Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 04:50, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:36 pm, Michael Davis wrote: Can somebody give me a link or something to sign up to the Off-topic list? :-/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to bring your asbestos underware ;-) And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) And particularly - NO BAD LANGUAGE ;-) Dammit - now they'll all be wanting to come on. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP Key ID 3D518103 Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Emoticons etc. In Thunderbird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: | On Monday 31 Jan 2005 21:08, Alan Dunford wrote: | | Apologies for the earlier question - the answer lies in Thunderbird | itself. | | To access emoticons, fonts, underlining, bold text and so on set:- | | Edit - Preferences - Composition - send options - send the message in | both plain text and html, and then a new tool bar opens under the | Subject line in Thunderbird's compose screen. | | Apologies but someone might like that information. :-) | | | How about a Thunderbird entry under | http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MailUserAgents? | | Anne Ok Anne - I am new to Wiki but have applied for registration. Will put the above (more or less) in Wiki - is that ok? Had a look but I think Thunderbird will need a new entry - will do that. - -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB/7PbBER1rj1RgQMRAvr2AJ9OTg7Ec66S8Mzo1vMgZoCWR+VPMACfazwl MRx+5nkxBodhU6fYr9T5q1I= =hYDc -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] Emoticons etc. In Thunderbird
Until I recently lost my Thunderbird installation I had a tool bar which I assume I had downloaded as a theme. This had features such as a facility to change fonts, underline text, add graphical emoticons and so on. For the life of me I cannot remember where I got it and wonder if any Thunderbird users recognise this feature and can point me into the right direction. Of course I have searched for it but it seems to be fairly elusive. Thanks for any guidance. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Emoticons etc. In Thunderbird
Apologies for the earlier question - the answer lies in Thunderbird itself. To access emoticons, fonts, underlining, bold text and so on set:- Edit - Preferences - Composition - send options - send the message in both plain text and html, and then a new tool bar opens under the Subject line in Thunderbird's compose screen. Apologies but someone might like that information. :-) -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Silly question
A senior moment - I have forgotten how to set up the emoticons in Thunderbird - duh. Would some kind soul please remind me. Thanks Alan -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with CUPS
Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: Hi, Here we have an annoying problem getting CUPS/Windows to print. The setup is a Linux box running Mandrake 10.0 Official and a Windows box running XP Home edition. The printer on the Windows box is an old Canon BJC250 which is not a problem in itself. Now CUPS on the Linux box of course appears to be set up correctly with the Windows IP address recognised as also is the Canon printer. When I sent a test page to the Windows machine I get a message that the page has been sent BUT there is no such message in the Window print queue. The in-built Windows firewall is off. Print from the Windows machine itself is ok and the problem therefore seems to lie between my Linux box and the Windows machine. Any ideas please as I am rapidly losing what is left of my hair. :-) does the linux box /etc/hosts, /etc/host.allow and /etc/hosts.deny and windows box c:\hosts files correctly name the other box? Also check /etc/cups/client.conf, particularly for # ServerName: the hostname of your server. By default CUPS will use the # hostname of the system or the value of the CUPS_SERVER environment # variable. ONLY ONE SERVER NAME MAY BE SPECIFIED AT A TIME. To use # more than one server you must use a local scheduler with browsing # and possibly polling. # #ServerName myhost.domain.com Put the windows box name into that line, if it's not already there. Anne Thanks to both for the above comments. The changes suggested have now been made/checked with no improvement. The appropriate lines are shown below:- router is the gateway connected to my cable modem windows is the box running XP and is the print server linux runs my CUPS server and is my main workstation server is a backup machine on the network foxsys is the domain /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhost 192.168.0.1router.foxsysrouter 192.168.0.2windows.foxsyswindows 192.168.0.3linux.foxsys linux 192.168.0.4server.foxsysserver /etc/hosts.allow 127.0.0.1localhost 192.168.0.1router.foxsysrouter 192.168.0.2windows.foxsyswindows 192.168.0.3linux.foxsyslinux 192.168.0.4server.foxsysserver /etc/hosts.deny (blank) /etc/cups/client.conf # # ServerName: the hostname of your server. By default CUPS will use the # hostname of the system or the value of the CUPS_SERVER environment # variable. ONLY ONE SERVER NAME MAY BE SPECIFIED AT A TIME. To use # more than one server you must use a local scheduler with browsing # and possibly polling. # ServerName 192.168.0.2windows.foxsys Windows c:\system32\hosts contains the line:- 192.168.0.3 linux.foxsys #linux My one doubt is the entry in /etc/cups/client.conf which I _think_ is ok but should this have the entry ServerName ahead of the IP address etc? So you can see I am still at a loss to explain the cause of the problem - any further thoughts would, of course, be welcome - the alternative I face is either reconnecting the printer or putting another one on the linux box. Thanks again for any further ideas. :-[ -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re:-Problem with CUPS
et wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:10 am, Alan Dunford wrote: Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: Hi, Here we have an annoying problem getting CUPS/Windows to print. The setup is a Linux box running Mandrake 10.0 Official and a Windows box running XP Home edition. The printer on the Windows box is an old Canon BJC250 which is not a problem in itself. Now CUPS on the Linux box of course appears to be set up correctly with the Windows IP address recognised as also is the Canon printer. When I sent a test page to the Windows machine I get a message that the page has been sent BUT there is no such message in the Window print queue. The in-built Windows firewall is off. Print from the Windows machine itself is ok and the problem therefore seems to lie between my Linux box and the Windows machine. Any ideas please as I am rapidly losing what is left of my hair. :-) does the linux box /etc/hosts, /etc/host.allow and /etc/hosts.deny and windows box c:\hosts files correctly name the other box? Also check /etc/cups/client.conf, particularly for # ServerName: the hostname of your server. By default CUPS will use the # hostname of the system or the value of the CUPS_SERVER environment # variable. ONLY ONE SERVER NAME MAY BE SPECIFIED AT A TIME. To use # more than one server you must use a local scheduler with browsing # and possibly polling. # #ServerName myhost.domain.com Put the windows box name into that line, if it's not already there. Anne Thanks to both for the above comments. The changes suggested have now been made/checked with no improvement. The appropriate lines are shown below:- router is the gateway connected to my cable modem windows is the box running XP and is the print server linux runs my CUPS server and is my main workstation server is a backup machine on the network foxsys is the domain /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhost 192.168.0.1router.foxsysrouter 192.168.0.2windows.foxsyswindows 192.168.0.3linux.foxsys linux 192.168.0.4server.foxsysserver /etc/hosts.allow 127.0.0.1localhost 192.168.0.1router.foxsysrouter 192.168.0.2windows.foxsyswindows 192.168.0.3linux.foxsyslinux 192.168.0.4server.foxsysserver /etc/hosts.deny (blank) /etc/cups/client.conf # # ServerName: the hostname of your server. By default CUPS will use the # hostname of the system or the value of the CUPS_SERVER environment # variable. ONLY ONE SERVER NAME MAY BE SPECIFIED AT A TIME. To use # more than one server you must use a local scheduler with browsing # and possibly polling. # ServerName 192.168.0.2windows.foxsys Windows c:\system32\hosts contains the line:- 192.168.0.3 linux.foxsys #linux My one doubt is the entry in /etc/cups/client.conf which I _think_ is ok but should this have the entry ServerName ahead of the IP address etc? So you can see I am still at a loss to explain the cause of the problem - any further thoughts would, of course, be welcome - the alternative I face is either reconnecting the printer or putting another one on the linux box. Thanks again for any further ideas. :-[ did you do a service network restart on the linux boxes and a reboot on the windows boxes? Thanks both for your comments - have rebooted windows and restarted the network also with no change, Ed. Will edit the lines in the various conf files, Anne. Onward and upward - one way I suppose to spend a winter's morning (or maybe week). :-) Just by the way for some unaccountable reason, mail server would not accept a normal reply to and bounced my earlier reply - will try again. - this is a new message. Regards -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with CUPS
Hi, Here we have an annoying problem getting CUPS/Windows to print. The setup is a Linux box running Mandrake 10.0 Official and a Windows box running XP Home edition. The printer on the Windows box is an old Canon BJC250 which is not a problem in itself. Now CUPS on the Linux box of course appears to be set up correctly with the Windows IP address recognised as also is the Canon printer. When I sent a test page to the Windows machine I get a message that the page has been sent BUT there is no such message in the Window print queue. The in-built Windows firewall is off. Print from the Windows machine itself is ok and the problem therefore seems to lie between my Linux box and the Windows machine. Any ideas please as I am rapidly losing what is left of my hair. :-) -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 20:32, Erylon Hines wrote: Any camera that uses the USB Mass Storage protocol is absolutely the way to go. Stay away (far-far away) from any other protocol. USB Mass Storage will be recognized as any other usb drive when you plug the camera into your Linux box, and probably you will get an icon popping up for it on the desktop. Cool, huh? I love my Olympus. I have to say that my FujiFilm is much more powerful than my old Olympus, but I still think I got better photos with the Olympus. I'd recommend them any day. Anne As a rule of thumb, I have found that digital cameras made by traditional camera companies (Nikon, Olympus etc..) produce better results, I think as a result of better optics. My current Olympus E-10 puts its output on either SmartMedia or CompactFlash and I carry a card reader around in my camera bag so that I can download pics more or less wherever I happen to be. The family seems to like to see its pictures full size immediately they have been taken. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with CUPS
Hi, Here we have an annoying problem getting CUPS/Windows to print. The setup is a Linux box running Mandrake 10.0 Official and a Windows box running XP Home edition. The printer on the Windows box is an old Canon BJC250 which is not a problem in itself. Now CUPS on the Linux box of course appears to be set up correctly with the Windows IP address recognised as also is the Canon printer. When I send a test page to the Windows machine I get a message that the page has been sent BUT there is no such message in the Window print queue. The in-built Windows firewall is off. Print from the Windows machine itself is ok and the problem therefore seems to lie between my Linux box and the Windows machine. Any ideas please as I am rapidly losing what is left of my hair. :-) -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Sent via Thunderbird - an Open Source mailer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 15:38, Alan Dunford wrote: Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake 10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a server on which I back up files from the other two SNIP Thanks to all who responded to my query and I am now reading up some on secure network connections but you all gave me a start. Thanks again. Alan -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Stuck on a network problem
Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake 10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a server on which I back up files from the other two. Currently the server has a monitor, keyboard and mouse but I would like to run it as a straight forward ftp server with just a system unit. Therefore I need to be able to switch it off remotely as the only way until recently was to use its local controls. I have installed VNC on both the Linux machines which I can use to switch off the server but have to set up VNC each time on the remote machine as I lose the settings when that machine is shutdown. How can I set up VNC, and its password, so that it starts when the server is booted and therefore allows me to remove monitor, keyboard and mouse from that particular machine. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 22:12, Keith Powell wrote: I am about to change to broadband and the hardware has now arrived. Clarification of a couple of points would be greatly appreciated, please. The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :( I have 98SE, which I very occasionally run. Would I be better setting the card up using the wizard and Windows, and then changing to the Mandrake hard drive after it has been set up? I have read on this list, that if one just installs the card, Mandrake will find it. But then the BIOS won't be set up will it? There is a Linux driver on the CD, which I would install when in Mandrake. It's the same with the router - an easy automatic set-up using Windows, but little information on setting it up manually. For information, the card is an SMC1255TX-PF, and the router is an SMC7204BRA - which Derek recommended as working well with Linux. (I want to play safe and not have any problems getting going in broadband). Any advice gratefully received as I am itching to get on to broadband but am confused at the moment! Many thanks Keith Not sure if this is particularly helpful as I am on a cable network but in my own case, I used the Windows program provided to establish the connection and set up my account with my ISP (ntl). Then I just plugged the modem into my Linux box (I think you wouldn't even have to do that as you switch between Windows and Linux on the same box), and then set up Linux to work with the new account. My ethernet connection worked first time - now I have a router connected to both Windows and Linux boxes with the modem connected as the link to the Internet. I now work with either the Windows machine or the Linux one (or both) without any problem. HTH Alan -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 12:33, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 11:32, Alan Dunford wrote: On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 22:12, Keith Powell wrote: The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :( I have 98SE, which I very occasionally run. Would I be better setting the card up using the wizard and Windows, and then changing to the Mandrake hard drive after it has been set up? Not sure if this is particularly helpful as I am on a cable network but in my own case, I used the Windows program provided to establish the connection and set up my account with my ISP (ntl). Then I just plugged the modem into my Linux box (I think you wouldn't even have to do that as you switch between Windows and Linux on the same box), and then set up Linux to work with the new account. My ethernet connection worked first time - now I have a router connected to both Windows and Linux boxes with the modem connected as the link to the Internet. I now work with either the Windows machine or the Linux one (or both) without any problem. HTH Alan Hello Alan. Thanks for your additional help. I had sent my thank you posting before I got yours. That's why you were not included in it. Cheers for now. Keith Just a final point, as I said, I have a router which connects all the machines to my cable modem (in fact I now have two linux machnes and a windows one) and do not use ANY crossover cables. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font problem
Yesterday I did a routine urpmi update - security, bugs and normal updates but did not make a note of the programs to be updated. I suppose about 30 programs in all were affected. However, everything appeared to install correctly and the update list is now empty, but the next time I fired up KDE I found ALL my KDE fonts had changed - including Kmail. Resetting everything manually took about half an hour and all seems (more or less) ok now. Has anyone else experienced this, what is the reason and how do we avoid it in future? Any pointers gratefully accepted. Thanks. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail problem
On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 08:17, Alan Dunford wrote: On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 09:37, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 02:50 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: - -I need a little help, please, in setting up Kmail again. A -couple of days ago I added a Smart Media card reader to one of -my USB ports and (I assume a bug in the driver) as a result the -machine would not then boot. Later the USB driver was updated -and I noted that a bug had in fact been corrected. - -The start up problem was then sorted using Mandake 10's CDs to -upgrade the OS and then all was well except that previously I -had been able to fire up a URL within Kmail and now cannot do -so. I don't remember having to do anything previously to create -a link here (I think to Konqueror) and cannot find anything to -help in the help files. - -I imagine the problem is very simple and basic but it is also -proving frustrating and annoying. - -Any help would be much appreciated. - -Thanks - -Alan Alan, I know in the KDE control center there is a place where you can set all your file associations, but what has always worked for me is to: 1. Open /home/youruser 2. Right click, pick create new HTML file (name it anything you want) 3. Right click on this file, pick Edit file type 4. Pick whatever browser you want to open it with, and move it to the top of the list. Its now the default Now, when you open a (html) URL in Kmail, it will use the default browser. HTHs! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Thanks Ron for the suggestion. I will do what you suggest of course but I am getting around to thinking that because a few other things appear to have gone walkabout, it might be a good idea to reinstall Mandrake 10. This is a messy option as several things have to be installed manually and then the whole lot will have to be updated using urpmi - will let you know how it works out. Thanks again Alan Thanks again Ron. Did a reinstall and the urls and jpgs burst into life now as before. Still have a lot of tidying up to do but the main problem is solved. A friend of mine (in electronics) said that when you solder connections on the end of a cable and when finished you find you have forgotten to put a fitting on the cable first, then having to do it again is penance for not doing it properly in the first place. This is the price I am paying with Mandrake right now. (;-) -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kmail problem
I need a little help, please, in setting up Kmail again. A couple of days ago I added a Smart Media card reader to one of my USB ports and (I assume a bug in the driver) as a result the machine would not then boot. Later the USB driver was updated and I noted that a bug had in fact been corrected. The start up problem was then sorted using Mandake 10's CDs to upgrade the OS and then all was well except that previously I had been able to fire up a URL within Kmail and now cannot do so. I don't remember having to do anything previously to create a link here (I think to Konqueror) and cannot find anything to help in the help files. I imagine the problem is very simple and basic but it is also proving frustrating and annoying. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Alan -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Title of 8.2 disks?
On Monday 07 Jun 2004 21:20, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I'm a fairly novice Linux user, though I've used Mandrake, RedHat, and YellowDog limitedly over the last couple years. I have Mandrake 9.1 installed on this particular box, but I have a program or two that I want to install from my ol' Mandrake 8.2 CD's. I prefer to use Mandrake's software installations utility, as I don't know the name of the RPM that I'm trying to install and it would take a lifetime to find it by browsing/searching the disks. :-P Being new to Linux, I don't know how to find the title of a given CD. Mandrake's control center wants me to enter the disk name into the library thingy for me to be able to install from the 8.2 disks. Anywho, the point is, I want to install to 9.1 from 8.2 disks with the control center installation utility. Got any help? Thanx, Eric Scott Sets of Mandrake 10 Official (four disks) are available from Linux Emporium for £10 including postage - next day delivery is what I got myself. http://www.chygwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/lbc-announce Not worth considering older versions at those prices. Best of luck -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?
On Wednesday 14 Apr 2004 04:28, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 13 April 2004 08:31 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:08:00 -0400 robin disseminated the following: Are the main sources Distribution, Updates and Contrib? If so, where in the new structure are they? Whatever sources I use, I get a curl error message. I live in hope ... ...tried the --wget switch? I bloody hate curl... isn't curling a Canadan sport ;-) I thought it was a Scottish sport - but maybe that explains the Canadian connection. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Proud to be a liberal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Image viewer
Like others on this list running Mandrake 10.0, I had a few problems with Kuickshow - there is a bug in Qt and I could not get Qt3.3 going. However I have come across a very similar picturefile viewer called Gwenview which seems to do most of the things that Kuickshow does and although it appears to have been developed for 9.2, it does work well with Mandrake 10.0. See http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/download#stable -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.2 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your packages are earlier than mine (for example, your kdebase-servicemenu is 1.0-6, whereas mine is 1.0-12) Umm, looks suspicious to me. Anne has no problems with spell checking in KWord, but she runs MDK9.1. Mine is MDK9.2. Again , I'm not yet on M9.2, but it lt is looking like a bug to me ? Why not try a new thread with 9.2 in the subject line, and ask if anyone is prepared to look at kword spellchecking? It would help to know Link to Application a) is anyone able to confirm that spellchecking works, and with which dictionary b) is anyone able to confirm that spellcheking is working with an English dictionary, and which one? Add any other questions you can think of to eliminate factors Anne Am running Mandrake 9.2 here. Kword spell checker works fine with a (US presumably) English Directory , Encoding is US-ASCII and the client is International Ispell. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.2 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v 50cycles/min. Cycles per second ? -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.2 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Error messages
Yesterday (I think) a message was posted about an error message he was receiving about his disks not being read. Unfortunately I cannot now find it but it related to a bug in Mandrake 9.1's kernel. However, the more general point I would like to make is if one posts an error message into Google and does a search on it, then the problem and (hopefully) solution have been posted by others who have come across it before. It works for Windows also of course. This has saved me a lot of head scratching in the past and it might be of some use to others. Alan -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adunford Coming to you from a 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Kind of worried]
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 3:27 pm, charo wrote: Original Message Subject: Kind of worried Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:03:33 +0100 From: charo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Universidad de Alicante To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm getting at startup the following error: ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk_read failed very so often, which makes me realize that I don't know how to replace a hard disk and keep all my directories the same way as before the crash. Then, I have the following questions: 1) How can I know which of my two HDs is almost broken? 2) How can I move all data from the broken dist to a new one? 3) Is it possible to check whether the disk is usable? Any links or hints will be very much appreciated. Thanks, Rosario P.s. I just have my data partially backuped, but not the whole system. I assume you are running Mandrake 9.1. This is caused by a bug in the kernel - if you enter the full error message in Google and search on it, you will get a range of answers to the problem. This was a problem for me until installing 9.2. So far as I know, it never caused any difficulties with any programs I was then running. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.2 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Kind of worried]
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 3:43 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 3:27 pm, charo wrote: Original Message Subject: Kind of worried Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:03:33 +0100 From: charo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Universidad de Alicante To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm getting at startup the following error: ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk_read failed very so often, which makes me realize that I don't know how to replace a hard disk and keep all my directories the same way as before the crash. Then, I have the following questions: 1) How can I know which of my two HDs is almost broken? 2) How can I move all data from the broken dist to a new one? 3) Is it possible to check whether the disk is usable? Any links or hints will be very much appreciated. Thanks, Rosario P.s. I just have my data partially backuped, but not the whole system. I assume you are running Mandrake 9.1. This is caused by a bug in the kernel - if you enter the full error message in Google and search on it, you will get a range of answers to the problem. This was a problem for me until installing 9.2. So far as I know, it never caused any difficulties with any programs I was then running. Sorry but I didn't answer your question properly. Have a look at the following URL - http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade However, I don't think your hard disk is broken. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.2 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
Another here - G3XOF. 73 and 88 Alan -- Alan Dunford, Derby, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adunford Coming to you from a Microsoft-free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mailserver down?
On Saturday 31 Aug 2002 5:21 pm, you wrote: Please excuse this e-mail, if it comes through... but I think the Mandrake mailserver is down, or for some unknown reason there is like 0,0 traffic. Greetings Ralph It is certainly very very slow today (Thursday 5 Sept) -- Alan Dunford, Derby, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft-free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NSA / PGP
On Friday 31 May 2002 9:46 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: -pgpenvelope processed message On Friday 31 May 2002 8:36 pm, shane wrote: i doubt that. it is simply a matter of raw math. http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html Ah, but they don't use (general purpose) supercomputers. They use _very_ specialised computers; I read somewhere that the NSA has its own chip in short if they had a super computer than can only be imagined today (not built) it would take hundreds of years to guess a key. Ah, but they don't use (general purpose) supercomputers. They use _very_ specialised computers; I read somewhere that the NSA has its own chip fabrication plant ... Your code cracker will likely be a PCI card inside a common-or-garden PC, not a black box performing the breaststroke in a lake of liquid nitrogen. (And the standard PC could be running Linux ;) And it may well use algorithms nobody in the 'free world' knows about. There's a known precedent: one of the most astonishing things I've read for ages is that the RSA algorithm was invented in secret about a decade before it was 'invented in public': http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html Alastair -- Alastair, that is some awesome information. thanks for the link. So, it was the Brits who did it first? Yes, according to Simon Singh in his The Code Book pages 284 on -- public key cryptography was first formulated by Clifford Cocks, a young Cambridge graduate in 1973, that is four years before Rivest, Shamir and Adleman and their RSA asymmetric cipher. He was working at GCHQ (that is the British Government's Communications HQ ) at Cheltenham and I quote Cocks himself:- ... From start to finish, it took no more than half an hour. I was quite pleased with myself. I thought, Ooh, that's nice. I've been given a problem and I've solved it. The book goes on to say that he did not fully appreciate the significance of his discovery. on P288, though, Singh goes on to say By 1975, James Ellis (who had set Cocks the original problem after he and many others had wrestled with it for years), Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson had discovered all the fundamental aspects of public-key encryption, yet they all had to remain silent.. Cocks was finally allowed to publish his work in 1997. Cocks is still around and was interviewed on TV fairly recently. Thought you might like to know. -- Alan Dunford, Derby, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft-free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail funnies
On Friday 17 May 2002 11:17 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 3:43 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: May I please request a little help. When editing my own text in Kmail (2.2.2, Mandrake 8.2) , or attempting to cut and paste comments from other received mails, I can create a terrible mess as the pasted text can appear at several points in the document or as fragmented pieces of text. It seems that text is probably left in the cut and paste buffer and then introduces or reintroduces itself almost randomly. Is this a known problem, please, and what is the cure? All help gratefully received Alan Dunford How are you cutting and pasting? In linux highlighting text will put it into the clipboard, and pressing your centre button or mouse wheel will paste it. If you are inadvertantly pressing your mouse wheel that could explain why you get pastes all over your document. Middle button cut/paste works in almost all applications. Unfortunately one of the exceptions is OpenOffice/StarOffice which uses Windows type Ctl-C/Ctl-V which seems so clumsy by comparison. derek not to mention that it doesn't always work. :( Thank you gentlemen - that appears to be the answer. -- Alan Dunford, Derby, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft-free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail funnies
May I please request a little help. When editing my own text in Kmail (2.2.2, Mandrake 8.2) , or attempting to cut and paste comments from other received mails, I can create a terrible mess as the pasted text can appear at several points in the document or as fragmented pieces of text. It seems that text is probably left in the cut and paste buffer and then introduces or reintroduces itself almost randomly. Is this a known problem, please, and what is the cure? All help gratefully received Alan Dunford -- Alan Dunford, Derby, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft-free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spam
Has anyone had experience with spam filters - I am thinking of those routines which will identify spammed messages and send relevant data to the growing spam filter servers? I have had a cursory look at spamassassin and mailscanner but have not got either running successfully. Having had this new account for two weeks only, I am now starting to receive spam and would like to do my bit to reduce this annoying menace. Any help would be much appreciated. Regards -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft - free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wizdrake
On Thursday 13 December 2001 13:52, you wrote: Op donderdag 13 december 2001 11:18, schreef u: A follow-up problem. I have wizdrake, and its dependencies, wizard and kaffe installed. I THINK permissions are ok. When I try to start wizdrake, the startup screen appears and then just sits there. My only option at that point is to hit Cancel - would someone please tell me where I am going wrong. There are some packages not installed by default; wizards_lib wizards_lib-common etc. Open softwaremanager and search in the installable packages tab for wizards_lib. You get A number of packages showed, and install the packages where you want A wizard for. Gerard Thanks a lot Gerard - that worked fine and now I have an ftp server up and running. Cheers Alan -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft - free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wizdrake
On Friday 07 December 2001 20:23, you wrote: Congratulations. Welcome. Its not as hard as you might fear Just think differently. As for wizdrake. Wizdrake is not installed as standard unless you select the sever install. No problem its real easy to install additional packages. You will be doing it a lot soon :-) To install a package open Mandrake Software Manger you will find it in K MenuConfigurationPackaging It will prompt you for the root password then a GUI will open. The first time you use it a message will pop up telling you to define a security update server. Just cancel that for the moment. In the main window you have two tabs. Installable and Installed. These present you with a tree view of the packages on the CD which are either already installed or available for install. You can browse to find the package you want or else search for it. So to install wizdrake search for wizdrake and then select the tickbox next to the result. You can install multiple packages at once if you wish. When you have selected all you want hit the install button and they will be installed. If you have selected a package which 'depends' on another one, then that one will be installed automagically as well. . A follow-up problem. I have wizdrake, and its dependencies, wizard and kaffe installed. I THINK permissions are ok. When I try to start wizdrake, the startup screen appears and then just sits there. My only option at that point is to hit Cancel - would someone please tell me where I am going wrong. Thanks for any help. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft - free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network setup
Ok and thanks. I wish now that I had not mentioned the windows machine. Both "linux" and "compaq" are running linux. Using "compaq" I can ftp to and from "linux" but if I use "linux" I cannot ftp to or from "compaq". You are right, I think, in saying there is a setup problem on "compaq" in that it will not accept a connection (of any kind) from "linux" What I am looking for is some pointers as to where to look for the setup problem - local knowledge and experience is limited. Windows connections remain as problems for another day but your helpful comments are noted. Thanks again. Alan In article 025901c03977$795f15e0$02070a0a@sysii400, Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes You did not note what you are using for an FTP server on the 98 box. Windows 98/NT does not come with a standard FTP server so you have to buy one if you want that type of capability. Windows comes with an FTP client which you used to connect the Linux boxes but no standard FTP server. I'm only able to (almost) figure this out after reading Mike's response... Do you mean by 'reverse the arrangement and try to use "linux" as my workstation' that you are running windows on the "compaq", and linux on the "linux" machines? And, then getting a timeout error when trying to connect to the Windows 98 "compaq" via ftp *from* the "linux" machine? Whoa! Head rush. Yes, Mike is rght, if what I just hashed is correct. You need to run IIS of some version in order to have ftp server capability on the Windows machine. I think Personal Wed Server will give you this option, but I'm not sure. And, yes, you have to pay for it (well, unless...I won't get into that). However, if you mean that you are trying to connect from "linux" running linux, to "compaq" running linux, and getting the timeout using ftp, then there's a configuration problem on the, well, let's see...[great big pause] "compaq" running linux machine. But, if the dishwasher, running windows 98, cannot connect to, let me see, Afghanistan with linux... Oh hell. I can't think anymore! :-) Could you make a step-by-step list of what you wanted? --Greg - Original Message - From: "D.M. Mattix (Mike)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] network setup On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Alan Dunford wrote: In an attempt to learn more about Local Area Networks, I have set up a simple three machine net but am experiencing some difficulty and I wonder if a more experienced person could please help. The configuration is:- Machine 1 Pentium 3 running Windows 98 as IP 192.168.1.1 (alias windows) Network card SMC EtherEZ 8416 Machine 2 Pentium 2 running Mandrake Linux 7.1 as IP 192.168.1.2 (alias linux) Network card Genius GF100TXRII Machine 3 Pentium 1 running Mandrake Linux 7.1 and Windows 98 as IP 192.168.1.3 (alias compaq) Network card Realtek RTL8029 This machine also has an internal 56 k non-Win modem and a connection to the Internet. The machines are connected to each other via a base10 hub with short twisted pair cables. The physical installation seems ok as I can ping any machine from any other and get fast return times. The problem I have, though, concerns machines 2 and 3 whose configuration was intended to be identical. Using common log-on user names and passwords and with the Compaq machine as my workstation, I can log on to "linux" and ftp files to and from that machine. Further, I can download files from the Internet and then pass them to "linux". So far so good. If, however, I reverse the arrangement and try to use "linux" as my workstation, I can connect briefly to the Compaq machine but the connection times out in two or three seconds and if I use ftp at the command line, I get an error message "421 Service not available remote server has closed connection". gFTP reports that I am already logged on and then waits for 30 seconds before trying (unsuccessfully) again, even if "compaq" is waiting for a log on of some kind.. The /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files are blank on both machines apart from their comments and there are no entries in /usr/sbin/tcpd file either. Before I tear out what remains of my hair, I wonder if someone could please point me in the right direction. Thanks for any help offered. -- Alan Dunford e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP keys at http://www.pgp.uk.demon.net:11371 and others
[newbie] network setup
In an attempt to learn more about Local Area Networks, I have set up a simple three machine net but am experiencing some difficulty and I wonder if a more experienced person could please help. The configuration is:- Machine 1 Pentium 3 running Windows 98 as IP 192.168.1.1 (alias windows) Network card SMC EtherEZ 8416 Machine 2 Pentium 2 running Mandrake Linux 7.1 as IP 192.168.1.2 (alias linux) Network card Genius GF100TXRII Machine 3 Pentium 1 running Mandrake Linux 7.1 and Windows 98 as IP 192.168.1.3 (alias compaq) Network card Realtek RTL8029 This machine also has an internal 56 k non-Win modem and a connection to the Internet. The machines are connected to each other via a base10 hub with short twisted pair cables. The physical installation seems ok as I can ping any machine from any other and get fast return times. The problem I have, though, concerns machines 2 and 3 whose configuration was intended to be identical. Using common log-on user names and passwords and with the Compaq machine as my workstation, I can log on to "linux" and ftp files to and from that machine. Further, I can download files from the Internet and then pass them to "linux". So far so good. If, however, I reverse the arrangement and try to use "linux" as my workstation, I can connect briefly to the Compaq machine but the connection times out in two or three seconds and if I use ftp at the command line, I get an error message "421 Service not available remote server has closed connection". gFTP reports that I am already logged on and then waits for 30 seconds before trying (unsuccessfully) again, even if "compaq" is waiting for a log on of some kind.. The /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files are blank on both machines apart from their comments and there are no entries in /usr/sbin/tcpd file either. Before I tear out what remains of my hair, I wonder if someone could please point me in the right direction. Thanks for any help offered. -- Alan Dunford e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP keys at http://www.pgp.uk.demon.net:11371 and others
[newbie] network setup
In an attempt to learn more about Local Area Networks, I have set up a simple three machine net but am experiencing some difficulty and I wonder if a more experienced person could please help. The configuration is:- Machine 1 Pentium 3 running Windows 98 as IP 192.168.1.1 (alias windows) Network card SMC EtherEZ 8416 Machine 2 Pentium 2 running Mandrake Linux 7.1 as IP 192.168.1.2 (alias linux) Network card Genius GF100TXRII Machine 3 Pentium 1 running Mandrake Linux 7.1 and Windows 98 as IP 192.168.1.3 (alias compaq) Network card Realtek RTL8029 This machine also has an internal 56 k non-Win modem and a connection to the Internet. The machines are connected to each other via a base10 hub with short twisted pair cables. The physical installation seems ok as I can ping any machine from any other and get fast return times. The problem I have, though, concerns machines 2 and 3 whose configuration was intended to be identical. Using common log-on user names and passwords and with the Compaq machine as my workstation, I can log on to "linux" and ftp files to and from that machine. Further, I can download files from the Internet and then pass them to "linux". So far so good. If, however, I reverse the arrangement and try to use "linux" as my workstation, I can connect briefly to the Compaq machine but the connection times out in two or three seconds and if I use ftp at the command line, I get an error message "421 Service not available remote server has closed connection". gFTP reports that I am already logged on and then waits for 30 seconds before trying (unsuccessfully) again, even if "compaq" is waiting for a log on of some kind.. The /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files are blank on both machines apart from their comments and there are no entries in /usr/sbin/tcpd file either. Before I tear out what remains of my hair, I wonder if someone could please point me in the right direction. Thanks for any help offered. PS apologies for crashing into another thread on this newsgroup -- Alan Dunford e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP keys at http://www.pgp.uk.demon.net:11371 and others
[newbie] Tape Streamer
Hi, Am having a problem configuring the software for my Iomega internal tape streamer. The device is connected correctly and I can force it to write and read tapes. However, before it will work (in fact before it will recognise that there is a tape in the drive itself), I need manually to install modules as follows: insmod ftape insmod zftape and it works fine. ftape.o is shown in the modules list as unused but zftape.o is not included. Would someone please tell me how to handle these modules so that I avoid this manual operation and just can click on the mount/unmount tape button for the tape to spring into life. It is no doubt somewhere in the documentation but I cannot find it. BTW congratulations to Mandrake on a very nice set of packages and the easiest of Linux installation routines I have met. Thanks for any assistance offered. -- Alan Dunford e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP keys at http://www.pgp.uk.demon.net:11371 and others
[newbie] Tape Streamer
Hello all. Recently installed Linux using Mandrake 7 and most things work well. This is by far the easiest Linux installer I have used. The only major problem currently (hopefully) is the configuration of my Iomega internal tape streamer. This uses the floppy drive ribbon and presumably requires the floppy drive to be unmounted, Fstab has been modified to remove the reference to supermount and permit manual mounting and unmounting of the floppy drive, with no obvious improvement. Help with this file would be welcomed. This streamer worked ok in Windows and was successfully configured earlier using RedHat Linux so I am fairly sure it is mechanically and electrically ok but when I try to fire it up using the Tape Backup Tool I get a message telling me that there is no tape in the drive (which there is). The links between ftape and rft0 APPEAR to be ok but I am not sure. I have a copy of and have read the Ftape HOWTO but cannot find simple and relevant help there. If anyone out there has met and defeated this particular problem. I would be pleased to hear from them. Many thanks for any help or guidance offered. Alan
