Re: [newbie] w.xplorer slow because linux ext2 ?
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:27:46 +1300 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yulliansyah wrote: | When run windows Explorer it become very slow. Drive G: in theorycal should be |invisible but it Visible and have an icon like a CDROM icon. It sounds really odd for Windows to even notice your Linux partitions without an extra program. Personally, I'd be worried about Windows playing with my Linux partitions, especially when it's basically suggesting that a portion of the hard drive is a CD-Rom. | HD 1 : 20 GB (Windows 98) | C: FAT32 - 8 Gb - Primary - Active | *. Ext | E: FAT32 - 6Gb - Logical | F: FAT32 - 6Gb - Logical | | HD 2 : 4.2 GB (plan for Linux Mandrake 8.0 in drive G: ) | D: FAT32 - 1.5 Gb - Primary - Active | *. Ext | G: Linux Ext. - 3Gb - Logical Drive D: doesn't need to be active when your core Windows files are on drive C:. Taking a stab in the dark, I myself would be wondering that having an active partition that's used as a logical one (drive D:) would confuse Windows a bit. Perhaps It's checking drive C: drive D: for system files, when it should just be checking drive C:? If you absolutely must have drive D: on that physical disk, I'd move everything off of it into a folder on one of the other partitions, then reformat that space as an extended partition then place the logical partition (as opposed to active) there, then transfer the files back to the partition. | Not quite answering your question. But perhaps you | could look at moving all off D: to E: or F:. | Then linux would have a whole physical drive to itself | that windows wouldn't even lookat. Definitely not a bad idea, especially if you ever have to reinstall Windows. I can't speak about Win98, but I couldn't get WinME's fdisk, from the floppy, to even work with Linux partitions on the drives. This matters if you can't boot into Windows when something goes wrong and you HAVE to start from scratch. | I think windows should rename E: and F: to D: and E: | on next boot up - but not totally sure. Perhaps | someone else could confirm. You're right on this. If Yulliansyah reformated drive D: as a logical drive, then the letters would change this way: E: - D: F: - E: D: - F: Hope my guesses help :^) Sincerely, Hans Nielsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Pentium IV
I don't think Intel botched the P4 design necessarily. They're aiming for two things on a business perspective, not a technical one. Clock Speed and Multimedia Capabilities. True, AMD has been designing faster chips with lower clock speeds, but Intel intends to woo customers with fancy numbers. I hear AMD will soon follow suit in regards to upping clock speeds, but at the same time attempting to break new ground in some of the limitations in doing so with their current roadmap. In other words, trying to woo customers with fancy numbers that DO mean something. :^) Just a rumor so far though. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David E. Fox Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Pentium IV I'm thinking (actually I've already ordered) a new motherboard and an intel pentium IV chip. Personally speaking you're way better off with an Athlon system. Intel brought out the IV far too quickly IMHO and from reading others' comments, they really botched the design. Athlons of a lower clock frequency can easily outperform higher-clocked IVs, and the Athlon is a far cheaper solution. The downside - you have to get a different mb for the Athlon, but that's probably true of the IV as well. Durons are cheaper still, but the lack of the extra cache that the Athlon provides can stall things. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] fromdos and todos
You could always write a perl script that does a regex search on the script to remove the '^M' from each line. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] fromdos and todos so I need to get rid of ^M's from the linux scripts and add it to the windows ones if they don't already have it. In Debian, they use fromdos and todos to convert, what do I use on Mandrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie]
Lol, sorry Mark, you got the wrong guy. I didn't write that. Besides, I have two Maxtors :^) Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:31:22 -0400 Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wait...let me get this straight...you want to use a RAID setup with Mandrake on not one, but two Western Digital drives? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions. Author unknown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list
It looks like plain text mail. Standard font is courier new I believe. Unfortunately I'm using Outlook now. Will be wiping my machine clean soon for a testing of raid in Linux :^) Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:57 PM What does plain ASCII email look like in Outlook? I guess I should try looking at some HTML and plain text emails in Outlook and see what they do look like. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Video cards
Visionteck and PNY both have GeForce 2 MX400 64 meg PCI cards. I believe Visionteck also has a 32 meg GeForce 2 MX200 PCI card as well. Just my 2 cents. Oh, and a side story, kind of sums up Frank's post. One day several years ago, I walked into a Best Buy. I wanted to ask the customer service desk guys about a possible video card upgrade for a Pentium 60, not to be confused with a Pentium 66 MHz :^) Well one of the guys looked at me like I was a complete moron (which I was as far as computers went, especially hardware) and said I'd look into getting a new computer if I were you . . . Unless you want to speed up Solitaire. So, the moral of the story, save your money for a better box which will most likely include a better video card. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:22 PM 2. I have never seen a PCI geoforce, and Pentium systems never had AGP to my recollection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list
I wont include the message, but if I were a Freudian Psychiatrist, I'd have a hay day with it and all that talk of ego, spelling errors, all lower case letters :^)~ Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of george Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Attention for everybody
Now that I think about it. New York City can be viewed as the city of God considering all the prayers everyone is offering and people singing God Bless America. The brothers of course seen as the twin towers. The fortress being the U.S. The great leader . . . doesn't necessarily mean the U.S. president. Many Muslims in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia view Ossama Bin-Laden as a hero, if the suspicion is correct. Perhaps it will be the U.S. president who will succumb to ordering violence. The prophecy is now more disturbing than before the millennium... Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb , The third big war will begin when the big city is burning - Nostradamus 1654 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Grub problems
Just a Windohz warning, people with Windohz ME can't exit to DOS. Restarting in DOS mode is not an option. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of d What I am trying to say in all of this is I did NOT use a WinBlow$ boot disk, did it directly from DOS by just exiting to it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Attention for everybody
I would think the city of God would be renowned for something more pure than capitalism, wealth, and the fact that if the city had public restrooms, they would be used as homes for those who live under boxes. Hans N. -Original Message- Behalf Of Mohammed Arafa another off-topic post ok can we debunk this? if a great city is burning ..doesnt that mean it already is a war? how else would an entire city burn? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USA this and USA that,w here did the newbie list go?
I have an ISP I have to pay for. One of their major centers, which happens to be the one that affects me, is/was a quarter mile away from the world trade center. Now my connection sucks. I'm trying to dial up for the 50th time hoping I can go online and get my e-mail. *In a whiny cry-baby prickish voice that some people remember as some jerky from work they'd like to kick the crap out of* Why don't they hurry up and toss those dead bodies away. They're on my cables for my ISP, waaah waaah. I had to delete 150+ e-mails because other people give a shit. *end prickish voice* My dad works on back up power systems. He couldn't call his client (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter) that Tuesday morning because he lost the number. Not a big deal, so he head off to the client's office. Half way there he hears that the building the client's office is in just got hit by an airliner and so did the building next to it. My dad was on the way to the World Trade Center. He was going there to relieve/assist two of his friends from his company. One of them hasn't been found. So the next time you go to school, or work if you're mature enough, take a look at a good friend and pretend he's dead and some asshole like you is whining about deleting mail while your friend's dead carcass hasn't even been found yet. Go cry to your mommy for having to delete e-mail and then yell at her for not teaching you how to grow up. There's nothing to laugh at about Karma . . . what goes around will eventually and definitely come around . . . Enjoy your day Hans N. PS - This e-mail wont be leaving my outbox until tomorrow, maybe deleting e-mail will make it go out sooner? Or was it crying about it that makes it go out faster? -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hylton Conacher Considering this is a Linux newbie list and I have managed to delete over 150 email regarding the US TERROR ATTACK can we please drop the subject on this list. some of us do have limited email space which we pay for! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install
Ed wrote: On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast, and launching apps is nearly instant. Once Mandrake (and Grub) are installed, the machines slow down significantly. I would say they run at 10-20 percent of the speed they were at. This includes opening new windows, launching apps, and 3d performance. I run a AMD K6-2 533 MHz with 256 Meg SDRAM, WinME and Mandrake 7.2 on separate hdds and everything works fine. WinME was fine even when I had Mandrake 8.0 Standard installed. Hans N. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry
Warning: this is off topic for the list. Speedman wrote On top of that even w/ only loading the drivers I have seen a number of machines stop booting until the Creative card was removed. I have a Compaq 7471 that I have done a lot of hardware upgrading to. About 2 weeks ago I attempted to reinstall the Compaq software and Win98 CDs that accompany my computer. Well, I had so many problems trying to get it to install, after I opened up my box and set up the hardware to mimic the factory condition it came as. Eventually the install program wouldn't even attempt to run. So I figured what the heck and bought the standard WinME so I could stop opening up my system and just install the friggin Windows OS. Well it installed fine, I did have to disconnect my second hard drive, but not a biggie for me. Well every so often when first installing the major software components (Voodoo 5500 software, SB Live! Platinum, Adaptec Easy CD 4) WinME wouldn't boot up. It would stop at the WinME logo just before it. So I'd reinstall, and reinstall, and reinstall everything. I narrowed it down to my Creative SB Live hardware. Win98 never gave me problems with it and my oboard audio. After about a week of reinstalling various software, including WinME, I found out I had to make my onboard soundcard disabled in the profile as well as keep it from existing in any hardware profiles before it would work. No, this answer was not posted on creative's site, but a different problem posted gave me the idea. During the past two weeks for at least three times a day I thought to myself, Linux works just fine, Linux doesn't do that. The moral of the story, so long as the hardware is supported, Linux works just fine, Linux doesn't do that :^) Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N.
[newbie] gmx.net mail account
Hello there. I was wondering if anyone on the list uses a gmx.net mail account in coordination with an external mailer for sending mail (Kmail, postfix/sendmail). I wanted to have an e-mail account I can have set up for Linux related mailings, such as this list. However, I have not been able to get Mandrake 7.2 to send mail, just retrieve it. Any and all help appreciated. Thanks everyone. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N.
RE: [newbie] Problems to install usb device
Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. -Original Message- From: Botta-Ex, Bjorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:26 AM To: 'Hans N.' Subject: RE: [newbie] Problems to install usb device Well it's a speedtouch from Alcatel. I'm new with Linux. I already installed hotplug but linux doesn't install my usb devices. It' seems to be supported but I just don't know how to install a usb device in linux. -Original Message- From: Hans N. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: mercredi 23 mai 2001 1:36 To: Botta-Ex, Bjorn Subject:RE: [newbie] Problems to install usb device I don't use a usb modem, but I do know if someone is going to help you with yours, assuming someone on the list has the same modem or had the same modem, then you might want to provide more information. I would send the list information about who makes your modem and what model it is. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Botta-Ex, Bjorn Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problems to install usb device Can someone tell me how to install a usb modem? I just can't do it. Thanks
[newbie] Problem Starting Mandrake 8.0, bad unregister
This e-mail pertains to users of Logitech's QuickCam Express connected to a usb port. For about a week or so I've been trying to install Mandrake 8.0. I originally attempted an update (from 7.2) and ran into a problem post-install when attempting to boot Mandrake 8. The error didn't make much sense upon first examination. I merely overlooked it in the bad assumption that what I heard people saying about updates must have happened to me. I decided to do a fresh install after backing up my personal files. Well what happened after that was the same problem, processes (daemons such as cron and usb) would load up and then I'd get a kernel error something something: vfd: bad unregister [failed], then my computer would lock up. I'd have to force it to shutdown. I really wanted to figure out the problem on my own. I figured the error was because of some startup service I had going, so I reinstalled 8.0 and selected very few services, ones I knew were running in 7.2...and running fine. Well that didn't work. I reinstalled 8.0 and decided to not have Harddrake run at start time. Still nothing but this time I booted in interactive mode and got the bad unregister error while kudzu was supposed to start up. I figured, great, I'll reinstall again and not run kudzu or Harddrake. Boot attempt number 5 after reinstall number 4, usb daemon starts to load, some errors, some readable (laymen's terms readable :^) errors and BINGO! Plain as daylight I get a message stating something along the lines that the horned daemon of usb's has banished my QuickCam to the light of the trash can side. Well I immediately shut down my computer, unplugged the QuickCam and booted again and presto, I have a working version of 8.0. To wrap things up, usb devices aren't too welcome around these here Linux parts. Hope this helps someone. I have a question but I'll post it in a different e-mail and after some reading. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N.
RE: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
I use a 40 gig Maxtor ata100 on a ata66 onboard controller and don't have KDE performance problems. I was also wondering if I were correct in making this observation: I have read somewhere that version numbers in program names typically list the major revision number first, the secondary revision number, then which build. Or something worded along those lines but more clear and intelligible. But keeping this in mind, am I wrong in considering KDE 2.1 to be a beta version of a future KDE 2.2? If this were the case, then wouldn't it be correct in assuming the existence of at least one or two major bugs in the application when utilizing new software integration, perhaps optimizations for the newer 2.4 kernel, and whatever else the KDE teams has decided to work on? Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tazmun Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 2:31 PM To: Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 These results are not for sure, because right now I'm not sure if I have a defective promise ultra 66 card or a motherboard that is having a conflict with the promise card.(abit BF6 motherboard, 20 gig 7200 rpm 100ATA Maxtor Drive, 30 gig 7200 rpm 100ATA Maxtor Drive, promise ultra 66 pci controller card non raid version).and I obtained a 100 ata maxtor harddrive same time as different motherboard. The card did work fine previously with a 66 dma harddrive until the drive died and was sent in for warranty. Approximately the same time the secondary EIDE port on the previous motherboard died(controlling cd roms only though) However the maxtor utility program is indicating that my system bios does not support large drivestake out the promise card and all is well with no errorsthe drives formated with the promise card did have problems with partition tables and were showing like 100 Mg of the drive was being unused and not formatted at all. Fdisked and reformatted and all is normal again without the promise card. My theory at this point is that there may be a possibility that some controller cards rated at 66 ata with the new 100 ata drives are not compatible, however I have no sure way to test this.but if I were in the market...I'd definately go for the 100 ATA version. Surprisingly the drives now running directly on the EIDE ports have lost little performance, in fact it seems like the access time is even better, especially for small amounts of data. The only place I notice any loss is when opening large programs that require a lot of data from the harddrive to open. Boot speed has not changed at all it seems. My computer is rock stable now in windows and MD8.0 and seems to be much better then any system I've ever had for stability...so with these controller cards are we trading off reliability and stability for the speed!!! Any other opinions on this subject? Tazmun How important is ATA 100 anyway for RAID 0??? Should I even be concerned about that. I'm think that because I have 2 ATA 100 HDs (IBMs), that it would be a waste to get the 66 controller. Am I just being foolish? Is the 66 fine?
RE: [newbie] LILO
Partition Magic 6 Boot Magic does not recognize the ReiserFS file system. I wouldn't recommend using PM6 if you're dual booting off a single hard drive AND using the ReiserFS. PM6 will come up with a prompt to correct a file system error and if you click no then you can't use PM6, if you click yes then you just hosed your Linux partition. I have Linux on a second hard drive using ReiserFS. PM6 works fine like this (for altering Windows partitions) since it doesn't prompt me to correct the file system on the second (Linux) hard drive. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bascule re: partition magic, did you install the reiser file system? i'm not sure if pm can recognise it bascule Mark Annandale wrote: BTW partition magic 6 doesn't seem to like my Mandrake installation and will not enable it as a boot option. Thanks for any advice. Mark Annandale
RE: [newbie] OT: OEM Hardware
I use the new Plextor 16/10/40 CD-RW Drive and works perfect in Linux. I bought the manufacturer version because when I think OEM, I think of someone replacing it in a OEM computer (Compaq, Dell, Gateway) and selling what they took out as the OEM version. But that's just the image I get in my head, I don't know how often that's the case. :^) Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Flinders Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: OEM Hardware Well, Retail vs OEM will require research. Sometimes they are identical. Sometimes there are vast differences. However, I will say that the Plextor is BY FAR superior to the Yamaha. This is especially true of Yamaha's latest drive. I own a Yamaha and I would gladly switch to Plextor. The Yamaha has received bad reviews in different magazines and has complaints about stability. The Plextor keeps getting awards after awards. A Plextor will burn almost anything and is known for being exceptionally stable. If you decide to go OEM, that might be okay, but I would prefer the Plextor over the Yamaha. Of course, you want to research Linux support for these drives. If you can easily return them, great. Otherwise, I'd make sure they work. My Yamaha 8/4/24 worked fine in 7.2, but hasn't worked yet in 8.0. I haven't spent much time tweaking with it yet, though. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was doing some price comparisons on CD-ROM Burners (similar spec'd Plextor and Yamaha IDE drives). When I go to a site like pcprogress.com, I get a $204.00 price while on pricewatch.com I see OEM units listing for $142-150. I was wondering if there is any real quality difference between the OEM vs. the of the shelf consumer version?The OEM's come with a 1 year warranty, so you still get the manufacturer support. Opinions? Barry :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] launching apps in specific desktops?
Have you tried going to the specific desktop and then launching the application? Such as selecting desktop 2 and then starting KMail, then heading to desktop 1 and launching Konqueror. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sam Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:57 AM To: n6tadam Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] launching apps in specific desktops? Hi, I don't mean window manager, but desktop. In Mandrake8, KDE2.1.1 is by default configured to have 4 virtual desktops, the number of which is adjustable in the KDE Control Center via LookNFeel -- Desktop. I know how to move running applications between different desktops or even have them appear in all desktops. But what I'd like to know is - how do I specify which application will launch in particular desktops e.g. KMail to open in Desktop 1, Konqueror to open in Desktop 2, etc ? Thanks in advance. On Wednesday 09 May 2001 17:35, n6tadam wrote: Hi, Yes, it is certainly possible to run other apps on different desktops. By desktop, do you mean other window managers other than KDE?, such as FVWM2? If not, then please be a little more specific, and I shall be more than willing to help. Regards, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:03 AM Subject: [newbie] launching apps in specific desktops? Hello, is there a way to make applications launch in particular desktops, instead of the currently active one? I am using KDE 2.1.1 in Mandrake 8.0. Thanks in advance.
[newbie] Bastille and no root for you
I remember seeing this post a while back and thought nothing of it other than that stinks. Well I installed Bastille myself and I have the same problem. I can't log in as root. At the graphical login screen, everything looks normal. I can log in to my user account, no problem. I can su to root, get into drakconfig, and all that other good stuff. But, when I try to use the graphical login screen to log in as root, I get a login failed message as if I were typing in the wrong password. But, it's not the wrong password and the right one works everywhere else. Bastille was the only thing I installed between the last time I went in as root and now. I attempted going through all the rules for Bastille and changing all the ones that seemed likely to affect the login attempt. My thoughts right now are to uninstall Bastille and see if that works, but I'm not familiar with doing packages thru the console. If that doesn't work, I'll reinstall mandrake :^( But I come to the list for help so that I may avoid reinstalling. Anyone have anything that can help? Thanks, Hans -Cut- From: Duke Glover Subject: [newbie] Can't log in to root account Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:46:00 -0700 Hello Linux gods, Mandrake Linux 7.0 I made the mistake of running Bastille Linux 1.1.0 on my machine. Anyway, ever since I rebooted I can no longer login to the root account. Does anyone know a way around this ? Without root access I can't do anything. There may be a uninstall/undo in /root/Bastille/ , but I can't even get into that directory. Please help. How can I reset a root password without root access ? Duke Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] strange error message.
If you have call waiting, like myself, then someone trying to call you will kick you offline, even when you do the *70 or whatever to disable call waiting. There isn't much you can do about it really. The disable call waiting feature doesn't work as well as intended. If you do have call waiting, you might try dialing in without using the *70 call waiting disabled just to see if you get booted for no reason still or if someone is calling you. With it disabled, you'll probably get booted and your phone will ring. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of franki Vianet Hi everyone,, I get randomly disconnected from my ISP and when I check the /var/log/messages, I find this... pppd [3128]: Hangup (SIGHUP) pppd[3128]: Modem Hangup I did not tell it to disconnect, it just did,what would be causing this? anyone know? I have just read the pppd man, and mentions that being sent a sighup will reset the connection,, but I didn't send it. how can I find out what is cauing this? (it happens at random, sometimes within two minutes, sometimes 8 hours,, but it always happens eventually.) any help would be most seriously appreciated. Kindest regards Frank Perth WA
RE: [newbie] Kppp
Just put the phone number to dial as "*70, 555-1234" Sincerely and respectfully,Hans N.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert F. TrettelSent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:44 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Kppp ---cut--- I just had callwaiting put on my phoneline. My Question is how and where do I tell Kppp about it?? Thanks for any assistance Robert F. Trettel
RE: [newbie] HOW-TO get off this list
Banning is a little harsh. Personally, I'd rather let everyone have the
freedom to say what they want no matter how inappropriate and just use my
freedom to disregard what was said.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Hans N.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 11:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW-TO get off this list
On Sunday 11 March 2001 20:46, you wrote:
let's not start banning people.. I might be next...
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From: "Miark" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW-TO get off this list
Hans! That is an excellent idea! I'm gonna do that
immediately, too.
Which brings up a question: is there some way to ban people
Miark
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From: "Hans N." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 8:35 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] HOW-TO get off this list
Everything you say is so annoying and disrespectful, I'm
going to filter you
to my trash. Have a great day.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Hans N.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of
Yowie, no banning please, just use your filters if you must,
but lt isn't
good in an open source community to start banning. Please!
--
Dennis M. Registered Linux user # 180842
RE: [newbie] HOW-TO get off this list
Everything you say is so annoying and disrespectful, I'm going to filter you to my trash. Have a great day. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 4:38 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] HOW-TO get off this list GO BACK to where you joined this list... THERE, you'll also find (if you'll ONLY read) a way to get off the list. OF COURSE, " IF " you can READ -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
This is not a forum for religion. Keep in mind that the entire world is not Christian...It is highly offensive to push your religious beliefs upon someone who comes here for advice on a computer operating system. If I, and the many other users who clearly come from areas that are traditionally NON-Christian, wanted a preacher and to hear a sermon on Christianity, we would contact a local church of our denomination of choice. Thank you for your time. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S.- Kill this thread, please -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta I'm with you...Robin !!! this is really ridiculous... as for the rest of you...that (it appears) do NOT believe in, nor understand God's word...when you stand in front of Jesus...on Judgement day, and have to give an account of the things said and done in this body of ours, and have no accuse...at allthen you can look back...at this discussion... and say then: GOD HAVE MERCY...on our stupidity and injustice done unto others...in the eyes of our misunderstanding of YOUR WORD (the Bible). Robin Regennitter wrote: I cant believe that some people make the big deal out this. I think it's rather absurd. - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:42 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta Heyy cool! :o) regards Daryl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julio Gutierrez Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta Ok my apologies to all the girls age of 16 subscribed to this list, also to all females subscribed to it, and to all the parents of 16 yr old girls who SORRY again!!! Laters Julio -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
RE: sex on this channel is not a subject for discussion :: was :: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
I'm with mark now... DIE THREAD DIE!!! Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steelhead Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sex on this channel is not a subject for discussion :: was :: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta ok, one is bad the other is worse. perhaps. getting sexually excited is one thing, to have sex with a 16 year-old is illegal and /or inapproriate in most of the worlds "modern computer using societies." we all get sexually excited, most of us have the tact not to share it and its results with the general population. may we all be considerate and use some tact. Steelhead - Original Message - From: Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta I can't believe all this about one stupid comment. He is human I'm sure, not like any of us have ever done something stupid. What amazes me further is that no one has made one comment about the guy who in his signature, it says linux gives him a woody. How is this any different? I don't take offense to either saying, I knew he was saying it in excitement. Now had he said that he knew his statement was true due to experience, then I could understand the concern.
RE: [newbie] To any linux newbies who really want to know their system well....
Sweet! Thanks Randy!!! Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Meyer Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 7:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] To any linux newbies who really want to know their system well I do. I threw out the other OS and put this one in. About a month or so ago. It's all I have right now. Just a lone personal computer with a new operating system. It was total system shock at first. Thank god for a distribution that took care of most of the details for me. I'm not suffering from any withdrawal symptoms. In fact, I haven't looked back and gnu/linux is so damn fascinating the first thing I had to do was read up on everything I could about it's history and all that I had been missing out from during those years. Now that I'm somewhat past the point of doing the obviously wrong things (like re-installing because I didn't even know how to start X up from the bash command line, which is a very bad place to be with no linux knowledge and no one within reach that has any), here is how I am educating myself about MY new LM 7.2 system and it's internal workings. If you have gotten past the installation and hardware issues and have some time to devote to this, it is well worth doing yourself. I'm speaking to the true linux newbies now, not the seasoned users, who know all of this and probably have done it already. Build a Bigger Search Index --- First of all, that Help icon (the one with the life preserver on it). On a new installation I think it is accessed only from the KDE Start menu. Add that icon to your KDE panel if it's not already there. You need to use it frequently. It can answer your questions if you know how to massage it properly. There is a ton of HTML formatted documentation that gets poured onto your hard drive during the installation. I use the Recommended installation and there is over 14,000 HTML documents on my drive. (OK, that's including the browser cache, i should do another FindFile after clearing the cache for a more accurate number). But the problem is this. There is a search engine that's built into the Help system, but the installed prebuilt index that it uses is very wimpy. At least after my installation, it only indexed the KDE documents. Which is fine for starters, but not if you want know what's really going on under the hood. So the first thing you should do is make a bigger search index that covers all the installed docs, not just the KDE ones. Use Applications/File_Tools/Find_Files and search starting from / for files that match *.htm* Click on the Directory column header to sort all the resulting matches by their locations. Now you can see where the majority of these HTML files reside. Note down these directories. For me it was /user/lib , /var/lib , /usr/share, and /usr/X11R6/LessTif/doc In the left pane of Help, where the search engine is, click on the "Update Index" button. In the dialog that comes up, add your noted directories to the "Additional Search paths" box. Click on the "Generate Index..." button and every textual word in every HTML file in those directories is going to be built into a searchable index that you can search by keyword. This takes quite a bit of time to complete. In fact, I thought that it had frozen up on me, there is no activity indicator in the dialog while the index is being built, at least not for the first two of the three stages. But I could hear my drive being accessed and just to be sure, I started up KDE System Guard and looked for it in the process list, there it was running and using up to 70% resources at times. All was well, that's just a lot of parsing and sorting to do. After the index is built, click on OK to finish the index updating. KDE System Guard is Your Roadmap Now that we have a robust index it's time to use it. First though, if you haven't already found it, there is an application called KDE System Guard that is invaluable for monitoring whatever is running on your system. It's in Applications/Monitoring in the KDE startup menus. Here is how I am using it to direct myself in my linux nuts bolts education. The System Guard lists all the processes that are currently running on your system. A lot of them are sleeping away not doing anything, just waiting to be given the nudge to go to work. A few are running, the ones with an "R" in the status column. But most are swapped out to disk, the ones with an "S" status. So you want to know what's going on under the hood in your system, this is a very good place to take a look. There are columns that are labeled PID and PPID. PID stands for Process ID and PPID stands for Parent Process ID. Every process gets a unique PID when it is started up, and the PID numbers are assigned incrementally. Now I want you to click on tha
RE: [newbie] winmodem configuration
Would the same advice work for a PCTel 56k HSP modem? I went to linmodems.org and got the modules, but I get the same "modem is busy" message no matter what I do. I'm going to try it anyways...but just in case anyone has anything more to add. Thanks. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of s Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] winmodem configuration You probably need to setserial the correct com port and ioports, then configure kppp. Type cat /proc/pci into a terminal and look for a communication device or it may be called just a serial controller. Note the ioport and irq for it. Then run setserial. You may have to experiment with the com port until you hit the right one, just always match up the choice used in setserial and in kppp. For example: setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xc000 irq 5 spd_vhi Insert your actual ttyS?, port ???, irq ?. -s On Monday 05 March 2001 07:08 pm, you wrote: I have a "3Com 56K Faxmodem model n.5610", one of those so called win modems. Even if it is in the list of the hardware supported by DrakConf I'm not able to get a connection: when I tried it keeps telling me that the modem is busy. Do you have any suggestion? Thank you, Al __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
Besides, why does it have to be a 16 year old? My girlfriend is 19 and she's tighter than a 16 year old. That's age discrimination! Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 11:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Dan LaBine wrote: I agree entirely with philomena, but 1 question?? How many 16 year olds does this guy hang out with? This guy sounds really old, so I'm wondering what kind of deviate he might be?? Come on now, there's no call for that. peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071
RE: [newbie] cd-rw install
Hey KompuKit, I just did this earlier today. I have some kind of factory installed Phillips CD-RW 4x4x24. I'm not sure which one specifically, I didn't open my box to find out. But, I had the problem of not being able to use my CD-RW drive at all. So I did some searching in the mail archives and happened upon a Mandrake tutorial that addresses this issue. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ Basically it tells you to check out some info to make sure things are okay to go on and has you delete a bad link, then presto, the drive should work. Well, it did for me anyways. Hope this solves your problem. Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: KompuKit I'm trying to setup scsi emulation in mandrake 7.2... HOW do I do this...? I installed a HP cd-rw 9150i as secondary slave which in linux is: hdd harddrake recognised the drive I tried the setup instructions below...but it won't work.. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
RE: [newbie] Mandrake on Ebay
Motley Fool had an article about news companies not saying anything about Ebay doing well with trades. I didn't read it myself, but here's the link: Title: Millions Made Successful Trades on eBay Yesterday. David Gardner wonders why the media doesn't report eBay's millions of honest sales. http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=332780 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn Johnson Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake on Ebay Hey! Yeah, a year or so ago I bought RedHat 5.2 for about $3. Went well. I sent a money order, got the disk a while later. I reality, it probably took a month or so before I saw the disk in the mail, but as far as I can tell, it is an authentic disk, if there is such a thing... Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Usually Powered by Linux Mandrake 7.1! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake on Ebay I was looking around on Ebay and noticed that they were auctioning Linux Mandrake 7.2 and RedHat 7.0 for like 3 dollars. Has anyone ever used this route before? Is it worth it or should I just go to the store and get it? Thanks ~Lance
RE: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
I didn't have this problem when I installed and I just got Mandrake a few days ago. I too have 7.2 and dual-boot with Windows 98. I did my partitions with Diskdrake, but also set up a /usr partition. I just used the drop down menu for filesystems to select ReiserFs for all the partitions except the swap, I had the swap as "Linux Swap." Then I was on my way. I had no message concerning the checking of bad sectors though, just the formatting. I don't think this helps you out much, but at least it gives you a working "control" to compare with... Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:42 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario: I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following partitions: * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at / * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks which partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_ lists the swap partition. If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native, then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it will get. Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I want to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement ReiserFS and make it work? Miark
[newbie] Installation Error @ step Setup Filesystems
I recently submitted a problem with installation to the customer service (follows). Although I have not received the remedy, I thought I'd pose the question here since I'm sure I will not be the only one to have this problem. On a side note, I was wondering how advantageous a secondary hard drive would be for a dual-boot system. Feel free to send thoughts on a second hard drive directly to my e-mail account. Thank you. Original Message: I am running Windows 98 second edition on a Compaq Presario 7471 Internet PC. Compaq has my system set up with a partition already made. The C: drive being the main partition and the D: drive being the second partition. all my work is done with the C: drive, the D: drive is there for reinstalling software to factory settings. The D: drive is unneeded since the Compaq software CD's for my system work better than the D: drive installation. Now to the problem. I want to have the dual-boot option so that I may keep Windows 98 working on my system. I wanted to install Linux Mandrake 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe on the same hard drive, I own only one hard drive. Configuring my set-up worked very smoothly until I reach the step "Setup Filesystems" Linux recognized both partitions (C: and D:) and asked which partition I would like Linux to be installed on. My natural choice was the larger C: partition. The error message I received when selecting the C: drive is as follows: Partitioning Failed: The FAT resizer is unable to handle your partition, the following error occurred: Can't locate object method "new" via package "resize_fat::main" at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_interactive.pm line 108, line 6 My hard drive utilizes Windows' FAT 16 file allocation. I have ActivePerl 5.6.623 installed on Windows 98. My computer boots my CD-RW before my floppy, allowing me to boot for CD installation with no problem. I have noticed no other obvious errors when attempting to install the Linux OS. I also noticed no unusual problems with the Windows software. However, I am completely inexperienced with using Linux software. I have researched the mailing lists and the booklets as well as the tutorials accompanying the distribution. My limited knowledge points me towards purchasing a secondary hard drive, deleting the D: drive, and requesting your aid... I decided to start here first. I thank you for your time and patience and look forward to hearing something soon. Please feel free to request any and all information you feel is appropriate to help alleviate this situation. I still anxiously await my first step away from the Windows environment :^) Sincerely and respectfully, Hans Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
