Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP & modem

[Erylon Hines]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:01 pm, Linux wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:21:24 +1300

> some snippage...
>

> I've cranked up every setting in sight.  I think I'm going to have to
> accept that this modem doesn't like Linux and either live with it or get
> a new modem.
>
> Thanks for the comments.
>
> Adrian

Maybe you should try changing some settings in the modem string.  
Pick one that will slow your connection speed, and use it as a test.  I have a 
string ATW2&F+MS=V34B,1,0,33600, which uses the V34 protocol at 33600, even 
though I have a 56K V90 modem.   Without this particular set I get sighup 
every time with one of my modems.  I didn't notice a problem with it back 
when I used Windows.  Do a google search for "modem string" to see what some 
of your options may be. 


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[newbie] Got NTP installed, ntpd is running...

[JoeHill]

...and seemingly communicating with NTP servers (Stratum 2):

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joehill>$ntpdate time.chu.nrc.ca
25 Jan 00:29:57 ntpdate[10642]: adjust time server 209.87.233.53 offset 0.034102
sec

So, now what? Will my clock be set automagically, or is there something else
I need to do?

Followed this howto (google.ca/linux, I love you):

http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/ntp.htm

Seems I now have an NTP server running, but do I also need a client?

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Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

[jimdawson]

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 16:13, JoeHill wrote:
> "We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft
> 
> By Lesley Richardson, PA News
> 
> Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails obsolete in two years___
> time, sources confirmed tonight."
> 
> Link:
> 
> http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2448742

Sure. All we have to do is 'upgrade' to the MS-SMTP protocol that I'm
sure they are working on. I'm sure that it will be well supported
server-side on Windows Server 2003 (because I doubt that their next
generation server OS will be shipping by then...), and client-side on
Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express under Windows Longhorn (or whatever
they're calling it then.) If they're feeling generous they might even
support it on Outlook Express on Macintosh just to keep the antitrust
investigators at bay. And to keep those pesky open source programmers
from trying to port it, they'll apply for patents on it like they did
for the XML code in Office 2003.




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Re: [newbie] Interesting Article by Forbes

[shaz]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:39, David E. Fox wrote:

> What's more a crux of this issue ATM is the lawsuit by TiVo against
> other parties that make similar technology. From what I understand, they
> claim they "invented" the idea of playing a show and recording another
> at the same time -- which IMHO is just a steroid :) example of recording

ummmhow about good old VHS? record one channel, watch another?
or use 2 VCR's play movie on one, record tv show on another?

or before VHS ...BETA

how about we go to music toodouble deck tape recorder

record music on one tape, while playing from another...

Who invented all these???

Just my 2cents worth

Shaz

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Re: [newbie] java vm machine

[Shawn Protsman]

Bill,

Did you download the JRE or SDK from Sun's web site?  Either of these 
has the virtual machine.  Edit ".bash_profile" to add a path for Java:

 export PATH=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin:$PATH

Shawn

On Saturday, Jan 24, 2004, at 12:37 US/Central, Bill W. wrote:

Hi Everyone,
I am trying to install the Gallery Constructor on my 9.1 (with many 
upgrades)
laptop. I keep getting an error about not finding java vm in my path. 
I know
that I have java installed on the machine but I guess one question is 
... is
'virtual machine' included in the standard java install? Also, it's 
about
time I learn to how to 'put something in my path'.
Anyone have any success with this prog?
Looking for any pointers.

Thanks and regards,
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[newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

[Josh Peters]

Hi Everyone.
I'm installing mandrake 9.2 on an ibm pentium 2, 450, 256 ram.
It wouldn't boot from the cd, so I made a floppy.  I got a little further,
this error message:
syslinux 1.67 mandrake linux boot failed
I've tried using both disk 1 and 2 to boot from.
Anyone have any other tips?
BTW, I am very much a linux virgin, please excuse my idiocy.
Josh


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Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP & modem

[Linux]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:21:24 +1300
John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words:

some snippage...

> > Well, I might dare to say that after changing my /etc/ppp/options
> > file to what you have in yours it seems that I am staying connected
> > a bit longer, but still not for very long.  Also increased all the
> > wait times in KPPP.
> > 
> > What exactly does this line 'lcp-max-configure 45' do?  Can anyone
> > translate?
> 
> Take look at the pppd daemon manual page (type 'man pppd' in a
> terminal without the quotes) for the full description.

Actually I did read it, I just didn't understand it.  =)

> Cranking the value of ipc-max-configure beyond about 45 is probably a
> bit pointless - it's there to increase the time available for
> authentication with your ISP..

Ah, well that is a lot better of an explanation than the man page had. 
Yea, that isn't going to help me at all.

> > 
> > I tried setting it to 145 and it seemed to time out faster.  I'm
> > going to try different values & see what happens.  Also try the
> > google thingy.
> 
> Ok - looking back I see I mis-read the error message being returned -
> It's 16 not 19 - this means your own modem is hanging up before the
> connection is established.
> 
> As far as I can see there is nothing in the pppd options to control
> this time, but there is in the kppp setup.
> 
> Go to kppp -> Setup -> Device and increase the Modem Timeout value to
> it's maximum (which I think is 120 seconds), see if that helps any.
> 
> If that doesn't improve things your next option is to start fiddling
> with the S-registers of your modem. This is very modem specific and
> will depend on your particular modem AND whether you have the
> documentation for it's command set.

I don't even know what a S-register is, and I got no documentation for
the modem.  I emailed the company for a data sheet, but they are
ignoring me.

> I'm afraid that if you go this path you're pretty much on your own ...
> :-))
> 
> Try this out and see what happens. You might also be able, if you're
> ready adventurous, to increase the modem timeout value in kppprc if
> 120 seconds is still not enough - it's something I haven't tried - if
> I haven't connected within 2 minutes I tend to try again later on the
> assuption that the ISP's portals are overloaded.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
> 
I've cranked up every setting in sight.  I think I'm going to have to
accept that this modem doesn't like Linux and either live with it or get
a new modem.

Thanks for the comments.

Adrian


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[newbie] java vm machine

[Bill W.]

Hi Everyone,
I am trying to install the Gallery Constructor on my 9.1 (with many upgrades) 
laptop. I keep getting an error about not finding java vm in my path. I know 
that I have java installed on the machine but I guess one question is ... is 
'virtual machine' included in the standard java install? Also, it's about 
time I learn to how to 'put something in my path'. 
Anyone have any success with this prog?
Looking for any pointers.

Thanks and regards,
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Re: [newbie] Transcode

[anton]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mprime2212]# mprime -m
bash: mprime: command not found
Probably way off track, but would

# ./mprime -m

be the problem?
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Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

[Derek Jennings]

On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 12:22 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 11:40 pm, Lexx wrote:
> > >> X86 / 9.2
> > >> Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to
> > >> my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included.
SNIP
> OK That is the atmelwlandriver
> The good news for you is that it is already installed in your Mandrake 9.2.
>
> The bad news is the lvnet and xvnet utilities you need to set it up is not
> installed.
> The other bad news is that that driver is a bit of a dog IMO
>
> But the other good news is that there is another driver which is easier to
> set up and more reliable.
> I have a page on setting it up here
> http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/atmel_92.html
>
> If you have trouble getting it working it may be possible that that
> manufacturer of your device is not known to the driver. In which case
> install the usbview package, and run
> KMenu>Configuration>Hardware>Usbview
> and let me know the manufacturer and product codes
>
> derek

I took a look at the source code for the at76c503 driver and found that the 
CnetWUSB611   IS supported.

It should have manufacturer code 0x1371 and product code 0x5743

So you should be able to get it working using the info on my web page.

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Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:02:45 -0500
Dan Gordon disseminated the following:

> > http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2448742
> > 
> 
> ROFL, we all know the only way to stop spam is to shut down the
> Internet. I suppose next he will stop snail mail spam too lol. Man i
> even have three signs on my front door that says no soliciting but they
> still come. My next step is a bucket bin for solicitors, when they show
> up i hit a button and there gone heheh.

The *real* irony, and they miss it in the article, is that MS is *responsible*
for most of the spam anyway.

In the article:

"About 70% comes from virus-infected machines which install miniature mail and
web servers on home PCs belonging to innocent third parties."

H, what do you suppose the OS is on those "virus-infected machines"?

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Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

[David E. Fox]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:13:42 -0500
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> "We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft
>
 Mr Gates admitted spamming

Liked that line.



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[newbie] McBride: open-source software threatens the U.S. IT industry

[JoeHill]

"SCO earlier this month sent a letter to the 535 members of the U.S. House of
Representatives and Senate from company President and CEO Darl McBride, raising
concerns about open-source software and its General Public License (GPL), the
company confirmed on Wednesday."

The letter:

http://www.osaia.org/letters/sco_hill.pdf

Source:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1455153,00.asp

This guy is really nuts.

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Re: [newbie] Problem booting Mandrake 10 beta 1 (VIA SATA?)

[Greg Meyer]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:06 am, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> I'm having some problems getting Mandrake 10 beta 1 to work. The
> actual installation goes well, and booting *seems* to go well,
> until I get these error messages:
>
> ...
> Mounting root filesystem with flags
> mount: missing mount point
> ...
> Kernel panic: No init found. ...
>
> I have previously tried installing Mandrake 9.2, but the
> installation program didn't recognize my hard drive, presumably
> because my computer has a VIA SATA controller, which wasn't
> supported in 9.2.
>
> I suspect the VIA SATA *may* be the reason 10b1 doesn't work,
> even though the installation program works. If not, I have no
> idea what's causing this. :/
>
> Any ideas how I can fix this?

You are better off posting this message to cooker ML, since that is the place 
beta releases are discussed.
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Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

[Derek Jennings]

On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 11:40 pm, Lexx wrote:
> >> X86 / 9.2
> >> Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to
> >> my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included.
> >> I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed.
> >>
> >>
> >> I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder including this
> >> in text:
> >>
> >> "these files are glibc internal and may not match the currently
> >> running kernel. They should only be included via other system header
> >> files - user space"
> >> programs should not directly include or as well
> >>
> >> To build kernel modules please do the following."
> >>
> >> Driver readme can be supplied on request.
> >> The readme was written for Linux kernel 2.4.19-16mdk, Mandrake 9
> >
> > And the name of the driver is?
> >
> > derek
>
> CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter Linux Driver
> USB Driver Version 2.1.2.1
> X windows Application (xvnet) version 4.0.0.0
> command line utility (lvnet) version 1.0


OK That is the atmelwlandriver
The good news for you is that it is already installed in your Mandrake 9.2.

The bad news is the lvnet and xvnet utilities you need to set it up is not 
installed.
The other bad news is that that driver is a bit of a dog IMO

But the other good news is that there is another driver which is easier to set 
up and more reliable.
I have a page on setting it up here 
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/atmel_92.html

If you have trouble getting it working it may be possible that that 
manufacturer of your device is not known to the driver. In which case install 
the usbview package, and run
KMenu>Configuration>Hardware>Usbview
and let me know the manufacturer and product codes

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Re: [newbie] Transcode

[John Richard Smith]

Tom Brinkman wrote:

On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the
floppy job, which do you use ?
John
   

ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/mirrors/www.mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz
extract (it creates it's own dir) and run 'mprime-m'  choose 17)  on the menu.
 

Hmm, No core dump at least, that's pleasing, but,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /root/Desktop/mprime2212
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mprime2212]# ls
license.txt  mprime2212.tar.gz  readme.txt  whatsnew.txt
local.iniprime.ini  stress.txt  worktodo.ini
mprime*  prime.log  undoc.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mprime2212]# mprime -m
bash: mprime: command not found
Now that shouldn't happen , according to the readme,as you say Tom, 
mprime -m is the correct command. How odd. I think I'll sleep on it 
overnight, maybe someone can point where , if at all, I'm doing 
something wrong.

John

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Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

[Lexx]

>> X86 / 9.2
>> Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to
>> my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included.
>> I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed.
>> 
>> 
>> I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder including this
>> in text:
>> 
>> "these files are glibc internal and may not match the currently
>> running kernel. They should only be included via other system header
>> files - user space"
>> programs should not directly include or as well
>> 
>> To build kernel modules please do the following."
>> 
>> Driver readme can be supplied on request.
>> The readme was written for Linux kernel 2.4.19-16mdk, Mandrake 9
> 
> 
> And the name of the driver is?
> 
> derek

CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter Linux Driver  
USB Driver Version 2.1.2.1
X windows Application (xvnet) version 4.0.0.0   
command line utility (lvnet) version 1.0 



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Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

[Derek Jennings]

On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 10:27 pm, Lexx wrote:
> X86 / 9.2
> Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN.
> (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included.
> I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed.
>
>
> I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder including this in
> text:
>
> "these files are glibc internal and may not match the currently running
> kernel. They should only be included via other system header files - user
> space"
> programs should not directly include or as well
>
> To build kernel modules please do the following."
>
> Driver readme can be supplied on request.
> The readme was written for Linux kernel 2.4.19-16mdk, Mandrake 9
>
> Thanks in advance
> Lexx


And the name of the driver is?

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Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

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> what I need to know is how to transfer 
> this list of applications to the 'user' version of menudrake, so I can 
> add them to the user menu.

hey Margot,

if you start menudrake as user there is an option to "Use system administrator 
settings"
in the actions > change-style tab


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Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

[Dan Gordon]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:13:42 -0500
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> "We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft
> 
> By Lesley Richardson, PA News
> 
> Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails obsolete in
> two years___ time, sources confirmed tonight."
> 
> Link:
> 
> http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2448742
> 

ROFL, we all know the only way to stop spam is to shut down the
Internet. I suppose next he will stop snail mail spam too lol. Man i
even have three signs on my front door that says no soliciting but they
still come. My next step is a bucket bin for solicitors, when they show
up i hit a button and there gone heheh.

Regards,
Dan Gordon

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Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

[Margot]

Phil Savoie wrote:
On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:20, Margot wrote:

Some of the packages I've installed are not available on the user menu
in KDE. I know about the 'menu bug', and I've downloaded all the
necessary updates, but some things are still missing.
When I go into menudrake as root, the panel for Available Applications
contains all the missing packages. However, when I go into menudrake as
user, the Available Applications panel is empty.
I can call up the applications if I open a terminal, but I'd rather have
them on the user menu so I don't have to remember the commands! How do I
get these Available Applications moved over to the user menu rather than
just root? I've tried 'update-menus -v' as both root and user, but it
makes no difference.
Margot


> Hi Margot,
>
> What I have done in the past that works for me is in a terminal 
window, run
> menudrake.  Let it build/sort the menu then save it.
>
> Phil
>

Phil,

Thanks for the reply, but I've already tried menudrake both as root and 
as user. The items I want to add to the user menu only appear in the 
'root' version of menudrake - what I need to know is how to transfer 
this list of applications to the 'user' version of menudrake, so I can 
add them to the user menu.

Margot

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[newbie] Web server on 7.2 useing a p166

[JJ Greive]

I am a novice linux user, and I am running Mandrake
7.2 as  an Internet firewall and DHCP server. It is an
old Pentium 166.  Does anyone out there know if I can
also use this machine as a web server?  Anyone have a
recommendation as to what software I should be use? 
thanks for your tips in advance.
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Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

[Lanman]

ROFL !


Lanman

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>
>By Lesley Richardson, PA News
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>Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails
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>years___
>time, sources confirmed tonight."
>
>Link:
>
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Re: [newbie] Transcode

[David E. Fox]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:03:36 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the floppy
> job, which do you use ?

It looks to be the same one I use, pretty much, except it's newer
(mprime235.tar.gz). Shouldn't make too much a diff.

 
> John Richard Smith


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[newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

[Lexx]

X86 / 9.2
Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN.
(CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included.
I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed.


I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder including this in
text:

"these files are glibc internal and may not match the currently running
kernel. They should only be included via other system header files - user
space"
programs should not directly include or as well

To build kernel modules please do the following."

Driver readme can be supplied on request.
The readme was written for Linux kernel 2.4.19-16mdk, Mandrake 9

Thanks in advance
Lexx


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[newbie] Riiiiiight...

[JoeHill]

"We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft

By Lesley Richardson, PA News

Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails obsolete in two years___
time, sources confirmed tonight."

Link:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2448742

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Re: [newbie] Transcode

[Tom Brinkman]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the
> floppy job, which do you use ?
>
> John

ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/mirrors/www.mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz

 extract (it creates it's own dir) and run 'mprime-m'  choose 17)  
on the menu.
   
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Re: [newbie] Transcode

[Tom Brinkman]

On Friday 23 January 2004 09:44 pm, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 +
>
> John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump
> > immediately in the
> >
> > same directory as mprime.
>
> Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in,
> he's more knowledgeable about this than I am.
>
> > John

  memtest86 should be the first test, but its sort'a lite, 
will let a lot of hardware problem pass.  './mprime -m', and 
choose the torture test (17) is a better hardware and ram tester.  
BUT, keep in mind there is no such thing as a software ram test. 
All tests involve the whole system from the PSU on up.  cpuburn's 
module for the appropriate processor is the acid test (burnBX   
burnK6   burnK7   burnMMX  burnP5   burnP6).  Caution tho, you 
should already have confidence that your hardware is capable, and 
you need to monitor cpu and chipset temps while 'burn*' is 
running. It can damage oc'd, weak or marginal systems.

That said, if the system can't run 'mprime -m', 17 overnite, 
without stopping on hardware error, IMO the system hardware is 
not stable enough for Linux use.  If it can run cpuburn for an 
hour its bulletproof. Many Windoze boxes will fail cpuburn, 
specially ready mades (Dell, et al, and laptops). Shouldn't even 
try it.
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Re: [newbie] Woot! Gimp 2.0 RPM's for Mandrake!

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:28:33 +
LtCdData disseminated the following:

> where has the layers channels and paths menu moved to..

Kewl! Thanks for asking that question! Check out 'create new dock'...

Love it!

***btw, Mr. Data, please clear your 'reply-to' setting, at least for this
list.***

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Re: [newbie] OT - Web host query

[Warren Post]

El lun, 19-01-2004 a las 09:53, Todd Slater escribió:
> Can anybody recommend a reasonably priced Web hosting company? I'm
> having a hard time finding one that will let me install a not-so-common
> Apache module. Transfer and storage requirements are minimal.

I use and recommend Pair Networks . They are
reasonably priced and very supportive of Open Source.

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Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

[Phil Savoie]

Hi Margot,

What I have done in the past that works for me is in a terminal window, run 
menudrake.  Let it build/sort the menu then save it.

Phil

On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:20, Margot wrote:
> Some of the packages I've installed are not available on the user menu
> in KDE. I know about the 'menu bug', and I've downloaded all the
> necessary updates, but some things are still missing.
>
> When I go into menudrake as root, the panel for Available Applications
> contains all the missing packages. However, when I go into menudrake as
> user, the Available Applications panel is empty.
>
> I can call up the applications if I open a terminal, but I'd rather have
> them on the user menu so I don't have to remember the commands! How do I
> get these Available Applications moved over to the user menu rather than
> just root? I've tried 'update-menus -v' as both root and user, but it
> makes no difference.
>
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[newbie] Problem booting Mandrake 10 beta 1 (VIA SATA?)

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

I'm having some problems getting Mandrake 10 beta 1 to work. The
actual installation goes well, and booting *seems* to go well,
until I get these error messages:

...
Mounting root filesystem with flags
mount: missing mount point
...
Kernel panic: No init found. ...

I have previously tried installing Mandrake 9.2, but the
installation program didn't recognize my hard drive, presumably
because my computer has a VIA SATA controller, which wasn't
supported in 9.2.

I suspect the VIA SATA *may* be the reason 10b1 doesn't work,
even though the installation program works. If not, I have no
idea what's causing this. :/

Any ideas how I can fix this?

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[newbie] user menu items not available

[Margot]

Some of the packages I've installed are not available on the user menu 
in KDE. I know about the 'menu bug', and I've downloaded all the 
necessary updates, but some things are still missing.

When I go into menudrake as root, the panel for Available Applications 
contains all the missing packages. However, when I go into menudrake as 
user, the Available Applications panel is empty.

I can call up the applications if I open a terminal, but I'd rather have 
them on the user menu so I don't have to remember the commands! How do I 
get these Available Applications moved over to the user menu rather than 
just root? I've tried 'update-menus -v' as both root and user, but it 
makes no difference.

Margot

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Re: [newbie] Transcode

[John Richard Smith]

David E. Fox wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the

same directory as mprime.
   

Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more
knowledgeable about this than I am.
 

I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the floppy 
job, which do you use ?

PS.
I downloaded something called sprime2212.tar.gz which when unpacked 
in a directory on it's own, has,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mprime]# ls -l
total 6252
-rw---1 root root  1736704 Jan 23 10:22 core.318
-rw---1 root root  1736704 Jan 23 15:39 core.4531
-rw-r--r--1 500  500  4722 Nov  9  2002 license.txt
-rw-r--r--1 root root  132 Jan 23 15:39 local.ini
-rwxrwxr-x1 500  500   2270640 Nov  9  2002 mprime*
-rw-r--r--1 root root   81 Jan 23 10:21 prime.ini
-rw-r--r--1 root root1 Jan 23 15:39 prime.spl
-rw-r--r--1 500  500 26018 Nov  9  2002 readme.txt
-rw---1 root root   552127 Jan 23 10:09 
sprime2212.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--1 500  500  6443 Nov  9  2002 stress.txt
-rw-r--r--1 500  500 12977 Nov  9  2002 undoc.txt
-rw-r--r--1 500  500 26137 Nov  9  2002 whatsnew.txt

and I merely ran mprime in it . Did I do something wrong ?

John

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Re: [newbie] Transcode

[John Richard Smith]

David E. Fox wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the

same directory as mprime.
   

Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more
knowledgeable about this than I am.
 

I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the floppy job, 
which do you use ?

John

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Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate

[Dennis Myers]

On Friday 23 January 2004 03:19 pm, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to update the Kernel package suggested by
> MandrakeUpdate. The installation failed a few times, even using
> different sources, stating that the sig file is 0 (zero) size.
>
> I used a regular FTP client to d/l the pakage and used rpm -ivU to
> install it as an Update.
>
> So far all well. The new Kernel version is installed and running.
>
> Here's the question: Why does the package appear in the Updates ?
>
> How do I re-build MandrakeUpdate's DB?
>
> Thanks,
>
> .::.
>
> Amichai Rotman
>
> Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> UIN#: 6401746
> Registered Linux User#: 201192
I did not see a reply to you, so here is what I do. In a console type su and 
then give the root password. then type in 
rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -v
the last is only if the update would have added or changed a menu item. HTH

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Friday 23 January 2004 06:02 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:

->Again, on advice from ppl here, I found out how to set the NIC to a
->static address, but then found that it had killed my net connection. To
->be specific, the modem would dial and connect to the ISP, but no data
->would come down - not mail, nor web pages, usenet, ICQ, etc. I've been
->going around in circles since - it seems I can have one or the other: if
->I set the NIC to a static address, the two machines will ping but I lose
->the internet; if I set the NIC to auto, I can use the internet but the
->two machines won't ping. [and, Mandrakes hangs on booting at the
->"bringing up ETH0" line]
->
->That's where I'm at atm.

Er, I've not been following this thread but did you check your 
/etc/sysconfig/network file:

Back when I had dial-up, it looked like this:
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=true
HOSTNAME=darkforce.ky
DOMAINNAME=org
GATEWAY=
GATEWAYDEV=ppp0

This is an old backup file, but it seems that GATEWAY should have had my ISPs 
IP address there.

You can try it both ways to see.

Don't forget to restart your network after making changes, and you may have to 
reboot (don't know about that part).

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Bryan Phinney]

On Friday 23 January 2004 06:02 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:

> so I tried that, and this is what I got:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# kedit /etc/hosts
> _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
> DCOPServer up and running.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
> kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
> kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children.
> kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children.
> kdeinit: Exit.

Try the command gedit /etc/hosts and see if that works better.  There were odd 
times in the past when I would get errors when trying to run some kde apps as 
root from a console window.  The problem has since corrected itself but at 
the time, I thought it was linked to some Qtlib problems which I upgraded to 
Texstar's version at some point to correct other issues with vnc.

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Aron Smith]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:11:45 -0500
"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>[On 1/24/2004 at 1:04 PM Anne Wilson wrote:
>[
>[>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:53, Lanman wrote:
>[>> Maybe, Anne - But I'd LOVE to find out the hard way!
>[Just
>[>> had a look at the specs of the Cray T3E-900. Would you
>[>> believe 2048 CPU's ? These systems are rated in
>[>> "Nano-Second" rates, not in MegaHertz which would be too
>[>> slow! Sorry to be ranting, but you got me started, and
>[now
>[>> I just have to have one of these! Wanna bet that my
>[>> Electrical bill would go through the roof? The Hydro
>[>> company would have to hook my place up as it's own node
>[on
>[>> their grid, so I could run the system and the Air
>[>> Conditioning in the room.
>[>>
>[>But think what you'd save in heating bills
>[>
>[>Anne
>[ 
>[True! True! I could finally brick-in my fireplace! 
>[
>[Lanman
Till summer 
>[
>[
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Re: [newbie] Notebook Touch Pad "Middle Button"

[Derek Jennings]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:31:56 -0800 (PST)
Job Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a Gateway 400sp notebook running Mandrake 9.2. 
> I would like to configure my touchpad so that I have a
> middle/third mouse button.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Job

Doesn't pressing left and right buttons at the same time work?

derek

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[newbie] Notebook Touch Pad "Middle Button"

[Job Evers]

I have a Gateway 400sp notebook running Mandrake 9.2. 
I would like to configure my touchpad so that I have a
middle/third mouse button.  Any suggestions?

Cheers,

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Lanman]

On 1/24/2004 at 5:07 AM Aron Smith wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:42:27 -0500
>"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[HH! Wonder what their on-site tech support response
>>[times are like? 
>>[
>>[Lanman

>ONsite 24/7/365
>>

Aron; I think that's why their systems are s expensive!


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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Lanman]

On 1/24/2004 at 1:04 PM Anne Wilson wrote:

>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:53, Lanman wrote:
>> Maybe, Anne - But I'd LOVE to find out the hard way!
Just
>> had a look at the specs of the Cray T3E-900. Would you
>> believe 2048 CPU's ? These systems are rated in
>> "Nano-Second" rates, not in MegaHertz which would be too
>> slow! Sorry to be ranting, but you got me started, and
now
>> I just have to have one of these! Wanna bet that my
>> Electrical bill would go through the roof? The Hydro
>> company would have to hook my place up as it's own node
on
>> their grid, so I could run the system and the Air
>> Conditioning in the room.
>>
>But think what you'd save in heating bills
>
>Anne
 
True! True! I could finally brick-in my fireplace! 

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Lanman]

On 1/24/2004 at 5:04 AM Aron Smith wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:12:29 -0500
>"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>[On 1/24/2004 at 3:05 AM Aron Smith wrote:
>>[
>>[>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:48:35 -0500
>>[>"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[>
>>[>>[On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote:
>>[>>[
>>[>>[>Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! Probably
used
>>[>>[child labour or
>>[>>[>something...
>>[>>[>
>>[>>[>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/22/1249
249
>>[
>>[>>[>
>>[>>[>JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813
>>[>>[
>>[>>[
>>[>>[*** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***
>>[>>[
>>[>>[
>>[>>[OK, Now that was sarcasm, right? Grin! Couldn't have
>>[been
>>[>>[too much child 
>>[>>[labour, cause they only cleared $280,000.00. Barely
>>[enough
>>[>>[for a down
>>[>>[payment on a Cray!
>>[>
>>[> Cray ? is that a French Politician ?
>>[>>[
>>[>>[Lanman
>>[
>>[*** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***
>>[ 
>>[You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided
you
>>[with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes
look
>>[like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream. Kinda
>>[like dreaming about owning a Ferrari Enzo. Please tell
me
>>[you're kidding? Grin! ? IIRC, Cray2 Supercomputers start
at
>>[around 2 Billion U.S., and I seriously hope I'm wrong
about
>>[that, otherwise the interest I'm earning on my
hard-saved
>>[$300.00 will never be enough !
>>[
>>[http://www.cray.com/
>Yes  I was Kidding as to the computing power of a cray at
the
>resent rate of progress in 10 years a Bowef cluster of 100
>desktops would kick butt 
>>[

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I can believe that. But those Cray's are amazing little
"toys" aren't they? Sigh!

I suppose I should apologize to Joe for hijacking his
thread though. Sorry Joe. 

It was good to see that Mandrake is starting to pull out of
their financial problems. 

Thanks for the heads - up.

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:53, Lanman wrote:
> Maybe, Anne - But I'd LOVE to find out the hard way! Just
> had a look at the specs of the Cray T3E-900. Would you
> believe 2048 CPU's ? These systems are rated in
> "Nano-Second" rates, not in MegaHertz which would be too
> slow! Sorry to be ranting, but you got me started, and now
> I just have to have one of these! Wanna bet that my
> Electrical bill would go through the roof? The Hydro
> company would have to hook my place up as it's own node on
> their grid, so I could run the system and the Air
> Conditioning in the room.
>
But think what you'd save in heating bills

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Aron Smith]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:42:27 -0500
"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>[On 1/24/2004 at 7:35 AM Lanman wrote:
>[
>[>On 1/24/2004 at 12:17 PM Anne Wilson wrote:
>[>
>[>>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:12, Lanman wrote:
>[>>>
>[>>> You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided
>[>you
>[>>> with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes
>[>look
>[>>> like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream.
>[Kinda
>[>>> like dreaming about owning a Ferrari Enzo. Please tell
>[>me
>[>>> you're kidding? Grin! ? IIRC, Cray2 Supercomputers
>[start
>[>at
>[>>> around 2 Billion U.S., and I seriously hope I'm wrong
>[>about
>[>>> that, otherwise the interest I'm earning on my
>[>hard-saved
>[>>> $300.00 will never be enough !
>[>>>
>[>>> http://www.cray.com/
>[>>>
>[>>Didn't I read recently that Beowulf clusters have now
>[>overtaken the 
>[>>Cray in power and speed?
>[>>
>[>>Anne
>[>
>[>*** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***
>[>
>[>Anne; HH, you may have a point, but here's a snip
>[about
>[>their new "Entry-Level" supercomputers from The Register;
>[>
>[>I Quote;
>[>
>[>"This year will mark Cray's effort to package its Red
>[Storm
>[>supercomputer for a wider audience. The system will run on
>[>hundreds of AMD's Opteron processors and, according to the
>[>investor documents, be upgraded in 2005 with the Strider 2
>[>system and then again in 2006 with Strider 3."
>[>
>[>I love it when someone uses the words "hundreds" and
>[>"Opterons" in one sentence to describe ONE System. Betcha
>[>those suckers would be fast enough for a Linux desktop!
>[>Grin!
>[>
>[>IIRC, Cray2's ( or the current equivalent ) are custom
>[>built for each client, and again, IIRC, they've only built
>[>3 or 4 of them. NASA, the CIA, and Wall Street each have
>[>one, and those are the only ones I know of. HMMmm, wonder
>[>if they could be used as an online Solitaire "Gaming"
>[>server? Multi-Player Solitaire anyone? Grin!
>[>(Kinda defeats the purpose of Solitaire, don't it? )
>[>
>[>Lanman
>[
>[*** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***
>[
>[Yup! I was right! There have been a "few" upgrades since
>[the Cray2! Found a link which shows some of the
>[past/present systems. Very Not Bad! Now I know where
>[ThermalTake got their inspirations from!
>[
>[http://tergestesoft.com/~eddysworld/bfeat_04.htm
>[
>[HH! Wonder what their on-site tech support response
>[times are like? 
>[
>[Pant! Pant! Drool!
>[
>[Lanman
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>[
>[
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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Aron Smith]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:12:29 -0500
"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>[On 1/24/2004 at 3:05 AM Aron Smith wrote:
>[
>[>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:48:35 -0500
>[>"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[>
>[>>[On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote:
>[>>[
>[>>[>Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! Probably used
>[>>[child labour or
>[>>[>something...
>[>>[>
>[>>[>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/22/1249249
>[
>[>>[>
>[>>[>JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813
>[>>[
>[>>[
>[>>[*** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***
>[>>[
>[>>[
>[>>[OK, Now that was sarcasm, right? Grin! Couldn't have
>[been
>[>>[too much child 
>[>>[labour, cause they only cleared $280,000.00. Barely
>[enough
>[>>[for a down
>[>>[payment on a Cray!
>[>
>[> Cray ? is that a French Politician ?
>[>>[
>[>>[Lanman
>[
>[*** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***
>[
>[You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided you
>[with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes look
>[like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream. Kinda
>[like dreaming about owning a Ferrari Enzo. Please tell me
>[you're kidding? Grin! ? IIRC, Cray2 Supercomputers start at
>[around 2 Billion U.S., and I seriously hope I'm wrong about
>[that, otherwise the interest I'm earning on my hard-saved
>[$300.00 will never be enough !
>[
>[http://www.cray.com/
Yes  I was Kidding as to the computing power of a cray at the
resent rate of progress in 10 years a Bowef cluster of 100
desktops would kick butt 
>[
>[Lanman 
>[
>[
>[
>[
>[


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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Lanman]

Maybe, Anne - But I'd LOVE to find out the hard way! Just
had a look at the specs of the Cray T3E-900. Would you
believe 2048 CPU's ? These systems are rated in
"Nano-Second" rates, not in MegaHertz which would be too
slow! Sorry to be ranting, but you got me started, and now
I just have to have one of these! Wanna bet that my
Electrical bill would go through the roof? The Hydro
company would have to hook my place up as it's own node on
their grid, so I could run the system and the Air
Conditioning in the room.

Ok, enough drooling. My keyboard is getting messy! 

Lanman

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On 1/24/2004 at 12:41 PM Anne Wilson wrote:

>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:35, Lanman wrote:
>>
>> IIRC, Cray2's ( or the current equivalent ) are custom
>> built for each client, and again, IIRC, they've only
built
>> 3 or 4 of them. NASA, the CIA, and Wall Street each have
>> one, and those are the only ones I know of. HMMmm,
wonder
>> if they could be used as an online Solitaire "Gaming"
>> server? Multi-Player Solitaire anyone? Grin!
>> (Kinda defeats the purpose of Solitaire, don't it? )
>>
>Somehow I think adsl might have a problem keeping up 
>
>Anne
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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:35, Lanman wrote:
>
> IIRC, Cray2's ( or the current equivalent ) are custom
> built for each client, and again, IIRC, they've only built
> 3 or 4 of them. NASA, the CIA, and Wall Street each have
> one, and those are the only ones I know of. HMMmm, wonder
> if they could be used as an online Solitaire "Gaming"
> server? Multi-Player Solitaire anyone? Grin!
> (Kinda defeats the purpose of Solitaire, don't it? )
>
Somehow I think adsl might have a problem keeping up 

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Lanman]

On 1/24/2004 at 7:35 AM Lanman wrote:

>On 1/24/2004 at 12:17 PM Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:12, Lanman wrote:
>>>
>>> You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided
>you
>>> with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes
>look
>>> like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream.
Kinda
>>> like dreaming about owning a Ferrari Enzo. Please tell
>me
>>> you're kidding? Grin! ? IIRC, Cray2 Supercomputers
start
>at
>>> around 2 Billion U.S., and I seriously hope I'm wrong
>about
>>> that, otherwise the interest I'm earning on my
>hard-saved
>>> $300.00 will never be enough !
>>>
>>> http://www.cray.com/
>>>
>>Didn't I read recently that Beowulf clusters have now
>overtaken the 
>>Cray in power and speed?
>>
>>Anne
>
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>
>Anne; HH, you may have a point, but here's a snip
about
>their new "Entry-Level" supercomputers from The Register;
>
>I Quote;
>
>"This year will mark Cray's effort to package its Red
Storm
>supercomputer for a wider audience. The system will run on
>hundreds of AMD's Opteron processors and, according to the
>investor documents, be upgraded in 2005 with the Strider 2
>system and then again in 2006 with Strider 3."
>
>I love it when someone uses the words "hundreds" and
>"Opterons" in one sentence to describe ONE System. Betcha
>those suckers would be fast enough for a Linux desktop!
>Grin!
>
>IIRC, Cray2's ( or the current equivalent ) are custom
>built for each client, and again, IIRC, they've only built
>3 or 4 of them. NASA, the CIA, and Wall Street each have
>one, and those are the only ones I know of. HMMmm, wonder
>if they could be used as an online Solitaire "Gaming"
>server? Multi-Player Solitaire anyone? Grin!
>(Kinda defeats the purpose of Solitaire, don't it? )
>
>Lanman

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Yup! I was right! There have been a "few" upgrades since
the Cray2! Found a link which shows some of the
past/present systems. Very Not Bad! Now I know where
ThermalTake got their inspirations from!

http://tergestesoft.com/~eddysworld/bfeat_04.htm

HH! Wonder what their on-site tech support response
times are like? 

Pant! Pant! Drool!

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Lanman]

On 1/24/2004 at 12:17 PM Anne Wilson wrote:

>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:12, Lanman wrote:
>>
>> You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided
you
>> with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes
look
>> like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream. Kinda
>> like dreaming about owning a Ferrari Enzo. Please tell
me
>> you're kidding? Grin! ? IIRC, Cray2 Supercomputers start
at
>> around 2 Billion U.S., and I seriously hope I'm wrong
about
>> that, otherwise the interest I'm earning on my
hard-saved
>> $300.00 will never be enough !
>>
>> http://www.cray.com/
>>
>Didn't I read recently that Beowulf clusters have now
overtaken the 
>Cray in power and speed?
>
>Anne

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Anne; HH, you may have a point, but here's a snip about
their new "Entry-Level" supercomputers from The Register;

I Quote;

"This year will mark Cray's effort to package its Red Storm
supercomputer for a wider audience. The system will run on
hundreds of AMD's Opteron processors and, according to the
investor documents, be upgraded in 2005 with the Strider 2
system and then again in 2006 with Strider 3."

I love it when someone uses the words "hundreds" and
"Opterons" in one sentence to describe ONE System. Betcha
those suckers would be fast enough for a Linux desktop!
Grin!

IIRC, Cray2's ( or the current equivalent ) are custom
built for each client, and again, IIRC, they've only built
3 or 4 of them. NASA, the CIA, and Wall Street each have
one, and those are the only ones I know of. HMMmm, wonder
if they could be used as an online Solitaire "Gaming"
server? Multi-Player Solitaire anyone? Grin!
(Kinda defeats the purpose of Solitaire, don't it? )

Lanman




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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:12, Lanman wrote:
>
> You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided you
> with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes look
> like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream. Kinda
> like dreaming about owning a Ferrari Enzo. Please tell me
> you're kidding? Grin! ? IIRC, Cray2 Supercomputers start at
> around 2 Billion U.S., and I seriously hope I'm wrong about
> that, otherwise the interest I'm earning on my hard-saved
> $300.00 will never be enough !
>
> http://www.cray.com/
>
Didn't I read recently that Beowulf clusters have now overtaken the 
Cray in power and speed?

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Lanman]

On 1/24/2004 at 3:05 AM Aron Smith wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:48:35 -0500
>"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>[On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote:
>>[
>>[>Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! Probably used
>>[child labour or
>>[>something...
>>[>
>>[>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/22/1249249

>>[>
>>[>JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813
>>[
>>[
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>>[
>>[
>>[OK, Now that was sarcasm, right? Grin! Couldn't have
been
>>[too much child 
>>[labour, cause they only cleared $280,000.00. Barely
enough
>>[for a down
>>[payment on a Cray!
>
> Cray ? is that a French Politician ?
>>[
>>[Lanman

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You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided you
with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes look
like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream. Kinda
like dreaming about owning a Ferrari Enzo. Please tell me
you're kidding? Grin! ? IIRC, Cray2 Supercomputers start at
around 2 Billion U.S., and I seriously hope I'm wrong about
that, otherwise the interest I'm earning on my hard-saved
$300.00 will never be enough !

http://www.cray.com/

Lanman 




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[newbie] setxkbmap problem

[emnej]

Mandrake comes with some support for Tajik, including a Tajik keyboard
that I managed to get to work with the command setxkbmap tj and the
right font.

However, at my job, with the same setup on a different computer, the
keyboard does not work although it is clear that it's loaded.

When using this keyboard, the 'o' on the us keyboard will add a ',' to
the letter pressed after the 'o'. This works fine on my laptop. At my
job, nothing at all happens when pressing the 'o'. Also, under KDE the
Mandrake Control Centre freezes when I try to start it after
initialising the Tajik keyboard. Under Gnome this doesn't happen.

I understand that there will not be many people out there using Tajik,
but there may be some other problem with setxkbmap or KDE or the
hardware going on that some of you may be aware of.

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Aron Smith]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:48:35 -0500
"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>[On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote:
>[
>[>Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! Probably used
>[child labour or
>[>something...
>[>
>[>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/22/1249249
>[>
>[>JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813
>[
>[
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>[
>[OK, Now that was sarcasm, right? Grin! Couldn't have been
>[too much child 
>[labour, cause they only cleared $280,000.00. Barely enough
>[for a down
>[payment on a Cray!

 Cray ? is that a French Politician ?
>[
>[Lanman
>[
>[
>[
>[


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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 23 January 2004 23:02, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > [...snip]
> A big thankyou to all who've replied to this thread, and especially
> Bryan and Anne who've taken interest recently. I realize it's been
> a long and drawn-out series, so I think it may be helpful if I
> recap, and bring all readers up to date with my aims and current
> situation.
>
Thanks, Merlin.  Now I understand it better

>
> Again, on advice from ppl here, I found out how to set the NIC to a
> static address, but then found that it had killed my net
> connection. To be specific, the modem would dial and connect to the
> ISP, but no data would come down - not mail, nor web pages, usenet,
> ICQ, etc. I've been going around in circles since - it seems I can
> have one or the other: if I set the NIC to a static address, the
> two machines will ping but I lose the internet; if I set the NIC to
> auto, I can use the internet but the two machines won't ping. [and,
> Mandrakes hangs on booting at the "bringing up ETH0" line]
>
OK - again, I can only speak for 9.1, but I assume 9.2 is similar.  If 
you use Mandrake Control Center to set up your network and Internet, 
you should have two entirely separate configurations to do.  IIRC 
under 9.1 that is not obvious unless you hit the Advanced button, at 
which point you see one button for editing your lan connection and 
another button for setting up the Internet connection.

It sounds as though your lan setup is more or less what you need, so 
leave that alone for now and look at the other half.  In there the 
dns server will be an ip address given to you by your isp. I can't 
remember the setup pages clearly, but there should be an obvious 
setting to allow your isp to allocate an ip for the connection.  The 
static address you use for your lan should not affect this at all.

Step through that setup and write down anything you are unsure about.  
Come back with questions.

> so I tried that, and this is what I got:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# kedit /etc/hosts
> _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
> DCOPServer up and running.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource
> busy kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
> kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children.
> kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children.
> kdeinit: Exit.
>
This is outside my experience, so I'll leave Bryan to look at that.

HTH

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Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

[Lanman]

On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote:

>Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! Probably used
child labour or
>something...
>
>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/22/1249249
>
>JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813


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too much child 
labour, cause they only cleared $280,000.00. Barely enough
for a down
payment on a Cray!

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Re: [newbie] Woot! Gimp 2.0 RPM's for Mandrake!

[LtCdData]

On Friday 23 Jan 2004 H:48, JoeHill wrote:
where has the layers channels and paths menu moved to..


> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:02:55 +
>
> Anne Wilson disseminated the following:
> > > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&s
> > > >id=8291
> > >
> > > I just installed this and as you said "Woot" I cant wait for the
> > > final.
> >
> > When you've had time to use it a bit more would you come back on
> > stability and usability?  I think several of us would be interested.
>
> No stability probs at all, just as useable as before, even more so
> (*finally* you can set the offset of dropshadows), my only gripe is I don't
> seem to be able to set shortcut keys like I did in the 'old' Gimp,
> something to do with the fact it's using GTK2 now prolly.
>
> A lot of things have been moved into different menus, but nothing you can't
> get used to, and the new additions to the tools are really nice.

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Re: [newbie] AMD Support

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 05:23, Ayoub890 wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >On Thursday 22 January 2004 22:54, Ayoub890 wrote:
> >>jason pearl wrote:
> >>>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:19:23 -0800
> >>>Ayoub890 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>[Deleted]
> >>
> Which is the best web resource for information on compatible
> hardware?
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Ayoub
> >>>
> >>>mandrake.com and look up compatability
> >>
> >>I looked at the motherboards in the "Hardware Database" over
> >> there and I got scared. How come "we" are still in business? 
> >> There is only incompatibles in the Database.
> >
> >Problems are always more reported than successes.  Have you tried
> > the TWiki page
> >http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility ?
> >
> >Anne
>
> I think it would probably encourage hardware manufacturers to
> produce compatible products
> if they see Mandrake and other linux distributions doing free
> advertising for copmatible hardware
> produced by their competition. I am surprised this is not done!
>
I don't imagine that would be easy to do.  It's always easy to say 
what others should do.  We benefit from Mandrake's policy, and we 
have to do our bit to repay that.

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Re: [newbie] Audio Recording in Linux

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:53, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:39:24 -0700
>
> Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I'm running Mandrake 9.2 on an Abit NV7-133R Motherboard using
> > the
> > nforce chipset.  I can't seem to get my sound card to record from
> > an
>
> Please don't hijack threads :(.
>
Explanation and reasons on 
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette

>
> Audacity should be able to record live & show you the signals in
> real time. At least it used to, but I haven't tried it for that in
> a while.
>
If aRts is running you may not be able to record at all.  I found that 
it had to be killed before I could record in any program.  Installing 
kickarts allows you to have a tray icon from which you can kill arts 
and restart it at will.

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Re: [newbie] Woot! Gimp 2.0 RPM's for Mandrake!

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 23 January 2004 23:48, JoeHill wrote:
>
> A lot of things have been moved into different menus, but nothing
> you can't get used to, and the new additions to the tools are
> really nice.

Sounds good

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:07, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 06:00, Erylon Hines wrote:
> > You might find this useful:
> >
> > http://dennis_caparas.tripod.com/samba_test.html
>
> Bad Gateway
> The following error occurred:
>
> The host name was not found during the DNS lookup. Contact your
> system administrator if the problem is.not found by retrying the
> URL. (DNS_HOST_NOT_FOUND)
> Please contact the administrator.
>
During the setting up of your internet connection, did you enter the 
ip for your isps dns server as gateway?

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Merlin Zener]

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 06:00, Erylon Hines wrote:
> You might find this useful:
> 
> http://dennis_caparas.tripod.com/samba_test.html
> 
Bad Gateway
The following error occurred:

The host name was not found during the DNS lookup. Contact your system
administrator if the problem is.not found by retrying the URL.
(DNS_HOST_NOT_FOUND)
Please contact the administrator.


> It helps for setting up SAMBA, and may offer you some insight into what the 
> problem is.  Once your system recognizes the ethernet card, it is pretty much 
> a matter of editing your /etc/samba/smb.conf, lmhosts, and smbusers files.  
> Then /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.allow and maybe (but usually not unless it is 
> already borked) etc/resolv.conf.  Since you've tried, and failed before, 
> there may be problems in your /etc/sysconfig/network also.  
> 
> KPPP is separate, and should work with it's own configuration (just check the 
> box to disable other DNS servers during connection.
> 
> After all that is working, you can setup connection sharing.
> 
> e
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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