Re: [newbie-it] Emulatori Windows
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:20:45 +0100 (CET) Alberto Panigada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cercando tra gli emulatori ho trovato Wine ma, dopo avere scaricato circa 6MB, non riesco a farlo funzionare. Ho seguito la procedura d'installazione ma continua a rispondermi picche. Prova a cercare tk-wine, tkwinesetup o un nome simile per configurarlo poi, vedi se rieci ad avviare un programma semplice, es. mines Infine, accendi un cero e spera che il tuo programma funzioni: wine è ancora in fase di sviluppo e non riesce a far girare tutti i programmi, forse non ci riuscirà mai. La sua utilizzazione più promettente è quella di riuscire a compilare per Linux i programmi scritti per Windows, modificando solo marginalmente il codice. Corel, prima di essere acquistata da M$oft, aveva portato con questo metodo CorelDraw, PhotoPaint, WordPerfect, ... Mi consigliate qualcosa di più facile utilizzo (e installazione) ? Se funziona, non c'è niente di più facile che scrivere wine programma.exe Ma, siccome per la legge di Murphy il tuo programma non è tra quelli che girano, una soluzione più sicura è usare vmware o win4lin, che però sono a pagamento. p.s.: avrei anche bisogno di un firewall di default su Mandreake hai già shorewall ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] consigli per un'installazione
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:03:18 +0100 Giorgio Griffon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = VERY IMPORTANT Add to your default path the directory : /home/bepi/ofeli/bin or copy the contents of this directory to a directory in your default path Otherwise the installation of contributions and utilities will not succeed. = Ehm ... per caso qualcuno saprebbe spiegarmi che cosa vuol dire? La variabile d'ambiente PATH contiene tutte le directory in cui vengono cercati i programmi da eseguire (a meno che tu non ne dia il percorso completo) Per esempio, tu puoi lanciare /usr/bin/ls o semplicemente ls. Nel primo caso hai dato il percorso completo per individuare il file che vuoi eseguire, nel secondo lasci il compito alla shell di cercare nelle directory del PATH un file eseguibile chiamato ls. È importante l'ordine in cui sono messe le directory. La directory in cui sei (.) è messa come ultima per gli utenti normali e tolta dal PATH di root. Quindi, se ti fai un tuo comando ls, e lanci ls, verrà eseguito /usr/bin/ls. Per eseguire il file che sta nella directory in cui sei, devi dare ./ls. Esattamente come hai dato ./config . A questo punto,puoi variare il PATH di un utente con una coppia di righe in /home/utente/.bash_profile del tipo PATH=$PATH:/nuova/dir/prima:/nuova/dir/seconda export PATH dove $PATH significa che viene preso il contenuto standard del PATH; le nuove directory da aggiungere vanno separate da : Una modifica analoga, ma valida per tutti gli utenti, può essere fatta in /etc/profile Nella cartella /home/bepi/ofeli/bin c'è un solo file ofeli-config; ma che devo farne? Direi proprio: lanciarlo per configurare il programma. È estremamente probabile che ti prepari gli eseguibili e te li copi in /home/bepi/ofeli/bin Per questioni di pulizia, in genere le directory che contengono programmi aggiuntivi (es. ofeli) vengono messe in /usr/local o in /opt, dove i programmi sono raggiungibili da tutti gli utenti. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] kde e gnome
Il 18:16, mercoledì 19 marzo 2003, beo ha scritto: salve gente, ma come si fa a dire a kde/gnome di cercarsi i nuovi programmi installati? grazie in anticipo gpaolo Intendi dire come si fa a farli apparire nel menu? Se è cosi dipende dal programma installato e dal gestore dei menu. Di solito è mandrake che gestisce i menu di tutti i WM ma puoi fare in modo che kde o gnome se li gestiscano da soli (sconsigliabile, perchè non vedono tutti i programmi). Di solito alla fine di ogni processo di installazione via rpm viene lanciato menu-updates che è uno standard di Debian. Quando un programma viene con un pacchetto rpm si porta dietro dei file descrittivi che vanno in un path specifico di un certo Desktop Manager (i programmi dell'area Kde ovviamente vanno in quello di kde e quindi gnome non li vede). Chi si adegua allo standard Debian (molti) oltre al (o in sostituzioni del) precedente file ne hanno un altro che va in /usr/lib/menu dove vengono messe delle informazioni che il programma menu-updates è in grado di gestire. Se gli rpm sono fatti così ed il gestore del menu è affidato alla distro invece che al DM dopo pochi secondi dall'installazione te lo trovi sul menu. Altrimenti ti vai a vedere che files descrittivi ci sono nel pacchetto e li copi in /usr/share/applnk-mdk/ nel posto giusto. Se ho fatto tutto questo discorso inutilmente dimmelo e magari specifica più esattamente il tipo di problema. Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] Emulatori Windows
Alle 07:20, giovedì 20 marzo 2003, Alberto Panigada ha scritto: p.s.: avrei anche bisogno di un firewall Il tuo firewall viene gestito attraverso iptables (dai un'occhiata al manuale). Per una configurazione user-friendly, di default mdk offre shorewall, che di suo è difettoso; la soluzione è già stata descritta nella maillist, per cui ti rimando all'archivio della stessa. Per un'infarinatura sulla configurazione dello stesso (e quindi per l'individuazione dell'errore), ti consiglio di leggere la documentazione in HTML, che è illuminante al riguardo. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair -
[newbie-it] installare un mandrake come server
Il server non va, disperato ho pensato di reinstallare tutto il SO che ho sul server all'università , ma finora quando ho installato mandrake è stato per postazioni finali e non server, quindi dovrei ottemperare a dei settaggi che fin'ora ho sempre bypassato, sapete se c'è da qualche parte un file con i settaggi o una serie di consigli per installare L/Mandrake come server? Mi conviene upgradare alla relase 9? grazie per la pazienza Alfredo
Re: [newbie-it] installare un mandrake come server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il server non va, disperato ho pensato di reinstallare tutto il SO che ho sul server all'università , ma finora quando ho installato mandrake è stato per postazioni finali e non server, quindi dovrei ottemperare a dei settaggi che fin'ora ho sempre bypassato, sapete se c'è da qualche parte un file con i settaggi o una serie di consigli per installare L/Mandrake come server? Mi conviene upgradare alla relase 9? grazie per la pazienza Alfredo scusa ma come server di che cosa? di posta ftp samba web pop irc newsgroup sql dovresti essere più chiaro cia francesco
Re: [newbie-it] installare un mandrake come server
cerco di spiegarmi meglio: la macchina all'università deve funzionarmi da server ftp, web, mail, sql, almeno questi servizi mi servono, grazie alf Il server non va, disperato ho pensato di reinstallare tutto il SO che ho sul server all'università , ma finora quando ho installato mandrake è stato per postazioni finali e non server, quindi dovrei ottemperare a dei settaggi che fin'ora ho sempre bypassato, sapete se c'è da qualche parte un file con i settaggi o una serie di consigli per installare L/Mandrake come server? Mi conviene upgradare alla relase 9? grazie per la pazienza Alfredo scusa ma come server di che cosa? di posta ftp samba web pop irc newsgroup sql dovresti essere più chiaro cia francesco
[newbie-it] .. invio mail....
salve a tutti, il mio problema per l'invio della posta continua... pochi giorni fa ho chiesto a voi di aiutarmi in quanto riuscivo a inviare la posta con Kmail solo tramite SMTP di virgilio... ora ho impostato tutti gli SMTP con virgilio come mi è stato consigliato e dico che funziona ma il problema rimane in quanto : io sono registrato a questa mailist con IOL quindi quando spedisco mail a quasta mailist non vacome posso fare???
[newbie-it] prova
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Re: [newbie-it] .. invio mail....
Il 17:36, giovedì 20 marzo 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: salve a tutti, il mio problema per l'invio della posta continua... pochi giorni fa ho chiesto a voi di aiutarmi in quanto riuscivo a inviare la posta con Kmail solo tramite SMTP di virgilio... ora ho impostato tutti gli SMTP con virgilio come mi è stato consigliato e dico che funziona ma il problema rimane in quanto : io sono registrato a questa mailist con IOL quindi quando spedisco mail a quasta mailist non vacome posso fare??? Non c'entra niente l'SMTP basta che tu mandi la posta come [EMAIL PROTECTED] altrimenti si dovrebbe configurare un smtp per ogni account di posta. La questione è: chi ti fornisce il collegamento alla rete? L'SMTP deve essere quello di chi ti fornisce il servizio perchè molte volte (ad esempio all'università) il server non ti lascia uscire usando un SMTP che non sia il suo. Se invece il server SMTP fosse corretto allora hai sbagliato qualche impostazione (potresti aver messo un metodo di autenticazione sbagliato o qualche opzione non supportata). Cioa, Germano
[newbie] Adding flowchart in Kword ?
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[newbie] test
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[newbie] is this the last mandrake?
Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? I hope like hell I don't have to go elsewhere, but if I do, it might as well be sooner rather then later Any info would be much appreciated. rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 11:05 am, Tsur, Oren wrote: Hi All Before I start, I am using KDE under MDK 9.0 - 1) How do I get X-CD-Roast to see my DVD-ROM drive? I want to use it as primary or secondary reading device. When I go into set up it shows my cd-rw as the recording device (which is fineda) but in the reading device I can only see the recorder drive again. Your dvd drive is not scsi-emulated, if I remember correctly. If you make it scsi-em, XCDRoast will see it, but you will have other problems. My advice is to install K3b, which can read from the dvd drive without changing anything. This is what I do. I still like XCDRoast for many things, but if you need to read from the dvd, then K3b is the answer. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it true 9.1 (Bamboo) is final?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 06:36 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 22:34, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Is it true 9.1 (Bamboo) is final? Shit - if it is, then I got alot of work to do (AGAIN) - if it ain't, then I'm alright...if it IS, though, alot of people are going to be really really happy and I can reflect back on some messages that were flying around about six months ago where I stated that .0 versions of ANY distro were buggy/incomplete/unpolished - and say... Told ya so! Well, after Civileme jumped in on this a few weeks ago, it became clear that in the Mandrake process, every release is .0 release, so you really can't say I told you so. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:10, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? That is misinformation. I invite you to look at the long threads on the cooker mailing list about feature requests for 9.2 which Mandrake developers themselves have started and are engaged in. Best, Sascha Noyes - -- 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+eewPgzJdfX+cTW8RAlH+AJ4g8f5NOip3tv1ybxGyHcMkvQ45AwCeMb01 mp62cT1JNq2qYVYtc7pSLz4= =Dfvi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Behind Lindows? Whoo. Did they put it behind Windows XP as well? Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein 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] Configuring X-CD-Roast
Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:20:43 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 11:05 am, Tsur, Oren wrote: Hi All Before I start, I am using KDE under MDK 9.0 - 1) How do I get X-CD-Roast to see my DVD-ROM drive? I want to use it as primary or secondary reading device. When I go into set up it shows my cd-rw as the recording device (which is fineda) but in the reading device I can only see the recorder drive again. Your dvd drive is not scsi-emulated, if I remember correctly. If you make it scsi-em, XCDRoast will see it, but you will have other problems. My advice is to install K3b, which can read from the dvd drive without changing anything. This is what I do. I still like XCDRoast for many things, but if you need to read from the dvd, then K3b is the answer. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
No, Frankie, that's a load of crap. Miark On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:10:08 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 05:10 pm, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? I hope like hell I don't have to go elsewhere, but if I do, it might as well be sooner rather then later Any info would be much appreciated. rgds Franki Franki, depending on what magazine you read you'll get different opinions. I don't know that *APC-mag*, but judging from the statements above the author knows next to nothing about linux. You see : Lindows and Lycoris are *discount* , down-scaled versions of linux, not full distro's. Furthermore they are not *true* linuxes (for example, when you log into one of those, you'll have root-privileges, thus omitting one of the major benefits of linux : security !). If you really want to compare distros, go to : http://www.distrowatch.com that'll change your mind. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right place to find the disks. I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said about this, but I think it was so. It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cdwriter
Oops, sorry, my mistake. I have a CD WRITER from HP 7200+ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Slooten Sent: woensdag 19 maart 2003 22:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdwriter On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:43:19 +0100 Jan Verstuyft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you help me If you tell us maybe what writer you have ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cdwriter
This is the output from the cdrecord -scanbus. I hope you know enough now. Kind regards Jan Verstuyft Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 7200 ' '3.01' Removable CD-ROM 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Thayer Sent: donderdag 20 maart 2003 6:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdwriter On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:43:19 +0100 Jan Verstuyft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My cdwriter doesn't do what I asked him to do. Most of the time, he starts writing, and after a 20 Mb, he stops. And, the funny part is that de leds of capslock and scrollock starts going on/off all the time. For the rest, my machine crashed. I couldn't do anything any more. The command that I use is cdrecord speed=1 dev=0,3,0 -isosize -data cdimage.raw I also tried it without de isosize flag, but it didn't work either. I must be honest, it worked one time. But that's it. Can you help me Kind regards Jan Verstuyft What output do you get from cdrecord -scanbus? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cdwriter
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello Sent: donderdag 20 maart 2003 11:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdwriter On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 01:09, Scott Thayer wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:43:19 +0100 Jan Verstuyft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My cdwriter doesn't do what I asked him to do. Most of the time, he starts writing, and after a 20 Mb, he stops. And, the funny part is that de leds of capslock and scrollock starts going on/off all the time. For the rest, my machine crashed. I couldn't do anything any more. The command that I use is cdrecord speed=1 dev=0,3,0 -isosize -data cdimage.raw I also tried it without de isosize flag, but it didn't work either. I must be honest, it worked one time. But that's it. Can you help me Kind regards Jan Verstuyft What output do you get from cdrecord -scanbus? What messages do you get if you try: cdrecord -v -dummy speed=1 dev=0,3,0 -isosize -data cdimage.raw He gave me this if I tried the command from above. Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schillin g TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'HP ' Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 7200 ' Revision : '3.01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 Drive buf size : 786432 = 768 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 491 MB Total size: 564 MB (55:58.53) = 251890 sectors Lout start: 565 MB (56:00/40) = 251890 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead in: -11769 (97:25/06) ATIP start of lead out: 359775 (79:59/00) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 64 Manufacturer: MPO Blocks total: 359775 Blocks current: 359775 Blocks remaining: 107885 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 19 of 491 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 92%] 2.1x. And at this moment, he starts blinking again, like I described above. BTW, man cdrecord alerts not to use -isosize with iso files created with mkisofs. Have you tried using the -dao option (in case your drive handles write-at-once), like in: cdrecord -v -dummy -eject speed=1 dev=0,3,0 -dao cdimage.raw -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:11:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right place to find the disks. I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said about this, but I think it was so. Maybe I missed the point. If you install Linux from the DVD drive, and then later switch from IDE to SCSI emulation, that would confule urmpi. Is that what you mean? It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems? I think using K3b is _more_ dangerous because of the changes it makes directly to fstab (if you let it). Damned if you do, damned if you don't, eh? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 03:10, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? I hope like hell I don't have to go elsewhere, but if I do, it might as well be sooner rather then later Any info would be much appreciated. rgds Franki The distro has been standing well enough so far, and with the release of Mandrake 9.1, I think they're going to be scoring quite a bit higher than any of the other releases - RH 8.1, if it's going to be anything, has to be far ahead of RH 8.0 - far ahead in order to get any better ratings. Either which, IMHO, MDK 9.1 is going to really raise a ruckus due to it's overall setup/installation/ease of use/kernel version/ability to deal with hardware/ability to deal with drivers; it really is a polished version - lacking the vast majority of problems that 9.0 had - hence it will live longer. Now, if the MandrakeSoft management kicks the bucket, that's a different story - but this is one of the best customer maintained distros. If they fold, it's their mistake, and hopefully the code will stick with the devs and the public... -- Fri Mar 21 06:30:01 EST 2003 06:30:01 up 2 days, 8:15, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.14, 0.14 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I'm a GENIUS! I want to dispute sentence structure with SUSAN SONTAG!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] packetCD
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 20 March 2003 05:27 am, ivette brusselmans wrote: Anyone any experience with reading CDrw's in UDF-format (packetCD directCD) in Mandrake. Can't be done yet. It is experimental in the 2.5.x kernel right now. Not so. I've been doing this since MDK 7.2 at least. Up until 8.2 I'd mount them from the command line with: mount -t udf /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom. However, in MDK9 (which I've only been using for a couple of weeks) they seem to mount automatically. Writing to them is a different kettle of worms altogether. So far as I know it can't be done yet. This is a shame because it's one of the very few things that forces me to keep Windoze on my system - well, that and lack of support for my scanner. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:10 am, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? I hope like hell I don't have to go elsewhere, but if I do, it might as well be sooner rather then later Any info would be much appreciated. rgds Franki Now, when did you start believing anyone that rates lindows as better than MDK? -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Club access to 9.1
Does anyone know for sure if Club members will have access to 9.1 ISO's before the general public? T -- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Need help: Konqueror is freezing
If your floppy drive is missing when you try to browse /mnt then you will get a freeze. (It is not actually a freeze. After about 5 mins it comes to life again) The problem is the system is waiting for a response from the floppy. I get around the problem in my laptop by disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS. You might fin you also need to disable supermount on the floppy and maybe the CD too. You can do that in Mandrake Control Centre. derek On Tuesday 18 Mar 2003 9:54 pm, m wrote: I had to install Mandrake9.0 via network as my IBM T20 didn't want to boot from CD. I did boot it from floppy with network image and then finished installation via Internet. Everything went ok. Now when I replaced floppy drive with cd-rom and mounted it manually anytme I touch it with Konqueror it freezes. The same happens when I touch ntfs partition. It works just fine via konsole - no problem to read copy files from ntfs to Linux partition. Anybody has gotten idea what should I do to fix it? Thx, Martin __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Club access to 9.1
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:22, Technoslick wrote: Does anyone know for sure if Club members will have access to 9.1 ISO's before the general public? T No. Clubmembers have to wait until September for their ISO's. The ISO's will be out for the general public, but Clubmembers are being shafted this time...(only joking) -- Fri Mar 21 07:30:01 EST 2003 07:30:01 up 2 days, 9:15, 4 users, load average: 0.21, 0.07, 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I was at this restaurant. The sign said Breakfast Anytime. So I ordered French Toast in the Rennaissance. -- Steven Wright Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I feed mail fetched with fetchmail to procmail?
If you have a mail server running on port 25 fetchmail will by default pass the mail to the mail server. If there is nothing listening on port 25, fetchmail will pass the mail to procmail if the file ~/.procmailrc exists in the users home directory. So as long as your .procmailrc file is there it should *just work* However what can catch you out is the permissions on that file. You need to have 600 permissions or else it will not work HTH derek On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 6:07 pm, David Marsh wrote: Hi, I've decided to give Mandrake a go, having used Debian for a couple of years and eventually come to the conclusion that, while an excellent distro, it's too 'techie' for me in a home user environment. (I have to say that, so far, I've been very impressed with the ease of install of Mandrake) I'm just trying to get myself back up and running again with Mandrake. I previously used fetchmail to fetch my mail from my various mail accounts, and then fed it through procmail in order to filter it into my mailboxes. Under Debian this magically 'just worked', but I'm not sure how to do it under Mandrake? Could somebody tell me what I need to configure in order to have fetchmail feed mail that it fetches into procmail? Thanks for any advice, David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
normally never.. I have not seen new lindows though, apparently it has user accounts (not all root) and fixit alot of stuff that people didn't like.. my main question is mdk's future.. I don't care really how they rate to mags.. I care about if there is gonna be a mandrake 10 rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et Sent: Friday, 21 March 2003 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake? On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:10 am, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? I hope like hell I don't have to go elsewhere, but if I do, it might as well be sooner rather then later Any info would be much appreciated. rgds Franki Now, when did you start believing anyone that rates lindows as better than MDK? -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 6:42 pm, Miark wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:11:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right place to find the disks. I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said about this, but I think it was so. Maybe I missed the point. If you install Linux from the DVD drive, and then later switch from IDE to SCSI emulation, that would confule urmpi. Is that what you mean? It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems? I think using K3b is _more_ dangerous because of the changes it makes directly to fstab (if you let it). Damned if you do, damned if you don't, eh? I forgot that some people had run foul of that one. I played cautious and said no, since I hadn't a clue what it would try to do. Turned out that was exactly the right answer g So be warned, Oren. If you install K3b it will ask if it can change your fstab. Say 'No'! Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Club access to 9.1
No, everybody gets access at the same time, probably sometime Friday or this weekend. Miark On 20 Mar 2003 15:22:10 -0500 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know for sure if Club members will have access to 9.1 ISO's before the general public? T -- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 8:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 6:42 pm, Miark wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:11:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right place to find the disks. I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said about this, but I think it was so. Maybe I missed the point. If you install Linux from the DVD drive, and then later switch from IDE to SCSI emulation, that would confule urmpi. Is that what you mean? It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems? I think using K3b is _more_ dangerous because of the changes it makes directly to fstab (if you let it). Damned if you do, damned if you don't, eh? I forgot that some people had run foul of that one. I played cautious and said no, since I hadn't a clue what it would try to do. Turned out that was exactly the right answer g So be warned, Oren. If you install K3b it will ask if it can change your fstab. Say 'No'! Anne Fascinated Newbie in learn mode: What changes does it try to make? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Club access to 9.1
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 15:56, Miark wrote: No, everybody gets access at the same time, probably sometime Friday or this weekend. Miark thanks, Miark -- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: normally never.. I have not seen new lindows though, apparently it has user accounts (not all root) and fixit alot of stuff that people didn't like.. my main question is mdk's future.. I don't care really how they rate to mags.. I care about if there is gonna be a mandrake 10 rgds Frank I think there will be a Mandrake 11, mate... -- Fri Mar 21 08:50:00 EST 2003 08:50:00 up 2 days, 10:35, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.08, 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. -- Simon Cameron There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians. When bought they stay bought. -- Bill Moyers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
Frankie wrote: normally never.. I have not seen new lindows though, apparently it has user accounts (not all root) and fixit alot of stuff that people didn't like.. my main question is mdk's future.. I don't care really how they rate to mags.. I care about if there is gonna be a mandrake 10 I wouldn't worry. Even if Mandrake goes bust, the code is all GPLed, so I'm sure another company or group of volunteers will take it up and make a new distro called, I dunno, Ginseng Linux, maybe. Actually, I'm not sure if the limited company model is the best way to go for distributions. It usually means getting venture capitalists involved, and as we've seen in the case of Mandrake, they often don't have a good idea of the realities of the Free Software world (maybe in America there are more geek-savvy investors). A foundation seems like a better way to run a Free software project, as the FSF, GNU and Debian have done (I admit this also has its problems, since such foundations can become isolated from end-users - I didn't go down the Debian route because when I first chose a distro, I downloaded the Debian installation guide and couldn't make head nor tail of it, so went for Redhat - and in those days, Redhat wasn't what you'd call user-friendly either). Anyway, the important point is that Mandrake isn't the company, it's the software and the community that supports it. I hope the company lives long and prospers, but if it doesn't, the software will live on. You can't keep a good idea down. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein 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] Configuring X-CD-Roast
All your filesystems (hard drives, CD drives, floppy, etc.) are listed in /etc/fstab which is the [F]ile[S]ystem [TAB]le. This is a configuration file tell Linux how to properly mount all your filesystems. When you install Linux fstab is automatically set up. If you let some program mess with it, you may lose the full or partial use of that particual filesystem. Very few programs do this, but K3b is one of them, and although its attempts to change fstab are done in good faith, they're wrong. Miark On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:58:42 + Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fascinated Newbie in learn mode: What changes does it try to make? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get rid of Web Url Action
A note to developers - I have used gnome for a long time and decided to try kde. This lone feature has driven me crazy enough to switch back. If I hadn't been able to find the answer here I would have. Either don't make this default to on - or make it so when some fscking popup take control from me, ie removes focus from what I'm doing and starts capturing my keystrokes, the popup has a configure/properties selection right there on it so I can change it's behavior. Don't make me spend 3 hours trying to turn off your nifty little feature. On Thursday 06 March 2003 06:59 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 12:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 23:30, Adolfo Bello wrote: This small feature is bugging me in my Mandrake 9/KDE box. Every time I select/highlight or right click/copy link an url, a popup appear asking me what I want to do with this url. Is there any way of turning off this feature? It reminds me the infamous Help Assistant in M$ Office. TIA This is a VERY annoying feature, but luckily, it CAN be turned off. You right-click the clipboard icon in the system tray, and uncheck ENABLE ACTIONS - once you do that, you're happening! It is also possible to configure the actions so they show up in some applications and not others. Just click on klipperPreferencesActionsAdvanced and type the name of the application you do not want Actions to work in. The list shows the applications already disabled. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: normally never.. I have not seen new lindows though, apparently it has user accounts (not all root) and fixit alot of stuff that people didn't like.. my main question is mdk's future.. I don't care really how they rate to mags.. I care about if there is gonna be a mandrake 10 rgds Frank I think there will be a Mandrake 11, mate... I hope so. Just as long as they don't start giving releases silly names like Mandrake Millenium or Mandrake PX. By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party members in the back (Paranoia being a wonderful exception that really captures the atmosphere of the IT world). And please don't answer that question by saying RTFM. We ain' gon' read no steenking Weendows manuel. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein 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
[newbie] Linux+ certification???
I was wondering if anyone had any advice or opinions about the Linux+ certification. I am new to Linux and just graduated from Penn State and while I'm trying to find a job, I have decided to tackle Linux. All suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated (job offers are accepted as well...HAHA) Thank you
RE: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
Robin, I think the XP in M$'s latest OS endevour is actually a shortened version of XPOS ie. eXtreme Piece Of S**t :D l8tr -Original Message- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake? Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: normally never.. I have not seen new lindows though, apparently it has user accounts (not all root) and fixit alot of stuff that people didn't like.. my main question is mdk's future.. I don't care really how they rate to mags.. I care about if there is gonna be a mandrake 10 rgds Frank I think there will be a Mandrake 11, mate... I hope so. Just as long as they don't start giving releases silly names like Mandrake Millenium or Mandrake PX. By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party members in the back (Paranoia being a wonderful exception that really captures the atmosphere of the IT world). And please don't answer that question by saying RTFM. We ain' gon' read no steenking Weendows manuel. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein 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] is this the last mandrake?
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:33, robin wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: normally never.. I have not seen new lindows though, apparently it has user accounts (not all root) and fixit alot of stuff that people didn't like.. my main question is mdk's future.. I don't care really how they rate to mags.. I care about if there is gonna be a mandrake 10 rgds Frank I think there will be a Mandrake 11, mate... I hope so. Just as long as they don't start giving releases silly names like Mandrake Millenium or Mandrake PX. ...or Mandrake Warp3? Or, how about, Mandrake Zarathrusta? Mandrake Concorde? Mandrake Mushroom? Mandrake Sooperdooper II? Mandrake Muon? Mandrake SS? By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party members in the back (Paranoia being a wonderful exception that really captures the atmosphere of the IT world). Extra Pretty? - Actually, it's supposed to stand for Experience - and after 10 years, that's all it's got...mind you, it IS, by far, the best Windows that has come out - but still has 10 year old bugs in it and heaps bloated code... And please don't answer that question by saying RTFM. We ain' gon' read no steenking Weendows manuel. RTFM - Retribution Towards Failed Microsoft! -- Fri Mar 21 09:50:00 EST 2003 09:50:00 up 2 days, 11:35, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.08 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? X stands for cra. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 05:33 pm, robin wrote: By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? eXPerience -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get rid of Web Url Action
drake wrote: A note to developers - I have used gnome for a long time and decided to try kde. This lone feature has driven me crazy enough to switch back. If I hadn't been able to find the answer here I would have. Either don't make this default to on - or make it so when some fscking popup take control from me, ie removes focus from what I'm doing and starts capturing my keystrokes, the popup has a configure/properties selection right there on it so I can change it's behavior. Don't make me spend 3 hours trying to turn off your nifty little feature. I couldn't agree more. KDE people, please kill this dead. I realise that one of the strengths of KDE is that it provides ex-Windows users with a familiar-looking interface, but this doesn't have to go as far as replicating its most irritating features. If we don't watch out, we'll have a KDE paperclip. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein 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] is this the last mandrake?
Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? I hope like hell I don't have to go elsewhere, but if I do, it might as well be sooner rather then later They rated Mandrake behind Lindows and Lycoris? Lycoris is bare! You get very little. Plus the applications are outdated. It's good for newbies coming from Windows. Lindows has no security, since all users have root rights and you have to pay for programs that come free with the other distros. It is a terrible buy for the money. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Tuesday 18 Mar 2003 10:29 pm, darklord wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2003 11:06 am, Todd Slater wrote: Yeah, I've tried eject. I probably had some ROX-filer windows open but I can't say for sure. Todd Todd, have you tried lsof /dev/device (or /mnt/device) to see what still has a hold of it? Might help point the way. :-) I have just had exactly the same problem. Wrote a CDRW in GCombust, finished OK, wouldn't eject the CD. lsof reported that nothing on the cd was open. ie lsof|grep cdrom2 and lsof|grep scd0 both reported nothing. Seeing that nothing was open I unmounted it with umount -l /mnt/cdrom2 and that at least gave me my cd back. Everything appeared fairly sane I think. The jury is still out as to whether I can burn another CD following this one, and I'm no expert about what I might have broken with that unmount. I did have supermount enabled. (My drive is a Dyson 1622 (ages old!) and the Media is CMC badged as Memorex.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 9:09 pm, Miark wrote: Miark Thanks -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday March 20 2003 04:33 pm, robin wrote: By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Xtra Proprietary -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 03:33 pm, robin wrote: By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Expect Problems -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible Registered Linux User 246938 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get rid of Web Url Action
robin wrote: drake wrote: A note to developers - I have used gnome for a long time and decided to try kde. This lone feature has driven me crazy enough to switch back. If I hadn't been able to find the answer here I would have. Either don't make this default to on - or make it so when some fscking popup take control from me, ie removes focus from what I'm doing and starts capturing my keystrokes, the popup has a configure/properties selection right there on it so I can change it's behavior. Don't make me spend 3 hours trying to turn off your nifty little feature. I couldn't agree more. KDE people, please kill this dead. I realise that one of the strengths of KDE is that it provides ex-Windows users with a familiar-looking interface, but this doesn't have to go as far as replicating its most irritating features. If we don't watch out, we'll have a KDE paperclip. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It would be a Kaperclip :) -- derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 06:34 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday March 20 2003 04:33 pm, robin wrote: By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Xtra Proprietary XPectorate as in to spit -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get rid of Web Url Action
Thursday 20 March 2003 07:56 pm, derek wrote: robin wrote: drake wrote: A note to developers - I have used gnome for a long time and decided to try kde. This lone feature has driven me crazy enough to switch back. If I hadn't been able to find the answer here I would have. Either don't make this default to on - or make it so when some fscking popup take control from me, ie removes focus from what I'm doing and starts capturing my keystrokes, the popup has a configure/properties selection right there on it so I can change it's behavior. Don't make me spend 3 hours trying to turn off your nifty little feature. I couldn't agree more. KDE people, please kill this dead. I realise that one of the strengths of KDE is that it provides ex-Windows users with a familiar-looking interface, but this doesn't have to go as far as replicating its most irritating features. If we don't watch out, we'll have a KDE paperclip. Sir Robin -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It would be a Kaperclip :) KDE doesn't have the paperclip but OO Writer has that [EMAIL PROTECTED] lightbulb. What's that about? Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I feed mail fetched with fetchmail to procmail?
I'm not booted to Linux at the moment, but man fetchmail (perhaps man fetchmailrc) had sufficient instructions for me to set it up. David Marsh wrote: Hi, I've decided to give Mandrake a go, having used Debian for a couple of years and eventually come to the conclusion that, while an excellent distro, it's too 'techie' for me in a home user environment. (I have to say that, so far, I've been very impressed with the ease of install of Mandrake) I'm just trying to get myself back up and running again with Mandrake. I previously used fetchmail to fetch my mail from my various mail accounts, and then fed it through procmail in order to filter it into my mailboxes. Under Debian this magically 'just worked', but I'm not sure how to do it under Mandrake? Could somebody tell me what I need to configure in order to have fetchmail feed mail that it fetches into procmail? Thanks for any advice, David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Placement of PCI cards and upgrading ALSA.
Cards: Creative Labs|SB Live! 5.1 Us Robotics.3Com|56K FaxModem Model 5610 OS: Mandrake 9.0 Board: ASUS A7V Hello, In my further effort to play sound files (I am rewarded with crackling and static whenever I unmute Pcm in KMix, with added static when I attempt to play a file), I've decided to upgrade to ALSA 0.9.2 (ML 9.0 loads 0.9rc2). Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO says one must first get rid of the existing drivers, and suggests removing 'sound.o' from the '/lib/modules/kernel_version/misc directory,' which I don't seem to have. After setting CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=N in xconfig and recompiling, Kmod (or something which I assume is KMod) still loads it on boot. How do I go about cleansing ALSA v0.9.rc2? What's safe to alter in /etc/modules.conf? While I'm at it, should I get rid of any of the other sound support modules besides the basic sound card support? On a parallel track, I'm trying to rectify what might be IRQ conflicts by changing the slots into which I place my PCI modem and SBL! cards. Initial attempts shows that this does indeed make a difference, although my first attempt apparently created more conflicts than I originally had. Is there an optimal choice of slots for these two cards? What are the pros and cons of setting the IRQ in BIOS? I gather that sound quality (I wish I were in a position to b concerned about quality!) can be adversely affected by the sound card's proximity to other cards; any comments? I wish to thank, in advance, anybody for their help, and thank past efforts. It is with no little embarrassment that I also need to ask what the normal procedure is in replying to a reply such that my responce is posted and not sent to an individual (as I fear I have previously been doing). Again, my thanks, Jim M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get rid of Web Url Action
On Thursday 20 March 2003 09:53 pm, Preston-Campbell wrote: KDE doesn't have the paperclip but OO Writer has that [EMAIL PROTECTED] lightbulb. What's that about? Brian Here Here! The lightbulb is the worst! As an added attraction, all the fonts look rink-e-dink on my screen. I use Kwrite, but maybe when I get a printer, I might change my mind. -Jim M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting MySQL at boot time
This is in 9.1, but I think it holds true for 9.0, also. Go to the Mandrake Control Center, and go to the System option. From there, there should be an option called DrakServices. Select it and it gives you all the various services installed. Select the one for MySQL and tell it to start at boot. Joeb On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:06:57 -0800 (PST) Christopher Shaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the easiest way to get MySQL server to start when the system boots? I just installed Mandrake 9.0, and installed MySQL server from packages, but it does not start at boot time. Thanks, Chris Shaffer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mdk 9 compatible printers list
Hi, Can anyone point me to a Mdk 9 -compatible printer list? The hardware compatibility list on the Mandrake site is not too helpful and, besides, I cannot take it with me to a local shop. As for the list in the MCC, it includes also printers which are not supported (yet?). Ideally, I would need a text file I can place on a diskette and take with me. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mdk 9 compatible printers list
Hello, I've found [http://www.linuxprinting.org] to be very helpful. -Jim M. On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:49 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me to a Mdk 9 -compatible printer list? The hardware compatibility list on the Mandrake site is not too helpful and, besides, I cannot take it with me to a local shop. As for the list in the MCC, it includes also printers which are not supported (yet?). Ideally, I would need a text file I can place on a diskette and take with me. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 02:57 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Robin, I think the XP in M$'s latest OS endevour is actually a shortened version of XPOS ie. eXtreme Piece Of S**t :D l8tr -Original Message- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake? Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: normally never.. I have not seen new lindows though, apparently it has user accounts (not all root) and fixit alot of stuff that people didn't like.. my main question is mdk's future.. I don't care really how they rate to mags.. I care about if there is gonna be a mandrake 10 rgds Frank I think there will be a Mandrake 11, mate... I hope so. Just as long as they don't start giving releases silly names like Mandrake Millenium or Mandrake PX. By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party members in the back (Paranoia being a wonderful exception that really captures the atmosphere of the IT world). And please don't answer that question by saying RTFM. We ain' gon' read no steenking Weendows manuel. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin I thought XP stood for eXtreem Profits Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500 video out
Hey everyone: I am trying to get the TV-out on a machine that's running Mandrake linux 9.0 to work. What I would like to be able to do is to receive the TV signal through the coaxial cable and then use the S-video-out (using the provided s-video to composite converter) to output the signal on the actual TV. Then I could also read DVDs from the PC and watch them on the TV screen. If I boot the computer with the s-video (or composite video) cable connected, it will boot to console mode no problem, and the console stuff will be visible on the TV too. The problem arises when trying to start the X server. I get the following message: (EE) RADEON(0): No valid mode found for this DFP/LCD (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a useable configuration Running XFdrake doesn't work, so I don't know what else I can do. If I disconnect the video-out cable and reboot, the Xserver will start like normal, no problems will be encountered, but no output to TV will happen either... Has anyone gotten this working, and could you provide me with the Xfree configuration file that works for the Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500? Thanks a lot. I've been looking everywhere on the net for this, but I only saw people having the same question, and no answers. I am sure that there are lots of people who would be interested in knowing how to do that too. Thanks in advance, gikoreno ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
