Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Six months ago I've purchased a 5550 (pretty expensive) and the drivers on Windows still have problems with the color tones. On MDK worked much better... despite of HP *sponsoring*. ;-) --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 13:32, Greg Meyer wrote: Ever try to install Windows from scratch, track down drivers and get them installed without a network connection, then try to configure a wireless conection so that it co-exists nicely with more than one access point, and then try to apply the Windows updates before getting infected? It's not a picnic either. It took me something like 3 hours to get my printer installed under windows. It's an HP Deskjet, and I had the driver disk, but the * would *not* install. Eventually I worked out that it would not install because it was on a USB hub. Once I connected it directly to the box, it worked. Now how was I supposed to know that? There were no error messages - it just said there was no USB printer. And they call this user-friendly? The same printer installed perfectly under Mandrake, and serves two other boxes on the LAN, just by editing one single printerserver line in CUPS configuration. Guess which I prefer? Anne 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 = Best Regards, Mihai Sorin Dobrescu __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.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] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On the other hand, a friend of mine at work was complaining about their home comp not giving access to the internet but the worm/virus that infected it would connect whenever it wanted. So I hand her a disk with MandrakeMove on it and tell her to boot from cdrom get on the net and download the antivirus file they need to clean the harddrive and get back on track. Guess what ? It worked like a charm. The Move found all their hardware, detected their internet connection, gave them access and allowed them to d/l the needed files. Thanks, Dennis. What a good idea to use a LiveCD to download Windows stuff. I hadn't thought of that! I have 98SE on a small hard drive (for occasional use), and it is not, nor ever will be, connected to the Internet. At the moment, if there is anything Windows I want to download, I do so in Linux, burn it to a CD-RW, replace the Linux hard drive with the Windows one (they are on separate caddies) and copy the stuff off the CD. Your idea is much more simple and much better. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 07:09, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: He's right! But don't expect that Linux or any Linux distro was meant for your needs and blame it if it doesn't have all the features you need. Linux covers -let say - 98% of users needs in general, but if you were unlucky to be in the 2% do not be angry, just propose! There will be somebody to hear you, to join you and MDK is the place! But 2% with a specific need can be important. As Dobrescu hinted, if you can locate other groups with similar requirements it is often possible to get a project started. There may even be one around, somewhere, already, but in early stages. The offerings at first will not be as good as the one you are used to, but if you remember early windows versions they were not so good either. The trick lies in finding where like-minded people hang out, then joining their discussions. Good luck. 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] mail problem
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:34, Cezary Morga wrote: I've got four mail accounts on polish free mail servers. Unfortunately I keep experiencing some problems when trying to send anything from three of them via SMTP. It takes a lot of time to just connect to them - the rest goes swell. Only one of them - the one I'm using right now - works without a hitch. I'm not sure I've understood you correctly, with regard to the way that you are sending. One thing does spring to mind, though. With the UK ISPs, if you are connected through one ISP and attempt to use the smtp server of your other ISP account it will not be sent, as relaying is blocked. Could this be related? 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] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:40, Wojciech Podgórni wrote: Hello everyone! I have a hardware question for you. My aunt is buying a Plug'n'Play flat screen monitor for her Mandrake 10.0 computer and I am worried if it would work on that system. The rest of the hardware is quite old - GeForce 256 DDR video card, old Pentium Celeron motherboard, slow processor (but much RAM), etc. The problem is that Mandrake hardware database is quite incomplete and it lacks some of the newer hardware. The question is: Is Mandrake going to work with the newer Plug'n'Play monitors such as SAMSUNG 17 - 793 DF ? Should I expect any problems? Thank you in advance for any answer. Wojciech Podgórni Around 2 years ago I bought this Taxan LCD monitor, and asked the same question. I rang Taxan's tech. support line and was told that *any* LCD that is plug'n'Play should work with Linux. I also have an Iiyama running with Linux, but like Richard, I have to say that there are sometimes minor setup problems. The Iiyama, for instance, is detected as capable of 24-bit colour, but that causes problems. Set it to run at 16-bit and all the problems disappear. 16M colours is more than I can see, anyway ;-) 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: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 03:37, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:20 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. Please be aware of this.' It wouldn't be easier just to change clients? Possibly, but then everyone has their own reasons for their choice. And long live choice! 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] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?
Uytkownik Anne Wilson napisa: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:40, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hello everyone! I have a hardware question for you. My aunt is buying a Plug'n'Play flat screen monitor for her Mandrake 10.0 computer and I am worried if it would work on that system. The rest of the hardware is quite old - GeForce 256 DDR video card, old Pentium Celeron motherboard, slow processor (but much RAM), etc. The problem is that Mandrake hardware database is quite incomplete and it lacks some of the newer hardware. The question is: Is Mandrake going to work with the newer Plug'n'Play monitors such as SAMSUNG 17 - 793 DF ? Should I expect any problems? Thank you in advance for any answer. Wojciech Podgrni Around 2 years ago I bought this Taxan LCD monitor, and asked the same question. I rang Taxan's tech. support line and was told that *any* LCD that is plug'n'Play should work with Linux. I also have an Iiyama running with Linux, but like Richard, I have to say that there are sometimes minor setup problems. The Iiyama, for instance, is detected as capable of 24-bit colour, but that causes problems. Set it to run at 16-bit and all the problems disappear. 16M colours is more than I can see, anyway ;-) Anne Thank you for your anwers! But my question was about *non*-LCD monitors... Do all the newest Plug'n'Play non-LCD monitors work with Mandrake? Wojciech Podgrni PS. BTW, I am glad to read that LCD monitors work with Mandrake! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 10:58, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Uytkownik Anne Wilson napisa: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:40, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hello everyone! I have a hardware question for you. My aunt is buying a Plug'n'Play flat screen monitor for her Mandrake 10.0 computer and I am worried if it would work on that system. The rest of the hardware is quite old - GeForce 256 DDR video card, old Pentium Celeron motherboard, slow processor (but much RAM), etc. The problem is that Mandrake hardware database is quite incomplete and it lacks some of the newer hardware. The question is: Is Mandrake going to work with the newer Plug'n'Play monitors such as SAMSUNG 17 - 793 DF ? Should I expect any problems? Thank you in advance for any answer. Wojciech Podgrni Around 2 years ago I bought this Taxan LCD monitor, and asked the same question. I rang Taxan's tech. support line and was told that *any* LCD that is plug'n'Play should work with Linux. I also have an Iiyama running with Linux, but like Richard, I have to say that there are sometimes minor setup problems. The Iiyama, for instance, is detected as capable of 24-bit colour, but that causes problems. Set it to run at 16-bit and all the problems disappear. 16M colours is more than I can see, anyway ;-) Anne Thank you for your anwers! But my question was about *non*-LCD monitors... Do all the newest Plug'n'Play non-LCD monitors work with Mandrake? Wojciech Podgrni PS. BTW, I am glad to read that LCD monitors work with Mandrake! Oops - sorry! I think the answer will be the same, though. Linux appears to handle pnp perfectly well. Good luck 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] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 10:58 am, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Thank you for your anwers! But my question was about *non*-LCD monitors... Do all the newest Plug'n'Play non-LCD monitors work with Mandrake? No direct experience of them, but I see no reason the shouldn't. The important bits are the plug, and the monitor being plugplay. This monitor is plugplay, and appears to use a standard VGA plug. If your video card can produce a dot clock above 110MHz you should have no problem. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mail problem
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:16:51 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:34, Cezary Morga wrote: I've got four mail accounts on polish free mail servers. Unfortunately I keep experiencing some problems when trying to send anything from three of them via SMTP. It takes a lot of time to just connect to them - the rest goes swell. Only one of them - the one I'm using right now - works without a hitch. I'm not sure I've understood you correctly, with regard to the way that you are sending. One thing does spring to mind, though. With the UK ISPs, if you are connected through one ISP and attempt to use the smtp server of your other ISP account it will not be sent, as relaying is blocked. Could this be related? No. My ISP doesn't even give me any e-mail account, so I doubt they would like to block it. And as I have mentioned the problem occurred some time ago - two weeks? I ain't sure. I have problems connecting to mail servers via SMTP (yes I've check if I'm using the right port). POP3 works well. -- Cezary Morga cezarym(at)andrake.org.pl / thereidos(at)@gmail.com Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: thereidos(at)ebox.pl backup email address: cezarym(at)pf.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] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?
Uytkownik Anne Wilson napisa: On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 10:58, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: snip Thank you for your anwers! But my question was about *non*-LCD monitors... Do all the newest Plug'n'Play non-LCD monitors work with Mandrake? Wojciech Podgrni PS. BTW, I am glad to read that LCD monitors work with Mandrake! Oops - sorry! I think the answer will be the same, though. Linux appears to handle pnp perfectly well. Good luck Anne That's good to hear! Thank you for your answers, everyone. :-) Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:55:46 -0500 Jack disseminated the following: Joe, you really need to read more carefully. I'll let you look at my initial post (at the top) again so you can figure it out for yourself... LOL! Okay, I shouldn't o' had that last hit of acid... Later folks, this list is a little too OT for me. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Jack wrote: Björn Lundin wrote: Jack wrote: Okay, I've spent a couple of months playing with Mandrake Linux (10.1 community) and here are my (unsolicited) impressions: 3 - Couldn't upgrade to KDE 3.3, despite having the CD for it and despite help from experts like Randall. I spent *weeks* on this. Nothing I tried worked, nor did any suggestions work. I missed that thread. I run mdk 10.0 download edition, and a urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm with thacs repository added did upgrade to 3.3. I think I had one hickup, but urpme hickup-packge solved it (go to http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ and look for instructions on how to add it as urpmi-source) Will this same command work in 10.1 community? And what is thacs repository? And should the last command read urpme hickup-packAge? (The A capitalized so that you would notice it.) - Jack First, the answer to your reply - Part1 is within the help offered. GO TOhttp://rpm.nyvalls.se/ Second, hickup-package or hickup-packge is to be replaced by the actual package name. ] Me thinks we need some sleep. -- 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] ssh port forwarding more then one port
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 01:04, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I am trying to forward more then one port over ssh via command line on my linux box but I can't seem to get the syntax right. I have copied my script blow can anyone tell me if my / are right or if there is something that I am missing. I am also having trouble trying to get to any of my other machines that have ssh on it through the one machine that I do this port forwarding on. Can anyone share any insight as to how I can do that as well? Thanks L #!/bin/sh sudo ssh \ -L xx:localhost:xx \ -L xxx:localhost:xxx \ -L :localhost: \ -L x:localhost: \ -X -C -c [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hate to say this, but: man ssh -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace -- those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death. -- from The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Newsforge Fightin' the FUD
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 01:17, JoeHill wrote: Quote: Evan Blomquist, Linux instructor at The Training Camp, suppliers of on campus training, believes the debate on Linux security for the desktop is occurring only because of Microsoft's record. He believes Microsoft has become so blinkered by the fight that it thinks all operating systems have the same problems. He says that Microsoft's view has been colored by a false experience, and that the company is making a strategic mistake by attacking Linux security. He does not believe Linux is at so much risk. A cursory tour of the fundamental architecture should help you understand that Linux simply doesn't provide the fertile breeding ground for rogue software that Windows does, he says. Blomquist says it is impossible to predict the issues that would face a world in which 95 percent of computer users were using a Linux desktop environment, but he believes security would be far less of a problem. Virus pollution would not be nearly as prolific as it is under the current Microsoft desktop dominance, for fundamental OS architecture differences. Link: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/2014240 Don't even get me started mate... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- The day you let your cousin from the city fuel up your biggest tractor will be the day after the dealer put gasoline in the diesel tank. -- Shell's 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] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:30 am, frankieh wrote: I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway.. and with the ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with, I'm unlikely to start. I also refuse to buy music CD's anymore either, my way of protest. (used to buy at least one a month.) A great way to maintain the protest while supporting local businesses is to pruchase used CD's. We have several stores that have a nice stock and none of the proceeds go to the labels. I have found some good music that way. It is also easier to stomach a miss if it cost $5-6 than the $15-20 of a new CD. -- /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] Is Abba safe?
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 03:06, JoeHill wrote: My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing Queen' and the like. Is this safe? Has anyone successfully copied some Abba to their HD without hosing their system? Are there special precautions I can take in advance? Thanks! Downloading and listening to anything Abba related is dangerous. Take it from me. I moved to a country that thinks Abba is cool. Bad stuff mate. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- Win98 error 009: Erroneous error: Nothing is wrong. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 10:03, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 01:51 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:47:13 +1100 Andrewd disseminated the following: Of course down here in Australia it is illegal to make any copies no matter what the reason. So basically all those people running around with ipods cannot legally use them here as Apple do not allow you to use the Apple store here. We have no concept of 'fair use' like in the US It's all kinda moot anyhow. There's no way for the recording industry to stop it. No law, no encoding scheme, will ever turn back the tide. Well, except maybe in Oz, where people are well known for their deep respect for authority figures, eh Stephen? ;-) He can't answer he tried to cool his machine with liquid nitrogen fell asleep during an upgrade now his lips are frozen to the keyboard ;-) Bitch. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- Evolution is as much a fact as the earth turning on its axis and going around the sun. At one time this was called the Copernican theory; but, when evidence for a theory becomes so overwhelming that no informed person can doubt it, it is customary for scientists to call it a fact. That all present life descended from earlier forms, over vast stretches of geologic time, is as firmly established as Copernican cosmology. Biologists differ only with respect to theories about how the process operates. - Martin Gardner, Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, ppg. 128-131 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 06:33, Lee Wiggers wrote: Lips? I have no lips. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 08:51, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:47:13 +1100 Andrewd disseminated the following: Of course down here in Australia it is illegal to make any copies no matter what the reason. So basically all those people running around with ipods cannot legally use them here as Apple do not allow you to use the Apple store here. We have no concept of 'fair use' like in the US It's all kinda moot anyhow. There's no way for the recording industry to stop it. No law, no encoding scheme, will ever turn back the tide. Well, except maybe in Oz, where people are well known for their deep respect for authority figures, eh Stephen? ;-) Respect for authority? WHY DO YOU THINK I MOVED HERE? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away. -- Abraham Lincoln Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Saturday 13 November 2004 17:38, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:30 am, frankieh wrote: I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway.. and with the ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with, I'm unlikely to start. I also refuse to buy music CD's anymore either, my way of protest. (used to buy at least one a month.) A great way to maintain the protest while supporting local businesses is to pruchase used CD's. We have several stores that have a nice stock and none of the proceeds go to the labels. I have found some good music that way. It is also easier to stomach a miss if it cost $5-6 than the $15-20 of a new CD. Isn't 'transferring ownership' breach of copyright as well? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 15:44, Stephen Kühn wrote: Respect for authority? WHY DO YOU THINK I MOVED HERE? A certain female authority, IIRC? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Hello Jack, Friday, November 12, 2004, 8:07:40 PM, Jack wrote: J Funny you should mention this... a few years back, I had a small J problem with Win98. I was still within the support period so I J called their tech support. Before you knew it, the fella wanted me J to re-install Windows. Being polite as I could be, I then told him J I would *not* re-install, and I needed to talk to a higher level J tech. First level techs often know very little beyond what their J computer screens are telling them about a specific problem. I'm familiar with that problem. By the time I call, I've often done almost everything the first level tech will suggest, and I try to escalate quickly. J Despite my politeness, he got really pissed off and I had to be J quite firm in requesting a higher level tech. Yep! J I think first level MS support is told to suggest re-installing if J nothing else shows up in their knowledgebase. This seems to apply to ALL levels of techs at M$. :-((( J Another time (and this really pissed me off), the Windows guy told J me it was my hardware, and the hardware guy told me it was Windows. Another familiar problem. Try conference calls, if you can arrange it. Makes for an interesting conversation. :-) Seems what we both seem to remember is getting pissed off at M$. :-)) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 17:38, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:30 am, frankieh wrote: I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway.. and with the ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with, I'm unlikely to start. I also refuse to buy music CD's anymore either, my way of protest. (used to buy at least one a month.) A great way to maintain the protest while supporting local businesses is to pruchase used CD's. We have several stores that have a nice stock and none of the proceeds go to the labels. I have found some good music that way. It is also easier to stomach a miss if it cost $5-6 than the $15-20 of a new CD. Isn't 'transferring ownership' breach of copyright as well? I doubt it. That would imply that I can't buy a book/CD/DVD and give it to someone as a gift. If so, that's really going to p*** off the mass market retailers. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Will this same command work in 10.1 community? And what is thacs repository? And should the last command read urpme hickup-packAge? (The A capitalized so that you would notice it.) - Jack First, the answer to your reply - Part1 is within the help offered. GO TOhttp://rpm.nyvalls.se/ Correct, I was perhaps not clear enough Second, hickup-package or hickup-packge is to be replaced by the actual package name. Also correct, supposed to be 'hickup-package', ie the package urpmi complained about, and called 'hickup-package' because I don't remember the actual name of it. If this works on 10.1, I don't know, but thacs has rpms for 10.1 as well. I only run 10.0 -- /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] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 04:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 15:44, Stephen Kühn wrote: Respect for authority? WHY DO YOU THINK I MOVED HERE? A certain female authority, IIRC? Anne That was PART of it... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- ... Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic. It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone. The skeptic's role is to point out claims that are not adequately supported by acceptable evidcence and to provide plausible alternative explanations that are more in keeping with the accepted body of scientific evidence. ... - Thomas L. Creed, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, pg. 215 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mail problem
On Saturday 13 November 2004 06:24, Cezary Morga wrote: No. My ISP doesn't even give me any e-mail account, so I doubt they would like to block it. And as I have mentioned the problem occurred some time ago - two weeks? I ain't sure. I have problems connecting to mail servers via SMTP (yes I've check if I'm using the right port). POP3 works well. The mail servers must be using some sort of authentication mechanism or else they would be blocked to here and back for running open relays and even if you could connect, it would do you little good because everyone would drop your mail server's packets anyway. Perhaps they are using POP before SMTP for authentication and require you to download or check your mail before sending? -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Simultaneous media record and play - was: Is Abba safe?
Friday, November 12, 2004, 11:30:46 PM, frankieh wrote: f One thing that never really made sense to me, is all the effort f that the record companies are going to in order to stop copying. f The reason it makes no sense, is because no matter what they do, it f has to output to headphones.. so there is nothing stopping people f from plugging a line out into a line in (on a recorder) and just f recording the output. True. I have been thinking about a 'copier' function on the computer, where I could play a 'controlled' CD/DVD with normal audio/video output and at the same time make a copy I can use the way I want to. What would be the best configuration for such a 'copier' computer? For just-audio? For just-video? For both? Would it be easier to just use the computer as a recorder, with the input coming from another computer or player? f I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway.. and with the f ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with, I'm unlikely to f start. Likewise. It is a HUGE turnoff for me. I want to play it where I want, when I want. If I can't, forget it. f I also refuse to buy music CD's anymore either, my way of protest. f (used to buy at least one a month.) Likewise, but I'm sure they will just point to the loss of sales as more evidence of stealing, and become even more paranoid. A complete bunch of idiots. Also, I will no longer buy a whole CD for just the one or two songs I really like. Waste of money, IMHO. I have been exploring 'other' artists via the net, and will support those who are NOT associated with the DRM-pushers. Some fine music out there, too. -- Best regards, rikona mailto:[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] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Saturday 13 November 2004 20:05, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 17:38, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:30 am, frankieh wrote: I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway.. and with the ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with, I'm unlikely to start. I also refuse to buy music CD's anymore either, my way of protest. (used to buy at least one a month.) A great way to maintain the protest while supporting local businesses is to pruchase used CD's. We have several stores that have a nice stock and none of the proceeds go to the labels. I have found some good music that way. It is also easier to stomach a miss if it cost $5-6 than the $15-20 of a new CD. Isn't 'transferring ownership' breach of copyright as well? I doubt it. That would imply that I can't buy a book/CD/DVD and give it to someone as a gift. If so, that's really going to p*** off the mass market retailers. Pick up a book and read the copyright notice. I've always felt it was ambiguous. Wouldn't it also depend on whether you bought the item or a license to use the item, a la MS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Bash Prompt
I am of course new to linux, I'm taking a class in which one thing we learned was to change the environmental variable of the prompt using the line PS1= I want my prompt to display my current working directory, and the way I did that in the class was add PS1=`pwd` Now the class was an older version of the bash shell running out on a free-bsd server. I tried to get my prompt on mine at home by adding the same line to my .bashrc file in my home directory. It only displays my home directory, even when I change into other directories. So can someone help with what I'm doing wrong and/or what's different than the bash at school, that makes this difficult. I appreciate all the help you've given me thus far. Thx, Elliot P.S. I'm running mandrake 10.0 Official. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem?
- Original Message - From: Marek Pawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem? Lorin Jenny Pino wrote: Kppp will dial in and establish a connection. However, I can't access any web sites. If I try ping www.yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com, I get ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com. If I try ping 216.109.118.66 as seen on an earlier post, I get connect: network is not reachable. I am running Mandrake 9.1. What do I need to change? Thanks! You can also try looking at your default gateway. kppp does not like if you have a default gateway set of your LAN. The default gateway should be that of the IP the ISP gave you when you logged on. Have a look at the route command. Marek I'm sorry for how long it has been for my reply, but I wanted to make sure I had tried everything that was suggested. The firewall is disabled. In the field in kppp marked execute upon command, I entered: route add default ppp0. I don't think that the dynamic IP address is an issue, because if I ask for details on the connection (while connected), kppp has the local address (netmask) and the remote address (IP). I can ping both of those locations, but I can't ping the DNS. I have looked through the logs (something Ive not done before), and here is what it shows for a connection. Nov 12 06:46:33 localhost xinetc[1840]: warning can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected Nov 12 06:46:55 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ4 for device 00:0e.0 Nov 12 06:46:55 localhost kernel: HCF ASIC ID: 95 : HCF DATAPUMP PART: '73' REV: 'BA' Nov 12 06:46:56 localhost kernel: 0751988.978: HCF: STARTNEWC ERROR : HCF: WA_Workaround FAILED : HCF: DEVMGR ERROR: WA FAILED??? : HCF: DEVMGR ERROR DpReset returns False, attemp=0 Nov 12 06:47:28 localhost pppd[1899]: pppd 2.4.1 started by lorin, uid 501 Nov 12 06:47:29 localhost pppd[1899]: using interface ppp0 : Conect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttySHCF0 etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0is already up Nov 12 06:47:37 localhost pppd[1899]: remote message ^@ Nov 12 06:47:37 localhost kernel: PPP BSD compression module registered : PPP Deflate compression module registered Nov 12 06:47:38 localhost pppd[1899]: local IP address 64.216.131.1xx *(this is different with each connection)* : remote IP address 64.216.131.183 : primary DNS address 64.216.131.102 : secondary DNS address 64.216.131.100 Nov 12 06:53:03 localhost pppd[1899]: terminating on signal 15 Nov 12 06:53:09 localhost pppd[1899]: conection terminated : conect time 5.6 minutes : sent 11609 bytes, recieved 1355 bytes : exit etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET unregister event not supported Nov 12 06:53:58 localhost kernel: 0752410.759: HCF: speed index (0) too low go to V34, Pump registered 2 I can see the errors, but have no idea what they are, or how to fix them. Any ideas? Thanks ~Lorin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CD burner problems
Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It will play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn with it, I get a message that there is an input/output error. The tray then opens and I get a message to insert a blank CD. Push the tray back in and the same thing happens again. It's the same whether I try to burn a new CD, a new CD-RW or a previously recorded CD-RW. It won't erase a CD-RW either. For some time, before this happened a couple of days ago, it would only record a CD-RW at a maximum speed of 2x and a CD at a maximum of 6x. When it was new (two and a half years ago), I was getting 10-15x for a CD-RW and 20x for a CD. All the blanks are still from the same batches as the original ones. I have tried to burn with K3b and XCDroast in Mandrake, PCLOS and Libranet, also Nero in W98SE. All are the same, please insert a CD. I already have done :( I don't want to go to the expense of buying a new drive, unless I know that the drive is faulty and the fault does not lie elsewhere. From these symptoms, is it likely that the drive has gone duff, or can someone please suggest what else may suddenly be causing the drive to play but not record? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?
On Saturday 13 November 2004 14:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pick up a book and read the copyright notice. I've always felt it was ambiguous. Wouldn't it also depend on whether you bought the item or a license to use the item, a la MS? Yes, but then they wouldn't be able to use copyright laws to come after you, they would have to pursue you for breach of contract. Copyright is enshrined in law and is fairly clear regarding the limitations of the grant that Congress or the Legislature has provided the creator versus the rights enjoyed by the public. You can try to place greater limitations than is provided by copyright law but you can't use copyright law to enforce those limitations. -- 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] Bash Prompt
Elliot S. wrote: I am of course new to linux, I'm taking a class in which one thing we learned was to change the environmental variable of the prompt using the line PS1= I want my prompt to display my current working directory, and the way I did that in the class was add PS1=`pwd` Now the class was an older version of the bash shell running out on a free-bsd server. I tried to get my prompt on mine at home by adding the same line to my .bashrc file in my home directory. It only displays my home directory, even when I change into other directories. So can someone help with what I'm doing wrong and/or what's different than the bash at school, that makes this difficult. I appreciate all the help you've given me thus far. Thx, Elliot P.S. I'm running mandrake 10.0 Official. You can test the prompt and see what eventually you like. for example. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]# PS1= \W mike mike PS1= \w ~ ~ cd /var/log/mail/ /var/log/mail \W = the basename of the current working directory \w = the current working directory Take a look at this in your browser (if you have howtos installed) /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Bash-Prompt/index.html Or do a google search for BashPrompt howto Nice howto, I had quite-abit fun with it :-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:23:28 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 03:37, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:20 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. Please be aware of this.' It wouldn't be easier just to change clients? Possibly, but then everyone has their own reasons for their choice. And long live choice! A good example of why someone would use gmail? I used to use an email address on my domain for the list here, but my free hosting from a friend has gotten about as stable as jello as of late, and outside of the fairly regular downtime, I was also having trouble sending messages to the list, I think something about a domain mismatch or something funny like that. So I switched to gmail because it was the only email address I had that didn't suck (like yahoo and hotmail do). So yeah, some of us have very good reasons to use gmail. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! 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 Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failurea second timeto count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 11:10 pm, Jack wrote: Good point Greg but I dislike "upgrading." I always prefer to do a clean install. My experience has been (up to now) that there are less problems this way. I tend to agree, especially when moving from point release to point release, but moving from 10.1CE to 10.1OE is more like applying security updates than a wholesale upgrade. Good point... maybe I should try this then. Can anyone tell me the *exact* urpmi command that will accomplish this? Mucho gratias Greg... thanks to your suggestion here, I did an upgrade installation of official and was successful. I am now running 10.1 official. Attempting to solve another problem that I reported in this thread (upgrading to KDE 3.3), I retried Randall's suggestion with Konquest and still got the C compiler error. I also tried the "urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm" that one user suggested, to no avail. I'm going to try and simply install KDE 3.3 over the 3.2 from the 10.1 official DVD and see what happens. I have the drive imaged and up to date, if that causes problems... - Jack
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Jack wrote: Attempting to solve another problem that I reported in this thread (upgrading to KDE 3.3), I retried Randall's suggestion with Konquest and still got the C compiler error. I also tried the "urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm" that one user suggested, to no avail. I'm going to try and simply install KDE 3.3 over the 3.2 from the 10.1 official DVD and see what happens. I have the drive imaged and up to date, if that causes problems... - Jack Well, it didn't work. I got about a gadzillion conflicts between existing 3.23 components and 3.3 equivalents. I am *still* open to suggestions on how to do this damn thing!!! - Jack
[newbie] TWiki - Plea for help!
Message to Expert list from James Sparenberg: All, The Community TWiki got cracked. The person running it is busy trying to find a viable backup to restore what he can. However this may not be possible as the backup (current) is of the cracked version. Basically someone found a new exploit and managed to wipe out the TWiki. So... given this. If you have saved a page locally, you are the author of a page and have a local copy, or in any way you have something we can use to rebuild as much as we can please let us know. You can send what you have to either myself or Anne at our list e-mail addresses or once we say it's again working go back in and re-author what you had put in before. (I knew I should have made copies of some of what I did *grin*) In the future we are working out a way to have multiple offsite backups of the TWiki so if we get bit again.. We can recover faster. Remember, This TWiki is not MDK sponsored, instead it's run through the will of the community itself. So please don't blame MDK *grin*. Also if any of you would be so kind as to copy this post to any other list it would be helpful. Never know who has what. James -- 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] [ØT] Re: Is Abba safe?
Seems that THIS thread is TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:17 pm, Jack wrote: Jack wrote: Attempting to solve another problem that I reported in this thread (upgrading to KDE 3.3), I retried Randall's suggestion with Konquest and still got the C compiler error. I also tried the urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm that one user suggested, to no avail. I'm going to try and simply install KDE 3.3 over the 3.2 from the 10.1 official DVD and see what happens. I have the drive imaged and up to date, if that causes problems... - Jack Well, it didn't work. I got about a gadzillion conflicts between existing 3.23 components and 3.3 equivalents. I am *still* open to suggestions on how to do this damn thing!!! If I were going to try this, I would probably boot into a differnet desktop environment like GNOME and through the remove software app remove all of KDE, then try to add it from the CD sources with urpmi. (remeber about arts and all of the libkde files also) If I may ask, why are you so anxious to upgrade to 3.3? The 3.3 packages shipped with Community were pretty buggy (3.3.1 was issued very soon after 3.3 was released) and kdepim in 10.1 is already at 3.3. Is there a particular feature you are interested in or are you just curious. -- /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] [ØT] Re: Is Abba safe?
On 13 Nov 2004 23:34:21 +0100 frengoGorgia disseminated the following: Seems that THIS thread is TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC No! Oh my God! Stop the presses! Offtopic thread on Newbie! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:13:21 up 101 days, 19:05, 7 users, load average: 0.33, 0.14, 0.04 +++ The rich control all the businesses, the newspapers and everything else. But they can no longer control the people. -- Margarita Mendoza, street vendor, Venezuela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:17 pm, Jack wrote: Jack wrote: Attempting to solve another problem that I reported in this thread (upgrading to KDE 3.3), I retried Randall's suggestion with Konquest and still got the C compiler error. I also tried the "urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm" that one user suggested, to no avail. I'm going to try and simply install KDE 3.3 over the 3.2 from the 10.1 official DVD and see what happens. I have the drive imaged and up to date, if that causes problems... - Jack Well, it didn't work. I got about a gadzillion conflicts between existing 3.23 components and 3.3 equivalents. I am *still* open to suggestions on how to do this damn thing!!! If I were going to try this, I would probably boot into a differnet desktop environment like GNOME and through the remove software app remove all of KDE, then try to add it from the CD sources with urpmi. (remeber about arts and all of the libkde files also) I tried this once and it ended up only booting to ICE. (Don't ask me why!) If I may ask, why are you so anxious to upgrade to 3.3? The 3.3 packages shipped with Community were pretty buggy (3.3.1 was issued very soon after 3.3 was released) and kdepim in 10.1 is already at 3.3. Is there a particular feature you are interested in or are you just curious. It apparently has a way to allow changing the default browser *that works*! Changing the htm file association in 3.23 does not work... That's the main reason, but there are other minor ones... - Jack
Re: [newbie] CD burner problems
Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It will play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn with it, I get a message that there is an input/output error. The tray then opens and I get a message to insert a blank CD. Push the tray back in and the same thing happens again. It's the same whether I try to burn a new CD, a new CD-RW or a previously recorded CD-RW. It won't erase a CD-RW either. For some time, before this happened a couple of days ago, it would only record a CD-RW at a maximum speed of 2x and a CD at a maximum of 6x. When it was new (two and a half years ago), I was getting 10-15x for a CD-RW and 20x for a CD. All the blanks are still from the same batches as the original ones. I have tried to burn with K3b and XCDroast in Mandrake, PCLOS and Libranet, also Nero in W98SE. All are the same, please insert a CD. I already have done :( I don't want to go to the expense of buying a new drive, unless I know that the drive is faulty and the fault does not lie elsewhere. From these symptoms, is it likely that the drive has gone duff, or can someone please suggest what else may suddenly be causing the drive to play but not record? Many thanks Keith Before giving up on the drive, see if there is a firmware update for it. If so, installing it may solve the problem. Try this even if the update it the same version as in already installed. It may be that the firmware in the drive got corrupted. It isn't susposed to happen, but it sometimes does. Static? Cosmic rays? Strange sortware? I don't know... Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD burner problems
On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:31 pm, Keith Powell wrote: From these symptoms, is it likely that the drive has gone duff, or can someone please suggest what else may suddenly be causing the drive to play but not record? There are two lasers in the drive, one for playing and one for recording. Sound like the laser that does the recording burned out. -- /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] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Saturday 13 November 2004 07:31 pm, Jack wrote: It apparently has a way to allow changing the default browser *that works*! Changing the htm file association in 3.23 does not work... That's the main reason, but there are other minor ones... Changing the file association only works to determine what browser launches when you click on a link. The default browser that is called by a program when it needs one is set by the environment variable BROWSER. Type env at a prompt to see what it is currently set to. To set it temporarily to something else, you can use the export command export BROWSER=mozilla-firefox This will change it to firefox until the next login. I am still looking for the file to change to make it permanent system wide. -- /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] TWiki - Plea for help!
On Sunday 14 November 2004 05:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Message to Expert list from James Sparenberg: All, The Community TWiki got cracked. The person running it is busy trying to find a viable backup to restore what he can. However this may not be possible as the backup (current) is of the cracked version. Oh no? The backup is the cracked version? This is what I experienced too with my school phpBB2. I made the backup just a few hours after the cracking. Now, I make every backup based on dates. Anyway, I've got my copy of article about setting up gpg in kmail. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 07:46:38 up 1:06, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 07:31 pm, Jack wrote: It apparently has a way to allow changing the default browser *that works*! Changing the htm file association in 3.23 does not work... That's the main reason, but there are other minor ones... Changing the file association only works to determine what browser launches when you click on a link. The default browser that is called by a program when it needs one is set by the environment variable BROWSER. Type env at a prompt to see what it is currently set to. To set it temporarily to something else, you can use the export command export BROWSER=mozilla-firefox This will change it to firefox until the next login. I am still looking for the file to change to make it permanent system wide. Sorry, didn't work. Still defaults to Konqueror. The only program I can get to default to firefox is thunderbird (not surprisingly). - Jack
Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?
Richard Urwin wrote: Actually ABBA music is technically highly complex. Which only goes to prove it ain't real Rock'n'Roll. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
