Re: [newbie] Lucent Modem
I have precompiled RPMS on my site, http://www.linuxbox.nu/~arthur On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Daniel Pacca wrote: Hi, my name is Daniel and I have a tiny problem, I have downloaded the latest Mandrake from the official site, and I can´t install my Lucent Internal Modem, I didn´t find it on the list of the Modem Wizard Configuration, what can I do? Please, any help will be usefull thank you Daniel Pacca -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?
If you are looking for an alternative I use Yahoo. There is a really great basic native Linux client that comes from Yahoo themselves so it is really stable. On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jon Doe wrote: ICQ has been really messing up lately, or maybe its something to do with my firewall, either way what the list suggest for IM between this linux box and windows users. Something that is fairly secure and has decent features but easy for windows people to install. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?
No, sorry. I hope they get it going someday however. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, David Reynolds wrote: On Friday 02 November 2001 08:23 am, you wrote: If you are looking for an alternative I use Yahoo. There is a really great basic native Linux client that comes from Yahoo themselves so it is really stable. Have you been able to enable voice/video conferencing? (a la Netmeeting) That is my only complaint, besides the rather clunky interface. On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jon Doe wrote: ICQ has been really messing up lately, or maybe its something to do with my firewall, either way what the list suggest for IM between this linux box and windows users. Something that is fairly secure and has decent features but easy for windows people to install. As others have said the issue seems to be Mirabilis (AOL, we should perhaps say?) pushing everything towards ICQ2000 compatability. Licq worked right off the bat for me, except that I initially got the password wrong and it would NOT let me correct it (ended up creating a .licq2 folder, creating a stable identity, and copying it over). Everybuddy on the other hand...nice idea, but is it truly as ugly as it seemed? All it seemed able to do was create relationships between my other users and (occasionally) myself, and did the same thing about sending the same messages over and over. Then it locked up and I demoted it. David Reynolds -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] windows 2k terminal services
rdesktop will load win terminal services. Look for it at freshmeat. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Robert MacLean wrote: Hi does anyone know if it is possible to use terminal services from m8.1? either through wine, or another method? ___ Robert MacLean -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Basic business PCs
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, skinky wrote: Anyway, he told me that I'm welcome to go and take a look at the setup and upgrade his entire system. Of course I'm keen to install linux rather than M$ Windows (especially to avoid the over-priced future OS upgrade crap) but I'm only just learning to use LM myself. Cripes! My main concern is the availability of suitable accounting software for the linux platform - it doesn't have to be free, just so long as we can get it. I have installed Gnucash but haven't yet had time to check it out (will look into it tonight). We use Sql Ledger here. Not sure what the URL is. Maby the oracle at Freshmeat may reveal the answer! Another major concern is the type of backup system - I only backup to zip, cdrw and hd partition - so I'm not exactly up with the best options. It needs to be easy to use because I don't think his staff are all that computer savvy. I would set up some kind of SCSI internal Dat tape system. They are all good. Get five tapes, set to back up every weekday from Cron, and assign the duty of tape rotation to the most responsible of the employees, usually the person waring the Asst Manager badge. I'm wondering whether to install modems as well, so they can at least communicate via e-mail. However, I'd need to discuss that with my friend as he may not want the additional monthly internet access costs. Why not set up a modem based system to gather the data from each machine and communicate? Maby give up on TCP/IP and set up UUCP since this is a node to node communication system. Obviously stability is important. I don't see speed, sound, graphics, etc as being a necessity. Are there any motherboards, CPUs, etc that I should avoid? I was thinking of 500 MHz Durons on a compatible motherboard with onboard sound and (perhaps) graphics. You can't get 500 Mhz durons, the slowest would be around 900 right now in the shops. Get the slowest Duron on the market and put in a quarter gig of ram. That would Definately suffice. Its not adviseable to use an integrated everything board for servers, but I like the Ecs K7SEM motherboard. 266 Mhz FSB. It has integrated everything, and NIC to boot just in case! All for around 75 to 85 bones. It is very stable for its class. I have had no problems with it. Any advice/suggestions will be very much appreciated. I know this probably isn't the place to be asking, but I'm sure most of you will know more about this than I do. I don't want to c*ck this up. TIA skinky PS. I apologise for the long message. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Athlon ( was Pentium IV )
Okay. AMD Rules! On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 02 November 2001 19:22, you wrote: Hey guys, Don't y'all think it would be better to rename this thread 'athlon' instead of 'Pentium IV' ? :) Hi Tom, My case currenly has no sides on it at all, front or back, there is a power supply fan directing air directly onto the CPU via a pcv pipe, and the Fan is a GlobalWin AMD approved 7000 rpm fan. I used thermal grease on the top, and under, (on the thermister) to give more accurate readings.. The temp reading I got was from the BIOS, that box is running 7.2 which doesn't have lm sensors... I have the bios set to shut down the box if the temp goes over 70 degrees at the thermister. and so far that hasnt' happened. problem is that the system is in a roon that can get to 45 or more degree's in mid summer, (which is a month or two away.) So I may have to resort to air con or possibly underclocking if it proves an issue.. I have also just downloaded the AMD cooling pdf from their site for a read.. it may not matter, if the price is good, I may have an AMD AthlonXP 1800+ by this time next week, which apparently run cooler.. and my MB supports them as well. has anyone gotten lm sensors working on 7.2? do I have to recompile the kernel for it? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 11:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Pentium IV On Friday 02 November 2001 08:34 am, Franki wrote: Thats strange, I have a Athlon 1.4 and a huge 7500rpm fan on a massive heatsink, the spring was incrediably tight... but a small pair of pointy nose pliars did the job nice and quickly. I use an $8 Coolermaster (AMD apprv'd hs/fan) on my 1.4 overclocked to 1.55ghz with 1.82 Vcore. A thin film of cheap Radio Shack thermal grease on the cpu's die. I used a screwwdriver to compress the clip and slip it onto the HS. No problems. and the CPU runs nice and cool, middle of a summer day, (35 degress's celcious) the CPU temp was 65degress's and the sensor under the cpu (which has a dot of transfer paste on it to contact with the base of the cpu... Max temp under extreme load is all that you need to be concerned with. Running cpuburn's 'burnK7' ( http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ ) you should NOT go over 55°C. If you do, abort 'burnK7', and improve your case cooling. In my experience, proper case cooling is more important than a big heavy expensive hs/fan. anyone know what the temp range is for a 1.4gig? is 75 degress bad? in winter it had a temp of 35. AMD says the cpu will burn up at 90°C internal core temp. Since the thermister is an external probe, AMD says to add 10 to 20°C to the probe temp to approximate the internal core temp. So if lm_sensors spits out 70°C, you're probly fixin to fry your Tbird. 'Course you'll probly experience random lockups or reboots before you get to 70°C ;) Mine never goes over 52°C runnin 'burnK7' at 1.55g. Under normal load it runs mid 40's. Case temps are always upper 70's °F (~25°C, about room temp). All these temps are about the same if I run the Tbird at the default 1.4g and 1.75 Vcore. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba
EMail it to me. I teach a five hour course in Samba at my shop. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Frank McKenna wrote: HI all. Rather than imposing by sending a copy of my smb.conf file, I was wondering if someone would be interested in taking a look at it to see where I have made my mistake? Thanks in advance Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server
We use Sendmail at our shop, what are the advantages of Postfix over Sendmail? On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Vincent A.Primavera wrote: Hello, Postfix, highly recommended... Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. On Wednesday 31 October 2001 06:17 pm, Gerbrandt Bouwer wrote: I would like to use linux mandrake as a mail server for my company, I want my server to dial out 3 times a day and download my new messages and send out my unsend messages. The new messages that are downloaded should be displayed in my Outlook Express program running on my Windows 2000 Professional system. Is this possiable? and if it is HOW?. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail
Here is my procmail recipe. Put it in $HOME/.procmailrc then if it is working once you start fetching mail it will show where you sorted it in $HOME/.procmaillog. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote: Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm configuring fetchmail and procmail to retrieve and sort my incoming mail. I'm on a single-user machine runing 8.1. The fetchmail part was easy, and I think I have an idea of how to write procmail recipe. My question is, where do I put the .procmailrc ? I'm sorting mail in order to put it into different Mail folders in different home directories. I have fetchmail running as a daemon. It dumps the mail into /var/spool/mail/paul. Depending on the To: field, I'm going to move the mail to either my home directory or my wife's. According to what I've been reading, Linux invokes procmail if it finds the .procmailrc file in the logged-in user's home directory. But, since I'm moving mail into different home directories, I need procmail to be run by root, even though either myself or my wife will be the logged in user. How do I do this and where do I put the .procmailrc file? -Paul I can type 'man' really fast now Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu # Arthur H. Johnson II's Procmail Recipe # # This is my procmail recipe. Use the templates to configure # your mail filtering provided in the templates comments. # # Once you have your filters configured, simply copy this file # to your mail home directory with the name of .procmailrc. # If you wanted to be on the safe side, you could also run: # # touch $HOME/.procmaillog # # on your mailserver first, but that should not be necessary. # # # General Options # VERBOSE=no UMASK=077 MAILDIR=$HOME/mail LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog # # Filter Templates # # Address Template: # # -- CUT HERE -- # :0: # * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] # folder # # :0: # * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] # folder # -- CUT HERE -- # # Change [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the email address you want filtered. # # # Subject Template: # # -- CUT HERE -- # :0: # * ^Subject:.*words # folder # -- CUT HERE -- # # Change words to what you want filtered from the subject. # # Filter configuration. # # Simply copy from the template and append to the end of the # following entries to create a new filter. Make sure you # uncomment the template thou! hehe # # # Death to spam and stuff im too lazy to unsubscribe from or # can't unsubscribe from # :0: * ^Subject:.*testtrash /dev/null :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^TO_msnbc.com /dev/null :0: * ^From:.*msnbc.com /dev/null :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null # # Filter subjects first # :0: * ^Subject:.*testproc test :0: * ^Subject:.*Cron admins :0: * ^Subject:.*webclip personal # # Now for the standard filters # :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] admins :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] admins :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdkexpert :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdkexpert :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^TO_window.linuxbox.private.nu saved-messages :0: * ^From:.*window.linuxbox.private.nu saved-messages :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newbie :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newbie :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] expert :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] expert :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] yahoo :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] yahoo :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail
Will this work?? The man page says nothing about /etc/procmailrc. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, quaylar wrote: At 12:14 31.10.2001 -0800, you wrote: Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm configuring fetchmail and procmail to retrieve and sort my incoming mail. I'm on a single-user machine runing 8.1. The fetchmail part was easy, and I think I have an idea of how to write procmail recipe. My question is, where do I put the .procmailrc ? I'm sorting mail in order to put it into different Mail folders in different home directories. I have fetchmail running as a daemon. It dumps the mail into /var/spool/mail/paul. Depending on the To: field, I'm going to move the mail to either my home directory or my wife's. According to what I've been reading, Linux invokes procmail if it finds the .procmailrc file in the logged-in user's home directory. But, since I'm moving mail into different home directories, I need procmail to be run by root, even though either myself or my wife will be the logged in user. How do I do this and where do I put the .procmailrc file? put it in /etc/procmailrc (without the leading .) this will make the file globally used. --quay -Paul I can type 'man' really fast now Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe ...
Oh no, not mine. Saw it at Slashdot's Halloween Special (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/30/1746252mode=flat). I didn't write it, and I don't think it has an author. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, bascule wrote: very, very nice! yours? permission to quote, with credits? bascule -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accessing the cdrom from linux
Mount /mnt/cdrom On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Metamorphysical wrote: I'm trying to get my 7.2 version of linux running again. I need to run some rpm's for my voodoo card. But I am clueless on text commands at the command prompt. How do I access the cdrom from the localhost login? -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Procmail recipes drive me nuts
Here is my recipe in case you want it.
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Paul wrote:
Hi all,
I am fighting with procmail, and am on the wrong end of the battle.
What the . is wrong with these recipes. They don't work.
Set up of the environment:
DEFAULT=$HOME/sylmail/inbox/.
MAILDIR=$HOME/sylmail/
LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
This one is supposed to catch all newbie mail and move it to the MH folder
Lijsten/Newbie
:0
* ^To:.*newbie
Lijsten/Newbie/.
(After looking at the headers I see a Delivered-To:. Could that be the wrong
one?)
Changed it to
:0
* ^Subject:.*\[Newbie
Let's see what happens when I get this back.
This one should send a mail sent to Things on to my work and then store it in
Lijsten/Things (also an MH folder). Things is identified by [Things] in the
subject:
:0
* ^Subject:.*\[Things
{
:0 c
! paul.kater@myjobs-email.com
:0
Lijsten/Things/.
}
And procmail just sits there and catches nothing.
What am I doing wrong? Must be something really dumb...
Paul
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on,
you are hopelessly confused.
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# Arthur H. Johnson II's Procmail Recipe
#
# This is my procmail recipe. Use the templates to configure
# your mail filtering provided in the templates comments.
#
# Once you have your filters configured, simply copy this file
# to your mail home directory with the name of .procmailrc.
# If you wanted to be on the safe side, you could also run:
#
# touch $HOME/.procmaillog
#
# on your mailserver first, but that should not be necessary.
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#
# General Options
#
VERBOSE=no
UMASK=077
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog
#
# Filter Templates
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# Address Template:
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# -- CUT HERE --
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# Subject Template:
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# :0:
# * ^Subject:.*words
# folder
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#
# Change words to what you want filtered from the subject.
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# Filter configuration.
#
# Simply copy from the template and append to the end of the
# following entries to create a new filter. Make sure you
# uncomment the template thou! hehe
#
#
# Death to spam and stuff im too lazy to unsubscribe from or
# can't unsubscribe from
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# Filter subjects first
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admins
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personal
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Re: [newbie] Can't run any GUI from root shell?
If you are in KDE, hit ALT-F2 then type xhost +localhost and hit enter. This will allow for local access. On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Jon Doe wrote: What would cause this? If I open a terminal window, su to root and type say kpackage, I get this error: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server kpackage: cannot connect to X server :0.0 Happens with nmapfe and any GUI program. I can't even run Mandrake Control Center as su to upgrade. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everybody... I have linux mandrake 8.1 installed on my computer. I have an internal modem and as you know I can not connect internet using my modem... I heard that some programs are developed to solve this problem, but I couldn't find any information anywhereç... If there is somebody there who knows anything about that please reply:) This message doesn't say much. What kind of modem do you have, etc? -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] did anybody test staroffice 6.0 beta?
I downloaded StarOffice 6.0Beta, saw how well it worked, and decided to go for OpenOffice since the source project typically works better than the commercial offshoot, ie Mozilla. I was right. OpenOffice is better. Get OpenOffice. On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, shane wrote: i will second that, open office has been running great for me for some time. go, download, install, rejoyce. On Thursday 04 October 2001 07:50, Lanman spoke unto the masses thusly: On the other hand, OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) which is a scaled-down version of StarOffice works quite nicely on Windows (Yuck! Ptewey!) AND Linux. They've removed the email client, the web-browser and desktop (?) environment, cutting the size to about 40 Mb (for the download), so perhaps that's worth looking at. Same install GUI, same cross-application functionality, smaller footprint. Quite Stable. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MODEM
The LT Modems work awesome under Linux. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Joseph Braddock wrote: Take care with any PCI modems. Many are winmodems in sheeps clothing. Pretty much if it requires a pentium processor, then it's most likely a winmodem. Joe On Tuesday 18 September 2001 03:30 pm, you wrote: Hi, sounds to me like there is probably an auction at eBay selling an ISA USR V.Everything, being sold by a guy named Dean (wink) :P Seriously though, with Win98, pretty much ANY modem will do, and if you want to use the same modem when dual booting with LM8, you definitely do NOT need to spend anywhere NEAR USD$170 - USD$250. Just find ANY decent (i.e. NOT winmodem) well-known (i.e. 3com/USR/etc.) PCI modem (easier time with PCI than with ISA/EISA), many of which you can get for WELL UNDER USD$100 (and if you are looking for used items on eBay, then you can probably find a beaut for approx usd$25). Thats just MY USD$0.02... David Charles On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dean Morrell wrote: If you have an available ISA slot, check out USRobotics V.Everything at ebay. These are business class modems that sell for US $170 for internal and US $250 for external. They are great modems. At 12:10 9/17/2001 +1200, you wrote: I would appreciate any suggestions as to a suitable modem for a dual boot setup. Using Windows 98 and Mandrake 8. Thank you Ivor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. -Thomas Jefferson -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs
Photoshop = The Gimp. I dont know about Dreamweaver or Pagemaker. There is KWord which is supposed to be a frames based word processor, but its highly unstable. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Terry wrote: Hello all, We use a bunch of windows programs that I was curious as to whether there are any alternatives to these in the Linux community. The programs I was mostly interested in alternatives are: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Pagemaker Macromedia Dreamweaver Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nimda virus
Consider the Source. The FBI is somewhat dumb in these matters, at least the upper echelon is, being the polititians they are. I don't think its NPR's fault. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Miark wrote: I caught the tail end of an FBI warning on NPR today that said the Nimda virus affects all Internet computers. That rubs me the wrong way because, as I read later at CNet, it doesn't affect our penguins (as usual). I think the popular media needs to be more careful the way they report these things. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7215349.html Miark -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list
What I do is keep a mental list of a$$h0l3$ and just don't help them. If you are not as moral as me, give them advice that will keep them running in circles. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, s wrote: On Monday 24 September 2001 03:19 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I recently made the serious error of replying to a question (on this list), to a person seaking advice on a modem. I did make the mistake of recently switching my mail software, and I missed turning off HTML. I've corrected that. However, I don't think I did anything to warrent being called names. Perhaps the folks on a newbie list could learn to say thank you to those who respond to their questions, and not start with the name calling. Or perhaps the next time, they'll get far fewer responses. I seldom let things like this burn me. But this person went out of their way just to insult someone who tried to help. Maybe the rest of you will remember the name when more questions are asked. Have a good day Ric It's been getting hostile on all the forums and ngs since 8.0 came out, and that number has been multiplied by the influx of windows refugees since the publicity surrounding the windows product activation. It's gotten to where trying to help ain't even fun anymore. I agree, it's a sad state of affairs. -s -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?
Use Ximian is you are going to use GNOME. Makes life easier. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Peter Rymshaw wrote: I've decided that I like Gnome more than KDE and want to learn and begin using it. But I'm having problems beyond the normal (like getting CD floppy access from the desktop or panel. I won't have to manually monunt/unmount will I?) That's not the problem. When I try to select many of the Gnome features, the computer freezes--completely, I have to turn the power off and on (which I worry about each time). I've found that some of these problems have gone away after I've installed more gnome files from the RPMs on CD-ROM, so that might be the heart of the problem (and also what I would consider a serious bug in the program). But I have installed everything that I can find named gnome and there are still problems. (And shouldn't the initial installation of Gnome from the install CD have worked even without what I've done?) What I've done now is gone to the Ximian signt and downloaded their gnome files (and also gnuCash which I had tried to install earlier without success). I figure I should install -core- first, then perhaps -applets-, -libs-, -utils- and the others I found. Ximian says that it is based on gnome 1.4, and instructions are that it is not necessary to first remove regular gnome installation--that it will automatically upgrade files. My hopes are that whatever files are giving me problems will be replaced and most if not all of my problems solved. But I also seem to remember having read somewhere that installation of Ximian must be on a sound gnome base. Do I need to find and fix my gnome problems before installing Ximian? That's the key question. Sorry to go on so long with this. Anyone know? Just occurred to me, I should ask Ximian, even though this is the free download I'm talking about. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Best NAT Internet Sharing program
Bastille. On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Kevin Fonner wrote: What is the best, simple Internet Sharing program to use that shares it's internet connection with NAT? Thanks, Kevin -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF7.2 and RealPlayer ICQ
I don't know much about SNF, but I do know that in the IP Chains Howto it tells you how to get it working. Check http://www.linuxdoc.org. On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Anders Thoresson wrote: Hi, Having problems using RealPlayer and ICQ (using the built-in client in browser Opera 5.12) I need help configure Single Network Firewall. The question is, simply: How should I set things up in SNF to let RealPlayer- and ICQ-traffic through? I want to have the number of ports open for connections from inside my lan set to an absolute minimum. Another question: Do I have to restart SNF before changes made in the web-interface take place? Rgds, Anders -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File manager?
Well to be completely honest the best two file managers out there are Konqueror and GMC. There are others, but they are somewhat lower in quality as far as mime types and whatnot go. DFM is pretty good, however. Keep in mind, you can use Konqueror, and not be in KDE. As far as mail clients go, i dont like anything graphical. SquirrelMail is good, but its a webmail program. Im a Pine bigot myself. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Lionel Pitaru wrote: Hi there! Me again, asking and asking. This time the issue is File manager. I need one! Think this, I'm using BlackBox, I love the light weight interface . . . nothing that begins with K or G, something more X. Do you know about a file manager (with graphic interface, of course) of this caracteristics? What about mail clients? Thanks Lionel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File manager?
gmc is the graphical equivelent. Non graphical file manager? I like bash, but thats just me ;) Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Robert MacLean wrote: IMHO Midnight Commander is the best. I don't know if there is a X version but the console one is more than powerful for anything I have ever needed. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Lionel Pitaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:14 PM Subject: [newbie] File manager? Hi there! Me again, asking and asking. This time the issue is File manager. I need one! Think this, I'm using BlackBox, I love the light weight interface . . . nothing that begins with K or G, something more X. Do you know about a file manager (with graphic interface, of course) of this caracteristics? What about mail clients? Thanks Lionel -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lightweight Mail User Agents for X
Pine. It rocks. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I have been a loyal KMail user since KDE 1. However, I have found myself increasingly irritated by the growing slowness and bloat of each new release. KMail in KDE 2.2 is nowhere near as stable as previous releases (which were rock-solid). I now yearn for something lighter and faster. Sylpheed looks very promising, but I find its filters to be very limited compared to KMail's implementation. What solutions exist for this problem? Would it be viable for me to, say, use something like Procmail to download and filter my mail, and transparently access that via a client like Sylpheed? TIA. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
Well said. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, etharp wrote: enough RAM and Enough Money are myths. they do not really exist, you always want more. On Tuesday 04 September 2001 17:08, Charles Punch wrote: Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the k5. Arthur H. Johnson II On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Warren Post wrote: I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough? Enough??? Too much is enough in my opinion? Seriously though, I think it depends on how much you can afford and also what you plan to do with it. I have a Toshiba laptop with 80MB and it's tolerable, but kind of aggrevating after using my desktop with 512MB and I don't use networking or anything fancy. I do a lot of graphic editing. I suppose that's the most demanding thing I do other than a few progs I watch on real player or playing MP3s.I have been told that my 512MB is overkill for what I do, but it sure beats underkill. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 The most serious doubt that has been thrown on the authenticity of the biblical miracles is the fact that most of the witnesses in regard to them were fishermen. -- Arthur Binstead Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
KDE was born in 1997, and GNOME born in 1998. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Paul wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_999682689-7607-1458 Yeah Right We Hate Mirosoft... Nahh I kinda like it only with its FREE... I don't hate micro$oft. I don't like their software. It is full of bugs, their OS-like systems crash faster than I can hit the Reset button, and things get worse and worse through each release. Additionally, the spy-ware factor is something that gets more and more attention. Their initial idea to make the computer accessible for everyone was good. How many moms and pensioners would be able to use the computer without Win 9X bugware? Even Win 3.x presented enough problems previously. The ease-of-use factor that they presented (stole from others? but then, who does not steal ideas from others in this industry) made a big difference to the world in general. I mean, did the KDE or Gnome interface look like this (expanding menu's, taskbar etc) before Win95 came out? (I don't know, since I did not use Linux then, I ran OS/2.) I would not even use M$ products if they _were_ free. I'd maybe use them if they were stable. In that area is my importance. And Linux provides that. Paul =_999682689-7607-1458 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_999682689-7607-1458-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recompiling iwht IPChains
You shouldn't have to. Run: rmmod ip_tables then: modprobe ipchains. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Olly Marshall wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how i can go about recompliling the mandrake kernel with IPChains support? Ive been told i need to do this to get teh firewall addon working properly Olly Marshall IT Manager Absolute Internet www.absoluteinternet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset
I just bought a SiS motherboard. Does SiS stand for SiS(ie), cause this motherboard is a pain! On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Michael Falzon wrote: Hi how did u go with this ( why i'm i asking ? i have a tagra notebook that has a sis 630 video card and i' get black srceen ) now from what i can pick up from the http://www.xfree86.org/ i'm getting this 4. Troubleshooting Some video modes with high dot-clocks don't work at all, resulting on black screen. Lowering dotclock in that case could solve the problem. but i'n not to sure what this is all about ( going to read more about it ) Michael Falzon Last Of The BBs Sysop Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs http://mozysswamp.yi.org Registered Linux user #204397 - Original Message - From: Navin Daryanani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:54 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset yes. I have tried the driver from www.sis.com - editing of /etc/X11/XFree86- manually or with xconfigurator with various combinations on parameters, etc. nothing. the only thing I have not tried is recompiling the kernel. navin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Friday, 31 August 2001 12:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 735 chipset/ecs k7s5a Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:17:07 -0400 From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 30 August 2001 3:24 am, you wrote: Talking about SiS -- please tell me if anyone can solve my problem I have a laptop with the display SiS630. I installed Mdk 8.0, freq1, freq2 and freq3. None of them could recognize the display device. Whenever I used to start X the screen would come divided in two where the bottom part of the screen would somehow wrap around the top of the screen. I tried everything I knew or could find on the web but to no success. Ultimately I used the code vga=791 in the lilo.conf. That gave me a framebuffer mode (I think). BUT the problem does not stop here. I could do everything once I log in X. But once I log out of the X session - the text mode does not come back - no matter what I try to do. I have tried switching with the virtual screens keys, etc. but to no success. If I restart the X session by typing startx I do get the X session back. You can edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config (if you are using Xfree 3.x.x) or /etx/X11/XF86Config-4 (for XFree 4.x.x) and set up any monitor parameters you please. Moreover my soundcard is never detected too - thus I can never play sound on my linux box. Can anyone can please suggest something. Did you try the Sis Driver? Available at http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm There are video and audio drivers there. Regards Navin Good luck Derek --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm confused (normal situation). ;-)
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay...I tried to configure my Linux box to network with my 2 sons Windoze boxes...and...dunno. I can do a: ifconfig eth0 and I get the message about UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST Is this all? Is ther emore? so...I guess its running? Afterwards though, I could no longer use kppp to connect to the Internet. It kept asking for a root password for network monitor. So I reinstalled kppp (draknet). I could dial out then, and connect (seemed 2 anyways) but Licq and Netscape could not resolve... I played around with it some more (yeah - I know - dangerous) and finally wound up with Network monitor connected to the 'Net (right now, AAMOF), and Netscape/Licq work... Its a graph though. Odd...not kppp. Any ideas on what I did wrong, how to fix it, if necessary, and how do I see the 2 Windog machines? They are darkforce2 and darkforce3 under the Windows side of networking... Thanks much... -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm confused (normal situation). ;-)
I'm a Pine bigot, so I don't really care. Whatever anybody throws at me will em no good! On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, etharp wrote: Lately we have been getting more and more attachments to the mail from this list. Some Have Even been graphics. while I almost never open the attachments, I wonder what other folks around here think. personally if something I am paying attention to ain't in the text of the message, the delete key may find it's way to my finger. Sorry did not see the attachments. the info about your IP and such would have been on the rest of that info if you were correctly setup. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 21:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Is this all? Is there more? Umm, actually lots, but I thought that was the pertinent part. ;-) Anyways, check the attachments for more info, its what info I knew to obtain (which admittedly isn't much) ;-( Thanks for any help! ;-) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=network-info.txt Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset
Everyting works fine, just the Video card sucks. On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Michael Falzon wrote: Hi Network card works ok ( sis 900 pci) USB works ok ( sis 7001 ) sound works ok (sis 7018) it just not the display (sis 630 ) if it was not a notebook i wound have just remove it - Original Message - From: Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset I just bought a SiS motherboard. Does SiS stand for SiS(ie), cause this motherboard is a pain! On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Michael Falzon wrote: Hi how did u go with this ( why i'm i asking ? i have a tagra notebook that has a sis 630 video card and i' get black srceen ) now from what i can pick up from the http://www.xfree86.org/ i'm getting this 4. Troubleshooting Some video modes with high dot-clocks don't work at all, resulting on black screen. Lowering dotclock in that case could solve the problem. but i'n not to sure what this is all about ( going to read more about it ) Michael Falzon Last Of The BBs Sysop Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs http://mozysswamp.yi.org Registered Linux user #204397 - Original Message - From: Navin Daryanani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:54 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset yes. I have tried the driver from www.sis.com - editing of /etc/X11/XFree86- manually or with xconfigurator with various combinations on parameters, etc. nothing. the only thing I have not tried is recompiling the kernel. navin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Friday, 31 August 2001 12:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 735 chipset/ecs k7s5a Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:17:07 -0400 From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 30 August 2001 3:24 am, you wrote: Talking about SiS -- please tell me if anyone can solve my problem I have a laptop with the display SiS630. I installed Mdk 8.0, freq1, freq2 and freq3. None of them could recognize the display device. Whenever I used to start X the screen would come divided in two where the bottom part of the screen would somehow wrap around the top of the screen. I tried everything I knew or could find on the web but to no success. Ultimately I used the code vga=791 in the lilo.conf. That gave me a framebuffer mode (I think). BUT the problem does not stop here. I could do everything once I log in X. But once I log out of the X session - the text mode does not come back - no matter what I try to do. I have tried switching with the virtual screens keys, etc. but to no success. If I restart the X session by typing startx I do get the X session back. You can edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config (if you are using Xfree 3.x.x) or /etx/X11/XF86Config-4 (for XFree 4.x.x) and set up any monitor parameters you please. Moreover my soundcard is never detected too - thus I can never play sound on my linux box. Can anyone can please suggest something. Did you try the Sis Driver? Available at http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm There are video and audio drivers there. Regards Navin Good luck Derek --- -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm confused (normal situation). ;-)
Oh, and no, I don't usually pay attention to weather or not the email has attachements. Its best to put all info into the body. On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, etharp wrote: Lately we have been getting more and more attachments to the mail from this list. Some Have Even been graphics. while I almost never open the attachments, I wonder what other folks around here think. personally if something I am paying attention to ain't in the text of the message, the delete key may find it's way to my finger. Sorry did not see the attachments. the info about your IP and such would have been on the rest of that info if you were correctly setup. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 21:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Is this all? Is there more? Umm, actually lots, but I thought that was the pertinent part. ;-) Anyways, check the attachments for more info, its what info I knew to obtain (which admittedly isn't much) ;-( Thanks for any help! ;-) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=network-info.txt Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Concurrent Remote X Login
Start X in failsafe mode. run xhost +, then run ssh -X speedy. Then start your window manager. By the way, X in failsafe mode should only produce an xterm, nothing else. You will have to hover your mouse over the term to get keyboard support. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Isaac Curtis wrote: I've got a slow box (Eve) and a fast box (Speedy) and have been playing around with different ways of making the slow one more useable as a wait for a 128 stick to arrive. It's proven a great learning experience as I've become familiar with many desktop environments/window managers as well as learned to do pretty much every day-to-day task (email, web browsing, text editing) from the console. My newest goal is to be able to slogin to Speedy and run X, displaying it on the Eve's monitor. Of course I want Speedy to still be able to go about it's own daily business, I'd just like both Speedy and Eve to be able to run off the same box. Is that possible? If so, how? Please offer both console and gui solutions, if they exist. Thanks again, Isaac There is no K5 Cabal... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...
Most of the time your connect speed is due to the age of your phone system. I connect at 56K in ann arbor, but in flint/davison areas I only get 42666 at the most. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Yes, I do. I use it for my Laptop and as a back up to my internal Lucent. To use the modem, simply plug it into the external serial port, then point your dialer to that port. The win ports to lin ports are as follows: Win Linux - - com1ttyS0 com2ttyS1 com3ttyS2 com4ttyS3 etc. There is no software setups involved. Hi Arthur. Thanks for the reply. So...you -are- getting 56k connect speeds? I've got mine working (even though kudzu will not find it), but it always connects at 26.6 and tonight, 34667, which sounds odd to me. Oh well... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a stupid ftp server question
Is your FTP server running? Check /etc/xinetd.d/wuftpd. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Linux Newbie wrote: Sorry for the really dumb question, I cannot seem to find anything that tells me why my ftp server says: $ ftp kittypuss.org ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp I have installed wu-ftp and then tried pro-ftpd and nothing seems to fix this, I have noticed that when I shut down the server, the xinetd says [failed] when it tries to shut it down, don't know if that is related. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the k5. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Warren Post wrote: I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough? Box 1 is a Celeron 366 MHz with 32 MB, box 2 is a K5 100 MHz with 16 MB. Both will be used for public Internet access: IceWM, Konqueror and/or Netscape, KOffice and/or StarOffice, a messenger program... and no doubt a whole bunch of other stuff I don't even know about yet. Thanks, Warren -- http://sites.netscape.net/srcopan/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
For that price you can migrate to Duron! Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Matt Greer wrote: on 9/4/01 11:18 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now... you can get a 256MB for about $33 now... That's true for RAM intended for recent computers. But if a computer uses SIMMs and such, it's not so cheap. A 128MB 72 pin SIMM is about $200 right now. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
Too true. My ppro melted this weekend ( got rest her soul ) and was still using 72 pin sims. At my favorite shop, http://www.atrcomputers.com, I purchased an 800 Duron, Motherboard, 256 Megs of Ram, and a CPU Fan all for $219.00 bucks. Not a bad deal. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now... you can get a 256MB for about $33 now... This is a mom and pop shop down the street where I always buy my computer stuff... http://www.microchipcomputers.com/ -Original Message- From: Arthur H. Johnson II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the k5. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Warren Post wrote: I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough? Box 1 is a Celeron 366 MHz with 32 MB, box 2 is a K5 100 MHz with 16 MB. Both will be used for public Internet access: IceWM, Konqueror and/or Netscape, KOffice and/or StarOffice, a messenger program... and no doubt a whole bunch of other stuff I don't even know about yet. Thanks, Warren -- http://sites.netscape.net/srcopan/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?
Has anybody tried the GotMail program? I don't have a hotmail account so I can't test it. I do have a Yahoo account and access it through Pine every day. On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Franki wrote: hotmail is not using pop3, but outlook express is setup to interface with their http setup.. so I use that occasionally too. yahoo offer free email accounts and you can access them using either web or true pop3.. I have fetchmail collecting my girlfriends mail from her yahoo account and delivering it to a local mailbox for her every 15 minutes... works great.. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arthur H. Johnson II Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 7:14 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux? Hotmail doesn't have pop or imap access? Wiggie. If they did you could access it that way. Anyhoo, you could use this program from a box thats up all the time: http://www.hawkins.emu.id.au/gotmail/ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based email system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient when travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But I actually don't prefere to read and write from a web based email system. However, hotmail is integrated with Outlook Express so I can use my hotmail account just like my other SMTP/POP3 email accounts and this makes things quite nice. It would be nice if mandrake or ximian or whoever could provide a web based email accounts that are integrated in KMail or Evolution, I would dump my hotmail account and go for a mandrake or ximian account instead and then I could be one step closer to running linux 100% of the time. Anybody think this would be a good idea? -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...
Yes, I do. I use it for my Laptop and as a back up to my internal Lucent. To use the modem, simply plug it into the external serial port, then point your dialer to that port. The win ports to lin ports are as follows: Win Linux - - com1ttyS0 com2ttyS1 com3ttyS2 com4ttyS3 etc. There is no software setups involved. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Ever since I've installed the new Shuttle MB, I've had no ISA slots so I lost my 56k Diamond Supra internal ISA modem, which ran great. I've been limping along on a Practical Peripherals 28.8 external which works ok. I picked up an external 56k Creative ModemBlaster today. I switched the modems out and booted up. Kudzu reported that my serial modem had been removed (which I expected) but then did not find the ModemBlaster and install it. (which I did not expect). Anyone have a ModemBlaster working with 8.0, and if so, how? Thanks. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
Actually that wont work. WHen the text files get open in Windows, you will get wierd characters. Use a utility called mcopy to copy the files. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, civileme wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 13:57, you wrote: I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. I think I've found one way to do it -- using mcopy with the -a (or -t ??) option, but I thought I'd ask for other suggestions. I'll start out transferring on floppies (today) but fairly soon use smbclient to mount some Windows partitions on my Linux machine. Thanks, Randy Kramer Open those mounts on your machine with a file manager like Konqueror Then drap 'N drop Civileme -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome
You can download the RPMS from a Ximian FTP mirror. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Mandrake has taken a few elements from Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.0. However, Ximian's official Mandrake 8.0 packages are even better. Things are smoother and faster than in 8.0 (especially Nautilus), and there are a few extra little niceties like Doorman and Red Carpet. Do you think that MDK 8.1 will have the full version of Ximian GNOME? I don't have a cd burner and out here in the sticks, it's impossible to get broadband that supports Linux. If 8.1 will not include it, is there perhaps a RPM or something that would reasonably download over 56k? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 We the Users, in order to form a more perfect system, establish priorities, ensure connective tranquility, provide for common repairs, promote preventive maintenance, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our processes, do ordain and establish this Software of The Unixed States of America. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)
Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Isaac Curtis wrote: (I'm reposting this because it never got answered and I had flagged it because I was waiting to hear a response. Thanks to anyone who can help. - Isaac) Hello! In my system, I see .bashrc, .dosemurc, .kderc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/inputrc, /etc/rc.d etc. etc. etc. 1. What does rc stand for, as opposed to conf? conf = configuration, and usually contain configuration files. rc is pretty much the same thing. 2. I read that /etc is for miscellaneous files...isn't it *only* for configuration files? Traditionally /etc contains configuration files, but it also contains boot up scripts, etc. 3. Global user settings are stored in /etc, while personal ones are stored as /home/username/.somethingrc, right? Yes. Any help is appreciated! Thanks, George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?
Hotmail doesn't have pop or imap access? Wiggie. If they did you could access it that way. Anyhoo, you could use this program from a box thats up all the time: http://www.hawkins.emu.id.au/gotmail/ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based email system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient when travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But I actually don't prefere to read and write from a web based email system. However, hotmail is integrated with Outlook Express so I can use my hotmail account just like my other SMTP/POP3 email accounts and this makes things quite nice. It would be nice if mandrake or ximian or whoever could provide a web based email accounts that are integrated in KMail or Evolution, I would dump my hotmail account and go for a mandrake or ximian account instead and then I could be one step closer to running linux 100% of the time. Anybody think this would be a good idea? -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
