Re: [newbie] Evolution update help
I have a couple of questions here: 1. Where is Evolution now?? /usr/bin 2. How do I add it back to my menu and icon bar (as well as Red Carpet)?? No idea Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads
Let me describe briefly my home network set up: The XP machine has two NICs, one hooked to the ADSL modem/router and the other one, which ICS configure automatically as 192.168.0.1, connected to a 10 Mbps hub (I hope I'll get soon a cheap 100Mbps switch). The other two machines in the network are connected using twisted-pair cable CAT5 to the hub. XP machine (192.168.0.1) is used as default gateway and as DHCP and DNS server for the other two machines. In reality, XP is just a DNS proxy with a minimal DHCP server. No possibility of tweaking the DHCP server although I managed to tweak the DNS proxy (the tweaked settings are lost if the XP machine is rebooted). Am I missing something? Set the Primary DNS to the XP machine, the secondary DNS to your ISP's primary DNS, put the IP of the XP machine in your /etc/hosts file, set Mozilla/Netscape (Under ADVANCED / HTTP NETWORKING) to Enable Keep-Alive and Enable Pipelining (under the Direct Connection Options). Stephen, This saga keeps going. Today, when receiving my emails (only Evolution was connected), the connection to the LAN was lost. For a couple of minutes I couldn't even ping the gateway. I tried a few times with the same outcome: I couldn't get the mails and needed to start all over. I realized that the only way to get the connection back was by pinging the gateway. So I decided to hook the Linux laptop directly to the ADSL modem, without firewall or NAT. No protection whatsoever. I thought it might be a faulty network cable or even the hub. But then again, the same problem. And again, I needed to ping the default gateway provided by the ISP to get the connection back. So I suppose there must be some faulty interaction between Mandrake and the laptop NIC. I have never had this sort of problem when booting XP. I just wanted to let you know to satisfy (or tease) your curiosity. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:24, Warren Post wrote:
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.
My primary keyboard is EN basic 104 and I set up a spanish secondary
keyboard (Kmenu-Config-KDE-Periph-Keyborad). Now, all I have to do is
clicking on the keyboard language selection applet in the system tray.
You can set as many keyboards as you wish.
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...
I haven't been able to get this working yet.
HTH,
Adolfo
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Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 20:59, Miark wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:41:39 -0800 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The article says Chapter 11, so maybe they will be able to pull themselves out of this mess Damn right. I don't see this as bad news at all. In fact, it's good news because 1) It allows Mandrakesoft to _continue_ working, and 2) Without that immense debt burden, MDK will be able to work better than they did before. Good for them. Good for us! Miark Any which way, this is not born out of luxury! It certainly doesn't attract investors. I've renewed my club silver-membership so often lately I don't even know any more when (if?) it expires. I've paid for upto 9.1 boxed sets (that is going to be the best release yet!) and will pay whatever follows..you bet!! Mandrake is IMHO the best stable desktop distrib out there and the one staying 'closest' to it's users and the free-software spirit. They're worth risking a few bucks for! Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with new install
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:01:51 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin, For your printing have you tried installing Cups for that. Cups does a real nice job of taking care of printing needs and has the drivers for most, if not all, of the major brands of printers you can get these days. As for your DNS entries...check the /etc/resolv.conf file and see if your entries are there. If not, enter them directly into that file. That should take care of that for you. - -- Mark thats the problem Mark, something is overwriting resolv.conf every time I reboot. I also have a resolv.conf.sv which does not get overwritten. As for the printing problem, I am using CUPS. As I said, I have reinstalled, but somthing must be corrupted. (sounds just like windows) 7:12pm up 27 min, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.16, 0.06 Academicians care, that's who. ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with new install
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 03:17 am, Colin Jenkins scribbled nervously: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:01:51 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin, For your printing have you tried installing Cups for that. Cups does a real nice job of taking care of printing needs and has the drivers for most, if not all, of the major brands of printers you can get these days. As for your DNS entries...check the /etc/resolv.conf file and see if your entries are there. If not, enter them directly into that file. That should take care of that for you. - -- Mark thats the problem Mark, something is overwriting resolv.conf every time I reboot. I also have a resolv.conf.sv which does not get overwritten. As for the printing problem, I am using CUPS. As I said, I have reinstalled, but somthing must be corrupted. (sounds just like windows) scary, isn't it? have you tried making the changes to resolv.conf and the chmod'ing the file to 600 so that its readOnly? I'd give that a try and see if your changes stick after a reboot. -- Mark -- Powered By Mandrake Liinux 9.0 || Toshiba Portege ICQ# 27816299 -- Saying Open Source DRM is the same as saying Military Intelligence. Repeating it makes my brain hurt! author Unknown... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
Same here. I just renewed this afternoon. Go Mandrake! Miark On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:37:31 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: _We_ can help. Join the Club, or if you're already a member, renew early. I did a few weeks ago, I'm confident Mandrake will continue. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues
On Monday 13 January 2003 04:19, Adolfo Bello wrote:
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:24, Warren Post wrote:
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.
My primary keyboard is EN basic 104 and I set up a spanish secondary
keyboard (Kmenu-Config-KDE-Periph-Keyborad). Now, all I have to do is
clicking on the keyboard language selection applet in the system tray.
You can set as many keyboards as you wish.
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...
I haven't been able to get this working yet.
If you're in KDE just hit (with 3 fingers) : CTRL,ALT,k and y'll switch
keyboard.
If you want to change that to i.e. ALTSHIFT which is the winder$
combination.go into configuration,KDE,accessibility,keyboard
shortcuts and change it in there to whatever you want.=:o)
You can have as many keyboards you want in there. I'd recomend the
US_international with no_dead_keys though. It's got all the accents you
except ç.
Good luck,
HarM
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Re: [newbie] Thanx :-)
On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 4:13 am, Birger wrote: Hi everyone I never got my Mandrake 9.0 to work, but i downloaded Mandrake 8.2 love at first sight. in it installed perfect im writing at this moment using Evolution 1.0.2 And hey i can still chat with my friends with amsn Yes. I use an instant messaging system called Jabber, with a client called Psi. It is open source and has gateways into other IM system such as MSN, AOL,ICQ etc you can send/receive messages to anyone on the other networks. Follow my signature for a tutorial on Jabber. There are other Jabber clients, and other IM tools like GAIM which connects you to the AOL network. and yes im gonna join the club and buy the box set Have fun :) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 03:15, Terry Sheltra wrote: Len, Thanks for all of your help. I now have mplayer working (sort of), AND keeping my settings! :-) What isn't quite working yet is the audio. I put in a DVD that we have lying around here at the office (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and the movie started to play. I didn't get the DVD navigation menu like I had expected (is there a separate package for this? or does mplayer not even support it?), and the audio track was that of the director's commentary, and not the movie audio track. How can I go about fixing these? Thanks again Len! :-) Len Lawrence wrote: It's dependent on how the DVD was created. I like Final Fanstasy, but constantly have to muck with the subtitles and the likes to get it to play properly - but on the other hand, if I stick in say, Beetlejuice, I get the whole shebang. Same with Monsters, Inc. -- Thu Jan 16 10:05:00 EST 2003 10:05am up 2 days, 1:46, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.07 -- |____ | 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's stuck in the Web. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP release/renewal
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 04:40, Noquar wrote: Hi all, this is my first time posting to this list. The question I had was this... I run two computers off a hub/switch in my house on a cable modem, my ISP will assign a separate IP to both so it doesn't require a router. My Windows machine has kept the same IP for months, my Mandrake 9.0 machine seems to get about 2-3 new IP's a DAY. Is there anything I can set to keep the machine from release/renewing so often? It doesn't matter if the machine is kept on constantly, sometimes it will renew in the middle of a console session, it seems so random and it's annoying. I'd prefer not to get a static IP but it seems I might have to go that route. Linux or UNIX are inherently shitting with being DHCP clients - if anything, static IP is preferred to anything else. Sorry - there are heaps of work-arounds, but in reality, nothing beats the stability of static. -- Thu Jan 16 10:10:00 EST 2003 10:10am up 2 days, 1:51, 4 users, load average: 0.51, 0.29, 0.15 -- |____ | 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 -- Rudin's Law: If there is a wrong way to do something, most people will do it every time. Rudin's Second Law: In a crisis that forces a choice to be made among alternative courses of action, people tend to choose the worst possible course. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome Search
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 03:43, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:25, RichardA wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] or by anacron when you boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). If anacron isn't installed by default, what happens to cron jobs like logrotate if the machine is never on at that time? Richard Logrotate won't get run and the log files will just keep growing. -- Michael # service -s | grep anacron # anacron is running... Well I'm ok on 8.2, but if someone installs 9.0: - where space is tight - on one partition - only boots during the day it's guaranteed one day not to boot? Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] graphic utility
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 05:34, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a screenshot and save it to a file and have it be viewable by someone who lives on the Windows platform. Anybody know the name of what I need? Thanks. Jeanie You can use GIMP to do it as well... -- Thu Jan 16 10:15:01 EST 2003 10:15am up 2 days, 1:56, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.16, 0.12 -- |____ | 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 -- In the east there is a shark which is larger than all other fish. It changes into a bird whose winds are like clouds filling the sky. When this bird moves across the land, it brings a message from Corporate Headquarters. This message it drops into the midst of the program mers, like a seagull making its mark upon the beach. Then the bird mounts on the wind and, with the blue sky at its back, returns home. The novice programmer stares in wonder at the bird, for he understands it not. The average programmer dreads the coming of the bird, for he fears its message. The master programmer continues to work at his terminal, for he does not know that the bird has come and gone. -- Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which file system?
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:37, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have seen some posting regarding file system support on upcoming 9.1. What is the best file system for the root partition? Ext2, Ext3, ReinserFS, XFS? Adolfo EXT3 for the root, then you can use whatever you like after that - ReiserFS is quite alright, but for large scale file systems, XFS seems to be the better handler. -- Thu Jan 16 09:50:00 EST 2003 9:50am up 2 days, 1:31, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.02 -- |____ | 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 -- In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin 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 10:09, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have a couple of questions here: 1. Where is Evolution now?? /usr/bin 2. How do I add it back to my menu and icon bar (as well as Red Carpet)?? No idea Adolfo You can very easily add Evolution and Red Carpet both to your menu - but it's dependent on what desktop you have. You can use the Mandrake menu facility, or if you're using KDE, do a RIGHT-CLICK on the K menu icon and choose EDIT - then add both from there. -- Thu Jan 16 09:50:00 EST 2003 9:50am up 2 days, 1:31, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.02 -- |____ | 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 -- In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install modem
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 01:04, Gil Katz wrote: Hi i got new modem rockwell HSF i downloaded the driver from the site and install it after wards i run the configuration program and in the end i got a message that the modem is ok and i can access it via /dev/ttySHSF0 but when i try to configure kppp i cant see /dev/ttySHSF0 in the device list. any help? Thanks Gil The modem is linked to /dev/modem - so when you're in KPPP (or whatever) you can just set the device as that - and then test it. I've got basically the same modem, but refuse to use KPPP anymore - I use WVDIAL (which someone pointed out is on the CD set somewhere) - it works without a hitch, and you have direct access to edit the main configuration file by hand if you so desire (/etc/wvdial.conf) - so there's nothing hidden or mysterious about it's settings and setup. -- Thu Jan 16 09:55:01 EST 2003 9:55am up 2 days, 1:36, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.09, 0.04 -- |____ | 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 -- Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ? Looking for modem driver
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 08:04, mbot wrote: Hello newbie, Is there anyone here know where to find the driver for my modem as follows: Prolink Twister Series V.92 VID: x14F1 Conexant System Inc. DID: x2F00 cx11252-11 HSF 56k HSFi SubVID: x14F1 Conexant SubID: x2002 no-name rev: x01 x5---INTA# I've been searching the websites (winmodem, linmodem, conexant) for weeks to find it, and download some. But still my modem not working. Or ... is it my modem not a winmodem??? Tnx a lot ... and peace. This is a normal Winmodem - and using the Conexant drivers available through www.linmodems.org should get you on the right track. Once you've installed the drivers, though, do NOT depend on KPPP to judge whether it works or not - try minicom or Xminicom - and do an lsmod to make sure the modules for the modem are listed - you might have to make a link in your /dev to the modem, but get the drivers first - compile them, then try again. -- Thu Jan 16 10:15:01 EST 2003 10:15am up 2 days, 1:56, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.16, 0.12 -- |____ | 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 -- In the east there is a shark which is larger than all other fish. It changes into a bird whose winds are like clouds filling the sky. When this bird moves across the land, it brings a message from Corporate Headquarters. This message it drops into the midst of the program mers, like a seagull making its mark upon the beach. Then the bird mounts on the wind and, with the blue sky at its back, returns home. The novice programmer stares in wonder at the bird, for he understands it not. The average programmer dreads the coming of the bird, for he fears its message. The master programmer continues to work at his terminal, for he does not know that the bird has come and gone. -- Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:11, Adolfo Bello wrote: Stephen, This saga keeps going. Today, when receiving my emails (only Evolution was connected), the connection to the LAN was lost. For a couple of minutes I couldn't even ping the gateway. I tried a few times with the same outcome: I couldn't get the mails and needed to start all over. I realized that the only way to get the connection back was by pinging the gateway. So I decided to hook the Linux laptop directly to the ADSL modem, without firewall or NAT. No protection whatsoever. I thought it might be a faulty network cable or even the hub. But then again, the same problem. And again, I needed to ping the default gateway provided by the ISP to get the connection back. So I suppose there must be some faulty interaction between Mandrake and the laptop NIC. I have never had this sort of problem when booting XP. I just wanted to let you know to satisfy (or tease) your curiosity. Adolfo For whatever reason, there seems to be consistent problems with using MCC to setup connections - no matter what the connections are. I've found that by manually editing the networking scripts as ROOT ensures connectivity and stability - there have been numerous other fixes as well, but doing it by hand (por mano) seems to be the winner so far. -- Thu Jan 16 09:50:00 EST 2003 9:50am up 2 days, 1:31, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.02 -- |____ | 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 -- In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:45, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 20:59, Miark wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:41:39 -0800 Any which way, this is not born out of luxury! It certainly doesn't attract investors. I've renewed my club silver-membership so often lately I don't even know any more when (if?) it expires. I've paid for upto 9.1 boxed sets (that is going to be the best release yet!) and will pay whatever follows..you bet!! Mandrake is IMHO the best stable desktop distrib out there and the one staying 'closest' to it's users and the free-software spirit. They're worth risking a few bucks for! Good luck, HarM __ One problem is that if you do not have a debit or credit card, you can not join the Mandrake club. I am looking forward to the 9.1 release and plan on buying the power pack when it is released. I am also going to look into buying OTC stock in the company. If more people buy stock, it might attract bigger investors. I have been a big fan of Mandrake for a long time and it has finally reached the point where I am using it exclusively. I have not touched my winXP box in days. The fact that it is desktop friendly keeps me using it. -- walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:20, walt wrote: One problem is that if you do not have a debit or credit card, you can not join the Mandrake club. I am looking forward to the 9.1 release and plan on buying the power pack when it is released. I am also going to look into buying OTC stock in the company. If more people buy stock, it might attract bigger investors. I have been a big fan of Mandrake for a long time and it has finally reached the point where I am using it exclusively. I have not touched my winXP box in days. The fact that it is desktop friendly keeps me using it. Did you give 'paypal' a try? I use that next to my credit card. Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphic utility
Why doesn't this work with dvds played through xine? On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:53 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 18:34, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a screenshot and save it to a file and have it be viewable by someone who lives on the Windows platform. Anybody know the name of what I need? Thanks. Jeanie if you like KDE: ksnapshot if you like commandline: add this to your ~/.bashrc file: alias screenshot=import -window root -display localhost:0 picture.pcx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recognition of Todd Lyons
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 16:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I want to make an official appeal to the Mandrake management to keep Todd Lyons securely in the company, in the recent light of current events regarding the Chapter 11. Todd Lyons has been an incredible asset to the Expert list, helping countless users with their problems and concerns. It would be a terrible loss to Mandrake and an even more terrible loss to all Mandrake users were anything to happen that would force him to seek other employment. We want him around and we want him to stay. Civileme was a huge asset to all of us here in North America, as well as the rest of the world. We don't want the same thing to happen to Todd Lyons. If this concerns you now is the time to make your support known. Thank you, Todd. LX I wrote to Jaques le Marois when I heard that Civileme was to be booted and received a snotty reply for my trouble. I certainly agree with you about the contribution that Todd makes, but I'm not sure that Mandrake are sophisticated enough to value the opinions of their customers (look at the Mandrakestore debacle). Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A Marketing Method
As I stated once before, Mandrake could learn a bit from it's competitors - and a for instance is to come. I don't doubt that Mandrake will get better, or do better as a Desktop distro - I think they're on the road to it - just a matter of time and working out all the bugs here and there - and it's not an easy job, and it will get done - in what time frame, well, no one knows right now - but it won't be that long. But overall, one thing that they should consider is the pricing plan. Economies in different countries are different - so when someone in say, Australia, has to contend with paying $40USD for something, it's more like $80AUD - and that's a bit of a steep price to pay. I purchased a copy of RedHat 8.0 yesterday. Cost was $34.95 AUD. Mate of mine in Texas bought it on Monday - cost was $34.95 US. Same package. I can live with shelling out $40AUD for a package - certainly a hell of a lot cheaper than paying for Micro$oft stuff - there are three versions of RH sitting on the shelf next to me - all up cost was about $130 or so - AUD - a cost I can live with. If Mandrake would want to try that type of marketing, they might find that they'd not only eliminate the number of freeloaders, but they'd be able to get a quick injection of cash into their accounts - but it's their decision to make - not mine or yours. I would happily make a purchase of a set - provided the cost was low enough to justify - even $50AUD would be low enough for me to justify this to the wife/boss...otherwise, I'll personally still have to freeload on the MDK side for testing and playing, and stick to RedHat for my production boxes. -- Thu Jan 16 10:30:00 EST 2003 10:30am up 2 days, 2:11, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.22, 0.19 -- |____ | 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 -- Moishe Margolies, who weighed all of 105 pounds and stood an even five feet in his socks, was taking his first airplane trip. He took a seat next to a hulking bruiser of a man who happened to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Little Moishe was uneasy enough before he even entered the plane, but now the roar of the engines and the great height absolutely terrified him. So frightened did he become that his stomach turned over and he threw up all over the muscular giant siting beside him. Fortunately, at least for Moishe, the man was sound asleep. But now the little man had another problem. How in the world would he ever explain the situation to the burly brute when he awakened? The sudden voice of the stewardess on the plane's intercom, finally woke the bruiser, and Moishe, his heart in his mouth, rose to the occasion. Feeling better now? he asked solicitously. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:28, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:20, walt wrote: One problem is that if you do not have a debit or credit card, you can not join the Mandrake club. I am looking forward to the 9.1 release and plan on buying the power pack when it is released. I am also going to look into buying OTC stock in the company. If more people buy stock, it might attract bigger investors. I have been a big fan of Mandrake for a long time and it has finally reached the point where I am using it exclusively. I have not touched my winXP box in days. The fact that it is desktop friendly keeps me using it. Did you give 'paypal' a try? I use that next to my credit card. Good Luck, HarM O! A Paypal user! My wife and I like Paypal users! Wanna by some doggie coats? (g) http://member.rivernet.com.au/kaytee/srp/index.html WE LIKE PAYPAL! (Oh yeah!) -- Thu Jan 16 10:40:00 EST 2003 10:40am up 2 days, 2:21, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.15 -- |____ | 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 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mandrake Financial Problems
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:28, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:52, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: But, obviously, HTML should be avoided. Yes, and I want to download 9.1 with Xmodem. Anybody got mandrake's modem number? I generally take this in the light spirit that it was posted in. Glad to hear it. ;) But too I think it needs to be understood that on mailing lists and also quite a few newsgroups HTML is strictly banned. Agreed. And since those are the only important sources of email, we're all safe in here. I think this is just common courtesy, not only for bandwidth reasons, but also because there are quite a few people out there who read their mail without having a feature that strips html out of the text. Absolutely, who would expect an email client to include the same functionality of something like Lynx. That thing's just a big bandwidth-sucking pig. Evolution allows me to read html messages, but the way they are formatted and presented is quite annoying. Straight text is much friendlier. Yeah I use Evolution too. I wish I could find an OS and email client that would let me tailor my experience to suit my needs. Then I could ...oooh. look at that. ;) ~Brandon Registered Omish Linux User 01 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Which file system?
On January 15, 2003 03:52 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:37, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have seen some posting regarding file system support on upcoming 9.1. What is the best file system for the root partition? Ext2, Ext3, ReinserFS, XFS? Adolfo EXT3 for the root, then you can use whatever you like after that - ReiserFS is quite alright, but for large scale file systems, XFS seems to be the better handler. Keerect except XFS isn't a usable file system for 9.1beta1. No XFS modules at all. I'm not certain about ReiserFS, but ext3 is there, however crappy it runs on my machine. That's why I was using XFS since 8.2 beta; it worked. It's a beta so I suppose the best method is trial and error to find what works adequately as I did before I settled on XFS. Besides; I have three (used under Mandrake) partitions that are roughly 30 GB each and XFS worked the smoothest for this hardware. Personally I'll be waiting for beta2. Or at least another kernel. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Gary Hart: living proof that you *can* screw your brains out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:44, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:28, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:20, walt wrote: One problem is that if you do not have a debit or credit card, you can not join the Mandrake club. I am looking forward to the 9.1 release and plan on buying the power pack when it is released. I am also going to look into buying OTC stock in the company. If more people buy stock, it might attract bigger investors. I have been a big fan of Mandrake for a long time and it has finally reached the point where I am using it exclusively. I have not touched my winXP box in days. The fact that it is desktop friendly keeps me using it. Did you give 'paypal' a try? I use that next to my credit card. Good Luck, HarM O! A Paypal user! My wife and I like Paypal users! Wanna by some doggie coats? (g) http://member.rivernet.com.au/kaytee/srp/index.html WE LIKE PAYPAL! (Oh yeah!) DOWN BOY DOWN and stopping wagging that furry thing, fer chr..t's sake! Good fun, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] graphic utility
Thank you. I'll try that. I happen to prefer KDE. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Damian Gatabria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] graphic utility On Wednesday 15 January 2003 18:34, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a screenshot and save it to a file and have it be viewable by someone who lives on the Windows platform. Anybody know the name of what I need? Thanks. Jeanie if you like KDE: ksnapshot if you like commandline: add this to your ~/.bashrc file: alias screenshot=import -window root -display localhost:0 picture.pcx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would suggest that everyone read the following comment by long-time contributer Ben Reser on Mandrakes financial situation: ¨Why the Mandrake Community should move on...¨ http://ben.reser.org/rants/invisible.cgi?month=01day=15year=2003t=00 Sascha Noyes On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:41 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Its official :-( On Wednesday 15 January 2003 11:59 am, Jody Cleveland wrote: Mandrake has filed for bankruptcy... So, now what... The article says Chapter 11, so maybe they will be able to pull themselves out of this mess - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JfmrgzJdfX+cTW8RAoA4AJ0btyzsnn4nn7lBvbFUUOhh49xgDgCdEsS+ yYXZKGTEhr4Yr7fYWxJ3p3I= =FPjm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - MS going open source
Came across this article today at http://www.fool.com/News/Take/2003/take030115.htm With governments from various countries switching to Linux, Micro$haft is obviously getting more than a little worried. hehe... Too late, they've missed the potential market in China... too bad... Here's an extract from the article: extract Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is going open source, at least for governments that want to inspect its Windows operating system. Through an initiative called the Government Security Program (GSP), the company will give governments and governmental agencies controlled access to Windows' underlying code. For a company that has always zealously guarded its intellectual property, this is significant. Microsoft has opened up its code in the past, to some extent, but this program goes even farther. The software giant will allow governments to review and judge Windows' security for themselves. Access will be free, and participants will actually make changes to the code, if necessary. Most of the changes are expected to be security-related and will vary from agency to agency. In addition, Microsoft will reveal technical documents and provide other support for the program. /extract The final paragraph being: By opening up, Microsoft may just end up locking down the governmental software market. - Too late for quite a few governments that have already made the switch I would say. ; ) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] postfix problems
I've two mail servers on my network: a w2kserver and a linux one. The w2k box is the PDC which is connected to the internet and the mail server is working fine. But, when I try to send any e-mail to the linux box (postfix) I can't read them. I mean, I don't know where they went to. There's nothing in the spool folders, but the w2kserver says that the message was delivered. By the way, if someone has any good documentation about postfix I would like to know the url. Peace! netmaniacMSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. Instale grátis. Clique aqui. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Netscape Email print problem
I have been using Netscape for email for years (currently 4.78) and haven't had problems. Recently when trying to print an email where the body is HTML, only the header is printed. Anyone have an idea why, and how to print the whole email? This is happening both on 8an 8.1 updated to 8.2 and also on an 8.1 updated to 8.2 and then to 9.0. Using CUPS and an HP Deskjet 600C Much thanks, Bob -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] postfix problems
I've two mail servers on my network: a w2kserver and a linux one. The w2k box is the PDC which is connected to the internet and its mail server is working fine. But, when I try to send any e-mail to the linux box (postfix) I can't read them. I mean, I don't know where they went to. There's nothing in the spool folders, but the w2kserver says that the message was delivered. By the way, if someone has any good documentation about postfix I would like to know the url. Peace! netmaniacMSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. Instale grátis. Clique aqui. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] samba - not writeable
Hi everyone, I've 2 problems with my samba. 1. When I look at the share from my Windows all the none US chars are showed wired or sometimes not even showed at all. 2. I would like my user to have write permissions (when I log in from the Windows PC) at the share but somehow I get denied. My smb.conf look like this: [global] log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd load printers = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 encrypt passwords = yes dns proxy = no printing = cups server string = Samba Server %v printcap name = lpstat security = user preferred master = no max log size = 50 [ftp] browseable = yes writable = yes path = /home/ftp comment = FTP public = yes user = @swoop write list = swoop As seen above it's the ftp dir I would like to have write permissions. What have I missed? If I turn to the 'man smb.conf' it should be enough with 'writeable = yes' or 'write list = username', but somehow it isn't. Best regards Allan Andersen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape Email print problem
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:22, Bob Read wrote: I have been using Netscape for email for years (currently 4.78) and haven't had problems. Recently when trying to print an email where the body is HTML, only the header is printed. Anyone have an idea why, and how to print the whole email? This is happening both on 8an 8.1 updated to 8.2 and also on an 8.1 updated to 8.2 and then to 9.0. Using CUPS and an HP Deskjet 600C Much thanks, Bob -- Not to sound like a complete idiot, but did you double check all the page settings and printer settings and restart the cupsd prior to attempting to print? Just checking mate. -- Thu Jan 16 15:35:01 EST 2003 3:35pm up 1:18, 3 users, load average: 0.41, 0.23, 0.16 -- |____ | 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 -- Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postfix problems
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:22, - netmaniac - wrote: I've two mail servers on my network: a w2kserver and a linux one. The w2k box is the PDC which is connected to the internet and the mail server is working fine. But, when I try to send any e-mail to the linux box (postfix) I can't read them. I mean, I don't know where they went to. There's nothing in the spool folders, but the w2kserver says that the message was delivered. By the way, if someone has any good documentation about postfix I would like to know the url. Peace! netmaniac http://www.postfix.org/ -- Thu Jan 16 15:40:00 EST 2003 3:40pm up 1:23, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.29, 0.20 -- |____ | 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 -- Proprietary Information. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphic utility
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't this work with dvds played through xine? you mean ksnapshot or the import command? anyway, it might be a feature of the driver xine is using to display the movie -- seen it happen in Windows using WMP.. you try to grab a screen from a movie anf get only a black square.. Sorry, i have no knowledge regarding xine, so i cannot really answer your question. (anyway MPlayer is better and it CAN take screenshots ;o)) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] samba - not writeable
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:33, Allan Andersen wrote: Hi everyone, I've 2 problems with my samba. 1. When I look at the share from my Windows all the none US chars are showed wired or sometimes not even showed at all. 2. I would like my user to have write permissions (when I log in from the Windows PC) at the share but somehow I get denied. My smb.conf look like this: [global] log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd load printers = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 encrypt passwords = yes dns proxy = no printing = cups server string = Samba Server %v printcap name = lpstat security = user preferred master = no max log size = 50 [ftp] browseable = yes writable = yes path = /home/ftp comment = FTP public = yes user = @swoop write list = swoop As seen above it's the ftp dir I would like to have write permissions. What have I missed? If I turn to the 'man smb.conf' it should be enough with 'writeable = yes' or 'write list = username', but somehow it isn't. Best regards Allan Andersen Samba, in conjunction with other services, can become a bit complex in it's settings - best to truly check through the maillists and on the pages at Samba.org - but I do know that there is a way to load code pages for your shares - have you checked out the applet withing Webmin and SWAT for further configuration modification? -- Thu Jan 16 15:40:00 EST 2003 3:40pm up 1:23, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.29, 0.20 -- |____ | 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 -- Proprietary Information. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] postfix problems
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Re: [newbie] problems with new install
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:01:14 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried making the changes to resolv.conf and the chmod'ing the file to 600 so that its readOnly? I'd give that a try and see if your changes stick after a reboot. dont really understand this, but switching to a fixed i.p. solved the problem. I run a dhcp server on my other box(mdk9) which also shares my cable connection. This is the first time I have set up mdk as a workstation, but I dont have this problem with my windows boxs (95,98,xp,Nt) -- 1:00pm up 1:44, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 To teach is to learn. ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] vi settings
I am using vi at the command prompt. I'm not that proficient at it yet but MDK 8.2 had the right directory for the help file. The installation for 9.0 that I just installed gives me an error, can't find help.txt in /home/tv/ETC/help.txt. Where can I change where the program looks for the help file? I looked for a vi.config and such. I found the main vi directory, but I have been know to play with settings and never get it to work again. If anyone knows where or how I can load vi to point to the correct files, I would greatly appreciate it. Its a real pain to open another file manually with such a long directory tree. Zane Minninger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recognition of Todd Lyons
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:36, Peter Watson wrote: I wrote to Jaques le Marois when I heard that Civileme was to be booted and received a snotty reply for my trouble. I certainly agree with you about the contribution that Todd makes, but I'm not sure that Mandrake are sophisticated enough to value the opinions of their customers (look at the Mandrakestore debacle). Regards Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Pete, all I can say is to take heart, because there is definitely different management in place. It is my hope and belief that the French will know who it is that butters their bread, and therefore make sure that there is a way to keep Todd in place, and ASAP bring Civileme back. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP release/renewal
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Linux or UNIX are inherently shitting with being DHCP clients - if anything, static IP is preferred to anything else. Sorry - there are heaps of work-arounds, but in reality, nothing beats the stability of static. I used to say something similar. But since I have been working with a DHCP server in order to provide ip services to winblows clients, I have found it to be very reliable. The DHCP server can be configured to provide an ip that doesn't change to a selected hardware address; basically the same as a static IP. This of course applies only when YOU control the DHCP server. However if you do have one, then you can tell it to supply whatever IP you want the hardware to have; including perhaps an available IP on the ISP's net. In a corporate situation a DHCP server allows very easy administration of IP's from a central location. These days I've got a DHCP server on the local net here, and I've been pretty pleased with the results and ease of use. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gotta new scanner...
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 7:39 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Gotta new scanner - Canon N670U - otherwise known as an LIDE 20 - so before I start trying to get this thang hooked up, anyone else running it? (It's USB...) Cheers! Now see, you done went and done it backwards... you're supposed to ask first - then buy! Canons are notorious for not working too well in linux - or at least this was the case a little while back. But of course check sane's site for your model number. Good luck. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Marketing Method
Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip But overall, one thing that they should consider is the pricing plan. Economies in different countries are different - so when someone in say, Australia, has to contend with paying $40USD for something, it's more like $80AUD - and that's a bit of a steep price to pay. If Mandrake would want to try that type of marketing, they might find that they'd not only eliminate the number of freeloaders, but they'd be able to get a quick injection of cash into their accounts - but it's their decision to make - not mine or yours. I would happily make a purchase of a set - provided the cost was low enough to justify - even $50AUD would be low enough for me to justify snip Stephen, as a newbie Australian Mandrake user I agree with you wholeheartedly, I changed from Windows to linux for several reasons - I cannot afford the ongoing/increasing cost of M$ software, I wanted an OS that I could learn to understand and have some form of control over and the added security for my machine offered by linux. I am enjoying my experience with the Mandrake distro having started with 8.2 and now 9.0 both as downloads and have successfully converted six others to the wonders of OSS and particularly Mandrake. I want to contribute to the Mandrake community but as you pointed out a boxed set and silver membership would cost me about $ 360 AUD. I aim to buy 9.1 as a boxed set and have a club membership but as I only have dial-up I cannot currently utilise the benefits of a club membership. My priority is #1 to get a broadband setup - which means I can't afford to support Mandrake at the current cost in AUD. If I could get the software/club membership for $180 AUD I could stretch my resources and manage to accomplish my goals of a broadband setup AND support Mandrake in a real way. As it stands I will have to continue 'freeload' until I can save enough to do both. I sincerley hope that Mandrake can find a way out of the current situation as I believe Mandrake to be the closest to a desktop replacement for M$. Graham Banks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:39, Miark wrote: Despite today's date, he doesn't know what's going on with Mandrake's bankruptcy. He complains about the low value of boxed Linux-Mandrake, and say that Mandrake Club is useless and that votes mean nothing. He's suggesting mutiny against Mandrake because it's a for-profit organization. Not only that, Miark...but more importantly he is suggesting that there be a fork of the Mandrake distro using of course Mandrake GPL'd distro packages and code. This is a very dangerous suggestion in the here and now, when the new Mandrake management team has not even had a chance to prove itself, it's direction, and it's attitude yet. In short, it seems premature and very disloyal, no matter what Ben Reser's claims to the contrary. I think Mandrakesoft should be given time to prove itself before somebody kicks them when they are down. It is an extremely poorly timed article which discredits itself with it's timing, no matter how good the negative points may be. Another point that I saw as completely off base from an entrepreneurial perspective was his scheme on pricing. To put it succinctly, it is completely backwards. If you undervalue your product's pricing, then it will be percieved as being of a lower value. If the product's pricing is higher, then it is percieved as being of higher value. Reser proposes lowering Mandrake's boxed set pricing even lower, even in the light of the financial situation of the company!!! Think about that, and while you do, consider the price of XP which is a far inferior product to Mandrake, and also consider that M$ is a profitable company making money off an inferior and defective version of spyware disguised as a half baked OS. Now then does it make sense to devalue your own honest, straightforward, robust and superior product?? This is the first mistake that young entrepreneurs make when starting their businesses. I've seen it happen nearly hundreds of times in startups; inexperienced startup peeps underpricing their stuff out of fear. If you underprice your stuff then your customers will undervalue your stuff. This not only applies to merchandise, but also to hourly labor; especially so in fact. You may not believe it but I just got off the phone six hours ago talking to a firm partner giving this very same advice cause they were making the very same mistakes. How are they doing? They are backsliding financially. And so will every other firm that makes this mistake; including mine. Seven years ago I learned the hard way. AnywayMandrake needs to keep their product priced at the level that it's worth, but within reach of the regular consumer. This to me means a compromise between the cost of some high priced winblows bullsh*t and the pocketbook of the middle class American. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 23:05, Dennis Myers wrote: I find that an opposing point of view always helps me focus on my own perceptions and reasoning behind my point of view. This is one of those articles that helped me focus. I agree that the so called value of Mandrake Club is minimal for goods but not for services. It serves to bring a certain feeling of ownership and respect for others in the Mandrake community. Value in the boxed set of Power Pack that I have is huge, compared to MS windows offerings. I have Star Office which costs $79 us on the open market and 1200+ other apps which I can access at 400MBS instead of the 20Kbs over the internet. I have a tangible finished product in my hands that looks better than the 3 cd's I d/l'd before I bought the box. (shallow I know) and I have the satisfaction in knowing that I am helping in my own small way to keep some talented people gainfully employed, even if overworked. Sooner or later the past errors in judgement catch up with us all, what is important is how we deal with the present and not moan and groan about the past. MandrakeSoft is dealing with the present and I wish them the best. It is not easy to be competitive in their business and in these times. I will stick to the end or the start of the beginning whichever it may be. Fade out with anthem and setting sun...: ) -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 True enough; there was actually value in some places of this article. One thing that I carried away from that article was a very enhanced impression of Vincent Danen. I had no idea that he was flaming the midnight oil out the firehose like he was, or that he was an employee of Mandrakesoft. This man really needs to get some recognition for what he has done for our community, in much the same regard that Todd needed some recognition. What's the use in working your a$$ off and nobody knowing about it? That's the kind of thankless treatment that runs people off. It's bad enough to work for substandard pay but still maintain a high standard of excellence, but it's completely unacceptable to be doing that and yet be unrecognized for it. This may perhaps be the REAL reason for the Ben Reser article. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphic utility
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:34 pm, you wrote: I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a screenshot and save it to a file and have it be viewable by someone who lives on the Windows platform. Anybody know the name of what I need? Thanks. Jeanie Jeanie, Use KSnapshot to get a PNG of what you want and convert the PNG to JPG or whatever in GIMP. Happy computing Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] samba - not writeable
Oops... sorry Allan, meant to send this to the list. Also note that I added
my old settings for my 'sharrea' share at the bottom - the settings that
were read-only.
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:33, Allan Andersen wrote:
1. When I look at the share from my Windows all the none US chars are
showed wired or sometimes not even showed at all.
Sorry, can't help you with this one.
2. I would like my user to have write permissions (when I log in from
the Windows PC) at the share but somehow I get denied.
Had the same problem until a few minutes ago - just fixed it. For now
though, I am using security = share rather than 'user' only because I
haven't had time to sort that one out and have been using 'share' for quite
a while and I'm the only one using these computers.
Are you having this problem with other shares like your home dir and/or
public share or is it only the ftp dir that is not writeable?
I will note any differences below in your global settings and give you my
settings for my home dir and a /home/samba/public.
My smb.conf look like this:
[global]
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
load printers = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
encrypt passwords = yes
dns proxy = no
printing = cups
server string = Samba Server %v
printcap name = lpstat
security = user
security = share (as noted above)
preferred master = no
; preferred master = yes (commented out)
max log size = 50
[ftp]
browseable = yes
writable = yes
path = /home/ftp
comment = FTP
public = yes
user = @swoop
write list = swoop
As seen above it's the ftp dir I would like to have write permissions.
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/samba/public
public = yes
writable = yes
write list = @staff (don't know what this is for but I can write to this
dir)
[sharrea]
comment = Sharrea's home directory
path = /home/sharrea
valid users = sharrea
public = no
writeable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765
I also have the same settings as my 'sharrea' share for a few other dirs and
I can write to all of them now.
Here is my OLD 'sharrea' share that was READ-ONLY:
[sharrea]
comment = Sharrea's home directory
path = /home/sharrea
valid users = sharrea
public = yes
writeable = yes
So maybe its the create mask = 0765 that does it?
What have I missed? If I turn to the 'man smb.conf' it should be enough
with 'writeable = yes' or 'write list = username', but somehow it isn't.
Not sure what the 'write list' parameter does but I don't have that on the
'sharrea' share or other shares (downloads; music; etc) and yet I can write
to them.
Does your security setting ('user') match what you have set on your Win
machine? Did you run smbpasswd for each user to add their login password?
Hopefully this may be of some use to you. Good luck.
Sharrea
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