Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Dec 2004 23:31, Kenneth wrote: snip Are you familiar with the TWiki? Experiences like this are worth noting there to help others. Yes, I think I followed a link, perhaps from one of your posts off this list in regard urpmi to Twiki. I think it is a fantastic resource. One frustration I have with the official Mandrake Hardware database is that I was not able to see away to give any feedback about my experiences - the Twiki puts the ball in my court for sure. I think I will take the plunge and try to be more of the solution and less of the problem. :) Where are you getting your BitTorrent from? As far as I can remember I only had Mandrake and plf sites set as sources when I got mine, and it was never any trouble. Right. Everything worked wonderfully with the official Bittorrent GUI and Bittorrent GUI installed. Then I saw BitTornado and decided I'd try it out. I couldn't get it to work and then afterwards, when I re-installed the official BitTorrent, I couldn't get it to work again. My octet-stream problems occurred when I tried to manually eradicate all references to BitTornado and BitTorrent so that I could get a clean install. As I have mentioned. Something is obviously still awry here. I'll keep working on it. You're welcome. Please add your experiences to the TWiki. If you've not done any TWiki editing before there is a beginner's section in the Index. It's very easy, and you can either copy edit styles from other bits on the same page, or you can add things with basic html tags if necessary. You get a chance to preview and correct if necessary, and you can always ask for help if you need it ;-) Okay. I suppose I could start a Wisdom of a Fool section in hopes of discouraging others from recklessness. :) Twiki Time! -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free 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: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 07:03, John Zoetebier wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe this is relevant too. Mandrake 10.0 did not recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor. Mandrake 10.1 did recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor and put it on eth0 I got eth0 working in the past, but it dod not work reliably under high speed. That's why I have removed it from the connections, but somehow it still does show up with interrupt 3. I added a network card, which is eth1 now. Did you disable the on-board ethernet in bios? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBzSPdkFAvMr/nNX8RAm4ZAJ4w1OlB2hcuLbDzoX2lHzXW1ZlezgCgk0Y0 AUyA4Z5tUq0eACmk74f54JU= =FNfL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing desktop
Typing 'kde' or 'kdm' should work. As far as I remember. You probably didnt click the box to have the graphical server start at boot when you installed. HTH On Friday 24 December 2004 09:19 pm, George N. Conover wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up. How do I change the Desktops from the command line? I want to try GNOME. George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Quickbooks on wine
Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install fine, but I really want to know if it will 'work'. I dont know enough about the package to test it myself unfortunately. Happy holidays. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unable to add installation cd's as sources
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:04 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder if anyone can help me? I notice that cd's 3 4 are not available as software sources for urpmi. I have tried in vain to add them, at the cl and with Software Manager gui. I am using Mandrake 10.1. I get the following error: Unable to add medium, errors reported: copy failed at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm/download.pm line 163. What does this mean? Thanks very much for any assistance. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** exactly what command are you using? -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Internet connection issue.
I have recently done an install of Discovery 10.1, and had accessed the Internet for the install with no problems. After realizing that I was missing a few things from my install, I ran through the install tab on the control center and installed the bits I had been missing. However, now my Internet connection is a bit awkward. It still connects, but the initial attempt seems to be blocked. When I try to surf the web via Konqueror, each initial time I attempt to access a given domain, I get a message saying connection to host x is broken. When I hit the reload button, the site connects fine. Following links within the same domain works as it should but again if I try to connect to a different domain, I get the same response. Aside from the web, I get the same result when I attempt to connect to my mail server to either send or download mail, when I ftp or when I attempt to use the mandrakeonline configuration in my task bar. I had initially thought it was a problem with shorewall, but after disabling it, I found no change. Any advice or suggestions would be grately appreciate. Thanks, Collin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to uninstall packages?
Hi, and happy holidays to all the listers. 1) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.tar.gz' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: $ tar xzvf mypackage.tar.gz $ cd mypackage' $ ./configure' $ make # make install in order to install the 'mypackage' package. How can I uninstall it, 1a) if the dir ~/tmp/mypackage is still there?; 1b) if the dir ~/tmp/mypackage was removed after the installation? 2) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.rpm' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: # rpm -i mypackage.rpm (is that correct?) in order to install the 'mypackage' package. How can I uninstall it, 2a) if the file mypackage.rpm is still there in the ~/tmp directory?; 2b) if the file mypackage.rpm was removed after the installation? Thanks in advance for any replies, and excuse such basic (and maybe silly) questions. Rodolfo P.S.: Are '# rpm -i mypackage.rpm' and '# urpmi mypackage.rpm' equivalent or what's the difference between the two? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection issue.
I have recently done an install of Discovery 10.1, and had accessed the Internet for the install with no problems. After realizing that I was missing a few things from my install, I ran through the install tab on the control center and installed the bits I had been missing. However, now my Internet connection is a bit awkward. It still connects, but the initial attempt seems to be blocked. When I try to surf the web via Konqueror, each initial time I attempt to access a given domain, I get a message saying connection to host x is broken. When I hit the reload button, the site connects fine. Following links within the same domain works as it should but again if I try to connect to a different domain, I get the same response. Aside from the web, I get the same result when I attempt to connect to my mail server to either send or download mail, when I ftp or when I attempt to use the mandrakeonline configuration in my task bar. I had initially thought it was a problem with shorewall, but after disabling it, I found no change. Any advice or suggestions would be grately appreciate. Thanks, Collin What does /etc/resolv.conf look like? Did you by chance install tmdns when you were adding packages? This sounds like a DNS problem. It may be that one of the name servers in resolv.conf is not returning valid IP addresses, but is returning something. (No responce form a name server would resultiung in a delay of about 90 seconds while it times out, plus however long the next one takes...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to uninstall packages?
On Saturday 25 December 2004 01:22 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, and happy holidays to all the listers. 1) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.tar.gz' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: $ tar xzvf mypackage.tar.gz $ cd mypackage' $ ./configure' $ make # make install in order to install the 'mypackage' package. How can I uninstall it, 1a) if the dir ~/tmp/mypackage is still there?; 1b) if the dir ~/tmp/mypackage was removed after the installation? Either way, in the case of source installation, you need the tar archive and in the directory type make uninstall (as root) 2) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.rpm' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: # rpm -i mypackage.rpm (is that correct?) in order to install the 'mypackage' package. How can I uninstall it, 2a) if the file mypackage.rpm is still there in the ~/tmp directory?; 2b) if the file mypackage.rpm was removed after the installation? You dont need the rpm file to uninstall. Just do rpm -e theprogramToRemove Thanks in advance for any replies, and excuse such basic (and maybe silly) questions. Rodolfo P.S.: Are '# rpm -i mypackage.rpm' and '# urpmi mypackage.rpm' equivalent or what's the difference between the two? rpm is a tool for managing rpms. But urpmi is a wrapper which adds even more fuctionality. However its not true to say that it is better. Urpm actually searches known sources for the rpm to save you looking. With rpm, you have to have it ready to rock. Happy hols. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to uninstall packages?
Hi, and happy holidays to all the listers. 1) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.tar.gz' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: $ tar xzvf mypackage.tar.gz $ cd mypackage' $ ./configure' $ make # make install in order to install the 'mypackage' package. How can I uninstall it, 1a) if the dir ~/tmp/mypackage is still there?; 1b) if the dir ~/tmp/mypackage was removed after the installation? make uninstall from mypackage may work. It depends on the package creater. They do not have to create an uninstall section. If you have removed mypackage, you will have to run tar, and probably ./configure again. 2) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.rpm' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: # rpm -i mypackage.rpm (is that correct?) in order to install the 'mypackage' package. How can I uninstall it, 2a) if the file mypackage.rpm is still there in the ~/tmp directory?; 2b) if the file mypackage.rpm was removed after the installation? The nice thing about using RPM to manage packages is that it keeps a database of installed packages. So where you have the RPM you installed from does not matter when it comes to removing it. You just run rpm -e mypackage and it will remove the files. You do not need the origional mypackage.rpm file to do this. This is especialy handy when you installed over the Internet. Things like rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.mirror.com/rpms/mypackage.rpm; work for installing RPMs. Thanks in advance for any replies, and excuse such basic (and maybe silly) questions. Rodolfo P.S.: Are '# rpm -i mypackage.rpm' and '# urpmi mypackage.rpm' equivalent or what's the difference between the two? urpmi is much more powerfull then rpm. If everything needed to install and run mypackage is already installed, and you already have myfile.rpm, then there is not a lot of difference between the two. But urpmi will usualy resolve any dependencies needed in order to install myfile, as well as getting myfile over the Internet if it is listed in one of its databases of RPMs. It also handles the case where you have an older version of myfile, and you are upgrading it. (RPM requires the U or F option to upgrade and RPM, instead of the i option.) urpmi, and urpme also offer a lot more package managment options. You should realy read the documentation on them, or at least run man urpmi. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
A couple of things I forgot, but feel I should mention. Although one installs Wine as root and does some minimal global configuration, each user must do their own configuration. Windows software needs to be installed as user, not as root. If there is more than one user on the system, the installation of software must be done for each user (per the licenses). Secondly, if you have VBS active in your MSWord or are using IE and other Windows software under Wine that are open to infection, you do need to take the same precautions on a Linux system that you would on a Windows system to protect against the Win32 viruses and such. Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able to really mess up your user stuff if a virus gets executed. Happy holidays, deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit WordStar GNU/Linux http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see WordStar Users Group Community http://www.wordstar2.com/WordStar_Users/index.php -- ___ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to uninstall packages?
Thanks JR, thanks Mikkel: one more question: will 'rpm -e' work also if I installed the package with urpmi? Cheers, 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] How to uninstall packages?
On Saturday 25 December 2004 02:10 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Thanks JR, thanks Mikkel: one more question: will 'rpm -e' work also if I installed the package with urpmi? Cheers, Rodolfo Good question. urpmi ultimately installs the rpms on your system using rpm itslef. So it should. JR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
Thanks to all who replied: Noel, SnapafunFrank, Mike, Deedee. The matter looks not to be a simple one, so I'll have to do further trials with Wine installation. But, Deedee, after I read you say: I've had excellent results working with MSWord documents on Linux systems with OpenOffice.org Writer (OO). I now do all MSWord stuff using OO (I get it in MSWord, open the file in OO, do whatever needs to be done, and convert it back to MSWord). No one has noticed the difference. , I did other trials with OpenOffice.org Writer and found out that, if the MSWord document is edited in a very 'clean' way, i.e. respecting all the tabs and the layout settings, without using the space bar to move text and so on, OO Writer manages to properly read it. In my experience the results had not been satisfying: I tried opening a certain MSWord document with OOWriter and some stuff that was on the right end of the page in MSWord found itself spread out around the middle of the page in OOWriter: the same with abiword. Maybe, as you say, something like that sometimes happens with MSWord itself, but you see that is not good a start, it wouldn't induce to use OO with MSWord documents. However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible, i.e. if OO Writer can really work fine onto .doc files, especially now that you pointed out the problem of viruses. And apart from that, I don't much like the idea of having an MSWindows-like system inside my Linux box! I'll be going on experimenting OO Writer, thanks indeed, 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] How to uninstall packages?
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Thanks JR, thanks Mikkel: one more question: will 'rpm -e' work also if I installed the package with urpmi? Cheers, Rodolfo Yes, it will work, as long as no other packages depend on the package you are uninstalling. urpmi and rpm use the same database for installed packages. I have not looked, but I suspect that they both use the same library routines for managing the rpm databese. The way rpm is written, most of the work is done by library routines, with rpm and rpmbuild being frontends for the library routines. This was done to make it easy to manage rpms from both the command line interface, and from different GUIs. It is also why the install routines in RPM's are not susposed to require user interaction. (There was a lot of debate about that point on the RPM mailing lists a few years ago.) The end result is that you can pick the tool for managing RPMs that fits your needs, and the database will be keep up to date regardless of the tool used. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unable to add installation cd's as sources
- Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] unable to add installation cd's as sources Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:09:56 -0500 On Friday 24 December 2004 10:04 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder if anyone can help me? I notice that cd's 3 4 are not available as software sources for urpmi. I have tried in vain to add them, at the cl and with Software Manager gui. I am using Mandrake 10.1. I get the following error: Unable to add medium, errors reported: copy failed at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm/download.pm line 163. What does this mean? Thanks very much for any assistance. Best regards. --Angus et wrote: exactly what command are you using? -- linux counter #167806 ** Thanks for the reply et. I was indeed using an incorrect procedure. I was trying to add the cd sources with the actual corresponding cd in the drive. [:-( I SHOULD know better by now. I was informed the following: Insert CD#1 in the drive and run the following command su'd: urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable:mnt/cdrom Oh yes, and to avoid duplicate entries I had to remove all cd sources prior to running the command. All is well now. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~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] Just built a Mandrake 10.1 system for the 1st time. I am getting the error kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 04:00 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: Randy Paries wrote: 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp Thanks For what it's worth, the bug error was generated by a failure of the page_remove_rmap function call. This function attempts to remove a page of memory's pte mapping. What caused it is whatever caused the value of page to be invalid. What caused this to happen is another matter. Perhaps the dimensions of the page map were exceeded, I'm not sure. Some further investigation is necessary. Were there any other error messages? cheers Duncan with that much memory he should be running a enterprise or 4gb kernel, not just SMP, -- linux counter #167806 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: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 07:03, John Zoetebier wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe this is relevant too. Mandrake 10.0 did not recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor. Mandrake 10.1 did recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor and put it on eth0 I got eth0 working in the past, but it dod not work reliably under high speed. That's why I have removed it from the connections, but somehow it still does show up with interrupt 3. I added a network card, which is eth1 now. Did you disable the on-board ethernet in bios? It was not disabled, but it is disabled now. This is result from cat /proc/interrupts : = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 213744 XT-PIC timer 1:637 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9:113 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, EMU10K1 10: 2 XT-PIC ehci_hcd 11: 13290 XT-PIC eth1, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0 12: 6865 XT-PIC i8042 14: 8518 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1664 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# = When I plug-in the USB mouse, I can see the light on the receiver switched off immediately after loading the USB drivers. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz 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: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 22:17, John Zoetebier wrote: It was not disabled, but it is disabled now. Good - so now you only have one ethernet port. This is result from cat /proc/interrupts : = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 213744 XT-PIC timer 1:637 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9:113 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, EMU10K1 10: 2 XT-PIC ehci_hcd 11: 13290 XT-PIC eth1, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0 12: 6865 XT-PIC i8042 14: 8518 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1664 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# = I'm stabbing in the dark, but if this were me I'd go now to Mandrake Control Center Hardware and have it re-read the hardware list. I would guess that it will now configure your ethernet to eth0. Try it and let us know what happens. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBze5/kFAvMr/nNX8RAo3UAJ9K1ZEqcALYmGo4GoNER+LC6Q2l2wCfahti r9uBdJW7iK7bHV/qz21Sn58= =0hhq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able to really mess up your user stuff if a virus gets executed. Is it vulnerable only when actually running a windows program, or vulnerable by the very fact of being there? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBze7YkFAvMr/nNX8RArnHAJ915CU4dierMcQoZ4ZHKgLdnHR9lQCfcYz8 3e6IKipZdv3QCbFhCpnwxP4= =NpJ0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able to really mess up your user stuff if a virus gets executed. Is it vulnerable only when actually running a windows program, or vulnerable by the very fact of being there? Anne Anne, It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target Wine, I don't see that happening. The problem is that when you are running Windows programs, you can also run things like VB scripts. But the damage is limmited to your user, and not the entire system, as it would be under Windows. One way to limit things would be to have a different user that you log in as to run Wine. If your normal user is a member of the Wine user's group, and you have a group writable directory, sharing data between the two is easy. You can access this as your normal user, but the Wine user can not access anything in your normal user's directory. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 + Anne Wilson disseminated the following: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able to really mess up your user stuff if a virus gets executed. Is it vulnerable only when actually running a windows program, or vulnerable by the very fact of being there? IIANM, Windows malware (is there any other kind...?), even run under Wine, would have very little if no effect on a Linux system. Firstly, it's going to be looking for files/folders/directories that do not exist (c:\Windows, \System32, Documents and Settings, etc.). Second, it will attempt to run other common commands/executables or exploit services which would exist on a Win system but not on Linux, like, say...well, all of them ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:52:44 up 34 days, 10:05, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 22:17, John Zoetebier wrote: It was not disabled, but it is disabled now. Good - so now you only have one ethernet port. This is result from cat /proc/interrupts : = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 213744 XT-PIC timer 1:637 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9:113 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, EMU10K1 10: 2 XT-PIC ehci_hcd 11: 13290 XT-PIC eth1, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0 12: 6865 XT-PIC i8042 14: 8518 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1664 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# = I'm stabbing in the dark, but if this were me I'd go now to Mandrake Control Center Hardware and have it re-read the hardware list. I would guess that it will now configure your ethernet to eth0. Try it and let us know what happens. Makes not difference, still eth1. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 Official New Install
Just finished a complete install of 10.1 official, my backup of /etc for some reason was corrupted, anyway, I had hard copies of most config files except for hosts.conf. What is supposed to be in that file? Also, I've got webmin up and running which I usually use to install perl modules. For some reason after I select a module to install, the install window comes up but nothing happens. I can install modules via CPAN on the cli. Any ideas anyone? Thanks Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
- Original Message - From: Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible, i.e. if OO Writer can really work fine onto .doc files, especially now that you pointed out the problem of viruses. And apart from that, I don't much like the idea of having an MSWindows-like system inside my Linux box! I'll be going on experimenting OO Writer, thanks indeed, Rodolfo Hello, If you have now 'gone off' Wine, have you thought of using Cross Over Office. A similar product, though you have to pay for it if I remember rightly. N 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
