Re: [newbie-it] grip
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:55:29 +0100 masco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: come posso riaprire un programma che è stato configurato male,nel caso specifico è stato selezionato un cdrom insistente cdrom3 adesso il programma non si apre più è possibile rimettere tutto a posto grazie mario Non ho mi usato il programma in questione. Però, in generale, le tue configurazioni sono in un file o directory $HOME/.nome-programma. Prova a vedere se hai un .grip, aprilo con un editor qualunque e rimuovi il 3. Nel caso improbabile che fosse un file binario, cancellalo. Ripartirai come se non avessi mai usato il programma. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] copie raw
Il Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:33:20 +0100 francesco.melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: ciao... sapevo che qualcun altro ci sarebbe riuscito per poter masterizzare DAO il masterizzatore deve essere supportato da cdrdao oppure da cdrecord. gnome toaster di default utilizza il cdrecord per cambiare innanzitutto deve avere il cdrdao installato ( che trovi in rpm al solito modo) e poi selezionare la spunta su : preferenze/ recorder/ use alternative client se il tuo masterizzaotre e' supportato avrai una bella copia dao anche raw ... era questo che volevi sapere? ciao vete Intanto grazie per l'interesse, ma come faccio a sapere se il mio plextor 1610 è supportato? La prima domanda era relativa ad un accenno a una scelta da fare nelle preferenze di gnometoaster per utilizzare lusa (vado a memoria) al posto di cdrdao. ciao Gpaolo __ Per te Blu American Express è gratis! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://www.americanexpress.it/land_yahoo
[newbie-it] e questa l'avete letta?
da Kataweb: Open Source, segnali contrastanti dalla PA Roma, 13:22 Mentre Microsoft corre ai ripari contro lOpen Source e Linux è sempre più presente nei desktop di tutto il mondo una recente circolare del Ministero dellInterno prevede esplicitamente il solo utilizzo di piattaforme proprietarie. Si legge infatti nel documento: (...)a garanzia della sicurezza interna del comune, deve prevedere le seguenti risorse: un PC con un sistema operativo Microsoft Windows 2000 professional o Windows XP professional, processore Pentium 3 e 256 MB di Ram; un accesso ad Internet ed un browser che supporti Java script. (...) In questo modo sembra esclusa qualsiasi apertura, almeno per il momento, a sistemi operativi Open Source e proprio nei giorni in cui è stata istituita la Commissione che dovrebbe valutare l'utilizzo del 'codice aperto' nella Pubblica Amministrazione. Non è pensabile comunque che Microsoft abbia imposto il suo dazio alla nostra Amministrazione Pubblica. Molto probabilmente il supporto offerto da una grossa corporation è ancora un valore aggiunto indispensabile. no comment. __ Scarica il nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: con webcam, nuove faccine e tante altre novità. http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.messenger.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] Menù ( cartella home)
Scusate non ho seguito il thread dall'inizio, comunque se cercate un buon programma per configurare il menù, oltre all'ipotesi di di farselo da soli a manina che è utile solo se si ha una buona conoscenza o se si vogliono fare rifiniture, esiste kmenuedit che è molto buono. Piccolo consiglio: se l'icona da mettere già la conoscete non sceglietela in kmenuedit, altrimenti prima di darvi la possibililtà di scegliere vi ha rovistato le 14 milioni di icone esistenti, ma editate il file in .kde/share/applnk/etc.etc. e dopo Icon ci scrivete il percorso completo. Ciao, Germano Il 20:46, mercoledì 13 novembre 2002, francesco.melo hai scritto: Original Message Subject: Menù ( cartella home) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:41:08 +0100 From: francesco.melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] il tool menudrake e' secondo me il peggiore di tutta la distribuzione insieme a quell'incasinato che dovrebbe settarti un firewall ed invece mi accende il forno , apre le finestre del salone e purtroppo tenta di chiudere tutte le porte ... cmq io non sono quasi mai riuscito ad usare menudrake con soddisfazione. o spariscono icone e me ne ritrovo altre che non voglio e che non ci sono etc etc... cmq nella tua home hai una cartella nascosta che inizia come tante con un punto .kde al suo interno trovi altre cartelle ed anche i menù delle varie aplicazioni io spesso ho risolto cancellando da li altre volte aggiungendo a mano o spostando le applicazioni dove volevo io ... non vorrei dire una fesseria ma dovrebbe esistere anche un menu update-menus a volte funziona a volte no :) ah ...dienticavo i menù quelli che iniziano con mdk non quelli applink semplici ...trovi anche dove mettere le icone ciaooo vete
[newbie-it] firewall
Ciao a tutti, sto cercando di configurare al meglio le opzioni di sicurezza offerte da Linux (e mi scontro con la mia poca esperienza), per tentare di ottenere un sistema quanto più sicuro possibile... mi servirebbe, però, poter verificare il funzionamento delle impostazioni che sto dando: esistono siti che consentano di mettere alla prova il PC, o programmi in grado di verificare se qualcosa sia rimasto aperto e vulnerabile? Come sempre, grazie!! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] e questa l'avete letta?
Alle 12:18, giovedì 14 novembre 2002, giamgax ha scritto: Non mi stupisce tutto questo, siamo in Italia, non in Germania, Francia, Svezia ecc. ecc. dove la civiltà non è un optional da Kataweb: Open Source, segnali contrastanti dalla PA Roma, 13:22 Mentre Microsoft corre ai ripari contro lOpen Source e Linux è sempre più presente nei desktop di tutto il mondo una recente circolare del Ministero dellInterno prevede esplicitamente il solo utilizzo di piattaforme proprietarie. Si legge infatti nel documento: (...)a garanzia della sicurezza interna del comune, deve prevedere le seguenti risorse: un PC con un sistema operativo Microsoft Windows 2000 professional o Windows XP professional, processore Pentium 3 e 256 MB di Ram; un accesso ad Internet ed un browser che supporti Java script. (...) In questo modo sembra esclusa qualsiasi apertura, almeno per il momento, a sistemi operativi Open Source e proprio nei giorni in cui è stata istituita la Commissione che dovrebbe valutare l'utilizzo del 'codice aperto' nella Pubblica Amministrazione. Non è pensabile comunque che Microsoft abbia imposto il suo dazio alla nostra Amministrazione Pubblica. Molto probabilmente il supporto offerto da una grossa corporation è ancora un valore aggiunto indispensabile. no comment. __ Scarica il nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: con webcam, nuove faccine e tante altre novità. http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.messenger.yahoo.com/
[newbie-it] Che caldo!!
Cari ragazzi, Nel portatile che uso, 128M Ram, 18G Hard disk, partizione abbastanza canonica 9G win hda1, mdk 9.0 5G hda5 /, swap, 4G hda7 /home, quando sono sotto linux dopo pochi minuti il pc si surriscalda e comincia il lungo ed estenuante lavora della ventola. Cosa posso fare per evitare che il pc fonda del tutto!! Penso a Luglio/Agosto! Sono aperto a tutte le soluzioni, se serve pure formattare tutto da capo eliminando win!! Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] sendmail
Dunque, cominciamo dall'inizio. Sendmail non si può gestire tramite web. O meglio, via web esistono tool del calibro di webmin, che servono all'amministratore del server di posta, ma non certo ad un utente. Per quanto riguarda la programmazione di sendmail per spedirti la posta, devi compilare il file sendmail.cf indicandolgi che, il tuo server, deve fare il remailer. Ciao Il mer, 2002-11-13 alle 15:55, gigi pinna ha scritto:Ciao a tutta la lista! ho visto che in questi giorni si sta parlando parecchio di autenticazione by smtp. Vorrei sapere come sarebbe meglio configurare sendmail per spedirmi lui la mia posta e senza dover impazzire tutte le volte se decido di connettermi tramite un altro provider di continuo (causa minor costo...). In più volevo sapere che cosa dovrebbe cambiare se lo installo e lo uso in una lan con un firewall che non fa passare i pacchetti udp e penso anche tcp (non vorrei dire una vaccata ma in pratica posso usare solo web, ssh) Grazie! __ Ma quante ne sai? Mettiti alla prova con QuizShow!
Re: [newbie-it] rpmbin
Devi prima eseguirlo con ./rpm.bin Aspetta e ... stai a guardare. Il mer, 2002-11-13 alle 16:38, masco ha scritto: ciao a tutti,vorrei sapere come installare un pacchetto rpm.bin e precisamente il plugin java per mozilla potete aiutarmi mario
Re: [newbie-it] Slack
Alle 08:10, mercoledì 13 novembre 2002, Beppe ha scritto: 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. fino ad un paio di anni fa ti avrei dato ragione, slack aveva lo stesso kernel di mandrake o RH, la stessa bash, le stesse librerie, le altre avevano in più linuxconf, qualche tool, rpm. Oggi la situazione è diversa, mi riferirò solo a mandrake, ma per RH o Suse non è diverso, lentamente si è creata una situazione di inspiegabile differenziazione tra le varie distribuzioni, con la conseguenza che un rpm di RH non funziona su mdk, (che fino alla 7.0 *assicurava* la compatibilità al 99%) lo stesso programma ha file di configurazione differenti, in posizioni differenti, con funzioni differenti! ma, cosa inaccettabile, le pezze applicate ai vari kernel, CONDIZIONANO, il funzionamento di una serie infinita di programmi, con la conseguenza che se vuoi un kernel liscio, devi ricompilare mezza distribuzione... Se aggiorni xfree, che qualcuno ha visto bene di integrare con i desktop environment , devi ritoccare kde.. Capisco bene che le varie distribuzioni tentino di fidelizzare gli utenti, e che modificando i binari, nei propri rpm, cerchino di aggiungere funzionalità che semplifichino la vita, ma questo oltre a creare confusione, *complica* i sistemi, gli aggiornamenti, la manutenzione, e la comprensione da parte dell'utente. La creazione, poi, del LSB non credo porterà a sostanziali semplificazioni, anzi... una base comune, fino alla RH 6.2-mdk 7.0-suse 6.0-slack 7.0 c'era, più o meno i criteri di gestione erano comunque simili e, nell'ordine, linuxconf, drakxconf e yast (e vi...;) non facevano altro che puntare (in definitiva) in modo diverso agli *stessi file*... oggi mi trovo francamente spaesato di fronte al pannello di controllo della RH, che non rilancia le configurazioni, che non mi modifica a caldo la rete, o che mi costringe a riconfigurare il modem ad ogni avvio, o davanti a un firewall, così automatico e così intuitivo, da installarsi anche se non voglio e da non farsi configurare a meno di flushare a mano le chains!! non è semplificazione! moolto meglio allora sapere di dover fare a mano alcune cose, ma una volta sola, e per sempre! ma ti vedi un server di rete che al riavvio (raro, ma può capitare) ti perde qualche configurazione? Poi, veniamo all'uso di tutti i giorni, slack è notevolmente più veloce di RH o mandrake, 1. non installa nulla di default, quindi non hai servizi 2. non ha nessuna interfaccia strana o demone che ti gira in background, 3. spesso ti costringe a ricompilare, quindi hai software snello e ottimizzato per la tua macchina 4. ha un kernel assolutamente liscio, quindi aggiornabile in 3 minuti 5. compila *tutto* non avendo necessità dei pacchetti 'devel' che creano tanti problemi a chi usa rpm 6. non ha nessun controllo sulle dipendenze, quindi se un pacchetto compila, hai la sicurezza che funzionerà bene, altrimenti *devi* leggerti il README e cercare le (in genere pochissime) librerie mancanti ora, gli stessi pregi, visti da un'altra ottica, possono essere considerati difetti? forse, 1. devi sapere cosa installare per avere i servizi che cerchi, poi devi leggere per vedere come attivarli 2. non ti aiuta nelle configurazioni, o meglio, non in modo grafico, visto che i pochi file di configurazione necessari a far partire i servizi, sono molto ben commentati ed esattamente dove dovrebbero essere, 3. sei costretto a ricompilare, anche se qualche precompilato (non ottimizzato, si intende) lo trovi comunque 4. non hai moduli per dispositivi non supportati dal kernel, quindi devi compilarli a parte 5. non vedo difetti 6. per aggiornamenti corposi, tipo kde, gnome o Xfree, avere un urpmi o meglio, un apt-get potrebbe far comodo. Intendo, se invece di usare un tool grafico apro il terminale e lavoro da lì non è come usare slack? assolutamente si, solo che non hai una distribuzione pernsata per questo tipo di amministrazione, dunque incontri più problemi, file meno commentati, un numero minore di esempi, una serie di link che spiazzano, oltre a troppi programmi in beta, o ancora un pelino instabili, e troppi automatismi che al riavvio ti rasano le tue modifiche... 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? hai una diversa velocità ed una assoluta stabilità hai gli stessi file di configurazione puoi installare ovunque, anche su macchine obsolete. comunque, nessuno vieta, anzi, di installare mandrake in modo testo, senza mettere devfs, senza kudzu e servizi per poi aggiungere quello che
Re: [newbie-it] sendmail
Alle 15:55, mercoledì 13 novembre 2002, gigi pinna ha scritto: ... Vorrei sapere come sarebbe meglio configurare sendmail per spedirmi lui la mia posta e senza dover impazzire tutte le volte se decido di connettermi tramite un altro provider di continuo per usare sendmail come standalone devi solo aggiungere il tuo dominio locale nel campo Cw di /etc/mail/sendmail.cf [e riavviare il servizio] In più volevo sapere che cosa dovrebbe cambiare se lo installo e lo uso in una lan con un firewall che non fa passare i pacchetti udp e penso anche tcp (non vorrei dire una vaccata ma in pratica posso usare solo web, ssh) attualmente, per spedire, dalla lan, cosa usi? se hai un server già configurato, sicuramente la porta 25 del FW sarà aperta *per* l'host che svolge il servizio smtp se configuri un server per una lan : -hai bisogno di un dns; -devi creare gli utenti locali che potranno spedire ; -devi quindi mettere su anche un servizio pop3, altrimenti non ricevi; -devi autorizzare gli utenti al relay anche su domini esterni a quello locale; -sul server devi mettere un antivirus che controlli il corpo delle mail (se in html) e gli allegati; per quanto riguarda il FW dubito che droppi alcuni pacchetti indistintamente, piuttosto filtrerà su alcune combinazioni host-porta-pacchetto, altrimenti non usciresti sulla 80 (http) [nota, per uscire via web potresti anche avere un servizio proxy trasparente, che intercetta le chiamate alla 80 tcp e le reindirizza alla 8080 o alla 3128, sulli quali ascoltano apache o squid, in questo caso non esci realmente in internet con il client ma è il proxy a scaricare le pagine per te, rendendole disponibili in cache, nella quale tu effettivamente navighi] 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] firewall
Vai su www.pcflank.com, e testa il tuo firewall come ti pare. Ciao. Il gio, 2002-11-14 alle 15:47, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, sto cercando di configurare al meglio le opzioni di sicurezza offerte da Linux (e mi scontro con la mia poca esperienza), per tentare di ottenere un sistema quanto più sicuro possibile... mi servirebbe, però, poter verificare il funzionamento delle impostazioni che sto dando: esistono siti che consentano di mettere alla prova il PC, o programmi in grado di verificare se qualcosa sia rimasto aperto e vulnerabile? Come sempre, grazie!! Daniele
[newbie-it] ancora ISDN
Ciao di nuovo, sempre alla ricerca del modem mancante... nei negozi in cui l'ho cercato, l'ASUS ISDN interno non c'era. Ho trovato un Hamlet, sempre interno. Qualcuno sa dirmi se utilizza con Mandrake un Hamlet interno, se funziona bene, e darmi gli estremi del modello (così sono sicuro che sia proprio lui)? Grazie!!! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] sendmail
>per usare sendmail come standalone devi solo aggiungere il >tuo dominio locale nel campo Cw di /etc/mail/sendmail.cf > >[e riavviare il servizio] >attualmente, per spedire, dalla lan, cosa usi? >se hai un server già configurato, sicuramente la porta 25 >del FW sarà aperta *per* l'host che svolge il servizio smtp attualmente dalla lan non uso niente, ma la lan ha il suo gestore smtp; io voglio semplicemente sostituirmi a lui per spedire la mia posta in modo che la stessa configurazione la posso usare sui computer sparsi geograficamente in posti molto diversi. >per quanto riguarda il FW dubito che droppi alcuni >pacchetti indistintamente, piuttosto filtrerà su alcune >combinazioni host-porta-pacchetto, >altrimenti non usciresti sulla 80 (http) >[nota, per uscire via web potresti anche avere un servizio >proxy trasparente, che intercetta le chiamate alla 80 tcp e >le reindirizza alla 8080 o alla 3128, sulli quali ascoltano >apache o squid, in questo caso non esci realmente in >internet con il client ma è il proxy a scaricare le pagine >per te, rendendole disponibili in cache, nella quale tu >effettivamente navighi] > >bye > >miKe il firewall è configurato sulla porta 80 e fa uscire solo i pacchetti sulla porta 80 (web) e 23(ssh); per l'smtp non ho controllato dato che è dotato di un suo interno penso non lo abbiano blindato (anche se potrebbe accettare solo quel server smtp). Dopo provo a vedere se questa configurazione funziona. Altra domanda: se la rete è sotto netmask che indirizzo metto? ip? nome interno alla rete? intanto grazie mille__Ma quante ne sai? Mettiti alla prova con QuizShow!
[newbie-it] piccolo problema di un inesperto
Salve e' la prima volta che vi scrivo,purtroppo ancore da win, ho installato mandrake9 tutto ok, solo che ho modificato la risoluzione del vidio ed ora se parto con linux il vidio va in stenbay come fare per ripristinare la risoluzione corretta? diciamo partire in modalita provvisoria? non riesco ad arrivare proprio alla login. ho messo la stessa risoluzione che uso in win ma non la supporta come mai la scheda video l' ha riconosciuta correttamente durante l'installazione. in oltre la partenza con linux e' molto lenta e dopo la login (quando partiva) ci mette molto per partire il descktop. cia caspar
Re: [newbie-it] piccolo problema di un inesperto
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:06:51 +0100 Subject : [newbie-it] piccolo problema di un inesperto Salve e' la prima volta che vi scrivo,purtroppo ancore da win, ho installato mandrake9 tutto ok, solo che ho modificato la risoluzione del vidio ed ora se parto con linux il vidio va in stenbay come fare per ripristinare la risoluzione corretta? diciamo partire in modalita provvisoria? non riesco ad arrivare proprio alla login. ho messo la stessa risoluzione che uso in win ma non la supporta come mai la scheda video l' ha riconosciuta correttamente durante l'installazione. in oltre la partenza con linux e' molto lenta e dopo la login (quando partiva) ci mette molto per partire il descktop. cia caspar Provo a risponderti, anche se non sono molto esperto; il tuo problema mi si è presentato anche a me. 1) Vai in una sessione NON grafica con CTRL+ALT+F1 ed a questo punto dovrebbe comparirti la console con la richiesta del login. 2) Entra come root 3) Esegui il comando xf86config 4) Una volta completata la configurazione, fai ripartire X andando nella sessione grafica (CTRL+ALT+F7 o ALT+F7) e premi CTRL+ALT+BackSpace Saluti Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.libero.it/mlodirizzini (o_ Membro del FoLUG //\ Forlì Linux Users Group V_/_ http://folug.linux.it Linux Mandrake 8.2 su Celeron 733
Re: [newbie-it] kmail
Alle 00:29, giovedì 14 novembre 2002, gigi pinna ha scritto: volevo trasferire la mia rubrica di kmail su un altro computer. Il problema è che questa operazione la devo fare via ssh con un 56 k. siccome non posso fare il backup di tutta la cartella home dato che tra file nascosti e normali è troppo grande da spostare, volrvo spostare solo i file relativi all'address book ma non li ho trovati (più semplicemente erano quelli sbagliati!) Qualcuno mi sa indicare più semplicemente quali sono i file incrimati? uso la mdk 8.2 con il kde 2.2.2 grazie a chiunque mi possa aiutare!PP_ _BRa href=http://quizshow.lycos.it;Ma quante ne sai? Mettiti alla prova con QuizShow!/a Te la puoi sgavignare esportando la lista dall'agenda. Aprila File -- Esporta. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] kmail
Alle 00:29, giovedì 14 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Clicca sul libricino che trovi sotto la barra dei menu', poi fai file|esporta lista e salvi il file con tutti gli indirizzi dove vuoi!!! Lo spegisci e poi fail la stessa cosa sull'altro computer, solo che questa volta fai importa lista!!! Dovrebbe bastare volevo trasferire la mia rubrica di kmail su un altro computer. Il problema è che questa operazione la devo fare via ssh con un 56 k. siccome non posso fare il backup di tutta la cartella home dato che tra file nascosti e normali è troppo grande da spostare, volrvo spostare solo i file relativi all'address book ma non li ho trovati (più semplicemente erano quelli sbagliati!) Qualcuno mi sa indicare più semplicemente quali sono i file incrimati? uso la mdk 8.2 con il kde 2.2.2 grazie a chiunque mi possa aiutare!PP_ _BRa href=http://quizshow.lycos.it;Ma quante ne sai? Mettiti alla prova con QuizShow!/a -- \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://www.santarella.too.it Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione tecnica
Alle 22:19, domenica 10 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Forse mi sono espresso male, mi serve sapere il numero massimo che puo' assumere il valore di PID, non so' ... 10.000? 100.000? 100.000.000? Alle 03:16, domenica 10 novembre 2002, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: Qualcuno sa' dirmi se c'e un limite al valore del PID??? Ovvero il PID e' un numero progressivo, che aumenta ad ogni processo creato, ma ad un certo punto dovra' pur reiniziare da 1, altrimenti se per assurdo ho infiniti processi, avrei un PID infinito. non puoi avere processi infiniti 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]
Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto
è un errore di X diceh che la tua scheda 0 (la Rage) non trova un digital flat panel... cos'e' un Digital flat panel, e come posso risolvere questo problema!!! ma non credo possa bloccarti... il resto dei log cosa dice? in questo momento o reinstallato la Mdk 8.2 che funziona abbastanza bene, (anche se mi da il sopra citato errore di x) tra qulache giorno, reinsatallo la 9.0 e magari posto il log -- \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://www.santarella.too.it Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] piccolo problema di un inesperto
Alle 17:06, giovedì 14 novembre 2002, caspar ha scritto: Salve e' la prima volta che vi scrivo,purtroppo ancore da win, ho installato mandrake9 tutto ok, solo che ho modificato la risoluzione del vidio ed ora se parto con linux il vidio va in stenbay come fare per ripristinare la risoluzione corretta? diciamo partire in modalita provvisoria? Ciao, salto questa domanda... mi pare che ti abbiano già risposto. non riesco ad arrivare proprio alla login. ho messo la stessa risoluzione che uso in win ma non la supporta come mai la scheda video l' ha riconosciuta correttamente durante l'installazione. Che scheda video usi? Se si tratta si una scheda NVidia, per averne il pieno supporto devi scaricare ed installare i drivers dal sito nvidia... in oltre la partenza con linux e' molto lenta e dopo la login (quando partiva) ci mette molto per partire il descktop. cia caspar Che servizi hai selezionato all'avvio? Io uso Mdk 9.0 e WinME... ed il tempo di caricamento è simile. Daniele
[newbie-it] Condivisione connessione internet
Ciao a tutti, attualmente ho la mia rete domestica che ha un server win che condivide la connessione internet adsl con 4 client win/lnx, vorrei installare linux sul server ma praticamente non riesco a trovare un programma di condivisione che mi consenta di ripartire (in modo statico o dinamico) la connessione, mi spiego meglio, io vorrei fare in modo che ogni client possa usare al max 1/4 della banda adsl oppure che la banda venga suddivisa in modo dinamico rispetto agli utenti connessi sulla rete interna. Esiste un programma che mi consenta di fare qualcosa di simile? Ringrazio in anticipo per le risposte ciao Luca -- --- Giannuzzi Luca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.0 @ Acer TravelMate Kernel 2.4.19 mdk R.U. #287353 L.M. #168794 Modena (IT) erlug.linux.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- __ Per te Blu American Express è gratis! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://www.americanexpress.it/land_yahoo
R: [newbie-it] kmail smtp
OK ora provo a postare da winz vediamo se arriva non capisco cosa stia succedendole mail spedite da kmail alla lista non arrivano (a gli altri indirizzi arrivano) ! vedemi se da qui arrivano! nel caso arrivi avede idee sul motivo? Ciao , Tom
[newbie-it] libGLcore.so.1
Salve lista Sperando che questa mail arrivi.. Ho scaricato kvirc in formato rpm (non capisco xke nella mdk9.0 nn ci sia) e all' momento dell' installazione mi dice che dipende dalla suddetta lib ho cercato con ]find /mnt/cdrom libGL* nei tre cd mdk ma non c'è ombra. Ho cercato con google ma non sono arrivato a nulla. Ho cercato con rpmfind.net nisba. L'inglese non mi aiuta,quindi è probabile che l'avessi sotto gli occhi e non mene sia accorto! A che serve sta libreria? Ma sopratutto dove la posso trovare? Grazie gia da ora. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] piccolo problema di un inesperto
non riesco ad arrivare proprio alla login. ho messo la stessa risoluzione che uso in win ma non la supporta come mai la scheda video l' ha riconosciuta correttamente durante l'installazione. Che scheda video usi? Se si tratta si una scheda NVidia, per averne il pieno supporto devi scaricare ed installare i drivers dal sito nvidia... milennium II in oltre la partenza con linux e' molto lenta e dopo la login (quando partiva) ci mette molto per partire il descktop. Che servizi hai selezionato all'avvio? Io uso Mdk 9.0 e WinME... ed il tempo di caricamento è simile. come faccio a vederli e a sapere quali mi servono e quali no grazie cia caspar
[newbie-it] prova kmail
Scusate sto provando...se arriva sta mail vuol dire che era il provider (vizzavi) che killava le mail verso la lista,ora sto usando tiscali. scusate. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] kmail
On Thursday 14 November 2002 12:29 am, gigi pinna wrote about [newbie-it] kmail: volevo trasferire la mia rubrica di kmail su un altro computer. a livello grafico ti hanno gia' risposto, in caso di morte di X dovrebbe bastare copiare il /home/.kde/share/apps/kmail/addressbook 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] firewall
On Thursday 14 November 2002 3:47 pm, Daniele Micci wrote about [newbie-it] firewall: Ciao a tutti, sto cercando di configurare al meglio le opzioni di sicurezza offerte da Linux (e mi scontro con la mia poca esperienza), per tentare di ottenere un sistema quanto più sicuro possibile... mi servirebbe, però, poter verificare il funzionamento delle impostazioni che sto dando: esistono siti che consentano di mettere alla prova il PC, c'e' qualcosa per es. qui https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 http://www.hackerwhacker.com/ ma in effetti di solito si usano programmi, magari anche piu' di uno ma ne so abbastanza poco. Puoi cominciare comunque con l' nmap (portscanner) che potresti avere gia' installato. Poi nessus, e altri piu' specifici. 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] libGLcore.so.1
tom wrote: Salve lista Sperando che questa mail arrivi.. Ho scaricato kvirc in formato rpm (non capisco xke nella mdk9.0 nn ci sia) e all' momento dell' installazione mi dice che dipende dalla suddetta lib ho cercato con ]find /mnt/cdrom libGL* nei tre cd mdk ma non c'è ombra. Ho cercato con google ma non sono arrivato a nulla. Ho cercato con rpmfind.net nisba. L'inglese non mi aiuta,quindi è probabile che l'avessi sotto gli occhi e non mene sia accorto! A che serve sta libreria? Ma sopratutto dove la posso trovare? Grazie gia da ora. Ciao , Tom la libreria gl core la trovi nei driver nvidia e , credo anchein quelli mesa Ho quasi finito uno script per kvirc tutto in italiano e con i comandi dalnet ... sto cercando beta tester . cmq il pacchetto per la mdk lo trovi su rpmfind.net occhio ch e devi fare tutto il wizard iniziale altrimenti ti spariscono i menù attivati col tasto destro . il pacchetto è il 3.0.0. beta1. se riesci puoi compilare anceh il cvs che trovi sul sito, da qualche giorno è sufficientemente stabile. Pragma, lo sviluppatore di kvirc mi ha detto che lo reintrodurranno dopo le beta perchè mandrake nella 9 non l'ha voluto. ciaooo vete
Re: [newbie-it] libGLcore.so.1
tom wrote: Salve lista Sperando che questa mail arrivi.. Ho scaricato kvirc in formato rpm (non capisco xke nella mdk9.0 nn ci sia) e all' momento dell' installazione mi dice che dipende dalla suddetta lib ho cercato con ]find /mnt/cdrom libGL* nei tre cd mdk ma non c'è ombra. Ho cercato con google ma non sono arrivato a nulla. Ho cercato con rpmfind.net nisba. L'inglese non mi aiuta,quindi è probabile che l'avessi sotto gli occhi e non mene sia accorto! A che serve sta libreria? Ma sopratutto dove la posso trovare? Grazie gia da ora. Ciao , Tom dimenticavo che tempo fa avevo risolto linkando la libreria mi sembra in usr/lib perche' si trovava ma era nella dir sbagliata... dovrei ricontrollare. vete
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] kmail
Alle 00:29, giovedì 14 novembre 2002, gigi pinna ha scritto: volevo trasferire la mia rubrica di kmail su un altro computer. Il problema è che questa operazione la devo fare via ssh con un 56 k. s /home/~/.kde/share/apps/kab/addressbook.kab 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] Che caldo!!
Alle 15:53, giovedì 14 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Cari ragazzi, Nel portatile che uso, 128M Ram, 18G Hard disk, partizione abbastanza canonica 9G win hda1, mdk 9.0 5G hda5 /, swap, 4G hda7 /home, quando sono sotto linux dopo pochi minuti il pc si surriscalda e comincia il lungo ed estenuante lavora della ventola. usato con win$ scalda meno? è strano in genere succede il contrario, a me la ventola si avvia solo quando uso xmame ;) mentre con win$ 2ooo frulla di continuo Ciao bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie] Make command....
A common problem I used to have is not being root when configuring. The configure script checks your system etc and if you are not root often it fails. Also alway read the INSTALL file which will tell you lots of useful information, what configure does etc. lol On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 01:13, Radosaw Krl wrote: Hello everyone , i don't understand where i have made a mistake , i want to use a new program , downloaded from internet , for example : game called pacman or something else , it is not an installation version all i have to do is give two simple commands in shell first - ./configure and than make when I give make command my shell respond me that no makefiles was found but it is impossible i saw them they are in the right directory what to do ? Could you help me ? Ps: I want to thank all the people who had hellped me with using console problem. Arvo. 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] Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard
Ricardo, Thanks for that 'interesting' tip on Seagate. Did you read this somewhere, or were told by 'word-of-mouth' that there was a problem between these drives and Linux? If the former, can you point to the source? I would like to learn more about this. Occasionally, I pick up a Seagate drive for use in one of my systems or that of a client's. With no disrespect intended, I would never have bought a Quanta Big Foot drive if my life depended on it. My luck with them has not been very good, and the large form factor is both passe' and unnecessary impossing in today's boxes. But, if it's working for you, that's great. I really would like to know what you have found out. Thanks! T :-) - Original Message - From: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard Em Qua 13 Nov 2002 21:21, Stephen Kuhn escreveu: Wow! this is quite interesting! MY machine is almost the same as yours, exceptions are 1600XP and 256mb pc2100 DDR It was the finest install I have ever made! Just dropped in the mdk9 CD into the CD tray and watched the show! It was a real nice experience since I made the machine myself and I was unsure of my settings! The Only big thing I found before buying this mobo was ***several*** recomendations (warnings) about the relation of seagate HD and Linux!! So, before install I've changed it to a Quantum 40Gb!!! Then after, compiling and loading de NVidia 'rpms', the sound is loud and clear as well the 3D (+acceleration) If my sources are right Why don't you try another HD? just to eliminate this possibility! Really HTH, Ricardo On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 09:07, Mike Norrish wrote: Can anyone help with this? CPU: AMD Athlon 1800XP Motherboard: ASUS A7N266-VM (Socket A). Sound: Realtek ALC650 (onboard) Video: nVidia GeForce 2 (onboard) Ethernet: RealTek 8100 RAM: 512mb PC2100 DDR DD: Seagate Barricuda IV, 40GB Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 753s Mouse: Genius Netscroll Optical PS2 Mouse Keyboard: Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard 1.0a (PS2) Is it safe to assume that BOTH machines have EXACTLY the same BIOS settings? I'd re-install - and make it very minimal with the least amount of servers, services and the likes. See if you can get anywhere with that. Also, choose a generic NVidia driver and do the GeForce drivers AFTER you've successfully booted and configured the machines. (I had the same problem with a test workstation here - unfortunately, RH 7.3 installed without a hitch, but Mandrake took three installs) -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! 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] Freeswan installation with RPM error
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 17:15, Rob wrote: The dependencies installed fine. While installing freeswan.rpm it gave an error: # rpm -Uvh freeswan-1.98b-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:freeswan ### [100%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47980: /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-service: No such file or directory error: execution of %post scriptlet from freeswan-1.98b-1mdk failed, exit status 127 My issue doesnt seem to be the dependencies since it got passed that. After rereading the above error what do you suggest to do? Robert Wideman How's about we ask the guy that built the RPM package? His name is Florin - emailto:florin;mandrakesoft.com I'm cc'ing this message to him for further resolution. I just found that version 1.99 is out - but the available RPM's are only for RedHat...BUT, the source tarballs are available if you want to try to download them and do a manual compile in order to get this application up and running...? Ya reckon? Mr. Florin - we would appreciate any assistance for the issue that Mr. Wideman is experiencing with the FREESWAN RPM - and we thank you in advance. Cheers! -- Thu Nov 14 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 Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 17:37, Franki wrote: strange, most of the umax scanners work fine with linux.. what was your scanner??? rgds Franki Mate, it's long long gone - got an Acer now - which still doesn't work under linux - but doesn't matter - going to get a better one after Xmas is over and done with and all the computer junk heads my way for resale...(grin) That's the time I tend to upgrade my home network/home server/workstation... I'm shooting for an HP scanner next time around...USB, of course... -- Thu Nov 14 22:35:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. -- Beckett Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Freeswan installation with RPM error
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 17:48, Rob wrote: ]# rpm -ivh --allfiles --replacefiles --force /root/freeswan-1.98b-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:freeswan ### [100%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3498: /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-service: No such file or directory error: execution of %post scriptlet from freeswan-1.98b-1mdk failed, exit status 127 Does this help at all? Robert Wideman Well, being that we have just sent the information to Mr. Florin, I think it's moot until we receive an answer. On the other hand, isn't the exit status 127 Texas specific? -- Thu Nov 14 22:40:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Mail server hit by UniSpammer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 22:33, Technoslick wrote: Ricardo, Thanks for that 'interesting' tip on Seagate. Did you read this somewhere, or were told by 'word-of-mouth' that there was a problem between these drives and Linux? If the former, can you point to the source? I would like to learn more about this. Occasionally, I pick up a Seagate drive for use in one of my systems or that of a client's. With no disrespect intended, I would never have bought a Quanta Big Foot drive if my life depended on it. My luck with them has not been very good, and the large form factor is both passe' and unnecessary impossing in today's boxes. But, if it's working for you, that's great. I really would like to know what you have found out. Thanks! T :-) Do you really reckon it's something to do with the drive, or the hdparms settings for that particular drive? (I force mine with hdparm -X68 -d1 -b /dev/hda - or similar - and get better sound results by tweaking them manually - then setting up a script or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.local fileor the /etc/sysconfig/haddisks file - same diff...) -- Thu Nov 14 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 I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by men who are equally certain that they represent the divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other is mistaken in the belief, and perhaps in some respects, both. I hope it will not be irreverent of me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me. - Abraham Lincoln Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Make command....
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:28, Aaron wrote: A common problem I used to have is not being root when configuring. The configure script checks your system etc and if you are not root often it fails. Also alway read the INSTALL file which will tell you lots of useful information, what configure does etc. lol Good points to make - but sometimes, the programmer is lazy and they use the generic GNU's README, INSTALL, AUTHORS, NEWS and other text files without bothering to edit them for any specific or extra information that the end-user might need for their specific system...which is a problem, but overall, it's a matter of reading everything and anything... -- Thu Nov 14 22:50:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 e-credibility: the non-guaranteeable likelihood that the electronic data you're seeing is genuine rather than somebody's made-up crap. - Karl Lehenbauer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem Ethernet
Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
Jordan, While there may be some hack or loophole that could make this happen for you, I think you just have to accept the fact that the movies you are trying to download were specifically set up for on-line streaming. As Todd has pointed out, the site does not want to allow the downloading of the movies locally. This ability to let you see it, but not take it home, is one of the most attractive control mechanisms of audio and visual streaming. The only way for you to be sure that a link brings you to a dowloadable file is to try to save its target locally. If is works, you have what you want. If it gives you a placeholder, as in this case, that's what the provider intended and the only way you are going to get past this it to hack the site or see if you can get permission to acquire the file. I hate bumping into this, too, but... T - Original Message - From: Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files Yep, I can find the file it downloads, but like Todd said, it only downloads a place holder image while the actual movie does not. I'll try and find a fix, Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 8:15 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 04:32, 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 -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. --- Larry Wall Tis rather strange - and you've done a find or a locate on the filename and that returned nothing as well? -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk 640K ought to be enough for anybody - Bill Gates, 1981 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] Checkinstall
With some valuable assistance from this list I succeeded in compiling my first package from a tarball. Feeling smug I decided to try another using checkinstall. I get to the stage where checkinstall says The package will be built according to these values and lists 10 values, I press enter to accept them and then receive the following message NOT-FOUND has no SOURCES directory, Please write the path to the RPM source directory tree I have tried entering every path I can think of but I always get a repititioon of the above message but with NOT-FOUND replaced by the path I have just entered. I end up having to Ctrl-C to get out of the loop. Obviously I am too dim to understand what is meant by the SOURCE directory, can anyone help me please? TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Now VERY OT - Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard
I am not sold on any one particular drive being a problem for Linux, which is why I was interested in hearing from Ricardo, however... The one drive manufacturer I use to have the most trouble with, in any O/S, was Conner. The way they set them up was to provide the O/S with set of parameters that were a translation from the actual paramters of the drive. In the 'stupid' days of opeating systems, this was fine and actually needed to help them get over the 1024 cylinders hump. Once the O/S became inquisitive and smarter, I found that the Conner drives caused confusion in the O/S and some utilities that were able to dig that deep. A number of years ago, Seagate swallowed up the failing Conner company, and unfortunately, decided to continue production of Conner technology under the Seagate name. If you look at the specs on some of the drive since the buy out, you will see the Conner technology has encroached in the specs of many of their drives since. Since this time, I have felt that Seagate doesn't give me the warm fuzzies anymore. I would prefer to go after a WD drive, even though I know that every drive manufacturer has had its share of 'problems' with production, QC and drive designs, and WD has had its share. Drives are more reliable now than ever, but are still prone to failure. Even on a new drive in Linux, I always take extra time to check for bad blocks when time permits. As for Quantum Big FootsI am not interested in 'going there', here. ;-) Anyway, that was my interest in this. In retrospect, I should have put 'OT' on my reply to Ricardo. :-) As for the hdparms setting you suggested, I am not ashamed to admit that without checking the man pages, I haven't a clue as to what they mean or why you have imposed them over the deafult settings. I am still very new to the very hands-on control of Linux with hardware, not having had to do this since the days of MS/PC-DOS. It's really exciting to have so much control, but also aggrevating to someone use to getting what he needs done immediately because of time and experience with an O/S. I don't have that in Linux as yet. That's why I love being here. :-) Would you mind telling my why you feel it beneficial to over-ride the defaults? TIA T :-) - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 22:33, Technoslick wrote: Ricardo, Thanks for that 'interesting' tip on Seagate. Did you read this somewhere, or were told by 'word-of-mouth' that there was a problem between these drives and Linux? If the former, can you point to the source? I would like to learn more about this. Occasionally, I pick up a Seagate drive for use in one of my systems or that of a client's. With no disrespect intended, I would never have bought a Quanta Big Foot drive if my life depended on it. My luck with them has not been very good, and the large form factor is both passe' and unnecessary impossing in today's boxes. But, if it's working for you, that's great. I really would like to know what you have found out. Thanks! T :-) Do you really reckon it's something to do with the drive, or the hdparms settings for that particular drive? (I force mine with hdparm -X68 -d1 -b /dev/hda - or similar - and get better sound results by tweaking them manually - then setting up a script or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.local fileor the /etc/sysconfig/haddisks file - same diff...) -- Thu Nov 14 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 I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by men who are equally certain that they represent the divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other is mistaken in the belief, and perhaps in some respects, both. I hope it will not be irreverent of me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me. - Abraham Lincoln 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] Modem Ethernet
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 4:22 am, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt Yes you can. Open Mandrake Control CentreNetworkConnection Near the top of the GUI you see a box marked profile which contains the entry 'default' - This defines your default internet access, and is most likely currently set for 'lan' and in the box underneath you probably see Internet Access Type : lan Now create a new profile - call it dialup or something , select the new profile in the drop down list, and then go through the Wizard. In the wizard unselect lan, and select modem, give the dial up parameters for your ISP. Exit with 'OK' Now when you click on the 'Internet' icon on your desktop you can select dialup from the Profile selection, and the button underneath will switch to 'Connect:modem' Thats it. Just switch between the two profiles any time you want to change your connect method. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re-install woes - 8.2
Well, I'm back. Mozilla is fine and KMail are working. I've copied back from my old /home directory and re-set the permissions (which had gone to root, because of the mountpoint settings of the source). My current problem is that my desktop fires up fine, but clicking on a link, say, works once, then from that moment the desktop is frozen - doesn't answer the keyboard at all. Panel links still work, and if I open, say, KMail, then all the icons on the desktop disappear. What on earth have I done? It was fine until I started the copying back. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 12:10 pm, you wrote: my first response from a hardware manufacturer... This is a australian company with overseas offices... They go promptly into the Shame file. rgds Frank --- - I can understand their reluctance to say that it will definitely work with linux, but there's no excuse for saying that they will answer no technical questions I'm with you, btw, just been away re-installing. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 7:02 am, you wrote: 14 2002 06:58, / Franki : Franki Please add DXR3 DVD-Decoder Card of Creative too. And the breakout box that comes with SoundBlaster Live! Platinum and SB Audigy Platinum. (The two cards use the same driver, but I don't know if that would be true for the breakout boxes, so perhaps we need enquiries for both separately) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 11:40 am, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 17:37, Franki wrote: strange, most of the umax scanners work fine with linux.. what was your scanner??? rgds Franki Mate, it's long long gone - got an Acer now - which still doesn't work under linux - but doesn't matter - going to get a better one after Xmas is over and done with and all the computer junk heads my way for resale...(grin) That's the time I tend to upgrade my home network/home server/workstation... I'm shooting for an HP scanner next time around...USB, of course... Don't forget the Epson Perfection range - several of them work, I believe. Mine is a 1650, which is not as cheap as some, but it works a dream. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 4:22 am, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt Yes you can. Open Mandrake Control CentreNetworkConnection Near the top of the GUI you see a box marked profile which contains the entry 'default' - This defines your default internet access, and is most likely currently set for 'lan' and in the box underneath you probably see Internet Access Type : lan Now create a new profile - call it dialup or something , select the new profile in the drop down list, and then go through the Wizard. In the wizard unselect lan, and select modem, give the dial up parameters for your ISP. Exit with 'OK' Now when you click on the 'Internet' icon on your desktop you can select dialup from the Profile selection, and the button underneath will switch to 'Connect:modem' Thats it. Just switch between the two profiles any time you want to change your connect method. derek On a related note - I have an ethernet always-on connection, but would like to use a modem occasionally to send faxes. Would the profile trick work for that? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Post re-installation - browsers
I uninstalled Mozilla immediately after re-installation of 8.2, so that I could install Mozilla 1, but that removed Galeon. If I reinstall galeon from the Mandrake 8.2 disks am I likely to cause any conflicts? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 12:34 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 4:22 am, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt Yes you can. Open Mandrake Control CentreNetworkConnection Near the top of the GUI you see a box marked profile which contains the entry 'default' - This defines your default internet access, and is most likely currently set for 'lan' and in the box underneath you probably see Internet Access Type : lan Now create a new profile - call it dialup or something , select the new profile in the drop down list, and then go through the Wizard. In the wizard unselect lan, and select modem, give the dial up parameters for your ISP. Exit with 'OK' Now when you click on the 'Internet' icon on your desktop you can select dialup from the Profile selection, and the button underneath will switch to 'Connect:modem' Thats it. Just switch between the two profiles any time you want to change your connect method. derek While I was looking up the info to reply to this mail. It occurred to me that the big problem with the 'Internet' icon on the Mandrake desktop is that it has to be run as root, wheras the KDE dialler kppp can run as a user. So I took a look at it and found a way to run the Internet icon as a user. The Internet icon ultimately calls a process called /usr/sbin/net_monitor which has its security managed by PAM (I mentioned that a few days ago) By default the security is set up to only allow root to access net_monitor. To fix it for all users edit the file /etc/pam.d/net_monitor to look like this:- #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so #auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth accountrequired /lib/security/pam_permit.so sessionoptional /lib/security/pam_xauth.so #added dj to allow any user to dial out authrequired /lib/security/pam_console.so Thats it! HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 1:12 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 4:22 am, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt Yes you can. Open Mandrake Control CentreNetworkConnection Near the top of the GUI you see a box marked profile which contains the entry 'default' - This defines your default internet access, and is most likely currently set for 'lan' and in the box underneath you probably see Internet Access Type : lan Now create a new profile - call it dialup or something , select the new profile in the drop down list, and then go through the Wizard. In the wizard unselect lan, and select modem, give the dial up parameters for your ISP. Exit with 'OK' Now when you click on the 'Internet' icon on your desktop you can select dialup from the Profile selection, and the button underneath will switch to 'Connect:modem' Thats it. Just switch between the two profiles any time you want to change your connect method. derek On a related note - I have an ethernet always-on connection, but would like to use a modem occasionally to send faxes. Would the profile trick work for that? Anne No need. The profile is purely for 'Internet' access. You do not need to switch profiles simply to use the modem for faxes etc. If you are still on Mdk 8.2 you just have to make a small edit in /etc/fax.config in order to fix a small bug in efax. Just find the line beginning LOCK and edit it to LOCK='-x /tmp/LCK..$DEV' Now the KDE fax dialler should work 'out of the box' (so long as you have the efax RPM installed) With 9.0 this is not necessary since the bug was fixed. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Post re-installation - browsers
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:16:15PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I uninstalled Mozilla immediately after re-installation of 8.2, so that I could install Mozilla 1, but that removed Galeon. If I reinstall galeon from the Mandrake 8.2 disks am I likely to cause any conflicts? Anne Anne, I got around that by compiling Mozilla myself. If you get the tarball and build it, it defaults to /usr/local instead of /usr/bin. So, I have two versions of Mozilla. I just point my shortcuts to /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla and I'm happy. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Post re-installation - browsers
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:16:15 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uninstalled Mozilla immediately after re-installation of 8.2, so that I could install Mozilla 1, but that removed Galeon. If I reinstall galeon from the Mandrake 8.2 disks am I likely to cause any conflicts? Galeon from 8.2 will not run with Mozilla 1 Mozilla can run on its own but galeon uses mozilla libs and is therefore linked and requires the Mozilla version/release with which it was built. If you are a member of the MandrakeClub, check the user contributed rpms, you might be able to find 8.2 rpms for each there. Charles Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Post re-installation - browsers
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 1:16 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I uninstalled Mozilla immediately after re-installation of 8.2, so that I could install Mozilla 1, but that removed Galeon. If I reinstall galeon from the Mandrake 8.2 disks am I likely to cause any conflicts? Anne Yes. Galeon's releases are very closely tied to Mozillas Your best course of action is to install both Mozilla and Galeon from the 8.2/unsupported folder on a Mandrake mirror For example ftp://ftp.rediris.es/sites/carroll.cac.psu.edu/mandrake-devel/unsupported/8.2/i586/mozilla-1.0.1 derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet
what i'd like is to be able to have both active simultaneously and determine as necessary which one to use for agiven function/connection. is that possible? --- Original Message --- From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 4:22 am, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt Yes you can. Open Mandrake Control CentreNetworkConnection Near the top of the GUI you see a box marked profile which contains the entry 'default' - This defines your default internet access, and is most likely currently set for 'lan' and in the box underneath you probably see Internet Access Type : lan Now create a new profile - call it dialup or something , select the new profile in the drop down list, and then go through the Wizard. In the wizard unselect lan, and select modem, give the dial up parameters for your ISP. Exit with 'OK' Now when you click on the 'Internet' icon on your desktop you can select dialup from the Profile selection, and the button underneath will switch to 'Connect:modem' Thats it. Just switch between the two profiles any time you want to change your connect method. derek On a related note - I have an ethernet always-on connection, but would like to use a modem occasionally to send faxes. Would the profile trick work for that? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet
Yes. (In linux the answer is always 'yes' ) You have to learn the intricacies of the 'route' command. See 'man route' If you also learn the more arcane features of ppp (see 'man pppd') it is also possible to do things like auto dial on demand, load balancing, and even funky stuff like link aggregation with multilink ppp (There is a tutorial on setting dial on demand in the documents section of www.mandrakeuser.org) derek On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 1:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what i'd like is to be able to have both active simultaneously and determine as necessary which one to use for agiven function/connection. is that possible? --- Original Message --- From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 4:22 am, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt Yes you can. Open Mandrake Control CentreNetworkConnection Near the top of the GUI you see a box marked profile which contains the entry 'default' - This defines your default internet access, and is most likely currently set for 'lan' and in the box underneath you probably see Internet Access Type : lan Now create a new profile - call it dialup or something , select the new profile in the drop down list, and then go through the Wizard. In the wizard unselect lan, and select modem, give the dial up parameters for your ISP. Exit with 'OK' Now when you click on the 'Internet' icon on your desktop you can select dialup from the Profile selection, and the button underneath will switch to 'Connect:modem' Thats it. Just switch between the two profiles any time you want to change your connect method. derek On a related note - I have an ethernet always-on connection, but would like to use a modem occasionally to send faxes. Would the profile trick work for that? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Opera 7 beta email client ... very interesting!
Apropos a previous discussion, this is only on Windows for the moment, but they've done the near-impossible and produced an email client with new and very powerful handling. The concept is that you receive your email as usual but have both predefined and user-defined views. The email is visible within each view for which the email matches the view criteria, and deleting one instance of the email deletes all instances. So, if you received a signed email from this mailing list from Fred Bloggs, you could see it in folders: Mailing lists: newbie.linux-mandrake.com (automatically derived) Attachments: Signatures (automatically derived) Received: From Fred (user-defined) and any other folders whose view criteria it matched. This, in effect storing each email as a record in a database with the folders as query-views on that database, is a very powerful technique once you get used to it (it is hard to get to grips with at first because the model is so different from the usual filter-the-email-into-one-folder) and I have a funny feeling it will catch on and be widely stolen :) 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] Modem Ethernet
thanks, derek. something i've often wondered about as a nice addition, but obviously never explored. --- Original Message --- From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet Yes. (In linux the answer is always 'yes' ) You have to learn the intricacies of the 'route' command. See 'man route' If you also learn the more arcane features of ppp (see 'man pppd') it is also possible to do things like auto dial on demand, load balancing, and even funky stuff like link aggregation with multilink ppp (There is a tutorial on setting dial on demand in the documents section of www.mandrakeuser.org) derek On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 1:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what i'd like is to be able to have both active simultaneously and determine as necessary which one to use for agiven function/connection. is that possible? --- Original Message --- From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 4:22 am, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt Yes you can. Open Mandrake Control CentreNetworkConnection Near the top of the GUI you see a box marked profile which contains the entry 'default' - This defines your default internet access, and is most likely currently set for 'lan' and in the box underneath you probably see Internet Access Type : lan Now create a new profile - call it dialup or something , select the new profile in the drop down list, and then go through the Wizard. In the wizard unselect lan, and select modem, give the dial up parameters for your ISP. Exit with 'OK' Now when you click on the 'Internet' icon on your desktop you can select dialup from the Profile selection, and the button underneath will switch to 'Connect:modem' Thats it. Just switch between the two profiles any time you want to change your connect method. derek On a related note - I have an ethernet always-on connection, but would like to use a modem occasionally to send faxes. Would the profile trick work for that? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KSPREAD AND GKRELLM MEMORY USAGE
I use kspread on a daily basis. I have often felt the length of time it takes to load Kspread files and display the data,as compared with other spread sheet programmes it takes 10 times as long.One kspread file of just 105kb takes 20 seconds on my most powerful computer. Hithertoo I had always assumed kspread had a terrific memory usage as compared to other spread sheet programmes. After installing gkrellm and lm_sensors I am not so sure. Is it possible that kspread might be denighed memory/cpu usage to accomplish the task. Gkrellm , the graphical display programme seems to show little demand upon memory/cpu by kspread as compared to other tasks such as transfering very large files(650mb) from one partition to another where both cpu and memory usage rockets. Could low levels of memory/cpu usage be an explanation for length of time kspread requires to load and display files ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Post re-installation - browsers
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 1:28 pm, you wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:16:15PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I uninstalled Mozilla immediately after re-installation of 8.2, so that I could install Mozilla 1, but that removed Galeon. If I reinstall galeon from the Mandrake 8.2 disks am I likely to cause any conflicts? Anne Anne, I got around that by compiling Mozilla myself. If you get the tarball and build it, it defaults to /usr/local instead of /usr/bin. So, I have two versions of Mozilla. I just point my shortcuts to /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla and I'm happy. Todd I did that on my last install, but there were some problems - can't remember the details, but things like file associations didn't work properly etc.. I note also that mozilla.org say that there will be problems with two versions, and that you must uninstall the old version first. So that's what I did. Still, if it works for you Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Post re-installation - browsers
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 1:31 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 1:16 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I uninstalled Mozilla immediately after re-installation of 8.2, so that I could install Mozilla 1, but that removed Galeon. If I reinstall galeon from the Mandrake 8.2 disks am I likely to cause any conflicts? Anne Yes. Galeon's releases are very closely tied to Mozillas Your best course of action is to install both Mozilla and Galeon from the 8.2/unsupported folder on a Mandrake mirror For example ftp://ftp.rediris.es/sites/carroll.cac.psu.edu/mandrake-devel/unsupported/8 .2/i586/mozilla-1.0.1 derek Thanks - I'll do that as soon as I get the more urgent things sorted out - like this darned desktop problem for instance Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Getting started with Mandrake
So I've downloaded the contents of the CD from ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/i586/ . Problem is, the Mandrake Directory alone is 3.8 GB and won't fit on a CD. What am I missing? I haven't been able to find documentation on this process. Any pointers would be appreciated. JBL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 9:07 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 09:02 pm, 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 Once lm_sensors is installed, this is one of the few progs that I have run accross where the only way I can get it to pick up the sensors in gkrellm is to reboot. However try just logging in again, i.e. just do a login as new user. and restart KDE or Gnome. If that doesn't get it then reboot. Do the F1 thing and u should see sensors on the list of things to check. HTH I have installed lm_sensors and didlm_sensors_detect and copy corresponding lines to filse and mentioned and asked to ceate a config file. Still I get error as Nov 13 11:05:33 localhost sensord: Error -4 loading sensors configuration file: /etc/sensors.conf Nov 13 11:05:33 localhost sensors: sensord startup failed I saw file /etc/sensors.conf exists and uncommented lines are there. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re-install woes - 8.2
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 12:36 pm, you wrote: Well, I'm back. Mozilla is fine and KMail are working. I've copied back from my old /home directory and re-set the permissions (which had gone to root, because of the mountpoint settings of the source). My current problem is that my desktop fires up fine, but clicking on a link, say, works once, then from that moment the desktop is frozen - doesn't answer the keyboard at all. Panel links still work, and if I open, say, KMail, then all the icons on the desktop disappear. What on earth have I done? It was fine until I started the copying back. Anne Amendment - it did work on one click earlier, but now doesn't do anything at all. And the disappearing icons happen after they have been hidden by any other program - so if I open something minimised only some of the icons disappear. It's as though the icons are being drawn on the desktop but not connected to anything (I'll check permissions once again, but I think they're OK), and not re-drawn when apps close. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 17:38, Mike M wrote: How do I remove myself from the list? I can't handle 200 emails an hour anymore. =/ = - --From the messy desk of me. --CEO Exolision Software --http://www.exolision.com (Soon to come.) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oh, if it's just the amount of mail I would suggest to use a mail client that supports filters. E.g. evolution does and it also supports a thread view, which makes live much easier. Frank. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
Hi, Agreed, but if I am downloading movie trailers, you'd think it would be allowed! Nevermind, thanks for everyones's help. Cheers, Jord On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 11:58 am, Technoslick wrote: Jordan, While there may be some hack or loophole that could make this happen for you, I think you just have to accept the fact that the movies you are trying to download were specifically set up for on-line streaming. As Todd has pointed out, the site does not want to allow the downloading of the movies locally. This ability to let you see it, but not take it home, is one of the most attractive control mechanisms of audio and visual streaming. The only way for you to be sure that a link brings you to a dowloadable file is to try to save its target locally. If is works, you have what you want. If it gives you a placeholder, as in this case, that's what the provider intended and the only way you are going to get past this it to hack the site or see if you can get permission to acquire the file. I hate bumping into this, too, but... T - Original Message - From: Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files Yep, I can find the file it downloads, but like Todd said, it only downloads a place holder image while the actual movie does not. I'll try and find a fix, Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 8:15 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 04:32, 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 -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. --- Larry Wall Tis rather strange - and you've done a find or a locate on the filename and that returned nothing as well? -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. --- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 9:07 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 09:02 pm, 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 Once lm_sensors is installed, this is one of the few progs that I have run accross where the only way I can get it to pick up the sensors in gkrellm is to reboot. However try just logging in again, i.e. just do a login as new user. and restart KDE or Gnome. If that doesn't get it then reboot. Do the F1 thing and u should see sensors on the list of things to check. HTH I have installed lm_sensors and didlm_sensors_detect and copy corresponding lines to filse and mentioned and asked to ceate a config file. Still I get error as Nov 13 11:05:33 localhost sensord: Error -4 loading sensors configuration file: /etc/sensors.conf Nov 13 11:05:33 localhost sensors: sensord startup failed I saw file /etc/sensors.conf exists and uncommented lines are there. I'm not sure , but there's a couple of commands to run first before sensors, modprobe i2c-proc /etc/rc.d/rc.local maybe these make a difference John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Finding Dependencies
Hi All, When trying to install something I am asked for a particular file or shared object. How can I find out which package contains that file? I know of rpmfind and I use urpmi. TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. --- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Finding Dependencies
Hi All, When trying to install something I am asked for a particular file or shared object. How can I find out which package contains that file? I know of rpmfind and I use urpmi. man rpm to double check me, but I think it's 'rpm -f file_name' Sorry I don't have my Linux laptop to look it up right now... Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help!! my HP LaserJet 5L won't stop printing the same document
Dear Friends, My a.m. printer won't stop printing although I have checked there is no job left in Control Center/System/PrinterManager. Thx, Ongkie _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List
On Thursday 14 November 2002 11:38 am, you wrote: How do I remove myself from the list? I can't handle 200 emails an hour anymore. =/ Wow! I only get around 200 per *day* :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printer problem solved!! I feel sorry.
Dear Friends, It is because of the printer buffer, although I did turn it off and on many times and I haven't find any job outstanding mentioned below. Thx, Ongkie From: Ongkie Singgih [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help!! my HP LaserJet 5L won't stop printing the same document Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:59:42 + Dear Friends, My a.m. printer won't stop printing although I have checked there is no job left in Control Center/System/PrinterManager. Thx, Ongkie _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checkinstall
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:05:49 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously I am too dim to understand what is meant by the SOURCE directory, can anyone help me please? I turn on some lights then, (-: The directory it is looking for is /usr/src/RPM You need to install the rpm-build-x.x.x-xmdk. The version you need will depend on which version of Mandrake you are running. If you are running 9.0 then it is rpm-build-4.0.4-19mdk Charles Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing -- Murphy's Laws on Work n°15 -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape 7 for linux
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:38:00PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:53, Todd Slater wrote: Just curious, what is it you don't like about Mozilla? After all, NS is Moz in different clothes. These work in Mozilla, too. Todd No, they don't all work under Moz. I didn't have any problem with Flash or QuickTime (when I had them) in Mozilla. Mozilla is slow to respond, inherently mucks up the fonts that I prefer, and doesn't ever quite handle j-script and java pages the way I prefer. Can't comment on the slowness and fonts, and wasn't aware that I even had a choice about handling javascript and java. How do you set that up? Neither did the older versions of Nutscrape, but this new version seems to deal with what I put it through without issue. So there! Nyah! To put your browser through so much, you must look at a lot of porn! ;) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List
Nope you're stuck! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Cough! Gag! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Mike M wrote: How do I remove myself from the list? I can't handle 200 emails an hour anymore. =/ = - --From the messy desk of me. --CEO Exolision Software --http://www.exolision.com (Soon to come.) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sort of on-topic
I have purchased (and sometimes used! :-P ) Serif's products ever since they made a free version that installed from one floppy disk. It seems that whenever I get a call from one of their telemarketers, they are amazed at how long I have been a customer and begin to treat me like I am part of their family. Of course, if I was 'really' a partof their family, they would give the software to me for free! Ahem! Anyway...I have always enjoyed their calls, and end up having long conversations with whomever calls me. And, no matter whether I need it or not, I always seem to break down and buy the latest and the greatest they have to offer. I declined on this lastest updated version of PagePlus 8 + PDF since I have both PagePlus 8 and Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5. The software is good, and is well worth the little that they charge for it. The kind of money they are asking for their software is what all companies should be selling at. But, their software has had its failings and idiosyncrasies,too. I think what has been most difficult for anyone in the U.S. is in learning something that is layed out differently, isn't exactly 'the norm'. Of course, we all know what 'the norm' is, especially here in the States (pissst! M$!!) I confess that after all that I have of their stuff, I never get much use out of it. It's not their fault that I have too many irons in my fire and just don't have the time to learn something new. But, Anne, this is a company that I would like to see do well. I like their attitude, their drive, and their dedication and willingness to listen to their users. I am sure that there is a very large entry in their system with all the 'ear bending' I have done with thier people over the last 8 or so years. ;-) If you are interested in graphical design for Desktop publishing and Web work, and don't need to give the output to a print beaureau (at least in the States), I think you will like their stuff. If they would let me transfer my licenses to you, I would send you the previous versions I have, just to get rid of them! :-) T - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Sort of on-topic Yesterday I had a long conversation with Ron Cox at Serif Software. If you are UK you will probably know of them, but for those who don't, they product inexpensive (by windows standards) software that does most of what the market-leading expensive software does. Their flagship is PagePlus 8 + PDF, a desktop-processing program that has excellent booklet printing (A4 folded to make A5 booklet, with pages printed in appropriate pairs), and can convert the whole to PDF. I took the opportunity to tell him that there is a need for software like theirs for Linux. This led him on to tell me that the company has now been bought back by the original programmer team, and are now free to make their own decisions about the future. They are fully aware of the greed and bad practices of M$, and of the growing awareness in the marketplace. He talked also of the increasing awareness of security issues. They are, however, still small, and the market constrains them to write for the maximum market. He said that they simply could not afford the development costs to write for Linux, much as they would like to, so they had made a conscious decision that they would write to the highest degree of standards compliance they could manage. They believe that this will ensure that their products work with any of the windows emulators. It's not the ideal answer, but I did like the degree of awareness I heard, and I think they have made the best decision they can at this stage. Meanwhile, before Christmas I intend to get Win4Lin and try it. Anne 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] Sort of on-topic
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 7:33 pm, you wrote: If they would let me transfer my licenses to you, I would send you the previous versions I have, just to get rid of them! :-) No chance of that - once they've got you, your're hooked, hehe. I do have PP8 and this is one of the few programs that I boot to windows for, as I use it for a Church magazine for my daughter's parish. It does require some learning time, but the tutorial is detailed and well illustrated - a practical lesson - so it was easy to refer back to if I had forgotten anything. It would be nice to see them do well - they listen so much better than most, and are so eager to please. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] desktops changing :-/
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 8:45 am, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, I am using Mdk 9.0 and KDE. A curious thing just started happening, I used to be able to open a Konsole session on the same desktop as Konqueror, but now, when I try to do that I get switched to a new desktop when Konsole opens. This is really weird.I just tried desktops one through four, and it does the switch on #'s 1, 2, 4.not 3 :-/ I tried the other terminals that I have installed (Eterm, RXvt, XTerm, GNOME Terminal), and they all seem to be happy to open on the same desktop that I am working in, just like Konsole used to. Konsole is my default terminal, and I would like to know how to correct this behaviour. I haven't altered any settings in Konsole. Just to clarify a bit...all Konsole sessions that I open, from any desktop, are being switched to desktop 3. Desktop 3 is the only one that Konsole will open in. Sometimes if you open an app in desktop 1 then move it to another desktop and it gets closed on that other desktop, then it will keep opening in the other desktop until you move it back to desktop 1. Hope you can make sense of that. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List
That 65th cup of double latte kickin' it in huh Todd? 8-{
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From: Todd Franklin
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] List
Nope you're stuck! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA! Cough! Gag! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Mike M wrote:
How do I remove myself from the list? I can't handle
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Re: [newbie] OT: StarCalc 6 vs. MS Excel 2000
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 November 2002 4:20 pm, Technoslick wrote: I'm 'really' trying to wean myself off of M$ crap, butit isn't easy when the change is fighting you... Help! Post it or put it somewhere (with any sensitive text replaced with gibberish) so that everyone can attack it :) I have to say, having wrestled with this sort of thing myself, that Open Source is not above criticism. StarOffice or OpenOffice.org are no panacea when you're trying to do difficult things; they're a long way from perfect, translations are 90% rather than 100% there in general and, for good measure, they're terribly slow. Alastair -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE91AZrdasIDb/2nMwRAobqAKCKNRgJFkbzUL6ZspKLocKZtkLdVwCbBdl+ KRr9L8wz9G0CYO31Lblnelc= =F06I -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] iMac and 8.2 PPC
I just tried installing the PPC version of ML 8.2 on my early iMac. Aside from the video driver problem which I think can be fixed after install I am getting a partitioning error. The dialog box complains that 1 meg is not available for a boot partition (or something like that) and says installation will continue. I am then returned to the partitioning dialog box and the cycle begins again. I have formatted the drive as MacOS 8.0 and booted to the ML 8.2 install cd. Any help is appreciated. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sort of on-topic
Ditto here. I've bought their stuff in the past, and when they called me at home, I had a very enjoyable conversation with them about software--just as if they were family. Ultimately, I don't use they software because I've been using Adobe stuff for years and years and I wasn't into learning something new. But this is one company that puts out a great product at a great price, and genuinely seem like good people. I'd like to see these guys do well. (And see more companies like them!) Miark On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:33:16 -0500 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have purchased (and sometimes used! :-P ) Serif's products ever since they made a free version that installed from one floppy disk. It seems that whenever I get a call from one of their telemarketers, they are amazed at how long I have been a customer and begin to treat me like I am part of their family. Of course, if I was 'really' a partof their family, they would give the software to me for free! Ahem! Anyway...I have always enjoyed their calls, and end up having long conversations with whomever calls me. And, no matter whether I need it or not, I always seem to break down and buy the latest and the greatest they have to offer. I declined on this lastest updated version of PagePlus 8 + PDF since I have both PagePlus 8 and Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5. The software is good, and is well worth the little that they charge for it. The kind of money they are asking for their software is what all companies should be selling at. But, their software has had its failings and idiosyncrasies,too. I think what has been most difficult for anyone in the U.S. is in learning something that is layed out differently, isn't exactly 'the norm'. Of course, we all know what 'the norm' is, especially here in the States (pissst! M$!!) I confess that after all that I have of their stuff, I never get much use out of it. It's not their fault that I have too many irons in my fire and just don't have the time to learn something new. But, Anne, this is a company that I would like to see do well. I like their attitude, their drive, and their dedication and willingness to listen to their users. I am sure that there is a very large entry in their system with all the 'ear bending' I have done with thier people over the last 8 or so years. ;-) If you are interested in graphical design for Desktop publishing and Web work, and don't need to give the output to a print beaureau (at least in the States), I think you will like their stuff. If they would let me transfer my licenses to you, I would send you the previous versions I have, just to get rid of them! :-) T - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Sort of on-topic Yesterday I had a long conversation with Ron Cox at Serif Software. If you are UK you will probably know of them, but for those who don't, they product inexpensive (by windows standards) software that does most of what the market-leading expensive software does. Their flagship is PagePlus 8 + PDF, a desktop-processing program that has excellent booklet printing (A4 folded to make A5 booklet, with pages printed in appropriate pairs), and can convert the whole to PDF. I took the opportunity to tell him that there is a need for software like theirs for Linux. This led him on to tell me that the company has now been bought back by the original programmer team, and are now free to make their own decisions about the future. They are fully aware of the greed and bad practices of M$, and of the growing awareness in the marketplace. He talked also of the increasing awareness of security issues. They are, however, still small, and the market constrains them to write for the maximum market. He said that they simply could not afford the development costs to write for Linux, much as they would like to, so they had made a conscious decision that they would write to the highest degree of standards compliance they could manage. They believe that this will ensure that their products work with any of the windows emulators. It's not the ideal answer, but I did like the degree of awareness I heard, and I think they have made the best decision they can at this stage. Meanwhile, before Christmas I intend to get Win4Lin and try it. Anne 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] Checkinstall
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:05, Peter Watson wrote: With some valuable assistance from this list I succeeded in compiling my first package from a tarball. Feeling smug I decided to try another using checkinstall. I get to the stage where checkinstall says The package will be built according to these values and lists 10 values, I press enter to accept them and then receive the following message NOT-FOUND has no SOURCES directory, Please write the path to the RPM source directory tree I have tried entering every path I can think of but I always get a repititioon of the above message but with NOT-FOUND replaced by the path I have just entered. I end up having to Ctrl-C to get out of the loop. Obviously I am too dim to understand what is meant by the SOURCE directory, can anyone help me please? TIA Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland So then I gather that you're intent on making RPM's - here's a quick link for you to check out - it's for RPM Wizard - and there's a download for Mandrake v9 http://rpmwiz.sourceforge.net/ Overall, I don't like to build RPM's - I prefer doing a TAR, then GZIP'ing the TARball, then using BZIP2 on that - makes for smaller archives and easier transport for those of us living on 56k...(grin) But, in the meantime, SOURCES would refer to the initial files that you're wanting to package up into an RPM - without the SOURCES, you're going to get an empty RPM, hence the error. Stephen -- Fri Nov 15 08:10:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. -- Burt Bacharach Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Finding Dependencies
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:45, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi All, When trying to install something I am asked for a particular file or shared object. How can I find out which package contains that file? I know of rpmfind and I use urpmi. TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver What was it asking for? Libraries? Binaries? -- Fri Nov 15 08:15:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Please stand for the National Anthem: God save our Gracious Queen! Long live our Noble Queen! God save the Queen! Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign o'er us! God save the Queen! Thank you. You may resume your seat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting started with Mandrake
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 01:49, James B. Lawton wrote: So I've downloaded the contents of the CD from ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/i586/ . Problem is, the Mandrake Directory alone is 3.8 GB and won't fit on a CD. What am I missing? I haven't been able to find documentation on this process. Any pointers would be appreciated. JBL There are three directories under Mandrake- RPM RPM2 RPM3 ...those are what comprises the CD's...so you have to segregate each folder to an individual CD. Best bet is to make CD2 and CD3 first, then assemble the CD1 stuff, along with the DOSUTILS and whatnot - double check it, then burn that to CD1. Create a bootdisk for the installation, and voila! - you're done! Hope that helps! -- Fri Nov 15 08:20:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Atilla the Hub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting started with Mandrake
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 03:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You hit the wrong directory. You have to download ISO files and burn the 3 CDs. Go to ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ The ISO files are there. Download all three, and the MD5 sums file. Make sure to check all 3 sums against this file or you may get corrupted CDs when you burn them. Then open your CD burner software and pick the 'create CD from image file' option. Have fun! Scott B I stand corrupted. -- Fri Nov 15 08:20:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Atilla the Hub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help!! my HP LaserJet 5L won't stop printing the samedocument
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:59, Ongkie Singgih wrote: Dear Friends, My a.m. printer won't stop printing although I have checked there is no job left in Control Center/System/PrinterManager. Thx, Ongkie You might have garbage in the spool. Check the /var/spool/lpd folder - where you will find the name of your printer - go into that folder and you SHOULD see some print jobs in there - turn off your printer, delete the spool files, and then reboot. After reboot, turn on your printer and the garbage should be gone now. Sounds like there was a problem getting the proper driver or manager running for that printer... Stephen -- Fri Nov 15 08:25:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE/ATAPI CD-RW
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 10:46, Russell W. Behne wrote: I've been trying to get my new cd-rw running. After reading file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html I ran this command: cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s scd0 cdrom And then I checked the devices like this: # ls -l cdrom lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root4 Nov 10 18:21 cdrom - scd0 # ls -l scd0 ls: scd0: No such file or directory Now /dev/cdrom shows as a broken link to a nonextant /dev/scd0! I didn't see anything on how to create this particular device. What should I do next? Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Russ. What happens when you run the hardware wizard? (Hardwaredrake?) from the Mandrake control center - is it showing up there? Can you mount it from in there? -- Fri Nov 15 08:25:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iMac and 8.2 PPC
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 07:49, BCSoft@TowerTraining wrote: I just tried installing the PPC version of ML 8.2 on my early iMac. Aside from the video driver problem which I think can be fixed after install I am getting a partitioning error. The dialog box complains that 1 meg is not available for a boot partition (or something like that) and says installation will continue. I am then returned to the partitioning dialog box and the cycle begins again. I have formatted the drive as MacOS 8.0 and booted to the ML 8.2 install cd. Any help is appreciated. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Are you using the manual partitioning scheme, or letting Mandrake do it for you? I believe that with Mac, you're supposed to do it manually... -- Fri Nov 15 08:30:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help!! my HP LaserJet 5L won't stop printing thesamedocument
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help!! my HP LaserJet 5L won't stop printing the samedocument On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:59, Ongkie Singgih wrote: Dear Friends, My a.m. printer won't stop printing although I have checked there is no job left in Control Center/System/PrinterManager. Thx, Ongkie Another thing to bear in mind is that the printer has a sizeable internal buffer. Everything could have spooled to it and be left in memory. Try powering off the printer and turning it back on. Jordan You might have garbage in the spool. Check the /var/spool/lpd folder - where you will find the name of your printer - go into that folder and you SHOULD see some print jobs in there - turn off your printer, delete the spool files, and then reboot. After reboot, turn on your printer and the garbage should be gone now. Sounds like there was a problem getting the proper driver or manager running for that printer... Stephen -- Fri Nov 15 08:25:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln 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] is this list appropriate for setting up a mailserveron9.0?
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:21, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up a mailserveron 9.0? Although I don't remember how it started, fetchmail is running (see next section.) I checked /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it is not there. What is the best way to add it? I just updated all of my software from Mandrake, so I assume it is up to date. Best way is to edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add fetchmail -d360 (or whatever the polling interval is you desire) That forces FETCHMAIL to run as a daemon, polling at 360 seconds as per the example. [jordan@dot jordan]$ ps -ef | grep fetchmail root 26259 1 0 06:57 ?00:00:03 fetchmail -d 180 -f /etc/fetchma jordan 28509 28471 0 12:16 pts/700:00:00 grep fetchmail [jordan@dot jordan]$ Ok - well, that's showing that fetchmail is running as a daemon, polling at 180 seconds and FORCING I am a little confused on what is doing what even though I have read all of the faqs. As I see it, there are four mail things that need to be run on the Mandrake machine, but I don't know what they actually are: Mandrake - ISP Mandrake - ISP * Client (windows) - Mandrake Client (windows) - Mandrake * Being that the outbound mailing is rather simple, it would appear as though you might have something mucked up in your outbound configs. Postfix or Sendmail might need to be double checked for configuration. Those with an asterix work, the others used to work. I would love to know what the names of each one are. Let's try this as an example of how I have my fetchmail working (diagram style) (For inbound) ISPmailserver - LinuxServer (fetchmail) - mbox -- fetchmail set to remove all messages from server (For outbound using SENDMAIL) mbox - via SENDMAIL (or postfix) - ISPMailserver Windows clients use the IP of the LinuxServer as their SMTP server, and, of course, the IP of the LinuxServer as their POP3 (or IMAP if you have that running). Webmin is something I'd love to be able to use - in the three years I have been playing with Mandrake, I have never gotten it to work. I don't remember using fetchmailconf (I think I was following an installation procedure on the web and edited the files by hand.) You can start FETCHMAILCONF from a terminal or from a RUN command in your WM - it's rather straightforward. Using WebMin (assuming it's installed on your system) is easy. Just open up a browser, type in: localhost:1 and hit enter. If you got it installed, it will pop up a login page. If you don't, well, it won't! -- Fri Nov 15 08:30:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Packet shaper
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 8:43 pm, Wilson, Jack wrote: My boss denied my request for the funds for a packer shaper. Can Mandrake provide some level of packet shaping? Thanks Jack As usual the answer is yes. http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/howto/2.4routing.html Google is your friend. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KSPREAD AND GKRELLM MEMORY USAGE
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 01:43, John Richard Smith wrote: I use kspread on a daily basis. I have often felt the length of time it takes to load Kspread files and display the data,as compared with other spread sheet programmes it takes 10 times as long.One kspread file of just 105kb takes 20 seconds on my most powerful computer. Hithertoo I had always assumed kspread had a terrific memory usage as compared to other spread sheet programmes. After installing gkrellm and lm_sensors I am not so sure. Is it possible that kspread might be denighed memory/cpu usage to accomplish the task. Gkrellm , the graphical display programme seems to show little demand upon memory/cpu by kspread as compared to other tasks such as transfering very large files(650mb) from one partition to another where both cpu and memory usage rockets. Could low levels of memory/cpu usage be an explanation for length of time kspread requires to load and display files ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've often found (on both RedHat, Slackware and now Mandrake) that the KOffice applications tend to take their merry-old-time starting up - that is, prior to tweaking the entire system overall. I've had to rebuild the kernel, tweak the HD settings, the video settings and the likes before applications such as either KOffice and StarOffice act nicely - keep in mind the amount of resource each of those applications has to use in order to not just display a nice GUI to you, but to actually function as a proper program. After tweaking, it takes mere seconds on my test workstation for an application like KSpread to open up (it's a 733mhz w/ 256mb RAM and a build-in TNT2 NVIDIA card with 32mb of RAM set aside in BIOS) - but performs quite nicely when tuned!) -- Fri Nov 15 08:45:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Sauron is alive in Argentina! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hp 3420 usb printer blues
I have been using MD 9.0 without a printer because I have no idea how to get mine working. One of the reasons I choose MD 9.0 was because of its improved usb support. When I installed the distribution it correctly found my printer and set it up as a usb device. It did a few steps and then choose a driver. It unfortunately didn't work. The problem I am having is how to debug whats wrong. 1. Is it a usb problem? 2. Is it a problem of the printing system cups et al.? 3. Is it a driver problem?? I saw that there were updates for the printing system and drivers I installed them but I don't see anywhere a driver specific to my printer. THE QUESTION IS WHERE DO I START?! Thanks in advance, Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 03:38, Mike M wrote: How do I remove myself from the list? I can't handle 200 emails an hour anymore. =/ You should be able to type REMOVE in the subject line... -- Fri Nov 15 08:50:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 It's a very *__UN*lucky week in which to be took dead. -- Churchy La Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 / EBDA boot error on extended drive
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 07:20, Michael wrote: My wife just installed Mandrake 9.0, dual boot, on her Win 98 box. After the install, which went fine, everytime she tries to boot from the harddrive she gets an error message saying EBDA too big, and it fails. When she boots from the floppy, it works fine. Her system has a 6Gb harddrive with an extended 80Gb drive, which is operated through the BIOS and which Mandrake did recognize during the install. Does anyone have any ideas on how to appraoch this? Michael That's a strange one - but has she tried re-running lilo from a command line after booting into linux? That would be the first shot to take... -- Fri Nov 15 08:50:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 It's a very *__UN*lucky week in which to be took dead. -- Churchy La Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Ethernet
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:22, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to use both my modem and my ethernet for internet connectivity. I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 1800-S204) and at work I use the built in ethernet card to get on the internet via windows, but I want to start using linux. At home I have dial-up and I have a modem card installed and it is detected and will connect, but I cannot do anything on the net. I guess the question is can linux be set up to know to use either/or for the net? Thanks. -Matt After setting up a PPP dialer connection, you should be able to surf in style - is the ethernet setup for DHCP or static IP? -- Fri Nov 15 08:55:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the president of American Telephone and Telegraph Company. -- Alan Turing on the possibilities of a thinking machine, 1943. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE/ATAPI CD-RW
Russell W. Behne wrote: I've been trying to get my new cd-rw running. After reading file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html I ran this command: cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s scd0 cdrom And then I checked the devices like this: # ls -l cdrom lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root4 Nov 10 18:21 cdrom - scd0 # ls -l scd0 ls: scd0: No such file or directory Now /dev/cdrom shows as a broken link to a nonextant /dev/scd0! I didn't see anything on how to create this particular device. What should I do next? Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Russ. Gutten Tag, Russell, All linux writer programmes require scsi-emulation. To achieve this first add to /etc/lilo.conf in the append line, something like hdc=ide-scsi, save and exit. eg here is mine, append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi note, this is for both my dvdrom and cdwriter which I have master and slave on ide2 line yours is different so alter accordingly. then run /sbin/lilo which will confim it likes your changes logout and login then in a terminal type , cdrecord -scanbus, this is mine. Cdrecord 1.11a19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-116 ' '1.22' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-48X9TE ' '1.0C' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * which confirms you now have scsi-emulation for your writer and in my case the dvdrom as well. If you want an icon on desktop, rightmouse click down to create new cdrom device and in the properties of that icon point the device to the /dev/scd0 (1) ? I hope this clarifies things a bit, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
