Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!
On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:23:02 +0200 Ronald disseminated the following: Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! yes we can :-) http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html Well, I must say I'm used to contradictory, even pathologically, statements from MS, but... Excluding pirated copies could aggravate the damage of worms and other virus outbreaks, which ultimately harms legitimate Windows users, Goffe added. However, the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker has since clarified that its iron-clad stance towards piracy remains unchanged, and SP2 will be no exception. Press reports indicating Windows XP Service Pack 2 will install on pirated or illegal copies of Windows XP are not entirely true, said Dominic Carr, Microsoft Asia-Pacific's senior product manager for Windows. Prior to installing, SP2 will check the OS product ID (PID) against a list of known pirated PIDs. If a PID is found to be invalid, SP2 will not install, Carr told CNETAsia. Soo, which is it Billy? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 17:26:59 up 5 days, 3:54, 8 users, load average: 0.54, 0.25, 0.09 +++ 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
Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!
On Tue, 11 May 2004 11:10:24 -0700 rikona disseminated the following: R yes we can :-) R http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html Yep - main benefit to M$ is probably tracking down more pirates. ...who will then download MDK :-D -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 17:29:03 up 5 days, 3:56, 8 users, load average: 0.25, 0.23, 0.10 +++ It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth... -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI
On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the number 1 graphics card manufacturer? Unless I'm completely misreading your post, can't you just download the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site and install those? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 17:32:25 up 5 days, 3:59, 8 users, load average: 0.17, 0.20, 0.10 +++ They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within; I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them, first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin... -- Leonard Cohen, 'First We Take Manhattan' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6?
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:34, Todd Slater wrote: Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast. The whole thing was fast, and that running off a cd. Todd Didn't try it yet, but I checked out their site a while ago and it looks very promising. It seems though that upgrading to 2.6 is quite an adventure, isn't it? Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 -- * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * * Running Mandrake 9.1 / Mandrake 10.0 Community * -- Tell me, Brother Baldrick, what exactly did God do to the Sodomites? I dunno, but I can't imagine it was worse than what they used to do to each other. - EB Baldrick, Blackadder's Christmas Carol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 23:33, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the number 1 graphics card manufacturer? Unless I'm completely misreading your post, can't you just download the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site and install those? No, he can't because it isn't actually a nvidia product...it's *,Thompson IIRC and just uses their (nvidia) chips. It works fine using the nv driver and 2D..and that's it! No 3D etc. 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
Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 00:28, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:23:02 +0200 Ronald disseminated the following: Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! yes we can :-) http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html The register (as usual) reports with a few sensible (to my feeble mind) comments http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/11/xpsp2_pirate_blocking/ MS spells it out: pirates can, can't install WinXP Sp2 -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. 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 does something intelligent!
Hello JoeHill, Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 2:29:24 PM, you wrote: J On Tue, 11 May 2004 11:10:24 -0700 J rikona disseminated the following: R yes we can :-) R http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html Yep - main benefit to M$ is probably tracking down more pirates. J ...who will then download MDK :-D Hey - great idea! :-)) I've been doing my part by sharing the disks, too. -- 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
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Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:47 pm, g2 wrote: 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 so why no responses folks? Was my problem not explained clearly, or did it seem like not a big enough problem for people to bother answering? G2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X server crash
On Sun, 2 May 2004 22:57:49 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity: what desktop are you running with 2 MB of video RAM? Shirley not KDE or Guh-nome! The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight window manager at the same screen resolution as KDE is going to use the same amount of video memory. I had an ATI Graphics expression card w/2 megs run in 1152x900x16bpp for years before I got my current Matrox card (with 16 megs). The OPs problem was that 2 megs is simply not enough resolution to run 1024x768 at 32bpp. OTOH, 2 megs was enough for the big iron 370 I first learned programming on at the local community college. But it was kinda painful. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:34 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest linux Thorn in my side is MP3 players Linux just can't handle the propriety file systems We need an OSS standard for this. Dunno what mp3 has to do with proprietary file systems (ITYM proprietary encoding systems, right?) Well, of course mp3 is encumbered, but I don't have a trouble with playing or encoding them on linux, and don't remember ever having a problem. Plus my set-top box and portable player both support MP3 encoding, and don't support ogg. Of course, if they did, I'd likely convert to ogg in a heartbeat, but since much of what I get is mp3 in the first place, I might as well keep it that way :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X server crash
On Tue, 11 May 2004 21:12:53 -0700 David E. Fox disseminated the following: The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight window manager at the same screen resolution as KDE is going to use the same amount of video memory. Not too concerned with how much memory it may use, but the amount of video RAM definitely affects performance/speed. KDE and Gnome are sloths on this MoBo with 8 MB of video RAM, not so when I had my GF4 Ti in an AGP slot. Even Pekwm doesn't have that 'split second' responsiveness I was used to. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 00:29:34 up 5 days, 10:56, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.06, 0.01 +++ Two different philosophies about the nature of human intellectual production are in confrontation. One of them has all the chips; the other has all the right answers. This is part of the long struggle in the history of human beings for the creation of freedom. This time, we win. -- Eben Moglen, Professor of Law Columbia University Law School, General Counsel Free Software Foundation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 17:40:13 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You bring up a good point. Xandros, Libranet, Mandrake, all the 'not free as in beer' distros, trumpet their ease of use, including their support for At least in the case of Mandrake, much of that stuff is in plf for obvious reasons, and sooner or later there is going to be suse-specific equivalents of plf stuff. It's only a matter of time. I'm all for open standards, but the problem is that much of the content providers on the Internet have locked into the proprietary technology and this makes things very difficult for us, even should we attempt to make use of it on a GPL platform. (At least this *seems* seamless on a Windows platform -- case in point, my brother's other system (which runs windows) -- I was over there the other day, doing routine maintenance and such, connected to my home Linux box over xvnc. I was looking around for radio stations and such, noticed that the Realplayer was way out of date, and so d/l the newer windows version. Looked pretty slick, but I couldn't get it to open much of anything, so my fallback was to shoutcast.com for the night :). Realistically speaking, Windows isn't any better of a platform for doing certain tasks of a proprietary nature, such as copying or encoding DVDs. It may just seem easier because it's a monolithic program as opposed to a bunch of utilities. But the legal thing still seems to be present, otherwise we wouldn't have to see boatloads of spam supporting something being the only legal dvd copying program around. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
Well, a few suggestions. In KMail 3.2, your mail is no longer stored in ~/Mail/, but instead in ~/.Mail/ . On starting the new KMail for the first time, it looks to see if you have mail ~/Mail/, if so it copies them for you into ~/.Mail/, if not it creates a new, empty ~/.Mail/ . So what happened with you is that when you first ran KMail without your old folder in place, it created your new folder, then by adding your old folder, it gets all confused (a bug, IMHO, you should report it). Solution: Delete your ~/.Mail/ folder and run KMail, and your old mails should be copied OK. If you have e-mails in the new folder that you want to keep, you will have to copy them over later individually. John. On Wed, 12 May 2004 15:59, g2 wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:47 pm, g2 wrote: 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 so why no responses folks? Was my problem not explained clearly, or did it seem like not a big enough problem for people to bother answering? G2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:04 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this might be the high standard system spec around in 2 years time anyway. Scary thought though that we will have 2 gig of memory and a terabyte of disk space in one machine. Just put in perspective, that's a LOT. :() As I remarked in another message, our community college (circa early eighties) had a mainframe with only 2 megs of core. And the system could only address 16 megabytes, the remainder was virtual memory (i.e., the other 14). The whole campus used it (administration, grades such, plus the computing lab). Now, I have a *video card* with more than that on it, and it's not even considered a lot by modern standards, since it has only 16 megs. Years ago, I had an ST-225 hard disk (20 megs). A little math tells me that for my present situation, I would need the equivalent of 1500 (!) of these all hooked together to get an equivalent amount of storage (30 gig). And 30 gigs is not a whole lot either by today's standards; in fact, it's a little tight right now if I try to do lots of video encoding with it. 2 gigs of RAM isn't out of reach right now -- many people have that on their desktops. I have only 3/4 of a gig :(, which at least for now is more than comfortable. 256 megs *used* to be comfortable, but some tasks, such as slogging through alt.binaries newsgroups using pan, it's simply not enough -- it starts to swap like hell. With 3/4 of a gig, I can finally run it through to completion on a number of larger binaries newsgroups, and it only sucks up 750 megs or so of VM in the process (!). Terabyte-sized hard disks (boy that's a LOT of room) aren't that big of a stretch; long ago I figured they'd be around by 2010, which is only a few years away. Right now (I haven't really checked), 300 gig or so is about the most I've seen on a single drive. And, as I remarked in another thread sometime back, it's not just the OS that is going to require honking gobs of resources, it's the applications and the data sets they use (f.i., the aforementioned pan). If more people are going to use their systems for things that require concurrent access to gobs of data, such as video storage retrieval, or DVD encoding, or simply slogging through Usenet :), obviously their machines are going to have to keep up, regardless of which OS is being used. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Mon, 03 May 2004 02:46:17 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:09, David E. Fox wrote: If you're going to browse for binaries, don't use PAN; use getbinnews instead. Not a hog at all. Very fast. Steve - great. I got it. Will give it a try. I just wish I had known about it months ago, it could have saved me from a lot of swapping :). stephen kuhn - owner -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
I can only tell you my experience. I only wiped out the other partitions but left home alone. When I started KMail for the first time it asked me if I wanted to move my old directories to the new. I said yes and never saw any of them again. My be a bug who knows. Roly On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:59 pm, g2 wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:47 pm, g2 wrote: 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 so why no responses folks? Was my problem not explained clearly, or did it seem like not a big enough problem for people to bother answering? G2 -- MicroSoft - The company that made the internet unsafe! Linux Counter #241069 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: It's the *users* fault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 23:45:09 -0400 Todd Slater disseminated the following: If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. -- cmg Wasn't it just a couple of people that had problems with the political sigs? ...the usual suspects ;-) I guess I'm not clear on why anyone would have any political sigs, right, left, or middle wing, on an OS mailing list. Is Mandrake, or Linux in general, inherently political? I didn't realize I was making a political statement when I installed it on my hard drive. Is that stated some where on their website? Please, say it ain't so! ;-) Carl 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: It's the *users* fault
On Wed, 12 May 2004 00:32:09 -0500 Carl J. Bauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I'm not clear on why anyone would have any political sigs, right, left, or middle wing, on an OS mailing list. Is Mandrake, or Linux in general, inherently political? I didn't realize I was making a political statement when I installed it on my hard drive. Is that stated some where on their website? Please, say it ain't so! ;-) Come join us at the OT-list LOL, seriously though I believe that some people see it as a political statement against big corporations in general and probably Microsoft in particular. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] My screen and Modem
Hello Friends, I have a new notebook. 1) Its monitor resolution is 1280 * 800 ( 15,4 inch wide screen ). But when I configure X while installing Mandrake 10,0 , There was no such a resolution choice. So I chose 1024 * 768 . It works , but how can I configure the original resolution. 2) Modem is onboard ( sis 7013 etc. ) . On Win XP it seems as Smartlink 56K Modem . A few years ago I got such a modem to work somehow under Linux. But I forgot . Could anyone help me ?? Any help is appreciated. Best Regards.. H. ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Reverse of diff
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 02:44:13 +0300
robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This looks promising, but it only works on lines; I need words (sorry,
I should have been more specific when I said strings). What I'm
trying
What you're probably looking for could be done using either awk or perl,
using one of the neat features included in both systems -- associative
arrays. An associative array, basically, is a structure where the index
is any arbitrary text, rather than a numeric index, like most
programming languages. The downside to this method -- it can use gobs of
memory (I tried it on a newsgroup once, just to see how much RAM it
would take), but if you have enough RAM that shouldn't be a concern,
depending of course on the size of your texts. Thus you can query
something like occurences of the text blue with an expression
count(blue). Reading in each word, you can turn on its associated
counter, after which you could then do a similar counting operation on
the second file, and then compare the two word lists.
I happen to have a sample awk script that counts frequencies of words
(the one I tried on a Usenet newsgroup, just for grins). Just make it
executable and run it against a text file. Note that the counting is
done inside the short for loop, which just counts each word that comes
in.
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I guess it could be
modified. The difficulty, I would surmise, is how the data is going to
be presented. You want to do it on a word basis, but say you have two
texts:
text 1
This is a test
text 2
A test this is, of the emergency broadcast system
A word-count based approach would tell me (if we ignore capitalization
and punctuation) that there are common words this, is, a test,
but it would not tell me that the two texts are quite different. If I
use diff, which looks at lines, then I definitely see the two texts have
differences. If, for instance, text 1 read as This is a test of the
emergency broadcast system, then diff would see two distinct lines, but
you would not be able to identify the common substring emergency
broadcast system in the two texts. If I used a pure word-based
approach, I'd end up concluding that the word emergency occured in
both texts, which is not altogether useful.
Two suggestions - get to a CPAN site and look around. There might be
already extant perl scripts that you can use as is or adapt. I don't
grok Perl :(.
Second, Usenet newsgroups comp.unix.questions and/or comp.unix.shell
might garner some good feedback.
hth
- wordfreq
#! /bin/sh
### wordfreq - count number of occurrences of each word in input
### Usage: wordfreq [-i] [files]
##
## wordfreq COUNTS THE NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES OF EACH WORD IN ITS INPUT.
## IF YOU GIVE IT FILES, IT READS FROM THEM; OTHERWISE IT READS stdin.
## THE -i OPTION FOLDS UPPER CASE INTO LOWER CASE (CAPITALIZED LETTERS
## WILL COUNT THE SAME AS LOWER-CASE).
##
## Modified to work with gawk.
## To use awk, replace gawk -- with awk -e
awkscr='{
for (i = 1; i = NF; i++)
num[$i]++
}
END {
for (word in num)
print word, num[word]
}'
# sed EXPRESSION TO TAKE OFF PUNCTUATION BEFORE AND AFTER WORDS
# (ACTUALLY, AT SPACES, BEGINS AND ENDS OF LINES), SO PUNCTUATION WON'T
# TRASH WORD COUNTS:
strippunc='s/[,.-?!)]* / /g
s/[,.-?!)]*$//g
s/ [(]/ /g
s/^[(]//g'
case $1 in
-i) shift
sed
y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
$strippunc
${1+$@} |
gawk -- $awkscr
;;
*) sed $strippunc ${1+$@} | gawk -- $awkscr ;;
esac
end script
Sir Robin
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Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!
Hello JoeHill, Monday, May 10, 2004, 10:22:33 AM, you wrote: J Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has J translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its J upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users J - including those using pirated copies of its Windows XP software. All the better to track them down and sue them. :-)) Perhaps they were impressed by the music industry legal crackdown. J Maybe, just maybe, the 'Net will be somewhat safer with all those warez kiddies J patched up somewhat... Yeah, when they're all in jail. :-))) M$ will NOT do anything without gaining some advantage. Always consider how they will profit from it. -- 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] MS does something intelligent!
rikona wrote: Hello JoeHill, Monday, May 10, 2004, 10:22:33 AM, you wrote: J Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has J translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its J upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users J - including those using pirated copies of its Windows XP software. All the better to track them down and sue them. :-)) Perhaps they were impressed by the music industry legal crackdown. J Maybe, just maybe, the 'Net will be somewhat safer with all those warez kiddies J patched up somewhat... Yeah, when they're all in jail. :-))) M$ will NOT do anything without gaining some advantage. Always consider how they will profit from it. We already know that MS is terrified about losing desktop marketshare to Linux.. Why does this surprise anybody?? we also know that they take a relatively soft stance to windows piracy in emerging markets.. if people in those markets gets used to the windows way then later on when they are forced to buy the software, they will.. using the above, it makes sense that if those emerging markets don't have access to MS security patches.. they will experiance first hand the massive influx of virus's and cracks that abound for windows software, which will push them to find an alternative... something microsoft really really doesn't want to happen.. It makes perfect sense that they are doing this.. I find myself wondering why they didn't do it sooner.. It also makes sense that they are trying to put a possitive spin on it.. but you can bet your bottom dollar that if they were not up to their neck in current or impending competition from OSS, that they would be taking a tougher stance on it. Two things I think are massively of benefit to the open source community: 1. Linux is open source, its the perfect tool to teach OS design in universities.. something you can't do with windows because the source isn't available in a format that would allow that.. so we have all manner of university grads comming though with an intricate knowledge of the Linux kernel, and they are the future CIO's and IT support personal... which is one reason why Linux is going mainstream so quickly. 2. Government uptake.. its happening the world over, either goverments are leveraging OSS to get better pricing from M$ or they are actively seeking an OSS alternative to prevent future lockin.. and goverments set precidents that the community (and business) generally follow. In both cases, that reduces the amount of money running into Redmond, which can only be a good thing. Also, goverment IT managers can put together their own desktop systems with only those apps and tools that the users require, not the base windows, which includes all manner of things that cause bloat and potential security holes.. so they are happier then they would otherwise be. Whats really going to start the ball rolling faster, is when places like Munich council releases their longer term costings based on their linux rollout.. if they are good. and there is a pretty good chance they will be very good.. then we can expect similiar rollouts the world over as a result. FYI, SCO's stock price has dropped below the $6 dollar price. SCO have also closed their Poland office. See: http://www.sco.pl/ for am insight to the future. -- 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
[newbie] Zip drive trouble (or am I a moron?)
Hello, good folks, I have been googling for a whole night trying to find the solution to this problem. Seems others have had it but I can't find the solution... I have a 100 MB Zip drive, on the parallel port. I got it working under RedHat 9, after some configuration. Now I'm trying out - or mirating to - Mandrake 10, and was happy to see that the Mandrake install detected the zip drive right away. Trouble is, even though it gets auto-mounted, I can't see the files on the zip disk - and I can't access them. I've tried unmounting and mounting it, editing /etc/fstab and so forth but can't get it right. I have a hunch it might be something with the permissions but then I should at least be able to read the files as root. This is driving me nuts... Maybe it's something ridiculously simple that I'm not seeing??? Here's what I get on a ls-la (as root) in the /mnt directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ls -la total 19 drwxr-x--- 5 root adm 4096 May 9 23:57 ./ drwxr-x--x 21 root adm 4096 May 9 23:51 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 7 11:11 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 7168 May 9 23:58 floppy/ drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 May 9 23:51 zip/ This is my (current state of) fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 And this is my mtab: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount rw,dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 Many thanks in advance :-) Mattias 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 does something intelligent!
frankieh wrote: FYI, SCO's stock price has dropped below the $6 dollar price. SCO have also closed their Poland office. See: http://www.sco.pl/ for am insight to the future. Sorry, I meant to say that SCO stock has dropped below the $5 dollar mark, not $6.. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX its currently at $4.992 -- 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] apache making me batty
chmod o+x /home/*
is all you need for the users. It allows the world
to enter the directories but not list them. I
would recommend:
find /home -type d -name public_html -exec chmod 2750 {} \;
find /home -type d -name public_html -exec chown -R .apache {} \;
which sets the group sticky bit on the public_html directories.
All new files/directories created in public_html will have group
apache.
HTH,
Bill Shirley
PS. It is secure if everything in ~/ has the correct permissions.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Todd Slater
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 4:30 PM
To: Mandrake Newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] apache making me batty
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:27:10PM -0400, Todd Slater wrote:
On a 9.1 box running highest level security with Apache
1.3. I'm trying
to access the ~/username directory but keep getting 403
forbidden error.
~/public_html is readable by all
~/public_html/index.html is readable by all
In /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf I have:
Directory /home/*/public_html
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
IfModule mod_access.c
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
/IfModule
/Directory
which seems to be pretty standard. I don't see anything in
the apache
logs other than the 403 errors. Anybody know what's up with that?
Well it seems that ~/ needs to be +x, too, so chmod 755 ~/. It works,
but do you reckon it's safe? Also, msec's bound to change permissions
any second now, back to the archives!
Todd
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Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 10:56, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer don't generate sound. If I manually create the /dev/dsp device, sound works ok. You may need to add the OSS emulation lines as well. See :- http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=AzTechcard=AZT2320chip=AZT2320module=azt2320 (BTW: You might find xmms works without having to do anything to the drivers if you configure xmms to use the ALSA output plugin ) Derek, some of the above got it working, but I am not sure of which part :-) At first I modified the modprobe.conf to add the OSS-related lines (BTW, it seems to me the syntax is the same as modules.conf, isn't it?). Reboot, no work. Then I reconfigured xmms to use ALSA instead of OSS, as you suggested. No error (previously I got no /dev/dsp error) but still no sound. So I loaded alsa-utils, unmuted sound and finally heard music. mplayer tries to open /dev/dsp, doesn't find it and switches to ALSA, so it also is working fine now. Next days I might try to remove the OSS-related part from modprobe.conf, just to see if ALSA it still works. I must say that I find the Linux sound architecture quite confusing :-[ thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Check /var/log/messages for any messages from the kernel concerning your sound card. If there's anything in there recommending a different driver, try that driver. If not, then, well, see if you can find out somewhere else what driver might work (try google of course). Rob, thanks, I got it working in some way. Anyway, the kernel log did not complain about the driver. I am not sure in my case it is a problem with the driver, but rather with the startup scripts which do not create the correct device /dev/dsp. I fact, if I created it manually, the driver worked fine. As I said elsewhere, I'm still confused... raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Trying to fix bad 9.1 by do upgrade.
Hello. I have tried to fix my Mandrake 9.1 on my 1 of 2 pc by do som cdrom 9.1 and 92. cdrom install using upgrade but when the install has reach to the mouse driver install and has load the driver (standard/ps2) in for install does the install screen freeze and nothing more happens, and showing only the screen look for install where i canmove the curson around on the screen, this happen in several minutes up to 15-45 min. The pc is a Pentium 2 266Mhz 256Mb ram with a wireless mouse and a cdrom there has some trouble bying let the cdrom go in and out. I trying the upgrade why the Xserver adn X system + the drakconf co harddisk setup in partion not is working. --- --- Regards Gert Koefoed Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kofobbs.dktelnet://fido.kofobbs.dk 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: writing sms
Björn Lundin kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 10. toukokuuta 2004 20:14): Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But writing sms needs some program to do it. Thank you advance google for gsmlib /Björn Thank you, this seems to work, I send few messages allready :-) And list of supported phones are impressive too. Little bit cryptic to use but must read documentation. -- best rgds tt 11:41:04 up 2:58, 0 users, load average: 0.21, 0.11, 0.09 2.6.3-9mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] *HELP* Do MandrakeUpdate without graphic use.
Hello. Is there a way on run MandrakeUpdate (Live_update) from the prompt after login as root, like doing command ./MandrakeUpdate or sh MandrakeUpdate, so there can be checked for updates? Then let me know the real command for it. --- Regards Gert Koefoed Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kofobbs.dktelnet://fido.kofobbs.dk 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 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......
snipThis is only for 10CEbut the only way that I found worked was with mgmt.o on floppy, letting Drak copy it to wherever it wanted./snip With 10CE, it would read it from the floppy, but wouldnt save it anywhere at all. I used to have to manually copy it across to /usr/share/speedtouch/ JRH (using XP and hating every minute of it!) - Original Message - From: Owain Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL.. This is only for 10CEbut the only way that I found worked was with mgmt.o on floppy, letting Drak copy it to wherever it wanted. JRH wrote: Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem to work under 10 official? I upgraded, and for some reason, the files are still in the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder (speedtouch.sh and mgmt.o), but the modem wont start. If I open up a terminal and cd to the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder, and type ./speedtouch.sh start, the modem lights will flash away as if something is going on, but then I get a red failure message. No backtrace or anything. Can anyone pinpoint the problem? Oh yes, and when I go into drakconnect to configure the connection, I click on speedtouch USB, and I get a little warning pop up, saying sorry we only support kernel 2.4 and higher. eh?? I'm on a 2.4 kernel! Cheers, JRH 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] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
bascule Thanks, This all works now like a dream. Peter On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 00:45, bascule wrote: to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner is not root and the group audio then do: chown root.audio * (assuming you are in the /dev/sound directory, you will need to do the same for files in /dev/snd there are files outside these directories but there are symlinks and you shouldn't have to touch them for audio stuff bascule On Monday 10 May 2004 5:15 pm, Peter wrote: f you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DNS questions
I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DNS questions
On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank Open /etc/resolv.conf as root with your favorite editor and you can also have a look in /etc/hosts so everything is the same on all three boxes /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DNS questions
/etc/resolv.conf should tell you the story unless you are running your own nameserver on the linux machines. On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:51, Frank Bax wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank __ 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] DNS questions
At 09:56 AM 5/11/04, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank Open /etc/resolv.conf as root with your favorite editor and you can also have a look in /etc/hosts so everything is the same on all three boxes /etc/resolv.conf was different - change them all to match what our router has and all is well! But more questions. We have a router with dsl modem here. I use dhcp for windows clients. I gave each linux machine a static ip so I can do remote admin. Is there a way to get the ip address of nameservers from the router, like what would happen with dhcp, but still have static addresses for the linux machines? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to get indexed help to work in KDevelop?
How to get indexed help to work in KDevelop? I have brand new installation of KDevelop (from the Mandrake 10 offical distro). The help search doesn't work. I have installed the htdig rpm, but no joy. Has anyone gotten the help to work? Thanks...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I'm losting my samba's shares after some time... permission denied... help plz.
Bill, I'm happy to say you that works... I create my directories shares out of my /home and works... But now I got another problem... All my win98 clients see their neighborhood area empty... no itens but the network is there and works fine... all users is working... if they hit \\server, e.g., the windows explorer opens it fine.. some clue ?? and, maybe, this is the reason too, that my users can't print in any shared printer... all shared printer goes offline.. everytime... I thank you one more time.. Flávio 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 Nvidia problems
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:57 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, My system is an Asus a7n8x-deluxe with 1gb ram, 2x 120gb sata drives and Nvidia 5700u with 17 tft. I am installing with noapic nolapic acpi=off and everything seems to install correctly. I can configure xdrake during and after install but no matter what I do I am unable to get GUI to work. I have no TV card but the error I get from X is that it can't find a res for tv1. It won't use nv and the Nvidia 5336 run scripts compiles and everything seems okay but comes up with this error when run. This is with both versions of 10. Has anybody else got a similar config working? I have tried depmod -a and a few other things I have found on lists and around the net but to no avail. I am getting seriously stressed as I have little time to dig into this at the moment (hence the amount of time before I have posted this mail). I am using the 2.6 kernels with both versions of 10 and have tried all the 2.6 kernels that are installed. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com I cant offer much help, I am probably more newbie than you. But I can let you know that I installed 10.0 Official on my A7n8x-x asus board (no onboard video) with a nvidia Geforce2 MX/MX 400. I did a clean isntall and everything just worked, no need to install any other drivers or anything. This was better than my expeirience with 9.2 which did require me installing a driver. Gideon 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 does something intelligent!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op maandag 10 mei 2004 19:22, schreef JoeHill: Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! yes we can :-) http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAoP3uoPgG5kUDwJIRAiqsAKCe4Z4PPOhxVEbEibGe4O3Izn/N/ACZAbL4 Y2+B8pMBRsw4nlALAStKLaA= =E1e6 -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
[newbie] XFree86-DRI
I'm trying to install the KDE game mahjongg 3D (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12553PHPSESSID=23d79a4e780029a6433767155a41f066) As root, I downloaded and extracted the tarball (mahjongg3d.tar.bz2). Then I did: make PREFIX=/opt/games make PREFIX=/opt/games install The build produced a number of harmless looking warnings (unused parameters and such), but seems to have run successfully. The install appears to have been successful as well. But when I run the game, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhd]$ /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires: line 8: 23090 Illegal instruction ./mahjongg3d I had no idea what XFree86-DRI was so I started investigating. There was a previous email on this list with the same error, but for a completely different video card, and the links provided didn't seem to help me at all. I have an nVidia Riva128. I found the sourceforge site for DRI, but it says that nVidia cards are not supported because the drivers are all closed source (http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/nVidia?action=highlightvalue=CategoryHardware). Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the number 1 graphics card manufacturer? Funny thing is the game README makes no mention of DRI being required. It only says that OpenGL and qt-devel are required. This is certainly not a show-stopper for me, but if anyone can provide any pointers (short of writing my own driver :^), I'd appreciate it. It's funny, I read criticisms of Linux and FOSS that a mostly volunteer effort can never keep up with the innovations of a well funded corporation. Yet it seems to me that the biggest problem is the rapid turn-over in technologies that makes it so hard to keep up! I see the OSS to ALSA migration, the 2.4 to 2.6 kernel issues, this DRI graphics technology, and so on. Everything seems to be in a constant state of transition. Oh well, keeps it interesting! -- 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] vmware-config.pl
I ran into a slightly different problem with VMware, I had 4 installed and working with 10CE (using the any script), did a couple of kernel updates, then updated VMware to 4.5. When I ran VMware after the update for the first time it informed me that I had to run the config script again, no big deal, but then informed me that my kernel headers didn't match my kernel. A uname -r returns 2.6.3-4mdk, but my headers now are /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-9mdk, an obvious mismatch. After screwing around for a while I ended up installing the kernel source for 2.6.3-4 from the 10CE DVD (I had to manually find them and force it, urpmi etc didn't help), which of course removed the 2.6.3-9 headers. I then configured VMware with no problem, and after that redid the kernel updates. Everything works like a charm, and my kernel headers (but not my kernel itself) are once again 2.6.3-9 ED Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 01:51, Thujan wrote: Hi, I can not finnish vmware-config.pl in mdk 10C with 2.6.3-9mdk, script returns with an error despite I have kernel source too? Is there any solution for that? With mdk 9.2 it worked fine. install the kernel sources via mcc and you and then compile the entire lot. 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 -- World War Three can be averted by adherence to a strictly enforced dress code! 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] Novell releases Evolution exchange connector as GPL
Wooohooo, novell are serious about open source now... They have just released the Ximian connector that allows evolution to connect to MS exchange servers under the GPL. It will also be released as part of evolution when it comes out... Evolution 2 will also work perfectly with Groupwise and SUSE openexchange server... There goes several more reasons to not use linux.. you don't have to change your mail server (you should anyway, but thats not the point) This is great news and heralds the move of linux onto the desktop in bussiness... cool I was dubious when Novell bought SUSE, but I must admit that their recent actions regarding SCO and now this.. are starting to convince me. -- 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
[newbie] Re: Re: writing sms
Thujan wrote: Björn Lundin kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 10. toukokuuta 2004 20:14): Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But writing sms needs some program to do it. Thank you advance google for gsmlib /Björn Thank you, this seems to work, I send few messages allready :-) And list of supported phones are impressive too. Little bit cryptic to use but must read documentation. We use it at work, but on a nt box. but once you've compiled it, there are a 'testsendsms' program that works fine' /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] MS does something intelligent!
Hello Ronald, Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 9:23:02 AM, you wrote: R -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- R Hash: SHA1 R Op maandag 10 mei 2004 19:22, schreef JoeHill: Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! R yes we can :-) R http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html Yep - main benefit to M$ is probably tracking down more pirates. -- 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] MDK 10 Nvidia problems
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 10:08, g2 wrote: On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:57 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, My system is an Asus a7n8x-deluxe with 1gb ram, 2x 120gb sata drives and Nvidia 5700u with 17 tft. I am installing with noapic nolapic acpi=off and everything seems to install correctly. I can configure xdrake during and after install but no matter what I do I am unable to get GUI to work. I have no TV card but the error I get from X is that it can't find a res for tv1. It won't use nv and the Nvidia 5336 run scripts compiles and everything seems okay but comes up with this error when run. This is with both versions of 10. Has anybody else got a similar config working? I have tried depmod -a and a few other things I have found on lists and around the net but to no avail. I am getting seriously stressed as I have little time to dig into this at the moment (hence the amount of time before I have posted this mail). I am using the 2.6 kernels with both versions of 10 and have tried all the 2.6 kernels that are installed. Thanks, Tony. Have you tried using nvidia instead of nv? I'm running a GeForce 3 Ti200 with the 5336 run script. Here are parts of my XF86Config-4 file: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nvidia Option DPMS EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Hope that helps! -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
