[newbie] mkisofs - data cd's with directories
You know, this should be simple. Nearly everybody does it, right? ;) Yet I am having trouble with mkisofs getting it to replicate a directory sstructure so that I can just continually go from one directory to the other (it is an audio book set of mp3s) without having to jump all over the resulting CD on my mp3 player trying to figure out what chapter to play next. The files (originally) were structured like: disc1/ - Track01.mp3 disk1/ - Track02.mp3 .. disc2/ - Track01.mp3 disc2/ - Track02.mp3 and so forth; typically, 13-15 mp3s per each disc subdirectory. Obviously, what I'd like is to just have the disc1/*, disc2/* etc, so that each file would follow naturally in sequence. My first effort $ mkisofs -J -r -v -o datacd disc*/* failed (using the Linux cookbook example) because it saw each of those "track" files conflicting with other file names (that is, track01 in disc1 would conflict with track01 in disc5) -- an obvious sign that it was just going to stuff the files in any way it could without following any directory structure. I also went into the directories to rename the files to more sensible names at this point (damn Windowz no shell users) :( . 'rename' is neat btw, if you figure out how to use it. :) After some reading (again in the Linux Cookbook) I tried using the --graft-points option, and this is saner, but still I ended up with all the files in the main / directory of the resulting data iso. But I did manage to make subdirectories on the ISO. But doing so was horrendous, as I seem to have to do: $ mkisofs -r -J -v -V "StarWarsIIIbook" -o datacd -graft-points disc1/=disc1 disc2/=disc2 disc3/=disc3 disc4/=disc4 disc5/=disc5 disc6/=disc6 disc7/=disc7 disc8/=disc8 disc9/=disc9 disc10/=disc10 disc11/=disc11 disc*/* One would think wildcards would work here, but it doesn't seem to - mkisofs will complain. I can mount the CD and navigate through the directories, they seem reasonable, but ideally I'd like to be able to do this in my settop mp3 player or portable cd/mp3 player without having to jump all over the disc. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] reading Troff document
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:22:23 -0300 "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, could some kind soul tell me what program I can use to read > Troff documents? A friend of mine has a Mac, and they have sent me a > couple documents that I have thus far been unable to read. Is Troff a > Mac proprietary format? I find it really odd that a Mac user would send a document in any troff like format. troff (text runoff) is an early Unix documentation facility comprising a few related programs. One would basically edit the document with an editor and then use any of a number of roff programs to "runoff' a printed copy, hence the name. What you're looking for is "groff" (gnu's version) which would include a number of packages for the various components. Chances are these are already installed, since it's used a lot for "man" pages which are written in that format. Also handy would be something to view postscript output, such as "gv". Normally something like: $ groff -T ps | lpr would print one of these documents out. > --Angus -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Command-line updates
I know how to update software using the Control Centre and Software update, but how would I go about doing this from the command-line? -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How big is a block ?
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:11:57 - Ken Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if i want a user to have 130Mb do i set 133120 blocks or 13 > blocks ? 1024. There may be some overhead. But you can just allocate 13 and he'll come back to tell you he's got a little bit more than you gave him. :) -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:18:35 -0500 Julie Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like LBreakout, KBounce, Kolorlines, Gnotski & Mahjong. > KGoldrunner is like Super Mario Brothers & GTali is like Yahtzee. I > think some of these mahjongg (and the variants) are pretty good. They're kind of difficult to play & you need to concentrate though. I do tend to spend more time these days playing the solitaire from KDE :). Also I like to spend time playing monopoly online with other players - I use the KDE atlantik and/or gtkatlantik. Once in a while try xmille if you like the French card game "mille bornes" :). > Julie -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:08:24 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > I've been browsing to the package available in mdk10.1, and I find > many interesting packages once I click on them and read the > description. Right atlantik :) -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Help Compiling C++ with Emacs
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:39:22 -0500 Ayn Newin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > g++ -o total sum1.cpp > /bin/bash: line 1: g++: command not found > Compilation exited abnormally with code 127 at Fri Feb 25 18:45:40 Emacs runs the compiler in a "subshell" so it's just like if you did it from another terminal, more or less. So it's not really an emacs vs. c++ issue. What you'll need to do is to urpmi (install) the g++ compiler. > ~ Ayn -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] When the Computer is winning
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:40:40 -0800 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #go here ;-) #http://www.desktop-linux.net/ # # Yepsounds like me E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 08:59:04 up 11 days, 17:44, 1 user, load average: 1.09, 1.03, 1.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
Pablo,
Monday, March 14, 2005, 3:18:03 PM, you wrote:
> On Monday 14 March 2005 14:42, Tango Echo wrote:
>> > -Original Message-
>> > From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (snip)
>> Good question, and I would be interested in the answer
>> as well... Correct me if I'm wrong here, but can PC
>> to Phone calls be made for free under GnomeMeeting?
>> There is a (cheap) rate for this to happen with Skype...
> Skype: 1.7 euro cents /minute
> GMeeting: 0.043 euros/ minute
So Skype is substantially cheaper then?
Converted prices:
Skype 1.7 eurocents/min
GMeeting 4.3 eurocents/min
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[newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition
Hi, I am sorry that this is a little OT, but I have a machine that will not boot up in Windows, and I want to be able to back up the HD. I have booted a live distro (MEPIS) and the disk is seen as hda (hda1, hda2). A usb disk is seen as sda (sda1, sda2, sda3) I want to be able to mount hda1 and sda1 and copy files from one to the other. Can some kind soul provide some incantations to enable me to do this please. My Mandrake machine has no Windows partitions or usb disks so I can't look in fstab to get some clues. And yes, I am a real newbie! -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3B - Multi Session Burning
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:12:49 -0500 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Saturday 12 March 2005 03:47 pm, David wrote: #> Is it me or does K3B not like to undertake multisession burning. I thought #> that I was burning the downloaded update RPM's (in multisession mode) only #> to find out after I'd loaned the Cd to a friend that they had not burnt #> although K3B had indicated that everything had been successfully burnt. #> Luckily for me that I'd not deleted the files after having burnt them so #> was able to burn them onto a CD-RW. #> #> Anyone with any ideas on this? #> #> E. David I. Taylor #> # #might have been the implamentation of UDf on the other computer, or a need to #finaliaze the CD-rw disk so it could be read on other computers. did the #computer you were trying to read the CD on have a burner installed? #it might not have UDF file reading ability. #could your computer (the one that burned the CDrw) read the disk? did K3B #think the disk was still a blank? Yes my friends computer does have a burner. The disc (a Transonic) that I did the multsession burn on when I tried to read in both mc and konqurer showed that no data was recorded yet on completion of the burn k3b had told me that the burn was successful. When I tried to continue multi session burn it recognised that the disc had previously been burnt to. Having talked to my friend (a linux guru) we've more or less come to the conclusion that Transonic disc's don't like to be burnt multisession. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 09:08:47 up 1 day, 16:54, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.04, 1.02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] K3B - Multi Session Burning
Is it me or does K3B not like to undertake multisession burning. I thought that I was burning the downloaded update RPM's (in multisession mode) only to find out after I'd loaned the Cd to a friend that they had not burnt although K3B had indicated that everything had been successfully burnt. Luckily for me that I'd not deleted the files after having burnt them so was able to burn them onto a CD-RW. Anyone with any ideas on this? E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 09:38:41 up 17:24, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.03, 1.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RSS feeds
amala singh wrote: Thunderbird RSS feed is OK to me. Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've been googling and looking at kmail info to see how to add RSS feed. I'm obviously looking in wrong place - can anyone direct me thanks Rosemary The only one I have found for Linux is Liferea, and it works well. rob gdesklets-rssgrab -- Thanks, David Skype: dgsatimdb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
Saul, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 3:18:49 PM, you wrote: > You may need to install additional packages: > spamassassin-spamc-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk > spamassassin-spamd-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk Thanks very much - that did the trick! -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
Fajar, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 2:00:22 AM, you wrote: > Did you successfully install Spamassassin? > If so, you should be able to run it by: > service spamassassin start There was nothing to say that the installation had not been successfull. Using service spamassassin gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# service spamassassin start Cannot find spamassassin service Usage: service -[Rfshv] SERVICE ARGUMENTS -f|--full-restart: Do a fullrestart of the service. -R|--full-restart-all: Do a fullrestart of all services currently running. -s|--status-all:Print a status of all services. -d|--debug: Launch with debug. -h|--help: This help. -v|--version: Print version. version 1.14 -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
Derek, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 1:24:13 AM, you wrote: > The service is called 'spamd' I'll correct the document. > derek But I don't have a spamd service there either. On searching the system for spamd I only find a perl program called spamd, and not the c-wrappered spamd you mention in a later posting. -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SpamAssassin startup
Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake Control Centre>System>Services. Unfortunately there is no entry for SpamAssassin. . Can anyone give an incantation to get it there (or even visible in Webmin)? The RPM is SpamAssassin-3.0.2-0.1010.lmdk.i586.rpm. Regards David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MySQL
SOTL wrote:
On Thursday 17 February 2005 15:04, David G Stevenson wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
SOTL wrote:
Hi All
As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data
base using MySQL.
I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions
that are not answered in the book.
This computer is set up with all data located on a separate partition
called /home/trunk/Common_Data which allows both the Linux and MS OS
to see the data.. Yea I know strange location not using
/mnt/Common_Data/{file name or directory} but I like it that way.
Anyway I would like to place my data bases in the same location.
Currently when I create a db it is located in /var/lib/mysql/{file
name} so I preceded to copy one of the db I had made called "testdb"
to my desired location. Then I tried to access "testdb" or as the db
people say connect to "testdb".
Anyway I tried the following
use /home/trunk/Common_Data/testdb
plus a few variations of this eachtime receiving the response that the
db which MC says exist does not exist.
Would some kind person please explain how one creates, connects, and
uses a db in any other directory except /var/lib/mysql/*.
Thanks
Frank
All of the following must be done as root.
Turn off your mysql server process:
*# service mysql stop
*Copy your databases to the new location:
*# cp -a /var/lib/mysql /home/trunk/Common_Data/
*Rename your current mysql directory to keep it safe until you know that
your changes are working properly:
*# mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql_backup_20050217
*Create a symlink in /var/lib/ to the new location:
*# ln -s **/home/trunk/Common_Data/mysql /var/lib/mysql
*Restart the server:
*# service mysql start*
or,
stop mysql server,
edit /etc/my.cnf
change,
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
to
datadir=/home/trunk/Common_Data/
move the data to new location (including the system mysql database)
then restart mysql server
Thanks for the help
I just checked and my version of Mandrake 10.1 does not have a
file /etc/my.cnf
Is that correct or am I missing something in my installation? If so whit
should I do? Should I just generate the file with the above configuration
parameters in it? If so am I missing other configuration parameters?
Take a look at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/option-files.html
This will describe the my.cnf file at its available options. If the file
exist it will be read and override default mysql options.
For example, here is my file:
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib
[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
On the server this came from it is pretty default.
HTH
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Re: [newbie] MySQL
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
SOTL wrote:
Hi All
As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data
base using MySQL.
I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions
that are not answered in the book.
This computer is set up with all data located on a separate partition
called /home/trunk/Common_Data which allows both the Linux and MS OS
to see the data.. Yea I know strange location not using
/mnt/Common_Data/{file name or directory} but I like it that way.
Anyway I would like to place my data bases in the same location.
Currently when I create a db it is located in /var/lib/mysql/{file
name} so I preceded to copy one of the db I had made called "testdb"
to my desired location. Then I tried to access "testdb" or as the db
people say connect to "testdb".
Anyway I tried the following
use /home/trunk/Common_Data/testdb
plus a few variations of this eachtime receiving the response that the
db which MC says exist does not exist.
Would some kind person please explain how one creates, connects, and
uses a db in any other directory except /var/lib/mysql/*.
Thanks
Frank
All of the following must be done as root.
Turn off your mysql server process:
*# service mysql stop
*Copy your databases to the new location:
*# cp -a /var/lib/mysql /home/trunk/Common_Data/
*Rename your current mysql directory to keep it safe until you know that
your changes are working properly:
*# mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql_backup_20050217
*Create a symlink in /var/lib/ to the new location:
*# ln -s **/home/trunk/Common_Data/mysql /var/lib/mysql
*Restart the server:
*# service mysql start*
or,
stop mysql server,
edit /etc/my.cnf
change,
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
to
datadir=/home/trunk/Common_Data/
move the data to new location (including the system mysql database)
then restart mysql server
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Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One of the biggest sites on the web is driven by Perl (IMDb.com). :-) True, but that's still more web-coding than I feel inclined to do :-) My point which I guess I didn't make very clear was that these apps often require no coding on the users/webmasters part, just a browser-based point-and-click interface. There are pre-packaged web-applications that use Perl/CGI or Python, but PHP is by far the most popular. John. Slighty OT: Yes, your original poster simply wanted GUI editor. I just wanted to suggest an alternative to PHP which people tend to forget in favour of the current 'popular' choice. I do feel that while languages come and go and others evolve, Perl just seems to carry on being a darn good work horse especially when there is lots of data to crunch in the background. Then again, I am just an old timer that grew up on Perl and Oracle :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One of the biggest sites on the web is driven by Perl (IMDb.com). :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] You probably already know this
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:45:56 -0800 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #In 10.1 if you hit the left Win$ux key you will bring up the Srar menu in KDE # No I didn't, cool, but I discovered by accident the other day that if i use the 'menu' key (ie the one to the right of the rh M$ key) in a terminal you get a '~' which works in my machine where as if I use the tilde key I get told I'm a silly bugger there's no such file or directory. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 16:01:08 up 3 days, 2:08, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.05, 1.02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting
Noel McG. wrote: - Original Message - From: "Anders Lind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:32:42 -0800 Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all. Maybe this is not exactly the best place for posting this question, but I really need help and I can't find information about it... I have some servers with Mandrake (this is the only relation with the forum's topic) that we're using in our organization. There are some intranet sites hosted there. However, we'd like to extend our site capabilities by pluging those servers into Internet and behave as a hosting server. That is, we want our site to be public to the Internet. However, we'd like to avoid ISPs, so my question is: what do I need to do about it? Where can I get the required information? I am assuming that you have a firewall/router and Internet access already. Does you firewall have a DMZ? If so, put the web servers into the DMZ and port forward the external firewall:80 request to the DMZ:80. Internal machines will still be able to access the servers but if they get hacked, they do not have any network access to your private network. --WWW(public IP) Firewall - DMZ (web servers) | private network www -> DMZ via portforward = ok private -> DMZ = ok DMZ -> private = fails Use bind() to allow the private machines access to the webservers by url or add to hosts on firewall if available. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem
M.Schild wrote: I am actually writing this in linux using web email because can't get kmail/kontact going to send mail! Probably going to be a simple thing I know. I remember having that sort of problem too but cannot remember why. Not much help but it was a simple thing marsye Assuming that you have your outgoing smtp server setup correctly, and this server is in hostname form rather than IP address, check that you can ping the server, or in a shell type: telnet the_server_name 25 (Hint: CTRL-] to exit then quit at telnet> prompt) this will open a smtp session to your ISP server. If this fails 'unable to find server' etc, it could be a DNS issue, is your /etc/resolv.conf being updated when your modem connects via the dhcp client? If not, find out what the DNS servers are of your ISP and add the entries: nameserver x.x.x.x for each one. Try telnet connect again. Any joy? Also, did you sign up with a diff ISP when you got the modem, if so, you won't be able to connect to the old ISP mailserver as you are now no longer on a trusted network. PS: if you browser is working via hostname lookup on the same machine this is probably not the cause of your problem as the browser needs DNS to resolve web URL's. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turbotax?
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my > computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. > > Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? > Turbotax Web works just fine. :) I've been using Web-based turbotax methods for the last few years using linux. One caveat though, I had a little difficulty getting the browser (konqueror or mozilla0 to automatically launch acrobat inside the browser window for printing purposes. I managed somehow to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found (it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen would come up and then it would go to sleep. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Viavoice Scripts
With some spare time on my hands today I started back into playing with Viavoice to see if I can get it to work. In /usr/bin I've changed the path to find the java in vvstartaudiosetup; vvstartenrollment; and vvstartuserguru to read "export PATH=/opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin:$PATH" which got me over the problem of finding java. It then has a seg default on the following line which starts "java com.ibm.speechapps.userwizard...". Could someone who has successfully got this programme to run post the lines from their scripts for me please. TIA E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 13:07:49 up 7 days, 20:40, 1 user, load average: 1.88, 1.22, 1.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Script for burning DVD images
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
I ran into an interesting problem today. I have some wedding DVDs that family
& friends keep asking for copies of. I had been using K3b's "Copy DVD" tool.
But I realized I could shave about 20 minutes off the time for each disk if I
saved the image and reused it, instead of rereading the originals each time.
I saved the images by selecting the "Only create image" option.
Anyway, I took a few minutes and turned it into a reusable script. I've
attached it here for anyone who might find themselves in a similar situation.
Maybe someday this missing feature will get added to K3b. In the meantime,
enjoy.
Thanks,
> DVDDEV=/dev/hdc
Youl need to change this to suit as hdc is probably most used for the
first hard disk on the first IDE channel of most default systems.
>/usr/bin/growisofs -Z ${DVDDEV}=${1} \
> -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty \
> -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2268160 \
> -use-the-force-luke=dao:2268160 \
> -dvd-compat -speed=4
2268160 = this is the real tracksize in bytes, so this would need to be
altered for each burn.
Have a look at the URL posted yesterday...
>>On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 11:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm
>Added to the TWiki on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DvD
>
>Anne
HTH.
--
Thanks,
David
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Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem
Mohammed Badran wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erylon Hines Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:59 AM Exactly my thoughts. I've had this problem with the Lucent chip modems with kernel 2.6.x. The versions must match exactly (as well as the gcc version that the kernel and driver are compiled against). If you can afford an external SERIAL modem get one, because every time the kernel changes the Winmodem driver must be changed also. It is truly a PITA. Ok I will try to find a US Robotics external modem I just want to make sure that's good Thank you all Mohammed If it is truly serial - it will work. I choose routers that have a network port rather than USB for the same reason - they uses existing protocols that have been well and truly tested over the years. I even have a couple of modems here which I have on standby in case my DSL goes down. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] alternative programs
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 10, 2005 05:48, Mohammed Badran wrote: Hello i need to know if there is an alternative program like 'autoCAD'and 'orCAD' as I couldn't find a linux version for them and I don't like to use wine to run these programs because of so much errors Thanks Mohammed There's QCad, http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html Never used it beyond starting it up in knoppix just to see what it does. Seconded - very good intuitive 2D package which I would liken to AutoSketch. Comes with all the dxf exporters etc. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Data Base Help
SOTL wrote: Hi All I have a problem with what I am trying to accomplish which begans with I have no idea of what I need to do technically to accomplish my objective so hence this posting. Basic objective is a data base of clients along with their address phone numbers, contact names, and preferences plus other additional fields. The eventual product of this information could be used in a number of different computers so a client server DB such as mysql or postgres or Open Office 2 will be needed. All well and good but there is a pre stage to the data base. In order to input the required data I must first output it from a number of existing data bases over which I have no control of the output consequentally there are issues with data placement and format which is easiest to explain by example. For example my database requires data to be in the form of: Given_Names | Family_Name | Address_1| Address_2 | City | State | Zip and I receive data in the format of Names | Address | City_&_State_Zip The cut past and text transformation options are slightly better in MS Office than they are in Open Office so I have been manipulating this data by means of MS Word and Excel to obtain the correct format which is painful and time consuming as neither a word editor or spread sheet are setup with the tools required for data editing and column formating. I would thus like to know if anyone knows of a spreadsheet type program not set up to do mathematical operations but data editing. The program must be spread sheet based so that one may see the data and provide better tools which are again best explained by example. Lets assume that one has a matrix of test data that is 20 columns wide and 30,000 rows deep, not a small matrix, with data scattered through in the wrong column. For example: Given Names for individual 1 is 1 name, for individual 2 it is 5 names, and for individual 3 it is 3 names. English names of first, middle, last are not to difficult but sprinkle in a number of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese names and total confusion reigns not to mention issues with other regions. Address can be 1 line, 2 lines, or 3 lines et. By now you get the picture of what the data is. What is needed is sort ability for all or blocks of data by: 1. either rows or columns. 2. by data from the front or back Let me explain the latter. Lets assume that you have a number of individuals in your data which have 2, 3, 4, or 5 names but all have Jr. or II, or III at the end which is not required for this application so it would be best to remove such formality in simplification. This feature would allow one to search by the last letter of the field first. Anyway by now one gets the idea that a spread sheet/word editor or database is not what I have reference to as none of these programs is geared to organizing data into the apposite column for usage in a data base. Any help suggestions or ideas concerning how to procede, which programs to examine or more applicable bulletin board would be appreciated. Thanks Frank Basically, I think that the best thing you can do is learn a little Perl, which by it's name is designed for these sorts of tasks. With a little basic help/reading, all of your tasks are achievable. All you really need to do is define the rules for which the data should comply. And then convert these to code. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem
Mohammed Badran wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David G Stevenson Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:41 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem Mohammed Badran wrote: Hi all I have a SM56 Motorola modem and I can't make it work at Mandrake 10.1 official, I have downloaded the driver of mandrake 10 from http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm And done the following commands [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# insmod sm56 insmod: can't read 'sm56': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# modprobe sm56 FATAL: Error inserting sm56 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.ko): Invalid module format [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls -l sm56 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 24, 0 Feb 8 16:26 sm56 but i can't find '/dev/sm56' in devices list at KPPP also when trying to use '/dev/ttys3' it tells me that modem is busy thanks all The module should be noted in /etc/modules.conf, have a look and see if the entry: options sm56 country=44 exists, you need to change 44 to whatever your country code is. Does 'lsmod' (as root) show it has loaded? If not, try: % depmod -a % modprobe sm56 From the docs, I see the device should be loaded as /dev/modem which should be linked to /dev/sm56. So in kppp use /dev/modem. depmod -a -- Thanks, David hello This is what written in modules.conf file alias net-pf-4 ipx alias autofs autofs4 alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias char-major-24 sm56 options sm56 country=1 profile=0 the sm56 doesn't appear when doing 'lsmod' and when i do 'modprobe sm56' this message is showen 'FATAL: Error inserting sm56 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.ko): Invalid module format' also when doing 'modinfo' this message appear [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# modinfo sm56 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.ko vermagic: 2.6.3-7mdk 586 depends: author: S. Harris, K. Shao, A. Rosario, D. Gutson description:Motorola SM56 SoftModem Serial Driver license:Proprietary Your kernel and the kernel the proprietary closed source driver was compiled against are different. Maybe different enough to cause problems hooking the code to the newer kernel. In the first instance I would email Motorola with your OS details and kernel version and ask them nicely for a newer version. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of a 'Linux' solution to the problem. I'll try to find a mac applescript that batch unlocks files. I did downloaded a 'drag and drop' file program but unless I can unlock (by hand I suppose) part of the mac OS it won't work. hmm... On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:47 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:52 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev Looks like it is just the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 40
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:52 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev Looks like it is just the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the special files . and .. This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root but is in the users group. /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create files/directories here. I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted at present. Running:
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd forgotten to edit my email 'to' in the header. Hope this is now corrected. As regards the permissions problem - What is really needed is a command that tells all my macos files to forget _all_ their file permissions. Then perhaps I can start again...? Reverting or resetting doesn't seem to work. n. If the following two things are done before executing chmod commands... 1. you need to be root to change these files 2. the disk needs to be mounted read/write I see no reason why the these commands should fail. caveat: unless there is something in the MacOS file system implementation on linux which I am missing (as I mentioned before, I have no experience with MacOS) You cannot revert/forget file permissions as this is not historically recorded. Not sure what to suggest next. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev Looks like it is just the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the special files . and .. This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root but is in the users group. /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create files/directories here. I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted at present. Running: % df -h will show if this is the case or not. As for the macos directory, it would be proper for the permisions to be: drwxr-xr-x so, % chmod 755 /mnt/macos would suffice. If you wanted users in the 'user' group to be able to write to the macos directory, then: % chmod 775 /mnt/macos would do. Usually, I w
Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem
Mohammed Badran wrote: Hi all I have a SM56 Motorola modem and I can't make it work at Mandrake 10.1 official, I have downloaded the driver of mandrake 10 from http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm And done the following commands [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# insmod sm56 insmod: can't read 'sm56': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# modprobe sm56 FATAL: Error inserting sm56 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.ko): Invalid module format [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls -l sm56 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 24, 0 Feb 8 16:26 sm56 but i can't find '/dev/sm56' in devices list at KPPP also when trying to use '/dev/ttys3' it tells me that modem is busy thanks all The module should be noted in /etc/modules.conf, have a look and see if the entry: options sm56 country=44 exists, you need to change 44 to whatever your country code is. Does 'lsmod' (as root) show it has loaded? If not, try: % depmod -a % modprobe sm56 From the docs, I see the device should be loaded as /dev/modem which should be linked to /dev/sm56. So in kppp use /dev/modem. depmod -a -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the special files . and .. This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root but is in the users group. /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create files/directories here. I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted at present. Running: % df -h will show if this is the case or not. As for the macos directory, it would be proper for the permisions to be: drwxr-xr-x so, % chmod 755 /mnt/macos would suffice. If you wanted users in the 'user' group to be able to write to the macos directory, then: % chmod 775 /mnt/macos would do. Usually, I would not allow write access to the macos directory, but create a directory in the macos dir which has more open permissions. Once you have the disk mounted (assuming that the disk is not mounted in your example output above) you would need to provide more info as to what sort of data is on there (I have never used MacOS). HTH David. OK, that doesn't seem right ay, but .. hmm, what was the permissions for the macos before you changed it? If you used to be able to read, write and execute on it then, the owner root, should have rwx, and r-x for the group members .. atleast to view it right, which is why you were trying 755 .. and as root, chmod 755 /mnt/macos .. didnt work ? I'm stumped .. So I hope someone with more experience than me jumps in soon 8) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bootloader
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:39:20 +1300 Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO? When I tried Linux a few years ago I had some problems with boot loader and ended having to do fresh install of windows. Thanks Rosemary should not be a problem, if you need to restore it back to win for some reason, something like a "fdisk /mbr" or something like that could be run from a win boot disk which would reload the Master Boot Record or mbr which windows uses. No fresh install of windows would be needed either. if you don't feel comfortable doing that, you could always save the bootloader to a floppy to avoid overwriting your mbr. You could add the bootloader to the first sector of your boot partition. In the later versions of Windows (2000/XP) you can get these to boot the linux partition. You have to create a boot file of the linux boot sector which needs to be copied to the windows c:/ area and then it is simply a case of adding the linux details to the c:/boot.ini file. Hint: Google search "windows 2000 linux boot" has details. Floppy might be easier in the short term, but I think it is fun in a sad sort of way to see Windows booting my laptop into Linux :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to change the permissions of my macintosh OS 9 partition and I inadvertently locked all the mac files. I've unlocked the majority of files again,by hand,but I was wondering if there was a mandrake konsole command that would unlock every file on that partition,just incase I've missed some? Do you mean you have made all the files read-only? If so, chmod is your friend, '-R' is a recursive feature so 'chmod -R' will apply your permission mask to the directory/mount and all files/dirs within. To add user write access you could use: % chmod -R +w dirname Have a play with the option on a dummy directory so see the effect. Remember, some files need to be executable and readonly for a reason! HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application development suggestion
Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi Folks, A friend asked me something about developing a management program for his store (a small one but with two computers). He need to track the sales and print bills for customers on both computers. I wonder whether it can be done using mysql and php or perl in mandrake (I myself don't have any such experience). Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Bests, Q.H. I built a couple of systems like you mention. Basically I used perl/cgi, mysql & postfix. I have a web layer which is a mixture of static html templates which are merged at runtime with the Db content. The web layer drives the perl/cgi which interacts with the Db, triggering email/prints/invoices etc. so... Web | cgi/perl | mysql | postfix Authentication can be driven by auth_mysql in apache so users can update there own passwords and you can provide groups etc. Use the http.consf files and .htaccess to provide group security to scripts etc. I am sure you can do all this in php or any other language, but thats what make programming so much fun eh! HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Print server setup
Aron Smith wrote: Can anybody point me to a simple method of setting up a print server? I would like to use my inkjet printer on both machines. somthing like bladerunner slowbox | | ---switch--- | HP-PSC 1210 I have a few extra NICS if necessary TIA smitty Configure the 'all in one' printer on box of choice (assuming both run linux variant). On that box set up CUPS to use the printer, also you could add the printer to a Samba share. On other computer, set up CUPS again to this time connect to remote print server where the printer is physically connected OR use the SMB:// share thru Samba. Either way you connect remotely, you will have needed to configured cupsd on the server machine. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] telnet connection problems
rasta rasta wrote: hi. we're having problems with disconnecting a telnet connection. we have this custom-made shell that is run (this is run in /etc/passwd) everytime a successful telnet login occurs. but when we forcefully disconnect the telnet connection (forcefully as in not typing 'exit' in the command line) we notice that our shell is still running (typing 'ps ax' will show this) and that the shell's vmsize is increasing. after a few minutes the system would gradually slow down until it hangs. In this system we're using xinetd. we've tested our shell on another system using inetd, and the telnet and the shell disconnected cleanly. any ideas on how to resolve this issue? thanks When the telnet connection is passed to the 'custom-made shell' it is up to the 'custom-made shell' to relinquish its hold on that instance. I would look at the shell code personally. There may also be a terminal issue with the local control keystrokes not being passed to the remote server also, depend what the host os is though. Try running the shell locally, what happens when you exit? Does it still hang? Do you have the loopback interface setup, does hosts file have the 127.0.0.1 localhost in it? Try adding the ip/hosts of the connecting clients? HTH - just a list of random things I would check. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
Len Lawrence wrote: Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk in the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions problem (there isn't). Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. DVD media is by far a complex topic when comparing the actual media and the technology relating to the -R and +R system. The DVD players (PC drives or consumer TV recorders) do not always support all available technologies. I have a DVD recorder in my PC which supports all formats, it writes to -RW disc just fine, but my Panasonic DVD player struggles to play them (spec says it does support it). Give it a +RW disk and everything is great! I think most people buy small packs of diff types of disk until they find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the equipment :-( HTH PS: http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk this is my supplier for what its worth. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:00:52 -0500 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Monday 31 January 2005 11:29 pm, David wrote: #> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:36:31 +1300 #> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #> #> a big snip #no bother, just hoping you keep us informed as to how it all works, and what #you did (and what hardware you did it on) to get it running... What I've done so far. After I located a source for the RPMS I read the following: 1. http://www..linuxworld.com/story/32787.htm 2. http:volker.dnsalias.net/linux/speechrec.html 3. http://bolker.dnsalias.net/linux/vv/viavoice-SuSE8.2.html After downloading the following files: IBMJava2-JRE-1.3-2.0; ViaVoice_runtime-3.1-0.0; Viavoice_runtime_US_LangPack-3.1-0.0; ViaVoice_TTS_rk-5.1-1.2; ViaVoice_Dictation-1.1-0.0; ViaVociemenu_us-0.1-4; libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.48; libstdc++2.10-devel-2.96-0.48; and the patch mentioned in 2 above. (NOTE: the list in 1 above is incomplete) RPMs were istalled using rpm -Uvh then installed the patch (see 3 above) unless you wish to do things the hard way. So far have not started to educate it (even if the new school year started here on Monday just past.) as I need to get into town to get a new mic etc. My mobo is a ASUS with AMD Duron 1100 processor, Soundcard: VT82C686 (Apollo Super AC97/Audio). If you don't have access to mdk 7.2 or 8.0 and would like the RPMS contact me off list. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 18:13:57 up 1:27, 1 user, load average: 1.13, 1.03, 1.01 == if replying please leave the filter code, ie [] & contents, in subject line == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:36:31 +1300 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:57:25 +1300 #David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # ##Back in Nov 04 a thread titled "Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime" ##discussed amoungst other things Voice Recognition and ViaVoice in particular. ##Jack did you try Viavoice and if so did you get it sorted. ## ##I've just upgraded to 10.1 Official and have been able to get my hands on the ##ViaVoice (v1.o) RPM's that shipped with MDK 8.0. ## ##I'v read Volker Kuhlmann's pages ##http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/speechrec.html and ##/linux/vv/viavoice-SuSE8.2.html . I've also downloaded his script. ## ##My question is: Has anyone installed this version of ViaVoice on 10.1 and did ##you experience any problems that I should be aware of? ## ##Any clues as to what to look for would be appreciated. ## # #Follow Up # #Ok, so I started to install the RPMS this morning and run into a dependency #problem in that the file libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is required. I've search #the mdk 8.0 cd's and its not there, so googled and could not find a copy of the #file. # # #If uou are still running mdk 8.0 would you be so kind as to mail me a copy of #this file's rpm. # #Thanks, and I will keep looking for it as well. # Follow up #2 My machine would not read the first disc but after visiting another machine I now have the files. Sorry to bother the list. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 17:28:15 up 3:09, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.04 == if replying please leave the filter code, ie [] & contents, in subject line == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:57:25 +1300 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #Back in Nov 04 a thread titled "Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime" #discussed amoungst other things Voice Recognition and ViaVoice in particular. #Jack did you try Viavoice and if so did you get it sorted. # #I've just upgraded to 10.1 Official and have been able to get my hands on the #ViaVoice (v1.o) RPM's that shipped with MDK 8.0. # #I'v read Volker Kuhlmann's pages #http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/speechrec.html and #/linux/vv/viavoice-SuSE8.2.html . I've also downloaded his script. # #My question is: Has anyone installed this version of ViaVoice on 10.1 and did #you experience any problems that I should be aware of? # #Any clues as to what to look for would be appreciated. # Follow Up Ok, so I started to install the RPMS this morning and run into a dependency problem in that the file libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is required. I've search the mdk 8.0 cd's and its not there, so googled and could not find a copy of the file. If uou are still running mdk 8.0 would you be so kind as to mail me a copy of this file's rpm. Thanks, and I will keep looking for it as well. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 13:19:35 up 1 day, 2:30, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.18, 1.28 == if replying please leave the filter code, ie [] & contents, in subject line == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10.1 and ViaVoice
Back in Nov 04 a thread titled "Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime" discussed amoungst other things Voice Recognition and ViaVoice in particular. Jack did you try Viavoice and if so did you get it sorted. I've just upgraded to 10.1 Official and have been able to get my hands on the ViaVoice (v1.o) RPM's that shipped with MDK 8.0. I'v read Volker Kuhlmann's pages http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/speechrec.html and /linux/vv/viavoice-SuSE8.2.html . I've also downloaded his script. My question is: Has anyone installed this version of ViaVoice on 10.1 and did you experience any problems that I should be aware of? Any clues as to what to look for would be appreciated. Thanks E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk & @ 18:11:47 up 7:23, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.08, 1.15 == if replying please leave the filter code, ie [] & contents, in subject line == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM
Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get > "Environment variable TERM not defined!" So if I > "TERM=vt100" and then "export TERM" all is well. > Unless I close and open it again, that is. > > How do I make this change permanent without affecting > other working term emulators which I still use regularly? > > Miark Does Powershell have a .rc file? For instance, bash has .bashrc, where one may place initialization commands to be run whenever a shell start. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: re konqueror
Dave Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks for the info ann and for every one else that has supplyed me with > info.nothing is ever easy in life and you have to start some where.oh well i > supose it will be like going to school again > dave.. > How much memory do you have in your machine? I just went from 256M to 640M and it made a world of difference in how fast konqueror opens.. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:55:02 +0100 Michaël Van Dorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > install these, I get messages about invalid signatures and even when I > ignore those, the installation still doesn't work. You usually can ignore the sigs. But what error messages do you get when you try installing these files? > Michael, linux day one Welcome.. ! -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Tungsten T5
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 08:52 -0500, Jason Riker wrote: > Hello All, > > Has anyone been able to sync a Tungsten under Mandrake? If so, which > model and can you provide the steps you took to get it working? > > Thank you. > > Jason > I couldn't get j-pilot or kpilot to work more than occasionally on 10.1 on a toshiba. pilot-xfer works fine provided you hit hot sync and the cable button on the T5 before running it. I think hotplug maps it to /dev/pilot automatically. To backup: pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot --backup $HOME/palm/xbackup David Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)
So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the verbose startup report (Mandrake 10.0), and everything still looks great... Until X starts. The background comes up all crosschecked, then it gets colored blue. Then the icon changes from an X to an arrow pointer. All like normal so far. Then there she sits. I ran out of time to try setting mandrake to boot to a shell, rather than KDE automatically . I'll try that tonight. But does anyone know, do any X or KDE window manager settings need to be changed because I increased the memory in my system? Sounds kind of strange, but I was very surprised. Thanks for any ideas... Dave in Largo, FL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0
My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap space" rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap space? Is there some easy way, or am I going to need to get some kind of partition editor, and start moving things around? Any idea of the consequences of NOT resizing my swap space, but leaving it at 500M? Thanks for any ideas, Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:30 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 08:30 am, David Reynolds wrote: > > Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, > > burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error > > my machine developed on the last install). However *because* > > libgcc failed, there are a whole host of programs I can't > > install, so I'm back to the CLI for cdburning. > > > > When I try to check my cdrom burner I get this: > > # cdrecord -scanbus (really, cdrecord --anything) > >Should be 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' on a 10.1 system. If that > returns x,x,x as your burner, then burn the iso's with Actually it's a 10.0 system currently (which is why I'm trying to burn 10.1 ISOs). Still no love from cdrecord after forcing the gcc packages as you suggested; is there a way to 'test' gcc from the command line to see if it's working better? Is cdrecord the only available burn 'backend' program? Maybe there's one that won't fail out...Nautilus-cd-burner wants to install a crapload of other libraries I don't have on the HD yet, so that seems overkill when I'm not even certain that it's not using the same backend... I apologize if these are stupid questions, I'm just a little confused by this whole process (as if that wasn't bloody obvious). David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?
Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error my machine developed on the last install). However *because* libgcc failed, there are a whole host of programs I can't install, so I'm back to the CLI for cdburning. When I try to check my cdrom burner I get this: # cdrecord -scanbus (really, cdrecord --anything) Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schi lling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this versio n. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-mdk '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 1,0,0 100) 'CD-ROM ' 'Drive/G6D ' '1.30' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) '' '52X32CD_R/RW' '100G' Removable CD-ROM 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Any ideas? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] using k3b to append files to a cd -rw
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:20:41 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- #Hash: SHA1 # #On Monday 10 Jan 2005 17:11, Ronald Haynes wrote: #> Hi, I am pretty new to burning CD's. I was wondering if there is a way #> to use k3b (or some other tool) to append files to a cd-rw. I thought #> this would be easy, but if #> #> I drag and drop a new file onto a cd-rw it wants to erase the disk #> first. #> #Was the cd-rw disk burned specifically as a multi-session disk? I'm not too #experienced with -rw disks, but I would have thought that you would have to #do that if you want to add to it. # #Anne #- -- >From my experience with K3B you cannot do a multisession with a cd rw disc, you have to use an ordinary cd disc. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-7mdk & @ 11:26:25 up 5 days, 2:31, 2 users, load average: 1.08, 1.07, 1.09 == if replying please leave the filter code, ie [] & contents, in subject line == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to get right ALT key to work.
The left Alt key works fine but the right Alt key is ignored. It is like the system doesn't recgonize it as a shifting key. Mdk 10.0 Thanks...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia
On Monday 10 January 2005 05:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 10 Jan 2005 11:10, Hugh Dixon wrote: > > I am tempted to go ATI next time I need a > > card > > I forgot to say that my third Mandrake box has an ATi card - and I doubt if > I will ever buy another. Argh, don't say that. My NVIDIA card is crapping out and I just went and picked up an ATi Radeon 9550SE; does anyone know of any verified problems/quirks with getting this to work under Mandrake 10.x? I haven't installed it yet so I could return it if necessary... http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=181931 > Anne David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup
On Friday 07 January 2005 04:53 pm, Miark wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:44:12 -0600, David wrote: > > > I've tried it for about a week now, and honestly, I can't tell any > > > difference. Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request > > > to a server in order to get one page. There's enough clogging the > > > net already. But that's just me... > > > > This 'scheme' was proposed elsewhere last week to almost universal > > condemnation. There are pieces in it that are worthwhile (like #3), but > > as Kaj mentioned, there's a lot that's unethical as well: > > > > http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/1065384.html > > I read the whole page (without following each thread) and quite > honestly, I didn't read any compelling arguments against it. > If 10 people hit a page with 10 items on it, that's 100 items > that have to be served. Whether those items are served in > big bursts (as with pipelining) or little bursts (serving > 10 items 10 times for 10 users without pipelining) the CPU > and storage drives are going to work just as hard. The only > difference will be the distribution of the used resources. IANASA (I am not a sysadmin), but I believe the problem is not SO much with the CPU and HD, as with the outward bound pipes and access points for the website. You're familiar with the Slashdot effect, yes? By setting up your computer to access the same site with 9x, 19x, 49x as many pipes, you're simulating the effect of 9x, 19x, 49x as many users accessing the site at the same moment. It's for a briefer period of time (theoretically, although my experience with broadband vs. dialup is that if you've got more bandwidth, you're more likely to visit more pages on any given site, and more sites), but you're crashing the processes that serve pages out to the public. So while *your* experience is improved, everyone else may be getting "Server unavailable" messages, and the webmaster of that site may end up blacklisting you for it (DDOS is subjective, after all), and then your experience of the site will be vastly diminished. > Perhaps someone can do a better job of explaining the problem. > But in the meantime, I've changed mine to 9. It's a huge > difference in performance, and it's low enough not to be > construed as a DOS attack. I dunno. A lot of it flew over my head, but here was the bit that decided for me that it (everything but the page refresh piece) was a bad idea: "The problem is that the settings are using a lot of resource in general, it's an abuse of common courtesy by maximizing the amount of resource used by you at expense of others. A lot of the internet is dependant upon good behavior by the majority. A common example is the general TCP protocol, where you are supposed to practically stop transmitting if you detect congestion on the link. (detection is done by seeing a lost packet due to overburdened router.) Theoretically you can "improve" your performance by continuing to send at maximal speed and thus ignoring the congestion. As everyone else will back-off to let the routers work through the congestion and will try again from low speeds, if you do not follow the convention your speeds would be maximized. However, such behavior is considered impolite and all major implementations of TCP follow similar standard behavior." > Miark Regards, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup
On Thursday 06 January 2005 06:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2005 00:55, Jonesy wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:22:45 -0500, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: > > > 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. > > > > > > > > > 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name > > > it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This > > > value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on > > > information it recieves. > > > > Do 'we' know what this "...amount of time the browser waits > > before it acts" is measured in? milliseconds, seconds, minutes, > > yarons? > > > > HNY > > Jonesy > > I've tried it for about a week now, and honestly, I can't tell any > difference. Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request > to a server in order to get one page. There's enough clogging the > net already. But that's just me... This 'scheme' was proposed elsewhere last week to almost universal condemnation. There are pieces in it that are worthwhile (like #3), but as Kaj mentioned, there's a lot that's unethical as well: http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/1065384.html > Kaj Haulrich. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ASCII characters
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:55 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:25, David Reynolds wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: > > > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: > > > > > In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then > > > > > again, I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our > > > > > American friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows > > > > > charset) won't be able to read Scandinavian characters like > > > > > Ã, à and à or even the Euro-symbol ___. > > > > I've got no problems seeing them in Kmail. > > > > David > > Well David, that's fine except you don't see the Euro-symbol (â). > I suppose you live in the US, so what charset do you use in KMail ? > > Kaj Haulrich. You're right, I guess I didn't even notice it was missing. I'm using pref-charsets=us-ascii,iso-8859-1,locale,utf-8 in kmailrc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ASCII characters
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: > > > In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, > > > I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American > > > friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be > > > able to read Scandinavian characters like Ã, à and à or even > > > the Euro-symbol ___. I've got no problems seeing them in Kmail. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:10 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Sounds to me like you have simply overwritten the MBR bootloader with LILO > from Mandrake which did not detect the Win installation and create a LILO > boot option for it. You should be able to go into /etc/lilo.conf and > create an option for Windows like this: > > other=/dev/hda2 > label="windows" > table=/dev/hda > > Run lilo and then you should get the option to boot into Windows on next > boot. Actually that seems to be exactly what I've done, but it still has the /boot partition (former "C:") as the "active" primary partition, according to my partition table. Linux doesn't care, but Windows runs into the "blinking cursor on a black screen" problem when I try to choose it from Lilo. Is there (or rather, what is) a way to set the active 'bit' on your primary partition? That might save me the entire reinstall, which would be nice... David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)
I'm pretty sure I'm buggered this time around, but maybe someone here can help
me spot my error for next time:
Situation: Needed Windows on my computer to run some commercial games with my
family; Cedega isn't cutting it. So fine; my 3-year-old Linux only system is
going to be dual-boot *melodramatic sigh*. I reinstall the old 20GB HD as the
Master, set the 40GB as slave, and plot this out:
1) Install Windows2000 on the 20GB HD (hda), leaving a 250MB partition
*before* it for /boot to eventually go onto. Windows apparently formats this
as C and installs Windows on the D: partition immediately after it. So far so
good, except that my motherboard drivers try to auto-install onto C:. Don't
need 'em...
2) Immediately install Mandrake 10.0 again onto the 40GB HD (hdb), but
put /boot on that first small partition of hda (formatted ext3).
2.1) I partitioned off a FAT32 /gaming/ chunk on the second half of hda, and
linux's /tmp on the end of hda. hdb consists of / and /home and swap. All's
running according to expectations, which means the system now recognizes
Linux and doesn't even realize Windows is there anymore.
At this point two exciting things make themselves known:
a) The 512 bytes of ntbootloader on "C:" or /boot have been reformatted and
overwritten, and Do Not Exist anymore. Oops.
b) Fo whatever reason, my floppy drive doesn't work, which makes creating a
bootdisk for *either* OS at this point really exciting... it is running and
running and running, like it's always mounted. This may be related to it
having its power cord unhooked when I installed the OS'es, but you'd think it
would have fixed that oversight after a reboot (post power-cord being plugged
back in, of course).
So my question is, how badly have I screwed up? Assuming I *can* get a
bootdisk to run on Linux, is it possible to do a Windows rescue, overwrite
that first section with FAT32 again, then copy/edit the /boot sector over it?
Can your /boot sector for linux even *be* in FAT32?? According to my
partition table, it still thinks that C: is the "active" partition for boot
purposes, but somehow linux believes "D:" to be an extended/logical
partition? How did that occur, when "D:" is now the 'oldest' partition on
either drive?? partition tables are below if you're morbidly curious
I apologize if this sounds stupid, I'm just working on my 3rd day of wrestling
with this thing, and I'm willing to reinstall if that's what it takes, but I
don't want to screw it up another time (this'll be my 4th & 5th OS install in
10 days)...
Thanks,
David
$h = [
{
'info' => undef,
'normal' => [
{
'options' => 'defaults',
'start_cyl' => 0,
'size' => 514017,
'start_head' => 1,
'isFormatted' => 1,
'mntpoint' => '/boot',
'active' => 128,
'minor' => 1,
'device' => 'hda1',
'start_sec' => 1,
'end_head' => 254,
'devfs_device' =>
'ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1',
'passno' => '2',
'freq' => '1',
'end_sec' => 63,
'comment' => undef,
'end_cyl' => 31,
'rootDevice' => 'hda',
'type' => 1155,
'isMounted' => 1,
'major' => 3,
'start' => 63
}
],
'nb_special_empty' => 0,
'extended' => {
'active' => 0,
'device' => 'hda2',
'start_cyl' => 32,
'size' => 38588130,
'start_sec' => 1,
'end_head' => 254,
'devfs_device' =>
'ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2',
'start_head' => 0,
'end_sec' => 255,
'rootDevice' => 'hda',
[newbie] libgcc?
For whatever reason, libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk.i586 failed to installed from CD#1 this last time around. Now it seems to not believe I can install it (or anything, in fact) from my tmp/ directory, and I'm trying to sort out if it's actually borked my system, or merely gotten confused. rpmdrake's Remove Media screen says that Name: libgcc1-3.3.2-9mdk and libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk are both installed, and won't let me uninstall either without removing half of my system for dependencies. When I try to install (for instance) Quanta, however, it tells me it requires libgcc_s.so.1 and libgcc_s.so.1 (GCC_3.0). What's going on here? Do I need to reinstall because they weren't available during the original install, and therefore aren't in the kernel? Newbie question I know, but this is really throwing a monkeywrench in my computer... Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Radio on Linux Mandrake
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:18:14 +1300 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:35:47 -0500 #Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # ## ##Why don't you look into streamtuner. A great little app for listening to ##Internet radio on Linux. 'urpmi streamtuner' or use rpmdrake # # #thanks for the tip Greg, loaded and listening # #E. David I. Taylor # Don't know if anyone else experienced this and was able to fix the problem. When I loaded 'streamtuner' it somehow affected my monitor's power saving opinions. I used KDE screensaver (slideshow) and on loading streamtuner the button on screensaver to recognise power savings got turned off, so that the screensaver starts at the appropreiate time lapse but the screen does not shut down when it should. If I turn the power savings option on again in the screensaver, then the screensaver does not startup at all. If anyone has any ideas as to fix this would appreciate your input. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-7mdk & @ 09:57:33 up 18 days, 30 min, 2 users, load average: 2.49, 2.32, 2.17 == if replying please leave the filter code, ie [] & contents, in subject line == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security
Benjamin Pflugmann writes: > Another thing I would change is to avoid changing host.deny > directly. You can make hosts.deny look into other files like this: > > sshd: /etc/host.deny.foo > This is a great idea, and thanks. I much prefer this. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Radio on Linux Mandrake 10.1
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:35:47 -0500
Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
#On Tuesday 21 December 2004 12:25 pm, Walders wrote:
#> I have just set up my laptop with Mandrake Linux 10.1 & installed
#> Firefox 1.0 onto it as my preferred browser. I am wanting to stream
#> internet radio, but my preferred site on w*nXP
#> (http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast) will not work with Firefox ("will
#> not support Netscape" error).
#>
#> What alternatives are there that work with Firefox/Linux? I guess this
#> will be handy for my w*XP box, too, as I'd prefer not to use Internet
#> Exploiter.
#
#Why don't you look into streamtuner. A great little app for listening to
#Internet radio on Linux. 'urpmi streamtuner' or use rpmdrake
thanks for the tip Greg, loaded and listening
E. David I. Taylor
Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea;
Taranaki, the place to be.
composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring
Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-7mdk
& @ 12:15:25 up 11 days, 2:47, 0 users, load average: 1.30, 1.23, 1.33
==
if replying please leave the filter code,
ie [] & contents, in subject line
==
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[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security
Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, my little script is very quick and dirty but after about a week of > being hit multiple times every night, I haven't yet found it parsing logs > wrong on my system but that doesn't mean much beyond my system. I just had some different text in mine (Mandrake 10.0) that sometimes parsed out with the port number rather than the IP address. > > I have it installed and running now and find myself in the weird position of > actually hoping that someone tries to brute force my ssh soon so I can see > if it works. :-0 > > If it works, I will throw a copy of it out on the Twiki so that others can > take a look and see if it works better for them. > Oh yes, please do, and thanks for your efforts. This helps everyone! Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security
Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here is a script I wrote to work around SSH probes. It is NOT elegant, very
> quick and dirtyish but it does seem to work and it can be run from a cron
> job fairly often without problems.
>
Hi Bryan, pretty cool, the only thing I would suggest is using Damian
Conways's Regexp::Common module in a Perl script to parse the IP address out.
Using cut doesn't 'cut it', as sometimes the line has more text in it than you
might be expecting. Here's the script I use, based as on the one you wrote,
as I've modified it.
-
#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/sbin
#Optional, remove old entries
rm ./sshd_block/block.txt
#This will parse the messages file and extract the sshd lines
grep sshd /var/log/messages | grep Failed | ./get_ips | \
sort | uniq > ./sshd_block/block.txt
target=`cat ./sshd_block/block.txt`
for i in $target; do
echo ALL:$i >> /etc/hosts.deny
done
#remove extra entries from hosts.deny
cat /etc/hosts.deny | sort | uniq > /etc/hosts.new
cp /etc/hosts.new /etc/hosts.deny
-
And here is the source for get_ips
-
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Regexp::Common;
while(<>) {
if(/$RE{net}{IPv4}{dec}{-keep}/){
print "$1\n";
}
}
-
I'm really glad you did your script. Until I read this thread, I had no idea
that anyone might have been trying to SSH into my machine, like some madman.
Turns out they have been, every night for weeks, (my bad), but now with my
modified script (based on your great contribution), they won't be doing it
more than once.
Thanks very much, my friend,
Dave in Largo, FL.
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Re: [newbie] Hardware Questions
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:30:15 -0800 Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > specific information about if I might encounter any trouble trying to > use any of the following with Mandrake? > > Asus p4s533 motherboard > p4 1.6 GHz processor > geforce ti4200 agp video card Doubtful you would have problems. That's mostly current stuff. My advise would be to first try a live cd distro on it just for testing purposes, such as knoppix or mepis. Then if it boots fine and detects the hardware you could just go ahead and install mandrake on it. Then you'd still end up with a good and useful other distro to try for testing, or for other uses. > Amy -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kpilot & Palm Tungsten T5
On Sunday 05 Dec 2004 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Try using the second of the pair of ports that are being created. In > other words, try /dev/USB5, instead of /dev/USB4. Or you can try using > /dev/pilot, and see if hotplug is setting things up right. On 9.2, the > symlink /dev/pilot is created when you press the hotsync button. I am not > sure about 10.x, but it is worth a try. > > Mikkel YEESS -Works perfectly with /dev/pilot. Thanks, david Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kpilot & Palm Tungsten T5
Hi, Can't access my T5 with KPilot. Messages shows it's on /dev/ttyUSBn but KPilot can't link to it. When HotSync on the T5 times out or is cancelled, the next time the T5 attempts to connect it's on a different port. Anyone got this working on 10.1? David Output from tail -f /var/log/messages Dec 5 18:49:51 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 10 Dec 5 18:49:51 tosh kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Dec 5 18:49:51 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB4 Dec 5 18:49:51 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB5 Setting Device as /dev/ttyUSB4 in KPilot doesn't work If I Cancel on Palm and press HotSync again the palm is attached to ttyUSB6 and ttyUSB7 Dec 5 18:58:01 tosh kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: device disconnected Dec 5 18:58:01 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 17 Dec 5 18:58:02 tosh kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Dec 5 18:58:02 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB6 Dec 5 18:58:02 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB7 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] e2fsck library version out of date?
Not sure what this signifies, but I've been getting it when running fsck (after a hard reboot, for example) for quite some time: ]# e2fsck Error: ext2fs library version out of date! e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.26, 3-Feb-2002 I suspect that fsck is not working after it gets this message, which strikes me as a Really Bad Thing. But I can't find anywhere what the procedure is to get it straightened out... David -- Three operations of wisdom: taming savagery; spreading peace; improving laws. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mdk 8.2 + Cedega 4.1.1 = ?
I've got a fairly outdated system that I've never had great cause to update, but now my family would like it if I could play games like Diablo II with them. I've had less than fantastic luck with Winex, but I don't know per se whether that's because of my Mandrake being so old compared to the newest Cedega, or basic user errors, or what. Other people seem to have little to no trouble running the program. It's given me a variety of errors: started out with page faults/general exceptions, then locked the entire display (no Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, even) in full-screen mode once I did get it running. Pushed it to windowed 800x600 on a 1024x768 screen, it ran the install just fine (barring some FreeType errors), but then tried to load the v1.10 patch into my home directory instead of the .transgaming/c_drive folder with the rest of it, and subsequently couldn't find it. My video card is a GeForce2 MX, but Diablo isn't that power-intensive; it's just running into other errors separate from pure display issues. Processor: AMD Duron 900 MHz Memory: 256MB Video Card: nVidia geForce DDR (generic) X-Server: XFree86 4.2.0, patch level 9mdk OS release: 2.4.18-6mdk (Mandrake Linux release 8.2) Anyone have any ideas? I'm willing to upgrade this machine to 10.1 OE if it seems like it'll help, although at this point I may just try to get them to convert to NWN Thanks in advance, David -- Three followers of wisdom: imagination; purpose; endeavor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] what to do with non-contiguous files?
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:39:46 -0500 Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be interested in the replys you get on this since I have one > part with 21 % non-contiguous files. My understanding was that it 21% is extremely high, but not out of band with some earlier installs I did a long time ago on a seriously (by today's standard) limited drive. There used to be a 'frag' utility that would tell you what percentage of fragmentation overall you had on a particular partition. I saw fragmentation percentages of 40%-50%. Now I took that with a grain of salt, and I might just do that with your 21% percentage. At issue, I gather, with 'frag', was that it counted tertiary indexed files (any sufficiently large file would suffice) and miscounted them as fragmented when they weren't, or weren't as badly fragmented. On an ext2 filesystem, the biggest file you can have without going to a secondary index of pointers to blocks is about 13-14K per the kernel source. This is because there are that many pointers to disk blocks in the inode for a file. If your file is larger than that, you need a block to store pointers to blocks. And if it really is big, more than maybe 256K+14K (a 1k block could store at most 256*4 (sizeof an integer) pointers to disk blocks for a file) you need to go to tertiary indexed blocks, where you have pointers to pointers to blocks. Ordinarly, ext2 filesystems resist fragmentation, and even if a file is X% fragmented, it really doesn't have the same negative meaning as a fragmented file in FAT(32). Besides that, much of the overhead in a DOS system is involved in finding the first block of a file in a filesystem (much more time-consuming than on ext2fs) not in the head moving from point A to point B on the disk to get to other sections of the file. Obviously, ext2 does some things right, to minimize disk access, for the most part, logically related items are grouped together; for instance, various files in the same directory are grouped closer together than those in some other place on the filesystem. In FAT(32) there is little if any guarantee of this. Over time, there is the likelihood that a file FOO in UTILS may be right next to a file BAR in DOCS, and the next logical file in UTILS may be at the other end of the disk. And so ext2 doesn't guarantee that the filesystem will be utterly devoid of fragmentation; for that, you probably want to switch to an even better filesystem, such as reiserfs. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:42:19 -0800 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually windows will not be secure as long as .exe .com and .dll > files can automatically run as root, despite microsoft trying to patent the sudo technology, yet disabling such a feature in XP. Thanks for letting me finish your sentence :) The kicker is that these apps all run in an unrestricted environment, and we all know about stuff like Outlook, which is configured to open attachments and run them before the user knows what has happened. But I've been out of the Windows world since 1993, although I do use Windows machines at work sometimes :(. And why are .com files even supported anyway? Those things are holdovers from CP/M, for god's sake. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:52:17 -0600 Eric Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try plopping a newbie in Debian. Nothing against Debian, I like > Debian, all 14 discs of Debian, but a newbie is liable to give up and > never touch Linux again for ten years before he even makes it past the > base system installation Well, sure enough. But that's if you do a real debian based install -- in many respects an "old fashioned" way to do things, now that there are a lot of one-disk front ends that are far easier to install (kanotix, knoppix, mepis, etc). They get you up and running fairly quickly, and then yuu apt-get everything you can get your hands on :). Personally speaking, I might never attempt a "real" debian install, but I had a rather serious foulup with Mandrake 10.1/cooker a month or so ago, and I ended up switching to Mepis. In short, I'm very happy with it. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:50 -0500 David Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my concern about Live CDs: In older machines with slower CD > drives, they're awful. It takes about 10 minutes for the distros I've True enough. And larger distros like Knoppix tend to try and cram a great deal of functionalilty into that one cd-rom, and on Knoppix many of the binaries are compressed, which adds to the load time on slower machines. > -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:00:04 -0500 David Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to > novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been > recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. Speaking of various linux distros, one you might want to take a real peek at this one, it's called MEPIS. It's one-disk, debian (testing branch mostly) based, runs off a live CD so you can look at it without installing, and the installer is very clean ans quick. http://www.mepis.com/ -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup?
I heartily agree. Remove Sendmail and install Postfix. There are a multitude of newbie level documents on running Postfix and it works better to boot. On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:00:49 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sorry folks, but I googled this forever and never found a howto basic > > enough for my newbieness. I've never setup a mail server before, and have > > given up on trying to install QMail (If you have any tips, let me know) on > > my Mandrake 9.2 server. So I've installed Sendmail, and am now stuck as > > how to configure it. Webmin recognizes that it exists. I gather from the > > howtos that I've found that I have to set up a MX record or something or > > other... but I haven't found anything to as what this is or how the heck > > to set one up. > > Any help? > > Thanx, > > SigmaChi > > > > > > > You may want to reconsider this, and use Postfix instead of Sendmail You > can configure it by editing text files, instead of having to use m4 to > create a configuration file for Sendmail. As far as setting up an MX > record, this is only something you need to worry about if you have your > own domain name, and are getting your mail directly from the Internet, > instead of getting them though a your ISP's mail server. > > Mikkel > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
Gee, my Linux installations work right out of the box. Even when some tweaking is required, I've been able to get onto the web and go looking for help. And I've never had to dive around in drawers looking for old CDs and floppies. By and large my experience has been the same. Perhaps not, but sooner or later they do reformat and reinstall -- sometimes frequently -- often at the suggestion of MS tech support. Perhaps 2000 and XP are better in this regard, but it has always been the standard fix for the Win9x series. I had Dell support walk me through this a few months ago on a friend's laptop (I'm primarily a Mac user) and was amazed at what a difficult process it was. Better with XP than older OSes, though. Wiping and reinstalling has always been a standard, fairly easy tool in my troubleshooting arsenal on the Mac side. That aside, I'd love to see some numbers on this. My impression from Windows users I know is that they generally don't reinstall. They get a fresh copy when they get a new machine. In the words of the old song, it ain't necessarily so. You are assuming that (1) the user has not changed any hardware since the OS was loaded at the factory, (2) the component manufacturers have not updated any drivers since releasing it to either MS or the machine builder, and (3) the user has the driver CD -- it didn't get lost, the cat didn't eat it, the machine builder didn't include it, the drivers were installed in a special partition on the original HD which just went belly up. Although it's been several years since I last installed Windows, I remember that once I had the system up and running, the next task was to go to each hardware manufacturer's website and get the latest drivers. (More reboots, too. Oh joy.) Then, as each bit of software was installed, I had to get the latest updates for them. Bit of a pain, especially on dialup. Many hours of totally unproductive time. And now you know why I no longer have Windows installed here. Fair points all. However, when a Windows user is in this position he usually has to persevere due to a lack of other options. A new Linux user can always give up and go back to Windows, something I'd like to prevent :-) Some thoughts: (1) Give them a copy of Knoppix (or Mandrake Move or whatever...). It's not only a quick and easy way of determining any potential conflicts between their hardware and Linux, but it is an excellent introduction to Linux. Here's my concern about Live CDs: In older machines with slower CD drives, they're awful. It takes about 10 minutes for the distros I've tried to give up loading OpenOffice. I'd hate for that to be someone's first impression of Linux. (2) Does the term "install fest" ring a bell? Yeah, it's a pain schlepping a monster tower and the other hardware clear across town, but they'll get some very smart people to get them up and running. BTW, there is no reason that install fests have to be run by a group -- perhaps you could volunteer to get them started. It's a thought. However, I'm recommending in an article which means I'm talking to a geographically distributed set of people, so it may not be a complete answer. (3) (Here I play the elitist card) Their unwillingness to either take a chance on something new, or to expend some effort learning something new could be an indication that Linux _is_not_ the solution for them. You might get their interest aroused, however, by pointing out how little time we Linuxers spend defragging or chasing viruses, or how a Linux distribution includes a whole lot more that just an OS with a few accessories. You might also point out how much free help is available to them -- including this mail list. Again, makes sense but: - I'm hoping I can convince at least a few people that it's relatively easy to install, easier to use than Windows, more secure than Windows, and less expensive than Windows, as well as (as you suggest) easier to maintain and administer. If I can do that and the install really does turn out to be easy for them, maybe it'll stick. I'm sure I will have a lot of people dismiss the recommendation on the grounds that it's not worth it. Fine. So then my next unfortunate task is to help them secure their Windows systems. - The free help thing is a funny one. My impression is that many users may be reluctant to get their help from mailing lists, forums, etc. It's what I do 90% of the time, even on commercial products, because it tends to result in more knowledgeable answers (not to mention less time spent on hold). But I think there's an idea of a "official" answer that people are too attached to. Curious -- Mandrake is generally regarded as easy to install. I've tried several different distros over the summer. The only one that gave me a hard time was Xandros. It decided that my my modem was a Winmodem and refused any attempts to change its mind. The modem, a Zoom 2761 serial external unit, was deeply insulted. Hell, eve
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all. On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:34, M.Schild wrote: : I'm still searching for that perfect distro to recommend, but this isn't an experience I would want to impose on a novice user. While it's possible I have an unusual configuration, one key thing in an distro for novices has to be excellent hardware support out of the box. Am I missing something obvious here that would solve my problems? I am a typical ignorant homeuser but had no trouble installing Mdk9.1 and find Mkd 10 a dream. The only thing I think they should state clearly on their boxes is to use an external modem. A total newbie with no Windows ( I don´t run Windows but had an ext modem) would get really stuck with an internal modem only Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
I repair/reconfig/support all kinds of MS Windows machines - in home and corporate environments - I can't begin to tell you how many times I've experienced the exact same thing - but with MS Windows (all versions). Believe me, I know. Installing a clean copy of Win XP on the same machine is no picnic either...it's pretty unusable until I do some driver installs. BUT, (a) few users install Windows themselves, and (b) those drivers are on a CD that came with the machine. Granted, most Linux distros get most or all of the hardware working without additional drivers, but getting those last few is tricky. I had NO intention of suggesting Windows was better. Just this: I'd like to convince some Windows users to switch to Linux. To do that, short of buying new hardware, they have to install it. If I can say, "install this distro and you should be fine," and they can get the CDs and have a good install experience, they might switch. If the install doesn't work, or gets scary, they'll abandon the idea. It's anything but a level playing field, but for today's non-technical Windows users to switch to Linux it has to be easy to install (including partitioning an existing Windows box to be dual-boot) in a way that Windows itself isn't. I can't stress enough about knowing your hardware prior to booting up a GNU/linux distribution - and at least having enough familiarity with the devices connected to the machine so you can MAKE proper judgements and have your installation go accordingly. Again, that can only go so far if novice users are to switch over from Windows. If their core drivers - video, input, primary storage - are supported out of the box and they have to find drivers for one or two additional devices, that might be OK. But if they have to tinker just to get a base level of functionality they will think Linux is too hard at best, and broken at worst. Again, I'd like to find a distro that I can recommend across the board as a good option and figure that 90% of those who install it will get at least that base level of functionality. And in addition, it's not just that some devices aren't supported by Mandrake on my test system - I simply haven't been able to install it successfully, after multiple tries, while I have been able to install most other distros. Jumping in head first without testing the water is ALWAYS a bad idea - and true opinions cannot be rendered from such an experience. So does that mean that Linux simply isn't ready for end users unless they buy a machine with it pre-installed? Just for rote, I have better luck installing MDK on machines (all types, all configurations) than I do with MS Windows (Win98 thru WinXP) and a higher percentage of success with the MDK installs (oh, and I forgot to mention all the RH servers I have to deal with in my biz as well). Again, Windows users rarely install their own OS. Not trying to be overly negative, just really hoping I can find a distro that's ready for mass install and consumption since I like Linux. :-) --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
Despite the strong recommendations I've received for Mandrake as a good novice-friendly distro, I've been unable even to get it to install. I'm working with 10.1 Discovery on CD, on a Dell Dimension 2400 with a 2.6GHz P4 and a Samsung SyncMaster 900NF monitor. So far I've encountered the following problems: - The installer never starts in graphical mode. If I specify low-res graphical mode that works. - The installer never recognizes my USB devices (keyboards and mice). - The installer doesn't automatically set up the X environment, so I get an error message and have to go in and do that manually. - The installer sometimes hangs entirely. Most recently it did this after user account setup. - When I have completed install successfully, the system won't boot: It hangs at Mounting USB Filesystem. If I hit control-C at that point it proceeds but hangs again a little later, and can't be un-hung. I'm still searching for that perfect distro to recommend, but this isn't an experience I would want to impose on a novice user. While it's possible I have an unusual configuration, one key thing in an distro for novices has to be excellent hardware support out of the box. Am I missing something obvious here that would solve my problems? --Dave ---- -- David A. Feldman User Interface Designer http://InterfaceThis.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:20 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. > > Please be aware of this.' It wouldn't be easier just to change clients? -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?
I'm confused. Is there something especially risky about Abba for a computer that wouldn't be a problem with other artists? --Dave On Nov 12, 2004, at 11:16, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 11:06 am, JoeHill wrote: My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing Queen' and the like. Is this safe? Has anyone successfully copied some Abba to their HD without hosing their system? Are there special precautions I can take in advance? Thanks! Joe: I don't know if Abba will damage your HD, but it will certainly soften the little girl's brain. Think of the children, man! -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing > Queen' and the like. Is this safe? The more important question would be "is it legal"? If you are speaking of going to one of the commercial download services, and purchasing copies of Abba songs, then, yes it is legal, and it will be safe. If you are speaking of using a program such as Kazaa (sp?) or Limewire to hook up to an anonymous peer-to-peer network and get them for free, then it is illegal, and probably not safe. These programs are often portals to your system for virii and spyware. > Has anyone successfully copied some Abba to their HD without hosing their > system? Are there special precautions I can take in advance? I've 'ripped' music off of my own purchased CDs and placed it onto my HD often. I don't think there would be anything particularly virulent in Abba music, but then, I've never been a huge fan of theirs. :-> Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Wow, $170 paid for endless thousands of dollars of equivalent software, friendly support (evidence below) and admission into what in any other conceivable discipline would be a select group of longtimers who would not have the slightest thing to do with you. You offer them $170 bucks (I say offer, because you could have gotten it free) for untold thousands of hours of work (figure a dream people have been working on for 20 years) , and you can't get it figured out in WEEKS!!!, so you lash out at those very same people kind enough to accept you. I understand your frustration, I'm 2 months in, unsure if I'm with the right distribution, confused about a hundred things, and I have a silver membership. I still use my other boot up (I'm on it now, I needed a work document printed out in exact msword format), and have faded in my all out enthusiasm for MDK. But here it is, right here, all these people are willing to reply to you after you've insulted them. That's the difference. Any amount of research would have told you that the membership was flawed... but it's flawed because they don't have the money. True, and some of that lack comes from a lack of what we are accustomed to calling professionalism. Walk on to an American football field. Ask them if you can play, they'll 'say' no. (If you're lucky they'll be polite) You're place is in the stands. It's a multimillion dollar industry with access only to a priveledged few. Walk onto a rugby pitch, people will greet you, ask if you'd like to practice, talk to you about the game. It's an odd game, takes a while to adjust to. But you get to be involved, if you want, at just about any level you like. There is a difference. Performance in some ways yes. Software all over the place. But at the end of the day, people like Anne (whom I've never even read before) are the reason I'm going to stick it out. dave. Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 22:54, Jack wrote: 1 - It never did "see" my Canon D760 copier/printer. Canon gear is always hard, as they will not cooperate in releasing api details. However, it is sometimes possible to get things to work. Did you ask any specific questions about this? 2 - Couldn't get my nvidia video capture to work, despite help from experts like Anne Wilson. I'm not an expert - just someone who tries to help. I'm especially not an expert on nvidia - my one and only nvidia card disappoints me. 3 - Couldn't upgrade to KDE 3.3, despite having the CD for it and despite help from experts like Randall. I spent *weeks* on this. Nothing I tried worked, nor did any suggestions work. This is not a task for a newbie. 4 - I use voice recognition extensively (Dragon NS and IBM ViaVoice). I don't believe this even exists for Linux. 5 - Most damning of all was my attempted upgrade to 10.1 official. I completely wiped my drive to do a clean install, and after everything was said and done, the official version could not find the internet, nor my onboard (Asus P4P800) sound card. You probably didn't check all the Configuration options late in the install. There is no reason why those could not have been persuaded to work. 10.0 had no trouble finding these 2, nor did the community version of 10.1. Luckily for me, I had imaged the drive beforehand, so I was able to go back to 10.1 community. 6 - I spent the $170 or so bucks to become a silver club member, but not once have I received an answer from Mandrake when I found myself stuck. What questions did you ask, and where? I see great potential in Linux and I will maintain my dual-boot system, slowly learning to survive in Linux while waiting (and hoping) for the operating system to mature to a more usable state... I may sound harsh, Jack, but you have to realised that a) you're a newbie, and don't know enough to make things easy b) you've chosen a bleeding edge distro, so somethings have to be tweaked until things work correctly c) you're ambitious (good thing) and try things that you're not ready for (good, but risky) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
Mandrake would definately be one of the top ones for novice users, in my experience. I can sympathize with your installation problems, however, though I've never had the same with Linux. I had similar problems installing RedHat 8 on a certain box, but on others it installs flawlessly. I've had better luck with Mandrake overall. However, though it's a bit uncou for me to recommend it on a "Mandrake" list, for brand-new Linux users coming over from Windows I'd recommend SuSE. I haven't tried Mandrake 10 yet, so I don't know if it's easier than SuSE or not, but SuSE is definately one of the easiest to find your way around when fresh from the Windows world. Mandrake is a close second though, next being maybe Fedora, but I haven't tried all that many distros myself, so I'm not a real authority. Whatever you do don't try plopping a newbie in Debian. Nothing against Debian, I like Debian, all 14 discs of Debian, but a newbie is liable to give up and never touch Linux again for ten years before he even makes it past the base system installation (Okay, maybe a little exageration, but still, there's a point) Thanks for the response. I'm ultimately using all this info for an article I'm writing on computer security. Naturally I'm recommending against Windows and would like very much to have whatever alternative I recommend be a positive experience. I'm interested in seeing SuSE 9.2 as well - it's supposed to have a graphical installer with built-in NTFS resize, and some feedback during the resize about what portion of the Windows partition is free space. According to the SuSE folks there should be a downloadable version (I don't know if this will be full installation CDs or a net install) soon. If I can get Mandrake 10.1 working to evaluate it does sound promising, though the installer presents a little less in the way of explanatory text than I might like for novice users (I think the text is the same in the graphical and text installers?). Again, the NTFS resize is attractive (though no free space feedback), and I'd love to see Mandrake's take on the GNOME desktop. I've also heard Debian isn't a novice distro. However, the Debian-based Ubuntu distribution is promising, and I think might be a good newbie distro when its next release happens in April. I'm also considering Fedora, as you suggest...aside from the lack of Windows partition resize it seems like potentially a good option, and the install process is pretty polished. I'm also looking at Xandros (though I like any of these others better, it does go out of the way to be Windowsy, which may be attractive to switchers). PS: I might add that, though smaller in volume, I've found this Mandrake list much more helpfull and prompt on response than the higher-volume SuSE list. That's good to know and important, since presumably a newbie will have questions :-) Ultimately, the plethora of good distros is both a blessing and a curse. To a new user who wants to try Linux, it can be daunting. :-p Thanks, --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there isn't enough RAM. Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19" monitor...can normally run 1600x1200 at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. The monitor is connected through a KVM switch, though. - If 10.1 Official might work better for my purposes, is there any way to download it for eval purposes? Not as an ISO atm, unless you belong to club. The packages are available on the mirrors. Is there a way to do a network-based install or something that would mimic the CD install? 10.1 Discovery is sort of an introductory Linux, no compilers, development tools for 1 thing, and I think it has only KDE. OK. So where does one actually buy a copy of 10.1 Official? I didn't see a product by that name. It's supposed to be equivalent to 10.1 x86 download edition. Is that the Community or the Official? Thanks, --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried to install but have been unable to do so. First I got a text-based installer instead of graphical, and the best I was able to achieve was a system that booted to a text login prompt instead of GNOME or KDE. Then I tried the low-res graphical install, but the best I was able to achieve there was that it would hang at the post-install configuration. Any thoughts? Also, hoping for some clarification: - How does 10.1 Community differ from 10.1 Official? - If 10.1 Official might work better for my purposes, is there any way to download it for eval purposes? - How does 10.1 Official differ from 10.1 Discovery? - How does 10.1 PPC relate to the various Intel versions? Thanks, Dave -- David A. Feldman User Interface Designer http://InterfaceThis.com Public PGP key at http://interfacethis.com/misc/pgpkey.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ping gamers
You won't likely find a 19" LCD panel that has a refresh rate of less than 20ms that's affordable. For some reason panel manufacturers haven't gotten their sh** together with the 19" panels yet, so shoot for a 17" panel (can be had for $200-$300) or go all out for the Dell FP2001 which can be had for under $700 if you catch a deal. The Dell 20.1" panel is THE panel for gamers. On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:47:28 +, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 09 Nov 2004 19:17, Manaxus wrote: > > I use a 17" one and it does wonderful. I had absolutely no issues > > running Doom3 on it. > > > Thanks, Manaxus and Frankie. I know the early ones didn't have a very good > refresh rate, but I was pretty sure that it would be better now. The > cheapest still look naff, but there are some very affordable ones that look > OK. > > > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:40:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users To: Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether or not it actually works, but I was able to set it to "". On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:08:30 -0700, Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Done and Done. ^_^ Thanks for the suggestion! Meanwhile, everyone who > missed my comment in the other thread I had going... please make a > point to submit a feature request to the gmail team for the option of > disabling the reply-to field if you haven't already! And bug your > gmail using friends to do so also. ^_^ If we flood them with requests > for it, they're bound to submit, yes? > > ~~ >^..^< ~~ > I'm a gmail users! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request > to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via > a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your > reply. Thanks much! > ~~ >^..^< ~~ > "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." > ~Rudyard Kipling > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uptime question
Actually, these boxes can't keep time to save their lives. I'm seeing errors in the logs about NTP being unable to update the clock, etc (I can dig them up if it would help). Everything I've been able to find so far points to a bug in the Kernel that still has not been fixed, but I can't imagine that ALL the Linux boxes out there are suffering from not being able to update their clocks...? On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:26:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell W. Behne wrote: > > Today at 08:39, David Johnson wrote: > > > >>For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps track of how > >>long the server has been running. The reason I ask is that I have a > >>couple of ML10 boxes running in a production environment on VMWare ESX > >>servers. These servers never REALLY know how long they have been up. > >>They always report times that are different from reality (usually > >>shorter than actual uptime) when I know that they have not rebooted (a > >>check of the logs will verify). > >>Certainly not a major problem, but I'm curious... > > > > > > As far as I know, /proc/uptime is the place where the uptime is kept. > > If you cat /proc/uptime repeatedly you can see that it's a running > > timer. The program /usr/bin/uptime just reads /proc/uptime, converting > > it to a human readable format. > > I have no idea why your ML10 boxes don't keep accurate uptimes. > > Maybe someone else can offer an idea. > > > Dumb question - is the time accurate on these boxes, or do they lose > time? It sounds like they might be missing a few timer interupts... > > Mikkel > -- > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. > > > ____ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Uptime question
For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps track of how long the server has been running. The reason I ask is that I have a couple of ML10 boxes running in a production environment on VMWare ESX servers. These servers never REALLY know how long they have been up. They always report times that are different from reality (usually shorter than actual uptime) when I know that they have not rebooted (a check of the logs will verify). Certainly not a major problem, but I'm curious... Thanks -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup
Excellent. Thanks for the technical details on that. I needed it! As for my reply-to: field, I was able to set it as blank in my settings, so hopefully the issue with my list mail should now be solved? Maybe someone can tell me... On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:17:08 +0700, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 22 October 2004 03:08 am, David Johnson wrote: > > Ok, so I added the line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > > > > to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > > > And eth0 comes up properly at boot time. Thanks for the help everyone! > > > > Now, the question for learning purposes is: What did I change and why > > did it fix the problem? > > > > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes means that the card should not check whether the > linkbeat of the network is present or not. Some card like 3Com requires that > the network cable to be plugged in in order to initialize properly. In your > case, it seems that the vmware machine needs it too. > - -- > Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org > 06:14:32 up 14:04, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 > public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBeEN3kp5CsIXuxqURAhL9AJsFmAVo+v1AAgwNaoq0Kom7ZTg2OwCgxrOh > Eyv2aOwt3FJlcZqgDwCgzqY= > =Q0ir > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup
Ok, so I added the line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 And eth0 comes up properly at boot time. Thanks for the help everyone! Now, the question for learning purposes is: What did I change and why did it fix the problem? On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:28:33 -0400 (EDT), Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Björn Lundin wrote: > > > David Johnson wrote: > > > > > I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 > > > where eth0 shows as having [Failed] the initialization at boot time, > > > but if I su to root after boot and do an 'ifup eth0' it comes up with > > > no problem. > > > > > > Can anyone explain why this might be happening and how to fix it? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > I seem to remeber James talking about this but I can't find the thread. > > It was something you put in /etc/sysconfig/network, something like > > MII-???=Yes/no, but I can't remember, and google does not help. Does this > > ring a bell for someone? > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] daemons]# grep MII /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > > -- > Stew Benedict > Mandrakesoft > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader
Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:41 am, J. David Boyd wrote: > > "Paul Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Hi all: > > > > > > > >Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS > > > >reader. > > > > > > > >I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before > > > >making a decision. Any suggestion? > > > > > > I've stopped using Evolution for the same reason. > > > > > > The KDE Kontact package does have a RSS along with Kmail, Knode > > > newsreader, etc. > > > > > > pm > > > > Has the KNote thing been "improved" yet? I hate those little sticky notes > > all over my desktop. I wonder if KNotes can be turned off in Kontact, as I > > liked it otherwise... > > > > Dave > still replying to all eh? > Hmm, I don't think so.. I'm using gnus under emacs, and hitting F to followup with yanked text to show the prior message. Does this seem wrong? Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup
Anne, my DHCP server is local. My modem/gateway is handling that job. I have modified my replyto: address to be blank. Hopefully that will make things easier for everyone. Thanks all for the advice. On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:21:44 -0400, Edgars Smits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > leave the reply:to address bl;ank. By default it will reply to your > email address except for when you send to mailing lists, then it will > reply to the list > > ED > > > > David Johnson wrote: > > >Maybe I should qualify my previous statements. After boot, ifconfig > >indeed, shows that ETH0 is UP, however it does not get an IP address > >from the DHCP server. I have not yet tried it with a static IP > >address. In order for me to do any network communication, I must su > >to root and execute an 'ifup eth0' in order for it to get an ip > >address. > > > >This is definately not a huge issue, especially since this is a play > >machine for me, but it is annoying nonetheles. > > -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
