Re: [newbie] LimeWire Problems
On Monday 17 February 2003 12:54 pm, andy wrote: *snip* Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. *snip* if you are using the jre2 from Sun, you need to add these lines to your /etc/profile, assuming java is in : /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/ -- PATH=PATH$:/usr/bin/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin export PATH then log out and log back in for changes to take effect.. viola! your java interpreter is now in your path. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD
On Monday 17 February 2003 6:57 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Gil Katz wrote: Hi i had one HD 10GB which i splitt to 3 partitions /, swap and /home after a while i bought a new HD 80GB and i moved /home to it, so now i have one big empty partition that i want to transfer its size to swap and to / should i delete the partition and then resize both / and swap or there is another or a better way? Gil Assuming that you have nothing left on the 10g hd that matters to you, just delete the partitions to wipe them out entirely and remake them as you want them and format and install accordingly. If you intend putting a /swap partition on this harddrive, then it's size ought to be 1 1/2 to 2 times physical memory. GACK! *clue* You can have MORE than one swapfile! make the other partition a SECOND swapfile.. done.. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:26 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: *snip* But I have noticed in KDE 3.1 that a mouse over starts an mp3 or ogg file to start playing. While I like it, I can also see it being annoying. I have no idea where that comes from. Open the KDE Control Center, go to LookNFeel - Behavior, and uncheck previews for sound files. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
On Friday 14 February 2003 3:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you stop asking questions like this on the mandrake-newbie list. :) -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] If I have to have MSIE...
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:02 am, Warren Post wrote: I have to have MSIE. I don't like the browser, but I do a little web design and I need to have MSIE handy (and multiple versions, no less) to test my work in -- as I learned the hard way last week. :-( Given that Bill's Bad Browser isn't and will probably never be available for Linux, how have others on this list with the same need handled this? Ideally I'd buy VMWare, but economically that's not an option right now. Which leaves me with setting up multiple Windows partitions (one for each version of MSIE I need) and reboot every time I want to test my work, or run multiple versions of MSIE in an emulator. Thoughts? Argh! The pain and agony! If you need to use MS Internet Excommunicator, you should check out wine. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] connection sharing using static ip
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 7:31 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: *snip* Without having a default gateway a host can only contact other host in its own subnet. So leaving the W2K system without default gateway, W2K will be jailed to the subnet it belongs to. This is the same suggestion I was about to make.Use DHCP to assign the machines an IP address, but force the win2k bootup to be a manually set IP, something like 192.168.1.254 with the default gateway left blank Then, as Adolfo states, the win2k machine won't know how to get outside it's current subnet, and since the other machines will be assigned IPs AND default gateways via the router (read: box with 2 nics or real router) they WILL be able to get out of the subnet and onto the internet. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Computers
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 9:46 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: *snip* What you touched on is really a bios deficiency in many ready made computers. The larger problem is making any changes to ready mades. The computer left the factory with the bare minimums to support the original hardware configuration, design, and OS. Adding in hardware later probly won't go over to well, and changing the OS from Windoze often doesn't either. Are you sure there's not a bios option, somethin like memory hole at 16mb, and that it's not enabled? It's not just the ready-made one's with this problem. I've found that MANY all-in-one's either don't have the option to disable the onboard video, or if even if they have the option, it doesnt work. I have a ASUS sp97v board with a dead onboard vga and a PCI vga card I disabled the onboard card using a jumper on the motherboard to do so, and yet X still detects the card and attempts to use it, however the memory is freed and everything works if I tell X to not use that card. He should look on the board, near the onboard VGA connector, to see if there is a jumper to disable the onboard stuff.. It will allow the board to give up it's shared vga memory, and might even actually disable the onboard video like it's supposed to. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Detect badsector in floppy disk
On Sunday 09 February 2003 3:13 am, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: Thanks Chuck. What about the floppy disk which is formatted with ext2fs ?. Is it use badblocks command to check bad blocks in floppy disks ?. *snip* from man fsck *snipped man page* -c Check the device for bad blocks before building the file system. so fsck.ext2 -c /dev/fd0 -- Chuck Burns Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Client for the CLI
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:08 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: Today I couldn't start X after upgrading the kernel and the only way that I had to get to this list was booting XP (Outlook frozen up 4 times in less than 1.5 hours, so I needed to reboot 4 times to get working back). Solution: I reinstalled Mandrake (and I am recompiling the kernel again). However, just in case I can not get X started, is there any nice MUA for the CLI? TIA Pine, Mutt.. mutt is my fav cli mail client -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Saturday 08 February 2003 8:04 pm, Todd Slater wrote: *snip* You must have some artistic/creative/designer-type friends, because all of the HTML mail eye candy I get is spam. And from all the spam, most is not eye candy but really poorly designed (I know from seeing the wife's spam in Mozilla). But I do get HTML mail from some friends, and it is just plain--they don't spend hours designing a mail template, or spend any time doing anything remotely interesting with the mail. In fact, most don't have any idea they're sending HTML mail because they use Outhouse or something and they just go with the default settings. For that reason, I think HTML is a waste. I mean, if you're going to waste the bandwidth, at least spend some time designing a nice stylesheet or something! And, no tables--if you can't design columns using a stylesheet, you shouldn't be allowed to send HTML mail! You forgot something. Some people have friends that like to change their font styles, sizes, and colors (colours for you brits out there). And txt mode email doesnt allow that at all. -- Chuck Burns Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thank you for the estimate on downloading LM9.0
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:59 pm, K. Spress wrote: Thinking about this on a 56k phone dial up modem it would take 2 days straight at 5k per second? so at about 35k per second on a 256k dsl about 6.5 hours *snip* my cablemodem is capped 1.5Mbps, the same as the most popular dsl speeds.. and I can download a 700M CD image in less than an hour, with favorable network conditions. For some of the hokier dsl services, that offer 400kbps and 800kbs, you can just about double, to quadruple that.. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's in YOUR wallet?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote: *snip* Petty sure, as I say I have never got it to fix the data only on a linux programme, but all of the windblows proggies can fix the data only amount ofa cd and leave the rest of the blank cd open to add more .It's just a question of getting the right option ticked . It goes, (from memory) something like fix data don't fix disc before the final write begins. *snip* What's happening is, it's closing the session, and not the disc. I'm fairly certain that cdrecord automatically closes the session on every burn, and the fixate closes the disc. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pithy Comment #25434 - Chuck Burns Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] all-in-one mb thread (kinda rant)
On Tue, February 4 2003 11:38 pm, BCSoft wrote: : Greetings, : Just bought (on impulse -- damn) an Athalon K7SEM mb by some generic vendor : at a recent computer show. It's working (dual boot W98/ML9) but not without : some trials. I'm wondering if the all-in-one type of board has more : problems than the add-a-card. Rich My friend.. if you bought an all-in-one card, you've just seriously limited your upgradeability. I have almost never seen an all-in-one card with a decent video card, and, not only that, but they almost never have an AGP slot, so if you decide to upgrade the video card, you're buying a whole new motherboard. onboard sound is usually decent, as well as onboard ethernet.. but I try to stay as far away from onboard video, as I can. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- Foolproof Operation: No provision for adjustment. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GLX gears
On Tue, February 4 2003 6:44 pm, civileme wrote: : On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:38 pm, et wrote: : a post a few days ago got me to thinking, I would like to see what scores : different video cards and chipsets and mem give on glx gears : my Geforce 4, Nvidia drivers from the club, dual P3 1000, 512 mem : 4721 frames in 5.000 seconds = 944.200 FPS : 4738 frames in 5.000 seconds = 947.600 FPS : 4556 frames in 5.000 seconds = 911.200 FPS : : Ed I cannot compare scores with you using my Voodoo 3 cause I don't know : resolution, color depth, or whether you full-screened it or left it default : size. : : If we want to compare, we need to include those numbers. : : I can show 2400FPS on the default terminal size but no more than 380FPS on : the full size That was a Voodoo5 5500 on a VIA MB with a recent AthlonXP : supporting Chipset, a single AthlonXP 1700 and 512M DDR2100 with 1024x768 : at 16 bit depth, and drivers from XFree. By resizing the terminal window : where GLXGears is running, I can produce other FPS results. 1024x768x32bit as normal size. 4050 frames in 5.0 seconds = 810.000 FPS 4042 frames in 5.0 seconds = 808.400 FPS 4075 frames in 5.0 seconds = 815.000 FPS P4 1.6G, GeForce2 MX 32M 576M ram. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- QOTD: She's about as smart as bait. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Mon, February 3 2003 2:20 pm, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: *snip* : : ARGH, cats! : : rm -rf /dev/kitty : : ;) Uhm, wouldnt that actually be 'rm -f /usr/bin/cat' ? heh -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- History repeats itself. That's one thing wrong with history. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELLLLPPP!!, small OT how to repair FS's other than Ext2/3
On Wed, January 29 2003 5:35 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 06:14 PM 1/29/2003 -0500, you wrote: if I su to root, and type fs and hit tab, autocomplete gives me these (among others); fsck, fsck.minix, fsconf, fstobdf, fs2xbm, fsck.ext2, fsck.reiserfs, fsinfo, fstopgm, fsbrowser, fsck.ext3, fsck.xfs. so Iwould bet, fsck.xfs would be the tool to repair xfs filesystems. *Hand Ed a cookie* Actually, ed, and Femme, if you run fsck itself, it usually automatically determines the filesystem type, and then runs the appropriate file system checker, when then checks the filesystem, and repairs it.. The only time I have had it work incorrectly, was when the filesystem was pretty much beyond repair anyway.. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. -- Clint Eastwood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
On Wed, January 29 2003 5:19 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Hi Margot! I haven't followed this whole thread but if I may say, your ISP Is full of shit. ZA has nothing to do with them. It just shields your comp from outside of the LAN computers. IE, Net comps on the other end. Actually, that's not QUITE true, perhaps her ISP uses some transparent proxying that ZA blocks. I have seen cases where firewalls DO cause problems with certain ISPs. Although, that is not her problem, that is the ISP's. Or, perhaps they have a very non-standard way of giving her internet access, perhaps using some sort of virtual networking, automatically set up at their end. If this is the case, then 9 times out of 10, any firewall would break it. I could get quite technical, in the ways it could happen.. But there is no time, nor is this the proper place. However, to help you with your problem, I would suggest that you, at the (EEK!!) command line, su to root, type ipchains -F, then ipchains -L and see what the default policies are.. INPUT and OUTPUT should be allowed.. If they are, then we have another problem, but it's a start. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- Life is full of concepts that are poorly defined. In fact, there are very few concepts that aren't. It's hard to think of any in non-technical fields. -- Daniel Kimberg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Hardware weirdness 2
On Sun, January 26 2003 11:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: *snip* Thanks for the explanation. Yes, my Athlon 900 runs around 50C, 24x7. I do worry about the weight of current heatsinks and fans - to say nothing of the fact that I have a heart attack every time I have to try to deal with those clips :). Are there specialist fans that are lighter weight? And see.. this is why I spent the extra 20 bucks and bought a Pentium IV 1.6, instead of the Athlon 1800 (which runs at 1400mhz I think) -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- To err is humor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Hardware weirdness 2
On Sun, January 26 2003 11:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: *snip* Thanks for the explanation. Yes, my Athlon 900 runs around 50C, 24x7. I do worry about the weight of current heatsinks and fans - to say nothing of the fact that I have a heart attack every time I have to try to deal with those clips :). Are there specialist fans that are lighter weight? And see.. this is why I spent the extra 20 bucks and bought a Pentium IV 1.6, instead of the Athlon 1800 (which runs at 1400mhz I think) No, I don't see. Why? Anne Well.. for starters, P4's have MUCH better thermal resistance, not to mention a thermal diode that can regulate the core CPU temperature if the fan happens to fail, or if the heatsink happens to fall off.. Many 3rd party tests have shown that a P4 cpu can run even without a heatsink, with no damage to the CPU at all. It slows down if it detects temperature overload, and prevents the core temp. from reaching critical levels.. (Not to mention the 400-533mhz cache speeds, compared to athlon's measly 200mhz.. :p) -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- You will pass away very quickly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Hardware weirdness 2
On Sun, January 26 2003 5:12 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: *snip* Thats interesting. I always thought that AMDs' chips were better performers at the same speed rangefrom what I've read. (but I'm no expert). Really dependant upon what your doing, AMD's ARE better performance/mhz usually.. but.. also at the cost of stability. When I was a technician at a local pc service center, I can't even begin to tell you about the compatibility issues between motherboards and video cards. One guy had a GF4 Ti 4400.. and a AMD XP1800+.. in a Soyo board.. and the card refused to work in anything having to do with 3D.. He bought the card from us, and swore up and down the card was faulty... I put the card into my test system. (A P3 500) and installed several games that he'd brought, saying the card locked up in em.. and it ran beautifully... no problems.. took the ATI Rage128 that I had in the test system.. put it into the Xp1800.. and *IT* ran beautifully.. with no problems, whatsoever... now, for the kicker.. we underclocked his 1800 (which was clocked to 1600mhz, per AMD's settings...) to 1500mhz clockspeed (which the board then recognized the CPU as a XP 1699 (or something like that..) and the GF4 ran without a hitch.. So.. I assumed a heat problem.. not true... the CPU wasn't even hitting 110F (or about 45C) according the motherboard's system diags.. and this was AFTER running some 'cpu burn' tests that output gibberish into each register, causing the CPU to peg 100% usage for like 20 minutes.. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut. The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of Judgement Day. For at noon the skies turned from blue to grey and by mid-afternoon had blackened over so densely that, in that religious age, men fell on their knees and begged a final blessing before the end came. The Connecticut House of Representatives was in session. And, as some of the men fell down and others clamored for an immediate adjournment, the Speaker of the House, one Col. Davenport, came to his feet. He silenced them and said these words: The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought. -- Alistair Cooke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Hardware weirdness 2
On Sun, January 26 2003 1:03 pm, Paul wrote: *snip* I guess these do not suffer from 'overweight problems' of fans. ;) Paul No, it's because P4's don't overheat.. period. They throttle their clock speed, to reduce heat. if they detect overheating, so where thermal management on an Athlon means protecting the cpu from itself, thermal management on a Pentium IV just keeps the CPU from slowing down.. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie qustion on ISO images
On Sun, January 26 2003 5:29 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: *snip* Microsoft Answer: After checking throroughly through the end-user-license agreement, and after carefully reading through all of the documentation concerning this application, make sure you have all the available patches and upgrades prior to initiating the process of *snip* ... ROFLMFAO! Too funny! The sad thing is.. what he said, while being quite tongue-in-cheek, very closely resembles what MS would, indeed, have said to the question.. God I hate beauracracies(sp?)... -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Who loves not wisely but too well Will look on Helen's face in hell, But he whose love is thin and wise Will view John Knox in Paradise. -- Dorothy Parker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WINE or something similar??
Here's the deal.. I have a pure Mandrake 9.0 system on this box.. No windows partition at all.. now.. lets say I wanted to make a disk image inside my current linux setup, and run win apps.. and I want it to be opensource.. NOT vmware. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- rugged, adj.: Too heavy to lift. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Panel Customization questions
On Wed, January 22 2003 12:58 pm, mycal62 wrote: they are located in /usr/share/icons. right click on one and choose properties, and click the icon button it displays, then change to your heart's content. The only thing on the KDE menu is Move Remove Menu Editor and Panel Menu There is NO properties. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- I know you're in search of yourself, I just haven't seen you anywhere. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Panel Customization questions
On Wed, January 22 2003 12:58 pm, mycal62 wrote: try here for a trash can ref. : http://www.m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash/ Also, this has NOTHING to do with putting the trash can onto the toolbar. I want to move the trash can OFF the KDE desktop, and put it on the Toolbar, like OS/X has it. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Let me take you a button-hole lower. -- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Panel Customization questions
On Fri, January 24 2003 10:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: *snip* Out of curiosity I dragged the bin to the bottom bar - next to mcc icon. No problem, it opens the trash can, which is wat I presume you want. Of course, to fix it you should log out, checking save session, then in again. Remove the checkmark next time you log out. Anne It does do that.. But.. It's not quite how I want it. Yes.. it does open it, yes, I can delete stuff by draggin to it.. BUT.. I can't empty it, and if I remove the trash off the desktop, it no longer works.. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have been necessary to invent it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Panel Customization questions
On Fri, January 24 2003 10:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote: *snip* OK - I'm a wierdo who likes to check before deleting anything, so it works for exactly as I would use the desktop icon. There is no way I'd click that 'empty trashcan' entry. I didn't do it under windows and I don't do it here. Ok.. But that still doesnt solve my issue with changing the icon for the KDE Menu itself.. and I'm beginning to think this may be an expert-list problem. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alsa ? or sound (OSS?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, January 25 2003 1:57 am, Pupeno wrote: I see that if I run alsa OR sound at start up, the sound works, by default it was running both but I'll prefeer not to run things I don't need (I have enough other things that I need). Which one should I run ? what are de advantages of one over another ? Thanks. I would run the ALSA script, because the latest alsa supports something OSS Compatibility, so even apps that don't use the ALSA driver, will still work with the 'standard' oss driver included with the ALSA stuff. - -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ---==--- We are experiencing system trouble -- do not adjust your terminal. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+MhZgjcin0YVe4sERAtzgAJ9xQMETjueCxmCA0rAkWSKFm3M4dwCfVG37 SyRT7syifVqJpFT2l9IZLnc= =w+Vd -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla
On Thu, January 23 2003 7:23 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Now here is a funny thing, /.mozilla/user/enpo83.slt/mail has 83.4 MB of data /.mozilla/user/eu8shu49.slt/mail has 73.0 MB of data156.4 MB total and yet at the same time just 73 emails, none with any attatchments. I am suspicious that mozilla is only giving the appearance of deleting it's messages, and in fact it is building up over time to be quite a tidy accumulation. I just wonder whether this is a problem with my setup or a problem with mozilla. Well.. what you need to do, is make sure to empty the deleted items folder in mozilla-mail, and also see if there's an options somewhere to compact folders or something similar-sounding. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Bones: The man's DEAD, Jim! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Panel Customization questions
On Wed, January 22 2003 10:46 pm, John McQuillen wrote: *snip* If you read the README included with the ksensors source (I have 0.7), you will see instructions on compiling ksensors for both KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0. *snip* Thanks, ksensors is installed.. and semi-works, but thats not an issue for this Mailing list.. But.. no one has, as of yet, answered either of my other two questions.. regarding a Trash kicker Applet that would allow me to put a trash can docked into a toolbar.. And also, how to change the icon for the KDE menu button by hand (and other icons on the toolbars that cant be changed by the normal means) -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- genius, n.: Person clever enough to be born in the right place at the right time of the right sex and to follow up this advantage by saying all the right things to all the right people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
On Wed, January 22 2003 5:37 am, robin wrote: *snip* That's interesting - I've used PS/2 to serial adapters, but I've never even heard of a PS/2 to USB adaptor - don't the two protocols work at different speeds? *snip* USB Devices work at only what they need, therefore, it is quite conceivable that a simple PS2 to USB adapter can do the job. My Logitech Trackman Wheel is a USB/PS2 mouse. It has a USB plug, and it came with an adapter to plug into the PS/2 mouse port that I can plug that USB mouse into. However, it's just an interface change, it doesn't actually provide a USB port, so that might be what is misleading you. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous re-boots
On Wed, January 22 2003 6:06 am, Anne Wilson wrote: *snip* OK - I've tied it down a bit more. It always happens if I highlight more than a few lines. Does that suggest anything? *insert smart-aleck remark* Well.. you could always only highlight one line at a time. :) -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Take what you can use and let the rest go by. -- Ken Kesey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Panel Customization questions
I have almost completely customized my kde panels to where I want them to be. But.. there is one thing that I can't find a way to change, although I know it's possible. How to change the icons of the things like the Icon for the KDE menu. I can change icons for the apps IN the menu, but not the icon on the panel for the menu itself. I would also like to know if there is a KDE-kicker applet that would act as the trash can, ala MacOS/X. And.. is there a kicker applet that supports lm_sensors? running gkrellm is out of the question for my setup, as I am trying to be as minimalistic as possible with regards to screen clutter. go here: http://home.mchsi.com/~zex0s/Desktop.png to see what I mean by minimalistic desktop/panels (three panels total, one on right holds KDE menu, and most used programs, and, autohides.. 1 on bottom right, holds system tray and clock, always visible, the one on the bottom left is just a taskbar, and it also autohides. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- I've enjoyed just about as much of this as I can stand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Panel Customization questions
On Wed, January 22 2003 8:44 pm, Pilagá wrote: *snip* Yes, Chuck, try with Ksensors. Suerte. Well.. ksensors wants QT2, and I'm using QT3.. in the configure script, it complains about not having QT =2.2.2, and I do believe QT 3.1.0 is higher than 2.2.2. :p any suggestions here? -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- It is either through the influence of narcotic potions, of which all primitive peoples and races speak in hymns, or through the powerful approach of spring, penetrating with joy all of nature, that those Dionysian stirrings arise, which in their intensification lead the individual to forget himself completely. . . .Not only does the bond between man and man come to be forged once again by the magic of the Dionysian rite, but alienated, hostile, or subjugated nature again celebrates her reconciliation with her prodigal son, man. - Fred Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Panel Customization questions
On Wed, January 22 2003 9:01 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: *snip* Well.. ksensors wants QT2, and I'm using QT3.. in the configure script, it complains about not having QT =2.2.2, and I do believe QT 3.1.0 is higher than 2.2.2. :p any suggestions here? I've also found about half a dozen programs that would seem to provide what I need, but they're all at least a year and a half old, or older, and probably want older versions of qt.. so... should I install QT2? -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- If it's working, the diagnostics say it's fine. If it's not working, the diagnostics say it's fine. - A proposed addition to rules for realtime programming Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Native Linux app Comparable to Quickbooks pro?
I wish to see about converting a friend of mine to linux, but he uses quickbooks pro, and I don't know the names of any comparable *nix applications, that would also read his current quickbooks stuff. Anyone have any suggestions? -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine
On Mon, January 20 2003 11:01 am, Wei Wang wrote: *snip* I am not sure if this is hardware related or OS related. I have Mandrake 9.0 on my Pentium 4 M 1.8Ghz laptop. Now the complete kernel compiling make clean bzImage modules *snip takes 80 minutes to finish. Every gcc stays on the screen for a second or *snip* I have a P4 1.6 desktop, and it takes me about 45 minutes to compile everything, all modules and everything. My P3-500 desktop takes almost 2 hours, however, my P3-500 laptop takes over 3 hours. In case you didn't know, ALL x86 laptop cpu's are NOT the same cpu as the desktops, which makes them just a little better than half the speed of their respective desktop counterparts. While they both run at the same speed, the pipelining, power control, etc etc is much different. Data bus width also comes into play. AFAIK the only computers that use the exact same processors for both desktops and laptops are Apples. So, in answer to your question, no, there's probably nothing wrong with your hardware other than the fact it's a Mobility CPU, hooked to the cheapest components the maker of that laptop could find. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- You are old, Father William, the young man said, All your papers these days look the same; Those William's would be better unread -- Do these facts never fill you with shame? In my youth, Father William replied to his son, I wrote wonderful papers galore; But the great reputation I found that I'd won, Made it pointless to think any more. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]
On Mon, January 20 2003 5:21 pm, robin wrote: *super.snip* I see the detoxification process is complete. Maybe we should have a 12-step program for Windows dependency. It should start with everyone getting up and saying My name is ..., and I'm a Windows user. I must admit I haven't kicked the habit completely - I still tell myself Well just one little reboot into Windows won't hurt. Sir Robin *snip* Well.. If I can't do it in Linux, I don't need to do it. I have 3 computers, one of which is a laptop, and none of them even have wine, much less any installed windows at all. The only computer I use that has windows is my fiancee's. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Cogito ergo I'm right and you're wrong. -- Blair Houghton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk
On Sun, January 19 2003 3:31 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I login to GNOME I get this error message before it loads; *snip* Add the following line to your /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 whateveryourcomputerhostnameis like.. assume your computer is Factoid.. 127.0.0.1 Factoid -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printing Woes
I have a Xerox DocuPrint C11, and a shared OfficeJet d155xi on another computer. Here's the deal. If I print in grayscale, everything comes out beautifully, on both printers, however, if I print in color, it's all wavey and stuff.. like the printer heads arent seeking properly, or something. They both print fine under windows. Both printers have tri-color cartridges AND black cartridges, loaded at the same time. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on here? -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install Mandrake 9.1 problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, January 14 2003 3:02 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: *snip* at this point I'm kinda curious as to what speed did you burn the CD at? anything faster then 4x might be a problem. int burnAt4x = neverHaveProblem(checkMediaType); int burnAtSpeed4x = maybeDiskGood(maybeDiskBad); FWIW, I have a Lite-On 48x24x48 cd-r/rw, and I always burn at full speed, and not even my crappy 6year old cd player in my truck has problems with any cd's burned by it. And that's saying something, because it even has problems with mastered CD's that have a scratch the size of a molecule trail on it. - -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JKVLjcin0YVe4sERAu4PAJwM18h/AIKi9XjLFEPO1dkHxpX+rwCfR1p+ 6rsoucDrdPn/6CM7qRvzAyw= =Q1yx -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Removable Media Icon in KDE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I get rid of this annoyance, I delete it, but every time I log out, and back in, it's back! - -- Chuck Burns -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JLvXjcin0YVe4sERAn0EAJ9bnjI/6sa1GwaDk97NjkzQk7dWOACfb0kG CloUCfGdAzcPCmrirKgQno8= =Jc07 -END PGP SIGNATURE- public_key.asc Description: application/pgp-keys Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is personal!
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:40, Todd Slater wrote: Playing with ROX and Fluxbox on 8.2. I have the pinboard working OK so I can have desktop icons (not that I use them). So I spent time today looking for icons and just generally customising the look and feel. (See http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2003_01_12_23_26_50?full=1 if you're curious.) Problem is, I've invested so much time and effort in getting everything just the way I want it, I'm having a hard time convincing myself I should move to 9.0 or 9.1! If your /home directory resides on a separate partition, AND that config is a non-root user, you should be able to do a clean install of 9.1beta and keep your fluxbox settings, if you choose keep current partitions and don't format your /home partition -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But can I take out the video card? That depends on your motherboard, as most, if not all motherboards do a check to see if the video card is there, and if not, it wont even boot. -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Play CDs Digitally - How?
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 05:03, Derek Jennings wrote: xmms can do it using the IDE interface. Just like WMP :) There is a guide on my homepage. Sweet, thanks.. that's exactly what I was hoping for: an XMMS plugin. woohoo! -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sort of OT - language
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:03, Vahur Lokk wrote: Thats easy to explain - compared to other languages english has no grammar whatsoever, thus being easy to learn for foreigners (who have already grammar experience with their mother tongue) :) Actually.. English is one of the HARDEST languages to learn, since we have so many words that have 4 or 5 different meanings, different ways of saying the same thing, etc. The fact of the matter is, many people in non-english countries are required to learn english in school, from an early age. Now, on the other hand, many people in the USA ALSO take a few years of a foreign language, but not until they are 16-20ish, and the older you get, the harder it is to learn a new language. Now.. even so, the fact that we don't USE foreign languages very often here is, in itself, contributory to us not speaking many languages. Go down to Texas, close to the Mexican border, you will find MANY spanish-speaking US citizens. Multi-language is born of necessity. -- Dos anos de espanol.. and all I know is just about how to say what I just did.. if it's even right. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Altering an interrupt
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 19:39, Michael Adams wrote: Here is my cat /proc/interrupts *snip* Is it possible to move eth0 to one of the free ones or not. A pointer to a HOWTO or Manual would be fine. TIA I would believe that all of those are PCI devices, and AFAIK the only way to change the IRQ of a PCI device is to move it into a different slot. -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Play CDs Digitally - How?
I currently use a digital audio cable to connect my cdrom to my sound card (emu10k [SB Live]). However, even when I turn the volume control all the way up, I cannot get the CD to play through my speakers. Yes I adjusted the volume of the CD line in the mixer, nothing. I need a program that plays CDs digitally, reads the cdda tracks over the data channel and plays them, OR can use the digital audio of the sb-live, though I would suspect this to be a driver issue, and that doesn't seem to be doable at this point. So, can someone point me towards a X cd player that will play CDs using the data channel, like (god forgive me for saying this) Windows Media Player can? (Before I get told otherwise.. yes.. WMP will most assuredly play CDs, even without an audio cable at all.. and still get sound) Thanks, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Play CDs Digitally - How?]
I had to get a new driver for the em101k in order to get proper usage from the card - for whatever reason. Worked fine under RH, but under MDK it was freaky at best... After downloading/compiling the driver, though, I can't complain about the sound or CD playing... I've also been using XMMS to play my audio CD's through - I'm sure you've tried that already - but a question to ask now is have you tried it under both Gnome2 AND KDE to see if the different sound engines have something to do with the issue? Actually, yes, I have. Under windows, I would have 2 different volume controls for CDs.. I would have CD Audio, and Digital CD. playing with the CD Audio volume would result in no change from the Standard cd player, but messing with the Digital CD volume would.. unfortunately, I can find no mixer control that even remotely sounds like it would be the Digital CD volume. I am also using the latest 9.0 alsa drivers directly from the alsa-project.org website. Is there another set of drivers you recommend? -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Play CDs Digitally - How?
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:18, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi Chuck. I've got a SoundBlaster Live that I've used in 3 different comps now, with version 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and finally 9.0... All comps and versions have allowed me to play CD audio. I used a 4 connector audio cable (not SPDIF) and its never failed. Thats hardware. Once in software, I had to make a link between my devices. ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/hdc Otherwise, it would not play. (if you have to do this, check dmesg and make sure what your CDROM is listed as). You might have to play around with it a bit... You see, there's the thing.. I *DO* use the 2connector cable.. the digital connection.. otherwise it would be a non-issue.. of course, I *could* put in the 4cable audio, but that would defeat the purpose of have the digital one. :p Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 05:28, Anne Wilson wrote: I like Maxtor drives - and I especially like the fact that they are the cheapest offered by my vendor as well as being utterly reliable in my experience. Maxtor? Bad Juju for me. Probably one of the loudest hard drives I've ever used. I've also been scared of seagate for years, but there seems to be a genuine effort by that company to fix that, and I would actually even consider buying them. (NOT the desktop line.. the barracuda's...) Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT]: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Whichi s better:KDE or Gnome?]
(I'm not getting into this.) Damian: I'm with you. We can debate less filling vs great taste. Indeed! Every non-moron knows it's LESS FILLING! :p OTOH, If we were talking about coffee, then I would have to say TASTES GREAT! -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Linux sys admin salaries in US
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 22:04, Miark wrote: Hi all, What kind of salary would a Linux sys admin with little experience be able to pull in the U.S.? What kind of range? *little* experience?? You'd be lucky to even BE sys admin with just a little experience.. No.. you'd need to get a degree of some sort, along the lines of network technology, or something, AND work for a company for a few years before you could even THINK of become a system admin.. Unless you have lots of experience.. that means PROFESSIONAL experience.. meaning you are a already a system admin of some other company. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
*snip* I vote for: KDE, libertarian, mechanist, Alaskan ANWAR oil exploration. *endsnip* Well.. at least your mostly right. About everything except the KDE bit :p I'm a bit of a mis-gnomer myself.. but I like everything else you said. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror and javascript
BEGIN message-with-ugly-HTML-stuff snipped=quote Kristjan: Did you point Konq to the correct path? Mine is: /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java Suerte. Pilagá Jep, i did, nothing happened /snipped I have also gotten the same problem, easily solved by just not using Konqueror, and instead using Galeon Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] script help
Here's the rub, by type ./HW you are telling bash to run it in the current directory. Also, path's are NOT recursive, so when you put it inside a second folder inside the ~/bin directory, it will not see it. Put the HW script directly into your ~/bin directory, then then type just HW (NOT ./HW) Chuck On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:10, MG wrote: Hey Mark, I was just using ./HW as in: [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW What I gathered was if the script was in a directory, that was in my PATH, I could just use the name of the script instead of the whole path. I looked in my /home/mike/.bash_profile file and it said: [mike@avatar mike]$ cat .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin Perhaps /home/mike/bin is not in the path of PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin ? Mike On Wednesday 01 January 2003 03:36 pm, you wrote: MG wrote: Hi all, This question is not really Mandrake specific although I am using Mandrake8.2 (and like it alot!)...anyways trying to learn the bash shell. I wrote a small script (the Hello World script) and named it HW. I did a chmod 755 to it, so all could read and execute it. I made a /bin directoy in my home directoy and put the script there. But my problem is I can only execute it when I am in the directoy of the script. I have a permission problem(I think), but cant seem to find it. Any help would be appreciated. Here is where scipt is at: /home/mike/bin/practice_script/ [mike@avatar practice_script]$ ls -al total 12 drwxr-xr-x2 mike mike 4096 Dec 28 09:51 ./ drwxr-xr-x3 mike mike 4096 Dec 28 21:24 ../ -rwxr-xr-x1 mike mike 52 Dec 28 09:51 HW* -rw-r--r--1 mike mike0 Dec 28 09:49 HW~ If I execute the script any where but /practice_script/ I get this [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW bash: ./HW: No such file or directory Thanks, Mike Mike, When you call it from anywhere else except the directory where it's located how are you calling it? for instance...if yo're in /home/mike and you want to call the script you would call it this way: bin/practice_script/HW [enter] Is this how you're doing it? Mark 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] Linux W2000
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 19:05, erylon hines wrote: snip previous-reply It is o.k. to use diskdrake IF the W2k partition is FAT. If it is NTFS you shouldn't try it. Partition Magic will work, but it will only do ext2, and be careful--it can mess up your partition table (for sure--it has happened to me). Never use Partition Magic and then allow DiskDrake to change any partiton sizing, do any formatting, etc. If you use Part Magic, do everything with it, including assigning the /, swap and /home. Then just point DiskDrake at the pre-made partitions during the install. /snip Why is that? I've used PM for years with my Linux installs, and all I do is resize the FAT32/NTFS partition(s), and then create the *nix partitions with the DiskDrake, cfdisk, et al. Never had a problem with it. The *onl* PM problems I've ever encountered was when I was running XP, and ran the program from inside XP, and it rebooted to do the actual resizing.. but if I use the rescue disks to do the resizing, I never have a problem. -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
