Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 9.0 e java
Il dom, 2003-01-05 alle 15:57, Sandro Porrazzini ha scritto: Prova con la 1.4 - va bene. La trovi sull'ultimo numero di Computer Magazine Ciao Sandro Scusa, volevo dire Linux Magazine e non Computer Magazine Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 9.0 on Pentium III - 733 Mhz Linux User # 203143 Linux Machine # 175781
[newbie-it] Mozilla messenger.....
Salve picciotti, non riesco a capire perchè quando cerco di madare una mail con più di un allegato, o comunque cerco di navigare mentre scarico la posta (Uso Mozilla), mi si impalla il modem, tiene la linea con il server ma non riceve ne invia byte. La disconnessione è impossibile sono brutalmete riavviando X ( ctr + alt + backspace). Avevo pensato si trattasse del server, ( impossibile con linux che una semplice operazione diventi impossibile da eseguire ) e invece l'outlook di Windows mi ha inviato le stesse mail con lo stesso provider senza alcun problema! Qualcuno può suggerirmi di cosa si potrebbe trattare? Vi ringrazio e baciamo le mani a tutti pari! Versione Linux: Mandrake 9.0, Mozilla in dotazione Modem: conexant hsf 56k PC: Intel PIII 866 mhz, 128mb ram
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 9.0 e java
Salve a tutti, io ho installato la versione 1.4.0 della J2SDK nella cartella /opt e ho creato il corretto link simbolico nella directory dei plugin di mozilla ma non ho assolutamente la facoltà di avvalermi di tale plugin. Che il problema sia nel fatto che non ho aggiunto la cartella degli eseguibili java alla mia path? Se si, come faccio a farlo (ho provato ad aggiungere la riga: PATH:$PATH:/opt/j2sdk1.4.0_01/bin al file /etc/profile per rendere la modifica globalmente riconosciuta (a tutti gli utenti) ma non ho avuto alcun risultato)
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 9.0 e java
--- Tommaso [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Salve a tutti, io ho installato la versione 1.4.0 della J2SDK nella cartella /opt e ho creato il corretto link simbolico nella directory dei plugin di mozilla ma non ho assolutamente la facoltà di avvalermi di tale plugin. Che il problema sia nel fatto che non ho aggiunto la cartella degli eseguibili java alla mia path? Se si, come faccio a farlo (ho provato ad aggiungere la riga: PATH:$PATH:/opt/j2sdk1.4.0_01/bin al file /etc/profile per rendere la modifica globalmente riconosciuta (a tutti gli utenti) ma non ho avuto alcun risultato) Esperienza personale : fai prima a copiare i plugin di java nei plugins di mozilla...ppoi funziona tutto Ciao = Giovanni A. Coan Medico chirurgo V. Aldo Moro,5 40036 Monzuno (BO) [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Cellulari: scarica i loghi e le suonerie per le tue feste! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con pacchetti rpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniele Micci wrote: Alle 17:46, venerdì 3 gennaio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti! Sono un utente linux da soli 2 mesi e ho un problema con i pacchetti rpm. Fino a 1 settimana fa funzionava tutto, ma da oggi quando avvio il file rpm da kde o da terminale mi chiude la finestra di dialogo mentre fa il controllo delle dipendenze, premetto che qualche giorno fa ho installato solamente delle librerie libmng da rpm e ora non va con nessun pacchetto. Vi ringrazio e spero di risolvere questo problema! Ciao, prova a verificare che non si sia ingarbugliato il database dei pacchetti rpm. Dalla console di root, prova a digitare: rpm --rebuilddb quindi vedi se riesci a portare a termine l'installazione dei pacchetti che desideri. Daniele Grazie mille per l'aiuto, ho provato a fare come mi hai detto ma di dà lo stesso problema, pensi che è meglio reinstallare tutto? La libreria libmng è installata di default all'inizio quando installi il sistema operativo linux perchè serve al sistema X window, e i window manager per il sistema grafico sono KDE, Gome ecc. e queste librerie servono appunto a KDE perchè a loro volta servono alle librerie qt. Si può ipotizzare qualcosa ma non penso che il database centri, prova per il momento a digitare da root la seguente riga di comando e preferibilmente in modalità testo senza entrare nel sistema X window: # rpm -qa | grep libmng I file elencati da questa interrogazione al database sono quelli che hai installato ? Giuseppe
Re: [newbie-it] usb storage
--- Sandro Porrazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Il dom, 2003-01-05 alle 14:56, Giovanni Coan ha scritto: Grazie, ho seguito tutti i vostri consigli e adesso ho /dev/sda1...Però quando provo di montarlo con il comando mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera ottengo come risposta /dev/sda1 non un dispositivo a blocchi valido Cosa devo fare? Vorrei tanto vedere la mia fotocamera... Il mount lo fai come root? Sì Inoltre prova anche con sda2, ecc. Ci ho provato, ma la risposta è la stessa...QUalcuno sa dirmi come fare o almeno perchè questa risposta? Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 9.0 on Pentium III - 733 Mhz Linux User # 203143 Linux Machine # 175781 = Giovanni A. Coan Medico chirurgo V. Aldo Moro,5 40036 Monzuno (BO) [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Cellulari: scarica i loghi e le suonerie per le tue feste! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
Re: [newbie-it] usb storage
Il lun, 2003-01-06 alle 18:09, Giovanni Coan ha scritto: Inoltre prova anche con sda2, ecc. Ci ho provato, ma la risposta è la stessa...QUalcuno sa dirmi come fare o almeno perchè questa risposta? Ciao Sandro Scusa, fai un'ulteriore prova: come device dai sda - senza nessun numero dopo. Altrimenti non mi viene più niente in mente (per ora). Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 9.0 on Pentium III - 733 Mhz Linux User # 203143 Linux Machine # 175781
Re: [newbie-it] modem Lucent
Il modem è di un ACER TravelMate 525 TX. Modem: Lucent Technologies Soft Modem AMR ubicato su Driver WDM per acceleratore audio Ali (Ali). (a detta di xp) come periferica pci è riconosciuto (se cosi si puo dire) cosi: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 1010 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at 8220 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Suppongo che sia integrato con scheda audio (considerando che non ho mai avuto a che fare con portatili). Qualcuno in lista ha fatto funzionare sto modem? anche se ne dubito,visto che è un AMR! Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con pacchetti rpm
Alle 01:48, lunedì 6 gennaio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Fino a 1 settimana fa funzionava tutto, ma da oggi quando avvio il file rpm da kde o da terminale mi chiude la finestra di dialogo mentre fa il controllo delle dipendenze, premetto che qualche giorno fa ho installato solamente delle librerie libmng da rpm e ora non va con nessun pacchetto. Vi ringrazio e spero di risolvere questo problema! Ciao, prova a verificare che non si sia ingarbugliato il database dei pacchetti rpm. Dalla console di root, prova a digitare: rpm --rebuilddb quindi vedi se riesci a portare a termine l'installazione dei pacchetti che desideri. Daniele Grazie mille per l'aiuto, ho provato a fare come mi hai detto ma di dà lo stesso problema, pensi che è meglio reinstallare tutto? Ciao, il bello di Linux (fra le tante altre cose) è che di solito non esiste un sistema irrecuperabile: basta saper dove mettere le mani ed avere un po' di pazienza per riuscire a rimettere le cose a posto senza dover reinstallare per ogni scemata (come in quell'altro sistema operativo di cui non ricordo più il nome... ;) ). Però, nonostante io utilizzi Linux da un paio di anni, non ho ancora avuto il tempo e il modo di approfondirne troppo la conoscenza, quindi non so aiutarti. Spero che qualcuno in lista più esperto di me sappia esserti d'aiuto! Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
Re: [newbie-it] usb storage
Scusa, fai un'ulteriore prova: come device dai sda - senza nessun numero dopo. Altrimenti non mi viene più niente in mente (per ora). Ciao Sandro Mi dice : /dev/sda non un dispositivo di blocchi valido. Ciao e grazie mille per l'interessamento. Giovanni __ Yahoo! Cellulari: scarica i loghi e le suonerie per le tue feste! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
[newbie-it] Latex!
Buon Giorno alla ML!!
Non preoccupatevi, questo non è lo stesso messaggio di alcune settimane fa, è
solo che non ho molta fantasia :-(
Ho la tesi sul tavolo, pronta ad essere rilegata, ma non sono ancora in salvo.
Adesso mi sono messo a creare (sempre con latex) i lucidi, per quando dovrò
esporrema mi sono inbattuto in alcune difficoltà.
Prima su tutte la mia incapacità nel trovare un manuale specifico per la
creazione di slide con latex (sono sicuro che tra la documentazione ci deve
essere, ma non riesco a trovarlo...)
Secondo ho un problema specifico con un comando:
\begin{dinglist}{70}
\end{dinglist}
non riesco a trovarlo descritto da nessuna parte (il nome del comando mi è
stato tramandato da un sempai), ed in particolare non riesco a trovare la
lista dei simboli
Grazie a tutti!
Nicola
--
Solo gli adulti hanno difficolta' con i tappi a prova di bambino.
Re: [newbie-it] usb storage
Sandro Porrazzini wrote: Il lun, 2003-01-06 alle 18:09, Giovanni Coan ha scritto: Inoltre prova anche con sda2, ecc. Ci ho provato, ma la risposta è la stessa...QUalcuno sa dirmi come fare o almeno perchè questa risposta? Ciao Sandro Scusa, fai un'ulteriore prova: come device dai sda - senza nessun numero dopo. Altrimenti non mi viene più niente in mente (per ora). Ciao Sandro Prova questo comando da root con camera digitale collegata al computer: # tail -f /var/log/messages dovresti poter leggere un messaggio tipo: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver ... la tua macchina dovrebbe venire registrata e agganciata come device sda per esempio. Allora il problema è solo nel montare bene il dispositivo sul tuo filesystem e questo output ti è di aiuto a farlo. Se però, come penso, non viene riconosciuta allora usa quest'altro comando sempre da root: # lsusb avrai diversi output e se compare una Device con ID e magari un nome produttore che sembra essere quello della tua fotocamera il problema è ancora facilmente risolvibile. Se invece all'output del comando suddetto non trovi nessuna informazione relativamente alla tua fotocamera allora dovresti cominciare a preoccuparti a meno che non trovi una bravo hacker. Se farai in tempo ad acquistare la rivista Linux Pratico di Dicembre 2002 (speciale fotografia) che forse ancora è reperibile in edicola c'è un articolo esaustivo di come poter configurare una fotocamera non supportata dal kernel, inoltre troverai i tre CD dell'ultima versione di RedHat Linux 8.0 che è bello averla e provarla. Spero di esserti stato di aiuto. Ciao da Giuseppe.
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
james Mellema wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:49, walt wrote: Actually the only thing republicans are doing is creating an unnecessary war but that has nothing to do with linux.. besides, Linux users must be left wing liberal Democrats because they don't follow the norm.. Walt Whose is Norm? I vote for: KDE, libertarian, mechanist, Alaskan ANWAR oil exploration. May I as a list member on a dial-up connection with limited mail box space ask WhoTF Norm is and WhyTF politics are doing on a linux list? Come on guys answer a few questions or take your non-linux stuff off list Hylton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Archives
Chris wrote: On Saturday 04 January 2003 11:21 am, Todd Slater decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: The list does not provide that feature. Todd So, if I'm looking to see how to access my new Sony MVC-CD250 digital camera I have to search through the entire archives? Basically, yes cos Mandrake or anyone else with a permanent Internet connection doesn't support the feature of doing an email query of the archives for MVC-CD250. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis
Steve Jeppesen wrote: I had heard a cast member was going to be killed off...from the looks of it Will was going to be it. LOL I actually cried when that cast member was finished off! Did you notice who made guest appearances? Odd I must say the least and one of them did not even have any lines in the movie. Steve On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:25:39 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got home. Will was a little older and broader, but in remarkably good shape considering how often he's fired at Anne Can we please take this VERY OT S _ _ T off the linux list?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel problem
Hi all I have a problem with the shmat() function. It works correctly when one doesn't specify an address where the segment should be attached, but fails when one does. To specify an address it must be alligned and I did by using __attribute__ (aligned()). Still the function fails. My question is what is the most effective way for a solution to this problem. Thanks Dirk _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 20:55, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP NO, I'm busy. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I finally did it!!
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 05 January 2003 10:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: funny you should mention that I'm having much the same message too. I don't think mplayer is instyalling right with M9.0 , don't know the reason yet. I'm beginning to suspect the compiler. but I had no problems with the DVD ROM on this computer under windows. oh well, back to optimizing my machine... Walt John I've got a faster 'puter now (AMD XP2100) but I had Mplayer running just fine on my 900 mhz Athlon and my sons' 850 mhz Duron. What CPU/mem are you using? CPU 1800 athlon, 512mb ddr memory Incidentally, this very same computer has dual linux booting, and on M8.2 which also has mplayer installed everything works fine, though I did compile with the mandated gcc compiler of the time, not the standard gcc on M8.2 Whereas I used the standard gcc compiler that comes with M9.0 Now I'm not saying it is the compiler, but it's one posibility, choice of video driver maybe something here , I don't know, I do know mplayer itself will play but only without an index scan, but gmplayer will not play properly at all and only then with no index scan option and I get the error message about video stream too slow, which it is , although in my case it does not lag behind the audio stream, it just stops momentarily and then proceeds. Remember this is all going on in M9.0 , but over in M8.2 all is fine, though it is an earlier version of mplayer installed there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I finally did it!! -OT
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:57 am, John Richard Smith wrote: The only moment of slight uplift I have ever received from them,just once, when my youngest daughter once said , back at school, where all there equipement is windblows, and where painshop pro is the norm, my daughter said she met a school teacher today who said he wished her could install linux because he thought gimp was a better programme and he would of liked to show my daughter how to use it to do a certain task which he said it did much better than Paintshop pro did. But if I had said the same she would not of believed me, indeed she actually said to him , well my father uses gimp all the time, and he said why don't you ask him to show you how to use it. But she never does. So install Gimp for windows on her computer, and show her how easily she can do something. It looks identical, to me. I think this is one of the great bridging tools. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: SV: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 12:54 am, Jason Greenwood wrote: LOL can also be lots of laughs Don't forget: iirc = if I recall correctly BOFH = Bastard Operator from Hell AFAIK = As Far as I Know Can't remember from yesterday - old age, doncha know :) - have we had FWIW = for what it's worth ? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 3:33 am, Richard Babcock wrote: They what? You gave it away! I haven't seen that movie yet! ;-) R Gerraway - how many years is it? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)
I know where you're coming from Russ. I've been the (unwilling) appointed Fix my computer, please guy in the family/circle of friends. Up until about a month ago I ran a dual boot system which (much to my dismay) ended up being used as a Windows machine. Finally, after having my moments of wanting to throw the computer out the window, I upgraded my hardware and re-installed 9.0 which, for the most part, I'm happy with. (I do agree with some of his points on 9.0's shortcomings but by all means not all... especially his gripe with package selection. If he'd used the full list instead of the groupings he wouldn't have had the problem and it's clearly marked). The learning curve is the issue that is the hardest to deal with when trying to pitch a GNU/Linux distribution. My first home computer was a small keyboard looking thing that had BASIC commands as functions of the keyboard and hooked up to the Television. I've gone through an Atari 5400, a Comodore 64 (still, by all rights a great machine in its time) the introduction of DOS, an Apple IIe, all the way up to modern computers. Though up until the last year and a half or so my *nix experience was VERY LIMITED, I picked up on it fairly quickly for someone steeped in Windows. My whole outlook on computers is that if you don't know how they work, you shouldn't own one, plain and simple, until you LEARN. I don't know how many tech support calls I've received from friends who didn't even know what Windows Explorer was, what a driver was, what a dos prompt was, or even how to empty the recycle bin. On the other hand computers have become ubiquitous in our society and some knowledge of at least how to point and click your way through a basic system is needed, so I've tried to go a little easier on people. Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway, and the like along with Windows have made it pretty easy to get a pre-installed system and get going which is both good and bad for users. Good because they can use a computer but bad because they don't understand how they do what they do. Herein lies the problem with switching to a *nix system. Even the best graphical system requires at least a basic knowledge of the command line. Mandrake's come SO CLOSE that, IMO it's the only distro I would recommend for a first time user migrating from w32, but I would not recommend it to the lady down the street who still uses a typewriter at work that just got her first machine ( a 500 dollar computer.. that's gotta have GREAT HARDWARE lol). 15 years ago, if Mandrake 9.0 was released, the world would look at Mr. Gates and laugh today because there was still a lot of the command line involved then. GNU/Linux would have soared. It was all a matter of timing. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to have real ease of use, but it can be detrimental overall when it comes to total knowledge. So the way I deal with it is, when someone wants me to fix their machine I put THEM in front of it. I make THEM fix their machine with my help. This frustrates my friends at first but in the end I have to believe that I've helped them understand computers at least a little more, and many have thanked me for it. One friend is so fed up with Windoze now that she told me when she gets a computer again, she's building it herself, reading up on which hardware she should get, sitting down with me and installing a full Mandrake system... no windows at all. (She was impressed with my machine lol.) It's been a good experience for me too. I used to be quite hard on people who didn't know what they were doing, and I've learned it's better to teach than to critisize. So, in conclusion, in my opinion, this review was poorly written, in bad taste, and detrimental to GNU/Linux. In expecting more from the distribution than from his own knowledge, the author is perpetuating the notion that Linux is hard to learn, hard to use, and hard to adapt to, and that you shouldn't need to have to learn something before you try to use it. It took me YEARS to adapt to Windows from DOS, it took me a couple months to adapt to GNU/Linux. Sorry for the novel. Jerry. On 05 Jan 2003 09:11:38 -0800 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a definite newbie to the world of Linux. I have tinkered with it in the past but always had issues that prevented me from fully jumping on board. I have been dealing with Windows since I got into computers in the early 90's. I am the guy that my friends (and their friends) call when there windows computer goes haywire (free tech support). I am no expert on Windows but I can find my way around and fix many of the common problems that pop up. I have helped friends (and myself) reinstall windows more times than I care to remember. I said the above just to show you that I am actually qualified to jump in on this thread. I bought a new hard drive for the purposes of tackling Linux again (with Mandrake9). I wanted a dual boot
Re: [newbie] HELP
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 7:55 am, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP with what problem? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 8:04 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: james Mellema wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:49, walt wrote: Actually the only thing republicans are doing is creating an unnecessary war but that has nothing to do with linux.. besides, Linux users must be left wing liberal Democrats because they don't follow the norm.. Walt Whose is Norm? I vote for: KDE, libertarian, mechanist, Alaskan ANWAR oil exploration. May I as a list member on a dial-up connection with limited mail box space ask WhoTF Norm is and WhyTF politics are doing on a linux list? Come on guys answer a few questions or take your non-linux stuff off list Hylton Or set a filter on your machine to ignore them Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 8:17 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Steve Jeppesen wrote: I had heard a cast member was going to be killed off...from the looks of it Will was going to be it. LOL I actually cried when that cast member was finished off! Did you notice who made guest appearances? Odd I must say the least and one of them did not even have any lines in the movie. Steve On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:25:39 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got home. Will was a little older and broader, but in remarkably good shape considering how often he's fired at Anne Can we please take this VERY OT S _ _ T off the linux list?? No Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT's on this list
It was never my intention to set off such a long OT, but it is harmless. For those who find it a problem it is a simple matter to set a filter that ignores such posts - correct me if I'm wrong? I do not want to be a nuisance to others, but nor should they be a nuisance to me. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 12:23 pm, Jerry wrote: My whole outlook on computers is that if you don't know how they work, you shouldn't own one, plain and simple, until you LEARN. So do you own a car? Can you pull it apart to the last screw/rivit and re-build it? Can you diagnose every smallest unusual sound? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting to the internet
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 08:20:17 +0200 Moshe Kaminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Also, is there a way to see the commands that kppp sends? Thanks, Moshe Try starting kppp from the command line instead of the menu. Many apps will show what's going on in the shell. for the rest i don't know so i'm not going to try to answer it LOL. Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re:Setting up any program
I realised when I was setting up Scanssh, that I required a gcc cc. I found the gcc but haven't opened it up yet, but after doing some reading on cc, it appears that my mandrake 9.0 didn't have a compiler. This cc is required for all the programs. In most of the programs that I've tried to install the error message is the same: checking for gcc...no checking for ccno configure:error:no acceptable cc found in $PATH If someone could point me in the right direction, I'm still trying find this compiler that's obviously needed to set up the right path. Can anyone help here? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:22, Anne Wilson wrote: It was never my intention to set off such a long OT, but it is harmless. For those who find it a problem it is a simple matter to set a filter that ignores such posts - correct me if I'm wrong? I do not want to be a nuisance to others, but nor should they be a nuisance to me. An insoluble problem, that occurs on every list at some time, I think. A bit of off-topic banter is generally good for a list in my opinion,but, in fairness, whilst it may be fine for those of us who have cable/dsl/unlimited dial-up, it is a bit of a pain for those who are paying by the minute for online time and mailbox space. David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi error (was installed/installable...)
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:30 -0600 Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)] exists Can't call method arch on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Resolve .pm line 14 Well...of course I would like to know what all this means. It means you broke it. It is caused by a bad source list. Run urpmi.removemedia for that source and then use urpmi.addmedia to create a new update source. Charles When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail. -- Abraham Maslow -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.20-2mdk -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re:Printing
I accidentally hit the wrong key and started a printing job that has 79 pages and I can not stop the printing job. I'm trying to find some reading material on it at the moment, but if anyone knows how to stop a printing job on Mandrake9.0 from the command line, please tell me, it driving me mad each time I boot up, the job starts up again. At the moment I have to keep my printer turned off, if I want to run linux. I really needs some help on this one. Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Printing
Graham Pohle wrote: I accidentally hit the wrong key and started a printing job that has 79 pages and I can not stop the printing job. I'm trying to find some reading material on it at the moment, but if anyone knows how to stop a printing job on Mandrake9.0 from the command line, please tell me, it driving me mad each time I boot up, the job starts up again. At the moment I have to keep my printer turned off, if I want to run linux. I really needs some help on this one. Graham type lpq at command line,get the job no, followed by lprm 'job no' that should do the trick. Richard G Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 12:46 pm, David Robertson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:22, Anne Wilson wrote: It was never my intention to set off such a long OT, but it is harmless. For those who find it a problem it is a simple matter to set a filter that ignores such posts - correct me if I'm wrong? I do not want to be a nuisance to others, but nor should they be a nuisance to me. An insoluble problem, that occurs on every list at some time, I think. A bit of off-topic banter is generally good for a list in my opinion,but, in fairness, whilst it may be fine for those of us who have cable/dsl/unlimited dial-up, it is a bit of a pain for those who are paying by the minute for online time and mailbox space. I totally agree - but the way to improve that problem is to encourage cropping of quotes. Sometimes we get two or even three screens of quotes to 2 lines of new material. That seriously does harm bandwidth and mailbox space. My main gripe is that 22 people have thought this harmless banter, keeping the messages very short. One person seeks to destroy that, adding nothing positive to his statement. Freedom for all, says I Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Printing
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:52 pm, Graham Pohle wrote: I accidentally hit the wrong key and started a printing job that has 79 pages and I can not stop the printing job. I'm trying to find some reading material on it at the moment, but if anyone knows how to stop a printing job on Mandrake9.0 from the command line, please tell me, it driving me mad each time I boot up, the job starts up again. At the moment I have to keep my printer turned off, if I want to run linux. I really needs some help on this one. Graham I generally remove unwanted print jobs via the WWW Cups AdminTool. Since you want a c/l, I checked the properties, and it seems to run /usr/lib/cups/scripts/cupsWebAdmin 1/dev/null 2/dev/null It's worth a try. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:50, Anne Wilson wrote: I totally agree - but the way to improve that problem is to encourage cropping of quotes. Sometimes we get two or even three screens of quotes to 2 lines of new material. That seriously does harm bandwidth and mailbox space. .and my scroll finger! David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a POP / IMAP email server on my Home Network. The idea being it grabs email from our ISP mail accounts, into our respective linux system accounts' mail (using fetchmail ?? ). The email accounts will then be accessed from windows based email clients using either POP or preferably IMAP. Is there any software which comes with mdk 9.0 that does this ?? If so, are there any help guides available for this. If not, can anyone recommend any FREE software which will do this ? I have found Qpopper in a quick google search, is this any good / easy to install configure ?? Thanks for your time, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 There are a gazillion ways of doing it in Linux. You will find a guide if you follow the link in my signature. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smtp vs. sendmail
On Sunday 05 January 2003 22:33, Todd Slater wrote: clip ??? I'm assuming you're not running a mail server on Windows. You don't need to run a mail server if you are using your ISP's mail servers (probably pop-server.kc.rr.com and smtp-server.kc.rr.com?) Check your config in K-mail and Evolution. What do you mean you made Sendmail your default? Todd I had used the ISP's mail servers but something broke in Linux. I could not set up K-mail or Evolution to link to the ISP's SMTP servers. I verified the problem was on my end by logging into Windows and using Outlook Express. After that, in a fit of desperation, I loaded up Sendmail, made it the default outgoing account in Kmail. That works. Has me stumped. I even tried uninstalling all KDE applications/core files and reinstalling. Same problem. This started when I deleted the .kde directory from my home directory. KDE was locking up on me. My son didn't have that problem when logging in as him, so I thought that something was broken in .kde. I also get a LOT of segfaults in Kmail when I change the settings for the servers. Any insights are much appreciated. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Setting up any program
On 06 Jan 2003 23:48:26 + Graham Pohle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realised when I was setting up Scanssh, that I required a gcc cc. I found the gcc but haven't opened it up yet, but after doing some reading on cc, it appears that my mandrake 9.0 didn't have a compiler. This cc is required for all the programs. In most of the programs that I've tried to install the error message is the same: checking for gcc...no checking for ccno configure:error:no acceptable cc found in $PATH If someone could point me in the right direction, I'm still trying find this compiler that's obviously needed to set up the right path. Can anyone help here? If you install the gcc-3.2-1mdk RPM you will have both gcc and cc :) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server
Thanks for this, looks like that might be the way to go. I'll have to give it a go tonight. My final email related problem is how to control access to my smtp server, using either username password, or IP restrictions. (up would be preferable, but IP is good enough). I believe I have postfix installed as the mail server. Thanks Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 13:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a POP / IMAP email server on my Home Network. The idea being it grabs email from our ISP mail accounts, into our respective linux system accounts' mail (using fetchmail ?? ). The email accounts will then be accessed from windows based email clients using either POP or preferably IMAP. Is there any software which comes with mdk 9.0 that does this ?? If so, are there any help guides available for this. If not, can anyone recommend any FREE software which will do this ? I have found Qpopper in a quick google search, is this any good / easy to install configure ?? Thanks for your time, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 There are a gazillion ways of doing it in Linux. You will find a guide if you follow the link in my signature. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing mdk rpm's
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:06, Anne Wilson wrote: So if I locate the desired icon, I can copy it to one of these locations and it will appear in the listed available icons in menudrake? I'll try that. Anne I sometimes copy all the icons I can find to a single location - makes it easier to deal with at times. Same here. I have a number of self made icons which I copy to the same directory with each OS and use them every time.It was fun creating them, and I like my Icons to be a certain size and general shape and colours to go against background colours. That is one nice feature about linux. Personalisation. John But are they accessible when editing a menu entry? Is there some way of adding a directory to a path for this purpose? Or do you have to add them to one of the directories that the menu editor is already seeking? Anne precisely, /usr/share/icons/ They appear in the kde list , just select one of your newly made icons in menu editor and they are addopted. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Printing
Graham Pohle wrote: I accidentally hit the wrong key and started a printing job that has 79 pages and I can not stop the printing job. I'm trying to find some reading material on it at the moment, but if anyone knows how to stop a printing job on Mandrake9.0 from the command line, please tell me, it driving me mad each time I boot up, the job starts up again. At the moment I have to keep my printer turned off, if I want to run linux. I really needs some help on this one. Graham Best way to kill a print job is lpq ( to show what printjob is running) then lprm (number) y/n y enter that zaps the printjob, but everything that has reached the printer's buffer memmory has to go through regardless, one reason not to have a particularly large buffer printer memory. unfortuneately none of th gui intefaces are much good at cancelling printjobs, at least that has been my experience) John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Archives
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:07:54AM +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Chris wrote: On Saturday 04 January 2003 11:21 am, Todd Slater decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: The list does not provide that feature. Todd So, if I'm looking to see how to access my new Sony MVC-CD250 digital camera I have to search through the entire archives? Basically, yes cos Mandrake or anyone else with a permanent Internet connection doesn't support the feature of doing an email query of the archives for MVC-CD250. Here: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=andformat=shortconfig=newbie_linux-mandrake_comrestrict=exclude=words=MVC-CD250 That took about 2 seconds. Right-click the links, do a save target as, and you're looking at a couple minutes tops. Even on dial-up that shouldn't break the bank. BTW, it's not Mandrake that doesn't support email querying of the archives, it's the mailing list manager, Sympa, that doesn't support it. Also, have you tried usenet? If you can go online to get the headers, then go offline, and go back on the get only the messages you want. I applaud you for making the effort to use the archives! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this, looks like that might be the way to go. I'll have to give it a go tonight. My final email related problem is how to control access to my smtp server, using either username password, or IP restrictions. (up would be preferable, but IP is good enough). I believe I have postfix installed as the mail server. Thanks Jamie By default, Postfix relays mail: from trusted clients whose IP address matches $mynetworks, from trusted clients matching $relay_domains or subdomains thereof, from untrusted clients to destinations that match $relay_domains or subdomains thereof, except addresses with sender-specified routing. If you configure your Postfix with Webmin (Install the webmin RPM then type https://localhost:1 in a browser (NOTE https NOT http)) then you will see it is trivial to configure Postfix to restrict smtp access to named IPs Just select PostfixConfigurationSMTP Server and put list of allowed IPs in Restrict mail relaying. You can also run SMTP over SASL which is described in detail here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php It is worth taking a read of the default Postfix configuration files /etc/postfix/main.cf They are full of examples and advice. derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 13:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a POP / IMAP email server on my Home Network. The idea being it grabs email from our ISP mail accounts, into our respective linux system accounts' mail (using fetchmail ?? ). The email accounts will then be accessed from windows based email clients using either POP or preferably IMAP. Is there any software which comes with mdk 9.0 that does this ?? If so, are there any help guides available for this. If not, can anyone recommend any FREE software which will do this ? I have found Qpopper in a quick google search, is this any good / easy to install configure ?? Thanks for your time, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 There are a gazillion ways of doing it in Linux. You will find a guide if you follow the link in my signature. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi error (was installed/installable...)
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:30 -0600 Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)] exists Can't call method arch on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Resolve .pm line 14 Well...of course I would like to know what all this means. * Charles A Edwards wrote: It means you broke it. It is caused by a bad source list. Run urpmi.removemedia for that source and then use urpmi.addmedia to create a new update source. Charles * Just something on adding an update source. I discovered after removing my update source, when re-entering it by the gui method (Software Sources Manager), to be sure to tick the box for Security Updates source(not sure of exact wording) for your Update source. I mistakenly just chose ftp source for updates, and when I ran Mandrake Update, it complained of not having an ftp mirror set up, and opened a dialog for me to choose one. For contrib source I simply selected ftp . This is probably only an issue when using the gui method, and not CL. Just my observations FYI FWIW. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smtp vs. sendmail
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:19:38AM -0600, Linus Drouhard wrote: I had used the ISP's mail servers but something broke in Linux. I could not set up K-mail or Evolution to link to the ISP's SMTP servers. I verified the problem was on my end by logging into Windows and using Outlook Express. After that, in a fit of desperation, I loaded up Sendmail, made it the default outgoing account in Kmail. That works. Has me stumped. I even tried uninstalling all KDE applications/core files and reinstalling. Same problem. This started when I deleted the .kde directory from my home directory. KDE was locking up on me. My son didn't have that problem when logging in as him, so I thought that something was broken in .kde. I also get a LOT of segfaults in Kmail when I change the settings for the servers. Any insights are much appreciated. Thanks, Linus My advice is to ditch Kmail and use Sylpheed. Somebody else on the list will be better qualified to help with your KDE problems--that sounds like the place to start if you want to keep using Kmail. Your box can use sendmail to send mail, but tell me, if you are getting these mails, you must be able to connect to your ISP's server to retrieve your mail. So it's just sending that doesn't work? Off the top of my head, I'd verify that you've got the correct server for sending mail. Also, try it with requires authentication checked and then unchecked in your mail program. Let us know what happens. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server
Thanks for this, yet more ways to while away a good few hours ;) Ta, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 14:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this, looks like that might be the way to go. I'll have to give it a go tonight. My final email related problem is how to control access to my smtp server, using either username password, or IP restrictions. (up would be preferable, but IP is good enough). I believe I have postfix installed as the mail server. Thanks Jamie By default, Postfix relays mail: from trusted clients whose IP address matches $mynetworks, from trusted clients matching $relay_domains or subdomains thereof, from untrusted clients to destinations that match $relay_domains or subdomains thereof, except addresses with sender-specified routing. If you configure your Postfix with Webmin (Install the webmin RPM then type https://localhost:1 in a browser (NOTE https NOT http)) then you will see it is trivial to configure Postfix to restrict smtp access to named IPs Just select PostfixConfigurationSMTP Server and put list of allowed IPs in Restrict mail relaying. You can also run SMTP over SASL which is described in detail here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php It is worth taking a read of the default Postfix configuration files /etc/postfix/main.cf They are full of examples and advice. derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 13:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a POP / IMAP email server on my Home Network. The idea being it grabs email from our ISP mail accounts, into our respective linux system accounts' mail (using fetchmail ?? ). The email accounts will then be accessed from windows based email clients using either POP or preferably IMAP. Is there any software which comes with mdk 9.0 that does this ?? If so, are there any help guides available for this. If not, can anyone recommend any FREE software which will do this ? I have found Qpopper in a quick google search, is this any good / easy to install configure ?? Thanks for your time, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 There are a gazillion ways of doing it in Linux. You will find a guide if you follow the link in my signature. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Linux sys admin salaries in US
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 06 Jan 2003 4:50 am, Chuck Burns wrote: Unless you have lots of experience.. that means PROFESSIONAL experience.. meaning you are a already a system admin of some other company. Isn't that a catch22? It's semantic ambiguity. Does Little experience in the orginal question mean little experience as a sysadmin or little experience in working with Linux/Unix systems? In the latter case, you can probably get a job doing the donkey work, like adding user accounts or names and IP numbers of machines. With small companies who are setting up a local network, you might be able to talk yourself into an overall sysadmin/technician/trainer job. In a way, this is what I do - I'm actually an English teacher, but I run our department's computers simply by virtue of being the alpha geek. It started with fixing Windows crashes, now I run a Linux FTP/samba server and a website, and have special priveleges like being able to name all the computers after characters in The Matrix. I could never hope to be a university sysadmin, though - they have guys with PhDs to do that sort of thing. I'm not an IT professional and don't live in America, so don't take my words very seriously, though. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Printing
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Graham Pohle wrote: I accidentally hit the wrong key and started a printing job that has 79 pages and I can not stop the printing job. I'm trying to find some reading material on it at the moment, but if anyone knows how to stop a printing job on Mandrake9.0 from the command line, please tell me, it driving me mad each time I boot up, the job starts up again. At the moment I have to keep my printer turned off, if I want to run linux. I really needs some help on this one. Graham Best way to kill a print job is lpq ( to show what printjob is running) then lprm (number) y/n y enter that zaps the printjob, but everything that has reached the printer's buffer memmory has to go through regardless, one reason not to have a particularly large buffer printer memory. unfortuneately none of th gui intefaces are much good at cancelling printjobs, at least that has been my experience) John Once you have cleared the print job, you can then turn off the printer to clear its memory, leave it off for a few moments, then turn it on again. Unfortunately, some printers are picky about re-initialising properly after this, so it's trial and error to see if it works for you. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Epson 1260 photo scanner
Hi I am planning to purchase Epson 1260 Photo scanner Just asking if somebody has experience with this scanner? Is it working ok under 9,0 ? it was not listed in the mandrakes compatibility list. Kristjan - Hot Mobiil - helinad, logod ja piltsõnumid! http://portal.hot.ee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
Anne Wilson wrote: It was never my intention to set off such a long OT, but it is harmless. For those who find it a problem it is a simple matter to set a filter that ignores such posts - correct me if I'm wrong? If people remember to put OT in the header, yes. However, I'm not sure how you do it client-side to prevent the message from being downloaded in the first place, which is the real problem for people with low (and maybe expensive) bandwidth. I do not want to be a nuisance to others, but nor should they be a nuisance to me. Quite. I don't mind people requesting that a discussion should be continued elsewhere, but they should be polite about it, especially when some of the participants have paid their dues on this list enough to be allowed to indulge in a little silliness on occasion. If I recall rightly, the whole thing started with a question about KDE or GNOME - that is one subject we should definitely ban ;-) Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:26:02 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 12:23 pm, Jerry wrote: My whole outlook on computers is that if you don't know how they work, you shouldn't own one, plain and simple, until you LEARN. So do you own a car? Can you pull it apart to the last screw/rivit and re-build it? Can you diagnose every smallest unusual sound? Anne Now i didn't mean know everything .. and my wording didn't come out quite like i meant... but I'll give you a point for it, ya got me. sorry i've been up all night fixing someone else's computers again and im a little aggrevated. LOL. (I should have said WAS... that was more what i meant. We Sagittarians tend to speak before wholly thinking something out :-P). As I was trying to explain further on (unsuccessfully, i guess) is that I've more patience now with ppl who don't understand which i didn't before. As for a direct answer to the question posed, I understand enough about one to know how it works, which is what I meant about computers. But what the heck... i'm a good sport. :-) Anne 1 Jerry 0 LOL. take care. Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 2:50 pm, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:26:02 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 12:23 pm, Jerry wrote: My whole outlook on computers is that if you don't know how they work, you shouldn't own one, plain and simple, until you LEARN. So do you own a car? Can you pull it apart to the last screw/rivit and re-build it? Can you diagnose every smallest unusual sound? Anne Now i didn't mean know everything .. and my wording didn't come out quite like i meant... but I'll give you a point for it, ya got me. sorry i've been up all night fixing someone else's computers again and im a little aggrevated. LOL. (I should have said WAS... that was more what i meant. We Sagittarians tend to speak before wholly thinking something out :-P). As I was trying to explain further on (unsuccessfully, i guess) is that I've more patience now with ppl who don't understand which i didn't before. As for a direct answer to the question posed, I understand enough about one to know how it works, which is what I meant about computers. But what the heck... i'm a good sport. :-) Anne 1 Jerry 0 LOL. take care. Jerry. I understand what you mean, Jerry. It's so frustrating when someone asks for help over the phone, you say open Explorer, they say What do you mean? And yes, you get fed up with being responsible for fixing hardware that is getting less and less reliable with age, and you wouldn't even attempt what they were asking if it were yours. Just save your sanity - for some people it is merely a tool, and they just want it to work like an electric kettle. The fact that it's more complicated is not relevant to them. One said to me, I don't have to understand the physics involved to use a hammer, and that's just about it. For some of us, understanding more is an obsession, for others it's a time-waster. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:55 pm, Robin Turner wrote: If I recall rightly, the whole thing started with a question about KDE or GNOME - that is one subject we should definitely ban ;-) Or perhaps *request* that replies are restricted to pointing out that personal preference reigns, since most apps work perfectly well whichever one you choose. I think those are the two salient points. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson 1260 photo scanner
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 2:45 pm, Kristjan Klementi wrote: Hi I am planning to purchase Epson 1260 Photo scanner Just asking if somebody has experience with this scanner? Is it working ok under 9,0 ? it was not listed in the mandrakes compatibility list. If you go to the Epson web site, there is a driver called iscan. You will find a list of scanners that will work with that driver. I believe you will find the 1260 listed. Epson scanners are generally well-supported, I think, but I have no experience of one with the film-scanner add-on. I'd be interested to here confirmation that they work equally well. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting to the internet
El Lun 06 Ene 2003 03:20, Moshe Kaminsky escribió: Hi, I'm trying to understand how to connect to the internet from the X-terminal (instead of kppp). I found a script called ppp-on (for some reason it was not on the path), inserted the phone number and the other details, but I get no connection and I can't understand why. Can someone give (a pointer to) a short explanation how it is done? I tried to look in the HOWTOs, but nothing there worked. Also, is there a way to see the commands that kppp sends? Thanks, Moshe Try with 'wvdial' Install it (is included in MDk 9.0) and follow instructions in 'Readme'. file:/usr/share/doc/wvdial-1.42/Readme Suerte. Pilagá Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 4:26 pm, Daniel Segel wrote: At 12:20 PM 1/6/2003 +, Anne wrote: Or set a filter on your machine to ignore them I find this to be a poor solution for many reasons: 1. This is a *newbie* list, and some of the people on it really are newbies who have more pressing issues on their mind than how to set up such a filter. No problem has been neglected Personally, I think the ability to filter emails is an essential skill, but there you are. 2. I don't like the idea of setting up new filters every time a new OT subject pops up. So set up one that acts on all messages preceded by 'OT'. 4. If the signal:noise ration on this list goes down low enough it ceases being a worthwhile mailing list. A day or so is hardly a problem of this size. Get a sense of proportion. This is an e-mail list, not a web forum. Subscribers have no choice but to accept (or somehow process) everything that comes down the line, You could always try webmail - there you can delete anything without downloading. so please be considerate and keep the OT stuff to a minimum. Get a life, Daniel, or you'll be old before your time. BTW, thank you for cropping your quote - that's helpful. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:02:28 -0500 David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never mind about the Phoenix problem. I hate to admit it but I did the old Windows trick. I rebooted and everything is fine now. David -- -- ( )_( ) ( OO ) ( ) o ~~~ I did the trick of uninstalling. Phoenix did not like cleaning after itselt and left the processes open. I need to give them more time for developing and testing before it is worth using Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
At 12:20 PM 1/6/2003 +, Anne wrote: Or set a filter on your machine to ignore them I find this to be a poor solution for many reasons: 1. This is a *newbie* list, and some of the people on it really are newbies who have more pressing issues on their mind than how to set up such a filter. 2. I don't like the idea of setting up new filters every time a new OT subject pops up. 3. Not everybody reads mail continuously. By the time I got around to checking this list there were already 10-20 OT messages clogging up the list. 4. If the signal:noise ration on this list goes down low enough it ceases being a worthwhile mailing list. This is an e-mail list, not a web forum. Subscribers have no choice but to accept (or somehow process) everything that comes down the line, so please be considerate and keep the OT stuff to a minimum. Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:38:06PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Get a life, Daniel, or you'll be old before your time. BTW, thank you for cropping your quote - that's helpful. Anne This is getting out of hand. Don't be so defensive, Anne, nobody is attacking you. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 5:25 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:38:06PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Get a life, Daniel, or you'll be old before your time. BTW, thank you for cropping your quote - that's helpful. Anne This is getting out of hand. Don't be so defensive, Anne, nobody is attacking you. Todd Fair comment, Todd. It's just that the thread raised so many smiles, and they're always welcome in winter. I'll shut up. :) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [newbie] VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel
From: ivette brusselmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 11:16:46 +0100 I have two remote boxes, both WIN98 SE. I put both window-settings on 16 bits, but that didn't help. Didn't have this problem with MDK 8.2. My local box is dual boot W2K and MDK 9.0. VNC works perfectly on W2K. Why not on MDK 9.0.? Thanks From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel Date: 06 Jan 2003 09:06:23 +1100 On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 00:32, ivette brusselmans wrote: Still having VNC problems! MDK 9.0 when I type vncviewer in terminal and give the IPaddress of the remote box I want to administer, I get the message VNC server default format: 16 bits per pixel. Least significant byte first in each pixel True colour: mas red 31 green 63 blue 31, shift red 11 green 5 blue 0 Can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel. Sorry. When I used MDK 8.2 I didn't have this problem. Someone advised me to change color from 24 bits to 16 or 32, which I did, to no avail. Keep getting the same message about the 24 bits-per-pixel. Anyone got similar problems and a solution? Thanx I ran across this when the other machine wasn't setup properly. Have you experimented with the remote machine? What is the OS on the remote machine? -- Mon Jan 6 09:05:01 EST 2003 9:05am up 1 day, 12:13, 6 users, load average: 0.75, 0.25, 0.21 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Zoeken, voor duidelijke zoekresultaten! http://search.msn.nl/worldwide.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Zoeken, voor duidelijke zoekresultaten! http://search.msn.nl/worldwide.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I finally did it!!
On Monday 06 January 2003 07:07 am, John Richard Smith wrote: What CPU/mem are you using? CPU 1800 athlon, 512mb ddr memory Thats plenty enough umph. Incidentally, this very same computer has dual linux booting, and on M8.2 which also has mplayer installed everything works fine, though I did compile with the mandated gcc compiler of the time, not the standard gcc on M8.2 Whereas I used the standard gcc compiler that comes with M9.0 I used the forbidden compiler by using the ignore compiler option and Mplayer worked fine under 8.2 for me, with a 900mhz/384 meg machine. Now I'm not saying it is the compiler, but it's one posibility, choice of video driver maybe something here , I don't know, I do know mplayer itself will play but only without an index scan, but gmplayer will not play properly at all and only then with no index scan option and I get the error message about video stream too slow, which it is , although in my case it does not lag behind the audio stream, it just stops momentarily and then proceeds. Remember this is all going on in M9.0 , but over in M8.2 all is fine, though it is an earlier version of mplayer installed there. John I'm using the same version of Mplayer under 9.0 here, albeit a faster/better machine - but it works fine. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
On January 6, 2003 06:55 am, Robin Turner wrote: snip If people remember to put OT in the header, yes. However, I'm not sure how you do it client-side to prevent the message from being downloaded in the first place, which is the real problem for people with low (and maybe expensive) bandwidth. If the OT gets too frequent; as it sometimes does on one of the lists I'm subscribed to, I just activate an OT pop filter in K-Mail and it never leaves the mail server. Usually (once a week or thereabouts) I'll use the ISP's web-mail interface and delete the 'download later' messages after browsing through them for any interesting tidbits. I do not want to be a nuisance to others, but nor should they be a nuisance to me. I'd never characterize Anne as any sort of nuisance. The occasional OT on this list is nearly always fun; at least until some list Nazi gets a wild hair across his arse. Quite. I don't mind people requesting that a discussion should be continued elsewhere, but they should be polite about it, especially when some of the participants have paid their dues on this list enough to be allowed to indulge in a little silliness on occasion. Total agreement. If I recall rightly, the whole thing started with a question about KDE or GNOME - that is one subject we should definitely ban ;-) That was one. Another was a (sort of) reference to a tag at the end of a post mentioning that I was going to see Star Trek Nemesis on opening night. I dropped the subject in deference to others that hadn't seen it yet, but wanted to, so I wouldn't spoil it for them. I didn't think much of the movie BTW. I'm glad it wasn't my money that paid admission for it. g Sir Robin Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Smile! You're on Candid Camera. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount/devfs/v9.0 question.
On Monday 06 January 2003 06:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It's simple to disable on specific devices from MCC. I think that all it's doing is removing 'supermount' from fstab and replacing it with 'auto' - but I can't be sure there's nothing else, so I go the gui way. Anne Hi Anne! Thanks for the reply. Actually, I kinda knew that - what I was really looking for (and trying to avoid, so I wouldn't lose it) was whatever controls the hot plug 'n play for USB devices. Guess I really didn't word my question right. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount/devfs/v9.0 question.
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 6:18 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 06:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It's simple to disable on specific devices from MCC. I think that all it's doing is removing 'supermount' from fstab and replacing it with 'auto' - but I can't be sure there's nothing else, so I go the gui way. Anne Hi Anne! Thanks for the reply. Actually, I kinda knew that - what I was really looking for (and trying to avoid, so I wouldn't lose it) was whatever controls the hot plug 'n play for USB devices. Guess I really didn't word my question right. :-) I have no supermount any more on my LS120 - accidental, but there you are. The point I was trying to make, was that whether there is any risk in a wholesale disabling of supermount or not, disabling supermount specific derives certainly doesn't affect it. HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount/devfs/v9.0 question.
On Monday 06 January 2003 01:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have no supermount any more on my LS120 - accidental, but there you are. The point I was trying to make, was that whether there is any risk in a wholesale disabling of supermount or not, disabling supermount specific derives certainly doesn't affect it. HTH Anne Sure does, thanks! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Printing
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Graham Pohle wrote: I accidentally hit the wrong key and started a printing job that has 79 pages and I can not stop the printing job. I'm trying to find some reading material on it at the moment, but if anyone knows how to stop a printing job on Mandrake9.0 from the command line, please tell me, it driving me mad each time I boot up, the job starts up again. At the moment I have to keep my printer turned off, if I want to run linux. I really needs some help on this one. Graham Best way to kill a print job is lpq ( to show what printjob is running) then lprm (number) y/n y enter that zaps the printjob, but everything that has reached the printer's buffer memmory has to go through regardless, one reason not to have a particularly large buffer printer memory. unfortuneately none of th gui intefaces are much good at cancelling printjobs, at least that has been my experience) John Have you tried the CupsWWWadmin tool? It's not the best way to configure a printer, but for monitoring and cancelling print jobs I find it excellent. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
we all need help Aaron On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:55, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
After reading the 'Which is better: KDE or GNOME?' thread, I feel the same way... -Original Message- From: Tomas Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 08:55:41 +0100 Subject: [newbie] HELP HELP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis
She was chunky in the first few seasons, then she started to lose weight. I think Marina Sirtis started smoking ;-) FemmeFatale wrote: At 02:47 AM 1/5/2003 -0600, you wrote: Deanna Troi was fabulous. And Will Riker grew on you. Kinda like his beard. Anyway, Deanna was great! You can instantly tell what season you're watching by looking at her bust size. *blinks...* My g/f is a fan of this series... explain... By her bust size!? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Unreal Tournament
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 05 Gener 2003 14:42, en Ronald J. Hall va escriure: On Sunday 05 January 2003 04:57 pm, Joan Tur wrote: I'll do so; thanks ;) Hey. I'm here. I'll help you any way I can. I'm not sure from the previous postings exactly what kind of problem you are having. Will it install, but won't run, or just won't install? It seems not to find the CD. As I'm using supermount (MDK9) I've tryed with and without supermount (mounting it by hand). I've run: - export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom sh ut-install-436.run - then a window appears asking me to mount the CD... so it isn't really an UT question }8-) There should be some error messages either way - send them to me (off list would prob. be better) and we'll see what we can do to get you up and running. :-) I have some doubts; what version of UT does the above installer support? The one I have shows the following info when installing: - - Product Unreal Tournament Version 400 - - THANKS again ;) PD can this game run with the new Ati drivers for linux (not only with nVidia's)?? 8-? - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Ge2Qok8j9RhtetwRAuSgAKCLd3yPddvEdKuc6eaziHBITafd2ACdHen7 nDj/g/aDUuipq3aTrlnfuUc= =ZNDU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Ati drivers for linux
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:44:23 +0100 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PD I prefer Ati to nVidia; if the answer to the question above is yes I'll sell my Radeon 7000 and buy a brand new 9000 ;) Sorry. The answer is still no. They both will work for UT in win but in linux only the NVIDIA drivers provide the necessary API. Charles If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter. -- Freeman Dyson -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.20-2mdk -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:16, ivette brusselmans wrote: I have two remote boxes, both WIN98 SE. I put both window-settings on 16 bits, but that didn't help. Didn't have this problem with MDK 8.2. Thanks Well this is rather strange. I'm using the Bell Labs VNC (the real one) on Windows machines and a Mac and I've only set the default options on all (except for the password) and have no problems in connecting other than it momentarily disables the remote computers' wallpaper. I have not changed the resolutions nor the color depth settings on any of the machines, nor do I change the settings on customers machines - and with my setup, I have done literally nothing special with VNC other than to use it. Have you made any modifications to the VNC default settings on the linux box? -- Tue Jan 7 07:55:00 EST 2003 7:55am up 2 days, 11:03, 6 users, load average: 0.54, 0.35, 0.35 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * Doing gets it done. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 22:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a POP / IMAP email server on my Home Network. The idea being it grabs email from our ISP mail accounts, into our respective linux system accounts' mail (using fetchmail ?? ). The email accounts will then be accessed from windows based email clients using either POP or preferably IMAP. Is there any software which comes with mdk 9.0 that does this ?? If so, are there any help guides available for this. If not, can anyone recommend any FREE software which will do this ? I have found Qpopper in a quick google search, is this any good / easy to install configure ?? Thanks for your time, Jamie Fetchmail in conjunction with POSTFIX will resolve this issue for you. You already have both programs/servers installed - just a matter of configuration now. -- Tue Jan 7 08:00:01 EST 2003 8:00am up 2 days, 11:08, 6 users, load average: 1.01, 0.46, 0.38 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
In reply to Stephen's mail, d.d. 07 Jan 2003 07:54:33 +1100: On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 18:55, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP Er, what's wrong? The e-mail address. HELP is a command for [EMAIL PROTECTED] for instruction on using the mailing list features. Paul -- The worker and the thinker and the giver always go ahead. That is the sure way to success. -Norman Vincent Peale http://nlpagan.net - OS:Linux Mandrake 8.2 - E-mail:Sylpheed 0.8.8 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 05:38, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 06 Jan 2003 4:26 pm, Daniel Segel wrote: At 12:20 PM 1/6/2003 +, Anne wrote: Or set a filter on your machine to ignore them I find this to be a poor solution for many reasons: 1. This is a *newbie* list, and some of the people on it really are newbies who have more pressing issues on their mind than how to set up such a filter. No problem has been neglected Personally, I think the ability to filter emails is an essential skill, but there you are. 2. I don't like the idea of setting up new filters every time a new OT subject pops up. So set up one that acts on all messages preceded by 'OT'. LOL, But this one isn't listed as 'OT' -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
On Monday 06 January 2003 07:55, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP - i need somebody! HELP! not just anybody! HELP! you know i need someone! HEEELP! ... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SV: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
1. This is a *newbie* list, and some of the people on it really are newbies who have more pressing issues on their mind than how to set up such a filter. No problem has been neglected Personally, I think the ability to filter emails is an essential skill, but there you are. I agree with Anne here completly, filtering your email is basic and furthermore it is necissary as it makes your emaillife easier. Considering that I get 150 emails or so each day (I don't read them all but being on tonnes of mailinglists that is what you get) I couldn't plow throw them without filters. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Ati drivers for linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 06 Gener 2003 22:01, en Charles A Edwards va escriure: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:44:23 +0100 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PD I prefer Ati to nVidia; if the answer to the question above is yes I'll sell my Radeon 7000 and buy a brand new 9000 ;) Sorry. The answer is still no. They both will work for UT in win but in linux only the NVIDIA drivers provide the necessary API. Bad news 8( Thanks anyway ;) - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+GfUNok8j9RhtetwRAg6VAJ4moQrFNN3crrURDxWAvKLtsc8HgwCcCxsC sQrmfEMeoFpkUVlqT51WK+Q= =6hqV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Unreal Tournament
On Monday 06 January 2003 03:56 pm, Joan Tur wrote: It seems not to find the CD. As I'm using supermount (MDK9) I've tryed with and without supermount (mounting it by hand). I've run: export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom sh ut-install-436.run then a window appears asking me to mount the CD... so it isn't really an UT question }8-) I have some doubts; what version of UT does the above installer support? The one I have shows the following info when installing: - Product Unreal Tournament Version 400 - THANKS again ;) PD can this game run with the new Ati drivers for linux (not only with nVidia's)?? 8-? TBH, I've just gotten 9.0 installed on my new computer and have not had the time (yet) to re-install all my old favorite games. Over the next couple of days I'll try to install UT here - and see what happens. I'll keep you updated. BTW, did you get that other e-mail from the mailing list? Someone said that they thought UT would not work with ATI but only Nvidia. :-( Hopefully, they are mistaken. I'll get back to you soon. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] solution VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel
Found out what the problem was! Reinstalled Mandrake 9.0. and when detecting the monitor, the installation program put the resolution on 24 pixels. I changed this manually to 16 pixels, and VNC worked inmediately. Didn't have to do with the remote machines but with the MDK9.0. box. Thanx for your effort anyway!! From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel Date: 07 Jan 2003 07:59:43 +1100 On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:16, ivette brusselmans wrote: I have two remote boxes, both WIN98 SE. I put both window-settings on 16 bits, but that didn't help. Didn't have this problem with MDK 8.2. Thanks Well this is rather strange. I'm using the Bell Labs VNC (the real one) on Windows machines and a Mac and I've only set the default options on all (except for the password) and have no problems in connecting other than it momentarily disables the remote computers' wallpaper. I have not changed the resolutions nor the color depth settings on any of the machines, nor do I change the settings on customers machines - and with my setup, I have done literally nothing special with VNC other than to use it. Have you made any modifications to the VNC default settings on the linux box? -- Tue Jan 7 07:55:00 EST 2003 7:55am up 2 days, 11:03, 6 users, load average: 0.54, 0.35, 0.35 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * Doing gets it done. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Ontvang je Hotmail Messenger berichten op je mobiele telefoon met Hotmail SMS http://www.msn.nl/jumppage/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 9:07 pm, Michael Adams wrote: So set up one that acts on all messages preceded by 'OT'. LOL, But this one isn't listed as 'OT' Touche - but any topic can go OT, so I guess there's no answer to that. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Ati drivers for linux
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:28:45 +0100 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry. The answer is still no. They both will work for UT in win but in linux only the NVIDIA drivers provide the necessary API. Bad news 8( I need to amend myself. UT2003 will only work with the NVIDIA drivers. Can't say for sure about Loki UT. I've got a copy around somewhere. I'll try installing it tomorrow on 1 of my ati boxes tomorrow and let you know how it runs. I picked up it, Decent3, and SOF sometime back from EB for $8 apiece. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] solution VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 08:54, ivette brusselmans wrote: Found out what the problem was! Reinstalled Mandrake 9.0. and when detecting the monitor, the installation program put the resolution on 24 pixels. I changed this manually to 16 pixels, and VNC worked inmediately. Didn't have to do with the remote machines but with the MDK9.0. box. Thanx for your effort anyway!! Way cool - but what effort? (g) -- Tue Jan 7 09:15:01 EST 2003 9:15am up 2 days, 12:23, 6 users, load average: 0.27, 0.76, 0.77 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Ati drivers for linux
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 09:16, Charles A Edwards wrote: I picked up it, Decent3, and SOF sometime back from EB for $8 apiece. Charles Now DESCENT3 would be a game I could dig on - where'd you say you found it? Cuz I was looking about a month ago for it offa few sites, and each time it was a dead link... I play CUBE quite a bit - which is bloody awesome (don't know if y'all know about CUBE - but it's native SDL for linux and also plays on DOS/Winders) - it's an 8mb d/l and works WITHOUT any, and I mean ANY modifications...fast'n'gory...(g) Meanwhile, back to work... -- Tue Jan 7 09:15:01 EST 2003 9:15am up 2 days, 12:23, 6 users, load average: 0.27, 0.76, 0.77 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Ati drivers for linux
On Monday 06 January 2003 22:16, Charles A Edwards wrote: I picked up it, Decent3, and SOF sometime back from EB for $8 apiece. I've just installed Loki's 'Mindrover' and their 'Kohan' version on Mdk9.0 and using an Nvidia Geforce2 card...No glitches whatsoever=:o) All the other games on the demo disc run fine too using their installer, sorry they (Loki) didn't make it through the tough times=:o( Good gaming, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Ati drivers for linux
On 07 Jan 2003 09:19:23 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now DESCENT3 would be a game I could dig on - where'd you say you found it? Cuz I was looking about a month ago for it offa few sites, and each time it was a dead link... It was EBGames The only linux game they even offer now is HereticII. Just ordered it. Shipping cost me more than the game, the game was $3.99 Charles I used to be a FUNDAMENTALIST, but then I heard about the HIGH RADIATION LEVELS and bought an ENCYCLOPEDIA!! -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.20-2mdk -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel
On Sunday 05 January 2003 13:32, ivette brusselmans wrote: Still having VNC problems! MDK 9.0 when I type vncviewer in terminal and give the IPaddress of the remote box I want to administer, I get the message VNC server default format: 16 bits per pixel. Least significant byte first in each pixel True colour: mas red 31 green 63 blue 31, shift red 11 green 5 blue 0 Can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel. Sorry. When I used MDK 8.2 I didn't have this problem. Someone advised me to change color from 24 bits to 16 or 32, which I did, to no avail. Keep getting the same message about the 24 bits-per-pixel. Anyone got similar problems and a solution? Thanx Did You try 'tightvnc' instead of the standard Virtual Network Connection that Mdk offers (it's there for the taking)? The standard VNC tends to get clunky. I've dumped VNC altogether, i.e. I've no Winders machines and I certainly don't want to see their gui's on my Linboxes! Accessing my linboxes using ssh -C -X works great for exporting gui's. I even play 3d games remotely (though slowly) that way. I've got 3 (and some neighbour's)kids hogging the main PC cause of the games, so if I want to access anything (and I mean: anything) immediately, I plug in my laptop somewhere (usually upstairs -it's quiter) on the network and access my app's from there. That's when ssh is realy col, even runnin xine!:o) Now to find something that can export sound too. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:50, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I've got 3 (and some neighbour's)kids hogging the main PC cause of the games, so if I want to access anything (and I mean: anything) immediately, I plug in my laptop somewhere (usually upstairs -it's quiter) on the network and access my app's from there. That's when ssh is realy col, even runnin xine!:o) Now to find something that can export sound too. Good luck, HarM UNIX was the first OS that allowed for slave or dumb terminals to run applications ON the server from remote. Telnet, SSH and the likes are still the most stable means to deal with any type of remote access. Everything else is based loosely on it. I only use VNC when I absolutely have to. There are times, though, that I can't be bothered to turn around in my seat to see what the wife-unit is doing, so I fire up VNC to assist her...or for the Mac...I can't be bothered to move my chair the 1.5 meter distance to the Mac...(g)...but in the instance of client support, it's helpful to SHOW them this that or the other thing to get things working - otherwise, on the linux machines I support, telnet and ssh are great...and on the Win2k/XP machines, I always make sure I have the telnet services running...so that I can slip in the back door and do what I have to do without bothering the operator of the workstation...but sometimes they like to see the magic of remote control...go figure... -- Tue Jan 7 09:55:01 EST 2003 9:55am up 2 days, 13:03, 6 users, load average: 0.55, 0.49, 0.48 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * Kitchen activity is highlighted. Butter up a friend. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mouse
Howdy doody all, My first mail!, intro is at: www.baytan.org, Installed 9.0 yesterday. I was gonna ask kppp question but now I've changed my mouse from regular to wheel, because mine is PS/2 wheel, it freezed, I don't wanna change my X config, I checked XF86Config and it says dev ./dev/usbmouse (I guess because evrything is ok except internet connection writing this from win2k). I've typed device to /dev/mouse or /dev/ttyS0 (Silly me it's modem) didn't on the XF86Config neither worked. Anyways any ideas will be appreciated for mouse blues, like is there any way using KDE without mouse or typing something correct on the XF86Config. Thanks in advance Can Baytan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lincity
Hi all, Is there anyone that's gotten 'lincity' to run on Mdk9.0? I've tried installing the sources and the binaries as well-- no go! Then made a .rpm (lincity-1.11-7.noarch.rpm) using 'alien' from a .deb (lincity_1.11-6_all.deb) package --no go! Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 22:58:42 +0200 Can Baytan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyways any ideas will be appreciated for mouse blues, like is there any way using KDE without mouse or typing something correct on the XF86Config. Open a shell or drop to a VC, su to root and run mousedrake. Select ps/2 wheel mouse and you are back in business. Charles University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.20-2mdk -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing mdk rpm's
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:46 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:06, Anne Wilson wrote: So if I locate the desired icon, I can copy it to one of these locations and it will appear in the listed available icons in menudrake? I'll try that. Anne I sometimes copy all the icons I can find to a single location - makes it easier to deal with at times. Same here. I have a number of self made icons which I copy to the same directory with each OS and use them every time.It was fun creating them, and I like my Icons to be a certain size and general shape and colours to go against background colours. That is one nice feature about linux. Personalisation. John But are they accessible when editing a menu entry? Is there some way of adding a directory to a path for this purpose? Or do you have to add them to one of the directories that the menu editor is already seeking? Anne precisely, /usr/share/icons/ They appear in the kde list , just select one of your newly made icons in menu editor and they are addopted. John Thanks, John Just one more question - when I changed an icon before in MenuDrake I saw the icons graphically. This time I get a list of filenames, with a preview box at the right hand side, so I have to click on one to see what it is. Can anyone tell me how to revert to the graphical view? Anne Well, in /usr/share icons, the file displays it'self when leftmouse clicked, or in menu editor they display from a list when selected. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 07:58, Can Baytan wrote: Howdy doody all, My first mail!, intro is at: www.baytan.org, Installed 9.0 yesterday. I was gonna ask kppp question but now I've changed my mouse from regular to wheel, because mine is PS/2 wheel, it freezed, I don't wanna change my X config, I checked XF86Config and it says dev ./dev/usbmouse (I guess because evrything is ok except internet connection writing this from win2k). I've typed device to /dev/mouse or /dev/ttyS0 (Silly me it's modem) didn't on the XF86Config neither worked. Anyways any ideas will be appreciated for mouse blues, like is there any way using KDE without mouse or typing something correct on the XF86Config. Thanks in advance Can Baytan Have you tried running mousedrake? -- Tue Jan 7 10:25:00 EST 2003 10:25am up 2 days, 13:33, 6 users, load average: 0.72, 0.20, 0.21 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension. -- Mandelbrot, _The Fractal Geometry of Nature_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse
Hi Can, There are several ways to edit XF86Config by hand or from the Command Line. When you get to LILO, hit esc immediately and you will be dumped to a prompt, type "linux -s" (single user mode, cli) and that will get you to a command line as root. The go to the /etc/X11 dir and then type mcedit XF86Config and then edit it within mcedit. Alternatively wait for the kdm login screen and then hit ctrl+alt+f3 (for a virtual terminal). From there do the same as I said before or type MCC and then configure the mouse from the command line version of MCC. From that point, hit ctrl+alt+f7 to get back to your graphical login screen. Barring that, use Knoppix to create your XF86Config/-4 files for you with your peripherals plugged in and then if they work, overwrite your Mandrake one's with them. Hope this helps, Cheers Jason Can Baytan wrote: Howdy doody all, My first mail!, intro is at: www.baytan.org, Installed 9.0 yesterday. I was gonna ask kppp question but now I've changed my mouse from regular to wheel, because mine is PS/2 wheel, it freezed, I don't wanna change my X config, I checked XF86Config and it says dev ./dev/usbmouse (I guess because evrything is ok except internet connection writing this from win2k). I've typed device to /dev/mouse or /dev/ttyS0 (Silly me it's modem) didn't on the XF86Config neither worked. Anyways any ideas will be appreciated for mouse blues, like is there any way using KDE without mouse or typing something correct on the XF86Config. Thanks in advance Can Baytan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
I get by with a little from my friends... Damian Gatabria wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 07:55, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP - i need somebody! HELP! not just anybody! HELP! you know i need someone! HEEELP! ... Damian 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] kernel panic during install when formatting swap partitionon Power Mac 8600
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:20, Daniel Segel wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2/PPC on a Powermac 8600/300 with 2x4GB SCSI hard drives and 192MB RAM in it. I've tried installing onto both drives, but I get the same error either way. The problem I'm having is that I get a kernel panic when the installer gets to the point of trying to format the swap partition. If I don't create a swap partition then it goes through that step just fine, but obviously I wouldn't bother continuing in that case. The weird part is that I get a similar crash when trying to install Yellowdog linux as well, but it's only the swap partition that causes a problem. I've already tried a low-level format of the drives, and I've tried putting the swap partition in different places on the drive. I also ran the Yellowdog version of parted and tried creating partitions manually - everything goes fine until I actually try to create the filesystem on the swap partition, then it blows up. Actually, if I create a really small swap partition (~10MB) then it works OK, but 128MB or larger doesn't. I haven't done any testing to determine the largest successful swap partition I can create a filesystem on. Any ideas? This has been driving me crazy for a week now. Thanks, Daniel When you're doing the installation, are you letting MDK do automatic partitioning for you? Or have you tried that? I seem to remember someone stating that there was a system for a partitioning scheme that was successful...can't quite remember it now...but it did work... I've not been following this thread until now so forgive me if I'm off here. Now I cannot offer an explanation for your problem, but one possible workaround might be to merely create that /swap partition but leave it unformatted and complete the install. When you reboot and get to desktop you can always format the swap partition and make it active from there. I think you will have to have a reasonable amount of physical memory to do this , I don't know what the minimum is, but maybe 128Mb is about right for M9.0 Just a thought. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lincity
Nope.. I couldn't get it to compile. Is there anyone that's gotten 'lincity' to run on Mdk9.0? I've tried installing the sources and the binaries as well-- no go! Then made a .rpm (lincity-1.11-7.noarch.rpm) using 'alien' from a .deb (lincity_1.11-6_all.deb) package --no go! Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
