Re: [newbie-it] Traduttori
Alle 02:13, domenica 12 gennaio 2003, Corrado ha scritto: Babytrans, ma non traduce frasi intere, masolo parole singole!!! Qualcuno sa indicarmi un buon traduttore che possa gestire frasi intere? Tnx Corrado -- \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://utenti.lycos.it/santarellawebmaster/index.html Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake e Packard Bell
At 23.25 11/01/2003 +0100, you wrote: vedi su linuxlaptop Ho provato, ma nell'elenco non compare la Packard Bell. Nel forum della Packard Bell Italia viene detto che siccome non supportano Linux non danno nemmeno informazioni in ogni caso, che periferiche monta? Bella domanda! :) Nel senso che il portatile è a casa ed io sono in ufficio... Credo, counque, che l'unico problema potrebbe darmelo il modem che, temo, sia un Winmodem :( Al max userò quello USB che ho per il Desktop Gazie per la dritta del sito, comunque Ciao Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] ho sostituito il cd col masterizzatore
Alle 00:56, domenica 12 gennaio 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: dopo aver sostituito il lettore cd col masterizzatore (sempre master secondario) linux non legge più i cd in /mnt/cdrom, che ora apare sempre lucchettata. cosa devo fare? verifica in fstab quale filesystem è indicato
Re: [newbie-it] modem usb
Alle 07:18, domenica 12 gennaio 2003, rp ha scritto: Salve a tutti, sono nuovo nel mondo Linux e nell'entusiasmo di una possibile migrazione definitiva, mi trovo come altri l'ostacolo dell'utilizzo di alcune periferiche. Nel mio caso si tratta del modem, un D-Link ISDN USB codice : DRU 128 TA. Ho chiaramente fatto una ricerca attraverso internet prima di postare ed ovviamente ho trattato di configurarlo manualmente ma non c'e' stato nulla da fare. Il sistema ha riconosciuto che nella USB c'era una periferica ed ha letto il firmware correttamente anche se sono Qualche altra informazione in più? Che Mdk? Che PC? Quale Kernel? Le ricerche che hai fatto che esiti hanno dato? Ciao
[newbie-it] Condivisione della connessione
Ho da poco istituito una connessione LAN tra due pc. Per la condivisione della connessione a internet,ho utilizzato Mandrake Control Center di MDK9 ma ogni volta che riavvio il pc viene persa la configurazione e non riesco più a navigare ne a scaricare-spedire la posta. Ho configurato la mia scheda LAN nel modo seguente: indirizzo IP : 192.168.1.1 netmask : 255.255.255.0 protocollo : static attiva boot : yes Ho seguito i suggerimenti di Daniele che rispondeva a Ivano Natalini che non riusciva anche lui a navigare, ma ancora ad ogni avvio, devo fare tutto da capo. Ho provato anche ad utilizzare Linuxconf da root,ma peggio, oltre a non navigare, con MCC non riesco ad ripristinare la configurazione momentanea. Grazie per ogni consiglio e BUON ANNO! MARIO
Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 15:43, Adolfo Bello wrote: Actually, that really shouldn't matter - did you follow all the directions for setting up a remote X session w/ VNC? Because you SHOULD be seeing an entire desktop (separate X session than the one that is on your screen on the linux box - it's a different login altogether) Stephen, sorry. I didn't read carefully your post. What I meant was that I wasn't getting my desktop, something that I shouldn't expect. I guess my old bones need some rest. Going to bed now (1:00 am here in Caracas,Venezuela). Thanks again, Adolfo Buenos Noches, amigo! Via con Dios! -- Sun Jan 12 19:20:01 EST 2003 7:20pm up 1 day, 21:31, 6 users, load average: 4.84, 4.82, 3.44 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Be self-reliant and your success is assured. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Security audit websites ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, Are there security audit websites for linux like grc.com ?. Is iptables enough for linux home user ?. Thanks for your help. - -- Rifza Adriansyah Are you using GnuPG ? Find my public key at http://belgium.keyserver.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IS35H9VEhcXPGz4RAmzeAKCusQ+6GkjYCWm+JhRimjl/9lGU3ACg4MSr m+GgGiYlgsJ4XBGHkvDP/lE= =y74e -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Obscenity for fun and profit
On Saturday 11 January 2003 6:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 4:10 pm, Keith Powell wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 3:22 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:07 pm, RichardA wrote: I live in Leeds now, where if someone says fuck off you can be fairly sure they're swearing at you. Hi, neighbour. I'm south of Huddersfield Anne If it's of any interest, I am just in Yorkshire (by about two miles!), near to Worksop. Hello Keith. I used to shop at Insight, not far from you, when they had a retail counter. I'm in the Holme Valley, about 40 mins. drive from you. Anne Hello Anne. It was a bad day when Insight closed their retail counter. I don't know why they did it, as I often used to go in, and every time I went it was packed with customers. So it wasn't because of lack of business. I'm not a registered Linux user - never thought about it before. I may do so now you have mentioned it. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Peoples Republic Of...
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 5:09 pm, RichardA wrote: A couple of thousand more of us and we can make our own Tyke distro! Richard What! In Yorkshire dialect? That should generate some interesting postings from bewildered users! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 04:07, _nasturtium wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: do a: display nameoftheimage.JPG (display is part of the ImageMagick suite) Hello, Console output: display: Unsupported marker type 0x26 (output.jpg). Not the picture i want - though it's still a nice wizard pic :-/ Regards, _nasturtium Whaddaya get when you try to open it with GIMP? -- Sun Jan 12 21:40:01 EST 2003 9:40pm up 1 day, 23:51, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.29, 0.38 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- #define BITCOUNT(x) (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)4)) 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255) #define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)1)0x)\ - (((x)2)0x)\ - (((x)3)0x)) -- really weird C code to count the number of bits in a word Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security audit websites ?
Greetings, Are there security audit websites for linux like grc.com ?. Is iptables enough for linux home user ?. Thanks for your help. - -- Rifza Adriansyah You can use grc.com There is nothing OS specific about it. However grc.com does not do a particularly efficient scan. For a more complete one try here http://scan.sygatetech.com/ As for iptables. It is *more* than enough. However there are many ways of setting up iptables. Mandrake 9.0 uses the 'shorewall' application to set up iptables, and because shorewall is text based Mandrake have made a little GUI in Mandrake Control Centre which is adequate but limited. If you want to do anything more complicated with shorewall visit www.shorewall.net where you can learn how to manipulate the text files. Alternatively if you are more comfortable with GUIs, then firestarter is a nice GUI front end to iptables which is a lot like ZoneAlarm for Windows. Firestarter is less powerful than shorewall, but easier for newbies to relate to. You can get it here ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms (f you use firestarter do not forget to uninstall shorewall) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security audit websites ?
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:57, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, Are there security audit websites for linux like grc.com ?. Is iptables enough for linux home user ?. Thanks for your help. - -- Rifza Adriansyah I think you'll find that just using LINUX overall is more than enough to deter problems - but yeah, ipchains and iptables are pretty much enough to keep you safe for regular home use. You CAN get rather elaborate with your own scripts for either ipchains or iptables - just a matter of sitting down and figuring out how locked down you want your system. Cheers! -- Sun Jan 12 22:20:00 EST 2003 10:20pm up 6 min, 2 users, load average: 0.67, 0.54, 0.29 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip! -- Alan Perlis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Real Player Plugin
On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 4:31 am, David Williams wrote: I royally screwed up my system and completely had to reinstall the world. I am down to the fluff and I am trying to finish up some of the plugins for mozilla. I have real player installed and working from the menu but mozilla doesn't see it. Last month there was a couple of messages about plugins. If I remember correctly, one was something to do with an alias for the real player plug in so that Mozilla saw it correctly. Which I thought that I did as I had Real Player working from the browser. I have searched the archives and can't find it. Anyway, I am looking for a point in the right direction. David Williams Your /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins folder should contain rpnp.so from your Real Player download. I also find it useful to create a symlink from /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/ to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins That way Opera and Konqueror will find the mozilla plugins with their default plugin paths, and you will not need to adjust them. To create a symlink ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1 /usr/lib/mozilla derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sylpheed - importing addresses
Hi I'm thinking of changing over to sylpheed-08.3claws and wondered if there is a relatively simple way of importing my evolution contacts into the sylpheed address book. I think this may have been addressed before, so I apologise, but I can't locate much information. David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A HowTo for Everything
I seem to have lost Stephen's original post on this, so perhaps he'd post the link again. Anyway, I did read it, and interesting reading it made. For those who didn't see it, it concerns the reasons for the lack of women in computing in general and linux in particular, and what can be done about it. This group is unusual in not falling into just about every trap on the list. Two things that have really bugged me from time to time - My husband, being totally uninterested in computing but kind hearted, from time to time has taken me to computer shows - where I was usually looking from the point of view of our small business. I would ask a serious question, and the rep would immediately turn to David to answer. This is not an isolated example, it happened over and over again. The other thing is that, womanlike, when I have a problem I want to discuss it. By verbalising it I often see the way out of the problem, but if I don't, I want further discussion that will help me learn. I am sure it is with the best of intentions, but the truth is that if this is in front of a computer the man (and it is always a man - because there are so few women interested g) takes over the keyboard and just does it. I have learned nothing, because it happened quickly and without explanation. With no prior unix experience I tried to learn linux about three years ago, thinking my son-in-law could help me, but I soon gave up, largely because of this. I think I would probably have given up again, if it were not for this list - so thanks, folks, for your patient explanations, even when it has taken two or three goes to make me understand what's happening. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 11:54 AM Subject: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything I seem to have lost Stephen's original post on this, so perhaps he'd post the link again. Anyway, I did read it, and interesting reading it made. For those who didn't see it, it concerns the reasons for the lack of women in computing in general and linux in particular, and what can be done about it. This group is unusual in not falling into just about every trap on the list. Two things that have really bugged me from time to time - My husband, being totally uninterested in computing but kind hearted, from time to time has taken me to computer shows - where I was usually looking from the point of view of our small business. I would ask a serious question, and the rep would immediately turn to David to answer. This is not an isolated example, it happened over and over again. The other thing is that, womanlike, when I have a problem I want to discuss it. By verbalising it I often see the way out of the problem, but if I don't, I want further discussion that will help me learn. I am sure it is with the best of intentions, but the truth is that if this is in front of a computer the man (and it is always a man - because there are so few women interested g) takes over the keyboard and just does it. I have learned nothing, because it happened quickly and without explanation. With no prior unix experience I tried to learn linux about three years ago, thinking my son-in-law could help me, but I soon gave up, largely because of this. I think I would probably have given up again, if it were not for this list - so thanks, folks, for your patient explanations, even when it has taken two or three goes to make me understand what's happening. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCI Parallel Card
Anyone had experience with these devices? I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit). Works find when configured as a GT-5000) So I obtained a Netmos 9805 card and got it working out of Win98SE without too much hassle - but I cannot get it to work out of Linux. It's recognised in /proc/pci as follows: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Communication controller: PCI device 9710:9805 (NetMos Technology) (rev 1). IRQ 19. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe807]. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc07]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd807]. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f]. As I understand I need to 'insmod parport.o' and then tell 'parport' where it is. Problem is that when I do the 'insmod parport.o' I get: [root@numbnuts john]# insmod parport.o insmod: parport.o: No such file or directory [root@numbnuts john]# Where/How do I go about this?? And IRQ 19??? I always thought we only had access to IRQ 1 thru 15 I've been away from the hardware interface a bit to long maybe?? Any help would be greatly appreciated Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ATI all-in-wonder
Hi I have an old 4MB All-in-Wonder card in my Mandrake 9.0 system and the handler tells me that there is not a supported TV card in the system. Is there a fix? Randy J Freitas PS is there a print driver for the Lexmark Z 12? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 9:54 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 04:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have mandrake running on a computer with no video card or monitor on it at all? And then admin the box via ssh,vnc or something else? Essentiall you're going to need at least SOME kind of video card in the box - to install it in the first place - even if it's a cheapo low end video card. BUT, the good news is that yes, it can be setup, then after you've gotten it where you like it - you can either use VNC or remote Xsession to use/administer the machine - just like what's done in the corporate world! I run linux 6 computers here and 2 of them refuse to reboot after a power outage due to faults on their harddrives generating a S.M.A.R.T error warning of impending doom and catastrophy soon to befall my system as the harddrive is about to die! :) OK, so its been spewing out these messages for the past year and they still run ok and don't contain any vital data anyway, but my point is this; I have to reconnect a monitor, keyboard and mouse at reboot time as the process requires the F1 key to be pressed to resume the booting process. Otherwise they will just sit there waiting for the key to be pressed in silence and obscurity and you cannot access these machines as technically they are not up and running any OS yet. Its a catch-22 situation as far as remote admin goes and the only solution is to either replace the drives or keep taking the back off the computer stacks and connecting the perepherals back on at boot time to each offending machine. I have tried so many times to get VNC running KDE here without any results so far and have had to resort to the above methods or use webmin for any admin work on the other machines from my main connected/gateway linux box. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything
On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:02 am, DAVID.W.BEAN wrote: - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 11:54 AM Subject: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything I seem to have lost Stephen's original post on this, so perhaps he'd post the link again. Anyway, I did read it, and interesting reading it made. For those who didn't see it, it concerns the reasons for the lack of women in computing in general and linux in particular, and what can be done about it. This group is unusual in not falling into just about every trap on the list. Two things that have really bugged me from time to time - My husband, being totally uninterested in computing but kind hearted, from time to time has taken me to computer shows - where I was usually looking from the point of view of our small business. I would ask a serious question, and the rep would immediately turn to David to answer. This is not an isolated example, it happened over and over again. The other thing is that, womanlike, when I have a problem I want to discuss it. By verbalising it I often see the way out of the problem, but if I don't, I want further discussion that will help me learn. I am sure it is with the best of intentions, but the truth is that if this is in front of a computer the man (and it is always a man - because there are so few women interested g) takes over the keyboard and just does it. I have learned nothing, because it happened quickly and without explanation. With no prior unix experience I tried to learn linux about three years ago, thinking my son-in-law could help me, but I soon gave up, largely because of this. I think I would probably have given up again, if it were not for this list - so thanks, folks, for your patient explanations, even when it has taken two or three goes to make me understand what's happening. Anne the most intresting thing is, in business, I am willing to bet, that more Females spend more time in front of computers (inputing data) than men. Assomeone that started BBS chatting in 1992, I found back then that there were more women than men that could type fast enough to chat with. By the time the WEB had come around to everyone, the balance had changed, more guys (and perves) had found their way to the keyboard. I still think that women make up the bulk of computer USERS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UT Errors
On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:51 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Dark Lord, Thanks my friend. It worked fine. Geez, I love this list. Regards Trevor Glad to hear it! Umm, what did you finally do? Use the utmap_decompress utility? If so, how? Just curious. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything
1/12/03 5:54:35 AM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have lost Stephen's original post on this, so perhaps he'd post the link again. Anyway, I did read it, and interesting reading it made. For those who didn't see it, it concerns the reasons for the lack of women in computing in general and linux in particular, and what can be done about it. This group is unusual in not falling into just about every trap on the list. Two things that have really bugged me from time to time - My husband, being totally uninterested in computing but kind hearted, from time to time has taken me to computer shows - where I was usually looking from the point of view of our small business. I would ask a serious question, and the rep would immediately turn to David to answer. This is not an isolated example, it happened over and over again. The other thing is that, womanlike, when I have a problem I want to discuss it. By verbalising it I often see the way out of the problem, but if I don't, I want further discussion that will help me learn. I am sure it is with the best of intentions, but the truth is that if this is in front of a computer the man (and it is always a man - because there are so few women interested g) takes over the keyboard and just does it. I have learned nothing, because it happened quickly and without explanation. With no prior unix experience I tried to learn linux about three years ago, thinking my son-in-law could help me, but I soon gave up, largely because of this. I think I would probably have given up again, if it were not for this list - so thanks, folks, for your patient explanations, even when it has taken two or three goes to make me understand what's happening. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Hi Anne I understand your problem here with people jumping in front of the keyboard and just fixing the problem for you and I think that the same thing happens to men also but maybe no where near as often. There is only 1 thing you can do, next time DO NOT be polite!!! shout WHOOOA and say WAIT dont fix that until I can see exactly what you are doing!!! I want to be able to take care of this myself next time. I am sorry to say that this may have to be done several times to any one person before the message sinks in. Old habits are hard to break and old thought patterns are slow to change but your only option is to be even more set in your ways than the person who jumped in front of the keyboard. As far as the folks at computer shows, They are salesmen. point out to them that you are the one that asked the question and if they are going to make a sale they are going to answer you not direct the answer to the person standing next to you. When they realise that to get a sales commision they are going to have to talk to you I would guess that they will come around and if they dont explain to them that they have just lost a sale and tell them why. Bottom line MONEY TALKS and let them know that you are the one that controls the money spent on computer items. This may sound rude but if you think about it it is just being honest and to the point. If it is any consolation my wife has some of the same problems. Imangine a woman in a world full of lathes, milling machines and welders. Some times when I am not around a customer will come in and ask for me and if she tells them I am not around they often say they will come back latter. Sometimes she will grab a machine part from their hand and say lets see what you got there I can have that taken care of in no time. SHOCK VALUE !! Sometimes they even learn that they can even treat her like a intellagent live form and a few even learn to respect her skills.. I am afraid that if you are going to change the world you will have to do it 1 person at a time. On the flip side of things look at it from the mans point of view. It seems to me that about 9 out of 10 women dont want to be bothered with the technical details and will go so far as to tell you so. Bottom Line is that most men have been conditioned to act the way that they do and a lot of the conditioning has been done by women. Just my 2 cents worth Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything
I seem to have lost Stephen's original post on this, so perhaps he'd post the link again. Anyway, I did read it, and interesting reading it made. For those who didn't see it, it concerns the reasons for the lack of women in computing in general and linux in particular, and what can be done about it.. This group is unusual in not falling into just about every trap on the list. Two things that have really bugged me from time to time - My husband, being totally uninterested in computing but kind hearted, from time to time has taken me to computer shows - where I was usually looking from the point of view of our small business. I would ask a serious question, and the rep would immediately turn to David to answer. This is not an isolated example, it happened over and over again. === Not certain what the original article was, but this appeared in today's NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/edlife/12STABINE.html Mike -- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UT Errors
Dark Lord, Thanks my friend. It worked fine. Geez, I love this list. Regards Trevor Glad to hear it! Umm, what did you finally do? Use the utmap_decompress utility? If so, how? Just curious. :-) Burnt them to a CD from a Winblows pooter. Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] automating e-mail retrieval
Hi Folks I have used Linux now since 1998 starting with Red Hat and then Mandrake since it first came out. I would like to explore some of the more advanced features but still consider myself a novice in the Linux world. I do get along well in most cases but have limited time to read as much as I would like. Being very short of time for such things as checking e-mail, I would like to automate the process and sort messages into folders that interest me the most. Is there a way to use Linux to dial up my ISP periodically, check my mail and then sort it for me? Is there a how-to that explains this? I use K-Mail primarily. I read the majority of the posts on this list but have to skim over some of them to get to the stuff that really helps me. Many thanks in advance!! Jim Snyder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using KDE 3 to rip Mp3/Ogg?
El Sáb 11 Ene 2003 23:15, Ronald J. Hall escribió: I've seen this mentioned several times - how you can click on services and KDE 3 will allow you to create MP3 or OGG files from a audio CD. er [cough], where the heck do you click on services at? I've not been able to find it anwhere! :-) Insert an audio cd, open konq and click the last icon (the gear) in the vertical bar. Suerte. Pilagá Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed - importing addresses
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:54:48 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm thinking of changing over to sylpheed-08.3claws and wondered if there is a relatively simple way of importing my evolution contacts into the sylpheed address book. I think this may have been addressed before, so I apologise, but I can't locate much information. David Unfortunately, you can't yet convert Evolution addressbook to Sylpheed. If you take a look at http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/features.html, you'll see that there are tools to import from pine, mutt, kmail, the bat, calypso, and maybe more. The most current version is 0.8.8, which I haven't tried yet. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT Broken Spell Check in OpenOffice
I'm using the OpenOffice version 1.0.1 that came with Mandrake 9.0 and everything works fine except the spell check. Running the spell check on a document doesn't identify (by underling I'm assuming) the miss spelled words, but doesn't give any errors. The soffice.dic is being pointed to. Any advice? Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SSHD question
Hello all, I am incredibly new to Linux/Unix and have minor experience. With that in mind, I am having SSHD problems. I can connect to it on my internal LAN, but reaching from outside (Internet) it doesn't seem to acknowledge the connection. I am using MDK 9.0, fresh install with all the server basics and no GUI/workstation. I prefer command prompt. The last time I had this problem on MDK 8.2, I played with the files and got it to stop working all together. Oops. So, I was wondering where I could find the place that told it to look for connection from anyone/anything. I have don't have a fire wall up yet and since I spend so much time at work, I figured I would probably work on it more there than at home...if SSHD would accept my connection. Any suggestions would be helpful. I have already looked through the documents and the past posts. The documentation doesn't help a lot and is mildly confusing. Thank you all so much. Zane Minninger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake
downloaded rpm packages Mplayer, Mplayer common, Mplayer GUI, Mplayer fonts, Mplayer-skin installed them with Kpackage, but still keep getting message no plug-in for application x-Mplayer2, do you want to download from microsoft etc. what am I doing wrong? From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:08:04 -0800 Is there an linux equivalent for Windows Media Player? I'm using latest release of netscape. MDK 9.0 box. If so, how come it is not automatically installed? If Mandrake wants to become a major OS that can be used by everyone (wizzards and dummies alike), it'll have to focus on 'user-friendliness'. Thanx == MPlayer can play .wmp files w/ no problem Mike -- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin 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] Script to change multiple filenames
* Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-11-2003 23:55]: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:22:43 -0800 You don't have to use the ls command, this will work for files with spaces in the name and also accounts for differing case: for image in /path/to/directory/*.[Jj][Pp][Gg] do FCNT=`printf %02d $CNT` echo $image $FCNT-$NAME$EXT CNT=$(($CNT+1)) done Now the problem becomes mv. When specifying a name that contains a space, mv interprets it as multiple files as well. A backslash needs to be added somehow so that mv knows it's a single file. ab\ cd.jpg == 01-pic.jpg -- Regards, Matt Florido 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 Dissabte 11 Gener 2003 02:50, en Ronald J. Hall va escriure: ut-install-436-GOTY.run = this one installed both disks. Where can I find this one? 8-? This site, found on Google, had all the installers I mentioned. http://www.3dgamers.com/games/unrealtourn/ Hope this helps! :-) Same as before. I've probably got a different version of UT and it doesn't find it 8( Have you had to specify the path to cd? If so have you run # export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/cd ? 8-? Thanks ;) - -- 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+Iavjok8j9RhtetwRAn3rAJ9MJPDMQUwLaq6pvQvxeTW+n58xIQCgjdPH 4sl06mh1G7Pbj/Dwxrfby3k= =XEae -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:26:13 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-11-2003 23:55]: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:22:43 -0800 You don't have to use the ls command, this will work for files with spaces in the name and also accounts for differing case: for image in /path/to/directory/*.[Jj][Pp][Gg] do FCNT=`printf %02d $CNT` echo $image $FCNT-$NAME$EXT CNT=$(($CNT+1)) done Now the problem becomes mv. When specifying a name that contains a space, mv interprets it as multiple files as well. A backslash needs to be added somehow so that mv knows it's a single file. ab\ cd.jpg == 01-pic.jpg Are you using bash or another shell? On my system (using bash) it works fine. Be sure you leave the quotes around $image. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VCD slideshow
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:25:13 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Jan 2003 06:36:28 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to go about making a slideshow that can be made into a VCD? Todd You can use cinelerra to do it - almost like Adobe Premier - but more powerful - save it as AVI then convert it to VCD. and before you ask it is available as a plf rpm. http://plf.zarb.org/ Pick a dl mirror and your mdk version. There is also a script allowing you to add the site to your source list. Charles Thanks Stephen and Charles--I'm looking into it now! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:54, Anne Wilson wrote: I seem to have lost Stephen's original post on this, so perhaps he'd post the link again. Anyway, I did read it, and interesting reading it made. For those who didn't see it, it concerns the reasons for the lack of women in computing in general and linux in particular, and what can be done about it. This group is unusual in not falling into just about every trap on the list. Er, what was the original post about ? Anne S. -- Mon Jan 13 05:50:01 EST 2003 5:50am up 7:36, 4 users, load average: 0.37, 0.53, 0.49 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- (After a screening of Itchy and Scratchy meet Fritz the Cat) Bart: How come I've never seen that Itchy and Scratchy before? CBG:Perhaps because you are a pre-pubescent ignoramus. This is a bootleg copy of Itchy and Scratchy meet Fritz the Cat. Because of it's frank depiction of sex and narcotic consumption, it is not for infantile intellect, such as yours, now toodle-oo. The Day The Violence Died (Episode 3F16) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A HowTo for Everything
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I seem to have lost Stephen's original post on this, so perhaps he'd post the link again. Anyway, I did read it, and interesting reading it made. For those who didn't see it, it concerns the reasons for the lack of women in computing in general and linux in particular, and what can be done about it. This group is unusual in not falling into just about every trap on the list. Two things that have really bugged me from time to time - My husband, being totally uninterested in computing but kind hearted, from time to time has taken me to computer shows - where I was usually looking from the point of view of our small business. I would ask a serious question, and the rep would immediately turn to David to answer. This is not an isolated example, it happened over and over again. The other thing is that, womanlike, when I have a problem I want to discuss it. By verbalising it I often see the way out of the problem, but if I don't, I want further discussion that will help me learn. I am sure it is with the best of intentions, but the truth is that if this is in front of a computer the man (and it is always a man - because there are so few women interested g) takes over the keyboard and just does it. I have learned nothing, because it happened quickly and without explanation. With no prior unix experience I tried to learn linux about three years ago, thinking my son-in-law could help me, but I soon gave up, largely because of this. I think I would probably have given up again, if it were not for this list - so thanks, folks, for your patient explanations, even when it has taken two or three goes to make me understand what's happening. Anne Heh...chicks. ;-) -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, - netmaniac - wrote: I'm currently using two machines: one with apache and the other with windows, because I still like the photoshop, dreamweaver and other web design tools. But don't like to switch between computers every time I want to make a change on the server. So, is there some way in windows I could emulate a linux terminal that would execute commands on the linux server? (pretty confusing isn't it?) netmaniac Heh..I'm typing this in Pine, on my linux box, from a windows box approx 20 miles away. I'm using a really cool little app called putty, which does exactly what you want. Should be an easy find; if not, let me know, and I'll email it to you. Oh, I forgot - you can telnet _or_ ssh with putty, which is why I like it so much. -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCI Parallel Card
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:42, John Rye wrote: Anyone had experience with these devices? I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit). Works find when configured as a GT-5000) So I obtained a Netmos 9805 card and got it working out of Win98SE without too much hassle - but I cannot get it to work out of Linux. As I understand I need to 'insmod parport.o' and then tell 'parport' where it is. Problem is that when I do the 'insmod parport.o' I get: [root@numbnuts john]# insmod parport.o insmod: parport.o: No such file or directory [root@numbnuts john]# Where/How do I go about this?? Have you done a locate parport.o ? IF the parport module was compiled at kernel installation time, the module would actually already be installed - so if you do an lsmod and it's not there, then it ain't really there. You'll have to recompile the kernel sources - at least the drivers - and then copy the parport.o from it's source directory to the proper modules directory - or just do a straight recompile of the kernel - which CAN break things if you're not too careful... And IRQ 19??? I always thought we only had access to IRQ 1 thru 15 It's a virtualized IRQ -- Mon Jan 13 06:00:00 EST 2003 6:00am up 7:46, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.18, 0.29 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. (Diggers) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames
* Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-12-2003 12:58]: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:26:13 -0800 Are you using bash or another shell? On my system (using bash) it works fine. Be sure you leave the quotes around $image. Hi Todd, I am using bash. You're correct. For some reason, I removed the quotes when I add mv. mv $image test/$FCNT-$NAME$EXT changed it to: mv $image test/$FCNT-$NAME$EXT and now all is well!! Thanks again! -- Regards, Matt Florido Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATI all-in-wonder
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:44, Randy J Freitas wrote: Hi I have an old 4MB All-in-Wonder card in my Mandrake 9.0 system and the handler tells me that there is not a supported TV card in the system. Is there a fix? You're going to want to do some digging on this one - and for TV functionality, you're going to need to make sure that Video4Linux is installed in your kernel prior to playing with ANYTHING of TV functionality. If I remember correctly, the card has a BT878 chipset on it - a Brooktree TV chip - so most importantly, the kernel is going to require the BT878 modules to be loaded along with the regular v4l drivers. I just tried finding a driver for ya for about the past five minutes, but to no avail - but mention was made about using the ATI server - that's getting a bit too deep, though... Randy J Freitas PS is there a print driver for the Lexmark Z 12? I shan't venture into that territory... -- Mon Jan 13 06:05:01 EST 2003 6:05am up 7:51, 4 users, load average: 0.12, 0.18, 0.26 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- We don't care how they do it in New York. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSHD question
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:00:59 -0600 Zane Minninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am incredibly new to Linux/Unix and have minor experience. With that in mind, I am having SSHD problems. I can connect to it on my internal LAN, but reaching from outside (Internet) it doesn't seem to acknowledge the connection. I am using MDK 9.0, fresh install with all the server basics and no GUI/workstation. I prefer command prompt. The last time I had this problem on MDK 8.2, I played with the files and got it to stop working all together. Oops. So, I was wondering where I could find the place that told it to look for connection from anyone/anything. I have don't have a fire wall up yet and since I spend so much time at work, I figured I would probably work on it more there than at home...if SSHD would accept my connection. Any suggestions would be helpful. I have already looked through the documents and the past posts. The documentation doesn't help a lot and is mildly confusing. Thank you all so much. Zane Minninger It seems to me that some firewall _is_ blocking the connection. As root the command 'iptables -L' tells you the rules for the Linux iptables based firewall. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 00:28, magnet wrote: I run linux 6 computers here and 2 of them refuse to reboot after a power outage due to faults on their harddrives generating a S.M.A.R.T error warning of impending doom and catastrophy soon to befall my system as the harddrive is about to die! :) OK, so its been spewing out these messages for the past year and they still run ok and don't contain any vital data anyway, but my point is this; I have to reconnect a monitor, keyboard and mouse at reboot time as the process requires the F1 key to be pressed to resume the booting process. Can't you just disable S.M.A.R.T. in the BIOS? And also, in BIOS, set it for DO NOT REPORT KEYBOARD ERRORS ? Otherwise they will just sit there waiting for the key to be pressed in silence and obscurity and you cannot access these machines as technically they are not up and running any OS yet. Its a catch-22 situation as far as remote admin goes and the only solution is to either replace the drives or keep taking the back off the computer stacks and connecting the perepherals back on at boot time to each offending machine. KVM switch - but then you have to buy the special cables, and they're not cheap - and the switch ain't cheap - but they're soo nice...(I used to have one setup at MCI where I could control 64 machines from one keyboard/mouse/monitor - was bloody sweet - AND confusing - had to depend on a map to figger out which was which - and each of the servers had a desktop wallpaper denoting their name - but still got confusing when the network went south) I have tried so many times to get VNC running KDE here without any results so far and have had to resort to the above methods or use webmin for any admin work on the other machines from my main connected/gateway linux box. Granted that Webmin is a beautiful, wonderful, all-in-one, useful, saintly blessing to linux administration - but what gives with the VNC stuff? Wassup that it ain't working? -- Mon Jan 13 06:25:01 EST 2003 6:25am up 8:11, 4 users, load average: 0.77, 0.37, 0.32 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Han Solo: I think my eyes are getting better. Instead of a big dark blur I see a big light blur. Luke Skywalker: There's nothing to see. I used to live here you know. Han Solo: You're gonna die here you know. Convenient. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] automating e-mail retrieval
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 01:34, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi Folks I have used Linux now since 1998 starting with Red Hat and then Mandrake since it first came out. I would like to explore some of the more advanced features but still consider myself a novice in the Linux world. I do get along well in most cases but have limited time to read as much as I would like. Being very short of time for such things as checking e-mail, I would like to automate the process and sort messages into folders that interest me the most. Is there a way to use Linux to dial up my ISP periodically, check my mail and then sort it for me? Is there a how-to that explains this? I use K-Mail primarily. Jim, being that you're of limited time (aren't we all?) there are ways of making use of FETCHMAIL to actually push a dial out. FETCHMAIL works quite well in that it will connect to your POP3 external mail and and download it locally to your system - all of your mail - and will do so for however many accounts you wish to poll. Being that the mail is now local, you setup your email client to point to receive from local - which appears so nice and fast. You can then use SENDMAIL (or POSTFIX) for your SMTP/outgoing - which, in the same tone, will only deliver when it's able to connect - so while FETCHMAIL is FETCHING, SENDMAIL is SENDING. Does that make sense? Meanwhile, as far as sorting and the likes - I'm not a big fan of KSNAIL, er, Kmail. I prefer Evolution (version 1.2.1 at the moment) due to it's functionality and ability to use complex filtering (as well as scripts - if you want to get that deep into it). All my mail is sorted according to my strange desire to be organized - so bits from Mandrake go into a Mandrake trash bit, er, folder - etc etc etc...I'm sure you get the picture. Another nice feature about Evolution is the use of VFolders - they are virtual folders that you can create based on filters - one of the base VFolders is just labeled as UNREAD MAIL - which is nice to get to instead of browsing from folder to folder to see what's unread... Either which, that's my two cents for a Monday morning! Cheers! Stephen -- Mon Jan 13 06:35:00 EST 2003 6:35am up 8:21, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.18, 0.24 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- 'Ah... I see that the new traffic division is having the desired effect.' He indicated a large pile of paper. 'I am getting any amount of complaints from the Carters' and Drovers' Guild. Well done. Do pass on my thanks to sergeant Colin and his team.' 'I will, sir.' 'I see in one day they clamped seventeen carts, ten horses, eighteen oxen and one duck.' 'It was parked illegally, sir.' (The Fifth Elephant) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Broken Spell Check in OpenOffice
On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 4:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the OpenOffice version 1.0.1 that came with Mandrake 9.0 and everything works fine except the spell check. Running the spell check on a document doesn't identify (by underling I'm assuming) the miss spelled words, but doesn't give any errors. The soffice.dic is being pointed to. Any advice? There was a long thread about this in December, IIRC. You might like to search the archives for the details, but in essence, the spell checker is not installed by default. I can't remember whether OO uses aspell or ispell, but you have to install it separately. You also have to check the settings under Options, Language. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?]
ABM: --- The dissolution of the former Soviet Union during the autumn and winter of 1991 required the United States to re-evaluate the bilateral treaties that had existed between the Soviet Union and itself, including the ABM Treaty. (1) Both President Bush and President Clinton operated on the general principle that the treaty rights and obligations of the former Soviet Union had passed to the successor States [] As the Legal Adviser to the State Department during the Bush Administration explained, [a]s an operating principle, agreements between the United States and the USSR that were in force at the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union have been presumed to continue in force with respect to the former republics. What is the legal basis for adopting this position? Except for the Baltic states, which the United States never recognized as part of the Soviet Union, we regarded the emergence of Russia and the other former republics to have stemmed from what was essentially the complete breakup of the Soviet Union. [AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:] Thus, continuity of treaty relations is supported by our reading of state practice, and by policy considerations underlying this rule. Perhaps most importantly, however, continuity has been supported by the republics themselves, who affirmed this approach in the Alma Ata Declaration when they guaranteed the fulfillment of international obligations stemming from the treasties and agreements of the former U.S.S.R.[...] [comments in Brackets made by me] link: http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/abmjq.htm apart from that: Ban of B/C Weapons: -- Monday May 21, 2001 The Bush administration has found another international agreement to spurn. This time it's a draft agreement to enforce a 1972 treaty banning biological weapons, an agreement backed by Britain and other European countries. The protocol took six years to negotiate and established measures to monitor the ban on biological weapons. It was a follow-up to the 1972 treaty, ratified by 143 nations, which bans the development, production and possession of biological weapons. link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,494257,00.html On Friday 10 January 2003 06:39 pm, Kelley Jernigan wrote: Why is it that people miss that the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was made with a country that no longer exists? Any treaties that are made with any country that ceases to exist are null and void automatically. I cut the rest Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution update help
Hi All, I kinda need some help here. This is what I did. I wanted to update Evolution so I went to Ximian's site to do so. I the process of figuring out how to do it I installed Red Carpet do do the task for me. Red Carpet did not put an icon anywhere that I could find. It may have snuck it in somewhere but I never found it. Anyway, I finally found it and started it up. I was then able to update Evolution. However, now there are no icons for it in my Kmenu. I was able to add a shortcut to the icon bar some time back but now that won't even work. I was finally able to run my updated Evolution by opening a console and typing evolution. I have a couple of questions here: 1. Where is Evolution now?? 2. How do I add it back to my menu and icon bar (as well as Red Carpet)?? Thanks -- Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Hangs after GF4 install
Hi, I have finally found out that problems with stability I was having are probaly due to the actual card itself. I tried this card and another in other machine, windows as well, and it crahes those as well. Gonna go back to Matrox G400 for the time being. Thanks for your help anyway. I don't suppose you know how to put back the original GLX and DRI extensions/modules? :) Cheers, Jord On Friday 10 Jan 2003 9:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:43, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi again, Doesn't sound stupid at all - but the question is how did you install the ndvidia drivers beforehand? Did you have the rpm's, or did you build from source? From source. After reading some message boards on the problem. It seemed more people were having problems with the rpms. I'll monitor how it goes and see what happens. Thanks, Jord So you're going to reinstall the driver? -- Jordan Elver You don't have to be mad to work here, but you do have to be on time, well presented, a team player, customer service focused and sober!! -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 7:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 00:28, magnet wrote: I run linux 6 computers here and 2 of them refuse to reboot after a power outage due to faults on their harddrives generating a S.M.A.R.T error warning of impending doom and catastrophy soon to befall my system as the harddrive is about to die! :) OK, so its been spewing out these messages for the past year and they still run ok and don't contain any vital data anyway, but my point is this; I have to reconnect a monitor, keyboard and mouse at reboot time as the process requires the F1 key to be pressed to resume the booting process. Can't you just disable S.M.A.R.T. in the BIOS? And also, in BIOS, set it for DO NOT REPORT KEYBOARD ERRORS ? This feature isn't available on this BIOS - Megatrend on a gigabyte mobo - so I can't see any way around the errors. Otherwise they will just sit there waiting for the key to be pressed in silence and obscurity and you cannot access these machines as technically they are not up and running any OS yet. Its a catch-22 situation as far as remote admin goes and the only solution is to either replace the drives or keep taking the back off the computer stacks and connecting the perepherals back on at boot time to each offending machine. KVM switch - but then you have to buy the special cables, and they're not cheap - and the switch ain't cheap - but they're soo nice...(I used to have one setup at MCI where I could control 64 machines from one keyboard/mouse/monitor - was bloody sweet - AND confusing - had to depend on a map to figger out which was which - and each of the servers had a desktop wallpaper denoting their name - but still got confusing when the network went south) I looked into the KVM option but as you say it isn't cheap, and 6 seems to be an odd number as most units I saw were for 4 machines and their price was too much, so buying 2 was even less desirable. A bit of a non-starter here as the cost couldn't be justified for the use the machines get here. I have tried so many times to get VNC running KDE here without any results so far and have had to resort to the above methods or use webmin for any admin work on the other machines from my main connected/gateway linux box. Granted that Webmin is a beautiful, wonderful, all-in-one, useful, saintly blessing to linux administration - but what gives with the VNC stuff? Wassup that it ain't working? From memory iirc I installed VNC/servers and set passwords up. Read through all the blurb and changed the config line to include the KDE option and then a few other versions of that option including a link to the startx, but I couldn't get the KDE environment to be loaded. At best all I could get was a window with a blue background and a white background X console window up. I believe this is the default desktop setting VNC comes with. Right-clicking bought up a menu of some basic apps and a few did work but it was nothing like looking/using KDE within the window. Being very unfamiliar with fully using a console for everything this doesn't help me much. If I sit infront of KDE screen and use a VNC window to look at the Winblowz laptop running ME it appears fine and functions as if you were sitting infront of the laptop. Getting it to view another linux box using KDE is a different beast though and nothing achieved yet. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Somewhat OT - Everaldo helping MDK?
I was killing time on PcLinuxOnline and started reading an interview to Everaldo and Tackat, creators of the Crystal Icon theme, which is now default in KDE. Among those lines: --- Everaldo: It will be a new theme of icons (it doesn't still have name) and it will be separate from Crystal, however while it uses the same palette of colors, in this new theme I want to do a more consistent perspective, that is a flaw in Crystal. Also, the black borders will make the icons seem more readable in small sizes. Beyond those of that theme, I will be working with Helene Durosini on the design of Linux-Mandrake 10 and I will also make some icons for theKompany. And yes, I will still maintain the Crystal [theme]. --- yay ;o) link: http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=190 Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Another CODEC package
Large collection of hard to find codecs and the likes - for Win32 and OTHERS...(just to copy under /usr/lib/win32) Cheers! http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1030187433 -- Mon Jan 13 10:40:01 EST 2003 10:40am up 12:26, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.13, 0.29 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Just because they are called 'forbidden' transitions does not mean that they are forbidden. They are less allowed than allowed transitions, if you see what I mean. -- From a Part 2 Quantum Mechanics lecture. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution update help
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 10:03, Russ wrote: Hi All, I kinda need some help here. This is what I did. I wanted to update Evolution so I went to Ximian's site to do so. I the process of figuring out how to do it I installed Red Carpet do do the task for me. Red Carpet did not put an icon anywhere that I could find. It may have snuck it in somewhere but I never found it. Anyway, I finally found it and started it up. I was then able to update Evolution. However, now there are no icons for it in my Kmenu. I was able to add a shortcut to the icon bar some time back but now that won't even work. I was finally able to run my updated Evolution by opening a console and typing evolution. I have a couple of questions here: 1. Where is Evolution now?? 2. How do I add it back to my menu and icon bar (as well as Red Carpet)?? Thanks You will manually have to add it to all your system menus - Evo still lives where the original version lived - in /usr/bin - and the icon is still in /usr/share/icons. It's just that MDK varies their standard for setting up menus - so Evo installs and upgrades (as well as others) don't necessarily get put into the MDK menu system - but it does for other distros. RedCarpet is going to be in the /usr/bin directory as well - as /usr/bin/red-carpet. You can also create a link in your menus and other places in the same manner. -- Mon Jan 13 11:00:00 EST 2003 11:00am up 12:46, 5 users, load average: 0.68, 0.35, 0.27 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Virus due to computers having unsafe sex. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 10:12, magnet wrote: This feature isn't available on this BIOS - Megatrend on a gigabyte mobo - so I can't see any way around the errors. Well that really sucks - unable to disable SMART sucks... I looked into the KVM option but as you say it isn't cheap, and 6 seems to be an odd number as most units I saw were for 4 machines and their price was too much, so buying 2 was even less desirable. A bit of a non-starter here as the cost couldn't be justified for the use the machines get here. Yeah, they ain't cheap... From memory iirc I installed VNC/servers and set passwords up. Read through all the blurb and changed the config line to include the KDE option and then a few other versions of that option including a link to the startx, but I couldn't get the KDE environment to be loaded. At best all I could get was a window with a blue background and a white background X console window up. I believe this is the default desktop setting VNC comes with. Right-clicking bought up a menu of some basic apps and a few did work but it was nothing like looking/using KDE within the window. Being very unfamiliar with fully using a console for everything this doesn't help me much. If I sit infront of KDE screen and use a VNC window to look at the Winblowz laptop running ME it appears fine and functions as if you were sitting infront of the laptop. Getting it to view another linux box using KDE is a different beast though and nothing achieved yet. You're most likely getting mwm or twm as the window manager - so you're going to have to double check all your configurations so that KDE is the default wm - for both the regular system AND for VNC. -- Mon Jan 13 11:00:00 EST 2003 11:00am up 12:46, 5 users, load average: 0.68, 0.35, 0.27 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Virus due to computers having unsafe sex. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive on Laptop
SNIP Ok Thanks a ton Jerry! The command you showed me works just fine. I searched through my /dev dir and found the cdrom entry so I replaced scd0 with cdrom. Could anyone point me to a resource that explains details of what this command is doing? I take it iso9660 is from the International Standards Organization, but why does this have to be done once the computer is running? XP seems to have no trouble detecting the drive no matter when I plug it in. Just looking for some more info on whats going on when I type the commands. Thanks so much! -Noah Someone asked what type of plug-in drive this is. I'm sure it's not USB port but I can't tell much more than that. All I know is it's the exteral drive that came with the computer when I purchased it. in an xterm do: man mount that will give you the manual to the mount command and explain what it does. Basically, unlike other OS's which always have the drive connected(mounted) with linux you have to mount the drive when you want to use it. Mandrake has tried implementing automatic mounting (supermount) when removable media is inserted into a drive, but it doesn't work with all equipment all the time. at least that's my understanding of it. Jerry -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Aumix Not Present
OS: Mandrake 9.0 Im trying to access the Aumix application to hear sound on my system, but it isnt present under Multimedia-Sound-Aumix. I thought it might be installable through rpmdrake 3.0, but a search for aumix turns up nothing. Can anyone tell me how to install/access Aumix on my system? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aumix Not Present
On Sunday 12 January 2003 07:29 pm, Micah Haber wrote: OS: Mandrake 9.0 Im trying to access the Aumix application to hear sound on my system, but it isnt present under Multimedia-Sound-Aumix. I thought it might be installable through rpmdrake 3.0, but a search for aumix turns up nothing. Can anyone tell me how to install/access Aumix on my system? Thanks. It should show up as aumix-2.7-13mdk. Might check to see if it was installed and just not put in the menus. For what it is worth, I found that AlsaMixerGUI gave more options and fixed my sound problems when aumix did not. David Williams -- -- ( ) ( ) ( 0 0 ) ---( )--- o Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aumix Not Present
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:29:05 -0500 Micah Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS: Mandrake 9.0 I_m trying to access the Aumix application to hear sound on my system, but it isn_t present under Multimedia-Sound-Aumix. I thought it might be installable through rpmdrake 3.0, but a search for _aumix_ turns up nothing. Can anyone tell me how to install/access Aumix on my system? Thanks. go to a console su to root type: urpmi aumix jerry -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aumix Not Present
I am using mandrake 9.0 as well and aumix is installed even I can not find it in rpmdrake either. check wether it is installed and doesn't show up in your menu: rpm -qa | grep aumix should return the rpm package name in case it is installed on your system.or just try to start it from your shell by typing aumix in case it is not installedyou can try to find an rpm package at http://rpmseek.com ...just make sure you download the package created for mandrakeafter you have downloaded the file, you can install it by typing rpm -Uvh your-package-file hope it helps... On Monday 13 Jan 2003 1:29 am, Micah Haber wrote: OS: Mandrake 9.0 Im trying to access the Aumix application to hear sound on my system, but it isnt present under Multimedia-Sound-Aumix. I thought it might be installable through rpmdrake 3.0, but a search for aumix turns up nothing. Can anyone tell me how to install/access Aumix on my system? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VCD slideshow
and before you ask it is available as a plf rpm. http://plf.zarb.org/ Pick a dl mirror and your mdk version. There is also a script allowing you to add the site to your source list. I'm trying to install cinelerra from the plf rpm's but it's failing --missing libGLcore.so.1 according to rpmfind libGLcore.so.1 is provided by NVIDIA drivers for XFree86. I don't have an NVIDIA card or the NVIDIA kernel, I have an ATI Raedon 32MB ddr (7000) so is cinelerra only available to people with NVIDIA cards? crud...looks like a prog. i'd like to try. Jerry. -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VCD slideshow
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:26, Jerry Barton wrote: and before you ask it is available as a plf rpm. http://plf.zarb.org/ Pick a dl mirror and your mdk version. There is also a script allowing you to add the site to your source list. I'm trying to install cinelerra from the plf rpm's but it's failing --missing libGLcore.so.1 according to rpmfind libGLcore.so.1 is provided by NVIDIA drivers for XFree86. I don't have an NVIDIA card or the NVIDIA kernel, I have an ATI Raedon 32MB ddr (7000) so is cinelerra only available to people with NVIDIA cards? crud...looks like a prog. i'd like to try. Jerry. Its' fairly close in usage as Adobe Premier - and anything else that is a track based editor - played with it a bit so far, but ain't done anything in production as of yet - still trying to get my graphics out of the way first - and GIMP can't cut the mustard for that...(sorry GIMP, but Photoshop wins for graphics modifications... I have the nvidia drivers - but isn't libGLcore.so.1 part of the SDL/GL suite - and not necessarily based on a particular card? -- Mon Jan 13 12:45:00 EST 2003 12:45pm up 14:31, 5 users, load average: 0.25, 0.29, 0.30 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- What's a battle? --Ralph Wiggum Whacking Day (Episode 9F18) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Free the code
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/freethecode.html?ca=dgr-lnxw15freecode If anything, just click that - and check it out - ya gotta have a laugh... -- Mon Jan 13 13:00:01 EST 2003 1:00pm up 14:46, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.21, 0.25 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home. -- Luke Skywalker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 04:07, _nasturtium wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: do a: display nameoftheimage.JPG (display is part of the ImageMagick suite) Hello, Console output: display: Unsupported marker type 0x26 (output.jpg). Not the picture i want - though it's still a nice wizard pic :-/ Regards, _nasturtium Whaddaya get when you try to open it with GIMP? Hello, GIMP 1.2.something. I got: Open failed. /e/zLoads/output.jpg And of course i can't generate a preview. Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Netscape problems
On Saturday 11 January 2003 10:59 am, Mike Larson scribbled incoherently: If I have a Mozilla (1.2.1 XFT) window open and try to open a Netscape 7.01 window, I get another Mozilla window. If I close all browser windows and start Netscape, it opens normally. On the other hand, I _can_ open a Phoenix 0.3 window when Mozilla is running. I am starting all from the menu, which calls from /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla , /usr/local/netscape/netscape and /usr/local/phoenix/phoenix Anyone have an idea on how I can open Netscape without closing all Mozilla windows? I tried opening in a termialdoen't work. Mike Hi Mike, Both Netscape and Mozilla use the same user directory, .mozilla, to do their thing when they're running. ergo, when you had Mozilla running and started Netscape it appeared as though another instance of Mozilla was running. When, in fact, it was actually Netscape. The way to get around this is to setup a seperate profile for Netscape so that it isn't looking at your Mozilla dir, or the files contained therein. Once you've done this you shouldn't have this problem again. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:13:15 + _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 04:07, _nasturtium wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: do a: display nameoftheimage.JPG (display is part of the ImageMagick suite) Hello, Console output: display: Unsupported marker type 0x26 (output.jpg). Not the picture i want - though it's still a nice wizard pic :-/ Regards, _nasturtium Whaddaya get when you try to open it with GIMP? Hello, GIMP 1.2.something. I got: Open failed. /e/zLoads/output.jpg And of course i can't generate a preview. Regards, _nasturtium How about identify nameofpic.jpg? I suppose it'll give you the same error you got when you tried display, though. But you might learn something new. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:41 am, Todd Slater wrote: How about identify nameofpic.jpg? I suppose it'll give you the same error you got when you tried display, though. But you might learn something new. Todd Hello, identify: Unsupported marker type 0x26 (output.jpg). Anyone want me to send the mystery picture to them? It's 70kb, and as a warning, I don't actually know what it is. Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues
El sáb, 11-01-2003 a las 19:16, Andrei Raevsky escribió:
1) I have a US keyboard on my laptop. I would like to type in French
letters with accents (such as é or à)..
Use the Mandrake Control Center to change your keyboard to U.S.
International. Now the apostrophe (') and quotation mark () keys are
dead keys that are used to create accented letters. To type é, for
example, press the apostrophe followed by the e. To type an apostrophe,
press the apostrophe key twice. Once you get used to it you will find it
a much easier way to type than those silly alt codes in Windows.
2) How can I rapidly change keyboards? I could use the Mandrake Control
Center's hardware menu to change keyboards, but this would also be very
slow...
Can't help you with this one. Anyone else know?
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[newbie] On the fly copying - NOT
I've been trying to set up on the fly copying on my computer. I've followed the various threads on this subject. X-CDRoast gives me an error saying that only pure audio CD's can be copied. I believe that's what I'm trying. G-Toaster will appear to copy on the fly. Everything looks right. It completes the burn. I put the CD in a player and it has all the tracks, the right length and everything. Just no sound. It plays in a CD player, but but is silent. G-Toaster works fine when burning audio tracks from the hard drive. I know that I can rip the audio to the hard drive and then back to a CD, but that is a lengthy process. Or I can choke boot up Windows and do on the fly copying there. Any ideas? Oh, I'm using Mandrake 9 with a generic CD reader and CD-RW, both SCSI emulated. thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] On the fly copying - NOT
El Lun 13 Ene 2003 00:31, Linus Drouhard escribió: I've been trying to set up on the fly copying on my computer. I've followed the various threads on this subject. X-CDRoast gives me an error saying that only pure audio CD's can be copied. I believe that's what I'm trying. Any ideas? thanks, Linus X-CDRoast (0.98alpha13), and on the fly, can only copy data cds. Copying on the fly audio cds isn't yet implemented. From: usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha13/FAQ 12. What about audio-quick copy? Currently quick-copy (copying without buffering any tracks on harddrive) only works for pure data-CDs. We are working on audio-quick copy, so that the final version of X-CD-Roast 0.98 should offer this feature. (The real problem is, that the cdrtools do not yet support that feature, so X-CD-Roast can't utilize it.) You can try with k3b. (I don't have tested it.) Suerte. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 12:51am up 1:08, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MS Wireless Optical Mouse
I have a Toshiba laptop. Both the glidepad and usb wireless mouse do not work. Here's what happens: I can move the cursor with both the glidepad and usb mouse, but it only goes up and down. This problem doesn't occur in Red Hat 8.0, but does in other distros I've tried (Knoppix--but there, the glidepad works). __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] partition help for testing 9.1
I'm going to try testing the 9.1 beta but. I don't have an empty partition to install to. I DO have a rather large /home partition that i could divide. the question is how, without losing data. The machine is single boot Mdk 9.0. If there's some detailed howto available I'd be ok if pointed to it. I do have quite a considerable amount of data in my /home partition I don't want to lose. TIA Jerry. -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Broken Spell Check in OpenOffice
I think OO actually uses myspell. Installing myspell-en will take care of it if you use English. You will also need to check the settings as Anne pointed out after installing. Finally, you might want to also install OpenOffice.org-help, which are the help files for OpenOffice.org. If you aren't sure how to install files, the easiest way would be to click on the Install Software menu under KMenu==Configuration==Packaging. Then select all packages alphabetical and scroll through the list till you get to myspell and click on your language and scroll to you get to the OpenOffice.org-help and click on your language and finally click the install button. Joeb On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:53:15 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 4:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the OpenOffice version 1.0.1 that came with Mandrake 9.0 and everything works fine except the spell check. Running the spell check on a document doesn't identify (by underling I'm assuming) the miss spelled words, but doesn't give any errors. The soffice.dic is being pointed to. Any advice? There was a long thread about this in December, IIRC. You might like to search the archives for the details, but in essence, the spell checker is not installed by default. I can't remember whether OO uses aspell or ispell, but you have to install it separately. You also have to check the settings under Options, Language. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] This is personal!
Playing with ROX and Fluxbox on 8.2. I have the pinboard working OK so I can have desktop icons (not that I use them). So I spent time today looking for icons and just generally customising the look and feel. (See http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2003_01_12_23_26_50?full=1 if you're curious.) Problem is, I've invested so much time and effort in getting everything just the way I want it, I'm having a hard time convincing myself I should move to 9.0 or 9.1! As has often been repeated on this list, choice is good. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla error messages
Everytime I put up mozilla web browser, I get an error message about now having /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/chrome/packages/core/sidebar.xul but it doesn't say anything about what to do to correct it. Any suggestions clicking the message off does not seem to harm things much that I can tell so far, but maybe I haven't come across the problem yet. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] M9.1 beta download
Besides, M9.1beta1 , is there a 2nd and 3rd disc yet, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1 beta download
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Besides, M9.1beta1 , is there a 2nd and 3rd disc yet, No, it's a one CD download. -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is personal!
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:40, Todd Slater wrote: Playing with ROX and Fluxbox on 8.2. I have the pinboard working OK so I can have desktop icons (not that I use them). So I spent time today looking for icons and just generally customising the look and feel. (See http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2003_01_12_23_26_50?full=1 if you're curious.) Problem is, I've invested so much time and effort in getting everything just the way I want it, I'm having a hard time convincing myself I should move to 9.0 or 9.1! As has often been repeated on this list, choice is good. Todd Now that ya got it the way you like it - too bad ya ain't made an RPM of the whole schlmeal so that it wouldn't matter what linux distro you had, you could just run the RPM and have it all again! (Or, offer it to other unfortunate users so that they might see the light you have found!) ...overall, I think it looks nice - and knowing what little overhead is spent on both Fluxbox and Rox, well, certainly would make for a nice package on slower machines... -- Mon Jan 13 15:50:00 EST 2003 3:50pm up 17:36, 5 users, load average: 0.74, 0.69, 0.60 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- : Any porters out there should feel happier knowing that DEC is shipping : me an AlphaPC that I intend to try getting linux running on: this will : definitely help flush out some of the most flagrant unportable stuff. : The Alpha is much more different from the i386 than the 68k stuff is, so : it's likely to get most of the stuff fixed. It's posts like this that almost convince us non-believers that there really is a god. (A follow-up by [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anthony Lovell, to Linus's remarks about porting) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is personal!
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:40, Todd Slater wrote: Playing with ROX and Fluxbox on 8.2. I have the pinboard working OK so I can have desktop icons (not that I use them). So I spent time today looking for icons and just generally customising the look and feel. (See http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2003_01_12_23_26_50?full=1 if you're curious.) Problem is, I've invested so much time and effort in getting everything just the way I want it, I'm having a hard time convincing myself I should move to 9.0 or 9.1! If your /home directory resides on a separate partition, AND that config is a non-root user, you should be able to do a clean install of 9.1beta and keep your fluxbox settings, if you choose keep current partitions and don't format your /home partition -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1 beta download
Roger Sherman wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Besides, M9.1beta1 , is there a 2nd and 3rd disc yet, No, it's a one CD download. In that case I have a successfully completed download, which I am prepared to offer up to 5 copies free of charge to first five requests ,whose personal address is likely good postal service to me a UK address myself.So that is likely to be uk or west european. just send me your private name and address off list. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1 beta download
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:06, John Richard Smith wrote: In that case I have a successfully completed download, which I am prepared to offer up to 5 copies free of charge to first five requests ,whose personal address is likely good postal service to me a UK address myself.So that is likely to be uk or west european. just send me your private name and address off list. John So you're prejudiced against Australians - is that it? You've harboured a deep hatred for Australians ever since the Paul Hogan show bounced Upstairs/Downstairs out of a prime BBC slot, and now it's beginning to surface in a mean, opportunistic way...okay...that's fine...we'll just have to kick yer butt in cricket again, ya reckon? AND darts - yeah! Right-oh! (g) -- Mon Jan 13 16:10:01 EST 2003 4:10pm up 17:56, 5 users, load average: 0.21, 0.29, 0.35 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- At the foot of the mountain, thunder: The image of Providing Nourishment. Thus the superior man is careful of his words And temperate in eating and drinking. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VCD slideshow
SNIP Its' fairly close in usage as Adobe Premier - and anything else that is a track based editor - played with it a bit so far, but ain't done anything in production as of yet - still trying to get my graphics out of the way first - and GIMP can't cut the mustard for that...(sorry GIMP, but Photoshop wins for graphics modifications... I have the nvidia drivers - but isn't libGLcore.so.1 part of the SDL/GL suite - and not necessarily based on a particular card? SNIP well, i've installed everything GL and SDL that i can find, but still no libGLcore.so.1 [root@main jerry]# locate libGLcore /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a [root@main jerry]# but no .so.1 :( I've been googling and still the only info i can find on libGLcore.so.1 is that it is part of the NVIDIA drivers. What a crappy way to build an ap...LOL I'll see if i can get ahold of the source and try building it from that instead. wish me luck :P Jerry -- Registered Linux user #300600 Registered Linux machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VCD slideshow
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 16:52, Jerry Barton wrote: well, i've installed everything GL and SDL that i can find, but still no libGLcore.so.1 [root@main jerry]# locate libGLcore /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a [root@main jerry]# but no .so.1 :( I've been googling and still the only info i can find on libGLcore.so.1 is that it is part of the NVIDIA drivers. What a crappy way to build an ap...LOL I'll see if i can get ahold of the source and try building it from that instead. wish me luck :P Jerry What about installing the nvidia drivers, then, instead of removing them, reinstall your proper video drivers? The installation of the vid divers don't affect your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 at all - so you'd not be in danger there - and it would give you the necessary libs... ...just a thought... -- Mon Jan 13 17:00:01 EST 2003 5:00pm up 18:46, 5 users, load average: 0.27, 0.60, 0.66 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- -- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous. -- When there are visible vapors having the prevenience in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration. -- Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted. -- A plethora of individuals wither expertise in culinary techniques vitiated the potable concoction produced by steeping certain coupestibles. -- Eleemosynary deeds have their initial incidence intramurally. -- Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony. -- Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be well advised to refrain from catapulting projectiles. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Single User Mode?
Mdk 9.0... how do you boot in single-user mode? I need to umount my /home partition to resize it. thx Jerry -- -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] partition help for testing 9.1
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:31, Jerry Barton wrote: I'm going to try testing the 9.1 beta but. I don't have an empty partition to install to. I DO have a rather large /home partition that i could divide. the question is how, without losing data. The machine is single boot Mdk 9.0. If there's some detailed howto available I'd be ok if pointed to it. I do have quite a considerable amount of data in my /home partition I don't want to lose. TIA Jerry. Just restore home from your last weekly backup once you have repartitioned. Backup, backup, backup again. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
