Re: [newbie] Palm sync software
I have tried both Kpilot and Jpilot and settled on Jpilot for the reasons that Marv wrote. It is verry similar to the Palm Sync software for windows. I actually use Jpilot at home and the Palm software at work and keep my Palm synced with both locations. On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:53 pm, Marv Boyes wrote: Jpilot is the closest you'll get to Palm Desktop on Linux. I've been using it for about a year and a half with my Clie. Kpilot is handy if all you want to do is install a file (or sync with, say, Evolution), but Jpilot brings a lot of extra PIM functionality. Best of luck, Marv Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Amy wrote: I'm using KDE, so I guess I'll give KPilot a try in the morning, unless someone has any better suggestions and/or reasons why I shouldn't try KPilot. Though, what are KDE PIM applications? Like what's PIM stand for, and what sorts of applications are those? Personal Information Manager Things like phone book, address book, appointments, ect. I have not played with kpilot, but jpilot is like the Windows software for the Palm. Not as slick, but functional. It is an front end for the pilot-link command line utilities. (I just got my Palm yesterday, so I am still learning.) Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE4
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 06:03 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 4:13 am, David B. Williams wrote: Does anyone know how I get the terminal from the task bar on Xfce4 to start in a particular directory? I have looked at all of the stuff in the .Xfce4 directory and nothing seems to have anything to do with the terminal start point. By-the-way, I am using /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt and have checked in that directory for the config info and haven't found anything that seems to correlate to what directory that rxvt starts in. And, I am using rxvt because whatever xfce4 defaults to - couldn't be found when I installed xfce4. man rxvt and man bash to find a command-line option that does what you want. Then change the command line that XFCE4 uses to invoke it. (right-click, properties) Having said that, I can't see any really good way to do what you want. The only way I can see is to specify a specific .bashrc file for bash. rxvt -e /bin/bash --rcfile myrcfile Where myrcfile contains: source ~/.bashrc cd mydirectory Note: I haven't tested this. This ended up being a simple script error. I changed to the seti directory to start seti and then run xsessions. In KDE, this didn't seem to affect anything, In XFCE4, it left everything starting in the seti directory. THanks for the help. DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera and my bank
On Thursday 27 May 2004 11:44 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:54:19 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 27, 2004 03:05, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 05:34, rikona wrote: snip Compounding the problem is the widespread need to lie about browser type. This simply adds to the statistics favoring IE, and make them LESS likely to change when they look at the numbers. Some have told me less than 1% of users are non-IE! Maybe they went someplace else. /snip Yes, I did. I simply told my former bank, that if they couldn't make a standards-compatible webservice, then I couldn't trust them my money. I don't think they had the faintest idea of what I was talking about, though. Anyway, they lost a customer, and I would never humiliate myself by letting my browsers pretend to come from the dark side. Kaj Haulrich. I've never stooped to pretending to be IE. That would just make me feel dirty :^\. I never even thought of the stats issue before, but now I definitely won't ever do this. I can bring myself to pretend to be Netscape or Mozilla, though - at least they're open source, and any stats count against M$. I'd like to be able to get these sites fixed, but the only way to get a Canadian bank to move on an issue is to get them looking bad in the news, or taking them before the Superintendant of Financial Institutions. But neither of these is going to care about a techie issue like this. In my younger days I enjoyed tilting at windmills, but I don't have the energy for it any more :^). I once fought for more than a year to have various bugs fixed in an online trading site, with zero success. Then came the crash, and I just cashed out and gave up on them. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. I've always had to id as mse with Washington Mutual. I just switched back to Opera for a min and checked. Still barfs. Two years or more after complaining. Frankly though, my computer is a tool, not a toy. I keep my fanaticism in church and use my tools however they work best. 1.5 cents Lee I got a long form letter saying that it was Netscapes fault that my browser didn't work. However, they were currently using WebConnect and were in the process of rewriting thier stuff to be more compatible with later versions of Netscape. Since I didn't say anything about Netscape in my complaint email, you can see were it got me. Oh well, at least I can complain and if I could easily move my business accounts to the bank where I have my personal accounts I would. Thanks for the responses. DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera and my bank
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 07:23 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
On May 25, 2004 20:08, David B. Williams wrote:
I've been down this path before and as usual I can't for the life of me
remember what it was I did to fix it. So any help is appreciated.
The bank that I use for my personal accounts will accept Opera as the
browser just fine. The bank that I use for my business accounts will not.
I moved to Opera under 9.1 because it worked with both banks. However, it
didn't work just right with the business bank at first and I could get it
around the error and continue anyway.
I installed 10.0 and the problem is back.
I have started by enabling everything, setting the id to MSIE6.0 and have
java installed with a valid path. I always get the error that my sign on
name or my passwork are incorrect.
Any suggestions?
Sometimes you just have to lie to the site about your browser identity.
It's not uncommon (though improving) for a site to have javascript that
instead of checking is feature x supported before using feature x, does
something stupid like is browser IE or Netscape.
Often if you ask to see the page source you can see the offending code.
Don't know how to do this in Opera (never used it), but every other browser
I've used supports this.
If you see poor code like this you can ask the bank to fix it (good luck!).
But at least in Mozilla and Konqueror, there's a place to configure it to
send a different browser id string for specific sites.
I had to do this with Konqueror for one of my credit card companies. They
have the following embedded in their web page:
script language=JavaScript
!--
var agt=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var is_major = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
var is_nav = ((agt.indexOf('mozilla')!=-1)
(agt.indexOf('spoofer')==-1) (agt.indexOf('compatible') == -1)
(agt.indexOf('hotjava')==-1)); var is_nav6up = (is_nav (is_major = 5));
var is_gecko = (agt.indexOf('gecko') != -1);
var is_ie= ((agt.indexOf(msie) != -1) (agt.indexOf(opera) ==
-1));
if (is_ie || is_nav6up || is_gecko) { //IE + Mozilla
You can see from this that they will accept IE, Mozilla, Hotjava or Opera
(and maybe Netscape, not sure), but not Konqueror. Once I told Konqueror to
pretend it was Mozilla, I was fine.
Of course, sometimes when you tell it to pretend, it then runs into
something it doesn't support and gives interesting behaviour ;^}.
I have tried all of the hints from Opera and none work.
I did leave a message with the bank that they should allow Opera, Mozilla,
etc. etc. and reported the issue to Opera.
I know that I get some errors with Opera when it tries to display the page.
I will keep at it.
Thanks for the help.
DBW
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Re: [newbie] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
On Monday 24 May 2004 11:29 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:57:10 -0400 David B. Williams wrote: The software producer is Loki and I think that they are out of business. Oh, well. I didn't pay that much for it anyway. Try pysol, it's basicly the same as Ultimate and is in Main, cardsets and music in contrib, I play it all the time. Charles Yep. Works for me. THanks. DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Opera and my bank
I've been down this path before and as usual I can't for the life of me remember what it was I did to fix it. So any help is appreciated. The bank that I use for my personal accounts will accept Opera as the browser just fine. The bank that I use for my business accounts will not. I moved to Opera under 9.1 because it worked with both banks. However, it didn't work just right with the business bank at first and I could get it around the error and continue anyway. I installed 10.0 and the problem is back. I have started by enabling everything, setting the id to MSIE6.0 and have java installed with a valid path. I always get the error that my sign on name or my passwork are incorrect. Any suggestions? -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
I had bought and installed Eric's Ultimate Solitaire under Mandrake 9.1 When I tried to install and run under 10.0 (with 2.6.whatever kernal) I get a segmentation fault. Since this is typically a compilation type of problem and I would not expect to have this type of problem on an upgrade, is there something that I am missing or can do? -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] XFCE4
Does anyone know how I get the terminal from the task bar on Xfce4 to start in a particular directory? I have looked at all of the stuff in the .Xfce4 directory and nothing seems to have anything to do with the terminal start point. By-the-way, I am using /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt and have checked in that directory for the config info and haven't found anything that seems to correlate to what directory that rxvt starts in. And, I am using rxvt because whatever xfce4 defaults to - couldn't be found when I installed xfce4. -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cant synch to palm pilot; MD 10.0 OFL
On Friday 14 May 2004 04:40 am, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Le ven 14/05/2004 à 06:51, g2 a écrit : I have tried under both jpilot and pilot. I have received the message: Warning (gpilotd) Unknown pilot- no pilots matches ID -1073745932 Use gnomecc to set pilots ID Whats that? How do I get there? gnomecc is the Gnome Control Center. It is available in the Mandrake menu, or from a shell just enter 'gnomecc', you will then be able to adjust your Palm settings in there. After nothing worked, I tried ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot as root. You can adjust this setting in the Gnome CC and then use /dev/pilot without the symlink you created. Any advice would be appreciated. yea, I'm a newbie :) Make sure the gpilot dameon is running, and nothing else (no jpilot, no kpilot). To do that enter ps -ef | grep pilot in a shell and make sure the only output is about gpilot. Then from the gnomecc (or from Evolution - Tools - Pilot settings) edit the pilot settings and hit get from pilot to get the pilot ID. Then set some conduits to enable synching (for example EAddress will synch your contacts with Evolution - you'll need the Mandrake packages gnome-pilot-conduits and evolution-pilot). If you're still in trouble, stop gpilot (and make sure it is stopped) and try invoking pilot-xfer from a shell: pilot-xfer -p /dev/usb/tts/1 -l (it will list the files on your PDA) Good luck, I had to chmod the device port (in mycase the serial I/O) so that I could read and write it. DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Jpilot or Kpilot
I have tried both Jpilot and Kpilot after I installed 10.0 and can't get either one to sync and had both working on 9.1 I have chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 and did a link to dev/pilot I have made sure that the Palm Vx is set to 9600 baud as well as the applications and they still won't sync. Any ideas? -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Jpilot or Kpilot
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:02 am, David B. Williams wrote: I have tried both Jpilot and Kpilot after I installed 10.0 and can't get either one to sync and had both working on 9.1 I have chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 and did a link to dev/pilot I have made sure that the Palm Vx is set to 9600 baud as well as the applications and they still won't sync. Any ideas? dev/pilot.. maybe just a typo in this missive, or when done? /dev/pilot Charlie I get ** Syncing on device /dev/pilot Press the HotSync button now ** which I do, then after a time out I get pi_accept Invalid argument Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_PI_ACCEPT Finished Its as if they are not working at the same baud rate or stop bits or something DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Jpilot or Kpilot
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:47 pm, David B. Williams wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:02 am, David B. Williams wrote: I have tried both Jpilot and Kpilot after I installed 10.0 and can't get either one to sync and had both working on 9.1 I have chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 and did a link to dev/pilot I have made sure that the Palm Vx is set to 9600 baud as well as the applications and they still won't sync. Any ideas? dev/pilot.. maybe just a typo in this missive, or when done? /dev/pilot Charlie I get ** Syncing on device /dev/pilot Press the HotSync button now ** which I do, then after a time out I get pi_accept Invalid argument Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_PI_ACCEPT Finished Its as if they are not working at the same baud rate or stop bits or something DBW Never mind. Decided to check the Com 0 port by moving the cradle to Com1 and it works. Somehow over the past week or so, I must have blown Com0. Thanks for the help. DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed back to nv. What I am trying to do is get the 3D stuff working so that I can use some of the options on xscreensaver as well as a solitare game that I bought (and had working under 9.1). I have Mesa loaded and installed. I guess that I don't have some config file set correctly, but am at a loss as what to look for next. DBW You need to get the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website and run the installer. When you do it will tell you if it has an interface ready and available for the kernel. If it doesn't, then it will tell you that as well, and at that point it will ask you about recompiling. Run thru the questions and you should have some new Nvidia drivers installed. After that you naturally need to follow the directions listed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-5328 Or whatever other /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_* directory was created. These directions will tell you what you need to do to the XF86Config-4 file. If you get it working ok a report back telling about success would be nice. LX Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nvidia drivers
Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
