[newbie] Installation (program) problems
Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( ... Later It helps if you change the attributes to exectuable :( :( [fx: hangs head in shame] Now installed :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 20:46, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:55:24 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: In that case, the whole /home directory, including mail and any saved work, will be wiped out. You really do need a backup of your work and mail before you install. I'm not sure where sylpheed-claws stores your mail, but if you can't find it I'm sure someone will point you to it. Anne home/yourhome/Mail. AND home/yourhome/.sylpheed or home/yourhome/.sylpheed-gtk2 also needed depending on your vers. Lee Yes, I will back up as much as possible (ie everything) and then reinstall. But I am sooo tempted to hang on for 10.2. Although I had a MS Certified Engineer and IT chappie around here that always extolls the microsoft side and stuff... They've just moved and have no gas or hot water... Was quite surprised to find Mdk10 on Amd1300 more responsive and quicker than XP on a 2400 :) A convert I think... :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 12:04, Lee Wiggers wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. I've got a MS wireless optical mouse. It used to be plugged into the PS2 port then I needed the adapter for the notebook, so it's now in USB. Changeover was fine and great, no problems. The difference is that I do not use a KVM switch... Are you able to try the USB option to see if that cures it?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: Supposed to be released on the 6th, but they have not hit a date yet so it will be soon after.Cooker is the incubator that they develop the next OS release. It is very much cutting edge and could as easy as not have bugs in individual packages. Once they decide that all of the packages that are going to go in the next release have been decided on then the developers start concentrating on bugs. A good stable release will evolve after about the 2nd or third update in my experience and that may be 2 to 5 weeks after the official release. ( opinion expressed here is not necessarily based on scientific fact or analysis, It is just a opion.) HTH I see, thanks for that :) I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 15:30, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 6:52 AM, Elwyn York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 I would install 10.1. I tried out the beta for 10.2 and there were some definite issues. Granted, I did an upgrade and not a clean install, but... The main problem that I had regarded installing packages. Many of the packages wouldn't install because they required older dependancies. 10.1 had been very good for me. With the help of this list, I have the most stable system I've had in 14 years. Ok, thanks for that. I've managed to prune my mail folders from 1500mb down to about 200mb but have yet to get it lower... How easy is the upgrade process from 10.0 to 10.1 without destroying the data?? Or is it best to just start again... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Oooohh, wait for 10.2. It'll only be a few days and it is very nice. hal + dbus == hardware that works better Very stable KDE 3.3.2, you will only get 3.2.3 with 10.1 OO.o 1.1.4 and better integrated into the desktop Newest Firefox and thunderbird I am running on 2 production machines for a few weeks with no showstoppers Ok, so if I temporarily transfer my mail over to another machine, and sort out some place to dump 80 gig of mp3s to another place on my network I too can play with 10.2 ?? :) What do I need to do to get it ?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 20:38, Mr. Geek wrote: Elwyn York wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: Well, other than the fact that you just answered your own question Elwyn, you need to transfer your mail to another machine and sort out some place to dump 8 Gb's of MP3 files. 80 not 8, but it's still quite a bit. I've found a place for them now. Alas it is on an NTFS drive, but it'll do for now :( Which begs the question,...should we consider setting up our own private P2P system? But back to your question,. I had considered that, and theoretically it is possible to just shove another hard drive in my Smeserver webserver but (and I have already spoken at great lengths with another forum over getting an 80gb to work in a machine that barfs at anything over 25gb!) I don't want to burden the machine with that much stuff. How is your hard drive partitioned now? Is the 80 Gb's of MP3's on a separate partition? If you decide to install 10.2, your /home folder should be fine as long as you don't attempt to change your partition sizes or to re-format your drive. The 80gb partition was in the /home/elwyn/shared/mp3s so yes, it is on my home partition. However, I did not know whether 10.+ takes anymore file size space and I would have thought it would have been easier to keep to a clean install... However, saying that, I've still got this dual booting with WinXP on it as well (for gaming purposes :o :o :)) The 10.2 installer should detect your existing partitions, and it will show you that the /home partition will not be formatted, unless you manually select it. Ahh, this is what I like to hear. Another linux friend this evening also pointed out some of these salient points and alayed some fears of dataloss. Any other partitions which have atypical names (partitions names that Linux doesn't already have in it's own list), will also be left alone unless you tell the installer and/or diskdrake otherwise. Good ;) Hope that helps. Now, about that VP-P2P-Network,.. Hmm. The problem with all of these is that they can put an innordinate amount of pressure on the adsl link. I've got a 512k down and 256k up, and whilst the upload is unlimited I have yet to find a way to force the smeserver to only use, say, 50 percent of the available bandwidth. Whilst having loads of members having their own small server with their own collection there is always going to be someone who wants to grab loads now :( There are other places to go for the fix Oh, and my ADSL link is an older package now and discontinued, but basically doesn't allow P2P on the system. I can however run my own intranet and webserver, fileserver etc etc as long as it doesnt break their end :) Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Elwyn York I'll get there... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:35, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: 80 gig of mp3s ??!! I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... Yeah, I look after my Dad and Sisters collection too. My Sister doesn't have a PC but every now and again she gets MP3 CDs made up for their DVD player for music Don't like a lot of the new stuff, but am rather partial to things like classical music, chilling/relax stuff, then some of the louder stuff to hear when on the road, not forgetting Oakenfold :) It is stuff I have collected along the way. Got close on 25gb of classical mp3s :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 00:49, Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:35 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: 80 gig of mp3s ??!! I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... 80 Gig ?? Me thinks dedicated music server BTW joe seeing as you are a minimalist have you tried DSL linux only 50 Meg on the live CD Now that, sir, is a good idea. I just need to get the hardware together. I had planned to utilise the Smeserver I am running but that might be a bit much for it. 333mhz processor, 20gb Hdd, 128mb Ram. No monitor, keyboard attached. Only a power cord and network cable. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:52, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:42 pm, Elwyn York wrote: What do I need to do to get it ?? You can freely interchange the cooker and 10.2 branches of the devel tree on the mirrors at this point. They are the same until 10.2 goes gold in few days time. So if I'm only looking at waiting a few days then surely it would be better to wait for the latest one? Isn't gold a package level?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 02:34, Aron Smith wrote: I'm setting up a mini-itx eden m6000 (600Mhz) fanless boots off a CF card (256Mb) 20G notebook drive adding Streamtuner streamripper and xmms-diskwriter and audacity it's already got rox dillo and firefox on it Ooh, I wondered who was getting that little lot from Ebay :) I was sorely tempted until I had my bank statement turn up :( Perhaps in a year I can get some new ITX's :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 02:39, Elwyn York wrote: Time flies when you play with computers :( Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.2
Can anyone speculate here roughly when Mandrake 10.2 will be ready for end user (ie me). It is, apparently, sometime the beginning of April (er, now! :) ) ready for cooker. Oh, and can someone explain what cooker is please?? (reference to Linux, not the kitchen... Google doesn't like me this morning!) Thanks Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux riskier than Windows study says
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 03:03, Chris wrote: Ahh, another study funded by MS thats only purpose seems to be to cause FUD. Linux riskier than Windows? Companies face greater risks if they run their Web sites on Linux rather than Windows, a Microsoft-funded study has concluded. http://ct.zdnet.com.com/clicks?c=90480-571387brand=zdnetds=5 Well they would say that wouldn't they? After all, it is the competition. They could say that about Macs but no doubt Apple would turn it around and use it to sell more things including an aadd like that... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux riskier than Windows study says
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 03:38, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 07:28 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 03:03, Chris wrote: And I thought I was mad to be going to work this time in the morning, but I am, once again, mistaken :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Samba Server
Hiya Folks What I'd like to do is set up a shared area within our network that all our (family) music files are on, plus other bits and bobs, that will only share files for most of its hard drive. I've already got a working Samba place on this machine but I'm debating how to go about this. Basically the box wil be without monitor, keyboard, mouse etc. Just have power and network to it. However, the small problem I have is that as it is a closed secured network I don't want any username and passwords? Is that possible?? Because one of the problems I have is any files created with one ID cannot be moved/deleted with another ID, or have I missed something fundemental out?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba Server
Alas my plans have gone a bit pear shaped. The machine destined to become a server, whilst quiet and with enough memory has transpired to not support the required drives. A variety of words spring to mind, most unrepeatable here ;( So the 80gb drive is going in this linux machine and I'll modify the network to suit. Thank you Anne for your description. Having also spoken to anther network freind here I think it'll be easier to stick to a shared user ID and password. Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Adding Drives
Hiya Following on from my Samba Server question... I've fitted the drive, it's declared as hdb and I'd like to set it up for just files. I've tried to chose Journalised Etc3, ReiserFS, JFS or XFS. Which do I chose?? It would be nice if I can put it all as one partition?! Er, Thanks :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adding Drives
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:25, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What Journalized file system to pick is not a cut and dried decision. It depends on what kinds of data you are going to put on the drive, and who you are asking the question. So you will need to provide more information before you can even hope for a meaningful answer. The drive would be for storing and sorting out files, music and graphics. The Storage Place basically on our small network here. I have quite a lot of MP3s and that is all in one place for myself and my father to use, and it's also the storage place for my brothers iRiver collection (as he doesn't have a PC) Making the drive one partition is not a problem. Depending on how big it is, and how you are planning to do backups, it may make since to split it up though. You may also want to use a chunk of the drive as a swap partition... Mikkel Ahh. I see. When I chose ext3 I was asked about the name of it and did I want to move \usr over or hide it?! I've had a look on the web but most the responses i've seen is for putting a new installation on, not so much adding a drive later down the line. At the moment the /home folder has a shared folder in there that is the Samba drive. Close on 60gb there. I'd like to run it side by side with the new 80gb and stuff. Does that help?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adding Drives
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, ext3 is probably a good choice. But I am not an expert on journalized file systems... As for the mount point, you do NOT want to use /usr for this. This option if for someone that is running out of room on /, and is adding space by way of a new partition. You could create another directory off of /home for the new drive, create one in /mnt, or create on off of /. I don't remember what the file system standard is for that. Personally, I would create something like /data or /shared as a mount point. Now, if you were going to be moving the current data to the new drive, then I would use the current shared directory as the mount point. Mikkel Ahh yes, that makes a lot more sense now! I didn't know how much I could change the mount point and stuff!!! :) You are a Gem! Thank you :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba Server
Thanks, I'll keep looking into options... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem
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Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
On Monday 31 Jan 2005 00:00, JoeHill wrote: Hey, bud, when you get back in your office, could you remember to *never* set an out-of-office auto-reply for an account you use on a mailing list? Many thanks! I rang their contact number this morning, they can't switch it off as it is company policy to have this switched on and they cannot touch his mail system. If it's getting a problem then you can either bounce back, perhaps to the admin. Ignore it until he gets back or get the admin here to disable his mail. Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem
On Monday 31 Jan 2005 08:20, Cyber Killer wrote: Cyber Killer wrote: Elwyn wrote: The later versions might have new drivers that are causing problems. When I've been trying to sort these little problems out with PCs I try changing the hardware around just in case... OK I'll try, but, I've always been using XFree4 and never had any problems :-P I'll say how it came out in a couple of days OK, I switched the gfx cards (I borrowed a GF4 Ti from a friend) and guess what? It didn't work :-( Oh dear. The B word springs to mind. At least you tried it... Replacing all my hardware one by one is a way of getting to the problem, but I was hoping that someone may have a better solution. Even if I'd find the part that is causing the problem this way, replacing it is out of the question right now (ca$h problems ;-P ). Anyone has any other ideas? Sorry, not at this time. Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: I see that my post got lost in the discussion, so here goes again... I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all - I'm left with a blank screen, and nothing else happens. Does the same happen if you let it run on automatic? I had the same problem with 10.0, but then I thought I just burned the cd's wrong. Anyway, it all works fine on an another computer. I would suppse by the process of elimination you know what it's not. Have you tried asking in the expert conference? Differences between the 9.2 and the 10.1?? I tried all (at least I think they were all) install option - noauto, text, ect... but it didn't help. The last mandrake release working on my computer was 9.2. Here is a list of my hardware: cpu: P4 1700 ram: 256 MB RAMBUS gfx: Radeon 7200 64 MB snd: SB Live! Player 1024 hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB dvd: LG GDR-8162B cdrw: LG GCE-8524B lan: Realtek RTL8139 + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... Can sbd help me with this? Will 9.2 go back on at all? Will any other version work, such as 10.0? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to keep track of passwords
On Sunday 30 Jan 2005 10:49, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to keep track, safely, of one's passwords. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. There are two ways I know of and I use both. 1, let KWallet do most of it for you 2. Create a database with your passwords in. Most people have PDAs these days, I keep mine on that :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
On Monday 31 Jan 2005 00:00, JoeHill wrote: Hey, bud, when you get back in your office, could you remember to *never* set an out-of-office auto-reply for an account you use on a mailing list? Many thanks! Look on the brightside... It's not a flood. I've been on a list in the past that had a reply that posted to the list about the reply that it just had about it posting to the list that the owner wasn't in. When most people picked up email that evening the messages jumped (normally 100 a day) to 4800 messages. I remember it well, as I was still on a 28k Modem :( You could always bounce the reply to his company and ask them politely to turn it off? Its UK isn't it?! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...
Oh ;) :) Thanks Anne Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 15:37, Cyber Killer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Have you tried having unplugged your extra USB things incase there is a problem there?? That's a good point. Setting them up later may be a better option. disconnecting everything doesn't help - any other ideas? Are you able to try a different video card? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] konqueror help
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can konqueror be made to load pages faster.is there any settings i can ajust. any help would be gratefull. dave... Don't think so. Usually the problem is data bottlenecks. They can be anywhere... What sort of problems and timescales are you getting for these sites that are slow ?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 17:14, Cyber Killer wrote: Elwyn wrote: Are you able to try a different video card? I don't see the point of using a different gfx card, cause mandrake 7.0, 8.2, 9.0, 9.2 worked just fine with my current card I had this problem only with 10.0 and 10.1 (so far) If You insist, I could find a different card, but that probably won't help much The later versions might have new drivers that are causing problems. When I've been trying to sort these little problems out with PCs I try changing the hardware around just in case... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...
Right. I've done all of that, however. It's gone a little, erm, odd. In Network Neighborhood on both windows machines what was the machine name within the group MDKGroup has now changed into my workgroup (YorkCov) with the machine name changed to Samba Server 3.0.10 ( yorkcov (linux) But clicking on it which should reveal the share gives a message \\yorkcov (linux is not accessable The compuer or sharename could not be found. etc etc. Now, I think I'm correct in saying those extra \ ( characters shouldnt be in there, but I can't find out where they are. The machine name should be Saratoga, the workgroup is Linux and the Samba share should be called Shared Drive. Oh, and it crashed earlier. Was reading through the Smb.conf file and then it stopped responding. Alas. And, if that wasn't enough the web interface for Samba doesn't work. I don't know if it didn't work before though because I hadn't been there. http://localhost:901/ gives An error occurred while loading http://localhost:901/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 901) More reading is required, but if anyone has any ideas of where I have, ahem, broke it, please suggest it so I can go and have a look Cheers, Elwyn Trying... Very Trying :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] konqueror help
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 19:08, Dave Needham wrote: On Monday 24 Jan 2005 18:52, you wrote: WELL ACTUALY im using an pentium 3 with about 200 megs on broadband connection., but when i installed it and loaded ther driver for the modem which was the eagle driver i did something which made the pages load up fast aas ? When you reply you need to send it to newbie@linux-mandrake.com so others can see and help you as well. I found my last problem for that was because I had a return-to / reply-to address set. Are you in KDE? If you open Home does it take that long to load as well? Try it and then in the address bar type in a web address... As they're the same application effectively... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re konqueror
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 21:39, Dave Needham wrote: hi elwyn dont mater what i use browser wise,just takes for ages to load.now i no you can speed up firefox with settings in about config but i tryed dwnloadin firefox but couldnt get it to work.same with plugins like flash.i suppose its getting use to linux as i was with windows, dave Right. I've got both Konq and Moz installed here, both are about the same speed. I don't use Flash plugins for either as I don't want to, so not having it is fine with me. One thing you could try is running Gkrellm and when you open Konq you can see what the CPU usage is. Gkrellm is a monitoring tool, I am sure there is something else built in but others can tell you what that is... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 19:13, Elwyn wrote: Right. I've done all of that, however. It's gone a little, erm, odd. In Network Neighborhood on both windows machines what was the machine name within the group MDKGroup has now changed into my workgroup (YorkCov) with the machine name changed to Samba Server 3.0.10 ( yorkcov (linux) But clicking on it which should reveal the share gives a message \\yorkcov (linux is not accessable The compuer or sharename could not be found. etc etc. Now, I think I'm correct in saying those extra \ ( characters shouldnt be in there, but I can't find out where they are. The machine name should be Saratoga, the workgroup is Linux and the Samba share should be called Shared Drive. Oh, and it crashed earlier. Was reading through the Smb.conf file and then it stopped responding. Alas. Right. That's all sorted :) The machine (Saratoga) is now in workgroup (Yorkcov) and the comment is set to Elwyns Mandrake, Samba Server 3.0.10 which is what I wanted. The Type is set to Windows NT 4.9 Server but I don't know why. Anyway, So. I've now got two shared folders elwyn and ELWYN SHARED. The first one is my /home/elwyn directory, the second is a directory within home folder [ELWYN_SHARED] path = /home/elwyn/Shared comment = Shared Drive public = yes guest ok = yes writable = yes wide links = no That's from the end of my smb.conf file. I think the other problems I had was something to do with having two smb.conf files in areas that the computer could read them :( And, if that wasn't enough the web interface for Samba doesn't work. I don't know if it didn't work before though because I hadn't been there. http://localhost:901/ gives An error occurred while loading http://localhost:901/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 901) That still doesn't work. However, I now have a webserver on my Mandrake machine. Got a nice startup page telling me what it can do and it's an advx.org server... Hmm. Features I suppose... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 23:30, Elwyn wrote: I've now got two shared folders elwyn and ELWYN SHARED. The first one is my /home/elwyn directory, the second is a directory within home folder Right. The Elwyn Shared is the right one. However, the Elwyn entry relates to the login ID that's looking at the other machine. For example, my Laptop (Tosh4080) connected and found an area called Tosh4080. I'd like to be able to switch that last bit off. Is there a way please?? Thanks for keeping up :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Here is a list of my hardware: cpu: P4 1700 ram: 256 MB RAMBUS gfx: Radeon 7200 64 MB snd: SB Live! Player 1024 hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB dvd: LG GDR-8162B cdrw: LG GCE-8524B lan: Realtek RTL8139 + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... Can sbd help me with this? My Mandrake 10 machine spec is very similar to yours, except for the Radeon graphics card. Are you able to pop that out and try another video card at all? Have you tried having unplugged your extra USB things incase there is a problem there?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7320page=3 This chap has written a review on Mandrake 10 and has stated he's had problems with the Hotplug feature... Usb Devices?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Changing partitions...
Hiya Of my 80gb Hdd I've got 65gb set up as my /home partition. What I'd like to do is setup 40gb or so of that as a Samba thing. I'm off for a look on the web, is the above feasable etc? I'd like the drive to be used for storage inside the network (behind a NAT Router). TIA Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 18:35, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 18:26, Elwyn wrote: Hiya Of my 80gb Hdd I've got 65gb set up as my /home partition. What I'd like to do is setup 40gb or so of that as a Samba thing. I'm off for a look on the web, is the above feasable etc? I'd like the drive to be used for storage inside the network (behind a NAT Router). No problem at all. In /etc/samba/smb.conf you will need something like my stanza [anne-public] comment = Public in Anne's home dir. path = /home/anne/Public browsable = yes writable = yes Remember that anyone who is going to be a samba user will need an account on your box (just set up a user for each) and then you need 'smbpasswd add' + username which will then prompt you for passwords. In the case of win98 the user's login is sent as password. W2K and XP I believe can enable you to use a different one. Anne Thanks Anne, I've had a play and got something going but will follow your instructions and make it more stable :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...
Thanks, thats handy. I've 2 x 98se, 1 x xppro and this machine that connects to our intra network that would need to have access. I've managed it for the 98se machines, now just to get XP to manage it! Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Test -- ignore
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 21:12, Mike Adolf wrote: Blah Blah You passed! Welcome to the list :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmenu
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 23:38, Chris wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 05:29 pm, Chris wrote: Odd occurance, suddenly my Kmenu extends across the entire width of the screen. Don't know why or how, but, would # update-menus -v possibly put this back to where it was? Never mind, just logged out and back in again and all is well, should have tried that before I sent the message I guess. Is anyone else getting OO Replies from Chris Lane? Yes, but it's only if you post to the list Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 22:08, Andy Yankovich wrote: Sorry if these questions are so basic. Maybe I do not belong in the Linux or perhaps the Mandrakelinux operating system. What do you think? Because I do not understand *anything* about programming, should I not use 10.1? Please be honest about this because I hate to bother you all with such basic questions. We've all got to start somewhere. I don't do programming either. I'm a truck driver :) I've been on Mandrake 10 about a year or so now... You'll get there, but it just takes a bit of time to learn and be patient. I managed it much easier because I run a Linux and a Windows machine side by side and I find that the Linux machine can manage a lot more a lot easier so I am glad I have changed, but at the same time there are things on Windows which I cannot do without and have not yet got the ported software working. Give it time :) Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? derek Yep, sounds like it. Like Derek said there are other bits of software out there to do some of that. With the Bible software I'm not sure. It's usually engineered for a Windows environment. You might manage with Cross Office... But I don't have that installed anymore as it was effectively a small security hole :( Among other things Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter
On Monday 17 Jan 2005 02:32, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 01:27 pm, Elwyn wrote: Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... I have gone for Gkrellm and it seems to the job and a few others as well :) Cheers Elwyn You have your reply to: set to yourself not newbie. HTH I don't understand. My reply to address has been blanked out. I can't set it to Newbie as all my other email would go there as well wouldn't it! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Mouse
On Monday 17 Jan 2005 04:07, Matt Florido wrote: Just wondering if anyone has had success using a wireless mouse on M10.1? I can't seem to get the basic mouse from MS to work correct. I'm using a USB to PS2 adapter. It should function like a standard PS2 3-button mouse w/ scroll wheel. Thanks! I've got one working here on 10 ok, just treats it like a normal mouse. Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter
Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... I have gone for Gkrellm and it seems to the job and a few others as well :) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter
On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 19:44, you wrote: Elwyn wrote: Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... You need to remove your ReplyTo in your email or change it to newbie@linux-mandrake.com Then all the replys go to list. Ok Thanks ;) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 15:47, Dennis Myers wrote: you can go into settingsconfigure Konquerorbehaviorand put in the URL of the home page you want where it has URL and a blank for fill in. HTH I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mail Archiving
Hi Folks I use Kontact for all my email at the moment, but some of the mailing lists I am on I would like to keep the messages of rather than finding the information on the web again. What I want is a way to access the mail without the use of Kontact, do you see what I mean?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Archiving
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 22:43, Lorin Pino wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 16:24 +, Elwyn wrote: Hi Folks I use Kontact for all my email at the moment, but some of the mailing lists I am on I would like to keep the messages of rather than finding the information on the web again. What I want is a way to access the mail without the use of Kontact, do you see what I mean?? Cheers, Elwyn Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ___ This may not be a very convenient solution, but in migrating from windows (and checking mail with different stand alone machines) I saved any messages that I thought would be useful to a floppy. Then you can use a browser (KDE's Konqueror) to look back at saved messages. HTH ~Lorin I was rather looking for an option to save, for example, the current mailbox with about 13,000 messages in. Kontact is managing OK at the moment But TIA Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Network Traffic Meter
Looking for a program that can show a meter on the screen about the throughput of the network card selected (ie eth0) On Windows I have the use of a program called DU Meter but I can't find anything for Mandrake (10) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
