Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:55:46 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You remind me of a 44 magnum revolver with two chambers loaded hollow point. You spin the cylinder and pull the trigger. You either hear a click or you blow a hole in the target a foot wide. And that shows only 1 of my E desktops whereas there are in fact 4 which I use. Charles P.S. Yes I use Xfce on 10.0 but I use E. on this my main system; and yes it is Cooker. Xfce is for the discriminating user but E is for the connoisseur. -- asuffield a workstation is anything you can stick on somebodies desk and con them into using -- in #debian-devel - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpjhwQTQjD9K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 02:07, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:55:46 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You remind me of a 44 magnum revolver with two chambers loaded hollow point. You spin the cylinder and pull the trigger. You either hear a click or you blow a hole in the target a foot wide. And that shows only 1 of my E desktops whereas there are in fact 4 which I use. Charles P.S. Yes I use Xfce on 10.0 but I use E. on this my main system; and yes it is Cooker. Xfce is for the discriminating user but E is for the connoisseur. AhhhTruer words were never spoken. I take note that you and I use the same WM theme which is Hand of God. Try as I might I have never encountered another theme that equals this one. I've toyed around with the idea of starting a Hand of God mailing list, if nothing else to honor Craigo and Technoir. But perhaps also to bring together fans of The Theme. And E, of course. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel. Did you remember to edit the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 to change the driver in X from nv to nvidia? Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nv VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) EndSection From within X, open up a konsole window and type in lsmod and then try to see if you have the nvidia module loaded. If you do not, then you have not properly installed the nvidia driver. but .. the nvidia module doesn't seem to be loaded. lsmod shows nothing and OpenGL still doesn't work :( R Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules
RAT wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel. Did you remember to edit the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 to change the driver in X from nv to nvidia? Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nv VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) EndSection From within X, open up a konsole window and type in lsmod and then try to see if you have the nvidia module loaded. If you do not, then you have not properly installed the nvidia driver. but .. the nvidia module doesn't seem to be loaded. lsmod shows nothing and OpenGL still doesn't work :( R If I get the posting remembered I believe you were talking about swapping from -15mdk and -7mdk and back again? Do you have both kernel-sources/vmlinuz in place and your boot loader configured to boot into either? The way I understood things, when loading nVidia drivers, you need to be within the uname of the kernel you wanted to install the driver to, so that suggests to me that you need to boot into the -15mdk and install nVidia again as per its 'Requirements'. Yeah. I mean having the driver installed twice? It's my understanding, also, that once you have booted into a particular kernel type/version, that upon exiting X, you are still using the initial booted too kernel? Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can correct this if'n I'm wrong. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hewlett Packard Scanjet 3500c
Hey everyone! I've been googling to see if I could get my scanner working under Mandrake, and I've getting very very frustrated and disappointed over what Google seems to be telling me. Every single page I've found is either trying to sell me the Scanjet 3500c, review it, or is some other mailing list's archives with someone else asking a variation of the same question I'm about to ask here. Is there any way I can get my HP Scanjet 3500c scanner working? Or would I be better off finding a new home for it with someone who's stupid enough to run windows still, and go hunt for a scanner that will work with Mandrake instead? I hope someone on this list knows what I can do, because I really can't afford to go buy a new scanner right now... but I've got stuff that I would really like to scan. Thanks in advance! Amy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE-reply to all
To add it to your toolbar: SettingsConfigure_Toolbars and move the Reply to All to the Current Actions window. cool huh, Yes! thanksexcept it doesn´t seem to work Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hewlett Packard Scanjet 3500c
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 10:27, Amy wrote: Hey everyone! I've been googling to see if I could get my scanner working under Mandrake, and I've getting very very frustrated and disappointed over what Google seems to be telling me. Every single page I've found is either trying to sell me the Scanjet 3500c, review it, or is some other mailing list's archives with someone else asking a variation of the same question I'm about to ask here. Is there any way I can get my HP Scanjet 3500c scanner working? Or would I be better off finding a new home for it with someone who's stupid enough to run windows still, and go hunt for a scanner that will work with Mandrake instead? I hope someone on this list knows what I can do, because I really can't afford to go buy a new scanner right now... but I've got stuff that I would really like to scan. Thanks in advance! Amy two possible choices: 1. http://www.lychnis.net/wiki/HP3500C There is a working demo program for the HP ScanJet 3500C, HP ScanJet 3530C and HP ScanJet 3570C: [WWW] http://projects.troy.rollo.name/rt-scanners/rtdemo-1.0.tar.bz2. This demo can scan images at resolutions of 1200, 600, 400, 300, 200, 150, 100, 75, 50 and 25 DPI (although 1200 and 400 still have some issues with calibration), in full colour mode, and store the results in a PNM format image file. 2. A commercial program called vuescan. from http://www.hamrick.com/ It doesn't list the 3500 amongst it's supported scanners, but you can download a trial to check it out. I used it a couple of years ago for a scanner that wasn't supported by SANE and it's good. -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 14:05, aj aj wrote: Hi all I'm using Mandrake 10 and I installed a driver for Conexant modem hsfmodem-6.03.00lnxt04072900full_k2.6.3_4mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm.zip and worked fine,but limited me to use the modem to 14.4k. Anyone has a full driver functioning to 56k please send me. Your help is appreciated. Ahmed You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15) they will give you a serial number to run at full speed. Basically, Conexant won't release the information Linuxant have bought a license from them to sell drivers. -- Paul M _ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules
-Original Message- From: SnapafunFrank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules RAT wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel. Did you remember to edit the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 to change the driver in X from nv to nvidia? Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nv VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) EndSection From within X, open up a konsole window and type in lsmod and then try to see if you have the nvidia module loaded. If you do not, then you have not properly installed the nvidia driver. but .. the nvidia module doesn't seem to be loaded. lsmod shows nothing and OpenGL still doesn't work :( R If I get the posting remembered I believe you were talking about swapping from -15mdk and -7mdk and back again? Do you have both kernel-sources/vmlinuz in place and your boot loader configured to boot into either? The way I understood things, when loading nVidia drivers, you need to be within the uname of the kernel you wanted to install the driver to, so that suggests to me that you need to boot into the -15mdk and install nVidia again as per its 'Requirements'. Yeah. I mean having the driver installed twice? It's my understanding, also, that once you have booted into a particular kernel type/version, that upon exiting X, you are still using the initial booted too kernel? Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can correct this if'n I'm wrong. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 == Also, don't forget to check the following in your XF86Config-4: (from the readme) In the Module section, make sure you have: Load glx You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore ...when I install the nvidia driver (as needed everytime a kernel upgrade happens) I usually just open a console and init 3. Then login as root, install the driver and make the XF86Config-4 changes... Any progress this far? When I tried it, it failed while trying to compile the nvidia kernel... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Windows XP 2 - already broke
Couldn't really make it up could you? A year late, billions of dollars, out less than 24 hours, and now: http://secunia.com/advisories/12321 Advise your friends running XP sp2 to turn off Active Scripting. -- pm ___ I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Friday 20 August 2004 07:38 am, PM wrote: You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15) they will give you a serial number to run at full speed. Basically, Conexant won't release the information Linuxant have bought a license from them to sell drivers. If you are going to spend $15 for the Conexant driver anyway, you would be much smarter to do a quick search at http://pricewatch.com for external 56k modem and buy one of the external cendyne serial modems on sale for about $18 or even less, including shipping. Same price, better modem, no driver issues and they work seamlessly under Linux. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:55:46 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: You remind me of a 44 magnum revolver with two chambers loaded hollow point. You spin the cylinder and pull the trigger. You either hear a click or you blow a hole in the target a foot wide. I'd say from the pics he's got more than two chambers loaded ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:21:23 up 16 days, 9:04, 9 users, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.02 +++ One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state. -- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:07:07 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: Xfce is for the discriminating user but E is for the connoisseur. ...don't do nuthin' Pek can't do, and don't do a lot it can ;-) (begin flamewar) :-D -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:26:04 up 16 days, 9:09, 9 users, load average: 0.18, 0.06, 0.01 +++ If Stephen Harper was prime minister, Canadian soldiers would be coming home from Iraq in body bags. -- Keith Martin, Former Conservative Party Member Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
michael higgins wrote:
perl -e 'open F,:encoding(iso-8859-9),$ARGV[0];for(F){for(split
/\W+/,$_){$t{lc $_}++}}for(map{$_-[0]}sort {$a-[1] = $b-[1]||
$a-[0] cmp $b-[0]}map{[$_,$t{$_}]} keys %t){print $_, = , $t{$_},
\n}' thenews.txt
Thanks, Mike. It also works for me. I will try to make a script from it.
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[newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 3com 3c590 failed to initiate?
I just did a fresh install of mandrake 10. During the installation it recognized my network card as a 3c590 10baseT (Vortex) etherlink III, which is correct, when I chose to configure the card during the first choice it warned that this card was already set up for a network connection from a previous OS and if I wished to keep this configuration or change it. I chose to modify, maybe I should have left it, but then again i need to understand how to set a network up in linux. I chose these options for my 3c590 network card in the configuration tool: Connection to configure: Lan con. Net Device: eth0: 3com corporation|3c590 10baseT [vortex] Protocols: Automatic IP (boot/dhcp) Assign host name from dhcp address: Checked Network hoplugging: Checked (I don't know what this means btw) Start at boot: Checked Enter Host Name: I left it blank since I chose earlier to assign host name from dhcp Zeroconf host name: Aname ( I don't know what this is either? I'm assuming it is sent to other machines on the network as the name for my computer for sharing files printers etc) I get a prompt to restart, I do, but still I see the exclamation mark for my network connection (Network down) This same system has been verified working under another os. and my router/hub is getting a signal from the nic card. My network setup is a broadband dsl modem, linked to a usr dsl router/4 port hub In control center under hardware linux reports i'm using the 3c59x module What am I doing wrong? and how can I configure this nic to work with my network/dsl router. I hope to set up this machine to share files and to act as a print server for my other machines using win98se. I also want it to connected to the internet via the router. eventuallly i'd like to migrate everything to linux wants I understand how to install programs, modules, etc etc Thanks, -J[]sie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Friday 20 August 2004 07:54 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 07:38 am, PM wrote: You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15) they will give you a serial number to run at full speed. Basically, Conexant won't release the information Linuxant have bought a license from them to sell drivers. If you are going to spend $15 for the Conexant driver anyway, you would be much smarter to do a quick search at http://pricewatch.com for external 56k modem and buy one of the external cendyne serial modems on sale for about $18 or even less, including shipping. Same price, better modem, no driver issues and they work seamlessly under Linux. Bryan: That's excellent advice for those of us who only use desktop machines, but what is a laptop user supposed to do? Schlepping around an external modem and its associated wires and power wart would be a real pain. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] On Installing kernel.
On Thursday 19 August 2004 10:30 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 09:25, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 05:19 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Thereidos wrote: Ok Tom I'm confused while using 2.6.3-7 I was using nvidia driver confirmed in /etc./X11/XF86Config-4. Glxgears reported 300 to 600fps in 5 sec when the gears were minimized it went over 1000fps in 5 sec. When I switched to 2.6.3.15 glx gears wont even run and the nvidia driver is nv in Config-4. I don't play any games that require accel, maybe pysol once in a while. Is there any reason for using 2.6.3.15? The real question is do you need the proprietary driver? Actually I'd suggest the newest kernel you can find for your system. Even if you have to compile a cooker rpm from kernel-source. Later 2.6.7 (higher version level) should be good. The 2.6.8's are a little new right now (low version levels). YMMV I suspect glxgears won't run either because the line Load glx # 3D layer is commented out (disabled) in XF86config or. since you had the proprietary drivers previously installed on the system (you have uninstalled them, right?), nVidia's installation removed Xfree's mesa files/dirs. If that's the case you'll need to urpme all xfree (or xorg) rpms and the reinstall them..or You could just use 'rpm -Uvh --force' to put them back in over the existing pkgs. That will also replace missing files/dirs that nVidia fsck'd with. Do either of the above at a level 3 prompt (no X running). If you've nVidia tainted that 2.6.3-15 kernel, you should either remove and reinstall it, or just use --force to replace kernel files and pkgs. Ok I don't need nvidia but there are flashes 3/4 bars running through my desktop now with nv and 2.6.3.15 that wernt there with nvidia and 2.6.3-7. Might be related to missing files/dirs, nVidia taints above? OTOH, it could be overstreched hardware. What you see on the monitor is the result of the video card, motherboard, and monitor working together. The result will be no better than the weakest link. Run 'ddcxinfos' to see your hardware specs, what it is capable of and the suggested modelines. A lot will depend on if your monitor has EISA info, so look for a line like mine tom # ddcxinfos | fgrep -i eisa 20.85 inches monitor (truly 19.31') EISA ID=SAM0080 If you see somethin similar, go ahead and run 'ddcxinfos |less' Another common mistake people tend to make is running at too high a resolution and/or color depth (bpp). Going back to EISA above, mine is a 19 TFT that both Samsung and 'ddcxinfos' says maxes out at 1280x1024(Samsung-) x24(nVidia- limitations). It will run at 1600x1200, and as a matter of fact that's what a Mandrake fresh install suggests..but that's overreaching. Particularly since many video and monitor vendors tend to overstate hardware specs. HTH, but I haven't touched nvidia proprietary drivers in years, and I've never had any issues with the 'nv' driver ..so I might not be the best one to help. I really just butted in here to correct the common misconception that xfree (xorg) doesn't support acceleration and OpenGL. It surely does ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 18:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 07:54 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 07:38 am, PM wrote: You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15) they will give you a serial number to run at full speed. Basically, Conexant won't release the information Linuxant have bought a license from them to sell drivers. If you are going to spend $15 for the Conexant driver anyway, you would be much smarter to do a quick search at http://pricewatch.com for external 56k modem and buy one of the external cendyne serial modems on sale for about $18 or even less, including shipping. Same price, better modem, no driver issues and they work seamlessly under Linux. Bryan: That's excellent advice for those of us who only use desktop machines, but what is a laptop user supposed to do? Schlepping around an external modem and its associated wires and power wart would be a real pain. -- cmg It's also excellent advice for those living in the U.S. I don't use (e.g.) pricewatch because the bulk of US dealers won't post overseas, and won't post to PO Boxes (the only option in many parts of the world). In addition, charges are a joke when you are buying from a company for posting to outside the US. If I buy from an individual via ebay (for example) the cost of postage is much more reasonable. -- Paul Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:13:16 +0100
Paul Smith wrote:
michael higgins wrote:
perl -e 'open F,:encoding(iso-8859-9),$ARGV[0];for(F){for(split
/\W+/,$_){$t{lc $_}++}}for(map{$_-[0]}sort {$a-[1] = $b-[1]||
$a-[0] cmp $b-[0]}map{[$_,$t{$_}]} keys %t){print $_, = , $t{$_},
\n}' thenews.txt
I missed part of this thread and I don't know perl very well, but
I'd like to know the difference between the perl code above and:
cat file.txt | tr \f\r\t\v \n | sort | uniq -c
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Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Friday 20 Aug 2004 16:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 07:54 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 07:38 am, PM wrote: You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15) they will give you a serial number to run at full speed. Basically, Conexant won't release the information Linuxant have bought a license from them to sell drivers. If you are going to spend $15 for the Conexant driver anyway, you would be much smarter to do a quick search at http://pricewatch.com for external 56k modem and buy one of the external cendyne serial modems on sale for about $18 or even less, including shipping. Same price, better modem, no driver issues and they work seamlessly under Linux. Bryan: That's excellent advice for those of us who only use desktop machines, but what is a laptop user supposed to do? Schlepping around an external modem and its associated wires and power wart would be a real pain. -- cmg For the laptop- a bit more than $15 ($29 inc shipping at pricewatch) - Zonet 56KB V.92 Fax Modem - Intel Chipset/Hardware -- http://www.poogle.co.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] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Windows XP 2 - already broke
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:44:51 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Couldn't really make it up could you? A year late, billions of dollars, out less than 24 hours, and now: http://secunia.com/advisories/12321 Advise your friends running XP sp2 to turn off Active Scripting. I like this advice more: ...or use another product. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 12:13:53 up 16 days, 11:57, 8 users, load average: 0.22, 0.39, 0.41 +++ 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] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Friday 20 August 2004 11:07 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Bryan: That's excellent advice for those of us who only use desktop machines, but what is a laptop user supposed to do? Schlepping around an external modem and its associated wires and power wart would be a real pain. I have one of the modems on my desk at home. I have DSL so I don't use dial-in at all anyway but I use the external to troubleshoot faulty modems on other computers when I do tech support, usually after lightning strikes. The unit is very small, no bigger than my hand in length and less than an inch thick. It is very light, my guess would be that it would compare favorably to an external floppy drive, if you have seen one of those for a laptop. Power supply is also quite small. Assuming that you carry a laptop in a travel bag as most people do, the modem would tuck in very nicely into just about any pocket large enough for a floppy drive. Of course, if you stick with built-in modems, you are stuck with whatever you get but, as a matter of principle, I would probably refuse to pay for linux drivers for a modem that I already paid for and for which windows drivers are free. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 11:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. Thanks I'll check it. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] W32.Netsky
I just got a virus mail that came to my system addressed to my email address that I use for this list. I suspect that someone has a windows machine for the list and that machine is compromised and is trying to send the Netsky virus to me. The virus originated from IP 216.240.86.254 which resolves to shawneelink.net at 20 Aug 2004 14:06:57 -0400 (EDT). If you possibly match this description, meaning, if you have a windows machine on shawneelink.net, you might want to check your machine. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Boot from UsB or Firewire.
Hi, Can LM10 be booted from a USB or Firewire HD? Thanx, Ayoub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] problem with Festival and Mandrake 10.0
I compiled and used festival (text to speech) through mandrake 9.2 but when I attemped to install in under Mandrake 10.0, it fails. When I do a make test I get : audsp: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 cannot open shared object file: no such file audio spooler has died unexpectedly. I'm not sure what libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is. There is a libstdc++ and a libc (though not 6.2). While I can get arount the problem I really would like to use the tts option (I use perl). Has anyone gotten Festival to work (with the tts option) under 10.0 I have looked thru the speech tools and festival source but I think the problem is something to do with the audio spooler (where do I find out about the audio spooler). I do like the fact that I can output two audio outputs at the same time (which I can't under 9.2) but I can't seem to find out how that was done.I'm using 2.6.3 (if that makes a difference) . [EMAIL PROTECTED] When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguised but elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguised but elderly scientists are then, after all, right. Isaac Asimov 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 Install and Install alongside a NTFS partition
On Thu, 19 Aug, Stephen =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= wrote: Do the installation in text mode; that worked for me. If I recall, I also had to use the noapci param...been a while - but worth a shot mate. Thanks - where do you insert the NOAPCI param please ? 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 from UsB or Firewire.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:05:09PM -0700, Ayoub890 wrote: Hi, Can LM10 be booted from a USB or Firewire HD? Thanx, Ayoub As long as your BIOS supports it. Todd -- rm -rf Whitehouse/Bush 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 from UsB or Firewire.
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:05:09PM -0700, Ayoub890 wrote: Hi, Can LM10 be booted from a USB or Firewire HD? Thanx, Ayoub As long as your BIOS supports it. Todd Or if you can put /boot on a drive your BIOS does support. You need to load the kernel, and the initial RAM disk using the BIOS. After that, as long as support for the root file system in in the kernel, or the RAM disk, you are all set. 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] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 18.12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. I have the same drive. How can I check the current version of of my firmware? /Pedro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT DVD Jon Strikes Again
I just thought some people out there might like to read this. DVD Jon Strikes Again http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64591,00.html -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ** A história das civilizações é uma sucessão de abismos em que toneladas de conhecimento desaparecem. Umberto Eco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 06:30 pm, Pedro Blom wrote: I have the same drive. How can I check the current version of of my firmware? If you have K3b installed, go to Settings, Configure k3b, Devices and check the version of the Plextor drive, that is the firmware version. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 17:30, Pedro Blom wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 18.12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. I have the same drive. How can I check the current version of of my firmware? /Pedro On mine its printed on the lable that has the serial # on it. Otherwise I don't know. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.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] VMware Install and Install alongside a NTFS partition
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:41, mmarsh wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug, Stephen =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= wrote: Do the installation in text mode; that worked for me. If I recall, I also had to use the noapci param...been a while - but worth a shot mate. Thanks - where do you insert the NOAPCI param please ? If I recall, I went to text mode, and typed: linux noapci or linux acpi=no One of those... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. I find you lack of faith in the forth dithturbing. - Darse (Darth) Vader Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 13:13, JoeHill wrote: Gettin' bored with my current selection of Pekwm themes, wondering if some people can post some screens of their WM for me to get some ideas, or otherwise steal/hack at. Cheers! (Please no candy-assed KDE or Aqua-been-done-to-death stuff) :-D Why not just use a proper wm like XFCE4 mate? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] W32.Netsky
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 05:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: I just got a virus mail that came to my system addressed to my email address that I use for this list. I suspect that someone has a windows machine for the list and that machine is compromised and is trying to send the Netsky virus to me. The virus originated from IP 216.240.86.254 which resolves to shawneelink.net at 20 Aug 2004 14:06:57 -0400 (EDT). If you possibly match this description, meaning, if you have a windows machine on shawneelink.net, you might want to check your machine. Jeepers Bryan, hope you didn't try to open it and run it! (as if that were even possible whilst in GNU/linux) -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. -- J.P. Donleavy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:59:03 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: (Please no candy-assed KDE or Aqua-been-done-to-death stuff) :-D Why not just use a proper wm like XFCE4 mate? We bin over this, d00d. Missing too many features, and all the customization is done by far too many mouse clicks. Not as bad as Enlightenment, but almost ;-) Switch your wallpaper? Click, click, click, clickswitch your theme...same shite. Anyhow, workin' on a new theme already, a vicious hack, but it seems to be coming along okay. Gratuitous screenshot to follow shortly. ...but I'll give you this: anyone choosing KDE over XFCE needs their head examined. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:39:56 up 16 days, 21:23, 8 users, load average: 0.43, 0.22, 0.14 +++ When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. -- Archbishop Helder Camara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:50:26 -0400 JoeHill wrote: Missing too many features, and all the customization is done by far too many mouse clicks Only if you need to have your hand held and do not Know how to use a keyboard (-; Charles -- Fortune's real live weird band names #258: Foreskin 500 - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpYlOyRVp0L2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:05:48 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: Missing too many features, and all the customization is done by far too many mouse clicks Only if you need to have your hand held and do not Know how to use a keyboard (-; ...you can change themes or wallpaper either with the keyboard or in one click? I did not know that. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:32:00 up 16 days, 22:15, 8 users, load average: 0.31, 0.20, 0.14 +++ The rich control all the businesses, the newspapers and everything else. But they can no longer control the people. -- Margarita Mendoza, street vendor, Venezuela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:33:10 -0400 JoeHill wrote: ...you can change themes or wallpaper either with the keyboard or in one click? Well... Theme in 1 click, but since the WP I use is not supplied by the theme, it takes 2 clicks. Charles -- A domineering man married a mere wisp of a girl. He came back from his honeymoon a chastened man. He'd become aware of the will of the wisp. - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp2e4f8Cinph.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:13:51PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Gettin' bored with my current selection of Pekwm themes, wondering if some people can post some screens of their WM for me to get some ideas, or otherwise steal/hack at. Cheers! (Please no candy-assed KDE or Aqua-been-done-to-death stuff) :-D http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png Look out, it's over 300K. And no windows for you to see :) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Friday 20 August 2004 06:50 pm, JoeHill wrote: | ...but I'll give you this: anyone choosing KDE over XFCE needs their head | examined. Sorry dooD, but my wife would never have quit Winders if it hadn't been for the KDE interface. Anything that is too different from Windows and it would have been a no go from the get go. It's call xenophobia, and 90% of the Windows users have it. All these folks want is an OS interface that is easy to use and understand, and especially one that they don't have to learn from scratch. Xfce, as much as I like it, is too different to be of use to your average Windows convert. Ditto for Enlightenment, Ice, and even Gnome. My wife described Gnome as weird looking and ugly. Any Windows user can convert to KDE without giving it much thought, and that makes it a useful interface, in my book. The other window managers are pretty much for geeks, even though many (most) are really more intelligently designed (that, I think, we can agree on). e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
