[newbie] Samba PDC with Win2000 clients/Any help welcomed!!!
A big Hello to the list... I'm facing this problem for about 1 week now. Trying to join the domain I created with Samba as a PDC for my 3 Win2000 clients. No joy. I've read much of the excellent documentation from Samba.org and other sites but, to tell the truth, I'm a bit confused..Having problem to correctly put the accounts needed in my Linbox so the Winclients can join the Samba domain...that's the one part. How to correctly set Samba to be a wins server to answer to netbios queries that's the second part... Any help more than welcomed Greetings ### Dimitris Ioannou-2.4.20-8/The OS that wears a hat! ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice opens with no menues (no fonts) ?!
15 2002 13:30, / Joan Tur : Go to /etc/openoffice. Edit with vim or whichother editor you like openoffice.conf and in the place UI_FONT=AUTO replace it with Arial or whichother font you think is usable. That might help. Greetings Dimitris Ioannou -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I've installed kde3.1rc from cooker and now OpenOffice is no longer showing its menues, but some - instead 8-? Should I go back to kde3.03? I'd prefer not... O8-) TIA - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/Gfjok8j9RhtetwRAgbYAJ0SGEo0AbqBswsjQGHNtvcpJugOgQCeIFI5 8QhJV/+NxHc1ed8Dz6+3IsM= =VJIl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ### Mandrake-Linux 9.0 (Dolphin) Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] encrypted DVDs with Xine or others?
15 2002 19:41, / Andrei Raevsky : Check this site http://plf.zarb.org/ mate and download the packages from there from konsole as root with urpmi xine . Greetings Dimitris Ioannou Hi, I got my first computer with a DVD driver. I ran to the local library to rent a movie to test in, lauched Xine and got a message than Xine cannot run encrypted DVDs How can a commercial DVD be encrypted? Does this have something to do with the fact that I heared that US DVDs cannot be played in Europe or Asia? Is this some regional problem? My Mandrake 9 was purchased in France, my computer and DVD driver are US, but built in Japan... Is there a software out there which will run encrypted DVDs (whatever this means)? Thanks, Andrei __ registered Linux user: 226850 registered Linux computer: 183163 _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- ### Mandrake-Linux 9.0 (Dolphin) Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
13 2002 11:06, / Franki : I agree wholeheartedly. Count me in it too. But let's agree about the products first. Which one of those are of common interest? Hi Guys, This month, I have emailed 3 different hardware manufacturers asking if they had linux drivers for their product (I pick one product from their site and email them about it.) generally the answer in most cases is no.. but thats not the point, if we all send 2 or 3 of these emails a month,, how long would it be before they start considing their lost market?? what do you guys think of this idea??? Its a thought... and I think an important one. nothing is going to happen fast unless we start doing this sort of thing. rgds Frank -- ## Mandrake-Linux 9.0 (Dolphin) Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org ## Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
14 2002 06:58, / Franki : Franki Please add DXR3 DVD-Decoder Card of Creative too. I know there is a Linux reverse-engineered driver but it's hard stuff for a newbie to get it working. Plus, there is no gui-application to make it work under Linux. I know many people who have these cards (me too), 'cause they're cheap Creative is not so friendly with Linux. its in the list, along with most of their other newer cards rgds frank keep em coming.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chad Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers. Please add the ATI All-In-Wonder cards to your list (all versions). These are wonderful cards cheap too. They provide a whole movie studio on a video card. Cable TV IN, S Composite Video IN OUT, Audio IN OUT, Monitor out. The software that comes with these cards for Windows is great. Sure with I had it to work with in Linux. Chad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers. common guys, I am compiling a list of companies that don't have linux drivers that are commonly asked for... you guys should tell me.. from now on, when i see an email about it, I will add them to the list.. then I can knock up a script that keeps tallies and helps the process along.. let me know hardware that you wish had linux drivers and pref their email address... I'll make up a script to help things along.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 11:42 AM To: newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers. On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:32, Franki wrote: one email will do nothing, ten emails will do little, fifty emails and the tech guy will ask someone what to do about it.. then the ball starts rolling.. OK you have convinced me. I am going to spend some time writing ATI a few words. -- ## Mandrake-Linux 9.0 (Dolphin) Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org ## Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Rebuild kernel 2.4.19-16mdk to get ACPI support!!What am I doing wrong??
Hello Folks! Mandrake 9.0 Dolphin I've recently got an Compaq Pressario 705EA-notebook that is-, 256 RAM, 20GB hard-disk Phoenix-bloody_bios, Conexant Softmodem(I finally got it to work), and Via On Board Sound chip-it works out of the box. Only thing that drives me nuts is that system gets stuck whenever I reboot it or halt it. The screen just stays there and the only way to bring it down is to unplug it and take the battery off. I know its the ACPI support which still is experimental as I hear. I tried , after installing kernel-source RPM in /usr/src to rebuild the kernel with ACPI support included. Two observations of mine: in /usr/src there are two directories: linux (which has a kernel files allright and I suppose represents the kernel installed) and 2.4.19-16mdk directory (which also has kernel files in it. I tried in both directories at no avail. What I did: make oldconfig (to get the configuration of my running kernel) Is that right or have I misunderstood it? Then, make dep, make modules( I saved my modules directory before that) and finally make install. I got in both times a kernel installed by the name 2416-16custom. In the first case I got the message that the Kernel was too big and as a result it could boot. I had to reinstall Lilo from the CD typing rescue. In the second case it told me that the ACPI modules were in but with modprobe it just told me it couldn't find the kernel for which it was compiled for. What am I doing wrong? Please help Greetings to all of you Dimitris Ioannou -- ### Dimitris Ioannou.-This is a Microsoft Free PC! Mandrake-Linux 9.0 Dolphin 2.4.19-16mdk kernel. Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing true type fonts
06 2002 06:11, / Jonathan Dlouhy : Hi Jonathan The problem with 9.0 is that you have to wait a liillle longer till it gets the job done for you. Open Mandrake Control Center go to System then Fonts and select file where you have thrown in your TTF fonts you want to install and point it to drakfont. Just sit and wait afterwards. To my box Pentium III 800/786 SDRAM it took 2 minutes. I seem to remember installing true type fonts in LM 8.1 using drakfont and having no problem. In LM 9 I'm getting nowhere. I've been RTFM and searching the Web to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. -- ### Mandrake-Linux 9.0 Dolphin 2.4.19mdk kernel. Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Civilme petition.
30 2002 16:38, / : Count me in, too. In it also and wishing you the best civileme! ### Registered Linux User 271321 http://counter.li.org This message was sent from a Micro$oft_Free PC. Micro$oft:The company that made e-mail dangerous. Mandrake-Linux 8.2-Kernel-2.4.18-6mdk. ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Infrared working under Linux?
Hello to all of you I've been trying to install in a Dell Notebook 300MHZ a Canon BJC-85 Printer and make it work via the infrared port but with no luck. I finally installed it via the USB but I was just wondering if it was possible under Linux to have it working with the infrared thing Cheers Dimitris -- ### Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Micro$oft_Free PC. Help Micro$oft stamp out piracy.Give Linux to a friend today. Source:Shane ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPP/PPPOE and on-line woes
10 2002 23:50, / [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Try this, it might help Install linuxconf, and after you install it go there and make it detect your modem. Save, make the changes linuxconf tells you to do by pressing the button Do itand try to connect again. For me it always worked. Hope it helps Cheers Dimitris Folks, I hope someone has a solution to what may be a ridiculously simple problem. I'm using 8.1 on a Compaq Presario 1250 laptop, and to make efficient use of my PCMCIA slot, I bought a combined modem/network PCMCIA card (Lynksys). When I installed Linux on the laptop, I initially set the system to access the web through ADSL, using the pppoe software. Lately, however, I've been traveling and have needed to use the modem on the road. When I try to log on using the Gnome ppp program, I get the right noises from the modem, I get a connection (as evidenced by the noises and the flashing lights on the modem), but my browser acts as though there's no connection. I try to ping a site and get nothing. Using Mandrake's network configuration utility, the results are worse -- a quick connection that gets bumped off almost as soon as it's made, then endless automatic repeats trying to reconnect. At least Gnome gets me on once and keeps me there until I click on the disconnect button. Interestingly, on my Gkrellm monitor, the ppp0 window comes up when I'm on ADSL but not when I connect with the modem, even though ppp0 shows up in the Gnome dialer window. Using the ifconfig command, I find a ppp0 text block while using ADSL, but not when using the modem. Also, when I do a simple route command with ADSL running, I get two ppp0 entries, but get none when I'm merely trying to run the modem. I suspect the fix is simple, but so far it's eluded me! (I believe both services -- ATT-Worldnet and Verizon On-line -- assign DNS numbers on log-in) Any thoughts? Best regards, Pete Spotts -- ### Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Micro$oft_Free PC. Help Micro$oft stamp out piracy.Give Linux to a friend today. Source:Shane ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gui for MySQL!!!
Hello to all of you! I've been wondering if there is any gui for use with MySQL client. Thanks a lot and cheers to everybuddy Dimitris -- ### Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Microsoft_Free PC. Help Microsoft stamp out piracy.Give Linux to a friend today. Source: sane ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gui for MySQL!!!
05 2002 08:18, / Jason Pearce : Thank a lot Jason You really helped a lot!! Have a very nice day (or night in Australia, don't know). Cheers Dimitris Hi Dimitris, try phpmyadmin very cool , easy to use and setup took me about half an hour to set up and configure, and I'm no guru. http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ jason On Wednesday 05 June 2002 14:08, you wrote: Hello to all of you! I've been wondering if there is any gui for use with MySQL client. Thanks a lot and cheers to everybuddy Dimitris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- ### Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Microsoft_Free PC. Help Microsoft stamp out piracy.Give Linux to a friend today. Source: shane ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE3! Floppy save locks the PC completely!!!
Hi people I remember sometime ago when someone did post that if we should avoid locking up the whole PC while trying to save data to floppy via drag n' drop we should be changing the default fstype to auto from vfat to /etc/fstab that comes with setup. I actually did that. No nothing. PC freezes completely. Only solution to rebood it using the reset button. I can only save data to floppy via command-line. Any ideas will be as always much appreciated Cheers Dimitris -- ### Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Microsoft_Free PC. Help Microsoft stamp out piracy.Give Linux to a friend today. ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 Q's about KWord: persistent margin settings; word count feature
Hello Alan You can create a template from a document name it something (eg.Alan for example) and whenever you open KWord it asks you which one to open A4 or anything else you tell it to open an Alan doc. from the template you just created. As for the counting of words there is an option. Go to File}Statistics and there you have it. You can adjust this option to be called by giving it a shortcut on keybord (I use Ctl+M, which is unique and not global or something like it) you can fix this by going to Tools}Configure Shortcuts}Statistics}Custom Key}Select Ctr+M or anything you like as long as it doesn't mix with something already used by the system globally or other application. Hope this helps Cheers Dimitris --- Alan Tu [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hello, I'm using the version of KWord which came with Mandrake 8.2. 1. The default margins are too small, but it seems that I need to adjust the margin settings to my liking for each page. Is there a way to have the margin settings persist for all pages in all documents? 2. Is there a word count feature? I cannot seem to find one. Thanks. Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT=to Damian!
{simply put, my guess is a lot of people have billions
of green reasons
not to
let Linux grow.
Hello Damian
Can you please define that last point of yours? What
exactly do you mean by that. I thought of the opposite
so far.
Greetings
Dimitris
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Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
--- Henry B. Wangle Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:20, you wrote: Well not wanting to beat my own drum but anyone who say's that Linux is not ready for the desktop needs to relook at it . Case in point my wife of 22 years now age 44 had 2 strokes that paralyzed her left side and hurt her mental capabilities as well . I have been gradually weaning her away from windows for about 6 months now and she has very little problems with Linux . Now considering that she has some short term memory loss and some long term memory loss I think that say's bundles for the ease of use of Mandrake. Balance that against that against the fact that she had used windows for about 6 years prior to this with numerous problems with it both pre stroke and post stroke (2 Strokes back to back in Dec of 1998 ) She love it and its ease of use. I on the otherhand am still learning everyday and get myself into more trouble than if I'd just stick with the basic Mandrake setup, Being a tinkerer of sorts I'm inclined to play to my deteriment on occassion and Thanks to the many willing and Knowledgeable Penguins out here in Newbie land ( Civilme, Sridhar, Tom, and yes even Femme, as well as many more of you ) I'm able to fix most of my Foulups and bloopers. By the way I'm also a lurker and 9 times out of 10 someone must be psychic as one of you usually address the problem with a solution before I get to ask for help. Try that with windows and see if you get the same results. On the unfortunate side there are still a few programs that we still have to depend on before I can be totally windows free ( please hurry Quicken, So Now Your Cooking, Family tree , and Vehicle Records Systems.) . With that said I agree with Miark as to the fact it is ready now .Now off my Stump and back into the quiet existence again I go. Hank Wangle SSGT Usmc(retired) Because linux will never be a desktop OS for the masses IMO. Requires too much tech knowledge and most just want their machine to work. Shrugs, My opinion. I know its come a long way but its still got a longer way to go yet. I couldn't disagree more. Gnome and KDE are every bit as powerful as Winsux (more, really), and just as easy (well, KDE, anyway). This was true of my own conversion (a computer-literate chap), and for my wife (a computer-illiterate lass). I'd say Linux is ready for the desktop right now! Miark Well said both of you! As for me I couldn't agree more with you Miark (You really rock when you want to!). Two days ago I installed LM 8.2 to vet-doctor friend of mine. I even managed to get FreeVet to work and I got a 2 months free visit and vaccination for my 3 dog's.He's a happy man. He couldn't afford to pay M$Office or Antivirus things but after seing his old DELL Latidude 300Mhz PC to work and doing so many things he happily went in Mandrake Store and order via their web-page the Pro-Suite edition. He's even convinced to be a Silver Member. I don't know though if he has done it yet. Cheers to both of you Dimitris Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone
Press Alt+F2 and type aumix. A mixer thing will come up. Check if the volumes are on. If they are on 0 put them up with your mouse. Afraid you have to do it all the time. I had it too on KDE 2.2.2 but not anymore since I'm using KDE 3. Cheers Dimitris --- Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:04, you wrote: Hello Igor, Is your sound card an onboard sound card ? Which application do you use to play your audio cds ? Can you play mp3 or wav files ? Regards, Rodrigo Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS and am interested in learning as much as i can. I am currently having trouble setting up my cmi8338 sound card. It plays the error sounds but doesn't want to play any of my audio Cd's. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks Igor Scerbina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How Do i uninstall stuff,
--- ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hello, Im a New Linux user, yes i've been using win2k/server for years. I just install Kvirc and want to uninstall and reinstall a different verson is there any documention that could help me or you could send me. Thanks for you time. Ben, Hello Ben From a console su to root and type urpme the name of the package you want uninstalled and everything should be done. Otherwise you go from the package manager and check from the installed section you click on the package you want out and thats it. Cheers Dimitris Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] windows 98 installation
Hi Graham, Winds##t have to be installed first (if we're talking about the 9X series 95,98,ME) because they need to write the boot sector during installation, otherwise setup won't continue.Something that won't happen when you install XP or 2000 or NT4 even, I think. Now, in the case that someone has already installed Linux and needs to install Win98,or 95 or ME he will face the following situation. When his computer boots it will boot only in Winblows. To overcome this he should ,before installing Winblows,create a floppy-boot disk from Mandrake Control Center and keep it. After the installation of Windblows is finished he should boot from the floppy and then the Linux will boot normally.Then as root in a terminal should be typed /sbin/lilo. That's it. Everytime the computer boots the Lilo welcoming screen will appear asking the user whether he wishes to boot in Linux or in Winblows. Cheers Dimitris --- Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Nashib .J. wrote: Hi everybody, Can someone help me, I have partitioned my harddisk with two primary fat32 for windows98 installation and used the free space for M.Linux installation. I installed M.Linux first on the hard disk. My question is, will the Lilo boot loader recognise windows98 when I will install it in the futur. Somebody more knowledgeable is welcome to correct me on this but I have always understood that it is only possible to run Windows if it is installed on the first sector of the primary hard disk. Hence you will need to install windows first and then install Linux. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Brian and Jim Please tell us if you have installed any additional fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go to the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy fonts.dir and paste it to the Staroffice directory ovewriting its' own one. Then things should work OK hopefully. Also Jim check the permissions of the file where you're are trying to save your staroffice files. I mean do yoy have permission to do it there. If not change the permissions and that should do it. I had the same problem with staroffice. In my case it would start at all giving me segmentation fault. But when I did what I'm advising you everything works fine. I even managed to copy windows TTF fonts in the staroffice's directory and I am able to write and print with them. Cheers Dimitris P.S. Let us know for any progress --- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 01:03, Jim Dawson wrote: (This is a repost, the first copy apparently didn't get posted to the list.) Help! When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. First I get a dialog that states: Error saving document Untitled1: Wrong Parameter The operation was started under an invalid parameter Then I get an error that states: An unrecoverable error has occurred All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to save documents? Thanks in advance. Jim, Same thing happened to me. Once I got that message I could never get Start Office to save again. Installed Open Office instead and haven't looked back. Seems to me that SO6 is buggy bigtime! Let us know if you get a resolution though. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Brian hello my friend,
If you insist on keeping OpenOffice, that's OK, but if
you want to give SO 6 another try,I have and I can
send it to you, a small batch file that you put it one
level up from the dir where you have new fonts to be
installed in X and executes the mkfontdir and assign
commands automatically, also it creates a
fonts.dir.txt file that the Xfont server can use to
assign the fonts to itself. Using this and following
the method I pointed previously you can get SO6 to run
without no problems and with Winfonts installed and
working perfectly well. I can assure it's not buggy at
all. I have given it very hard times writing my wife's
documents(she's a journalist) and faced no problem at
all, {I had to transform them later in M$Word format,
put graphics in it, many pages,etc...}, so trust me
it's worth it. After getting it to work its rock solid
and stable as no other. If you want details on how to
I'm always available.
Cheers
Dimitris
--- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:45, Dimitris Ioannou wrote:
Brian and Jim
Please tell us if you have installed any
additional
fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go
to
the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy
fonts.dir
and paste it to the Staroffice directory
ovewriting
its' own one. Then things should work OK
hopefully.
Also Jim check the permissions of the file where
you're are trying to save your staroffice files. I
mean do yoy have permission to do it there. If not
change the permissions and that should do it. I
had
the same problem with staroffice. In my case it
would
start at all giving me segmentation fault. But
when I
did what I'm advising you everything works fine. I
even managed to copy windows TTF fonts in the
staroffice's directory and I am able to write and
print with them.
Cheers
Dimitris
P.S. Let us know for any progress
Dimitris,
Too late on my system. SO6 is gone gone gone. I
figure, why use a
buggy commercial app when there's an open source
alternative that works
better. So far I can't fault OpenOffice 1.0, and
even the pre-release
that was on my distro CDs worked better than SO6.
The one time so far that I have managed to crash
OpenOffice (with some
pretty strange screwing around BTW), it restarted,
restored the document
to right where it was and continued. If that's as
bad as it gets, I
have no problem staying with the open version.
thanks for the response though. I posted when I
first had the SO6
problem and got nothing back. Maybe it would still
be on my system if
you'd been around then.
cheers
Brian
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[newbie] Re:Staroffice:Can't Save files
If you insist on keeping OpenOffice, that's OK, but
if
you want to give SO 6 another try,I have and I can
send it to you, a small batch file that you put it
one
level up from the dir where you have new fonts to be
installed in X and executes the mkfontdir and assign
commands automatically, also it creates a
fonts.dir.txt file that the Xfont server can use to
assign the fonts to itself. Using this and following
the method I pointed previously you can get SO6 to
run
without no problems and with Winfonts installed and
working perfectly well. I can assure it's not buggy
at
all. I have given it very hard times writing my
wife's
documents(she's a journalist) and faced no problem
at
all, {I had to transform them later in M$Word
format,
put graphics in it, many pages,etc...}, so trust me
it's worth it. After getting it to work its rock
solid
and stable as no other. If you want details on how
to
I'm always available.
Cheers
Dimitris
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Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...
21 2002 07:04, / Ronald J. Hall : Hi folks, I'm sorry to burst in but I have no problems, thanks God so far, I have an FM801 soundcard (4 Euros it costed when I bought it late 1998),. Only thing sometimes, when I start KDE 3.0 I'm in now, there is no sound but that's because I need to go to Aumix and put the Volume up, and while I everytime I save the setting, everytime I restart KDE it goes to zero again and have to put it up again. Cheers Dimitris Damian G wrote: snip Oh, by the way, i've upgraded to a newer build now, but with the 3.0.0.0.0-released-30-seconds-ago KDE sometimes the aRTs sound server started on it's own, unpredictably, leaving all my multimedia apps kinda confused... so, no. you are not alone. Damian Hi Damian. Well, I'm sorry you are having problems as well. I've not got a soundcard busymessage, but its annoying none-the-less... What card are you using? I've got the SB Xgamer Live here... -- Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Microsoft_Free PC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Audio CD,No Sound Revisited!/FIXED!!!Thanks Charles!
Thanks Charles, I opened the box just to find out that the cable that connects the audio from CDROM, well DVD-ROM actually, was pulled out from its proper place on the sound card. Pulled it in and everything works perfect. Thanks again, it seems that sometimes one misses the obvious things and starts looking in more complexed places. Cheers Dimitris -- # Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Microsoft_Free PC. # Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Possible stupid question/scsi emulation for parallel port scanner!
Ha,ha,ha!! Thanks a lot Brian for your time to reply
me.
On my way to the shops. I won't regret it. As you
said, and you 're very right in this {everytime I look
at my two sons I realize it even more},life is short
and scanners are cheap.
Thanks a lot anyway
Dimitris
--- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
Dimitris,
I tried to get a parallel scsi emulated piece of HP
junk going and found
that it was theoretically possible. A web page
accessed thru the SANE
site indicated that all I needed to do was become a
linux scanner
interface design engineer. I figured I would have
it going within three
or four years and lost interest at that point.
My advice - life is short - scanners are cheap.
That said, I now have a nice new USB scanner. Works
great - as long as
I boot W$ to use it ;-) Message - read the
compatibility list before
going to the computer shop - but you knew that!
HTH
Brian
P.S. Not a stupid question! There are none and this
was less so than
many - most of them mine.
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:51, Dimitris Ioannou wrote:
Dear list
I know this might be a stupid question but I have
to
ask it since this list is my last resort and I'm
one
step before going and buying a new scanner/Linux
compatible. Is it possible to achieve a scsi
emulation
for parallel port scanner (bloody#$^! ACER340P)[a
company that thinks of Linux as a Virus] in order
to
make it work with reported drivers as snapscan
310,
310s or Vuego 310s-as read in the Sane web page,
or
being detected by sane-scsi-scanner?
TIA
and please do not shoot the piano-player
Dimitris Ioannou
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Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?
11 2002 07:31, / shane : Shane firts of all hello Can you please post more details about it? Never heard about something like it. You mean a Linux Distro stands against others? I've thought that recently RedHat changed perspective and aimed mostly at server market. Regards Dimitris ok, saw an article on this, was shocked, forgot about it. went to the store tonight. saw it again. now i am just confused. redhat is currently offering a rebate if you are changing over from another OS. cool you say more reason to leave windows! if only redhats rebate goes to users of mandrake and suse. i have often said that there are a few beginer or desktop only distros like redmond but only 2 complete distros, mandrake and suse. does this mean redhat agrees? -- # Registered Linux User 271321 This message was sent from a Microsoft_Free PC. # Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems
--- Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : My printer , a Canon S450, suddenly is printing everything twice as large as it should be. This includes fonts and graphics. I am using the cups system and have tried replacing the driver, from Linuxprinting.org's cups-o-matic system. Anyone come across this before? I am using M8.2, 512 meg of ram and have lots of disk space. Roly -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello Roland I once, long time ago faced the same problem with my old HP695C DeskJet printer but in LM 8.1 not in 8.2 that I'm running right now. I did the following: from the Mandrake Control Center I removed completely the printer, went to SysVInit from the root account GUI and restarted CUPS server. I went on to the Mandrake Control Center and reinstalled the Printer choosing another driver than the recommended one. Everything worked fine. And everytime I faced problems I was shutting down and restarting the CUPS server. Sometimes when this didn't work and my printer was still printing crap, I rebooted. Hope this helps temporarily Greetings Dimitris Ioannou Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?
--- dbota [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I have ordered a Sony CDRW to install on a windows/Mandrake 8.1 machine. How do I go about getting 8.1 to recognize and use the drive once I install it? Can anyone tell me where I find out this info? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com When you have it in your box (I believe it's going to be an ATAPI thing) su to root from console and open with vim or pico or vi (text editors) /etc/lilo.conf write on the append line devs=mount hdc=ide-scsi quiet save it close the text editor after saving the changes and from console type /sbin/lilo. You're done. Reboot. When your box is up again from console type cdrecord -scanbus. You will see your recorde there recognized under Linux. If you have any further question don't hesitate the list is here. Greetings Dimitris Ioannou-Greece Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Word processor question.
--- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Michael Scottaline wrote: While Kword can IMPORT .doc files reasonably well (if they're not to complex), I don't believe it can export in .doc format. The others do it well, especially Star and Open Office. Not to get too technical, but AbiWord will actually export in rtf format, but with a .doc extension -- Word can handle that quite well (for the things which AbiWord supports, so far). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually I did the following trick that worked. I open Word documents .doc extension with Kword and then if I want (I use the Kword 1.2.0 beta now it's really amazing with many new features, try it if you like) and then if I want to send it to someone who uses ^+)#)dozes I choose Save as... Text and then I write the name of the file adding .doc in the extension. MSWord behaves as follows. It actually opens the file as text with courrier fonts and then asks the user to save it in the latest Word format. Note that I've been trying this with Greek language docs and all work fine. Cheers Dimitris Ioannou from Greece Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:Thank you Charles Femme! [newbie] Problems with Savage4 Graphic_Tuxracer doesn't load!!
28 2002 14:49, / Charles A Edwards : On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 13:49:29 +0300 Dimitris Ioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list I keep having problems with my second PC running LM 8.2 as well as my first one. It has a Savage 4 16MB graphical adapter and refuses to start Tuxracer and Chromium games which happens to be my two sons favorites. So I'm forced to let them play on my PC while I can't work myself there. Whenever I try to start each of the games mentioned I get the following message: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0 Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0 *** tuxracer error: Couldn't initialize video: Couldn't find matching GLX visual (Success). There is currently no DRI driver for the Savages for XFree86 4.x, which means that OpenGL applications are entirely simulated in software. There was work going on at one time to add this support, by the same fellow who did the UtahGLX driver for XFree86 3.3.6, but his e-mail address no longer responds. You can install the mesa and libMesa rpms this should allow you to at least start the games but I am afraid they will be so slow and jerky that they will not be playable. Any chance that you might could switch vid cards between the 2 systems. Charles Charles I did as you advised me and I can tell you are right in everything you said. The games started but they are as you mentioned not playble 'cause they are very slow. Any way thank you very much. I think I'll go and buy another graphic card sometime when my financial situation allows me to do so. Thank you too Femme for your answer but it didn't work. This card is probably too old. Greetings Dimitris Ioannou From Greece # Registered Linux User 217321 8:29pm up 17 min, 1 user, load average: 0,04, 0,13, 0,14 79 processes: 77 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 66,6% user, 33,3% system, 0,0% nice, 0,0% idle Mem: 771860K av, 179380K used, 592480K free, 0K shrd,9784K buff Swap: 1044184K av, 0K used, 1044184K free 82308K cached ## Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?
29 2002 18:02, / Jesper Nyholm Jensen : Hi I have a similar problem. I added an extra hd on my machine and therefore changede the primary/secondary, master/slave settings for my dvd/cdrom and cdrw. Now, when I run 'cdrecord -scanbus' it finds my dvd/cdrom and no cdrw?!? The line 'devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi quiet' is already in my lilo.conf. You should change the append line in /etc/lilo.conf accordingly. Find which hard disk is which i.e. hdd, or hdc, etc. and then add it to lilo. Note that you should do that to /etc/fstab too so you can use your devices in order to view a cdrom or copy files from it. If you have any more problems please post both your lilo and /etc/fstab to the list so we can help you better Greetings Dimitris Ioannou From Greece Registered Linux User 217321 This message was sent from a Microsoft_Free PC 8:39pm up 27 min, 1 user, load average: 0,02, 0,06, 0,08 78 processes: 76 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 75,0% user, 25,0% system, 0,0% nice, 0,0% idle Mem: 771860K av, 180660K used, 591200K free, 0K shrd, 10328K buff Swap: 1044184K av, 0K used, 1044184K free 82540K cached # Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]To Civ! You folks are great
26 2002 23:50, / civileme : Congratulations, newbie list members. You have kept a civil list compared to the other linux help lists extant, and it has been a pleasure being here. It appears there are enough people answering questions--a critical mass of them, in fact, that I can feel comfortable leaving here to attack a huge backlog of questions on MandrakeExpert. Diane Marie Montesa, Sridhar, Lyvim, Charles Edwards, Etharp, s, Tom, Ronald J Hall. and all the other wonderful helpers, you are doing great. Steer the really weird questions toward www.mandrakeexpert.com, if you will, or email me privately. I like weird ones as you well know. Anyway, please don't read anything negative into my departure. I just need to be full-time on MandrakeExpert for the forseeable future, and that means the spare time past my normal working day as well. Civileme Dont you leave us for too long. We are all going to miss you my friend. Weird stuff has it's beuty but this list has energy, good people, and really alive and kicking stuff. I'm missing you already. Dimitris Ioannou. from Greece P.S. I've done as you suggested and now my DVD-ROM works fine and it's identified by the graphical front ends for cdrecord. Once again thank you! I'll keep mailing you privately though. Dimitris Ioannou LM 8.2 Registered Linux User 217321: Warning: This is a Microsoft-Free PC. 1:37pm up 4:45, 1 user, load average: 0,00, 0,00, 0,00 80 processes: 79 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 1,5% user, 1,7% system, 0,0% nice, 96,6% idle Mem: 771860K av, 260800K used, 511060K free, 0K shrd, 19500K buff Swap: 1044184K av, 0K used, 1044184K free 139712K cached # Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems with Savage4 Graphic_Tuxracer doesn't load!!
Hello list I keep having problems with my second PC running LM 8.2 as well as my first one. It has a Savage 4 16MB graphical adapter and refuses to start Tuxracer and Chromium games which happens to be my two sons favorites. So I'm forced to let them play on my PC while I can't work myself there. Whenever I try to start each of the games mentioned I get the following message: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0 Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0 *** tuxracer error: Couldn't initialize video: Couldn't find matching GLX visual (Success). Any hints? TIA Dimitris Ioannou ### Dimitris Ioannou LM 8.2 Registered Linux User 217321 Warning: This is a Microsoft-Free PC 1:48pm up 4:57, 1 user, load average: 0,02, 0,06, 0,01 80 processes: 79 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 6,1% user, 0,5% system, 0,0% nice, 93,2% idle Mem: 771860K av, 261956K used, 509904K free, 0K shrd, 19856K buff Swap: 1044184K av, 0K used, 1044184K free 139868K cached ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:To Sridhar mplayer How To??? [newbie] Ogg Vorbis conversions
--- Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On 24 Apr 2002 00:59:05 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 14:16, dfox wrote: That's quite impressive! I doubt mp3 would be neawrly that efficient. I did some mp3 to ogg conversions on some 22050 khz (old time radio type files) on one 12 meg file, ogg turned it into a 7 meg file. That's for about an hour's worth of audio (lo fi of course). Out of curiosity, about how long did oggenc take to do that conversion? And did you have to replace the sore CPU afterwards? :) dfox, You are right about the sore cpu. Look at the output of the time command on this sample conversion I did: [elx@tamriel tmp]$ time sox -V ggordon4-23-02b.wav ggordon4-23-02b.ogg sox: Detected file format type: wav sox: Chunk fmt sox: Chunk data sox: Reading Wave file: Microsoft PCM format, 2 channels, 44100 samp/sec sox: 176400 byte/sec, 4 block align, 16 bits/samp, 249786368 data bytes sox: Input file ggordon4-23-02b.wav: using sample rate 44100 size shorts, encoding signed (2's complement), 2 channels sox: Input file ggordon4-23-02b.wav: comment ggordon4-23-02b.wav Channels: 2 Rate: 44100 sox: Output file ggordon4-23-02b.ogg: using sample rate 44100 size shorts, encoding signed (2's complement), 2 channels sox: Output file: comment ggordon4-23-02b.wav 363.00user 3.42system 6:09.99elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (294major+334minor)pagefaults 0swaps [elx@tamriel tmp]$ ls ggordon4-23-02b.* ggordon4-23-02b.ogg ggordon4-23-02b.wav [elx@tamriel tmp]$ ll ggordon4-23-02b.* -rw-rw-r--1 elx elx 20739735 Apr 24 00:20 ggordon4-23-02b.ogg -rw-rw-r--1 elx elx 249786412 Apr 24 00:10 ggordon4-23-02b.wav [elx@tamriel tmp]$ ___ As you can see, it really sucks the cpu power. I was able to operate OK while it was running, but I've got a 964 mhz Athlon here. Sorry it took so long to get back with you, but by the time you asked your question, I had already eliminated all wav's on my system; the one above I had to generate on purpose so I could get you some decent timing numbers. I think the result is well worth the intensive time; I did'nt notice a lag here, but then I did'nt put any additional stress on the cpu either. A 240 or so meg wav file converted to a 20 meg ogg in a little over 6 minutes. :) It's situations like this that make the nice and renice commands very handy. My system is a Pentium II 350MHz, which is not a speed daemon by any standard. I can encode MPEG videos to DivX format using mencoder (part of MPlayer) AND handle all my web browsing and e-mail at the same time, simply by giving mencoder a nice value of around 10. It works great when I'm compiling code as well. Of course, everything is slower, but it's still usable. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I've tried many times to install the mplayer rpm that I d/l from the web (actually, I tried several versions) but it seems impossible. It installs itself but I can never get it to work. The latest incident was this that I'm describing below. (That was when I tried to install a tarball). After running ./configure, when I got to the second step make the message I got in the console was this We are not and we will not going to support gcc 2.96... Mplayer Team I started laughing when I saw this and after that I never tried to install it again since I know 2.96 is the compiler of choice for Mandrake (this actually means that it's not going to work properly on a Mandrake system isn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong). Any hints would be greatly appreciated Sridhar Greetings Dimitris Ioannou Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVB-S Sattelite card detection in LM 8.1. Possible???
Is there any possibility for LM 8.1 to detect my DVB-S Hauppage satellite card or is there any driver I can install so I can have it installed in my Linux box. I wonder because in my country (Greece) that's the only way to have fast Internet (DSL) unknown word so far for us. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dimitris Ioannou Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] To Femme
Femme, have you been offended by someone? Well, just tell him to go to hell. Your presence here is a breeze and you're more than wanted in this list. Keep on being yourself above all. Cheers Dimitris from Greece Opinions are like assholes.Everybuddy has got one. Clint Eastwood In your case, the one that said bad things about you can stick in his own and occypie himself with it.We really don't care. Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Femme, have you been offended by someone? Well, just tell him to go to hell. Your presence here is a breeze and you're more than wanted in this list. Keep on being yourself above all. Cheers Dimitris from Greece Opinions are like assholes.Everybuddy has got one. Clint Eastwood In your case, the one that said bad things about you can stick in his own and occypie himself with it.We really don't care. Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
I read your letter yesterday. I confess, I'm a bit confused. Don't really understand what you're up to. If you're aiming to pass the message that Linux has to be a lot easier for people with non geek-knowledge, I think you've succeeded that. Now, a question: are doing this effort because you believe in this certain distor LM, or in Linux generally? Surely you have ended up very misunderstood by everyone. Not by me though, except for that first time. My friend, I believe, you are really something! Stubborn, if I may say? Don't know, maybe that's the way to pass your opinion through. Think I am myself a little. Anyway, Mandrake distro is on its way to the non-geek community. It's the first distro ever understood that common people need a simple operating system, reliable and steady to work. Civileme, may be as stubborn as you, but if you don't believe strongly in something how can you ever succeed in doing anything? In this part you are the same both of you. I'm happy you both are out there. In other cases you could be friends, though fighting all the time. I live in Greece, 30 o C temperature right now, and a very nice day. I'm working in a software company based in Windows NT 4 which everyone's using as a terminal to an OS/400. Very tiring for me since every person working there are stuck with the OS/400 telling me all the time how good this operation system is and I should stop occuppying myself with the Linux thing and everything. But I keep on, just like you keep on telling everyone your thoughts, and just as Civileme is rejecting them and disagrees with you. Wishing you a very nice day John. Dimitris Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
Hello to you Richard From what I have read visiting Mandrakes home page I understand that they really are in trouble so I hurried and subscribe myself to the Mandrake Users Club and intending to buy the new 8.2 Release to support them more.They face, I think, the dilemma of cutting out personnel in order to cut their expenses which are by far bigger than their revenues. It goes without saying, that this will affect the development of their future releases. I think everyone should support an excellent OS like LM since everyone benefits from the use of it, or it's existence, whatever you prefer. After all, the cost (60USD per year is too little compared to what one should pay when using M$ XP for instance. Regards Dimitris P.S. Question: I really didn't understand what the letter of your employer that you are enclosing is about.Why did he sent you this and what is this has to do with Mandrake's need for money? Forgive me if I, sometimes, am slowminded and don't understand some things. Ï/Ç "Barran, Richard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: Morning all,I've received a very interesting "Mandrake Community Newsletter" thismorning. I'm including here the two most relevant paragraphs:"Even though all of us here at MandrakeSoft are excited about the upcoming release, we've also been distracted by financial concerns. Despite continuous good reviews in the press; despite having millions of users throughout the world; despite producing an award-winning Linux distribution that is a solid competitor to both UNIX and Window$, the Mandrake Linux distribution's short-term future is in jeopardy due to a simple factor: money.As a company, we make our revenue by selling packaged versions of the distribution and by delivering services such as consulting, training,etc. -- but our development costs and community-based services are notyet covered by income. It is estimated that we will "breaak even" by theend of 2002, but it is unlikely that MandrakeSoft can remain unchangedduring these next few months without drastically cutting costs unlessadditional revenue is generated quickly."The newsletter then goes on to urge people to sign up to Mandrake Club ASAP.I received a newsletter from the Club yesterday which also hinted at"financial troubles".I haven't seen this mentioned yet by anyone on either this list or on theexpert list. Is this a bit of scaremongering or is Mandrake really in direstraits?Regards,RichardPS Here follows a short message from my employer's legal department...***This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged.If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system.Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free.Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods.Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored.Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool,L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.com ***Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.
I hope that this poisoned letter of yours comes only because you tried very hard as a Linux newbie to install and get some things working (apps) and obviously you didn't succeed in doing so. You will never make it, trust me. Never, as long as you are carrying in your back and in your mind the M$ philosophy of get things working. Obtain some, cathedral, as you name it thinking and then,maybe , things will work out for you. Think of something. If they work, they will, by far, work better than in Windows. As for the vulnerability of the Unix like systems ( I read the whole article in the link you pointed) I can assure you that it takes a hacker with balls like stone to attack at any Unix system even with the security hole mentioned in the article. There not many out there. When in M$ Window$ a 14 year old kid can run a simple script that just found in theweband just make a whole network based on NT servers to kneel down. Anyway, and back to the point, I find that your letter is very provocative and I won't (and hope that all the others do the same) occupie myself to give you the answers that your asking in the end of it. I trully believe after reading carefully the whole of your letter that you are not interested in using Linux or any alternative OS to Window$. So, stop complaining about Linux and stick to what Big Bill is feeding you with. Cheers Dimitris Ioannou P.S. Forgive me if I'm being too arogant but you managed to piss me off, while I have a lot of work to discover new bugs in KDE 3.0 Beta 2! Hello folks!I assure you - this is not off-topic.A short time ago I wrote a small paper on the psychology of expectation. Inhaving several hundred monitors read it, I was able to demonstrate fromtheir commentaries the sex and approximate age of the respondees with 80%accuracy.It is all about prior conditioning.The divisions in Linux are identical to the range in the natural sexes - allfour of 'em.The Geek is a geek for many reasons, often complex.The Simple User is one for a single reason. To get a specific job done.Period.To remove the emotive accelerants from the issues here we need to create 4new classes of interest/function:1. Simple User. A businessperson or pro wanting to utilise their time moreeffectively/productively.2. Super User. As above, but forced to undertake technical activities toachieve "tools results" (Me!) because of lack of resources outside.3. Hobby Geek. Somebody who finds intense research satisfying. Extremelyfocused hobbyist - because it is a safe outlet. Phase2: Will often try tomake money out of it - only ever as a sideline - their psychology iscapitalism adverse. Cause Super Users a lot of grief with well-meaning badadvice/efforts.4. Pro Geek. Makes an actual living as technician in the field. Highly paidfor his (rarely her) work, if ANY good at all, due to general great lack ofcompetence in the technical area. Always extremely busy. Extremely poorcommunicators. Need to simply be given the job to do. Never ask themquestions.The vast gulf between User and Geek is similar to that between male andfemale - as whatsisname said: "from different planets".The User simply wants the tool to be *monetarily* usable. Period. He isonly trying to make money in the violent competition of the outside world.The Geek simply wants to overcome obstacles and enjoy feeling superior inthe only area he can.Now - don't shoot the messenger!This is a fairly apt generalisation of reasonable accuracy. Look around you.:-)Geeks LVE command lines!Users HTE anything made unnecessarily complex. They Looove GUI.Your humble correspondent a year ago set out with high ideals to design andconstruct a genuine Newbies Guide Book. It was to be based on the author'sown experiences.. he gave up. Nobody was able to get a *single*machine of his to work in an acceptable commercial manner.And now this:http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,224985,20263960,00.htmYet and yet, hope springs eternal.I will buy yet another box and try again. This time with Win4Lin and try tobridge the gap between the market-aware world and the totally cathedral-likeviews of the many intelligent but incredibly naive people who think "it willall happen because we are nice".Big Bill must light many a candle in the cathedral for the miraculous lackof organised competition out there which could have - should have - wipedhim out by now - after all, Microsoft is essentially only a very big DotCom.. an idea, a hope, a hustle. He must have friends in very highplaces, no?But that man is a marketing genius. The best hustler on this whole planet -with the money to prove it.And now, back to our regular programmeIs there anyone out there who has simply put in the CD and obtained aworking ( really working - Office suite, communications, ViaVoice,replacement for FrontPage98) and a few user utilities?WITHOUT RESORTING TO ARCANE COMMAND LINE APPROACHES.Can we even say that e.g. the Intel
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
--- g. sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:48, you wrote: Paul Vortex wrote this on his reply to programs running on wine post, and since there is this trend in the past 2 days in the list where people are posting things that are not neccesarily == ( never mind the spelling ... hint would be nice to add a spell checker in Kmail /hint) related to the list objectivs :) Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? starter: Name: Hanan Country: Fairfax, VA United States IP: .. nah ;-) San Diego, CA USA Where it's 8:48 am, and already 70 out. :-) (it's going to be great beer weather today!) --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Name: Dimitris Country: Greece it is 19.12 am, shit weather but very nice for a beer and chat Hello to you all Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.
Ï/Ç "Rick [Kitty5]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:26, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: I hope that this poisoned letter of yours ...Well, you were the one who posted in HTML :)Yes, because , I'm at work now my friend (Windows based(, and couldn't resist answering the letter. Regards DimitrisWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
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I have just installed (after downloading the rpm's) the KDE 3BETA2, doing urpmi --force since I was not able to satisfy the dependencies and got it installed in /opt/kde3/bin. Problem is, I had already KDE 2.2.2 installed and KOffice 1.1.1 too. Now, I can't login to KDE 2.2.2 anymore. Only to Gnome. Of cource I can start KDE 3 from cmd with kde3 command. But the KOffice already installed does not start anymore. It crashes. I reinstalled it but nothing. I would be very grateful if someone can direct me telling me how I can (details won't be bad at all), correctly install KDE 3BETA2-should I remove KDE 2.2.2 first and then install KDE3 or I could have both without removing KDE 2.2.2. If there is no other way I'd like to stick to the KDE3BETA2 and also have it as my automated login environment and of cource have my KOffice 1.1.1 working. After installing KDE3 I got the messaged "Remember to add /opt/kde3/bin to your path". How can I do that. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thank you Dimitris IoannouDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] KDE3BETA2 Installation Help!
I have just installed (after downloading the rpm's) the KDE 3BETA2, doing urpmi --force since I was not able to satisfy the dependencies and got it installed in /opt/kde3/bin. Problem is, I had already KDE 2.2.2 installed and KOffice 1.1.1 too. Now, I can't login to KDE 2.2.2 anymore. Only to Gnome. Of cource I can start KDE 3 from cmd with kde3 command. But the KOffice already installed does not start anymore. It crashes. I reinstalled it but nothing. I would be very grateful if someone can direct me telling me how I can (details won't be bad at all), correctly install KDE 3BETA2-should I remove KDE 2.2.2 first and then install KDE3 or I could have both without removing KDE 2.2.2. If there is no other way I'd like to stick to the KDE3BETA2 and also have it as my automated login environment and of cource have my KOffice 1.1.1 working. After installing KDE3 I got the messaged "Remember to add /opt/kde3/bin to your path". How can I do that. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thank you Dimitris IoannouDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] virus scanners (again)
Ï/Ç Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:19:32 -0800shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: maybe i misunderstand. they are affraid linux will give a virus to novell? fire them, they are brainless mouse jockeys. the number of crossplatform virii is pretty low. like zero. if some windows user with a virus sends you one to your email, you could open, it would have no effect on you, and then you could forward it to all the other company machines manually, if you were foolish enough to do so. or if it hits your windows machine it would forward itself. which sounds better? :-)The server will be used to serve web pages, and possibly use FTP to uploaduser pages, and it will also be used to run a mailing list manager. Assuch, it won't be used for POP mail accounts. So you're saying there's noway for a linux server to pass on a virus to a Windows client? Perhapsthey are thinking they want to scan all e-mails for possible virii inattachments. I'll check it out.BTW, they're not brainless, they just are not familiar with Linux :-)Todd-- Todd SlaterWe are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, andrecitation rooms, for ten or ffifteen years, and come out at last with abag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. (Ralph WaldoEmerson) On Wednesday 06 March 2002 19:35, Todd Slater opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: I know there was a recent discussion of virus scanners, and how they are not necessary unless it is to protect Windows clients. Well, that is just the situation I am in. I want to set up a server to experiment with educational applications of GPL/Open Source/Free Software, but the MIS guys won't let me connect to our network until I can assure them the Linux server won't pass on virii to our Novell NetWare network.Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello Todd I'm just a newbie but maybe this can be of a help to you.From what I have seen, though never tried it 'cause I don'n need it, Bastille (LM's firewall), has an option where you can exclude some known file extensions -possibly virii when delivered via e-mail, like .exe, and so on.Maybe you can use it and hold back suspicious-content messages from your Window$ clients Regards Dimitris Do You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows
Ï/Ç Jose Mirles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:16, you wrote: Hi, I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into Linux from within Windows without rebooting??I wonder if you could use VNC to access the other drive. They do have a Windows client as well as a Linux one.Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Go to http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htmand there you will find the thing you need and all the information.Dimitris Do You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] deleted partition HELP!
Ï/Ç Ric Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: YES I DID examine the display, it did notsay which partition was what, all I knowis that it is the third partition, /boot/ then /home, but it was not displayed thatway because it did not even TRY to readthe drive just the damnb partition table,I want something that will scan the entire drive,find the partition barriers, and then re-writethe partition table, for your info, I DID study the literature and I DID NOT UNDERSTANDit, it DID NOT TELL ME what I NEEDED TO DO, sorry but I am handicappedand I need EXTRA Help with some things.All it did was display a blank drive andI know that is not what it is, it saidthe entire 20Gb thing was blank,but you can't blank an entire drivein less than one second, you would have tohave a special utility that would go over thewhole thing and set the data to all zeros,when a partition is erased, it just erasesthe "card catalogue" that tells whereall th! e books in the library are.I'm sorry if you don't know the answer,its ok to not know something, don't be ashamedif you don't know everything, no one does,all you gotta say is "I don't know" and I willask someone who does, no problem.If anyone else knows, or would like to try,please I would appreciate some input.If needed, I will email in again andtry to re-state the problem in a way thatcan be understood, I'm sorry I have badcommunication skills, I will take as longas I need here until I get the informationI need, then I will drop the subjectwhen my drive can once again be accessed,and thank all those who helped or at leasttried. Thanks to alex for at least trying.__Do You Yahoo!?Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail!http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t! o http://www.mandrakestore.com If I understood correctly you need to find a way so your Linux-box can read your lost partition. If you already have a windows partition */mnt/windows, /mnt/win_c or whatever, boot to windows and use Partition Magic 7.0 to scan your partition from windows and reformat it into ext2 which is the Linux standard filesystem. When you do so successfully boot in Linux and from Mandrake Control Center or from picoing /etc/fstab add a new mount point for instance /var. If this is not the problem, then (pay attention to this), login as root look if you already have a /home file in the basic catalogue. If you do have, open the Kdiskfree and look at the mounted partitions. Dismount /home. Go to the Linux Control Center and mount your unseen so far partition as /var or as /home. If you mount it as /home you wont be able to see your data stored in the previous /home that you have dismounted from Kdiskfree even if you mount it again. Dimitris Ioannou Waiting for your newsDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] deleted partition HELP!
Ï/Ç Ric Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: YES I DID examine the display, it did notsay which partition was what, all I knowis that it is the third partition, /boot/ then /home, but it was not displayed thatway because it did not even TRY to readthe drive just the damnb partition table,I want something that will scan the entire drive,find the partition barriers, and then re-writethe partition table, for your info, I DID study the literature and I DID NOT UNDERSTANDit, it DID NOT TELL ME what I NEEDED TO DO, sorry but I am handicappedand I need EXTRA Help with some things.All it did was display a blank drive andI know that is not what it is, it saidthe entire 20Gb thing was blank,but you can't blank an entire drivein less than one second, you would have tohave a special utility that would go over thewhole thing and set the data to all zeros,when a p! artition is erased, it just erasesthe "card catalogue" that tells whereall the books in the library are.I'm sorry if you don't know the answer,its ok to not know something, don't be ashamedif you don't know everything, no one does,all you gotta say is "I don't know" and I willask someone who does, no problem.If anyone else knows, or would like to try,please I would appreciate some input.If needed, I will email in again andtry to re-state the problem in a way thatcan be understood, I'm sorry I have badcommunication skills, I will take as longas I need here until I get the informationI need, then I will drop the subjectwhen my drive can once again be accessed,and thank all those who helped or at leasttried. Thanks to alex for at least trying.__Do You Yahoo!?Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail!http://promo.yaho! o.com/videomail/Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] file sharing
Ï/Ç chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: To be more specific, I am looking for a P2P file sharing client. I haveused gtk gnutella and didn't find it to be particularly compelling,mainly because I have difficulty connecting. Are there any otherclients for gnutella or fast track that work well.Thanks, Go to www.kazaa.com and download kazaa client for Linux. Its about 256k. Only thing is, that you have to use it from console by going to its directory and after you install it you have to type ./kza and it will work. It's a little bit ancient looking but it really does work well.-ChuckOn Mon, 2002-01-07 at 21:05, Michael Viron wrote: samba, nfs, appletalk, ftp, http, scp, sftp all come immediately to mind -- it all depends on who you want to share it to, between what operating systems, and what it is that you wishh to share. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:29 PM 01/07/2002 -0800, you wrote: Can anyone recommend a good file sharing app? TIA -Ch! uck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com=_1010466193-11608-4234 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.manndrakestore.comWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] file sharing
Ï/Ç Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: samba, nfs, appletalk, ftp, http, scp, sftp all come immediately to mind --it all depends on who you want to share it to, between what operatingsystems, and what it is that you wish to share..Michael--Michael VironRegistered Linux User #81978Senior Systems Administration ConsultantWeb Spinners, University of West FloridaAt 08:29 PM 01/07/2002 -0800, you wrote:Can anyone recommend a good file sharing app?TIA-Chuck go to www.kazaa.com and download the linux-client. Only 256k, Works quite well but from console.Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
Re: [newbie] re: staroffice
Ï/Ç Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: Still on the general topic of StarOffice. I am using the 6.0 beta and Iseem to have messed up the database integration some how, or perhaps I'mjust not sure what I should look for if it is working properly. I wentthrough the StarOffice installation prior to doing the Adabasinstallation. The StarOffice installer told me it couldn't find thedatabase and that if I wanted those features I should run thatinstallation. I ran the database installation the same way I ran theStarOffice installation but I can't detect any evidence from insideStarOffice that I have added the database. There isn't a menu option fora new data file under the file menu. I have no idea what I should belooking for but it seems like it ought to be a little more obvious thanthis. I originally did a /net install of both programs and then ran auser install from the directory I created during the /net install. Anyadvice on how to get back on track would be appr! eciated. Thanks.TraciWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comHi Traci, I'm going to give you an advise about it that worked on Windows, so I guess it will probably work on Linux too. I have installed Adabas prior to StarOffice installation and everything worked fine. When I finally installed StarOffice itself it did actually detected the Adabas installation though I gota message that the database itself would not be installed by the Staroffice although it detected it. Later on, when I started Staroffice the Adabas worked quite well. All those I'm telling you happened under Windows installation but I think the same will happen under LM8.1 since we're talking about the same application. I' ll try it though today under Linux and I promise you I'll come back with all the information I'm able to gather about it Regards Dimitris IoannouDo You Yahoo!?ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí óáò @yahoo.gr äéåýèõíóç óôï Yahoo! Mail.
