RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
-Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh -- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Porterfield Which Digital TV card are you asking about? I don't know - something that is easy to set up with Mandrake! Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I currently use KDETV with an analog card. I did a 'click and install' of Myth TV, and it didn't run. I put it on my list of things to look at later - the list that gets put in a corner and never acted on. This may be a good reason to look at Myth again, in which case I would be most grateful for your rpms. I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net 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] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:36, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh Which Digital TV card are you asking about? I don't know - something that is easy to set up with Mandrake! Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I currently use KDETV with an analog card. I did a 'click and install' of Myth TV, and it didn't run. I put it on my list of things to look at later - the list that gets put in a corner and never acted on. This may be a good reason to look at Myth again, in which case I would be most grateful for your rpms. I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek I have put my mythtv RPMS in the download area of my web site. You do not need all the packages. The core is libmyth0, mythtv-frontend, mythtv-backend, mythtv-themes, and mythtvsetup. The remaining packages are optional plugins. They are compiled to support DVB digital cards, and the hardware MPEG2 decoder of Via M10k motherboards, but they should work with analogue cards, and other motherboards also. If your analogue card is currently working with KDETV then myth should find it too. To use myth first install MySQL and then run 'mythtvsetup' to detect and setup your TV card and initialise the MySQL database. Then 'service mythbackend start' will start the myth backend server. You can then start the front end with 'mythfrontend' There is excellent documentation on myth at http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall have fun derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net 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] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 02:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14990 (cooker) might be interesting. Note the reference to the kernel-multimedia. Good luck! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:09, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 02:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14990 (cooker) might be interesting. Note the reference to the kernel-multimedia. Good luck! -Frans That is very interesting... I just checked with the kernel-2.6.11-6mdk kernel in current cooker and it *does not* include the cx88-dvb driver I need for my Hauppauge Nova-T card, but the kernel-multimedia-2.6.10-3mm kernel in cooker contrib *does* derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net 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] USB Mouse Problems
Setting the Security to different levels did nothing, so I'm still left with selecting my mouse type by hand with cursor keys and tab and enter... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RPM query
If I wish to install RPMs not in the standard MDK update sites, I guess I need the version written for my specific KDE version ? (3.2 which comes with 10.1). I probably could not install: kdenetwork-kopete-3.4.0-4.mdk10.2.thac.i586.rpm I want the latest version of kopete, but cannot find one for 3.2 .. only this one for 3.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
Hi Folks, I also recently updated to Adobe Reader 7.0 and have enjoyed it for about one week. I got no luck in my first try after installing it. It directly went AReader 5.0 plugin I had previously installed. I went to the plugins directory of firefox, removed the old (5.0) one and manually copied the 7.0 one there. One more thing, I made a symbolic link of acroread of 7.0 to my /usr/bin and removed the 50. acroread in my PATH. After that I got everything running. My system is Mandrake the 10.0 and Firefox 1.0. HTH. I feel that AR 7.0 is much powerful than AR 5.0, but it's kinda slow to launch. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RPM query
On March 31, 2005 06:04 am, WauloK wrote: If I wish to install RPMs not in the standard MDK update sites, I guess I need the version written for my specific KDE version ? (3.2 which comes with 10.1). I probably could not install: kdenetwork-kopete-3.4.0-4.mdk10.2.thac.i586.rpm I want the latest version of kopete, but cannot find one for 3.2 .. only this one for 3.4 No, This would want to install other things from kde 3.4, probably a whole lot of other things. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Mar 31 06:27:30 EST 2005 06:27:30 up 17:00, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.03 In vino veritas. [In wine there is truth.] -- Pliny Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
Thank you all. I am having a look at MythTV at the moment, and have got myself into sql problems, and have run out of time to look at it. I will pursue this further over the weekend, Thanks again, Hugh winmail.dat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 17:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Having something like a newsletter would also allow people to compile their own libraries on a variety of technical topics, which can be reviewed offline at their leisure, while cutting back on some of the redundant posts to the list. Following along this line of thought, would it be possible to post the newsletters on the Twiki site for future reference, with a possibility of any user requesting those article by email at a later date? In theory, it sounds good. In practice, I suspect that the people that need it most would not read it. It would get treated like the welcome message - filed and forgotten. Having been away, I've only just seen this. Just a few points I'd like to make: 1) The TWiki was started for just this reason - so many FAQs. 2) It wasn't being read by many newbies, so some of us started adding a link from our sigs. 3) It wasn't being read by many newbies, so the 'Welcome' letter was added. 4) When we re-direct people to the TWiki they say that they have never heard of it, and would have like to have known about it earlier. I accept the criticism that getting around is not always easy, but we get few constructive comments to make it easier. There is an Index, and there is a search, which, though primitive, always seems to help me find something that isn't in the obvious place. Improvements are always welcome, but we need suggestions to help us. As for the drop in new posters to the newbie list, it seems to have been roughly in proportion to the increase in complete newbies posting to the expert list. Not wanting to put a damper on anyone's ideas :-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpXetI6B0Wlh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 18:53, Noel McG. wrote: Hello Anne, Why is it all of a sudden over the last few days, that your messages do not load but are shown as attachments each time? Because you are using Outlook Express. I don't know why it happens, but I have been told by others that messages with GPG signing do not appear correctly in OE. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgp6Byv4gQ8el.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] gwenview
On Wednesday 30 Mar 2005 10:12, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Anne Just wanted to say I am enjoying getting to use gwenview. I also updated gimp to 2.2 and it seems easier to use than v2.0 which I used in windows. Glad you're enjoying it. You've enough problems with other things :-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpsDVa78qCAR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] SCSI module change from 2.6 to 2.4
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:21 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Does anyone know a good way to check for IRQ conflict or have any other suggestion a to why it crashes. Hi Malcom. Just do a cat /proc/interrupts and you'll get the output that should help you determine if there is an IRQ conflict. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 17:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Having something like a newsletter would also allow people to compile their own libraries on a variety of technical topics, which can be reviewed offline at their leisure, while cutting back on some of the redundant posts to the list. Following along this line of thought, would it be possible to post the newsletters on the Twiki site for future reference, with a possibility of any user requesting those article by email at a later date? In theory, it sounds good. In practice, I suspect that the people that need it most would not read it. It would get treated like the welcome message - filed and forgotten. Having been away, I've only just seen this. Just a few points I'd like to make: 1) The TWiki was started for just this reason - so many FAQs. 2) It wasn't being read by many newbies, so some of us started adding a link from our sigs. 3) It wasn't being read by many newbies, so the 'Welcome' letter was added. 4) When we re-direct people to the TWiki they say that they have never heard of it, and would have like to have known about it earlier. I accept the criticism that getting around is not always easy, but we get few constructive comments to make it easier. There is an Index, and there is a search, which, though primitive, always seems to help me find something that isn't in the obvious place. Improvements are always welcome, but we need suggestions to help us. As for the drop in new posters to the newbie list, it seems to have been roughly in proportion to the increase in complete newbies posting to the expert list. Not wanting to put a damper on anyone's ideas :-) Anne Anne; No damper 'taken'. After all, it was only a suggestion. I would like to point out however (there's always a however, isn't there? Grin!) that a mailer - like the 'Welcome to Newbie' one - could become the next evolution of the Twiki. I'm not suggesting that we drop or stop focusing on the Twiki, not by a long shot! I'm suggesting that a newsletter could contain links to various sections of the Twiki, with references to various topics. For example, one note or topic could refer to setting up file sharing between various OS's, with a link to the appropriate Twiki section, while another could refer to installation problems and again could include a corresponding link. In addition to the fact that this would make it simpler for newbies to find information quickly and reduce the amount of repeated questions regarding basic topics, it should increase the use of the Twiki. Newbie's would become familiar with and would probably contribute more of their own helpful info to the Twiki. Anyway, it seems rhetorical at this point, since the majority of the feedback concerning the idea was not positive. It seems that other assessments were right on this. No one would have the time. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
On Thursday 31 Mar 2005 15:17, Mr. Geek wrote: Anyway, it seems rhetorical at this point, since the majority of the feedback concerning the idea was not positive. It seems that other assessments were right on this. No one would have the time. Time is always of the essence, isn't it? g. I rather like the idea of focussing on one area and linking to the appropriate TWiki entry(ies). Don't mind me - I'm just a bit depressed at the moment, and getting people to actually read anything seems to be a losing battle. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpSzLMcFcAtK.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Looking for Azureus 2.2.0.2_MOD for Linux
Dear All I am looking for Azureus 2.2.0.2_MOD for Linux. Could someone here please give me some directions? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SSL and Apache
Excellent. Thanks guys. Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2005 07:15, DAN WALKER wrote: I have not heard of that before. Could that do it for just one page? mod_rewrite basically takes any traffic string that comes in and rewrites it as another string. So, if a request comes in for http://site.domain.name/login.cgi, you can rewrite it as https://site.domain.name/login.cgi. Also, you can do pretty much the same thing by specifying a redirect to the desired URL as well, I suppose. I don't think that there are any limitations, whatever request comes in, gets rewritten as long as it matches. I want this login page to only be accessable via https. Could I use PHP to find the url and see if it is using https or http. Would that work as that would be easier.If the login page is encoded via PHP, then you should be able to specify https only. If you want to see an example of that, checkout squirrelmail. There is a plugin for squirrelmail that causes all traffic to be redirected to https if they come in as http on the login page. That sounds pretty much like what you are trying to do.-- Bryan PhinneyWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.comSend instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Azureus 2.2.0.2_MOD for Linux
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:23 am, Paul Smith wrote: Azureus http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/search.php?query=Azureus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cron syntax question ?
Hi All, I have a bash script to generate a ~/.signature file that gets added to outgoing emails, as many do. I want it to run every 2 hours, but this runs it every minute, for some reason. I checked the man page for crontab(5) and it states to do it this way. Heres what I used: * 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature or even: * */2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature Here's the output of syslog: Mar 31 00:23:00 peace CROND[11704]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) Mar 31 00:24:01 peace CROND[11725]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) Mar 31 00:25:00 peace CROND[11746]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) Mar 31 00:26:01 peace CROND[11768]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) Mar 31 00:27:00 peace CROND[11812]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) Mar 31 00:28:01 peace CROND[11834]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) Mar 31 00:29:00 peace CROND[11856]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) Mar 31 00:30:00 peace CROND[11877]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) Mar 31 00:31:01 peace CROND[11897]: (ricks) CMD (/home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature) what would the proper syntax be ? Thx for any replies. -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 You don't have a quote from me... thank god - Ken Vogt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RPM query
Dang. The Yahoo protocol problem is fixed in 0.8.4 but KDE 3.2 only comes with kopete 0.8.3 and nobody has done an RMP for KDE 3.2 yet that I can find .. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:32:03 -0500, Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 31, 2005 06:04 am, WauloK wrote: If I wish to install RPMs not in the standard MDK update sites, I guess I need the version written for my specific KDE version ? (3.2 which comes with 10.1). I probably could not install: kdenetwork-kopete-3.4.0-4.mdk10.2.thac.i586.rpm I want the latest version of kopete, but cannot find one for 3.2 .. only this one for 3.4 No, This would want to install other things from kde 3.4, probably a whole lot of other things. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Mar 31 06:27:30 EST 2005 06:27:30 up 17:00, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.03 In vino veritas. [In wine there is truth.] -- Pliny 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] cron syntax question ?
Il ven, 2005-04-01 alle 02:19, RickSisler ha scritto: Hi All, I have a bash script to generate a ~/.signature file that gets added to outgoing emails, as many do. I want it to run every 2 hours, but this runs it every minute, for some reason. I checked the man page for crontab(5) and it states to do it this way. Heres what I used: * 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature or even: * */2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature what would the proper syntax be ? Thx for any replies. * 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature seems to run the command every minute (the first *) you should put at least a minute of the hour (choose one below) 0 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature 9 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature 20 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature 45 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature 59 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature maybe this reminder below could help you #minute (0-59),# #| hour (0-23), # #| | day of the month (1-31), # #| | | month of the year (1-12), # #| | | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday)# #| | | | | commands # 30 01 * * * /home/jim/bin/cleartmp regards, Francesco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:32 am, Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi Folks, I also recently updated to Adobe Reader 7.0 and have enjoyed it for about one week. I got no luck in my first try after installing it. It directly went AReader 5.0 plugin I had previously installed. I went to the plugins directory of firefox, removed the old (5.0) one and manually copied the 7.0 one there. One more thing, I made a symbolic link of acroread of 7.0 to my /usr/bin and removed the 50. acroread in my PATH. After that I got everything running. My system is Mandrake the 10.0 and Firefox 1.0. HTH. I feel that AR 7.0 is much powerful than AR 5.0, but it's kinda slow to launch. Bests, Q.H. Finally got it to work, first followed the directions in this link: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Acrobat which I found in the newsgroup, netscape.public.mozilla.unix, however this didn't work either, so, I then read further in the newsgroup and saw a reference to having the plug-in here /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so copied it there, restarted mozilla, and, voila, .pdf files now load within mozilla. HTH Someone. Chris -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 19:11:14 up 17 days, 23:46, 1 user, load average: 0.88, 0.59, 0.53 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch. -- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian novel. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
-Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 April 2005 1:05 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members. On Thursday 31 Mar 2005 15:17, Mr. Geek wrote: Anyway, it seems rhetorical at this point, since the majority of the feedback concerning the idea was not positive. It seems that other assessments were right on this. No one would have the time. Time is always of the essence, isn't it? g. I rather like the idea of focussing on one area and linking to the appropriate TWiki entry(ies). Don't mind me - I'm just a bit depressed at the moment, and getting people to actually read anything seems to be a losing battle. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels Could I make a suggestion? Can the gurus who provide information to this list be encouraged to post links to the twiki (or other sources) as part of their responses? I also work with MS products, and one of my big problems is knowing what keywords to use for a search. If an answer to a question exists on the twiki I would find it educational not only to know the answer, but where I could have/should have been able to find it. (Linking to the answer, rather than answering the question is no good for people who read e-mail off line, but...) Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cron syntax question ?
frengoGorgia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Il ven, 2005-04-01 alle 02:19, RickSisler ha scritto: [.snip.] * 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature seems to run the command every minute (the first *) you should put at least a minute of the hour (choose one below) 0 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature 9 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature 20 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature 45 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature 59 0-23/2 * * * /home/ricks/bin/sigfile /home/ricks/.signature [.snip.] Yeah, thats fixed it, I went back and re-read the man page too, seemed to indicate that in the examples .. regards, Francesco Thanks for the help.. -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 There's no I in failure... oh.. wait a minute... F, A, I... Dammit! -Joseph David Fiedler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:05 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 31 Mar 2005 15:17, Mr. Geek wrote: Anyway, it seems rhetorical at this point, since the majority of the feedback concerning the idea was not positive. It seems that other assessments were right on this. No one would have the time. Time is always of the essence, isn't it? g. I rather like the idea of focussing on one area and linking to the appropriate TWiki entry(ies). Don't mind me - I'm just a bit depressed at the moment, and getting people to actually read anything seems to be a losing battle. Anne Read?! That would waste precious time that could be better spent watching TV! Just like anyone in any education related field, you can't focus on overall success/failure. There will be a few individuals that will benefit greatly from the information you provide. If it isn't worth it to you to help those few, then do something less frustrating with your time! ~Lorin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:11 pm, Chris wrote: | On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:32 am, Q.H. Wang wrote: | Finally got it to work, first followed the directions in this link: | | http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Acrobat | | which I found in the newsgroup, netscape.public.mozilla.unix, however this | didn't work either, so, I then read further in the newsgroup and saw a | reference to having the plug-in here /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so copied it | there, restarted mozilla, and, voila, .pdf files now load within mozilla. | | HTH Someone. | | Chris HooHoo--that worked for me too. Seems strange, because all my other plugins are in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins, and the nppdf.so was there and showed up in the Aboutplugins section, but it didn't work. With the nppdf.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, now pdf's open within Moz. Thanks e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gwenview
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 01:17, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 Mar 2005 10:12, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Anne Just wanted to say I am enjoying getting to use gwenview. I also updated gimp to 2.2 and it seems easier to use than v2.0 which I used in windows. Glad you're enjoying it. You've enough problems with other things :-) Anne Yes - hoping that 10.2 (or whatever it is going to be called) install will resolve some problems. At least I have a little bit more knowledge now ... Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
Though I do see a lot of the same or similar questions asked on this list, I still tend to read the responses because I often do find out little tips or tricks or tidbits of information that are handy and useful, even if the problem itself is something I could remedy without needing [much] assistance. Maybe gently nudging those FAQ-type questions to a FAQ page/site would be good, but I wouldn't want to see uber-newbie questions simply greeted with a response of RTFM!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
