Re: [newbie-it] Chiavetta USB
Per quanto riguarda la chiavetta USB, prova ad inserirla al riavvio del sistema. In fstab dovresti poi trovare l'istruzione: /dev/sda1 /mnt/memory_card auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 Il consiglio datoti sul hotplug è naturalmente valido ! bye ho provato, ma durante la fase di avvio si blocca sulla voce checking for new hardware e non va più avanti...
[newbie-it] Configurazione scheda TV
Sono riuscito ad avviare Mandrake 9.1 usando l'impostazione VESA standard,tutto ok !!! Quando sono andato nel centro di controllo di Mandrake pero, mi sono accordo che il riconoscimento della scheda TV non la rileva. Io ho una ATI WONDER 128 PRO 32MB, con cui posso acquisire video analogici, riversarli su VHS e guardare la TV. La mia domanda è: posso fare lo stesso con Mandrake? E se si, qualcuno sà darmi una mano a configurare il tutto? Grazie Sandro Scrive: Alle 09:34, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, enrico.alletto ha scritto: Si, uso la modalita grafica e durante l'installazione tutto funziona perfettamente, e quando avvio il sistema installato che mi da schermo nero. La modalita VESA (Standard) da dove la imposto? Viene identificata come frame buffer o fb. Dovresti averla nelle modalità a disposizione durante il processo di installazione, per quanto riguarda la parte riguardante la configurazione del sistema grafico. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux 2.40.21 on Pentium III 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048
Re: [newbie-it] MySQL Problema avvio o installazione
On 09.10.2003 21:01, Eraser Head wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, kudega wrote: Sto cercando di installare MySQL per poi interfacciarlo con i programmini che faccio con Kylix solo che quando da shell digito mysql mi appare... ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/ lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) MySQL l'ho installato tantissimo tempo fa, quindi non mi ricordo poi benissimo. Mi ricordo però che c'erano alcune cose da fare dopo l'installazione dell'rpm... Con tutta probabilità penso che il problema stia nel fatto che prima di lanciare mysql devi lanciare lo script mysql_install_db, che inizializza le tabelle dei permessi e fa partire il server: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Post-installation.html Se lancio mysql_install_db mi risponde... 14:21 root # mysql_install_db Didn't find /usr/libexec/mysqld You should do a 'make install' before executing this script 14:21 root # Ma perchè cerca il demone di mysql se non riesco ancora a farlo partire?? E poi mi dice make install ?!?!? Ma mysql l'ho installato tramite rpm e non tarball ! bha... casini casini Grazie comunque Qualche altro aiutino? Ciao ciao Davide
Re: [newbie-it] modem conexant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:24, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, tom ha scritto: On Thursday 09 October 2003 17:16, Fabio Manunza wrote: Se sono quelli che permettono l'utilizzo del fax, mi faresti il favore di passarli anche a me? grazie. Ciao Fabio, non so se supportino il fax.non li ho mai provati,ma cmq se hai voglia di smanettarci su,te li passo... celo, come si diceva per la figu di Facchetti... Ma grazie lo stesso. P.S. Uno di questi giorni, vedo di farmi risentire...tenete pronto il truogolo;-) - -- - - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/hsvLVF8uFQvRMPQRAo8tAKDUsIfrGZTkU9G3paDyD8G1r9f2FACdFui4 Uksstu1eVRetXjgzxtHK58E= =N59r -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: R: [newbie-it] MySQL Problema avvio o installazione
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:42, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, carlo_canepa ha scritto: Purtroppo io non posso aiutarti, ma ho un problema simile, magari chi può aiutare te può aiutare anche me. E' due giorni che sto tentando di installare e avviare mysql su una mandrake linux, e nonostante abbia seguito dritte e consigli a destra e sinistra(manuali compresi), non riesco a farlo. Procedo così: decomprimo il sorgente con tar xfvz mysql[version].tar.gz; controllo che il gruppo myql e utente mysql siano presenti con groupadd mysql e useradd -g mysql mysq, su entrambi i comandi la shell mi dice che sono presenti;entro nella directory creata e gli dò ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql;compilo con make; installo con make install. Sin qui sembra tutto regolare. Poi cerco di avviare il server con /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql veramente il comando dovrebbe essere mysqld_safe; errore di stumpa? - -- - - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/htD/VF8uFQvRMPQRAqpUAJ9CcGOzwxOK9uu6iEPsC1us26udOQCcDC9M drv1Sg62ZqqjJMqCcVkjS80= =WOGU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] vmware e win2000
ciao a tutti, ho provato ad installare windows2000pro su vmware 4.0.5 ma purtroppo non ci sono riuscito. praticamente mi salta la virtual machine appena prima della formattazione del disco. non capisco se sia un baco o cosa. vorrei tanto sapere se qualcuno c'è riuscito ciao
R: R: [newbie-it] MySQL Problema avvio o installazione
Dipende dalla versione di mysqlm, adesso non ricordo ma sulla 4 mi pare sia mysqld_safe e sulla 3. safe_mysqld; in ogni caso ho provato tutto l'ambaradam sia con la versione 4 che con precedenti versioni 3 e il risultato è sempre lo stesso: un macello. L'ultima della serie è che ho cancellato la cartella mysql, installato i pacchetti rpm e, dando /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start mysql si avvia!!MA non parte più apache con il php!Allo start dice che: Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so into server:libmysqlclient.so.14:cannot open shared object file:No such file or directory. Se vado sul famoso file httpd.conf di configurazione di apache e cancello proprio la riga LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so allora apache si avvia, ma, naturalmente, senza il modulo php =1 manicomio dove non ci capisco davvero + nulla!!!MI sa che non riesco ad andare avanti, e dovrò prendere tutto e cercare di installarlo e configurarlo su windows (e non lo volevo fare...) -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Fabio Manunza Inviato: venerdì 10 ottobre 2003 17.32 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: R: [newbie-it] MySQL Problema avvio o installazione -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:42, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, carlo_canepa ha scritto: Purtroppo io non posso aiutarti, ma ho un problema simile, magari chi può aiutare te può aiutare anche me. E' due giorni che sto tentando di installare e avviare mysql su una mandrake linux, e nonostante abbia seguito dritte e consigli a destra e sinistra(manuali compresi), non riesco a farlo. Procedo così: decomprimo il sorgente con tar xfvz mysql[version].tar.gz; controllo che il gruppo myql e utente mysql siano presenti con groupadd mysql e useradd -g mysql mysq, su entrambi i comandi la shell mi dice che sono presenti;entro nella directory creata e gli dò ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql;compilo con make; installo con make install. Sin qui sembra tutto regolare. Poi cerco di avviare il server con /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql veramente il comando dovrebbe essere mysqld_safe; errore di stumpa? - -- - - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/htD/VF8uFQvRMPQRAqpUAJ9CcGOzwxOK9uu6iEPsC1us26udOQCcDC9M drv1Sg62ZqqjJMqCcVkjS80= =WOGU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione scheda TV
Alle 10:12, venerdì 10 ottobre 2003, enrico.alletto ha scritto: Sono riuscito ad avviare Mandrake 9.1 usando l'impostazione VESA standard,tutto ok !!! Quando sono andato nel centro di controllo di Mandrake pero, mi sono accordo che il riconoscimento della scheda TV non la rileva. Io ho una ATI WONDER 128 PRO 32MB, con cui posso acquisire video analogici, riversarli su VHS e guardare la TV. La mia domanda è: posso fare lo stesso con Mandrake? E se si, qualcuno sà darmi una mano a configurare il tutto? Grazie In questo caso devi procurarti i driver giusti per la tua scheda, ovviamente se sono stati sviluppati (o dalla casa produttrice o dalla comunità). Le funzioni che chiedi sono, infatti, legate strettamente all'hardware in oggetto. Vedi se trovi qualcosa sul sito dalla ATI. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux 2.40.21 on Pentium III 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048
Re: [newbie-it] modem conexant
On Friday 10 October 2003 17:09, Fabio Manunza wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:24, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, tom ha scritto: On Thursday 09 October 2003 17:16, Fabio Manunza wrote: Se sono quelli che permettono l'utilizzo del fax, mi faresti il favore di passarli anche a me? grazie. Ciao Fabio, non so se supportino il fax.non li ho mai provati,ma cmq se hai voglia di smanettarci su,te li passo... celo, come si diceva per la figu di Facchetti... Ma grazie lo stesso. P.S. Uno di questi giorni, vedo di farmi risentire...tenete pronto il truogolo;-) ti si aspetta!! e ti sei perso una magnata memorabile dal bulleri!! che aspetti? su,vieni e spara qualche cazzata anche tu ;P -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Teorema di Stockmayer: Se sembra facile, e' dura. Se sembra difficile, e' fottutamente impossibile Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
Re: [newbie-it] unusual_devs
Il ven, 2003-10-10 alle 04:23, alfredo ha scritto: domanda: perchè nella MDK 9.1 (Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk)che ho installato non riesco a trovare il file: unusual_devs.h? ho omesso qualcosa io? lo si può vedere solo se si è root? Devi installare kernel-sources, probabilmente... /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h -- Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] unusual_devs
mi rispondo da solo: fesso non hai installato i sorgenti del kernel. alfredo wrote: domanda: perchè nella MDK 9.1 (Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk)che ho installato non riesco a trovare il file: unusual_devs.h? ho omesso qualcosa io? lo si può vedere solo se si è root? mah Alfredo
[newbie-it] porte USB
Salve a tutti, il laptop Sony Vaio PCG FR105 ha tre porte USB, installando MDK 9.1 ne funziona solo una, con lspci -v ottengo 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8143 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 I/O ports at 1020 [size=32] Capabilities: available only to root 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8143 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at 1040 [size=32] Capabilities: available only to root 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8143 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at 1060 [size=32] Capabilities: available only to root latency è zero e manca IRQ per il secondo ed il terzo controller, infatti il log degli errori mi da spesso queste stringhe: localhost kernel: usb-uhci.c: found UHCI device with no IRQ assigned. check BIOS settings! localhost kernel: usb-uhci.c: found UHCI device with no IRQ assigned. check BIOS settings! localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110) localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110) Ho provato a checkare il setting del BIOS, ma di settare gli IRQ manco a parlarne. Come posso fare? E' disarmate Linux mi viene meno proprio nelle cuciture.. grazie Alfredo
[newbie] avi re-code
I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I should use? thanks raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi re-code
I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I should use? i heard from mencoder, but i didnt use it yet. my fav is virtualdub, but it runs with windows... :/ you can run it with wine, its no problem. but first of all you have to install a divx codec and mp3 codec or somethin' with wine on a windows-fake. there are lots of tutorials out there, if you dont fin some, tell me ;) remo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[4]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 22:43, rikona wrote: Hello Aron, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 2:42:17 PM, you wrote: True. Suppose there is nothing at all on the MB except an encrypted flash that responds only to the M$ key? That would sure 'protect us' now, wouldn't it? :-((( What could we do? AS Reprogram the flash (1) How would you reprogram if reprogramming required the M$ key? (2) Even if you did, you have broken an encrypted object, and would be subject to Draconian penalties, which I'm sure M$ would pursue diligently with their legal army. Sounds risky, unless I'm missing something. Ok just replace the flash -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:50:44 + Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files? You can try a script I made (mp3conv.sh attached). It's a simple bash script, which produces an ogg file at quality 4 of the mp3... I use it all the time. It does however expect you to have all tage filled it, else they get inserted as blanks into the ogg, and in the comment tag it tells you the origional bitrate of the mp3 file (provioding it's not variable bitrate). Normally speaking I only convert mp3's from around 192kb/s to ogg quality 4 (around 128kb/s), and the quality isn't noticiable, regardless to popular beliefs. I does it too on_the_fly to save space. Just open the script, and edit this part: mp3info=/usr/bin/mp3info# Full path to mp3info mpg123=/usr/bin/mpg123 # Full path t0 mpg123 (Can also be mpg321) QUALITY=4 # 1-10 (4=100-128kb/s) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux mp3conv.sh Description: Bourne shell script pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] avi re-code
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:25:29 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I should use? thanks raffaele Mencoder (from MPlayer) .. but it takes quite a bit of reading to know what you are doing ... check the docs from MPlayer, as reencoding is discussed somewhere in there ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] install from floppy?
On Friday 10 October 2003 05:55, Scott wrote: I want to install mandrake, or some version of linux on an old PC that has a 500 MB hard drive (currently with windows 98), no network connection, and no option in the BIOS to enable booting from the cdrom drive. I want to be able to run at least Apache-Mysql-Php and word processing. Any suggestions on the best way to go about this? if you do have floppy CD drive you can make boot a floppy, it's explained on the CD (doc/ usually). Otherwise: Easiest way: Pull out the hard drive, stick it in a pc that will boot from CD-ROM...install and put it back and start configuring. If the target PC isn't a Pentium and the temporary on is, you'll have some kernel recompiling to do though..anyway, if the specs get that low: there are other distro's that would better meet the needs. Other option: Use/install Slackware using a pile of floppies; the greater part of the distro is still nicely split up in packages that fit on a floppy...you'll need a big pile of floppies, perseverance, patience and lot's of luck though. If it does have a CD_ROM drive and no floppy-drive install/copy loadlin to DOS and modify that to boot your Mdk install CD. It's fairly simple. Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9.1 on notebook
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:10:34 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Just installed Mdk9.1 on a HP Pavilion ZE4430US notebook (mainly because of ACPI and ATI Radeon support). Spec follows below. I have a HP pavilion ze4268 notbook, and I'll tell you this: You say Mandrake has radeon support? In what way, 2D? 3D is only supported in the 2.6 kernel with the cvs version of XFree. If it's 2D you are after, then it's just using the vesa driver, as this works well, providing you don't try glxgears which shows a lousy 230fps rate. The installation was smooth. Congratulations! However, the boot was unsuccessful. I've disabled pcmcia once it freezes the system. Switch off/on then systems freezes again. I have chosen also failsafe and nonfsb modes, but was unlucky also. Chech yor /etc/lilo.conf .. the chances are that there is an command option in there somewhere which is blocking your config, like noacpi in the lilo options. Remove this, as it's hanging your system, considering if you can actually start at all. The setup during installation included the use of acpi and grub to dual boot XP. Below follows the hardware spec. processor:Mobile AMD___ Athlon___ XP-M Processor 2400+ (1.8GHz) with PowerNow!___ Technology os: Microsoft® Window® XP Home Edition Microsoft® memory: 512MB DDR SDRAM (2 x 256MB) at 266MHz; hard drive: 40GB enhanced-IDE multimedia: DVD+CD-RW Combo display: 15.0 XGA TFT (1024 x 768) display communication Integrated 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector), Integrated 54g wireless LAN video:ATI MOBILITY___RADEON___; 4X AGP and 3D architecture sound:16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio; Altec Lansing internal speakers Sounds exactly like mine. I have Gentoo running on my laptop now, as it gave me an extra 60 minutes of battery life (I shit you not). Acpi works, but acpid does nothing for me. Take a look at the site I created for my laptop (also to remind me what I did the first time if I ever reinstall *ggg*): http://pavilion.axljab.homelinux.org/ I hope some of this helps at least ... else on my site you will find links to linux-laptop sites too. Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] grepping root?
Eric Huff wrote: i have this one for a desktop http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/rootme.jpg; Hey, nice penguin! H, yes, nice pengy tattoo - might get one of those...treat myself at Christmas maybe... Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:07:18 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:50:44 + Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files? You can try a script I made (mp3conv.sh attached). It's a simple bash script, which produces an ogg file at quality 4 of the mp3... I use it all the time. It does however expect you to have all tage filled it, else they get inserted as blanks into the ogg, and in the comment tag it tells you the origional bitrate of the mp3 file (provioding it's not variable bitrate). Normally speaking I only convert mp3's from around 192kb/s to ogg quality 4(around 128kb/s), and the quality isn't noticiable, regardless to popular beliefs. I does it too on_the_fly to save space. Just open the script, and edit this part: mp3info=/usr/bin/mp3info # Full path to mp3info mpg123=/usr/bin/mpg123# Full path t0 mpg123 (Can also be mpg321) QUALITY=4 # 1-10 (4=100-128kb/s) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux Try urpmi mp32ogg That will install a nice converter. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:32, julian wrote: [...snip] thanks for the explanations, Julian. picking up the process where the trouble starts: ./configure (this prepares for the actual build. It may fail if you don't have the particular software development packages that it needs installed. If this happens you need to install those packages and run ./configure again) Here's what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake-1.4... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ so now I need to go through and install each of those 5 lines with the word working in them? What about the gcc, cc and cl - are they programs I have to install too? And those last 2 lines make me wonder too: does Mandrake come with a C compiler already installed? I had a look in config.log but as far as I can see it only has some entries about LICQ, nothing about dia-0.91. Should I post it here? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] userdrake
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 12:57 am, John wrote: Thanks for the quick responses. Tried to find files but not successful. When using konsole as root I get the following response bash: /etc/ptmp: permission denied. I also used gui search in kde. Have only been using md for about 2 months. I may have a ''permission'' issue also. Thanks again for any help. john You got that mesage because you tried to execute the file. All you had to do was cd /etc (to change directory) ls pt* (to list all files beginning with pt) rm ptmp (To remove ptmp) But why not just do it all in a GUI? From your KMenuApplicationsFileToolsFileManager(SuperUserMode) Find the file you want to delete. Right click and select Delete. In Linux there are easy ways to do things and there are hard ways. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
- Original Message - From: Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:32, julian wrote: [...snip] thanks for the explanations, Julian. picking up the process where the trouble starts: ./configure (this prepares for the actual build. It may fail if you don't have the particular software development packages that it needs installed. If this happens you need to install those packages and run ./configure again) Here's what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake-1.4... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ so now I need to go through and install each of those 5 lines with the word working in them? What about the gcc, cc and cl - are they programs I have to install too? And those last 2 lines make me wonder too: does Mandrake come with a C compiler already installed? I had a look in config.log but as far as I can see it only has some entries about LICQ, nothing about dia-0.91. Should I post it here? gcc is a compiler needed to compile a program from scratch, as you are trying to do. just type 'urpmi gcc' as root and it should install most of the necessary stuff. note: it needs sources for the install files, and the easiest way to add sources is by following the instructions at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php oh, btw, if you added sources properly, you can try 'urpmi dia' and it'll prolly install a version of dia suitable for the mandrake you're using. hope this helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi re-code
thanks to all, I'm into some studying now! raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:25:29 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I should use? thanks raffaele Mencoder (from MPlayer) .. but it takes quite a bit of reading to know what you are doing ... check the docs from MPlayer, as reencoding is discussed somewhere in there ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:26:08 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try urpmi mp32ogg That will install a nice converter. Lee The exact same reason I wrote this script .. I don't like that converter ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:35, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Merlin If you want to install dia just Open your Mandrake Control CentreSoftwareManagementSoftware Install and type dia in the search box . You will find it is already on your CDs Hi Derek, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don't find it in there: there are only three results that come up: DansGuardian, diald and kdemultimedia-devel. I also tried searching directly on the CDs using find files and came up empty. I have Mandrake 9.0 - perhaps you have a later version? [...snip] While it is fun and a great learning experience to compile your own code, it is not actually necessary nowdays. There are a gazillion precompiled packages for Mandrake easily available. Quite a lot of them are on your CDs. What I'm looking for is something that will let me make simple drawings of boxes [and basic shapes] with text in them, and lines and arrows going from the boxes to other boxes. Like: source --- preamp --- EQ --- line mixer +--- out 1 | +--- out 2 etc. Can anyone offer any suggestions? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but There is a prebuilt package for dia in the Mandrake distribution. Just use rpmdrake or urpmi from the command line to install it. # urpmi dia installing /mnt/dist/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/dia-0.90-5mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...## 1:dia## I tried that, but it just hangs. ctrl-z, ctrl-c, q, exit, nothing seems to bring it back to life. I have to shut down the terminal window and log back in again. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install from floppy?
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:55, Scott wrote: I want to install mandrake, or some version of linux on an old PC that has a 500 MB hard drive (currently with windows 98), no network connection, and no option in the BIOS to enable booting from the cdrom drive. I want to be able to run at least Apache-Mysql-Php and word processing. Any suggestions on the best way to go about this? Make the boot floppy disk. On the first CD is a directory called images and you use the cdrom.img file. Go into the this directory and use the following command in linux: # dd if=cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0 For further info see the file on the first CD called install.htm. It also explains how to make the boot disk from Windows or DOS. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 9:12 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:35, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Merlin If you want to install dia just Open your Mandrake Control CentreSoftwareManagementSoftware Install and type dia in the search box . You will find it is already on your CDs Hi Derek, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don't find it in there: there are only three results that come up: DansGuardian, diald and kdemultimedia-devel. I also tried searching directly on the CDs using find files and came up empty. I have Mandrake 9.0 - perhaps you have a later version? Merlin dia-0.90-2mdk.rpm is on CD2 of Mandrake 9.0 (I just checked) So either you do not have the 2nd CD, or else your CD sources are screwed up in Rpmdrake. You could either just insert CD2 and install dia by clicking on the RPM with konqueror, or else you could reset your CD sources in Rpmdrake. To do that from Mandrake Control CentreSoftwareSoftware Source Manager select all the entries for your CDs and delete them. Close the GUI Insert CD1 into your CD drive (which I assume is /mnt/cdrom) Now open a terminal. Enter su to become root user urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom That will automatically insert all 3 CDs into the list of sources and you should then be able to use rpmdrake to install dia and lots of other applications. BTW: If you do not yet know how to copy/paste in Linux see here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=7 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi re-code
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 03:44, Raffaele Belardi wrote: thanks to all, I'm into some studying now! raffaele cinelerra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:25:29 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I should use? thanks raffaele Mencoder (from MPlayer) .. but it takes quite a bit of reading to know what you are doing ... check the docs from MPlayer, as reencoding is discussed somewhere in there ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 04:21, Merlin Zener wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but There is a prebuilt package for dia in the Mandrake distribution. Just use rpmdrake or urpmi from the command line to install it. # urpmi dia installing /mnt/dist/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/dia-0.90-5mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...## 1:dia## I tried that, but it just hangs. ctrl-z, ctrl-c, q, exit, nothing seems to bring it back to life. I have to shut down the terminal window and log back in again. wait 30 mins, and see if you don't have some further info on screen, and the problem will be gone, and the software installed -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Patenting of Software Code - MEP replies
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:50, Margot wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Apologies to the list for the Sturdy and ukipeast MEP posts - I hope there won't be any more! I don't know where they got the newbie mailing address from - can't see it anywhere on my posts to them. DougB Errr... didn't get them here Doug - are you sure they went to the newbie LIST, and didn't just end up in the newbie FOLDER on your own system, maybe following your filter rules? Glad to hear you're getting some replies from them though! Sigh of relief! I thought another six would be appearing :-) But how they got into the newbie Folder is a mystery. I could have sworn they were addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but in the Trash box they're not. On the other hand my filter rule looks for newbie in the subject line, but I can't find it in Patenting Software Code. It must be those magic mushrooms again! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User Drake
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 23:50, John wrote: I tried to add a new user to md 9.1 home computer. I used an upper case letter which md said I couldn't use. When I clicked ok on the notice, user drake locked up. I ending up rebooting. When trying to open user drake up after reboot, I get the message cannot lock user lib, file/etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist. Thanks for any help on this. john just delete /etc/ptmp and etc/gtmp and carry on. Irritating but of no significance, as far as I know from what people have reported on the list in the past. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
I suggest you model yours after mine, making the necessary adjustments. The syntax is not that hard to understand. Once you have updated your lilo.conf, post it here. Note, the append line will be completely different for you, so I suggest you skip these lines in your file. append=failsafe is required if you want to boot into failsafe, however. It works John !!! Thanx for everything and sorry for the duh questions... Flávio Henrique HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Oct 8 21:42:48 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Patenting of Software Code - MEP replies
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:50, Margot wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Apologies to the list for the Sturdy and ukipeast MEP posts - I hope there won't be any more! I don't know where they got the newbie mailing address from - can't see it anywhere on my posts to them. DougB Errr... didn't get them here Doug - are you sure they went to the newbie LIST, and didn't just end up in the newbie FOLDER on your own system, maybe following your filter rules? Glad to hear you're getting some replies from them though! Sigh of relief! I thought another six would be appearing :-) But how they got into the newbie Folder is a mystery. I could have sworn they were addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but in the Trash box they're not. On the other hand my filter rule looks for newbie in the subject line, but I can't find it in Patenting Software Code. It must be those magic mushrooms again! DougB How very confusing...what email prog are you using? Maybe it has some sort of built-in filter that checks the full message headers for threading, so if you used a newbie message to create your mail to the MEPs perhaps it is adding the replies back to the thread that they came from...that's all I can think of The magic mushroom season is short, but a friend of mine used to preserve them in brandy for out-of-season use! Not for the faint-hearted! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 20:30:53 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Don't forget Google itself. IIRC, their search engine is made up of large numbers of Linux clusters. Eeeexxxccceeellent... ;-) -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics. -- Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux
On 09 Oct 2003 19:20:52 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: the NSA, and spies everywhereG Dang, forgot about that one! Thanks! So I guess the NSA is a bunch of commie-Osama-lovin' terrorists too! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ I hate dying. -- Dave Johnson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux
another line in your list: Der Deutsche Bundestag (Parliament of Germany) http://www.golem.de/0203/18559.html http://www.bundestag.de/presse/presse/2002/pz_0202285.html Rgds ichael HaywireMac wrote: Just for the sake of debate, has someone come upon a list of companies that employ Linux desktops in the enterprise? I have done some Googling, but so far just come up with the usual stories about Ford going with Linux for server apps and such, but I'm looking for hardcore evidence of Linux distros making it into the enterprise desktop market. Thanks, and I will post anything I *do* find here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpm --rebuild querry
]# ls packagemdk.src.rpm ]# rpm --rebuild packagemdk.src.rpm /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb: No such file or directory So what is wrong ? Clearly the package is there. what's with this /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb message ? Am I missing some component ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:19:57 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb Hiya John, Install rpm-build ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Use the Shift Key, Go to Jail
SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD antipiracy technology, said Thursday that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's Shift key. http://www.msnbc.com/news/978433.asp Sounds like SunnComm should be suing MS, not the Princeton student. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ If you have to hate, hate gently. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D
--- Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, don't be misslead ... Blender is a very complex powerfull tool ... you wouldn't believe how powerfull. I wouldn't believe it either at first ... I thought it was just this free programm ... but as you learn more you'll be quite shocked. Really. I remember a discussion on the Blender mailing list about how people seem to take free stuff as not-so-good software ... while (at least in the case of blender) .. it is so great ... that if you packaged it seriously, not everything in one pack .. but separate stuff for say scripts, a tutorial cd all .. you could truthfully sell it for a high (and honest) value. Give it a serious try ... seriously ... when you've used all the tools it has once ... I'm quite sure you'll realize how strong it is (I know I NEVER knew of a lot of stuff it could do until I had done quite a lot of tutorials ... then also I remember one in which the author was saying exactly something like this ... something like the only animation tools on the topic of the tutorial that he knew were done as good as blender were in Maya and Softimage who got it right). in short ... Blender is worth a lot of dough ... and yet it's for free .. it's only weak spot that is worth noting were the radiosity rendering that was lacking .. but that is being patched right now from like 3 direction (export to povray, export to yafray (raytracer made especially for blender or something like that, and next version of blender) oh, and one more thing ... a lot of Blender artists find it usefull to couple the power of Blender with the modelling ease of Wings3d Ok, so I admit it, I know nothing about 3D modeling. However, it is an interest of mine that I've always wanted to explore. My doubts in Blender weren't that it was free, but rather the quality of the screen shots I was seeing - they appeared to be rather low quality. I was very impressed by the screenshots on Wings 3D. However if Im understanding this correctly, Wings is just the modeler and Blender is the actual component that renders the picture. Thus the actual quality of picture would come from the render component. I saw a few poeple on that forum say they were using Lightwave for renders. Tell me I'm missing something, that Blender can render images at least close to what Lightwave can do? Also, how does one integrate Wings into Blender and why isn't Wings in the Mandrake packages? TIA, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:19:57 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb Hiya John, Install rpm-build ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux D, so right , and obvious. Say, since when has rpm-build not been included in a standard initial OS install ? It never ocured to me it wouldn't automatically be installed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Use the Shift Key, Go to Jail
On Friday 10 October 2003 14:35, HaywireMac wrote: Sounds like SunnComm should be suing MS, not the Princeton student. They can sue anyone who publicly help others to bypass or crack copy protection!! Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry
On Friday 10 October 2003 16:01, John Richard Smith wrote: D, so right , and obvious. Say, since when has rpm-build not been included in a standard initial OS install ? It never ocured to me it wouldn't automatically be installed. John Since a certain distro stopped installing kernel sources and headers by default, too;) Even if you install all the devel- packages. Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Use the Shift Key, Go to Jail
--- Original Message --- From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Use the Shift Key, Go to Jail On Friday 10 October 2003 15:14, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:02:17 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: They can sue anyone who publicly help others to bypass or crack copy protection!! The instructions for how to disable the driver in question, or any other driver for that matter, are contained in the Windows Help files. Doesn't that mean MS is in violation of the DMCA? LOL! Probably not! Using the shift to bypass copyright protection (or drivers) is in fact not a crime. Propagating it for that use is. Just call it something else and everything's fine...brings back the days when electric dildo's were offered in mags as neck massage devices;) so many necks, so little time Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:01:00 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D, so right , and obvious. I would also offer a safety suggestion. Created an rpm build environment in /home/you so that it is not necessary to build/rebuild rpms as root. When you do so as root you are letting who knows what type of binaries run unchecked on your system. Do it often enough and 1 Will end up biting you. See http://www.mandrakelinux.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/preliminary.html#AEN107 for info on creating the build environment. Charles Actually I did, mine is in /pk , only I didn't want to confuse the issue. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 10 October 2003 16:01, John Richard Smith wrote: D, so right , and obvious. Say, since when has rpm-build not been included in a standard initial OS install ? It never ocured to me it wouldn't automatically be installed. John Since a certain distro stopped installing kernel sources and headers by default, too;) Even if you install all the devel- packages. Good luck, HarM Is this because of urpmi ? because some of us reply upon the rpm and it's derivatives. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Checking what version of kernel
I know this is probably a stupid question, and just a matter of typing a command at in the shell. Here goes any way. How do I check what version my kernel is? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:08:01 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since a certain distro stopped installing kernel sources and headers by default, too;) Even if you install all the devel- packages. Ummm, come again, by default it installs no kernel headers? It's like vital to have those always though, if you ever want to build anything that is. The source I know, but that's an issue I understand, but not he headers. Are you sure about this.. that kernel headers aren't installed (/me is too lazy to do a complete reinstall to see *ggg*)? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux But you still get kernel S+H on your discs , yes/no , but not automatically installed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:37:46 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Joe, don't know if you filter html mail er, ya, I do, but you ain't sendin' it...? so here is one not listed that I find interesting. The Ernie Ball company, they make guitar strings and switch to linux servers and workstations after settling a MS audit for $40,000. Made the CEO mad and he told his IT team he wanted all MS stuff off their system in 6 months or less. Now he is a happy camper. Added to the list of known terrorists, thanks! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D
Tango Echo wrote: Ok, so I admit it, I know nothing about 3D modeling. However, it is an interest of mine that I've always wanted to explore. My doubts in Blender weren't that it was free, but rather the quality of the screen shots I was seeing - they appeared to be rather low quality. you might not find them as obviously .. but there are quite a lot of really AWESOME rednerings done with Blender ... however you'll have to find them on your own .. I've gathered quite a couple of them on my hdd .. but that doesn't help much, does it ? :) Many of them were picked up from finished projects on www.elysiun.com ... and prize winner galleries ... and stuff... I was very impressed by the screenshots on Wings 3D. However if Im understanding this correctly, Wings is just the modeler and Blender is the actual component that renders the picture. Thus the actual quality of picture would come from the render component. I saw a few poeple on that forum say they were using Lightwave for renders. Tell me I'm missing something, that Blender can render images at least close to what Lightwave can do? well, I'm not particularly familiar with the rendering capabilities of Lightwave to be able to say ... but I should tell you something: as you find out more about 3d artwork and working with it you'll discouver that there's quite a couple of things that make out a good 3d program, maybe the mosti important layers of these being: modelling, animation, texturing, workflow rendering. Now this last one is not not Blender's strongest point (though you can do tricks and in more complicated ways get good results) ... a hole which is now filled in by raytracers such as Yafray which Blender can export to via scripts. So, in short: with knowledge you can probably render awesome stuff in Blender too .. even on it's own .. but many use external renderers at this time (though things are expected to change). Also, how does one integrate Wings into Blender and why isn't Wings in the Mandrake packages? you can export/convert from wings to blender ... and as for the second ... I don't know ... I guess they're waiting for it to gain more ground. Btw, there are many cool softwares which aren't in Mandrake right away from install .. try stuff ... eg. one promissing tool you might find is K3D ... and also maybe Moonlight. greets, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[6]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 07:16, rikona wrote: Hello Aron, Friday, October 10, 2003, 12:05:47 AM, you wrote: (1) How would you reprogram if reprogramming required the M$ key? (2) Even if you did, you have broken an encrypted object, and would be subject to Draconian penalties, which I'm sure M$ would pursue diligently with their legal army. Sounds risky, unless I'm missing something. AS Ok just replace the flash (1) The only flash that will work on this board is the one that requires the M$ key. Replacing it does not get you anywhere. (2) Likely to be a proprietary chip and hard to get. (3) With modern board construction, might be quite difficult to replace. This one's a killer. Watch out. You mean that the board has an encrypted flash protecting the encrypted flash. :-0 There is a Linux BIOS out there http://www.linuxbios.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D
Anarky wrote: well, I'm not particularly familiar with the rendering capabilities of Lightwave to be able to say ... but I should tell you something: as you find out more about 3d artwork and working with it you'll discouver that there's quite a couple of things that make out a good 3d program, maybe the mosti important layers of these being: modelling, animation, texturing, workflow rendering. Could you kindly define for this rank newbie 3d modeler, what each of the 5 subject headings mean. Modelling, I guess making a 3d outline. Animation, speaks for itself. Texturing , I suppose this is about colouring in the 3d outline ? Workflow, ? rendering , ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] scsi emulation and CD sources
I've recently added scsi emulation for my ATAPI CDROM, would this be the reason I see, unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium for all CDs when I try urpmi?... and if so where do I change the path to scd1 for the sources? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Procmail error msg HELP!
Hi, there! For some periods, not always, I do get this kind of msg below... And I DO lose some important mails on that! ;-( How cain I fix that! Using ,mdk9.1 + postfix + procmail + kmail (spamassassim somwhere in between!) TIA! Ricardo Castanho = reporting-MTA: dns; home.english-quest.com.br Arrival-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:01:17 -0400 (EDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command time limit exceeded: IFS=' ' /usr/bin/procmail -f || exit 75 #ricardo. Command output: procmail: Missing name = -- == Linux user # 102240 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] user = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == AntiVir for UNIX Copyright (C) 1994-2002 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. All rights reserved. For more information see http://www.antivir.de/ or http://www.hbedv.com/ Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:20:00 -0300 13:20:00 up 17:09, 3 users, load average: 1.25, 1.31, 1.28 Kill Ugly Radio - Frank Zappa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:41:12 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I did, mine is in /pk , I was going by the # rpm --rebuild so ass u me d that you were doing it as root. Charles -- Depart in pieces, i.e., split. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-10.tmb.4mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Checking what version of kernel
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:49:07 -0400 Clevenger, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I check what version my kernel $ uname -a will tell you the current running kernel. Charles -- Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a near miss? Shouldn't it be called a near hit? -- Why Why Why n°43 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-10.tmb.4mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Use the Shift Key, Go to Jail
HaywireMac wrote: SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD antipiracy technology, said Thursday that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's Shift key. http://www.msnbc.com/news/978433.asp Sounds like SunnComm should be suing MS, not the Princeton student. Actually, I think its more like the shareholders should be suing or at least moving to oust the management of SunnComm for doing such a lousy job at copy-protection. Its just plain lazy and completely stupid. What's worse is that I read the previous article on that, and it talked about Macrovision having something similar that uses only Windows Media Format. When Microsoft collapses under its own weight, (which I see happening sooner or later if things continue going the way their headed) they'll go down with them. Then again maybe that's a good thing. Just my two cents worth. Tom Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[8]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
Hello Aron, Friday, October 10, 2003, 9:13:18 AM, you wrote: AS You mean that the board has an encrypted flash protecting the encrypted AS flash. :-0 Sort of like that, yes. No key, no flash, no bios. AS There is a Linux BIOS out there http://www.linuxbios.org/ Remember, the board has nothing, not even the HW initialization needed to activate the linux bios. How will you get the HW initialization on that board? If they want to really protect the board, M$ would disable, in HW, certain conduits on the board, and these would be activated only by the M$ bios. So - even if you use a plug-in board to provide the bios, the main board will still not work. They can make this REALLY difficult, if they want to. It's the 'final solution' Herr Bill might use to stamp out linux, with a 'cover story' of making users more secure. Fits the M$ mentality just fine. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking what version of kernel
Clevenger, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I check what version my kernel is? Thanks. uname -r is one way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scsi emulation and CD sources
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 5:21 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: I've recently added scsi emulation for my ATAPI CDROM, would this be the reason I see, unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium for all CDs when I try urpmi?... and if so where do I change the path to scd1 for the sources? Thanks You need to edit the line in /etc/fstab for your cdrom device Replace the /dev/hdc (or whatever) with /dev/scd0 (or whatever) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scsi emulation and CD sources
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:15:27 +0100 DJ wrote: |On Friday 10 Oct 2003 5:21 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: | I've recently added scsi emulation for my ATAPI CDROM, would this be |the reason I see, unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium |for all CDs when I try urpmi?... and if so where do I change the path |to scd1 for the sources? | Thanks | |You need to edit the line in /etc/fstab for your cdrom device |Replace the /dev/hdc (or whatever) with /dev/scd0 (or whatever) | |derek Thanks Derek. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Time servers
How can i schedule my machine to automatically syncronise with a time server over the internet? The machine looses about an hour a day. And would like it to update every hour. Thanks -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Time servers
On Friday 10 October 2003 08:38 pm, Tsyko wrote: How can i schedule my machine to automatically syncronise with a time server over the internet? The machine looses about an hour a day. And would like it to update every hour. I run this script once every twenty-four hours with cron, although you could do it more often if you are losing time. #!/bin/bash # This script is used to update the system time # Enter the fully qualified domain name of the ntp # timeserver you want to use #TIMESERVER=ntp.someserver.edu TIMESERVER=ntp0.cornell.edu # Change nothing below this line rdate -s -p $TIMESERVER -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Time servers
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 6:50 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 10 October 2003 08:38 pm, Tsyko wrote: How can i schedule my machine to automatically syncronise with a time server over the internet? The machine looses about an hour a day. And would like it to update every hour. I run this script once every twenty-four hours with cron, although you could do it more often if you are losing time. #!/bin/bash # This script is used to update the system time # Enter the fully qualified domain name of the ntp # timeserver you want to use #TIMESERVER=ntp.someserver.edu TIMESERVER=ntp0.cornell.edu # Change nothing below this line rdate -s -p $TIMESERVER If there is a big difference in the time it would be better to run it as a service. Doing so alters the clock rate gradually to bring it into line with the server. By running a batch file you get a big jump whenever it runs, which can confuse apps that depend on file modification times. The ntp how-to will tell you how to do it. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/ntp.html You will probably find that your isp runs an ntp server for your use, probably ntp.your.isp, and if it's anything like mine, it wont be in the public lists or mentioned in their setup guides. So try it or ask them. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Time servers
On Saturday 11 Oct 2003 1:38 am, Tsyko wrote: How can i schedule my machine to automatically syncronise with a time server over the internet? The machine looses about an hour a day. And would like it to update every hour. Thanks You mean your computer loses time? This will help you. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=1 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spamassassin Configuration
Anyone have some tips on this? It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other distros that place the configuration files in /home/~/.spamassassin, which I don't have--should I?: rewrite_subject 1 defang_mime 1 required_hits 5 spam_level_stars 3 subject_tag ***SPAM*** auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666 I assume that I can just add @validaddress.com to my whitelist in /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist to prevent filtering of known groups that I belong to (@mandrake-linux.com for example). Can I blacklist by adding a line to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf auto_blacklist @badaddress.com or should I make a /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-blacklist flolder and can I get it to work by adding a path to the /local.cf? I'm a little unclear about the Spam folder in kmail. I created a filter Move to Spam Folder with the criteria IX-Spam-Flag: YES--am I correct? Any other files that need editing to make spamassassin work? I use Kmail, btw. thanks in advance, e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Configuration
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 6:04 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: Anyone have some tips on this? It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other distros that place the configuration files in /home/~/.spamassassin, which I don't have--should I?: rewrite_subject 1 defang_mime 1 required_hits 5 spam_level_stars 3 subject_tag ***SPAM*** auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666 I assume that I can just add @validaddress.com to my whitelist in /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist to prevent filtering of known groups that I belong to (@mandrake-linux.com for example). Can I blacklist by adding a line to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf auto_blacklist @badaddress.com or should I make a /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-blacklist flolder and can I get it to work by adding a path to the /local.cf? I'm a little unclear about the Spam folder in kmail. I created a filter Move to Spam Folder with the criteria IX-Spam-Flag: YES--am I correct? Any other files that need editing to make spamassassin work? I use Kmail, btw. thanks in advance, e This may help you http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=15 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[8]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 10:27, rikona wrote: Hello Aron, Friday, October 10, 2003, 9:13:18 AM, you wrote: AS You mean that the board has an encrypted flash protecting the encrypted AS flash. :-0 Sort of like that, yes. No key, no flash, no bios. AS There is a Linux BIOS out there http://www.linuxbios.org/ Remember, the board has nothing, not even the HW initialization needed to activate the linux bios. How will you get the HW initialization on that board? If they want to really protect the board, M$ would disable, in HW, certain conduits on the board, and these would be activated only by the M$ bios. So - even if you use a plug-in board to provide the bios, the main board will still not work. They can make this REALLY difficult, if they want to. It's the 'final solution' Herr Bill might use to stamp out linux, with a 'cover story' of making users more secure. Fits the M$ mentality just fine. True but board designs are easy to come by given you scerenaro I would expect a lively black market in boards that let younput in your on bios On my first box (Altair 8080) you had to load a 512 byte program (in hex by hand), which gave Dumbo enough smarts to read the paper tape Then you could load a program. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] user drake
Thanks again for the quick responses and help. User drake is up again after deleting the ptmp and gtmp files. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Configuration
On Friday 10 October 2003 01:04 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: Anyone have some tips on this? It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other distros that place the configuration files in /home/~/.spamassassin, which I don't have--should I?: You should and probably do. However the files are in ~/.spamassassin, the ~ character refers to the user's home directory, which is usually /home/user and the .spamassassin directory is there. rewrite_subject 1 defang_mime 1 required_hits 5 spam_level_stars 3 subject_tag ***SPAM*** auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666 I assume that I can just add @validaddress.com to my whitelist in /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist to prevent filtering of known groups that I belong to (@mandrake-linux.com for example). This is one way, although I would recommend using the whitelist_from_rcvd which is much more specific, you need to specify the from as well as the domain separately and this parameter matches the From address with the domain in the received header to make sure it is the same. That means that a spammer can't just spoof the from address, he would also need to spoof the received header as well. Another way to do this, which is actually the way that I do it, is to filter known whitelist persons with procmail directly before it gets to spamassassin. That way, you don't waste time processing messages that you know that you want to receive. Speeds up mail delivery,saves resources, and is generally more efficient. There is not much use in letting spamassassin do its various tests and attach a score if you know in advance that your whitelist parameter will cause the score to be so low that it will never flag it as spam. Can I blacklist by adding a line to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf auto_blacklist @badaddress.com or should I make a /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-blacklist flolder and can I get it to work by adding a path to the /local.cf? I don't think that Spamassassin supports auto blacklist. It wouldn't do you much good anyway, most spammers will constantly change their From header so any such attempts would be pretty much fruitless. I'm a little unclear about the Spam folder in kmail. I created a filter Move to Spam Folder with the criteria IX-Spam-Flag: YES--am I correct? If you want to keep flagged mail somewhere until you look at it, however I think that the criteria is X-Spam-Flag contains YES What you might consider doing is setting the spam level fairly high in the local.cf, I set mine at 8. Then use a procmail filter to catch everything that is flagged at that level and move it to /dev/null or a separate mail spool. In Kmail, simply create a second filter that so: X-Spam-Level contains and move it to your spam folder. Now, any mail that is flagged at 8 or more by spamassassin gets discarded without looking and any mail that is questionable, between 4 and 8, goes into your spam folder for checking before being discarded. This works very, very well for me and I see almost no spam at all anymore but still get to report the ones that slip past the level 8 to providers simply by forwarding the messages in my spam folder in Kmail. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [mandrake] Best software roundup
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Re[10]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
Hello Aron, Friday, October 10, 2003, 2:20:56 PM, you wrote: It's the 'final solution' Herr Bill might use to stamp out linux, with a 'cover story' of making users more secure. Fits the M$ mentality just fine. AS True but board designs are easy to come by given you scerenaro I would AS expect a lively black market in boards that let younput in your on bios Now you're talkin'. With luck, China will come to our rescue. :-) Especially if they go linux. Might even get linux-tailored boards. We'd still have the authentication problems, though. :-(( Authentication will be our downfall. AS On my first box (Altair 8080) you had to load a 512 byte program (in hex AS by hand), which gave Dumbo enough smarts to read the paper tape Then you AS could load a program. I remember. Was that tape Bill's Basic, perchance? :-) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
On Saturday 11 October 2003 00:12, rikona wrote: Now you're talkin'. With luck, China will come to our rescue. :-) Don't bet on it..though the Chinese government doesn't want to play ball with Bill, the people do. If they get (half) the chance they'll use of a pirated copy of M$ any-day, instead of Linux. It's what made M$ big; the ease which which it can be copied/cracked. Every un-affordable program (read Delphi/kylix, in my case) can be bought there for next to nothing on most market places. Why would they want to go linux.M$ or USA can't touch them (yet)!! Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Genius Wireless Mouse and Keyboard
Does anyone know how to get a genius wireless keyboard and mouse that are on 1 usb port to work in mandrake 9.1 and lilo Kyle Hartigan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.524 / Virus Database: 321 - Release Date: 6/10/2003
Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux
On Friday 10 October 2003 06:26 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:37:46 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Joe, don't know if you filter html mail er, ya, I do, but you ain't sendin' it...? so here is one not listed that I find interesting. The Ernie Ball company, they make guitar strings and switch to linux servers and workstations after settling a MS audit for $40,000. Made the CEO mad and he told his IT team he wanted all MS stuff off their system in 6 months or less. Now he is a happy camper. Added to the list of known terrorists, thanks! Incomplete sentence above, should have said cause I sent this info from work on a MS 2000 machine and can not get it to send plain text, so I am resending from my linux boxen at home.Just a bit of clarification there. cheers, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[10]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 15:12, rikona wrote: Hello Aron, Friday, October 10, 2003, 2:20:56 PM, you wrote: It's the 'final solution' Herr Bill might use to stamp out linux, with a 'cover story' of making users more secure. Fits the M$ mentality just fine. AS True but board designs are easy to come by given you scerenaro I would AS expect a lively black market in boards that let younput in your on bios Now you're talkin'. With luck, China will come to our rescue. :-) Especially if they go linux. Might even get linux-tailored boards. We'd still have the authentication problems, though. :-(( Authentication will be our downfall. AS On my first box (Altair 8080) you had to load a 512 byte program (in hex AS by hand), which gave Dumbo enough smarts to read the paper tape Then you AS could load a program. I remember. Was that tape Bill's Basic, perchance? :-) Tom Pitmans Ity Bity Basic 4K total Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?
I don't think so... http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryBusiness/cs.cs-10-10-0051.html Steve Mazil -- ___ Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[12]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
Hello Aron, Friday, October 10, 2003, 4:15:06 PM, you wrote: AS On my first box (Altair 8080) you had to load a 512 byte program (in hex AS by hand), which gave Dumbo enough smarts to read the paper tape Then you AS could load a program. I remember. Was that tape Bill's Basic, perchance? :-) AS Tom Pitmans Ity Bity Basic 4K total You have a long history of not supporting M$, I guess. :-) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
Hello H.J.Bathoorn, Friday, October 10, 2003, 3:31:23 PM, you wrote: HJB On Saturday 11 October 2003 00:12, rikona wrote: Now you're talkin'. With luck, China will come to our rescue. :-) HJB Don't bet on it..though the Chinese government doesn't want to play ball HJB with Bill, the people do. I was thinking about the 'official' use of linux. Someone would have to make boards if all the others are tied to Win. Someone there might see an opportunity to make some money selling them here as well as in China. You bring up a good point about the software share, though. If M$ goes through with hard-to-crack protection, though, that market will evaporate. With luck, linux will start to look a lot better there too. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking what version of kernel
On Friday 10 October 2003 11:49 am, Clevenger, Dave wrote: I know this is probably a stupid question, and just a matter of typing a command at in the shell. Here goes any way. How do I check what version my kernel is? Thanks. Ctr+Alt+ F1..6 At the top if you are not login will show the information. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:09:42 -0600 Steve Mazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I don't think so... http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryBusiness/cs.cs-10-10-0051.html Riggghhht. Word, BP just gave me the most killer link I ever did see on how MS plans to deal with security, check it: http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath This is why my site is no longer accessible to MSIE, and why I will be doing everything in my power to make the internet Windows-free. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The farther you go, the less you know. -- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Configuration
On Friday 10 October 2003 05:35 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 10 October 2003 01:04 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other distros that place the configuration files in /home/~/.spamassassin, which I don't have--should I?: You should and probably do. However the files are in ~/.spamassassin, the ~ character refers to the user's home directory, which is usually /home/user and the .spamassassin directory is there. h, somethings screwy then. I do not have a hidden spamassassin directory in my home directory. Shouldn't it be created automagically, with no intervention on my part? For installation, I did an urpmi spamassassin and it installed the program and dependencies without any errors. But, I can't call anything spamassassin from the command line (#spamassassin -a) for example. The window just sits there, until I close it. Mandrake CC says the daemon is running. And, Derek wrote: This may help you http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=15 Do I need a /home/mydirectory/.spamassassin/user_prefs directory, and can the /user_prefs be a copy of the /local.cnf? Why is the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cnf file where it is? Can I create a /home/myuserdirectory/.spamassassin/ manually and copy the local.cnf into that instead of a /user_prefs? And, since this is a Mandrake rpm for spamassassin, why wasn't the hidden directory in my home created by the rpm? Is this normal behavior for the Mandrake rpm, or have I screwed something up, somehow? Just where to put my spamassassin config files and what should be in them has me confused. And since the recommended call #spamassassin -a produces absolutely nothing on my installation I think something is messed up, but don't know what. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:05:49 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:09:42 -0600 Steve Mazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I don't think so... http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryBusiness/cs.cs-10-10-0051.html Riggghhht. Word, BP just gave me the most killer link I ever did see on how MS plans to deal with security, check it: http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath This is why my site is no longer accessible to MSIE, and why I will be doing everything in my power to make the internet Windows-free. Wow! that is one killer link, it's one that I'll be sending to everyone in my address book. Hopefully at least half of them will read it and make an attempt to change the os and/or software in their business. I've only read thru about 30% of it so far and my blood is already boiling. Steve Mazil -- ___ Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:48:30 -0600 Steve Mazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've only read thru about 30% of it so far and my blood is already boiling. Join the club. Fsck gun control, I'm buying a Benelli and going to Redmond... -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -- Euripides Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.
On Friday 10 October 2003 08:44 pm, rikona wrote: You have a long history of not supporting M$, I guess. :-) Ditto here - I started out with Atari computing in 1983, and was still using it to browse the 'Net in 93, running Mint (Mint Is Not TOS!) (minix clone) on an Atari Falcon 030, until I finally switched to Mandrake Linux v7.0 when Atari support finally got too low (its still around though). Nowhere did I ever submit (kneel!) to MS... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?
http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath This is why my site is no longer accessible to MSIE, and why I will be doing everything in my power to make the internet Windows-free. Wow! that is one killer link, it's one that I'll be sending to everyone in my address book. Hopefully at least half of them will read it and make an attempt to change the os and/or software in their business. I've only read thru about 30% of it so far and my blood is already boiling. Steve Mazil I agree!!! With Intel partnering with MS, I wonder if business will pick up for AMD? Or will be be buying our hardware on the black market from overseas suppliers? I hope more companies get fed up with the heavy handed tactics and bail out of MS products. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Use the Shift Key, Go to Jail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: [snip] so many necks, so little time badump-bump -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was: Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages, NOW: BIG Procmail problems
Well, I decided to make the mail system a little more orderly, and seem to have blundered into more trouble. I got the duplicate messages to stop by moving the cron job to get both user's emails to individual cron jobs run as each user, and a local $HOME .fetchmailrc, .procmailrc, .forward, etc. The trouble is, I have procmail sending forwarding my mail to the /home/user/mail mail directory, where it's supposed to put the mail into an mbox file, (Netscape default I believe) and it's downloading all my email into a big file that Netscape shows as a single email with a path for the subject, like this: /home/mark/mail/quarantine When I look at the structure of the old mbox file, and the procmail produced mbox file, I see that procmail has added some header information, but the From: tag is still there, so shouldn't it be properly handled by Netscape? The main issue I think is that I don't really understand how procmailrc files should work to update my mail files. Does anyone have a working .procmailrc, .forward files that use a standard Netscape/unix mbox format, so that I can copy it and hopefully get this thing working? I have to get this bit working prior to adding spamassassin and virus filtering for the other windows users on the network. Thanks for all the help so far, Mark Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2003 06:34 pm, Mark wrote: Ok, I'm running fetchmail --nokeep as a root cron hourly, and my /root/.fetchmailrc is as follows: poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user pass is mark here nokeep poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user pass is pauline here nokeep Try changing the lines to: poll mail.voyager.net with proto APOP user '' there with password '' is 'mark' here and etc. perhaps add a set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log at the beginning and then check the logfile after the cron job and then after running from the command line to see if you get a different set of results messages. You can also change the log mode to level 5 to get a complete history rather than just a summary. You can always remove the logfile if it helps you figure out what the problem is. If I log in as root, and just issue the command fetchmail, it gets and deletes messages. I copied the rc over to /etc/fetchmailrc, and it still does it. I am at a loss to explain this. My previous setup, a copy of MDK 6.0 running on nearly the same hardware, didn't do this. I download all messages for both email accounts to the server, then serve it via IMAP to several computers in the home. You may want to include the command you are using to run fetchmail from the cron job. It is possible that you need to specify the config file when run in that fashion, also that some path or other info is included in the shell script when you su to root but is NOT included when cron runs the job. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi re-code
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:25:29 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I should use? thanks raffaele Mencoder (from MPlayer) .. but it takes quite a bit of reading to know what you are doing ... check the docs from MPlayer, as reencoding is discussed somewhere in there ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux You can use gmencoder if you want a GUI front end to mencoder. It works well. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake Linux 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk Reiserfs and XFS | KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 00:50:01 up 11 days, 1:20, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.74, 0.71 --- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: The password you typed is invalid.Please try again. Update
mike wrote: Hello, I just tried to use userdrake from the kde configuration menu and it asked for root password I typed it in correctly and it gave me this message. The password you typed is invalid. Please try again. Same message with gnome-system-log other things like linuxconfig and mcc accept root password ok. kde3.1.4 texstar MDK 9.1 tried searching archives but doesn't seem to work--- Mike (In case someone runs across this problem) Problem was a PAM issue had to delete the pam service for userdrake and created a new one.All works well now. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
