Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:30:56 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 15:59, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I guess it is possible that you have to turn the camera on, but I do not think so. (Unless you had to do that for it to be detected in Windows.) Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Same way for my Powershot A80. And as far as i can tell, it won't mount as a hard drive. So i wrote a few gphoto2 scripts and tied them to keys. I'm pretty happy with the way they work. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I hope that my next question won't seem as strange. Is there some software that will allow me to erase pictures which are stored on the camera? I have a delete script I wrote that I tied to a menu (watch for email line feeds): #!/bin/sh #gphoto2 --port=usb: --camera Canon PowerShot A80 (normal mode) -D-R echo Delete all pictures? (y/n) read WAIT if [ $WAIT = y ] ; then echo preparing to delete #gphoto2 --port=usb: --camera Canon PowerShot A80 (normal mode) -D -R gphoto2 --port=usb: --camera Canon PowerShot A80 (normal mode) -D -R echo Done deleting echo else echo OK, NOT deleting fi sleep 2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
In theory it's a storage device, so you should be able to. OTOH, I'd rather play safe and let the camera do it. Mr Geek, have you been able to mount it as a storage device? I haven't on my A80. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] wmv to vcd converter
I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. Have you tried mencoder or one of its front-ends like Gmencoder ? I haven't, but I'll give it a shot. It turns out a friend has nero, so i was able to do it there. Now i need to do it with .mov files. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:27:18 -0500 Christopher Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the contents of the file. Sorry so big. I removed all lines starting with # to try and reduce the size. Should I have sent as an attachment? It's better to post as text than an attachment. Not sure about sympa, but some listservers don't even allow attachments. eric 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 Forum - OT
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:14:37 -0500 Christopher Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to linux in general (1 week) and have decided to put my individual experiences on the internet in a forum format. I have posted small messages for each of the experiences that I have had in the past week. This is to help me in case I need to re-install and need to remember what I needed to do to get things to work. I also hope that it may help others. I have posted here to find out if this is a good idea or not. The link is http://mandrake.cjt-design.com. Different members of the list have helped me and I hope that I can return the favor in the future. Christopher Taylor Welcome to Mandrake, Christopher! Another place you can post articles on Linux solutions is the Twiki at http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org It's been awhile since i did a test run of pretending i was new to it, so if you do try to submit or use it, and run into trouble, let us know. I'm sometimes a little slow on my list reading these days, so feel free to cc me directly when you post. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **
Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:26:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie]** Welcome to Newbie **: 5. List Etiquette We have prepared a page describing common mailing list etiquette that will make your posts more effective and make fellow list members happier to help. It can be found at the community Twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiq uette May I suggest discouraging shouting as # 11 and renaming # 11 to # 12 ? (Just in case: wherein 'shouting' means ALL LINES CAPS ON; or entire subject CAPS ON: I usually ignore them). That sounds fine by me. Unless anyone objects, we can change it. It's a Twiki, though, so feel free if i don't get over there soon enough. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 16:00, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing to keep in mind, without some extra changes in your lilo.conf, Windows will not boot from the second hard drive! Thanks for clarifying, Mikkel. I just couldn't remember clearly enough. I hadn't remembered, though, that windows could be a problem on the seconf hard drive. I have XP on the second drive, and it boots to it w/o problem. The link i posted earlier has the lines required, i think. Or maybe i inferred from it how to make windows boot. I could send my lilo.conf to the list if someone wants to see it. CC me if you ask, though, because my list-ing is spotty these days. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
Thanks, Duncan and Eric. How can I disable/disconnect the old drive? Have I to unplug it? Yeah, unplug the ide ribbon cable. I'm not sure if just unplugging the power is enough. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
But I never broke windows so badly I had to reinstall it! You didn't try very hard! I have broke almost every OS I have worked with- no harm in experimenting since that is how you learn - as long as you learn - and you have the time to set aside for reinstalling! I have broken most of them, too. But i never broke the OS on my Timex Sinclair 2068 :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:36:46 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2005 16:23, Eric Huff wrote: I can burn using cdrecord just fine, but i need to be root for k3b to burn. Here are the perms: -rws--x--- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18 2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord Both are -rwsr-sr-x 1 root cdwriter in mine Yep, works now. I actually only set the group bits, just as a test. -rwsr-s--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18 2004 cdrecord Thanks! eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sympa!!! What the ....
Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is Sympa requesting confirmation on every email I send? It's always done that to me, since I joined almost a year ago. Anne's right: neither of you are on the sub list with the emails you posted from. I would normally just add you again, but then you'll get two copies of each message. Email me directly if you want help unsubbing or subbing the various addresses. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just bought an extra hard disk of 80GB for my computer. Could someone here please tell me how to make it my master disk (I still have the old one of 20GB), without loosing the information on my old disk? I used this: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Not necessarily the easiest, but it worked. You might want to print it out unless you have another computer running. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] wmv to vcd converter
I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. K3b needs mpegs to make a vcd. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root
I can burn using cdrecord just fine, but i need to be root for k3b to burn. Here are the perms: -rws--x--- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18 2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord I ran the k3b setup, and set the group to users, but am not sure if that's correct (and it didn't work). I googled, and just found things saying to set the use burning group option. I don't have a burning group, though, unless users is the burning group. Thanks for any leads. I assume this is a simple settings issue, but i haven't been able to figure it out. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2005 16:23, Eric Huff wrote: I can burn using cdrecord just fine, but i need to be root for k3b to burn. Here are the perms: -rws--x--- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18 2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord Both are -rwsr-sr-x 1 root cdwriter in mine Anne Thanks. I'll try that tonite and see if k3b works. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI, POWER DOWN not working
Since 2 month I use a new laptop Acer Aspire 1680 with MDK 10.1 community on it. Since the first installation I have no automatic POWER DOWN and I had to turn of ACPI because when I rebooted the computer I got a black screen with no access to the keyboard. I had no problem with MDK 9.2. Do I have to install an other kernel? Are you using noapic or nolapic boot parameters? Where can I find this? mandrake control panel -- boot -- boot loader is one place you can set it. Or /etc/lilo.conf is what mcc edits. I don't have the no's set, so they don't show up in mine. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar
Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? Don't know But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... They're easy. Click in the label part of the line or column and you can then add or delete lines from a right-click No! Change is bad! :) Just kidding. That does work well, and i suspect once i get used to that, i'll get cranky if i don't have it. You know, I've done it that way in Lotus 1-2-3, SuperCalc and whatever the one I used before that was ;-) I guess there are methods in every package that we either never find or only find by accident. Yeah, often when we do presentations at work, we learn tricks from other people since we can all see the clicks, etc. Unfortunately, gnumeric doesn't print well for me either. I can make it fit to page, but i find i have to go back and make a bunch of columns bigger, or i just get ### in many cels, even though they are visible in normal view. I'm back to openoffice now. Blech. I like most of it's functionality, but it's just sooo slow to start (since i am a rebooter). eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 18 Feb 2005 18:30, Eric Huff wrote: Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? Don't know But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... They're easy. Click in the label part of the line or column and you can then add or delete lines from a right-click No! Change is bad! :) Just kidding. That does work well, and i suspect once i get used to that, i'll get cranky if i don't have it. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar
Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? I like how fast it comes up, and the fact that i was able to set the printing to fit to page (which i could not figure out in open office calc. There was a setting in presentation, but not calc). But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turbotax?
Turbotax Web works just fine. :) I've been using Web-based turbotax methods for the last few years using linux. One caveat though, I had a little difficulty getting the browser (konqueror or mozilla0 to automatically launch acrobat inside the browser window for printing purposes. I managed somehow to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found(it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen You can just go to http://www.irs.gov/ and click on the Free File link. There you will find many free web-based tax preparation software AND free e-file. This year I used the HR Block web site and it mostly worked fine with Firefox. The important thing to remember is that in many cases you have to get in through the IRS web site in order to get the free preparation and e-file or you will be asked to pay for the service. I may do that next year. I wonder if you can import a file from the computer version into the web version... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turbotax?
I used TurboTax Deluxe (freebie from American Century Investments) with Crossover Office 4.0 and it mostly worked ok. Some of the navigation aids don't work properly, but tax preparation and printing seem fine. That's good to know. I haven't decide yet what to do to rid my box of dual booting. I often end up with odd progs that i want to run. Lately, even ones i used to run with wine don't work. I am sure i borked some config during an update or something, but before (for the somple ones) i was able to just run them. I have been playing with bochs, but haven't been able to get XP installed. I guess i'll try to install win98 1st, and see if xp will go in after that. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???
I get the eth0 internet connection failure thing.It works OK though.It just annoying... A couple solutions: - Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. One poster mentioned you could get the same effect by setting MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. - - Here was the fix from Derek: From Mandrake Control Centre NetworkManageConnectionsOptions Uncheck Network Hotplugging then restart networking from Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices If that does not help. Open a terminal enter 'su' to become root user then 'ifconfig' You will see a page showing the state of your link. If you see anything in the'collisions' counter, then your connection is trying to work half duplex. In that case come back with details of the ethernet card and driver you are using, and I will show you how to force half or full duplex. HTH derek - 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
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 If it's a big problem, i can unsub the address. He'll get a note saying he was unsubbed. But he'll still see this HUGE thread with his name in it. :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrakelinux Mailing List Etiquette
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:39:29 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 Jan 2005 16:58, JR wrote: Would someone clarify this for me please? If you use Reply but change the subject, you are hijacking. Does this mean if you change the 'subject' field, or the topic of the thread? Reading it, it would seem to mean the former. But common sense tells me the latter. If you use Reply to get up a form, then erase the subject and type in something different, you are hijacking. What Anne said is correct, and is what the etiquette page refers to. Just to prevent future confusion, i'll add a little to it. We often do call it a hijack if you change the topic during a thread even if you don't change the subject. Usually it's a case of going off on a tangent. Sometimes people will realize it and add HIJACK to the subject line, but i've never seen a ruling on that. Like i said though, what Anne said is really the answer to your question. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
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? If it's a big problem, i can unsub the address. He'll get a note saying he was unsubbed. But he'll still see this HUGE thread with his name in it. :) eric, I don't feel it was a big problem, I only received the out of office reply one time. Not worth unsubbing him. IMHO Ok. Sounds good to me. I didn't get it at all, so i didn't know if people were being flooded... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turn off computer?
Andy Yankovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is used only by me. Never by another person. I have a cable connection that is always on. You'll get a lot of suggestions, but here is what i do: 1. Is the recommended procedure to turn computers off at least nightly or keep them on all the time? I turn mine off to save power, but there is little or no need to do it for stability. 2. Should I install some type of firewall for security reasons? I do not have any secret formula for Coca Cola or things like that on my system, but do have credit card and other financial info, If yes, what do you recommend? You will get a lot of answers here, but i just use a Linksys router with a built in firewall. Also, turn off any services you don't use. MCC is the Mandrake Control Center. type mcc at the cli or find it in the menu system. Then system--services will show what is running. 3. Ditto for anti-virus? If yes, what do you recommend? No real need. There are entire threads on why in the archives and on the web. :) 4. Is the anti-span feature built into KMail sufficient or should I pick a second program. If yes, what do you recommend? I would wait and see how well your present spam filter does. If you still get too much spam (or too many false positives) for your liking, then you could try other ones. I like popfile, myself. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl HTH, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turn off computer?
I turn mine off to save power, but there is little or no need to do it for stability. Once you've stopped using your machine for some time, and the drives have spun down and the monitor goes into powersave mode, how much are you really saving? I've always been curious about that one. I am not really sure myself. I have been planning for years to make a little AC chord splitter so i can measure the current. But i do know that the fan stays on and makes a lot of noise. At the moment, i am not even sure my hard drives shut down properly. But i haven't tried yet, either... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turn off computer?
1. Is the recommended procedure to turn computers off at least nightly or keep them on all the time? I turn mine off to save power, but there is little or no need to do it for stability. Once you've stopped using your machine for some time, and the drives have spun down and the monitor goes into powersave mode, how much are you really saving? There is a theory that its the power spikes when you turn on equipment that shortens their life - don't know how true it is though. Well, turning them on and off can shorten their lives. It's probably mainly the capacitors charging and discharging. A reason *not* to leave them on is that when you do finally shut down, and the disk drives park the heads all the way, they might run into a big dust bunny that would have otherwise been cleaned on previous shut downs. I think that info came from Stephen Kuhn. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I just love it
You may have to run su before running ./scanmodem - I don't remember if it will run as a normal user. All the instructions are for running in the command line interface, and not from X, so you nead a terminal window, or you need to drop to the command line. Now, as to what the commands do: mkdiw Wmodem - Creates a new directory off your home directory. cd Wmodem - Changes to that directory. mcopy a:scanmodem.gz - Coppies the file scanmodem.gz from a FAT formatted floppy. gunzip scanmodem.gz- Uncompresses the fiel scanmodem.gz (to scanmodem) chmod +x scanmodem - makes the file scanmodem executable../scanmodem - runs the file scanmodem in the current directory. Nope, that didn't work either. All variations, including those on the same hard drive, fail to get past mcopy. Hmmm, could it be since I ran mcopy from a run box that the file is there but the message only says it can/t read the file. What is this a:scanmodem.gz stuff? I just tried it on mine and as expected, linux doesn't do anything with a: Mine would be /mnt/floppy/scanmodem.gz eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I just love it
What is this a:scanmodem.gz stuff? I just tried it on mine and as expected, linux doesn't do anything with a: Mine would be /mnt/floppy/scanmodem.gz When running properly I believe it is supposed to read and print out what chip set you have in a winmodem. Very helpful in trying to get linux to see the modem. I meant the a: part. I haven't seen a: used under linux anywhere. I think you want to use /mnt/floppy or some such. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] turbotax?
Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? I've been using turbotax, and this year i might be able to put it on Laura's mac, which is better, but i still feel the sting of not being able to do it on my machine... Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to get right ALT key to work.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:25:48 -0600 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The left Alt key works fine but the right Alt key is ignored. It is like the system doesn't recgonize it as a shifting key. Mdk 10.0 You might have to do some man page reading (it's been awhile since i set this up), but you can define keys with xmodmap. In my .xinitrc i have this line: xmodmap ~/.xmodmap I am not sure where you put it if you are running KDE or some such. The entire ~/.xmodmap is at the bottom, but here are the lines you might need: clearmod1 keycode 64 = Alt_L keycode 113 = Alt_R add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R Hope this helps, eric ~/.xmodmap ! see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xmodmap.std ! /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us_i.xmodm ntl !clearshift !clearlock !clearcontrol clearmod1 !clearmod2 !clearmod3 clearmod4 !clearmod5 keycode 64 = Alt_L keycode 113 = Alt_R keycode 115 = Meta_L keycode 116 = Meta_R add mod4 = Meta_L Meta_R add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R ! RESULT from running xmodmap with no args ! shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) ! lockCaps_Lock (0x42) ! control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) ! mod1Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) ! mod2Num_Lock (0x4d) ! mod3 ! mod4Meta_R (0x74), Meta_L (0x73) ! mod5 -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org eta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74), Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R( 0x71) mod5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles
Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shot in the dark - maybe things were loading in the wrong order? Anne Anne, I think you are on to something there. The *order* of these devices coming up seems to be what was giving me the trouble. Since ppp0 is just a *software* device that uses eth0 to do it's thing, eth0 has to come up first, before ppp0. That seems to make sense to me. [8-} I removed ppp0 and eth0 from my configuration, and then added the adsl ppp0 back, using MCC. Things are working OK now, except I am not able to connect to my mail server with KMail using my new account. :-/ I wonder where the config file controling the boot order of eth0 and ppp0 resides? It's in the subdir here that corresponds to your init level: /etc/rc.d In my case: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d Since i boot into init level (runlevel) 3 eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
I'm wondering which option is best to connect to my laptop to a digital camera (which hasnt been chosen yet). I thought that if I got one that supported mass storage, then it would be as simple as mounting my mp3 player. But someone else reccommended getting one that uses CF / SD cards and getting a pcmcia card reader for the laptop. Has anyone any suggestions? I'm a little confused. I expect there will be some difficulty trying to connect the camera via usb, but the pcmcia option might be just as difficult in itself. I borrowed a usb mass storage camera once, and it mounted automatically when i plugged it in. If i unplugged it an plugged it in a lot in a short amount of time, it had a little toruble, but you shouldn't need to do that (i was playing around). Card readers are usually a lot faster than the usb on the cameras. My Powershot A80 takes a long time to upload images compared to my firend's card reader (which is on windows, so i don't know how supported it is). As for software, i wrote some scripts (and mapped them to keys) to download from the powershot (which does not mount as mass storage), including a command to delete the pics. I never even fire up digikam. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
Most popular name camers support mass storage (a few use proprietary formats, like Kodak's). As long as they write to a common format storage medium - CF/SD/SM or whatever - you have the option of going to a card reader later. I may have mis-used mass strage. What do you call a usb camera (or any device) that mounts as a directory (usu under /mnt) ? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
Most popular name camers support mass storage (a few use proprietary formats, like Kodak's). As long as they write to a common format storage medium - CF/SD/SM or whatever - you have the option of going to a card reader later. What do you call a usb camera (or any device) that mounts as a directory (usu under /mnt) ? That's what I would think of as a mass storage device, Eric. Did you mean something else? Nope, that is what i meant. Just making sure i didn't have it wrong. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
I meant that he could mount as a mass-storage device at first and buy a card reader later if he wants to. My daughter's Kodak, however, can't be used as a mass storage device, but can be mounted with gphoto. (I haven't tried Digikam) If you do try digikam, and you don't see files you downloaded, go up a directory. They may have fixed it, but when i tried it awhile back, it had that bug. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
Any camera that uses the USB Mass Storage protocol is absolutely the way to go. Stay away (far-far away) from any other protocol. USB Mass Storage will be recognized as any other usb drive when you plug the camera into your Linux box, and probably you will get an icon popping up for it on the desktop. But i case you end up with one like mine, i have some easy scripts that, now that i have used them for awhile, i actually prefer. I don't use any photo album software: i just organize them myself. Then i use gqview (or maybe xnview) to view them. The other feature i never used was deleting individual pics from the camera, so keep that in mind. It works out very well (for me). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] batch res reduction
I have a pile of high res pics to reduce to 800x600 or 640x480 for the website. Anyone have a batch script or prog to do a directory at a time? http://jpgtn.sourceforge.net/ jpgtn -p -f -H -s 400 -q 90 *.jpg Will limit height to 400. I think you can put limits on both while maintaining aspect ratio. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Try kcontrol Components File Associations Image jpg (assuming that's what your camera gives you). On the right you should see a list of apps capable of handling the images. Move Digikam to the top of the list. Anne Will that actually affect which prog opens when the camera is plugged in, or just which prog opens when a jpg is clicked? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... What are the conditions for that? (IE: 1st time, already an Oo instance open, etc) ? mine is approximately: 24 seconds for the 1st time 15 for the 2nd (opening a different file after closing 1st) 6 when opening the 1st file again and leaving the 2nd one open That's with the memory allocation turned up. Waitaminute: it's back down to 9M. I had it at 30. Here's the nums with 30M: ?? seconds for the 1st time (didn't reboot) 13 for the 2nd (opening a different file after closing 1st) 4 when opening the 1st file again and leaving the 2nd one open Here's my computer specs. Am i just suffering from to much fiber? (the intel celery?) Memory 256M processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 797.669 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1581.05 eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 snip BTW, how the heck do I get this info? I had to search for the answer myself to get it: cat /proc/cpuinfo eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Huff disseminated the following: It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free total usedfree sharedbuffers cached Mem: 255136253272 1864 032396115588 -/+ buffers/cache: 105288 149848 Swap: 506008 284 505724 If i understand free's output correctly (which i may not), there's still 150MB available if needed. Is that correct? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning problem
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:52:17 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when trying to burn ISOs to disk using K3b the disk always fails the md5 sum I have set the burning speed as low as it will go 8x but I still get the problem. I need a good copy of Mdk 10.1 Check here to see if you did get a good burn: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BurningCDsFromISOs eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] hard drive thread
Can anyone point me to he hard drive thread we had awhile ago? I've searched the archives, but can't find it. It's the one where everyone piped in with their experiences with hard drives. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at: [220.244.219.186] linux-mandrake.com (220-244-219-186-qld.tpgi.com.au [220.244.219.186]) I have gotten 3-4 from the same IP range, all tpgi.com.au. I usually warn users but no one ever pay attention so I figured I would skip it this time. Yes Bryan, this is the ip address. I have been getting about 25 an hour. And then they stop for awhile, and then they come back. I'm thiking that they stop when wohever it is turns their machine off. I sent a message twice to tpgi to report it. I also sent a message to tpgi. And just now i got a rejection (or maybe a spoofed rejection) as if i had sent a mail from that ip address. I do get it at a different address that i don't use on mandrake lists, so it must be using the spam database as well. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digital camera Mandrake?
These days, however, almost all new (quality) cameras have the ability to be mounted as a USB portable drive, which the industry (or at least Canon) refers to as PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol). Are you able to mount canon cameras as removable drives? My powershot A80 works great with gphoto2, but was never able to get it to show up as a drive. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
KMail has a reply-to-list feature. Just hit the L key, or you can set up a toolbar icon. Useful for keeping my blood pressure under control.-- cmg I knew about the reply-to-list, but not the L key. Thanks for the tip.-- Actually, I didn't know about the L key thing myself until earlier today when I was answering your question and looked at the options in the Message toolbar heading; I've always installed the reply-to-list icon in the toolbar. -- cmg It's been awhile since i used Kmail, but i think you can program the whichever key you want to be list reply. I thin i had it set up so that the normal reply to key was actually the reply to list key. If there wasn't a list, it would default to the sender. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
I do sort my mail into folders but I don't have the list parameter set, and the L key works just fine. (KMail 1.5.4 under KDE 3.1.4) I think all the good mailers grab info from headers like this: List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cel phone synch software for linux?
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I did the usual search of sourceforge, google, etc, but only came up with one for an ericson t610. I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. Thanks for any leads, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cel phone synch software for linux?
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I did the usual search of sourceforge, google, etc, but only came up with one for an ericson t610. I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. I should also mention that it uses an rs232 serial cable, not bluetooth... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cel phone synch software for linux?
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. Ok, multisync (in the urpmi sources, duh) does work with the ericson. I don't have a cable yet for the motorola, so i'll have to see... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
EH The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), Over what time period is the gap? EH It is from nov 2003 until a few days ago when it was EH started up again. For that time period, we need to use the EH other sources... I think marc. theaimsgroup.com is up to date all along... Yeah, they are both up to date. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
EH The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), but the EH gap hasn't been filled. Over what time period is the gap? EH It is from nov 2003 until a few days ago when it was started EH up again. For that time period, we need to use the other EH sources... I can supply you with that time period if you like. It is in text format, with blocks of time in each file. Let me know and I'll send it to you. There's really nothing i can do with them, but Vincent might be able to use them. I'll send you his email address if you need it. thanks for helping, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
Hello Eric, Monday, October 4, 2004, 6:40:24 PM, Eric wrote: EH I should have sent the answer to this thread. EH The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), but the EH gap hasn't been filled. Over what time period is the gap? It is from nov 2003 until a few days ago when it was started up again. For that time period, we need to use the other sources... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Fw: newbie archives
Vincent corrected the newbie archive problem. It doesn't fill in the gap, but it will archive from this point forward. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal
I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm afraid I'll have to change inittab back to 5. Or you could set his account to startx by modifying the .bash_profile file. Add startx in there, and make sure KDE is his default desktop (i don't at the moment remember how to do that). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
I should have sent the answer to this thread. The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), but the gap hasn't been filled. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login
I've got Xtart installed Stephen, one question though, how to boot into rl 3? Edit the /etc/inittab and where you see the default is 5, change it to 3, reboot, login to the console as yourself, then run Xtart to choose from whatever installed WM's you have (and you might find that performance overall is heaps better - especially with KDE or Gnome... I always boot at level 3, but at the same time i am lazy and don't like to have to start X after i login. So i have my .bash_profile setup so that if i log into tty 1, it automagically launches my favorite window manager, sylpheed, rox and firefox. If i log into any of the other ttys, i just get the prompt. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
I may be jumping to conclusions, but when mandrake's newbie archive stopped at exactly the same time as a mass unsubbing, i had assumed the same of the mandrake archives. IIRC, you're right that the archives stopped being maintained simultaneously with the mass unsubscribing. I just did a little more digging, and the expert archives are not only current, but they appear to be complete. This was definitely not the case the last time I checked early this year when there were no updates of either archive beyond November 15, 2003. Somewhere along the line, Mandrake seems to have corrected the problem with the expert archives but the newbie list got missed in the shuffle. Curious. Well, that is curious. If they were able to recreate the expert archives, maybe they can do the same for newbie? I just sent an email to Vincent. I'll report back with any answers. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
Is Vincent still active? having read a news release from Mandrake within the last few weeks that said Mandrake was getting a $3 mill. contract from the French Gov. to create a secure OS for French use, I would guess Vincent was about as active as he could stand, just not with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I would like to congrats him and Mandrake for pulling those teeth from the French Gov. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2509 That's great! I missed the article earlier, so thanks for reposting. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
Shortly after that, they set up a script at mandrake to kill bouncing addresses, so the two are linked, though it's funny that was the last post! It's a shame mandrake never re-subscribed themselves to the list after the big burp. I'm a little confused. What do you mean mandrake never re-subscribed? The non-mandrake archives get the messages by being subscribed to the list. I may be jumping to conclusions, but when mandrake's newbie archive stopped at exactly the same time as a mass unsubbing, i had assumed the same of the mandrake archives. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
reply-to stuff again, was Re: [newbie] Re: data cd's
The reply-to address issue was already discussed here. It is not my fault, as GMail does not allow the users to set the I know it takes a little training, but so far both the mailers i have used in linux (kmail and sylpheed) have reply-to-list actions. Since i found those (wy back) i have not been bothered by reply-to settings. For people that are just on mandrake lists it seems like a pain to switch habits. I am on a bunch of lists, and some don't set the reply-to at all, so it was easier for me make the switch. ctrl+l for lists, ctrl+r for individuals. Another option is to set it to reply-to-list all the time. If there's no list, it just goes to the person. And i would like to remind people again that the welcome message and the etiquette (i never spell that correctly) page aren't mine: they were written by me and several other list members. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1CE
If Konqueror (gecko) would get it's javascript right I'd never even contemplate another browser. Konq isn't based on gecko, is it? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **
Hi Eric, I cannot access e-mail with ML 10.0. I am on the internet but no e-mail. This was sent by Linspire 4.5 on Portable computer. Richard H. Peddie. Not sure what the problem would be. Best bet is to start a new thread and ask the list. You'll want to explain what mailer you are trying to use, which desktop, etc. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Mac OSX anyone?
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:35, Todd Slater wrote: Anyone on the list use a Mac with OSX? I'm about to get one at work and was wondering how easy it is to use the FreeBSD under the hood--such as for installing apps I'm accustomed to like vcdimager, instiki, and others. Todd Laura just got an emac with OSX, so i am learning my way through it. Anyway, I won't be much help as far as installing linux-ish apps, but it sure is nice to be able pop open a terminal and ssh, run emacs, etc like i am used to. It realy is (to me) a breath of fresh air compared to helping people with windows or the earlier mac os's. There are the occasional huge annoyances like not being able to see the entire path in the file manager, and Safari is very uncomfortable to me (i installed firefox 1.0PR, which runs with a couple bugs). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
[Oh, btw, I still didn't get any answer about how to get my bookmarks and passwords back in Mozilla, in the other thread...] Is there a Linux equivalent of the registry that I should back up? [and would it work with 10.0 anyway?] bookmarks should be in a bookmarks.html file. Search on windows for it, not sure where it would be (documents settins/username/...) Then find the /home/merlin/.mozilla/... folder mine is /home/huff/.mozilla/default/584oqng7.slt/bookmarks.html You should be able to copy your windows bookmarks into here. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
...of course, someone *could* update the Twiki with alternative links to the updated archives. Oh, jeez, here comes Anne, gotta run! :-D The links look ok: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MailingLists points to http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/ Except that now the mandrake one doesn't load. They probably never had more than one person looking there at the same time before. :) http://www.mail-archive.com/expert%40linux-mandrake.com/ is out of date, though. The reason is probably this: when the big unsubbing in nov 2003 happened, some of the archives got unsubbed, too. I remember getting newbie back on the archive lists but, man, i can't remember exactly what happened with expert. Do we get subscription confirmation message that need to be answered to subscribe? I think that's the case, and if so, it explains why i was able to get newbie going and not expert. I talked to Hank at MARC and he added newbie for us and if it needed it, expert, too. I know i did post to expert asking who had the ability to add subscribers (to get us back on mail-archive.com), and got no response. Brings back memories: i was getting swamped with *thousands* of bounced emails before they set up the kill scripts... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
Looks like they updated the Expert list, but Newbie is still showing nothing for September. Joe: I dug a little deeper, and found that the last message indexed at archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie was by Eric Huff at 04:29 on November 15, 2003; the subject was (are you ready) ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **. (How's that for irony?) LOL! If i remember correctly, that post was probably about the thousands of emails bouncing from ex-listmembers or members with full accounts. Shortly after that, they set up a script at mandrake to kill bouncing addresses, so the two are linked, though it's funny that was the last post! It's a shame mandrake never re-subscribed themselves to the list after the big burp. Who do we contact there these days? Is Vincent still active? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?
I'd be way pleased if you or anyone could tell me why this isn't working: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/ When I try to view a clip, I get 'loading movie...', but that turns out to be a damned lie! ;-) I either get what you got (new window, but no downloading) or firefox 0.8 crashes... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PLEASE READ: etiquette and Welcome messages: was [OT] Yet another MS threat
Eric might also be interested to know that your candy ass was spanked so bad on the OT list that you ran back over here. I have been staying out of these threads but i have seen my name mentioned a couple times and i want to clear a few things up: I do not by any means moderate this list or punish people with removal. The only time i have removed people that didn't ask for it was an occasional vacationer that set up return message. Bad addresses are (now) handled by a script that i have never even seen and don't have control over. The only reason i was given the ability to sign people on and off was because: 1. i am here and the owners of the list aren't usually subscribed. 2. I was more likely to see when someone needed help. 3. I volunteered. (As a side note: for the experts out there, i don't have subscription powers on expert, just newbie). As for the etiquette rules, those are on the Twiki, and we came up with those as a group. The welcome message was written by several of us to be helpful, and i volunteered to to have my machine send it, which has nothing to do with moderation or anything else. Hopefully this clears some things up, especially for the newer people here. Eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] archiving to multi volumes
can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other(no file spliting); that volume name is smart (e.g. vol1.tar; vol2.tar vol3.tar; ...) I've been thinking about the same thing. Haven't come across a tool to do it yet (though I've haven't searched all that hard). I sometimes use the following type of command to create a compressed tarball: tar cvf - . | gzip -9 tarball.tgz YMMV, but i don't compress backup because it's easier for them to become corrupted. (i am paranoid). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] tar.gz files
One reason that my root terminal sessions have red backgrounds. But, of course, not su'd sessions. My root sessions have yellow backgrounds but then again - not the su'd ones. You can change the color of the prompt itself. I put this into my .bashrc for root: if test $(tty | grep -c /dev/pts/) != 0 ; then# if in X11 PS1=\[\033]0;ROOT IN \W\007\]\[\033[31m\]ROOT in \W * else # if in text mode, there is no title PS1=\[\033[31m\]ROOT in \W * fi This way the prompt shows up red and has ROOT in it. I use another color if i am ssh'd into my user account on the 2nd machine. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache2
Well, anyway, with all the hijacking going on, we should write a 'Hijacker's Guide to the Mailing List'. LOL! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
crontab hijack: was Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature
cron() is a lot more flexible than the example that you were give. The values in crontab are: minute hour day_of_month month day_of_week command So the example you were given was hourly: 0 * * * * command (meaning 0 minute of every hour, day, etc. If you wanted it every half hour: 0,30 * * * * command Thanks for the explanation! Now, is there any way to make sure anacron runs the stuff in this files (which is in /var/spool/cron) ? Anacron happily runs thew default cron jobs, which are executable scripts in directories listed in /etc/crontab, but it doesn't look at the user ones at all. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: hijacking
In mozilla all I need to do is right click on the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address and select compose email to'. Surely there is something similar in kmail? Doubleclick on the address in kmail and sylpheed. Not only that, you can set it up so that if you are in a particular folder, new messages default to the list. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: hijacking
Doubleclick on the address in kmail and sylpheed. Not only that, you can set it up so that if you are in a particular folder, new messages default to the list. ...*and* override people's 'reply-to' settings :-) True! We should add this to the etiquette page... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
IIRC, one of the reasons I wanted to switch to Claws was that it was *easier* to drag files to a compose window to attach...but then I discovered I could just create a script to do that for me (ie. the ROX Send To menu). I do the same with send to. but in regular sylpheed, you could put files in as an attachment, but still not out... Well, unless I'm misunderstanding you, with 'plain' Sylpheed, you had to attach a file with the 'browse' method, then you could drag other files into the attachment 'field', whereas with Claws, this field was there with every new compose window. In regular (also IIRC) there was a way to show the attachment field, then i could drag stuff into it. But like you said, there's an easier way anyway. It's really getting attachments *out* of sylpheed that i want. In regular it worked with xftree, but not rox. In claws it doesn't work with xftree, either. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
It's really getting attachments *out* of sylpheed that i want. Well, I filed a bug report on the Sylpheed-GTK2 Sourceforge page, we'll see what happens with that. Hey, thanks for being proactive. I was going to get to it at some point. Have you tried it with the latest CVS of Sylpheed? That may be eons ahead of the GTK2 port... I haven't. I figured that as often as Charles updates Claws, there's wouldn't be much lag. I will check into it, though. Sorry to be so lame, but it might be a bit before i do real work on it instead of just ask for answers. I ended up starting a seat conversion project on my 74 valiant, so i am trying to get it back to drive-ability... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Completely out of space - major problem!
Install 'fsv' from a contrib mirror and you will be able to visualise where all your drive space is being consumed. (Fsv is like the scene in Jurassic Park where the little girl says This is Unix. I can use this! and then flies through a 3D visualisation of a file system.) That is way cool!. Apparently (too bad) it only allows you to 'visualize' your file system, you can't actually do any operations on the file(s)/system though. There is also kdirstat, which is not 3D but does let you delete things (and maybe look into, not sure). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
I have been meaning forever to see where to go to figure out how to get files to drag and drop out of sylpheed. For some reason, claws doesn't work in or out, but in regular sylpheed, you could put files in as an attachment, but still not out... A point of order!! If you are using rpms from my site you Are Never allowed to say anything disparaging of sylpheed-claws (-: I apologize and accept all punishment. :) Seriously, though, i *love* claws and am very gracious you rpm it for us! eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
Oooh, tell us more. I use rox all the time, but haven't sent much time on the extra goodies. If you install ROX as a regular user, ie. from the source tarball, it automagically creates an ~/Apps and a ~/Choices dir, where you can drop all those handy and kewl apps for easy access, I get the Choices, but not the Apps dir. I think i will do a user install. They seem to keep adding goodies over there... easily add them to the'Send To' menu. See my site for shots of a couple of examples of this in action. I really like MusicBox and RoxDao for playing MP3's and burning WAV's to CD. Ok, i guess i will finally have to take the plunge and figure out the rest of rox. I like the Apps dir and the send to with icons instead of just crunch-wheels: http://www.freeyourmachine.org/pics/roxnpekwm.png Thomas Leonard seems to think it might be a bug in Sylpheed: http://www.freedesktop.org/bin/view/Main/Draganddropwarts#Wart_3_Malformed_URIs_in_text_ur hmm... I'll keep that one handy. Thanks for the tips, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
Just in case anyone *has* missed the last 3 years: http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ However, *best* way to install it is as a regular user (ie. download tarball, untar, run it, compiles itself) so's you have easier access to all the software goodies that go along with it. Oooh, tell us more. I use rox all the time, but haven't sent much time on the extra goodies. Mildly related: I have been meaning forever to see where to go to figure out how to get files to drag and drop out of sylpheed. For some reason, claws doesn't work in or out, but in regular sylpheed, you could put files in as an attachment, but still not out... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP
They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. At the command line you can tar -xvzf filname.tgz or whatever it is called I made an alias for it since i use it a lot: alias untar='tar -xvzf' eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning files to a cd from the console
Also, for anything but audio cd's an image must be made first, You can do it with a pipe (and not save to disk) if you want to: mkisofs -r $FILE_TO_BURN | cdrecord -v -eject fs=6m speed=4 dev=ATA:1,0,0 - Came in handy when i had filled my drive to where a 600 MB iso wouldn't fit... By the way, most of my cd burning aliases and scripts have evolved from Tom's evangelism, too. :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Phone program for Kontact hook up.
Hi, please can anyone point me in the right direction for a phone program that hooks up with Kontact so that I can click on the phone numbers of Kontact contacts and have my pc dial up the number. Simon. That there was a hijack... I suspect that's why you didn't get ay answers. Check out http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
I agree, and I think KDE bashing is a pointless affair, its one of our tools, and at least with linux you get a choice.. What about JoeHill bashing? (grin) see: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png I get the message clevername.homeip.net could not be found Hmm, may have been something temporary, everything seems OK here now? yep. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting to the net
I can't get the Mandrake program to find my printer, and I can't get connected to my provider and out to the net from the Mandrake program (which is why I am using Windows.) What kind of computer do you have? Are you using the parallel port for printing? I have a compaq presario celeron (sucks-eron), and i can only get the printer to work if i have acpi turned off. If this turns out to be your problem you will probably see this line in the dmesg (run dmesg at the command prompt) output (though i don't know if you'll see it for other reasons, too): lp: driver loaded but no devices found Here is what i get now (toward the end of the dmesg output) parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready Anyway, if acpi turns out to be your problem: Use Mandrake Control Center -- boot -- boot loader then unclick acpi (if it is clicked). And PLEASE let me know. I have not found anyone else with this problem yet... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over
I'm gonna chop this up to respond to specific points. Hope that doesn't mess with anyone's mind. Mess? It's actually a sanctioned activity. :) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette It even promotes snippage... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures
Eric Huff disseminated the following: That should be added to the list etiquette thingie :-D http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette ROFL! Thanks Eric, but 10 *per list member*??!! I figured 10 *total* was plenty. I should have made that more clear. :) But it is the TWiki, so it can be changed, even by the zingee... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.
I downloaded the SWF file several days ago. I love it! :-) I just uploaded it to my site so the group can continue to enjoy it. It is available here: http://www.bipolarrecovery.com/RunLinspire.swf Please download the file to your system rather than playing it repeatedly from my site! Thanks! :-) BTW, just FYI if anyone looks at it, my site is new and is by no means complete. I have not even officially taken it live yet. Anyway, enjoy! Thanks for posting! That's awesome... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was definitely a spoofed address cause I did not send it. My comp is totally Mandrake Linux and use kmail. Didn't think it was you Dennis. When checking the archive, I saw that it came from someone else up the chain. Use the link above and you'll see what I mean. I was just surprised that this email might have gone thru normal channels, but I forgot to check the headers before posting back to the list. Lanman (or anyone) would you explain the header disection? Mainly how it's obvious that it didn't come from Dennis? I always feel unsure of my conclusions... thanks, eric - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: ehuffy-ehuffy:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 73164 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2004 22:47:56 - Received: from smtp.mandrake.com (212.85.147.176) by enso.pair.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2004 22:47:56 - Received: from smtp.mandrax.org (smtp.mandrax.org [212.85.147.169]) by smtp.mandrake.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB86383C30; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:08:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5938256A12; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:47:36 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from a2c.omhcoxmail.com (ca-areage-bluewave2a-1-149.vnnyca.adelphia.net [24.53.56.149]) by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5152856A04 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:46:46 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD ROM's Not Mounting Up
Hi All, I went up to 10OE yesterday, and now my CD ROM drives arent automounting. If youre installing something, and Mandrake asks for something, it will open the drawer and load from the CD ok. However, stick a cd in, and that's it, no desktop icon, and if you go into /mnt/cdrom/, just a blank page. How can I turn Automount on? I have looked, but cant see! What WM are you using? I have the answer at home, but i'll try to remember here: Read the release notes for the either the 2.6 kernel or Mandrake itself, there's a small paragraph on supermount or automount that says they are disabled by default, and some other kde/gnome usable thing replaced it. Just do a text search for supermount or automount. I uninstalled that (i don't use gnome or kde) and re added the supermount stuff. HTH, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day
EH So, if i have xinetd and sshd running, is that duplicating EH services? Only if your xinetd configuration has sshd enabled under xinetd. If not, you can run xinetd and sshd simultaneously (since, like I said, xinetd is basically just a wrapper for services, and if sshd isn't enabled, it won't be served) EH Or does xinetd intercept calls and then pass them to sshd? Yes, xinetd does intercept incoming connections and passes them to the *xinetd* version of sshd. If you have a standalone version of sshd running, it won't get the connections that are accepted by xinetd. I know this is confusing, but just remember that you can have multiple instances of the same server daemon running (think of it as multiple web browser windows open at the same time). Ok. I just turned xinetd off, and everything stillseems to be working... Thanks for the rundown. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day
E What is xinetd? xinetd is an enhanced version of inetd (internet daemon), which is basically a wrapper for other internet daemons. You can use xinetd to run FTP, BIND, Apache, etc. The benefit as opposed to standalone is that since everything goes through xinetd, you can tweak it more. Xinetd allows you to customize network utilization, set priorities for certain daemons, and tons of other crap. If you're a desktop user (or even a small server operator), its usually better to run everything in standalone. However, for larger scale stuff xinetd is invaluable to allocating resources. So, if i have xinetd and sshd running, is that duplicating services? Or does xinetd intercept calls and then pass them to sshd? Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer
I tried installing RealPlayer, and the system says it's installed, but I can't find it anywhere, and the browser doesn't acknowledge it. Does anyone know where that puppy would be hiding? Here's mine: ~ $ which realplay /usr/bin/realplay eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] interesting feature with sym links and progs
Here's something i didn't know. Apparently, a program can find out what sym link was called to run it: soffice - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* spadmin - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* If i run soffice, i get soffice. If i run spadmin, i get the printer setup box. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer
In a console, type : which realplay instead of using the command 'which', you could use the command 'type'. Using type also tells you if it is an embedded bash program or not. It finds more programs if you use it. Try 'type time', and then 'which time', and you'll see the difference. ~ $ which time /usr/bin/time ~ $ type time time is /usr/bin/time On s imilar note (ie shell tricks) I really do like the new extended tab functionality for bash. No need to ESC ! anymore. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
