that I want to know if it's the CVS version or my computer where the error lies. If it compiles and creates a lame executable, I know it's me ;-) Thanks Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permission problems with Apache
Maybe I wasn't clear the first time. I am serving about 5 domains using the virtual server capacity of Apache. Rather than putting the sites in the default location, I want them where I choose to put them (/home/asm/html/site1, /home/asm/html/site2, /home/asm/html/site3, etc.) and it is there that I don't seem to be getting the proper permissions set. I've been through the permissions at each level many times. Home is owned by root, group root. asm is owned by asm, group is apache, html and site folders are the same. Actually, in LM 8.2 it's already there in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttp.conf and it links to /home/*/public_html So make a folder in your home directory called public_html, add an index.html file in to test with, and then log in like said below. What I would like to know is: I am using dyndns.org to add a DNS to my computer. Let's say it's called thiscomputer.homelinux.org What I would like to do is add a directory somewhere, and have a link of let's say: other_directory.thiscomputer.homelinux.org Dyndns supports this, because I'm running a jabber server here, and jabber uses these locations to run it's different protocols (ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo). Does anyone have any idea to maybe alias it or something, so when a user goes to other_directory.thisconputer.homelinux.org he get's transferred not to the standard apache root, but another folder? Thanks Ralph On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, teddy wl wrote: Hi... How you configure the apache web server ( httpd.conf ), I have some suggestion to you. you should re-setup your apache configuration. you can setup there in the line were tell you like Document /home/*/public/html... .. /Document you should put your web files in there and restart your apache daemon. try access it from lynx or konqueror like this : http://your.hostname.domain/~user_name/ OK, i hope you understand my english, because i'm from Indonesia, and still learn about english language.. Have fun :) -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ 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] Setting date and time
--- N E N I S T E R [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: How can I set de Time and Date manually ? Regards Nenister man date man time Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ___ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versión: Webcam, voz, y mucho más ¡Gratis! Descárgalo ya desde http://messenger.yahoo.es Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Duplexing on Brother HL-1850
I just bought a Brother HL-1850 laser printer, but I can't figure out how to turn on the duplexer. (I selected the driver for the HL-1650, which it is supposed to be compatible with.) Does anyone know how to turn on the duplexer option? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WinNT client with samba
Hello, Anybody knows how can i access a samba share from WinNT client? DoI need change any registry key? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband
You need both. The router sits behind the modem and will handle the log-on efforts for your DSL connection. Then the computers you plug into the other end of the routr will be able to use the DSL connection normally without using the MSN explorer P.O.S. On Wednesday 11 September 2002 09:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would I need a router? The modem itself won't work? Quoting David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You don't need the MSN exporer garbage. You should configure your gateway router to supply the username/password to the DSL service, then all machines behind (in your private network) can use the DSL service as normal. I have accomplished this feat on a friends network without problem. If you don't have a broadband router, you'll need one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband
If you don't understand basic networking, then there's a lot of ground to cover. A search on google using how to set up a home network reveals lots of beginner how-to's You'll want to get a good grasp for the bsaics of networking before you get into the specifics of what OS changes to make. On Wednesday 11 September 2002 10:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then I'll be able to have both of my computers, (my Windoze desktop, and my now Linux Laptop use the same connection? How exactly, (in newbie speak) would I accomplish that. I need info from where to go once I'm logged onto my system, (I'm using KDE) to what the settings would be. I can't get any info out of MSN Support. Also, would I have to change anything on my WinXP pc? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bootp DHCP ISSUES
I have a Windows 2000 DHCP server that is serving Linux boxes (Mandrake 8.0) and I have DHCP configured to accept both DHCP and BOOTP. The Linux boxes are using something called pump on the clients which utilizes DHCP and BOOTP, I think. The Linux boxes get a lease time of just 12hours every time, all the time no matter what. Anyway does anyone have any idea's has what is going on? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MSN Broadband
here is my setup. I have Bellsouth.net for DSL service. They provided me with a Ethernet DSL Modem. this is then plugged into a Netscreen 5XP Firewall/Router. Then that is plugged into a 8 Port SMC Switch. Plugged into that are 4 Windows PC's and 2 Linux Boxes (one RH and one Mandrake) and one Sun Sparc 20 Running Solaris. Basically if you have an Ethernet card in each machine when you install the OS, provided nothing goes wrong during the install and you are connected to the hub/router which is connected to the DSL modem, you should be up and running right after the install. Now keep in mind that this is a kind of unsecured machine as it would not have any patches applied but you should be able to send email and surf the net at leisure. My XP machine is configured to use TCP/IP and when I boot it up and logon to it as long as the ethernet cable is plugged in it will connect to the internet. My router is configured with the logon credentials required for my ISP which is PPPoE. I am also using KDE and I didn't have to configure anything once I had installed Mandrake or Redhat. If you are using PPPoE as the connection type on your XP machine you might have to disable that and just configure it to use TCP/IP. then it should be great. If you have nothing to lose or time to waste. Just go get a DSL Router (Cheap one is Lynksys) I have one of these for a backup works great in my opinion. You should also have a Ethernet DSL modem provided by ISP. Then plug in modem and router. Plug in HUB if necessary. Plug in pc's. Turn on modem. Turn on Router once modem is initialized. Turn on pc. ( I used windows to configure router ). Configure router with logon credentials. Then reinstall OS on each machine while plugged in and they should work right after install. Hope this helps it is a little rough around the edges but it is what I did. mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband And then I'll be able to have both of my computers, (my Windoze desktop, and my now Linux Laptop use the same connection? How exactly, (in newbie speak) would I accomplish that. I need info from where to go once I'm logged onto my system, (I'm using KDE) to what the settings would be. I can't get any info out of MSN Support. Also, would I have to change anything on my WinXP pc? Quoting David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You need both. The router sits behind the modem and will handle the log-on efforts for your DSL connection. Then the computers you plug into the other end of the routr will be able to use the DSL connection normally without using the MSN explorer P.O.S. On Wednesday 11 September 2002 09:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would I need a router? The modem itself won't work? Quoting David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You don't need the MSN exporer garbage. You should configure your gateway router to supply the username/password to the DSL service, then all machines behind (in your private network) can use the DSL service as normal. I have accomplished this feat on a friends network without problem. If you don't have a broadband router, you'll need one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE is hosed !!!
Wow - Shades of Microsoft !!! I installed (using SoftwareManager) on this Win98/ML8.1 dual boot system (P233MMX IDE 10G 2G), and somehow it really messed up KDE. Now, no matter what I do - Ksplash, Konqueror, Konsole, Krusader, whatever - I get this error box telling me that it returned error 11 (SIGSEGV) which is usually caused by a bug in the program. I click on OK - But, the ap doesn't load and I can't do anything - I can't even get to a shell !!! I've been getting around it by using gNome and Nautilus, etc., etc., and I don't seem to have any problems with it. I've uninstalled, and re-installed all the KDE stuff - But, nothing seems to change. Since all this started, my screen (S3 Trio video, Dell 1025DTM monitor) seems to 'flash' ever so often - But, that might be just a coincidence. I can unload and then reload ML (good excuse to go to 8.2, I guess), but I'd really like to know what has happened and how to fix it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - but desperate - Mozilla help needed
Anne Wilson wrote: I have to do a Win98 re-install tomorrow - and it's urgently needed. The computer has Mozilla 1 installed. I am afraid of her losing all her mail, as I can't find where Mozilla keeps the mailboxes and other personal data. Can anyone help, please? Sorry that it's windows, but I felt that someone else here will have Mozilla for windows installed. Anne goto your application data folder.. not sure where that is on win98.. but you should be able to find Mozilla/Profiles/Default folders somewhere.. and the files inside eg: search.rdf Anyway.. once you find that folder, go into the Mail folder, then Local folders.. where you find lots of *.msf files, aswell as files matching the * with no extension. Take a copy of all these files, and you can drop them into a new profile on windows after reinstallation.. they even can be taken to another OS . I recently copied some from inux to windows with no problems at all. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - but desperate - Mozilla help needed
I have to do a Win98 re-install tomorrow - and it's urgently needed. The computer has Mozilla 1 installed. I am afraid of her losing all her mail, as I can't find where Mozilla keeps the mailboxes and other personal data. Can anyone help, please? Sorry that it's windows, but I felt that someone else here will have Mozilla for windows installed. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Heroine Virtual / broadcast2000
BCast 2000 is included on the Mandrake 8.1 CD's. If you have the 8.1 CD's, or can get them, go to Software Manager and add the 8.1 CD's as sources, install BCast2000 using urpmi, and all of the needed dependancies will be installed for you. Terry --- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Downloaded, hvirtual-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm libgcc-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm needed for hvirtual libstdc++3-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm needed for hvirtual from http://heroinewarrior.com/download.php3 Tried to install libgcc-3.0.1-3, with /lib/libgrr_S.S0.1, libgcc 3.0.4-2mdk Tried to instal libstdc++3-3.0.1-3 reports conflicts /usr/lib/libstdc++S03 so in conflict with my current gcc compiler library or something, I'm not taking them off. so tried to install hvirtual-1.0.0-1 , reports requires libpng.SO.2=S, but I forced it. called hvirtual, command not found called cinelerra , error loading shared library.SO.2, no such file or directory called xmovie , error loading shared library.SO.2, no such file or directory result cannot get anywhere. usual linux dependency problems.Pitty. The programme looked interesting. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 conversion
Hi, Thank you for the tip, now I can record web-radio. Is there a way to listen to the music while writing to a file? You know maybe a good tool to work with the sound files (cutting off silent parts and the like)? Patrik On Wednesday 11 September 2002 18:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday September 11 2002 05:38 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Is there a program or Xmms plugin that will convert mp3s to wavs? I'm sure I used to have such a thing but I can't, for the life of me, remember what it is. xmms-diskwriterrpm, it's on your CD's. Choose it under 'Options | Preferences | Output plugin. Use 'Congfigure' to enter a directory to write the .wav's to. Don't forget to switch back to a sound plugin when you're done. I often forget to ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE is hosed !!!
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:26 pm, Mike Settle wrote: Wow - Shades of Microsoft !!! I installed (using SoftwareManager) on installed what? this Win98/ML8.1 dual boot system (P233MMX IDE 10G 2G), and somehow it really messed up KDE. Now, no matter what I do - Ksplash, Konqueror, Konsole, Krusader, whatever - I get this error box telling me that it returned error 11 (SIGSEGV) which is usually caused by a bug in the program. I click on OK - But, the ap doesn't load and I can't do anything - I can't even get to a shell !!! I've been getting around it by using gNome and Nautilus, etc., etc., and I don't seem to have any problems with it. I've uninstalled, and re-installed all the KDE stuff - But, nothing seems to change. Since all this started, my screen (S3 Trio video, Dell 1025DTM monitor) seems to 'flash' ever so often - But, that might be just a coincidence. I can unload and then reload ML (good excuse to go to 8.2, I guess), but I'd really like to know what has happened and how to fix it. If I understand, you are able to run gnome but not kde. If this is the case then I would try renaming (rather than deleteing until you know it works) the mcop and dcop files and directories in your home directory My home directory is /home/dh3/ in my case the files and directories I'd rename (or backup and delete) are: /home/dh3/.mcop /home/dh3/.DCOPserver_localhost /home/dh3/.DCOPserver_localhost_:0 /home/dh3/.MCOP-random-seed file:/home/dh3/.mcoprc Then try logging in to kde again. If this doesn't work then I would try renaming the /home/your-home/.kde directories (/.kde, /.kde1, /.kde2, /.kde3). You will need to rebuild your preferences if this works as these directories are where the prefs are kept. good luck -- dh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting date and time
On Thursday 12 Sep 2002 2:56 am, N E N I S T E R wrote: How can I set de Time and Date manually ? In KDE right-click on the clock and select Adjust Date and Time. Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - but desperate - Mozilla help needed
On Wednesday 11 Sep 2002 8:48 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I have to do a Win98 re-install tomorrow - and it's urgently needed. The computer has Mozilla 1 installed. I am afraid of her losing all her mail, as I can't find where Mozilla keeps the mailboxes and other personal data. Can anyone help, please? Sorry that it's windows, but I felt that someone else here will have Mozilla for windows installed. Anne goto your application data folder.. not sure where that is on win98.. but you should be able to find Mozilla/Profiles/Default folders somewhere.. and the files inside eg: search.rdf Anyway.. once you find that folder, go into the Mail folder, then Local folders.. where you find lots of *.msf files, aswell as files matching the * with no extension. Take a copy of all these files, and you can drop them into a new profile on windows after reinstallation.. they even can be taken to another OS . I recently copied some from inux to windows with no problems at all. That was a great help - thanks. Once I knew to look for *.msf I had a chance. I would never have thought to look under windows\application data - it just doesn't fit the description - but that's where I found them. This is one thing that I thought was much better under Netscape 4 - you could choose to have these folders on a data directory, well away from the fragile install directories. Thanks again Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quark Express
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, robin wrote: Heh...well, actually, all I want to do is change my business card around from time to time. No idea whatsoever about what programs are good for that; I just know that it was originally done on Quark Express. And that I'm tired of being a slave to the graphics people at Kinkos! Gah!!! For a business card, I imagine the GIMP would work fine - treat it as a graphic with added text rather than a text document with inserted graphics. Work in XCF (the GIMP native format) then convert to whatever format your printers will handle. Hmmm...OK. Now, can I open my existing .qxd file in GIMP, and after saving as XCF, can I use GIMP to convert it back to .qxd? I ask because I'm not really set up to print them up the way I like (raised lettering, on white linen paper - I know, very standard, but I like it, so...)... Sir Robin -- peace, Rog Come, let me gnaw your fingernails that I may absorb and lose myself in the wise and gritty detritus that is you. http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG 56469198 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] MP3 conversion
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Graham Watkins wrote: Is there a program or Xmms plugin that will convert mp3s to wavs? I'm sure I used to have such a thing but I can't, for the life of me, remember what it is. You can do this at the command line: mpg123 -w filename.wav filename.mp3 You can name the wav file whatever you want. -- peace, Rog Come, let me gnaw your fingernails that I may absorb and lose myself in the wise and gritty detritus that is you. http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG 56469198 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] Where does Kmail keep its configuration files at?
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:47 am, s wrote: On Tuesday 10 September 2002 11:40 pm, Larry Theden wrote: Having migrated from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2 to 9.0 RC1 to (now) RC2, I'm getting tired of re-configuring Kmail. I move my Mail folder, but where does Kmail keep settings like filters, folder properties, etc.? ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc Ah, I see it now. Thanks! I poked around in ~/.kde and subdirs looking for something that would catch my eye, but I must've been tired and missed /share/config. -- ltheden at earthlink dot net * ICQ: 1709079 * AIM: Cegorach Registered Unix user #285523 If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 conversion
Patrik Marxer wrote: Hi, Thank you for the tip, now I can record web-radio. Is there a way to listen to the music while writing to a file? You know maybe a good tool to work with the sound files (cutting off silent parts and the like)? SoundStudio perhaps. Gramofile - not so sophisticated but effective. Patrik On Wednesday 11 September 2002 18:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday September 11 2002 05:38 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Is there a program or Xmms plugin that will convert mp3s to wavs? I'm sure I used to have such a thing but I can't, for the life of me, remember what it is. xmms-diskwriterrpm, it's on your CD's. Choose it under 'Options | Preferences | Output plugin. Use 'Congfigure' to enter a directory to write the .wav's to. Don't forget to switch back to a sound plugin when you're done. I often forget to ;) Ah, it's all starting to make sense. I knew the plugin existed. I'd forgotten that it had to be installed separately. Thank you, kind sir. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 conversion
To manipulate audio files try audacity It is on your CDs but a more recent version is here :- ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/8.2/i586/ derek On Wednesday 11 Sep 2002 8:41 pm, Patrik Marxer wrote: Hi, Thank you for the tip, now I can record web-radio. Is there a way to listen to the music while writing to a file? You know maybe a good tool to work with the sound files (cutting off silent parts and the like)? Patrik On Wednesday 11 September 2002 18:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday September 11 2002 05:38 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Is there a program or Xmms plugin that will convert mp3s to wavs? I'm sure I used to have such a thing but I can't, for the life of me, remember what it is. xmms-diskwriterrpm, it's on your CD's. Choose it under 'Options | Preferences | Output plugin. Use 'Congfigure' to enter a directory to write the .wav's to. Don't forget to switch back to a sound plugin when you're done. I often forget to ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] libpng.so.2
Look for an older version of the package at rpmfind.net. You'll need libpng version 1.0.3. That should install without problems. Lanman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Berkeley Labs Sent: September 10, 2002 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] libpng.so.2 Is there any workaround for programs that need this file. I have read that Mandrake 8.2 ships with libpng.so.3 and why. But what do I do if a program that I want to install needs this file. Am i SOL? Thanks for any info. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Heroine Virtual / broadcast2000
et wrote: On Wednesday 11 September 2002 08:11 am, you wrote: Downloaded, hvirtual-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm libgcc-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm needed for hvirtual libstdc++3-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm needed for hvirtual from http://heroinewarrior.com/download.php3 Tried to install libgcc-3.0.1-3, with /lib/libgrr_S.S0.1, libgcc 3.0.4-2mdk Tried to instal libstdc++3-3.0.1-3 reports conflicts /usr/lib/libstdc++S03 so in conflict with my current gcc compiler library or something, I'm not taking them off. so tried to install hvirtual-1.0.0-1 , reports requires libpng.SO.2=S, but I forced it. called hvirtual, command not found called cinelerra , error loading shared library.SO.2, no such file or directory called xmovie , error loading shared library.SO.2, no such file or directory result cannot get anywhere. usual linux dependency problems.Pitty. The programme looked interesting. John should be good to go tho with 9.0 don't ya think? I hope so cause the website pics look very interesting john -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quark Express
Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, robin wrote: Heh...well, actually, all I want to do is change my business card around from time to time. No idea whatsoever about what programs are good for that; I just know that it was originally done on Quark Express. And that I'm tired of being a slave to the graphics people at Kinkos! Gah!!! For a business card, I imagine the GIMP would work fine - treat it as a graphic with added text rather than a text document with inserted graphics. Work in XCF (the GIMP native format) then convert to whatever format your printers will handle. Hmmm...OK. Now, can I open my existing .qxd file in GIMP, and after saving as XCF, can I use GIMP to convert it back to .qxd? I ask because I'm not really set up to print them up the way I like (raised lettering, on white linen paper - I know, very standard, but I like it, so...)... Sorry, GIMP won't do that, nor will any Linux program, to my knowledge. Sir Robin the Regretful -- There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't - thinkgeek.com Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] harddrive ???
If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 video.I,ve alway used W/D and there is a sale at a fair price but I,ve never had a 7200 rpm are a IBM .Is it noticeable ? I,ve heard IBM is going out of the harddrive business.Are they OK ? Are is there a problem? JOE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 9:19 pm, Damian G wrote: i have used precompiled RPM's for MPlayer once or twice and i have found out that the developers were right about them. This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i never encoded using a precompiled mencoder. i like being pretty much on the bleeding edge with MPlayer, and recompile from CVS pretty often. The reason is that it evolves so fast... I have a few problem with MPlayer. One I have mdk 82 avifiles as below. libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk libavifile0.7-devel-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk Still libavcodec is not taken while compiling. Sound is not captured when using v4l device. I will be thankful if you can reply how to recompress to various formats? sample commans with options pl. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive ???
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 on that system the bottleneck will be the hard drive, so yes, you will notice a difference and you should totally go for the 7200. -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bloody Nautilus!
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:29:56 -0400, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnome ain't bad ;-) I personally use Fluxbox not really because of Gnome itself, but one of the main reasons why I started looking for alternatives is because of the way Mandrake is making Gnome totally dependant on Natuilus (try uninstalling Nautilus, and rpm tells you it has to take down Gnome and all with it too all for a bloody filemanager). One more time. nautilus is a part gnome. You can not have gnome unless you have nautilus and Mandrake has Nothing to do with this. In Gnome2 nautilus is the Only gnome file mgr. You may use any of the # of others available, but nautilus is the only one that can control the gnome desktop. In GNOME 1.4, Nautilus was basically tacked on. It can be forcibly removed without any ill-effects. I have a GNOME 1.4 system running like this and I've had no problems. GNOME 2 is a different kettle of fish. There, Nautilus is an integral part of GNOME, just as Konqueror is part of KDE, or Windows Explorer (not IE) is part of Windows. It is needed for things like the Control Centre. However, just like in GNOME 1.4, you can turn Nautilus' desktop management off in its preferences. Then, it will only be accessed when it is truly needed. Nautilus in GNOME 2 is _much_ faster and lighter than its predecessor, and I've seen little reason to remove it from my GNOME 2 desktop. Same here. I was _very_ critical of Nautilus awhile back until you told me how to turn it off. Now that the deadwood code has been removed it's _much_ faster in 2.0 and I'm very happy with it. I built a linux box for my grandchildren, daughter, and ex which I delivered yesterday. I sat down and started Gnome from the command-line from their mother's login, started the background configurator from the menu, started Nautilus and double- clicked on her Wallpaper directory (made one for each of them). When the thumbnails popped up their eyes bugged out. When they saw me dragging and dropping thumbnails to the little rectangle on the configurator gui, and saw each image instantly becoming the desktop background, oohs and aahs filled the room. They had a blast personalizing their own desktops and spent the rest of the evening fighting over computer time. One more Linux family. (My other daughter's computer, and her husband's computer, are also windoz free. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:18:48 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 September 2002 10:59 pm, Ron Bouwhuis did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. tell me about it. i have a portable cdplayer that will read mp3's burned to disc and play them. it is pretty nice, espec. for the price, but i would give anything for it to support OGG. _very_ nice. It's something about floating-point integer. OGG requires a player with it, which apparently costs money (hardware issue?), and mp3 doesn't. At least that's what I think I read once on the ogg-vorbis list once when I was researching it. I was interested in setting up a home audio network, but the only players I could find were mp3. Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. (William Glasser) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bloody Nautilus!
At 07:54 PM 9/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:40:54 -0400 Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Save yourself some waiting time: use IceWM or something similar Personally I am die-hard enlightenment. 8 desktops, 2 icon boxes and gone panel/gnome-panel thrown in for good measure. Charles Sorry the hijack this thread but... I wish to know how to put a menu panel *IE, kde's menu with the big K or Gnomes Bigfoot menu* to the E desktop... Ditto for Ice Fluxbox Thx tons ladies gents. :) I will now return you to your regular list full of wonderful ppl. :) -- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bloody Nautilus!
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, shane wrote: On Tuesday 10 September 2002 6:18 am, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: OK friends. Time for a rant. rant Recently, after every Mandrake install, I have chosen Gnome/Sawfish, as per usual, and have found Nautilus taking over the desktop. Now this is something I am not prepared to tolerate. me either, gnome is intolerable ;-) Gnome ain't bad ;-) I personally use Fluxbox not really because of Gnome itself, but one of the main reasons why I started looking for alternatives is because of the way Mandrake is making Gnome totally dependant on Natuilus (try uninstalling Nautilus, and rpm tells you it has to take down Gnome and all with it too all for a bloody filemanager). This isn't either my first rant again Nautilus, but as nice looking as it is, it's so damn heavy, big and slow. Browsing my own $HOME is like browsing via FTP... I use ROX Filer and this past week several people on that list have mentioned that they use it instead of Nautilus. It seems you have to enable pinboard in ROX. I agree that Nautilus is slow--this ROX might be a solution if you like everything else about Gnome. Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. (Stanley Garn) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bloody Nautilus!
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:01:33 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:54 PM 9/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:40:54 -0400 Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Save yourself some waiting time: use IceWM or something similar Personally I am die-hard enlightenment. 8 desktops, 2 icon boxes and gone panel/gnome-panel thrown in for good measure. Charles Sorry the hijack this thread but... I wish to know how to put a menu panel *IE, kde's menu with the big K or Gnomes Bigfoot menu* to the E desktop... Ditto for Ice Fluxbox Thx tons ladies gents. :) I will now return you to your regular list full of wonderful ppl. :) -- Femme I'm on a ROX kick tonight. ROX will do that for you, just call it with -b (bottom), or -t, -l, -r. You can click and drag apps to the panel to make the shortcut. There's more you can do with the panel, but I now prefer using keybindings in flux. I'm pretty sure ROX will work with Ice, too. Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. (Albert Edward Wiggam) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation problem (8.2): ramdisk ??
Downloaded iso's Mandrake 8.2. System boots up from CD-ROM OK. Partitioned HDD using Pmagic into ext of 3000Mb and swap of 512 Mb Boot from CD, get into setup screen... Get unrecoverable error concerning ramdisk almost immediately after I get past the first screen (where setup options are chosen). The result is the same in text mode. System runs WinXP (NTFS system), Has 256Mb RAM, 20Gb and 80Gb HDD's, Intel P4/1500 MHz, TNT2/64 on board (Intel Motherboard) Any ideas??
Re: [newbie] MP3 conversion
Hi, Thank you both for the suggestions, I tried audacity and it looks good. I haven't tried SoundStudio or Gramofile yet but I sure will. Patrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bloody Nautilus!
At 11:16 PM 9/11/2002 -0400, you wrote: I'm on a ROX kick tonight. ROX will do that for you, just call it with -b (bottom), or -t, -l, -r. You can click and drag apps to the panel to make the shortcut. There's more you can do with the panel, but I now prefer using keybindings in flux. I'm pretty sure ROX will work with Ice, too. Todd Well ya i'm considering Rox too but I thougth the setup was a bit complex, so never got around to it. :( Thx for hte info tho! --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive ???
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:31:26 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 video.I,ve alway used W/D and there is a sale at a fair price but I,ve never had a 7200 rpm are a IBM .Is it noticeable ? All other things being equal, yes. Seek time will always be slower on the 5400rpm, but data transfer rates might not necessarily be as severely affected as appears at first glance. For example, I've just bought a couple of new Maxtor drives. 5400rpm and 7200rpm. Specs: 5400rpm 7200rpm platters3 2 heads 6 4 seek12mS8.5mS sectors/track 486-950 481-882 media xfer 43MB/s 54MB/s 7200rpm gets you 33% faster rotational speed but 26% faster transfer rate. The extra heads on the 5400rpm (and the small increase in sectors/track) means that it can pull more data off per rotation than the 7200rpm... although it takes longer to do that revolution. (Assuming that we can ignore interleaving - although I'm not sure if that's a valid assumption...). Your mileage may well vary on the IBM parts. If you've never had a 7200rpm before, be prepared for a shock at how hot they run! For same price same size, it's a no-brainer. You don't lose anything by stepping up in speed. But personally I wouldn't be buying either... or even accepting them as a free gift - see below. I,ve heard IBM is going out of the harddrive business.Are they OK ? Are is there a problem? Put ibm gxp drive failure into Google make your own mind up. I used to buy almost exclusively IBM drives... not any more. Jon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [Newbie] SNF New question
I have SNF installed on a small p2 233 comp. Is it possible just to use One NIC in it plug it to my switch, so I can play with it before putting it on the 'Net? All i want to do is login to it fiddle around with it, until i get it right. Then i'll use it as my firewall. Thx --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 120Gb Maxtor 4G120J6 - Mandrake hangs on boot
A couple of weeks back I was having problems with a 120Gb Maxtor D540X Mandrake 8.2 (well, any flavour of Linux as it turned out) and an old Pentium 233MMX machine with an ALI 5229 IDE controller. System would hang during boot with the drive installed, even though it wasn't yet configured. Change any one of - Linux to Win2000 - 120Gb to 80Gb - motherboard to Abit BP6 ... and it all worked fine. My last resort before defecting to Win2000 was to change the IDE controller by installing this cheapie ATA133 card: http://www.ivmm.com/eio/products_ap1680.html Just reporting back to say that the card is in running and LM8.2 works fine again. Boy, that makes me a happy bunny! Must have been some strange interaction between the Linux IDE drivers the controller. In the meantime, I've also upgraded my network added a new network card (D-link DFE-538TX - Realtek 8139 based) which HardDrake hangs on trying to configure, but I'll wait for LM9.0 to come out do a fresh install before I worry too much about that. Jon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] SNF New question
Femme; What you really want to do, is to install the two NICs, and plug the first NIC (eth0) into your switch, and the second NIC (eth1) would connect to an extra PC with a crossover cable. That way, you can test conventional admin access to the SNF box from a third PC which would also be connected to your switch. The third PC would still have internet access, and you could also try attacking the firewall from there as is the third PC was a hacker(?). You could use PC #2 from behind the SNF box to test admin access, and to see if the firewall prevents whatever access that you have restricted. Once you've got it working to your satisfaction, modify the IP's of the SNF box to conform to your ISP and to your network, and then put it between your internet connection (IE; DSL, ADSL, Cable-modem, TI or whatever) and your switch. Make sure you change the gateway and proxy settings on your workstations to coordinate with the settings of your SNF box. Need more help? Email me off list if you need to. If possible, send me more info about your internet connection, and how your NIC's in the SNF box are configured. Lanman On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 00:06, FemmeFatale wrote: I have SNF installed on a small p2 233 comp. Is it possible just to use One NIC in it plug it to my switch, so I can play with it before putting it on the 'Net? All i want to do is login to it fiddle around with it, until i get it right. Then i'll use it as my firewall. Thx --- Femme 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] MP3 ripper
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have a few problem with MPlayer. One I have mdk 82 avifiles as below. libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk libavifile0.7-devel-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk Still libavcodec is not taken while compiling. Umm, ooohhh, scratch_scratch. You start by talking about mplayer, you then start talking about libavfile, and then you switch to libavcodec. These are 3 seaparate things. aviFILE isn't needed at all for MPlayer. It's a total different program altogether. I will be thankful if you can reply how to recompress to various formats? sample commans with options pl. MPlayer prefers libavcodec, which is not a pre-compiled package, but which is simple a part added to the build-root of mplayer while compiling. I suggest starting by downloading MPlayer's last release where libavcodec should be included, and doing a very long read in the docs folder in that file, because what you are asking if for one of us to re-type the whole docs folder for you. In the docs you will find examples of encoding, info about installing, FAQ's codecs, options and so on. Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bloody Nautilus!
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:41:25 +0200 (CEST) I use ROX Filer and this past week several people on that list have mentioned that they use it instead of Nautilus. It seems you have to enable pinboard in ROX. I agree that Nautilus is slow--this ROX might be a solution if you like everything else about Gnome. Well, I'm not looking for a change ;-) I'm totally realed in, hook, line sinker by Fluxbox. It's so damn fast, and I will never forget the test they did: The WHOLE Fluxbox uses as much memory as just the task-bar in Gnome ;-) I don't think I have to expand this ;-) I'm not againt Gnome that much, but when I saw just how configurable Fluxbox was, I was sold. Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FSTAB mistake
Thanks to all who replied on and off the list. Unfortunately, I encountered additional problems and decided to reinstall LM 8.0 as that appeared to work better with my hardware Frank McKenna True strength lies in gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] can't download photo's from fujifilm MX-2900
i'm trying to download photographs from my fujifilm mx-2900 (using gphoto), but i can't get a connection to my camera. Do i have to set permissions for using the RS232port? (if yes: how?) anybody else got experience with this camera? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't download photo's from fujifilm MX-2900 fstab - digital camara install]
Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] fstab - digital camara install Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:06:31 +0100 From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:19:05PM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Nigel Ridley wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:19:55 +0100 John Richard Smith wrote: I have a FujiFilm ix-100 usb camera with a SmartMedia card. Could you please give me more info as to how to set it up. Do I have to have scsi emulation for it or run it straight from a usb mount? I have been to gphoto's web site (and to the link for mass storage devices) and have also been reading other postings on this list. So far, having tried a few things I've come to a dead end. Any help would be appreciated. Nigel Ridley. Ok, the answer is yes , and no, I'm not entirely sure. Let me explain. This is my fstab entry for the digital camera :- /dev/sda1 /mnt/fujifilm vfat noauto,owner,ro,user 0 0 Mine is set up the same way, except I call mine /mnt/fuji :) I created my own Icon on desktop which I call digitalcam, and I even created my own icon using Icon editor and added it to kde icon directory, and in the properties of this icon under device I set the settings to /dev/sda1 from the drop down list. and mount point to /mnt/fujifilm, from the drop down list. This makes mounting the device that much more convenient. You download the files from the camera to a directory of your choosing. I then put up either gphoto or gimp . Gphoto is very good but lacks cropping facilities, whereas gimp can do evrything, including putting the baby to bed.When each picture is as I want it I then send it off to a storeage partition on my hard drive where when enough have accumulated I write them to CD. John I did the same thing when I used KDE, but now . . . I wrote a bash script for this. I run "getpix" and it creates a directory based on the date (_MM_DD), mounts my camera (naughty!), copies the pictures to the new directory, umounts the camera, renames the images (according to exif data, using jhead), and launches gqview to display thumbs of that directory. I also wrote a script that tests the size of my images directory or any directory for that matter. If the size gets above 650MB, it sends me an e-mail telling me to burn a CD. I set this up in a cron job and have it monitor various directories. Computers are fun again! Todd I must say that sound interesting, tell us all please . Why not start a new thread , How to set up getpix and have fun John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] can't download photo's from fujifilm MX-2900--getpixand sizetest]
Original Message
Subject:
[newbie] getpix and sizetest
Date:
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:13:52 -0400
From:
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Organization:
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To:
newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As John requested, I reworked the scripts to make it easier for you to set
up the variables for your system.
Just make them executable, "chmod u+x getpix.sh sizetest.sh"
getpix.sh: gets pictures from your camera, copies them to a directory
named according to the date, renames them according to exif date, and
opens gqview so you can see them.
#!/bin/bash
# REQUIRES JHEAD
# See below for URL
# Set up system variables
# Mountpoint for your camera
CAM="/mnt/fuji"
# The folder on your media where the pictures are
SRC="/mnt/fuji/dcim/100_fuji"
# The root directory where you store your images
ROOT="/home/todd/fuji"
# The target folder name where pictures will be copied to
# Just the name, the complete path will be filled in
# Default will be _MM_DD
TARGET=`date +%Y_%m_%d`
# That's all you *have* to set up
clear
# Mount camera
mount $CAM
# Create target directory
mkdir $ROOT/$TARGET
echo "Copying images . . ."
# Copy images
cp $SRC/*.jpg $ROOT/$TARGET
echo "Finished copying images."
# Umount camera
umount $CAM
echo "You can disconnect the camera now."
# For some reason my pix have the executable bit set
chmod -x $ROOT/$TARGET/*.jpg
# Rename images -- requires jhead
# Get jhead at http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
# jhead does other stuff you might want to add here, too
jhead -n%Y_%m_%d-%k_%M_%S $ROOT/$TARGET/*.jpg
echo "Images have been renamed."
echo "Images are in $ROOT/$TARGET"
# Let's look at them in gqview
gqview $ROOT/$TARGET
exit
sizetest.sh: tests the size of directories you specify as arguments; if
size is greater than 650 MB, sends you an e-mail notification. If not,
sends you an email telling you there's nothing to do. You can comment that
part out, of course.
#!/bin/bash
# To use, specify minimum depth and your e-mail address
# Use directories you want to test as arguments.
# To test ~/fuji and ~/canon do
# ./sizetest.sh ~/fuji ~/canon
# I add this to cron and run it once a day.
# Choose the minimum depth for `find` command.
# Set to 0 if you want to include the base directory
# Set to 1 if you only want to test subdirectories
DEPTH=1
# Your e-mail address
ADDY=todd
for directory in `find $@ -type d -mindepth $DEPTH`
do
sizem="du -m -s $directory"
if [ `$sizem | awk '{print $1}'` -gt 650 ]
then
echo "$directory is burnable: current size is `$sizem |
awk '{print $1}'`" size.$$
fi
done
if [ -f size.$$ ]
then
mail -s "You have some burning to do!" $ADDY size.$$
rm size.$$
else
echo "No directories in $@ are large enough to warrant burning to
CD." | mail -s "Nothing to burn today!" $ADDY
fi
exit
I have others I use to resize and generate contact sheets using
ImageMagick, but they need cleaning up.
Todd
--
Todd Slater
The current tune is los amigos invisibles - the new sound of the
venezuelan gozadera - ultrafunk
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching,
but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when
I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. (George Bernard
Shaw)
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