Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-26 Thread David E Fox
> So now, almost always, i am spared the flashes, pictures, etc of ads. 
> Less download time and less eye clutter.
> 
> I'll send the hosts file if anyone is interested

Do you use it in combination with spaam assassin or procmail? 
I've tried to get a working postfix configuration where I could
get a number of hosts to say "451 no spam here" rather than just
filtering out. It could be useful, especially for hinet.net etc.
who continually try to send 400K or larger spams (I am not
exaggerating) with "451 no speekee chinkee" :) or some such.

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[newbie] mozilla and mpg downloading

2003-07-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
>From sony imagestation I was downloading mpg videos. mozilla was trying to 
open it. In pref/navigator/helper apps/
added mpg type as new type aused options to save the file. Still it tries to 
open it. What to do?
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[newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-26 Thread Eric Huff
I have been trying out a technique for ad-blocking i saw on slash-dot: 
someone made a huge list of common ad-sites and made a hosts file where
the names get sent to 0.0.0.0

So now, almost always, i am spared the flashes, pictures, etc of ads. 
Less download time and less eye clutter.

I'll send the hosts file if anyone is interested

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[newbie] emacs has bash "builtins"

2003-07-26 Thread Eric Huff
I just stumbled on this:

If you are editing a shell script (ie if it starts with #!/bin/sh) in
emacs (gnu 21.2),
it has helper sections for inserting for loops, if statements, etc. 
(insert menu)

Could be useful when you're getting started with scripts.  So far i have
just been starting with copies of other scripts, but i'll see if this
learns me faster...

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Re: [newbie] IEfavorites to Mozilla (or any browser) bookmarks

2003-07-26 Thread Eric Huff
As far as i can tell, the best way to do this is from within IE.  I
think i have 5.? at work, and the newest one here, and both have an
option to export favorites "to netscape" i think.  If you do that,
mozilla will happily import them, or if you want that to be your entire
file, you can just copy it to wherever your bookmarks.html is.

for me it was ~/.mozilla/default/kktv743s.slt/bookmarks.html

If you have no acess to IE, you can zip the favs up and i'll give it a
shot here.
(i promise not to snoop at which pr0n sites you use...)

'Course, you'll owe me a beer for making me boot into windows again. :)

HTH,
eric


On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:08:45 -0400
Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>   I've searched for this seemingly simple question and I have yet
>   to find an 
> answer. 
>   Is there a way to convert IE favorites to Mozilla bookmarks? It
>   is not 
> obvious in any of the browsers (Galeon, Mozilla, Firebird, Konq).
>   Even Google didn't help me out on this one.
> 
> tia,
> Bill W.
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [newbie] IEfavorites to Mozilla (or any browser) bookmarks

2003-07-26 Thread Erylon Hines
Install Mozilla for Windows, and import the IE favorites to Mozilla.  Copy the 
bookmarks.html file for Winsux Mozilla to your .mozilla directory.  The good 
news is you'll only have to do this once, because after using Moz's tabbed 
browsing and popup disabling function, you'll never want to use IE again.

On Saturday 26 July 2003 06:08 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote:
> Hi,
>   I've searched for this seemingly simple question and I have yet to find an
> answer.
>   Is there a way to convert IE favorites to Mozilla bookmarks? It is not
> obvious in any of the browsers (Galeon, Mozilla, Firebird, Konq).
>   Even Google didn't help me out on this one.
>
> tia,
> Bill W.


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Re: [newbie] IEfavorites to Mozilla (or any browser) bookmarks

2003-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 July 2003 06:08 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote:
> Hi,
>   I've searched for this seemingly simple question and I have yet to find an
> answer.
>   Is there a way to convert IE favorites to Mozilla bookmarks? It is not
> obvious in any of the browsers (Galeon, Mozilla, Firebird, Konq).
>   Even Google didn't help me out on this one.

In Netscape or Mozilla for Winsnooze one can import IE Bookmarks where they 
are changed to one HTML bookmark file.

That file is identical to a Mozilla for Linux bookmark file.

I am not sure if Moz for Linux can do the import, but if you wish to try:

Bookmarks/Manage Bookmarks/Tools/Import

Rob

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Re: [newbie] Installing on a SCSI system

2003-07-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 16:41, Erylon Hines wrote:
> You shouldn't need to make any changes in the SCSI bios.  All changes should 
> be made in the system bios--I've done a lot of SCSI installations, and I've 
> never reset the SCSI bios.  The first thing I would try is turning off 

Well, that is not true for Buslogic (nee Mylex) controllers, at least
the one I have (BT-948C.)  There is a setting in there for "bootable
CD-ROM", and it must be enabled in order to boot from a CD **if the
CD-ROM is SCSI**.  Obviously, if the CD-ROM is IDE, this won't matter. 
In my case, I have a SCSI CD-ROM.  The reason is that if the CD-ROM is
SCSI attached, the motherboard doesn't know about it, only the SCSI
controller does.

> booting from SCSI and Harddisk in my system bios, choosing CDROM, Floppy, 
> Zip, or whatever.  Then try it again.  If that works, don't forget to turn it 
> on again at first boot, after install.  If that doesn't work, I would make a 
> boot floppy and try starting the install that way.  Last, there is always the 
> hard disk install (I have had to do that once, but the system was ide, not 
> scsi).
> 
> On Friday 25 July 2003 11:54 am, Miark wrote:
> > I have 8.2 on my gateway/firewall machine. I'd like 9.1 on
> > there, but the damn thing won't boot to the CD. If I go
> > into the SCSI bios and monkey with it that the drive is
> > basically hidden, I can boot to CD; but because the hard
> > drive is hidden, I can't install!
> >
> > The comp's bios is set to boot from CD first, but the
> > SCSI always takes over. How do I exit this loop?
> >
> > Miark
> 
> 
> 
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[newbie] IEfavorites to Mozilla (or any browser) bookmarks

2003-07-26 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi,
I've searched for this seemingly simple question and I have yet to find an 
answer. 
Is there a way to convert IE favorites to Mozilla bookmarks? It is not 
obvious in any of the browsers (Galeon, Mozilla, Firebird, Konq).
Even Google didn't help me out on this one.

tia,
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[newbie] firewall hits by newsserver

2003-07-26 Thread Chris
This may be OT but, I have to ask.  The below is from my firestarter log, are 
these incoming or outgoing hits to earthlinks news servers?

time:Jul 26 09:53:09 in:eth0 out: port:40478 source:news03.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown
time:Jul 26 09:54:24 in:eth0 out: port:40480 source:news04.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown
time:Jul 26 10:02:21 in:eth0 out: port:40479 source:news01.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown
time:Jul 26 10:03:57 in:eth0 out: port:40478 source:news03.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown
time:Jul 26 10:06:37 in:eth0 out: port:40479 source:news01.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown
time:Jul 26 21:18:42 in:eth0 out: port:42611 source:news02.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown
time:Jul 26 21:28:47 in:eth0 out: port:42611 source:news02.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:699 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown
time:Jul 26 21:34:44 in:eth0 out: port:42611 source:news02.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown
time:Jul 26 21:35:29 in:eth0 out: port:42612 source:news01.west.earthlink.net 
dest:192.168.1.2 len:699 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown

I'm still confused about things like this, of course a lot of simple things 
confuse me.

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Re: [newbie] kmail 9.0 to 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Bill Winegarden wrote:

Hi All,
	I saved my entire /home directory to my /mnt/windows directory before I 
installed 9.1. I would like to copy over all the kmail information, messages 
and directories from /mnt/windows to the new 9.1 insallation. However, when I 
copy the Mail directory it seems that there are many messages missing. For 
example Inbox has no messages when transfered over yet I know there were some 
when I copied the directory to windows. Am I missing other mail related 
files/folders that augment the main 'Mail' directory?

tia,
Bill W.
Make sure you get these files as well.

File:
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
Directory:
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
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Re: [newbie] kmail 9.0 to 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread John Wilson
On July 26, 2003 11:45 am, Bill Winegarden wrote:
> Hi All,
>   I saved my entire /home directory to my /mnt/windows directory before I
> installed 9.1. I would like to copy over all the kmail information,
> messages and directories from /mnt/windows to the new 9.1 insallation.
> However, when I copy the Mail directory it seems that there are many
> messages missing. For example Inbox has no messages when transfered over
> yet I know there were some when I copied the directory to windows. Am I
> missing other mail related files/folders that augment the main 'Mail'
> directory?
>
> tia,
> Bill W.

Hi Bill

I had this problem going from 8.2 to 9.0 and, through ignorance more than 
anything else, lost everything.  Everything is exactly how you described it.

The problem is that if you just copy everything back you'll find it's all out 
of synch.  Not even the address book will work correctly.

The fix for KMail, assuming that's what you're using, initally sounds pretty 
drastic.  Install KMail.  Do NOT run it.  Copy your mail directory back to 
your home directory.  Now run KMail for the first time.  You'll find your 
mail is there where it should be.Finish configuring it.

Opening KMail causes it to write its own Mail directory and fill it with 
intial files.  This appears to confuse the heck out of it when you reopen 
KMail.  You'll see everything but none of it will work.  I couldn't find a 
way to fix that without uninstalling KMail.  I was forced to do this then it 
all worked.  It appears to treat the existing Mail directory as an upgrade 
and reads all the information correctly.

I hope this helps.

ttfn

John

KAB is much easier.  Just copy it back to the appropriate directory and, 
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[newbie] cd-rw error

2003-07-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I am unable to blank cd-rw CD.
I get the following error.
Blocks total: 335925 Blocks current: 335925 Blocks remaining: 336075
cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 27 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x27 Qual 0x00 (write protected) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 9600s
What to do?
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Re: [newbie] printing problem

2003-07-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 26 July 2003 05:06 pm, owenb wrote:
> This is a recent development.
> When I try to print I get the following message.
> Catastrophe! - KNotify
> A print error occurred.
> Error message received from system.
> Error while reading filter description for *true.
> *Empty command line received.
>
> Print KGhost View gives the following:
> Printer HPDeskjet 855c.
> Comment: HP Deskjet 855C, Foomatic + hpijs (recommended)
> Print system currently used  CUPS (common UNIX Print System) connected
> to local host 631
>
> No matter what printer I designate or what print system is designated I
> get the same error message.
> Until a few days ago the designated printer would print.  I must of done
> something,
> The question is now how to undo it.
> Owen
A quick solution may be to just install the printer as a new printer. Use mcc 
and add a printer with the same attributes but call it newprinter or such. 
Then make it default and see if printing works again. Did you d/l a cups 
update or some other printer util lately? HTH
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[newbie] printing problem

2003-07-26 Thread owenb




This is a recent development.
When I try to print I get the following message.
Catastrophe! - KNotify
A print error occurred.
Error message received from system.
Error while reading filter description for true.
Empty command line received.

Print KGhost View gives the following:
Printer HPDeskjet 855c.
Comment: HP Deskjet 855C, Foomatic + hpijs (recommended)
Print system currently used  CUPS (common UNIX Print System) connected
to local host 631

No matter what printer I designate or what print system is designated I
get the same error message.
Until a few days ago the designated printer would print.  I must of
done something,  
The question is now how to undo it. 
Owen




[newbie] kmail 9.0 to 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi All,
I saved my entire /home directory to my /mnt/windows directory before I 
installed 9.1. I would like to copy over all the kmail information, messages 
and directories from /mnt/windows to the new 9.1 insallation. However, when I 
copy the Mail directory it seems that there are many messages missing. For 
example Inbox has no messages when transfered over yet I know there were some 
when I copied the directory to windows. Am I missing other mail related 
files/folders that augment the main 'Mail' directory?

tia,
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Re: [newbie] M9.1 and Mozilla 1.4 update

2003-07-26 Thread Joeb
John Richard Smith wrote:

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing it but since I updated the 
standard
Mozilla version to  V1.4 , last night, the download speed for emails 
has more than halved.

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Does that mean it's done in half the time or takes twice as long?

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Re: [newbie] Xfce4 and icons

2003-07-26 Thread Josenildo Marques
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On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:33, Todd Slater wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 12:13:13AM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 11:31, Josenildo Marques wrote:
> > > Thanks, Todd Slater.
> > > However, there is something strange. There wasn't a file called
> > > menu.xml in that folder. Even so, i ran menumaker as you instructed and
> > > it created the file mymenu.xml which I moved into  ~/.xfce4/
> > > The menu doesn't show up. What could be wrong ?
> > >
> > > Thanks again.
> > >
> > > JM
> >
> > I thought the menu.xml would live in either /usr/local/etc/xfce4/ or in
> > /usr/etc/xfce4 or /etc/xfce4 => at least I know mine lives in
> > /usr/local/etc/xfce4 => so the menu created with MenuMaker got copied
> > there then edited to suit my purposes...
>
> My guess is that he's using a custom start script or the one in
> /usr/local/etc/xfce4, which could default to looking for the menu in
> /usr/local/etc/xfce4. I set mine up with the xinitrc file in ~/.xfce4,
> so that's probably why mine looks for menu.xml in ~/.xfce4.
>
> Anyway, Josenildo, you could try moving mymenu.xml to just menu.xml and
> putting that in ~/.xfce4. It that doesn't work, as Stephen suggested,
> move it to /usr/local/etc/xfce4.
>
> Let us know how you make out,
>
> Todd


I ran Menumaker again without the -o switch and it did everything as expected, 
thus creating the menu.xml file in my ~/.xfce4/
Thank you very much, guys.

And Happy Unbirthday to all !

JM

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Re: [newbie] MS in trouble, sorry it's kinda OT

2003-07-26 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:12, John Wilson wrote:
> On July 26, 2003 03:42 am, _nasturtium wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Would that product be XTree?
> >
> > Anyway,
> > http://www.symantec.com/corporate/
> > "Historical Highlights"
> > June 1994 Central Point Software Acquisition
> >
> > I think Symantec owns Central Point Software ... unless there's two
> > companies by the same name?
> >
> > Regards,
> > _nasturtium
> 
> XTree was one product I was thinking of, though if memory serves (which it 
> sometimes doesn't) that was the DOS product not the Windoze one.  It was 
> wonderful though.
> 
> You know, you're right about Symantec picking up the pieces of the defunct 
> Central Point.  Just goes to show how good the above mentioned memory is at 
> midnight after a 10 hour day at work :-)
> 
> ttfn
> 
> John
> 
> 
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There was also the disk-compression software,Stacker. 

Ms offered to allow the developer/company to add it to MS-DOS 6 without
paying them royalties. For some reason they refused, Ms put in
double-space - & got sued. had to withdraw 6.0, and replace it with 6.1
without compression, had to pay out USD 120 million.

 Ms also had the nerve to counter-sue and won about USD 20M because Stac
reverse-engineered double-space to find the infringements, and therby
broke trade agreements.

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RE: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Frankie
Yup, thats the whole reason RIAA are doing it, because it
scares off people.

Give it time, they will work out a way of sharing with more
animity..

rgds

Franki

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> Be careful with Kazaa. I've seen reports that the RIAA
won't be scanning
> for IP's from their own networks.
>
> Watch your back.
>

Yes I don't do any p2p at the moment. Have stopped getting
bittorrents and
everything. Too many of my friends have received warnings.

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Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 16:30, Lanman wrote:
> Be careful with Kazaa. I've seen reports that the RIAA won't be scanning for IP's 
> from their own networks.
> 
> Watch your back.
> 
> Lanman
> 
> *** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***
> 
> On 7/26/2003 at 5:04 PM Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> Also I wouldn't mind if i could get Kazaa
> >> to run...
> >>
> >
> >I would get the latest version of Kazaa lite if you do go down that line as
> >the New Version 2.4 K++ now includes IP blocking. The blocked IPs can be
> >manually entered or obtained, which includes all known addresses used by
> >the RIAA for scanning for copyright offenders.
> >

OK, I might give Kazaa a rest considering all the fuzz that's going on.
Thanks for pointing it out to me.

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[newbie] Wine

2003-07-26 Thread Lee Wiggers
All this wine talk made me curious enough to install the latest and try to run the 
last program keeping me with a windows box.  Act!

Problem:

I installed the RPM wine-20030618-mdk9.1.i586.rpm without a problem.

Now..How do I configure and use the program?

I know, RTFM.  I am, but it seems like they assume I'm smarter than I am, as usual.  
I'm getting a complex.

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Re: [newbie] User IDs start at 500 or 501?

2003-07-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Jul 2003 7:12 pm, Technoslick wrote:
> On Friday 25 July 2003 06:23 pm, Andy Davidson graced me with:
> > I just installed 9.1 on a new system and ran into a difference
> > between how the installer creates new users and how drakconf
> > does. I created a couple of users during the install and they
> > ended up with uid = 501 and 502.  As they always have on previous
> > versions of Mandrake.
> >
> > Then when the system was up I created several more, very
> > carefully creating them in the same order as on our other
> > systems.  After I spent all the time getting them created and set
> > up, I discovered that they did not match the uid's on our other
> > systems.  It seems that drakconf starts its numbering at 500. 
> > So, using letters for the order in which I created them, the
> > users were a=501, b=502, c=500, d=503, e=504, etc.
> >
> > I had to rip out all the users from c up, create a dummy at 500
> > and redo them.
> >
> > Argghhh. Why?
> >
> > andy
>
> I haven't encountered this problem in Mandrake between the
> different ways that user accounts can be created. Thanks for the
> warning!
>
> I can sympathize with you. I run both Mandrake and Red Hat
> workstations connected to a Red Hat server. I found out long after
> I had set-up my first of the Red Hat PC's that they start users at
> UID=500, while Mandrake was always starting at UID=501. For the
> longest time, I couldn't understand why I was having Samba problems
> with shared files under rthe same user, but from different Linux
> machines. This was the culprit. Now, whenever I setup a RH
> workstation or server that needs to have sympathetic UID's, I
> create the user at the comand line with the correct UID to match
> those in Mandrake.
>
This can also cause problems if you are installing two versions of the 
distro, or any distro for that matter.  Unless you use the same 
routine every time for adding users you will get crossed in the UIDs 
(there's a way round it, which I think Derek pointed out), so my 
routine is to add root and myself only at install, then add users one 
at a time and in the same order every time.  Without this the users 
can't read their own folders and files that have the UID attached as 
owner.

Anne

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Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Code could unleash Windows worm

2003-07-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 26 July 2003 11:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> Boy oh boy - Microsoft ain't had it so good for the past two weeks, now
> have they?
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/944368.asp?0si=-

Wot..no Aussi's there???
You disapoint me mr. Kuhn:o)
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[newbie] Newbie qmake configuration for Md 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
Hi All

If one desires to use compile Qt programs with Md 9.1 one should be aware that 
as usual a few files were left off the distribution CD.

This time the one of the critical files is libqt.so. 

Attached is a newbie configuration that will compile the simple helloworld.cpp 
program from O'Reilly. Program Is attached. This configuration may or may not 
compile the more advanced hello.cpp program found in the examples. 

My personal feelings on this is it should work on the hell.cpp program but it 
have not tested it yet.

The following files were altered.
1. /home/{user}/.baschrc
2. /usr/lib/qt3/mkspecs/linux-g++/qmake.conf

Copies of the modifies files follows.

Newbies please note:  When one test a configuration file it is best to make an 
original copy and a test copy. I usually use {for Mandrake 9.1} 
.Original-Md91 and .test_copy. This will save you a lot 
of grief.

Frank


#
# $Id: qt/qmake.conf   3.1.1   edited Nov 14 09:50 $
#
# qmake configuration for linux-g++
#

MAKEFILE_GENERATOR  = UNIX
TEMPLATE= app
CONFIG  += qt warn_on release incremental
QMAKE_INCREMENTAL_STYLE  = sublib

QMAKE_CC= gcc
QMAKE_LEX   = flex
QMAKE_LEXFLAGS  =
QMAKE_YACC  = yacc
QMAKE_YACCFLAGS = -d
QMAKE_CFLAGS= -pipe
QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEPS   = -M
QMAKE_CFLAGS_WARN_ON= -Wall -W
QMAKE_CFLAGS_WARN_OFF   = -w
QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE= -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=i586 
-mcpu=pentiumpro
QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEBUG  = -g
QMAKE_CFLAGS_SHLIB  = -fPIC
QMAKE_CFLAGS_YACC   = -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses
QMAKE_CFLAGS_THREAD = -D_REENTRANT

QMAKE_CXX   = g++
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS  = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_DEPS = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEPS
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_WARN_ON  = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_WARN_ON
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_WARN_OFF = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_WARN_OFF
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE  = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_DEBUG= $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEBUG
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_SHLIB= $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_SHLIB
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_YACC = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_YACC
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_THREAD   = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_THREAD

QMAKE_INCDIR=
QMAKE_LIBDIR=
QMAKE_INCDIR_X11= /usr/X11R6/include
QMAKE_LIBDIR_X11= /usr/X11R6/lib
QMAKE_INCDIR_QT = /usr/lib/qt3/include
QMAKE_LIBDIR_QT = /usr/lib/qt3/lib
QMAKE_INCDIR_OPENGL = /usr/X11R6/include
QMAKE_LIBDIR_OPENGL = /usr/X11R6/lib

QMAKE_LINK  = g++
QMAKE_LINK_SHLIB= g++
QMAKE_LFLAGS=
QMAKE_LFLAGS_RELEASE=
QMAKE_LFLAGS_DEBUG  =
QMAKE_LFLAGS_SHLIB  = -shared
QMAKE_LFLAGS_PLUGIN = $$QMAKE_LFLAGS_SHLIB
QMAKE_LFLAGS_SONAME = -Wl,-soname,
QMAKE_LFLAGS_THREAD =
QMAKE_RPATH =

QMAKE_LIBS  =
QMAKE_LIBS_DYNLOAD  = -ldl
QMAKE_LIBS_X11  = -lXext -lX11 -lm
QMAKE_LIBS_X11SM= -lSM -lICE
QMAKE_LIBS_NIS  = -lnsl
QMAKE_LIBS_QT   = -lqt-mt
QMAKE_LIBS_QT_THREAD= -lqt-mt
QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL   = -lGLU -lGL -lXmu
QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL_QT= -lGL -lXmu
QMAKE_LIBS_THREAD   = -lpthread

QMAKE_MOC   = /usr/lib/qt3/bin/moc
QMAKE_UIC   = /usr/lib/qt3/bin/uic

QMAKE_AR= ar cqs
QMAKE_RANLIB=

QMAKE_TAR   = tar -cf
QMAKE_GZIP  = gzip -9f

QMAKE_COPY  = cp -f
QMAKE_MOVE  = mv -f
QMAKE_DEL_FILE  = rm -f
QMAKE_DEL_DIR   = rmdir
QMAKE_STRIP = strip
QMAKE_CHK_DIR_EXISTS= test -d
QMAKE_MKDIR = mkdir -p
#

#/home/{user}/.baschrc
# Set a custom shell prompt.
PS1="[\w]> "

PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/qt3/bin:/usr/lib/qt3/include

export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
export QTMAKESPEC=/usr/lib/qt3/mkspecs





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Re: [newbie] User IDs start at 500 or 501?

2003-07-26 Thread Technoslick
On Friday 25 July 2003 06:23 pm, Andy Davidson graced me with:
> I just installed 9.1 on a new system and ran into a difference
> between how the installer creates new users and how drakconf does. 
> I created a couple of users during the install and they ended up
> with uid = 501 and 502.  As they always have on previous versions
> of Mandrake.
>
> Then when the system was up I created several more, very carefully
> creating them in the same order as on our other systems.  After I
> spent all the time getting them created and set up, I discovered
> that they did not match the uid's on our other systems.  It seems
> that drakconf starts its numbering at 500.  So, using letters for
> the order in which I created them, the users were a=501, b=502,
> c=500, d=503, e=504, etc.
>
> I had to rip out all the users from c up, create a dummy at 500 and
> redo them.
>
> Argghhh. Why?
>
> andy

I haven't encountered this problem in Mandrake between the different 
ways that user accounts can be created. Thanks for the warning!

I can sympathize with you. I run both Mandrake and Red Hat 
workstations connected to a Red Hat server. I found out long after I 
had set-up my first of the Red Hat PC's that they start users at 
UID=500, while Mandrake was always starting at UID=501. For the 
longest time, I couldn't understand why I was having Samba problems 
with shared files under rthe same user, but from different Linux 
machines. This was the culprit. Now, whenever I setup a RH 
workstation or server that needs to have sympathetic UID's, I create 
the user at the comand line with the correct UID to match those in 
Mandrake.

FWIW,

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Re: [newbie] urpmi.addmedia mozilla

2003-07-26 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote:

H.J.Bathoorn wrote:

Well frankly, I do download i.e. save the packages for other machines 
on my network so I never have to dl the same package twice.
This means a first try at downloadinging and installing, and if it 
asked for other (dependent) packages... I take note and add them next 
time.
It's almost like the install orgies in "the old days" with rpm.
Once you get the hang of it, there's no stopping any more:o)
Note: I only do this on my cable (=broadband) connection.

If you dont have the broadband, go to rpmfind.net, look up the 
specific package and read the depencies beforehand. They're all there 
in the .html file, just scroll down a bit.
Actually urpmi was created to put an end to all this. It does just 
that as long as the hdlist.cz files are good enough. There's the weak 
spot!
 

 

This is what I percieve. It is a sort of progress, but of a limited kind.
I mean, urpmi is supposed to take away the , what to uninstall what 
not to uninstall, and the method, or sequence of install of all the 
various packages that typically make a complicated linux software 
install.But in doing so it means that the user has to have damned good 
high speed internet connection
together with a solid knowledge of the download directories , a solid 
knowledge of the command lines needed to produce the required results.
I know there is that easy thing, but it daint always work, I don't 
know why, but it doesn't. I suspect that once you have something non 
standard installed it confuses the headlist , remote and local, I 
don't know.

Let me take an example , having upgraded "main" , isn't that supposed 
to be the headlist for Mandrakes own download packages, maybe I got it 
wrong, but that is how I understood it, and created your own local 
headlist . I want to download and install " rosegarden " which I think 
is included in "main"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi.addmedia rosegarden 




"media" is the location from which you are getting the packages.  When 
you urmpi.addmedia you are adding a location from which to download 
files. Do you see why what you typed wouldn't work?  Did you intend to 
create *another* place from which to download files or did you want to 
download files from a place you had *previously* specified?

-"urmpi.addmedia " is used to add
a new location from which to download files.
-"urpmi.update -a" will refresh it's memory on where it needs to go to 
get any given package

-"urpmi -v " will install a package.  You
don't need to tell urpmi where to get it.  It knows where to go based on 
the earlier steps.  urpmi will then search it's database to see where 
that particular package lives, get it and install it.






usage: urpmi.addmedia [options]   [with ]
where  is one of
  file://
  ftp://:@/ withftp:/// with 
  http:/// with 
  removable://

and [options] are from
 --help - print this help message.
 --wget - use wget to retrieve distant files.
 --curl - use curl to retrieve distant files.

 -h - try to find and use synthesis or hdlist
  file.
 -f - force generation of hdlist files.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
so that's not right.
so I try the full thing,
urpmi.addmedia rosegarden 
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS 
with hdlist.cz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi.addmedia rosegarden 
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS 
with hdlist.cz
added medium rosegarden
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.texstar.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz]
examining synthesis file 
[/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.jpackage.free.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
retrieving description file of "rosegarden"...
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "rosegarden"...
   
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS/hdlist.cz 

...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0

retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium "rosegarden"
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.rosegarden.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium "rosegarden"
unable to update medium "rosegarden"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
So I'm obviously doing something wrong again.

but I don't know how I'm supposed to know how to put it right.
It's lack of basic knowledge combined with a good explanation of what 
I'm supposed to be doing right, that is the problem.

Although I am perfectly comfortable with gui apps, I do like to be 
able to use the command line, and in any case one should learn and 
understand first principles even if you do use gui apps to download.

So anyway all this is all very well, but I in keeping with many others 
I do not have a high speed internet connection and must make do and 
mend with

Re: [newbie] Linux frindly printers

2003-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:19 am, Aron Smith wrote:
> Has anyone had any success setting up multi function  devices?
> (eg. printer-fax-copier-scanners with linux)
> there are some great deals on refurbished HP equipment around.

Check out www.linuxprinting.org and be ready with the name and model number of 
your device.

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Re: [newbie] Linux frindly printers

2003-07-26 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Aron Smith wrote:

Has anyone had any success setting up multi function  devices?
(eg. printer-fax-copier-scanners with linux)
there are some great deals on refurbished HP equipment around.
I had I an $150 HP multifunction (print, scanner, copier, no fax) that 
worked very well under Linux.  It would do copies without an external 
computer.  That was nice.

I got rid of it because the resolution of the scanner was so low.  The 
scanner portion of the devices have improved since then I believe.  It 
printing beautifully though.  I miss it.

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Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
> Be careful with Kazaa. I've seen reports that the RIAA won't be scanning
> for IP's from their own networks.
> 
> Watch your back.
> 

Yes I don't do any p2p at the moment. Have stopped getting bittorrents and
everything. Too many of my friends have received warnings.

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[newbie] Linux frindly printers

2003-07-26 Thread Aron Smith
Has anyone had any success setting up multi function  devices?
(eg. printer-fax-copier-scanners with linux)
there are some great deals on refurbished HP equipment around.

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Re: [newbie] Xfce4 and icons

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 12:13:13AM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 11:31, Josenildo Marques wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Todd Slater.
> > However, there is something strange. There wasn't a file called menu.xml in 
> > that folder. Even so, i ran menumaker as you instructed and it created the 
> > file mymenu.xml which I moved into  ~/.xfce4/ 
> > The menu doesn't show up. What could be wrong ?
> > 
> > Thanks again.
> > 
> > JM
> 
> I thought the menu.xml would live in either /usr/local/etc/xfce4/ or in
> /usr/etc/xfce4 or /etc/xfce4 => at least I know mine lives in
> /usr/local/etc/xfce4 => so the menu created with MenuMaker got copied
> there then edited to suit my purposes...

My guess is that he's using a custom start script or the one in
/usr/local/etc/xfce4, which could default to looking for the menu in
/usr/local/etc/xfce4. I set mine up with the xinitrc file in ~/.xfce4,
so that's probably why mine looks for menu.xml in ~/.xfce4.

Anyway, Josenildo, you could try moving mymenu.xml to just menu.xml and
putting that in ~/.xfce4. It that doesn't work, as Stephen suggested,
move it to /usr/local/etc/xfce4.

Let us know how you make out,

Todd

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Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Lanman
Be careful with Kazaa. I've seen reports that the RIAA won't be scanning for IP's from 
their own networks.

Watch your back.

Lanman

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On 7/26/2003 at 5:04 PM Inhabitant of Zion wrote:

>>
>> Also I wouldn't mind if i could get Kazaa
>> to run...
>>
>
>I would get the latest version of Kazaa lite if you do go down that line as
>the New Version 2.4 K++ now includes IP blocking. The blocked IPs can be
>manually entered or obtained, which includes all known addresses used by
>the RIAA for scanning for copyright offenders.
>
>--
>John Willby
>Registered Linux user number 321644
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>ICQ: 92791912
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>
>Only it doesn't leave you much time to think about anything else.
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Re: [newbie] urpmi.addmedia mozilla

2003-07-26 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote:

H.J.Bathoorn wrote:

Well frankly, I do download i.e. save the packages for other machines 
on my network so I never have to dl the same package twice.
This means a first try at downloadinging and installing, and if it 
asked for other (dependent) packages... I take note and add them next 
time.
It's almost like the install orgies in "the old days" with rpm.
Once you get the hang of it, there's no stopping any more:o)
Note: I only do this on my cable (=broadband) connection.

If you dont have the broadband, go to rpmfind.net, look up the 
specific package and read the depencies beforehand. They're all there 
in the .html file, just scroll down a bit.
Actually urpmi was created to put an end to all this. It does just 
that as long as the hdlist.cz files are good enough. There's the weak 
spot!
 

 

This is what I percieve. It is a sort of progress, but of a limited kind.
I mean, urpmi is supposed to take away the , what to uninstall what 
not to uninstall, and the method, or sequence of install of all the 
various packages that typically make a complicated linux software 
install.But in doing so it means that the user has to have damned good 
high speed internet connection
together with a solid knowledge of the download directories , a solid 
knowledge of the command lines needed to produce the required results.
I know there is that easy thing, but it daint always work, I don't 
know why, but it doesn't. I suspect that once you have something non 
standard installed it confuses the headlist , remote and local, I 
don't know.

Let me take an example , having upgraded "main" , isn't that supposed 
to be the headlist for Mandrakes own download packages, maybe I got it 
wrong, but that is how I understood it, and created your own local 
headlist . I want to download and install " rosegarden " which I think 
is included in "main"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi.addmedia rosegarden 




"media" is the place where you are getting the packages.  When you 
urmpi.addmedia you are adding a location from which to download files.  
Do you see why what you typed wouldn't work?  Did you intend to create 
*another* place from which to download files or did you want to download 
files from a place you had already specified?

-"urmpi.addmedia " is used to add 
a new location from which to download files.

-"urpmi.update -a" will refresh it's memory on which package is located 
at which download location or local file directory.

-"urpmi -v " will install a package.  You 
don't need to tell urpmi where to get it.  It know from the earlier 
steps.  urpmi will then search it's database to see where that 
particular package lives, get it and install it.






usage: urpmi.addmedia [options]   [with ]
where  is one of
  file://
  ftp://:@/ withftp:/// with 
  http:/// with 
  removable://

and [options] are from
 --help - print this help message.
 --wget - use wget to retrieve distant files.
 --curl - use curl to retrieve distant files.

 -h - try to find and use synthesis or hdlist
  file.
 -f - force generation of hdlist files.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
so that's not right.
so I try the full thing,
urpmi.addmedia rosegarden 
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS 
with hdlist.cz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi.addmedia rosegarden 
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS 
with hdlist.cz
added medium rosegarden
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.texstar.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz]
examining synthesis file 
[/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.jpackage.free.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
retrieving description file of "rosegarden"...
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "rosegarden"...
   
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS/hdlist.cz 

...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0

retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium "rosegarden"
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.rosegarden.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium "rosegarden"
unable to update medium "rosegarden"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
So I'm obviously doing something wrong again.

but I don't know how I'm supposed to know how to put it right.
It's lack of basic knowledge combined with a good explanation of what 
I'm supposed to be doing right, that is the problem.

Although I am perfectly comfortable with gui apps, I do like to be 
able to use the command line, and in any case one should learn and 
understand first principles even if you do use gui apps to download.

So anyway all this is all very well, but I in keeping with many others 
I do not have a high speed internet connection and must make do and 
mend

Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
>
> Also I wouldn't mind if i could get Kazaa
> to run...
> 

I would get the latest version of Kazaa lite if you do go down that line as
the New Version 2.4 K++ now includes IP blocking. The blocked IPs can be
manually entered or obtained, which includes all known addresses used by
the RIAA for scanning for copyright offenders.

-- 
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Registered Linux user number 321644
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ICQ: 92791912
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Re: [newbie] MS in trouble, sorry it's kinda OT

2003-07-26 Thread John Wilson
On July 26, 2003 03:42 am, _nasturtium wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
>   Would that product be XTree?
>
> Anyway,
>   http://www.symantec.com/corporate/
>   "Historical Highlights"
>   June 1994 Central Point Software Acquisition
>
>   I think Symantec owns Central Point Software ... unless there's two
> companies by the same name?
>
> Regards,
>   _nasturtium

XTree was one product I was thinking of, though if memory serves (which it 
sometimes doesn't) that was the DOS product not the Windoze one.  It was 
wonderful though.

You know, you're right about Symantec picking up the pieces of the defunct 
Central Point.  Just goes to show how good the above mentioned memory is at 
midnight after a 10 hour day at work :-)

ttfn

John

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Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Erylon Hines wrote:

Looks to me like your .kde user is corrupted because all the other desktop 
GUI's work.  Save the stuff you need from .kde (your address book is a big 
one), then rename the ~/.kde directory to something like .OLDkde.  Try 
starting KDE again.  It will probably work, creating a new ~/.kde in the 
process.  You will lose all of your desktop settings, including mail 
settings, and have to recreate them from scratch, but other than that, no 
harm done.

On Friday 25 July 2003 05:30 pm, manolis wrote:

 

The KDE is the only graphical GUI that gives me the error. The password
handling is working fine in other GUIs. (IceWM , Gnome, WM).
   

You should be able to copy any mail settings or configuration files to 
the new .kde when it is formed.

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Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread crak600
On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:14 pm, Marco Verheul wrote:
 Also I wouldn't mind if i could get Kazaa
> to run...
>

you're not iffy about running kazaa with all the RIAA stuff going on?  

> Can you recommend a tutorial to do a basic set up?
>

yes, that'd be nice ammo to have in my arsenel as well  :)

Mike

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Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 03:14, Marco Verheul wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 13:16, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 23:31, Marco Verheul wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'd like to set up WINE on my mdk9.1 machine, but I see the
> > > documentation is quite extensive. Is there a simple way to do this or do
> > > I need to chew through all the documentation?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any tips!
> > > 
> > > Marco
> > 
> > Quite literally, you should be able to use it "out of the box" with
> > little or no configuration - of course, with the exception of running it
> > the first time and having it set itself up per user.
> 
> I installed WINE from the 9.1 cd's, but I suppose i have to set up some
> sort of 'fake' directory structure where I can install programs. I'm
> happy as a clam with all the Linux tools, but I would like to toy around
> with TopStyle and Dreamweaver. Also I wouldn't mind if i could get Kazaa
> to run...
> 
> Can you recommend a tutorial to do a basic set up?
> 
> Marco

Open a terminal - navigate to your Windows directory (probably
/mnt/windows/windows) and type:

wine /mnt/windows/windows/sol.exe

(make sure that the CASE is correct)

...if it asks any questions, answer them.

THAT'S your first lesson!

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Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 13:16, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 23:31, Marco Verheul wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'd like to set up WINE on my mdk9.1 machine, but I see the
> > documentation is quite extensive. Is there a simple way to do this or do
> > I need to chew through all the documentation?
> > 
> > Thanks for any tips!
> > 
> > Marco
> 
> Quite literally, you should be able to use it "out of the box" with
> little or no configuration - of course, with the exception of running it
> the first time and having it set itself up per user.

I installed WINE from the 9.1 cd's, but I suppose i have to set up some
sort of 'fake' directory structure where I can install programs. I'm
happy as a clam with all the Linux tools, but I would like to toy around
with TopStyle and Dreamweaver. Also I wouldn't mind if i could get Kazaa
to run...

Can you recommend a tutorial to do a basic set up?

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Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread Erylon Hines
Looks to me like your .kde user is corrupted because all the other desktop 
GUI's work.  Save the stuff you need from .kde (your address book is a big 
one), then rename the ~/.kde directory to something like .OLDkde.  Try 
starting KDE again.  It will probably work, creating a new ~/.kde in the 
process.  You will lose all of your desktop settings, including mail 
settings, and have to recreate them from scratch, but other than that, no 
harm done.

On Friday 25 July 2003 05:30 pm, manolis wrote:

> The KDE is the only graphical GUI that gives me the error. The password
> handling is working fine in other GUIs. (IceWM , Gnome, WM).
>


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Re: [newbie] Xfce4 and icons

2003-07-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 11:31, Josenildo Marques wrote:

> Thanks, Todd Slater.
> However, there is something strange. There wasn't a file called menu.xml in 
> that folder. Even so, i ran menumaker as you instructed and it created the 
> file mymenu.xml which I moved into  ~/.xfce4/ 
> The menu doesn't show up. What could be wrong ?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> JM

I thought the menu.xml would live in either /usr/local/etc/xfce4/ or in
/usr/etc/xfce4 or /etc/xfce4 => at least I know mine lives in
/usr/local/etc/xfce4 => so the menu created with MenuMaker got copied
there then edited to suit my purposes...

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Re: [newbie] Xfce4 and icons

2003-07-26 Thread Josenildo Marques
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On Friday 25 July 2003 00:22, Todd Slater wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can use various themes in the panel. Click the "setup" button in the
> panel > go to the panel settings and pick a theme. If you want to
> mix and match, the theme icons are located in
> /usr/local/share/xfce4/themes if you're using my rpm's.
>
> Or, if you want to further customize the panel, you can find icons in
> /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/pixmaps.
>
> Menumaker will overwrite the default xfce4 menu (~/.xfce4/menu.xml), so
> back it up if you want to keep it, or specify another output file (I
> think it's the -o switch). Run it with "mmaker xfce4". You can find
> options by running "mmaker -h".
>
> HTH,
> Todd

Thanks, Todd Slater.
However, there is something strange. There wasn't a file called menu.xml in 
that folder. Even so, i ran menumaker as you instructed and it created the 
file mymenu.xml which I moved into  ~/.xfce4/ 
The menu doesn't show up. What could be wrong ?

Thanks again.

JM

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Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 23:31, Marco Verheul wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to set up WINE on my mdk9.1 machine, but I see the
> documentation is quite extensive. Is there a simple way to do this or do
> I need to chew through all the documentation?
> 
> Thanks for any tips!
> 
> Marco

Quite literally, you should be able to use it "out of the box" with
little or no configuration - of course, with the exception of running it
the first time and having it set itself up per user.

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Re: [newbie] Re: chkrootkit :(

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Slater
Hi,

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 02:59:29 -0600 (MDT)
SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Todd Slater wrote:
> 
> > I ran chkrootkit and was told that root has never logged in. Reading
> > a bit about that tells me my system is compromised. Where should I
> > look to figure out what's going on?
> 
> Run "chkrootkit -x > chkrootkit-sample 2>&1" to get complete details
> about the error.  Parse it with egrep or view it with less for the
> error message, maybe the output will give you an idea what happened.

After 48,000-odd lines:

### Output of: /usr/lib/chkrootkit/chklastlog -f /var/log/wtmp -l
/var/log/lastlog
###
user root deleted or never loged from lastlog!

I did a search and found this thread:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=4a40cc6ac592c146&seekm=a7q7bo%247b0%241%40athena.ukc.ac.uk&rnum=2

What's the best approach--panic or not? I think it would be good to try
to figure out what's happened (if anything).

Thanks,
Todd

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Re: [newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
>  I see the
> documentation is quite extensive. Is there a simple way to do this 
>

Usually I find if there is quite extensive documentation then "simple
way" is likely to be a proverbial white rabbit!

But I am happy to be proved wrong... 

I am toying with the idea of giving wineX a go at some stage.

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[newbie] WINE configuration

2003-07-26 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all,

I'd like to set up WINE on my mdk9.1 machine, but I see the
documentation is quite extensive. Is there a simple way to do this or do
I need to chew through all the documentation?

Thanks for any tips!

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[newbie] ARTICLE: Why Windows Isn't Hell Or Why Linux Isn't Bliss

2003-07-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4123
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Re: [newbie] MS in trouble, sorry it's kinda OT

2003-07-26 Thread _nasturtium
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:20 pm, John Wilson wrote:
> PS -- Anyone remember a little company called Central Point Software who
> made a better Winsucks Explorer than M$?  And a better on-the-fly
> compression system?  They sued M$, damned near went broke in the process,
> won and then M$ bought them out.  The suit was over the on-the-fly
> compression system.  As I recalled it didn't need to be defraged.  So, of
> course, it's long gone.
Hello,

Would that product be XTree?

Anyway,
http://www.symantec.com/corporate/
"Historical Highlights"
June 1994 Central Point Software Acquisition

I think Symantec owns Central Point Software ... unless there's two companies 
by the same name?

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