Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
I would have been a Gold member if I could have had Mandrake charge by the month instead of by the year They should fix that So I can upgrade... ;) On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 01:45, Barran, Richard wrote: Morning all, I've received a very interesting Mandrake Community Newsletter this morning. I'm including here the two most relevant paragraphs: Even though all of us here at MandrakeSoft are excited about the upcoming release, we've also been distracted by financial concerns. Despite continuous good reviews in the press; despite having millions of users throughout the world; despite producing an award-winning Linux distribution that is a solid competitor to both UNIX and Window$, the Mandrake Linux distribution's short-term future is in jeopardy due to a simple factor: money. As a company, we make our revenue by selling packaged versions of the distribution and by delivering services such as consulting, training, etc. -- but our development costs and community-based services are not yet covered by income. It is estimated that we will break even by the end of 2002, but it is unlikely that MandrakeSoft can remain unchanged during these next few months without drastically cutting costs unless additional revenue is generated quickly. The newsletter then goes on to urge people to sign up to Mandrake Club ASAP. I received a newsletter from the Club yesterday which also hinted at financial troubles. I haven't seen this mentioned yet by anyone on either this list or on the expert list. Is this a bit of scaremongering or is Mandrake really in dire straits? Regards, Richard PS Here follows a short message from my employer's legal department... *** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.com *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo Problems
Any chance you can boot from the mandrake CD and mount / . Then send a copy of lilo.conf ? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 21:00, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote: Hi bryan, I have 2 disks IDE, that are configured of the following form: hdc 15GB - windows 2000. hdd 10GB - Linux The partitions linux are in the following mode: hdd1 / hdd5 /swap hdd6 /usr hdd7 /home T+ --- Bryan B Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: can you give allot more info? like how many disks? scsi? ide? mixed? how is the partitions? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:33, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote: I installed windows 2000, after that linux 8.1, but I am with problems to initiate with lilo. The following error occurs, that I am not obtaining to decide, if somebody will be able to help. LI The First estage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition
I don't think ReiserFS is worth crying about since it doesn't get smaller than 32MB... A partition that small (such as /boot) isn't getting much activity anyhow. So using a non journel FS is fine. Or, like you seggested, ext3. Fsck on 32MB is hardly even noticable. On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 14:23, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2002 16:28, you wrote: For a partition so small why on earth would you even use a JFS? If you are never going to touch it make it ext2 and mount it ro. journal a FS that is going to undergo many changes (basically an active FS) when you mess with your kernel (or ar messing with something in /boot) just run /bin/sync several times before running lilo. more chances lilo screwing up then any fsck running on lilo... and running fsck on a 32MB drive is very very fast... no need to journal... Well, running ext3 FS on a 32mb drive is very very fast also, plus you eliminate the need for fsck. If you've got the ability available, I personally don't see any reason not to use it. What's the big deal, unless you just like typing /bin/sync ? _ 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 -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo Problems
can you give allot more info? like how many disks? scsi? ide? mixed? how is the partitions? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:33, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote: I installed windows 2000, after that linux 8.1, but I am with problems to initiate with lilo. The following error occurs, that I am not obtaining to decide, if somebody will be able to help. LI The First estage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition
For a partition so small why on earth would you even use a JFS? If you are never going to touch it make it ext2 and mount it ro. journal a FS that is going to undergo many changes (basically an active FS) when you mess with your kernel (or ar messing with something in /boot) just run /bin/sync several times before running lilo. more chances lilo screwing up then any fsck running on lilo... and running fsck on a 32MB drive is very very fast... no need to journal... On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 18:05, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2002 11:02, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 02:43, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I wanted to go with ReiserFS originally for the software root-raid configuration that I have on my system, but I was shocked to discover that the FS did not support filesystems less than 32 meg in size. Just out of curiosity, why would you want a partition less than 32MB anyway? My laptop has a small hard drive (4.5 GB), and even trying to save space on it, I still made the /boot partition 39 MB. I think mmost people set /boot to 50 MB or so, and that's generally the smallest partition on a Linux filesystem. Dave The reason that you would want a partition smaller than 32 meg (the reason I do, anyway) is because 32 megs is roughly 16 times more than what you need for a boot partition. The files in the /boot dir don't even take up enough space for three regular floppies. I see no reason why there should be a smallest size restriction on a filesystem. It should be simply however small you choose to make it. (IF your filesystem has no restrictions of that nature.) If ext3 gives you the freedom to make the /boot mount partition whatever size you want it to be, I certainly see no reason not to use that ability, or even ignore it. While this is a matter of choice for me personally, I know there are many space-critical situations out there that call for saving every meg that you can. _ 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 -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS trouble mounting
you might have a firewall blocking some ports? try: showmount -e [ip address] to see if your server is exporting the fs correctly also make sure you have nfs services started up on your client box. make sure portmap is running on both boxes. and you can communicate on those ports (no firewall blocking) rpcinfo -p [ip address] should have mountd and nfs listed as rpc services on the server machine. On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 08:52, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I'm having trouble mounting a folder with NFS. It was working fine before, but now, when I type: mount [ip address]:/home/user /mnt/user it just gets stuck there, it won't give me back my prompt to type in more commands, it just waits, not even ctrl+c or ctrl+d do anything. I set up /home/user in /etc/export on the host machine, and have made the /mnt/user on this one. I also added this machine's ip to the host machine's /etc/hosts.allow. What's going on? _ 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 -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome
I use Gnome. The main annoying reason was: For some reason KDE cannot handle very fast internet connections. In konqueror (spelling?) if I download a big file from the internet Kde becomes totally unresponsive till I get the file. It can't handle pulling 1-3.5MByte/sec over internet2 :( This gets seriously annoying and I can't but help useing konqueror while in KDE... :) While in gnome I use mozilla or plain netscape. I feel like KDE is one big app... kinda like staroffice 5.2. While in gnome each app seems to be on it's own. Sure galeon/mozilla might slow to a crawl while I'm doing large transfers... but the rest of my desktop keeps responding. :) It's more in my head... I just don't like everything being so interdependant... Kde gives me that feeling. On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 16:15, Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant change them. It seems they are set in another program sawfish? Use Gnome Control Center (gnomecc) to set your fonts and font sizes for Gnome apps. You can run GnomeCC in KDE, no problem. Am I the only one on the list who uses Gnome? It looks like everyone responding to this thread is running KDE. Personally, I have found that Gnome (with the Sawfish WM) is far more configurable, performs better, and looks better than KDE. Evolution is my mail client, and Nautilus my GUI file manager (on the rare occasion I want one). Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail clients
Try using the evolution mail client (if your looking for a GUI mail client). Ctrl-T toggles threaded view On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 10:48, Paul Kraus wrote: Are there any mail clients that will sort the messages like threads in a news group? That would organization and post reference so nice. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ebay
I still have the old Windows box to resort to w/Win98, but I was hoping for an Opera or Konq solution. I'm weaning myself off of MS one step at a time. Lee Try galeon... :) very nice web browser. Works with EBay also! :) -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] root email spam
I'm am really really really sick of all the email that is generated every night and mailed to root. When programs are doing it? I tracked some down too logcheck... but whatr about the rest? Can someome please tell me what is generating all these security reports and emailing them to root every night? And how I can turn them off? :) Thanks in advance. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
