Re: [newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:10, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't think you will get it to work under wine - I looked into that a couple of years ago, and it was said that it was well-nigh impossible. Hmmm. When I worked for IBM in about 2002 there was an internal version of Wine that supposedly supported SmartSuite, Notes, and other IBM/Lotus apps that was getting passed around internally for evaluation purposes. I can only assume it was never deemed fit enough for external release :-( It's certainly do-able, but I just don't think the demand is there. Heh, hope I haven't just breached that NDA... John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...
dear carroll, my system is below. Asus K8V deluxe motherboard AMD 64 processor ATI Rodeon 9800 pro 1 GB ram 2*120 GB SATA harddisk(one of them for windows xp pro)Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 October 2004 05:48 pm, ali tig wrote: hello everybody, i'm very newbie about mandrake10.0. i installed the mandrake linux afew hours ago. but it started in text mode. can you help me how can i start the kde (or gnome) in text mode? i tried the "startx" but it doesen't work. i'm waiting your help. Ali TIGAli:WIthout knowing more about your system (cpu, RAM, motherboard, video card, etc), trying to answer your question is all but impossible.-- cmgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...
On Sunday 31 October 2004 12:02 am, ali tig wrote: dear carroll, my system is below. Asus K8V deluxe motherboard AMD 64 processor ATI Rodeon 9800 pro 1 GB ram 2*120 GB SATA harddisk(one of them for windows xp pro) The other thing that we need to see is what happens at boot to stop X from running when the system boots Another thing you could do is attach a copy of /var/log/messages to an email and send it to me, or someone else (it might be a bit big for the list) and we can look it over and send the revalent part to the list, which will problem get you up and running. Your system can probably run Linux without problem. Are you running Mandrake for 64 bit, or standard? Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 07:17, John Layt wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:10, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't think you will get it to work under wine - I looked into that a couple of years ago, and it was said that it was well-nigh impossible. Hmmm. When I worked for IBM in about 2002 there was an internal version of Wine that supposedly supported SmartSuite, Notes, and other IBM/Lotus apps that was getting passed around internally for evaluation purposes. I can only assume it was never deemed fit enough for external release :-( It's certainly do-able, but I just don't think the demand is there. Heh, hope I haven't just breached that NDA... In that case, it's scream-worthy. I run win4lin for just three purposes - the most important one is to exchange documents with my daughter, who has her thesis in wordpro format. Apart from that, the other two are big conveniences that I can't find in any linux package. One is PagePlus's ability to print an A5 booklet on A4 paper, properly sorted, with pages 1 and 24 on one side and 2 and 23 on the other. If scribus had that I could dispense with this one. I find it hard to believe that no-one needs that facility. The other one is a photo-printing app that quickly allows me to print 4 to a page, guaranteeing that the pics come out the same size. I can do it with KWord, but hand-drawing boxes is not reliable, and also it is sometimes necessary to slightly crop to make the format of the pic fit. This may be replaceable in linux, but I haven't found it yet. Sorry to be OT, but I think it helps from time to time for us to air our needs. Sometimes others have a solution. Sometimes the idea gets picked up by a developer. Meanwhile, I hope Simon gets what he needs, and I'll help all I can. I never saw the need for that other behemoth of an office suite, and loved SmartSuite myself. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:16, Anne Wilson wrote: In that case, it's scream-worthy. I run win4lin for just three purposes - the most important one is to exchange documents with my daughter, who has her thesis in wordpro format. Apart from that, the other two are big conveniences that I can't find in any linux package. One is PagePlus's ability to print an A5 booklet on A4 paper, properly sorted, with pages 1 and 24 on one side and 2 and 23 on the other. If scribus had that I could dispense with this one. I find it hard to believe that no-one needs that facility. The other one is a photo-printing app that quickly allows me to print 4 to a page, guaranteeing that the pics come out the same size. I can do it with KWord, but hand-drawing boxes is not reliable, and also it is sometimes necessary to slightly crop to make the format of the pic fit. This may be replaceable in linux, but I haven't found it yet. Sorry to be OT, but I think it helps from time to time for us to air our needs. Sometimes others have a solution. Sometimes the idea gets picked up by a developer. Meanwhile, I hope Simon gets what he needs, and I'll help all I can. I never saw the need for that other behemoth of an office suite, and loved SmartSuite myself. Anne I run Win4Lin for 1 reason only, and that's the Genealogy program I use, none of the Linux programs come close to the features I need. I occasionally mess around with designing a KDE replacement for it, I have a database schema and some screen mock-ups, but time is too limited at the moment to build the actual working bits in-between :-( I know there was a lot of politics inside Lotus against either releasing the Wine version (support issues, diminished user experience, etc), or properly porting to Linux (Windows bigots). But then Lotus didn't really seem to know what they were doing with anything, like releasing a Linux Notes server but not a client. Shame really, waste of a good product, they could have gotten a head start on Star/OpenOffice. I'll have a poke around to see if I can find any more information about it, shame I had to delete my copy when I left :-( I find it strange nothing in Linux does booklet printing, that's just criminal! It's just the sort of thing DTP was created for. As for the photo printing, you should try Digikam and its Print Wizard. You select a bunch of photo's, then start the wizard, tell it the page size (currently only A4 or letter) and the required image size, and Digikam arranges them on the page(s), then lets you adjust the cropping for each image by dragging an outline box. It's not perfect, but handy. You need to have the digikam and digikam-plugins rpms installed, it has some other great tools like calendar printing, mpeg movie encoding or slideshow to CD/DVD, web-page generation, batch effects processing, etc, etc. Of course, there's always a catch, and the current 0.6.2 version of Digikam has poor album management: it doesn't allow for nested folders, and leaves album data files all over the place. This is solved in the 0.7 version, currently in beta testing (compile only, no rpms available yet) and due out Real Soon Now. And even better news is that all those cool plugins are now a shared library between several of the KDE image programs like Gwenview and KimDaBa, so if you prefer those for image management/viewing, you can still get all the cool stuff (or will when the next versions hit the streets). John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [ Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple documents at the same time. ] -- 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
Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [ Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple documents at the same time. ] -- Regards SnapafunFrank No, I mean deleting one of two any equal lines within a file, automatically. Thanks, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.
On Sunday 31 October 2004 10:45, John Layt wrote: I find it strange nothing in Linux does booklet printing, that's just criminal! It's just the sort of thing DTP was created for. ps2book might just be what you're looking for;) It's a little script that came with some other package that I don't remember. It works fairly well IMO. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 09:45, John Layt wrote: I run Win4Lin for 1 reason only, and that's the Genealogy program I use, none of the Linux programs come close to the features I need. I occasionally mess around with designing a KDE replacement for it, I have a database schema and some screen mock-ups, but time is too limited at the moment to build the actual working bits in-between :-( That's a project I put aside, but would love to get back to one day. I know there was a lot of politics inside Lotus against either releasing the Wine version (support issues, diminished user experience, etc), or properly porting to Linux (Windows bigots). But then Lotus didn't really seem to know what they were doing with anything, like releasing a Linux Notes server but not a client. Shame really, waste of a good product, they could have gotten a head start on Star/OpenOffice. I'll have a poke around to see if I can find any more information about it, shame I had to delete my copy when I left :-( My son-in-law used to curse it if he tried to do anything on my box - a M$O user, naturally - but I watched the contortions he went through on his own, thinking that to be good, and thought how easily I could have done the same thing on mine. So many things seemed to be handled better in the Lotus package, but of course you are always up against the fact that people want to stick with what they know, no matter how bad it really is. I find it strange nothing in Linux does booklet printing, that's just criminal! It's just the sort of thing DTP was created for. Agreed As for the photo printing, you should try Digikam and its Print Wizard. You select a bunch of photo's, then start the wizard, tell it the page size (currently only A4 or letter) and the required image size, and Digikam arranges them on the page(s), then lets you adjust the cropping for each image by dragging an outline box. It's not perfect, but handy. You need to have the digikam and digikam-plugins rpms installed, it has some other great tools like calendar printing, mpeg movie encoding or slideshow to CD/DVD, web-page generation, batch effects processing, etc, etc. Of course, there's always a catch, and the current 0.6.2 version of Digikam has poor album management: it doesn't allow for nested folders, and leaves album data files all over the place. This is solved in the 0.7 version, currently in beta testing (compile only, no rpms available yet) and due out Real Soon Now. And even better news is that all those cool plugins are now a shared library between several of the KDE image programs like Gwenview and KimDaBa, so if you prefer those for image management/viewing, you can still get all the cool stuff (or will when the next versions hit the streets). That's certainly worth looking at. Thanks for that, John. It sounds as though it will already do most of what I want. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 10:11, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 31 October 2004 10:45, John Layt wrote: I find it strange nothing in Linux does booklet printing, that's just criminal! It's just the sort of thing DTP was created for. ps2book might just be what you're looking for;) It's a little script that came with some other package that I don't remember. It works fairly well IMO. I'll check that one out, too. Thanks HarM Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [ Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple documents at the same time. ] -- Regards SnapafunFrank No, I mean deleting one of two any equal lines within a file, automatically. Thanks, Rodolfo Sorry Rodolfo, but I was adding to your thread as it is similar to my own requirement. Hope someone here can answer both requests. SnapafunFrank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
On Sunday 31 October 2004 11:49, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [ Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple documents at the same time. ] -- Regards SnapafunFrank No, I mean deleting one of two any equal lines within a file, automatically. Thanks, Rodolfo Sorry Rodolfo, but I was adding to your thread as it is similar to my own requirement. Hope someone here can answer both requests. SnapafunFrank Looks like a clear case calling for a scratch your own itch script. Bash should be able to do it all...I don't have time to sort it out for you guys. I'm not deft enough to just swing it out of my sleeve...maybe somebody else takes pity. Or do some reading yourselfs...roll up 'em sleeves,heh;) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Which distro do you use? (humor)
:-) http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/137 -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:40:00AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Which distro do you use? (humor)
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 13:04, Ronald J. Hall wrote: :-) http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/137 LOL - loved it. The only comment of note was the one saying Linux Users Highly Strung Humourless Lot - from the tone of the other comments. BTW, I once did one of those quizzes on these lines, and it said that I was clearly an OSX user g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [ Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple documents at the same time. ] open a konsole and type man sed sed is a powerful stream editor and given a very simple script can handle hundreds of files repeating a list of commands on each one and saving each file before moving on to the next in a list. magnet 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) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
On Saturday 30 October 2004 03:50 pm, Amy wrote: Then I suppose it's time to bug the gmail team. Very weird though, considering it's let me select a blank field for the replyto address. Oh well, I'll bug them about it now. Thanks for checking for me though. ^_^ Well, I replied to the list just by replying to your post Amy. The Reply to: problem is not just the responsibility of the original poster. It is also the responsibility of those that reply, to do so properly. FWIW, I use Kmail and simply tapped the 'L' key to reply to the list. The 'R' key would've replied only to you Amy. If I chose to use a mail client without this simple feature, the responsibility to reply properly is still mine. Several replies stating: not fixed, still goes to Amy So that is both Amy's problem and those who don't properly reply. Complaints about top posting, lack of snipping, spam, and 'reply to' . only serve to generate more bandwith waste. Y'allsMMV -- 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] Which distro do you use? (humor)
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:04:39 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :-) http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/137 Debian users take pride in the fact that their distribution is always several releases behind the latest version of the kernel, but makes up for that by being more difficult to install and use. Love it! :) -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga caesar(at)os.pl; priv:thereidos(at)gmail.com Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: thereidos(at)ebox.pl 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) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 14:04, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, I use Kmail and simply tapped the 'L' key to reply to the list. The 'R' key would've replied only to you Amy. If I chose to use a mail client without this simple feature, the responsibility to reply properly is still mine. The fact that Mandrake mangle the reply-to makes us lazy ;-) Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the 'L' key only work if you sort mail into folders and set the 'list' parameter in the folder properties? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
On Sunday 31 October 2004 08:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 14:04, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, I use Kmail and simply tapped the 'L' key to reply to the list. The 'R' key would've replied only to you Amy. If I chose to use a mail client without this simple feature, the responsibility to reply properly is still mine. The fact that Mandrake mangle the reply-to makes us lazy ;-) Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the 'L' key only work if you sort mail into folders and set the 'list' parameter in the folder properties? Anne No, keyboard tasks are the default. I don't sort mesg's by folder. If you look on the drop down menus on the tool bar, the keyboard commands for Message and Edit are shown for each item. -- 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] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
KMail has a reply-to-list feature. Just hit the L key, or you can set up a toolbar icon. Useful for keeping my blood pressure under control.-- cmg I knew about the reply-to-list, but not the L key. Thanks for the tip.-- Actually, I didn't know about the L key thing myself until earlier today when I was answering your question and looked at the options in the Message toolbar heading; I've always installed the reply-to-list icon in the toolbar. -- cmg It's been awhile since i used Kmail, but i think you can program the whichever key you want to be list reply. I thin i had it set up so that the normal reply to key was actually the reply to list key. If there wasn't a list, it would default to the sender. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
On Sunday 31 October 2004 09:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 14:04, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, I use Kmail and simply tapped the 'L' key to reply to the list. The 'R' key would've replied only to you Amy. If I chose to use a mail client without this simple feature, the responsibility to reply properly is still mine. The fact that Mandrake mangle the reply-to makes us lazy ;-) Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the 'L' key only work if you sort mail into folders and set the 'list' parameter in the folder properties? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Anne: I do sort my mail into folders but I don't have the list parameter set, and the L key works just fine. (KMail 1.5.4 under KDE 3.1.4) -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] make fails cpp sanity test
Greetings All, I'm using Mandrake 10.1 community release. GCC 3.4.1-4mdk When I endeavor to compile some files it aborts with: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check I also seem to be stuck with gcc3.4.1-4mdk because when I try to remove it I get a very scary message indicating that numerous major programs require it. Trying to install a different version of gcc results in an error message regarding conflicts in dependant files. Any help would be appreciated. Respectfully, Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free! ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! 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) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
I do sort my mail into folders but I don't have the list parameter set, and the L key works just fine. (KMail 1.5.4 under KDE 3.1.4) I think all the good mailers grab info from headers like this: List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Squeaky wheels and the Daily Show
First off, disregard my question about updating mplayer and all that. Forgot I don't have to remove it first, just urpmi'd everything and it went swimmingly. Updated mplayer, the win32 codecs, and the mplayer plugin. Still no go on the Daily Show, so I tried the other one I wanted working, cbc.ca. Well, my e-mail, and perhaps many others, resulted in this: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html Scroll down and...whoa! For Unix users! They *listened*! Well, Gentoo isn't Unix, but I'm not gonna get picky with them on that. Anyhow, they gave me the tip I needed: I went and got the *latest* mplayer plugin here: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ urpmi'd mozilla-devel, built the plugin, and copied it to my Firefox plugins directory, and...voila! Daily Show clips and the CBC are playin' fine! In fact, the CBC has even made their stream available in OGG format! So if you're having trouble with these or any other Windows Media format streams, get the latest mplayer plugin, it works great. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 10:51:59 up 88 days, 11:42, 8 users, load average: 0.44, 0.36, 0.26 +++ Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] digital cam software/help needed
Greetings, I am still waiting for my new laptop from Dell (Inspiron 1150), but my free digital cam has arrived (Kodak CX6445). Could anyone suggest some software to be used under KDE on my Mdk10.0? When I plug the cam in, I am not seeing any entry appear under /mnt that will allow me to mount the camera. Any help/advice/suggestions gratefully appreciated. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updating MPlayer
I've seen that the version of MPlayer on the PLF repository is way ahead of mine. I'm currently running 9.2, and what I would like to do is upgrade to the latest version of *everything*, ie. all the codecs, etc. When I originally installed mplayer way back when, it automagically installed all the codecs as well, but now, when I do a 'urpme mplayer', it only removes mplayer. Should it not do the same as installing, only in reverse? So as not to 'break' everything, what would be the best way to go about this, so that I get the latest mplayer *and* all the latest codecs (besides installing 10.1)? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:40:40 up 88 days, 10:31, 7 users, load average: 0.28, 0.35, 0.20 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Which distro do you use? (humor)
On October 31, 2004 05:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: :-) http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/137 I love it! Now where is my beret and striped tshirt? :) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] digital cam software/help needed
- Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] digital cam software/help needed Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:26:57 -0300 Greetings, I am still waiting for my new laptop from Dell (Inspiron 1150), but my free digital cam has arrived (Kodak CX6445). Could anyone suggest some software to be used under KDE on my Mdk10.0? When I plug the cam in, I am not seeing any entry appear under /mnt that will allow me to mount the camera. Any help/advice/suggestions gratefully appreciated. Best regards. --Angus ### In response to my own post, I am able to download pics from my camera using Digikam-plugins and associated programs. It correctly identifies the cam, and seems to provide what I need. :-) Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Squeaky wheels and the Daily Show
I guess this means that I get to listen to Dave, Morely and all the rest on they Vinyl Cafe while reading the lists? :) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] digital cam software/help needed
On Sunday 31 October 2004 07:26 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I am still waiting for my new laptop from Dell (Inspiron 1150), but my free digital cam has arrived (Kodak CX6445). Could anyone suggest some software to be used under KDE on my Mdk10.0? When I plug the cam in, I am not seeing any entry appear under /mnt that will allow me to mount the camera. Any help/advice/suggestions gratefully appreciated. just a thought but, do you have Gnomemeeting installed? I have found that it can detect and work with most webcams Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Squeaky wheels and the Daily Show
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:07:16 -0700 John Wilson disseminated the following: I guess this means that I get to listen to Dave, Morely and all the rest on they Vinyl Cafe while reading the lists? :) Oh, the joy! Right now though I'm laffin' my ass off at Stephen Colbert... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 12:16:35 up 88 days, 13:07, 8 users, load average: 0.24, 0.08, 0.02 +++ Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Gandhi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What is mandrakelinux-release-10.1-1mdk.i586.rpm?
The only file in the 10.1 OE's update folder is: mandrakelinux-release-10.1-1mdk.i586.rpm. What is that rpm used for? Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Persistant Authentication Indicator window
This question was asked by Neben Kabon July 2003, no answer was ever received. I have the same problem. He was running 9.1, I'm running 10 Official, fully upgraded. As soon as I open any app the window pops up, if I'm running anything as root (MCC etc) a key appears in it. Close it, it opens again. How do we get rid of this window? It's not a show stopper, just a pain. ED Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Sound Level Settings Keeps Going Back to Mute
Sevatio wrote: For some reason, Mdk10.1ce's audio level settings keep going back to mute everytime I log back into KDE. How do you make it remember your settings? Thanks, Sevatio On my 10.0, it Kmix that muted the sound at each Kde start. -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 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) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
My friend was actually ranting on and on about the whole being lazy and the list messing with the reply-to field, and things of that nature, then eventually threw this link at me explaining why we shouldn't be worrying about it in the first place because we should have the reply-to set for the person, and use the reply to list feature in our clients. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html There's the link if anyone cares to give it a read. Honestly, I'd just like to have it so I'm not yelled at, or lectured over something I can't help. I switch to gmail for the list recently because my domain's been up and down like a seesaw due to an old mail server at my host, or something like that (I'm getting the hosting for free, so I can't really complain, nor do I get detailed reports when something goes wrong), and I can't afford to pay for a host right now. So I'm using what's available and otherwise seems to work. Weee. At any rate,I've mentioned it to Google that I want the option to disable the reply-to, now it's all on you guys to watch when you reply, until Google either gives in, or the list plays the way outlined in the above link. *shrugs* ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail users! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Alexander Ruoff wrote: I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until very recently with both 9.2 and 10.0) or do you have one of the intel extrem graphic cards? There you can change it in the bios and even if the max. is 16 in the bios setting, the card can use the full 32 or 64 MB as fare as I know. If I am wrong 'bout this info, please correct me ;) Alex Hi Alex, I've got an onboard graphics card SiS530 3D PCI/AGP which borrows memory off the board. Although I believe it can be adjusted in the bios, the mobo documentation stipulates 16Mb as the recommended maximum. So its probably safest to leave it alone. I hope to do some serious upgrading fairly soon anyway. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo If you don't mind having your original file sorted, then cat input_file | sort | uniq result_file would give you what you want (in result_file). then you could add rm -f input_file mv result_file input_file to make the switch as in cat input_file | sort | uniq result_file rm -f input_file mv result_file input_file (the rm might be unnecessary) -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 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] digital cam software/help needed
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 16:38, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] digital cam software/help needed Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:26:57 -0300 Greetings, I am still waiting for my new laptop from Dell (Inspiron 1150), but my free digital cam has arrived (Kodak CX6445). Could anyone suggest some software to be used under KDE on my Mdk10.0? When I plug the cam in, I am not seeing any entry appear under /mnt that will allow me to mount the camera. Any help/advice/suggestions gratefully appreciated. Best regards. --Angus ### In response to my own post, I am able to download pics from my camera using Digikam-plugins and associated programs. It correctly identifies the cam, and seems to provide what I need. :-) Best regards. --Angus Kodak cameras use their own format, though I can't remember its name. This stops them from being recognised as usb storage, but digikam is exactly the right response to this. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What is mandrakelinux-release-10.1-1mdk.i586.rpm?
On Sunday 31 October 2004 12:43 pm, Sevatio wrote: The only file in the 10.1 OE's update folder is: mandrakelinux-release-10.1-1mdk.i586.rpm. What is that rpm used for? To update the file /etc/mandrake-release -- /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] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Todd Slater replied: uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted. Todd Bjrn Lundin repied: If you don't mind having your original file sorted, then cat input_file | sort | uniq result_file would give you what you want (in result_file). then you could add rm -f input_file mv result_file input_file to make the switch as in cat input_file | sort | uniq result_file rm -f input_file mv result_file input_file (the rm might be unnecessary) -- /Bjrn Thanks indeed. I think this should work for me, I one case my file is just sorted. Cheers, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting
Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy It seems that supermount may not be operating correctly. fstab follows /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Does anything seem out of place? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting
On Sunday 31 October 2004 20:34, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy It seems that supermount may not be operating correctly. fstab follows /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Does anything seem out of place? tia, Bill W. Close konq and it'll prolly unmount. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting
On Sunday 31 October 2004 20:34, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy It seems that supermount may not be operating correctly. fstab follows /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Does anything seem out of place? I vaguely remember the problem. What does eject cdrom (as root) give you ? You fstab looks fine to me. But recently I had a mount problem, found something on the net and removed the noatime. Worked fine since then. Theoretically the noatime option should improve speed and I/O operations, since access time stamps are seldom needed, but I can't see any difference. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Squeaky wheels and the Daily Show
JoeHill wrote: First off, disregard my question about updating mplayer and all that. Forgot I don't have to remove it first, just urpmi'd everything and it went swimmingly. Updated mplayer, the win32 codecs, and the mplayer plugin. Still no go on the Daily Show, so I tried the other one I wanted working, cbc.ca. Well, my e-mail, and perhaps many others, resulted in this: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html Scroll down and...whoa! For Unix users! They *listened*! Well, Gentoo isn't Unix, but I'm not gonna get picky with them on that. Anyhow, they gave me the tip I needed: I went and got the *latest* mplayer plugin here: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ urpmi'd mozilla-devel, built the plugin, and copied it to my Firefox plugins directory, and...voila! Daily Show clips and the CBC are playin' fine! In fact, the CBC has even made their stream available in OGG format! So if you're having trouble with these or any other Windows Media format streams, get the latest mplayer plugin, it works great. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks Joe, I also wrote to CBC.ca about their idiocy over switching to Windows streaming. It must've been a delicious powerlunch (with lot's of wine) thrown by Microsoft. They streaming Ogg but only from Toronto. Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Test subjects needed
At the moment I am approaching '3 sheets to the wind', but be that as it may. I have 2 new pkgs yet to build, which I will do tomorrow, and I am looking for 2 or 3 users who would like to test xfce-4.1.91 (4.2 Beta 2) There is a criteria which should be met: 1)You are familiar with xfce 2)You are running either Mdk 10.1 or Cooker 3)Your system is such that you can use Athlon optimized rpms Should you wish to test, please contact me Off-List, I will provide you with a dl link (accessible by urpmi) Should no significant problems exhibit themselves, either in my testing or yours, I will, by the end of the week, upload to cooker xfce-4.1.91 and backport it for Mdk 10.1 and 10.0, making the backports available on my website. Thanks Charles -- Wilner's Observation: All conversations with a potato should be conducted in private. - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-10mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 31 October 2004 20:34, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy It seems that supermount may not be operating correctly. fstab follows /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Does anything seem out of place? I vaguely remember the problem. What does eject cdrom (as root) give you ? You fstab looks fine to me. But recently I had a mount problem, found something on the net and removed the noatime. Worked fine since then. Theoretically the noatime option should improve speed and I/O operations, since access time stamps are seldom needed, but I can't see any difference. HTH Kaj Haulrich. lsof /dev/hdc will tell you what is holding onto the device and more than likely it will be fam kill it and you will get back control of you CDROM I have disabled fam on my systems, because it oversteps the mark. Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
