[newbie] Trouble with Update_source
Good Afternoon! Just installed MDK 10-Community. Running on the 2.4 kernel. Every time I try to add update source with the MCC gui, I get the following error message, regardless which site I choose: === Unable to add medium, errors reported: ...retrieving failed: Curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0 retrieval of source hdlist(or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium update_source problem reading synthesis file of medium update_source === Same thing happens when I try it with the 2.6 kernel. I tried using the URL's given on the Club web page with URPMI from a command line and get the same results. My MDK 9.2 machine seems to work OK. What's up?? Are all the servers hosed? or is it my machine? Is there a fix? Thanks Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] NVIDIA sound problem
Hi
Y'all may have beat this one into submission in the past ... but I just
got this new machine.
ASUS A7N8X-VM motherboard with integrated NVIDIA nforce2 IGP and MCP
chipsets.
Nothing seemed to work after the initial MDK 9.2 install. I disabled
the onboard LAN adapter in BIOS and temporarily installed an old 3COM
NIC. On the reboot, harddrake picked that up and configured it. At
least I got a net connection.
With urpmi I downloaded and installed the following:
NVIDIA_GLX_4496-2.2.92mdk
NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-4496-2.2.92
NVIDIA_nforce-2.4.22.21mdk-1.0-02663
Now, the onboard LAN adapter is working nicely (removed the 3COM NIC).
I get the NVIDIA splash screen which indicates that the graphics adapter
is running with drivers it likes best (I hope).
With MCC, I tried to add the nvaudio drivers to the soundcard.
Sound functions still seem to be screwed up. On boot up, I get this
message:
modprobe: can't locate module nvaudio
sound: loading sound module (nvaudio) failed.
My original (before all the downloads, etc) '/etc/modules.conf' file
looked like this:
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss
alias eth0 3c59x
probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
With the above configuration, I DID get the KDE start-up rumble
sound. However, my microphone and line-in inputs didn't work.
My '/etc/modules.conf' now looks like this:
alias sound-slot-0 nvaudio
above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss
alias eth0 nvnet
probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
KDE not longer plays it start-up rumble ('can't find /dev/dsp'). The
inputs still don't work.
How do I get system to find the correct nvaudio drivers?
Thanks for any suggestions/pointers
Harv / AI9NL
Washburn, WI
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Re: [newbie] When will the persecution of MS *end*?!
Lanman wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 20:31, JoeHill wrote: Microsoft Corp. was hit Thursday with yet another antitrust lawsuit, this one accusing the software giant of illegally monopolizing the growing field of digital music and video. RealNetworks Inc. said Microsoft illegally tied its Windows Media Player software with copies of the ubiquitous Windows operating system, whether Windows users want Microsoft's player or not. Link: http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/12/18/microsoft/index.html Joe; I realize we disagree on certain items, but you can't seriously see this as a bad thing, can you? I will admit that I'm getting sick and tired of seeing them getting sued every time that I look for articles on the web, and it would be nice just to see them simply close their doors forever, but you can't expect a company like Microsoft to close their doors after only a few hundred law suits! The tone of your subject seems to sound like your sick of them getting sued!? I think it's great that they're constantly getting hit by these guys. Surely you agree with the idea that they must be defeated or diminshed, don't you? Lanman Maybe its just because I'm sixty years old, don't have a TV, never voted Republican, and spend too much time at the local pub ... but it seems that the younger set is quickly loosing an appreciation for sarcasm, an ironic twist of phrase, and even poetic justice when the real thing is unavailable. Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tax software
Its getting close to that time of year again. Anybody found a tax package (US) that runs on Linux? WINE/Crossover wouldn't run last years versions. I doubt they'll be able to handle this years stuff. I know there are a few web based systems out there ... but I'd rather not. The WIN98 machine hasn't done much since about this time last year. I'd be really happy if I didn't even have to turn it back on this year. Thanks Harv Washburn, WI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.2/Mozilla 1.5/Realplayer/XMMS
I've installed 9.2 and its up and running. I removed Mozilla 1.4 and replaced it with Mozilla 1.5. All my bookmarks are still there. Many of those bookmarks are audio URLs ... .ram, .ra, .slps, etc. Mozilla 1.3/1.4 used to pass them directly to their respective helper aps ... Realplayer, XMMS, etc. Mozilla 1.5 opens a BLANK page with the bookmarked URL in the location bar (or the Download mgr) and only then passes the URL to the helper ap. It uses the download mag for stuff that will ultimately be processed by XMMS. Is there anyway to cure Mozilla 1.5 of this annoying habit? Thanks Harv / AI9NL Washburn, WI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK9.2/Gnomemeeting/xawtv/stream server
Mandrake 9.2 is installed and running well. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it recognized my 3Com/Homeconnect Web cameras without even asking for a config file. XAWTV also uses them without a problem. Gnomemeeting configured itself to use them. Great! Is there anyway to set up a streaming webcam server? I found some short Howto's for a Debian system, but they were pretty cryptic for me (I'll need some pretty basic coaching on this one). I'll be pointing cameras at my birdfeeder, the deer yard, and Chequamegon Bay (for the ships) Harv / AI9NL Washburn, WI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.2 Harddrake
When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ... and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in, the delay is only momentary. Where can I look to see what is going on. Is this normal for USB webcams? Thanks Harv / AI9NL Washburn, WI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Harddrake
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:58, Harv Nelson wrote: When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ... and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in, the delay is only momentary. Where can I look to see what is going on. Is this normal for USB webcams? Thanks Harv / AI9NL Washburn, WI __ Please, go to the Mandrake site and read the errata. the solution is there too. HTH Kaj Haulrich. I've installed all the updates and patches. My machine DOES eventually boot. My concern is the delay when checking for hardware. What error log do I check to find out why it doesn't like the webcam? For example, Is it having a problem differentiating between the USB webcam and the USB scanner (both do eventually work). I don't know where to look for the error messages. Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Macromeida flash plug-in installation on mozilla - I did something wrong !!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends , I dowloaded macromedia flash plug-in from Macromedia's site and installed it. Eveything seems fine with the installation. Plug - in was installed in myusername/home/.mozilla/ . But when I enter a site including flash , still it can not be seen.!! How can I activate it ? Or is my installation faulty. ??? Hertas I had a similar problem. There were several copies of flashplayer.xpt and libflash...so in various directories on my drive. I deleted them all. Then, I installed the RPM I found on this site: ftp://ruslug.rutgers.edu/pub/macromedia/urpmi/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ This was the only one I could get to work. Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Audio control button
My 9.2 installation offers an aRts control tool applet in the task bar. It is slow and clunky In my 9.1 system there was a cute little volume control button that resided in the task bar next to the klipper, calendar, and the clock. It was easy to use and fast ... all it need was a right click. I could mute my audio with a click when the phone rang. Does anyone know the name of this applet/widget and where to find it? It doesn't appear in my list of installable applets. Thanks Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] post-install 9.2 issues with mozilla and openoffice
Brian Parish wrote: I have now installed 9.2 on 3 machines, 2 as upgrades and the other as a full install. The two upgraded machines both have small problems. On one - a laptop - mozilla won't start. No errors displayed when run in a console, just waits a while then goes away. On the other OOo sometimes hangs at the splash screen. I can't kill the processes. Restart X and up it comes. Any ideas on either of these? TIA Brian I removed Mozilla 1.4 and installed 1.5. I had to redirect my desktop/menu icons to /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla Also, it may help to call it thru 'soundwrapper', thusly: soundwrapper /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla if you intend to visit a lot of RealAudio links, etc. Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???
Aronsmith wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:10, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:47:56 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I do. Most all current home desktop users, windoze users should stay right where they are. Most aren't even aware of 'hardware' issues on anything but Winsux (ie, proprietary, or winhardware). How many times do we now see ...but it works with Windows. Some expect an OS that they can change to with no effort on their part. Creating an unaffordable support headache, misinformation, and discouragement for Linux distros that provide free/free 'as is' GPL/GNU software. I don't. I'd rather not have many millions of zombie spam-spewing virus-spreading bandwidth-eating illegal-monopoly-supporting privacy invading POS OS's out there, when the alternative is just as easy to use, more stable, more secure, and doesn't violate people's privacy rights and render the internet almost unusable at times. A better day awaits us when Windows is forever banished into the garbage heap of history where it belongs. If Linux is too hard for someone to understand and use, which is difficult to believe, then there's always the Mac. It's not that its harder, it's that most people don't care. they want to surf and do email and play games kinda like getting them to read Plato ...they see no need If that is all they really want to do, then perhaps some sort of hardwired - hardcoded appliance is what we should give them ... something with just enough LINUX in an eprom to make something like an old 3270 terminal. Just a screen, keyboard, connection to a mainframe. No drives. No storage. No Memory. Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2003 08:29 pm, John Wilson wrote: As I refuse to download by bittorrent, having heard the wonderful time people had with it, I was sorta hoping that the ftp mirrors would be up and running a whole lot earlier than the end of the year. If you are a Club member, Mandrake made authenticated ftp an option if you contacted them using a form posted on the club. Nuts! ... I missed that page, can you post the link please. TIA Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **
Margot wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:18:26 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week? This week's topic: What would you do with Steve Ballmer if you could be alone with him for a half hour and no legal consequences? EG Half an hour? You think it would take me that long to do with him what he's done with the rest of the computing world? ;-) Only if you use a dull pen knife. =-O Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
Len Lawrence wrote: Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. I had the same sort of arguement with CenturyTel. My solution was to buy a small D-Link DI-604 router (about $20). The router fights the battle with their modem, DHCP/DNS servers, etc. (It even includes its own littlde firewall, so now, I get an extra Linux box for FREE. ) I plug all my Linux machines, Windows machines (via another little router) and security cameras into the D-Link router. Reboot everything, and BANG! It all works. No sweat. No tears. Harv / AI9NL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
Sharrea Day wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:49, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Ditto on that Error 404!!! On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:47, Poogle wrote: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 H:41 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:26 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: 9.2 is out for club members Good luck, HarM Saw that, but I am not able to connect to a tracker, how bout anyone else? Likewise - error 404 For me clicking on the torrent in the browser starts btdownloadergui which promptly gives me an error message: GOT BAD FILE_INFO or similar A clue anyone? Sharrea H... When I click on mytorrent-ai9nl.torrent, (from mozilla, per instructions) it doesn't even load the gui ... just wants to download another copy of the mytorrent.torrent file. Something is hosed in that program. Guess I'll just wait 'till the ISO's are available on the mirror. So much for that valuable club membership. Harv / AI9NL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0
Mark Wrote: If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? Its Laziness. Laziness is the FATHER of Invention. Now ya know. (no dna tests required) Harv / AI9NL washburn, WIsconsin Mark Weaver wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:41, Todd Slater wrote: I finally got around to making the RPM's for XFce 4.0, available at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ as always. WHAT A GUY! Gee, mate, you're a sport! Good on ya! Hip hip hoorah! Todd's neater than sliced bread! Kudos! Nudos! Das ist gut! Muy bien! Yowzah! Geewillickers! stephen kuhn - owner here here...I'm with Stephen on this. I LOVE IT! Man! has this desktop ever come a long way. Thank you SO much for putting this stuff online. It is Beauutiful and so stinkin easy to install and get going I almost got bored! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nigerian Scam on newbie
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:58:31 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That alarms me, Charles. Who have I spammed using the built-in bounce-function in KMail ? Nobody other than he himself. If ya read the e-mail, he resquests you reply to the e-mail, and gives another if need be. YOU CAN CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY FOR MORE DETIALS WITH THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux I forwarded his financial offer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Maybe they will shut his water off ... if anyone there ever checks the file the robot builds. Harv /AI9NL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Autopsy or I killed my favourite mdk install
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, The title say's it all, I just killed the good box at home. I went thru this sort of thing a long while back. My solution was to use an old 450 mHz machine where everything Windows can be pretty much isolated. My Mandrake box need never worry about that alien partition. My only reason for keeping a Windows machine is that here in the US, it seems that Tax software is written to run only on the Evil Empire's systems. Does anyone know of good Tax program for Linux? Then I could toss the Windows machine for good. GL Harv/ AI9NL Washburn, Wisconsin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 6:22 pm, Frankie wrote: Has anyone considered getting a $6 dollar domain name from godaddy like mandake-newbies.com and using godaddy's redirect facility to redirect to put it to the wiki?? that address is too hard to remember and I am not always at my PC's when I could make use of it. That sounds an excelent idea, Frankie. The $6 is reasonable enough - only problem is that I haven't a clue how to do a re-direct g Anne Check out http://www.dyndns.org/ There are some FREE services there ... re-directs, etc. (this is the service i use) Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Making Linux Converts
Watch an animation of the conversion process of a new Linux user http://ai9nl.shacknet.nu/images/linux_convert.gif Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine question
Hi Kaj, I'm having something of the same sorts of problems with a program I'm trying to run with wine. Try this WinTools GUI set up aid: http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/ It will make all the necessary directories and has an Installer of sorts. There is some additional education on the site. Be aware that wine is a work in progress. There are new RPM's built nearly every day. Check WineHQ http://www.winehq.com/. You might want to try WineX, also http://digilander.libero.it/winehqitalia/winex.html GL Harv / AI9NL Kaj Haulrich wrote: Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had Windows on my box - and never will. But right now I have a problem : My oldest daughter just started in college and her math teacher demands her to buy a program called *Derive*. It's a math program from Texas Instruments and I've visited their website just to find out it's a Windows app only - no Unix/Linux version. Well, my daughters scuttled their preinstalled Windows-crap when they bought their computers and are using Linux on a daily basis with no problems insofar. So I told them - maybe a little too enthusiastic - that Linux can do anything, including running Windows applications through an emulator. So I just installed wine and downloaded the *Derive* program. This seems to be a file called *setup.exe*. Then, I typed *wine setup.exe* and everything seemed OK until it ask me for a *folder* for installation. The screen suggest strange *folders* like *c:\programs* etc.. (???) - I don't have such *folders*, so I typed : /usr/share/derive (having created that *folder* of course. But the program doesn't seem able to find any *folders* on my system, no matter what I type. The man pages for wine do not mention this problem, but I'm confident some of you can help me out on this - probably very trivial - hiccup. Thanks in advance Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine question
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 09:40 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: Hi Kaj, I'm having something of the same sorts of problems with a program I'm trying to run with wine. Try this WinTools GUI set up aid: http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/ It will make all the necessary directories and has an Installer of sorts. There is some additional education on the site. Be aware that wine is a work in progress. There are new RPM's built nearly every day. Check WineHQ http://www.winehq.com/. You might want to try WineX, also http://digilander.libero.it/winehqitalia/winex.html GL Harv / AI9NL Thanks Harv, - I'll give it a try, but wine is quite OK on my system, so I guess it is this application from Texas that's misbehaving. When I accept the default (c:\programs) it just refuses the whole idea : can't locate *folders*. Which arises another rant : This application (Derive) is meant for math students and developed by Texas Instruments. I don't know much about Texas, but where I live universities use Unix/Linux. I have great respect for Texas Instruments and their fine calculators and thusly can't believe they are Microsoft-Only. My geography might be wrong, though : Redmond is the capitol of Texas ? Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com If you installed wine under your user name, it should have created a directory named .wine (don't miss the dot ... /home/user/.wine ). In that directory there should be another directory called fakewindows or, if you use the WineTools setup, the directory will be called simply C (an acknowledgement of what Windows likes to call your linux hda, C:\ ... /home/user/.wine/C ). C will contain a bunch of directories that pretty much mirrors the look of a normal Windows hard drive. You can set up KDE so that the files with an .exe extension will be passed to wine automaticlly (if WineTools didn't do it for you) RE Texas Insturments: They used to put out stuff that even ran on a Commodore 64 ... but that was a while back. I'm wondering if your Derive program is just an old script that might be run with dosemu? Where I live, the Great State of Wisconsin, on America's North Coast (Lake Superior/Lake Michigan), the University of Wisconsin has recently terminated all of it's site licensing agreements with Microsoft http://www.doit.wisc.edu/news/story.asp?filename=127 much as the City of Munich in Germany did recently.This will force students who have not already purchased software/licenses at lowered rates, to seek cheaper (Open Source) alternatives. I read somplace (I think the Register) that Bill Gates had recently dumped 26 million in M$ stock holdings ... and his cheif lacky, Steve Balmer had dumped stock valued at 1.45 BILLION! Perhaps that is the best hand-writting-on-the-wall yet. RE Texas: Here in the US, we are waiting patiently for the Congress to pass legislation admitting that the South actually did win the Civil War of 1865. This will allow those southern states (Texas among them) to secede from the Union with grace ... and those states in the north, that are so inclined, can seek a union with Canada. Our interests here, more nearly match those of the Canadians rather than the interests of the Texas/Washington DC/Wall Street/Redmond axis. Let the flame war begin :-) Best regards, and good luck for the girls Harv / AI9NL Washburn, Wisconsin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
Paul wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 10:17, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yep. I am not kidding. Are these slimeballs a bunch of maggot puke or what? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/32187.html SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 05/08/2003 at 21:35 GMT Dear Mr McBride, My cheque is in the post. Paul M. Dear Paul, Your shippment just left the loading dock! Darl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Government trying to control our computers - OT butImportant
Are you perhaps talking about BPL .. Broadband over Power Lines? The FCC is about to implement lower part 15 interference standards to accomodate this piece of money gouging crap. See http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1 for a full discussion Harv/AI9NL Dow Mathis wrote: Well, I did a search on the Senate website ( http://www.senate.gov ) and that bill is from the 107th session. We're in the 108th session now. Also, a search of the Public and Private Laws, 107th Congress ( http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/search.html )makes no mention of the phrase Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, three mentions of the number 2048 ( public law numbers 107-179, 107-288, and 107-110, none of which have anything to do with digital anything), and no mention of the phrase S. 2048. So I guess that it didn't pass. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of crak600 Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Government trying to control our computers - OT but Important http://stoppoliceware.org/ if this has been posted already, i apologize. i'm so behind with all the mail from the group, it's overwhelming at times. anyway, this is very important to everyone. i'm not having the government control what i do with my computer. guess it's time to buy a DVD drive before all this stuff goes into effect, not that my intent is to do anything illegial or do any copyright violations with it, but i want to be able to do what i want to do when i want to do it with my computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
Frankie wrote: Lanman said: And we may make the stuff for Americans, but it's not as strong as the beer we have here. It's thinned out for Americans. Franki: Yes, we export smaller condoms to the US too.. its only good bussiness sense,, you have to match the export goods to the expected markets needs.. :-) Thank you for turning the thread in a political direction. At last! An explaination for GW Bush. He got elected cuz he's the biggest prick in the country. Harv == Gusman's summation: I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 1:22 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I'll give them some money when they pay me for submitting bug reports back in 1990 for SCO XENIX...or if Darl McBride flies out here and cuts my lawn...other than that, they're getting blood from a stone. I'll cut your lawn for $1399 g Anne Good. December and January are our hottest months - you have to use the push mower I bought for five dollars at the market, in a pair of $2 sandals, on a 45 degree slope, with a beer in one hand - right after a drizzle - mind you, one acre. As in Foster's, Australian for beer! ??? I'll take that deal. See ya'll in January/February. Harv/ AI9NL Washburn, Wisconsin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help me out [OT]
Michael Scottaline wrote: On 24 Jul 2003 10:24:26 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 04:16, Gene Barker wrote: Hi Harv, I'm not a vegetarian but I do eat most of them except the A veggies. Thanks for the welcome Gene Barker I hate eating vegetables. They just lay there. === I think you Aussies have an old saying: Vegetables? Oh..., that's what food eats! Mike Vegetarian (n) - An old American Indian (Ojibwa) word, usually translated as poor hunter. Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS is at it again...
or should we have the right to own what we create just like a person that creates a sculpture or paints a picture etc... Unfortunately, the creator/author of a work is seldom the person to reap the greatest benefit from his creativity/creation. Rather, the distributor of the creative work usually reaps an undue reward ... RIAA, auction houses, theaters, movie producers, publishers, etc., are examples. I could never understand why recording artists did NOT immediately latch on to some nickle-a-pop revision napster, etc. and make it their own. Harv Frankie wrote: Once again Joe, we find ourselves at the opposite end of the spectrum.. so you are saying that any creative works that is not a painting or sculture or other (real world item) has no value?? so Lord of the rings should have always been free because its just information??? I actually write small programs, and most often I give them away for free.. but not always.. If I spend alot of time working on a script, i reserve the right to charge for it if I want to.. after all, I spend the hours and hours writing it. Also, if 1000's of people start handing a script I wrote that is not free to all their mates.. I am just a small guy, I can't afford to do anything about it. So they would all get away with it.. I know you probably don't care.. because you didn't spend days working on it.. but having something I worked so hard on totally devalued makes me very angry.. If I give it away for free like I normally do, thats fine, it was my choice.. but to have you decide its information and just hand it out is wrong and since I can't afford to go after anyone for it, they would all get away with it if there were not laws protecting me. So what is the answer Joe, you can't have it both ways.. should we all stop programmign potentially useful software because its not worth anything... or should we have the right to own what we create just like a person that creates a sculpture or paints a picture etc... Does translation to 1's and 0's make something worthless? because the same can be done for your genitical profile :-) regards Franki htmlfixit.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JoeHill Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 9:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:33:42 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The result of a programmer's work is *not* information, Really? Looks like bits and bytes to me, but then I am no programmer. The programmer is being paid for his/her efforts and time, in the end. Whether he or she releases the source code is up to him/her. The point is, it is up to creative types, artists, programmers, what have you, to enforce their own copyrights, it is not a matter for the criminal law. Sure, downloading Photoshop for free is not right, but it is not a criminal offense. No existing property was actually stolen, no quantifiable harm has been done. That is why the BSA's estimates of how much money is lost each year to software piracy is such a load of bull. Who's to say if I didn't download it I would actually buy it? This is why I swithed from warez pirate to OS Linux, I didn't want to get into that whole sha-mozzle. It's a dead end street. hug -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ 09:01:20 up 8:31, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.21, 0.14 Reality does not exist -- yet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help me out
So, where's everyone else? C'Mon people! Jump in here and say Hi to Gene! Eh? I dunno ... he's probably a vegetarian ... Harv [EMAIL PROTECTED] == When I was younger, I could remember anything ... whether it had happened, or not. Mark Twain Lanman wrote: I'm with Stephen on this one Gene! Welcome and well said, Sir Knight! Get a good grip , and hang on for a hell of a ride! In the past, you may have heard such expressions as Trust me! I'm from the government. I'm here to help! You probably laughed about such things, ( as did we! ), but here, when the list members aren't flaming Microsoft, SCO, or each other (Grin! Grin!) they're usually a bunch of warm-hearted, generous, humorous, and helpful individuals. Especially helpful! For the most part they're a good bunch. Sorry you had to join up in the middle of a nasty thread. It's just that some of the list members are grouchy because they've been forced to use Microsoft stuff at work. I myself have been on this list for far too long, but even so, I've learned a huge amount of important things. For Instance, Stephen Kuhn needs to get some newer ties (!?), Frankie has a boat and likes to drink whenever he takes it out on the water ( I'm very jealous about that by the way!), Femme Fatale and Anne both seem to have their heads screwed on real good, and often provide maturity whenever the gang starts a ruckus ( Man! Talk about scoring brownie points with the Babes ! ), and occasionally we even talk about Linux! Did I mention that they also have a great sense of humour? Seriously, though,...Welcome to Our Gang, and I for one hope you stick around long enough to learn everything you can about Linux. That way , the rest of us can hop on a plane, and drop in on Stephen and Frankie, where we'll all go boating, drinking, and other stuff, knowing that you'll be here to take up the slack! So, where's everyone else? C'Mon people! Jump in here and say Hi to Gene! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/23/2003 at 12:37 PM Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:24, Gene Barker wrote: I am a new linux user, about a month. I need your help, speaking to the ´newbie¡ group. I joined this group in hopes of learning more of linux and solutions to problems I may have. I have been inundated with emails from our group, most of them not very useful. May I request 2 things. 1. Limit or eliminate political or philosophical discussions from this channel. Letÿs use it as a tool to learn of linux. 2. The answers to legitimate questions are sometimes cryptic and hard for me to follow. A little more information or a way to follow the conversation would be helpful to me. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cordially, Gene Barker Gene, welcome. One thing you might want to do is to turn on message threading in your email client (if you can) - it helps to discern between what is a random message and what is a conversation - or threaded discussion. Anyways, what can we do for you? -- Wed Jul 23 12:35:00 EST 2003 12:35:00 up 9 days, 4:38, 2 users, load average: 0.36, 0.19, 0.17 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Love is in the offing. Be affectionate to one who adores you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE
I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any other cautions, caveats, evaluations, comments you'd care to give are much appreciated. Thanks Harv/AI9NL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?
Where I used to work, we refered to the Windows/Outlook combo as the VTP ... Virus Transport Protocol. Harv Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Now, returning from a non-networked-one-week-a-time job I browsed my *usual suspects* and learned that Micro$oft had purchased RAV, a Romanian Antivirus Company. Accordingly, M$ would discontinue the antivirus capabilities for Linux. Although vira aren't relevant for Linux-users, it seems that RAV made a business out of providing numerous mailservers with a virus-filtering tool. In fact : probably the best antivirus toolkit ever. Considering that about 30-40 % of all mailservers runs Linux and can be presumed to filter out vira nearly 100 %, the shutdown of these capabilities would increase the virus-load to about 60-70 % on those unhappy Windows users. In short : Is Windows a virus ? Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] To Hams on the list - PK-232/Linux
To any Hams on the list I am running an old PK-232 multimode data controler (radio modem, for the non-hams). I am trying to use minicom to talk to the thing. Has any one figured out a better way to run a PK-232 with Linux? I'd like to avoid using WINE and the WIN-9x aps if possible. Also ... anybody know of a 20/40 meter net for linux equipped hams. Thanks a bunch 73 Harv/AI9NL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla spell checker?
Just making a move from K-Mail to Mozilla mail ... does anyone know where Mozilla's spellchecker is ... or how to add one? Thanks Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0rc2
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:39, Mark wrote: If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? I thought you'd all like to know: If necessity is the mother of invention, then LAZINESS is the father! Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
My bank used to have the same disclaimer ... IE only. All that happened was that the page did not display as THEY intended in my Galeon browser. All the parts of their presentation were there, just spread around in a more or less haphazard manner ... something to do with the way ActiveX does HTML tables, I think. When I found the login input form/box and used it, all the stuff operated as it should. Everything other than the initial index page displayed just like it used to when using IE. I complained to the bank that not everyone in the world uses IE and that there are many other browsers around ... and that in their own best interests, their pages should display equally well in any browser. That means sticking to the HTML standards ... not just programming for ActiveX and IE. In the last few weeks, they've made changes. What used to be done with ActiveX is now done with Java applets and Shockwave/Flash presentations (you even have an option to skip them if you like, and get to the meat of the issue.) When you complain to your bank, you might also mention that the combination of IE, WORD, Outlook, and ActiveX, is known as VTP ... the Virus Transport Protocol. Harv On Sunday 09 March 2003 14:51, Margot wrote: Now that I've got the internet connection working, I'm trying to get everything running through the Mandrake machine, aiming to abandon the Win98 machine as soon as possible. Everything works OK so far, except one of my bank accounts. When I tried to download the internet banking software, I couldn't. Here is a selection of the technical support from the internet banking website: you must use Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer you cannot use Netscape Navigator because it does not provide the same security technology as Microsoft's Internet Explorer we are hoping to enable Apple Macintosh owners to use the service shortly No mention of Linux at all! Is there a way round this? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shockwave for Galeon?
Try this link: http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ You'll find Linux plugin/players there. Harv On Monday 03 March 2003 08:17 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello.. Where can i find the shockwave for this program? I have hit a few sites and requires this plugin to be able to see it.. Advise? YPK -- So! Batman turns out NOT to be fiction, eh? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xfree86-4.3.1 in Mdk 9.0 ?
I'm running MDK 9.0 and 4.3.1 with an SiS 3D-AGP board. also using a a wheel mouse that it didn't like for a while ... no idea why. It all seems to be working now. Only fault I can see are some little sparkles or tiny streaks at the left side of the screen when I scroll a page. I don't think you'd notice it if you weren't waiting to see something out of the ordinary. I think it might be my cheapy monitor. Harv On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:16 am, mycal62 wrote: Hi , has anyone tried the new Xfree 4.3 under 9.0? I am currently running kde 3.1 with Xfree86 version 4.2.1-3mdk using an nvidia tnt2 32mg agp card. with the nvidia drivers version 3123-1mdk anyone tried it yet? or have any suggestions or hints? I don't need help installing it , but would appreciate any experiences others may have had trying this. ( and yes I did read the documentation already. ) ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DIRECT CONNECT active mode and SHOREWALL
I also tried to set up connection sharing for ADSL and the shorewall on this machine (MDK9.0). Pissed Off is just a mild description for my feelings of frustration. My solution was to purchase a D-Link DI-604. http://www.dlink.com/products/broadband/di604/ The thing contains an embedded firewall/router accessible with any browser and 4 Ethernet ports. Cost $(us) 45, UPS delivered. What is your time and sanity worth? Plus, you'll be able to build a decent server with the machine you were going to use for a router/firewall ... or better use the machine to run HF PSK/Amtor, etc Harv KG9GA Washburn, WI On Saturday 01 March 2003 01:11 am, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, I spent nights without any success to configure SHOREWALL in 9.0 to run Direct Connect (DC++ exactly) to run in active mode. Is there a solution out there? Regards... Bela, HA5DI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW
I downloaded the eval version ... but it made me hunt up a WIN98 machine with a CD burner, so I could run the .exe download ... just to burn the ISO for me! All that, so that I could try out a linux based program to back up a linux only machine (not a dual boot system). Seems like the long run-around-end to get to the goal. After all that, it wanted to make a compressed copy of my hda1 partition on hda6. Which copy, I would then have to burn to CD, manually. This is getting a little silly. Thanks for all the help and suggestions ... but I don't have time to play like this. I'm opting for the old machine with big HD to do a network backup of all the other disks. I guess the question will then be, how long do I have to sleep at night so the backups can complete. Thanks again Harv On Saturday 01 March 2003 02:22 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 6:05 pm, Joeb wrote: Anne, I'm not sure if you're the one who started this thread or not, but if you are looking for a way to backup an entire partition (Linux or Windows, Novell), you might want to check out InstantRecovery from NovaStor Corporation: http://www.no-panic.com/recovery/irecover.html It's not free, but is pretty cheap (around $40 US). It basically works like Ghost and makes an image of the entire drive or individual partitions. It will create the image on bootable CD and CD/RW media, too. And best of all, it actually is based on Linux (at least version 3.1-the version I have is). Thank you Joeb, I'll look at it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
On Friday 28 February 2003 09:09 am, A V Flinsch wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:24 pm, Larry Williams wrote: And another 73 DE N1POP Almost enough of us to start a Mandrake-Hams list If there are enough of us around, maybe we can get Mandrake to include a bunch of the ham specific software on the CD's (stuff like PSK31, etc) 73 Harv KG9GA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW
Hi Is there some sort of backup/restore utility that I can use to make backups using the CD-R on my machines? CD-R's cost about a dime each these days. That price makes that media much more attractive than investing in a big tape drive and tapes.. I've got 5 machines on my little network. Each has a 20 gig HD (or less). How about another machine with a couple 50 gig drives that would be used just for backing up the others? That would cost about as much as the tape drives and tapes. Another strategy you'd care to suggest? Thanks a bunch Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
Here is Harv, KG9GA, Washburn, Wisconsin, USA. Just retired and re-located to this small northern Wisconsin community on the shore of Lake Superior ( 25 below 0 this morning ... have I made a mistake? :-). Hope to figure out how this Linux stuff works and get my rigs set up to run the digital modes like PSK31, etc. sometime before summer is over. Be lookin for lots of help from you guys and gals. big 73 Harv KG9GA On Tuesday 25 February 2003 03:43 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip Also BTW Dan your email address looks like a ham call Great to see another amature radio fan on the list. I wonder how many more hams are here. Enjoy Marc KM5KW Add me to the list! Cheers (or should I say 73) Keith G4JVX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VNC for Mandrake
Is there a Mandrake specific vnc... .RPM? Can't seem to locate one anywhere. I've been trying to get RealVNC to work across my local network without much success. Any suggestions? Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Change host/domain name
My mandrake 9.0 machine currently sports a domain name of kg9ga.shacknet.nu I'm adding two more machines to the local network, another linux box, and a windows machine. Where can I change the domain name on this box to kg9ga-l1.shacknet.nu Thanks Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] right click
On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:04 am, simo wrote: hello guys, is there a way to disable the right click in Icewm or kde ? 10x in adv In KDE: Click on the KDE Control Center. Click Look-n-Feel, Then Desktop. You'll find choices there for configuring your mouse clicks. Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IBM install from HELL !!!!
Hi When I have encountered problems like this, one program that has helped me is a little utility called aefdisk. It is available from the usual sources or www.aefdisk.com I use it with: aefdisk /delall That blows away the mbr and writes a clean new one. If this works, anything that was on the disk will be useless. But I guess that is what you want. Give it a spin. You'll have to include the system files on the floppy. Harv On Friday 21 February 2003 03:22 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: I have a older IBM model 300 PL type 6862-34u 400 MHZ P2 with windoze 95 installed here where mandrake refuses to install but for that matter so does windows 98 infact I can not run fdisk or format. I get some messages when I use a windoze boot disk or a mandrake boot disk that I have never seen before. If I use a windoze boot disk made from a windoze 98 cd I get a message saying initalising network boot device useing interupt 18 H. starting windows 98 and then a message saying Type the name of the command interpreter E.G. (C:\windows\command.com) and then the usual A_ prompt but if I enter FDISK or Format C: I get the Type the name of the command interpreter bla bla bla message again. If I use a Mandrake boot disk I get a message saying Boot failed please change disk and press any key If I insert a different release of a Mandrake boot disk same message again. I have tried changing every setting in the bios that looked like it might help and still the same problems. I have removed the battery and cleared the cmos, still no good. I have tried to flash the BIOS and it wont let me do that. I have restored BIOS to defalt settings , still no luck. If I do not put anything in the floppy drive I get a normal startup in win 95 YUK !!! also a normal start in win 95 with a CD in the CD drive. After a start in win 95 I am able to read data on the floppy just fine. I have installed winblows plenty of times and the same with Mandrake but I haver hit a stone wall like this!!! I am about out of ideas. Can anyone offer some help ? Thanks Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] New OS new problems
Help Downloaded ISO's and burned the disks for MDK 9.0. Installed the system. Applied all the Mandrake supplied updates and security patches. Currently running KDE 3.05a on the desktop. It all seems to work. A little poking even got it to find my old printer and my old scanner. My new camera is another matter, but I'll not quibble. Problems: 1. How does one get the aRTs sound server and Realplayer to live together in the same room? Realplayer won't play until I shut down the aRTs server. Then, Realplayer coughs out the BBC and Radio Netherlands quite nicely. Except ... 2. Everytime I click an audio link in a browser window (doesn't seem to matter which one I use ... Konqueror, Galeon, Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera) the browser opens a blank window with the audio URL (*.ram) in the location bar and only then passes the URL to the Realaudio AP. Why this extra blank window? 3. Why does KDE insist that Konqueror must be my default browser? I really like Galeon browser better and would prefer that it was the default for both web, and file browsing, and email calls. Is there anyway to set this up? Nahhh... I don't wanna use Gnome on the desk top ... I like the rest of KDE better ... Just the browser is sorta sucky. 4. If I try to change my video settings using the Mandrake control panel, it hangs the whole system. However, if I run XFdrake from a command line (as root) everything goes hunky-dori. 5. Same sort of thing seems to happen with the Printerdrake. Thanks a bunch Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
