Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 22:40, Brian Parish wrote: Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that the only output plugin that wants to work is OSS. The native ALSA stuff may do better, but XMMS just makes no sound or complains that something is blocking the output. I'm out of my league here, but in case it helps - I'm sure I read that xmms needs oss, but when alsa is running it happily uses the oss emulation. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXVCikFAvMr/nNX8RAk7pAJ40hfr5ewpRCWxqv+MjBq/qBShtjwCdEwJB vE0NmBJNhRD/L5G7aNdjFiE= =rgaG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?
On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:10 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:52:43 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and no matter how great an anti-spam system you have, the crap still gets through. Oh yeah, b1cau4se th3ey spe`1l li3k th45s. Fools spamassassin. I still get a number of positives flushed out with spamassassin running, but more and more spam makes it into the inbox. I get in total about 250 spams per day. I should proobably spend more time tuning spamassassin, but I am doubtful it'll be successful. stephen kuhn - owner Add weedsonly.cf, backhair.cf and chickenpox.cf to your /etc/Mail/spamassassin Catches most all the spam. Set your Bayes to trigger on 4.0. Lately, the ones that get by SA have hundreds of dictionary words in the message body. Weird. You have to wonder how effective a spam mail is when 99% of the content is designed to get past the filters. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:53, Philip Cronje wrote: You could use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org. It's got other nifty uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting e-mails, etc. etc. For your intent, you'd just be encrypting to yourself. I believe it can also be used in window if you need to swap between them. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXVGakFAvMr/nNX8RAgWfAJ9h8gQK/0+xyNFf5tx9F0IUZ7gkpACfSKr8 2+pVicQOkgbyS8XlyvzpxRc= =2m4n -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:48, robin wrote: It's hard to judge on just one release, since there's always variation between releases anyway (9.1 was a PITA for me, as was 8.1 - if I were superstitious, I'd definitely give 10.1 a skip). For me, installing 10.0 was a doddle, but configuring it gave me more fun than anything since RedHat 6.0 (Oh, those happy days of hacking modelines!). Still, I'd say the Community Edition is for the established community, not for anyone trying out Linux for the first time. That's my feeling, too. As for comparing releases, it's just about impossible. What is brilliant on one machine is a total disaster on others. 8.2 is lauded by most, but was a disaster for me. 9.0 worked, more or less and 9.1 was brilliant - I'm reluctant to change this box. There are no easy answers, but it's certainly an issue that has to be considered when thinking of giving linux to non-techy users. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXVKFkFAvMr/nNX8RAhrSAJ9SKoJfOXYs1jJLAREEUHgG6RfYuQCdGmkI gioau23Sn/NUiinlSu3o6GQ= =OsCk -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 02:46 am, many eyes viewed robin's words:- OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says probeall scsi_hostadapter sata_via probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias agpgart via-agp above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0 dxs_support=2 Try adding as I have index=0 Worked for me, or try this:- options snd-via82xx index=0 dxs_support=3 Charlie -- Sitting quietly alone meditating is not hard. What is hard is living on a broad scale and responding to the world at large. - Wu Yubi (1391-1469) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file
Stephen Reynolds wrote: When I'm using windows I use winzip to encrypt plain text files that contain sensitive information (username/passwords etc) What do I use to encrypt plain text files with Mandrake 10? Steve you shouldn't really use winzip for that, its not strong password protection and I have seen tools on the net that can break them easily.. Have a look at this page.. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Platforms/Linux_Programming/Q_20129261.html seems to cover well what you are looking for. rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:10 pm, franki wrote: you shouldn't really use winzip for that, its not strong password protection and I have seen tools on the net that can break them easily.. There is a new version of winzip with strong encryption. For a while I used PGP, but it's unusual to find a machine with that installed, while almost every PC has winzip. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
Hi All, I'm currently downloading Mandrake 10. I downloaded and Installed Mandrake 10 RC1 a while back, and had some issues with Drakconnect, and my USB ADSL modem. The problem I had, was that unlike Mandrake 9.2, the auto detection wizard just wouldnt set the modem up properly. For example, the wizard would bring up a list, asking me to choose my ADSL provider. There was only 2 UK providers on the list, not one of them being my provider!. This, coupled with other problems, made for a non working internet connection, and it was uninstalled, and I went back to 9.2. Does anybody here have any experience of the Alcatel Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem and Mandrake 10?. Can someone offer a step by step guide to installation and config? (I have the modem firmware code, so dont tell me I havent installed that!) Many Thanks, James Hill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:38, robin wrote: ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin Is there not a means by which - such as in 9.1 - to change the driver in MCC/Hardware to utilise a different driver for sound (or any other bit of hardware)? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. -- Mae West Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:23 pm, Philip Cronje wrote: You could use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org. It's got other nifty uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting e-mails, etc. etc. Thanks, gnupg was just what I was looking for... Once I'd found the right GUI tools to go with it :-) Steve 0xA822BAB9.asc Description: application/pgp-keys Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal/Resolved
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 11:53, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:37:48 + Langsley T Russell disseminated the following: I'm not sure just which changes made the difference as I made several at one time. In the end I realized that the highest resolution I could achieve is 1280X960. Nothing I do will get it to use 1280X1024 Whackaroony IIANM, 1280x1024 is kind of an 'unnatural' resolution, no? It generally follows a 4:3 ratio, which is the natural dimensions of most monitors (excepting the 'theatre' type displays, of course). Normal Displays - listen up SchmoeGill: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 Make a note, empty your bong, clear your mind, drink green tea. Mind the catepillar. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font encoding of the xchat logs
Dear All I would like to know how to change the font encoding of the xchat logs, as some strange characters appear. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:44:36 + JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm currently downloading Mandrake 10. I downloaded and Installed Mandrake 10 RC1 a while back, and had some issues with Drakconnect, and my USB ADSL modem. The problem I had, was that unlike Mandrake 9.2, the auto detection wizard just wouldnt set the modem up properly. For example, the wizard would bring up a list, asking me to choose my ADSL provider. There was only 2 UK providers on the list, not one of them being my provider!. This, coupled with other problems, made for a non working internet connection, and it was uninstalled, and I went back to 9.2. Does anybody here have any experience of the Alcatel Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem and Mandrake 10?. Can someone offer a step by step guide to installation and config? (I have the modem firmware code, so dont tell me I havent installed that!) Many Thanks, James Hill Before you leave 9.2 get a list of your drivers that are working. You can choose them manually if the automagic install picks the wrong ones. Happened to me when it was already too late (9.2 was history on that box) I had to find someone with the same setup. He listed his config and I was running in minutes. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to establish a VPN connection
What program should I use to establish a VPN connection? Freeswan. How to use Freeswan? I have just installed it, but when I type freeswan on the command line, I get the following: bash: freeswan: command not found Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:21, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 22:40, Brian Parish wrote: Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that the only output plugin that wants to work is OSS. The native ALSA stuff may do better, but XMMS just makes no sound or complains that something is blocking the output. I'm out of my league here, but in case it helps - I'm sure I read that xmms needs oss, but when alsa is running it happily uses the oss emulation. Anne Well I can select different output plugins - artsd, alsa - even jack if that is installed - so I presume that the OSS emulation is only used if the OSS output is selected. Otherwise I am obviously missing something significant. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:07, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:21, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 22:40, Brian Parish wrote: Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that the only output plugin that wants to work is OSS. The native ALSA stuff may do better, but XMMS just makes no sound or complains that something is blocking the output. I'm out of my league here, but in case it helps - I'm sure I read that xmms needs oss, but when alsa is running it happily uses the oss emulation. Anne Well I can select different output plugins - artsd, alsa - even jack if that is installed - so I presume that the OSS emulation is only used if the OSS output is selected. Otherwise I am obviously missing something significant. Brian, you probably know more than I do about this, but ISTR that it was something to do with it being a gnome app. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXZW4kFAvMr/nNX8RAs1FAJ9GTC7cJk+EHJjfYCDtcCJXNawz0ACfU8Gj CSNInQNT9wQM5VKrUIbD2R0= =ZKJN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:13:36 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: US should make a law making purchasing from a spammer a criminal act. What *isn't* a criminal act in the US these days? ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 08:16:01 up 1:06, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ I met my maker, I made him cry And on my shoulder he asked me why His people won't fly through the storm I said Listen up man, they don't even know you're born -- Oasis, D'You Know What I Mean? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:31 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine Two screwed-up Machines? The Gateway HDD works great in a normal machine. In fact to clear matters up a bit ether of the 2 hard drives suppled by gateway will work fine in the gateway machine. I can do a standard ML installation with NO problems at all what so ever. But after the installation when the machine starts to reboot it hangs at the Gateway splash screen where it says to hit F2 to enter setup. It does not even go to the LILO boot loader screen. At that point F2 will not work and the machine will not proceed with booting up. if I power down and attempt to reboot again I can access the BIOS by hitting F1 instead of F2. F1 will take me to an other screen where I can then get to the BIOS settings. When I do get to the BIOS settings and do some checking I find that the hard drive is undetected. It detects NO primary master NO primary slave, It does detect the CD drive as a secondary master. If I remove the HDD and put it in an other machine the other machine will boot into Linux with no problems at all. If I then Reformat the drive using Maxblast and a win 98 floppy then reinstall the HDD in the Gateway machine the gateway machine will be able to detect it correctly and load windoze back on it and run just fine, but if ML is loaded after the installation when I go to reboot it is the same old thing the Gateway machine is no longer able to detect the HDD. I would still assume that the BIOS in any machine would detect A drive from information stored on the PC board of the drive and not from information stored on the disk. Am I wrong about this? The behavior of this machine seems abnormal at best and possibly a deliberate attempt to prevent the installation of any non microshaft operating system. I am going to try to contact tech support at Intel, the folks that made this board for gateway and get some further details. Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:29, Anne Wilson wrote: snip That's my feeling, too. As for comparing releases, it's just about impossible. What is brilliant on one machine is a total disaster on others. 8.2 is lauded by most, but was a disaster for me. 9.0 worked, more or less and 9.1 was brilliant - I'm reluctant to change this box. There are no easy answers, but it's certainly an issue that has to be considered when thinking of giving linux to non-techy users. /snip Like you Anne, I was reluctant to install 10.0 what with having spent weeks to get 9.2 running well. But surprise : yesterday I shuffled the CD2 into the cupholder and lo and behold, one hour later 10.0 CE runs like a charm. Not only that, it runs about 30 % faster, especially KDE. And, for the first time, I took the option of installing the updates right away, during the initial install. Everything worked well. Only minor glitches (so far) : Now my printer (HP 3820) performs some (noisy) drills during the boot process - but after a while it works. I had a /data partition (hda4) on 9.2, but 10.0 insisted to mount it as /mnt/windows (it is a FAT32 partition), but I don't like to see that word on my otherwise clean machine. So I had to edit fstab in order to get things straight. I'm a little confused about the Mandrake Update. Seems that the normal update repositories are gone and all updates are on the same directory, just with higher version numbers. Haven't browsed that many mirrors, though. Although I'm a Club Silver Member, I haven't been able to get my hands on Acrobat Reader or RealPlayer, but I can live with that. All in all : what a nice experience ! Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.3 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?
On Sunday 21 March 2004 14:17, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:13:36 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: US should make a law making purchasing from a spammer a criminal act. What *isn't* a criminal act in the US these days? ;-) Litigating. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer* * running Linux kernel 2.6.3 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
Lee, I have since upgraded from 9.2 to 10, and it shouldnt have really changed things much. However, I have my connection set to start at boot, both green lights began to flash on my modem, (as is normal), and then the ADSL light went yellow, and that was it, a failure message. I'm going to try setting it up with the Speedtouch package from the 9.2 Distro. The modem firmware code is the same as I have always used. Like you said, 9.2 is now history on this box. so if I cant get things to go my way, I'll reinstall 9.2, and let a Linux guru buddy of mine have a play with it at a later date. James Hill - Original Message - From: Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:44:36 + JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm currently downloading Mandrake 10. I downloaded and Installed Mandrake 10 RC1 a while back, and had some issues with Drakconnect, and my USB ADSL modem. The problem I had, was that unlike Mandrake 9.2, the auto detection wizard just wouldnt set the modem up properly. For example, the wizard would bring up a list, asking me to choose my ADSL provider. There was only 2 UK providers on the list, not one of them being my provider!. This, coupled with other problems, made for a non working internet connection, and it was uninstalled, and I went back to 9.2. Does anybody here have any experience of the Alcatel Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem and Mandrake 10?. Can someone offer a step by step guide to installation and config? (I have the modem firmware code, so dont tell me I havent installed that!) Many Thanks, James Hill Before you leave 9.2 get a list of your drivers that are working. You can choose them manually if the automagic install picks the wrong ones. Happened to me when it was already too late (9.2 was history on that box) I had to find someone with the same setup. He listed his config and I was running in minutes. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:22, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Like you Anne, I was reluctant to install 10.0 what with having spent weeks to get 9.2 running well. But surprise : yesterday I shuffled the CD2 into the cupholder and lo and behold, one hour later 10.0 CE runs like a charm. Not only that, it runs about 30 % faster, especially KDE. And, for the first time, I took the option of installing the updates right away, during the initial install. Everything worked well. Only minor glitches (so far) : It's hard to guess whether my best bet is to stick to 9.2 and try to get it running, or start on 10. My main constraint on that box is that I have had an offer I can't refuse. A member of the wylug has offered me the loan of his video capture card to see whether it fills my need - it's £129 to buy, so it will be nice to try it first. He is bringing it to the next meeting. By that time I want a stable install. If I have to go back to 9.1 I'll do that, leaving a bare partition to install 10 later. Now my printer (HP 3820) performs some (noisy) drills during the boot process - but after a while it works. I had a /data partition (hda4) on 9.2, but 10.0 insisted to mount it as /mnt/windows (it is a FAT32 partition), but I don't like to see that word on my otherwise clean machine. So I had to edit fstab in order to get things straight. Minor issues, I agree. The frustrating thing about this 9.2 install is that it has lost the things that were working. I had network printing working to this box, but it didn't work yesterday. I know that the lack of time over the past month has contributed to my problems, but it is most frustrating. You think that once something is fixed it will stay fixed. I'm a little confused about the Mandrake Update. Seems that the normal update repositories are gone and all updates are on the same directory, just with higher version numbers. Haven't browsed that many mirrors, though. - From what is being said on the expert list, it sounds as though 10 gets its updates from cooker. Although I'm a Club Silver Member, I haven't been able to get my hands on Acrobat Reader or RealPlayer, but I can live with that. I'd really miss AR. I like it for its print options. All in all : what a nice experience ! Sounds encouraging - but then we are back to what performs really well on one box is hopeless on another. I'm not a gambler, but it looks as though gambling is inevitable for now. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXZp8kFAvMr/nNX8RAoLfAJwL15d2Na6bg99LGYa8TIPmxOw8YgCfcin7 pJCv5CNphT9c7TfFhYCKr1k= =8aC7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:25:05 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: What *isn't* a criminal act in the US these days? ;-) Litigating. ROFL! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 08:41:28 up 1:31, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ ...we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell address Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 02:40, franki wrote: Stephen Reynolds wrote: When I'm using windows I use winzip to encrypt plain text files that contain sensitive information (username/passwords etc) What do I use to encrypt plain text files with Mandrake 10? Steve you shouldn't really use winzip for that, its not strong password protection and I have seen tools on the net that can break them easily.. Indeed. It takes about 5 minutes to locate, install and use a .zip file password cracker from the 'net. Not safe at all, if the information is truly sensitive. -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:09 pm, Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 04:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think the problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same problem happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as something non microsux was written to the HDD the bios could no longer see the HDD and after the drive was reformatted with winsux tools the bios could find it again. You could be right, but I was thinking that Gateway may have already doctored the drives before sending them out. After all, recovery disks usually mean setting everything back to a blank install, so it would be quite possible. Anne You may be correct. I will look into that if the owner of the machine decides to try it again. But I am failing to understand some things here I really don't have extensave knowledege of some of the fine points of hardware design but I would think that the bios would in most cases detect the HDD from a prom on the circuit board of the HDD and not from data on the disk itself similar to a CD drive, stick of memory etc. I would normally think that what is written on the HDD would have little or no effect on how the bios detects it. This dont not seem to be the case with this machine. Am I having a misunderstanding of how the BIOS detects hardware? Any hardware experts on the list ? http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm Y'all might wanna bookmark this site. The explainations are human readable ;) I was gonna stay out of this because I only have negative sentiments for _any_ ready made for Windoze systems. It's not just Gateway, Dell's no better. Think about it they put Packard Bell out of business by sellin even cheaper junk than PB did. While Zeus went out of business tryin to maintain and sell quality ready made systems. 'Bout the only advice I can give is .. _Never_ work on other peoples ready made systems. The only thing I can think of is was the HDD set to Auto? Sometimes setting to LBA clears things up. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10 BUT IMO, the best sources for troubleshooting info at this time for 10.0 is the cooker ML archive http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker; and a bugzilla search http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:25:05 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Litigating. I just stopped laughing: A South Bay accountant who said an Internet search engine returned alarming information about him and his firm sued Google, AOL, Time Warner and Yahoo! Friday for libel. http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2937016/detail.html -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Bakunin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File Sharing
Any file sharing software that works with Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat
Dear All I cannot send or receive files with dcc send and with xchat. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 08:10 pm, Marc wrote: It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. Quite possible, but I don't think it's a anti-Linux conspiracy. More likely the board/bios is spec'd to be just barely adequate to boot and run the Winsux version it was shipped with. And winblows will run on junk, Linux often won't. The MOBO was made by Intel but the Bios was customized with the Gateway logo so I really cant say Who is responsible for the bios problems intel or Gateway but due to the fact that Intel brand MOBOs are used in so many brands of computers if this was a Intel related problem I suspect that we all would have heard about it much sooner. The motherboard was made by Intel, but to Dell (substandard, corner cutting) specs. Yes Dell. They order so many motherboards, some other large ready made vendors are stuck usin the same spec board. The bios is spec'd by Gateway tho. You can (or use to be able) to find out about OEM SPEC ONLY Intel boards on the Intel website. Burried in technical docs. These substandard spec boards/bioses are not somethin Intel likes to advertise. Dell would rather consumers didn't see it either. Years ago, hardware sites (eg, Tom's Hardware Guide) use to comment on and expose this information ... until they were threatened with legal action, and tied up with NDA's -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal/Resolved
On Saturday 20 March 2004 06:53 pm, JoeHill wrote: IIANM, 1280x1024 is kind of an 'unnatural' resolution, no? It generally follows a 4:3 ratio, which is the natural dimensions of most monitors (excepting the 'theatre' type displays, of course). This is true, but not for many LCD monitors. The native resolution for my 19.3 Samsung is 1280x1024 @ 80Hz. XFree runs it at 75Hz, which since it's over 70 is fine with me ;) It is a little wider in respect to height than CRT monitors. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
For RealPlayer and Acrobat, I suggest you take a look at the vendors websites. I have just been to adobe.com for acrobat for Winsucks, and there was a whole list I had to choose from. Linux, MAC, FreeBSD etc... as for realplayer, I'm sure I got the RPM for rp8 from the real site. If youre struggling, I have the RPM here, so I could always send it to you. On 9.2, Acrobat seems to be integrated into Konqueror, so thats what I use for .pdf work. HTH, JRH - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:29, Anne Wilson wrote: snip That's my feeling, too. As for comparing releases, it's just about impossible. What is brilliant on one machine is a total disaster on others. 8.2 is lauded by most, but was a disaster for me. 9.0 worked, more or less and 9.1 was brilliant - I'm reluctant to change this box. There are no easy answers, but it's certainly an issue that has to be considered when thinking of giving linux to non-techy users. /snip Like you Anne, I was reluctant to install 10.0 what with having spent weeks to get 9.2 running well. But surprise : yesterday I shuffled the CD2 into the cupholder and lo and behold, one hour later 10.0 CE runs like a charm. Not only that, it runs about 30 % faster, especially KDE. And, for the first time, I took the option of installing the updates right away, during the initial install. Everything worked well. Only minor glitches (so far) : Now my printer (HP 3820) performs some (noisy) drills during the boot process - but after a while it works. I had a /data partition (hda4) on 9.2, but 10.0 insisted to mount it as /mnt/windows (it is a FAT32 partition), but I don't like to see that word on my otherwise clean machine. So I had to edit fstab in order to get things straight. I'm a little confused about the Mandrake Update. Seems that the normal update repositories are gone and all updates are on the same directory, just with higher version numbers. Haven't browsed that many mirrors, though. Although I'm a Club Silver Member, I haven't been able to get my hands on Acrobat Reader or RealPlayer, but I can live with that. All in all : what a nice experience ! Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.3 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] wireless - laptop - questions
Okay, I've got my Dell Inspiron 1100, Mandrake v9.2 (d/l), and a Dlink DWL 650 (not +, AFAICT). My router is a Dlink 514. I've searched some sites, perused the ML archives but have not found a good solid, step by step howto. Can anyone point me to a URL or other source? Or if you have experience with this, I'm grateful for any advice/tips! Thanks! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Server GUI?
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 06:48, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there any sort of GUI for proFTPD? I'd like to be able to monitor incoming and outgoing connections. I mainly just use it for giving files to people I know, and I'm having a problem with a timed out connection. I'm not sure if it's my router's firewall, or proFTPD. TIA, Marc Webmin. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Time goes, you say? Ah no! Time stays, *we* go. -- Austin Dobson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com How would I go about monitoring connections with webmin? Oh, also, I just set up a wuftpd server, and I know that it's running because I did an ftp to 127.0.0.1, but if I ever wanted to shut it down, I don't know how. There's no option for me to enable/disable it in webmin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
First of all, Win XP may not be the problem. His problem might be the fact that it's a Gateway PC. I run a number of computers, and a mac. I have XP on one, MD9.2 on this one XD2 or another one, so I see it from all different sides. XP isn't all bad. It has it's pros and cons just like linux and mac do. I will admit, XP takes some getting use to. Especially with the default desktop. For me, it was just too colorful. My biggest gripe as far as XP goes is the activation crap, and all the security issues, but in fairness to MS, If everyone was running linux, then all the scumbags out there would be writing viruses for linux. Plus, linux has had it's share of security issues too, just not as many, and not as high profile. Just trying to look at it from both sides. Jim On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 13:41, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:28 pm, Marc wrote: snipped If this is the kind of bull $hit game that Gateway wants to play may I suggest that anyone that reads this start to boycott them. Don't sugarcoat it, tell us how you really feel. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Video Editing Programs
Anybody know of any good video editing programs for Linux?
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Saturday 20 March 2004 11:40 am, Margot wrote: I can confirm M10-Community-download-CD1 is BROKEN. Mine will not boot either, though I must be cautious here, my CD was burnt from failed md5sum iso in order to test for the problem. I've still got to download an effective CD1 iso yet. John Spent the afternoon installing 10 - the CD1 worked fine for me, so is not totally broken! Margot Like the 9.2 LG cdrom deal, It's not Mandrake that's broken, it's some CD drives that aren't quite right. Not checking the md5sum of the iso, and then also from the burned CDr also contributes to the problem. It's also not clear to me if people who experience this problem have tried booting CD1 from both their CDrom and CD-RW drives. From the CD-RW would be the preferred IMO, and from a CDr, not cd-rw media. When the problem first surfaced, I tried both my DVDrom (Teac) and burner (Plextor). Both booted CD1 with no problem. The real problem is not enough users (and their varied hardware) to test before problems like this get out into the community. Cooker'rs share the blame as many like myself, just use urpmi to update, and don't test each installer (beta's and RC's). OTOH, the problem is exacerbated, as many cooker'rs run quality custom built systems that are known to themselves to be Linux compatible. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Don't get the signature think...
Hello, I installed the urpmi files (update, main and f...)... when I check in Rpmdrake they have a signature. I spend 2 hours downloading packages to run mediaplayer... And than I get the bad signature warning... I continue to install and then an other telling me files are corrupted. How can they be corrupted when I updated the urpmi files last night? I red the Madrake secure pages that one of you mailed a few days ago... I still don't get it... Why if the ftp urpmi files have a signature, the packages can still have a bad signature? Just one last thing, I do not work from a konsole but with rpmdrake. Thanks for your help Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] My public key
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Here is my public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Thanks to Tim for reminding me. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 12:36:22 up 56 min, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAW9l4kp5CsIXuxqURAltVAKC+GimVsRB/L43aCRMBjMDUiWQNvwCgsW3x 0j6BZ/ozCibIPSssKvrLV4M= =OnpC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hello, What is this public key for? :-[ Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...Not finish!
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 Mar 2004 14:50, rhein wrote: Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. 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 What does it say in english??? :-) that you need to install the package gcc urpmi gcc should do the trick, but if you truely have no development packages installed at all there will probably be more missing dependencies. hint, if ./configure asks for a library try urpmi library_name-devel cheers, Alaa - -- Thanks for the tip but now I have this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] oooqs-2.0.3]# what is it? Not easy installing a small soft! Bye Christophe No. That is why rpms are so nice. Whenever a ./configure fails read the error messages carefully. They will usually mention a file name, or a package name. To find the missing package do urpmf string where string is the file name(or part of it) mentioned in the error message. Then install the '-devel' version of the package which contains that file. In this example it simply says it cannot find X Well obviously X is installed, so it must mean it needs 'XFree86-devel' Install that then try again. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks to Derek I installed the xfree devel package... I started the install over and a new error message asking me to install Qt3... Since I learned that the soft has to be installed I go to rpmdrake to do it... So many entries I choose the main one with the dependencies... After I go back to my console and start over again to install the quick launch... Same error message... So I go back to rpmdrake and select all the Qt3 packages left. And I get the signature error message. I pass and then I get an other error message... end of the story. Could some one tell me what this Qt3 is for and give me the list of the packages to install? I promise to use rpms all the time :-) But in this case there was none! By the way I don't understand why this quick launch is not coming with open office like under windows (Ups I said it ;-) ) In the meantime I'm going paragliding for a change. Have a nice Sunday Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Sharing
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:03, Steve Turner wrote: Any file sharing software that works with Linux? Lots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc. __ -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:52:09 -0600 bmobile40 disseminated the following: First of all, ...and second of all, could you please unset your reply-to? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ Microsoft Palladium: The world is a fearful place (because we allowed it to be by introducing vulnerable designs followed by clueless security initiatives) so let us fix it for you. --Cringely Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] wireless - laptop - questions
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:08 am, Marc Resnick wrote: -Tell me if you have any problems - ---Marc Thanks Marc! I've got to go get some sleep now (worked 12 hrs+ last night) (and yeah, I know - real geeks would sit up and do this until it worked grin) so I'm gonna crash. I saved your reply, will try it on for size tomorrow. I'll let you know what happens/blows up. Thanks again. Good luck. =P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Fw: [newbie] File Sharing
snipLots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc/snip I use LimeWire, which not being as good as Kazaa, is more than adequate. If you have hours to spare in order to wait for a download, then Overnet command line client is worth looking at too. I have major problems with Apollon, It just wont install properly, using the so called all in one installer. It will screw up halfway during installation, owing to a dependant library or application not being installed, but it wont actually give you too many clues as to what you need to install to rectify the situation! I finally got it to install, and then it wouldnt run.. it hadnt even installed giFT! I asked on the forums, but got the usual silence/unhelpful answers. So, it's binned for the time being. A friend is in the process of rolling me a version, from the source code. JRH - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] File Sharing On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:03, Steve Turner wrote: Any file sharing software that works with Linux? Lots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc. __ -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] test
Sorry group, but I don't seem to be able to get through.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:11:37 +1030 Stephen Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:23 pm, Philip Cronje wrote: You could use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org. It's got other nifty uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting e-mails, etc. etc. Thanks, gnupg was just what I was looking for... Once I'd found the right GUI tools to go with it :-) ... which were? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] File Sharing
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:03:02 -0700 Steve Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any file sharing software that works with Linux? DCgui-qt (Direct Connect) ... http://dcgui.berlios.de/ Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Hi, I've been following this thread with interest. I just upped to LM10. It almost seemed too easy. I use it on a Dell laptop (inspiron). I don't remember if there was an option to write the bootloader to different locations like in 9.2, 9.1 etc but I was wondering if the bootloader has to be on the MBR for the bios to pick it up. Just a thought. Good luck with it. Regards, Bill W. On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:17, Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:31 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine Two screwed-up Machines? The Gateway HDD works great in a normal machine. In fact to clear matters up a bit ether of the 2 hard drives suppled by gateway will work fine in the gateway machine. I can do a standard ML installation with NO problems at all what so ever. But after the installation when the machine starts to reboot it hangs at the Gateway splash screen where it says to hit F2 to enter setup. It does not even go to the LILO boot loader screen. At that point F2 will not work and the machine will not proceed with booting up. if I power down and attempt to reboot again I can access the BIOS by hitting F1 instead of F2. F1 will take me to an other screen where I can then get to the BIOS settings. When I do get to the BIOS settings and do some checking I find that the hard drive is undetected. It detects NO primary master NO primary slave, It does detect the CD drive as a secondary master. If I remove the HDD and put it in an other machine the other machine will boot into Linux with no problems at all. If I then Reformat the drive using Maxblast and a win 98 floppy then reinstall the HDD in the Gateway machine the gateway machine will be able to detect it correctly and load windoze back on it and run just fine, but if ML is loaded after the installation when I go to reboot it is the same old thing the Gateway machine is no longer able to detect the HDD. I would still assume that the BIOS in any machine would detect A drive from information stored on the PC board of the drive and not from information stored on the disk. Am I wrong about this? The behavior of this machine seems abnormal at best and possibly a deliberate attempt to prevent the installation of any non microshaft operating system. I am going to try to contact tech support at Intel, the folks that made this board for gateway and get some further details. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...Not finish!
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 04:40, rhein wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 Mar 2004 14:50, rhein wrote: Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. SNIP I started the install over and a new error message asking me to install Qt3... Since I learned that the soft has to be installed I go to rpmdrake to do it... So many entries I choose the main one with the dependencies... After I go back to my console and start over again to install the quick launch... Same error message... So I go back to rpmdrake and select all the Qt3 packages left. And I get the signature error message. I pass and then I get an other error message... end of the story. Could some one tell me what this Qt3 is for and give me the list of the packages to install? I promise to use rpms all the time :-) But in this case there was none! By the way I don't understand why this quick launch is not coming with open office like under windows (Ups I said it ;-) ) In the meantime I'm going paragliding for a change. Have a nice Sunday Christophe QT is a Window toolkit. It is what KDE is based on. You did not post the exact error message, but I would guess it is asking for libqt3-devel It seems Openoffice has a -quickstart feature built into the Linux version. If you run it with 'ooffice -quickstart' when you first start your session, then ooffice will run in background. The next time you start ooffice normally, then it will appear almost immediately. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fw: [newbie] File Sharing
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 12:56, JRH wrote: I use LimeWire, which not being as good as Kazaa, is more than adequate. If you have hours to spare in order to wait for a download, then Overnet command line client is worth looking at too. I have major problems with Apollon, It just wont install properly, using the so called all in one installer. It will screw up halfway during installation, owing to a dependant library or application not being installed, but it wont actually give you too many clues as to what you need to install to rectify the situation! I finally got it to install, and then it wouldnt run.. it hadnt even installed giFT! I asked on the forums, but got the usual silence/unhelpful answers. So, it's binned for the time being. A friend is in the process of rolling me a version, from the source code. JRH A couple of days ago there were some threads on the subject. I think you probably missed them. Assuming you have 9.2 and all of the package sources set, you all have to do to easily and flawlessly install Apollon is # urpmi apollon -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * A diferença entre a literatura e o jornalismo é que o jornalismo é ilegível e a literatura não é lida. Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Don't get the signature think...
On Thursday 18 Mar 2004 16:38, rhein wrote: Hello, I installed the urpmi files (update, main and f...)... when I check in Rpmdrake they have a signature. I spend 2 hours downloading packages to run mediaplayer... And than I get the bad signature warning... I continue to install and then an other telling me files are corrupted. How can they be corrupted when I updated the urpmi files last night? I red the Madrake secure pages that one of you mailed a few days ago... I still don't get it... Why if the ftp urpmi files have a signature, the packages can still have a bad signature? Just one last thing, I do not work from a konsole but with rpmdrake. Thanks for your help Christophe It is possible for a package to be signed with a signature not on your keyring. The Software sources GUI in mcc will show you what keys you have associated with each source. The issue with packages not being signed or having the wrong signature has nothing to do with them not being able to install. If you have trouble with corrupted packages check out /var/cache/urpmi/rpms If you have a corrupted package in there, then it will cause you problems. Delete everything in that folder. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fw: [newbie] File Sharing
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 15:56, JRH wrote: snipLots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc/snip I use LimeWire, which not being as good as Kazaa, is more than adequate. If you have hours to spare in order to wait for a download, then Overnet command line client is worth looking at too. I have major problems with Apollon, It just wont install properly, using the so called all in one installer. It will screw up halfway during installation, owing to a dependant library or application not being installed, but it wont actually give you too many clues as to what you need to install to rectify the situation! I finally got it to install, and then it wouldnt run.. it hadnt even installed giFT! I asked on the forums, but got the usual silence/unhelpful answers. So, it's binned for the time being. A friend is in the process of rolling me a version, from the source code. JRH - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] File Sharing On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:03, Steve Turner wrote: Any file sharing software that works with Linux? Lots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc. __ -- josenildo marques RPMs for Apollon are in plf for 9.2 and 10.0 together with gift-fasttrack (Kazaa) and gift-openft (Native giFT) plugins If you define plf as a urpmi source, then all the dependencies will be installed at once. You may find the fasttrack (Kazaa) plugin is not recognised until you use Advanced settings to point to the location of the fasttrack plugin. Read the config file to find which firewall ports you should open. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:49 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm Y'all might wanna bookmark this site. The explainations are human readable ;) I was gonna stay out of this because I only have negative sentiments for _any_ ready made for Windoze systems. It's not just Gateway, Dell's no better. Think about it they put Packard Bell out of business by sellin even cheaper junk than PB did. While Zeus went out of business tryin to maintain and sell quality ready made systems. 'Bout the only advice I can give is .. _Never_ work on other peoples ready made systems. You have a good point there however this is the first system that I have ever seen that I could not make run on linux with the execption of 2 other systems that were just to old to have enough memory capacity or had a old odd ball chipset made for some older AMD processers Personaly I hate to tell a friend or neighbor that they are just stuck with a piece of crap until I at least give it my best shot. The only thing I can think of is was the HDD set to Auto? Sometimes setting to LBA clears things up. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10 I Tried that BUT IMO, the best sources for troubleshooting info at this time for 10.0 is the cooker ML archive http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker; and a bugzilla search http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ I will have a look Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fw: [newbie] File Sharing
snipRPMs for Apollon are in plf for 9.2 and 10.0 together with gift-fasttrack (Kazaa) and gift-openft (Native giFT) plugins If you define plf as a urpmi source, then all the dependencies will be installed at once. You may find the fasttrack (Kazaa) plugin is not recognised until you use Advanced settings to point to the location of the fasttrack plugin/snip Many thanks for that Derek, Just as soon as I can get out of Microshaft Winsucks, I will get into Mandrake and have a play. Cheers! JRH - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 4:39 PM Subject: Re: Fw: [newbie] File Sharing On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 15:56, JRH wrote: snipLots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc/snip I use LimeWire, which not being as good as Kazaa, is more than adequate. If you have hours to spare in order to wait for a download, then Overnet command line client is worth looking at too. I have major problems with Apollon, It just wont install properly, using the so called all in one installer. It will screw up halfway during installation, owing to a dependant library or application not being installed, but it wont actually give you too many clues as to what you need to install to rectify the situation! I finally got it to install, and then it wouldnt run.. it hadnt even installed giFT! I asked on the forums, but got the usual silence/unhelpful answers. So, it's binned for the time being. A friend is in the process of rolling me a version, from the source code. JRH - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] File Sharing On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:03, Steve Turner wrote: Any file sharing software that works with Linux? Lots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc. __ -- josenildo marques RPMs for Apollon are in plf for 9.2 and 10.0 together with gift-fasttrack (Kazaa) and gift-openft (Native giFT) plugins If you define plf as a urpmi source, then all the dependencies will be installed at once. You may find the fasttrack (Kazaa) plugin is not recognised until you use Advanced settings to point to the location of the fasttrack plugin. Read the config file to find which firewall ports you should open. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?
Marc Resnick wrote: Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure of how iPODs work. Would it be recognized just as a removable device? Or does anyone know of any open source apps equivalent to the itunes software? TIA --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Try searching sourceforge.net , they have lots of programs. I found several for my Rio player there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
hi i'm running 9.2. i've got two boxes that i'm using both of them dedicated both to xp and mdk 9.2. i tried samba once, awhile back.. and it was a very difficult thing for me. if it had not been for a very kind individual on #samba to hold my hand i would not have been able to backup my data. and not all of it could be backed up which really puzzled us both. just curious if there is an easy way to setup samba. kinda like the simple file sharing feature of xp. basically just know the network name, and if absolutely necessary, Admin login and pass. i've never used webmin or swat so i'm not sure if either of these programs would do the trick. just looking an easy way to share my mdk files with a xp machine. i've networked xp to mdk though its been so long i've forgotten how to do that too. need to research that as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Like the 9.2 LG cdrom deal, It's not Mandrake that's broken, it's some CD drives that aren't quite right. Not checking the md5sum of the iso, and then also from the burned CDr also contributes to the problem. It's also not clear to me if people who experience this problem have tried booting CD1 from both their CDrom and CD-RW drives. From the CD-RW would be the preferred IMO, and from a CDr, not cd-rw media. Well, I burned the CD on my Plextor PX-708a. I tried to boot CD1 from that same drive and it would not boot. CD2 does. I confirmed the md5 and the sums match reported values. The same Mandrake CD1 will boot from an older CD-ROM drive. My Plextor DVD Burner would probably not fall into the realm of cheap hardware. So, I don't think that this is totally md5 sum or improper burning related. I suspect that there is some minor anomaly in the iso image that is being spotted by newer or better CD devices but ignored by older ones. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Although I'm a Club Silver Member, I haven't been able to get my hands on Acrobat Reader or RealPlayer, but I can live with that. The old versions of commercial software should work on 10.0 - certainly RealPlayer does, as I've just installed it. One exception is the nVidia drivers, for which you have to download the latest versions. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:11, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, I burned the CD on my Plextor PX-708a. I tried to boot CD1 from that same drive and it would not boot. CD2 does. I confirmed the md5 and the sums match reported values. The same Mandrake CD1 will boot from an older CD-ROM drive. My Plextor DVD Burner would probably not fall into the realm of cheap hardware. So, I don't think that this is totally md5 sum or improper burning related. I suspect that there is some minor anomaly in the iso image that is being spotted by newer or better CD devices but ignored by older ones. Warly indicated on the cooker ML that some drives seemed to be having problems reading the boot catalog when it was located in sector 929. That held true for me on my Plextor. Other locations booted fine. Glenn -- 10:19:21 up 23:57, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 The degree of technical confidence is inversely proportional to the level of management. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Looking for a formula 1 game
Dear All I am looking for a formula 1 game. Could somebody here please help me? Thanks, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:02, Arthur Rosene wrote: hi i'm running 9.2. i've got two boxes that i'm using both of them dedicated both to xp and mdk 9.2. i tried samba once, awhile back.. and it was a very difficult thing for me. if it had not been for a very kind individual on #samba to hold my hand i would not have been able to backup my data. and not all of it could be backed up which really puzzled us both. just curious if there is an easy way to setup samba. kinda like the simple file sharing feature of xp. basically just know the network name, and if absolutely necessary, Admin login and pass. i've never used webmin or swat so i'm not sure if either of these programs would do the trick. just looking an easy way to share my mdk files with a xp machine. i've networked xp to mdk though its been so long i've forgotten how to do that too. need to research that as well. Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. Give the *Windows* password of the user. Alternatively install ksambaplugin (from a contrib mirror), and your KDE control Centre will contain a samba server configuration panel. I would not recommend using SWAT to set up samba because it will erase and replace the existing samba configuration file together with all the helpful comments which are embedded in it. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:02:41 -0600 Arthur Rosene disseminated the following: just curious if there is an easy way to setup samba. kinda like the simple file sharing feature of xp. basically just know the network name, and if absolutely necessary, Admin login and pass. i've never used webmin or swat so i'm not sure if either of these programs would do the trick. just looking an easy way to share my mdk files with a xp machine. i've networked xp to mdk though its been so long i've forgotten how to do that too. need to research that as well. If you've got the Samba shares configured already, and easy way to mount and access them is LinNeighborhood. Windows should see Samba shares without any extra effort, they'll show up in My Network Places. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate ... necessarily accurate ... it might also not be inaccurate, but I mean ... I'm disinclined to mislead anyone. -- Donald Rumsfeld Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. Give the *Windows* password of the user. Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXdUkkFAvMr/nNX8RAiN1AJ9Upo5adlc3gcTieTk3dJ9umWwEfgCghaiC mJin0ClrDoBQV3g//Fxly78= =XrBJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Hello Marc, Sunday, March 21, 2004, 5:17:18 AM, you wrote: M If I then Reformat the drive using Maxblast and a win 98 floppy then M reinstall the HDD in the Gateway machine the gateway machine will be able to M detect it correctly and load windoze back on it and run just fine, but if ML M is loaded after the installation when I go to reboot it is the same old thing M the Gateway machine is no longer able to detect the HDD. I had a big problem with Maxblast a few years ago. It wrote something to the boot sector that was very hard to remove and caused a 'normal' format/install to not work right because the disk was not recognized properly. I had to get a special utility from Maxtor to remove it, then it worked. Don't recall all the details, but Maxblast might still be a problem. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. Give the *Windows* password of the user. Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. Anne Not quite true. The passwords may be different. That us why the smbpasswd command has to be given to let samba know what the windows password is. Also the user names may be different too if aliases are used, but for a newbie it is less trouble if they are the same. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Server GUI?
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 H:44, Marc Resnick wrote: gproftpd -- works for me fine Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 06:48, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there any sort of GUI for proFTPD? I'd like to be able to monitor incoming and outgoing connections. I mainly just use it for giving files to people I know, and I'm having a problem with a timed out connection. I'm not sure if it's my router's firewall, or proFTPD. TIA, Marc Webmin. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Time goes, you say? Ah no! Time stays, *we* go. -- Austin Dobson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com How would I go about monitoring connections with webmin? Oh, also, I just set up a wuftpd server, and I know that it's running because I did an ftp to 127.0.0.1, but if I ever wanted to shut it down, I don't know how. There's no option for me to enable/disable it in webmin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] My public key
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:35 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, What is this public key for? :-[ Christophe Hi Chris, For a short description, it's to make sure that the email is sent by the intended owner and not by other. Also we can encrypt the email that only the holder of the key can decrypt thus read it. For a brief Howto: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/Kmail And for the complete one: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GnuPG - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 01:30:04 up 2:01, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXd/6kp5CsIXuxqURAooSAJ96toiY5u57z8LnPnIFFEeCh7dtPACfViuL sXewlI7iiaO41PxNxaD4z6E= =rMNT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 12:38 am, JoeHill wrote: Windows should see Samba shares without any extra effort, they'll show up in My Network Places. Yes definitely. If you just want to share folder from samba to your winxp, open /etc/samba/smb.conf and add this at the end of it: [myshare] comment = for win xp access path = /home/yourname public = yes writable = yes create mask = 0765 Then restart samba by as root: service smb restart For your information, setting samba using Webmin is very nice. Yes there are a lot of configuration fields, but you can concentrate on those required fields only. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 01:43:29 up 2:15, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXeNSkp5CsIXuxqURAv81AKCcwon4S7hcdJya/QohlFgmZCQi5QCdGEDu 1KyqPpMOSn9h7CtNvU1NPOs= =6B2X -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:07:09 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I cannot send or receive files with dcc send and with xchat. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Do you have a firewall running that could be blocking the DCC traffic? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 18:24, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. Give the *Windows* password of the user. Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. Anne Not quite true. The passwords may be different. That us why the smbpasswd command has to be given to let samba know what the windows password is. Also the user names may be different too if aliases are used, but for a newbie it is less trouble if they are the same. derek Derek - I've no experience with doing this on W2K or XP, but Win98 doesn't allow you to log in as such, in my experience. It just attempts to connect with the existing username and password. I'm not worried about changing anything, but if there is a way around this I would be interested to read about it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXexEkFAvMr/nNX8RAj6SAJ0TIQb3BefMBpAiGQFQy8jhhr6x+gCgi7EU j3l9xdQ0bJNvf7TA0MdR1Qc= =29XI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat
I cannot send or receive files with dcc send and with xchat. Any ideas? Do you have a firewall running that could be blocking the DCC traffic? I have firestarter running. However, the reported problem remains even if I stop the firewall activity, getting the following message on xchat, when sending a file to myself: DCC RECV connect attempt to My_nickname failed (err=No route to host). Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 H:02, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:07:09 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I cannot send or receive files with dcc send and with xchat. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul i take it your download path is valid and correct in the xchat settings are your uploads failing to everyone or just one person... it could be his/her downloads thats not letting you upload? Do you have a firewall running that could be blocking the DCC traffic? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:35:25 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have firestarter running. However, the reported problem remains even if I stop the firewall activity, getting the following message on xchat, when sending a file to myself: DCC RECV connect attempt to My_nickname failed (err=No route to host). Paul The rest of your network/Internet traffic works fine? You're not getting any errors on anything else? (Just checking) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
On Sunday 21 March 2004 15:39, JRH wrote: For RealPlayer and Acrobat, I suggest you take a look at the vendors websites. I have just been to adobe.com for acrobat for Winsucks, and there was a whole list I had to choose from. Linux, MAC, FreeBSD etc... as for realplayer, I'm sure I got the RPM for rp8 from the real site. If youre struggling, I have the RPM here, so I could always send it to you. On 9.2, Acrobat seems to be integrated into Konqueror, so thats what I use for .pdf work. HTH, Yes, thank you very much, JRH. I just finished installing RealPlayer8 - and some 9-codecs as well - Flashplayer and Acrobat Reader 5.0.8. Everything without a hiccup. Have all the commercial vendors become Linux-friendly all of a sudden ? Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer* * running Linux kernel 2.6.3 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: is there an easy way to samba ?
Anne Wilson wrote: Derek - I've no experience with doing this on W2K or XP, but Win98 doesn't allow you to log in as such, in my experience. It just attempts to connect with the existing username and password. Win95, 98 and ME will do as you've experienced; log in with existing username and password. Win NT, 2000 and XP lets you specify username and password, if you want to, when connecting to the share. This has lead to some trouble, since win NT below service pack 3 would send password in palin text, whilst servicepack 3 inroduced password encryption. can be changed with a registryhack bundled with samba. (Of course, the registry key is diffrent on NT compared to 2000, and again different on XP, i think) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:38 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Thanks, gnupg was just what I was looking for... Once I'd found the right GUI tools to go with it :-) ... which were? KGpg or Gnu Privacy Assistant, both are available via URPMI. I think it was KGpg which integrated gnupg with Konqueror and Kmail. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?
Hello! Why do I get a reply like this when posting to the list? The post did show up (This was my reply to Anne in the 'is there an easy way to Samba'-thread /Björn This is the Postfix program at host smtp1.mandrax.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mail forwarding loop for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:05:59 +0100, Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Why do I get a reply like this when posting to the list? The post did show up (This was my reply to Anne in the 'is there an easy way to Samba'-thread /Björn You can ignore (read: delete) these without any worries. We're all getting them. :P pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. ok i am having trouble. i used drakwizard to setup samba. i choose not to allow users to share home directories. there was a part about read/write access permissions i did not understand. basically i want anyone who is on WORKGROUP to be able to browse the universal share without login/pass auth on windows machine. not sure if i need something in the permission boxes to get this to work or not. i have restarted samba after every attempt to finish the wizard. i've also tried adding my windows username to permissions along with Arthur Rosene, root, @wheel, @users still did not work. would appreciate any help thank you Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] more about my samba problems
ok used drakwizard to configure samba. they are all on same network -- now called NETWORK. i have disabled sharing of home directories for users. i dont know what to write in the permissions part for windows to allow any user from windows to read/write to any file/directory on the universally shared samba share dir. I can see Samba on my XP machine but when i try to login it says another machine on network with same name) which doesn't make sense to me as only machine running samba is my linux box. I put the linux box in DMZ mode to make sure there were no port problems. out of clues here. if i can get it to work, this would have been much easier than doing it all manually which caused me alot of heartache. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....
just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root, and do things that way, to save time using command line stuff. I cant do that now. Is there a way to change the login screen at all, so that I can do this?. I had it once with 9.2, but I cant for the life of me remember how to do it! I'm getting a bit frustrated now, I need to change permissions on various things, and I dont know how to do it in shell so I need a GUI! JRH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: is there an easy way to samba ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 19:55, Björn Lundin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Derek - I've no experience with doing this on W2K or XP, but Win98 doesn't allow you to log in as such, in my experience. It just attempts to connect with the existing username and password. Win95, 98 and ME will do as you've experienced; log in with existing username and password. Win NT, 2000 and XP lets you specify username and password, if you want to, when connecting to the share. This has lead to some trouble, since win NT below service pack 3 would send password in palin text, whilst servicepack 3 inroduced password encryption. can be changed with a registryhack bundled with samba. (Of course, the registry key is diffrent on NT compared to 2000, and again different on XP, i think) /Björn Thanks for that, Bjorn. I do remember that my first attempt at linux involved setting the windows machine to send encrypted logins - it was probably when I was running NT. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXgANkFAvMr/nNX8RAicEAJ4hW4kqgBnihYux6LDRk3KxtOhZyACgjCjk TGmG97A1s3b09i2QKHWnswg= =EbsT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:10, Philip Cronje wrote: You can ignore (read: delete) these without any worries. We're all getting them. :P It's only been these last few days, though. I wonder what changed? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXgBbkFAvMr/nNX8RAjYmAJ9tkYWZAR1lsHvdi7XWFIggdRvB/ACfXQhN +eFCeGVVpNTH2hHCPYz4lcM= =7c1V -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:43:02 +, JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root, and do things that way, to save time using command line stuff. I cant do that now. Is there a way to change the login screen at all, so that I can do this?. I had it once with 9.2, but I cant for the life of me remember how to do it! I'm getting a bit frustrated now, I need to change permissions on various things, and I dont know how to do it in shell so I need a GUI! JRH The semi-official standpoint on logging in as root with the GUI is that it should not be done. End of story. Doing root work should be done by logging into your own account, and su'ing temporarily to do whatever it may be that needs doing. It's just Better(tm) this way. Anyway, the CLI commands for changing permissions on files/directories are chmod (for read/write/execute) and chown (for user/group). Go have a looksee at the man pages - it's not what you'd call a higher grade exercise or something :P Anyway, barring that, you can always log in as your usual user, and run insert file manager of choice as root. Hope this helps //Philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....
On Sunday 21 March 2004 21:43, JRH wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root, and do things that way, to save time using command line stuff. I cant do that now. Is there a way to change the login screen at all, so that I can do this?. I had it once with 9.2, but I cant for the life of me remember how to do it! I'm getting a bit frustrated now, I need to change permissions on various things, and I dont know how to do it in shell so I need a GUI! JRH Maybe like this : K menu (star) -- System -- Configuration -- Configure your Computer. Then root password. System -- Display Manager. Here somewhere you can choose to show root on the startup screen as well as other users. But it IS a very bad idea, IMHO. Much safer to learn the CLI way, the command chmod isn't that hairy. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer* * running Linux kernel 2.6.3 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
On Sunday 21 March 2004 12:49, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 15:39, JRH wrote: Yes, thank you very much, JRH. I just finished installing RealPlayer8 - and some 9-codecs as well - Flashplayer and Acrobat Reader 5.0.8. Everything without a hiccup. Have all the commercial vendors become Linux-friendly all of a sudden ? Kaj Haulrich. Saw this over on cooker ML yesterday (posted by a Clive Dove), in case anybody needs a flash player source. BTW, they decided that posting it to contrib wouldn't be a good idea, since the flashplayer is not open source: In a thread in alt.os.linux.mandrake, Gary G. Taylor pointed to a fedora site with package flash-plugin-6.0.81-1.i386.rpm Accordingly, I checked with the Macromedia mirrors and the new version is there in both rpm and tarball packages, The mirrors are: USA West - http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html USA East - http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/site_ru.html Hawaii - http://macromedia.mplug.org/site_uh.html Europe - http://macromedia.rediris.es/site_ri.html I have downloaded and installed the rpm package and have removed the old libstdc++210 package and the flashplayer works fine without the old library. Perhaps the new version should be added to the contrib mirrors. Clive -- 14:00:59 up 1 day, 3:38, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Why use Windows, since there is a door? (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andre Fachat) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat
Apparently, all the rest is working fine. I also get the following message: Offering file.htm to My_nickname --- Received a malformed DCC request from My_nickname. --- Contents of packet: DCC SEND file.htm 160711 Hrmph... that's strange. What version of xchat be you running? I've got a 2.0.7 running here out of the (MDK 10CE) box and I have no problems with DCC. My computer runs MDK 9.2 and X-Chat 2.0.4. With mIRC under MS Windows I do not have any problem with DCC. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] testing Stephen Kuhn.... 1,2,3....
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 02:24, Trevor wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote: If anyone wants to spoof me, well, by all means, please do - I've been spoofing myself for 41 years now... Newbie huh? :^) Welcome back. Regards Trevor Rhodes Ta mate. And yeah, we're always newbies stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:38, JoeHill wrote: If you've got the Samba shares configured already, and easy way to mount and access them is LinNeighborhood. Windows should see Samba shares without any extra effort, they'll show up in My Network Places. You can always, as well, use either Konqueror or Nautilus and type: smb:// ...in the URL field... ...then you can browse the network without having to directly mount anything... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice. -- John Altgeld Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:57, JoeHill wrote: Quote: SCO sent letters raising the prospect of legal action for using Linux to two Department of Energy facilities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Link: http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5176308.html Hint for SCO: do not antagonize people who know how to build NUCLEAR BOMBS. Look - we've been over this time and time again; they can't make money at their own level - SCO UNIX - and Microsoft HAS admitted to giving SCO money/funding - c'mon - they're in bed with Microsoft, they're dying, and McBride is going out of his way to do what he does best - litigate - instead of run a proper company - he's a frigging vulture - and he's not going to be able to keep this crap up forever. Once all of this stuff actually hits the court system, IBM's going to start the Big Blue Ball rolling and SCO is going to meet it's demise - as well as it's going to be publicly found out that they're in bed with Microsoft - so anti-competition is going to come into play on this one as well. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- The ark lands after The Flood. Noah lets all the animals out. Says he, Go and multiply. Several months pass. Noah decides to check up on the animals. All are doing fine except a pair of snakes. What's the problem? says Noah. Cut down some trees and let us live there, say the snakes. Noah follows their advice. Several more weeks pass. Noah checks on the snakes again. Lots of little snakes, everybody is happy. Noah asks, Want to tell me how the trees helped? Certainly, say the snakes. We're adders, and we need logs to multiply. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:29 pm, Carl J. Bauman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that there is some minor anomaly in the iso image that is being spotted by newer or better CD devices but ignored by older ones. This would seem to be true, at least it was in my case. BTW, this is covered by the errata at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3. HTH, Carl I have loaded 10.0 on 6 machines so far and about half of them will boot from CD1 and in the other half I have had to boot with CD2 and then switch to CD 2 Before it was all done and said 10.0 installed perfectly on all 6 machines except for the minor problem of booting from CD1 Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] radeon m9 driver for dell laptop
Hi, I would like to extend my congrats to Mandrake for a significant distro release. I have installed LM10 on my Inspiron (8000) laptop and it took about 20 minutes. I didn't think it would be successful since I didn't have to provide any input or make any decisions but it set up all of my devices and set up my broadband internet without a single keystroke from me. All this on a dual boot system while retaining my /home directory. My issue is with the Radeon driver. The system has been set up with the fglrx driver but this doesn't allow me to change the resolution on the lcd screen. So I changed to the fbdev driver. This allows me to change the resolution but the screen display doesn't change..for instance, if I go to 600x480 the task bar disappears off the bottom of the screen. Ctl - Alt - F1 to a cli to MCC to change back. I think I remember a posting on this recently but the archives are still out of date. (what's up with that?) My thanks, as well, to everyone who support by helping list members. Best regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.
This one's a beauty! We are firm in our belief that the unchecked spread of open-source software, under the GPL (the General Public License covers Linux and many other open-source programs), is a much more serious threat to our capitalist system than U.S. corporations realize, McBride said. Sniff? Sniff? is anyone else smelling that stench? This guy needs a shower and an enema, cause one way or another he reeks of something I'd normally scrape off of my shoe! Gee Darl, Good thing you stopped marketing Caldera Linux then isn't it! But, wait just a minute? Isn't it true that Caldera earned enough money to BUY SCO, using that big ole nasty Open-Source software? What a friggin' hypocrit! I'm tellin' ya fellow list-members, when this guy is done, his name and reputation won't be worth diddley-squat! Who is this guy, anyway? How can he possibly think that his reputation will be intact once the smoke clears? Does his rhetoric remind anyone of a certain twit in Redmond? Even ( and that's a really big stretch! ) if he's got a valid claim, no one's going to want to stand next to this guy for the forseeable future! Give me a freakin' break! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading from 9.2 to Cooker without cd's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 09:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote: I have another question about upgrading to 10.0 so I thought I'd start a new thread. I have a local mirror of cooker. I would like to install it so I could have 10 + all bugfixes so far. However, I finally have my system set up perfectly, without any problems that I can see. I run my own 2.6 kernel, and a whole bunch of other stuff. That's why I was hoping to just do an upgrade - maybe catch the new versions of the programs. But on the other hand, I kind of need to start over with my spring cleaning. My /usr partition is 7.6 GB full. I am lost as to whether try to upgrade, or to start over. If I do decide to upgrade, can't I just do it with the following commands: urpmi urpmi urpmi --auto-select I don't want old configuration files from old packages lingering around though. I want the new and improved menu structure, etc. Thanks for any input - its appreciated. John I did the urpmi --auto-select thing to move a 9.2 that had been pretty heavily customized to 10.0. I also did it on a stock 9.2 machine with no customizations and no packages installed from contrib or plf and I must say that although I eventually got it working, my main box was a PITA dealing with all the little niggles that came up. The second machine was smooth as silk. So I would say that the more complex your setup, and the more third party and built from source software you have installed, the harder it will be to do this without any problems. On a heavily cusimized box, your best option might be to zip up your /etc directory for future reference and do a clean install. - -- /g -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXiQwGu5uuMFlL5MRAiOpAJ4jKCne+DCzeqoFiw/lblnt9zopxQCfS+X1 hXQD3v0AFJMEdZfnMe9pQ2g= =JLX6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:43 pm, JRH wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root, and do things that way, to save time using command line stuff. I cant do that now. Is there a way to change the login screen at all, so that I can do this?. I had it once with 9.2, but I cant for the life of me remember how to do it! I'm getting a bit frustrated now, I need to change permissions on various things, and I dont know how to do it in shell so I need a GUI! JRH urpmi kdebase-kdm urpme mdkkdm -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:43, JRH wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root, and do things that way, to save time using command line stuff. I cant do that now. Is there a way to change the login screen at all, so that I can do this?. I had it once with 9.2, but I cant for the life of me remember how to do it! I'm getting a bit frustrated now, I need to change permissions on various things, and I dont know how to do it in shell so I need a GUI! JRH __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Try kdesu konqueror in the Run Command dialog box or in a console. This will run the the file manager as su. Works well for me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Server GUI?
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 H:37, Stephen Kuhn wrote: if you are using ProFTP get gProFTPd as GUI it gives you real time info and lets you configure the server as well if you want anonymous logins then you will need anonymous-proftp.rpm i use it all the time and it works fine and should do what you are after rpms for it are avail are rpmfind.net On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 01:44, Marc Resnick wrote: How would I go about monitoring connections with webmin? Oh, also, I just set up a wuftpd server, and I know that it's running because I did an ftp to 127.0.0.1, but if I ever wanted to shut it down, I don't know how. There's no option for me to enable/disable it in webmin. Now so sure about WUFtp mate, but you might want to try shutting it down via the drakxservices utility - so you'd shut down the service when you don't want to use it; you might take a look on the net (Google is your friend) for FTP session monitoring utilities; http://freshmeat.net/projects/networkandservicemonitoringsystem/ ...is one that I found... You can always use /usr/bin/ftpwho - amongst other things... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- The eternal feminine draws us upward. -- Goethe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:51 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:10, Philip Cronje wrote: You can ignore (read: delete) these without any worries. We're all getting them. :P It's only been these last few days, though. I wonder what changed? Anne I've gotten several of those, too. The return paths in all of the rejected e-mails were identical (except for time and date, of course). Here's an example: Received: from jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawfinance.com (host213-106-224-113.no-dns-yet.ntli.net [213.106.224.113]) by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C0856A11 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:02:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawfinance.com ([213.106.224.113]) by jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawfinance.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 01:46:08 + Received: by jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawfinance.com (Microsoft Connector for POP3 Mailboxes 5.00.2195) with SMTP (Global POP3 Download) id [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 01:46:06 - Received: from smtp.mandrake.com (smtp.mandrake.com [212.85.147.176]) by lml503.securepod.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2K1hEk29671 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 01:43:14 GMT Received: from smtp.mandrax.org (smtp.mandrax.org [80.67.180.169]) by smtp.mandrake.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A6983BF4; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 02:37:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6D77056A13; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:00:42 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is something misconfigured at codeweavers.net, securepod or jigsawfinance.com? BTW -- didn't we go through something like this a few months back? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Guide to Linux File Command Mastery
Looks like a pretty good intro to command line file manipulation and processing: http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/calish_file_commands.html ...and from Oracle, no less :-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth. -- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Error
Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk or install lilo it tells me : couldn't find kernel file ? thanks tomy - e6e9fe46b17fa16d9a250d4189e8f0cd fingerprint Quadra 650 | Debian 3.0r2 | m68k _ MSN Messenger : discutez en direct avec vos amis ! http://messenger.fr.msn.ca/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Error
On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk or install lilo it tells me : couldn't find kernel file ? thanks Well, there is probably about 20 reasons, including your lilo.conf entries are pointing to the wrong place or your /boot partition is not mounted, so more info is necessary. The $100,000 question everyone wants answered though is why on earth are you still using 7.0? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
