Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Hi all Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Thanks ed Well, I think it has sonething to do with Hotplug, the config files for which are found in /etc/hotplg and /etc/dynamic, I know how to change the defaults for CD's and DVD's, but I can't find anything for the defaults for cameras scanners. John. P.S. Which versions of Mandrake and Digikam are you using? - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Sunday, 2 January 2005 10:20, John Layt wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Hi all Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Thanks ed Well, I think it has sonething to do with Hotplug, the config files for which are found in /etc/hotplg and /etc/dynamic, I know how to change the defaults for CD's and DVD's, but I can't find anything for the defaults for cameras scanners. John. P.S. Which versions of Mandrake and Digikam are you using? John I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and Digikam 0.6.1. I looked at the files you refer to but can't see what to edit, but will play around a little and see what google has to say. In response to Martin, I did not set my PC up manually to detect my camera and run gtkam - that just worked out the box. I tried Anne's suggestion in the KDE settings but it's not working yet. Maybe after a system restart ... I'll let you all know if it works. ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:09, Edward Holcroft wrote: John I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and Digikam 0.6.1. I looked at the files you refer to but can't see what to edit, but will play around a little and see what google has to say. In response to Martin, I did not set my PC up manually to detect my camera and run gtkam - that just worked out the box. I tried Anne's suggestion in the KDE settings but it's not working yet. Maybe after a system restart ... I'll let you all know if it works. ed You may like to try upgrading to Digikam 0.7, the rpms for which are at Thac's site http://rpm.nyvalls.se/kde10.1.html. It's getting close to being THE killer app... I'll try a bit more digging around on the autostart front as well. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 09:09, Edward Holcroft wrote: I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and Digikam 0.6.1. I looked at the files you refer to but can't see what to edit, but will play around a little and see what google has to say. In response to Martin, I did not set my PC up manually to detect my camera and run gtkam - that just worked out the box. It works like that for many, many cameras. Kodak, however, use a proprietary format which can't be mounted as a usb drive. GPhoto2 can work with many cameras that have that problem. John - have you tried that? I tried Anne's suggestion in the KDE settings but it's not working yet. Maybe after a system restart ... I'll let you all know if it works. Maybe, though re-starts are rarely necessary - but another possibility is that you need to associate other image formats with digikam. Just a thought. 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) iD8DBQFB19AikFAvMr/nNX8RAlkrAJ9d1XL0Jtxg4RUQWGOGnPCqMsS6AACgiMdd tlQe/rBnjbYNsSiq/BJ2IGM= =BOvs -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] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 22:58, Michael Hahn wrote: I recently needed to replace the hard drive in my M5305 notebook, and decided to install my old copy of Mandrake Linux (8.2) on it. However, when I tried to install, it reached Partition Check: hda (my new hard drive, a Hitachi HTS424040MSAT00 40 GB) it freezes. It is accessing the HD, but nothing happens. Does anyone have any advice, or am I doomed to go back to WinXP? Is that a SATA drive? If so, I don't think 8.2 would be able to manage it. Is there a particular reason for your choice of 8.2? It no longer gets security updates. 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) iD8DBQFB19DXkFAvMr/nNX8RAg1wAJ9T/pKqkWAPE+viO2iFEjnMhedU+wCeKUdJ 8fxMIhEJhmJJHCfdWZVCAm0= =XhnY -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] KDE upgrade
In reply to my question on how to upgrade KDE with the packages on CD4, On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 19:21, linuxgirlie wrote: I installed KDE 3.3 bu doing the following: Copy all the KDE files into /tmp Login as root (for some reason there is a bug, may have been fixed now) that won't allow you to add media under other users. Go to Mdkc Control Centre (configure your computer) and add new media...eg the folder with kde in it. Once this is done go to install software Type in KDE Look for all the files with 3.3.* (* being your version) Add them, with a tick Click install. Sorry if this is to basic, just trying to put it in some sort of understandable order!! Jo Thanks very much for your help. I appreciate your prompt reply. No, it isn't too basic! Generally speaking, I think that an answer cannot be too basic. If a thing is explained in a simple way, more people reading it are likely to understand it and get help from it. Cheers 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] KDE upgrade
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:33, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have been a complete failure. So, PLEASE someone, in plain language, how does one install KDE3.3 from disk4? I don't need to keep KDE3.2. SNIP Here's how I did it (then). I put in CD4 and cd'd to the KDE3.3 directory. There I ran 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' which returned some missing dependencies. Mostly libjack* IIRC. I already had online 10.1 sources set up, so I used those to get the deps. You might be able to use your CD sources. That upgraded KDE packages I already had from the many from the 10.1 CD install. (which is what 'rpm -Fvh' does, see 'man rpm'). After the upgrade was finished, I ran 'upall' as root; [ alias upall='rpm --rebuilddb updatedb ldconfig -v update-menus -v -n' ] Then logged out, back into KDE, using Ctrl+Alt+Bsp to re-start the X server while I was logged out. If you are setup to auto login to your desktop, this will bypass the login next step. For my experience and opinion: _Don't do it_! If you really want KDE3.3, setup cooker sources and use urpmi to update to KDE 3.3.2, (complete cooker 10.2) You'll be better off. KDE3.3.1 shipped with 10.1 is alpha an buggy quality, IME. Cooker is currently stable. Do it NOW while cooker is slow for the holidays Thanks for your reply and the help. I appreciate it. I now know two good ways of doing the upgrade, yours and Jo's. Thanks also for the warning about the buggy quality of the packages on the CD. I must think about what to do. Cheers 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] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
Anne Wilson wrote: I don't use Evo, but IIRC it uses mdir format, which means that each message is in a separate file (mbox puts a whole mail folder into one file). This being so, if you can identify which messages are the infected ones you can safely delete them, leaving all others. Whichever format a mail agent uses, deleting the offending messages, then compacting the folder (in mbox this is very important - if mdir format does it, use it) should leave you in a safe state. OTOH, if you don't read your mail at all in windows you are not going to be propagating the virus anyway. Are you sure about Evo using mdir format - I only seem to have files for mail folders and the virus is residing in these. What the clamav scan show is as follows: .evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Worm.Bagle.AP FOUND .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Newbie: Worm.SomeFool.P FOUND (rest of scan snipped) --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 25253 Scanned directories: 31 Scanned files: 59 Infected files: 2 Data scanned: 62.38 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 76.410 sec (1 m 16 s) [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]$ If you search for attachments with the extensions .com, .exe and .zip you can probably delete all the infected mails by hand. (From Linux, just to be sure.) If such attachments existed on my system, I would have known about them - and deleted them at the hurry-up. No single mails show any sign of infection. If you want to make it easy for yourself in future, read the TWiki page on setting up PopFile (it exists for windows, too). Training is a doddle, and after, say, 2 days everything should be working really well. You have to hand-classify the first few virus types that it sees, but then it can be set to add [virused] to the headers, and the mail agent can filter them into a separate folder for you. Messages classified: 27,224 Classification errors: 115 Accuracy: 99.57% (Last Reset: Tue Jul 6 14:35:03 2004) Looks interesting, I'll check it out. Thanks Do the names Worm.bagle.AP, Worm.Somefool.P, SCO.A mean anything here? Yes, I've heard them all. Some of them exist under more than one name, and the various anti-virus sites will often only list one name. The main thing is not to panic. We can help you set up systems to keep you safe, but virused emails do keep coming. There's nothing you can do about that. Those who run mailservers filter them out at that level, but it's perfectly safe to do it at desktop level. FWIW, I got around 150 virused emails in November - and I don't have the volume of mail that professionals have - all identified, deleted, and the folders compacted. I'm aware that there will always be e-mails with viruses attached. They tend to come in waves - nothing for a while then loads. Usually I just delete them when I get them. The worrying thing here is that what I have picked up doesn't appear to have arrived attached to any individual mail. If it had, I would have spotted it. It is the mysterious nature of the infection - the first I have ever encountered on a Linux box - that has spooked me. I still don't know whether I should quarantine and delete all my mail (a desperate measure indeed) in order to get rid of it. As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? I intend looking at clamav soon, but I can't help you on that atm. Anne There don't seem to be any Clamav/Klamav users in the group. Unless they're still too hungover to respond :-) Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 09:39, Graham Watkins wrote: Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as little as possible.) Do the names Worm.bagle.AP, Worm.Somefool.P, SCO.A mean anything here? Yes. I have copies of all three on my Linux system. I also do not use Windows for mail. You don't have to run windows to end up with your email address being used by someone else who does have Windows and who gets infected with a Worm which then tries to propagate to you. Erm, I'm not clear what you are trying to tell me here. Are you saying that it's not really a problem if it's not a windows mail program that's infected? As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? Amavis or Amavis-new. There should be packages available in RPM format. Integrating those with Postfix is a little more difficult but not overly much. However, you can use Amavis without doing the integration and simply let Amavis quarantine the viruses for you. I'll look into this - thanks. Integrating with Postfix is not a problem as I don't run it. But will it scan mails in Mozilla or Evolution? Something that will seems to be my only chance of eradicating the problem without actually having to trash my entire mailbox. Cheers, _ Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
deedee E wrote: I confess to some confusion about your problem. Is there some reason you are forced to execute the worm-infested e-mail while running Windows? Why not just treat it like junk mail and delete it? Isn't it junk mail? I'm not executing anything. I'm not doing anything with mail in windows. I'm not treating it as junk mail because these worms are not (visibly) attached to any individual mail. They are attached to the mail folders in my personal Mozilla (and now Evolution) settings. This is what I get from a Clamav scan: .evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Worm.Bagle.AP FOUND .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Newbie: Worm.SomeFool.P FOUND (rest of scan snipped) --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 25253 Scanned directories: 31 Scanned files: 59 Infected files: 2 Data scanned: 62.38 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 76.410 sec (1 m 16 s) [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]$ There are no dodgy files .exe, .com, .pif or otherwise. If they had been attached to individual mails, I would have known about them already. I thought that I had made this clear - apparently not. The problem as I see it is to find some way of disinfecting these files *without having to wipe all my existing mail*. This is why I was asking about the bug in Klamav which prevents me from scanning individual mails in Evolution. Are you receiving e-mail that you must open and deal with that also contains viruses? And, you must open it in Windows? Is that the problem? Like a Word attachment you're expecting from a colleague and it turns out to have a virus perhaps. Even then, you can safely open it in OO. OO can't execute VBS macros (the carrier of viruses in MSOffice files). No, no, and no. I know and this isn't the point of my query. (snipped) Sign up for the security advisories if you're concerned about Linux exploits. Mandrake has a great mailing list for security advisories. There are a number of Linux sites which list advisories for all Open Source software. AV software tends not to include anything that's not actually in the wild. Security advisories come out as soon as a vulnerability is known. For a Linux system, they are much more useful and timely than AV software. This may be worth looking at - thanks. Just to underscore what others have mentioned -- antivirus software (including Linux antivirus software) is looking for Windows viruses. It is really necessary only for Linux mail servers distributing mail to people who may open their mail in Windows. Personally, I've always found it useful for scanning my Windows partitions without going to the trouble of starting Windows. Linux antivirus software also tends to be more expensive than Windows AV software and a bigger headache to install, because it's not really meant for a stand alone system. Have you considered installing one of the many excellent free Windows AV products on your Windows installation, and just boot into Windows once a week to update the definitions? Try Googling for one. My Windows setup has a fairly regularly updated Norton AV on it but life's too short to boot into Windows just to run a scan - that's one of the reasons I installed Clamav/Klamav. The rpm version of Klamav is quite old (0.6) and is giving me the problem, i.e. not installing Klammail. There is a much newer version (0.9) on the Klamav site but it's source code and won't compile on my system. Evidently no-one here has had the Klamav experience. Hope none of you ever need to. Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:13:19 +1100, John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you looking for a just a text editor, or a full-blown Word Processor? In KDE the Kate and KWrite text editors don't have AutoCorrect, but they do have a Word Completion plugin that pops up a list of suggested completions to choose from. you need to turn it on in the Configure dialog. For Word Processors, in KDE KWord has a full AutoCorrect implementation and starts way faster than OOo :-) For Gnome, I guess that AbiWord also has AutoCorrect. Thanks, John. Word Completion is a very useful plugin and I did not know about that. Happy New Year! Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 11:20, Graham Watkins wrote: .evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Worm.Bagle.AP FOUND .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Newbie: Worm.SomeFool.P FOUND (rest of scan snipped) --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 25253 Scanned directories: 31 Scanned files: 59 Infected files: 2 Data scanned: 62.38 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 76.410 sec (1 m 16 s) [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]$ That sounds like mbox. The reason I thought it would be mdir was that I remember a friend having problems importing his mail, and I thought that was the issue. There are no dodgy files .exe, .com, .pif or otherwise. The problem there is that virus writers realise that we now recognise these, so they use a variety of tricks to hide the .exe or whatever. I think it goes something like 'virusedemail.jpg .exe' The mail would display the name 'virusedemail.jpg' but not the '.exe' because of the space. (Speaking only from memory - and there are probably lots of other tricks anyway.) If they had been attached to individual mails, I would have known about them already. I thought that I had made this clear - apparently not. The problem as I see it is to find some way of disinfecting these files *without having to wipe all my existing mail*. This is why I was asking about the bug in Klamav which prevents me from scanning individual mails in Evolution. The viruses do not come in on genuine mail. The headers may suggest that they are from a reputable source, but they never are. Many are instantly recognisable as emails that you have not solicited. Delete them. Others claim to come from Microsoft or AV distributors. None of these sources would ever send you an email. Delete them. If you have any messages with *any* attachment other than the MandrakeSoft footer, delete them unless you are *very* sure that they came from a friend with an un-infected box. When you have done all that, compress your mail folder from within Evo, then try the scan again. There is no way that you need to delete all your existing mails if you do all this. Are you receiving e-mail that you must open and deal with that also contains viruses? And, you must open it in Windows? Is that the problem? Like a Word attachment you're expecting from a colleague and it turns out to have a virus perhaps. Even then, you can safely open it in OO. OO can't execute VBS macros (the carrier of viruses in MSOffice files). No, no, and no. I know and this isn't the point of my query. What exactly *is* the point? That might help us deal with this better. I thought you were concerned because virused emails were present in an evo folder while you have a windows dual-boot system. If that is so, it has already been explained to you that windows will not execute the viruses unless you read the mail in windows. My Windows setup has a fairly regularly updated Norton AV on it At the rate of propagation recently, 'fairly regularly' is not good enough. It needs to be daily, now, to be efficient. but life's too short to boot into Windows just to run a scan - so why do it? Run a scan when you boot into Windows to use it - before you connect to the Internet. Don't connect and go to your ISP's portal, but straight to the AV update site and get a compete update. Re-run the scan, and you can do anything you like. I presume that running Norton would not pick up the emails in your Evo folder anyway, as Linux partitions are not read by Windows. that's one of the reasons I installed Clamav/Klamav. As it was said earlier - if you don't run a mail server there is little point in installing ClamAV. I only intend doing it because I want to set up a mail server. I've been running Linux exclusively for almost 3 years now, and have never infected anyone, nor has a virus on my system caused me any problems before I discovered how to filter them to make removal easier. 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) iD8DBQFB195/kFAvMr/nNX8RAnsGAJ9lQMPnrLjvRvi34RY1M2BbW5z3zwCeJFrF cgVlt7WFEikpcgIwUbiapu0= =Aceg -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] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 11:43, Anne Wilson wrote: The viruses do not come in on genuine mail. The headers may suggest that they are from a reputable source, but they never are. Many are instantly recognisable as emails that you have not solicited. Delete them. Others claim to come from Microsoft or AV distributors. None of these sources would ever send you an email. Delete them. If you have any messages with *any* attachment other than the MandrakeSoft footer, delete them unless you are *very* sure that they came from a friend with an un-infected box. When you have done all that, compress your mail folder from within Evo, then try the scan again. There is no way that you need to delete all your existing mails if you do all this. I forgot to say - if you 'delete' a message by sending it to the wastebin folder it is not deleted. You must delete it from there as well. (Does shift-delete send it straight there?). Both the inbox and the wastebin must then be compacted. Until they are compacted they are not actually removed - just invisible - and a scan will still find them. After compaction you should be clear. 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) iD8DBQFB199ZkFAvMr/nNX8RAp9eAKCMaWANnAsNaA15tav2vHv/Qd9MbQCfdAxo cArD6qEynUjpE6J+9gRsHAc= =ZwIc -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 Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other things). The only real issue concerns VBS -- OO cannot convert it. If you need VBS, you need MSOffice. Last year my son-in-law went to a Sun conference where they were demonstrating their newly-announced Java Desktop system. At that conference it was said that the OOo developers were close to being able to run the VBS scripts within documents. When my sin-in-law asked if that would not also mean opening it to all the accompanying vulnerabilities there was a stunned silence. Apparently no-one had thought of that. 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) iD8DBQFB1/qPkFAvMr/nNX8RAngwAJ9bDvUHG5x8I+rbUE+tiSFnkR9QpgCeKId6 v6NGmTP6r5fZUnrC8IvQqHg= =3vrw -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] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:42, Graham Watkins wrote: And it's a pity that no-one knows how to make klammail work properly because that looked like a pretty good way of dealing with infected mails. Why not try the kde mailing lists? I presume klammail is a kde product? 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) iD8DBQFB1/rmkFAvMr/nNX8RApZ9AJ9+ixAQhMJYBpKIWNt3gf7M+q4V3ACgoh0H cpx0O3Se8FtnM8KFiDKuvc8= =/Ecp -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?
On Sunday 2 January 2005 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote: When my sin-in-law Anne I hope this was a freudian mother in laws slip! :-) Martin a son in law himself -- the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else http://auskadi.tk 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 Sunday 02 January 2005 08:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other things). The only real issue concerns VBS -- OO cannot convert it. If you need VBS, you need MSOffice. Last year my son-in-law went to a Sun conference where they were demonstrating their newly-announced Java Desktop system. At that conference it was said that the OOo developers were close to being able to run the VBS scripts within documents. When my sin-in-law asked if that would not also mean opening it to all the accompanying vulnerabilities there was a stunned silence. Apparently no-one had thought of that. Anne I wish my mother in law used linux :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 22:58, Michael Hahn wrote: I recently needed to replace the hard drive in my M5305 notebook, and decided to install my old copy of Mandrake Linux (8.2) on it. However, when I tried to install, it reached Partition Check: hda (my new hard drive, a Hitachi HTS424040MSAT00 40 GB) it freezes. It is accessing the HD, but nothing happens. Does anyone have any advice, or am I doomed to go back to WinXP? Is that a SATA drive? If so, I don't think 8.2 would be able to manage it. Is there a particular reason for your choice of 8.2? It no longer gets security updates. No, its a standard ATA-5 notebook drive. And I choose 8.2 because I already had the OS, and I can't really afford to pay for a new OS as well as a new hard drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
On Sunday 02 January 2005 06:20, Graham Watkins wrote: Yes. I have copies of all three on my Linux system. I also do not use Windows for mail. You don't have to run windows to end up with your email address being used by someone else who does have Windows and who gets infected with a Worm which then tries to propagate to you. Erm, I'm not clear what you are trying to tell me here. Are you saying that it's not really a problem if it's not a windows mail program that's infected? No, I was pointing out that you don't have to run Windows to end up on the receiving list of Windows viruses. You shouldn't assume that the virus notifications are Linux viruses simply because you run Linux. They are much more likely to be Windows viruses. And, a windows virus is not really a problem on a Linux machine and will not infect anything. I'll look into this - thanks. Integrating with Postfix is not a problem as I don't run it. But will it scan mails in Mozilla or Evolution? Something that will seems to be my only chance of eradicating the problem without actually having to trash my entire mailbox. Actually, if you have clamav installed, you should be able to run it from the CLI and have it quarantine the viruses in the messages themselves without any problem. Just tell it to scan the /var/spool/mail directory and it should pull them out. However, this is really unnecessary. All you need to do is simply delete the message that has the windows virus attachment. From within Linux. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:45, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 2 January 2005 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote: When my sin-in-law Anne I hope this was a freudian mother in laws slip! :-) Oops... - well. Martin a son in law himself Actually, we get on pretty well most of the time, and I keep out of the way on those 'other' days ;-) 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) iD8DBQFB2AzAkFAvMr/nNX8RAn9IAJ0fsNdRG2eSgodqBxaFWOgRTaOhoACgkZGM v7YtqiDQ/Pz72D5Rq9ccRoY= =vG98 -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 Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) Just be sure that you know how to give her everything she normally uses in a very familiar way, and tell her she will always be able to get her windows back, because it will be dual-boot. For most people, that means OpenOffice and Mozilla/variants, with Evo if they are used to Outlook. My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that would really stump most people. 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) iD8DBQFB2A4VkFAvMr/nNX8RAnm0AKCGu9NgURgy9PR3JSxFn1DAgn9PmACghfP7 5FwCnajn3dIDhQsgg+Ik+1M= =IUMi -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
[newbie] Where to find 'Enemy Territory' rpms?
Hi, Does anybody know where can I find rpms for Enemy Territory games? Thanks beforehand. -- Edward WIJAYA Singapore 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 Sunday 02 January 2005 07:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) Just be sure that you know how to give her everything she normally uses in a very familiar way, and tell her she will always be able to get her windows back, because it will be dual-boot. For most people, that means OpenOffice and Mozilla/variants, with Evo if they are used to Outlook. My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that would really stump most people. Anne That's the way it worked with my Uncle since he likes Bluegrass music Streamtuner/streamripper was the killer app Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:53, Michael Hahn wrote: From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that a SATA drive? If so, I don't think 8.2 would be able to manage it. Is there a particular reason for your choice of 8.2? It no longer gets security updates. No, its a standard ATA-5 notebook drive. And I choose 8.2 because I already had the OS, and I can't really afford to pay for a new OS as well as a new hard drive. You can download 10.1 without cost, though it's hardly feasible if you don't have broadband. In that case the best bet is to look for suppliers of duplicated download disks. I use fasdiscs.com where the three disk set costs £9. Others use cheapbytes.com. You don't need any of the additional disks that may be offered, as everything is available for download, on a package-by-package basis, as you need them, so dial-up is generally OK. 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) iD8DBQFB2BBBkFAvMr/nNX8RAsM/AJ91VFnzRum7kYbX0f2H777rYw9dHQCgjgL6 L4W00/IVL9nCromydlDWFVc= =Bkca -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] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: There are no dodgy files .exe, .com, .pif or otherwise. The problem there is that virus writers realise that we now recognise these, so they use a variety of tricks to hide the .exe or whatever. I think it goes something like 'virusedemail.jpg .exe' The mail would display the name 'virusedemail.jpg' but not the '.exe' because of the space. (Speaking only from memory - and there are probably lots of other tricks anyway.) the other day I received, from a known address, an email with a .EML.zip. It smelt like virus but, being curious, I clicked on it. It dezipped it and I got a warning from Kmail that I was about to execute a program. I only have Mandrake 10 but thought I had gone far enough and deleted the message. Then I noticed 3 new messages in my outbox, no content except Re: I never put them there. I forgot to see to whom they were destined but they would have been harmless anyway. Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check
On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 1:53 pm, Michael Hahn wrote: I choose 8.2 because I already had the OS, and I can't really afford to pay for a new OS as well as a new hard drive. Fair enough. Download 10.1, it's GPL - you don't have to pay. It would be nice if you joined Mandrake Club the next time you've got some spare cash, but you don't have to. If you don't have the bandwidth etc. to download 3-4 CDs then it is available quite often on the Linux Format magazine DVDs, CDs are available by mail from a number of shareware distributors, or ask here and someone might burn you a set for a small consideration. -- 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] Where to find 'Enemy Territory' rpms?
Edward Wijaya wrote: Hi, Does anybody know where can I find rpms for Enemy Territory games? Thanks beforehand. Plf Go to http://www.urpmi-addmedia.org and set up a plf source and you can urpmi (install) 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: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: snip My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that would really stump most people. Anne: A long time ago, there was a thread on this list started by a woman -- I think it was you -- who desperately needed a Linux version of Hearts for her husband. If it was you, were you successful? (IMHO, the MS version of Hearts was the best Windows program ever written.) -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check
From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 1:53 pm, Michael Hahn wrote: I choose 8.2 because I already had the OS, and I can't really afford to pay for a new OS as well as a new hard drive. Fair enough. Download 10.1, it's GPL - you don't have to pay. It would be nice if you joined Mandrake Club the next time you've got some spare cash, but you don't have to. If you don't have the bandwidth etc. to download 3-4 CDs then it is available quite often on the Linux Format magazine DVDs, CDs are available by mail from a number of shareware distributors, or ask here and someone might burn you a set for a small consideration. Thanks for the heads up, both to you and Anne. I do have cable, so downloading is definitly the way to go. I'll let you know if I fare any better with 10.1 than with 8.2. Thanks again! 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 Sunday 02 Jan 2005 16:11, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: snip My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that would really stump most people. Anne: A long time ago, there was a thread on this list started by a woman -- I think it was you -- who desperately needed a Linux version of Hearts for her husband. If it was you, were you successful? (IMHO, the MS version of Hearts was the best Windows program ever written.) -- cmg Not guilty, m'lord - at least not this time ;-) He plays Yukon, out of the kde patience set, and I play Spider from the same set. Just the thing for over lunchtime. There's an awesome set of games there, though Hearts was never my 'thing' I don't know whether there's a replacement, but between this set and a similar one offered by the Gnome community I'd be very surprised if there wasn't. Frozen bubbles is out for lunchtime: it's too addictive - once you start you get no more work done. 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) iD8DBQFB2CbGkFAvMr/nNX8RAmQrAKCfBrwrtTMT8kNktZJDYduMqy9O3wCfRZan CmWxFXA0h2P+8Ganz88ra9k= =XlY6 -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
[newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mounting webdav
Hi everyone, I found that there is an opportunity to mount webdav directories locally in MCC. All the options that I need to set are there. However, once all is set and I click on 'mount' , the error message states 'mount: fs type davfs not supported by kernel' I think the issue is that the webdav server that I am trying to connect to is secure (ie: https) Does anyone on this list know how to enable this? 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] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) Just be sure that you know how to give her everything she normally uses in a very familiar way, and tell her she will always be able to get her windows back, because it will be dual-boot. For most people, that means OpenOffice and Mozilla/variants, with Evo if they are used to Outlook. My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that would really stump most people. Anne Thanks Anne, I actually put mandrake 9.2 on their pc when it came out but I didnt really take a 'holistic' approach to it as I was a newbie myself. She had never used a computer in her life so the dual boot thing was too confusing for her - she she couldnt understand what an operating system was, let alone why she needed two. She was also taking classes which focused on ms software. At that stage in her learning even openoffice wasnt familiar enogh for her. She had to follow pictures in the manual showing the ms office menus. Mounting of floppy disks was also a serious setback. It might have been fixable but floppies had to be mounted from the console. Also the kids had lots of pc games. I hadnt heard of crossover at the time. So they ended up ignoring linux. And constantly booting into windows. But you are right, it is easy to make a user of another OS comfortable in linux, when you know what you're doing. Pairing that with remote administration would be perfect I think, which is the next thing I'd like to get into. Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Plugin for KWrite to highlight the misspelled words
Dear All Is there some plugin for KWrite to highlight the misspelled words? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. On 2 Jan 2005 at 11:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. Good news indeed! Add it to the TWiki HardwareCompatibility page? 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) iD8DBQFB2CsykFAvMr/nNX8RAnP0AJ4nFzuNwuY3VQPb9EUdB6NFJiVMowCaA2/1 jSbRHoQk+tdYbw+/qTii6/M= =OH8u -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] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. Good news indeed! Add it to the TWiki HardwareCompatibility page? Anne Ok, do I need to sign up again? Last time I tried going on it kept asking for a user name and password? I will add to the twiki. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:28, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. Good news indeed! Add it to the TWiki HardwareCompatibility page? Anne Ok, do I need to sign up again? Last time I tried going on it kept asking for a user name and password? I will add to the twiki. There was a problem when we tried to run the newest version. We've had to revert to the older one, and that problem has disappeared. If you have signed up since Nov.13th you will not have to sign up again. There's the usual login to edit a page, of course. 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) iD8DBQFB2D9NkFAvMr/nNX8RAqVvAJ9VfF1yK3CSSYn46higBuJcHkj9MACeId9E CXHdsnVPKh9mb8NfWj880e4= =CUdh -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] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. On 2 Jan 2005 at 11:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 512 is pretty small. But have a look at Mandrake Mini. With a little pick and choose you might get a usable system on that small a drive. Small...ha I remember when I had to pay an extra 200 US for a 400mb drive as opposed to the standard 250mb drive. Time flies . HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Photo Album Software.
Hello, I'm running 10.1O with KDE. Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any body any experience with these? Thanks. -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 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] Digikam
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Try kcontrol Components File Associations Image jpg (assuming that's what your camera gives you). On the right you should see a list of apps capable of handling the images. Move Digikam to the top of the list. Anne Will that actually affect which prog opens when the camera is plugged in, or just which prog opens when a jpg is clicked? 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] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... What are the conditions for that? (IE: 1st time, already an Oo instance open, etc) ? mine is approximately: 24 seconds for the 1st time 15 for the 2nd (opening a different file after closing 1st) 6 when opening the 1st file again and leaving the 2nd one open That's with the memory allocation turned up. Waitaminute: it's back down to 9M. I had it at 30. Here's the nums with 30M: ?? seconds for the 1st time (didn't reboot) 13 for the 2nd (opening a different file after closing 1st) 4 when opening the 1st file again and leaving the 2nd one open Here's my computer specs. Am i just suffering from to much fiber? (the intel celery?) Memory 256M processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 797.669 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1581.05 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] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Saturday 01 January 2005 02:51 pm, JoeHill wrote: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... Do people with faster systems see faster load times for this than I do (admittedly, relatively slow)? First time through - about 6 seconds. Second time loaded - almost 3 seconds. System specs below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3's]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 1997.448 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips: 3956.73 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3's]$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1034552 kB MemFree: 4824 kB Buffers: 10308 kB Cached: 598736 kB SwapCached: 57820 kB Active: 810464 kB Inactive:32384 kB HighTotal: 131008 kB HighFree: 252 kB LowTotal: 903544 kB LowFree: 4572 kB SwapTotal: 2097104 kB SwapFree: 1954452 kB Dirty: 512 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 304128 kB Slab: 170892 kB Committed_AS: 813744 kB PageTables: 2840 kB VmallocTotal: 114680 kB VmallocUsed: 24896 kB VmallocChunk:88184 kB -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.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] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) -- /\ 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] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... What are the conditions for that? (IE: 1st time, already an Oo instance open, etc) ? That's opening OO for the first time in weeks. Second time opens in 4 seconds. If I already have an instance open, it opens *immediately*. It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:00:17 up 3:37, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +++ There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 797.669 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1581.05 BTW, how the heck do I get this info? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:11:26 up 3:48, 4 users, load average: 0.20, 0.15, 0.08 +++ He who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. -- Psalm 15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 snip BTW, how the heck do I get this info? I had to search for the answer myself to get it: cat /proc/cpuinfo 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] A little script help please
I've got a script (below) that I use to forward spam to my isp. In 9.0 it
would forward as an attachment with all headers present, however, in Kmail
1.7.1 it wants to forward them all inline. Any help on how to get them back
as attachments with all headers would be appreciated.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Spamcop reporter
open(SENDMAIL, |/usr/lib/sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oi -t) || die
Cannot open sendmail output;
print SENDMAIL ENDENDEND;
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: report spam
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=DeathToSpamDeathToSpamDeathToSpam
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--DeathToSpamDeathToSpamDeathToSpam
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
--DeathToSpamDeathToSpamDeathToSpam
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Disposition: attachment
ENDENDEND
while (STDIN) {
print SENDMAIL ;
}
print SENDMAIL ENDENDEND;
--DeathToSpamDeathToSpamDeathToSpam--
ENDENDEND
close (SENDMAIL);
--
Chris
Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org
14:28:31 up 4 days, 21:47, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.17, 0.16
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Mandrake Linux 10.1Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk
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Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:19:36 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: BTW, how the heck do I get this info? I had to search for the answer myself to get it: cat /proc/cpuinfo 512MB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 866.726 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1730.15 -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:42:44 up 4:19, 5 users, load average: 0.69, 0.91, 0.62 +++ Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Bakunin 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 Sunday 02 Jan 2005 20:11, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law a big on practicalities ;-) 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) iD8DBQFB2F0FkFAvMr/nNX8RAqs5AJwJnt3gEEyYA0rZ4PTmuCuxcJEGigCeMZ0o QDtCqX6QeiHI00XwmmZWg3o= =aVno -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] Digikam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 19:08, Eric Huff wrote: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Try kcontrol Components File Associations Image jpg (assuming that's what your camera gives you). On the right you should see a list of apps capable of handling the images. Move Digikam to the top of the list. Anne Will that actually affect which prog opens when the camera is plugged in, or just which prog opens when a jpg is clicked? Maybe I misunderstood him, Eric. I thought he was wanting to browse the photos on the camera. You're right, of course, it is the program that opens when a jpg is selected. If his camera doesn't mount as a usb storage device he probably is stuck with gtkam for downloading. Digikam can make the albums for his later, if necessary. 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) iD8DBQFB2F9NkFAvMr/nNX8RAmYfAKCU9mysXKWzeLMdeHcFEu5P3QWEZQCglJtM PBzYGJ6+J+ZIr0j44MI1/fU= =mts+ -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] Photo Album Software.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:58, Steve Goodey wrote: Hello, I'm running 10.1O with KDE. Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any body any experience with these? Thanks. I'm going to put in a plug here for Digikam 0.7 which is THE photo album for KDE. You can get RPMs for it from Thac at: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/kde10.1.html Make sure you install the Digikam Plugins and Kipi Plugins to get all the extra features. John. P.S. There's a 0.6.2 version that comes with Mdk10.1, but 0.7 is a vast improvement. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 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 Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) For most people, that means OpenOffice and Mozilla/variants, with Evo if they are used to Outlook. My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that would really stump most people. Yep, KDE Patience is exactly how I snared my sister :-) That and all the free educational software, her being a teacher. But I had to prepare the way by first having OOo and Mozilla on her new XP box, and not 'fixing' the things she found most annoying about XP :-) Then it was just a case of having her visit one day, having to pop out for half an hour, and leaving patience up on the screen :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:53, Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe I misunderstood him, Eric. I thought he was wanting to browse the photos on the camera. You're right, of course, it is the program that opens when a jpg is selected. If his camera doesn't mount as a usb storage device he probably is stuck with gtkam for downloading. Digikam can make the albums for his later, if necessary. Anne Actually, all he has to do is close GTkam and then open Digikam and use its excellent download tool instead, it's just a pain to have to do :-) I've been trying to read the Hotplug, Udev and USB websites to find out how to change this, but it sure is dense going and there's no obvious solution yet. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)
I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. How did you burn the CD? If you donwloaded a .iso file, then that is the CD image, and you need to tell your burning software to use a saved image. You can not just add it to the file list, and burn it to CD. You can bet a working Linux system, complete with X, with that small of a drive, but you have to be carefull what you install. You may want to pick a different Window manager instead of the default KDE. You do not say what modle you have, so we can not tell you if there are any specific things to watch out for with your laptop. My experence with Toshiba laptops is limmited to installing RadHad on a 400CDT. It worked, but X on 640 x 480 can be a chalange... 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] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Huff disseminated the following: It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free total usedfree sharedbuffers cached Mem: 255136253272 1864 032396115588 -/+ buffers/cache: 105288 149848 Swap: 506008 284 505724 If i understand free's output correctly (which i may not), there's still 150MB available if needed. Is that correct? 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] Root time
OK. so the user time is correct, so how do I set the root time. At the moment when directories are made via root actions, the time is defaulted to 1-1-1970 Yet stuff done as user has the correct time eg: ls -al /mnt SNIP drwxr-xr-x2 frank frank 4096 Dec 26 01:23 16MB/ drwxr--r--5 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 64MB/ drwxr-xr-x2 frank frank 4096 Dec 24 01:22 Camera/ SNIP Running MDK10 Official. -- 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] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:26:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free total usedfree sharedbuffers cached Mem: 255136253272 1864 032396115588 -/+ buffers/cache: 105288 149848 Swap: 506008 284 505724 If i understand free's output correctly (which i may not), there's still 150MB available if needed. Is that correct? Like I say, I'm no hardware guru, all I know is, when I plonk more RAM in *any* machine, it makes a huge diff. I've got a P2 300 that runs WinXP full speed with 392MB. Someone fire up the Tom Brinkman signal ;-) This is mine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:506012 459644 46368 0 41880 264904 -/+ buffers/cache: 152860 353152 Swap: 811240 0 811240 There's so many factors involved, tho, if you look at Randall's stats his OO opens in the same amount of time as mine, and he's got a freakin' monster. Could be the OO version, could be a lot of things. *But*, with RAM bein' so stinkin' cheap, why the hell not, eh? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:08:43 up 6:45, 5 users, load average: 0.16, 0.06, 0.01 +++ He who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. -- Psalm 15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sunday 02 January 2005 05:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: There's so many factors involved, tho, if you look at Randall's stats his OO opens in the same amount of time as mine, and he's got a freakin' monster. Could be the OO version, could be a lot of things. *But*, with RAM bein' so stinkin' cheap, why the hell not, eh? Hehe, actually this machine is somewhat weak compared to the ones I get to play with at work. We've got a couple of dual 2.8GHz Xeon's with 2 gigs of ram on'em (dual channel DDR 400), and they're about the same. I think it's mostly due to the fact that OO is just a BIG program, and requires more than a couple of seconds to start. This machine I built has been mostly optimized for file serving anyway. It's got ample storage space available, though I'm about ready to go buy a few more drives for it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 30G 6.9G 21G 25% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 2.0G 36M 1.9G 2% /boot /dev/md/0 294G 246G 33G 89% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 20G 5.9G 13G 32% /usr /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 19G 422M 17G 3% /var I'm thinking it's about time to build one of those dual Xeon systems for my home PC... Might be nice to play with ;-) -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.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] firewall
On December 29, 2004 04:09 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: snip Yes shorewall is a good one. I appreciate Mandrake includes it. A little confusing at first, but once we read the tutorial, it's not that hard to setup. And Tom Eastep - the writer - is very active in the shorewall list. However, don't be offended by his sharp words though (especially when he knows we use mandrake) :) He's actually a very nice person, really :) His sharp words come because he's also a good writer on the documentation, so our problem regarding shorewall mostly has been covered in it. I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly when he knows you use Mandrake. Oh well, perhaps it's just me :) 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] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:46:30 -0600 Randall D. Hobbs disseminated the following: I'm thinking it's about time to build one of those dual Xeon systems for my home PC... Might be nice to play with ;-) If these thoughts start to replace those 'other' thoughts, get help ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:13:52 up 7:50, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 +++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities ;-) Anne Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws? big grin -- /\ 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] Firefox 1.0
On Friday 31 December 2004 11:28 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 09:28 pm, Chris wrote: Just finished installing Firefox 1.0, but have a question about the way its setup to be ran. There is a script in ~/firefox-installer called firefox, so I have my menu setup to execute it from that folder. Does that sound correct or not? It runs with no errors or crashes, at least not yet. Happy New Year, from the midwest US. Yes that is the way I have mine set to run from the icon on the kicker. No problems. HTH Thanks Dennis, sorry for not replying before I must have somehow missed your message. And Happy (belated) New Year to you too. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 18:27:57 up 5 days, 1:46, 1 user, load average: 0.85, 0.56, 0.42 Q: How do you catch a unique rabbit? A: Unique up on it! Q: How do you catch a tame rabbit? A: The tame way! Live - From Virgin Radio UK U2 - Beautiful day Mandrake Linux 10.1Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
I am not terribly interested in putting mandrake on it. it just sounded interesting. I tried to read an iso file on it today. OOPS! Ran out of vhard drive space. No kidding, but all is well now. I use the laptop mainly to wright notes about what I had done in my garden etc.. On 2 Jan 2005 at 12:37, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. On 2 Jan 2005 at 11:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 512 is pretty small. But have a look at Mandrake Mini. With a little pick and choose you might get a usable system on that small a drive. Small...ha I remember when I had to pay an extra 200 US for a 400mb drive as opposed to the standard 250mb drive. Time flies . HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)
Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me. On 2 Jan 2005 at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. How did you burn the CD? If you donwloaded a .iso file, then that is the CD image, and you need to tell your burning software to use a saved image. You can not just add it to the file list, and burn it to CD. You can bet a working Linux system, complete with X, with that small of a drive, but you have to be carefull what you install. You may want to pick a different Window manager instead of the default KDE. You do not say what modle you have, so we can not tell you if there are any specific things to watch out for with your laptop. My experence with Toshiba laptops is limmited to installing RadHad on a 400CDT. It worked, but X on 640 x 480 can be a chalange... 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] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
OK I have been following this thread to hopefully find a suitable way of appeasing those that call on me to help them with their SOHO setups. ( Myself included. ) How about we attack this problem by starting over so as to attempt to save relevant emails that the original poster is trying to save. I thought that a simply HOWTO for the newbie ( again, me included ) would be of great benefit here. What I had in mind is that a onboard mail client be established that would allow any email client to get the email via it, appoint klamav to check the email coming through and going out at this point - basically all email passes this way . Similar to the 'server' capabilities of AVG7 Pro that I use when I visit my windows installation. This would then allow you to 'Forward all your emails back to yourself knowing that klamav will check them all - I think, allowing for you to manage what gets done. The small businesses I deal with here feel confident ( albeit naive at times ) when they see my emails posted from windows because of the declaration at the end saying about virus free . Such a declaration could be inclusive of the agent checking emails and hopefully over time, get the same acceptance from recipients that the windows world gets now. Hey! We don't get bothered by windows virii very much, but we can pass them on. To sum up, An email agent that rules the in/out email for a machine, that any av can check and act upon at that point, allowing you to use any email client you wish because your accounts would be addressed to the email client directly. Interested? -- 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] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:28, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. Good news indeed! Add it to the TWiki HardwareCompatibility page? Anne Ok, do I need to sign up again? Last time I tried going on it kept asking for a user name and password? I will add to the twiki. There was a problem when we tried to run the newest version. We've had to revert to the older one, and that problem has disappeared. If you have signed up since Nov.13th you will not have to sign up again. There's the usual login to edit a page, of course. Anne OK, it is in there. And the sign up did remember me this time. Happy New Year. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Huff disseminated the following: It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free total usedfree sharedbuffers cached Mem: 255136253272 1864 032396115588 -/+ buffers/cache: 105288 149848 Swap: 506008 284 505724 If i understand free's output correctly (which i may not), there's still 150MB available if needed. Is that correct? eric A bit less then 150 MB, but yes, you still have a fair amount if free memory. You are using less then half your physical memory for programs. Adding more memory would let Linux use more for disk cache, but probably would not have any effect on loading speed... 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] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)
Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me. On 2 Jan 2005 at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. How did you burn the CD? If you donwloaded a .iso file, then that is the CD image, and you need to tell your burning software to use a saved image. You can not just add it to the file list, and burn it to CD. You can bet a working Linux system, complete with X, with that small of a drive, but you have to be carefull what you install. You may want to pick a different Window manager instead of the default KDE. You do not say what modle you have, so we can not tell you if there are any specific things to watch out for with your laptop. My experence with Toshiba laptops is limmited to installing RadHad on a 400CDT. It worked, but X on 640 x 480 can be a chalange... Mikkel Pick the Disk image or saved project option, change the file type filter to .iso, and pick the file you downloaded. It should burn a bootable CD. The file you downloaded is basicly the same type of file as when you copy or burn a CD to the image recorder instead of a real CD. What you are doing here is copying the disk image to a CD, just like you would cop[y from one CD to another... I have used severial different versions of Nero, so I hope I hit the turms right for the version you are using, or at least you can figure out the correct ones for your version ov Nero. 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] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)
On Monday 03 Jan 2005 01:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me. On 2 Jan 2005 at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. How did you burn the CD? If you donwloaded a .iso file, then that is the CD image, and you need to tell your burning software to use a saved image. You can not just add it to the file list, and burn it to CD. You can bet a working Linux system, complete with X, with that small of a drive, but you have to be carefull what you install. You may want to pick a different Window manager instead of the default KDE. You do not say what modle you have, so we can not tell you if there are any specific things to watch out for with your laptop. My experence with Toshiba laptops is limmited to installing RadHad on a 400CDT. It worked, but X on 640 x 480 can be a chalange... Mikkel Pick the Disk image or saved project option, change the file type filter to .iso, and pick the file you downloaded. It should burn a bootable CD. The file you downloaded is basicly the same type of file as when you copy or burn a CD to the image recorder instead of a real CD. What you are doing here is copying the disk image to a CD, just like you would cop[y from one CD to another... I have used severial different versions of Nero, so I hope I hit the turms right for the version you are using, or at least you can figure out the correct ones for your version ov Nero. Mikkel If you are using Nero try navigating to the iso file in windows explorer and double click the iso file, put a blank cd into your burner and click ok or burn in the Nero window. As its says further up the email what you have done is copy the iso file to a cd not created the mandrake install disk. An ISO file is made up of all the files on the install cd plus a file telling Nero, (or whatever burning software you use), what files go into which folder. If that does not work then you have another program associated with iso files such as iso buster or winrar. So right click the mdk iso file and open with and browse to Nero, and then do the blank disk as above. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KsCD
How in the heck do I keep KsCD from popping up when I load a cd? I untagged Autoplay when cd insterted but it still pops up. I prefer to use xmms and its a PITA to keep closing out KsCD. I've set all audio file associations, .mp3, .wav for xmms already. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 20:46:26 up 5 days, 4:05, 1 user, load average: 0.79, 0.53, 0.52 If you're happy, you're successful. Live - From Virgin Radio UK Free Bird Mandrake Linux 10.1Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk 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 Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other things). The only real issue concerns VBS -- OO cannot convert it. If you need VBS, you need MSOffice. Last year my son-in-law went to a Sun conference where they were demonstrating their newly-announced Java Desktop system. At that conference it was said that the OOo developers were close to being able to run the VBS scripts within documents. When my sin-in-law asked if that would not also mean opening it to all the accompanying vulnerabilities there was a stunned silence. Apparently no-one had thought of that. I hope they don't do this -- at least not using VBS. If they can convert the VBS to something else, that might work. MS groupies make a big deal out of the fact that OOo doesn't handle VBS, but most people point out that they consider the lack of VBS a feature of OOo rather than a liability and have VBS turned off on their Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo Writer does everything else MSWord does and then some. 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] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
- Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities ;-) Anne Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws? big grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ What's domesticating'. Sounds like some sort of washing powder. 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
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 11:20:43 +, Graham Watkins wrote: deedee E wrote: I confess to some confusion about your problem. Is there some reason you are forced to execute the worm-infested e-mail while running Windows? Why not just treat it like junk mail and delete it? Isn't it junk mail? I'm not executing anything. I'm not doing anything with mail in windows. I'm not treating it as junk mail because these worms are not (visibly) attached to any individual mail. They are attached to the mail folders in my personal Mozilla (and now Evolution) settings. This is what I get from a Clamav scan: As far as I can tell, the mystery from your perspective is that these worms have somehow gotten into your Inbox folder and you're worried that you can't get them out. I can hear your frustration, but understand ours. There is no mystery here. Read on. .evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Worm.Bagle.AP FOUND .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Newbie: Worm.SomeFool.P FOUND (rest of scan snipped) --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 25253 Scanned directories: 31 Scanned files: 59 Infected files: 2 Data scanned: 62.38 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 76.410 sec (1 m 16 s) [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]$ Your system is telling you in no uncertain terms where these worms are hanging out, i.e., /.evolution/mail/local/Inbox and /.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/newbie:. Take Anne's advice about emptying your Trash and compacting your mailboxes. Then, run the scan again. If the worms still appear, then take the advice I gave in my previous post on this, and open your favorite text editor -- kate, kwrite, joe, ed, emacs, vi -- it doesn't matter. Go to the folder Inbox and open each file you find there in the text editor. It doesn't matter if your mail is in mbox or mdir format, they are both human readable using a text editor. Check for any messages that include binaries, i.e., it looks like garbage and you can't read it. Note in the header of each of those files Content-Type, From, Subject, and Date. E-mail headers are always in plain text. Go back to Evolution and look in your Inbox for those particular e-mails. Most people have Sender, Subject and Date showing so they should be very easy to spot. Open in Evolution the ones you noted with the binary formats. You now should be able to see what the attachment is as well as why you kept the post. If you delete the affected posts, that should end your problem. Let's say, however, that you still don't find anything. Then, your AV software is giving you false positives. Worms, viruses, and so forth do not live in limbo. There cannot be a mysterious presence. They are always connected with one or more files (even on Windows systems). They are visible if you know where to look. Go to Symantec or one of the other sites that provides this kind of information. They will tell you exactly how those worms act, which files they leave in their wake, and where they are left on a system. Do a find on your computer for the file names that the AV site says the worms use, if you're still concerned after reading what the AV sites have to say. The malcode must be in individual files which can be removed individually. There are no dodgy files .exe, .com, .pif or otherwise. If they had been attached to individual mails, I would have known about them already. I thought that I had made this clear - apparently not. The problem as I see it is to find some way of disinfecting these files *without having to wipe all my existing mail*. This is why I was asking about the bug in Klamav which prevents me from scanning individual mails in Evolution. I doubt that there is such a bug in Klamav. I don't think it was ever intended to do what you want, i.e., scan mail in an MUA (in this case Evolution). It's my belief that you're using it for a different purpose than it was created for. I think it's supposed to scan mail in an MTA. However, I won't swear to that because I don't use the software. It is possible that the affected messages are not able to be disinfected, i.e., they may only contain the worm and nothing else, so the individual file/post must be deleted to get rid of the attachment containing the worm. Mdir mailboxes save the messages individually; mbox mailboxes append each new message to the end of the previous one for storage. However, both kinds of mailboxes allow you to remove messages individually using your MUA. You don't have to delete all the mail in a mailbox to get rid of individual problem posts. A folder cannot harbor a worm. Folders hold files. Files can harbor worms. My Windows setup has a fairly regularly updated Norton AV on it but life's too short to boot into Windows just to run a scan - that's one of the reasons I installed Clamav/Klamav. The rpm version of Klamav is quite old (0.6) and is giving me the problem, i.e. not installing Klammail. There is a much newer version (0.9) on the Klamav site but it's
Re: [newbie] KsCD
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:49, Chris wrote:
How in the heck do I keep KsCD from popping up when I load a cd? I
untagged Autoplay when cd insterted but it still pops up. I prefer to
use xmms and its a PITA to keep closing out KsCD. I've set all audio file
associations, .mp3, .wav for xmms already.
KsCD pops up because Hotplug/Magicdev tells it to when you insert the CD. To
quote in part from an earlier e-mail of mine (soon to be appearing in the
Twiki):
--
Now, for the obvious question, how to get autoplay to use a digital player
rather than an audio cable one? At the command line, su to root and edit the
following file:
/etc/dynamic/user-scripts/audio_cd.script
This file contains a list of programs that the system will try to start when
an audio CD is inserted. The important part of the file are the lines:
=
if under_gnome; then
launch gnome-cd --unique --play --device $DEV
fi
launch kscd --device $DEV
launch gnome-cd --unique --play --device $DEV
=
If you are a KDE3.2 user, you need to replace the 'launch kscd' line with your
choice of digital player (or insert it as a new line before it). If you are
a Gnome user, you need to replace the 'launch gnome-cd' line after 'if
under_gnome' with your choice of digital player.
If your choice of digital player is Kaffeine, you need the line:
launch kaffeine $DEV
If your choice of digital player is Amarok, you need the line:
launch amarok $DEV
(Note I'm not 100% sure on this, Amarok keeps crashing with my sound set-up)
If your choice of digital player is XMMS, you need the line:
launch xmms $DEV
(Make sure you have the xmms-cdread package installed).
If your choice of digital player is Totem, its a little more complex. First
you need to add the following just before the 'if under_gnome' line:
==
function launch_totem {
type -p totem /dev/null gconftool -s /apps/totem/mediadev -t string
$1 exec totem cd:
}
==
That section between the {} brackets should be on 1 line. Then you need to
replace the 'launch gnome-cd' line with the line:
launch_totem $DEV
(Note the '_' in launch_totem)
Note that this also applies if you want to change which Video player launches
when you insert a DVD, just edit the
file /etc/dynamic/user-scripts/video_dvd.script .
Cheers!
John.
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Re: [newbie] Digikam
John Layt wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:53, Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe I misunderstood him, Eric. I thought he was wanting to browse the photos on the camera. You're right, of course, it is the program that opens when a jpg is selected. If his camera doesn't mount as a usb storage device he probably is stuck with gtkam for downloading. Digikam can make the albums for his later, if necessary. Anne Actually, all he has to do is close GTkam and then open Digikam and use its excellent download tool instead, it's just a pain to have to do :-) I've been trying to read the Hotplug, Udev and USB websites to find out how to change this, but it sure is dense going and there's no obvious solution yet. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Please keep at it John as I'm really struggling with this combination myself - please post any headway back here for us all. As to mass_storage - my setup allows user to read/write to such device if it is already inserted at boot up time, but physically withdrawing the device then re-inserting at present requires that I mount the device as root - no truly USER_FUNCTIONALITY at present. I believe udev/hotplug/sysfsutils is the way to go - just haven't got it figured out as yet. [ The /mnt/name_of_my_device remains as user name/group from boot up but changes to root user/name when attempting to change the device - either to/from flashstick or to/from compact flash or from one to the other - makes no diff at present. ] I'm running MDK10 kernel 2.6.3-7 ( Original official release ) . If I can do anything to help out, just let me know. Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! -- 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] Digikam
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:19, SnapafunFrank wrote: Please keep at it John as I'm really struggling with this combination myself - please post any headway back here for us all. As to mass_storage - my setup allows user to read/write to such device if it is already inserted at boot up time, but physically withdrawing the device then re-inserting at present requires that I mount the device as root - no truly USER_FUNCTIONALITY at present. I believe udev/hotplug/sysfsutils is the way to go - just haven't got it figured out as yet. [ The /mnt/name_of_my_device remains as user name/group from boot up but changes to root user/name when attempting to change the device - either to/from flashstick or to/from compact flash or from one to the other - makes no diff at present. ] I'm running MDK10 kernel 2.6.3-7 ( Original official release ) . If I can do anything to help out, just let me know. Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Making some progress on LinuxQuestions there's this page: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=560 which points to http://digikam.free.fr/hotplug/howto.html but it appears a little outdated in places. I'll see what I can learn from the scripts provided and follow up later. john. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] libgcc?
For whatever reason, libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk.i586 failed to installed from CD#1 this last time around. Now it seems to not believe I can install it (or anything, in fact) from my tmp/ directory, and I'm trying to sort out if it's actually borked my system, or merely gotten confused. rpmdrake's Remove Media screen says that Name: libgcc1-3.3.2-9mdk and libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk are both installed, and won't let me uninstall either without removing half of my system for dependencies. When I try to install (for instance) Quanta, however, it tells me it requires libgcc_s.so.1 and libgcc_s.so.1 (GCC_3.0). What's going on here? Do I need to reinstall because they weren't available during the original install, and therefore aren't in the kernel? Newbie question I know, but this is really throwing a monkeywrench in my computer... Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
