Re: [newbie-it] Word, OO e stampe (lungo e forse OT)
Il Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:57:26 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Eppure c'era un sw che faceva i pdf... Di free purtroppo non sono mai riuscita a trovare niente, però credo ci si possa accontentare di uno di questi due: - win2pdf : quando salvi in pdf ti aggiunge una pagina con scritto che è la versione gratuita blablabla, quindi è sufficiente non stamparla. (www.win2pdf.com) - pdf995 : quando salvi in pdf ti apre il relativo sito in una finestra del browser (come se la cosa servisse ad invogliarti a pagare...) (www.pdf995.com) Io penso che potrebbero andarti bene, visto che a quanto dici non ti capita poi tutti i giorni di dover stampare per tua madre. Bye, Chiara e io aggiungo: - pdfcreator, che non va male (se non ricordo male l'ho trovato su sourgeforce.net) - pdf995 è il migliore, apre la finestra del browser ma è fatto da una serie di script e basta fare qualche modifica (togliere il richiamo alle 19 pagine web) e elimini l'inconveniente. Lo uso una 50ina di volte al giorno. Ciao Giamgax __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
Re: [newbie-it] Modem interno
Alle 18:03, domenica 2 febbraio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Ciao ragazzi, Con il kernel ricompilato 2.4.19 il modem interno Conexant, nonostante il driver, non funziona, nel senso che quando installo il pacchetto rpm del driver, l'output mi comunica che il sistema non è adatto per ricevere tale driver. Secondo voi che voci del kernel dovrei attivare per far funzionare questo driver che invece con il kernel normale della mdk 9.0 funziona a maravilgia? Grazie Che sia un problema del nome nella localizzazione della directory dei moduli? Anch'io, in prove di compilazione kernel ho avuto lo stesso problema...non risolto.. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] Compilare gaby errori con make
Ciao, Allora sono riuscito a dare il comando ./configure senza errori ma poi lanciando make mi vengono almeno 60 linee di errori! Sono così tanti che ti demoralizzano... è la prima volta che provo a compilare qualcosa e spero proprio che non sia sempre così!!! Anche perchè non posso usare solo il software della distribuzione! Comunque i tipi di errore sono questi ripetuti molte volte: ../../../src/gaby.h:57:25: gtk/gtk.h: No sduch file /usr/include/gdk_imlib_types.h:17: parse error before gint list.c:30: deferencing pointer to incomplete type list.c:58: 'clist' undeclared (first use of this function) list.c:232: size of array 'a_line' has non-integer type /usr/include/gdk_imlib_types.h:47: storage size of 'shape_color' isn't known Grazie a tutti per le risposte! Giulio F.
Re: [newbie-it] Word, OO e stampe (lungo e forse OT)
Eppure c'era un sw che faceva i pdf... io usavo EasyOffice per scrivere eprodurre direttamente pdf sotto win oppure con gli altri applicativi seguivo anche io la strda della stampa su stampante ps fittizia e poi usavo ghostview: la procedura dettagliata e' su http://www.pcalmeglio.com/consigli/cons_2.htm ciao pigi
Re: [newbie-it] Modem USB
At 19.00 02/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: Credo che il supporto USB per il modem sia caricato come modulo dal kernel 2.4.19 mdk 9.0, dunque dovrebbe già funzionare, supporta i modem usb CDC e ACM... uhm... controlla se il tuo appartiene a questa categoria... altrimenti non saprei proprio cosa fare... Sembrava anche a me L'unico problema è che non riesco a dire a Mandrake che deve vedere un modem USB... E non so come fare per vedere se il mio modem è CDC o ACM (che vogliono dire queste sigle, a proposito?) La Atlantis mi ha risposto questo: Gentile Cliente, Atlantis non supporta ufficialmente Linux. Non è detto però che non siano già presenti driver per Linux del chipset ST (sempre che lei abbia installato un kernel 2.4.x). Altro non so... :( Grazie per l'aiuto Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Crashhh Browser
Sicuro che siano java e non java-script? Ciao, Germano Mumble, mumble... ottima domanda... da che capisco la differenza? Daniele e soprattutto come si può risolvere? ciao Giamgax __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
Re: [newbie-it] nuovo elenco telefonico - OT
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:23:36 +0100 carmine de pasquale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mi è arrivato il nuovo elenco telefonico. al centro dell'elenco, la seat (casa editrice della telecom) pubblicizza i suoi servizi internet con pagine a colori navigate tramite pagine sfogliate col konqueror. forse è solo perchè la cattura dello schermo con gimp è più semplice? Con Konquerror, in ambiente KDE, forse hanno usato ksnapshot che, a dispetto del nome, è ancora più semplice. non so a voi, ma questo mi sembra l'inizio di un cambiamento verso linux piano piano, lemme lemme, ... :-) ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Word, OO e stampe (lungo e forse OT)
Alle 21:44, domenica 2 febbraio 2003, Arwan ha scritto: Hai provato ad installare OOo per Winz? Ci ho pensato, ma non e' una soluzione possibile per la mia mamma. Gia' devo invogliarla da aprire il PC, se poi la metto difronte ad un software differente rispetto a quello che si trova al lavoro, le passa anche quel pizzico di desiderio che ha di accendere il mostro (come lo chiama lei) ed imparare a smanettare. Insomma, devo lusingarla mostrando quanto tutto e' bello e facile... Mia mamma è pure assai impedita con il pc. non riesce neanche ad aprire Explorer, in generale sono convinto che la logica delle finestre non sia per nulla semplice, ma questo è un altro discorso... Dicevo le ho messo davanti Open Office e lo scambiato per Word, ha lavorato convinta fosse Word poi ho confessato ed adesso vuole lavorare con Open Office... non c'è granché da smanettare con OO... tu gli e lo sistemi al meglio poi lei non deve fare niente altro che usarlo come Word... Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Modem interno
Alle 22:48, domenica 2 febbraio 2003, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Che sia un problema del nome nella localizzazione della directory dei moduli? Forse sì, perché l'output di errore fa riferimento a moduli mancanti... Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] webcam e videoconferenze
Ho spedito involontariamente in privato questo: -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] webcam e videoconferenze Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:11:30 +0100 From: Emiliano La Licata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 11:29, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, pigi ha scritto: salve a tutti possiedo una di quelle macchinette webcam/foto USB (D-LINK dsc-350) che usavo quando avevo win come macchinetta digitale (a dire il vero ora un po' scassata). Ora vorrei provare a fare videoconferenza col pinguino - riusciro' a usare la mia macchinetta? come la istallo? - che sw mi conviene usare? - se voglio comprarmi un'altra macchinetta foto/webcam che esperienza avete come compatibilità con linux? L'ultimo numero di Linux Pratico, N. 8 è dedicato alla fotografia digitale e all' USB Storage, dunque ti spiega, partendo dal kernel, proprio quello della mdk 9.0, come configurare tutto... Ciao ---
Re: [newbie-it] webcam e videoconferenze
Emiliano La Licata wrote: Ho spedito involontariamente in privato questo: -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] webcam e videoconferenze Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:11:30 +0100 From: Emiliano La Licata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 11:29, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, pigi ha scritto: salve a tutti possiedo una di quelle macchinette webcam/foto USB (D-LINK dsc-350) che usavo quando avevo win come macchinetta digitale (a dire il vero ora un po' scassata). Ora vorrei provare a fare videoconferenza col pinguino - riusciro' a usare la mia macchinetta? come la istallo? - che sw mi conviene usare? - se voglio comprarmi un'altra macchinetta foto/webcam che esperienza avete come compatibilità con linux? L'ultimo numero di Linux Pratico, N. 8 è dedicato alla fotografia digitale e all' USB Storage, dunque ti spiega, partendo dal kernel, proprio quello della mdk 9.0, come configurare tutto... Ciao --- gnomemeeting è arrivato alla 0.96 è stabile e compatibile con netmeeting puoi usarlo in una lan ... provalo. www.gnomemeeting.org ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione mplayer da cd
Alle 04:00, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, gkep ha scritto: E' un problema noto. La soluzione: * inserisci il CD 1 nel lettore * da console di root, digita: urpmi.update cdrom8 E tutto andrà a posto. Ciao... Daniele Grazie per la dritta, ma dove avrei dovuto cercare quell'informazione? aoicciao Ciao, trovi le informazioni sugli errata delle varie versioni di MandrakeLinux sul sito Mandrake. Il link è sulla sinistra della pagina, mi pare verso mezza altezza. Lì troverai gli errori più frequente, con le relative (brevi) spiegazioni e con la soluzione. Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico (era: webcam e videoconferenze)
At 14.13 03/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: L'ultimo numero di Linux Pratico, N. 8 è dedicato alla fotografia digitale e all' USB Storage, dunque ti spiega, partendo dal kernel, proprio quello della mdk 9.0, come configurare tutto... A parte che è il penultimo :) dato che è uscito quello nuovo con un bell'articolo su MySQL.. :) Non è che qualcuno di voi ha idea di dove ci si possa procurare la loro raccolta? C'erano degli articoli che mi interessavano, ma non posso acquistarla facendomela spedire dato che dove abito il servizio postale (?) è veramente pietoso :( Grazie Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico (era: webcam e videoconferenze)
A parte che è il penultimo :) dato che è uscito quello nuovo con un bell'articolo su MySQL.. :) Penultimo? E' da qualche giorno che non passo in edicola, ma non mi pareva fosse già uscito quello nuovo... Non è che ti confondi con Linux C.? Lo dico perchè sull'ultimo numero c'era proprio un articolone su MySQL... Bè, mi sa che presto mi farò un giro in edicola... =) Non è che qualcuno di voi ha idea di dove ci si possa procurare la loro raccolta? C'erano degli articoli che mi interessavano, ma non posso acquistarla facendomela spedire dato che dove abito il servizio postale (?) è veramente pietoso :( La raccolta la vendono in edicola... So che un po' di tempo fa avevano fatto uscire la raccolta dei primi 5 numeri, quindi forse in qualche edicola riesci ancora a trovarla... Sennò fattela spedire da qualche amico dove il servizio postale funziona... ;o) Chiara Grazie Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Modem USB
Alle 11:53, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, Andrea Cecagallina ha scritto: Sembrava anche a me L'unico problema è che non riesco a dire a Mandrake che deve vedere un modem USB... Prova qui www.modem-help.co.uk/mfc/atlantis.html Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico (era: webcam e videoconferenze)
At 16.24 03/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: Penultimo? E' da qualche giorno che non passo in edicola, ma non mi pareva fosse già uscito quello nuovo... Non è che ti confondi con Linux C.? Lo dico perchè sull'ultimo numero c'era proprio un articolone su MySQL... Bè, mi sa che presto mi farò un giro in edicola... =) Sicuro: l'ho comprato... :) La raccolta la vendono in edicola... So che un po' di tempo fa avevano fatto uscire la raccolta dei primi 5 numeri, quindi forse in qualche edicola riesci ancora a trovarla... Sennò fattela spedire da qualche amico dove il servizio postale funziona... ;o) L'ho cercata in un sacco di edicole di Milano e Pero (dove abito...), ma senza successo... :( Grazie Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Compilare gaby errori con make
On Monday 03 February 2003 10:41 am, Giulio F. wrote about [newbie-it] Compilare gaby errori con make: Ciao, Allora sono riuscito a dare il comando ./configure senza errori ma poi lanciando make mi vengono almeno 60 linee di errori! Sono così tanti che ti demoralizzano eh eh spesso pero' sono errori in cascata ovvero risolvendo il primo (o quasi) scompaiono tutti gli altri. ... è la prima volta che provo a compilare qualcosa e spero proprio che non sia sempre così!!! che tipo di installazione hai fatto della mandrake? Perche' sembra che ti manchino i pacchetti devel. (e questo in fondo da' ragione a chi dice che coi dischi attuali la divisione degli rpm in binari e devel porta piu' problemi che altro) Come regola generale (e ahem molto a grandi linee) quando la compilazione si blocca perche' non trova un file con estensione .h, ti manca il relativo pacchetto devel (ovviamente in una distro basata su RPM). .h sta per header, insomma il make cerca i sorgenti. in questo caso per esempio ti mancano direi le libgtk-devel. ../../../src/gaby.h:57:25: gtk/gtk.h: No sduch file bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://www.marcob.org/go.asp?~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Modem interno
Alle 12:34, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 22:48, domenica 2 febbraio 2003, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Che sia un problema del nome nella localizzazione della directory dei moduli? Forse sì, perché l'output di errore fa riferimento a moduli mancanti... Ciao Il makefile per la ricompilazione fa riferimento ad un kernel xxx.mdk-custom, mentre il kernel di default è un semplice xxx.mdk (sto parlando della ricompilazione dello stesso 2.4.19 della distro). Sarebbe da provare a modificare il makefile in modo che l'output abbia lo stesso nome dell'originale; la cosa è semplicissima (basta editare il makefile). Io comunque, visto che non ho scorto particolari cambiamenti di performance dopo la ricompilazione, ho lasciato perdere. Vuoi andare avanti tu, che a me viene da ridere?? ;-) Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Word, OO e stampe (lungo e forse OT)
Alle 12:41, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Mia mamma è pure assai impedita con il pc. non riesce neanche ad aprire Explorer, in generale sono convinto che la logica delle finestre non sia per nulla semplice, ma questo è un altro discorso... Dicevo le ho messo davanti Open Office e lo scambiato per Word, ha lavorato convinta fosse Word poi ho confessato ed adesso vuole lavorare con Open Office... non c'è granché da smanettare con OO... tu gli e lo sistemi al meglio poi lei non deve fare niente altro che usarlo come Word... Questo è vero; effettivamente, da win, questa gran differenza con word proprio non si nota. Per me vale il tantativo...Fallo per la scienza... Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Modem USB
At 16.28 03/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: Alle 11:53, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, Andrea Cecagallina ha scritto: Sembrava anche a me L'unico problema è che non riesco a dire a Mandrake che deve vedere un modem USB... Prova qui www.modem-help.co.uk/mfc/atlantis.html Ciao Ci ero già stato, ma non avevo mica visto che c'erano info anche per Linux :( Vedi? Questo è il brutto di navigare dall'ufficio... :( Ed il bello di essere in questa lista è che la gente ti aiuta anche se rompi le scatole... :) Grazie mille! Mi scarico tutto il ncessaire e poi provo a vedere a casa se riesco a far parlare la Fenice col Pinguino... :) Grazie ancora Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Crashhh Browser
Alle 09:35, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, hai scritto: Sicuro che siano java e non java-script? Ciao, Germano Mumble, mumble... ottima domanda... da che capisco la differenza? Daniele e soprattutto come si può risolvere? ciao Giamgax Di preciso non so come si riconoscano se non quando il browser ti dice che prova ad aprire un javascript. Per la soluzione: o lo fa il browser o lo fa il browser, quindi.. Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] nuovo elenco telefonico - OT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 00:23, lunedì 3 febbraio 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: Mi è arrivato il nuovo elenco telefonico. al centro dell'elenco, la seat (casa editrice della telecom) pubblicizza i suoi servizi internet con pagine a colori navigate tramite pagine sfogliate col konqueror. ..a me sembra explorer per mac... :( bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+PslbF/9fksDJ4y0RAtPRAJ9nmKfhmDYw0LSgCWQRIfHkr6I6VwCfVWqZ zgtsZterKA8w00Kt3CgeffE= =12xV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] saned, parzialmente risolto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:40, domenica 2 febbraio 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: è il fido devfs !! spiegami se lanci xsane da utente 'pippo' il dispositivo è di pippo.pippo esattamente in ogni caso devfs crea un dispositivo al volo, SE non esiste CHE, non SE allora, se crei il dispositivo di proprietà di ch vuoi lo possa usare e quindi lo rendi non modificabile... anche se sane agisce da root all'eventuale tentativo di modificare i permessi riceverà un errore (c'è solo da verificare se l'errore sia bloccante, una prova puoi farla) #mknod /dev/... c 21 0 #chmod 666 /dev/... #chattr +ui /dev/. e marameo mi esce crw-rw 1 username groupname 21, 0 gen 1 1970 generic ma mica ce l'ho da 33 anni lo scanner! :) figurati a me, non è nemmeno un anno che uso linux, anche se nel lontano 1988 all'università la metà dei pc (tutti 8086-8080-8088) era unix per caso eri a Perugia? (io ho iniziato un pò dopo, nel '92) comunque avevo professori molto Unix oriented... (e si iniziava a parlare di un certo kernel 0.96... :-°°) bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+Pt4FF/9fksDJ4y0RArgJAJ9t/h/jQb3wG7tasb1ykAVUqLLchwCffMlI eiZxf1zrx7QrFqHral7o+mo= =59EW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] saned, parzialmente risolto
allora, se crei il dispositivo di proprietà di ch vuoi lo possa usare e quindi lo rendi non modificabile... anche se sane agisce da root all'eventuale tentativo di modificare i permessi riceverà un errore (c'è solo da verificare se l'errore sia bloccante, una prova puoi farla) #mknod /dev/... c 21 0 #chmod 666 /dev/... #chattr +ui /dev/. e marameo grazie, ma comunque niente da fare. dopo il settaggio il file è diventato root root rw-rw-rw-, ma all'avvio di xscan da locale, user group rw-rw ho provato anche ad inserire le 3 righe nel rc.local, ma all'avvio il dispositivo (sempre rw-rw, user group) compare in partenza e non devo crearlo facendo partire il sane anche sul server. per partire con scansioni da remoto, posso anche usare telnet per risettare i permessi, ma non mi sembra una procedura troppo semplice per un inesperto. dannato ugo! figurati a me, non è nemmeno un anno che uso linux, anche se nel lontano 1988 all'università la metà dei pc (tutti 8086-8080-8088) era unix per caso eri a Perugia? (io ho iniziato un pò dopo, nel '92) comunque avevo professori molto Unix oriented... (e si iniziava a parlare di un certo kernel 0.96... :-°°) no, a Napoli bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+Pt4FF/9fksDJ4y0RArgJAJ9t/h/jQb3wG7tasb1ykAVUqLLchwCffMlI eiZxf1zrx7QrFqHral7o+mo= =59EW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Lost about swap
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:27:51 +1300, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, don't have a link but have read it in several places before...though with lots of RAM being the norm nowadays, getting away with less is a real possibility. I double it because HD space is cheap and running out of swap on a running system is *not* something you want to have happen, ever. It creates quite the headache. Regards, Jason Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:28, Jason Greenwood wrote: As a rule of thumb, you want your swap partition to be double the size of the amount of ram you have eg 512MB RAM make swap 1+ Gb. Cheers Jason Before getting out of Window$ and into GNU/Linux, I read somewhere that the more memory you have the less swap space you need and this makes sense to me. AFAIK, swap space has to do with the processor paging memory to disk to make room for other processes that might be in need of it. Being equal the request of memory, the system with more ram will need less swap space. Yesterday was the first time that I saw my system using swap space, but I was doing a lot of crap like compiling, database programming, testing OO and MyODBC, mail, etc, without taking care of processes that I didn't need any longer. Right now I have an 80 Mb swap partition and have had no problem but I would like to read more about the technical foundations for the rule of thumb that you mentioned. Any link or reference will be truly appreciated. Swap = 2x RAM has been a common equation for a long time now. In fact, 2.4 kernels prior to 2.4.10 required this to be met for proper VM functionality. When it comes down to it, you need enough RAM and swap to cover everything you want to do with your computer. Many of today's computers boast more RAM than you'll ever need, given the current state of GNU/Linux, so you can afford to relax things a little. For example, I have 1GB RAM, which is far more than I'll ever need. I have configured a swap size of 1GB (i.e. swap = RAM), but my system never needs to use it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do. -- Linus Torvalds msg117982/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] having problems with video players....?!?!
http://www.jwz.org/doc/linuxvideo.html HAHAHA, so true. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
I think (and am pretty sure) that allowing him to run as root will teach it's own lesson,,, kinda like how long it takes to figure out that rubbing your nose on the sidewalk will make your nose hurt aka it is a self-evident universal truth also calll sink or swim learn to swim before you get in deep water, or not, learn to backup data and protect security, or not. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mutt fetchmail
Viestissä Maanantai 3. Helmikuuta 2003 03:10, Benjamin Pflugmann kirjoitti: Hi. On Sun 2003-02-02 at 21:09:20 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to set mutt to find mails that fetchmail pulls and puts somewhere I don't know where, I lost 30 mails allready :) System is Mdk9.0 I am not expert in this matter, but if the mail system is configured correctly, mutt should find your incoming mails automatically (via the $MAIL environment variable). I am not sure where to start to look. Are you sure that not fetchmail is the problem? Yes I have tested that many times * What is the output of (run in a shell): echo $MAIL ls -l /var/spool/mail *** /var/spool/mail is empty I have tried set spoolfile without help? * If you have a ~/.muttrc, move it away temporarily to make sure the configuration doesn't get in the way. ** I tried that too Thank you advance -- (\\!//) ( ) t.Tuija :-) alias \ / thujan errare humanum est Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop external modem problems
I tried the extra string and it man no difference. Marc I knew that, since that perticular string is for v92 modems, but the point was, on the USRobotics website they might have a lot of info about the model number of that modem and if it requires any special init settings. have you tried the other modem on this box? maybe a bad or screwed up modem or modem cable... unless you have swapped them with known good items, and as long as this problem is not specific to either OS.. how can you know? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:36:15PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: Top 10 Posters === 403 Stephen Kuhn 228 Anne Wilson 98 Todd Slater 85 et 80 Adolfo Bello 62 Derek Jennings 61 Dennis Myers 60 Mark Weaver 56 Ronald J. Hall 55 John Richard Smith Todd Egads - I can't be THAT talkative, now can I? (...and to think that I keep accusing women of being the second most popular form of telecommunication) I was going to call it Top 10 Windbags but then I saw my name on the list! ;) It is interesting to note all the OT's in the threads, too. That tele- joke is famous in my family for talking about gossipy relatives. Telephone, telegraph, tell insert name of gossip here. There is a saying in Spanish, Si quieres que sepan lo que eres, cuentaselo a las mujeres (roughly, if you want people to know what you are, tell women). I suppose every culture has one--unjustifiable IMO because most men I know are more gossipy than the women I know. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is there a way to Powerdown/Off the computer a la Winsucks with a cmd on the CLI or Gui?
On Monday February 3 2003 05:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 11:33 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Shutdown requires root permission, with halt AFAIK a user does not??? Depends on a configuration setting. I've never used halt, so I couldn't say for that, but I would have thought it was similar to shutdown. I use shutdown -h (or -r) as user, because I am the only person likely to be using it and the risk is minimal - my choice. Certainly if others were using this machine I would rather they did that than simply powered off. Anne 'halt' is basically just an alias for 'shutdown -h now' From the man page, If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info see the shutdown(8) manpage. So 'halt' or 'reboot' just save a little typing ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing software and sound
one of the neatest things I happen to love about GNU-linux is auto-complete at the command line, so if I wanted to start any program I am allowed to start, I can just type the first couple of letters and let autocomplete finnish by hitting the tab key, so if I wanted to start Opera, at the command line I type op[tab] then I see all the programs I can run that start with op On Sunday 02 February 2003 08:20 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:37, Richard J wrote: snip Second, when I install a program I lose it. For example, having installed Opera, I cannot find where it is to open it, how do I get an icon on the desktop or in the menu so that I can use the program /snip In most cases, the whereis program is your friend. Like in: whereis opera Regarding sound, from the point of view of my laptop, I am totally audition impaired, or deaf if you want 8-) HTH Thanks _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best cd burning application
Title: RE: [newbie] best cd burning application -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best cd burning application I use k3b exclusively, never toasted my system and is very Windoze like. Great tool.. Cheers Jason Me too, have it on two systems no problems with fstab. I like it as well as cdbakeoven. Dennis M.
RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's]
Title: RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's] Doug, your posts are coming through as attachments. Most folks don't like to open attachments on the list. At least I never do unless I am expecting it and know who it is from. Just a suggestion to help you get a wider range of answers for any of you questions. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Douglas B. Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 8:09 AM To: Beginners' Mailing List Subject: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's] -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Laptop external modem problems
I tried the extra string and it man no difference. Marc I knew that, since that perticular string is for v92 modems, but the point was, on the USRobotics website they might have a lot of info about the model number of that modem and if it requires any special init settings. have you tried the other modem on this box? maybe a bad or screwed up modem or modem cable... unless you have swapped them with known good items, and as long as this problem is not specific to either OS.. how can you know? You may have a point I am going to have a look at the US Robotics website however this makes no sense to me I have tried another modem just like this one but not a different cable. However I am going to try the modem and cable off my other box that has ML 9.0 installed and working. I have used this same brand and model of modem on at least 6 other ML9.0 installations and no special action was ever required. Getting this model modem to work in Mandrake Linux or any other OS has always been a 100% nobrainer as far as how do I know that this modem is good I am using it right now on the windoze part of the machine and have been using it several times a day every day for the last 4 days on the windoze side of this machine. and have used this modem and cable before on other machines. I always like this brand and model of modem because it is always up until this point super simple to use in any operating system and any brand or vintage of machine that I have ever tried this model on. Redhat, mandrake 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 9.0 windoze 95, 98, 2000, ME and Mac And this model always seems to play niceley with any and every ISP. I have seen some brands and models of modem work like crap with some ISPs and work well with others but never a us robotics sportster. The sportster seems to be almost a industry standard along with some of the Hayes modems of course. IMHO Hayes seems to have written the standards and with the sportster series US Robotics seems to have done a flawless job of sticking to those standards. As a rule of thumb IMHO if you want a a modem to work first time every time anywhere on anything get a old US Robotics sportster. No I am not a US Robotics or 3 Com employee. I really have to tend to think that ML is having trouble communicating with the serial port on this machine. That seems kind of unlikely but laptops and notebooks seem to be prone to having odd crap going on, at least in my experance so far. But thanks for the comments anything is worth a try. I may also try a older version of Mandrake just to see what happens. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best cd burning application
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 2:23 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best cd burning application I use k3b exclusively, never toasted my system and is very Windoze like. Great tool.. Cheers Jason Me too, have it on two systems no problems with fstab. I like it as well as cdbakeoven. Dennis M. Me three. It is the only CD burning app I use. I believe k3b will be included in Mandrake 9.1 in the main distro thanks to votes of support from Mandrake Club members. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop external modem problems
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 2:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And this model always seems to play niceley with any and every ISP. I have seen some brands and models of modem work like crap with some ISPs and work well with others but never a us robotics sportster. The sportster seems to be almost a industry standard along with some of the Hayes modems of course. Marc, I'm no expert when it comes to modems, but I used to have a couple of these. They worked well for me over a long period of time, but I did have one problem that sounds as though it might have some relevance. When the first on-line banking was coming into businesses I could not get the USR Sportster to work for a long time. It was a matter of those initialise strings. I think that perhaps some circumstances are more picky than others, because the general windows work gave me no problems at all without altering the strings. My advice would be to go along to the website, as suggested, but also to ask Stephen for more help on possible strings. Good luck. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Feb 2003 1:40 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:40:05AM -0500, et wrote: I think (and am pretty sure) that allowing him to run as root will teach it's own lesson,,, kinda like how long it takes to figure out that rubbing your nose on the sidewalk will make your nose hurt aka it is a self-evident universal truth also calll sink or swim learn to swim before you get in deep water, or not, learn to backup data and protect security, or not. I agree that it may require a lesson learned the hard way. Like rubbing your eyes (or picking your nose!) after roasting, peeling, and chopping hot peppers. I have a friend who went to catering college. During their training they were told of a man who 'prepped' chillies, then went to the toilet without washing his hands first. Anne I did some work in a plant that mixes spices, leaned against a pallet of cayne pepper. not a problem at all until about 30 seconds after I unzipped to take a leak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop external modem problems
On Monday 03 February 2003 09:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the extra string and it man no difference. Marc I knew that, since that perticular string is for v92 modems, but the point was, on the USRobotics website they might have a lot of info about the model number of that modem and if it requires any special init settings. have you tried the other modem on this box? maybe a bad or screwed up modem or modem cable... unless you have swapped them with known good items, and as long as this problem is not specific to either OS.. how can you know? You may have a point I am going to have a look at the US Robotics website however this makes no sense to me I have tried another modem just like this one but not a different cable. was the problem cured useing a differnet modem? same cable and box? However I am going to try the modem and cable off my other box that has ML 9.0 installed and working. I have used this same brand and model of modem on at least 6 other ML9.0 installations and no special action was ever required. Getting this model modem to work in Mandrake Linux or any other OS has always been a 100% nobrainer as far as how do I know that this modem is good I am using it right now on the windoze part of the machine and have been using it several times a day every day for the last 4 days on the windoze side of this machine. and have used this modem and cable before on other machines. well then ignor my asking if the modem is good, and don't bother switching it around.. my bad for not realizing it worked good on the M$side of the box. what does your /etc/ppp/options file look like? I always like this brand and model of modem because it is always up until this point super simple to use in any operating system and any brand or vintage of machine that I have ever tried this model on. Redhat, mandrake 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 9.0 windoze 95, 98, 2000, ME and Mac And this model always seems to play niceley with any and every ISP. I have seen some brands and models of modem work like crap with some ISPs and work well with others but never a us robotics sportster. The sportster seems to be almost a industry standard along with some of the Hayes modems of course. IMHO Hayes seems to have written the standards and with the sportster series US Robotics seems to have done a flawless job of sticking to those standards. As a rule of thumb IMHO if you want a a modem to work first time every time anywhere on anything get a old US Robotics sportster. No I am not a US Robotics or 3 Com employee. I really have to tend to think that ML is having trouble communicating with the serial port on this machine. That seems kind of unlikely but laptops and notebooks seem to be prone to having odd crap going on, at least in my experance so far. But thanks for the comments anything is worth a try. I may also try a older version of Mandrake just to see what happens. Marc I agree that you might be having problems with the serial port and mandrake, maybe a corrupted file somewhere, what does /var/logs/dmesg say anything like this in there? Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] against the war!
On Monday 03 February 2003 04:30 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Ronald, Why not send it to your very nice dear friend Saddam, to see if he can offer you a little help. I sure he would be very pleased. Saddam is not my friend, nor a friend to anyone in the civilized world... On the other hand, this really should not have been allowed on this list and may reflect on its immaturity. Malcolm Candlish. This thread died a deserved death quite some time ago - why are you trying to reopen it? Please don't even reply - because I won't. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] fetchmail mutt postfix
Hi, And thank you all the help I have got so far :) I send myself a mail and find out that fetchmail pulls mail just right and flushes server, but cause I don't have /var/spool/mail/username Postfix throws them back to sender? If I write procmail -v , it said system mail goes /var/spool/mail/username How do I create that file /var/spool/mail/username? I have tried set spoolfile command without help. Or is there any other way to set system mail go somewhere else? Thank you advance -- (\\!//) ( ) t.Tuija :-) alias \ / thujan errare humanum est Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Webcams
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:57 am, et wrote: I don't use a webcam but if you have a winTV card, you can use it and a regular video camera, has by far the best color and picture of any webcam, and uses stuff you might already have. I do have a WinTV card, but I think if I told my wife that I was going to use the camcorder for the computer she'd shoot me. :-) She's...ummnot quite so enthusiastic about computers as I am. :-) Thanks anyways! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: Like you think you're in /mnt/windows/My\ Documents\Downloads and you want to delete a bunch of junk directories with names like ???sefdljvn5+5, ???fdsre8344 etc., so you type rm -Rf ./?* Just after you hit Enter you realise that (a) you were in /usr and (b) ? is a regular expression. Minor nitpit: You mean shell pattern / globbing. Most shells don't understand regular expressions. If it was a regular expression, ? would make the / optional and * would repeat that 0-n times, so ., ./, .//, .///, etc. would match. Damn, I've been spending too much time in Perl (which also globs, but in which ? is also a regexp for substitution and interpolation (which I also tend to get mixed up). Hold on ... regexps interpolate, globs substitute. Or was it subs regulate, regglobs expulate, or ... Btw, at least bash and tcsh support a nice feature. When your cursor is at the end of the pattern, press ^X-* (that is: press and hold CTRL and press x, then let go of CTRL, press * - that is: SHIFT-8 for american keyboard, I think). This will expand the pattern in-line and you can see without hitting return, which files match. I never use rm together with patterns without this trick anymore and never have deleted a file accidently since then (quite some years...). Nice trick - didn't know about that one. There again, it was years before I stumbled on Ctrl-U and Ctrl-D. Sir Robin -- Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells. - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] having problems with video players....?!?!
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:25, Robert Wideman wrote: http://www.jwz.org/doc/linuxvideo.html HAHAHA, so true. Rob It's true that 90% of the video players available for Linux are crap, but he didn't give MPlayer a fair shot. That said, if he gets frustrated that fast, he should not be using the kind of OS that requires some actual learning. Maybe in 5 years, Linux will have improved enough for my father to use it, too. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Webcams
On Monday 03 February 2003 11:33 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 08:57 am, et wrote: I don't use a webcam but if you have a winTV card, you can use it and a regular video camera, has by far the best color and picture of any webcam, and uses stuff you might already have. I do have a WinTV card, but I think if I told my wife that I was going to use the camcorder for the computer she'd shoot me. :-) She's...ummnot quite so enthusiastic about computers as I am. :-) Thanks anyways! really, your cam doing a lot of other stuff? it does not require the tape, nor does it require a lot of setup, depending on what sort of connections it has, if you down load the tape into your vhs player, you could just download it to the HD first, then add whever neat effects you want, then upload it to vhs. On a related kinda note, I got a xanboo security cam, sure looks like a win-cam, it has a box that up to 4 cams can connect, and _looks_ like a composite s video (kinda like a ps2) connector to the cams, with a USB connection to the box, and I was wonder if anyone has any info on trying to get this to work somewhat under linux. I don't want to subscribe to the service to get it over the internet, I just want to see who is in the driveway without getting off my a$$. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] having problems with video players....?!?!
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:54 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: It's true that 90% of the video players available for Linux are crap, but he didn't give MPlayer a fair shot. That said, if he gets frustrated that fast, he should not be using the kind of OS that requires some actual learning. Maybe in 5 years, Linux will have improved enough for my father to use it, too. Damian MPlayer rules. When I first d/l'ed it, and started playing it, I got that rocket scientist only impression, but after a short while I realised it just wasn't that bad. I've seen much, much worse under Linux. AND the results are worth the effort required. :-) PS Lots of people don't even roll their own but use the RPMs and they work fine as wellcan't get much easier than RPM...unless its apt-get. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Feb 2003 3:14 am, Robert Wideman wrote: On Linux systems i create a user and logon using that user but i su - to do 90% of my work/playing around. So tell me why you aren't in just as much danger as he is for 90% of your time? When you use su, only those programs you open from that terminal have root priveleges. If you log in as root, all the other stuff does as well. Like your Internet browser, for example (which reminds me, AFAIK the only way to use Mozilla's automatic add-on installation is to run it as root, whcih I really don't like - can't they just allow you to download as a normal user then enter the root password to complete the installation?). Sir Robin -- Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells. - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Webcams
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:02 pm, et wrote: really, your cam doing a lot of other stuff? it does not require the tape, nor does it require a lot of setup, depending on what sort of connections it has, if you down load the tape into your vhs player, you could just download it to the HD first, then add whever neat effects you want, then upload it to vhs. 11-month old baby girl ='s wife using camera *lots*. :-) On a related kinda note, I got a xanboo security cam, sure looks like a win-cam, it has a box that up to 4 cams can connect, and _looks_ like a composite s video (kinda like a ps2) connector to the cams, with a USB connection to the box, and I was wonder if anyone has any info on trying to get this to work somewhat under linux. I don't want to subscribe to the service to get it over the internet, I just want to see who is in the driveway without getting off my a$$. Hehehe, I understand. Sorry I can't help you with it though! I put one of those cheap beam thingies in our driveway - it rings a bell inside the house to let me know someone is there. Of course, I still have to get up off me a$$ to see who it is :-) I really don't like it though - eats batteries and goes off when a schoolbus goes by... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 5:13 pm, robin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Feb 2003 3:14 am, Robert Wideman wrote: On Linux systems i create a user and logon using that user but i su - to do 90% of my work/playing around. So tell me why you aren't in just as much danger as he is for 90% of your time? When you use su, only those programs you open from that terminal have root priveleges. If you log in as root, all the other stuff does as well. Like your Internet browser, for example (which reminds me, AFAIK the only way to use Mozilla's automatic add-on installation is to run it as root, whcih I really don't like - can't they just allow you to download as a normal user then enter the root password to complete the installation?). Thanks, Robin. I guess I only half understood last time a I asked a similar question. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Sun 2003-02-02 at 21:03:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, thx Benjamin. On the bright side we've got a router up running. Well, a router doesn't protect against downloaded, trojaned applications. I'll work on him hopefully get him to see the error of his way. Tho that is hard to do cause I run as Admin on 2k. Mostly b/c 2k doesn't handle multi-users very well IMO. *sigh* Yeah, easy and secure are mostly orthogonal. You can only make a box as safe as it still allows you to still get some work done. So, if the main reason for your (I mean you as well as him) Admin usage is that Microsoft has made it too hard to use without, then, well, that's not the case with Linux and therefore no argument anymore. Fwiw, when he first came to live here, I told him I'm going to do my utmost to secure our LAN. And that I wouldn't allow him to compromise it if at all possible. With luck I can use that argument again with yours in there too, it may sway him. :) Yeah! Go, go, go! :-) Bye, Benjamin. msg118032/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Webcams
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:11 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 12:02 pm, et wrote: really, your cam doing a lot of other stuff? it does not require the tape, nor does it require a lot of setup, depending on what sort of connections it has, if you down load the tape into your vhs player, you could just download it to the HD first, then add whever neat effects you want, then upload it to vhs. 11-month old baby girl ='s wife using camera *lots*. :-) you mean you just blow off your father inlaw... he wants to see that baby 24/7.. (going to be grandfather in July, setting up cam in Fla where daughter is preg, so I can see how preg in North Carolina) On a related kinda note, I got a xanboo security cam, sure looks like a win-cam, it has a box that up to 4 cams can connect, and _looks_ like a composite s video (kinda like a ps2) connector to the cams, with a USB connection to the box, and I was wonder if anyone has any info on trying to get this to work somewhat under linux. I don't want to subscribe to the service to get it over the internet, I just want to see who is in the driveway without getting off my a$$. Hehehe, I understand. Sorry I can't help you with it though! I put one of those cheap beam thingies in our driveway - it rings a bell inside the house to let me know someone is there. Of course, I still have to get up off me a$$ to see who it is :-) I really don't like it though - eats batteries and goes off when a schoolbus goes by... this was dirt cheep, but they want you to sign up for a subscripttion but it is a IM allert whenever someone is at the door, so you can see the front door from work before the kids open it at home,,, it has a motion detector (and I think/hope a ntsc based) s composite video, with 60 ft of cable, and they are going to soon have tempurature and other types of sesors avail... but if I can't get it to run under linux, I guess it will get stuck to the wife/kids boxes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats
On Mon 2003-02-03 at 21:36:15 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: [...] 403 Stephen Kuhn [...] Egads - I can't be THAT talkative, now can I? [...] Well, I considered to ask you that earlier, but regarding these numbers I cannot hold off myself any longer... ;-) -- Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:30:01 +1100 9:30pm up 1:56, 5 users, load average: 0.26, 0.24, 0.24 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| [... cut 18 further lines of signature ... 403 * 1168 bytes = ~460KB to each subscriber ...] ...would you mind stripping your signature a bit? Netiquette recommends 4, but even getting it down to the half would be a advancement. Bye, Benjamin. PS: Take that with a grain of salt... although I really prefer the signature to be shorter, it is meant light-hearted. And any misunderstanding is due to my lack of mastering English. msg118034/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] mutt fetchmail
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 00:08, tuija wrote: Run fetchmailconf and double check where it's slurping your emails to - and then you'll be able to discern as to what is going on with the rest of the scene. ** I did that and .fetchmailrc doesn't tell where fetchmail puts the posts it pulls, /var/log/mail tells that 30 posts are pulled from server ** Ok...you're going to have to get into the POSTFIX configurations and double check those; by default, POSTFIX dumps it's mail in /var/spool/mail, but that could be mucked up - so best is to fire up Webmin and go into SERVERS, then POSTFIX, then USER MAILBOXES - click on any mailbox and towards the top of the page it will give you the path to the mailbox - and as well, will tell you if it's a zero length file or if there's something in it. A question I would have, though, is when was the last time that you did get mail properly - and were you slurping it from /var/spool/mail, or have you changed anything that you know of on your system? My configs always dump to /var/spool/mail/yournamegoeshere ...so it's readily readable/find-able... * My /var/spool/mail is empty there isn't user name, I have tried to command set spoolfile but it didn't help? How I can put the procmail on, could it help? Thank you advance PROCMAIL runs from an RC file in your /etc directory - namely, /etc/procmailrc - but prior to just jumping into that particular file and it's structure, you're going to want to do some reading up on it. PROCMAIL can be quite powerful for blocking spam, rerouting mail internally on your system (or on your network) - heaps of different functions. Check out: http://handsonhowto.com/pmail101.html for more information on this powerful little text file - you won't regret it. Check through all of the above and tell us how it works mate! Cheers! -- Tue, 4 Feb 2003 05:45:00 +1100 5:45am up 10:11, 4 users, load average: 0.70, 0.55, 0.34 -- |____ | 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Texas law forbids anyone to have a pair of pliers in his possession. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's]
Dennis, Apologies - it happened because I was having trouble sending with my new subscription. I'll avoid it in future. Thanks, Doug On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:26, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Doug, your posts are coming through as attachments. Most folks don't like to open attachments on the list. At least I never do unless I am expecting it and know who it is from. Just a suggestion to help you get a wider range of answers for any of you questions. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Douglas B. Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 8:09 AM To: Beginners' Mailing List Subject: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's] -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELPPP! - URGENT
et, Many thanks for sorting out my confused state! Great relief! Doug On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:13, et wrote: the 30 day support is usually just for install problems, and your membership to this list is free and never runs out (you have to un$ub$cribe to get off this list), now as far as your e-mail problem goes... just re subscribe with the new address... On Monday 03 February 2003 09:08 am, Douglas B. wrote: I have just taken out a year's standard membership, and wanted to set it up with my usual ISP connection with Tiscali (cheaper than Which). BUT my POP e-mail address with Tiscali is different from the SMTP e-mail address - a hangover from when Tiscali took over Lineone - and now I'm unable to write to Newbie Mailing List with the new membership. How can I get this sorted out and change the e-mail address I'm registered under - before my Power Pack month's free membership runs out in a few days. Help!! P.S.I think my registration number may be 069019-EU __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mutt fetchmail
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:55 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 00:08, tuija wrote: Run fetchmailconf and double check where it's slurping your emails to - and then you'll be able to discern as to what is going on with the rest of the scene. * * I did that and .fetchmailrc doesn't tell where fetchmail puts the posts it pulls, /var/log/mail tells that 30 posts are pulled from server * * Ok...you're going to have to get into the POSTFIX configurations and double check those; by default, POSTFIX dumps it's mail in /var/spool/mail, but that could be mucked up - so best is to fire up Webmin and go into SERVERS, then POSTFIX, then USER MAILBOXES - click on any mailbox and towards the top of the page it will give you the path to the mailbox - and as well, will tell you if it's a zero length file or if there's something in it. A question I would have, though, is when was the last time that you did get mail properly - and were you slurping it from /var/spool/mail, or have you changed anything that you know of on your system? My configs always dump to /var/spool/mail/yournamegoeshere ...so it's readily readable/find-able... * My /var/spool/mail is empty there isn't user name, I have tried to command set spoolfile but it didn't help? How I can put the procmail on, could it help? Thank you advance PROCMAIL runs from an RC file in your /etc directory - namely, /etc/procmailrc - but prior to just jumping into that particular file and it's structure, you're going to want to do some reading up on it. PROCMAIL can be quite powerful for blocking spam, rerouting mail internally on your system (or on your network) - heaps of different functions. Check out: http://handsonhowto.com/pmail101.html for more information on this powerful little text file - you won't regret it. Check through all of the above and tell us how it works mate! Cheers! You should check that your fetchmailrc is actually passing the mail over to a valid user account. For example in mine poll pop.ntlworld.com with proto POP3 user 'djennings' there with password 'xxx' is 'derek' here options fetchall antispam 501 The account 'derek' has to be a valid user account on the server. If it is then Postfix will automatically create a directory in /var/mail for it. The other question of course is . Do you have Postfix running? If there is no listener running on port 25 (Such as Postfix or Sendmail), then Fetchmail will by default look to see if there is a ~/.procmailrc file in existance, and if there is it will pass the mail to procmail. What happens next is down to the contents of your .procmailrc file. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] text editing function required.
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:10 am, civileme wrote:
On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:46 am, magnet wrote:
I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and
am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines
and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution?
Thanks :)
---
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, os
if len(sys.argv) = 2:
print Usage is './duprem infile outfile
sys.exit(1)
HOME=os.expanduser(~)
infile=sys.argv[1]
outfile=sys.argv[2]
def userhome(filename):
if string.find(HOME,filename)==0:
return filename
else:
return HOME+filename
infile=userhome(infile)
outfile=userhome(outfile)
Goodinput=os.system('[ -e infile ]')
if Goodinput != 0:
print input file +infile+ does not exist
sys.exit(2)
input=open(infile,r)
output=open(outfile,w)
G=[]
g=input.readline()
while len(g) 0:
i=0
for x in G:
if x == g:
i=1
print duplicate +g+ removed
break
if i == 0:
G.append(g)
g=input.readline()
for x in G:
output.write(x)
output.close
print complete
-
Well put everything between the dashed lines into a text file called duprem
in your user space, then chmod a+x duprem then call it by
./duprem (fileofurlswithduplicates) (outputfilecleanedofdups)
Civileme
Wow... a reply from THE linux guru. I feel kinda humbled :)
Cheers m8. Will look into this later in the week on my day off and try to
learn something from it.
Hope the job hunting is going well for you and some company out there is smart
enough to utilise you skills soon.
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Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 23:33, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 00:25, Todd Slater wrote: Top 10 Posters === 403 Stephen Kuhn 228 Anne Wilson 98 Todd Slater 85 et 80 Adolfo Bello 62 Derek Jennings 61 Dennis Myers 60 Mark Weaver 56 Ronald J. Hall 55 John Richard Smith Todd Did I ask that many questions? Jesus Just imagine what those numbers would be like if they counted offlist messages as well...gads... -- Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:50:00 +1100 6:50am up 11:16, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.10, 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- The vulcan-death-grip ping has been applied. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 00:24, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:36:15PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: Top 10 Posters === 403 Stephen Kuhn 228 Anne Wilson 98 Todd Slater 85 et 80 Adolfo Bello 62 Derek Jennings 61 Dennis Myers 60 Mark Weaver 56 Ronald J. Hall 55 John Richard Smith I was going to call it Top 10 Windbags but then I saw my name on the list! ;) It is interesting to note all the OT's in the threads, too. Todd Heheheheh...wonder how many of us have brown eyes as a determination that we're fulla shite up to our eyebrows...(g) (BTW, mine are green, so it must be something else I'm fulla) -- Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:50:00 +1100 6:50am up 11:16, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.10, 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- The vulcan-death-grip ping has been applied. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fetchmail mutt postfix
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 03:32, tuija wrote: Hi, And thank you all the help I have got so far :) I send myself a mail and find out that fetchmail pulls mail just right and flushes server, but cause I don't have /var/spool/mail/username Postfix throws them back to sender? If I write procmail -v , it said system mail goes /var/spool/mail/username How do I create that file /var/spool/mail/username? I have tried set spoolfile command without help. Or is there any other way to set system mail go somewhere else? Thank you advance A question I have is this: does the username that you're wanting to receive mail for - exist? Did you create this username, or is it your login? The reason I'm asking is because I created one user to use primarily, but I receive mail for root as well as two other users that I've created - and also use forwarding files and fetchmail and procmail. When you went into the Webmin administration for POSTFIX, even though you didn't change anything, did you SAVE the configuration? Because I'm also wondering if there's a configuration error with POSTFIX that is not creating the proper user mbox... -- Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:55:00 +1100 6:55am up 11:21, 4 users, load average: 0.76, 0.28, 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Why not have an old-fashioned Christmas for your family this year? Just picture the scene in your living room on Christmas morning as your children open their old-fashioned presents. Your 11-year-old son: What the heck is this? You:A spinning top! You spin it around, and then eventually it falls down. What fun! Ha, ha! Son:Is this a joke? Jason Thompson's parents got him a computer with two disk drives and 128 kilobytes of random-access memory, and I get this cretin TOP? Your 8-year-old daughter: You think that's bad? Look at this. You:It's figgy pudding! What a treat! Daughter: It looks like goat barf. -- Dave Barry, Simple, Homespun Gifts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Webcams
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 03:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 08:57 am, et wrote: I don't use a webcam but if you have a winTV card, you can use it and a regular video camera, has by far the best color and picture of any webcam, and uses stuff you might already have. I do have a WinTV card, but I think if I told my wife that I was going to use the camcorder for the computer she'd shoot me. :-) She's...ummnot quite so enthusiastic about computers as I am. :-) Thanks anyways! When you say she's not so enthusiastic, is that a nice way of saying she bloody hates computers? She ain't, by any chance or stretch of the imagination, either a Sloan or a Combs, now is she? (g) -- Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:00:01 +1100 7:00am up 11:26, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.14, 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- jackpot: you may have an unneccessary change record -- message from diff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Monday 03 February 2003 06:49 am, civileme wrote: Well, I do recall a case where someone was going to remove a directory with configuration files to allow it to rebuild itself The command was rm -rf /home/poorunfortunate/.kde since he was running as root and he got precisely this far: rm -rf / when the cat launched from the floor to the desktop and planted a paw squarely on the enter key Well---to put it mildly, there was a disturbance on the system as all the files on the machine ALL went away. Civileme As far as I remember Civileme, so did the cat. Didn't you have it for dinner ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:56:57 +1100 Trevor Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minix (mini unix). I remember being taught that at college. Funny how I somehow ended up with a copy. Too bad I still don't have it though. -- http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/ ;-) jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 06:49 am, civileme wrote: rm -rf / when the cat launched from the floor to the desktop and planted a paw squarely on the enter key Well---to put it mildly, there was a disturbance on the system as all the files on the machine ALL went away. Civileme As far as I remember Civileme, so did the cat. Didn't you have it for dinner ? ARGH, cats! rm -rf /dev/kitty ;) ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Menudrake and kde 3.0.3
Hi guys, i updated to kde 3.0.3 on my 8.1 system and took the advice in kde 3 primer on the mandrakeforum site and renamed my ~/.kde folder to oldkde and then after relogging back into kde 3 - it runs even better but now I can't get Menudrake to update the menus - it shows the changes inside of menudrake(even after exiting menudrake and reloading menudrake) but clicking save no longer actually updates the menus. Using update-menus didn't help either. I tried using kmenuedit, but the changes made with that are lost after booting the system two or three times. Any thoughts? Regards, Adam Ritchie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menudrake and kde 3.0.3
On Monday 03 February 2003 21:43, Adam Ritchie wrote: Hi guys, i updated to kde 3.0.3 on my 8.1 system and took the advice in kde 3 primer on the mandrakeforum site and renamed my ~/.kde folder to oldkde and then after relogging back into kde 3 - it runs even better but now I can't get Menudrake to update the menus - it shows the changes inside of menudrake(even after exiting menudrake and reloading menudrake) but clicking save no longer actually updates the menus. Using update-menus didn't help either. I tried using kmenuedit, but the changes made with that are lost after booting the system two or three times. Any thoughts? Regards, Adam Ritchie Open menudrake, go to action - modify menu style. Make sure you are using Mandrake style menus HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Mon, February 3 2003 2:20 pm, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: *snip* : : ARGH, cats! : : rm -rf /dev/kitty : : ;) Uhm, wouldnt that actually be 'rm -f /usr/bin/cat' ? heh -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- History repeats itself. That's one thing wrong with history. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(
Well, under v8.2 of Mandrake, I simply clicked on my main computers connection sharing icon, and everything was automagically setup. Both my other comps could reach the Internet. No problems whatsoever. Now...9.0...a whole 'nother story. I clicked on connection sharing, it asked for a few disks, loaded some software, told me it was finished. Except that the network is now unreachable. I can't ping anyone else on my LAN and they can't ping me. NFS is shot, killed and buried. No games will find each other across the LAN. Just trying to open a window on the other 2 comps takes about a minute per window. I checked iptables -L, now there is a whole long list of things in there, that were not there before. I tried service iptables stop, service shorewall stop, and service network restart just to see if I could regain contact but it still always says the same darn thing. network unreachable. Note that everything did work fine before. Anyone have any ideas what happened or how to fix it? trying hard not to scream and scare the neighbors! Thanks... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] imake fails when compiling KDE 3.1
I have been trying to compile and run KDE for a while now. I have successfully installed arts, and kdelibs, but when I try to compile kdebase, it goes through most of it and stops, saying that imake failed. Is this an xmkmf problem, or is it an imake problem? I already reinstalled XFree86-devel and that didn't work. Thanks for your help! -John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] imake fails when compiling KDE 3.1
I have been trying to compile and run KDE for a while now. I have successfully installed arts, and kdelibs, but when I try to compile kdebase, it goes through most of it and stops, saying that imake failed. Is this an xmkmf problem, or is it an imake problem? I already reinstalled XFree86-devel and that didn't work. Thanks for your help! -John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best cd burning application
Ok, i'll give k3b a go. But if my fstab (or the hell that means) goes postal, you'll know it! :) cheers filipe - a linux user from time to time Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /etc/resolve.conf becomes empty.
Some times /etc/resolve.conf becomes empty. After log rotate, I saw this file becoming empty today. I am running Mandrake 9. Any solutions for keeping this file in tact? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best cd burning application
On Monday 03 February 2003 6:03 pm, Aurélio Diniz wrote: Ok, i'll give k3b a go. But if my fstab (or the hell that means) goes postal, you'll know it! :) cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak hth, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /etc/resolve.conf becomes empty.
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 2:07 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Some times /etc/resolve.conf becomes empty. After log rotate, I saw this file becoming empty today. I am running Mandrake 9. Any solutions for keeping this file in tact? If you are using DHCP protocol, then the default is to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf with the DNS server IP address supplied by DHCP. To override that action edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (1,2 etc) and add the line PEERDNS=no derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's
don't know about installing 1.2.1-2, but I seem to remember problems with 1.2.0 until I downloaded Red Carpet from Ximian and used it for Ev 1.2.0 - it went in fine. Thanks but no thanks. I tried Ximian when it first came out. loved it but i really wanted Gnome back. Now that Gnome 2 is out i love it more than anything. I dont want to install anything but Evo. Thanks for the info. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Webcams
I do have a WinTV card, but I think if I told my wife that I was going to use the camcorder for the computer she'd shoot me. :-) Atleast you could get more bang for your buck with the combo... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best cd burning application
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-old then try it -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aurélio Diniz Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best cd burning application Ok, i'll give k3b a go. But if my fstab (or the hell that means) goes postal, you'll know it! :) cheers filipe - a linux user from time to time Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
Femmefatale: If teaching him all those technical stuff doesn't work, just show him KDE with a nice acqua theme and saying: Look at all these free programs!!... (it worked for me!) If everything fails, consider changing boyfriend! :) beijos, Filipe Dinis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best cd burning application
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-old then try it you're maybe right tks filipe dinis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
At 09:49 PM 2/2/2003 -0900, you wrote: Well, I do recall a case where someone was going to remove a directory with configuration files to allow it to rebuild itself The command was rm -rf /home/poorunfortunate/.kde since he was running as root and he got precisely this far: rm -rf / when the cat launched from the floor to the desktop and planted a paw squarely on the enter key Well---to put it mildly, there was a disturbance on the system as all the files on the machine ALL went away. Seriously runing as root removes all virus and trojan protection linux has beyond the fact that there are no helpful automatics to load them into your machine. Civileme Luv, as always you have gotten my attention. I shall forward this as well. And fwiw, I didn't know that about the virus/trojan stuff. Thx learned something new today :) - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
At 11:20 AM 2/3/2003 +0200, you wrote: Leaving security stuff aside (its covered well without me) for me its 1. issue of privacy. I have four accounts on my home comp - me, wife, kids. I've got some games my wife hates, she would kill me if kids found them (Doom and friends :-)) So only I have permissions to run them. Also it makes it easier to separate personal files. Even though our family is perfectly happy it would seem unfair if I have root permissions and free access to everyones files all the time while being hidden from others. 2. issue of habitforming. I am also admin for our family company that runs on linux. Sure in our home comp security is not an issue really due to very lousy internet connection, but I do not want to form bad habits at home that could create problems later at work where security is no.1 issue. Wahur Heh reason #2 is the one I am hoping will sway him :) Thx for the input Wahur! - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
At 07:40 AM 2/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: I think (and am pretty sure) that allowing him to run as root will teach it's own lesson,,, kinda like how long it takes to figure out that rubbing your nose on the sidewalk will make your nose hurt aka it is a self-evident universal truth also calll sink or swim learn to swim before you get in deep water, or not, learn to backup data and protect security, or not. Haha Ed, no kidding. Thats what I'm counting on. It worked for me! :P Yours Still, Reinstall Queen :) - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
At 12:42 AM 2/4/2003 +, you wrote: Femmefatale: If teaching him all those technical stuff doesn't work, just show him KDE with a nice acqua theme and saying: Look at all these free programs!!... (it worked for me!) If everything fails, consider changing boyfriend! :) beijos, Filipe Dinis Haha Filipe! Cute :) Its fine, he'll come around sooner or later... if I have anything to say about it *grins* mmm ya if only he liked eyecandy... He seems to have started to love Fluxbox. Now we have to get Rox filer working on it for him. *muses this could be fun...* Mmm well is there anything I can trade him in for? I've got a g/f here too... so trading up is not an option... *giggles* Thx luv! - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] imake fails when compiling KDE 3.1
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 18:22, John Drouhard wrote: I have been trying to compile and run KDE for a while now. I have successfully installed arts, and kdelibs, but when I try to compile kdebase, it goes through most of it and stops, saying that imake failed. Is this an xmkmf problem, or is it an imake problem? I already reinstalled XFree86-devel and that didn't work. Thanks for your help! -John Drouhard I'm rather surprised that you need to run imake - that's a bit on the old side of compiling IIRC, the process is 1.) xmkmf 2.) make 3.) make install ...at least that's what I do here... -- Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:20:00 +1100 12:20pm up 16:46, 4 users, load average: 0.45, 0.28, 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 04:59, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Mon 2003-02-03 at 21:36:15 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: [...] 403 Stephen Kuhn [...] Egads - I can't be THAT talkative, now can I? [...] Well, I considered to ask you that earlier, but regarding these numbers I cannot hold off myself any longer... ;-) -- Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:30:01 +1100 9:30pm up 1:56, 5 users, load average: 0.26, 0.24, 0.24 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| [... cut 18 further lines of signature ... 403 * 1168 bytes = ~460KB to each subscriber ...] ...would you mind stripping your signature a bit? Netiquette recommends 4, but even getting it down to the half would be a advancement. Bye, Benjamin. PS: Take that with a grain of salt... although I really prefer the signature to be shorter, it is meant light-hearted. And any misunderstanding is due to my lack of mastering English. Grain of salt - yeppers - took itmeanwhile, I have had this sig for quite a long time - and yeah, it does go against normal netiquette...but having to flipflop between several different email accounts and deal with everything from regular business to just plain chatting, it takes too much work to change it (grin)...and I hate sweating...(bigger grin) (As if a 56 kilo yank sweats that much) -- Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:20:00 +1100 12:20pm up 16:46, 4 users, load average: 0.45, 0.28, 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printing a file list
Can someone tell me if there is a way to print the list of names in a directory that holds about 70 .jpg pictures? I just want a list of the photo names. TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing a file list
umm.. something like: ls * file-list.txt then open that file in an editor and print? On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:56, Dennis Myers wrote: Can someone tell me if there is a way to print the list of names in a directory that holds about 70 .jpg pictures? I just want a list of the photo names. TIA for any help. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
