Re: [newbie-it] Slack
in maceratese: me vene da piagne ciao guido allora!! la slackizziamo un pò questa lista ?? ;P ..se gli altri non hanno problemi.. 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 iD8DBQE90CLhF/9fksDJ4y0RAgMtAJ97Qt94u4WqP8+YEL7NJZeFu3LhggCgvN33 JXYPsuh2QjnGVNOT7+ZDWDc= =8oB3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] simulazione scasi
finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi dove ho sbagliato giuropoi non vi rompo + (almeno con questo problema) un grazie a tutti /dev/hdd1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/sdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0 boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x81 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdd1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi vga=0x0122 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdd1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdd1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hdb=ide-scsi read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x81 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdd1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi vga=0x0122i read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdd1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdd1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hdb=ide-scsi read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe
[newbie-it] modem ISDN
Ciao a tutti, proseguo la mia email di qualche giorno fa. Sto montando un PC, e cerco di assicurarmi che tutti i pezzi siano in grado di funzionare con Linux. Vorrei acquistare un modem ISDN interno ASUS (PCI)... dalle informazioni trovate in rete sembrerebbe che i modem ASUS ISDNLink 128k PC Adapter siano supportati; però vorrei una conferma per maggiore sicurezza: qualcuno di voi ha un modem ISDN di questo tipo? Grazie in anticipo per le risposte! Daniele
[newbie-it] Colori !!!
Cari amici, come posso cambiare i colori nella shell, esempio i file tar.gz(sono rossi), ed eventualmente attribuire un colore ad un altro tipo di file. Vi ringrazio Mino Mitrugno
Re: [newbie-it] Re: simulazione scsi
ciao andrea! Ho visto la risposta subito dopo aver inviato la domanda! Ho fatto le aggiunte che hai scritto effettivamente al riavvio il cdrom veniva riconosciuto come scsi da x-cd roast il problema è che ora non riesco piu' ad aprire il cd rom e quindi a leggere i cd!!Mi appare un messaggio di errore che dice che non ho i permessi per accedere al cd rom!Non so che fareti premetto che ho installato la mandrake 9 da poco.GRAZIE!!!
Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:19:47 +0100 mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi dove ho sbagliato giuropoi non vi rompo + (almeno con questo problema) un grazie a tutti senz'altro tutte le righe del tipo append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi devono essere append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdX=ide-scsi con X opportuno. Ossia devi dare l'emulazione scsi sia al cdrom che al masterizzatore ciao, rea
Re: [newbie-it] ortografia e openoffice su mdk9.0
Si', a me. Ho anche installato il corettore in italianom _seguendo le istruzioni di Mike_ (che raramente fallano), ma senza risultati. Poi non ho piu' avuto tempo di indagare oltre. Io ho poi risolto perfettamente usando le indicazioni di emiliano, e cioe': Devi attivare il controllo ortografico (My spell Checker), e lo fai andando su strumenti, poi opzioni, poi impostazioni lingua, poi linguistica e sotto Moduli linguistici disponibili vedrai selezionato Open Office MySpell Checker, evidenzialo e clicca su modifica e vedrai che sotto Controllo Ortografico c'è Open Office Myspell Spell Checker, seleziona la casella e così avrai il controllo ortografico funzionante... Su questa linea ho fatto funzionare anche la sillabazione, anche se solo per sfizio, visto che non la uso mai.. pigi
Re: [newbie-it] modem ISDN
Il 12:31, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, proseguo la mia email di qualche giorno fa. Sto montando un PC, e cerco di assicurarmi che tutti i pezzi siano in grado di funzionare con Linux. Vorrei acquistare un modem ISDN interno ASUS (PCI)... dalle informazioni trovate in rete sembrerebbe che i modem ASUS ISDNLink 128k PC Adapter siano supportati; però vorrei una conferma per maggiore sicurezza: qualcuno di voi ha un modem ISDN di questo tipo? Grazie in anticipo per le risposte! Daniele Io ce l'ho e funziona perfettamente. Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] Slack
Alle 22:36, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 05:49, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Arwan ha scritto: Sto cercando di imparare a muovermi sulla Sackware, e ho tre-quattro domande abbastanza banali da porre. Qualcuno puo' aiutarmi? In privato o in lista, vedete voi. allora!! la slackizziamo un pò questa lista ?? ;P ..se gli altri non hanno problemi.. ...non per fare la pigna in c..., ma ci sono mailinglist apposite per questo (specialiste e generaliste); datevi piuttosto appuntamento all'altra mailinglist a cui siamo iscritti o altrimenti inizio a postare su questa dei miei problemi con FreeBSD ;-), e vi avverto che sono sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi... -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi
Alle 12:19, martedì 12 novembre 2002, mario ha scritto: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi dove ho sbagliato giuropoi non vi rompo + (almeno con questo problema) un grazie a tutti Controlla con #cdrecord -scanbus che scd0 sia effettivamente la posizione del tuo cdrom emulato (a proposito, perchè l'hai fatto?), quindi verifica nelle impostazioni della tua icona sul desktop che il richiamo al punto di montaggio sia quello esatto. Piuttosto, se posso darti un consiglio, modifica la riga relativa al punto di montaggio di win, che in questo momento permette a cani e porci di leggere e _scrivere_ su quella partizione. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9.0 ed il modem
Alle 17:07, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 11:45, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Vai in /etc/shorewall, apri policy ed al posto di loc scrivi fw; quindi, in fin qui tutto a posto... interfaces imposta, togliendo #, l'ultimo esempio riportato che abilita l'utilizzo di ppp0. Scusa l'ignoranza, potresti per favore soffermarti di più su questo punto perché davvero non lo comprendo Grazie tante Cosa che non ho detto nel post precedente è che nei cd trovate anche la documentazione di shorewall, che non viene però installata di default, credo perchè questo è un vero firewall a tenuta stagna ( non si entra - non si esce, ha-ha...vabbè); tornando a bomba, se apri il file in questione, vedrai che sono riportati vari esempi di collegamenti ad interfacce; l'ultimo è quello più comune per un computer da casa connesso ad internet attraverso un modem accessibile da ppp0; io ho consigliato di decommentare quella linea (togliere #) per rendere le cose più spedite. Per il resto _dovrebbe_ essere tutto a posto; non essendo infatti un esperto di firewall non vorrei che 'sto configuratore creasse una imprendibile casamatta con la porta aperta: consiglio a questo punto di analizzare direttamente l'output di iptables riga per riga, sottoponendolo semmai ad un esperto di sicurezza. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] modem ISDN
Alle 14:44, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Germano ha scritto: Il 12:31, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, proseguo la mia email di qualche giorno fa. Sto montando un PC, e cerco di assicurarmi che tutti i pezzi siano in grado di funzionare con Linux. Vorrei acquistare un modem ISDN interno ASUS (PCI)... dalle informazioni trovate in rete sembrerebbe che i modem ASUS ISDNLink 128k PC Adapter siano supportati; però vorrei una conferma per maggiore sicurezza: qualcuno di voi ha un modem ISDN di questo tipo? Grazie in anticipo per le risposte! Daniele Io ce l'ho e funziona perfettamente. Ciao, Germano GRAZIE INFINITE!!! Era l'ultimo pezzo che mi mancava... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi
Alle 15:19, martedì 12 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Alle 12:19, martedì 12 novembre 2002, mario ha scritto: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi dove ho sbagliato giuropoi non vi rompo + (almeno con questo problema) un grazie a tutti Controlla con #cdrecord -scanbus che scd0 sia effettivamente la posizione del tuo cdrom emulato (a proposito, perchè l'hai fatto?), quindi verifica nelle impostazioni della tua icona sul desktop che il richiamo al punto di montaggio sia quello esatto. Piuttosto, se posso darti un consiglio, modifica la riga relativa al punto di montaggio di win, che in questo momento permette a cani e porci di leggere e _scrivere_ su quella partizione. si credo sia tutto a posto ti allego videata ,si hai ragione su win dovrò decidermi a cambiarlo ho fatto così perche il mio principale hobby è passare la mia raccolta da vinile ,in cd essendo proprietario di qusi 5000 dischi che praticamente mi occupano una stanza mi risultava tutto più facile con kreatecd anche perchè non so per quale motivo in linux riesco a masterizzare molto più velocemente comunque grazie mario attachment: foto1.png
Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi
Alle 14:33, martedì 12 novembre 2002, hai scritto: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:19:47 +0100 mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi vi mando copia delle modifiche ditemi dove ho sbagliato giuropoi non vi rompo + (almeno con questo problema) un grazie a tutti senz'altro tutte le righe del tipo append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi devono essere append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdX=ide-scsi con X opportuno. Ossia devi dare l'emulazione scsi sia al cdrom che al masterizzatore ciao, rea Ciao Rea credo che il masterizzatore sia già localizzato come scsi visto che il programma di masterizzazione lo riconosce come scsi ciao mario
[newbie-it] kmail smtp
Salve alla lista Qualcuno saprebbe darmi dritte sul fatto che Kmail non vuole spedirmi la posta? sembrerebbe un errore imputabile all' indirizzo smtp ma quest ultimo è corretto!! magari sto sbagliando la configurazione di kmail (mi sembra strano anche se ultimamente sto diventando parecchio tordo:) Altra supposizione che ho fatto è che il server non abbia accettato la mia classe ip. Non so piu dove tirare la testa. Grazie degli eventuali aiuti. Ciao , Tom
R: [newbie-it] modem conexant hsf e devfs??
Alle 11:38, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: si, al riavvio il devfs pialla il dispositivo creato manualmente ... puoi risolvere in 2 modi: E' strano, perchè io, nonostante abbia devfs attivato, ed abbia un HSF, dopo l'installazione del driver non ho avuto nessun problema (rpm per kernel mdk-2.4.19). controlla se per caso il RPM ha modificato modules.devfs e devfsd.conf dicendo al demone di generare il dispositivo, potrebbe essere la soluzione pulita da applicare per chi usa devfs... (vedi la data di creazione del dispositivo, se è quella dell'installazione o dell'avvio..) Strano la parte di mail qui sopra non mi è arrivata!!! strano!!! Effettivamente, in /devfs/conf.d (richiamato da devfsd.conf), è presente un file di configurazione di hsf; oltretutto, con lsmod posso verificare l'esistenza del modulo, che immagino carichi i dispositivi necessari... Ripeto, il problema posto, non si è mai verificato... Vale. cmq ora è tutto ok per quanto riguarda il modem...come sotto la 8.2 è bastato ripetere l'installazione dal RPM 3 volte.e ora il dispositivo tty.. rimane li! ignoro il xke! ma lo prendo come magia! domandina: rc.local si trova in rc.d? era lui che avrei dovuto modificare per il devfs? p.s. scusate se scrivo ancora da outlook ma kmail non mi vuole accettare gli smtp! Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto
Quando lancio startx, mi viene dato come errore (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected Cosa significa??? Ho come scheda grafica una ATI R128 PRO e come monitor uno Studioworks 775N! Alle 23:18, domenica 10 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Alle 17:46, venerdì 8 novembre 2002, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: Salve a tutti, Dopo aver provato la Mandrake 8.2, ho pensato di fare un aggiornamento alla 9.0. ... ... ALLORA PERCHE' NON FUNZIONA??? devi darci qualche messaggio di log var/log/syslog /var/log/messages magari anche i log di Xfree... dicci come è configurato X, quale scheda e quale server usi.. senza è duretta fare una diagnosi.. Grazie a tutti! bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 -- \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://www.santarella.too.it Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Pentium 200MHz
Salve a tutti, cerco consiglio dai piu' anziani per che release ( se fosse possibile mandrake meglio )optare nel resuscitare un pentium 200MHz con 32 Mb Ram e 4 Mb di scheda video. Dovra' solo occuparsi di scaricare mail da un server e spedirla ( e nemmeno tanto traffico ) e dare la possibilita' di avere almeno una visione di massima di allegati .doc ( Argh ) e pdf. Cioe' un po' di grafica forse ci vuole. Chi mi ha richiesto questo upgrade vorrebbe non avere i tempi di reazione Windows-like ( e gli piace pure Kmail). Siccome di release ce ne sono abbastanza ( pardon anche distribuzioni ) vorrei avere il vostro parere su quale potrei optare per valorizzare tale macchina. Se non ricordo male la mandrake e' forse un po' avida di risorse appena si parla di grafica... sarei disposto ( a malincuore ) a provare anche altro. Qualcuno mi ha sussurrato qualche vecchia debianma ovviamente non quale. Se potete aiutarmi e non tacciarmi di OT ve ne saro' sempre grato. Cordialmente. Stefano.
Re: [newbie-it] Mozilla ... si incazzato
On Monday 11 November 2002 9:21 pm, Emma e Gigi wrote about [newbie-it] Mozilla ... si è incazzato: Salve, sono sempre io. Risolto un problema eccone un altro, sempre con Mozilla, ma stavolta penso più grave. Ecco il problema: clicco preferenze dal menù e Mozilla. si chiude. mh, quale versione di mozilla? fa cosi' anche da root? prova a lanciarlo da console e vedere se ti da' qualche errore. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] kmail smtp
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:21 pm, tom wrote about [newbie-it] kmail smtp: Salve alla lista Qualcuno saprebbe darmi dritte sul fatto che Kmail non vuole spedirmi la posta? sembrerebbe un errore imputabile all' indirizzo smtp ma quest ultimo è corretto!! magari sto sbagliando la configurazione di kmail (mi sembra strano anche se ultimamente sto diventando parecchio tordo:) Altra supposizione che ho fatto è che il server non abbia accettato la mia classe ip. quale smtp? con altri client la mandi? quale classe di ip? bye - Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Pentium 200MHz
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 8:13 pm, Ste wrote about [newbie-it] Pentium 200MHz: macchina. Se non ricordo male la mandrake e' forse un po' avida di risorse appena si parla di grafica... alla fine non credo sia la mandrake quanto gli ultimi desktop environment. Ovviamente sulle mdk nuove trovi i piu' recenti che diventano (almeno il kde, ed e' un opinione personale) piu' pesanti o piu' leggeri a seconda delle releases. Il fatto e' che ne' gnome ne' il kde odierni gireranno spediti con32 mega di ram. (oltretutto, non vorrei dire assurdita', ma le ultime mandrake potrebbero non installarsi nemmeno) La soluzione potrebbe essere un linux con solo quello che serve, magari qualche distro non recentissima, e come X blackbox o qualcosa di molto leggero. Perche' su un p200 con 32 mega il kmail non sara' mai veloce. Se hai poi il problema dei .doc dovrai avere openoffice, che su un pc simile potrebbe metterci 20 minuti a salire. I .doc sono il problema, da mail server, anche se ne so poco, lo fara' tranquillamente, e di client di posta grafici dovrebbero essercene anche di leggeri e che non necessitano di ambienti grafici particolari. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] modem ISDN
Il mar, 2002-11-12 alle 16:11, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Alle 14:44, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Germano ha scritto: Il 12:31, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, proseguo la mia email di qualche giorno fa. Sto montando un PC, e cerco di assicurarmi che tutti i pezzi siano in grado di funzionare con Linux. Vorrei acquistare un modem ISDN interno ASUS (PCI)... dalle informazioni trovate in rete sembrerebbe che i modem ASUS ISDNLink 128k PC Adapter siano supportati; però vorrei una conferma per maggiore sicurezza: qualcuno di voi ha un modem ISDN di questo tipo? Grazie in anticipo per le risposte! Daniele Io ce l'ho e funziona perfettamente. Ciao, Germano GRAZIE INFINITE!!! Era l'ultimo pezzo che mi mancava... Daniele Ciao, ti rassicuro sull'ottima compatibilità e funzionamento del modem ASUS ISDNlink. -- _ |Red Hat Linux 8.0 - 2.4.18-17.8.0| |Linux user #282182 - Linux machine #64378| |_| mail -s Hello, world. billm$.com Bill, could you please write me a programm that prints Hello, World.? I need it tomorrow. ^D
Re: [newbie-it] modem conexant hsf e devfs??
Alle 15:05, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: controlla se per caso il RPM ha modificato modules.devfs e devfsd.conf dicendo al demone di generare il dispositivo, Effettivamente, in /devfs/conf.d (richiamato da devfsd.conf), è presente un file di configurazione di hsf; non ricordo chi dicesse di perdere il modem all'avvio, credo che dovrebbe controllare proprio questo.. Ripeto, il problema posto, non si è mai verificato... sarebbe bello capire perchè gli stessi RPM producano risultati diversi... più che altro Vale. bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie-it] simulazione scasi
Alle 12:19, martedì 12 novembre 2002, mario ha scritto: finalmente sono riuscito a modificare il mio cdrom in scsi (ho finalmente trovato il tempo)adesso: mi accorgo che mi nega i permessi per accedervi ls -l /dev/scd* se non ne sei il proprietario (ovviamente) e non hai il permesso di accedere, ti vieta il mount, poi sarebbe opportuno mettere user (o users, se usi loggarti con più nomi contemporaneamente) in fstab nelle linee relative ai cd poi, qui vedo una bella incongruenza... /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 ^^ /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/sdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 ^ bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie-it] kmail smtp
Alle 17:21, martedì 12 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Salve alla lista Qualcuno saprebbe darmi dritte sul fatto che Kmail non vuole spedirmi la posta? sembrerebbe un errore imputabile all' indirizzo smtp ma quest ultimo è corretto!! è un problema di email.it o meglio di kmail che non si autentica nella spedizione mediante smtp se usi kmail fino alla 1.3.2 (kde 2.2.2, il mio, per intenderci) non hai modo di autenticarti, puoi solo usare un smtp diverso (quello del tuo provider non ti negherà il relay, anche se spedisci con indirizzo email.it) oppure il sendmail della tua macchina se hai un kde più recente, puoi impostare l'autenticazione anche per la spedizione (come in øutløøk insomma, dove metti username e password anche per il server smtp) Altra supposizione che ho fatto è che il server non abbia accettato la mia classe ip. email non controlla gli ip (non potrebbe farlo, non fornisce connettività), ma chiede ai client di autenticarsi Grazie degli eventuali aiuti. Ciao , Tom bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto
Alle 00:57, martedì 12 novembre 2002, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: Quando lancio startx, mi viene dato come errore (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected Cosa significa??? è un errore di X diceh che la tua scheda 0 (la Rage) non trova un digital flat panel... ma non credo possa bloccarti... il resto dei log cosa dice? bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie-it] Slack
Alle 15:11, martedì 12 novembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Slack, Fabio Manunza hai scritto: ...non per fare la pigna in c..., ma ci sono mailinglist apposite per questo (specialiste e generaliste); Uh? Liste per la Slack non ne ho trovate (ma ammetto di non aver cercato molto); era per questo che avevo richiesto risposte in privato. Se me ne segnali una magari ci faccio una capatina. -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] Slack
scusate ma posso fare una domanda da profano? cos'ha di interessante la slack? mi sembra che venga considerata un punto di arrivo da molti ma a quanto ne so è la distro in cui ci sono meno tools grafici. Intendo, se invece di usare un tool grafico apro il terminale e lavoro da lì non è come usare slack? Il succo della mia domanda è (per dirla con parole pompose): c'è un momento della vita in cui si cambia filosofia e si decide che i tools grafici non li si vuole più perchè è tempo di sentire la macchina completamente in proprio potere, o ci sono vantaggi oggettivi nell'usare la slack rispetto ad altre distro?
Re: [newbie] OT: Rendering spreadsheet cells
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:49, Joseph Braddock wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:42:56 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way in OpenOffice Calc to convert a cell from a formula (=A5*1.15) to a string (2.30)? To, in effect, render it? Thanks, Miark Highlight what you want to convert (ie. cell(s) with formula in it). Right click and select copy. Right click same cell(s) and select paste special. Uncheck the all box, check the numbers box and uncheck the formulas box. Click okay and you should be done. If you change your mind, ctrl-z should undo your changes. Be forwarned, though, if you save the changes, your formulas you rendered will be gone forever. Joeb Or make a second cell your destination... record a macro of Joeb's copy and paste. Then whenever you want too, run the macro. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] open source strikes back.
Hello, check this site out in IE if you can (or set your browser to detect as IE), I just found it by accident. http://alon.wox.org/adminlec.html its good to see the shoe on the other foot for a change. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] staaarting databases
I installed it and it needs to connect to the server with a username which i have not figured out how to set (I assume in mysql) Also of interest is an article on the mysql documents page www.mysql.org about using openoffice as the front end like ms access. I started it but it appears that alot of deatails have changed. In fact that is a constant problem the version changes and the documentation. Aaron On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 09:23, Raffaele Belardi wrote: There is a gnome GUI front end to mysql and postgresql, it's called GDA. It's in your MDK8.2 or 9.0 disks, you need to install the gda package and the gda-mysql or gda-postgres packages. I installed but had not the time yet to test it. Has anybody tried GDA? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, what is the best GUI for these databases? Dave 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] newbie
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 01:23:20 -0500 chad ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i take my email off this emailing list. it is good information and all, but I am getting over 100 emails a day. i still have dial-up and it takes forever. I am about to change my email address. will someone email me and please let me know where i need to go to take my email address out of the list. Thanks. chad(newbie) http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/flists.php3 :) -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I'm getting peeved!
at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 10:22 am, you wrote: Hi, In regards to your recent email, unfortunately none of our products will support the Linux operating system. Please let us know if you need further information. Regards, Melanie Sharman Pinnacle Systems uk -Original Message- From: Diane Raabe Sent: 12 November 2002 08:21 To: Melanie Sharman Subject: WG: Video Capture -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Anne Wilson [mailto:CAnneWilson;tiscali.co.uk] Gesendet: Montag, 11. November 2002 22:15 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Video Capture I want to capture video from an analogue camera, using Linux. Will the Pinnacle LINX USB Video Input Cable work under Linux? Anne Wilson Unquote Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing contrib rpms from tex
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:14, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I wanted to install contrib rpms from tex site ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/ I downloaded rpms and did urpmi. I get following error. [root@localhost lvgandhi]# urpmi fluxbox-0.1.12-3.1mdk.i586.rpm The following packages have bad signatures: ./fluxbox-0.1.12-3.1mdk.i586.rpm Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) there is no key as it exists in ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/ How to overcome it? -- L.V.Gandhi If you don't want to install RPM's without the GPG signatures, I would suggest going to the Fluxbox homepage (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net) and getting the tar.gz file and compiling/installing it yourself... Most of the time installing an RPM without the GPG sig isn't really going to hurt you...but if you're paranoid, get the code and do the compile yourself...that in itself is a great way to learn about how and why programs work...! -- Tue Nov 12 22:15:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 If you really want to know where you stand, it'll cost you around $15K and that, in my opinion, is fine. If it isn't worth $15K to protect your code then it is worth so little to you that there really is no good reason not to just GPL it from the start. - Larry McVoy on GPL licensing issues Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:47, Jose wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 02:29 am, Noah Hicks wrote: how does one install and enable the flash plugin for Konqueror? It was very easy to do in Mozilla but I prefer to use Konqueror. Hopefully someone will answer that question. I have been using Phoenix which is Mozilla Lite, but would love to go back to Konqueror. -- Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Mandrake, Redhat and SuSE user Children - the most commonly transmitted sexual disease Didn't we already cover this issue yesterday - or early this morning? Open up KONQUEROR, choose SETTINGS, then CONFIGURE KONQUEROR, then scroll down the left side to the BOTTOM where you find NETSCAPE PLUGINS, click that icon, then in the right side, you get an option to SCAN FOR NEW PLUGINS (and also check the little box that says to scan at start of Konqueror) - and VOILA! You should be happening! -- Tue Nov 12 22:20:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 How do you insult a lawyer? You might as well not even try. Consider: of all the highly trained and educated professions, law is the only one in which the prime lesson is that *winning* is more important than *truth*. Once someone has sunk to that level, what worse can you say about them? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:02, Gary Montalbine wrote: Installed lm_sensors1. It appears to be working. Installed gkrellm. It is not picking up the lm sensors. There is a proc/sys/dev/sensors directory. Any suggestions? Gary Have you checked to see if you have the GKRELLM plugins for it - and are they installed - or rather, if they are installed, did you put the little check in the box so that the krell monitors showed? -- Tue Nov 12 22:25:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:09 am, you wrote: Thanks for the tip. I've been using xscreensaver since the day I received your response and really enjoy it. However, I've been playing around with Enlightenment the last couple of days and was wondering if you know how I would set up xscreensaver to autostart under this WM. I know there are some settings for remembering app settings in Enlightenment and those include autostart but they seem to be mainly useful with GUI apps. TIA, Carl I'm not sure of the specific config files for Enlightenment as I don't use it, however you could setup xscreensaver to start automatically for whichever desktop with the file ~/.xinitrc (you may have to create it) in your home directory. Here is mine; /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver export GDK_USE_XFT=1 #startgnome startkde #startblackbox #startxfce #starticewm It is important to place the screensaver bit at the top of the file and also use the amphersand after it to make it run in the background and allow, in this case, startkde to run (as a foreground process.nothing after this is read from the file). I don't use a display manager (eg, kdm or gdm) but just use the startx command, so I'm not exactly sure if this .xinitrc method will work the same with themyou'll have to try for yourself. Also I'm not sure of the starting command for enlightenment, I think its just enlightenment! So your ~/.xinitrc might look like this; /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver #startgnome #startkde enlightenment If you use this method, don't forget to remove the link from ~/.kde/Autostart/xscreensaver if its still there, otherwise you'd be trying to start xscreensaver twice if you go back to kde. Hope this works for you, Regards,Robin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI
Gary Montalbine wrote: Installed lm_sensors1. It appears to be working. Installed gkrellm. It is not picking up the lm sensors. There is a proc/sys/dev/sensors directory. Any suggestions? Gary gkrellm works for me in M8.2, just type gkrellm into a terminal and up comes this grey column devided into four section which display cpu, proc, disk,and ppp0 whatever that is. It's working too, I cannot say it's easy to read though, everything is so tiny. I think it's the kind that of gui you are supposed to leave on desktop semi-permanently, and to that end its fine, not sure that is really what I want though , I would of normally expected a gui that is part of MCC or KDE CC. But it works and it you have good screen resolution and can read it, it's OK. I've found the configuration section now, and in there is one section devoted to sensors , so I imagine it's possible to set sessors up to some extent from there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] .NET under Linux ?
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 16:41, Franki wrote: So it will just make linux look bad... (remember when M$ made it so Netscape would crash windows just to make IE look good?) rgds frank Pls tell me you are kidding? I mean really... did that happen? I was going ot reply offlist but said naah --- Femme Yes, it is true. And Microsoft didn't intend on Netscape crashing - it was more along the lines of updating code that caused the engine that drove Netscape to crash in the vdm. There were a few ways around that problem, but it was there for a short while. Why do you think that Microsoft has been so DEFENSIVE about what's on the desktop? They're keen to have programs on the desktop that are within THEIR grip - be it browser or otherwise. Nowadays, people are more keen about it, and they're having to slack off of being so proprietary, but that's what's their downfall. -- Tue Nov 12 22:25:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aspell problem
* Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-11 21:26]: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:08:33 -0800 Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why but when I try to use aspell to check my mail spellings, I get an error message, unable to start Aspell, check Path.. I have aspell installed in /usr/bin/aspell and my when I issue echo $PATH I get the following: /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_02/bin:/home/dlm/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_02/bin Anyone got any suggestions as to what's happening here? thanks dale Can you type aspell in a terminal window and it finds it? If so, what email program are you using? Yes. I'm using kde mail (in mandrake 9.0) and mutt. Neither program can find it. I don't use mutt as often, but it's setup with the .muttrc command: set ispell=/usr/bin/aspell.. KDE will use Ispell International fine it seems Joeb 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] Wireless
Hi All, After a bit of playing and the purchase of a new pci-pcmcia adapter I have a single beep when cardmanager starts followed by a low tone. I guess the adapter is recognised but not the wireless card. Can anyone help me with that. Running a skynet global roamabout wireless lan card. - Original Message - From: Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Patrick. Do you hear the 'beeps' when pcmcia service starts? No Have a look in syslog (/var/log/syslog) for messages relating to pcmcia What do they say? starting pcmcia succeded yenta_socket no such device Is this a laptop or a desktop with a pcmcia-pci adapter? Desktop with a plx pci-pcmcia adapter What happens if you type pcic_probe in a root terminal window? command not found derek On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 2:32 am, Patrick Griffin wrote: Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat You need to install the pcmcia_cs and wireless-tools RPMS from your CDs Then next time you reboot yor pcmcia sockets should be detected and become active. You will hear two beeps from your computer when the pcmcia slots are enabled. Two beeps of different tone means your oricoco card was detected OK. Two beeps of same tone means it was not. Go through the Mandrake Control Centre Networking wizard. It should have detected your card and installed the 'wvlan_cs' driver. In the wizard you can set the wireless parameters (encryption key rate etc) after you complete the wizard with OK, DO NOT exit the GUI with OK. A bug means that it will write your old configuration back again. You must exit the GUI with 'Cancel' Your card should now be working. If it is not it is most likely a problem with encryption key or essid (Note ASCII encryption keys have to be entered in the format s:key_name ) You can use the command 'iwconfig eth0' in a root terminal window to set up the wireless card by hand, and 'man iwconfig' will give you all the parameters. HTH derek -- - - 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 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] I'm getting peeved!
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne Anne, look - for all intents and purposes, you're swimming upstream here. Manufacturers don't care about US - they care about money. They care about marketing. They spend more time in being Windows Compatible and being in the Windows Market than in being real manufacturers and engineers. When it comes down to brass tacks - most of the public would be completely appalled at the level of simplicity in most of the equipment they purchase. NAMES are the game. You would THINK that they would spend the same time in developing drivers for their hardware for OTHER operating systems - but in reality - just take a good look around that what DOESN'T work for Macs! And they're the OTHER PART of the desktop arena... None of the manufacturers are going to bust a move to do anything for linux overall until the world's public stands up and demands the quality, service and support. On the other hand, if a group of geeks/nerds get cluey enough, they might develope their own driver set - as has happened with many other pieces of equipment...and better at that! -- Tue Nov 12 22:45:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Fakir, n: A psychologist whose charismatic data have inspired almost religious devotion in his followers, even though the sources seem to have shinnied up a rope and vanished. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:39 am, Patrick Griffin wrote: Hi All, After a bit of playing and the purchase of a new pci-pcmcia adapter I have a single beep when cardmanager starts followed by a low tone. I guess the adapter is recognised but not the wireless card. Can anyone help me with that. Running a skynet global roamabout wireless lan card. - Original Message - From: Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Install the pcmcia-cs-x11 RPM and then type cardinfo in a terminal. What do you see? If you Open Mandrake ControlCentreNetworkConnection do you see the interface and driver listed in the panel near the bottom of the screen? Also do you have the wireless-tools and RPMs installed? What happens if you type iwconfig in a root terminal? derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about DMA Mdk Linux
Angus, All of us like to see things snap at our beck and call. It's part of being human. Sometimes, there's a fix, though. You don't know unless you ask. ;-) The answer to your question was provided earlier by a couple of people, but I like Tom Brinkman's earlier post, best. I have paraphrased and embellished what he wrote to make it make more sense out of context. Before you follow the steps outlined, you need to make sure that you have 'hardparm' installed. For whatever reason, I didn't, and had to figure this out to get my end to work. The RPM is on either CD1 or CD2, I can't remember, off hand. Once that is loaded, it will create the file 'harddisks': 1) Change over to the /etc/sysconfig directory 2) Edit the file, 'harddisks', and remove the # in front of 'USE_DMA=1' 3) Create a separate configuration file for each drive that you wish to give DMA access to (read-only devices, burners, etc.), with the appropriate drive letter added to the end of the file name. This is done by copying the original 'harddisks' to each new configuration name: 'cp harddisks harddiskhd?' (where ? is the drive letter for CD-ROM and/or CD-RW drives) examples: 'cp harddisks harddiskhdc' 'cp harddisks harddiskhdd' So far, everything is working find with my MDK 9 installation. I am tempted to do the same in my MDK 8.2 box to see what the affects of DMA is on my Acer CD-RW. I imagine I will be making some drink coasters to give out as gifts for Christmas! ;-D T On Monday 04 November 2002 18:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday November 4 2002 11:08 am, Miark wrote: Wooky, MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi emulation). Your DVDs will now play as they did in 8.2. To make the change permanent, add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and you'll be good to go. I learned this on the expert list last night. Miark That'll work, but a better way is to (as root): 'cd /etc/sysconfig' (edit 'harddisks', and remove the # in front of 'USE_DMA=1') 'cp harddisks harddiskhd?' where ? is the drive letter for CDrom and/or CD-RW drives, EG 'cp harddisks harddiskhdc' 'cp harddisks harddiskhdd' - Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] about DMA Mdk Linux - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:14:05 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] about DMA Mdk Linux If you had it enabled in Windows and didn't experience any hard drive data corruption or diffculties in read from your CD-ROM, the answer that all of us would agree upon isyes, it's OK to activate the use of DMA in Linux for hard drives and CD-ROMs. The answer is in the fact that it was already working for you in Windows. Concerns have only been with some questionanble motherboards and some older devices that do not work through DMA. I still use an Acer 2X2X4 CD-RW drive who's instructions specifically forbid activiting DMA support. The advantage is speed, though this is no guarantee that everything you do on your computer will be blinding fast. I have MDK 9.0 on an AMD-K6-2/500 with 256 MB RAM, an S3 Savage 2000 video card with 64 MBs RAM, and it isn't acting like a Spring chicken for me. Neither does Brand X (read as -- Windows XP Pro) Still, I can't complain. I like KDE 2.x and 3. If I have to wait a little, I'm OK with this. Have you checked to make sure that you have your video card properly recognized and configured, and that your expectations are in line with the computer you are running MDK on? If you continue to feel that you are not running correctly, pass more information on to the listserv. Lots of brains and tons of experience, here. :-) T Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 10:01 PM Subject: [newbie] about DMA Mdk Linux Greetings, I would like to know if I should enable DMA for my hd and cdrom. I have a dual-boot system, Mdk 9.0 WinME. In ME I have DMA enabled for both cdrom drive and hd, and it seems to be working great. Does that mean that DMA will be a good idea under Mdk?? Will it give me an appreciable increase in performance? My system is working great now, but I use KDE and I find it just a bit sluggish. Perhaps this is normal from what I am reading about KDE. I use Mdk about 99% of the time. I know there has been some discussion on the list lately about DMA, and I wonder just how much difference it really makes? TIA's for any feedback. --Angus *** Thanks T for the great answer. I don't want to make it sound like I'm not happy with my Mdk 9.0..it rocks! It seems a tad slower than what I am used to
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne Anne, look - for all intents and purposes, you're swimming upstream here. Manufacturers don't care about US - they care about money. They care about marketing. In the end, lost sales do count. Mine alone will do nothing, but the more often we can tell them that we have gone to a competitor who does better and the sooner they will take notice. You would THINK that they would spend the same time in developing drivers for their hardware for OTHER operating systems - but in reality - just take a good look around that what DOESN'T work for Macs! And they're the OTHER PART of the desktop arena... None of the manufacturers are going to bust a move to do anything for linux overall until the world's public stands up and demands the quality, service and support. On the other hand, if a group of geeks/nerds get cluey enough, they might develope their own driver set - as has happened with many other pieces of equipment...and better at that! Agreed - but for those of us that don't have those skills perhaps the most useful thing we can do is make them aware of the demand, and if we can also make them aware of the fact that a competitor has done something it will all help. I think it's time to start a 'needling' party. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tulip driver installation help?
Marcia The tulip driver supplied with Mandrake 9.0 is already version 0.9.14 (released Feb20 2001) You can see this if you take a look at /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl It may simply be that the system does not realise that your card needs the tulip driver. Just try typing in a root terminal modprobe tulip and see what happens. derek On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:12 am, Marcia wrote: Hello All, My ethernet card was not detected or configured in LM 9 and I am having a time getting it going. This is a Compaq Presario 1700T with the compaq (conexant) 10/100 nic and I am using the Toshiba cable modem with the usb hookup. This worked without any configuration on my part in 8.2 but for some reason LM 9 is not figuring this out yet. I downloaded tulip 0.9.14 since I thought that might work better, but I have no idea how to install. I am a newbie with these things so I really do not understand the directions. This seems to require altering the Makefile which I do not know the first thing about. Here are the directions: The Linux tulip driver To build the driver cd src vi Makefile. #put your kernel settings here make To build the diagnostics program: cd diag make I understand that you are supposed to open the Makefile in the vi editor and then #put your kernel settings here? This part I do not understand. What kernel settings and where exactly in the Makefile do they go? I will happily send the full contents of the Makefile if someone is willing to show me exactly what to do with it. Thanks for any help with this. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 23:45, Anne Wilson wrote: In the end, lost sales do count. Mine alone will do nothing, but the more often we can tell them that we have gone to a competitor who does better and the sooner they will take notice. This is true - and has held true for quite a number of years - but do you really think that some executive upper-management marketing dickhead that spends his days selling or playing golf is going to truly give a sideways crap about US? Nah...they're in it for the money, not to make people happy (except for themselves)...it's really too bad, but this is the type of market that has developed. For the once bitch and moan they get, they sell a million widgets of their product - whether or not it works - it's the sales that matter. Sad, but true. Agreed - but for those of us that don't have those skills perhaps the most useful thing we can do is make them aware of the demand, and if we can also make them aware of the fact that a competitor has done something it will all help. I think it's time to start a 'needling' party. Anne Well, most of us don't really need the skills, but learning a FEW skills is what the marketers DON'T want - they WANT to keep the public STUPID and IGNORANT about PRODUCT. That's how they sell. Why do you think that Norton/Symantec makes the sales they do? They DEPEND on the public being dumb enough to purchase $150 software packages because the end-user doesn't know enough about maintaining their own computer. They don't like the public to be smart or savvy. That's the clincher. And mind you, the public IS getting a bit more savvy about what they're buying, what they're using and what's on the market...within the next two years, you will see a major change in the way products are marketed and manufactured...but we can only wait and see (and I've been waiting for more than 10 years!) -- Wed Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -- B. Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuring Hauppage Bt846KPF in MDK 9.0
Someone posted to this listserv that they were using a Hauppage video capture card in Linux. I can't seem to find that posting so...I am asking for help from anyone, especially anyone using this card to capture analog video from a VHS-C camcorder... I have an older version (Bt848KPF) Hauppage video capture card in MDK 9.0. The card shows up in Hardware as a TVCard in MCC, and seems to be configured properly. I just can't figure out how to get any use out of it. XawTV will not even run. It hangs as it tries to load and then quits. I have tried as root and user. I have also tried a couple of other programs, but still no joy. I have used this card before in a Windows environment and already have experience in video capturing from my camcorder. It originally came with my U.S. Robotics BipPicture Webcam. I think that my inexperience with Linux is killing me here. :-( Any suggestions welcome! TIA T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Rendering spreadsheet cells
* Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02 13:38]: Is there a way in OpenOffice Calc to convert a cell from a formula (=A5*1.15) to a string (2.30)? To, in effect, render it? If A5 contains 2, and B5 contains =TEXT(A5*1.15;0.00) then B5 will show the string 2.30. If you copy this to the clipboard, and then use Paste Special to paste only strings wherever you want it. Is this what you meant? If you don't really want a string but a numeric value (instead of a formula) you can copy the formula you gave and Paste Special as numbers. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
Aaron wrote: my 2 cents the pro audio field is a good example of a group of people making drivers (ALSA) and apps that are beginning to make waves. I ended up giving my pro audio card away because the manufacturer wouldn't even help others make drivers. And this is something that only adds sales for their boards. The bottom line seems to be that we need to look before we leap and check that linux drivers exist before buying, sigh. I heard a rumor that some pro audio companies have prototypes of linux versions of their software ready for roll out if their competition releases a verion. As someone whose Lexmark printer has just run out of ink (and it's only about £30 more to get a decent new printer than replace the cartridges) I've been thinking about this. Realistically, the choice for a cheap inkjet running under Linux is between HP and Epson; Canon drivers are poor and Lexmark terrible or nonexistent. If Linux has 5 per cent of market share in OSs, I'd say that each of those manufacturers has less than 1 per cent Linux customers. Evidently HP (in particular) thinks that providing workable drivers for that fraction of users is worthwhile, but Lexmark (in particular) doesn't. I don't know, and will probably never know, the corporate motivations for these stances, but that they are so different is interesting. Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] typist
Kesav Tadimeti wrote: HI all, I had installed an RPM called typist using package manager. Now when I run this program from bash I get an error that typist is not a recognized program. However, apropos typist shows that typist has been installed. 99% of the time the name of an executable package will be the name of the command to run it, but you may have hit the exception. Check that your RPM is installed correctly and what files are in with rpm -ql typist The command you want is probably in a directory like /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin /usr/share/bin etc. Sir Robin -- A free man ought not to learn anything under duress. Compulsory physical exercise does no harm to the body, but compulsory learning never sticks in the mind. - Plato Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University 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] flash in Konqueror
On Monday November 11 2002 08:47 pm, Jose wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 02:29 am, Noah Hicks wrote: how does one install and enable the flash plugin for Konqueror? It was very easy to do in Mozilla but I prefer to use Konqueror. Hopefully someone will answer that question. I have been using Phoenix which is Mozilla Lite, but would love to go back to Konqueror. Here's how I do it. I don't use the .netscape dir. d/l and extract the flash files, libflashplayer.so* andShockwaveFlash.class to /home/user/.mozilla/plugins. You may need to create a plugins dir if it doesn't exist. If you have flash in Mozilla, you've already done something like this. So. In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan for plugins at KDE startup unchecked. Done, go to Google and search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. If y'all have already installed the flash files in ../.netscape/plugins, omit my edit above, leave the line reading $HOME/.netscape/plugins on top, then do the rest. I don't know why Mandrake still configures to use the .netscape dir, since NutScrape (thankfully) has been gone for a long time now. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
Have to agree on the printer choices. I bought into an article i read about 3 years ago on the Lexmark 3200 being a great value for a "high quality" ink jet printer. So they were on sale at best buy and I bought 2 of them. One for us and one for my roommate's daughter. They are total pieces of crap. Main issues: -Photo quality resolution sucks (puts horizontal lines through the image--even when properly calibrated). -Ink-- Cartridges are expensive (as Alistair already stated) and long-term, if you don't use the ink, it will dry up. I have a laser printer so I only use a color printer for photos. I found that in as little as a couple of months time, the ink will dry up and the cartridges are useless. Earlier this year, we bought an HP Photosmart printer and it's fabulous. The photo quality is excellent, and the ink cartridges/pots last a long time and don't dry up on you-- they are expensive, but I haven't had to replace one yet. So as far as printers go, DON'T GET A LEXMARK! You might spend a little more on an HP, but the overall cost over time will be cheaper. My lexmark printers are collecting dust right now. I won't even sell them because I don't want to have to support them to whomever I sell them to. Todd Alastair Scott wrote: Aaron wrote: my 2 cents the pro audio field is a good example of a group of people making drivers (ALSA) and apps that are beginning to make waves. I ended up giving my pro audio card away because the manufacturer wouldn't even help others make drivers. And this is something that only adds sales for their boards. The bottom line seems to be that we need to look before we leap and check that linux drivers exist before buying, sigh. I heard a rumor that some pro audio companies have prototypes of linux versions of their software ready for roll out if their competition releases a verion. As someone whose Lexmark printer has just run out of ink (and it's only about £30 more to get a decent new printer than replace the cartridges) I've been thinking about this. Realistically, the choice for a cheap inkjet running under Linux is between HP and Epson; Canon drivers are poor and Lexmark terrible or nonexistent. If Linux has 5 per cent of market share in OSs, I'd say that each of those manufacturers has less than 1 per cent Linux customers. Evidently HP (in particular) thinks that providing workable drivers for that fraction of users is worthwhile, but Lexmark (in particular) doesn't. I don't know, and will probably never know, the corporate motivations for these stances, but that they are so different is interesting. Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:45:44PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne Anne, look - for all intents and purposes, you're swimming upstream here. Manufacturers don't care about US - they care about money. They care about marketing. In the end, lost sales do count. Mine alone will do nothing, but the more often we can tell them that we have gone to a competitor who does better and the sooner they will take notice. Exactly. I checked out an offer from Gateway for a $399 computer. I went into a Gateway support chat session and asked if I could get a Gateway computer without an operating system. The support person said that no, Gateway can't sell a computer without an OS, they have an agreement with MS. Thank you very much, I said. On exiting the chat, I was prompted to fill out a survey on the experience. Under additional comments, I asked, I wonder how many more computers Gateway could sell if it didn't force customers to pay the Microsoft tax? I'm sure Gateway has a beancounter that has figured out that they will make more money bending over for MS than they will selling OS-less systems. But I'm just as sure that as soon as the numbers change, so will the policy. Or, when the demand for OS-less computers is sufficient, Gateway will dump its agreement with MS. It felt good to say it, though :) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Funny Mouse in MDK 9.0
Just wanted to let you know that I JUST got your post, and wasn't ignoring you. You must have already noticed that I resolved my problem by adding an Option line to my XF86Config file, increasing the resolution so the mouse wouldn't skip or stall. However, for whatever it's worth, I did try changing my choice of driver to see if another worked better. When I did, the mouse generally locked up or went really wild on me. Hey! It was worth the try! Thanks, Stephen T :-) - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Funny Mouse in MDK 9.0 On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 03:29, Technoslick wrote: I just starting using an optical mouse from Labtec on my dual-boot machine. It works as expected under Win XP without drivers, but under MDK 9.0, I notice a hesitancy for the cursor to move with the mouse as it is first moved into action. As a matter of fact, you can actually move the mouse very, very slowly for a little distance before the cursor starts to move. Quick movements, or moving continuously after the cursor catches up and then works just as expected. The scroll wheel works well, too. I am using the Generic Scroll Wheel PS/2 Mouse driver offered in mousedrake at the console. Labtec makes no mention of Linux on its Web site. Other than this hesitancy to take off, it works fine. Anyone using one of these, or any other PS/2 Scroll Mouse, and experiencing the same? Corrections or fixes? TIA T What about changing the mouse driver to something completely different then changing it back to the PS/2 type? Or trying the MS mouse? -- Tue Nov 12 10:20:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Someone is unenthusiastic about your work. 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] KDE KMail 1.4.3: Unknown Host Error Message---R E P L Y 0 4
SNIP I take it, this computer only has a dial up interface? There is no networking to other computers? An external MODEM only is used to access an ISP. There is just the one PC and there is not a network interface card installed. The system file resolv.conf was edited to # search localdomain search localdomain nameserver 194.168.4.100 nameserver 194.168.8.100 # ppp temp entry but the PC was not rebooted. In KMail, File, Send Queued, the following error message appeared: Sending failed: Could not connect to host 62.253.162.40. In KMail, File, Check Mail, the following error message appeared: Could not connect to host 62.253.162.50. Hmm seems like it is not seeing the Internet connection at all. I do not use dial up myself, so I do not have much experience with it. You are dialling using kppp I understand. Have you tried dialling with the 'Connect' button in Mandrake Control CentreNetworkInternetConnection. The Internet dial-up tool KPPP was used to connect (via Mandrake Control Centre, Network Internet, Connection) to the internet and produced the following error message: Timeout expired while waiting for the PPP interface to come up. In Networking, Remote access, KPP (Internet Dial-up Tool) the Login Script Debug Window displayed: ATZ OK ATM0L0 OK ATDT126308005190100 CONNECT 3/ARQ. In Networking, Remote access, KPPP (Internet Dial-up Tool) the KPPP PPP log produced: pppd 2.4.1 started by danielpwheeler, uid 0 using channel 2 Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/tts/0 sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xe5c792d7 pccomp accomp] sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xe5c792d7 pccomp accomp] Terminating on signal 15. sent [LCP TermReq id-0x2 User request] sent [LCP TermReq id-0x3 User request] Connection terminated Exit. Daniel Also do you have the 'Internet' Service running in Mandrake ControlCentreSystemServices In Mandrake Control Centre, System, Services the status of Internet service is running. Daniel (Not sure if it is needed for dial up, but it certainly is for LAN connection) Off Topic - Have you checked out the 128kbps Broadband service from NTL. No I hadn't checked the 128 kbps broadband service recently. I have now. Unfortunately at present I can't afford the service. However, thank you for letting me know of the cheaper price for the service. Daniel It is only about £15 a month, and is masses better than their rubbishy dial up service. I use the 512k service at £24/month, and it is great. (Just so long as you never need to contact NTLs terrible technical support service) I once contacted ntlworld's technical support. Three minutes were spent by a member of staff trying to confirm my details after which time I was told that support wasn't given for my query. Daniel derek --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.410 / Virus Database: 231 - Release Date: 31/10/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.417 / Virus Database: 233 - Release Date: 08/11/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
The point is that it SHOULDN'T be legal for M$ to have them sign agreements like that... in fact, it should be punishably illegal. thats like telling GM that all your cars must have firestone tyres if you ever plan on having firestone on any of them.. Its ridiculous and only in the IT industry could it happen. rgd Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2002 11:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved! On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:45:44PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne Anne, look - for all intents and purposes, you're swimming upstream here. Manufacturers don't care about US - they care about money. They care about marketing. In the end, lost sales do count. Mine alone will do nothing, but the more often we can tell them that we have gone to a competitor who does better and the sooner they will take notice. Exactly. I checked out an offer from Gateway for a $399 computer. I went into a Gateway support chat session and asked if I could get a Gateway computer without an operating system. The support person said that no, Gateway can't sell a computer without an OS, they have an agreement with MS. Thank you very much, I said. On exiting the chat, I was prompted to fill out a survey on the experience. Under additional comments, I asked, I wonder how many more computers Gateway could sell if it didn't force customers to pay the Microsoft tax? I'm sure Gateway has a beancounter that has figured out that they will make more money bending over for MS than they will selling OS-less systems. But I'm just as sure that as soon as the numbers change, so will the policy. Or, when the demand for OS-less computers is sufficient, Gateway will dump its agreement with MS. It felt good to say it, though :) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
Todd wrote: Have to agree on the printer choices. I bought into an article i read about 3 years ago on the Lexmark 3200 being a great value for a high quality ink jet printer. So they were on sale at best buy and I bought 2 of them. One for us and one for my roommate's daughter. They are total pieces of crap. Main issues: -Photo quality resolution sucks (puts horizontal lines through the image--even when properly calibrated). -Ink-- Cartridges are expensive (as Alistair already stated) and long-term, if you don't use the ink, it will dry up. I have a laser printer so I only use a color printer for photos. I found that in as little as a couple of months time, the ink will dry up and the cartridges are useless. Under Windows I could print reasonably well. Under Linux I could only ever get 2 of the 3 colours to print. (Not that I used colour much - the thing was mainly used for churning out letters - but it was still annoying). Earlier this year, we bought an HP Photosmart printer and it's fabulous. The photo quality is excellent, and the ink cartridges/pots last a long time and don't dry up on you-- they are expensive, but I haven't had to replace one yet. So as far as printers go, DON'T GET A LEXMARK! You might spend a little more on an HP, but the overall cost over time will be cheaper. My lexmark printers are collecting dust right now. I won't even sell them because I don't want to have to support them to whomever I sell them to. Indeed; my Lexmark went straight in the wheelie bin once the cartridges died! The problem is when people switch from Windows to Linux (or MacOS, or any other OS) and bring with them all sorts of hardware which has assumed Windows but hadn't made that assumption clear. Then they try to use the hardware outside Windows and it doesn't work ... Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] virtual console dropping characters
Here's a weird bug for you. I just installed mandrake on my computer last night. I was able to log in to both xwindows and the virtual consoles. I logged into a virtual console, switched to xwindows, and then later back to the vc. When i switched back, every 'y' in the screen was blank--just an empty space. This was the case no matter where in the filesystem I was viewing. In the command prompt (Now my name is br ant ;), in any output. Now, this wasn't causing data loss or crashes or anything. When I opened a terminal window in kde it was normal. Just wondering if anybody else has ever seen something like this. Kind of weird. I want to know y. Thanks, Bryant _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 03:45 am, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne snip In interactions between human beings and corporate non-entities it's always to be preferred that the non-entities' blood pressure is the value that exceeds tolerance levels. ;-) I like your answer but I think we as a group would be better served if; when a member of our family receives 'answers' such as this, we each and severally answer their arrogance/idiocy with the same answer as the aggrieved party. Eg.; my discourse with AMD over their oral fixation with Microsoft's nether regions. They only answered once, but they did answer. Sort of. If anyone wants a copy of the response tell me. To quote Heinlein: Don't let the bastards grind you down. (I'd use the Latin phrase he did, but my Latin sucks. : ), and; Some people just have feet made for stepping on; step on them until _they_ apologize. That answer they sent you is grievously stupid and offensive Anne; and an obviously nice person such as you shouldn't have to deal with, or be forced to respond in such a manner, to such a mental midget as the drone that sent it. Nor should anyone else for all that. As a human being I am sometimes amazed and ashamed that this sort of thing occurs. Or that it's become so common as to be considered normal. My condolences. Most of what's wrong with the world today seems to be due to the lack of politeness. Is that a word? It should be. I'll stop babbling now, sorry. I'm also sorry that you had to be treated in such fashion by a corporate idiot. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org If Microsoft built cars, you would have to press the Start button to turn them off. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:28 pm, you wrote: The problem is when people switch from Windows to Linux (or MacOS, or any other OS) and bring with them all sorts of hardware which has assumed Windows but hadn't made that assumption clear. Then they try to use the hardware outside Windows and it doesn't work ... Indeed - my first attempt at switching to Linux failed because I had just bought a DeskJet 720 and couldn't afford to ditch it. It seems that this was practically the only win-only printer the HP made, and it scuppered me. This time, once I had made the decision, I checked compatibility before I bought. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 8:30 am, you wrote: Here's a number 18,000,000. That's only the machines registered on The Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org/ Here's how we can make a difference. Marketing people don't ignore numbers that big. And if all of us have all our machines registered on The Linux Counter. We can make that number bigger. You know - I've often seen those 'registered user' numbers, and never twigged what they were about. OK - it's +1 now. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
Well I applied the method you described and no joy. Going to the URL: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ Gives me the message: Unable to load Netscape plugin for www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/' I get this message in the Macromedia Flash Player box under the macromedia player. Since this works in Mozzila I assumed it would work in Konqueror using the method you gave. Any ideas? Could this be because I'm using 9.0 Beta 4? Thanks -Noah On Tuesday 12 November 2002 05:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:47, Jose wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 02:29 am, Noah Hicks wrote: how does one install and enable the flash plugin for Konqueror? It was very easy to do in Mozilla but I prefer to use Konqueror. Hopefully someone will answer that question. I have been using Phoenix which is Mozilla Lite, but would love to go back to Konqueror. -- Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Mandrake, Redhat and SuSE user Children - the most commonly transmitted sexual disease Didn't we already cover this issue yesterday - or early this morning? Open up KONQUEROR, choose SETTINGS, then CONFIGURE KONQUEROR, then scroll down the left side to the BOTTOM where you find NETSCAPE PLUGINS, click that icon, then in the right side, you get an option to SCAN FOR NEW PLUGINS (and also check the little box that says to scan at start of Konqueror) - and VOILA! You should be happening! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into wget. It goes to download, says it has finished and nothing is saved? Am I being stupid or what? Thanks for any help, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Flash player
Dear Friends, Where can I download the flash player for Mandrake 9.0 Thx, Ongkie _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 11:56 am, Charlie wrote: snip To quote Heinlein: Don't let the bastards grind you down. (I'd use the Latin phrase he did, but my Latin sucks. : ) snip Charlie: IIRC, it goes, Illegitimae non carborundum. I doubt that it's real Latin; carborundum is GE's trade name for their artificial diamonds -- widely used for grinding wheels and cutting tools. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
You should look into getting one of those walmart Microtel machines if you want something cheap. What gets me is that alot of the reviewers bash them because they're slow. HELLO!?! Look at the price! Of course they're not going to have the speed and performance of a 2GHz + computer. But if you want a plain old workstation for cheap... not to mention a free OS, they can't be beat. More importantly, Walmart has snubbed their nose at Microsoft. Why? Because Walmart is one of the few companies that can't be bought by Microsoft. First, they don't rely on PC sales to keep them in business. Second, they are BIGGER than Microsoft. If Microsoft threatened to pull their licenses because Walmart is selling PC's with alternative or no OS on them, then Walmart can afford to give them the finger. What I like best about it though, is if Walmart is selling PC's with Linux on them, then you know some slack-jawed yokel in Po-dunk, Arkansas is using Linux right now! And probably doesn't even know the difference! That's how the war will be won in the end I think. ;-) Todd F. Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:45:44PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne Anne, look - for all intents and purposes, you're swimming upstream here. Manufacturers don't care about US - they care about money. They care about marketing. In the end, lost sales do count. Mine alone will do nothing, but the more often we can tell them that we have gone to a competitor who does better and the sooner they will take notice. Exactly. I checked out an offer from Gateway for a $399 computer. I went into a Gateway support chat session and asked if I could get a Gateway computer without an operating system. The support person said that no, Gateway can't sell a computer without an OS, they have an agreement with MS. Thank you very much, I said. On exiting the chat, I was prompted to fill out a survey on the experience. Under additional comments, I asked, "I wonder how many more computers Gateway could sell if it didn't force customers to pay the Microsoft tax?" I'm sure Gateway has a beancounter that has figured out that they will make more money bending over for MS than they will selling OS-less systems. But I'm just as sure that as soon as the numbers change, so will the policy. Or, when the demand for OS-less computers is sufficient, Gateway will dump its agreement with MS. It felt good to say it, though :) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:28 pm, you wrote: The problem is when people switch from Windows to Linux (or MacOS, or any other OS) and bring with them all sorts of hardware which has assumed Windows but hadn't made that assumption clear. Then they try to use the hardware outside Windows and it doesn't work ... Indeed - my first attempt at switching to Linux failed because I had just bought a DeskJet 720 and couldn't afford to ditch it. It seems that this was practically the only win-only printer the HP made, and it scuppered me. This time, once I had made the decision, I checked compatibility before I bought. Anne I have a Deskjet720, and it works sort of OK in Linux. Text is fine, but photos are pretty bad. But then again I booted into Windows for the first time in a month last week specifically to print a photo, and the print was terrible there too. To be fair to HP, they have seen the error of their ways, and no longer make win-printers. What is more they actively fund the development of opensource drivers for their products. When the ink runs out in my deskjet, the next printer will almost certainly be an HP. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 3:11 pm, you wrote: In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan for plugins at KDE startup unchecked. Done, go to Google and search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF THE FLASH PLAYER INSTALLED This site requires the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in. This is a free plug-in which allows you to view animated content on the web. The download is quick and it is easy to install. Click here to download the Flash 6 plug-in. When I did it offered my v.5, which is installed! The others work OK though, so no worries. I'm still wondering why I can't see any of the tabs or buttons on Amazon's site in Mozilla but they're fine in Galleon. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 5:43 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:28 pm, you wrote: The problem is when people switch from Windows to Linux (or MacOS, or any other OS) and bring with them all sorts of hardware which has assumed Windows but hadn't made that assumption clear. Then they try to use the hardware outside Windows and it doesn't work ... Indeed - my first attempt at switching to Linux failed because I had just bought a DeskJet 720 and couldn't afford to ditch it. It seems that this was practically the only win-only printer the HP made, and it scuppered me. This time, once I had made the decision, I checked compatibility before I bought. Anne I have a Deskjet720, and it works sort of OK in Linux. Things have moved on a good deal since RH 5.0! Text is fine, but photos are pretty bad. But then again I booted into Windows for the first time in a month last week specifically to print a photo, and the print was terrible there too. Mine was great in windows, so I was sorry to see it go. To be fair to HP, they have seen the error of their ways, and no longer make win-printers. What is more they actively fund the development of opensource drivers for their products. When the ink runs out in my deskjet, the next printer will almost certainly be an HP. I got a DJ990Cxi and love it. Under Mdk 8.1 it wouldn't duplex, but it does under 8.2. Fingers crossed that it's OK when I install 9 (tomorrow all being well). Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compiling KDE apps
Thanks, I'll try that. How do I upgrade autoconf and automake with urpmi? It says already installed, which it is I know :) But, how do I upgrade? Thanks, Jord On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 10:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. I have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the ./configure saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from texstar and have both packages installed. So why can't the includes be found? TIA, Jord I had to edit my /etc/ld.so.conf file to include /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, then run ldconfig to rebuild the cache - as well, I had to edit the system profile (/etc/profile) to have KDEDIR=/usr and in the export section export KDEDIR before applications started to compile properly...I also had to upgrade my automake to automake-1.5 and autoconf to autoconf-2.54. I'm still trying to work through some compilation issues as well, but mostly, that works... 11 10 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! If it was easy, the hardware people ! ! would take care of it. ! !! -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Powerpack
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:06:55 -0800 Ralph F. De Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got my DVD today. Me too. Oh wait, no, I'm thinking about Attack of the Clones :-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
On Tuesday November 12 2002 11:45 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 3:11 pm, you wrote: In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan for plugins at KDE startup unchecked. Done, go to Google and search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF THE FLASH PLAYER INSTALLED This site requires the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in. This is a free plug-in which allows you to view animated content on the web. The download is quick and it is easy to install. Click here to download the Flash 6 plug-in. When I did it offered my v.5, which is installed! The others work OK though, so no worries. I'm still wondering why I can't see any of the tabs or buttons on Amazon's site in Mozilla but they're fine in Galleon. Anne Well, I always forget somethin ;) I also am usin Flash 5.0r51, but have yet to come across a site where it didn't work. For flash6 try here for some info (I haven't bothered with 6 yet). http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3760 How 'bout a URL for the flash page that didn't work ? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday November 12 2002 11:43 am, Derek Jennings wrote: To be fair to HP, they have seen the error of their ways, and no longer make win-printers. What is more they actively fund the development of opensource drivers for their products. When the ink runs out in my deskjet, the next printer will almost certainly be an HP. derek OTOH, for HP to be fair to users, even Windoze ones, they should be forthcomming and make it clear to purchasers that win-hardware is substandard, corner-cutting, fake junk. Not just printers any win-fake-hardware, any vendor. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 5:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 3:11 pm, you wrote: In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan for plugins at KDE startup unchecked. Done, go to Google and search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF THE FLASH PLAYER INSTALLED This site requires the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in. This is a free plug-in which allows you to view animated content on the web. The download is quick and it is easy to install. Click here to download the Flash 6 plug-in. When I did it offered my v.5, which is installed! The others work OK though, so no worries. I'm still wondering why I can't see any of the tabs or buttons on Amazon's site in Mozilla but they're fine in Galleon. Anne Flash 6 is available for Linux as a beta see here http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3760 Alternatively Flash6 for Windows works just great with Codeweavers Crossover plugin derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:32:37PM +, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into wget. It goes to download, says it has finished and nothing is saved? Am I being stupid or what? Thanks for any help, Cheers, Jord The movies are probably referenced in such a way that you cannot download and save them to your HD. They may use a poster movie, which is just one frame of the movie (or any other graphic), then use href tracks and other techniques to prevent people from saving the content. What did the HTML source say? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash player
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:33:28PM +, Ongkie Singgih wrote: Dear Friends, Where can I download the flash player for Mandrake 9.0 Thx, Ongkie http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
This is an example. How else could I download these files? I know of the crossover plugin, but I really would like a pay free laternative. Also, I want to watch the movs offline. Jord OBJECT CLASSID=clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=236 CODEBASE=http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0; PARAM name=AUTOPLAY VALUE=true PARAM name=CONTROLLER VALUE=FALSE PARAM name=pluginspage VALUE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html; PARAM name=target VALUE=myself PARAM name=type VALUE=video/quicktime PARAM name=SRC VALUE=http://a1904.g.akamai.net/7/1904/51/1fdc853301b336/www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/star_trek_nemesis/images/interstitial_lrg.mov; PARAM name=HREF VALUE=http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/9f4f764750c78f/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e81787e85abb28970c7aee1d900465d736aa1c81ec4bb91e8bf063cc3f/stn-2_l400.mov; embed width=400 height=236 src=http://a1904.g.akamai.net/7/1904/51/1fdc853301b336/www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/star_trek_nemesis/images/interstitial_lrg.mov; HREF=http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/9f4f764750c78f/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e81787e85abb28970c7aee1d900465d736aa1c81ec4bb91e8bf063cc3f/stn-2_l400.mov; AUTOPLAY=TRUE controller=FALSE border=0 CACHE=FALSE pluginspage=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html; target=myself/OBJECT On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:03 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:32:37PM +, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into wget. It goes to download, says it has finished and nothing is saved? Am I being stupid or what? Thanks for any help, Cheers, Jord The movies are probably referenced in such a way that you cannot download and save them to your HD. They may use a poster movie, which is just one frame of the movie (or any other graphic), then use href tracks and other techniques to prevent people from saving the content. What did the HTML source say? Todd -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. --- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 6:24 pm, you wrote: search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF THE FLASH PLAYER INSTALLED This site requires the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in. This is a free plug-in which allows you to view animated content on the web. The download is quick and it is easy to install. Click here to download the Flash 6 plug-in. When I did it offered my v.5, which is installed! The others work OK though, so no worries. I'm still wondering why I can't see any of the tabs or buttons on Amazon's site in Mozilla but they're fine in Galleon. Anne Well, I always forget somethin ;) I also am usin Flash 5.0r51, but have yet to come across a site where it didn't work. For flash6 try here for some info (I haven't bothered with 6 yet). http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3760 How 'bout a URL for the flash page that didn't work ? http://www.ronniewood.com/upgrade.html Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sylpheed-Claws spell checking
Someone told me Sylpheed Claws wouldn't perform spell checking without aspell 0.5. Well, I've got that now, but I still don't see any option for spell checking in Claws. What should I do? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:00:30AM +0800, Franki wrote: The point is that it SHOULDN'T be legal for M$ to have them sign agreements like that... True, but that's a battle I'm unable to fight. The only possible way I can fight that is by voting for a President that won't appoint a bunch of whores to the U.S. Department of Justice--unlikely in the current climate. (I *did* vote in the last presidential election.) That's why I think it's important to let businesses know that they are losing sales due to their agreement with MS, that's the only language they understand: the almighty dollar. Todd in fact, it should be punishably illegal. thats like telling GM that all your cars must have firestone tyres if you ever plan on having firestone on any of them.. Its ridiculous and only in the IT industry could it happen. rgd Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2002 11:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved! On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:45:44PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:45, Anne Wilson wrote: at the predictable response from hardware manufacturers. I don't usually snap at people like this, but... Quote OK - I'll buy a Hauppage card that does. Anne Anne, look - for all intents and purposes, you're swimming upstream here. Manufacturers don't care about US - they care about money. They care about marketing. In the end, lost sales do count. Mine alone will do nothing, but the more often we can tell them that we have gone to a competitor who does better and the sooner they will take notice. Exactly. I checked out an offer from Gateway for a $399 computer. I went into a Gateway support chat session and asked if I could get a Gateway computer without an operating system. The support person said that no, Gateway can't sell a computer without an OS, they have an agreement with MS. Thank you very much, I said. On exiting the chat, I was prompted to fill out a survey on the experience. Under additional comments, I asked, I wonder how many more computers Gateway could sell if it didn't force customers to pay the Microsoft tax? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
Well I'm not having a problem with the flash version. The problem for me seems to be that Konqueror is not using the plugin. I am pretty sure I did what I was supposed to: untared the files, put them in ~/.mozilla/plugins, put that dir in the Konq settings, scanned for new pugins, and still no joy. What's up? Does it matter where I put the files? As long as I tell Konqueror where to scan it should pick up the libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class file shouldn't it work? As far as I can tell Konqueror can't read any part of a website that has a *.swf. Thanks for pointers -Noah On Tuesday 12 November 2002 11:55, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 5:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 3:11 pm, you wrote: In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan for plugins at KDE startup unchecked. Done, go to Google and search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF THE FLASH PLAYER INSTALLED This site requires the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in. This is a free plug-in which allows you to view animated content on the web. The download is quick and it is easy to install. Click here to download the Flash 6 plug-in. When I did it offered my v.5, which is installed! The others work OK though, so no worries. I'm still wondering why I can't see any of the tabs or buttons on Amazon's site in Mozilla but they're fine in Galleon. Anne Flash 6 is available for Linux as a beta see here http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3760 Alternatively Flash6 for Windows works just great with Codeweavers Crossover plugin derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Planning ahead
Lanman - When discussing my cleanup and redistribution of installs and data on my 3 hdds, you advised me to 'change the Mount Point' (of the 4 Gb drive) 'to something like /temp'. Just to put my mind at rest - I presume this is done during the install? I seem to remember that I was invited to name the partitions found during the install - am I right? I've backed up all the fat32 data (it hasn't had a thorough clean down for years so much is duplicated) and first thing in the morning I'll back up my Mdk 8.2 install, then it's crossed fingers and toes and go for it. I'll follow your advice, I think, putting Win98 and 8.2 on the first drive and Mdk 9.0 on the second. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash player
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:33:28PM +, Ongkie Singgih wrote: Dear Friends, Where can I download the flash player for Mandrake 9.0 Thx, Ongkie http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ T Please pardon my ignorance, but what does flashplayer do for you ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
I just installed Mandrake 9 over the weekend on my laptop. The installation went fine and had no problems. I was able to log into Mandrake and run programs. Now, I have an existing Windows XP Professional installation on the HD I wanted to keep, so I wanted to dual boot between them. I found an article on the Mandrake sitedescribing how to install Mandrake with an existing XP installation and dual boot. I followed the directions, created the 512Byte boot sector dump to a BIN file, and added the entry for this file in the BOOT.INI file. I was able to boot into Mandrake with the new BOOT.INI entry with no problem. I then wanted to make sure that I could also load into XP, since I that is where I have all of my data. All is working well. Well, this morning I wanted to boot into Mandrake by selecting the OS name in the list, and I get the following message: LILO - Keytable read/checksum error What does this mean? Does the effectively mean that I'm screwed? If so, then how should I have done the installation for dual boot? BTW, I did create a boot partition (7MB) for Linux. Also, I can boot off of my floppy disk I created during setup, and get access to my Linux install. Thanks, Chris Lynch Registered Linux Newbie (well, maybe not...) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:26 pm, you wrote: That's why I think it's important to let businesses know that they are losing sales due to their agreement with MS, that's the only language they understand: the almighty dollar. Perhaps we should also point them at the Linux counter, to see just how many sales they could be losing? The 'estimate' page has some interesting and thought-provoking statistics. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lilo problems on Dual boot system
Sorry for the dual post, but I didn't include the subject line. I just installed Mandrake 9 over the weekend on my laptop. The installation went fine and had no problems. I was able to log into Mandrake and run programs. Now, I have an existing Windows XP Professional installation on the HD I wanted to keep, so I wanted to dual boot between them. I found an article on the Mandrake sitedescribing how to install Mandrake with an existing XP installation and dual boot. I followed the directions, created the 512Byte boot sector dump to a BIN file, and added the entry for this file in the BOOT.INI file. I was able to boot into Mandrake with the new BOOT.INI entry with no problem. I then wanted to make sure that I could also load into XP, since I that is where I have all of my data. All is working well. Well, this morning I wanted to boot into Mandrake by selecting the OS name in the list, and I get the following message: LILO - Keytable read/checksum error What does this mean? Does the effectively mean that I'm screwed? If so, then how should I have done the installation for dual boot? BTW, I did create a boot partition (7MB) for Linux. Also, I can boot off of my floppy disk I created during setup, and get access to my Linux install. Thanks, Chris Lynch Registered Linux Newbie (well, maybe not...) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:26 pm, you wrote: Well I'm not having a problem with the flash version. The problem for me seems to be that Konqueror is not using the plugin. Sorry for hijacking your thread. You could be right - Mozilla and Galleon perform fine, but Konq freezes every time I try to load any of the test sites. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS Help
I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just fine as an lpr printer. (NOT CUPS). Tried this in CUPS and it will not work on the Mandrake 9.0 machine. Am I just ingnorant or do I need to be doing something else in CUPS?
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
On Tuesday November 12 2002 01:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Well, I always forget somethin ;) I also am usin Flash 5.0r51, but have yet to come across a site where it didn't work. For flash6 try here for some info (I haven't bothered with 6 yet). http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid =3760 How 'bout a URL for the flash page that didn't work ? http://www.ronniewood.com/upgrade.html Anne Yep, doesn't work. I've resisted Flash6 since I can't get my head around where it wants to install, and I have some contempt for tainting my system with their binary junk anyhow. Fortunately I only place their crap on my system to avoid gettin endless pop-up pages askin me if I want to d/l Flash. Same with Sun's java. (j2re-1.4.0_01-1mdk) FWIW, Flash can cause nasty crashes with KDE 3.1rc2 and still in rc3. I doubt it'll be solved with 3.1 final. As Civileme said, 'the more closed source proprietary secret stuff you inject into your first class Linux OS, the less you own it' (paraprhrase) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 6:24 pm, you wrote: search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF THE FLASH PLAYER INSTALLED This site requires the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in. This is a free plug-in which allows you to view animated content on the web. The download is quick and it is easy to install. Click here to download the Flash 6 plug-in. When I did it offered my v.5, which is installed! The others work OK though, so no worries. I'm still wondering why I can't see any of the tabs or buttons on Amazon's site in Mozilla but they're fine in Galleon. Anne Well, I always forget somethin ;) I also am usin Flash 5.0r51, but have yet to come across a site where it didn't work. For flash6 try here for some info (I haven't bothered with 6 yet). http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3760 How 'bout a URL for the flash page that didn't work ? http://www.ronniewood.com/upgrade.html Anne http://www.ronniewood.com Some sites just are not bothering to visit. That site is covered in microsoft javascript. Even with Flash 6 (Codeweavers crossover ) it does not work. Opera (Identified as IE5) - Fails to detect Flash 6 is loaded. If I press the button to 'Enter Anyway' a blank window pops up. Mozilla - Same, no detection of Flash6, blank window if I try to enter. Konqueror - Does not detect Flash6, but the javascript to enter the site does work and a window pops up saying 'URL not found' Internet Explorer 5 (Under Crossover Office) - Demands to download javascript updates. There ain't no way I am letting Microsoft put stuff on my computer so I gave up. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sylpheed vs Sylpheed Claws
Excuse a noninformed question, but as a Sylpheed user I am interested, what is the difference between Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws (I know I could look it up myself but I am to lazy right now LOL), is it that the Claws version is like a beta or a developer version? /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:20:28PM +, Jordan Elver wrote: This is an example. How else could I download these files? I know of the crossover plugin, but I really would like a pay free laternative. Also, I want to watch the movs offline. Jord You want the second link (the href= part of the embed). The problem is I can't download it directly, either. I can open it as a url in QuickTime (Windows) and even save it using QT Pro, but can do neither with the free player. It has cache set to false, so I don't think your browser's going to keep it in cache, either. I'd be interested in your solution, if you find one. Todd OBJECT CLASSID=clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=236 CODEBASE=http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0; PARAM name=AUTOPLAY VALUE=true PARAM name=CONTROLLER VALUE=FALSE PARAM name=pluginspage VALUE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html; PARAM name=target VALUE=myself PARAM name=type VALUE=video/quicktime PARAM name=SRC VALUE=http://a1904.g.akamai.net/7/1904/51/1fdc853301b336/www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/star_trek_nemesis/images/interstitial_lrg.mov; PARAM name=HREF VALUE=http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/9f4f764750c78f/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e81787e85abb28970c7aee1d900465d736aa1c81ec4bb91e8bf063cc3f/stn-2_l400.mov; embed width=400 height=236 src=http://a1904.g.akamai.net/7/1904/51/1fdc853301b336/www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/star_trek_nemesis/images/interstitial_lrg.mov; HREF=http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/9f4f764750c78f/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e81787e85abb28970c7aee1d900465d736aa1c81ec4bb91e8bf063cc3f/stn-2_l400.mov; AUTOPLAY=TRUE controller=FALSE border=0 CACHE=FALSE pluginspage=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html; target=myself/OBJECT Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed vs Sylpheed Claws
Yes, the latter. But's it's exceptionally stable. Miark On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:18:30 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse a noninformed question, but as a Sylpheed user I am interested, what is the difference between Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws (I know I could look it up myself but I am to lazy right now LOL), is it that the Claws version is like a beta or a developer version? /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
You can copy it out of your cache while it's still open in QuickTime. Miark On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:17:59 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want the second link (the href= part of the embed). The problem is I can't download it directly, either. I can open it as a url in QuickTime (Windows) and even save it using QT Pro, but can do neither with the free player. It has cache set to false, so I don't think your browser's going to keep it in cache, either. I'd be interested in your solution, if you find one. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash player
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:34:37PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: snip Please pardon my ignorance, but what does flashplayer do for you ? John It lets you see 90% more ads than the Internet surfer without the flashplayer. Oh, there is some good flash out there that does animation and some interactive stuff, but for the most part I could do without the obnoxious flash ads and splash pages (a really cool animation you might have to watch while trying to access a web page--hopefully you get a skip intro button). News sites like the NY Times usually have excellent use of flash to help demonstrate some point--a process, or a map etc. It's a new type of information graphic! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:25:03PM -0500, Miark wrote: You can copy it out of your cache while it's still open in QuickTime. Miark I've seen temporary Internet files in Winblows, but where do you find the cache on Linux (never had a reason to check it). Like for instance, Mozilla or Phoenix? Thanks, Todd On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:17:59 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want the second link (the href= part of the embed). The problem is I can't download it directly, either. I can open it as a url in QuickTime (Windows) and even save it using QT Pro, but can do neither with the free player. It has cache set to false, so I don't think your browser's going to keep it in cache, either. I'd be interested in your solution, if you find one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SV: [newbie] Sylpheed vs Sylpheed Claws
Yes, the latter. But's it's exceptionally stable. Thanks, then one should go and look for it :o) /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:47 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 11:56 am, Charlie wrote: snip To quote Heinlein: Don't let the bastards grind you down. (I'd use the Latin phrase he did, but my Latin sucks. : ) snip Charlie: IIRC, it goes, Illegitimae non carborundum. I doubt that it's real Latin; carborundum is GE's trade name for their artificial diamonds -- widely used for grinding wheels and cutting tools. -- cmg Thanks Carroll. You are correct I'm sure. If I wasn't being lazy I could grab Number of The Beast or one of the other books off the shelf and look, but I am, so I haven't. :-) Heinlein had a lot of aphorisms in his books; that one was a classic IMHO. The highest compliment ever paid me was; You're a diamond in the rough... Damned rough! :-) Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Well I looked at my watch and it said a quarter to five, The headline screamed that I was still alive, I couldn't understand it, I thought I died last night. I dreamed I'd been in a border town, In a little cantina that the boys had found, I was desperate to dance, just to dig the local sounds. When along came a senorita, She looked so good that I had to meet her, I was ready to approach her with my English charm, When her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm, And he said, grow some funk of your own, amigo, Grow some funk of your own. We no like to with the gringo fight, But there might be a death in Mexico tonite. ... Take my advice, take the next flight, And grow some funk, grow your funk at home. -- Elton John, Grow Some Funk of Your Own Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash player
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:34:37PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: snip Please pardon my ignorance, but what does flashplayer do for you ? John It lets you see 90% more ads than the Internet surfer without the flashplayer. Oh, there is some good flash out there that does animation and some interactive stuff, but for the most part I could do without the obnoxious flash ads and splash pages (a really cool animation you might have to watch while trying to access a web page--hopefully you get a skip intro button). News sites like the NY Times usually have excellent use of flash to help demonstrate some point--a process, or a map etc. It's a new type of information graphic! Todd Thanks todd , does this work with mozilla to. Also is there a connection between this and USB flash media card readers which I have been noticing recently as I'm looking for a USB smart ccard reader. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
