Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Saturday 02 April 2005 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 13:22, Daniel Anderson wrote: With the original 4k ram ...none of that sissy 16k expansion stuff ;-) Or the 720k drives. Weren't they the double-density ones? I seem to remember 360k in the heady days of my first floppy drive - before that it was stretch audio tape. Of course my Spectrum had 48k RAM, whereas my first computer, ZX81 had 1k on board and 4k on an add-on pack that had to be strapped up with insultating tape to stop it wobbling and whiting everything out. Anne Like my Atari 8bit and the 1010 tape recorder. Awesome stuff! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:43 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hehehe...well, Ronald you might be right there, but then again we get trolls here occassionally. /Anders I know. It just seemed to coincidental... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:51 am, Dennis Myers wrote: carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun just has to be had. Couldn't help it - the old Atarian in me just lives for any excuse to wave the Never Say DIe banner of those who (still) follow the Fuji... grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] More April foolishness... :-)
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-04-01-014-26-OP-CY -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 02:20 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... Actually some really interesting info gets tossed back and forth there - as well as some... stuff. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI module change from 2.6 to 2.4
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:21 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Does anyone know a good way to check for IRQ conflict or have any other suggestion a to why it crashes. Hi Malcom. Just do a cat /proc/interrupts and you'll get the output that should help you determine if there is an IRQ conflict. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quicktime video
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:20 pm, Aron Smith wrote: anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? Aron, you've got PLF setup (both free and non-free) as sources, right? If not, do it. Then just: urpmi mplayer urpmi mplayer-gui and all the dependencies will be taken care of. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cd into file
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that Linux Stuff directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. Linux_Stuff or some such. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Guess I've been lucky but I've never had trouble with filenames with spaces under Linux. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: First you should be installing as a user not root. Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has the right to install or delete (system) software - this is a root privilege, (rpm group?), from my understanding. Of course they can install and delete in their own /home directory. Did I miss something? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled with an rpmbuild command (also as user). Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 which then has to be installed as root. derek Ah, that explains it. Thanks! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 12:36 pm, Aron Smith wrote: personally I wish someone would port Redneck Rampage to linux It's stupid it's violent it's funny hit bubba with a crowbar to advance to the next level :-D Sounds like its on a level with Postal. There is a linux demo for it. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Monday 21 March 2005 10:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, I've been browsing to the package available in mdk10.1, and I find many interesting packages once I click on them and read the description. Right now, I've just passed the packages start with 'b', phew..! I'm now installing many interesting games, such as adonthell, brutal, and.. many rpg like games I forgot the names :) Do you have any recommendation on games that can relieve our stress level? Thanks :) RPG - Neverwinter Nights 1st person shooters - Ut2004, Quake 3, Rune, Doom3 Military - Medal of Honor: Allied Assault If you want to run Transgamings' Cedega software, you can run the likes of: Diablo2-Lord of Destruction, Starcraft-Brood Wars, Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 (Sith Lords), Dungeon Siege, Elder Scrolls-Morrowind, Star Wars Jedi Knight and Jedi Academy, Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne and even World of Warcraft. Of course these are commercial, and there are plenty of free games to play as others have mentioned. Chromium, Critical Mass, and Armagetron spring to mind right away. Lots of options, and many more games than I've mentioned so get out there and get gaming! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Friday 18 March 2005 04:36 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: et wrote: snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the commands that start with that letter (it is case sensitive and root gets more choices) Try hitting tab-tab (tab twice) and see what you get. Hmm. I get (immediately) with the first tab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ Display all 2504 possibilities? (y or n) 2nd tab only gets a beep from my system speaker. I tried the tab-tab very fast, very slow and in between. Was something truly exciting supposed to happen and I missed it? :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:35 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 04:23, Julie Sloan wrote: I found a new-newbie oriented tutorial at http://www.linuxcommand.org/ which everyone here probably already knows about. But just in case some lurker doesn't, there's the link. I may not be pestering y'all with questions for a while. I'm busy reading. Dang. Didn't know they taught reading in Kentucky. Julie, meet Stephen. Stephen rarely has anything good (read accurate as well) to say about Kentucky or Kentuckians, as a general rule. You'll get used to it. :-) I had to post pictures of my home and yard before he would believe that there weren't cars up on blocks in the front yard, refrigerators on the porch, blah, blah, blah... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:04 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Paul wrote: Go on Ronald, admit it. That wasn't really a photo of your house was it? 8-) It was probably the guest house. Well, actually it was my house. I guess I should have stood at an angle and got the mailbox (with my name on it) in the pics to convince this lot though. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? Thanks for the reply. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 March 2005 10:43 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? Thanks for the reply. Yep, that k3b-dvd is the one I ment. So that must not be the problem. I am at a loss, all the k3b problems, I use it with CD and DVD and have not had a problem ever. (knock on wood). I didn't either, until I reinstalled. After that, boom!. It still keeps giving the same error messages. Something about an opc and input/output errors. The debugging message gives this: (this version will show up different than what I posted above because its showing after I switched to Charles Edwards RPMs) System --- K3b Version: 0.11.5 KDE Version: 3.1.3 QT Version: 3.1.2 growisofs --- :-( Failed to change write speed: 8310-11080 growisofs comand: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/scd1 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -speed=8 -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.5 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.11.5 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bGYOdLb.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bGpcqTb.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bEnU4yb.tmp So I dunno. I did go back, uninstall and try reinstalling the RPMs from Charles Edwards excellent site, but that made no difference either. I'll keep on plugging at it - there's something I'm missing somewhere. Thanks for the help though! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? Thanks for the reply. Checking under Software Uninstaller, under the Archiving group, I have cdrdao-1.1.9-6mdk cdrecord-2.01-1mdk dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-2mdk k3b-0.11.16-3mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.17-0.1010.1 mkisofs-2.01-1mdk Anne Thanks Anne. I'm sure some of the difference reflected there is because I'm still using v9.2 and I think you're on 10.x, right? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML
On Monday 14 March 2005 05:35 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: You won't believe this : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5ObjectID=10115247 I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. Kaj Haulrich. By the Gods, Kaj - don't give them ideas! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:31 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: You know, I've found that occasionally something will monkey with fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab as soon as I get everything working, so I can refer back to it when things go south. (The fstab backup created at changes isn't reliable, because sometimes I don't notice that stuff isn't working for a while, and several changes may have been made). K3b seems to be a big offender (as you have found out). Also, turn off harddrake--you can always turn it back on when new hardware is added. And sometimes, things seem to happen for no good reason that I can determine. I thought that I might be the only one, but I guess not. These are the fstab lines for my CD's with Mdk9.2, no scsi emulation on the reader. If there was, it might make cdrom2 /dev/scd1. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 One thing I know, if you unplug a usb device, and don't reboot when you plug it back in, a second mount point for the same device will be added (my camera does this continuously), and it drives me nuts! Anyone know how to stop this? And finally, I quit using K3b. I have a lot less problems with Eroaster because it doesn't continually lose my devices. I don't have any DVD writers, though, just CDRWs, so I don't know if Eroaster even works with DVDRW. e Hi Erylon, thanks for the reply. Well, see...it was a working setup that I had. Then the problem with my /home occurred and I had to reinstall. I thought I put everything back the way I had it before, but its obvious that I must not have. I use Gcombust here, like it a lot - it works fine with my setup. It does not support DVDs though. K3b did, until now, after the reinstall. So I guess I'll just keep playing with it. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK - that's out, then. What about the fstab line? It feels a long time since I used a 2.4 kernel, so I may be remembering wrongly, but is the cdrom really scd1? I would go to MCC Hardware Mountpoints and check everything there - not forgetting the advanced tab. I usually find that fixes any problems I have. Anne No, its really an IDE device (the Toshiba DVD reader at /dev/scd0 is truly a SCSI device). Before when it was working fine, I had it setup as scd1 in the /etc/fstab file, so I dunno. MCC shows the burner as scd1,/mnt/cdrom2 and the reader as scd0, /mnt/cdrom which is the way it was before. I guess I'll just keep playing with it. Some magic combination works, although I thought I had set it back to exactly they way I had it before. BTW, the CDRW stuff on it works fine - I burnt some CDs, including disk to disk copying with Gcombust just fine. K3b won't even do that though. Something is up with k3b, something I suppose I don't have set just right, that I did before. Thanks for the reply/suggestions Anne. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] K3b help?
Well, I had a fully working k3b setup until I had a major problem with my /home directory (don't ask - long story) and reinstalled. Anyways, k3b now errors whenever I try to burn a DVD. I've got a Plextor 708a, with the following software versions running: libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk cdrecord-cdda2wav-2.01-0.a26.092.1mdk cdrecord-devel-2.01-0.a26.092.1mdk cdrecord-2.01-0.a26.092.1mdk dvd+rw-tools-5.18.4.8.6-0.092.1mdk Here is the /etc/fstab entry (one line): /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Anyone have any idea about where to start? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have a 2.6 kernel, I think. Anne Sorry, should have added: Mandrake v9.2 kernel 2.4.22-36mdk -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Friday 11 March 2005 05:44 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have a 2.6 kernel, I think. Anne Sorry, should have added: Mandrake v9.2 kernel 2.4.22-36mdk and further, here is the error message its giving: System --- K3b Version: 0.11.9 KDE Version: 3.1.3 QT Version: 3.1.2 growisofs --- /dev/scd1: engaging DVD-R DAO upon user request... :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=5h/ASC=2Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error growisofs comand: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/scd1 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -speed=4 -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.9 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.11.9 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bQ2Kytb.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bQb8v9b.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bYJVCFa.tmp Thanks again. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:49 am, Philippe Landau wrote: This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you like to volunteer? unfortunately, the off-topic list is dominated by people with sectarian views proud of using foul language. also, when people start to compete on the level of which nation/union is better, insights vaporize. the rapid advancement of corporate-fascist take-over is obviously originating in the US and Europe. kind regards philippe -- http://stop1984.com http://AntonySutton.com and I disagree with your general assessment of the Offtopic list. Sure, things get carried away sometimes, but I don't see it to the extent your mentioning. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KMail configuration
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 02:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I never noticed it with the older version of kmail, but now I'm seeing that some kmail users are displaying Mandrake's footer message in full and others have it as an attachment. I presume there's a setting somewhere for this? I'd really rather keep that paper-clip display for things that have a real attachment, and I see that I am one of those mis-using it - if you can call it a mis-use. Anne Not sure Anne, but under View can't you check how this shows up? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Monday 07 March 2005 02:01 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 15:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software Patent from an A-item to a B-item. So friends, that was it : forget about software development in Europe. Kaj Haulrich. That is completely ridiculous. Hell is going to break loose and there are going to be heaps of very mad folks. I don't think they'll get away with it. Huh, this is the kind of dictatorial fascism that Europe is so good at. They have proved it over and over again in the past, so why should this be any different? Greed rather than justice, for ever! Bunch of Nazis! I have two books standing side to side : Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf and the EU Constitutional Treaty Amazing how hard it is to tell the difference. I found one, though : This time a mr. W.Gates KBE has replaced a certain Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, do you believe in reincarnation? (scary thought, huh?) :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] URPMI help
Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Thanks. PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? Hmm, I thought that I did - maybe I got in a hurry and missed it (multiple times - shaking head at self). I'll go try it again. I just tried it and it works. BTW: The page is quite pretty now isn't it? derek Yes, it is! Big improvement, definitely easier on the old orbs. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:59 am, Julie Sloan wrote: Was it harder adapting to XP, or Linux? Linux was harder, no question about it. Just shows how truly different peoples experiences can be. I started out in computing in 1983 with an Atari 800Xl. Moved up to the Atari ST line around 1985 or so. Kept right on, keepin' on with an Atari Falcon, one of which, in a highly modded form, I have to this day. I ran MINT on it - a Unix, Linux, FreeBSD variant. After Atari Corp folded for good, and I needed something newer, it was almost with a feeling of I'm home that I installed Mandrake v7.0 on my first hand-built PC. Then my sons wanted a Windows 98 partition on their comps for games that weren't available under Linux. Oh my God! - the shock of actually using that POS software. Ugh and a half! So for me, I could never look at Windows as easier. Amazing how different perspectives can be, isn't it? (Not right or wrong, just different).:-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 09:00 am, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:30 am, riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:19 am, Julie Sloan referred: handy, to have entire duplicate system ~ for example . . . have cron daemon, once-a-week, run script :- Thanks riccardo, I will add this and your run daily script into that file of notes I mentioned to Rosemary. FWIW, the lazy way I take notes: first, if I think there is something I need to learn *at this stage*, I hang on to the email for a little while. then later, cleaning out my mailbox, I review it again, deciding if this is something I should make a note of. If so, I mark it some way. Another few days goes by and I'll get the pertinent information out of each of these marked emails and paste into this one big confusing file. I reread the file every week or two, grepping a little more each time. :) It works for me but might not for everyone else. Julie I've got this: /home/darklord/Documents/Linux Refs/ where every e-mail that has been valuable to me gets stored. Yes Julie, it does work. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:50 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Spamc is just a wrapper for spamd, so spamd has to be up and running. But if you want real email filtering you really need to be running spamassassin with more than just the basic rules. That caused me to fetchmail/maildrop/spamassassin/razor/pyzor all my mail before kmail picks it up all marked locally, and its not a hard configuration. The checking of each email with this setup is about 1 to 2 seconds each with my XP-2100, so the hit on Kmail would be serious. Rob Right. spamd is running here. Spamassassin is a service. Again noting that I'm not running postfix, but using it via kmail, that when the filters are setup, if you call spamd instead of spamc, the load and e-mail times are relatively huge. I can't remember how this came up before (but it did), but the simple answer was never to call spamd but always use spamc. I know it made a heckuva difference here, in v9.2. Again, if this has nothing to do with the original post, I apologize - its just what works here. Everyone elses' mileage may vary. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:13 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No cooperation at all in this world of ours. For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The laptop is a toy. Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably due to the 256m memory in the laptop. more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is shared video memory so to get the install, when it askes hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) linux mem=240M (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M) I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. Lee Lee has the same laptop I do - I had to use a small patch to increase video memory from 1 meg (wow!) to my current 128 megs, under v9.2. (I've got 512 total though). Amazingly enough, you can't do it from BIOS. (Dell Inspiron 1100). -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. Unfortunately there is no entry for SpamAssassin. . Can anyone give an incantation to get it there (or even visible in Webmin)? The RPM is SpamAssassin-3.0.2-0.1010.lmdk.i586.rpm. Regards David The service is called 'spamd' I'll correct the document. derek Hmm, I'm still running v9.2 here so some things may be different, and if they are, I apologise for wasting the bandwith but... here...if I use spamd it takes a lot longer to d/l my e-mail. If I use spamc on the other hand, all is well. Just a random observation there. PS This however, is not with postfix, just running it through kmail. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Thursday 24 February 2005 05:16 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would be very interested to know if you get a response before your new membership expires. Care to place a small wager? Lee Hey Lee - haven't heard from you in a while! :-) Now - about that bet... I actually like low risk, high return bets so I guess I'll uhpass grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote: How about contacting the one person that can help? The webmaster of MandrakeClub. Thought about that. :-) Just thought I'd see if someone knew an easy way to do it from the website. Thanks Greg. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Club membership question?
Well guys, I don't understand something. I just rejoined the Club (I've been in it for a few years now off and on, mostly on) via their recent 25% off offer. I used that offer, paid by credit card (paypal), and just logged back on to see what was what. Only to find that my total remaining days = 171. Yep, 171. Can anyone tell me if the annual fee means something different than it used to? I always thought annual meant 1 year. :-) Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:59 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Er, well my bad. It says that I've got 171 days left, but I have alumni status? i thought alumni was a former club member who had let their subscription run out? Any info appreciated gang! Thanks. Er...slapping forehead never mind - I just checked the e-mails that I saved during the transaction. I didn't realize that they had changed my login/password. I'll go try that now. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:14 am, Gica Strimbu wrote: Does anybody know how to run a windows program in mandrake 9.2. Is an emulator or something for this ? I need to run a small program for decoding a tv card and i don't have a linux version. thanks You could try Wine or Transgamings' Cedega, although its mostly for games. It wouldn't be a DOS program would it, in disguise? If so, you might have to use a DOS emulator. There are several of those about as well. Dosbox is a pretty good one. There are more. Good luck. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, it gave me a whole new account, which is okay, but I'd really like to have my original one. I tried going into my info, but it won't let me change my nick there, so I went to mandrake expert. According to the blurb I can change it there. So I entered everything there, then next it said to click to merge the 2 accounts and apparently it did. Except my user name is HALL RONALD. Not DarkLord. Like its been for a few years now. Advice? Thanks guys. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
On Saturday 19 February 2005 07:30 pm, Paul wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 11:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote: MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html Didn't the US authorities do something because they cut out Netscape, and the European authorities because they cut out RealAudio? Some people never learn. I have to agree with you Paul - I think MS deserves so much more than the proverbial slap on the wrist. :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Default Browser.
On Friday 18 February 2005 07:12 am, Lanman wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 5:39 am, Lanman wrote: The only 'bug' is that Konqueror stays open after the request has been passed to Firefox. Is there a way to prevent this? If I open hyperlinks in any other program or from any other source (ie; from documents, Howto's or links embedded in applications), Konqueror doesn't even appear. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction on this. Check out this site: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SetMailtoEvent Rob Rob; Thanks but that's not what I'm trying to solve. I've been using that particular fix for a while now. Your suggestion is designed to allow me to open my email client when I click on an email link in a webpage. What I'm trying to do is to open a web-link when it's included in an email. For instance, the link you provided above. When I click on it, Firefox should open and take me to the correct page. In fact, this DOES work, but in the process of opening Firefox, KDE launches Konqueror FIRST, (which shows the web-page link which I had previously clicked on), then it passes the link to Firefox, which also opens the link. The minor problem I'm having is that Konqueror stays open and I'm not so sure that it should be opening in the first place. That's what I'm trying to prevent, or as an alternative, I'd like to have Konqueror close itself after passing the hyperlink to Firefox. Hope that clears up the confusion and Thanks again for trying to help! Lanman, did you try looking at KDE, Components, File Associations and seeing what is listed there for Text, HTML? Another old trick I use sometimes: Right click, create a blank HTML file. Name it whatever you want, doesn't matter. Now, right click on that file, and pick Edit File Types. From that list, put whatever you want at the top - I usually delete the rest of the list if I think that I'm not going to be using any other app with this type of file. Under Embedding, I usually pick Show File In Separate Viewer as well. (this really brings up basically the same screen/settings, just from different approaches) HTHS! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm - Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: Misc New devfs device: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 Old device file: /dev/hdd4 Model: ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy Disk controller: - Mike Ok - now we are making progress. If you put ide-floppy in /etc/modprobe.preload, then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, you could try doing this: mkdir /mnt/ZIP edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped here!) none /mnt/ZIP supermount dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change... Mikkel It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the correct one. Thanks for all you help. Mike This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it. Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so that the ZIP data partition becomes /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4. Did the disk you used have other files on it? Are you able to access files on other ZIP disks? If you boot without a disk in the drive, does it detect when you put in a disk? Does it detect when you change the ZIP disk? In any case, I would hold off on the Twiki entry for a while - it sounds like a bug report may be in order here. If the entry in /etc/fstab is being created for you, but is the wrong one, then that has to be fixed. One other small point - you do not have to reboot for changes in /etc/fstab to take affect. The file is read as needed. Hotplug adds entries on the fly when you plug in USB storage devices... Mikkel Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that 4 there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that 4 there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. No /dev/hdd would be the entire drive. /dev/hdd4 would be the 4th partition on it. But the 4th partition on the ZIP drive normally is the entire free space on the drive. It is a small difference, but it is an important one. I expected the same thing here. Are you running 10.1 Official with the latest updates? Does the system automaticly detect when you change cartridge in the drive? Or are you manually mounting/unmounting the drive? Mikkel Hi Mikkel. I know /dev/hdd is the entire drive, but every Mandrake release I've used, up to my current, v9.2, I've had to use /dev/hdb4 for my zip drive, or its not performed like it should. I always disable supermount or anything like it, then just have an icon on the desktop that I click to mount it and show the contents. I manually (right click, eject) to remove it. I've never had good luck with supermount, or the like except on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, where it has worked great. Here are some examples of the zip entries I've used in /etc/fstabs over time (Top entry is current, last entry is a stock, default install entry): /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/hdc4/mnt/zip vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto sync,nodev,user,noauto,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Hope this gives some ideas? See ya. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) Beat ya to the punch ya redneck! Ha! Huh? I read my reply quite some time before I read this reply. Try harder. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to download all the files on a http address
On Friday 11 February 2005 08:49 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http address? For instance, consider the following address: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Can't remember the syntax Paul, but I believe that wget will do what you want. man wget maybe will show something? HTHs. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Friday 11 February 2005 09:25 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 02:37, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) Beat ya to the punch ya redneck! Ha! Huh? I read my reply quite some time before I read this reply. Try harder. :-) Mine was written on THE 12TH, yers on the 11th...ha... Don't care when you wrote it there, sport...my reply beat yours to the mailing list and I read it quite some time before yours... Go be a good lad and take your medication now. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Saturday 12 February 2005 03:55 am, Hugh Dixon wrote: Beware anyone not called Stephen? H and paranoid, conspiracy theory types. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Flashplayer problem
On Monday 07 February 2005 07:03 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When trying to open shockwave flash apps, I can get the movie but no sound. The error says : There was an error loading the module Netscape plugin viewer. The diagnostics is: Library files for libnsplugin.la not found in paths ??? - I don't have Netscape installed, only Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror and Opera. Same problem. Furthermore, I can't find this libnsplugin.la with locate or rpm -q --whatprovides libnsplugin.la Ideas, anyone ? Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, here its in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ locate libnsplugin.la /usr/lib/libnsplugin.la It looks like kdebase-nsplugins-3.1.3-79.2.92mdk.rpm provides it here, under v9.2. If you're running 10.x, it might be slightly different. HTHs. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Flashplayer problem
On Monday 07 February 2005 08:19 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'll fiddle with it until I bork the box...;-) Kaj Haulrich. Box-borker...hmm, I think you've just coined a new, politically (in)correct label... grin Seriously, I hope you get it fixed soon. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site
On Friday 04 February 2005 01:23 pm, Lanman wrote: Personally, if I had to use the FUBAR howto, I'd rather just re-install. It's less painful and allows me to get rid of unwanted stuff in the process. Of course, I back up my important stuff everyday, just like everyone else on this list, right? *snicker* Of course. Didn't you read the requirements before joining these mailing lists? You have to swear that you will do daily backups before even being allowed to post here. Hehehehehe :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)
On Friday 04 February 2005 04:47 pm, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote: I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it. I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect. did you run (as root) updatedb ? yes, still no joy. Paul, do you use KDE? If so, use the GUI manager for urpmi, and *if* you can find the package in question listed, in either remove or install, look at the file listing in the right plane. You might be able to use that list, to go see if the files are actually there, and delete all of them, then start over trying to install it. Good luck. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site
On Thursday 03 February 2005 10:33 pm, Lanman wrote: Yo, Gang. I just found this site (in Canada of course! Grin!), which has some very nice howto's on configuring a variety of Mandrake services and applications. You might want to have a look. It seems to deal with Mandrake 10.0, but I suspect that many of the howto's will also work with 10.1. Hope it helps. http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/linuxhowtos.html Of course, if everyone already knew about it, then please disregard this email. Thats a pretty handy site Lanman, thanks! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site
On Friday 04 February 2005 12:32 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:33 pm, Lanman wrote: Yo, Gang. I just found this site (in Canada of course! Grin!), which has some very nice howto's on configuring a variety of Mandrake services and applications. You might want to have a look. It seems to deal with Mandrake 10.0, but I suspect that many of the howto's will also work with 10.1. Hope it helps. http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/linuxhowtos.html Of course, if everyone already knew about it, then please disregard this email. I can definatly use the FUBAR how to :-) Is that FUBAR as in Fscked Up Beyond Any Recovery Aron? grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dumbest test I've ever seen
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:47:43 -0800 jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake is not ready for Aunt Tilly. Although it does install and come up usable. This may be true, but I would not know since I do not have an Aunt Tillie. I did have a stepmother over 90 years of age who used Mandrake though. When she moved and had to use her sons computer she complained about the clumsy OS (MS of course) I still bristle when people say Linux is not intuitive. As someone smarter than me has said, the only intuitive human interface is the breast. John Montgomery Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM
Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Miark Does Powershell have a .rc file? For instance, bash has .bashrc, where one may place initialization commands to be run whenever a shell start. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: re konqueror
Dave Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thanks for the info ann and for every one else that has supplyed me with info.nothing is ever easy in life and you have to start some where.oh well i supose it will be like going to school again dave.. How much memory do you have in your machine? I just went from 256M to 640M and it made a world of difference in how fast konqueror opens.. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:33 pm, Paul wrote: A lot has been said about urpmi already, these days, but still I dare ask: how do I update the urpmi database? Thanks, Paul If you have good reliable sources Paul, then usually: (as root) urpmi.update -a works fine here. HTHs. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:55 pm, Paul wrote: IP-forwarding the hard way, I guess ;-) Thanks for the help! Paul I like your indomnitable spirit though! :-) Seriously, find better mirrors, then try it again. Patience may be required. I've had this same problem, then a day later, the site would be back up and all would be fine. PS Did you go to plf and set your sources there? Those are usually good ones, and offer alternatives. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Default sounds - changing or turning off
Hi all ... Just wondering how to go about turning off (or changing) the default sounds in KDE. For example, the startup and exit music ... I looked in System-Configuration-KDE and then the various submenus but didn't see anything appropriate ... But perhaps I'm missing the obvious ... Any/all help is appreciated ... Thanks! Adam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Default sounds - changing or turning off
Thanks ... I knew it something obvious! Adam On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:05 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 00:00, J Latham wrote: Hi all ... Just wondering how to go about turning off (or changing) the default sounds in KDE. For example, the startup and exit music ... I looked in System-Configuration-KDE and then the various submenus but didn't see anything appropriate ... But perhaps I'm missing the obvious ... Any/all help is appreciated ... Thanks! Adam MenuSystemKDELooknFeelSystemNotifications Highlight the event and choose a sound for it. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)
So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the verbose startup report (Mandrake 10.0), and everything still looks great... Until X starts. The background comes up all crosschecked, then it gets colored blue. Then the icon changes from an X to an arrow pointer. All like normal so far. Then there she sits. I ran out of time to try setting mandrake to boot to a shell, rather than KDE automatically . I'll try that tonight. But does anyone know, do any X or KDE window manager settings need to be changed because I increased the memory in my system? Sounds kind of strange, but I was very surprised. Thanks for any ideas... Dave in Largo, FL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0
My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap space? Is there some easy way, or am I going to need to get some kind of partition editor, and start moving things around? Any idea of the consequences of NOT resizing my swap space, but leaving it at 500M? Thanks for any ideas, Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Hi Tom. Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent file) by really clueless Winblow$ users. Some are redirects to WaReZ sites. Some are malicious, not a worry for Linux, as they are targeted to fsck'up Win$ux boxes. I've got 800 megs of swap, and 25 gigs of HD space free on /home. I also had the upload rate limited to 6. Using these cautions, I haven't encountered too many bad torrents.. yet. But if seeds disappear, a bad torrent could still tryin keep messin with you. IMO, torrents are the least desirable way to get movies. Without the 'bad' problems, some are only an archive of corrupt .rars, with no par files for repair. Avoid 'cam' movies too. Many Windoze user torrents are erroneously encoded (aspect ratio), and you'll need to use mencoder to fix 'em. I agree here - 99% of cam movies suck royally. :-) So next time you try a torrent, monitor memory use (top), and monitor the d/l directory's partition for disk space (df) from early on. 'kdirstat' is also useful for this. Also check your ~/.xsession-errors file to make sure it's not inflating rapidly. I'll keep all these suggestions in mind, thanks much. Don't know though - after all this trouble I think I'll just buy the darned DVD. grin If you want further opinion, you'll need to send me the torrent file. Thats just it - I don't have it - I believe it was the odd file that reiserfsck kept deleting, when --rebuild-tree ran. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a guess : the message bad info on file + shorewall stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware, uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order to scare people off. On the other hand, it's unlikely they could come up with something able to run on Linux. I doubt that too... :-) Another guess : were you running out of space on the /home partition ? - Some movies consume more than 2-3 GB ? - Do you have partmon running. No - it was a roughly 800 meg file. I've got a 120 gigger, lots of space on home, and partmon -is- running. When I use bittorrent I always open ports 6xxx only. Never had a problem and I often leave it running for a considerable time after finishing the download. I don't know what happens if - let's say - you've only one peer and that one suddenly shuts down ? I'm not sure what happens then either. Did you get the problem fixed somehow ? Kaj Haulrich. I won't know I guess - until/if it happens again. (heavers forbid!). As far as recovery, yes, I was able to use CD1 to fake an update, deselect all packages, reformat /dev/hda8 (home) and reinstall from backup CD/DVD. I guess it could have been worse. Any crash you walk away fromright? :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:43 am, et wrote: /home or /tmp or where ever bt is storing the download until it writes to the completed file? As far as I know - it usually (but not always) creates (it asks) a folder on /home that it d/ls the file to. I've probably got 20 gigs free on /home, so really, I don't think thats it. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:34 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Any crash you walk away fromright? :-) Agreed. On the other hand, under those circumstances it should be doable to fix a corrupt partition by using reiserfsck. Dark Lady in the machine, perhaps ? - Anyway, I'm glad you got it fixed. Kaj Haulrich. And thats the 2 million dollare question! Why wouldn't reiserfsck fix it? What was the file that it (apparently) deleted everytime I ran it, and why would it lockup hard after 80% completion on --rebuild-tree everytime? When I first did the rescue attempt with CD1, it couldn't/wouldn't even mount /dev/hda8 after that little episode. (I guess because --rebuild-tree hadn't completed). -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Odd experience
As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error message. I had to kill it via controlaltesc. Nothing seemed to come of this for a few moments - then I started losing my system. I couldn't right-click on the desktop and get a popup menu, then icons wouldn't respond. Finally, the taskbar kinda faded out. I went for the KDE task manager to see if something was grabbing all my resources and kill it, but it wouldn't open up. Finally, I killed the x server with a control backspace. I was dropped to a prompt, instead of the graphical login I usually get. (this all happened pretty fast folks). I decided not to take any chances and reboot. I su'ed and 'shutdown -r now but it wouldn't go past the shutdown message. I let it set for about 10 minutes before trying to go to another console, but by this point - everything was locked up hard. So...I gritted my teeth and powered off. (I should mention that I tried the raising skinny elephants bit first). Starting backup, it goes fine until reiserfs starts complaining about not having shutdown correctly (expected), but where normally this is recovered and the boot process continues - it drops to a prompt, where you can login as root. So I did. Started doing the usual reiserfsck stuff, --check, --rebuild-tree and all that. Everything is fine until we get to /dev/hda8 (home). It gets to about 80% complete - then says there is a file that has to be deleted - it reports it does, but then locks up there every time. I tried about 3 times like this, reboots always gives the error that --rebuild-tree did not finish (duh). Anyways, so in a complete reversal of what usually happens, where you keep home and have to redo everything else, I had to do the upgrade, select no packages - and format hda8 (home). Odd. Fortunately, I do have recent backups so I didn't lose anything vital but I wold appreciate comments on what anyone thinks may have happened and why reiserfsck, which has been ultra-reliable here, couldn't handle whatever happened to my home directory. Thanks guys! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ? Kaj Haulrich. It does, doesn't it? The error message was something about time out, bad info on file or somesuch. It was Lokitorrent, and it was a movie. :-) Yes, I had done a service shorewall stop (I know, I should set it to open the individual ports). So the 6xxx ports should have been open. Besides, I've d'/led other bittorrent files this way, no problem. I still don't see what it did to my /home directory that the reiserfs couldn't handle. :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:30 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: What I would have done is to boot with the installation CD and do a linux rescue - then run the reiserfsck all ReiserFS partitions. I experienced something similar a few months back on a workstation here - bootup reiserfsck choked and puked, whereas when I did it from the linux rescue the errors got fixed and all was well and good after that. IME, that is. Er, I did - forgot to mention that - it gave that same error after about 80% completion on --rebuild-tree. Same thing about deleting a file right before the lockup. One time it segfaulted though. I don't know. Gremlins, I guess! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:20:46 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: starting it to see if there was any difference. It ran longer this time, maybe 10 seconds, then there was a blue flash in the vicinity of the power supply and it cut off. Oh well, I think this one is beyond me. Thanks, SW time for a power supply -- Perhaps not. Some time ago I cleaned the box out with air and when I powered up, I had the blue flash experience. After getting my internal organs back in their proper places, I took the cover off the power supply and had to laugh. A spider had taken up residence in the power supply and built a web which apparently had been quite productive, judging by empty carcasses. The blast of air, I assume moved the web enough to create a short. Truly a computer bug, well, perhaps a computer arachnid). I replaced the fuse in the power supply and am still running. Be sure you use a fast acting fuse. Cheers John Montgomery Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: No problem, I think it went to the list last time. However, if you get no video output at all, not even a bios listing on start up, then it has to be the card or a connection. Let us know how the windows boot disk goes. You know, I'd reseat the card for sure, and check the cable (again) if I was getting no video at all. I had this problem with my sons comp once. The Nvidia video card, for all intents and purposes, looked like it was solidly seated but a component on the card itself was hitting a capacitor (or somesuch) on the MB, not letting it seat fully. I just had to 'angle' the card slightly and it went on in, just a hairs difference - but enough. Also, before I found the problem, the MB Bios gave a beep that it normally didn't. Just a random thought. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firewall
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:34 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:03:10 -0800, John wrote: I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly when he knows you use Mandrake. Oh well, perhaps it's just me :) You just have that effect on people YOU ASSHOLE! ;-) Miark I'm subscribed to the Shorewall list and found Tom E. to be very helpful. He helped me, even though he knew I was using Mandrake. He did make the comment that Mandrake did a few things in a non-standard way. He is very direct, but he didn't insult me. As with so many things Linux, he does expect a person to read all the FAQs and docs, *before* posting a question. Just my experience. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities ;-) Anne Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws? big grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MNF Install Problem?
Hi All, I'm trying to install MNF on my system. It's booting up, and the it comes to: Partition check: hdc: And that is where it stays. there is a white rectangular cursor immediately after the colon, that blinks, and nothing else happens, regardless of how long I leave it. I have tried booting from the CD and a floppy, and it does the same thing still Am I doing something wrong? Many thanks, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Philips PRM80 10ch 25w,4m dipole. Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: Philips FM1100 2x 5/8 Colinear 70cm Tait T500 SII 4ch 30w 1/4 whip 4m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] HardDrake Problem....
Hi All, Owing to a serious operator error yesterday (me doing something daft!), I have had to reinstall. Basically, I installed a VERY basic 10CE ( just IceWM), and urpmi'd up to 10.1OE. I'm still setting up, and as usual, I have no sound, and I went into harddrake to set the correct driver, and lo and behold. nothing is showing! All the device categories are there, ie sound, printer etc, but no device names.. Help! Have I neglected to install something here? Many thanks, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Philips PRM80 10ch 25w,4m dipole. Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: Philips FM1100 2x 5/8 Colinear 70cm Tait T500 SII 4ch 30w 1/4 whip 4m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mozilla Thunderbird Browser
Hi all, I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my mailer these days, and as yet, I cant fault it. However, when I click on a link in a mail (usually for SpamCop), it used to open up Mozilla as the browser, which on my modest specced machine, slowed things down severely. I have since Uninstalled Mozilla, and now it defaults to Konqueror, which is ok if it's not a flash animation etc you are trying to view... What I really want to know, is how to set Thunderbird so it opens Firefox as the browser. Any Ideas? I have looked through Thunderbird, and cant see anything obvious... and I have looked at the sparse documentation on the thunderbird site. no joy there either! Heres hoping someone can help! James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Philips PRM80 10ch 25w,4m dipole. Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: Philips FM1100 2x 5/8 Colinear 70cm Tait T500 SII 4ch 30w 1/4 whip 4m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Java VM Problems
Hi All, I've just installed J2RE 1.4.2_06 on my machine. Trouble is, I'm trying to install LimeWire (the P2P program), and I keep getting told that there is no VM on my machine. Thats crap! I know full well there is! :-) Now, It's installed to /usr/java (where I always used to install it), and my .bash_profile has been suitably amended for the latest version of the J2RE. I'm at a loss as to why it wont work. .bash_profile is pasted below, just in case I have done something wrong whilst modifying it, although all I have done is changed j2re1.4.2_03 to j2re1.4.2_06, to bring it up to date with the latest version. export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH unset USERNAME Any ideas? I have even tried a restart (yes, I had to once after installing an older version modifying!) Thanks, Seasons Greetings etc, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Tait T500 SII 70.425 70.450MHz - Now with G6OHM 4 Ch. Conversion! Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Java VM Problems
Edward Holcroft wrote: As you can see I changed the reference in JAVA_HOME to point to /usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_05/jre/bin/ instead of at the symbolic link (/user/java/j2re1.4.2_05). This is probably not the most elegant solution and I am not even sure why there were symbolic links used in the first place. All I know is after I did this, without use of symbolic links, LimeWire worked - no more message about Java VM not installed. I always seem to struggle with symbolic links, and this got around it. Please let me know if this works for you. Hi Edward, Tried that, with /etc/profile and .bash_profile (I had to modify that for 9.2 10CE), and even restarted, as I found that if it's currently in use, then it needs a restart to take effect Nothing, Nada, Nichts!! Still getting the no VM found error message. I'm not too worried about LimeWire, as I have the Apollon gnutella plugin installed, but I cant get Apollon to install using the so called All In One Installer, as it keeps tripping up on my version of QT, as it's asking for an earlier version, and it's too much like hard work to retrograde to that particular version. The Apollon RPM from PLF works ok but I cant seem to find it on the PLF site anymore... If I could get the PLF RPM, I'd be ok, as I have giFT and the other plugins already installed, I just need the Apollon GUI! Thanks, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Tait T500 SII 70.425 70.450MHz - Now with G6OHM 4 Ch. Conversion! Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Java VM Problems
Simon Roberts wrote: in a terminal: cd to the directory that has your java install; change to the subdirectory bin; type ./java -version If that doesn't run java and tell you stuff about it, it's either not executable (which suggests you did the install wrong, or not as root perhaps) or really screwed up. Having old versions around can sometimes cause confusion if it finds one binary for java but mismatched libs and .jars. If it does run when you do it like that, then you mistyped your path stuff, or perhaps the thing isn't executable as the user your trying to run the program as. Hi Simon, I did it, and got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] j2re1.4.2_06]$ cd bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ./java -version java version 1.4.2_06 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_06-b03) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_06-b03, mixed mode) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ So there is nothing wrong with the actual install. I just gotta go figure the PATH wording now. (technically, it shouldnt have varied from 1.4.2_03 that I had previously! apart from _06) Ho Hum! James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Tait T500 SII 70.425 70.450MHz - Now with G6OHM 4 Ch. Conversion! Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security
Benjamin Pflugmann writes: Another thing I would change is to avoid changing host.deny directly. You can make hosts.deny look into other files like this: sshd: /etc/host.deny.foo This is a great idea, and thanks. I much prefer this. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a script I wrote to work around SSH probes. It is NOT elegant, very
quick and dirtyish but it does seem to work and it can be run from a cron
job fairly often without problems.
Hi Bryan, pretty cool, the only thing I would suggest is using Damian
Conways's Regexp::Common module in a Perl script to parse the IP address out.
Using cut doesn't 'cut it', as sometimes the line has more text in it than you
might be expecting. Here's the script I use, based as on the one you wrote,
as I've modified it.
-
#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/sbin
#Optional, remove old entries
rm ./sshd_block/block.txt
#This will parse the messages file and extract the sshd lines
grep sshd /var/log/messages | grep Failed | ./get_ips | \
sort | uniq ./sshd_block/block.txt
target=`cat ./sshd_block/block.txt`
for i in $target; do
echo ALL:$i /etc/hosts.deny
done
#remove extra entries from hosts.deny
cat /etc/hosts.deny | sort | uniq /etc/hosts.new
cp /etc/hosts.new /etc/hosts.deny
-
And here is the source for get_ips
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use Regexp::Common;
while() {
if(/$RE{net}{IPv4}{dec}{-keep}/){
print $1\n;
}
}
-
I'm really glad you did your script. Until I read this thread, I had no idea
that anyone might have been trying to SSH into my machine, like some madman.
Turns out they have been, every night for weeks, (my bad), but now with my
modified script (based on your great contribution), they won't be doing it
more than once.
Thanks very much, my friend,
Dave in Largo, FL.
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[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, my little script is very quick and dirty but after about a week of being hit multiple times every night, I haven't yet found it parsing logs wrong on my system but that doesn't mean much beyond my system. I just had some different text in mine (Mandrake 10.0) that sometimes parsed out with the port number rather than the IP address. I have it installed and running now and find myself in the weird position of actually hoping that someone tries to brute force my ssh soon so I can see if it works. :-0 If it works, I will throw a copy of it out on the Twiki so that others can take a look and see if it works better for them. Oh yes, please do, and thanks for your efforts. This helps everyone! Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
Continuing this Thread.. I have just been hit with a netsky laden email, and the from address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guess what? I have parsed the header, and it originates from tpg.com.au I have sent the TPG abuse department a nice little email, along with a copy of the headers, asking them to please get in touch with this subscriber, and offer them advice on getting rid of this infection or better still, suspend their account until they can prove that they are clean Wont hold my breath though! James Hill - Original Message - From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 6:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at: [220.244.219.186] linux-mandrake.com (220-244-219-186-qld.tpgi.com.au [220.244.219.186]) I have gotten 3-4 from the same IP range, all tpgi.com.au. I usually warn users but no one ever pay attention so I figured I would skip it this time. Yes Bryan, this is the ip address. I have been getting about 25 an hour. And then they stop for awhile, and then they come back. I'm thiking that they stop when wohever it is turns their machine off. I sent a message twice to tpgi to report it. I also sent a message to tpgi. And just now i got a rejection (or maybe a spoofed rejection) as if i had sent a mail from that ip address. I do get it at a different address that i don't use on mandrake lists, so it must be using the spam database as well. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] win- linux
Oh yes... Works so well we forget all about it Mandrake has something going for it.. Try subbing to the Fedora mailing list. :-) Lets just say you need bandwidth to cope with the sheer volume of mail from people wanting assistance! JRH - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] win- linux On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 5:15 am, Stephen Khn wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 16:09, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free program available to sample linux on a winxp system. I thought winaxe might but it is for networked systems. This being a Mandrake list I can't believe that no one suggested Mandrake Move: our very own Live CD. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#move Oh. Right oh! Forgot ALL about Mandrake. Is THAT what we run here? Oh yes... Works so well we forget all about it. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
JoeHill wrote: Actually, I've found several times that AVG catches malware that Norton doesn't, and it's free, and got a *way* smaller footprint than Norton's bloatware. I use Avast! antivirus for Windoze. seems to be quicker than AVG, and it's free! They also offer a version for Linux servers, but it's only a demo, and after the trial, you either have to pay up for the license, or find something else! Check it out at www.avast.com Cheers, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Tait T500 SII 70.425 70.450MHz - Now with G6OHM 4 Ch. Conversion! Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
JoeHill wrote Takes more time, but in the long run, if everyone did this, well, it would totally destroy the cost/benefit ratio for spammers. I do this religiously, using SpamCop... Trouble is, virtually all the pharmacy/porn sites are either on Brazilian or Chinese servers. they have abuse addresses to send reports to, but in reality the mails either bounce, as the mailboxes are full as they never get read, or they just ignore them. it's as if they dont give a monkeys what happens, providing the bill gets paid! As for the emails, they just adopt Spam Run tactics, often spamming moving on to another ISP before any abuse gets reported. I have resorted to doing a WHOIS on the domain name, and if any info is found to be false, taking it up with the registrar... at least the site gets pulled, if only to pop up elsewhere a day or so later. Ho Hum! JRH -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Tait T500 SII 70.425 70.450MHz - Now with G6OHM 4 Ch. Conversion! Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
Hey, Dude, where's your sense of fun? Every once and awhile I'll send an
email to the Chinese ISPs that forward spam to me thanking them for the
order for 10,000 Bibles telling them they'll be forwarded as soon as we
can get them onto the shipping container.
Heh
Every time I try to mail a Chinese ISP, I get sorry, mailbox over quota
Humph.
JRH
- Original Message -
From: jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
From: J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JoeHill wrote
I have resorted to doing a WHOIS on the domain name, and if any info is
found to be false, taking it up with the registrar... at least the site
gets
pulled, if only to pop up elsewhere a day or so later.
Hey, Dude, where's your sense of fun? Every once and awhile I'll send an
email to the Chinese ISPs that forward spam to me thanking them for the
order for 10,000 Bibles telling them they'll be forwarded as soon as we
can get them onto the shipping container.
{O.O}
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Re: [newbie] MPAA goes after BitTorrent
On Thursday 16 December 2004 04:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It was bound to happen, as it's being used for film and music sharing as well as legitimate uses. I can't see it succeeding in Europe, as it is just the agent, and it is the use that can be illegal. It would be like suing the Post Office for carrying messages posted by criminals. In USA, of course, common sense does not prevail. Sorry if that offends anyone, but I think that most who have been following events re patents etc will agree. Anne I'm not offended Anne, its true. The patent situation here in the US is a mess. :-( -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Thanks, Danesh Daroui Hi Danesh. I could say the same about Fedora Core 3!! Try a different Kernel with 10.1! I had some serious issues with 10.1, until I tried kernel 2.6.3-19. Everything seems to work fine with that! HTH, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Tait T500 SII 70.425 70.450MHz - Now with G6OHM 4 Ch. Conversion! Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
Danesh Daroui wrote: I see... :-) Well, I hope so, because Mandrake Linux is at least more userfriendly with nice user interface. But you know, the problem is that I can not update it at all. It always says that there is problem with contacting mirror sites and last time it says that update agent should be re-added again or something like that, however my internet connection is working fine and I have installed Mandrake 10.1 from an attached DVD to Linux Format magazine. So, how can I update its kerner and of course other parts if any update waqs available ? Hi Danesh. To change your update sources, go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org and follow the easy steps. There are more sources there, besides Mandrake, such as PLF packages too. Then, once you have gone through the stages, copy and paste the text into a console window but make sure you are running as root in the terminal window. Do this for each source you want to add. Thats it, job done! Then hopefully you will be able to update ok! Regards, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de 2E0ZZY Yaesu FT-902DM 50w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Tait T500 SII 70.425 70.450MHz - Now with G6OHM 4 Ch. Conversion! Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] X Server Wont Start....
Hi All, Had a power failure, and now this: execve failed for /etc/X11/x (errno2) giving up xinit: no such file or directory (errno2) unable to connect to x server xinit: no such process (errno3): server error Any ideas? I have tried to remove and reinstall xfree, but it wont budge... all I get is a message telling me it was not found when I give it the rpm -e command, and if I try to urpmi it back in, I get everything already installed Help!! James
Re: [newbie] How is doing this? Firefox won't be default browser
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:25 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, This is really got me into my nerve. I've made Firefox 1.0 as my default browser using KDE menu File Association txt html, and use %U in the application command so that it can open url correctly from Kmail. But, every time I run Firefox, it always asks whether it wanted to be default browser, I answer Yes everytime. The problem occurs when somehow I open Konqueror to browse local file, etc... This WILL BROKE the %U option, thus Firefox won't open url from Kmail correctly. Can I make the %U permanent? Does KDE refuse to let us kill it's konqueror as default browser? Thanks. You know, this sounds awfully familiar. It seems like I had that same problem with Mozilla under v9.2 of Mandrake here once. If I remember correctly, there was a .netscape directory that I deleted, and I'm not sure if I deleted the hidden folder for Mozilla or not, then restarted it. You could move .mozilla (or whatever firefox is using) to a safe backup, then try it. This of course, was all in my normal users home directory. HTHs. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1CE Speedtouch USB ADSL
Hi, Can somebody help me before I ditch Linux altogether?? I have just installed 10.1CE, and it looks very nice etc, but as usual, I am having trouble getting it onto the web with my speedtouch USB ADSL modem. Mandrake was fine up until 10OE, and it just wouldnt work. I tried various measures, and gave up trying in the end! I even tried Fedora 2, using speedbundle, and again, it wouldnt work. So, I come back to MDK, and again, problems :-) Maybe there are updated packages for speedtouch, ppp and ppp_pppoatm (what I use), but I cant get the box onto the web to get them. Can anyone post a link to updated packages, so that I can download them with this windows box, and install from disk? If any of you are interested, I have pasted the output of my bootlog below, to see if anyone can throw any light on the subject. Many thanks, Yours frustratedly :-) James _ Dec 2 13:48:15 127 network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Dec 2 13:48:17 127 network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: PPPoATM plugin_init Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:0.0 Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: connect(0.0): Invalid argument Dec 2 13:48:18 127 ifup: Dec 2 13:48:18 127 network: Bringing up interface ppp0: failed Dec 2 13:48:18 127 portmap: portmap startup succeeded Dec 2 13:48:26 127 alsa: succeeded
Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:24:15 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Mikkel, One more question please. You can share /home, /boot, and swap between the two, as long as /boot is large enough for all the kernel versions you are using, along with the inital RAM disk inages. (It is handy that 9.2 and 10.0 are running different versions of the kernel.) I assume that I can't share /. How do I get a root partition for the 10.0 version? For the boot setup, you have a couple of choices - you can use the same boot loader for both, as long as you keep /etc/lilo.conf in sync for both. Or you can install the boot loader for 10.0 to the / partition of 10.0, and put in an option in 9.2 to change to it. (This is done in the same way you would do it for Windows, or any other OS.) If you deside on only one copy of lilo, you may want to make /etc/lilo.conf a symlink to a file in /boot. One thing to keep in mind if you are going to share /home is that the user numbers have to match between 9.2 and 10.0. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:43:44 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well for one thing I would suggest that you not share /home as it provides plenty of possibilities for seeing problems arising from incompatible contents of hidden folders. That won't prevent it running, but it may make you think some apps are flaky when they are really just responding to saved settings from the other version. Your choice of course. You will get a new / partition as a consequence of the install. Remember that /etc/fstab is specific to each version, so one will mount / on hda5 or whatever and the new one will mount root on hda9 or something. No overlap there. Thank you Brian and Mikkel. I will get this setup running this evening. Thanks again John montgomery Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
