[newbie] Signature Script - Fortune
Hi List, Early last month I posted with regards to my signature script and fortune. It all works well but about the same time someone posted and gave a code, for want of a better word to follow the fortune line to limit the size of the fortune affixed to the signature. Have seached my mails for last month but no can find. Could someone give me some leads on this. Thanks David Taylor Taranaki, New Zealand http://windwand.co.nz proudly using a 100% Linux, Mandrake OS, computer === 'in replying to this mail please leave the filter code, ie [] and contents, in subject line' === Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what is wrong with it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xmms only plays when started in CLI
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 18:43, C. Tresenriter wrote: If I go through startmultimediasound, xmms will load up and after entering the URL for the stream, it buffers the looks like it's playing - it shows a stereo signal and the address - but there's no sound and the timer stays at zero. In addition, afterwards, it will not close not via the GUI or a right click and I have to restart X. At the CLI, it works like I expect it to - I'm using 10.0 with the Official updates. Has anyone else experienced this? The problem lies with soundwrapper. When you use it from the CLI xmms interfaces directly with the soundcard device. When you start it from the menu it runs 'soundwrapper xmms'. As I understand it, soundwrapper allowed multiple programs to produce audio which was then transparently mixed by the KDE sound daemon. This allowed multiple channels before that functionality was implemented in hardware kernel device drivers. Most likely you do not now need it. soundwrapper is a way for applications that uses sound to be rerouted to use arts (the sound daemon for KDE) before going into the sound driver. This way, multiple applications that uses sound can be run at the same time (i.e. hearing those warning signals in gaim while playing your favorite mp3 in xmms). This is useful if you have a soundcard that doesn't support multi-channel sound sources right from the hardware (or if the linux sound driver for that hardware doesn't support multi-channel). http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12260 So essentially this is a bug which you must work around. The solution is to right click on the K and go to Menu editor. In there locate the entry for xmms and remove the 'soundwrapper' text from the command. A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Signature Script - Fortune
On Sat, 08 May 2004 12:16:43 +1200 David disseminated the following: limit the size of the fortune affixed to the signature. Add the -s switch to the fortune command, and it will choose only 'short' quotes. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 09:27:03 up 1 day, 19:54, 6 users, load average: 0.24, 0.40, 0.29 +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth. -- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] updating mysql using urpmi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, If I update mysql using urpmi, will it delete all my databases and privileges? Thanks. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 22:38:32 up 3:27, 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) iD8DBQFAnP9Lkp5CsIXuxqURAo6zAKChsIgVIIldI7m94V0C+aN+iRt2+wCfTtmh 809VvAzVDm/fZsTpH3Wzv2M= =7DEu -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] updating mysql using urpmi
Op Sat, 8 May 2004 22:39:52 +0700 schreef Fajar Priyanto: If I update mysql using urpmi, will it delete all my databases and privileges? Thanks. No, it would only update the software. Paul -- Stay light, but trust gravity! http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MS opens Hotmail to bulk mailers
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8562 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 -- One day this guy is finally fed up with his middle-class existence and decides to do something about it. He calls up his best friend, who is a mathematical genius. Look, he says, do you suppose you could find some way mathematically of guaranteeing winning at the race track? We could make a lot of money and retire and enjoy life. The mathematician thinks this over a bit and walks away mumbling to himself. A week later his friend drops by to ask the genius if he's had any success. The genius, looking a little bleary-eyed, replies, Well, yes, actually I do have an idea, and I'm reasonably sure that it will work, but there a number of details to be figured out. After the second week the mathematician appears at his friend's house, looking quite a bit rumpled, and announces, I think I've got it! I still have some of the theory to work out, but now I'm certain that I'm on the right track. At the end of the third week the mathematician wakes his friend by pounding on his door at three in the morning. He has dark circles under his eyes. His hair hasn't been combed for many days. He appears to be wearing the same clothes as the last time. He has several pencils sticking out from behind his ears and an almost maniacal expression on his face. WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN DO IT!! he shrieks. I have discovered the perfect solution!! And it's so EASY! First, we assume that horses are perfect spheres in simple harmonic motion... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS opens Hotmail to bulk mailers
On Sun, 09 May 2004 06:04:48 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8562 Well, if there's another way for MS to make money, what do you expect? They certainly have never demonstrated even one iota of ethics or consideration for their customers. ...as described in an article I tried to post earlier, but seems to have not gotten through: Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a research analyst said Wednesday. Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner, recommended that enterprises boost spending on patch management and intrusion prevention software to keep ahead of worms, which are appearing ever sooner after vulnerabilities in Windows are disclosed. ___This is part of the carrying cost of using Windows,___ said Nicolett. ___The cost of a Windows environment has gone up because enterprises have to install security patches very rapidly, deal with outages caused by secondary problems with these patches, and deploy additional layers of security technology.___ Link: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6966 -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 16:23:26 up 2 days, 2:50, 9 users, load average: 0.28, 0.16, 0.15 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.-- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS opens Hotmail to bulk mailers
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 06:34, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 09 May 2004 06:04:48 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8562 Well, if there's another way for MS to make money, what do you expect? They certainly have never demonstrated even one iota of ethics or consideration for their customers. ...as described in an article I tried to post earlier, but seems to have not gotten through: Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a research analyst said Wednesday. Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner, recommended that enterprises boost spending on patch management and intrusion prevention software to keep ahead of worms, which are appearing ever sooner after vulnerabilities in Windows are disclosed. ___This is part of the carrying cost of using Windows,___ said Nicolett. ___The cost of a Windows environment has gone up because enterprises have to install security patches very rapidly, deal with outages caused by secondary problems with these patches, and deploy additional layers of security technology.___ Link: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6966 ...which is more proof that the TCO of Windows is incredibly higher than that of FOSS/GNU linux 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 -- Thus spake the master programmer: Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless. -- Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS opens Hotmail to bulk mailers
On Sun, 09 May 2004 06:46:51 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: Link: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6966 ...which is more proof that the TCO of Windows is incredibly higher than that of FOSS/GNU linux Just don't tell our *clients* that, eh? LOL! But seriously, I make more money from I have a problem with Windows than is morally justifiable. I feel so guilty. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 16:55:41 up 2 days, 3:22, 9 users, load average: 0.35, 0.23, 0.12 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] New WM on the block
Looks interesting, very much like ION, but configurable without having to learn a freakin' programming language :-D WMI is a new window manager for X11, which combines the best features of LarsWM, Ion, TrsWM, evilwm and ratpoison into one window manager. WMI is new: it is developed from scratch wit h C++ without any ancient code and design dependencies to antiquated window managers. WMI is minimalistic: it has no build- or runtime dependencies except the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) and the X11 Library (XLib). WMI is highly customizable: it is designed with keyboard users in mind. Each action (e.g. resizing the frame, creating a new workspace, launching an app, note that WMI provides hundreds of actions) can be bind to a shortcut. So say good-bye to the rodent :) Link: http://wmi.berlios.de/ -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 17:06:42 up 2 days, 3:33, 9 users, load average: 0.17, 0.14, 0.09 +++ Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. -- John Maynard Keynes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied my old Mail folder to my home directory. I did have a couple of new messages in kmail, before i quit and copied the old mail folder to home, but nothing I needed. Everything is working fine now, EXCEPT that each time kmail starts up, I recieved a dialoge box that announces: The directory .Mail exists. We can't move mail. I need to release this dialogue box before kmail will load. Incidently, the dialoge box is oddly covered up by another box, that announces K KONTACT groupware. I am however able to move the underlying box out in order to click ok and allow the program to continue loading. What should I do to make things right? Thanks. Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] redetect Channels on tv card after boot
Does anyone know where the config is for a tvcard? Reason is, everytime I reboot the comp I have to redetect the channels for it to work. Both tvtime and xawtv show no device until I redetect the channels on cable tv. ? I can not seem to find the right config file. -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New WM on the block
On Saturday 08 May 2004 23:14, JoeHill wrote: WMI is minimalistic: it has no build- or runtime dependencies except the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) and the X11 Library (XLib). Allright...you try that with no gtk+ libs or a few gnome/bonobo ones to boot and I betcha the whole wm will not run. My problem with the big wm's like kde and gnome is that they guzzle RAM after that I'm pissed off at having to install all those libraries just to run a simple program. Actually I'm saying: No cleaner WM than the commandline (and dialog ofcourse;)) WMI is highly customizable: it is designed with keyboard users in mind. Each action (e.g. resizing the frame, creating a new workspace, launching an app, note that WMI provides hundreds of actions) can be bind to a shortcut. So say good-bye to the rodent :) Whadya think use cat for? ;) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xcdroast -n and XFce4
Hi. It's not the end of the world, but I had to teach a friend how to burn CD's on X-CD-Roast and, as I was using XFce4, it came as a surprise that 'xcdroast -n' would not make the programme open correctly. It was much larger than my computer screen. It shows OK in Gnome. Has anyone experienced this ? -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * Este mundo redondo, mas est ficando muito chato. Baro de Itarar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 01:09 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 07:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: If I have a bunch of ogg files encoded at 192 kbps (average), and I want them to be at 128 kbps (average), is there a utility to do that directly instead of converting them back to wav and re-encoding them with oggenc. I want to do this because my cd/mp3 player only supports 96-160kbps vbr oggs. Yes, Sox. http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Sox is the ultimate swiss army knife of sound utils. You can try the simple bash script I have attached. Just edit it to suite your needs. The way it is now is to produce a folder called converted with your re-encoded ogg's at quality 4, and in the comment it puts in the original bitrate. Okay Ralph, this worked like a charm. The only change I made was to add a MIN and MAX variable to use with the -m and -M switches of oggenc so I could prevent the bitrate of the tracks from drifting outside the supported range of my player. You'd get much better quality if you just re-ripped/encoded. Yeah, I know and I would usually do so, but I bought a bunch of tracks from audiolunchbbox (great site for indie music fans BTW, Ogg and mp3 format, no drm) and the Oggs are Q6, and my iriver player only supports them at 96-160 vbr. I can either convert the mp3's at 192 kbps average vbr to ogg, or convert the higher quality oggs to a lower quality. I think it will sound better to go ogg to ogg instead of mp3 to ogg.-- /g -- /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] Blurry image with X
Le May 8, 2004 06:50 pm, Asa Rossoff a écrit : From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I realized when projecting the display on screen with a video projector that the image is blurry compared to the one produced with windows. Of course I immediately tried to configure the focus on the projector itself but that does not work. The screen is hardly readable from more than 2 meters against 6+ with windows. Have you an idea about what can be the cause of this? This is just a guess, could it be the resolution you are using? video projection is fairly low resolution, I think. Are the results the same if you try your Windows resolution? Do you have instructions or a web site for the projecter that you could check for suggestions? I try that. The projector is attached to the video card output port. Then the signal goes through and come back to my monitor by an output port in the projector, a little like my answering machine. Now, the display on the monitor looks fine. However it is blurry on screen. I use 24 bits 800x600, like with windoes. Do you think it could be the projector? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Blurry image with X
From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Le May 8, 2004 06:50 pm, Asa Rossoff a écrit : From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I realized when projecting the display on screen with a video projector that the image is blurry compared to the one produced with windows. Of course I immediately tried to configure the focus on the projector itself but that does not work. The screen is hardly readable from more than 2 meters against 6+ with windows. Have you an idea about what can be the cause of this? This is just a guess, could it be the resolution you are using? video projection is fairly low resolution, I think. Are the results the same if you try your Windows resolution? Do you have instructions or a web site for the projecter that you could check for suggestions? I try that. The projector is attached to the video card output port. Then the signal goes through and come back to my monitor by an output port in the projector, a little like my answering machine. Now, the display on the monitor looks fine. However it is blurry on screen. I use 24 bits 800x600, like with windoes. Do you think it could be the projector? It sounds like it's some limitation of the projecter having to do with some aspect of the video signal. If the resolution and color depth are the same, then it is probably the horizontal sync rate or the vertical sync rate. You could customize a video mode in X by running xvidtune as root to try adjusting the sync rates. The easiest way to check what sync rates are used in your Windows and Linux 800x600 modes, if you don't already know, is on your monitor -- most monnitors have a button or option to show the current video mode, including sync rates. Asa BTW - I just noticed that your posts to the list have a Reply-To address set in them -- this prevents replies to your posts from goign to the mailing list... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10
Hi just a quick question before I start another adventure. I had 9.2 up and running without problems, but as I am trying out different things before deciding which to stick to. So a few weeks ago I got a copy of lindows 4.5 so I decided to try it out, the installation went well and it seemed to be working fine. Then the problems started first hardly any programs with the disk, you have to download from a website wich charge for the use. Secondly all email and web pages, infact anything you saved Lindows did not remember. So I decided to bin it, two days later I had my Pc up and running with an older version of windows 98, this was all to do with the bootloader in Lindows. Anyway I digress, tomorrow I intend to install a proper version of Linux Mandrake 10. I have the set of 3 CD`s and intend to run it along side windows on a 30 Gig partition. Are there any issues I need to consider before installation. Philip. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.669 / Virus Database: 431 - Release Date: 26/04/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [Fwd: Re: [expert] modem recommendation]
-Forwarded Message- From: Jonathan Dlouhy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] modem recommendation Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 02:20:24 -0400 On Friday 07 May 2004 10:57 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 09:44 pm, Norman Carver wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 04:03 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 13:26, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Would some of you be so kind as to recommend some modems that you have found to work well in Linux? Unfortunately it has to be a PCI board, but experiences would be greatly appreciated. I am using a U.S. Robotics 5610B. Very good unit. I also have one of these. Works great, except I recall that certain Mandrake utilities (hardware configuration?) *incorrectly* state that it is a software modem (i.e., Winmodem). Always gets setup fine, though, except its linked to /dev/ttyS04 which is not in kppp, so you have to link it to /dev/modem manually and use that in kppp (I think that is right--no longer have kppp set up due to cable modem usage). Norm I just got this USR modem today. Which driver did you use and how did you get it working? I only want it for faxing since I have a cable connection. Thanks, Jonathan Dlouhy Principal Oboe Atlanta Symphony Orchestra == We All Die Young Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Need help getting my printer to work in Mandrake 9.2
Can anyone assist me in getting my printer (HP OfficeJet 4100) working? Mandrake Control Center sees the printer and autoconfigures, and even does a test print, but I can't print from any applications. Any ideas what I can check or tweak to get this working. PLEASE HELP, not being able to print means I have to use Windoze, something I'm not keen on doing, but I've got to get the job done. Kind regards, and thanks in advance. John H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10
On May 8, 2004 04:39 pm, Phlip J Scott wrote: Hi just a quick question before I start another adventure. I had 9.2 up and running without problems, but as I am trying out different things before deciding which to stick to. So a few weeks ago I got a copy of lindows 4.5 so I decided to try it out, the installation went well and it seemed to be working fine. Then the problems started first hardly any programs with the disk, you have to download from a website wich charge for the use. Secondly all email and web pages, infact anything you saved Lindows did not remember. So I decided to bin it, two days later I had my Pc up and running with an older version of windows 98, this was all to do with the bootloader in Lindows. Anyway I digress, tomorrow I intend to install a proper version of Linux Mandrake 10. I have the set of 3 CD`s and intend to run it along side windows on a 30 Gig partition. Are there any issues I need to consider before installation. Philip. --- Some individuals have had all kinds of problems with 10 while most seem to be relatively problem free. I'm one of the lucky ones who's problem free. :-) Go for it. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dcc-dccd.tar.Z
Ark will not open this file either will fileroller, what can be used? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:32pm up 2 days, 3:57, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.13, 0.17 No manual is ever necessary. May I politely interject here: BULLSHIT. That's the biggest Apple lie of all! (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.) Live - From Virgin Radio U.K. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dcc-dccd.tar.Z
On Saturday 08 May 2004 09:35 pm, Chris wrote: Ark will not open this file either will fileroller, what can be used? Disregard, found an app for this, if anyones interested its ncompress. Couldn't find a MDK version however, the redhat 9.0 rpm installed with no problems and worked fine. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:57pm up 2 days, 4:21, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.23, 0.21 Besides, I think [Slackware] sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you? (By Patrick Volkerding) Live - From Virgin Radio U.K. Queen - One Vision Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New WM on the block
On Sun, 9 May 2004 00:30:56 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: WMI is minimalistic: it has no build- or runtime dependencies except the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) and the X11 Library (XLib). Allright...you try that with no gtk+ libs or a few gnome/bonobo ones to boot and I betcha the whole wm will not run. Well, the WM would run, but you would still need the basics for running any GTK app, Sylpheed, Firefox, you name it. I think this WM, though, is aimed at people who spend most of their time at the CLI, coding, mail, the works. My problem with the big wm's like kde and gnome is that they guzzle RAM after that I'm pissed off at having to install all those libraries just to run a simple program. I'm with ya there, no doubt. Actually I'm saying: No cleaner WM than the commandline (and dialog ofcourse;)) I dunno, there's a certain satisfaction in manipulating and creating using the mouse, I find it especially useful for navigating workspaces, grouped windows, raising and lowering windows, all with the wheel, no clicky. And the ease of 'drag and drop' for doing things like creating CD's and the like, you can't deny that. WMI is highly customizable: it is designed with keyboard users in mind. Each action (e.g. resizing the frame, creating a new workspace, launching an app, note that WMI provides hundreds of actions) can be bind to a shortcut. So say good-bye to the rodent :) Whadya think use cat for? ;) LOL! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 23:46:22 up 2 days, 10:13, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.06 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] modem problem
I just bought a USR 5610b modem that was recommended by several knowledgeable folks to work fine with Linux. It seems to want to use Com 4, which I assume is /dev/ttys3. When I look in the /dev directory ttys3 is linked to pty/s51. I suppose that's why my comm and fax programs complain that the modem is either busy or locked? Should I remove that link? And if so, how? Thanks, Jonathan Dlouhy = Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by 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] modem problem
i think you want ttyS3 note the upper case 's' bascule On Sunday 09 May 2004 4:57 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: 4, which I assume is /dev/ttys3. When I look in the /dev directory ttys3 is linked to pty/s51. I suppose that's why my comm and fax programs -- Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6
Le May 7, 2004 04:41 am, Derek Jennings a écrit : On Friday 07 May 2004 05:41, Marc Lijour wrote: Would you know what to do in order to make the firmware uploaded automatically as soon as the device is detected on the USB port? At this point I have to use fxload manually each time I boot. To make a kernel module load automatically on inserting a USB device edit /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap Copy the format from an existing device. You will need the usb vendor/product codes of your device which you will see somewhere in dmesg, or install and run usbview and it will tell you the codes. Hi derek in this file it is written that it is automatically generated (by what I do not know!), and actually there are multiple line for my backpack. In spite of these lines it is not recognized. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Need help getting my printer to work in Mandrake 9.2
On Friday 07 May 2004 04:40 am, John Henderson wrote: Can anyone assist me in getting my printer (HP OfficeJet 4100) working? Mandrake Control Center sees the printer and autoconfigures, and even does a test print, but I can't print from any applications. Any ideas what I can check or tweak to get this working. PLEASE HELP, not being able to print means I have to use Windoze, something I'm not keen on doing, but I've got to get the job done. Kind regards, and thanks in advance. John H. Need more info, are you on a network? do you have firewall running, maybe you need to open port 631. You do not say which iteration of ML you have, is it 10.0 or 9.2? Lastly you might try doing an upgrade with disk one in and at the end check the printer config or reconfig it and then reboot to see if it now works, just some thoughts. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6
How do you manage to have your fxload called each time you boot? Le May 4, 2004 12:09 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar a écrit : Resend... sent this earlier today, during the email server hiccup, and never got a confirmation, but I've gotten confirmations since then, so it seems this got lost. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6 Date: May 3, 2004 14:34 From: Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 2, 2004 14:19, Marc Lijour wrote: Hi I have a bacpack (MIcrosolution) cdwriter. It was working in 9.2. I used to insmod the following modules in this order to have it working: bpck6 (driver) pcd (parallel port connection, which is used to connect the cdwriter) pg (scsi emulation) Then I could see it with cdrecord -scanbus, mount it, and use it. With 10.0 it does not work this way. My loaded modules are: ... --- end --- Please, I would need some help to make it work with kernel 2.6. Thanks, Marc Hey, a fellow backpacker! I'm using the USB interface, though, so it might be different with the parallel port. I downloaded the driver from: http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/linux/index3.html I started with 10.0 CE and never did get it working there. Hoped 10.0 Official would fix the problem but it didn't. After a lot of mucking around, I discovered that the fxload program is missing from the Mandrake 10 distro, even though it's part of the Linux Hotplug project on SourceForge. This program is responsible for downloading new firmware to the drive to make it talk to Linux properly. Check in /var/log/messages to see if there's a message saying that fxload is missing. If so, download it from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679 Hope this helps. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem
On Sunday 09 May 2004 12:07 am, bascule wrote: i think you want ttyS3 note the upper case 's' bascule On Sunday 09 May 2004 4:57 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: 4, which I assume is /dev/ttys3. When I look in the /dev directory ttys3 is linked to pty/s51. I suppose that's why my comm and fax programs I realize that's usually the way it is, but all of my devices in my /dev directory are in lower case. -- Jonathan Dlouhy Sunday, May 09, 2004 12:35 AM Vegetarians eat vegetables. ... Beware of humanitarians. Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by 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] HP printer problem
I have a HP PSC1210 that I got working via the TWiki page when I was running 9.2 However it does not work under Mdk 10.0 I get the error message Kernal Module printer not loaded. is there a patch or does 2.6 have problems with USB printers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Saturday 08 May 2004 04:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -We have a winner. I said you'd get a prize, but I lied :-p - -It is really astounding to me that one can figure out the song from listening -to the difference between the original and the compressed version. TBH, it took me awhile. I'm familiar with the song (I've always liked Queen) and I cranked my Monsoon speakers darn near max... -- /\ 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] redetect Channels on tv card after boot
On Saturday 08 May 2004 06:24 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: -Does anyone know where the config is for a tvcard? Reason is, everytime I -reboot the comp I have to redetect the channels for it to work. Both tvtime -and xawtv show no device until I redetect the channels on cable tv. ? I -can not seem to find the right config file. Er, if I'm getting what you're asking for, the last time I used Xawtv, its config file was in my users /home directory, called .xawtv... Here is what mine looked like (note this is under v9.1 and 9.2): [global] ratio = 4:3 freqtab = us-cable pixsize = 128 x 96 pixcols = 1 jpeg-quality = 75 keypad-ntsc = no keypad-partial = yes osd = yes # [Station name] # capture = overlay | grabdisplay | on | off # input = Television | Composite1 | S-Video | ... # norm = PAL | NTSC | SECAM | ... # channel = # # fine = # (-128..+127) # key = keysym | modifier+keysym # color = # # bright = # # hue = # # contrast = # [defaults] norm = ntsc input = television capture = over color = 49% contrast = 42% [TechTV] channel = 53 [Weather Channel] channel = 31 [Fox News] channel = 38 [Discovery] channel = 30 [Sci-Fi Channel] channel = 29 [CNN] channel = 32 [USA Network] channel = 34 [TBS] channel = 37 [History Channel] channel = 44 [Cartoon Network] channel = 52 [VH1] channel = 57 [FX] channel = 60 [TNT] channel = 35 [AMC] channel = 27 Hope this helps ya. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] FreeCell
What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FreeCell
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 01:12 -0400, Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? Please change your Reply To settings so that they allow responses to go to the list rather than privately. (Newbie list netiquette, blah, blah, yadda, yadda ...) Thx. I didn't see any earlier posts in this thread/under this subject (where there any?) so there's no context to go on :-), but if you're asking if Free Cell is available in Mandrake, yes, PySOL includes at least one Free Cell variant. I don't recall offhand if PySOL is part of the standard games install or not, but readily available nonetheless. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk 00:26:23 up 1 day, 14:40, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.18, 0.21 Preserve the old, but know the new Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FreeCell
Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? MDK10.0 and KDE3.2 here. Open up terminal and type kpat without quotes, under settings, game type, you'll find freecell. -- Mike --- THPPFFT! --Bill the Cat, Outland --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FreeCell
Le May 9, 2004 01:37 am, Chuck MATTSEN a écrit : On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 01:12 -0400, Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? Please change your Reply To settings so that they allow responses to go to the list rather than privately. (Newbie list netiquette, blah, blah, yadda, yadda ...) Thx. Sorry. It is corrected now. Btw, in my lists I configured sympa to force the reply to be to the list. I don't know if it would be a problem for this list. But anyway, I did my part in correcting my settings. Enjoy! I didn't see any earlier posts in this thread/under this subject (where there any?) so there's no context to go on :-), but if you're asking if Free Cell is available in Mandrake, yes, PySOL includes at least one Free Cell variant. I don't recall offhand if PySOL is part of the standard games install or not, but readily available nonetheless. Thanks! These games are really great. Music and the whole package ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FreeCell
Le May 9, 2004 01:43 am, mike a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? MDK10.0 and KDE3.2 here. Open up terminal and type kpat without quotes, under settings, game type, you'll find freecell. Thanks! I was confused by the fact that freecell is not in the menu anymore and it has been repackaged. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] pcmcia nic card problem
I installed MDK10.0 over an ftp server using the netorking boot disk, and my 3Com 3CCFE574BT pcmcia nic card worked fine for this. (I have an ADSL connection) But after I installed MDK I can't find the nic in the hardware section, and my networks/internet does not work. And the light doesn't even turn on, on the card. Please help me! Marcus __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
