[newbie] Mandrake Corporate 2.1
Does anyone know where Mandrake Corporate Server 2.1 can be downloaded from? I don't see it in any of the lists on the Mandrake site. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache stops responding?
on 5/14/01 6:12 PM, RDWest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: last question what does telnet do... what is it used for Telnet is a virtual terminal that allows you to log into a remote computer via a network of some sort, and presents you with a command prompt with which to run commands and programs on the remote computer. About the Set up below, you have 3 different domain names pointing to the same IP. Apache chokes because it can't decide which page to deliver /gsp, /tcoclan, or /shs Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/ - NameVirtualHost 24.9.19.5 VirtualHost 24.9.19.5 ServerName gsp.ath.cx DocumentRoot /vhost/gsp/html VirtualHost 24.9.19.5 ServerName tcoclan.ath.cx DocumentRoot /vhost/tcoclan/html VirtualHost 24.9.19.5 ServerName shs.tcoclan.ath.cx DocumentRoot /vhost/shs/html
Re: [newbie] Which distribution to use as server?
I'd install the servers right off the bat. Linux Mandrake 8 is the best one to use, IMHO, because it installs Apache with PHP, MySQL, and Perl right off the bat. Other distro's may not. Usually you have to install those separately which takes between hours and days depending on your knowledge of GNU-Linux. Mandrake 8 automatically configures and sets up the base directory and loopback as well, meaning that immediately after installation of Mandrake, open a browser and type http://localhost/ and it serves up a web page on your server from /var/www/html/ To test PHP put a file in that same directory called info.php containing only the line: ? phpinfo(); ? Call that up in a browser as http://localhost/info.php , it will tell you all sorts of information you may or may not be interested in. Darin on 5/13/01 10:32 AM, Ted Shaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day - I'm just beginning the steep trek to using Linux so please forgive the naive questions. I'd like to use Linux both as a workstation and as a server for my home system. I'm especially keen to learn to use Apache/php/MySQL for web page development. As an old windoze user I've got a lot to learn - I've ordered several books but before ordering any software I thought I'd ask: 1. Is Mandrake-Linux the best distribution for use as a server? 2. Would it be best to start off installing Mandrake-Linux as a workstation and then later install the applications necessary to turn it into a server or would it be better to install everything at the beginning? Having just recently subscribed to the list, I'm impressed with the quality of the assistance and the manner in which its given. The discussion regarding LM 7.2 vs LM 8.0 has been especially useful. Any advice greatly appreciated. Ted
Re: [newbie] partitions
I like to have a partition for my web tree, and other Documents. so I make a /usr partition / partition and a swap partition. There are lots of ways to do it, and everyone has their own opinion, but the basic gist is that you can reinstall on the root partition without affecting your /usr partition. When you put in the new upgrade on / all your documents will be right there where you left them in /usr you might also want to include a /home partition for user documents and sites. Or a /var to preserve apache and mysql, etc. files Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/ on 5/11/01 5:12 PM, Bill W. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I recently purchased a 30 gig hard drive and installed LM 8 on it. The system is a dual boot with win98. I have absolutely no experience with partitions so I just went with recommended and it seems like I have one huge partition in addition to a small swap. I am moving to linux but I want to know if I should be creating smaller partitions for /var, /home etc..also, with a hd of this size would anyone recommend going to the reiserfs? Thanks, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart $3.49 Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/ on 5/10/01 12:51 PM, Bob Barnes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading the mail in here for a couple weeks. I've tried getting both disks via modem but my 28.8 connect isn't getting the job done. I've signed up on the Mandrake page to receive the 2-CD set when available. I run Win2K Pro and have been interested in Linux for awhile now. I live beyond the limit for any high speed internet connect and was wondering if any one of you would send me a copy of the two CDs that you have downloaded. Of course I'll pay shipping and handling and what you think is fair for your time and media. Send any details you need to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd sure appreciate it! ThankYou Bob Barnes RR2 Box 44 Bardwell, Kentucky 42023
Re: [newbie] software and upgrade questions
on 5/9/01 10:27 AM, Jennifer Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: first of all, thanks to everyone who had an answers for me. after all was done, i think the install may have knocked windows out, i am not that bothered since my important things that i am working are stored elsewhere anyway. i have new questions: i had asked about dual booting- should i go ahead and get the 8.0 (and is the avail by box or download) versus using the 7.2? also, does anyone have any recommendations for web design programs and the like for linux. with windows i was using frontpage (which i didn't really like to begin with), there were a couple of things bundled with it- but i was looking for something a bit more full bodied. and one last question, on the 7.2 there is a graphic art program called cameleo that for the life of me i cannot get to install. i get to the little install icon and won't do anything. :0 jenny 8.0 installs Sketch and Killustrator. They are good by linux standards, ancient by desktop publishing standards. The most advanced wed design program I have found for linux is Quanta, which installs from Mandrake 8.0. It is a far cry from Front Page, and is more remniscent of Allaire's Home site. It is a great text editor, not a wysiwyg editor. If you are looking for something better than front page try dreamweaver. But it is not for Linux, not yet. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/
Re: [newbie] Apache lies
on 5/9/01 9:22 PM, Chubby Vic at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://kittypuss.org/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl This file exists. Apache says: 404 Not FoundNot Found The requested URL /cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl was not found on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at kittypuss.org Port 80 Open up Netconf in KDE click on Server Tasks then Apache Web server click Defaults, and check your script alias entry and ensure that it points to the right directory. e.g. Script Alias: /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/ or however you have it configured. By the way I have found that editing the httpd.conf file directly in a text editor, does not always work with the New Apache extranet server, it seems it has to be done through the NetConf interface. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/
Re: [newbie] Redhat vs Mandrake
on 5/9/01 4:43 PM, Jeffrey M. Reed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2001 15:27, Mark Johnson wrote: My wife's company has asked me about installing a linux server to relay mail within their local LAN and also out to their ISP. They'd like to run apache and mySQL. They wanted to know whether they should install RedHat or Mandrake. I'm not sure how to answer them why would one be better than the other? there is no better my friend. they are, in essence, the same. the commands, the programs, the security, everything. essentially the same. the only baddie i keep seeing in RedHat is they mess up the compiler a lot. so, unless you're developing a lot, that won't matter. linux is linux is linux...no matter if it's slack, redhat, mandrake, whatever. i'd go with either. linuxbusca runs on mandrake and debian...and while it's nothing pretty to look at yet, mandrake does the email, web server, and DSL gateway. pretty awesome. just my two cents. Apache and Mysql won't deliver the mail. Mandrake installs Postfix by default, which is easier than Sendmail to configure, although neither of them are actually easy to configure. Mandrake and Redhat are based on the same installer program, that is all that varies from brand to brand is how it is installed, and the tools each installs for configuring it. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8
I ran sndconfig like you say, but I got an error. It correctly located my CS4237B:CTRL Sound card, but it couldn't get it working although there was a pop. I got the error: modprobe error: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Does anyone have a sound-slot-0? Or is there some other problem? I also tried folling the CS4232 how-to which says to: modprobe sound insmod ad1848 insmod uart401 insmod cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 it said it didn't like the irq. i gave it the argument again with irq 7 and it didn't complain. but still no sound. Thanks fro the sndcnofig tip. I had no idea about that and for the first time it did make a pop noise which is something. Darin on 5/10/01 11:44 PM, Kit at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do this logout...of X...then select: Restart (but in commandline mode or linux prompt mode) when there, put this command in: /usr/sbin/sndconfig or /usr/bin/sndconfig (forget which,try both) then just do what it says...afterwhich, log back into X you should then have sound. I bought the same CD's from the same place... I had know trouble at all...everything worked fine. Darin Lang wrote: Anyone else have installation problems? FWIW, I had no problems installing Mandrake 8.0 from the CD set I bought from CheapBytes.com. My mouse works: all three buttons and the scroll wheel, Logitech with a ps/2 type connector, I don't know if that is a ps/2 mouse techincally though. My screen resolution is perfect and stable, something it never was before when I had Slackware Linux, the image flickered and was distorted and it took me weeks to get it that good. I do not have sound, because I have an obscure sound card (cs4237b) on an ISA bus. But everything else installed without a hitch, automatically upon install including my printer. I did have to reinstall twice before I was happy with the intalled software configuration. But it ran well everytime and did a nice dual boot install without any hitches. I did have a hard time getting Apple Talk running, since it is not included (Samba is) for some stupid reason/oversight. And Postfix was a bit difficult to configure, but much easier than sendmail which I never did get to work when I was running slackware linux, but Red Hat has a nice how-to. Up till this week I have been running Slackware Linux with no printer, no mail server, no sound, a jittery display that was so difficult to look at for any length of time that I gave up using it and just telnetted from the computer sitting next to it. 2 mouse buttons worked and it took me 2 days to get the keyboard layout switched to Dvorak on boot. Mandrake took care of everything almost automatically and it is running nicely except for the sound, though it did install my TV tuner card. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/
Re: [newbie] What's a good program to...
Dont know specifically any apps, but I recommend you check out Freshmeat. I'm willing to bet that a search there would turn up something.. http://freshmeat.net Darin - - Original Message - From: Derek Rayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:20 AM Subject: [newbie] What's a good program to... Hi there, I am looking for my Linux system (Pentium 133) the following types of programs: 1) PrintMaster type (that does it all) 2) HTML Editor (NOT CoffeeCup) Thanks! = Richard Wegner - Linux Newbie - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Derek Rayne is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER this is just an e-mail address I chose! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on Dell CPi-A laptop
Hi, I'm trying to set up Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell Latitude CPi-A laptop.. The installation went flawlessly, and Mandrake boots up fine.. I can even get a really nice display when starting X, but only from the LCD display.. I notice that when starting X, there is a message that mentions Internal LCD display only. When I try to use the function keys to switch to the external display, it does the switch, but the external display is messed up. Is there a way to get either the External display, or both internal and external to work at the same time? The video chip is a NeoMagic 2200. Everything else seems to be working just fine. I can even use the PCMCIA modem to dial out and connect to the net.. Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks Darin -
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on Dell CPi-A laptop
Yeah.. I tried several different resolutions.. Even generic 640x480x16 color VGA.. None of them gave a display.. Some would show the screen 4 times, others were more difficult to read.. At any rate, I found the cure... There is a line you can add to the options in XF86Config or XF86Config-4. I pasted a snippet from the XF86Config below. The intern_disp and extern_disp options allow you to tell the chipset which display you want to use.. This doesnt give you the flexibility of switching on the fly like Windoze, but it does work very well.. This also lets you use the external display with the docking station/port replicator. FWIW, everything else is working fine.. I did have to set the serial port speeds with setserial.. It was forcing the modems to connect at 33k.. Those have been the only two hitches I've had with the entire laptop so far.. Darin - === # ** # Graphics device section # ** # Any number of graphics device sections may be present # Device configured by Xconfigurator: Section "Device" Identifier "My Video Card" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" #VideoRam4096 #Chipset"NM2160" #Option "intern_disp" Option "extern_disp" EndSection -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on Dell CPi-A laptop It must be something specific with how laptops send the signal out to the external monitor TFT and other notebook screens generally have low refresh rates compared to Crt displays,, thats why I always try using generic laptop screen settings when I need to get an old monitor working... (recently I had an old 14 inch SVGA CRT that wouldn't handle anything but "generic 800x600 notebook" got no idea why, but no other settings worked, and since that did, I didn't bother trying to setup x by hand...) I don't know if xfree suports multiple displays,, I had never though to try it. you don't mention what you mean by "messed up" a monitor trying to display a refresh it can't handle has a specific look... as does a monitor trying to display a res it can't handle... try setting your notebook res lower, say 800x600 or lower, and then see if the monitor can handle it.. then try using a lower refresh and try the same thing, keep going down till it works, and then work your way back up till you find a res and refresh that works on your ext monitor,, then you will just have to use drakeconf to change monitors whenever you want to use your external monitor,, corse I could be wrong, their could be a much easier answer... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Darin Sent: Tuesday, 20 February 2001 2:26 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on Dell CPi-A laptop Hi, I'm trying to set up Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell Latitude CPi-A laptop.. The installation went flawlessly, and Mandrake boots up fine.. I can even get a really nice display when starting X, but only from the LCD display.. I notice that when starting X, there is a message that mentions Internal LCD display only. When I try to use the function keys to switch to the external display, it does the switch, but the external display is messed up. Is there a way to get either the External display, or both internal and external to work at the same time? The video chip is a NeoMagic 2200. Everything else seems to be working just fine. I can even use the PCMCIA modem to dial out and connect to the net.. Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks Darin -
RE: [newbie] laptop install
Robert, I just finished installing Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell CPi A366XT laptop.. Its a couple of years old, but the install went pretty well. I had minor X configuration problems because I wanted to use the external display.. But, PCMCIA works well. It found my Xircom modem/ethernet card with no problems and the sound works well too.. I found a site that really gave me a lot of good info.. Its called Linux on Laptops.. The URL is: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to use Linux on their Laptop.. Darin - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert F. Trettel Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] laptop install Hi All, I just put in a order for a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop. Has anybody tried Mandrake7.2 on this laptop,if so any thing I should know. Also it is setup with WinMe,will try a dual boot. Have a great day and thanks Robert F. Trettel
RE: [newbie] the downloaded targz file via windowME can not be read by linux(...
CD-RW disks and Direct CD dont write to a Cd in a standard ISO9660 format.. They use UFS, which is the same filesystem that DVDs use.. I dont know if a 2.2.x kernel can read UFS or not.. I think UFS support was added into 2.4.. That is probably why you cant read the file.. You might try burning the file to a standard CD-R using Adaptec Easy CD or Nero.. Darin - -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 11:11 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] the downloaded targz file via windowME can not be read by linux(...some one post in news group alt.os.linux.mandrake told how to access ext2 file from cdrw(my is toshiba dvd, cdr, cdrw combo), I follow cd /dev rw cdrom ln -s scd0 cdrom it make me can access linux file , but when I insert my cdrw disk which have a copy of tar.gz driver file I download from windowME aol using Adaptech's Direct CD, I can not see anything when I try to l ls /mnt/cdrom need help Sincere Eric
Re: [newbie] Quake
Me too.. Epic is doing the same thing.. Making the Linux client available for download instaed of including it on the CD.. I guess we cant expect miracles overnight.. At least companies are starting to recognize that Linux users want to play games. - Original Message - From: Seth Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Quake On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: update. ( you can see it for yourself by going to the console or xterm window and typing 'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more') Oh yah. . .totally. . .ive worked in the software industry hehe. . ."when its done" is quite a mantra there. . .yah i been following plans and stuff. . .was pretty disappointed to see no simultaneous ship date): -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world.
Re: [newbie] Quake
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm still waiting (myself) to find out where/when I can buy the Linux version of Q3 Arena. :-) I called Id software on Friday and they said they don't have a release date yet. :-( Yah rumor was nov 24, then dec 7. . .according to folks at all the comp shops i been to. What i understand from reading the plans of id staff, it seems that the Elite (tin box) edition won't have linux binaries, additionally, the Linux version WILL NOT ship simultaneously with the Win/Mac versions as originally planned. Linux binaries will not be able for dload until post xmas, mainly for the purpose of collecting stats. If a software dealer gives you a hard date for the release of any Id game, they are making it up.. Anyone that has followed John Carmack and co. over the last few years knows that they never give hard release dates. They always release the game "When Its Done". Todd Hollenshead, the CEO for Id software had this to say in a recent finger update. ( you can see it for yourself by going to the console or xterm window and typing 'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more') Here is Todds update: 11-14-1999 Demo Test notes: As Graeme indicated, this is a preliminary release. We are retaining the prohibition on physical media distribution until we release the final or "gold" demo. That means that magazines will NOT be allowed to distribute this version of the demo on coverdisks. This is marked all over the test, however I would appreciate it if all of the Quake 3 and game site webmasters that are mirroring or covering the release would lend me a hand and make sure our friendly neighborhood game and computer magazines understand this. Rest assured, we will allow physical media distribution of the final demo, once it is released, but not yet. Second, although the 1-800-idgames number is on the screen, we (id) aren't accepting orders yet. Also, please remember that number is not for technical support for Quake III Arena, the demo test, or any other id game. Feedback, bugs, etc., in the demo test should still be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, before the crazy speculation starts, we aren't done with the game yet. We will be finished "when it's done!" Again, anyone besides id claiming to have the official release date is just pulling your chain.
Re: [newbie] GAIM
I'm using GAIM 0.9.10 on my work machine.. It works fine for me. I had problems with previous versions locking up while trying to connect, but thats because my work machine was behind a firewall and versions of GAIM prior to 0.9.9 did not work well with a proxy or firewall. Are you running one of the more current versions or an older version? - Original Message - From: Karen M. Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:09 AM Subject: [newbie] GAIM Is anyone else noticing GAIM (AOL Instant Messenger) is freezing upon connecting? I wonder if AOL might have anyone not using their version of AOL IM for Windows blocked from their system? Like they're doing to MSN Messenger? My other concern is that I had a friend here trying to get my modem to work. Is there a remote chance something he did could be causing GAIM to not connect? I didn't think so, because my ICQ-clone programs are still working fine. I have been deleting and reinstalling GAIM and this is the first time ever that it's freezing up on me, after using it for a month. When I use Windows 98, my AOL IM in that is working fine. Karen
Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?
You are correct... The P-II/P-III/Celeron/Xeon are all based on the Pentium Pro. There have been changes like MMX and Katmai as well as the process shrinking from .35 micron for the P-Pro to .25 for the P-II/P-II/Celeron and then .18 micron for the new Coppermine P-III processors. There have also been cache changes.. The P-Pro had cache on the die that ran at the speed of the CPU and came in 256k, 512k, and 1 meg varieties. The P-II and early P-III had 512k of 1/2 speed cache on the slot card. The first celerons had no L2 cache at all.. The second gen Celerons have 128k of full speed cache on the chip die. The Coppermine chips have 256k of full speed cache on the chip also.. I believe some of the instruction pipelining for the FPU has been improved over the last 5 years as well.. However, the main instruction set for the CPU remains unchanged since the P-Pro came out in late 1995. Intel's 7th generation processor is supposed to be released 4th quarter 2000. It has been code named Merced for the last 4 years or so.. The actual product name "Itanium" was recently announced. It will be a true 64 bit processor and completely incompatible with all x86 code, unless someone decides to create an emulator for it. - Original Message - From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 6:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586? On 5 Nov, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi, In menuconfig, (I have a feeling this is a dumb question) I automatically have 386 with an "X" next to it. I have a Pentium 233 mHz. Is that technically a 586? I'm not sure whether to tell it that or Pentium. My Linux book says to check 586 but I'm not sure why. Yes! A Pentium is a 586-class processor. I think Technically a Pentium is a 586, a Pentium Pro is a 686, a PII would be a 786, and a PIII would be an 886 Not quite. P-II and P-III are both 686 processors. The first (or so I hear) truly 7th generation x86 processor on the market is AMD's Athlon processor. The P-III is just a hyped up P-II, which is just a P-Pro with MMX. Of course, I'm over-simplfying, but I believe I'm mostly correct. I do know for sure that neither the P-II nor P-III qualify as anything more than a "686" processor. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?
- Original Message - From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586? On 8 Nov, Darin Martin wrote: There have also been cache changes.. The P-Pro had cache on the die that ran at the speed of the CPU and came in 256k, 512k, and 1 meg varieties. We're talking about L2 cache here, right? I didn't know that P-Pros had full speed cache. I always thought that was only on Celerons. Was this on all P-Pros? Yes.. This is all dealing with L2 cache.. All P-Pro versions had full speed cache on the chip. Thats the primary reason the P-Pro was so expensive when it was released. Today, even the 1 meg P-Pro chips are still pretty expensive.. Around $350 each. One other advantage the P-Pro had was its scalability. The chipsets for the P-Pro could easily support 4 way SMP. And 6 and 8 way SMP were attainable with minor modifications as well. The P-II couldnt scale beyond 2 way until the Xeon came out, and even then could only scale to 4 way until just very recently. The on-chip L2 cache gave the P-Pro a serious advantage over early P-II chips too.. Before I added the second CPU to my P-Pro system, I could easily get higher framerates in Quake, Unreal, etc.. than my friends that had P-II 233 systems. Intel's 7th generation processor is supposed to be released 4th quarter 2000. It has been code named Merced for the last 4 years or so.. The actual product name "Itanium" was recently announced. It will be a true 64 bit processor and completely incompatible with all x86 code, unless someone decides to create an emulator for it. I've heard about Merced (sorry, I mean Itanium- couldn't they come up with a better name?), but haven't been following it as much as the Athlon. I suppose I'm more of an AMD guy than an Intel fellow. Plus, buying an Athlon will let me reap the benefits of a mature x86 chip while waiting for Merced (whoops again, but "Itanium" doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as "Merced") to bloom. Also, what is Intel supposed to do with Merced that Digital (um... Compaq... I'm not good with names this morning) hasn't put into the Alpha processor? I suppose it's always good to have competition, but does Intel really expect to dent this market? I suppose if Microsoft puts NT on Merced, that will help a lot. Especially since they no longer support Alpha. Is this their plan all along? MS is reportedly working on Win2k for the Merced/Itanium. From what I've heard, they will not have anything ready for at least a year or two *after* the Itanium is released. However, Linux will probably be available for Itanium shortly after its release.. I've read a few articles about compiler development for the Itanium.. This is a tremendous chance for Linux to get a giant leap ahead of MS in the server and high end workstation market. Personally, I'll be building a K7 system as soon as a better chipset solution is available from VIA or ALI. I think that the K7 has far more potential than the Coppermine and even the Itanium. The big problem for Itanium is that there will be no backwards compatibility with x86 technology. That means little hardware or software support on initial release unless people start development now. The K7 and the K8 (code name Sledgehammer) are going to keep Intel in a #2 spot for a long time to come..
Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?
- Original Message - From: Damien Mc Kenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586? It has been code named Merced for the last 4 years or so.. BING! Wrong. Merced is a different technology (IA-64) that HP is designing for Intel using some of the HP-PA wizardry. The first chip in that series seems like it won't be much faster than the 786 chips due next year... ... which are called Williamette. They'll be Intel's first official 786 chips and will probably have a number of similar tricks to AMD's Athlon to speed things up yet again. Umm.. Sorry, but you are in fact, incorrect... Go to this site... http://developer.intel.com/design/IA64/index.htm?iid=search+IA642; And, if you go to this page, you will see the IA-32 is targeted at mainstram desktop, mobile, and low end server/workstations while the IA-64 (Merced) is targeted at high-end servers. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/MPF1097A.HTM The Merced (aka Itanium) uses the IA-64 architecture which is backward compatible with IA-32.. But the Willamete design is IA-32 only.. Not IA-64.
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard Read the instructions at www.mandrakeuser.org They tell how to use the 100 dpi fonts. -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Don't worry about contacting his ISP. Contact the FBI. Ummm.. The .pt is for Portugal.. I really doubt the FBI can do a whole lot there.. If thats where the person in question is actually located.. Who knows? The college student's system may have been hacked already and was just a point where they could anonymously try thier exploits from.. nslookup 193.137.8.223 Name:oboe.dsi.uminho.pt Address: 193.137.8.223 -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] 3c59x problems
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, you wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 alongside win98 on my Dell XPS-T PIII 450. my ethernet card is the 3com 3C905C-TX. When booting up, Linux fails to recognize my ethernet card, and responds with "failed" when trying to bring up interface eth0. I am using the 3c95x driver, although the 3c509 driver has the same problem. My question is, do I need to specify the irq and base I/O address? win98 seems to think my irq is 11, but I don't know how to go about finding the I/O address. Any input would be greatly appreciated. -gabriel weinstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do 2 things: 1: Turn off HTML in your messages 2: Set your wordwrap to 80 characters.. Thanks Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] Wierdness
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm not sure if I should just chalk this up to "flaky hardware" or whether it's something to do with Mandrake or what. Here's the situation: I have a dual-ppro 200 (only one processor running right now... SMP locks the machine up tight on boot-up!) with 192 megs of ram. Mandrake detects the ram just fine. I also have an Advansys ABP-940UA Ultra SCSI card hooked into a 8.5 GB SCSI drive, but I boot off an 850 mb IDE. I normally have to boot twice before I can get a reasonable Bogomips count. Typically I get about 1% of the "normal" bogomips at first boot and full bogomips after I reboot. For example, right now I think it's running at 192 Bogomips. I realize this isn't a REAL measure of performance, but it's close enough for me, as at 2 bogomips as I had at first boot, the system was CRAWLING! Any ideas??? Does your motherboard support the MP 1.4 specification? I believe the SMP kernel requires that your motherboard follow the Intel MP 1.4 specification. I have an option in my BIOS to switch from 1.1 to 1.4 I run a dual P-Pro with 2 UW SCSI drives. This system runs for weeks on end. Since going with Mandrake, I have never had a single hard lockup. I've had applications with memory leaks use up all the memory. All I had to do was kill X off and everything was back to normal. Darin - -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] iso
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Dan Brown wrote: Doesn't have to be that fast, i used to download the isos with my X2. 120megs every 8 hours, it does take awhile mind you, and it really sucks when it goes wrong, but when it works it'll make you beam :) Thats what I did.. Took just about 36 hours to get completed. But, it burned perfectly fine. -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install
I wish! Unfortunately, even some major cities in the States still don't have high speed access. I downloaded my copy with my 56k modem. While that isnt quite as slow as your connection, its pretty close.. I averaged about 4.8 KB/sec for my download of Helios. Darin - -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] this is a subject.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote: como... i just bought a supraMax i56 modem to replace my LT Win-modem... but i cant get the thing to work in linux... it worked for a day in windows... but now it does the same thing in windows as it does in linux... the modem is on com2 under windows i used modemtool to set the linux port ... when i use kppp it says... 'modem ready...' then sits there with the message 'initalizing modem' if i open the log in kppp it says 'expecting OK' any help is welcomed and thanks, reb0rn If the model number of your modem is 2580, 2380, 2390,2560, 2300, 2260, or 2370 it is a software driven modem. In other words, you went from one Winmodem to another. Very few PCI modems are real modems. -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] SCSI Scanner
The SANE drivers support most popular SCSI scanners. The latest drivers are in the Cooker and will be in 6.1 distributions. -Original Message- From: Doug Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, September 12, 1999 3:48 PM Subject: [newbie] SCSI Scanner I would like to use my scsi scanner with linux. Do any of the image processing programs available support scanners? Are there appropriate drivers around? Doug Reid
RE: [newbie] setup my PCI modem !
Unfortunately, the Olitec PCI modems are software driven. They will only work with the drivers that were written for Windows 95/98. There is no way to make the modem work under Mandrake or any other Linux distribution. -Original Message- From: jeff d'Izarny [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] setup my PCI modem ! Is it possible to set up a Olitec PCI modem for linux Mandrake 6.0 ?? i try but The message is : "modem not response" ?? please help me !
RE: [newbie] Networking Linux-Win95
Check out Samba. Samba allows you to access Windows shares and also allows you to share disk space and printers to other Windows users. -Original Message- From: Neilesh Patel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Networking Linux-Win95 I have a Linux Server (well it's not really a server, but I'd like to call it one) that has a deskjet 720C printer (HP) connected to it. is there anyway for the windows machines to print to the printer, while I'm running Linux on the server? If so how? let me know thanks neil
RE: [newbie] How do I install my scanner Umax S-6E?
Joao, Before spending the money on a new SCSI card, go to the SANE page and try their drivers. They list your scanner and the controller it comes with as supported.. Their site is at http://www.mostang.com/sane/ -Original Message- From: Joao C Agostini [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 10:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I install my scanner Umax S-6E? Hello Thank you very much for the information and for the attention. It is a sad news, but I will take your advice because, I find, this will be the only form of doing my scanner to work. But, even so, I would like something to know on which module for a generic board scsi, do you know? Thank you again. Steve Philp ha scritto: Joao C Agostini wrote: Hello Does by chance anybody have a scanner of the mark Umax S-6E? I saw in the sane that there is the drive for him, but when I made the installation of Mandrake it didn't consist a scsi board for him. I wrote for to Umax so that they informed me which the type of the scsi board that they used for S-6E, but until today I didn't obtain answer. Did I Read in the documents of the sane that the kernel should include a module (?) of generic scsi, what module is this? How do I do so that it is carried by the kernel or so that it is included in him? What should read to enable my scanner? At once thank you very much. The SCSI board that ships with the S-6E is a completely worthless piece of crap and should be tossed into the nearest trash can. Pick up a cheap Adaptec and install the kernel drivers for it and you'll be fine with that scanner. I used to run the same here with an AHA-1524 card (at least, I think that was the number of the card, it's been awhile). -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- João Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil - SP ICQ - 33.965.439 usuário Linux # 106644
Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
- Original Message - From: Sam Gentile [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:37 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor) Oh, everyone who doesn't agree with your viewpoint is a "Microsoft plant?" No, I am just an Engineer who has used both since 1993. You're spreading crap and it's UN-professional as well as false. Have you used Windows NT? Have you used Windows 2000 for 6 months as I have? No? THEN DON'T MAKE STATEMENTS OUT OF YOUR BEHIND. I have told you the truth - I have been running for 6 months and instead you choose to believe myths instead of direct experience. You must admit that this is probably not the best place to push MS and its agenda. However, from my perspective, MS and its products just do not perform the way they could/should. And, before you say I know nothing about MS... I have been a beta tester for MS products since Win 95 was called Chicago. I have been to MS offices in Dallas and Seattle.. I have instructor certification from MS. Not just MCSE or MCP, but Instructor certification. I have run most every MS product in existance since 1990. I am a Unix engineer by trade also.. My employer was using NT 4 and IIS as the company web server for all of our web-based products up until very recently.. We switched to Solaris and Netscape Enterprise Server.. The reason for the change? The IIS servers would crash on a regular basis and, when they were up the 3 systems they were running on (Dual P-II 450 Compaq servers) couldnt keep up with the workload. Since switching to NES just over a month ago, we have reached 10,000,000 (Yes, Ten Million) hits per day. with two dual cpu Sun servers. NES has had exactly two problems in the last month and both of those were caused by router failures. You can't blame this on "poorly written software" because we were using Microsoft's own web server. We have MCSE certified engineers on site to handle the configuration of the servers and even MS themselves looked at our configuration and could find no problems with it. The problem is that NT and yes, Win 2k still needs time to mature. It is not ready to be an enterprise level OS. It might be OK for file and print serving, but forget mission-critical applications where a companys future depends on solid, robust, stable performance. I too have run Win2k since the early betas have come out. While I am impressed with the improvements they have made, it still has a way to go before it will be on a level with Solaris or Linux. And, do I run MS operating systems at home? Yes.. I like to watch movies and play games.. Those are 2 things that Linux does not do well at this point.. In time, that will change. And, if you're not completely convinced by my statements, then I ask you why Microsoft themselves could not get their Hotmail service to run on NT and IIS reliably? When they purchased Hotmail, it was running on Solaris and Apache. They tried to cut over, but again IIS and NT could not handle the workload and would not stay up. So, to this day Hotmail still runs on Solaris and Apache. Now, I'm not going to blindly say that Unix/Linux/Solaris never crashes.. They do crash some times.. But their reliability far exceeds that of NT/95/98/Win2k. I'm not "making statements out of my behind either". I have the experience.. I've been there.. I've got the t-shirt. Darin - Sr. Systems Engineer LEXIS-NEXIS My opinions are my own.. Not my emplyers.. So there..
