[newbie] help needed with CD burning problems
Hi, I am using K3b (K3b 0.9 under KDE 3.1.3 with Mandrake 9.2) to burn CDs without any problems. However, when I start K3b I get the following message: No support for ATAPI with cdrdao You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at least one not configured to use SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with cdrdao. Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all writer devices. This way you won't have any problems. It also seems that I cannot burn (CD copy) from my regular CD drive (CREATIVE 52x CD-ROM 52x IDE 8.2MB/s / 128K / ATAPI ) to my CD burner.(I/O Magic External USB 2.0 52x24x52 CD-RW Drive). The thing that bothers me most is that while my computer was running Windoze2000 I could copy from this CD drive to another external drive without any problems. Otherwise, the CD drive works without problems. How do I enable scsi-ide (SCSI-emulation) for my CD drive? Alternatively, can you reccommend another application to copy CDs? Thanks! Andrei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] have a good laugh
... and read this: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/05/1414247.shtml?tid=16 -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Knoppix 3.2/STD 0.1b Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SCO shares fell about 8% :-)))
[New York | Reuters News Service, 8 August 2003] - IBM yesterday fired the latest volley in a war over the freely distributed Linux operating system and the code it's based on, charging in a counter-suit that SCO Group violated licence agreements. SCO shares fell about 8%. read the full story here: http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2003/0308080751.asp?A=HOMEO=FPW -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Knoppix 3.2/STD 0.1b Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kword crash help sought
Hi, I could start konqueror without any problems. Then I tried kword and exactly the same thing happened. I then tried something else. Clicking on a *.kwd file from konqueror. No associated application was found and I was given the dialog box to choose application to open the file with. Does that make any sense?! thanks! On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:58, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, When I try to load kword from the command line I get this: QUOTE $ kword Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation ! Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy UNQUOTE I usually use Windowmaker, but I noticed that KDE seemed to have lost some of the links from the bottom task and is generally messed up. This is true for *all* users. Kmail and kppp work just fine (thanks God!). This might have been caused by a recent data loss on my ext3 filesystem suring shutdown. What should I do? Reinstall all of KDE? Make a complete upgrade from Mdk9 to Mdk9.1? I do not really need Kword (I use OpenOffice which works fine) but I do use plenty of KDE apps and the kmail/kppp pair is vital for me. And what's a MimeType on kword's dektop file anyway? Thanks! Andrei Andrei; I just caught this post in the other group, but will give a go at it here: What about trying this - fire up Konqueror before any other KDE applications - THEN after Konq is started, try to fire up KWord... -- Mon Jul 21 13:50:01 EST 2003 13:50:01 up 7 days, 5:53, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.18, 0.16 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kword crash help sought
Hi, When I try to load kword from the command line I get this: QUOTE $ kword Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation ! Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy UNQUOTE I usually use Windowmaker, but I noticed that KDE seemed to have lost some of the links from the bottom task and is generally messed up. This is true for *all* users. Kmail and kppp work just fine (thanks God!). This might have been caused by a recent data loss on my ext3 filesystem suring shutdown. What should I do? Reinstall all of KDE? Make a complete upgrade from Mdk9 to Mdk9.1? I do not really need Kword (I use OpenOffice which works fine) but I do use plenty of KDE apps and the kmail/kppp pair is vital for me. And what's a MimeType on kword's dektop file anyway? Thanks! Andrei -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to avoid data loss after install of Mandrake 9.1?!
Hi, I have a 19GB hard disk on an old machine running Windows2000. I am really fed up with the W2k and I would like to install Mandrake 9.1. Here is my dilemma: this computer has only one disk (19GB NTFS about half full), I have data on this disk (files) which I would like to preserve and not loose, I have no means to make a backup. Can I install Mandrake 9.1 on the free part of my NTFS partition only (turning it into a, say, 5-8GB ReiserFS linux partition) WITHOUT loosing my data? Many thanks! Andrei -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake/HP alliance!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/31547.html http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7082970615.html http://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2003/0702hprolls.html -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] root filesystem problems
Hi Tom, Thanks for the very thourough answer. I did not have a power failure and my hardware is an old laptop. Next time I will choose ReiserFS. Thanks a lot! Andrei On Sunday June 29 2003 05:29 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: I am running ext3 journalling filesystem which I thought would record the location of all my files every 5 sec. However, data was lost. Why?! Can you explain what happened? And should I take any special action? ext3 is really just ext2 with a not so good journal tacked on. As such it doesn't recover very much better than ext2 does. Better to use ReiserFS or XFS true journaling FS's. I'd suggest ReiserFS. Doesn't help much with your problems now, but next time you install, I'd advise you to avoid ext3. As to lost or corrupted files, unless you have backups for 'em, I'm afraid you're SOL. You might try lookin in the various 'lostfound' directories ext3 spread all over your system when it tried to recover. OTOH, your corruption shouldn't have happened other than due to a hard shutdown. If that was due to power failure, you need to invest in an UPS. If you didn't have a hard re-set, your hard drive(s), might be goin bad. The drive(s) probly came with a bootable floppy and suitable diagnostics on it for that drive. If not, you can get the floppy image from your drive's website. Otherwise see 'man badblocks'. You might also have a deficient HDD controller, specially if you've got a win-raid motherboard, with the fake raid disabled in bios, but are usin the extra ide ports. Other possible causes are faulty ram, or PSU. There's other more remote causes like bad caps on the motherboard, to somethin simple like ide cable(s) that need re-seating or replacing. IOW's the reason can be many and/or varied, but boil down to user (including choices), or hardware. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wireless phone causes slow connection?
Hi! I have just purchased a Southwestern Bell wireless phone/modem jack system: the main unit connects to a power outlet and to a phone line and the secondary unit is just plugged in into a power outlet and to the modem of my computer. The reason for buying this was to transform a large walk-in closet into an office without having to pull phone lines into the walk-in closet (and without messing with a wireless network). The units seem to work fine - but my connections are very slow (mostly 14'400 for a dial-up modem which usually gave me 44'000). Does anyone have any info on such wireless phone/jack systems and could they be the cause of the slow connection? Alternatively - could it be the phone lines themselves? (I moved to a new house in the same city and I dial-up the same number, so the only difference is either my phone lines or my setup). Thanks! -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] namp/firewall behavoir
Two nmap/firewall questions: 1) I am using the firestarter firewall. When I try to scan a server with nmap I get repeated operation not permitted and my firewall's logs show blocked hits from MY ip. why is this? 2) when I stop the firewall and type nmap -sF -F -O xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on a serveur which I know for a fact is up and running and which I can ping - I get nothing (even without the flags). Nmap returns nothing at all. what am I doing wrong here BTW - when I run nmap on 127.0.0.1 it works just fine. thanks in advance! Andrei -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] floppy takes horribly long to open (in mdk9.1)
I have the same problem with Mdk 9.0. My impression is that the supermount causes this. Previous Mdk versions (whithout supermount) did not have this problem. You can disable the supermount through the MCC though. Cheers, Andrei it takes about a minute to open floppy; while opening it, konquerror displays 'nonemntfloppy', after that it succeeds an displays '/mnt/floppy'. Then it works OK, but if I remove floppy and put it back, it hapens again. Dou you know what might be the problem? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mdk 9 compatible printers list
Hi, Can anyone point me to a Mdk 9 -compatible printer list? The hardware compatibility list on the Mandrake site is not too helpful and, besides, I cannot take it with me to a local shop. As for the list in the MCC, it includes also printers which are not supported (yet?). Ideally, I would need a text file I can place on a diskette and take with me. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - raw newsfeeds for lynx
Hi, I am looking for a website with raw, unedited raw newsheadlines linking to full articles (preferebly in a text only mode or little graphics as I would prefer to use lynx to access it). Ideally, something like a text-only Reuters, AP, AFP or any other major news outlet (in English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). I am particularly interested in international news. A raw feed from major news agencies would be ideal. Can you help me find something like that? Thanks, Andrei -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xine encryption plugins (sorry long post)
Hi, I am trying to (finally) watch DVDs on my computer. I installed Xine and I got and installed the xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf.i586.rpm packaed (from the plf site). This package yields the following information about itself: QUOTE: rpm -qpil xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf.i586.rpm Name: xine_d4d_plugin Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.3.2 Vendor: Penguin Liberation Front Release : 2plf Build Date: Thu 08 Aug 2002 10:53:45 AM EDT Install date: (not installed) Build Host: virgo.nanardon Group : Video Source RPM: xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf.src.rpm Size: 71640License: GPL Packager: Götz Waschk [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.captaincss.tk Summary : XINE - d4d plugin (CSS support) Description : Using this plugin, you are able to view all of your encrypted and locked dvds without even noticing that someone tried real hard to keep you from doing so... finally dvd playback really comes to linux. -- Author: Plitsch-Platsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_inp_d4d.so /usr/share/doc/xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2 /usr/share/doc/xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2/COPYING /usr/share/doc/xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2/README UNQUOTE Sounds promising, no? Nevertheless, when I try ot watch a DVD movie, here is what the console give me: QUOTE # xine [1] 2541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] andrei]# This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.13 (c) 2000-2002 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team. Built with xine library 0.9.13 [Mit 07 Aug 2002 03:32:19]-[gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-0.2mdk)]-[Linux 2.4.16-6mdksmp i686]. Found xine library version: 0.9.13 (0.9.13). XServer Vendor: Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.2.1, patch level 3mdk). Release: 40201000, Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0, Available Screen(s): 1, using 0 Depth: 24. Display is not using Xinerama. video_out_xv: using Xv port 55 from adaptor ATI mach64 Video Overlay for hardware colorspace conversion and scaling. video_out_xv: port attribute XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY value is 1 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_COLORKEY value is 197120 video_out_xv: double buffering mode = 1 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_BRIGHTNESS value is 0 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_CONTRAST value is 0 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_SATURATION value is 16 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_HUE value is 0 video_out_xv: this adaptor supports the yuy2 format. video_out_xv: this adaptor supports the yv12 format. load_plugins: video output plugin Xv successfully loaded. audio_oss_out: Opening audio device... audio_oss_out: using device /dev/dsp audio_oss_out: using SNDCTL_DSP_GETODELAY audio_oss_out : supported modes are mono stereo load_plugins: audio output plugin oss successfully loaded. xine: xine_init entered xine: using MMXEXT optimized memcpy() xine-scr_init: complete load_plugins: input plugin found : CDA load_plugins: input plugin found : DVD load_plugins: input plugin found : file load_plugins: input plugin found : HTTP load_plugins: input plugin found : MMS load_plugins: input plugin found : TCP load_plugins: input plugin found : RTP load_plugins: input plugin found : stdin_fifo load_plugins: input plugin found : VCD input_d4d: using raw device /dev/rdvd load_plugins: input plugin found : d4d load_plugins: demux plugin found : ASF load_plugins: demux plugin found : AVI load_plugins: demux plugin found : CDA load_plugins: demux plugin found : FILM (CPK) load_plugins: demux plugin found : FLI load_plugins: demux plugin found : Id CIN load_plugins: demux plugin found : MPEG load_plugins: demux plugin found : MPGAUDIO load_plugins: demux plugin found : MPEG_BLOCK load_plugins: demux plugin found : MPEG_ELEM load_plugins: demux plugin found : MPEG_PES load_plugins: demux plugin found : MPEG_TS load_plugins: demux plugin found : OGG load_plugins: demux plugin found : QUICKTIME load_plugins: demux plugin found : RoQ load_plugins: demux plugin found : SMJPEG load_plugins: demux plugin found : WAV audio decoder plugin found : ADPCM audio decoder plugin found : a/52dec video decoder plugin found : cinepak video decoder plugin found : CYUV audio decoder plugin found : dts libavcodec: CPU flags: mmx mmxext sse video decoder plugin found : ffmpeg video decoder video decoder plugin found : FLI Video audio decoder plugin found : lpcm audio decoder plugin found : mad video decoder plugin found : mpeg2dec video decoder plugin found : Microsoft RLE video decoder plugin found : msvc audio decoder plugin found : RoQ Audio video decoder plugin found : RoQ Video spu decoder plugin found : spudec spu decoder plugin found : spucc spu decoder plugin found : sputext video decoder plugin found : svq1 audio decoder plugin found : vorbis video_out: thread created metronom: start_clock (at 0) xine_play: xine open file:///usr/share/xine/skins/xine_logo.mpv, start
[newbie] drakefirewall assessment sought
Hi everybody, Does anyone have experience with drakefirewall (the firewall shipped with Mandrake 9)? How does it compare to other products (such as firestarter)? Also, When I try to launch it it says Make sure you have configured your Network/Internet access with drakconnect before going any further. I manually installed kppp for dial-up, does that mean that I cannot use it? thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] port monitor sought
Hi, Thanks for your answers, but I have to say you've got me confused. Damien says that firestarter will report connection attempts (exactly what I need) whereas Rob says that firestarter is a firewall and does not monitor ports. Since I only use dial-up for my computer and I never use it as a server, I really need something simple. What happened to me was that I was on an IRC when somebody obviously took my IP and attempted an ftp access; he/she also tried to access swat on port 901. What I am looking for is not something which needs to work on its own, but only something which would warn me 'ftp access attempt on port 21' or 'swat access attempt on port 901' and offer to authorize it or not (this is what ZoneAlarm did on my old MS box). Alternatively, I how can I best (remember - I am a total newbie at all this) block all my ports (except http to browse) and open them only only when I need them (in my case probably only ftp from time to time). Sorry for the primitive question... And thanks, Andrei Have you tried firestarter? It's quite simpler than ZoneAlarm --it only has two tabs, one which reports connection attempts and blocked packets, and the other inside of which you can create rules for your firewall http://firestarter.sf.net Ok, this is what initially got me into Linuxfirewalling and security. I am not saying i am the shit. God knows that i am not. I am just saying this is a HUGE field that you actually got to do the research yourself b/c there are so many capabilities of apps out there. Also, i am not stating that Damien is incorrect in his information. Firestarter is not a port monitor. It is a front end to IPTables. IPTables is a firewall. If your wanting a port monitor look into Snort or other IDS (intrusion detection system). Snort is the best IDS out there, with options of a firewall. If your wanting a firewall then go with IPtables. If you go with IPTables and you want a GUI configurator then go with Firestarter. The difference being: firewall: you setup to block/allow certain packets going in/out of certain ports. For instance, if you have a web server but not an ftp server, you allow port 80 and block port 21. IDS: you look at each packet and see if the insides look like an attack that is defined by your ruleset. For instance, if you have an ftp server you obviously allow port 21 BUT you look at each packet and see if it contains malformed packets that would possibly look like a DDoS or something else where the intruder is trying to actually attack the ftp server to grab your /etc/passwd file. Thats more or less security of the FTP server BUT it can be configured in your IDS rules. Just remember that a port monitor and a firewall are totally different. IPTables and Snort can actually do monitoring and firewalling BUT IPTables is made for firewalling and Snort is made for IDS. If your wanting port monitor then Snort would be it. http://www.snort.org for cabled networks http://airsnort.shmoo.com for wifi For IP Tables and firewall http://www.netfilter.org Rob Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] worried
Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Anyway the point is I've just upgraded my windows98 to XP and I must admit in all fairness for the desktop, I know nothing of computers, average user, XP is better. Now before I get flamed let me explain. I run a small 500mhz Athlon with 64mg memory but for speed and effeiciency XP is by far the fastest. My Md9 is a minimal installation (although having most of the HD) but still pales in comparison to XP even when a large number of apps are working. With XP I boot and hey-presto I'm logging in with Md9 I can make a brew etc etc. (well not literally but you get the point) I beleive that as far as the end user is concerned speed is the most important factor. Not how much software is free or that linux is more stable and reliable. The average user wants speed. You click on an icon and up pops the application IMMEDIATELY!!! With XP even my little 500 acheives this performance but alas (and I mean that with a heavy heart) Md9 is a slow monolith beleiving that placing god knows how many apps into their installation cd's will convert new customers. Just my thought Andrew Hey, why would anyone flame you?! You like XP - enjoy it! I personally feel a deep aversion to MS and anything it produces and stands for. But that's my choice. Keep an eye on Linux though :-) you might change your mind again one day, no? Cheers, Andrei Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeClub Renewal
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:07 pm, James Dawson wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding renewing my MandrakeClub membership. My finances are rather tight right now so I don't know if I can afford to renew at Silver level but I can't find an option online to renew at Bronze level. Second, is it possible to renew paying on a month-to-month basis rather than a single payment? If you want to downgrade, you have to e-mail Deno. They are not encouraging this for obvious reasons. But if you want to you can. AFAIK, there still is no option to pay monthly. I really widh they would explain why they won't or cannot do this. I think they fear that some will join, download StarOffice and other premiuum goodies and then block their credit card from further charges. A risk for sure, but it could probably be minimized with certain procedures. I think they could really increase their revenue as a lot more people would join if they could pay that way. Also I'd like to hear from anyone who has purchased the 'Definitive guide to using Mandrake Linux' book. It sounds like it could either be an invaluable resource or a rehash of the Mandrake documentation. I ordered one. It was just announced today, so I doubt anyone has seen it yet. Deno posted a link to the TOC on the Club site. I'm sure some of it is a rehash, but it looks to me like it has a lot more stuff than the default docs, including server configuration and stuff. I joined the Club instead of buying a Pack, so I don't have the 9.0 manuals, so I don't care much if it is a rehash. Also, Deno indicated in a follow-up post that an html version will be going up for Club member access. That might be a reason to skip the book and just go for the club membership. -- Greg Even if they agreed tp put a HTML version online version for memebers there are plenty of reasons to still get a hardcopy such as the fact that club members get a good discount, a hard copy is simply much nicer to read and, last but not least, we can help Mandrake by buying one. Andrei Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keyboard switcher
Privet, Yes there is - use kxkb from the command line and then ctrl-alt-k and it will switch between the keyboards you have selected in KDE. I use it for Russia-English-French without any problems. Vsego dobrogo! Hello list, It seems I am having problems switching between different keyboard layouts in KDE 3.1 under Mandrake 9.1 beta 3. I have chosen the Russian layout, selected a shortcut, but it did not work. None of them. Is there a way to enable a tray switcher in KDE 3.1? I know it was possible with previous versions, but I cannot find this feature now. -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ PGP key: 633F6D07 (1A1C 29F1 2A0C 4C4E 0BDA C8EE 5A1D 9F03 633F 6D07) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Attached%20key ~~ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] solaris...why not
Hi, There are many possible answers to your question and most of them will fall into two groups: technology and philosophy. To summarize, Linux gives you much more for the buck (if you can read French look at http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/nouvelles/03-02/07-153502.html and see that even Steve Jobs is switching from UNIX to Linux for his company Pixar), or read the philosophy pages at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ Where did you get the strange idea that Solaris is more realiable and stable? As for your last sentence, well I suppose you know as much about the participants in the list as about linux chown -R Linux:GNU world Cheers Hi all, Just curious, why don't you people try out Sun Solaris 9 for Intel. SOlaris 9 costs $20 for download and USD 99/- for the boxed set. Sol 8 costs 45/- for the boxed set. You get a more stable reliable OS. What makes you stay loyal to MDK? You probably don't know about it. Cheers... +-+ KEANE INDIA LIMITED E9 - E12, SDF NEPZ, NOIDA 201 305 U.P, INDIA e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +91-120-2568210(371) Men are from MACs, Women are from VMS +-+ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FYI - OPEN SSL touble
Swiss Crack E-Mail Code, but Minimal Impact Seen Thu February 20, 2003 08:45 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Researchers at a Swiss university have cracked the technology used to keep people from eavesdropping on e-mail sent over the Web, but U.S. experts said on Thursday that the impact would likely be minimal. Professor Serge Vaudenay of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne found a way to unlock a message encrypted using Secure Socket Layer protocol technology, according to a posting on the research institute's Web site. However, U.S. cryptography experts said it was not the version of security that most consumers use to shop online. Rather, it is a version that only affects e-mail, is limited in scope and not widely used, said Professor Avi Rubin, who is technical director of the Information Security Institute at Maryland's Johns Hopkins University. In addition, an attacker would have to be in control of a network computer located in the middle of the two people communicating over which the messages were flowing, he said. It's possible, but it has limited applicability, he said. He said patches are already available to fix the hole, which affects one particular mode of OpenSSL. Like all co-called open source software, OpenSSL is free software created by developers who can modify it at any time. This is not something that anybody really needs to worry about, Rubin said. Bruce Schneier, chief technical officer at network monitoring firm Counterpane Internet Security, agreed. As a cryptographer, I am impressed. That's really nice work, he said of the research. As a guy who wants to protect my secrets tomorrow, I don't care. Besides the mitigating circumstances which lessen the likelihood that attackers would be successful, Schneier said SSL is irrelevant to security because attackers can more easily get at secret information while it is stored on computers and servers at the sending and receiving ends. SSL protects the communications link between you and the Web server, he said. Nobody bothers eavesdropping on the communications while it is in transit. source: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4Y0LLU2CMBKUWCRBAEKSFEY?type=technologyNewsstoryID=2263603 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Koffice/KWord warning?
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I would like to inquire about a warning message that I get whenever I use KWord. Does anyone else get the following when opening KWord in a terminal? Koffice (lib kofficecore):Warning:KoDocumentEntry:: query [X-KDE-NativeMimeType]=='application/x-KWord' got 2 offers! When using KWord, .xsession-errors gets a lot of these warnings. What does this mean? I also note that when I right click on a .kwd file, in the context menu 'open with' there are two entries for KWord shown. Can anyone shed some light on this please? KWord appears to be working OK otherwise however. --Angus Yes , I've just tested it and the terminal window comes up with the same message. No Idea why though. John Thanks John for your reply and observations. I did a google for the warning message, and came up with a response for the exact message, but it is on a German SuSE mailing list, and, unfortunately I can't read German. :-) The warning on the German list was in regard to KOffice 1.2 Beta2-Installation. Do you also have the double KWord entries in the right click context menu 'open with' when clicking a .kwd file? Best regards. -- Angus Hi Angus, Found the German text. It reads : Rechtsklick auf ein Koffice-Dokument - Dateityp bearbeiten... means: Rightclick on a Koffoce-Document - Change Datatype Und einen der doppelten Eintraege entfernen. means: And remove the double submissions Can translate it. But could not DO it. Do you know what he means? Cheers, Andrei Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
Hi is there any HTML e-mail client like outlook express? Gil Hi Gil, Sure there is. Evolution is one, kmail is another. The first one is fancier (more like complete Outlook version, but buggy, at least in the 1.0.8 version) and there is kmail which is a pure mail client, working very nicely. The only thing which GNU/linux software never managed to achieve is writing an email client capable to do what Outlook does best: expose your system to 6+ viruses ;-) Enjoy! Andrei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] console/ascii games?
Hi, Thanks for the links. Overkill is the one I had seen and it is quite a feat to do this in ASCII. Do you know of any online server or, alternatively, of a single-player engine for it? Hi! Here's a couple: OVERKILL (LOL) http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~brain/0verkill/ QII ! http://www.jfedor.org/aaquake2/ For more, search for ascii games on freshmeat.net Enjoy, and let us know how it goes :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] console/ascii games? Hi, Can anyone point me to some good console/ascii games? Once, I saw a really hilarious 'wolfstein-like' with all the graphics in ascii and I thought that it was something really neat in the age of X and 3D acceleration. Also - do you know of neat ascii-art utilites? Thanks, Andrei __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous re-boots
Hi Anne, I am running OpenOffice on a Pentium 450 laptop with 191 RAM without any problems. I don't think the problem is the power of your machine. Good luck! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 On Tuesday 21 January 2003 10:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Once again I am encountering spontaneous re-boots in Star/OpenOffice. It feels as though I hit some sort of ceiling, out of some resource. There must be some way I can see what's going on? I know Althlon 900 is not high spec these days, but it's not that bad. And with 512 Mb RAM I wouldn't have expected problems. _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mkd 9.0 source manager question
Hi, I initially installed Mdk 9.0 from the three CDs of the Mandrake Download Edition. A friend has now given me the full Mdk. 9.0 Power Pack with 7 CDs. I would like to now add to my source manager (in the Mandrake Control Center) the extra CDs, in particular the two commercial applications CDs and the supplementary application CD. When I launch the source manager I have the option to add a source (in this case my CDs). There is only one item which puzzles me: what is the 'relative path to systhesis/hdlist:' and why does the documentation suggest that this path be '../base/hdlist2.cz' ? What should I put into the 'relative path' box to have the full 7 CDs as source? Thanks, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] userdrake mcc run amok
Hi, I already was having some problems with the mandrake control center before. When I was trying to do anything with it, it was systematically telling me that changes made in this module will not be recorded (or some very similiar message). Yesterday, however, things got nastier. I wanted to add one user to a group and, as usual, got the changes in this module etc.. message. I tried saving twice. Then I exited for a while and came back to see if the changes I wanted were in fact recorded or not. And when I tried to enter the users module I got the following message: UserDrake - Error Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist in the console the following message appeared: ** WARNING ** userdrake: the file password is busy (/etc/ptmp present) the file /etc/ptmp was present on my system (but was it busy?!), but since it was a root.root -rw-- file I did not want to mess with it, much less so removing it. I decided to try linuxconf to see if its users-management module worked. In the past, linuxconf did load with no problems. This time, however, I got the following message: Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Error message from remadmin :Xlib: No protocol specified Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 same thing when trying userconf. linuxconf now can only be loaded through the console outside X (alt-ctrl-F1 for ex). And finally, I got this warning: root@localhost andrei]# XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: being destroyed, bad news!!! XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: bad news!!! XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: being destroyed, bad news!!! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? Has userdrake/mcc destroyed something important on my system? Can I re-install only userdrake/mcc? Should I? What is happening to my linuxconf and why does it not load in X? And finally - should I consider the entire Mandrake Control Center as unreliable and potentially a source of chaos on my system? I realize that I can always use command-line user management tools (useradd or adduser), but it would be rather frustrating to give up on one of Mandrake's most important tools... Thanks for any help, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] userdrake mcc run amok
Hi Anne, I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show that they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are both read-only for all others, look: [andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp -rw-r--r--1 root root 635 Jan 13 10:47 gtmp -rw-r--r--1 root root 1365 Jan 13 10:47 ptmp are you absolutely sure that these are non-critical files? Who created them in the first place, userdrake? If they are something which is created when something goes wrong - which files are they a backup for and would it not be reasonable to assume that since they were created they are now needed? If they are temp files should they not be located in one of the /tmp? Also - do you know what the link is between my userdrake problems and my linuxconf and remadmin and _XmAcceleratorHandler warning messages? Thanks for your time and help (and sorry for the long posting)! Top posting - as it's such a long message that probably should all be quoted :) Have you tried deleting /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp or both if both exist? They are temp files that get left behind if something goes wrong, and won't damage anything else. Anne On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 3:20 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I already was having some problems with the mandrake control center before. When I was trying to do anything with it, it was systematically telling me that changes made in this module will not be recorded (or some very similiar message). Yesterday, however, things got nastier. I wanted to add one user to a group and, as usual, got the changes in this module etc.. message. I tried saving twice. Then I exited for a while and came back to see if the changes I wanted were in fact recorded or not. And when I tried to enter the users module I got the following message: UserDrake - Error Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist in the console the following message appeared: ** WARNING ** userdrake: the file password is busy (/etc/ptmp present) the file /etc/ptmp was present on my system (but was it busy?!), but since it was a root.root -rw-- file I did not want to mess with it, much less so removing it. I decided to try linuxconf to see if its users-management module worked. In the past, linuxconf did load with no problems. This time, however, I got the following message: Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Error message from remadmin :Xlib: No protocol specified Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 same thing when trying userconf. linuxconf now can only be loaded through the console outside X (alt-ctrl-F1 for ex). And finally, I got this warning: root@localhost andrei]# XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: being destroyed, bad news!!! XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: bad news!!! XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: being destroyed, bad news!!! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? Has userdrake/mcc destroyed something important on my system? Can I re-install only userdrake/mcc? Should I? What is happening to my linuxconf and why does it not load in X? And finally - should I consider the entire Mandrake Control Center as unreliable and potentially a source of chaos on my system? I realize that I can always use command-line user management tools (useradd or adduser), but it would be rather frustrating to give up on one of Mandrake's most important tools... Thanks for any help, Andrei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Help STOP SPAM: Try the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues
Hi, 1) I have a US keyboard on my laptop. I would like to type in French letters with accents (such as é or à). I can use the GNOME character map application, but this is really very slow and cumbersome. I know what the ASCII character codes are for all these letters, but I don't know how to type them in. The Windows approach of typing, say, Alt+233 for an é does not seem to work with linux. I also tried to type the sign ^ followed by a letter - but this does not work either. Any suggestions as to how rapidly and conveniently get French accents in a console of in a OpenOffice text? How can I generate extended ASCII characters? 2) How can I rapidly change keyboards? I could use the Mandrake Control Center's hardware menu to change keyboards, but this would also be very slow. Specifically, I need to alternate between Russian and US keyboards (mainly in OpenOffice documents). Is there a rapid and convenient to switch keyboards with linux? Thanks in advance! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help with installing external USB CD-burner needed
Hi again Anne, Thanks for your help. To be honest, I am a little nervous about using linuxconf as I have had problems in the past with linuxconf's configuration not being in sync with the configuration recorded in Mandrake's utilities (or the other way around). Also - the something like in the suggested post makes me a little nervous too (that is a newbie's priviledge - is it not :-) As for seeing the date on a regular CD ROM on the drive, well, I could not even find the drive on /mnt or anywhere else. Now, I have no problem living without the supermount, which already did cause me some problems, but I am unsure as to how to best disable it and then how to manually mount a CDRW (as a cdrom2?) inside /mnt? Could I not them rather then disableling the supermout simply try tying something like mount /mnt/cdrom2? But I think I remember that to make this possible, I need to add some lines into my fstab, and that in turn, implies that I understand how to mount a USB device intop fstab which I do not at all... These are the small miseries of the newbies' life. Thanks a lot for any solution! Cheers, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 I'm not familiar with a cd drive on usb, but here are my first thoughts. First, it appears to be seen as an ide drive, not scsi-emulated, and you will not be able to burn without that. Quoting from a recent post: 1) Open /etc/lilo.conf in your editor of choice. 2) Find the line that reads append=blah blah 3) Insert into that line hdc=ide-scsi so that it looks something like append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi 4) Save and quit. 5) As root, type lilo enter and Bob's yer uncle. Unquote That should give you scsi-emulation, and the drive, instead of being hdc will become scd0. xcdroast will need to have the setup run again, but it should detect the drive and all should be well. One thing worries me - you imply that you have not had any success with this drive at all. Does that mean that you can't even see data files on a cd from it? Supermount works great on some systems, and patchily or not at all on others. If it is not mounting correctly for you, you will need to disable it. Come back if this is the case. Let us know how you go Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_addphotos_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help with installing external USB CD-burner needed
Hi Anne, I did not use any Removable media dektop link icon since, using WindowsMaker, I don't have icons at all. Is this icon something I find in the Mandrake Control Center of is this something with KDE or some other icon? Cheers, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 It also seems to imply that the file system is ok, so if you can't see files I would suggest that it is time to disable supermount (I presume that you have used the mount icon in Removable media desktop link, under Mandrake 9.0?). Keep talking - I'm sure someone will solve your problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_smartspamprotection_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help with installing external USB CD-burner needed
Dear Anne, Thanks for all your efforts. I think I have not been very clear in my wailing.. First, I did not mean to say that my CDRW was a cdrom. I only meant to say that I could not even find a way of accessing the date on a regular CD inserted into my CDRW (which I could do under W2k before I removed all MS products from my laptop). Also, when I look into the contents of the file devices in /proc/bus/usb I find the follwing: QUOTE T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=1060 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 5 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=03f0 ProdID=0107 Rev= 2.00 S: Manufacturer=Shuttle Technology Inc. S: Product=HP USB CD-Writer Plus C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=32ms UNQUOTE Now the line which says S: Product=HP USB CD-Writer Plus does seem to indicate that the kernel sees the device just fine. So does usbview. When I look into my /dev directory I see a buntch of symbolic links with one pointing to ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd (I am not sure if this fully answers your question. Now I really have a strong feeling that supermount is not to blame. Could it be that there is no driver/module available for my combination of CDRW and USB port? Look at what lsmod gives me: QUOTE Module Size Used byTainted: P lp 6720 0 (unused) parport_pc 21672 1 parport23936 1 [lp parport_pc] ppp_deflate41024 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp4344 0 (autoclean) ppp_async 7456 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic20064 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc5072 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] sg 31276 0 (autoclean) (unused) msdos 5364 0 (autoclean) vfat9588 0 (autoclean) fat31864 0 (autoclean) [msdos vfat] isofs 25652 0 (autoclean) inflate_fs 17892 0 (autoclean) [isofs] udf85472 0 (autoclean) lt_serial 19732 3 (autoclean) lt_modem 479739 0 (autoclean) [lt_serial] ide-cd 28712 0 (autoclean) cdrom 26848 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) binfmt_misc 5696 1 maestro27976 0 soundcore 3780 0 [maestro] nfsd 66576 8 (autoclean) lockd 46480 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 60188 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] ds 6828 2 yenta_socket9728 2 pcmcia_core42272 0 [ds yenta_socket] af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean) ip_vs 74328 0 (autoclean) supermount 14340 2 (autoclean) usb-storage51952 0 scsi_mod 90372 2 [sg usb-storage] usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore58304 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 2 jbd38452 2 [ext3] UNQUOTE Could it be that the lines usb-storage 51952 0 and the four next lines point to a missing module to handle this device?! Heelp Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 From this, I think I have been misunderstanding - this device is your second cdrom? You already have an ide cd reader? If so, we need to think again. Your log files suggest to me that it is mounting the usb device. Can you look at /dev and list any entries that you find starting with cdrom or scd? Once we have identified just how it is being seen, we will be able to sort out the mount problem. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virusxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_virusprotection_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] system monitoring advice needed
Hi, The other day my computer began not loading some programs (OpenOffice 1.0.1), looking for non-existing CD/DVDs in my drive, and acting sluggish. After a while, my system froze. I could not open a console any more, I could not even kill X. I had to reboot. After going over the logs for over 30 min. I got a suspicion that the culprit was a bug in the functionning of my supermout as the kernel was looking for a disk which was not there. Anyway, I am thinking that I wish I had taken a closer look at what was going on wrong in my system before everything froze. Here is my question: Which file should I monitor (with xconsole for example) if I get suspicious about my system? To consult logs live is time-consuming (besides - do I want to open a root session, even in a non-X console, while having problems?), and looking at them after the event does not always give an answer. Alternatively, is there some monitoring tool which I could run in the background which would warn me of upcoming trouble? Thanks for any help, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_stopmorespam_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Hi Rob, I had the same problem and could not resolve it. But, for whatever it is worth, Kword makes very good PDF files. That's what I have been using since. Good look! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to be able to print to PDF from OpenOffice, and when I go to the printer within it I am channelled towards a generic printer under which I can select to print to file as PS or PDF. When I select PDF, the files open in PS and PDF Viewer, but don't open on W4L/Acrobat. Acrobat comes back with a dialogue which says There was an error opening this document - File does not begin with '%PDF-' I would like PDF files which I generate with OO to open on Mac and Win machines at work. Could someone suggest where I'm going wrong, please? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_addphotos_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] what is exactly an inode?
Hi, I have found this defitition of the word inode on the net (http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?99983423203): QUOTE inode: Index or Information Node. This is a structure containg the basic information about a file such as owner, type, access permissions and pointers to the actual data on the disk. Inodes are stored in the per filesystem inode table and are referenced through inode numbers. UNQUOTE This sounds to me as something rather similar to the info contained in the MS FAT table. Is the inode table something similar to the FAT or am I missing something? Also - the inode table is,according to the documentation, at the start of the file system. What does this physically mean - where is it on the disk? I though that the mbr was at the start? And lastly - what is the importance/relevance of the inode table and its info for the understanding of linux? Thanks, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)
Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the opportunity, that's it. My silver membership was a way to say thanks to Mandrake for their fantastic work - not a way of getting StarOffice. Actually, I am very impressed and happy with OpenOffice already and I could live for it for a while. But, hey, since I could I wanted to try it out - see how similar/different they really are. Anyaway, is urpmi.removemedia safe in case I want to get rid of it? It will not remove dependencies used by my OpenOffice? Cheers, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 If you have them in the same directory by themselves, you can just cd to that directory and type urpmi * (as root, no quotes). They won't interfere with OpenOffice at all and to be honest, I can't see any great advantage to StarOffice. Though, presumably, you are a silver club member as well, so you might as well have them! David _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming
Nedit is probably the best choice. But I would reccommend getting at least a working exposure to vi or vim which you will find on ANY linux distro. Cheers! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 On Monday 16 December 2002 20:42, Adolfo Bello wrote: What are the best text editors? Them's fighting words around here, pardner But try nedit. I practically always have one open, either as a cut 'n paste scratchpad or writing shell scripts. It has everything you asked for plus keystroke macro recording, case changing etc etc -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question
Thank you for everyting! Cheers, Andrei gShield doesn't need an RPM.. It comes as a tarball... unzip the tarball and dump everything in it to /etc/firewall Then edit the one config file.. /etc/firewall/gShield.conf (it tells you exactly what to do in there, most answers are 'OPEN' 'CLOSE' or 'FORWARD') In most cases the defaults are good... The reasons I like it are: 1. Simplicity:.. you don't need to understand any of it to get it working and configure it to your needs. 2. Power:, portforwarding, DMZ's tcpcookies and tons of other stuff. (but you don't need to play with that them you don't need them.) 3. See know evil hear no evil.. once its working, it just works,, no need to mess around and if you need to change something, you just edit a human readable conf file.. its brilliant in its simplicity. 4. There is a GUI configurator available on their site as well, but I've never used it and don't need it. 5. Takes about 2 minutes from unzipping it to have a working firewall. You can get it from : http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html regards Frank _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] registration
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[newbie] encrypted DVDs with Xine or others?
Hi, I got my first computer with a DVD driver. I ran to the local library to rent a movie to test in, lauched Xine and got a message than Xine cannot run encrypted DVDs How can a commercial DVD be encrypted? Does this have something to do with the fact that I heared that US DVDs cannot be played in Europe or Asia? Is this some regional problem? My Mandrake 9 was purchased in France, my computer and DVD driver are US, but built in Japan... Is there a software out there which will run encrypted DVDs (whatever this means)? Thanks, Andrei __ registered Linux user: 226850 registered Linux computer: 183163 _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question
Hi Frank, Thanks for your posting! Could you be more specific please? Why is this better than Mandrake's firewall? Does it also use iptable or ipchains? and also, where can I get it (preferably in RPM format)? (rpmfind does not have it) Cheers and thanks, Andrei I suggest you forget the drake firewall stuff... download and install gShield.. you will never look back.. its so easy to configure and once it is, you don't have to touch a thing ever again.. and its totally predictable. rgds Frank _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question
Hi, When I launch my firewall configurator in the Mandrake Control Center, I get the following message: make sure you have configured your Network/Internet access with drakconnet before going any further Well, I have not. I installed Mandrake 9 on a laptop with a modem, so I could not configure any connection during the inital installation since my laptop came with a so-called Winmodem. I had to hack it with with a Linmodem RPM to get any internet access at all. Now all works fine. I connect to my ISP with a dial-up (slow: 28) using kppp. At no stage did drakconnect ever get involved. Does this mean that I cannot install the firewall offered by Mandrake 9 or that I need at all costs to use the Mandrake connection utility rather than KDE kppp? From my (very limited) understanding of firewalls all that the Mandrake firewall does is block certain ports (such as telnet or ftp) and if this is so - why this warning message? Who cares how my connection was configured as long as the right ports are closed? Thanks for any help with this! Cheers, Andrei _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] noarc scr mdk rpms
Hi, On the website rpmfind.net there are RPMs which are *.noarc.mdk or *src.mdk. How are these different from other mandrake RPMs? And also - can I install Red Hat RPMs (non mdk.rpms) safely or not? Thanks, Andrei _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)
Hi, Ok. But does keeping my laptop with the battery inside CONSTANTILY connected to the power outlet qualify as recharging or not (since the battery does not really discharge the battery to being with, right?). Thanks, Andrei Every time you charge a Li-ion battery you shorten it's life (i.e. the uptime) a little. Taking it out and unloading and loading it every once in a while (monthly or so) will keep it in shape for years to come. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] asf (?) audiostream file
Hi, I was trying to listen to a radio station on-line (which I could do without any problems using MS Explorer 5 under MS W98) but neither Galeon, nor Mozilla nor Konqueror could directly play it. All I could was download the file to my HD after which I tried to use xmms to listen to it, but this did not work either. The file is in an (unkown to to) *.asf file format. Can anyone help me either listen to it online or, at least, after downloading it? Thanks, Andrei _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)
Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette: I was given an old Quantex N30W-15 (on which Mandrake 9 runs without any problems, by the way - except for the Winmodem which one can easily fix with the RPMs available on the Linmodem.org site). It runs on a BAT30WL Lithium Ion Battery (rated 11.1V-4800mAh). I used my laptop at home 99% of the time so I do not need to run it on batteries. How should I best use this battery? Should I keep it plugged in and constanting charging, should I always use it on battery and thereby empty the battery daily, or is there anything else I should do to maximize my battery's life? Thanks in advance for your advice and sorry for the off-topic question, Andrei _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash 6.0beta rpm
Hi Angus, Thanks for the link! But who/what exactly is this tex? Cheers, Andrei Greetings, I can recall someone on the list looking for an rpm package to install Flash. Well, I see that Tex has released an rpm of the latest 6.0beta plugin for Mozilla 1.1. It would be available for Galeon to use w/this rpm install too I believe. I use the Flash 6.0beta and it's working great.w/Opera too! It can be had here: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/mozilla-flash-6.0beta1-1tex.i586.rpm All the best. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] flash RPMs for Mdk 9.0 sought
Hi, Could anyone please help me locate RPMs to install Flash for either Galeon, Konqueror or Mozilla for my Mandrake 9.0? Thank you --- Registered Linux user 226850 _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user capability, telnet (how many simultaneous sessions), file system comparison (journalling), crash recovery, users and group administration, etc. Rather than a philosophical comparison with praise or blame I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and contrast type. Many thanks in advance, Andrei _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
Thanks for the info. This answers my question very well. Cheers, Andrei Ok to save you some time the only differences are in the file system. Linux can use the ext2, ext3, JFS, ResierFS or XFS file systems. All except ext2 are journaling. Mac OS X can use the HFS+ (which is the recommended one) or the BSD UFS filesystem. At the moment there are no journaling capabilities available under OS X although FreeBSD's SoftUpdates are under consideration. As for the rest I'll run it down item by item Connectivity? What do you mean by that? Multi-tasking: Both Linux and Mac OS X have pre-emptive multitasking. Multi-user: Both OS's can have multiple users logged in at any one time. Telnet: Thats a setting that can be changed on either OS. Suffice it to say under normal circumstances no one will reach the limit on either OS. Crash recovery: What do you mean by this? It crashes, you reboot. You can use backup software/hardware with either OS. User and group administration: In addition to the normal Unix users and groups, you can use NIS on both OS's. OS X on its own has a unique Netinfo Domain Database system that can be used to admin networks consisting of clients of any OS. Additionaly SAMBA (SMB) can be installed and used on both to replicate Windows networking capabilities (PDC's BDC's...etc). Mac OS X is closely related to FreeBSD Unix (www.freebsd.org). The core of OS X (Darwin) inherited a lot of technology/features from FreeBSD. Since FreeBSD and Linux were already very similar (although not identical) the differences the user would see were already very little. This remains so on OS X. By comparing Mac OS X to Linux you're really just comparing one Unix to another, like Solaris to AIX or HP-UX to Tru64. What sets Mac OS X apart from other Unix's is its ability to run regular applications in addition to Unix apps. Things like Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, Internet Explorer, Quicken, and video games such as Quake, Doom, StarCraft, WarCraftetc that are all native to the platform. And no I don't know of any sites that have an exact comparison, if anyone else does please post a link to it! It really would be redundant though since more or less *NIX is *NIX. -- Blonde Klingons: Because it was a good day to dye! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
okay, i'm curious .. WHICH linus t book? Just for fun cheers, _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks, Andrei --- Registered Linux user 226850 Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even open source with their next OS is anything but opportunism born out of dire need. As for their OS - look at Linus T's comments about it in his book. Cheers, Andrei _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lilo versus fdisk/mbr
Hi! I am unclear about how exactly somebody can remove linux from a multi-boot machine. I am interested in two cases: a) the machine already is multi-boot with, say, Windows98 and Windows2000 installed. When linux is installed, linux places lilo in the mbr and lilo gives give the option to either select linux or windows in which case a menu to choose between W98 and W2000 appears. b) a machine only has W2000 and linux is added. To remove linux - I was told that one only needs to boot with DOS and type the command fdisk/mbr. This then removes lilo from the master boot record. So fine so good. But HOW does it place the loader which gives the choice between W98 and W2000 (in the first case above) or how does it then allow for the selection of W2000 in the second case. fdisk/mbr cleans the mbr - but it should not replace the windows options back into the mbr, right? Thanks for your help! Andrei _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] random number in bash
The function $RANDOM return a random number in Bash. But how can I choose to generate a random number between X and Y (say 1 and 35)? I looked at the Advanved Bash Scripting ebook but the script this suggest does not work. Thanks! Andrei _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] the MANDRAKE way to look at $PATH
Dear Michel daRcmaTTeR Take a look at the Bash script (in ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile)which loads the profile from each user. It actually takes the info from /etc (I don't remember from which file exactly). I tried removing this script - but the script in /etc is, I think, designed to still export its typical profile even when the user's profile files are changes. I am unsure about this as I don't understand the Bash syntax. This is, I think, something specific to Mandrake and which must be designed for the ease to add users having an immediately working $PATH variable. My problem is - how to I over-rule this and change, say, ONE user's $PATH without messing with the /etc script which affects ALL users. Cheers, Andrei Andrei, Edit ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile) -- I can't remember which one the PATH variable itself is found in. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:05 PM 12/29/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hello, I would like to add a subdirectory to my $PATH. I triend the export command but it told me that it is not valid. Mandrake seems to offer a shared path to all users taken from bashrc (I am not sure about this). How could I edit ONLY MY PATH (my user path - not my root which I don't want to touch even if I find it) without affecting the one of the other users on my machine? Thanks, Andrei - On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:31:25 -0600 Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Andrei, Edit ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile) -- I can't remember which one the PATH variable itself is found in. Michael You could also enter this command in a terminal. PATH=$PATH:/some/path/to/be/added example: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 1:05pm up 14 days, 4:54, 1 user, load average: 0.77, 0.81, 0.65 - you know...now that we're on the subject i'm a little unclear as to just how this PATH thing works. for a bit I couldn't remember how I could get to the screen exactly what my path was until I typed this in a terminal: which path this is what was returned: [mdw1982@mdw1982 mdw1982]$ which path which: no path in (/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home /mdw1982/bin) what I don't understand is just how this all works. I've always brought things into my path by issuing the statement above since using export PATH=$PATH:/some/path/statement pnly enters the path statement temporarily whereas the former enters the path permenantly. can some shed a little more light on this? this has really got my curiosity peaked. -- daRcmaTTeR this is correct, since the program 'path' does not exist in your $PATH (the shell variable). It's the same as trying to use a program not in your path. For example, if you installed staroffice into /opt/soffice, then since '/opt/soffice' isn't in your $PATH, you'd have to specify specifically where the file is until you added the command 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/soffice' to your the .bashrc / .profile / .bash_profile file. what I don't understand is just how this all works. I've always brought things into my path by issuing the statement above since using export PATH=$PATH:/some/path/statement pnly enters the path statement temporarily whereas the former enters the path permenantly. Nope. Actually, neither adds it 'permanently'. The only way to do so is edit the .profile or .bashrc or .bash_profile file and add it to the setting for PATH. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bash scripting for beginners
Hello, I am looking for a good bash scripting tutorial/manual for BEGINNERS who are new Bash, Linux and scripting. Ideally - a book in PDF format or something in HTML. Please let me know if you know were I could find such an item. Thanks! Andrei _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] editing $PATH
Hello, I would like to add a subdirectory to my $PATH. I triend the export command but it told me that it is not valid. Mandrake seems to offer a shared path to all users taken from bashrc (I am not sure about this). How could I edit ONLY MY PATH (my user path - not my root which I don't want to touch even if I find it) without affecting the one of the other users on my machine? Thanks, Andrei _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kylix Mandrake 8.0?
I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on my computer. I would like to intall Boreland's Kylix. I have read some of their documentation and it seems that there is a patch for Mandrake 7.2 compilers available on the Borland website. Also - Kylix demands VERY specific versions of compilers dependencies. All in all this seems to offer the potential for headaches as, as I think I understood, simply to patch up files can compromise the execution of other installed programs. So this is why I would like to know: Has anyone of you successfully installed Kylix on his box with Mandrake 8.0 and should I expect any problems if I start running Borland scripts and patches? Thanks Andrei Linux user 226850 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] what is wrong with dependencies
Frankly - I am rather frustrated with the issues of dependencies. Almost each time I try to install an rpm file, or compile a tar.gz, I get a failed/missing dependencies error. I was told that this is just as in Windows in which programs need dlls. This is simply not true. When a Win32 developer prepares a package for publication he includes ALL the dlls needed (at least in 99% of the cases) and the install wizard then checks to see if there is a need to add them to the system or if something more recent is already installed. Now WHY don't rpms come with ALL the dependencies they need? Is it to reduce the size of the packages? But then, would it not be better to define a list of main dependencies which ALL distributions would install on each machine (even if the installation type is not development)? Also - sometimes, a dependency needs another dependency. What for? If the two dependencies are developed by the same people, why don't they immediately package them together. Finally, can I get any missing dependency from sites such as rpmfind.net? Are all dependencies rpm-packaged. I am sorry if these questions sound silly to those of you who are advanced newbies (-: I'm the real newbie-newbie :-) but take it from a 100% committed linux-lover as I have become: this is a problem which does NOT exist in this form in the much-hated Windows world. Any explanations would be welcome, cheers! Linux user 226850 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nice command help needed
I understand the basic usage of the nice command. However, I did not find any documentation on the possible uses of this command. For example, I would like to find several examples of what can be achieved with this command, what type of priority should or should not be given to any one process, in what circumstances it makes sense to adapt the priority of a process, etc. ideally - I would like to find some e-book in pdf format discussing process management under linux. any help would be most welcome! thanks andrei Linux user 226850 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] religion in Linux?!
Call me curious, or call my plain stupid. But I cannot but help notice stuff such as the names daemons or ncurses or the FreeBSD logo with a little devil on it. Could anyone explain why this is so? Is there some historical reason for this, or is this just a coencidence, or just as in rock bands - a way of looking more interesting? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HTML editor sought
I am looking for a good (decent) HTML editor for Mandrake 8.0 Is there something similiar to Ultra-Edit or CuteHTML available? Could anyone reccommend something light, simple, but a little more specialised that vi or any other editor? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dependencies locator?
I am getting this when I try to install a small rpm package: error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/frm is needed by bsd-games-2.12-2 libtinfo.so.5 is needed by bsd-games-2.12-2 could anyone help me locate these dependencies or, better, give me the basic principles in locating (more or less exotic) missing dependencies? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
[newbie] linux anti viruses for W2K?
I am running two machines at home: a Linux machine under Mandrake 8.0 and a Windows2000Pro. These two talk to each other using Samba (II5 and Apache are also runnning). I am looking for a software (preferably an RPM package) which I could install on my Linux machine and with which I could check my Windows machine through my network. I do not need protection against some hypothetical linux viruses that some software claim to offer - I am only trying to use Linux to get rid of Windows viruses on a Windows machine and MSDOS disks. Anyone know of such a software? Thanks, Andrei _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
[newbie] Visual Basic 6 for Linux?!?!
I realize that this question might be "anathema" for all Microsoft haters out there. But being I newbie - I get to ask it anyway: is there a way to program for Linux using Visual Basic 6? Or is there a VB6-"like" integrated development environment for Linux? If not - what is the closest thing? How can a VB programmer apply his skills in the Linux world? Thanks! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] LM7.2 and kde2 is not working ...
hi a couple of weeks ago i sent an email about kde2.0 been disfunctional on my installation av LM7.2 . i was recommended to update the kde with mandrake update but i'm still out of luck. are there any configuration files i have to edit after downloading the updates from mandrake update? is this a result of insufficient system resourses ? afterall i may should change back to LM7.1 since it worked fine except the DSL connection. the system is P 133 MHz from intel 48 MB ram matrox graphic accelerator (4 MB) SB 16 compatible fujitsi disk (1GB) Quantum disk (3GB) I am a newbie myself so don't take my word for it. but it might be that you KDE is 1.99 rather than 2.0 (some LM7.2 come with the old one). Either way - upgrade to the 2.1 (or later). Good luck! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie]
My DrakeConf/PackageManager does not work. Could you help me locate a complete and downloadble list of all the software available on the Mandrake 7.2 Power Pack CDs? Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
