Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 20:40, Paul Smith wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G 2,6G 40% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 7,8G 5,9G 2,0G 76% /mnt/windows Should it not appear 12G instead of 4,5G? Also, there may be a partition that isn't being mounted...forgot to mention that mate... There is no swap part listed and the total adds up to 12.3 GB + swap. How big is the drive? Hoyt, As Stephen correctly guessed, what was missing was not mounted. Paul If you ever want verification of how a drive is partitioned, just do fdisk -l /dev/hd? At a root shell. It will just dump the partition layout to the shell. 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] Existential Linux Question
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 01:35, Richard Urwin wrote: Sorry if I jumped down your throat. I'm following this SCO et al debacle fairly closely, and you hit a trigger phrase. (as you know, Ken Brown, [probably bank-rolled by MS,] has accused Linus of copying MINIX when creating Linux. That would be an unlicensed use of MINIX and if it were true would call into question the legality of Linux.) The developer of Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum, has stated that this is not the case. See his comments at: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ and http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/followup/ -- pm We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid, Metamorphoses Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 19:51, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 00:35, Richard Urwin wrote: Sorry if I jumped down your throat. I'm following this SCO et al debacle fairly closely, and you hit a trigger phrase. (as you know, Ken Brown, [probably bank-rolled by MS,] has accused Linus of copying MINIX when creating Linux. That would be an unlicensed use of MINIX and if it were true would call into question the legality of Linux.) Linus wrote wrote the first version of his code on Minix, yes. Does that mean, that if someone writes a love-letter using Microsoft Word that Bill and Steve have a date ? Does Remington own James Joyce's Ulysses because it was typed on a Remington typewriter ? Does Gutenberg own the Bible ? Does the goose own the works of Shakespeare because it was written with a feather ? And so on. Professor Tanenbaum - who wrote Minix - explicitely declared, that there is NO Minix-code in Linux. Period. Not only that Kaj but if memory serves me correctly I believe Tanenbaum explicitly gave Linus permission to use the code anyway. I came across a set of those emails when I was researching the legality issues surrounding the pwx.o hooks for phillips webcam. LX Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New installation KDE is broken
On Sunday 30 May 2004 09:30 am, Q.H. Wang wrote: During my attempts to install MDK 10.0, I also got some X hang up by choosing some wrong graphic card (Raedon). I then found itis fine by selecting Raedon 7500. I also got some ( maybe one or two tenth of my bootings) blue screen during bootup when I set my monitor as generic flat panel 1024*768. It's solved later by setting right monitor. Sorry if these are not helpful. Thanks to all that replyed. You folks were correct it was a video card problem, Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GPS and Linux
You can find some GPS proyects at www.freshmeat.net El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 16:49, Rick Kunath escribi: SME Server Admin wrote: There are apparently some open source things for Linux, but I've not found anything suitable just yet. Snip MS Autoroute, Infomap Navigator, Memory Map, GPS Utility, GPS VisualRoute, MapSource, Snip I am looking for Linux GPS mapping software too. Grass doesn't do what I need, Viking either. I am hoping to find something like QuakeMap under M$ for Linux. QuakeMap is a utility for displaying Terraserver topo and aerial photos in a much larger area than the limitations of the Terraserver web site. It also stores maps in case you need them while out in the field and offline. Waypoints and routes can be imported or created and displayed on topos, aerial photos, or aerials with topos superimposed. I'd like to find something that runs on Linux with these capabilities. Is there anything out there that would do this sort of job? Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Archives
Good day all I asked a while ago about setting up a squid proxy server to do authentication and somebody gave me a couple of URL's to look at and being an idiot I did not save them. I tried looking in the archives but the dates only go to 2003-11.. Is this list still archived and if so where. Alternatively you could just point me to the proxy authentication how to guide again. Many Thanks I promise I will save the URL this time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE 3.3 on Mandrake 10
Dear All I would like to ask you whether it is safe to install KDE 3.3 (with Konstruct) on Mandrake 10? Has someone succeeded with this enterprise? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CUPS
I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] Archives
On Monday 30 August 2004 04:14 pm, Alan wrote: I promise I will save the URL this time. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/08/09/authen_squid.html http://www.wizdom.org.uk/linux/squid.shtml http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-adv/squid.htm http://www.pycs.net/lateral/stories/6.html -- 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] CUPS
I had cups printer problems as well. I found using a web browser and pointing to http://localhost:631made installing printers real easy. Make sure cups service is started first in the services controller. Mark -Original Message-From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] CUPS I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] Archives
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:14:13PM +0200, Alan wrote: Good day all I asked a while ago about setting up a squid proxy server to do authentication and somebody gave me a couple of URL's to look at and being an idiot I did not save them. I tried looking in the archives but the dates only go to 2003-11.. Is this list still archived and if so where. Alternatively you could just point me to the proxy authentication how to guide again. Many Thanks I promise I will save the URL this time. For your archive needs note that the weekly Welcome to Newbie mail contains links to the archives. 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] KDE 3.3 on Mandrake 10
W licie z pon, 30-08-2004, godz. 22:07, Paul Smith pisze: Dear All I would like to ask you whether it is safe to install KDE 3.3 (with Konstruct) on Mandrake 10? Has someone succeeded with this enterprise? Thanks in advance, Paul I've tried to install KDE with Konstruct when it still was in alpha stage but soon I realised that doing so manually is a much better solution. Nonetheless I would suggest to wait for rpms as I do. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [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] Hard Drive Issues
On Monday 30 August 2004 14:16, BJ Tracy wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 01:23 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 11:53, BJ Tracy wrote: snip I would reboot after restore though the experts would likely say you dont have to but for peace of mind I would. If you used mccbackup then using mccrestore should be ok. I have only had to restore 1 file from backup and it worked ok, but someone else should answer that question. SNIP So can you restore single files at a time using Mandrake Control Center ? If so since my system is running great now, can I restore everything but system files ? bj If you select configure-system-backup-restore You will be presented with several optione, Search for files to restore, Restore all backups, Custom restore, Restore from catalog. System files are the /etc directory and Custom restore I believe gives you that option, just deselect, or do not select, restore system. -- 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] [OT] sylpheed-claws gtk2 cvs
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:13:12 -0500 John Drouhard disseminated the following: The *only* thing wrong with it at this point is that it doesn't compile with pgpmime or gnupg correctly. JoeHill, you wanna give this a try and see if you can get it to work? Last time I tried, I couldn't even get it to compile, but ya, I'll give it a shot soon's the ankle chains are in bed ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:47:55 up 26 days, 17:32, 10 users, load average: 2.12, 1.71, 1.53 +++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake Backup
Dear All I have an IDE HP Colorado backup unit (20GB) that I'm trying to get working preferably with Mandrake Backup (it has a GUI and email facility and the client knows the program) on Mandrake 10. I have the tape unit up and running insofar as: dmesg lists it as hdd and then as ht0 (as expected) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dmesg | grep hdd ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive ide-tape: hdd - ht0: HP COLORADO 20GB rev 4.01 ide-tape: hdd: overriding capabilities-speed (assuming 650KB/sec) ide-tape: hdd: overriding capabilities-max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec) ide-tape: hdd - ht0: 650KBps, 13*32kB buffer, 6336kB pipeline, 100ms tDSC, DMA mt -f /dev/ht0 status gives me no errors SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (0): and I can echo the $TAPE variable (I have it in /etc/profile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# echo $TAPE /dev/tape I know it is working as I can use it in Taper without problems. But Taper has only untested support for IDE drives and only the beta has support for drives with over 4GB. So I don't want to use it in a production situation. When I go into Mandrake Backup though it always says no devices found in the tape section. Does Mandrake Backup support IDE drives? Anybody got one to work? Your assistance appreciated. Robert 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] sylpheed-claws gtk2 cvs
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:13:12 -0500 John Drouhard disseminated the following: The *only* thing wrong with it at this point is that it doesn't compile with pgpmime or gnupg correctly. JoeHill, you wanna give this a try and see if you can get it to work? Dang, just gave it a shot, I need GTK 2.4 (still running 9.2, dontcha know). I can't remember now, is that a huge pain to update? Sheesh, look at my load avg, I gotta take it easy on this poor ol' box! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:59:53 up 26 days, 17:44, 11 users, load average: 2.78, 2.36, 1.93 +++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
John Drouhard's post about the GTK2 port of Claws has lead me to a more fundamental question. Has anyone running 9.2 successfully updated their libgtk and all associated libs to 2.4, and if so how? And no, I'm not installing 10.0 for the time being. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:31:30 up 26 days, 18:15, 11 users, load average: 1.84, 1.70, 1.64 +++ Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate. -- Spain's prime minister-elect, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Server
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 01:45, SME Server Admin wrote: On Monday 23 Aug 2004 06:40, Wally Brown wrote: Anyone know how to configure the FTP server to change which folder it points to? I would like to be able to point my account to my web server folder to allow for remote file updates. Wally Depending on which ftp server software you are using, there will be an associated conf file in /etc. Assuming you are using proftp, just edit /etc/proftpd.conf and add a line like this: DefaultRoot /home/www my-account Other FTP servers will have similar arrangements. This also chroots you so that this directory becomes your root directory when using ftp. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS
Seems to me like you dont have CUPS installed jet, so I recomend you to install all the CUPS RPMS befor trying to install the printer. After doing that you can use the web configuration tool for cups http://localhost:631 Cdrack. El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 21:00, Steve escribi: I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
[newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140
Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:34:36 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Drouhard's post about the GTK2 port of Claws has lead me to a more fundamental question. Has anyone running 9.2 successfully updated their libgtk and all associated libs to 2.4, and if so how? And no, I'm not installing 10.0 for the time being. That wouldn't do it anyway. 10.0 is still 2.2, you need 10.1 to get 2.4. God knows when Mandrake will get around to that for AMD64, so I've been playing around with Gentoo. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xsessionerrors file growing
hi all, while trying to work out why i couldnt burn dvds i happened to check the .xsessionerrors file which wouldnt open. Eventually i opened it with tail -f and it spewed forth: ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) and proceeded to do so at the rate of 3 or 4 lines a second. I have just recently installed MDK 10 on a new HDD. Every day as soon as i turn my machine on the file starts to grow, and although it only grows by MB or so an hour this cant been good for things. Any ideas? -- Warren Knott PO Box 300-400, Albany, New Zealand. +64-272-500-100 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS
After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. Steve - Original Message - From: Cdrack To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS Seems to me like you don´t have CUPS installed jet, so I recomend you to install all the CUPS RPM´S befor trying to install the printer.After doing that you can use the web configuration tool for cups http://localhost:631Cdrack.El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 21:00, Steve escribió: I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas?Thanks,Steve
Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:37:03 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: Imagine there's no Microsoft, it isn't hard to do; no DRM or viruses, and no closed source software too... I'm sure that you dont understand the extent of closed source software. ...oh, Hoyt, LIGHTEN UP. Anyhow, I understand it enough to know it is a rapidly failing development model, soon to be relegated to the scrapheap of history by more flexible, innovative and secure open source solutions, which is why so many of the big guys are making the foray into the OSS arena. They don't want to be left holding their nuts when the bottom falls out. But even more, as the man hisself said: A non-free program is a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to dominate more. It may seem like a profitable option to become one of the emperor's lieutenants, but ultimately the ethical thing to do is to resist the system and put an end to it. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:17:01 up 26 days, 19:01, 11 users, load average: 1.37, 1.30, 1.28 +++ The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death. -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004 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, 27 Aug 2004 13:12:26 +0800 frankieh disseminated the following: or in MS's case telling the truth about them LOL! Ya, we don't even need to make stuff up using paid consultants and rigged tests, they just keep feeding us the ammo. Looks like they're in trouble in the States again, 'nother class action lawsuit. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:25:11 up 26 days, 19:09, 11 users, load average: 1.18, 1.27, 1.27 +++ Contrary to Bush's claim that his regime change in Iraq has produced a more stable Middle East, his actions have opened a hornet's nest of death and destruction. -- Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 08:34, JoeHill wrote: John Drouhard's post about the GTK2 port of Claws has lead me to a more fundamental question. Has anyone running 9.2 successfully updated their libgtk and all associated libs to 2.4, and if so how? And no, I'm not installing 10.0 for the time being. In doing so you will have to upgrade Python as well; and once done, all mandrake bits will begin to break. Been there done that. -- 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. Communicate! It can't make things any worse. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:59:21 -0400 Guy Rouillier disseminated the following: John Drouhard's post about the GTK2 port of Claws has lead me to a more fundamental question. Has anyone running 9.2 successfully updated their libgtk and all associated libs to 2.4, and if so how? And no, I'm not installing 10.0 for the time being. That wouldn't do it anyway. 10.0 is still 2.2, you need 10.1 to get 2.4. God knows when Mandrake will get around to that for AMD64, so I've been playing around with Gentoo. So I *can't* upgrade to 2.4 on 9.2?! There must be a way... Yo! Stephen! How about that Red Carpet thingie? Is this one of those times when Debian users snicker with derision at us MDK people? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:36:55 up 26 days, 19:21, 11 users, load average: 1.12, 1.21, 1.24 +++ Behind every great fortune is a crime. -- Balzac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Changed conection to internet
Hi Everybody I changed the Internet connection on my Mandrake 10. Linux box from a proxy server to a router. It was working fine on the proxy server (which is now gone) but I can't get to any websites with the new router setup. In the network card setup I changed the gateway address to the router's ip address (I can ping fine and that setting is okay) and tried with the Mandrake Control Center to change the Internet Setup. But everytime I enter the DNS servers (which I think are probably the problem) it doesn't hold on to the settings. Everytime I go back in to check they are blank. I read the last time I had a similar problem about a non MCC way of inputting these settings, from a teminal window but I can't remember what the command was. Anybody know the command? or where the DNS info is stored? Thanks in advance. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:33:45 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: In doing so you will have to upgrade Python as well; and once done, all mandrake bits will begin to break. Been there done that. Damn and blast! Oh, well, it's just Claws. I'm not messin' around too much with a perfectly working system just for a more snazzy mail client. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:41:28 up 26 days, 19:25, 11 users, load average: 1.15, 1.25, 1.26 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changed conection to internet
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 09:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody I changed the Internet connection on my Mandrake 10. Linux box from a proxy server to a router. It was working fine on the proxy server (which is now gone) but I can't get to any websites with the new router setup. In the network card setup I changed the gateway address to the router's ip address (I can ping fine and that setting is okay) and tried with the Mandrake Control Center to change the Internet Setup. But everytime I enter the DNS servers (which I think are probably the problem) it doesn't hold on to the settings. Everytime I go back in to check they are blank. I read the last time I had a similar problem about a non MCC way of inputting these settings, from a teminal window but I can't remember what the command was. Anybody know the command? or where the DNS info is stored? Thanks in advance. Robert Manually edit the /etc/resolv.conf and put in the servers you think you should have, then do a: service network restart ...try again... -- 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. Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changed conection to internet
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 09:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody I changed the Internet connection on my Mandrake 10. Linux box from a proxy server to a router. It was working fine on the proxy server (which is now gone) but I can't get to any websites with the new router setup. In the network card setup I changed the gateway address to the router's ip address (I can ping fine and that setting is okay) and tried with the Mandrake Control Center to change the Internet Setup. But everytime I enter the DNS servers (which I think are probably the problem) it doesn't hold on to the settings. Everytime I go back in to check they are blank. I read the last time I had a similar problem about a non MCC way of inputting these settings, from a teminal window but I can't remember what the command was. Anybody know the command? or where the DNS info is stored? Thanks in advance. Robert DNS servers are registered in /etc/resolv.conf It should look like this: nameserver xxx.yyy.zzz.123 nameserver xxx.yyy.zzz.124 etc...for as many nameservers as you want to define. Two is usually enough. Just edit this file as root. You will see the effect immediately on saving the changes - no need to restart anything. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 09:42, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:33:45 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: In doing so you will have to upgrade Python as well; and once done, all mandrake bits will begin to break. Been there done that. Damn and blast! Oh, well, it's just Claws. I'm not messin' around too much with a perfectly working system just for a more snazzy mail client. I ended up breaking mine just because I wanted Nautilus 2.6; then after it was all done, and I saw it ONCE, I realised that ROX did the same afterall (and was heaps more configurable) - ah well, the lessons we learn...(seven more days to ADSL) -- 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. Life may have no meaning, or, even worse, it may have a meaning of which you disapprove. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140
On Monday 30 August 2004 06:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! I have been looking at one myself. I currently own a iMP-350, but I want to move to the hard drive player because 1) I am sick of futzing with CDR's, and 2) the ogg support is much better on the hard drive players. The supported bitrate is much higher. My understanding is that they are mounted like any other removeable usb hard drive or flash drive. You can then copy anything over to them. The nice thing about the iRiver's are that the amps in them are pretty well rated for portable devices. The iMP-350 was rated very highly as a portable device by the headphone geeks over at Headroom, and I've heard that quality has carried through to the iHP series. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140
On Monday 30 August 2004 07:56 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 06:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! I have been looking at one myself. I currently own a iMP-350, but I want to move to the hard drive player because 1) I am sick of futzing with CDR's, and 2) the ogg support is much better on the hard drive players. The supported bitrate is much higher. My understanding is that they are mounted like any other removeable usb hard drive or flash drive. You can then copy anything over to them. The nice thing about the iRiver's are that the amps in them are pretty well rated for portable devices. The iMP-350 was rated very highly as a portable device by the headphone geeks over at Headroom, and I've heard that quality has carried through to the iHP series. Here's the link to the review. http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=2subTopicID=28 -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE - KPPP
I've just recently upgraded to MDK 10 Official and have upgraded all my kde files. Since installing 'kdenetwork-kppp-3.2-17.1.100mdk.i586.rpm' I've experience problems with the dialler. After installing the /etc/ppp/options were changed, (cann't remember exactly how it went in the 3rd line but it was something like this: lock noauth n***default [where * = a letter]) and now does not want to always connect. If I use 'wvdial' to connect and then disconnect and try 'kppp' I can then get a connection with it sometimes. Has anyone else experienced problems with this upgrade and if so how did you overcome them if you have. [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDK_Updates]$ cat /etc/ppp/options lock debug noauth defaultroute lcp-max-configure 45 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDK_Updates]$ These settings were given by a linux knowledgeble helpdesk person from my isp. ^ David Taylor Taranaki, New Zealand http://windwand.co.nz proudly using a 100% Linux, Mandrake OS, computer === if replying please leave the filter code,ie [] contents, in subject line === The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. -- Thomas Carlyle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:54:22 -0500 John Drouhard disseminated the following: And no, I'm not installing 10.0 for the time being. I don't know if this is too much work for you, but you can try compiling it from source, along with it's dependencies. That shouldn't break anything *too* bad. :-) http://www.gtk.org http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/gtk-building.html Just for claws? Nah. Something to look forward to when I buy a new box and can experiment a bit. Right now I only have the one old workhorse, and I ain't riskin' breakin' nuttin' no how! For the people who *do* want to build this wonderful GTK2 Claws, here is John's original howto (though I think the line number you edit has changed to 65...): 1. cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sylpheed-claws login ^^^That is one line press enter when the password prompt comes up. 2. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sylpheed-claws co -r gtk2 sylpheed-claws ^^^That is one line 3.change into the sylpheed-claws directory. 4. Open the file configure.ac and change line 63 from AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h) to AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) 5. Then save it, and run autogen.sh. type make, then become root and type make install. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:05:50 up 26 days, 21:50, 12 users, load average: 0.35, 0.40, 0.67 +++ Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. -- Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker 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 - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Monday 30 August 2004 20:49, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:18:21 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: A non-free program is a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to dominate more. It may seem like a profitable option to become one of the emperor's lieutenants, but ultimately the ethical thing to do is to resist the system and put an end to it. You seem to have forgotten the bankers, lawyers, indian chiefs, accountants, small business, big business, factories, labs, hospitals, etc. If you think millions of business concerns are paying $1,500 per month and up for software use for nothing, you maybe ought to rethink. The business seems to be doing well. Didn't say they were dead, Hoyt, said they were *dying*. The facts speak for themselves: An Evans Data survey published in November 2001 found that 48.1% of international developers and 39.6% of North Americans plan to target most of their applications to GNU/Linux. In October 2002, they found that 59% of developers expect to write Linux applications in the next year. The November 2001 edition of the Evans Data International Developer Survey Series reported on in-depth interviews with over 400 developers representing over 70 countries, and found that when asked which OS they plan to target with most of their applications next year, 48.1% of international developers and 39.6% of North Americans stated that they plan to target most of their applications to GNU/Linux. This is surprising since only a year earlier less than a third of the international development community was writing GNU/Linux applications. The survey also found that 37.8% of the international development community and 33.7% of North American developers have already written applications for GNU/Linux, and that over half of those surveyed have enough confidence in GNU/Linux to use it for mission-critical applications. Evans Data conducted a survey in October 2002. In this survey, they reported ___Linux continues to expand its user base. 59% of survey respondents expect to write Linux applications in the next year.___ An Evans Data survey made public in February 2004 found that 1.1 million developers in North America were working on OSS/FS projects. Evans Data___s North American Developer Population Study examined the number of software developers using various approaches. It found that more than 1.1 million developers in North America were spending at least some of their time working on Open Source development projects. That___s an extraordinarily large number of people, and it doesn___t even account for developers in other countries. Many only develop part-time, but that many people can develop a lot of software, and having a large number of people increases the likelihood of helpful insights and innovations in various OSS/FS projects. A Japanese survey found widespread use and support for GNU/Linux; overall use of GNU/Linux jumped from 35.5% in 2001 to 64.3% in 2002 of Japanese corporations, and GNU/Linux was the most popular platform for small projects. The book Linux White Paper 2003 (published by Impress Corporation) surveys the use of GNU/Linux in Japan (it is an update to an earlier book, ___Linux White Paper 2001-2002___). This is written in Japanese; here is a brief summary of its contents. The survey has two parts, user and vendor. In ___Part I : User enterprise___, they surveyed 729 enterprises that use servers. In ___Part II : Vendor enterprise___, they surveyed 276 vendor enterprises who supply server computers, including system integrators, software developers, IT service suppliers, and hardware resellers. The most interesting results are those that discuss the use of Linux servers in user enterprises, the support of Linux servers by vendors, and Linux server adoption in system integration projects. Link: http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html I offer the gaming industry, there are now servers and other programs that allow games to run under linux, but you still have to buy the game. I cant expect that an accounting program that runs on Texas Instrument OS and costs $1500 per month will do any different. This is also true of UNIX and other OS's such as IBM can you imagine IBM loseing business to linux. -- 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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:28:22 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html I offer the gaming industry, there are now servers and other programs that allow games to run under linux, but you still have to buy the game. I cant expect that an accounting program that runs on Texas Instrument OS and costs $1500 per month will do any different. This is also true of UNIX and other OS's such as IBM can you imagine IBM loseing business to linux. It's not going to happen tomorrow. If you had actually read the info I posted, you would understand I'm talking about a *trend* here, Hoyt. A process of change. Just try to wrap your head around that for one second. Will proprietary software ever be totally wiped out? Not in our lifetimes, I don't think. Is OSS gaining, and overtaking, proprietary closed source development? Yes. Is OSS winning out time after time when businesses are making decisions about expanding or replacing their infrastructure? Yes again. Oh, and when that TI box wears out, who do you think they'll be calling ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:48:48 up 26 days, 22:33, 9 users, load average: 0.14, 0.24, 0.30 +++ 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] Dual Boot Dual HDD
JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont ask!!), and DiskDrake sees it as /dev/hda, and LiLo sees it as hda1. In theory, all looks like it should work. But it dont! When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( JRH Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this by (I think) having the bios report the drives in a swapped fashion. SBM is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ Asa 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 - Request for advice on Windows XP
JoeHill wrote: But even more, as the man hisself said: A non-free program is a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to dominate more. It may seem like a profitable option to become one of the emperor's lieutenants, but ultimately the ethical thing to do is to resist the system and put an end to it. Microsoft's last excuse: Aber wir habe est nicht gewusst! 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 - Request for advice on Windows XP
Hoyt Bailey wrote: any different. This is also true of UNIX and other OS's such as IBM can you imagine IBM loseing business to linux. IBM always had a good arrogant head up, this is why they had to fire over 40.000 people back 1 and a half decade ago. They have the potential to do it again on this market. They already loose in Asia and Africa as Microsoft really get's whooped-ass over there due to the fact people rather using Linux in those regions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS
On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. You installed it using rpm, no? Under mandrake one needs to use urpmi, as its urpmi that is having the problem. I am not sure how to correct this problem, if there is one. Now, let the configure your hardware stuff alone, Use the Cups software to configure it all. Point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and fire away. The CUPS web interface should come right up. If you have problems with that, and its a pretty simple interface, then you can click the on-line help link to get help from the cups website. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 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] Dual Boot Dual HDD
Asa Rossoff wrote: When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( JRH Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this by (I think) having the bios report the drives in a swapped fashion. SBM is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ Right as well as wrong. First of all, the Bios always searches the first IDE drive for the boot-sector and simple executes it and whatever bootmanager is on there, it will do the rest. Unless there is an option in the Bios to change bootpriority for IDE drives, you won't be able to change this fact. Second, Windows boots from the first boot-device, but it can be configured to have it's OS on another drive by altering the MSDOS.INI and in case of WinNT 4.x, 5.x you can alter the BOOT.INI to set the drive and startup-path where the os is stored. If your bootmanager on the primary IDE drive allows you to boot from the second drive, you can install all of the Windows data on there but in the win9x/ME cases you for sure have to modify the system settings to make it boot properly. IMHO:Ditch WinME, it's really not worth the trouble, either install '98SE or XP, but Win'98 is currently less vulnerable to virusses these days as most viruses dedicates themselves to NT5.x exploites (XP/2000/2003). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140
On Monday 30 August 2004 3:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! One of the things about ogg players is that there aren't any car players that will play them. Sort of hacks me off, but I reripped my 20Gb to mp3s to satisfy my need last fall. I have tried my brothers ipod FM sending unit, and it stunk in my car. Sliding all over the place and reception was lousy. Mp3s in my car are my #1 need, so ogg support, while I would prefer to use oggs, is not that important. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 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] Archives
Thank you all for all the info. Much appreciated. On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 03:01, Chris wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 03:14 pm, Alan wrote: Good day all I asked a while ago about setting up a squid proxy server to do authentication and somebody gave me a couple of URL's to look at and being an idiot I did not save them. I tried looking in the archives but the dates only go to 2003-11.. Is this list still archived and if so where. Alternatively you could just point me to the proxy authentication how to guide again. Many Thanks I promise I will save the URL this time. I use these all the time: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1b=200312w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertr=1w=2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:57, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:28:16 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! Ummm, the way things are going, that could be like, 2050... ;-) If you haven't been reading up on it, when Wrongborn DOES come out, it's not going to be the originally promised product (again); so once again, Microsplat is going to stick an unfinished, incomplete product down the throats of the public and it's licensed corporations; if I were a corporate entity that PAID FULL PRICE for my MS Licensing 6.0, I'd be filing suit for undelivered product. Yeah, but it will be very fast running full with new exploits to close down and you will be spending the next two years downloading security patches and service packs (which will ofcourse make it very very slow again) and updating your anti-virus software every day in the hope some virus maker didn't beat them to it on your system. With Windows:You'll at least gonna be very busy with IT. (but not with what you really want to do on it) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:27, Vincent Voois wrote: Yeah, but it will be very fast running full with new exploits to close down and you will be spending the next two years downloading security patches and service packs (which will ofcourse make it very very slow again) and updating your anti-virus software every day in the hope some virus maker didn't beat them to it on your system. With Windows:You'll at least gonna be very busy with IT. (but not with what you really want to do on it) I'm thinking of changing business directions anywyas; I'm spiritually sick and tired of Microsoft Windows (since v.1.0) and have found a nice niche market for linux...I think I want to concentrate my efforts that way instead. I feel better karma in dealing with linux solutions. -- 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. Almost anything derogatory you could say about today's software design would be accurate. -- K.E. Iverson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 20:17, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 05:58, Amy wrote: Hey everyone! Anyhow, thanks for all the help you've given me thus far, and thanks in advance for putting up with me as I start off on this adventure of bringing my technologically inept father out of the evil embrace of windows. ^_^ Amy Very good. We stand ready to help! LX I'm sitting in front of an XP Home SP2 box right now - it's borked beyond anything other than backing it up, and reloading it. On top of that, the client installed Norton Internet Security - which, together with SP2, caused this thing to go south faster than a speeding penquin. To top it all off, it's a Packard-Bell machine. Packard Bell AKA Packard Hell, there is not any harder pain in the ass you can mention than Packard Bell. It's even harder to install Linux on it. I never ceases to amaze me the crap that the public THINKS is a viable desktop, a viable operating system. Once SP2 was carefully removed (for testing purposes) the machine was snappy (even though it's a rather low end, 128mb box). What is Microsoft doing? Do they realise that the next What do you expect from XP when your box only has 128MB, it's the minimum, but don't expect XP to run godspeed on such a limited box. year they're going to see even more converts over to non-Microsoft OS's just because of the fact that they can't get anything straight or anything fixed in the first place? XP is good for a stand-alone game-box and DTP box. For the Internet and server purposes i would recon Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140
On Monday 30 August 2004 10:21 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 3:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! One of the things about ogg players is that there aren't any car players that will play them. Sort of hacks me off, but I reripped my 20Gb to mp3s to satisfy my need last fall. I have tried my brothers ipod FM sending unit, and it stunk in my car. Sliding all over the place and reception was lousy. Mp3s in my car are my #1 need, so ogg support, while I would prefer to use oggs, is not that important. For what the IRiver costs you can buy a Blaupunkt Phoenix ($200.00) and you will have a AM/FM/CD/MP3 player with 200 watts I just burn a cd full of MP3s and I'm good to go for 10 hours or so on 1 disk Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
