Re: [newbie] Un libro bueno en Linux
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:27, Aron Smith wrote: So ya reckon the snarling little bastard is out picking pot, eh? I diddn say enuythang. Farmer-in the -dell High ho the merry-o Aron, ya know, someone somewhere DID program a really good spell checker...or are you using elm/pico/mail/emacs? no Phew-bonics. stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 11:38:37 up 2 days, 16:02, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.12, 0.15 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] boot log?
Is there a way to access the information that scrolls by as you boot up after booting is finished? If so, please tell me how? I I think you will find that in /var/log/dmesg Oddly, this is not the same as the output you get from the command dmesg. There is also /var/log/boot.log eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] libGL
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:35 pm, Cezary Morga wrote: -Hi there, -I've got this silly problem: when I'm trying to compile (or simple run) some -programs that require libGL it happens that they look for libGL.la -in /usr/X11R6/lib but I have it in /usr/lib. What should I do about it to -make it work? - -TIA, -Cezary Morga Do a ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib That should do it. man ln will give you more info on linking files and folders. HTHs. -- /\ 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] boot log?
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: -On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:56 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: - On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 03:11, eric jackson wrote: - Hi, - - I'm getting an error from my soundcard when I boot up. I'll post - another message about that in a few minutes. - - Is there a way to access the information that scrolls by as you boot - up after booting is finished? If so, please tell me how? I rebooted - several times trying to copy the error message I mentioned. There must - be a better way to access that information. - - Thanks in advance! - - Eric Jackson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Open a terminal and type: - - dmesg | more - - stephen kuhn - proprietor - -Sorry, Stephen, but as others have posted, dmesg | less is preferable. less -allows you to page up or page down -- more allows only page down. No big deal -on small files, but very nice on large files when you realize that you need -to go back a ways. Even man more says that less is better, while man less -makes even more grandiose claims. (None of this has anything to do with Les -Moore of Funky Winkerbean fame.) - -Eric, take a log at some of the other files in /var/log -- as root. boot.log -and messages can be very useful , as they show time and date. BTW, you can -list those files using less boot.log (or less messages) rather than the pipe. --- cmg - - - Or just do a dmesg dmesg.txt so you can save it for examination at your leisure. :-) -- /\ 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] Serial Card Installation
I am on a lan and want to use the modem with Hylafax, so I just need the system to acknowledge it is there. I have run the faxaddmodem on both tty ports and moved the modem around the ports but I am unable to connect to it. The modem on the original com prot is working fine as you would expect. Thanks, Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Serial Card Installation On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:09, Tony S. Sykes wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Serial Card Installation Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 17:02, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a 2 port serial card. I have been googling and found some info but just need the steps made a bit clearer. I understand that I need the lspci -vv (below) to get the values for the card. I have also printed the dmesg output as well. I also read I need to MAKEDEV but I tried this and created a dev directory with the name of the new tty device I was trying to create. Any help, manuals would be a great help. Thanks, Tony. lspci -vv 00:0c.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology 222N-2 I/O Card (2S+1P) (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 0002 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at d000 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8] Region 2: I/O ports at c800 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at c400 [size=8] Region 4: I/O ports at c000 [size=8] Region 5: I/O ports at bc00 [size=16] dmesg ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS4 at I/O 0xd000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A ttyS5 at I/O 0xcc00 (irq = 11) is a 16550A It seems to me the kernel found the two new serial ports named ttyS4 and ttyS5? HTH, -Frans I think you are right. From the looks of things, Linux know how to handle that PCI card, and is assigning the ports to /dev/ttyS4 and /dev/ttyS5 (or /dev/tty/S4 and /dev/tty/S5) I believe the reason it is not using /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/ttyS2 is that there are addresses associated with /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS3 and they are not always detected at boot time, depending on boot parametors. (COM1 through COM4 in DOS.) So the PCI ports are assigned to the ports after them. Depending on what you are planning to use the ports for, you will probably be creating, or having the system create links to them from more descriptive names. (modem, mouse, pilot, camera, etc...) Mikkel Okay, mandy has found the to ports, so I have connected my modem to one of the ports but Mandy can't find the modem. So what do I need to do next? Thanks, Tony. Are you using MCC to configure an internet connection with the modem? If so you can tell it to use /dev/ttyS4 or /dev/ttyS5 in Mandrake 10. HTH, -Frans -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] libGL
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 16:35, Cezary Morga wrote: Hi there, I've got this silly problem: when I'm trying to compile (or simple run) some programs that require libGL it happens that they look for libGL.la in /usr/X11R6/lib but I have it in /usr/lib. What should I do about it to make it work? TIA, Cezary Morga Either move, copy, or create a link from /usr/lib/libGL to /usr/X11R6/lib. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gainward fx5700 ultra
Has anybody got the Gainward fx5700 Ultra working with Mandy 10? I have not had a good Linux fix on my home PC for months now and to make matters worse I have somehow contracted a virus in windows (Normally all emails goes through Mandy). X just does not seem to be happy with the card at all. I have used the nv driver, no luck, the Nvidia driver no luck, I just can't get a graphical interface, but it is fine during installation and everything else. My XFree86 log does not show anything helpful at the moment and all I get when I start X is the screen flashing every now and again with all the colours while it is trying to display the screen. I have looked around various site and even posted some of the errors to the list but I still have not fixed it. Thanks for listening, 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 17:09, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am a quite happy user of mdk 9.2. I am planning to move to mdk 10 Official. However, sometime ago, I installed mdk 10 CE and I experienced problems with sound. Therefore, I would like to know whether the sound problems, typical of mdk 10 CE, are overcome. Thanks in advance! Paul I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] libGL
Dnia ro 16. czerwca 2004 08:46, Ronald J. Hall napisa: Do a ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib That should do it. man ln will give you more info on linking files and folders. It helped. Thanks... Cezary Morga Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 18:06, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I realize that this isn't a developer's list, but I get the sense that there are more than a few developers here, and some of the sharpest people I've yet encountered online. I'm looking for some sage wisdom. ;) I haven't done any serious programming since Extended BASIC for Texas Instruments' TI-99/4A. I lost interest in programming shortly after my father brought our first Windows 3.1 machine into the house-- it was easier to just accept what Microsoft fed me. Linux has gotten me interested in learning how to do things for myself again, and I've had a great time reading about the mindset and culture of coding. Having gotten a fair handle on bash scripting, I'm interested in moving on to something a little more advanced. Quite frankly, I'm a little overwhelmed by the possibilities. These are a few of my liabilities and limitations: I'm in human services management, which means I work long hours, and I'm on-call 24 hours, 7 days a week. With my non-professional duties around the house, I don't end up with a lot of leisure time. I've been isolated from the nuts 'n bolts aspects of development, on any level, for a very long time. Even two years after going all Linux, all the time, I am still quite the newbie. And despite a fair amount of research, I unfortunately don't have the vaguest notion of which languages/development environments are best for which purposes (for that matter, I have no real purpose yet, other than to learn a bit about programming). Essentially, I don't imagine for a moment that my life will grant me the time to become a serious programmer; at the same time, I certainly don't expect to be able to code my own kernel or office suite from scratch after a couple of days' study. I'm looking for a realtively gentle introduction to programming in some sort of standard environment, to see if it's something I can get both my mind and my interest around. I'm interested in knowing which languages are favored by some of the hobbyist developers on this list, and why. Is there a particular programming/scripting language which seems to naturally lend itself to the beginner (while still being rich enough to produce some useful, if not particularly 'killer', applications)? Relatively easy to learn; powerful enough to create something other Linux users might find useful, should I stick with it long enough. Should I dive right into C, or might I be better-served by learning something about, for instance, Python or Perl? And if I _really_ get nuts about programming and decide that I want to give GUI-driven apps a try, are there languages which would lend themselves to something like, say, gtk (or is that a language in itself? See, utter newbie...). I would appreciate anyone's thoughts; feel free to respond off-list if this post shouldn't have been here in the first place. ;) Thanks, Marv You may regret asking this question. I would recommend C, once you get a handle on that then progress to C++ and when you master those you can do anything. I started with The C Programming Language (The White Book) by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie.Copyright 1978. They were the developers of C and rewrote UNIX in C so that we now have Linux. Dont assume that C is easy, it isnt, it is an exercise in logic like you may not have experienced before. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:58, robin wrote: Marv Boyes wrote: [snip] Everyone has their own favourite language which they will defend to the death against all others! Sir Robin Guard -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Serial Card Installation
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 09:39, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I am on a lan and want to use the modem with Hylafax, so I just need the system to acknowledge it is there. I have run the faxaddmodem on both tty ports and moved the modem around the ports but I am unable to connect to it. The modem on the original com prot is working fine as you would expect. Thanks, Tony. There is a setserial command (in the setserial package) that may help to at least get more info. It has a man page. Good luck, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Darkroom Linux
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my attic are thousands of old 24x36 mm negatives who never made it to the darkroom enlarger. Furthermore, to set up a darkroom nowadays is almost impossible - at least where I live. So : can anyone recommend a good film scanner that works with linux ? - What about image quality ? - Can SANE handle it ? Experiences, please ? Kaj Haulrich. Sure, My epson 2400 photo will do all of that and sane has no problem scanning the individual images, and gimp can manipulate them well too. So if the colours are a bit faded, don't worry too much gimp can add it back to a certain extent. Obviously if there is no red or yellow left in the image then it cannot do much, but provided the colours are still there in reduced levels they can be manipulated back to rude health again. My scanner has a plastic film holder that the strips of negs are held in while scanning and sane can handle that easy. For some reason I cannot explain I found it better to scan Black and White photos/negs in colour mode and then convert them back to B/W in gimp the results seemed better. Probably I didn't have my setting right in the first place, I don't know. I did a large project on 5,000 old family photos and wrote them all to disc afterwards for permanent record. That way the colours will not fade any more, and the space saving is quite something.Plus it's easy to replicate them and hand out copies all around the family for future generations, so that chances are some will survive into well beyond the present. John Thanks a lot, John. That was exactly the answer I had hoped for. I surfed the web and found almost nothing about film scanning for Linux, and was very confused about flatbed vs. film scanners. Most good flatbed scanners come with these film holders that take the negs in strips(they vary a bit, but the usual 6/8 neg strips that come back from the developers fit in nicely. Dead easy to use(remember, if like me you're part of a project, time is money)and stoy in the lid when not in use. Most of my old pics are B/W negatives on Kodak Tri-x and Ilford HP 3-5, so I intend to burn them to CD in a resolution about 800x600 and only print them occasionally. Will the quality be reasonable ? Oh that would be very good resolution, I set my scanner to scan ordinary en prints at 300dpi ( not an awful lot more use going higher since the grain of the negs is the determining factor, so film res of 200 is only capable of so much detail, but 400 I would up to 600dpi scan rate, but just play around and suit yourself. However I have a few real old B/W oldies that date back to the beginning of the 20th century and created on large plate cameras of the day and the quality of the imagery is just sulperlative even after all this time , I take my hat of to those early photgraphic people they new quality when they saw it. I guess the difference is to do with the expense and affordability, since most people would of gone to a studio and paid good money for one off pictures in posed situations and they darn well expected good pictures. Anyway , whether negs of pics I just scanned them at the highest resolution I could get a file to fit on one 700MB disc, heck a disc cost 20p here in UK and I regarded the pics as being worth every penny. If you have unusual sized negs you may have to fiddle with the carrier to get them in, or just place them flat on the scanner bed and heck, no matter if the scanned preview image is wonky just scale out the image area you want in sane and use gimp to correct or rotate it. One word of warning, or rather preparation, Once started on just such a project the news gets out around the family, and pretty darn soon hundreds more pics start arriving out of the blue and soon what started with about 1000 to 1200 collection became a much larger project indeed. But I enjoyed it immensly and wouldn't of passed up the opportunity at all. Suddenly those old distance relatives known to you by name alone suddenly become real faces, people you can relate to. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [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] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?
And with your limited time, should you decide C then drop me a line, 'cause I'm interested and know that two heads are always better than one! ( Frank at Snapafun.co.nz ) [Have started reading 'Sams Teach Yourself C for Linux Programming. Hoyt is right - not easy but a manageable challenge.] Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 18:06, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I realize that this isn't a developer's list, but I get the sense that there are more than a few developers here, and some of the sharpest people I've yet encountered online. I'm looking for some sage wisdom. ;) I haven't done any serious programming since Extended BASIC for Texas Instruments' TI-99/4A. I lost interest in programming shortly after my father brought our first Windows 3.1 machine into the house-- it was easier to just accept what Microsoft fed me. Linux has gotten me interested in learning how to do things for myself again, and I've had a great time reading about the mindset and culture of coding. Having gotten a fair handle on bash scripting, I'm interested in moving on to something a little more advanced. Quite frankly, I'm a little overwhelmed by the possibilities. These are a few of my liabilities and limitations: I'm in human services management, which means I work long hours, and I'm on-call 24 hours, 7 days a week. With my non-professional duties around the house, I don't end up with a lot of leisure time. I've been isolated from the nuts 'n bolts aspects of development, on any level, for a very long time. Even two years after going all Linux, all the time, I am still quite the newbie. And despite a fair amount of research, I unfortunately don't have the vaguest notion of which languages/development environments are best for which purposes (for that matter, I have no real purpose yet, other than to learn a bit about programming). Essentially, I don't imagine for a moment that my life will grant me the time to become a serious programmer; at the same time, I certainly don't expect to be able to code my own kernel or office suite from scratch after a couple of days' study. I'm looking for a realtively gentle introduction to programming in some sort of standard environment, to see if it's something I can get both my mind and my interest around. I'm interested in knowing which languages are favored by some of the hobbyist developers on this list, and why. Is there a particular programming/scripting language which seems to naturally lend itself to the beginner (while still being rich enough to produce some useful, if not particularly 'killer', applications)? Relatively easy to learn; powerful enough to create something other Linux users might find useful, should I stick with it long enough. Should I dive right into C, or might I be better-served by learning something about, for instance, Python or Perl? And if I _really_ get nuts about programming and decide that I want to give GUI-driven apps a try, are there languages which would lend themselves to something like, say, gtk (or is that a language in itself? See, utter newbie...). I would appreciate anyone's thoughts; feel free to respond off-list if this post shouldn't have been here in the first place. ;) Thanks, Marv You may regret asking this question. I would recommend C, once you get a handle on that then progress to C++ and when you master those you can do anything. I started with The C Programming Language (The White Book) by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie.Copyright 1978. They were the developers of C and rewrote UNIX in C so that we now have Linux. Dont assume that C is easy, it isnt, it is an exercise in logic like you may not have experienced before. 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] Sound issue
I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not susceptible of being changed? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Darkroom Linux
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:42, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my attic are thousands of old 24x36 mm negatives who never made it to the darkroom enlarger. Furthermore, to set up a darkroom nowadays is almost impossible - at least where I live. So : can anyone recommend a good film scanner that works with linux ? - What about image quality ? - Can SANE handle it ? Experiences, please ? Kaj Haulrich. Sure, My epson 2400 photo will do all of that and sane has no problem scanning the individual images, and gimp can manipulate them well too. So if the colours are a bit faded, don't worry too much gimp can add it back to a certain extent. Obviously if there is no red or yellow left in the image then it cannot do much, but provided the colours are still there in reduced levels they can be manipulated back to rude health again. My scanner has a plastic film holder that the strips of negs are held in while scanning and sane can handle that easy. For some reason I cannot explain I found it better to scan Black and White photos/negs in colour mode and then convert them back to B/W in gimp the results seemed better. Probably I didn't have my setting right in the first place, I don't know. I did a large project on 5,000 old family photos and wrote them all to disc afterwards for permanent record. That way the colours will not fade any more, and the space saving is quite something.Plus it's easy to replicate them and hand out copies all around the family for future generations, so that chances are some will survive into well beyond the present. John Thanks a lot, John. That was exactly the answer I had hoped for. I surfed the web and found almost nothing about film scanning for Linux, and was very confused about flatbed vs. film scanners. Most good flatbed scanners come with these film holders that take the negs in strips(they vary a bit, but the usual 6/8 neg strips that come back from the developers fit in nicely. Dead easy to use(remember, if like me you're part of a project, time is money)and stoy in the lid when not in use. Most of my old pics are B/W negatives on Kodak Tri-x and Ilford HP 3-5, so I intend to burn them to CD in a resolution about 800x600 and only print them occasionally. Will the quality be reasonable ? Oh that would be very good resolution, I set my scanner to scan ordinary en prints at 300dpi ( not an awful lot more use going higher since the grain of the negs is the determining factor, so film res of 200 is only capable of so much detail, but 400 I would up to 600dpi scan rate, but just play around and suit yourself. However I have a few real old B/W oldies that date back to the beginning of the 20th century and created on large plate cameras of the day and the quality of the imagery is just sulperlative even after all this time , I take my hat of to those early photgraphic people they new quality when they saw it. I guess the difference is to do with the expense and affordability, since most people would of gone to a studio and paid good money for one off pictures in posed situations and they darn well expected good pictures. Anyway , whether negs of pics I just scanned them at the highest resolution I could get a file to fit on one 700MB disc, heck a disc cost 20p here in UK and I regarded the pics as being worth every penny. If you have unusual sized negs you may have to fiddle with the carrier to get them in, or just place them flat on the scanner bed and heck, no matter if the scanned preview image is wonky just scale out the image area you want in sane and use gimp to correct or rotate it. One word of warning, or rather preparation, Once started on just such a project the news gets out around the family, and pretty darn soon hundreds more pics start arriving out of the blue and soon what started with about 1000 to 1200 collection became a much larger project indeed. But I enjoyed it immensly and wouldn't of passed up the opportunity at all. Suddenly those old distance relatives known to you by name alone suddenly become real faces, people you can relate to. regards, John Thanks again, John. I've ordered an Epson 2400 Photo, will arrive in a fortnight. Like you, I have mostly 135mm films in B/W negatives, but a variety of other, older formats as well. It is a great comfort to me, that you tell me I can scan them on this device. The problem is those old negatives on glass plates. I've managed to copy them to 135 mm film by means of one of those bellow-style adapters to my Nikon, but it is a time-consuming task, what with all those lenses, adjustments and heavy gear. But it is worth the effort. I can't wait to get going with my new scanner. I reckon it it's just plug 'n play, right ? Regards Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer *
Re: [newbie] boot log?
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 16:24, Eric Huff wrote: Is there a way to access the information that scrolls by as you boot up after booting is finished? If so, please tell me how? I I think you will find that in /var/log/dmesg Oddly, this is not the same as the output you get from the command dmesg. There is also /var/log/boot.log eric I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 20:41:45 up 5:30, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.06 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products Paul: If rubbin' frozen dirt in your crotch is wrong, hey, I don't wanna be right. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
Paul Smith wrote: I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not susceptible of being changed? Paul Depends on the type of problem, and where you have reported it. If it is a genuine *bug* in the system, and it has been reported to Anthill (http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/login.php) then it should (eventually!) be fixed. If a bug has only been reported on the mailing lists, it is unlikely that it will be fixed - I don't think any Mandrakesoft staff monitor the list, so they won't know the problem exists. On the other hand, if the problem is with the user not fully understanding how the system works, the list is the best place to go for help - the staff can only fix the software, not the users! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 05:12, Paul Smith wrote: I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not susceptible of being changed? Paul I wish I knew but I have a lot of hope. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Darkroom Linux
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:42, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my attic are thousands of old 24x36 mm negatives who never made it to the darkroom enlarger. Furthermore, to set up a darkroom nowadays is almost impossible - at least where I live. So : can anyone recommend a good film scanner that works with linux ? - What about image quality ? - Can SANE handle it ? Experiences, please ? Kaj Haulrich. Sure, My epson 2400 photo will do all of that and sane has no problem scanning the individual images, and gimp can manipulate them well too. So if the colours are a bit faded, don't worry too much gimp can add it back to a certain extent. Obviously if there is no red or yellow left in the image then it cannot do much, but provided the colours are still there in reduced levels they can be manipulated back to rude health again. My scanner has a plastic film holder that the strips of negs are held in while scanning and sane can handle that easy. For some reason I cannot explain I found it better to scan Black and White photos/negs in colour mode and then convert them back to B/W in gimp the results seemed better. Probably I didn't have my setting right in the first place, I don't know. I did a large project on 5,000 old family photos and wrote them all to disc afterwards for permanent record. That way the colours will not fade any more, and the space saving is quite something.Plus it's easy to replicate them and hand out copies all around the family for future generations, so that chances are some will survive into well beyond the present. John Thanks a lot, John. That was exactly the answer I had hoped for. I surfed the web and found almost nothing about film scanning for Linux, and was very confused about flatbed vs. film scanners. Most good flatbed scanners come with these film holders that take the negs in strips(they vary a bit, but the usual 6/8 neg strips that come back from the developers fit in nicely. Dead easy to use(remember, if like me you're part of a project, time is money)and stoy in the lid when not in use. Most of my old pics are B/W negatives on Kodak Tri-x and Ilford HP 3-5, so I intend to burn them to CD in a resolution about 800x600 and only print them occasionally. Will the quality be reasonable ? Oh that would be very good resolution, I set my scanner to scan ordinary en prints at 300dpi ( not an awful lot more use going higher since the grain of the negs is the determining factor, so film res of 200 is only capable of so much detail, but 400 I would up to 600dpi scan rate, but just play around and suit yourself. However I have a few real old B/W oldies that date back to the beginning of the 20th century and created on large plate cameras of the day and the quality of the imagery is just sulperlative even after all this time , I take my hat of to those early photgraphic people they new quality when they saw it. I guess the difference is to do with the expense and affordability, since most people would of gone to a studio and paid good money for one off pictures in posed situations and they darn well expected good pictures. Anyway , whether negs of pics I just scanned them at the highest resolution I could get a file to fit on one 700MB disc, heck a disc cost 20p here in UK and I regarded the pics as being worth every penny. If you have unusual sized negs you may have to fiddle with the carrier to get them in, or just place them flat on the scanner bed and heck, no matter if the scanned preview image is wonky just scale out the image area you want in sane and use gimp to correct or rotate it. One word of warning, or rather preparation, Once started on just such a project the news gets out around the family, and pretty darn soon hundreds more pics start arriving out of the blue and soon what started with about 1000 to 1200 collection became a much larger project indeed. But I enjoyed it immensly and wouldn't of passed up the opportunity at all. Suddenly those old distance relatives known to you by name alone suddenly become real faces, people you can relate to. regards, John Thanks again, John. I've ordered an Epson 2400 Photo, will arrive in a fortnight. Like you, I have mostly 135mm films in B/W negatives, but a variety of other, older formats as well. It is a great comfort to me, that you tell me I can scan them on this device. The problem is those old negatives on glass plates. I've managed to copy them to 135 mm film by means of one of those bellow-style adapters to my Nikon, but it is a time-consuming task, what with all those lenses, adjustments and heavy gear. But it is worth the effort. I can't wait to get going with my new scanner. I reckon it it's just plug 'n play, right ? Regards Kaj Haulrich. Epson is a good choice. The device has it's own independent powers supply so no big
Re: [newbie] Un libro bueno en Linux
On June 15, 2004 11:21 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:27, Aron Smith wrote: So ya reckon the snarling little bastard is out picking pot, eh? I diddn say enuythang. Farmer-in the -dell High ho the merry-o Aron, ya know, someone somewhere DID program a really good spell checker...or are you using elm/pico/mail/emacs? no Phew-bonics. Anyway back to the notion of harvest season, it may not be the right time of year to harvest a certain green herb that also has been known to make rope or clothing but at this very moment thousands of ancient hippies are decending onto Vancouver Island in search of a (not so) rare variety of mushroom that is supposed to enchance a magician's act. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [OT] proxy for nntp?
Is there any way to use a proxy, like one might for http, to get around the download limits imposed by a free news (nntp) server? Not that I would ever *do* anything like that, mind you, just curious if it was possible. Todd -- Name that tune #10: Now a very great man once said that some people will rob you with a fountain pen; it didn't take too long to find out just what he was talking about. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?
On June 15, 2004 04:06 pm, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I realize that this isn't a developer's list, but I get the sense that there are more than a few developers here, and some of the sharpest people I've yet encountered online. I'm looking for some sage wisdom. ;) I haven't done any serious programming since Extended BASIC for Texas Instruments' TI-99/4A. I lost interest in programming shortly after my father brought our first Windows 3.1 machine into the house-- it was easier to just accept what Microsoft fed me. Linux has gotten me interested in learning how to do things for myself again, and I've had a great time reading about the mindset and culture of coding. Having gotten a fair handle on bash scripting, I'm interested in moving on to something a little more advanced. Quite frankly, I'm a little overwhelmed by the possibilities. snip I'm interested in knowing which languages are favored by some of the hobbyist developers on this list, and why. Is there a particular programming/scripting language which seems to naturally lend itself to the beginner (while still being rich enough to produce some useful, if not particularly 'killer', applications)? Relatively easy to learn; powerful enough to create something other Linux users might find useful, should I stick with it long enough. Should I dive right into C, or might I be better-served by learning something about, for instance, Python or Perl? And if I _really_ get nuts about programming and decide that I want to give GUI-driven apps a try, are there languages which would lend themselves to something like, say, gtk (or is that a language in itself? See, utter newbie...). I would appreciate anyone's thoughts; feel free to respond off-list if this post shouldn't have been here in the first place. ;) Thanks, Marv I see you've had recommendations for Perl and C already so I won't chime in on either of them except to say that the learning curve is pretty steep for C. That said both are useful and widely used. For relearning to program again may I suggest either Python or Ruby. Python is widely used for all kinds of tasks and widely supported. There are many decent tutorials around particularly at www.python.org. Ruby is a little newer and not so widely used. Both are included with your distro. The reality is that once you learn a modern programming language transferring the skills to another one is relatively easy. Have fun!!! ttfn John PS: If you really want a long thread going ask what the best editor is. :-) -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:00:54 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let down. Well I have seen this some time ago. Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please. Maybe if it is short kindly explain please. I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered. Thanks I've had that happen to me. Basically what you have to do is go find the rpm packages to install yourself by spelunking through ftp and stuff, and install everything package by package. Annoying, but I managed to do it with the help of my friend, and I'm fairly new to all this stuff. From what I was told, urpmi is a fairly simple program, so it just removes what needs to be removed, then installs the new stuff. But when one of the things it removes is one of it's dependencies, it'll remove itself too because it wasn't told ~not~ to. Good luck on getting that rolling. I haven't had a problem with it again since I had to reinstall it the hard way. Kind of you to reply, thanks. I did not have such good friend. I wiped that OS of the HD and reinstalled. Lucky I rsync my home dir and my updates from .../urpmi/rpms to a spare partition on regular bases. So to reach my previous state took 5 hrs. If this was the easy or the hard way I am not so sure. Regards -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #33034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Un libro bueno en Linux
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 23:11, John Wilson wrote: Anyway back to the notion of harvest season, it may not be the right time of year to harvest a certain green herb that also has been known to make rope or clothing but at this very moment thousands of ancient hippies are decending onto Vancouver Island in search of a (not so) rare variety of mushroom that is supposed to enchance a magician's act. :-) ttfn John Your hidden knowledge of such impresses me, John...sheds a whole new light on my view of you. stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 23:45:36 up 8:34, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.16, 0.11 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. -- Steven Wright Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [HAB] 40 GB USB Drive
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 17:40, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: OOzy wrote: How can I install a 40 GB USB Drive? OOzy Is the drive partitioned/formatted? If so, I would plug it in, and then look for new directories in /mnt that should automaticly be created for it. If there are no partitions or filesystems on it, it get a bit harder. You should be able to use harddrake to set up the drive. It will look like a SCSI drive to the system. Mikkel The USB drive has two partisions one is FAT32 and the other Linux ex3. Now, my flash card is mounted like: none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu 0 0 When I plug it appears. How can I do the same for my 40GB USB drive. Note: My 40GB is partisioned as mentioned above. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Proxy
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:29, Tony S. Sykes wrote: You need to enable to proxy to ignore local ip addy's. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of OOzy Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 4:34 PM To: Mandrake Subject: [newbie] Proxy For me to go online I have to use a proxy and when I go to 127.0.0.1 it tells me can't find proxy so and so? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com HOw can I do this with Konquoror Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
Bill Shirley wrote: Maybe I didn't pay close enough attention, but it looked like you guys were using 'head' and 'tail' to output to a *.txt file leaving the original intact. Yes, the end result IS the important thing. However, not saying exactly what you want to do leads to misinterpretation. Bill If I recall the origional request, it was to remove some lines at the beginning and end of the rile, and put it in a .txt file. I don't remember if the origional file was wanted as a backup, but I normaly keep it around untill I am sure the script is producing what I want, and then go back and delete it. I like to have a backup in case things go wrong... I normaly read remove lines from a file as produce a new file with the lines removed, and keep the origional file as a backup, especialy when doing it as a batch job. Unless space considerations demand otherwise, this is usualy the best way. But then, I have been know to keep the last 3 or 4 revisions of a config file, or even use cvs to keep track of changes... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
- Original Message - From: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let down. Well I have seen this some time ago. Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please. Maybe if it is short kindly explain please. I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered. Thanks I've had that happen to me. Basically what you have to do is go find the rpm packages to install yourself by spelunking through ftp and stuff, and install everything package by package. Annoying, but I managed to do it with the help of my friend, and I'm fairly new to all this stuff. I had the same thing happen to me this morning. I don't have urpmi or rpmdrake any more. I found both packages but when I click on the icon it asked what program it should use to open the rpm with and I don't know what to answer. The whole menu entry for Packaging has disappeared. How do I deal with that? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] From what I was told, urpmi is a fairly simple program, so it just removes what needs to be removed, then installs the new stuff. But when one of the things it removes is one of it's dependencies, it'll remove itself too because it wasn't told ~not~ to. Good luck on getting that rolling. I haven't had a problem with it again since I had to reinstall it the hard way. 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] Un libro bueno en Linux
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:11 am, John Wilson wrote: On June 15, 2004 11:21 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:27, Aron Smith wrote: So ya reckon the snarling little bastard is out picking pot, eh? I diddn say enuythang. Farmer-in the -dell High ho the merry-o Aron, ya know, someone somewhere DID program a really good spell checker...or are you using elm/pico/mail/emacs? no Phew-bonics. Anyway back to the notion of harvest season, it may not be the right time of year to harvest a certain green herb that also has been known to make rope or clothing but at this very moment thousands of ancient hippies are decending onto Vancouver Island in search of a (not so) rare variety of mushroom that is supposed to enchance a magician's act. :-) fly agoric ? ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [HAB] 40 GB USB Drive
OOzy wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 17:40, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: OOzy wrote: How can I install a 40 GB USB Drive? OOzy Is the drive partitioned/formatted? If so, I would plug it in, and then look for new directories in /mnt that should automaticly be created for it. If there are no partitions or filesystems on it, it get a bit harder. You should be able to use harddrake to set up the drive. It will look like a SCSI drive to the system. Mikkel The USB drive has two partisions one is FAT32 and the other Linux ex3. Now, my flash card is mounted like: none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu 0 0 When I plug it appears. How can I do the same for my 40GB USB drive. Note: My 40GB is partisioned as mentioned above. Well, I have not played with supermount, so I don't know for sure. At a guess, I would try adding something like this to /etc/fstab: none /mnt/ext_hd1 supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0,0 none /mnt/ext_hd2 supermount dev=/dev/sda2,fs=ext3,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0,0 You will have to change /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 to match what the drive shows up as. I may also have the file systems swapped, depending on how the drive is formatted. I am susprised that hotplug didn't create these for you. I know that PEN drives, and USB ZIP drives are handled when you plug them in. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] libssl.so.0
How do I know if this is installed on my LM9.2 or not? If not where can I can find it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Win partition write perm
Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new rule, modifying the current rule (which i shouldnt be able to do i think i read somewhere). What am i doing wrong? Everytime i make the changes, they seem to be over written again, back to the old settings. I have entry, execute and write for User, but not for Group or other. The owner is 'root' group 'root', although if it was i would be able to change the permissons. I think it is some sort of windows permissions that are stopping me, as i have had the same problem before. I need write permission. Is there anyway to edit the permission settings manually, like in an fstab type file? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ??
Hi Bryan, Thanks for this, I now have a fully working local mirror of main, contrib, jpackage and updates! (weighing it at just over 7GB, as its RPMS only, (no source RPMS). Next thing is to get my PLF mirror up and running. I noticed that they have a link on their site for if you would like to mirror their repository. However, it reads to me as though its for public mirroring. My site is meant for internal use only (the server isn't accessible to the outside world), would I still be permitted to use their rsync ?? Ta, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Phinney Sent: 15 June 2004 14:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ?? On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:08 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Has anyone managed to get a local mirror working ?? If so, can you let me know how you achieved this?? (oh and how much disk-space is used) Yes. Using Rsync, there are instructions for doing so on the Mandrakelinux download site. The mirror size totally depends on what you mirror. You can mirror the Official files, Community files, Cooker files, ISO Files, and Updates separately. There is also the optional Contrib section, PLF repository, and a few others. If you want pretty much everything, plan on about 16GB. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm
On Jun 16, martin brandt had something to say about [newbie] Win partition... Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new rule, modifying the current rule (which i shouldnt be able to do i think i read somewhere). Is the partiction FAT32 or NTFS? By default you cannot write to an NTFS partition from linux. -- mattwarden mattwarden.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] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:08 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Has anyone managed to get a local mirror working ?? If so, can you let me know how you achieved this?? (oh and how much disk-space is used) Yes. Using Rsync, there are instructions for doing so on the Mandrakelinux download site. The mirror size totally depends on what you mirror. You can mirror the Official files, Community files, Cooker files, ISO Files, and Updates separately. There is also the optional Contrib section, PLF repository, and a few others. If you want pretty much everything, plan on about 16GB. Proxad doesn't support rsync. I have a local mirror and I use the follwing in a shell script: rsync -auvLP --delete mirrors.usc.edu::mandrakelinux/devel/community/i586/ /home/brant/mandrake/community/i586/ This grabs everything (main, contrib, updates [are contained in main]) for Community Edition. It works well for me. Very fast. - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --- Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ Mandrake 10.0 for i586, kernel 2.6.3-13mdk 13:15:00 up 1 day, 2:40, 1 user, load average: 1.46, 1.95, 2.15 - --- Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA0IIJDpzwx2t8E5gRAvMDAKCgQ800xv4JKXtmimIcs5YHigGtfgCfZ/W7 NIZPELvu8j3hSZHToj9u9vk= =eEXe -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] Win partition write perm
Quoting Warden, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 16, martin brandt had something to say about [newbie] Win partition... Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new rule, modifying the current rule (which i shouldnt be able to do i think i read somewhere). Is the partiction FAT32 or NTFS? By default you cannot write to an NTFS partition from linux. -- mattwarden mattwarden.com Oh yeah, no its FAT32 formatted. I formatted it under FAT32 specifically so i would be able to do this. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] libssl.so.0
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 12:02, OOzy wrote: How do I know if this is installed on my LM9.2 or not? If not where can I can find it? As root issue the following command: 'slocate -u' wait untill if finishes and then issue locate libssl.so.0 if its installed it will show up. The locate command can be run as any user. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good Mandrake Linux Book
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OOzy wrote: What is rute.pdf. Where can I find it? Is it part of my LM9.2 distro? On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 12:49, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 03:49, OOzy wrote: Anybody can recommend a good Mandrake Linux Book or at least a good general Linux book? try rute.pdf # urpmi rute - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --- Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ Mandrake 10.0 for i586, kernel 2.6.3-13mdk 13:25:00 up 1 day, 2:50, 1 user, load average: 1.74, 2.01, 2.13 - --- Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA0IVnDpzwx2t8E5gRAgh7AJ48CuQP2JhwrQ/HZ7IwqvUY30+ztgCdGQ6p 3w4nkN6rgEi1qWC+nATyp3M= =MblG -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] Win partition write perm
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 19:12, martin brandt wrote: Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new rule, modifying the current rule (which i shouldnt be able to do i think i read somewhere). What am i doing wrong? Everytime i make the changes, they seem to be over written again, back to the old settings. I have entry, execute and write for User, but not for Group or other. The owner is 'root' group 'root', although if it was i would be able to change the permissons. I think it is some sort of windows permissions that are stopping me, as i have had the same problem before. I need write permission. Is there anyway to edit the permission settings manually, like in an fstab type file? To me it looks like you are getting patronized by msec, which has a tendency of bessermachen, at least if your security setting is higher and especially paranoid. Every now and then msec checks permissions, and if it finds something slightly out of the usual, it changes permissions back. So, maybe changing your security setting to high or standard will settle things. On the other hand, if your windows partition is listed in your /etc/fstab, it should contain umask=0, something like : /dev/hda4 /data vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 that way it will mount chmod 777 every time. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:46:42 -0400 eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let down. Well I have seen this some time ago. Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please. Maybe if it is short kindly explain please. I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered. Thanks I've had that happen to me. Basically what you have to do is go find the rpm packages to install yourself by spelunking through ftp and stuff, and install everything package by package. Annoying, but I managed to do it with the help of my friend, and I'm fairly new to all this stuff. I had the same thing happen to me this morning. I don't have urpmi or rpmdrake any more. I found both packages but when I click on the icon it asked what program it should use to open the rpm with and I don't know what to answer. The whole menu entry for Packaging has disappeared. How do I deal with that? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, Eric I know how you feel. There is not a lot of advice available on this . to date .. The only answers to this question so far on this list are 1-The way Amy did with the help of a friend,, Amy .. kindly if possible the required rpms to restore urpmi please. ** 2- What I did . re-install . after saving home direcrory in safe place . if you have done updates with the --noclean option all rpms should be here ../var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ ..copy them to save place. ** here is rsync command I use .. su - -c rsync -va --ignore-existing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ \ /mnt/hde14-backup/mdk10/updates10/RPMS/ ** here is the rsync for the home directory.. su - -c rsync -av --delete /home/ \ /mnt/hde14-backup/mdk10-home/ ** You have to create the destination dirs first .. adjust the destination to your system. Maybe you know even more than I do about this. Goodluck Johan Sch ** From what I was told, urpmi is a fairly simple program, so it just removes what needs to be removed, then installs the new stuff. But when one of the things it removes is one of it's dependencies, it'll remove itself too because it wasn't told ~not~ to. Good luck on getting that rolling. I haven't had a problem with it again since I had to reinstall it the hard way. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #33034 May this be a good day for learning I did get things straightened out. I had a urpmi rpm on a CD. I used rpm to install it but everything else I tried to install failed because of dependencies. I used urpmi remove.media -a (I think) to remove my old listings. Next I added new sources for urpmi to use. After I finished that I used urpmi to add rpmdrake, gurpmi, drakxtools, drakxtools-newt and drakconf to my system. Everything seems to be fine. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 When this happened to me I ran the update from the 10CE cd. This installed the missing rpms and left all the newer rpms alone. After the update, I just had to run urpmi --auto-select to bring everthing up to date. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge
On Wednesday 16 Jun 2004 9:36 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:52:15 -0700 Eric Huff disseminated the following: Maybe i'll give gnoppix a looksy, too. If you do, and when you reboot after trying it out your host name is fuxored, turn off your comp and leave it off for about a minute. Apparently the settings can stay stuck in physical memory, learned this the hard way m'self. That's either magic, or what you're seeing is some data cached somewhere out on the net that hasn't been timed out and flushed. 1. On a power-down all the RAM will clear. 2. Linux is very careful to clear RAM before it's used, otherwise you could request some memory and find someone's password in it. 3. It's next to impossible to reboot and have everything in the same positions, byte perfect. Having said that, a soft reboot does not reset the PCI devices, so you could end up with one of them in a bad state. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Console command to format a usb pendrive?
Can anyone feed me the console command for bash to reformat a usb pen drive? It is fat 32 now and somehow write protected but has no manual write protection switch. Any ideas are appreciated. I think I have the commands from Running Linux but want to be sure so I don't screw this thing up any worse than it is. Thanks, -- 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
[newbie] I can't send e-mails
Hi. I installed 10.0. Installation was as smooth as it could be and I like it. However, I've got a problem with Evolution: it gives the following error message when I try to send an e-mail Erro ao executar operação: Falhou RCPT TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A transação falhou I can get messages. The only message that got through was one I sent to myself. Strange, isn't it? Any help appreciated. TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:49:44 +0100 Richard Urwin disseminated the following: If you do, and when you reboot after trying it out your host name is fuxored, turn off your comp and leave it off for about a minute. Apparently the settings can stay stuck in physical memory, learned this the hard way m'self. That's either magic, or what you're seeing is some data cached somewhere out on the net that hasn't been timed out and flushed. I'm not sure how that could be. Do these live CD's pull stuff down from the 'Net as part of their 'run'? 1. On a power-down all the RAM will clear. 2. Linux is very careful to clear RAM before it's used, otherwise you could request some memory and find someone's password in it. 3. It's next to impossible to reboot and have everything in the same positions, byte perfect. Having said that, a soft reboot does not reset the PCI devices, so you could end up with one of them in a bad state. Strange it was, yes, but when I rebooted after removing the live CD, the first thing I noticed was that my bash prompt had changed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and simply rebooting did nothing. I went on their IRC channel and the peeps on there seemed to be familiar with the 'problem', and immediately gave me the advice I mentioned above, ie. leave the machine powered off for a minute or so. I don't doubt what you say about the RAM, you're probably right that it was something else. All I know for sure is I nearly lost my cool (imagine that)! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 20:35:42 up 14 days, 6:58, 6 users, load average: 1.21, 1.24, 1.19 +++ 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
Re: [newbie] boot log?
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:42 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: There is also /var/log/boot.log eric I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log Well, that seemed to go over everybody's head. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What port scanning software is in use on the list?
List, I'm thinking about installing portsentry on my box to augment my shorewall firewall. I downloaded the gzipped source and got some compile errors. Before I try to post to the developer, does anybody know of an rpm for that? Is there a better port scanning program? What do yunz out there use? Terry Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk-i686-up-4GB 18:50:46 up 2 days, 22:45, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.10 How did you spend the weekend? asked the pretty brunette secretary of her blonde companion. Fishing through the ice, she replied. Fishing through the ice? Whatever for? Olives. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SCSI Detection problem
Hello, I have tried to install Mandrake 9 and 10 to no avail, they both freeze after installing the module for the scsi controller, before (while?) detecting the scsi hds attached to it. The funny thing is that I got the installation cds for OpenBSD 3.3, Suse 9 and Red Hat 7.3 all to detect my both HDs out of the box. My configuration (as lspci and dmesg from the Suse installation): 1 VIA-chipset motherboard with 512 RAM DDR400, a Pentium 4 1.8ghz processor, a CDROM on ide0 and a Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D SCSI controller (id 7) that controls 2 IBM-PSG DNES-309170W 9.1Gb hard drives on ids 0 and 1. After booting from the cd (Mandrake 10) and trying to install with the 2.6 kernel I get a error when insmodding the aic7xxx. Since Ive read somewhere that that is expected with that kernel I try an alternate boot image (the 2.4 kernel one). The module is installed ok (version 6.2.36) and detects AIC-7881U. My controller is found correctly but then when it should list my HDs, it just stays there forever. I have tried 2 different medias for the version 10 install and tried once other media with version 9 which had the exact same problem. I am feeling particularly frustrated since Suse 9 has apparently the same aic7xxx module version 6.2.36 and detects the HDs without any issues. As stated above the detection also was successful on Red Hat 7.3 and OpenBSD 3.3, but I really would ratter use Mandrake ;) Thanks in advance, Bernardo de Barros Franco
Re: [newbie] burning an iso
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:46:15 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for some reason k3b burned (10 and onlyb one cd now it won't burn any i have 10.0 official and ned to put it on cd so I can set up my new box HELP! Aron, I don't trust k3b. Use cdrecord: cdrecord -v -eject -device=ATA:1,0,0 -data -dao cdimage.iso (Hint: from my experience, -dao goes with -data, -pad with -audio). You may need to adjust the device settings. If you are up give me a call. I have 10.0s on CD but they aren't official more like CE. -- 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
[newbie] SCSI Detection problem
Hello, I have tried to install Mandrake 9 and 10 to no avail, they both freeze after installing the module for the scsi controller, before (while?) detecting the scsi hds attached to it. The funny thing is that I got the installation cds for OpenBSD 3.3, Suse 9 and Red Hat 7.3 all to detect my both HDs out of the box. My configuration (as lspci and dmesg from the Suse installation): 1 VIA-chipset motherboard with 512 RAM DDR400, a Pentium 4 1.8ghz processor, a CDROM on ide0 and a Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D SCSI controller (id 7) that controls 2 IBM-PSG DNES-309170W 9.1Gb hard drives on ids 0 and 1. After booting from the cd (Mandrake 10) and trying to install with the 2.6 kernel I get a error when insmodding the aic7xxx. Since I've read somewhere that that is expected with that kernel I try an alternate boot image (the 2.4 kernel one). The module is installed ok (version 6.2.36) and detects AIC-7881U. My controller is found correctly but then when it should list my HDs, it just stays there forever. I have tried 2 different medias for the version 10 install and tried once other media with version 9 which had the exact same problem. I am feeling particularly frustrated since Suse 9 has apparently the same aic7xxx module version 6.2.36 and detects the HDs without any issues. As stated above the detection also was successful on Red Hat 7.3 and OpenBSD 3.3, but I really would ratter use Mandrake ;) PS: Reposting in plain-text, sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks in advance, Bernardo de Barros Franco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 to 10.0: Upgrade or fresh install?
Hello, I have 9.2 which is fairly customized and I don't really want to loose all this with a fresh 10.0 install. I WILL back up and make notes on the most important stuff I have in /usr and /var that would be lost during a reformating of the drive, but a flawless upgrade would make many things easier. Have any of you attempted to upgrade from 9.2 to 10.0 (powerpack/official)? How did it go? Any reasons why I should consider doing a fresh install instead? thanks, Anguo -- www.masquilier.org Condorcet, Approval alternative voting. In order to prevent people from receiving viruses that would seem to originate from my email, if you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. Of course, this does not apply to GNU/Linux users. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Detection problem
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 08:45 pm, Bernardo de Barros Franco wrote: | Hello, | | I have tried to install Mandrake 9 and 10 to no avail, they both freeze | after installing the module for the scsi controller, before (while?) | detecting the scsi hds attached to it. | The funny thing is that I got the installation cds for OpenBSD 3.3, Suse | 9 and Red Hat 7.3 all to detect my both HDs out of the box. | My configuration (as lspci and dmesg from the Suse installation): | 1 VIA-chipset motherboard with 512 RAM DDR400, a Pentium 4 1.8ghz | processor, a CDROM on ide0 and a Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D SCSI controller | (id 7) that controls 2 IBM-PSG DNES-309170W 9.1Gb hard drives on ids 0 | and 1. | After booting from the cd (Mandrake 10) and trying to install with the | 2.6 kernel I get a error when insmodding the aic7xxx. Since I've read | somewhere that that is expected with that kernel I try an alternate boot | image (the 2.4 kernel one). The module is installed ok (version 6.2.36) | and detects AIC-7881U. My controller is found correctly but then when it | should list my HDs, it just stays there forever. I have tried 2 | different medias for the version 10 install and tried once other media | with version 9 which had the exact same problem. | I am feeling particularly frustrated since Suse 9 has apparently the | same aic7xxx module version 6.2.36 and detects the HDs without any | issues. As stated above the detection also was successful on Red Hat 7.3 | and OpenBSD 3.3, but I really would ratter use Mandrake ;) | | Thanks in advance, | Bernardo de Barros Franco You probably have one of the older Adaptec 2940 SCSI controllers. They changed the drivers for their newer models a couple of years ago, and the driver that Mandrake installs is the new driver, which doesn't work with the old 2940. Last I knew, the old driver was still on the disk, however, and was listed as the aic7xxx_Old (or something similar). To install this driver you need to boot the install and type expert to get to the choices which include the old driver. The reason RH7.x works is they were still using the old driver back then. Probably ditto for BSD3--don't know about Suse. The last Mandrake distro that installed the old driver as default was 8.2. If you need more info, Google is you friend. hth Erylon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Console command to format a usb pendrive?
Dennis Myers wrote: Can anyone feed me the console command for bash to reformat a usb pen drive? It is fat 32 now and somehow write protected but has no manual write protection switch. Any ideas are appreciated. I think I have the commands from Running Linux but want to be sure so I don't screw this thing up any worse than it is. Thanks, Well, normaly you would use mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1, where the a in sda1 may change, depending on how mayn SCSI devices, and what order they are dected. But if your PEN drive is write protected, that may not work. You may be stuck running the Windows software for it, and using that to unlock the drive. It sounds like write protect is implimented in firmware in the drive. I don't know if the USB drivers support the SCSI commands to remove write protect, or even if the pen drive uses the standard SCSI commands... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can I install my own program on my web host
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:49:10 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually trying to give my user form where they put the coefficient of a transfer function. Then my script will interact with ocatve. Octave then will plot the Bode Plot and hand it back as jpg to me. Aha. A bit more complicated that I thought ;). -- 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] I can't send e-mails
Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I installed 10.0. Installation was as smooth as it could be and I like it. However, I've got a problem with Evolution: it gives the following error message when I try to send an e-mail Erro ao executar operação: Falhou RCPT TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A transação falhou I can get messages. The only message that got through was one I sent to myself. Strange, isn't it? Any help appreciated. TIA Are you sure you have SMTP set up correctly? Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I can't send e-mails
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:07:09 -0300 Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi. | | I installed 10.0. Installation was as smooth as it could be and I like | it. | However, I've got a problem with Evolution: it gives the following | error message when I try to send an e-mail | Erro ao executar operação: | Falhou RCPT TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A transação falhou | | I can get messages. The only message that got through was one I sent | to myself. Strange, isn't it? | | Any help appreciated. | TIA | Sounds a bit like a problem I had when I could not send mail or access https sites. It turn out that the my problem was my external modem, which once changed solved everything. I'm using ML 9.2. I suggest you check your modem on another machine if possible to see if you have simular problem. David Taylor Taranaki, New Zealand http://windwand.co.nz proudly using a 100% Linux, Mandrake OS, computer === if replying to this mail please leave the filter code, [*], in subject line === There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
