Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: Piccoli inconvenienti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 11:17, lunedì 30 settembre 2002, hai scritto: 1) In un qualunque file di testo o in StarOffice Writer, o Calc - comunque non con kmail - volendo far scorrere leggermente la schermata per avanzare solo di tre o quattro righe, se pongo il puntatore sul cursore al margine destro della pagina per più di quell'istante necessario ad avanzare di una riga soltanto, accade che il testo cominci a scorrere da se', fermandosi solo una volta arrivato in fondo al file. Dove sbaglio? Succede anche ad altri? Provato, sinceramente no. 2) Capita spesso che richiamando con Konqueror, o direttamente con StarOffice (6.0) files di Office dalla partizione Windows del disco rigido, ottenga un crash. Compare sul monitor la scritta: Si è verificato un errore irrimediabile. Tutti i file modificati sono stati salvati e probabilmente verranno recuperati al prossimo avvio del programma. Probabilmente è una questione di permessi. Ricordo un thread di parecchio tempo fa, riguardante un problema simile con il vecchio StarOffice, ma non ricordo i detagli, mi dispiace. (Domanda come sopra) 3) Se voglio fare un copia-incolla da un file di StarWrite a kmail ottengo solo copiature parziali (p.es.: di un file -- un paragrafo e mezzo; di un paragrafo -- tre righe e un po'; di una riga due parole...). Ciò comporta che se voglio, per es., inviare come Plain Text un file .doc, debbo aprirlo con SOffice, richiuderlo salvando come .txt, riaprirlo come tale ed infine effettuare il copia-incolla. Esiste un sistema più semplice? Provato anche questo ma da me funziona tutto OK. Come selezioni il testo da copiare-incollare? Utilizzi il mouse? Hai provato con la combinazione di tasti shift - freccia verso destra o shift - freggia giù per selezionare? 4) Per riuscire a trasferire un testo da kword a soffice non ho trovato di meglio che effettuare un copia-incolla prima su kmail, poi da questa ad un editor eppoi finalmente aprire con soffice !!! Forse c'e' un sistema piu' pratico... Io solitamente seleziono con il mouse tutto il testo da copiare con il mouse, vado su OpenOffice e premendo il tasto centrale del mouse il testo mi viene incollato (se hai un mouse con soli due tasti li devi premere contemporaneamente per ottenere lo stesso effetto). 5) C'è un modo per evitare che virgolette ed altri segni di interpunzione mi compaiano sotto forma di messaggi cifrati (un#8217;amica, ecc.)? 6) In molti casi (mails o lettura di *.doc con SOffice) i tre puntini di sospensione, così come le virgolette per evidenziare un termine, mi si trasformano in punti interrogativi. Anche scaricando testi da Internet, l'apostrofo è sistematicamente sostituito dal punto interrogativo. C'è rimedio? Dovrebbe dipendere dalle impostazioni della lingua e del set di caratteri relativi. ciao Sandro - -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - A.I.P. n° 2075 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 8.2 on PIII 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9mpPL/ayi1TbZzlQRAkdcAKCOWgbSCE5HDTVI8Qr8jUOfx6wHRQCg6k8x 4l9TodJAmAx5YNGZ/bF813o= =OzZE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] come importare
saluti a tutti,come posso importare la rubbrica di outlook in kmail, grazie come sempre mario
Re: [newbie-it] come importare
Alle 14:30, mercoledì 2 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: saluti a tutti,come posso importare la rubbrica di outlook in kmail, grazie come sempre mario Ciao Mario, puoi provare in due modi: 1) il primo, sconsigliato, è il metodo usato dagli utenti Linux dell'undicesimo secolo, ed è detto della copiatura amanuense (vedi il saggio di Ser Linus da Vinci, del 1087)... ;-) 2) oppure prova così: - apri l'Outlook Express, dal menù FILE seleziona ESPORTA, quindi RUBRICA; - scegli come formato di esportazione FILE DI TESTO (COMMA SEPARATED VALUES); - clicca su ESPORTA ed indica nome e percorso del file: dopo aver selezionato quali voci della rubrica di OE vuoi esportare (nome, cognome, cellulare, etc.) ti troverai con un file con estensione .csv; - riavvia il PC e carica Linux; - apri il file appena creato con un editor e sostituisci tutti i caratteri ; (punto e virgola) col carattere , (virgola)... ovviamente, non farlo a mano... usa il comando sostituisci...; - carica KMail ed apri la rubrica degli indirizzi; - dal menù FILE della rubrica seleziona IMPORTA LISTA; - indica il FILE DA IMPORTARE (ovvero quello creato da OE ed appena modificato); - dovrebbe comparirti una tabella tipo foglio elettronico... a questo punto non devi fare altro che abbinare a ciascuna colonna, che già dovrebbe avere un titolo in riga uno, la corrispondente voce della rubrica di KMail... ed il gioco dovrebbe essere fatto! Fammi sapere se funziona... Ciao! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] come importare
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:58:54 +0200 Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 14:30, mercoledì 2 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: saluti a tutti,come posso importare la rubbrica di outlook in kmail, grazie come sempre mario Ciao Mario, puoi provare in due modi: 1) il primo, sconsigliato, è il metodo usato dagli utenti Linux dell'undicesimo secolo, ed è detto della copiatura amanuense (vedi il saggio di Ser Linus da Vinci, del 1087)... ;-) da non sottovalutare .. :-))) un altro modo e quello di andare su freshmeat.net e cercare outlook o outlook import. Ci sono parecchi sw che promettono di fare quello che lui desidera. Personalmente, non li ho mai provati .. anche perché non ho mai usato guardafuori. ;) Una buona interoperabilità con OL dovrebbe averla evolution ce, dicono, ne è un clone quasi perfetto. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] questa
Questa non me la aspettavo,da linux con KDE ero riuscito a vedere windows "/dev/hda 1/ e la cosa funzionava...adesso non so per quale motivo come clicco sull'icona c'è un gran sferragliare del disco fisso (il secondo in cui,risiede linux) non mi si apre nessuna finestra,ma in compeso sento tuttii file musicali di windows con xmmal di la dell'aqua santa che devo ancora provare,ho provato di tutto ho rifatto un centinaio di volte la procedura:crea nuovo/disco rigido/dispositivo/dev/hda 1.etc etc ma ad adesso non ho risolto niente cambiato icona,rinominto,nada de nada..aiutooo come sempre vi ringrazio davvero mario
Re: [newbie-it] come importare
Alle 14:30, mercoledì 2 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: saluti a tutti,come posso importare la rubbrica di outlook in kmail, grazie come sempre mario Premetto che non l'ho usata come funzione, ma su file di kmail c'è proprio l'opzione importa... Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] questa
Alle 18:21, mercoledì 2 ottobre 2002, ba-rk ha scritto: Questa non me la aspettavo,da linux con KDE ero riuscito a vedere windows /dev/hda 1/ e la cosa funzionava...adesso non so per quale motivo come clicco sull'icona c'è un gran sferragliare del disco fisso (il secondo in cui,risiede linux) non mi si apre nessuna finestra,ma in compeso sento tutti i file musicali di windows con xmm al di la dell'aqua santa che devo ancora provare,ho provato di tutto ho rifatto un centinaio di volte la procedura:crea nuovo/disco rigido/dispositivo/dev/hda 1.etc etc ma ad adesso non ho risolto niente cambiato icona,rinominto,nada de nada..aiutooo come sempre vi ringrazio davvero mario Smanettare non serve quasi mai! Prova a loggarti su un'altro terminale (ctrl+alt+ 6 o 5 o 4 o 3o 2 o 1)come root, lancia mc e guarda se in /mnt/win vedi qualcosa, se sì guarda i permessi (con mc e molto facile) e settali in modo che UGO possa navigare nelle directori. Se no guarda in etc/fstab cosa c'è scritto per il tuo device.
Re: [newbie-it] questa
MHAA?ho guardato ma mi sembra tutto normalenon è che avete qualche altra idea? - Original Message - From: Stefano Sebastiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] questa Alle 18:21, mercoledì 2 ottobre 2002, ba-rk ha scritto: Questa non me la aspettavo,da linux con KDE ero riuscito a vedere windows /dev/hda 1/ e la cosa funzionava...adesso non so per quale motivo come clicco sull'icona c'è un gran sferragliare del disco fisso (il secondo in cui,risiede linux) non mi si apre nessuna finestra,ma in compeso sento tutti i file musicali di windows con xmm al di la dell'aqua santa che devo ancora provare,ho provato di tutto ho rifatto un centinaio di volte la procedura:crea nuovo/disco rigido/dispositivo/dev/hda 1.etc etc ma ad adesso non ho risolto niente cambiato icona,rinominto,nada de nada..aiutooo come sempre vi ringrazio davvero mario Smanettare non serve quasi mai! Prova a loggarti su un'altro terminale (ctrl+alt+ 6 o 5 o 4 o 3o 2 o 1)come root, lancia mc e guarda se in /mnt/win vedi qualcosa, se sì guarda i permessi (con mc e molto facile) e settali in modo che UGO possa navigare nelle directori. Se no guarda in etc/fstab cosa c'è scritto per il tuo device.
Re: [newbie-it] questa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:21, mercoledì 2 ottobre 2002, ba-rk ha scritto: Questa non me la aspettavo,da linux con KDE ero riuscito a vedere windows /dev/hda 1/ e la cosa funzionava...adesso non so per quale motivo come clicco sull'icona c'è un gran sferragliare del disco fisso (il secondo in cui,risiede linux) non mi si apre nessuna finestra,ma in compeso sento tutti i file musicali di windows con xmm mmm serve vedere /etc/fstab e /var/log/messages (taglialo all'ultimo giorno...) se xmms funzia significa che la partizione c'è ed è montata per sicurezza manda pure l'output di $mount poi, prova in console a entrare nella /mnt/windows (o come l'hai chiamata tu), e vedi che errore ricevi mario bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD0DBQE9m1yiF/9fksDJ4y0RAvLqAKCJxKuWw/TzppoMa+LKSR0MpIOwbgCQ3J1X xh58WYrhCVzoVpW76dkD =uH/M -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: Piccoli inconvenienti
Alle 08:35, mercoledì 2 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: Piccoli inconvenienti, sandro hai scritto: Io solitamente seleziono con il mouse tutto il testo da copiare con il mouse, vado su OpenOffice e premendo il tasto centrale del mouse il testo mi viene incollato Grandioso! Meriti un bacio... ;-) -- Arwan
[newbie-it] tr
Alle 10:21, mercoledì 2 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] a un passo dalla soluzione..., Mario Lodi Rizzini hai scritto: Se non ho letto male, la sintassi dovrebbe essere la seguente: tr [opzioni] sequenza_caratteri_da_cercare file_input file_output Esempio: se vuoi cancellare il carattere ^M (invio) dal file di input, penso dovrai scrivere: tr -d \r file_input file_output Il massimo che ho ottenuto e' questo: [arwan@localhost biblib]$ tr -s # \t autore.txt autore2.txt tr: at least one string must be given when squeezing repeats [arwan@localhost biblib]$ tr -s # \t autore.txt autore2.txt tr: too many arguments Try `tr --help' for more information. (il # e' il carattere da sostituire) -- Arwan
[newbie] modprobe eth while no nic present
My /etc/modules.conf is as follows alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi options i810fb xres=800 hsync1=32 hsync2=48 vsync1=50 vsync2=70 vram=2 bpp=16 accel=1 mtrr=1 hwcur= 1 xcon=4 # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options i2c-corei2c_debug=1 options i2c-algo-bitbit_test=1 alias char-major-81 bttv options bttvcard=50 options tuner debug=1 type=5 pal=b But while booting I get these messages. Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth8 I don't have any nic. While configuring also, only dialup with modem was automatically identified and configured by me. Why these messages occur? How to stop it? -- 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
[newbie] cron.weekly doubt
I have a line in /etc/crontab as 22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly but cron.weekly was run on 26th Sep which is Thu ie in number it should have been 4. log output is given below. PC is used daily including sundays. [root@localhost log]# zless messages.2.gz |grep week Sep 19 06:59:29 localhost anacron[1471]: Will run job `cron.weekly' in 10 min. Sep 19 07:09:29 localhost anacron[1471]: Job `cron.weekly' started Sep 19 07:09:29 localhost anacron[2499]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly' to 2002-09-19 Sep 19 07:12:31 localhost anacron[1471]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) [root@localhost log]# zless messages.1.gz |grep week Sep 26 07:08:54 localhost anacron[1468]: Will run job `cron.weekly' in 10 min. Sep 26 07:18:54 localhost anacron[1468]: Job `cron.weekly' started Sep 26 07:18:54 localhost anacron[2430]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly' to 2002-09-26 Sep 26 07:23:05 localhost anacron[1468]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) [root@localhost log]# Any explanations 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] modprobe eth while no nic present
But while booting I get these messages. Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7 Oct 1 06:58:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth8 these messages are normal because the kernel scans all devices and try's to detect some network cards but if you have only one it just detects eth0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Scanner
et wrote: On Tuesday 01 October 2002 03:50 am, you wrote: mudder wrote: try looking at these sites: http://orbita.starmedia.com/~neofpo/yaprimaxgui.html http://primax.sourceforge.net/ They may shed some light on your problem. I remember that my acer usb scanner needed to have it's firmware uploaded using a perl script and a modification of the sane backend. Be prepared for a lot of trial and error and an equal amount of frustration. Regards, Mudder Thanks for the links. So far as I can make out, they are doing their best to write drivers for every Primax scanner but mine. Time to think about a new model, I guess. I would be reading up on how the other scanners with models kinda like your are made to work, and try to figure out what the differences are, and how you could make your work. the Acer Remark above struck me, since I have an unsupported Acer Prisa 320 that I followed the directions for the prisa620, and changed which binary (*.bin) I used (in the windows install disk and folder) until I found the correct one, from then on I could use that scanner great, and I paid $40.00 US 2 years ago for that scanner. Thanks for everyone's input. As I mentioned before, I'm not the world's greatest hacker so I don't think I'll be trying to bend a different backend to my will - I have neither the skills or the patience. I spent ages trying to get the Plustek OpticPro 9600 working without success - and that one's SUPPOSED to work. Reckon I'll be on the lookout for an Epson scanner as recommended by s. -- 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] can I just go and blow up ol 4hassan.com
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 3:10 pm, et wrote: tell me I am the only one This list and the expert list both. Just started about an hour or so ago from my perspective. Someone setting up a mail server that made a woops maybe? -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. -- Oscar Levant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aarrgh! How to turn off supermount?
leeg100 wrote: On Tuesday 01 October 2002 04:17 pm, s wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 08:28 pm, leeg100 wrote: So... how do I make removable media in Mandrake 9.0 under KDE act like they do in say, Redhat? In RH 7.3, you right-click a CD or Zip drive icon and select mount or unmount. Nice and easy and no need to type a mount command if a shell prompt is not open... and apparently safer than Mdk's supermount. I ddin't see where you got an answer so I'll take a stab at it. Well, disable it first in fstab, and then right click your kde desktop and choose make a new floppy device (or even the cdrom one will work too). Then adjust the settings to your drive and pick out an icon. It should now have mount and umount in it's right click menu. To disable supermount, type as root: supermount -i disable. -s Thanks for all the replies, folks. supermount -i disable fixed it. Creating a new device worked, but for some reason the Zip no longer has an eject choice on the context menu. Not really a biggie, but curious. Lee make a new icon linked to your ZIP drive from the 'CD/DVD-ROM device...' choice (which has an context menu 'eject' choice). -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound in MDK9.0 with ESS1688 ISA card
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:23:21 -0700 Seedkum Aladeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 12:53 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 03:38 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have an old ISA ESS1688-based sound card. That same audio card worked fine in MDK8.2. After MDK9.0 installations, I see that: - kernel detects an ISA PnP card, but does not seem to load the sound modules (at least, I do no see any specific message in /var/log/info or warnings) - there is no /dev/sound directory - Mandrake Control Center does not display any sound card. Any suggestions for what to look for? thanks, raffaele If sndconfig is not installed, then install it and just run sndconfig. I just did a from scratch Mandrake 9 install and that's what I wound up doing. Cheers, I have the same problem with my sound card. I issued the sndconfig command and it looks like it went into the probing stage and never came out of it. You have to click OK to get it to probe. Probing can take some time... I had to kill the KDE window in order to get it to stop. My sound is still not configured. LM8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 configured the same sound card automatically during the install without any intervention. How did LM8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 do it then? Thanx, Seedkum Well it's often advised to run sndconfig in a virtual console and not under X. ML9.0 doesn't automatically configure ISA soundcards because it hung some people's systems during install (IIRC from the cooker list). I don't know how ML8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 configured the soundcard. I am quite sure though that it can also work in Dolphin :) For most soundcards there are both OSS and ALSA drivers available in ML9.0. The ALSA ones in Dolphin are based upon ALSA 0.9.0rc2 while 8.2 had the 0.5.x series ALSA drivers. What would be nice is if you still have your /etc/modules.conf from 8.2. Oh, what soundcard do you have and were you using ALSA (sndconfig is OSS only) ? Good luck! -Frans Hi sort of same problem here sndconfig detects the OPTI audio 16 card (isa pnp), now when starting probing it results errors here as following: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/mad16.o.gz: init_module: No such device modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/mad16.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod sound-slot-0 failed in MDK 8,2 sndconfig did output sound samples in this point. and after running that tool I had sound forever (untill i installed 9,0) - Hot Mobiil - helinad, logod ja piltsõnumid! http://www.hot.ee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Multisession with CDRecord?
Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to make multi-session CD's with CDrecord. I use cdrecord 1.11a19 and tried burning with the -multi switch. The program writes a new session, I can see that from the entrypoint on the CD-R/W. But after the burn I still only see the first session that I burnt. A-ha! I was trying to create a multi-session CD myself at the weekend, and had the same problem! I worked out eventually that when you create the ISO image (using mkisofs) you need to have the original CD in the drive, and tell mkisofs to make a note of the files already on it when it builds up a new directory listing. I can't remember the exact switch to use, but I'm sure man mkisofs will bring it up. HTH, Richard *** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.com *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copying CD's through terminal
Paul wrote: In reply to Paul's mail, d.d. Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:30:13 -0700 (PDT): As the title suggests, how do I copy a cd using terminal instead of the GUI? dd if=/dev/cdrom | cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=4 dev=0,0 - (Remove the driveropts if your cd-writer does not support burnfree) hth Paul -- To Copy data disc to disc on the fly, mkisofs -r -j -v /mnt/cdrom/file - | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data -pad -eject -ignsize - or cd /mnt/cdrom/ mkisofs -r -j -v file - | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data -pad -eject -ignsize - John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Multisession with CDRecord?
in console (terminal) man cdrecord At 08:53 02.10.2002 +0100, you wrote: Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to make multi-session CD's with CDrecord. I use cdrecord 1.11a19 and tried burning with the -multi switch. The program writes a new session, I can see that from the entrypoint on the CD-R/W. But after the burn I still only see the first session that I burnt. A-ha! I was trying to create a multi-session CD myself at the weekend, and had the same problem! I worked out eventually that when you create the ISO image (using mkisofs) you need to have the original CD in the drive, and tell mkisofs to make a note of the files already on it when it builds up a new directory listing. I can't remember the exact switch to use, but I'm sure man mkisofs will bring it up. HTH, Richard *** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.com *** 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] Multisession with CDRecord?
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:36 PM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Multisession with CDRecord? Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to make multi-session CD's with CDrecord. I use cdrecord 1.11a19 and tried burning with the -multi switch. The program writes a new session, I can see that from the entrypoint on the CD-R/W. But after the burn I still only see the first session that I burnt. you first have to create an iso image with mkisofs $ mkiso -o image.iso -J -R directory of files this will create image.iso with the directory you specified as the root directory of the image file. the J option is for Joliet extensions and R is for Rock-Ridge extendsion enabled now to burn that you do: $ cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -data -multi image.iso to write the image.iso, ofcourse you need to specify your dev parameters now to do a add a session to that cd you need to get the start and end sector of the previous session on the cd like this: $ cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -msinfo this will return something like 0,51635 this gives the start and end point of the previous session. first create the iso image to append to cd like this: $ mkisofs -o image2.iso -R -J -C 0,51635 -M 0,0,0 directory with the -C switch you enter the numbers return by the -msinfo option of cdrecord the -M switch tells mkisofs to merge this image with the image found on dev 0,0,0 and then you ready to burn that image to the cd like this: $ cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -data -multi image2.iso and that is it, now if i remeber everything right this should work just check with the man pages. hope this helps adriaan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Multisession with CDRecord?
Thanks everyone, for the abundant replies! I am sure that I can get things going well now. Paul --- Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. E. B. White ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:29:35 +0200 Subject: RE: [newbie] Multisession with CDRecord? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] fluxbox and xscreensaver (and kmail, and xterm, and...)
On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 8:59 am, Barran, Richard wrote: Hello, I've been using Fluxbox on my home machine (LM8.2) for several weeks now. I'd like to run certain programs at startup: xscreensaver, and some GUI applications I use all the time such as Kmail. I read a page on mandrakeuser.org about creating a .Xclients file with the program I want to run, followed the instructions to the letter but no success. Can someone help me? Thanks, Richard There are a number of ways to do this. What I do is insert a line in ~/.fluxbox/init session.screen0.rootCommand: /home/derek/.fluxbox/startup This calls up a little bash script which starts all my start up apps for me. #!/bin/bash xscreensaver -no-splash bsetbg -f ~/fluoresence6.jpg wmxmms wmapm wmsysmon bbpager rox -l mypanel Why use a script and not just put several session.screen0.rootCommand statements? For some reason I could not get it to work if I had more than one. BTW: If you are using fluxbox because it it is faster than KDE, then give sylpheed a try in place of Kmail. It is *lots* faster. And if you are on Mandrake 9.0, then rox is now available in Contrib. It is way faster than konqueror file manager HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mount
et wrote: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 04:26 am, you wrote: farshad fekrinejat fekri wrote: hello i have a problem with partion of other OS i have two OS (Win 2000 - Linux) now in linux how can i access to Win 2000 partion ? is there command for mount other OS partion ? thanks alot bye As root, add to, /etc/fstab, (edit with your favorite editor, I like jed, joe or nedit) /dev/hda1 /mnt/W2000 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 Create in, /mnt, (mkdir /mnt/w2000) /mnt/W2000 directory In terminal type, mount -a John this all assumes you have win2k installed on the first partition of the master hard drive on the first ide channel, and formated to ntfs (which you will not or should not attempt to write to, only read from) which would be the normal default install for win2k. I quite agree. though if your w2k is on a different partition then alter accordingly. If you want to write to w2k then either you have to have a vfat w2k install or an additional vfat partition which is used as a go between. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iso downloading problems
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 11:55 pm, you wrote: I have written about a problem with downloading and using the install disk for md 9.0. Still having that problem. Right now I am downloading it from mandrake 8.2. The others have been in windows XP. I am really trying to give linux a fair chance. 9.0 looks very promising to me. I need to be able to use my dvd rom tho. I have a AMD k7 duron 1.2 procesor, g-force vid card. Mandrake 8.2 installed with no problems. Might just have to wait for the official release to come out. Was going to buy it anyway but wanted to install it now. I get the opening screen and hit enter and get a black screen. Have hit f1 and tried the other install methods with no luck. Any ideas guys? Walt which geforce card? don't worry about the DVDrom, unless it is a really strange one and not IDE, it will work. might have to download some added codecs and stuff depending on the movies you want to watch, but you can even get Mandrake install DVDs that have everything on one disk, and read from the dvd at bootup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NOT NICE OF ALL OF U!!!
Nobody answerd a mail from me! Thats sad!
Re: [newbie] NOT NICE OF ALL OF U!!!
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:25 am, you wrote: Nobody answerd a mail from me! Thats sad! what mail? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NOT NICE OF ALL OF U!!!
That depends if it actually went through or that if most didn't receive it in the firs place. For sometime the mailing list has acted goofy. I go a week with zilch then suddenly get flooded with old postings and then then incident involving umit and repetitive emails on error command. If you can post again I am sure the group can help if possible. On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:25 AM, Markus Klocker wrote: Nobody answerd a mail from me! Thats sad! .'If you do it right, no one is sure if you did anything at all.'
Re: [newbie] NOT NICE OF ALL OF U!!!
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:25 am, you wrote: Nobody answerd a mail from me! Thats sad! some times an e-mail gets caught up in the net adn does not come to roost for some time, and since this is the first e-mail I have ever gotten from this address. don't get to pushy... no one is paid to answer here, we just are a bunch of pushy people wanting to give you our opinions anyway.grin so don't SHOUT ok? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aarrgh! How to turn off supermount?
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 02:30 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Thanks for all the replies, folks. supermount -i disable fixed it. Creating a new device worked, but for some reason the Zip no longer has an eject choice on the context menu. Not really a biggie, but curious. Lee make a new icon linked to your ZIP drive from the 'CD/DVD-ROM device...' choice (which has an context menu 'eject' choice). Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't completely work! The eject choice is there, but it doesn't eject the disk. :( Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Beware of Opera from Club download for 9.0
Here is a heads up for Opera fans. The version of Opera (opera-6.03-0.static.1mdk) available for download from Mandrake Club for 9.0, and I imagine also on the upcoming Powerpack CDs does not seem to work with plugins. I just spent a day struggling with it only to find that after replacing the RPM with opera-6.03-20020813.1 from the Opera download site everything worked perfectly. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive
On Tuesday October 1 2002 08:59 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Monday 30 Sep 2002 10:44 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: (my ide burner which has scsi emulation and is dev/scd0 or hdd, dma enabled) tom# hdparm -t /dev/scd0 /dev/scd0 not supported by hdparm tom# hdparm -t /dev/hdd tom# ' /dev/hdd: Timing buffered disk reads: read() hit EOF - device too small How these two times get two different output. Initially I didn't have /dev/hdd. Then I did symlink with scd0 as [root@localhost lvgandhi]# ln -s /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /dev/hdd still I get as follows. [root@localhost lvgandhi]# hdparm -v /dev/hdd /dev/hdd not supported by hdparm What to do? Nothin to do, as the mesg says, hdparm does not support scsi devices, only ide. Evidently, as my 'hdparm -t /dev/hdd' error shows, it won't work with ide devices that are scsi emulated either. Why or how hdparm is able to set the burner to use dma... I don't understand myself. You didn't need the symlink, you might want to remove it. ide burners are setup as both ide (/dev/hdd) and scsi (/dev/scd0) by the append, hdd=ide-scsci Further how to know my cdrw HP9100c will be ok with dma? Trial'n error. Set it to dma enabled and see if there are any problems. There shouldn't be. See 'info hdparm', it's one of the better written man pages. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xine plugin
Hello, I'm trying to find the mov plug in for xine, but can't find it anywhere. I've looked at sourceforge, but can't figure out which of the many files is the mov plug in. Any help would be appreciated. David Seuferer, CNE Ames Laboratory Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (515) 294-5638 phone: (515) 294-6053 It comes in pints!?Pippin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution and recurring tasks
El mar, 01-10-2002 a las 02:20, Brian Parish escribió: I have a mission to convert my sister to Mandrake. Evolution is an important part of this. She asks how to do something fairly simple: create a recurring task. It certainly aint obvious to me. Can it be done? This is my biggest gripe with Evolution. You can't make a recurring task, only a recurring appointment, at least not with 1.0.2 which I am using. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems to install MDK 8.2 in iMac
Hi All, I have an iMac 256ram, 600Mhz, 40Gb, cdrw. I'm trying install MDK 8.2 pp but it's impossible... What I did: * I downloaded all *.iso; * burned it in Toast; when I tried boot iMac using firth Cd, the instalation process start and run, but stop in a blue screen, I can't use mouse or another device. After this, the instalation stop. Can Anyone help me?? I have two partitions in this iMac, 1°-- OS X, 2° -- Linux. Tks for Your Time. = []'s Lúcio Costa Linux user #204519 We do what we can, we give what we have Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art. ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tudo para criar o seu site: ferramentas fáceis de usar, espaço de sobra e acessórios. http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ximian Desktop on MDK 8.2/KDE --- Oops!
Damn --- I got to stop thinking if a little bit is good, a lot more has to be better! I was looking for a Linux alternative to my Windows Contact Management software (Maximizer) that my business and I live by. Evolution looked pretty good and a possible match to my needs. I installed the complete Desktop using their Red Carpet scripted installation feature. I should have taken just Evolution (for now), but got really greedy, thinking that the whole package would give me more of what I have in Maximizer. WellI suppose this would have been OK if GNOME was my default Windows Managerit ain't! Personally... I just don't like GNOME. That's just me...no offense implied. Anyway... Installation seemed to go very well. I have NEVER seen any on-line installation work as smoothly and as well thought out as Ximian's. Unfortunately, I cannot find any solution from them on how to get the thing to work under KDE. At this point in time, everything looks just as it did on KDE before I installed, with one rather interesting difference... All of my icons on my Quick-Start Task Bar are now the same -- the KDE gear icon. when I click on any of them, I get this error message: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory 'file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Applications/Editors/kwrite.desktop' does not exist. Please note that the path is specific to the application icon I clicked on, so it varies with the application I am trying to access. It looks like this newbie is temporarily fooked and it doesn't even feel good! -Ouch!- Could someone who installed Ximian Desktop in MDK 8.3, using KDE as their Windows Manager, please point me to the solution? (Preferably before I scream for jumping in without understanding the choices I made...) I have been running around Ximian's site for answers (and will continue to do so!), but thus far all I have found is that they acknowledge that mods have to be done! ARGH! Dad, when will I grow up and be a competent Linux user like you? Someday, son...someday. I am going badk to do more searching g-r-r-r-r TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help Broke Fstab in MDK 8.2
HI: In trying to restore my system to a new MOBO I seem to have broken my fstab file. My current Fstab file is: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 And my current Mtab file is: /dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /home reiserfs rw,notail 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 Could someone point me to the correct lines for floppy and cdroms. Thanks for your help. Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What do I use to burn a cdi image???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:40 pm, Todd Franklin did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: first of all, try changing the year on your computer (FYI it's 2002 now) lol ;-) try eroaster's cd image functions hey my windows on my dualboot thinks it is feb 2001! or at least that is when it booted last. - -- If I admit I was wrong, I am only saying I am wiser today than yesterday. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9myNCBwq+ZwvIN/oRAmCAAJ95MbFSpAq1TlGjwIaSKCqXsBhgcgCfeEy1 uqdZ9y80R0JLElS/SDX1z1g= =WRTi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Image Conversion
Does anyone out there know of any programme that can convert black and white image files to colour.Some years ago I read somewhere that a technology using computer software had been invented that could do this. I know colour can be converted to BW in gimp , but I am talking about colourising BW pictures. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where are the unix2dos on dolphin?
Any suggestions anyone, please. TIA Dave --- Oracle 8 on Linux HOWTO author. http://www.dgssoftware.co.uk/oracle Systems Admin, Oracle Installs, Web Design and Programming Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake PPC 8.2 How To Make Bootable CD from ISO
Hello any Mac users out there (or anyone else who knows this stuff), I have downloaded the iso files from Mandrake. I don't have Toast. I was able to mount the isos in OSX (10.1.5), and burn them. Unfortunately, the install CD doesn't boot. The last time I did this was with Mandrake 8.0. With that, I used an IBM machine (at work), and burned the CDs with EZ CD Creator, and they worked like a charm. That was only an experiment, and now I think I'm ready for the real thing. I have not found a place on Mandrake's site that addresses my problem (not having Toast). They just tell me burn the image from the iso and reboot holding the C key... this doesn't work. Do I have to just buy Toast (with its known issues with Mac's CD Burner/iTunes), or just buy the 8.2 CDs from Mandrake? There's got to be a way to make the image (or the files before I burn them) bootable. Thanks in advance, keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help Broke Fstab in MDK 8.2
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:40 am, you wrote: Ralph De Witt wrote: dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 Ralph, the above fstab entry appears to be a mite fishy. Remove this from this line and all the other places it appears like this and see if it works again. Ex: from... dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 to... /dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 Mark Mark: I modified my fstab as you suggested to the following: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount /dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount /dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount /dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850,user,unmask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 How ever the floppy , and cdrom lines are still coming up broken. Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Image Conversion
John Richard Smith wrote: Does anyone out there know of any programme that can convert black and white image files to colour.Some years ago I read somewhere that a technology using computer software had been invented that could do this. I know colour can be converted to BW in gimp , but I am talking about colourising BW pictures. John i don't know if this question is not OT in this list, but generally: - you can always downgrade a picture: less pixel, less color, ... - you can not upgrade a picture, at least not with usual programs like gimp, photoshop, corel draw, ... regards andreas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aarrgh! How to turn off supermount?
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:30 am, you wrote: make a new icon linked to your ZIP drive from the 'CD/DVD-ROM device...' choice (which has an context menu 'eject' choice). I always used floppy device here, and it works great as well. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Firewall Builder under Mdk 9.0
Hi all, Has anyone managed to get Firewall Builder to work under Mdk 9.0? Installing the 8.2 rpm doesn't work. I get an error when trying to run it. I also tried compiling it from the source rpm. Libfwbuilder compiles fine but fwbuilder itself doesn't. Does anybody know where I can get Firewall Builder rpms for 9.0??? TIA, Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:14 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:47, Klemm wrote: That souns familiar I jut got also that mail with all the attachements. and viruses as I know now. Yeah, it's that new linux virus that strips random consonants from your outgoing email... ro lmao Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing photos
Thanks! Had never seen that command before. Worked like a charm! - paul On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 17:38, Alastair Scott wrote: On 30 Sep 2002 17:16:24 -0400 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to resize a bunch of photos at the same time? I have a folder with 42 photos from my digital camera and would like to make them 1/3 the size to put on the web in as few strokes as possible. Ok, at least in an easy and reproducable way. ImageMagick - the mogrify command therein - will do it: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html Something like mogrify -resize 33%x33% *.jpg would appear to work. (Of course this will _replace_ all the existing .jpg files with their smaller mogrifications, so back them up first!) 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] adding a new hard drive
If your new hard drive is on the same IDE channel as your existing one, then it will be hdb not hda. If it is on the other IDE channel it will be hdc or hdd according to whether it is master or slave. That brings me to another point. Check you have set the jumpers correctly on the back of the new drive. One drive should be master the other drive should be slave. (Do NOT use cable) select After you install the drive go into your BIOS and in the hard drive page select 'AUTO' and your new drives geometry should magically appear. Then boot into Linux and open Mandrake Control CentreMountPointsHardDrives select your new drive from the 'tab' pick a file system type, and a mount point, and divide it into multiple partions if you wish and click 'Done' and your new drive will be formatted, and fstab will be written accordingly. It only gets tricky if you want to mount the new partition as a partition that is already mounted elsewhere. Then you have to start juggling about with mount point names and copying files over from one to the other. Hope I remembered it all :-) derek On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 8:24 pm, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm about to add a new hard drive and once it is physically in place, I am unsure what to do next. Here's what information I do have about the system. hda1 through hda6 are already exist in /dev hda1,5,6 are listed in /etc/fstab hda1 and 5 are listed in /etc/mtab hda1 is / hda5 is /usr hda6 is swap This new drive is for backups and I want to mount it at /backup. Do I just edit the fstab file and then run the mount command? Can I use hda2, 3 or 4 however I want (ie add this to the fstab file - ./dev/hda2 /backup ext2 defaults 1 2)? Then run fdisk? Jeanie __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boot floppy --Invalid Compressed format
Iam trying to build the 2.4.19 kernel, The compile goes just fine with know errors but when I run make bzdisk the boot floppy it creates does not work when the machine boots and tries to read the files on the floppy I get this error: Invalid Compressed Format (err=1) System Halted I have tried different floppy's. I have formated the floppy's before the files get copied to the floppy and it still will not work. I have also tried running bzImage and copying bzImage to a floppy, but I still get the same error. The current kernel Iam running (2.4.18) boots just fine from a floppy, and iam also able to create more boot disks for kernel (2.4.18) that work just fine. to install the kernel I used make mrproper make xconfig make dep make bzdisk make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake sources
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 October 2002 12:39 pm, Klemm did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: has anybody experienced problems installing from ftp sites I added the contributions and plf to my sources and that part worked fine, update source also, no problem. Untill I started to install soemthing from those places. Installation end with a error i have installed over 2 dozen packages from plf, club and contrib mirrors to 9.0 now and no problems. are you sure the source was not busy? maybe an error in the source path? - -- The universe is a figment of its own imagination. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9m2wNBwq+ZwvIN/oRAiE5AJ922qnFos2REbZH7Z5o5zEpZi58swCfWqgp i+0vgLeSLli5Cny2ObvaTpw= =vHmC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can I just go and blow up ol 4hassan.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 October 2002 12:34 pm, Lyvim Xaphir did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: The thing about it is that I suspect Et actually has what it takes to get the job done. ok, i am nervous now. Et, have i mentioned what a great help you are on this list? let me do it now. Bush is surrounded by fools questioning Iraqi regime change, while we have people like Hussein running around. regime change != war. i agree with one, the other. anyway, i am for putting both bush and hussein on a new reality tv show. i would call it no survivors. ;-) - -- If Microsoft is innovative in any area, it is in creating new forms of intimidation. - Ralph Nader shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9m20UBwq+ZwvIN/oRAtBDAJ0WiqWqgw2uhOMS1FqPHmt2W9+17gCdE+h3 ujDFWHMbDAq3Doi6VdhIRW4= =57NY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 October 2002 1:40 pm, et did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:14 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:47, Klemm wrote: That souns familiar I jut got also that mail with all the attachements. and viruses as I know now. Yeah, it's that new linux virus that strips random consonants from your outgoing email... hey i have had the nocaps worm and bad speillers of the word untie virus for over 9 years now. it is no laughing matter! ;-P - -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9m26IBwq+ZwvIN/oRAiJCAJwPrhwbSo3vZl6yRJSiu+k4OpkxFwCfQoC6 Fy+p3G5t3Bi04FTUDahpwrY= =A+/M -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can I just go and blow up ol 4hassan.com
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 06:03 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 12:34 pm, Lyvim Xaphir did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: The thing about it is that I suspect Et actually has what it takes to get the job done. ok, i am nervous now. Et, have i mentioned what a great help you are on this list? let me do it now. I ain't gonna get violent anymore,,,ever that was one of the main things they made me agree to before they let me out of Fort Levenworth, and as I understand it, they still got room for me if I screw up again. ET Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP
shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 October 2002 1:40 pm, et did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:14 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:47, Klemm wrote: That souns familiar I jut got also that mail with all the attachements. and viruses as I know now. Yeah, it's that new linux virus that strips random consonants from your outgoing email... hey i have had the nocaps worm and bad speillers of the word untie virus for over 9 years now. it is no laughing matter! ;-P You're lucky, I've had the LEFTTHECAPSLOCKON worm many times. BTW, I remember reading some stats on the quantity of Windows vs. Linux worms/viruses since 1991. Does anyone have the current figures? I need to do some counter-propanganda about Slapper. Sir Robin -- We do not imprison ourselves with laws, or impoverish ourselves with money - Iain Banks Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fwd: Re: Connecting with Customers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wow, maybe MS feels pressure from linux. got a mail today. my responce is included. childish of me i know, but i am a bad person down deep... thought some of might enjoy it. - -- Forward -- Subject: Re: Connecting with Customers Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:02:32 -0700 To: Steve Ballmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] first, a hint. don't send in html. only jackass microsoft users do that. On Wednesday 02 October 2002 3:37 pm, Steve Ballmer did speak thus unto me: HTML HEAD STYLE TYPE=text/css snip pI spend a lot of my time thinking about how Microsoft can do a better job of serving its customers. I'm convinced that we need to do more to establish and maintain broad connections with the millions of people who use our products and services around the world. We need to more thoroughly understand their needs, i agree. start by spamming your customers. i use linux, because, frankly, i upped my standards. so up yours. pFirst I should give you some context on why I am sending you this email. This is one in an occasional series of mails that Bill Gates and I, and periodically other Microsoft executives, will be sending to people who are interested in hearing from us about technology and public-policy and even people who don't want shit from you apparently. pIf you would like to hear from us in the future, please click a href=http://register.microsoft.com/subscription/subscribeMe.asp?lcid=103 3id=155here/a. If you don't want to hear from us again, you needn't do anything. We will not send you another of these emails unless you choose to subscribe at the link above./p great MS joins the ranks of opt-out bullshitters. and i thought windows ME was as low as you could go. pIn my career, I've worked at only one other place besides Microsoft. I marketed brownie mix and blueberry muffin mix for one of the largest consumer products companies. so you have always sold pre-packaged junk. great. Even so, not every new grocery or drug-store item succeeds. maybe they need an illegally maintained monopoly? pSatisfying customers is what it's all about with technology products, then how did MS's good enough strategy work? And customers expect the same high quality and reliability in computing devices and software as they do in consumer products. clearly not, or you would be pan handling on the street. That's why our customers still encounter bugs despite the rigorous and extensive stress testing and beta testing we do. With Windows 2000 and Windows XP, we dramatically improved the stability and reliability of our platform and a lofty goal that was! from zero to... well, not zero. pThe process of finding and fixing software problems has been hindered by a lack of reliable data on the precise nature of the problems customers encounter in the real world. Freeze-ups and crashes can be incredibly irritating, but rarely do customers contact technical support about them; instead, they close the program. Even when customers do call support and we resolve a problem, we often do not glean enough detail to trace its cause or prevent it from recurring. this should help, the problem is they were running your software. after i stopped running your software (3 years ago) those problems went away. pThere are risks in offering this option to have software phone home especially when nobody trusts you. with good reason i might add. pAlso, customers may wonder what we do with their reports and whether their privacy is protected. We use advanced security technologies to help protect these error reports, which are gathered on a cluster of dedicated Microsoft servers as secure as your other servers? i feel safer already. pWe've been amazed by the patterns revealed in the error reports that customers are sending us. ione percent of bugs cause half of all errors/i./p would that bug be IE or outlook? pWith this immensely valuable feedback from our customers, we're now able to prioritize debugging work on our products to achieve the biggest improvement in customers' experience. well anything has to be an improvement over your past bend over and take it eXPerience. Some 450 companies have accessed our database of error reports related to their drivers, is that the private data you mentioned before? pThere's much more I would like to share with you about these and other initiatives on behalf of customers, but I wanted to be (relatively) brief. well your bloat shines through even by email. - -- A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed. Can you say Trustworthy Computing? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ -
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Re: Connecting with Customers
Man, that was funny. I've been spammed by MS myself, but never so amusingly. -- We do not imprison ourselves with laws, or impoverish ourselves with money - Iain Banks Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] adding a new hard drive
Diskdrake ... that's what I needed. hdb1 and hdb2 are up and running. Thanks! Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can I
I am new to Mandrake and have version 8.1 I have installed it on a partition and dual boot with Windows 2000 Professional. I would like to know if there is a tool that will allow me to resize my Windows partition, without loosing the data on that partition. I have about 5 GB of free space on that partition. I have tried to download diskdrake several times, but the link does not seem to work.Any help would be appriciated. Edward Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:41 pm, you wrote: I am new to Mandrake and have version 8.1 I have installed it on a partition and dual boot with Windows 2000 Professional. I would like to know if there is a tool that will allow me to resize my Windows partition, without loosing the data on that partition. I have about 5 GB of free space on that partition. I have tried to download diskdrake several times, but the link does not seem to work.Any help would be appriciated. Edward Reynolds depends on if the w2k partition is fat or ntfs,,, if it is ntfs,, I ain't sure but you might need PartitionMagic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Re: Connecting with Customers
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:40 pm, you wrote: Man, that was funny. I've been spammed by MS myself, but never so amusingly. I agree, I am glad you shared it cause it was too good to allow it to only be seen by whomever is reading all the stuff in /dev/null. I just would never have given them anymore oppertunity than any other spam. (ie.; straight to /dev/null, do not stop to be read, do not pass go) but sharing it has given it a value that no other MS (software) product has ever recieved in my house. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I
et wrote: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:41 pm, you wrote: I am new to Mandrake and have version 8.1 I have installed it on a partition and dual boot with Windows 2000 Professional. I would like to know if there is a tool that will allow me to resize my Windows partition, without loosing the data on that partition. I have about 5 GB of free space on that partition. I have tried to download diskdrake several times, but the link does not seem to work.Any help would be appriciated. Edward Reynolds depends on if the w2k partition is fat or ntfs,,, if it is ntfs,, I ain't sure but you might need PartitionMagic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks It is ntfs. Will check on getting PartitionMagic. Edward Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I
use partiton magic from http://www.powerquest.com or better yet system commander from http://www.v-com.com/ p.s be careful when fiddling with the partition - Original Message - From: Edward Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Can I I am new to Mandrake and have version 8.1 I have installed it on a partition and dual boot with Windows 2000 Professional. I would like to know if there is a tool that will allow me to resize my Windows partition, without loosing the data on that partition. I have about 5 GB of free space on that partition. I have tried to download diskdrake several times, but the link does not seem to work.Any help would be appriciated. Edward Reynolds 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
[newbie] finally got the first iso
with my dialup connection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kdeartwork location
Hi all, Where can I download the kdeartwork source rpms? I have looked for them and haven't been able to grab them. Are they included on the cds? Thanks Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kdeartwork location
On October 2, 2002 05:19 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Where can I download the kdeartwork source rpms? I have looked for them and haven't been able to grab them. Are they included on the cds? Thanks Travis Crook Visions Beyond With most of the mirrors busy the only place I could find was rpmfind.net. They are normally in SRPMS of any main Mandrake tree. Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kdeartwork location
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:19 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Where can I download the kdeartwork source rpms? I have looked for them and haven't been able to grab them. Are they included on the cds? Thanks Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.rpmfind.net -- Jonathan Dlouhy Wednesday, October 02, 2002 Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Desktop on MDK 8.2/KDE --- Oops!
I find that as Gnome improves it is less able to run under KDE. I was using evolution and galeon and did a redcarpet upgrade and they were both kaput. After 43 years in this business I am again learning that small individual apps doing a specific job are better than one app trying to do everything. But I really did like Galeon. On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:28:39 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn --- I got to stop thinking if a little bit is good, a lot more has to be better! I was looking for a Linux alternative to my Windows Contact Management software (Maximizer) that my business and I live by. Evolution looked pretty good and a possible match to my needs. I installed the complete Desktop using their Red Carpet scripted installation feature. I should have taken just Evolution (for now), but got really greedy, thinking that the whole package would give me more of what I have in Maximizer. WellI suppose this would have been OK if GNOME was my default Windows Managerit ain't! Personally... I just don't like GNOME. That's just me...no offense implied. Anyway... Installation seemed to go very well. I have NEVER seen any on-line installation work as smoothly and as well thought out as Ximian's. Unfortunately, I cannot find any solution from them on how to get the thing to work under KDE. At this point in time, everything looks just as it did on KDE before I installed, with one rather interesting difference... All of my icons on my Quick-Start Task Bar are now the same -- the KDE gear icon. when I click on any of them, I get this error message: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory 'file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Applications/Editors/kwrite.desktop' does not exist. Please note that the path is specific to the application icon I clicked on, so it varies with the application I am trying to access. It looks like this newbie is temporarily fooked and it doesn't even feel good! -Ouch!- Could someone who installed Ximian Desktop in MDK 8.3, using KDE as their Windows Manager, please point me to the solution? (Preferably before I scream for jumping in without understanding the choices I made...) I have been running around Ximian's site for answers (and will continue to do so!), but thus far all I have found is that they acknowledge that mods have to be done! ARGH! Dad, when will I grow up and be a competent Linux user like you? Someday, son...someday. I am going badk to do more searching g-r-r-r-r TIA, T -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iso downloading problems
The mirror sites are VERY busy right now. That is probably causing your download problems. I am having the same problem - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] iso downloading problems On Tuesday 01 October 2002 11:55 pm, you wrote: I have written about a problem with downloading and using the install disk for md 9.0. Still having that problem. Right now I am downloading it from mandrake 8.2. The others have been in windows XP. I am really trying to give linux a fair chance. 9.0 looks very promising to me. I need to be able to use my dvd rom tho. I have a AMD k7 duron 1.2 procesor, g-force vid card. Mandrake 8.2 installed with no problems. Might just have to wait for the official release to come out. Was going to buy it anyway but wanted to install it now. I get the opening screen and hit enter and get a black screen. Have hit f1 and tried the other install methods with no luck. Any ideas guys? Walt which geforce card? don't worry about the DVDrom, unless it is a really strange one and not IDE, it will work. might have to download some added codecs and stuff depending on the movies you want to watch, but you can even get Mandrake install DVDs that have everything on one disk, and read from the dvd at bootup 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] Virus warning from ISP
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:09, shane wrote: That souns familiar I jut got also that mail with all the attachements. and viruses as I know now. Yeah, it's that new linux virus that strips random consonants from your outgoing email... hey i have had the nocaps worm and bad speillers of the word untie virus for over 9 years now. it is no laughing matter! ;-P yup, saw that one, too. here's a script to take care of it for you: #! /bin/bash sudo slocate -u slocate $REALLYBADWORM echo AAAHHH! slocate $BRAIN echo 'Ahh, I see the problem' umount /dev/head sudo rm -rf /mnt/ass/head -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] finally got the first iso
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:10:00 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with my dialup connection. heh.. i downloaded the first iso, as my incoming partition was getting full, i moved it to another directory, then started downloading the other two. when the last ones were finished, i realized i deleted the first one accidentally in one of my random, wild deleting sprees [BTW i downloaded them from the eDonkey P2P network] so, off i went to find a reasonably fast FTP server to ammend my stupid mistake as fast as possible and your modem connection should be getting no less then half of my DSL speed, as the servers are still quite busy.. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mldonkey problems
Thanks for the suggestions, I still cant seem to connect to any servers other than mldonkey servers, but I found that pausing and resuming my downloads helped to get them started again. On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 23:38, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:52:48 -0600, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several questions regarding the latest mldonkey beta found on PLF. 1.The rpm has set up mldonkey as a service, how can I disable this? 2. Why are there different settings when I start Mldonkey manually than when it starts as a service? (ie directories set to different places when it starts as a service) MLDonkey gets its config settings from the current working directory. If you're starting MLDonkey manually, make sure you're in the directory that contains your config files. 2. Recently I have been unable to download anything even when I am connected and have found 1000+ sources for a particular file. Previously It was setting my cable modem on fire. Any ideas? If you have a firewall, open TCP and UDP ports 4661-4666 and 13842. 3. Now I am having problems connecting to any servers other than mldonkey servers. Perhaps I have been banned by lugdunum servers for creating too much traffic, but all of them? I have installed guarddog and iptables so that i could open ports or even disable my firewall entirely. I think lugdunum servers block MLDonkey by default. I think their logic is that MLDonkey is a threat to the eDonkey network since it can connect to multiple servers simultaneously. This is not necessarily the case More info can be found at the Linux eDonkey forum: http://forums.edonkey2000.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?forum=21 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Before you complain to us about how this stupid game won't just install and run the way you're used to, please bear in mind that we have been seeing a strong correlation between use of abusive or indecent language in complaints, and use of the MS Windows platform. -- From the Freeciv FAQ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Desktop on MDK 8.2/KDE --- Oops!
Sage advice, I am sure. Thanks. I have found that copying over KDE links from wherever I can find them to where they need to be is helping me to restore my KDE environment to the way it was before. As long as things are running well enough, I plan to leave the installed Ximian program as is. I probably should have spent some time reviewing the site before installing the program. It's nice, butstill just a P.I.M. I was hoping it was a full-blown contact management software. I guess little apps it is.. T Roland Hughes wrote: I find that as Gnome improves it is less able to run under KDE. I was using evolution and galeon and did a redcarpet upgrade and they were both kaput. After 43 years in this business I am again learning that small individual apps doing a specific job are better than one app trying to do everything. But I really did like Galeon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aarrgh! How to turn off supermount?
leeg100 wrote: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 02:30 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Thanks for all the replies, folks. supermount -i disable fixed it. Creating a new device worked, but for some reason the Zip no longer has an eject choice on the context menu. Not really a biggie, but curious. Lee make a new icon linked to your ZIP drive from the 'CD/DVD-ROM device...' choice (which has an context menu 'eject' choice). Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't completely work! The eject choice is there, but it doesn't eject the disk. :( Lee ...really! wow...! you're correct (it worked on 8.1 and 8.2), but it does umount the drive and typing eject /mnt/zip behaves exactly the same and yields this error message: [alan@obi-wan removable media]$ eject /mnt/zip eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument [alan@obi-wan removable media]$ so, to get better info: [alan@obi-wan removable media]$ eject -v /mnt/zip eject: device name is `/mnt/zip' eject: expanded name is `/mnt/zip' eject: `/dev/sda4' is mounted at `/mnt/zip' eject: unmounting `/dev/sda4' eject: `/dev/sda4' is a multipartition device eject: trying to eject `/dev/sda4' using CD-ROM eject command eject: CD-ROM eject command failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/sda4' using SCSI commands eject: SCSI eject failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/sda4' using floppy eject command eject: floppy eject command failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/sda4' using tape offline command eject: tape offline command failed eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument [alan@obi-wan removable media]$ ...guess I'll need to report this, thanks. :( -- Alan P.S. at least the eject button works. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] iso downloading problems
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mandrake Development @ Networks East Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] iso downloading problems The mirror sites are VERY busy right now. That is probably causing your download problems. I am having the same problem I checked my download of disk one with md5sum and everything checks out. I still get a blank screen if I try to load it on boot-up. I did do a live install in 8.2 and had some problems with the installation. Will need to repair the installation and will keep trying to do a full upgrade. Only got partial upgrade right now. Not giving up..linux has been in my blood for a few years now and it has finally gotten to the point where I want to use it exclusively. walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:36 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:09, shane wrote: That souns familiar I jut got also that mail with all the attachements. and viruses as I know now. Yeah, it's that new linux virus that strips random consonants from your outgoing email... hey i have had the nocaps worm and bad speillers of the word untie virus for over 9 years now. it is no laughing matter! ;-P yup, saw that one, too. here's a script to take care of it for you: #! /bin/bash sudo slocate -u slocate $REALLYBADWORM echo AAAHHH! slocate $BRAIN echo 'Ahh, I see the problem' umount /dev/head sudo rm -rf /mnt/ass/head Good gravy, that is so funny, you guys kill me! HOHOHO ROTFL -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 04:17 pm, you wrote: make you glad you use a OS that does not get uset by klez, don't it. I get about 4 klez or nimda a day, and I kinda enjoy seeing what ever file was sent as an attachment. last week, I got some with some java script from someone who buys stock in the Itialian stock market. Yep, makes me real glad! (and that bit about the guy who buys stock in the Italian stock market is funny!) grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing photos
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:41:44 -0600 Jan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021001 08:07]: On 30 Sep 2002 17:16:24 -0400 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to resize a bunch of photos at the same time? I have a folder with 42 photos from my digital camera and would like to make them 1/3 the size to put on the web in as few strokes as possible. Ok, at least in an easy and reproducable way. ImageMagick - the mogrify command therein - will do it: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html Something like mogrify -resize 33%x33% *.jpg would appear to work. (Of course this will _replace_ all the existing .jpg files with their smaller mogrifications, so back them up first!) I agree that mogrify works ... I use it all the time. One tip, though ... I have found that mogrify seems to have trouble compressing photos from my camera (an Olympus 3030z). If I load them into the Gimp first and save them, then when mogrify resamples them they will be a half to a tenth (on small images) the size! Mogrify compresses jpeg's at 75 on a scale of 100. Gimp, by default, also saves jpeg's at 75. So, I wonder if the size difference is a result of undergoing a 25% compression two times? You might try mogrify and specifying a quality of 50 and see if you get comparable results--and save yourself a step. I'm going to try it now. Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. (Mark Twain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP
Thats Amavisd running on their mail server... Great stuff... I have the same thing running on my postfix mandrake box here.. its saved me downloading 3 copies of bugbear today... everyone with a linux mail server supporting windows clients should run amavisd its a shame that Mandrake doesn't see the benefit in making it an option... both SUSE and Debian have amavis RPM's available.. mandrake doesn't appear to have discovered it yet. Here is the admin email amavis sent me this morning.: A virus was found in an email from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message was addressed to: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message has been quarantined as: /var/virusmails/virus-20021003-065418-14677 Here is the output of the scanner: Virus Scanner v3.1, VSAPI v5.500-0829 Trend Micro Inc. 1996,1997 Pattern version 357 Pattern number 47948 Configuration: -a -r -nl -c1 -c2 -u -s /var/amavis/amavis-XXwgPOqL/parts/msg-14677-1.html /var/amavis/amavis-XXwgPOqL/parts/msg-14677-2.dat *** Found virus WORM_BUGBEAR.A in file /var/amavis/amavis-XXwgPOqL/parts/msg-14677-2.dat == Directory: Searched : 0 File: Searched : 2 Scan : 2 Infected : 1 Infected : 1(Include files been compressed) Time: Start : 10/3/02 06:54:18 Stop : 10/3/02 06:54:18 Used : 00:00 Here are the headers: - BEGIN HEADERS - Received: from atlas.tas-sie.net.au (atlas.tas-sie.net.au [203.57.213.26]) by mail.gshop.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB85D6E3 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:54:05 +0800 (WST) Received: from office (dialin18.smt.tas-sie.net.au [203.57.211.49]) by atlas.tas-sie.net.au (8.12.6/8.12.6/RG2.2) with SMTP id g92Mf8AR017909; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:41:08 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:41:08 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Clark Windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Greets! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--59XMUN6H7L3LGH2 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; -- END HEADERS -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 3:18 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP Just got this from my ISP - thought it was interesting - only address I get that looks remotely like the sender here is from this list == SouthEast Telephone AntiVirus scan results From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:25:07 -0400 RAV AntiVirus for Linux i686 version: 8.3.2 (snapshot-20020108) SouthEast Telephone AntiVirus results on mail from : Received: from fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (HELO home.ecn.ab.ca) (198.161.206.7) Received: from fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Received: from freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Received: from rivenheart This email was automatically generated by the SouthEast Telephone email server in response to a virus infected email. Below you will find out more information on why you are receiving this email. If you are a SouthEast Telephone customer and you have any further questions or concerns please contact our Technical Support Department at 1-888-812-5199 or email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are not a SouthEast Telephone customer you may wish to contact your Internet Service Provider for more assistance. The file (part0001:w9x_682.exe.pif) attached to mail (with subject: [Samba] Windows XP Authentication) SENT BY: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SENT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED], IS INFECTED WITH VIRUS: Win32/Bugbear.A@mm. Cannot clean this file. The file was successfully deleted by SouthEast Telephone AntiVirus. This is a copy of the e-mail header: Received: from fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (HELO home.ecn.ab.ca) (198.161.206.7) Received: from fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Received: from freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Received: from rivenheart Scan engine 8.9 () for i386. Last update: Wed Oct 2 08:07:06 2002 Scanning for 72047 malwares (viruses, trojans and worms). -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Fwd: Re: Connecting with Customers
I love it! I hope that gets read by him and he replies to you facinating stuff... :-) congrats... of course, they probably use exchange server so he may never get your reply.. :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 7:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Fwd: Re: Connecting with Customers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wow, maybe MS feels pressure from linux. got a mail today. my responce is included. childish of me i know, but i am a bad person down deep... thought some of might enjoy it. - -- Forward -- Subject: Re: Connecting with Customers Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:02:32 -0700 To: Steve Ballmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] first, a hint. don't send in html. only jackass microsoft users do that. On Wednesday 02 October 2002 3:37 pm, Steve Ballmer did speak thus unto me: HTML HEAD STYLE TYPE=text/css snip pI spend a lot of my time thinking about how Microsoft can do a better job of serving its customers. I'm convinced that we need to do more to establish and maintain broad connections with the millions of people who use our products and services around the world. We need to more thoroughly understand their needs, i agree. start by spamming your customers. i use linux, because, frankly, i upped my standards. so up yours. pFirst I should give you some context on why I am sending you this email. This is one in an occasional series of mails that Bill Gates and I, and periodically other Microsoft executives, will be sending to people who are interested in hearing from us about technology and public-policy and even people who don't want shit from you apparently. pIf you would like to hear from us in the future, please click a href=http://register.microsoft.com/subscription/subscribeMe.asp?lcid=103 3id=155here/a. If you don't want to hear from us again, you needn't do anything. We will not send you another of these emails unless you choose to subscribe at the link above./p great MS joins the ranks of opt-out bullshitters. and i thought windows ME was as low as you could go. pIn my career, I've worked at only one other place besides Microsoft. I marketed brownie mix and blueberry muffin mix for one of the largest consumer products companies. so you have always sold pre-packaged junk. great. Even so, not every new grocery or drug-store item succeeds. maybe they need an illegally maintained monopoly? pSatisfying customers is what it's all about with technology products, then how did MS's good enough strategy work? And customers expect the same high quality and reliability in computing devices and software as they do in consumer products. clearly not, or you would be pan handling on the street. That's why our customers still encounter bugs despite the rigorous and extensive stress testing and beta testing we do. With Windows 2000 and Windows XP, we dramatically improved the stability and reliability of our platform and a lofty goal that was! from zero to... well, not zero. pThe process of finding and fixing software problems has been hindered by a lack of reliable data on the precise nature of the problems customers encounter in the real world. Freeze-ups and crashes can be incredibly irritating, but rarely do customers contact technical support about them; instead, they close the program. Even when customers do call support and we resolve a problem, we often do not glean enough detail to trace its cause or prevent it from recurring. this should help, the problem is they were running your software. after i stopped running your software (3 years ago) those problems went away. pThere are risks in offering this option to have software phone home especially when nobody trusts you. with good reason i might add. pAlso, customers may wonder what we do with their reports and whether their privacy is protected. We use advanced security technologies to help protect these error reports, which are gathered on a cluster of dedicated Microsoft servers as secure as your other servers? i feel safer already. pWe've been amazed by the patterns revealed in the error reports that customers are sending us. ione percent of bugs cause half of all errors/i./p would that bug be IE or outlook? pWith this immensely valuable feedback from our customers, we're now able to prioritize debugging work on our products to achieve the biggest improvement in customers' experience. well anything has to be an improvement over your past bend over and take it eXPerience. Some 450 companies have accessed our database of error reports related to their drivers, is that the private data you mentioned before? pThere's much more I would like to share with you about these and other initiatives on behalf of customers, but I wanted to be (relatively) brief. well your bloat shines through even by email.
[newbie] single user boot: i still cannot change root password
I upgraded the security level of my mandrake 8.2 box from the lowest to the intermediate (3) level. Now I don't have access to any user, including root, because my passwords are all expired. I couldn't su to root and couldn't shutdown the box (ctr+alt+del didn't respond). I was stuck with the graphical login and had to press the reset button :-( , messing the filesystem... I googled the internet to find out how to boot as a single user and change the root password. Here is what I did. lilo linux runlevel 1 or lilo linux single didn't help. The file system is messed (du to hard reset) and I am faced with the alternative of either supplying the root password (which I don't have) for maintenance or press ctr+D to do a normal start, which brings me back to the stallemate above... (btw, is there any difference between: linux runlevel 1 , linux init 1 and linux single ?) I then tried: lilo linux init=/bin/sh rw which gave me an init prompt. I typed su and without asking for a password, I got the root prompt: [root@(none) / ]# I located the passwd command in the filesystem and tried it: # ./passwd root ./passwd: permission denied. I have the same result at the init or root prompt. I then tried to modify the /etc/passwd file to erase the root pass (as I read I could do when I googled the web). vi didn't work but I found a vim-minimum in the filesystem and used it to vi /etc/passwd but the file was read only and any attempt to write it failed. Another note that might be important: the /usr filesystem was not mounted and I didn't mount it because the filesystem got corrupted and trying to mount it would have brought plenty of error messages and I wouldn't have known what to do). So: I lost my root password (not that I forgot it but it unexpectedly got expired!) I could login and su to root as a single user but still could do anything about it! Beside getting me back my user and root password, I'd like to know if it is possible to switch back to a lower security level... I cannot manage my box at a higher level Thanks, Anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] single user boot: i still cannot change root password
boot from the CD. and at the prompt. type rescue without the prompts... it will then boot the CD install kernel and stuff and when finished you can type: chroot /mnt and you will have access to your files stuff.. then change your passwords etc... rgds Franki... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ma Anguo Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:41 AM To: Mandrake Newbie ml Subject: [newbie] single user boot: i still cannot change root password I upgraded the security level of my mandrake 8.2 box from the lowest to the intermediate (3) level. Now I don't have access to any user, including root, because my passwords are all expired. I couldn't su to root and couldn't shutdown the box (ctr+alt+del didn't respond). I was stuck with the graphical login and had to press the reset button :-( , messing the filesystem... I googled the internet to find out how to boot as a single user and change the root password. Here is what I did. lilo linux runlevel 1 or lilo linux single didn't help. The file system is messed (du to hard reset) and I am faced with the alternative of either supplying the root password (which I don't have) for maintenance or press ctr+D to do a normal start, which brings me back to the stallemate above... (btw, is there any difference between: linux runlevel 1 , linux init 1 and linux single ?) I then tried: lilo linux init=/bin/sh rw which gave me an init prompt. I typed su and without asking for a password, I got the root prompt: [root@(none) / ]# I located the passwd command in the filesystem and tried it: # ./passwd root ./passwd: permission denied. I have the same result at the init or root prompt. I then tried to modify the /etc/passwd file to erase the root pass (as I read I could do when I googled the web). vi didn't work but I found a vim-minimum in the filesystem and used it to vi /etc/passwd but the file was read only and any attempt to write it failed. Another note that might be important: the /usr filesystem was not mounted and I didn't mount it because the filesystem got corrupted and trying to mount it would have brought plenty of error messages and I wouldn't have known what to do). So: I lost my root password (not that I forgot it but it unexpectedly got expired!) I could login and su to root as a single user but still could do anything about it! Beside getting me back my user and root password, I'd like to know if it is possible to switch back to a lower security level... I cannot manage my box at a higher level Thanks, Anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kbdrate?
To speed up the keyboard typematic rate, I added this line to the end of /etc/profile: kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 ...but it doesn't work from there. As root at a console prompt, it works fine. Regular users apparently don't have rights to use the command. So... where/how should I configure this? Thanks, Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aarrgh! How to turn off supermount?
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:58 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: for some reason the Zip no longer has an eject choice on the context menu. Not really a biggie, but curious. The eject choice is there, but it doesn't eject the disk. ...really! wow...! you're correct (it worked on 8.1 and 8.2), but it does umount the drive and typing eject /mnt/zip cuz you need to eject the dev not the mount point. eject /dev/sda4 (or whatever it is) no thoughts on the right click menu tho at this time. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] iMac running Mandrake PPC 8.2 has blank screen
Hello, Ive tried to read through the archives, but, unfortunately, most of the explanations didnt help because I dont know what Im reading. Im very new to Linux, and am having a problem with the PPC version of Mandrake 8.2. The installation would only work in Text Install mode. Any time I tried to use the graphical install, I would just get a blue screen with a cursor in the middle (the X). The cursor wouldnt move. Once I got it installed, I was able to boot into yaboot and fire up Linux (pressing l). At that point, I type linux and it goes through its bootup process. When it goes to switch to the next phase (X-Windows or KDE, I presume) all I get is a black screen. No cursor, no pointer no nothing. I can assume from the archives that this is a display driver problem. From there, I am quite lost. Ive no clue where to go or how to go about troubleshooting the problem. If anyone can give me a hand, Id appreciate it. Thanks much. Gabe Knuth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] nVidiaGeForce2Go card on Dell laptop - NO X WILL WORK!!
Like the subject line says - I can't get a SINGLE X-server config to work right. I don't get it. I've tried the defaults it gives (nVidia2 (generric) + flat panel 1024x768 + 1028x768@16bpp) and it still doesn't load right. 3.3.6 and 4.0.2 (I'm not entirely sure on ver #) don't work!! HELP PLEASE would be most appreciated. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralphatboundariezdotcom | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] nVidiaGeForce2Go card on Dell laptop - NO X WILL WORK!!
Try this one.. someone nice sent it to me to try... good luck. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ralph M. Los Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nVidiaGeForce2Go card on Dell laptop - NO X WILL WORK!! Sensitivity: Confidential Like the subject line says - I can't get a SINGLE X-server config to work right. I don't get it. I've tried the defaults it gives (nVidia2 (generric) + flat panel 1024x768 + 1028x768@16bpp) and it still doesn't load right. 3.3.6 and 4.0.2 (I'm not entirely sure on ver #) don't work!! HELP PLEASE would be most appreciated. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralphatboundariezdotcom | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ XF86Config-4 Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Re: Connecting with Customers
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:09:04 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wow, maybe MS feels pressure from linux. got a mail today. my responce is included. childish of me i know, but i am a bad person down deep... Interestingly, I got a copy at work and it was automatically classified as spam (by the server copy of spamassassin) :) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
