Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:50 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to be a tricky thing to accomplish. Here is what I did: New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a 160 gig HD and made it master and the 80 a slave (XP has the whole 80gig drive). On the 160 I put Win98se on the first 40, then swap, then SuSE and finally Mandrake. Both SuSE and Mandrake are in their own single partition (I did not separate / and /Home). Steps; I installed Win98se, then I installed SuSE. The Win98 drive did not show up arigionally in Grub but I edited it and it worked fine then. My XP drive did show up but Grub will not boot it because it does not recognise the file system (is there a workaround for this?). I then installed Mandrake 9.2 and told it to skip the boot loader. Went back into SuSE and edited Grub again but no dice. Here is what I have: === # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 26 06:12:33 2003 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message timeout 8 default 0 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: SuSE### title SuSE kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Mandrake### title Mandrake kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: XP_Home### title XP_Home root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Win98se### title Win98se root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd === Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Here are the partitions: hda1 FAT32 Win98se hda2 swap hda3 SuSE hda4 extended hda5 Mandrake hdb1 XP Home NTFS Thanks Russ Change the Mandrake line to vga=normal and see if it works. I'm not sure what the problem is. Jim -- 10:01:01 up 15 days, 1:18, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.43, 0.27 Running Mandrake 9.2 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Registered Linux User: 181038 --http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake is installed but will not boot into root
Hi I finally got Linux Mandrake installed on my mac 8600 But I can't get it to boot with the kernel that came with it. It keeps telling me that it can't boot into hde8,that is where my root partition is. Anybody have any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install problems with Mandrake 9.1 on a Mac 8600 w/G3 upgrade
Hi everyone! I am new tothis list and I hope someone can help me on this problem I am trying to install Linux mandrake on a Mac 8600 which has a newertech maxpowr G3 300Mhz processor 497megs of ram. It also has a ATI Rage 128 video card installed, 30GB Harddrive w/ mac os 9.0 The problem is that when I try to boot into Linux Mandrake it comes to a point and tells me that it can't find my cdrom? I am useing bootx 1.2.2 I have tryed to install it several times,I am about ready to give up. I would be grateful If I got any help on this. Thanks Jim -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Remove
Hope tis is right James S. Lawson Network Administrator Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original message. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem
I had some problems like this with ext3 so I switched to reiserFS. So far 2 day so good. -Original Message- From: João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem I got this twice, as I was using linux and got a blackout. When I turned on the system again, it gave me this message, then I wanted to repair the errors. When the boot was complete, I got many erros. One of them, i couldnt start X. Some /usr/bin commands where lost, and some other files where lost too. Then, without knowledge enough to repair file to file, and without time to do so, I reinstalled my mdk system. Finished the install, another blackout, and the same problem. Reinstall again. So, should I use another FS? Is there any FS better in all ways (performance, confiability)? Thanks - Original Message - From: Dale Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 6:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem Hi, I was hoping that someone could help me with this question. I have a redhat box as a fileserver I was just wondering something about the EXT3 filesystem (or maybe them all in general). After a power outage, the machine started up with the following error ### Start Message ### Your filesystem appears to be shutdown uncleanly Press Y within 4 seconds to force file system integrity check #So I press 'y' /dev/hda5: /lost+found not found. CREATED /dev/hda5: Optimizind Directories: 16350 48487 63105 79467 94847 111234 126216 126813 141986 (continues) /dev/hda5: * REBOOT LINUX * /dev/hda5: 63815/52416 files (0.3% non contiguous), 158268/504031 blocks Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N) (beware you can lose data) ### END Message ### When I select yes, I was just wondering how after it does the checks and fixes the errors I can see what its done. If a file got corrupted during the shutdown and it wasn't able to be repaired (through the journal, etc...) how would I know what files were affected so I could manually remove/fix them so that I dont have corrupted files lying around? Is there a log of some sort ? Thank you in advance for your help. _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] [OT]:CD tray doesn't eject
You mean the black color conector on the cable on a ultra cable. -Original Message- From: Marc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT]:CD tray doesn't eject On Thursday 07 August 2003 08:03 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi all, I just bought a EIDE Western Digital Caviar (I think it is also called Ultra ATA) and made it the master. The ATAPI Sony CD-ROM is the slave. After boot, I get the obvious message - device not ready. The problem is that I am not able to eject the CD tray (so that I can begin Mandrake installation). Motherboard = D815EEA Processor= PIII 866 MHz I am able to see both the ATAPI CD-ROM Hard Disk in the BIOS. Has anyone faced this problem before? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Keshav Can you try setting the CD drive up as master on the second IDE channel. I have set up at least 50 machines that way and never had the problems that you describe. If all you are using is 1 CD drive and 1 HDD things should run faster using 1 drive on each IDE channel. Make sure both drives are set as master. Make sure that any drive set as master is at the end of the IDE cable. If you still have problems try the eject button every couple of seconds after starting the machine. Marc KM5KW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
I have mine as cd-rom master drive slave it worked fine for me this way. -Original Message- From: Sharrea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake On Thursday 07 August 2003 19:48, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Fosters is only sold to N.America because no one here wants to drink it - it's too weak, yet the N.American's think it's too strong. Here we drink either VB or No typo. We all know Aussie's can't spell... ;) Of course NZ gets your stinky Fosters and the not-so-stinky VB. Actually, VB is my third-favourite beer wtih DB being No.1 - draught not the wussy lagers. And now I don't feel like such a p*sshead... DB is only 4 or 4.5% - can't read the label on the bottle just now... Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache will not allow http: - only https://
Hi All I keep getting the error page: Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. Hint: https://localhost/ Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.44 (Mandrake Linux/11mdk) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.44 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.1 Server at localhost Port 443 Does anyone know how to set-up Apache so that you can view webpages using the http: protocol and not the https: protocol? Many thanks for any help. Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache will not allow http: - only https://
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:33, Haywiremac wrote: On 01 Aug 2003 11:00:08 +1200 Jim Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. Hint: https://localhost/ Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.44 (Mandrake Linux/11mdk) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.44 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.1 Server at localhost Port 443 Does anyone know how to set-up Apache so that you can view webpages using the http: protocol and not the https: protocol? I got that too. Have you been making changes to Vhosts.conf? The Vhosts.conf is unchanged. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache will not allow http: - only https://
Have you made any changes at all to the configuration, like the document root (/var/www/html)? Have you replaced the default page? What are you putting in the browser address field to access the server, it's IP or name? Are you doing this *on* the server or from another machine? -- HaywireMac The DocumentRoot has changed and I can view many websites that I have on my machine using https://localhost/dirname but not using http:// That is when I get the message saying I should use https:// I have Apache2 running on Mandrake9.1 all on my laptop. Looking back I have never been able to view pages using http: - only https: Is this how Apache is set-up by default? Thanks for any help Jim On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:43, Jim Thorpe wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:33, Haywiremac wrote: On 01 Aug 2003 11:00:08 +1200 Jim Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. Hint: https://localhost/ Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.44 (Mandrake Linux/11mdk) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.44 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.1 Server at localhost Port 443 Does anyone know how to set-up Apache so that you can view webpages using the http: protocol and not the https: protocol? I got that too. Have you been making changes to Vhosts.conf? The Vhosts.conf is unchanged. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache will not allow http: - only https://
Hi contents of /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost That's all Thanks Jim On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:43, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:23, Jim Thorpe wrote: Hi The permissions are set to drwxrwxrwx (all the way from root to the required dir). I have also tried to view pages specifying the port like so: http://localhost:80/dirname to try to get away from the secure port 443 but I still get the same message. As I'm running all of this on my laptop I have very low security set. You can even do directory browsing (if there is no index.html page) Thanks Jim what does your /etc/hosts file say for localhost? On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:16, Haywiremac wrote: On 01 Aug 2003 12:15:33 +1200 Jim Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The DocumentRoot has changed and I can view many websites that I have on my machine using https://localhost/dirname but not using http:// I bet that's the issue. you have to make sure the permissions are correct on the directories where the pages are located. make sure they are searchable like this: drwxr-xr-x Looking back I have never been able to view pages using http: - only https: Is this how Apache is set-up by default? Not at all, by default it will answer on port 80, http. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache will not allow http: - only https://
Hi The 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost line didn't work either. I do have a network card connected to my laptop that the apache server runs on. Thanks Jim On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 15:39, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 22:36, Jim Thorpe wrote: Hi contents of /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost That's all Thanks Jim should work, but try this line instead, 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost also do you have a network card? or dialup? On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:43, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:23, Jim Thorpe wrote: Hi The permissions are set to drwxrwxrwx (all the way from root to the required dir). I have also tried to view pages specifying the port like so: http://localhost:80/dirname to try to get away from the secure port 443 but I still get the same message. As I'm running all of this on my laptop I have very low security set. You can even do directory browsing (if there is no index.html page) Thanks Jim what does your /etc/hosts file say for localhost? On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:16, Haywiremac wrote: On 01 Aug 2003 12:15:33 +1200 Jim Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The DocumentRoot has changed and I can view many websites that I have on my machine using https://localhost/dirname but not using http:// I bet that's the issue. you have to make sure the permissions are correct on the directories where the pages are located. make sure they are searchable like this: drwxr-xr-x Looking back I have never been able to view pages using http: - only https: Is this how Apache is set-up by default? Not at all, by default it will answer on port 80, http. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag
Actually, SCO just wants to jack up it's stock price and/or get bought out. They've succeede (temporarally) on the first part, I don't think the second is going to happen anytime soon. I think I am going to file a suit against SCO for infringing my IP on a device called a 'Wheel' which is used by SCO in the distribution of their products, and a process called 'breathing' in which oxygen is introduced into the body and carbon dioxide is released. Hell, I bet that Mr. McBride breathes and even has a few wheels on his desk chair! I bet he's been breathing for his entire life but I have yet to receive a single royalty check! (This makes only slightly less sense than claiming Linux is infringing on SCOs IP for SMP, JFS, and NUMA...) -Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:54:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag On Saturday 21 June 2003 06:49 pm, JoeHill graced me with: http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1018669.html It's official, Sun is right in there with MS and SCO. SCO and M$ want Linux to die. Sun just wants to take advantage of the FUD to steal some business from IBM. There's a significant difference. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
(Disclaimer: IANAL) The GPL is significantly less complex than most other software licenses. The complexity is (supposedly) necessary from a legal standpoint. For some reason 'You are free to do whatever you want with this software, however if you distribute it you must distribute the source code with it and any changes to the code must be distributed under these terms.' doesn't cut it from a legal standpoint. My guess it is lawyers defending their jobs. If legal contracts were written this clearly, we wouldn't need so many lawyers... Sort of like programmers writing obfuscated code - Only worse than most Perl hackers could ever imagine. -Original Message- From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:06:06 +0100 Subject: Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM On Friday 20 Jun 2003 2:12 pm, JoeHill wrote: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136285,00.html IMHO, the GPL is becoming difficult. It's so complex it would take a lawyer to work out what it really means. When you screw your brain around it enough you find it will probably allow what you want to do, but it takes some mental strain and it isn't a sure thing. That makes it a hard sell to management types, and an easy pot-shot for the entrenched pundits. BSD is a lot simpler. Maybe we need a license with the effective meaning of the GPL, but which isn't weighed down with the philosophical baggage. It would be nice to have a 100% service oriented income-model across the board, but is it necessary, achievable or desirable? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!
Don't forget the fact that his web page also linked to a p0rn site! (I'm sure it was unintentional. Most likely the DNS registration expired and a porn site operator grabbed it up... Either way it's kind of funny having a 'conservative republican' linking to a porn site!) -Original Message- From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:29:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole! On Thursday 19 June 2003 07:37 pm, Mark wrote: Seems Orrin Hatch also maybe a software pirate Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate? http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html Mark: Thanks for this excellent link. I'd seen another version of this story, but it didn't have all the juicy material about the other senators (and Continental Airlines as well) who are evidently doing the same damn thing. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] This is an outrage!
On the other hand, I have said for years that the world would be a much better place of only Steve Ballmer would switch to decaf. -Original Message- From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19 Jun 2003 16:55:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] This is an outrage! On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 07:53, JoeHill wrote: Damn them to hell! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/0459201 I AGREE! It is the blasphemy of blasphemies. May they all rot in lakes of what they have made. --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Creating archive
I have a windows version of bzip2. It is included with unxutils, a collection of native Win32 ports of various GNU utilities. You can download it at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:10:42 +1000 Subject: Re: [newbie] Creating archive On Wed, 28 May 2003 06:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? On my right-click menu it offers Bzip2, tar and zip. Can you define the difference, please, Stephen? Anne I think I'll usurp his job and add my 2 cents... Tar simply puts all the files/directories into a single archive. Zip actually compresses it. Used together you get a .tar.gz, where you get the benefit of archiving an entire directory tree (if you wish) with compression. Bzip2 was written by Julian Seward, it's a block sorting compressor, and on some files you can make them literally 10 times smaller than zips. But not all Windows computers can read them (WinZip can't). Regards, _nasturtium -- _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please Reply All/cc to avoid mail being lost in filter problems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] OT, Is Windows a Virus?
Well, The Fizzer virus consists of over 200K of convoluted speghetti code and had a built-in web server embedded into it. This my not help with the 'Is Windows a virus' discussion, but the viruses apparently are beginning to appear more like Windows ;-) -Original Message- From: Ian Trickett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:31:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] OT, Is Windows a Virus? - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:53 AM Subject: [newbie] OT, Is Windows a Virus? Sorry this had to be posted to THIS list not the OT one... yes i'll burn in hell for it but oh well.. Is Windows a Virus? No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do: * They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that. * Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that. * Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too. * Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too. * Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too. Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature. So Windows is not a virus. It's a bug. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert What a gem. P.S. Burn in hell? We'll probably all see you there! Ian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
Actually, the cost of development tools is not much of an issue. When you are paying a programmer $50-100K/yr, another $1100 or so for MS Visual Dev Stuido isn't that big of deal. -Original Message- From: Eko Budiharto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:09:35 +0700 Subject: Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ? Well, for personal use, it is partial money issue. But for in the corporate environment, it is a big issue, because developing with Microsoft very expensive. Microsoft charges per head for development softwares. With Linux, you can develop for free with Java, Perl, etc. On Sunday 30 March 2003 01:47 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: I guess it is partially about money for me. A few years ago when I knew almost nothing about computers I was more or less forced to buy a computer with windoze 98 installed, to the best of my knowledge that was the only thing available on any name brand computer and I sure did not know enough at the time to build my own at that time. I latter found out about the way that microsoft strong arms computer manufactures into building and selling only machines with windoze products installed. I also found out a hell of a lot of other things about how microsoft does business and none were to my liking. Due to the fact that my first machine came with windoze 98 installed I have a windoze 98 disk that I could use on any of the machines that I own now. It would be a bit unstable, need to waste resources on virus protection and have a number of security holes ECT but it would be capable of doing anything that I wanted to do. However I would much rather spend a few dollars on a operating system done by a honest decent company than continue to use stuff done by a dishonest corrupt monolopy. I was involved in cooperate America long enough to understand microsoft style business practices and I prefer not to support that sort of company in any way shape or form!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
Hello I am looking for a good TV Card to use with Mandrake 9.0. I plan to upgrade to 9.1 next month. I have searched a few web sites and so far have found a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 but it is a bit pricey for my budget. Are there other recommendations for one that will work with Linux? I do not need too many bells and whistles but would like to watch TV and listen to FM radio on my computer as well as be able to record from my camcorder on CD or DVD eventually when I get a DVD burner. Many thanks in advance! Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] using a camcorder in Mandrake
Hi I have been holding off on buying a camcorder for a long time but finally found one for a price I could not pass up that was within the family budget. It does not have all the latest features but will work for what I need it for and was only $248 from Amazon.com. It is a Sony CCDTRV108 Hi8 Camcorder with 2.5 LCD that had excellent reviews. It does not have a USB or Firewire port but does come with an S-video out. I have a Panasonic EggCam video camera with a Bt848 video capture card that is curently connected to my computer and works well with Mandrake Linux 9.0. Can I use this card with my camcorder to play back the tape and capture individual frames to edit the tape or save a still image? I am new to this as one can tell. Are there any other options for using this camcorder in Linux? Many thanks for the help! Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] antivirus
What about running an antivirus program on a linux file server that is supporting Windows clients? While it might not ever find any Linux viruses, scanning the shared file system for (Windows) viruses is a good idea even if the workstations have antivirus software installed. -Original Message- From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:00:03 -0900 Subject: Re: [newbie] antivirus On Monday 17 February 2003 09:55 pm, mohammad soroushian wrote: Hi all, Will anybody please tell me how can I find a reliable antivirus for mandrake? Thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com Well, there are like 19 viruses for linux, and none of them can propagate unless you are terminally stupid and run as root. Other exploits are handled by reading the security advisories and staying updated. Windows is the built-in security problem. Antiviruses for linux are usually just scanners which watch email traffic and intercept Windows specific viruses to keep the windows machines protected by a linux server. An antivirus for linux is 98% snake oil. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
Thanks Just did a little checking and found an rpm that includes the word unsafe and mentions the possibility of some seg fault errors. Is there a safe one somewhere to download? This machine has been running flawlessly on 9.0 and I hate to mess up a good thing. Thanks again! On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:31 pm, robin wrote: Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? xmms-more-vis-plugins contains GeForce, which sounds like what you're looking for. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] automating e-mail retrieval
Hi Folks I have used Linux now since 1998 starting with Red Hat and then Mandrake since it first came out. I would like to explore some of the more advanced features but still consider myself a novice in the Linux world. I do get along well in most cases but have limited time to read as much as I would like. Being very short of time for such things as checking e-mail, I would like to automate the process and sort messages into folders that interest me the most. Is there a way to use Linux to dial up my ISP periodically, check my mail and then sort it for me? Is there a how-to that explains this? I use K-Mail primarily. I read the majority of the posts on this list but have to skim over some of them to get to the stuff that really helps me. Many thanks in advance!! Jim Snyder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux Hardware Database
I visited the zdnet hardware database at http://lhd.zdnet.com/ around Christmas and found that it had been hacked. Instead of the very helpful database (which I referred to a lot), there was a pic of a mostly nekkid lady plus the usual w3 r l33t h@x0rz language below it. Afterwards, the site seemed to go back and forth for a while between being completely down and being just a blank page, and now seems to be just plain gone. If the site was actually hosted on a MS server then perhaps it was just poetic justice, but if it was a Linux server... :( Try http://www.linuxhardware.org/. Content is a little lean right now, but hopefully it will get better. And of course Mandrake, Redhat, and Suse each maintain their own hardware compatability lists. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Rockingham County Linux Users Group www.rock.lug.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Hardware Database Sridhar: Are you aware of another Linux HCL? I sometimes refer to the Mandrake list, but sometimes its a good idea to get a second opinion. -- cmg On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:42 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Microsoft Apologist (and ZDNet editor) David Berlind took it down a while ago. On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:33:58 +1300, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the ZDNet database moved or is it just down for two days now? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
After reading the 'Which is better: KDE or GNOME?' thread, I feel the same way... -Original Message- From: Tomas Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 08:55:41 +0100 Subject: [newbie] HELP HELP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Router/firwall
Can you do a little ascii sketch of how things are connected? When you say I can ping both nics in the Mandrake box from the client that makes me wonder if you have both router nics plugged into the same hub. A simple firewall/router setup *should* look something like this: Internet cablemodem | | eth0 firewall/router eth1 | | client---hub---client | | client Once everything is connected right, you'll need to configure the firewall to masquerade your internet connection to the systems on your local network. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Rockingham County Linux Users Group www.rock.lug.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Router/firwall I am trying to setup a router/firewall. Installed the nic set eth0 to the 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 set eth1 to the ISP static IP address and mask. Connected the computers . I can ping anything from the Mandrake 9.0 box. I can ping both nics in the Mandrake box from the client I can ping the mandrake box eth1 from an outside computer but I cannot get outside the from the client in the network. I cannot ping the ISP's gateway or anthing else outside the eth1 nic. What have a done wrong? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Distro for a 486
1MB Cirrus Logic VESA Local Bus Video card - Are VLB cards problematic with Linux? Most VLB cards are problematic on any OS. However if you aren't going to run X (and on a 486 you probably don't want to) it won't make much of a difference. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MNF INSTALL
I'm running MNF on a Pentium 100 with 56 megs of RAM. Slow, but it works. Can you boot the failsafe kernel? You may need to pass a parameter to the default kernel to get it to work with your particular mb/chipset/processor/video/ram combination. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Rockingham County Linux Users Group www.rock.lug.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MNF INSTALL Don't quote me on this, but I think a K6/2-450 falls below the minimum architecture requirements for MNF. Lanman On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 09:49, Tom wrote: I am trying to install MNF Mandrake on a AMD k6-2 450 processor. The cd booted and installation appeared to go smoothly until reboot. The computer hangs at: Detected 451.834 MHZ Processor Console: Colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating Delay loop...897.84 BogoMIPS This is a Epox Motherboard with AGP video Card. I successfully installed MNF on another test machine with the same motherboard but a amd k62 500 processor in it. Any suggestions? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
Thanks, Hopefully I can find a supported card at a good price. -Original Message- From: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:33:29 -0200 Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD? On Ter 24 Dez 2002 15:34, Jim Dawson wrote: Can someone tell me where I may find a list of supported TV capture boards? TV capture cards seem to be missing from the Mandrake supported hardware web page. Prolink Pixelview Pro! (mine is a 878+w/FM) 848 and 878 family! Since they are Conexant! And Pilips! No problems so far! I've never tried to capture but just watch Ricardo -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:15:44 + Subject: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD? Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in is working properly and turned up. I can record plain audio from the line-in, just not audio as part of a video capture. May Iask whether your Haupauge Win tv card can handle digital tv ? Is it analogue only / HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. I've promised my better half I will not be here tomorrow, but I suspect a certain gentleman form a faraway place may just bring me something that needs some of your help, so who knows. John -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: RE: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux
The problem is that CDRecord apparently only supports the DVD-R/-RW formats. While the drive would work under Linux, until CD+R/RW is supported by CDRecord (or an equivalent program) it would work only as a very expensive DVD-ROM. -Original Message- From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:43:22 +0800 Subject: RE: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux There is a really nice Sony out that supports both standards.. (and dvd-ram I think) Also a pioneer from memory.. don't know if they support linux though.. but I'd go and check sony's site. There isn't a huge amount of difference between the two.. it was mostly just two different consortiums that came up with different solutions and haven't settled on one yet. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Tuesday, 24 December 2002 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux On Monday 23 December 2002 11:12 pm, James Dawson wrote: Does anyone know if DVD+RWs are supported under Linux? I've seen some reasonably priced DVD+RW drives recently but the only drives I see listed as being compatible with Linux are DVD-RW drives. Also, DVD-RW drives seem to becoming harder to find lately. And along with that what is the difference? I'm not finding any info to really tell what is different between the + and -. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
Can someone tell me where I may find a list of supported TV capture boards? TV capture cards seem to be missing from the Mandrake supported hardware web page. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:15:44 + Subject: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD? Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in is working properly and turned up. I can record plain audio from the line-in, just not audio as part of a video capture. May Iask whether your Haupauge Win tv card can handle digital tv ? Is it analogue only / HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. I've promised my better half I will not be here tomorrow, but I suspect a certain gentleman form a faraway place may just bring me something that needs some of your help, so who knows. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] adding DVD player
Hi I just installed a new internal DVD player (Toshiba) and can see it in my Mandrake Control Center. It is on it's own cable and set as master. I do not know how to add the DVD to the /dev directory as it is not there and I cannot use my DVD players (Xine and Ogle). Ogle gives me an error message that /dev/dvd is not there. There was an HP CD burner in the slot previously and it was not functioning very well so it was unplugged some time ago and I have been using an external HP CD burner. Not sure if this matters. Is there a simple command to add the DVD? Many thanks in advance. I cannot believe how cheap these players are now. This one was only $45 off the web. Jim Snyder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] modprobe error
Hello I am using Mandrake 9.0 and have been having the same problem with a slow boot for awhile on my desktop system. My laptop works perfectly and boots much quicker. Both duel boot to Windows XP which I seldom use anymore except for CAD/GIS work. Today, I noticed the following error message while booting: modprobe: modprobe: can't locate fb0 unmounting initrd: Any suggestions to fix this? Many thanks in advance. This list is really great and I have learned a lot. Jim Snyder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Non-root access to mtink
Does anyone know how to configure Mtink to run as a non-root user? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: RE: [newbie] palm pilot
J-pilot was pretty easy to set up, I gave it the path to my serial port and I was able to sync. Evolution on the other hand was a b*tch to set up, in fact I still don't know what I did that made it work. In either case you may need to add yourself to the appropriate group for access to the serial port. -Original Message- From: Dan Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:43:45 -0500 Subject: RE: [newbie] palm pilot Did you have to do much additional configuring? I have tried with Mandrake 8 and gave up! Dan Butler Chancellor Virginia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Dawson Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] palm pilot On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:46 am, walt wrote: Anyone manage to get a palm pilot to sync in mandrake 9.0? Walt I've manged to get my palm to sync using both j-pilot and evolution under Mandrake 9.0. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Anyone writing DVDs with Mandrake?
Hi I am considering purchasing the new Sony DRU 500 DVD writer and was wondering if anyone has had experience using the drive in Mandrake 9.0? I would like to create DVDs from home videos taken with a Sony digital video camera. Many thanks in advance!! Jim Snyder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
I has similar problems with my Toshiba laptop until I upgraded to a PCMCIA hardware modem. Now everything works wonderfully and I spend most of my time in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I was also just able to get Ogle to play DVDs on the same machine. On Friday 06 December 2002 06:41 am, Mark Weaver wrote: greg wrote: Hi, I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first time I boot in, with no further configuration, Red Hat the same, didn't have to touch a single setting to get it to work, but with Mandrake I have tried every possible combination known to me, and set everything as it should be, re-installed three times, with less and less packages installed to see if anything was interferring with the net connection, but no go. It looks like I will be getting rid of it for good, and reverting back to Red Hat, where I can at least use the system. If you don't know what problems I have had, just do a search for my posts internet problem mandrake 9 for an idea. I am about to go to work, but I think tomorrow, if nothing has come up and I still can't get it to work, that will be it. Unbelievable! thanks to those who have tried to help, but I can't take this anymore. regards Greg Greg, How are you trying to set this up and what kind of modem have you got in there? For the best results a hardware modem is prefered. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Best of both worlds
Let me know how the BeOS VM works out. I thought that BeOS was incompatible with VMWare. -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04 Dec 2002 21:49:01 +1100 Subject: [newbie] Best of both worlds Just wanted y'all to have a look-see at the beauty and practicality of running linux - while running WinXP in a VMware window! Machine: Intel Celeron 1.2ghz / 512mb RAM / GeForce 4-MX 64mb RAM Screen res is 1600x1200 - the WinXP screen res is 1280x1024 The VM disk is 6gb, with 256mb RAM virtual for the XP VM. SB-Live! sound, printing directly through /dev/lp0 to a Canon BJC 265SP, using Samba to access the host file system, NAT on the virtual ethernet for outside internet access. The VMware XP is visible and accessible to the other workstations on the internal network here - as a regular workstation with no issues. Actually runs faster in a VM than on real hardware - go figure... And who says you need to dual boot? (I have VM's of Win95, Win98, MS-DOS 6.22 w/ QEMM 7.8 and Desqview/X - AND WFW 3.11, MDK v9, OS/2 Warp3 and currently working on a VM of BeOS 5.0.3 Personal Edition) -- Wed Dec 4 21:40:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Oh sure, this costume may look silly, but it lets me get in and out of dangerous situations -- I work for a federal task force doing a survey on urban crime. Look, here's my ID, and here's a number you can call, that will put you through to our central base in Atlanta. Go ahead, call -- they'll confirm who I am. Unless, of course, the Astro-Zombies have destroyed it. -- Captain Freedom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake
Have you experimented with master/slave/cable-select settings on the CDROM? Are you sure the MDK CD's are good? Check for bios updates for the motherboard? Just some ideas, hope they help. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Rockingham County Linux Users Group www.rock.lug.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nikunj Bansal Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake Hi all, I recently upgraded the motherboard and the CPU on my PC and am unable to use or install Mandrake (tried versions 8.2 and 9.0) after that. On the other hand, the previous RedHat 9.0 install on another partition on the same PC works fine as well as RedHat 9.0 Install CD works fine too. The new Motherboard is ABIT BD-711 and new CPU is Intel Celeron 1.8GHz. First of all my old install of Mandrake 8.2 wont boot on the new setup. So I tried installing anew. However, both 8.2 and 9.0 installs give an error No CDROM device found in the initial stages of the install itself. So, I did more experimentation on my setup. Apparently any IDE devices plugged into the motherboard IDE controller are not being recognized by the Mandrake installed kernel as well as the Mandrake Install CD kernel. How do I know this? Because I have a PCI-IDE bridge too and when I plugged my CDRom and the hard disk into this controller and boot from the floppy using the cdrom.img on it, the install starts recognizing these. However this way, I cannot use CDROMs to boot my PC at all and I dont wish to configure this way. Anyone seen any similar problems before with ABIT-BD-711 or some other motherboard? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Nikunj. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pcmcia modems w/Mandrake 9.0
Hi My Toshiba 1805-s204 has what is called a software modem in it. This is what is described in the hardware list in XP. I am assuming this is a winmodem which is why has not been responding in Mandrake 9.0. Therefore, I am considering a pcmcia modem in order to use Mandrake on this notebook. Does anyone have suggestions for a good one? I have found a 3COM 3CCM156B 56K GLOB.V90 PCMCIA MODEM Does anyone have experience with this particular modem. The price looks right. Many thanks in advance Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???
Have you looked at Mozilla Mail? I admit earlier versions left something to be desired but in the latest versions it seems to work pretty good. On top of that Mozilla seems to have fewer security issues than IE (If your users seem reluctant to use Mozilla rather than IE just show them how to block pop-up windows and how to use tabs...) and when and if they ever switch to a non-Microsoft OS they will already be familliar with the browser and mail applications. -Original Message- From: Kenn Murrah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:49:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users??? Okay, gang ... I've won most of the battles here ... Thanks in no small part to the help I've received from this list, I have a Postfix/IMAP mail server up and running and all is well with the world ... The rub comes in trying to set up my Windows computers to access their mail ... Outlook and Outlook Express are out (per an edict from The Head Boss), and no one really likes using Eudora ... and I'm having trouble finding much of anything else. So I was thinking ... Would it be possible (or even practical) for Windows users to access my server via cygwin/XFree86, so that they could use a linux mail client instead? (I'm rather partial toward Evolution, due to its simple interface that would hopefully keep the troops from screaming every 3 minutes for help.) And for security's sake, would it be possible to mirror my EngardeLinux email onto my Mandrake box, so that I wouldn't have to run X on my EngardeLinux but rather on a box with no exposure to the Internet? I've already set up cygwin/XFree86 on my test box and tested its connectivity to the box I hope to use as a mirror, so if you folks tell me i'm not entirely off my rocker --- I need you to point me in the right direction to learn about how to mirror (if that's the correct word here) my EngardeLinux mail to the intermediate box ... Of course, I'm a true newbie here, so feel free to tell me i'm nuts and suggest a better way to accomplish my goals. thanks, kenn __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slow boot
Yes, I did the cmos thing, etc. It must be the network card. How do I stop the network from loading at startup? Thank you On Sunday 17 November 2002 06:46 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:41, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I recently loaded mandrake 9.0 and am thrilled with it overall. I have had some problems with a HP CD-writer that I finally unplugged as I have another USB HP CD-RW that works fine. I am suspecting a problem from doing this. When Linux boots, it pauses for a few minutes finding module dependencies and then proceeds to boot up quickly after that. Is there any particular reason for this? I have a network card installed but have no other computers connected currently. Could that be causing this also? Many thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It sounds like it is waiting for something to time out before it can proceed. Is there still a reference to the old CD-writer in you /etc/fstab? What about, after disconnecting the drive (both power AND data cable, right?), did you remove it from the CMOS settings if it was originally manually set (versus auto-detect)? I had a problem with a failed floppy disk (actually, the cable was loose). The boot process would hang while trying to access the device. I replaced the cable and all was well. It could also be your network card. Unless you told Mandrake otherwise, during the install, I believe it tries to look for a dhcp and dns server. If you aren't using the network card at this time, you can always tell it to not load at startup and see if that improves the boot time. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] modem setup for Toshiba 1805-s204
Hi I was able to load Mandrake 9.0 on my Toshiba Satellite 1805-s204 and everything works well except that I cannot use my internal modem yet. The internal networking card is working fine. I am suspecting an IRQ conflict or the need to edit a file somewhere. Can someone guide me through this process? I have search the web and how-to's with no luck. Many thanks in advance. Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SMB package missing
Ted, When you run a rpm -qa | grep samba what do you get? This command will query the rpm database and grep (search for) samba. I get: samba-common-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-client-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-server-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-swat-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk I have the samba client (common and client) installed, which is default I believe, and the samba server (server and swat), which is not by default. I you do not have the last two then you need to install then. I would use the Install Software application and search for samba, you should find the server and swat on disk 2. Jim F. On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 00:55, Ted Manka wrote: HI all! Ok, so here is the deal. I am trying to set up a samba server on my home network. In KDE I right click on the file I want to share, I follow the dialog to share the file but then at the end I get a funny message: Diskdrake Mandatory package SMB is missing But the kicker is that SMB is installedI'm pretty sure it is. SoI guess my question is: how can I verify the integrity(existence?) of my SMB package...and I guess I wanted to see if anyone else was having this problem. Prob just me. Ok so I wanted to say thanks in advance to all who help me with this problem...and thanks for having me in the Mandrake community. Ted Manka Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
Marco, I'm not positive what you saw, but it sounds like you got a pop-up message from some web site trying to sell you something. An advertisement or something. 1) I would not worry about it. 2) I would turn off pop-up windows. In mozilla go to Edit - Preferences, then under Advanced - Scipts Plugins uncheck the Open unrequested windows option. This will stop most of the unwanted pop-up windows. Jim F On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:46, Marco Verheul wrote: Hello, I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting unwanted visitors. I was directed to the following link: http://images.bonzi.com/fastclick/ia9b2.asp Is this a clever way to sell some product or is this for real. And if it is, should I worry being on Linux. I use Mozilla 0.9.8 on Madrake 8.1. For those who are going to recommend me to upgrade, don't worry. I'm going to get back to you soon for a full upgrade, questions about re-partitioning etc... Regards, Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting up network scanning under Mandrake?
Does anyone have a HOWTO or set of instructions on setting up network scanning? I am trying to set up a SCSI scanner on my 'server' computer to share with a Linux workstation (and later to a couple of Windows computers using SaneTwain) but so far I havn't got any further than being able to scan directly from the server. The documentation on the SANE web site isn't too helpful in setting up saned and sane-net. I'm running Mandrake 8.2 right now (I plan on upgrading to 9.0 as soon as I have the time...) I have saned set up on the server computer but as far as I can tell it isn't running (or running properly anyway), and I'm not sure if I have sane-net installed correctly on the Linux workstation. (xsane isn't detecting any scanners. I think I need to specify the scanner when I call xsane but I can't figure out how to do that, other than specifying the hostname of the saned server in the net.conf file.) Any assistance in setting this up would be greatly appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Realplayer and web sites - solution
List, For any one else who uses realplayer and noticed that the help, music, or any thing else that uses a web browser does not work. I have a workaround. Seems realplayer is expecting Netscape to be loaded in /usr/bin/netscape. MDK9 does not have netscape it uses mozilla. What I did was make a soft link from /usr/bin/netscape to /usr/bin/mozilla. So that it will find netscape and launch it, but it's really starting mozilla. su (to root) cd /usr/bin ln -s mozilla netscape Worked for me. :-) Jim F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to set up saned under Mandrake 8.2
Does anyone know how to set up saned under Mandrake 8.2? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cisco VPN client question update
List, One more update. In 8.2 this same client complies just fine. My 8.2 is using gcc-2.96 where 9.0 is using gcc-3.2. Could this be a problem? And again do I care? sence it seems to be working. Jim F On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:16, Jim Fazio wrote: List, My original problem/question was that I could not get my Cisco VPN client to work on any MDK kernel newer than 2.4.18-6 in MDK 8.2. When I upgraded my kernel in 8.2 it failed to ever work again, even on re-install (of vpn client). In MDK9.0 the vpn client also did not work. After alot of research I found that someone once said that the kernel on their RH distro did not appear to be made from the source files that accompanied it. So I did a make dep in my /usr/src/linux, then a make bzImage, and nothing else ( I did not even touch the .config), so this should be an exact copy? of the stock kernel? Well my vpn client works on this new kernel. So I guess my problem is solved. But... On compilation of the vpn client I got this stuff; Making module frag.c: In function `queue_fragment': frag.c:55: warning: concatenation of string literals with __FUNCTION__ is deprecated frag.c:62: warning: concatenation of string literals with __FUNCTION__ is deprecated frag.c:78: warning: concatenation of string literals with __FUNCTION__ is deprecated frag.c: In function `have_all_fragments': frag.c:122: warning: concatenation of string literals with __FUNCTION__ is deprecated frag.c: In function `need_reorder_frag': frag.c:202: warning: concatenation of string literals with __FUNCTION__ is deprecated frag.c: In function `handle_fragment': frag.c:257: warning: concatenation of string literals with __FUNCTION__ is deprecated Create module directory /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/CiscoVPN. Copying module to directory /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/CiscoVPN. Creating start/stop script /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init. Creating VPN configuration file /etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/vpnclient.ini. It seems to work, I get connected, and stay connected. Is this stuff a problem? Should I still be working on this? Or .. just be happy :-) P.S. I love 9.0 and think I'm ready to trash my working 8.2. Jim F. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
If I remember correctly, ReiserFS was incompatible with NFS. Does anyone know if this issue has been resolved yet? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *.Iso check up
Also download the mdsum.90 file, then run md5sum filename.iso to produce it's checksum, then compare the results to the lines in the mdsum.90 file. You should do this before burning the iso's so you do not waste time and media on a bad iso file. Jim F On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:10, Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: Hello All, I downloaded all MDK *.iso files, and burned 3 cds. What can I do to check the integrity of this Iso files? My second Cd have corrupted files or something like this. Tks All. = []'s Lúcio Costa Linux user #204519 We do what we can, we give what we have Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art. ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tudo para criar o seu site: ferramentas fáceis de usar, espaço de sobra e acessórios. http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hoto use tab browsing in Konqueror
List, I thought that I had read that the new Konqueror was going to have tabbed browsing in fact I have seen a picture in the Konqueror manual that shows that the CVS is capable of tabbed browsing, but nowhere can I see how to use it. My question: How do you use tabs in Konqueror? (i.e. not open a new window, but open in a new tab) TIA, Jim F. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sums.9.0
Here's what I used. f7a093af34b8cbe1abc165213fea9deb Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso 05a3ccafaacc37d6d1e2f260fc274549 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso 1a2fd731fb6e30d39b0b99f504b231b3 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso Jim F On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 21:33, Brian Parish wrote: OK, got the ISO's. Now before I burn them I'd like to check them with md5sum -c md5sums.9.0 The mirror I got the ISO's from doesn't have md5sums.9.0 and every other mirror in the world seems to be overun, or only have the beta versions. Anybody out there care to post the three lines of text required? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?
Another source for Linux apperal (although I don't think they have anything Mandrake specific) would be thinkgeek.com -Original Message- From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:19:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing? On Tuesday 24 September 2002 05:46 pm, you wrote: I've looked all over and I haven't found anything that really catches my eye or has a catchy slogan or phrase. With all of the activity creating themes and everything else to personalize linux the way we want, I thought it would be easy to find tshirts that show my love for linux when I'm out and about... but no such luck. Thus I ask for your assistance in helping me track down some snazzy t's. I'd like t's that have something to do with Mandrake, Linux in general, anti-MS, or something along those lines. I currently have a Debian swirl shirt that I bought way back when I played around with Debian but it's getting a little faded (and I haven't used Debian in quite some time). TIA for your help!! Gary you have, of course, checked the nice tee shirts and hats at the mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW DVD Recommendation
I have a Sony CD-RW drive and a 'generic' DVD drive (I think it is a 'HI-VAL' or something like that.) and both work great. Most IDE CD/CDRW/DVD/etc drives are fully ATAPI compliant and should work find. The CDRECORD web site maintains a list of drives that are known not to work with cd record, but it's a pretty short list and most of the drives listed are old and out of production. The Cdrecord web site is: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html The unsupported drive list is: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdr-unsup-1.10.html -Original Message- From: Andrewd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:36:50 +1000 Subject: [newbie] CDRW DVD Recommendation I am thinking of buying and installing a CDRW and DVD player, anyone want to recommend a brand, something which is easily recognised by Mandrake 8.2 and people have installed themselves Thanx Andrew D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Duplexing on Brother HL-1850
I just bought a Brother HL-1850 laser printer, but I can't figure out how to turn on the duplexer. (I selected the driver for the HL-1650, which it is supposed to be compatible with.) Does anyone know how to turn on the duplexer option? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nvidia Drivers and ML9b4
Has anyone gotten the current Nvidia drivers from Nvidia's web site to work with ML9b4? I tried, but now Xwindows refuses to start. I followed the instructions in the README. Am I missing something or does ML9 require new rpm's? Jim Gentry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem installing KDE 3.0.1
Continuation of this message (Damn Evolution!) I attempted to install KDE 3.0.1 by typing 'urpmi *' in the directory that I downloaded the Mandrake 8.2 files for KDE 3.0.1 into. Some of the unresolved dependencies seem to be files that don't exist, such as 'libarts3-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm'. I've checked ftp.kde.org, rpmfind.net, google, and some Mandrake FTP sites and the particular RPMs just don't seem to exist. The offending RPMs are: libarts3-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm kdebase3-3.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs3-3.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm kdebase3-devel-3.0.1-5mdk.i586.rpm arts3-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs3-devel-3.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm libarts3-devel-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm kdebase3-nsplugins-3.0.1-5mdk.i586.rpm When I attempt to install using 'rpm -Uvh' I get: error: failed dependencies: libSDL1.2 is needed by kdeaddons3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdeaddons3-3.0.1-1mdk libSDL-1.2.so.0 is needed by kdeaddons3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdeadmin3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdeartwork3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdebase3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdebase3-nsplugins-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdeedu3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdegames3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdelibs3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt3-devel is needed by kdelibs3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdemultimedia3-3.0.1-1mdk xanim is needed by kdemultimedia3-aktion-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdemultimedia3-aktion-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdenetwork3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdepim3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt3-devel is needed by kdepim3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdesdk3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdetoys3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by kdeutils3-3.0.1-1mdk libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by libarts3-1.0.1-1mdk Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance. On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 17:25, Jim Dawson wrote: I finally got around to installing KDE 3.0.1 and here's what I get: To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (230 MB): libarts3-1.0.1-3mdk.i586 libarts3-1.0.1-1mdk.i586 libarts3-devel-1.0.1-1mdk.i586 arts3-1.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdeaddons3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdenetwork3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdeadmin3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdepim3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdeartwork3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdepim3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdebase3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdesdk3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdebase3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdesdk3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdebase3-nsplugins-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdetoys3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdeedu3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdetoys3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdeutils3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdeutils3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdebase3-3.0.1-5mdk.i586 kdelibs3-3.0.1-2mdk.i586 kdebase3-devel-3.0.1-5mdk.i586 arts3-1.0.1-3mdk.i586 kdegames3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdegames3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdegraphics3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdegraphics3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdelibs3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdelibs3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdemultimedia3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdemultimedia3-aktion-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdemultimedia3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdenetwork3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586 kdelibs3-devel-3.0.1-2mdk.i586 libarts3-devel-1.0.1-3mdk.i586 kdebase3-nsplugins-3.0.1-5mdk.i586 Is it OK? (Y/n) y installing /home/jdawson/Download/kde301/Mandrake82/libarts3-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm ./libarts3-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./libarts3-devel-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./arts3-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdeaddons3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdenetwork3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdeadmin3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdepim3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdeartwork3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdepim3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdebase3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdesdk3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdebase3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdesdk3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdebase3-nsplugins-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdetoys3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdeedu3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdetoys3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdeutils3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdeutils3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm /home/jdawson/Download/kde301/Mandrake82/kdebase3-3.0.1-5mdk.i586.rpm /home/jdawson/Download/kde301/Mandrake82/kdelibs3-3.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm /home/jdawson/Download/kde301/Mandrake82/kdebase3-devel-3.0.1-5mdk.i586.rpm /home/jdawson/Download/kde301/Mandrake82/arts3-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm ./kdegames3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdegames3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdegraphics3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdegraphics3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdelibs3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdelibs3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdemultimedia3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdemultimedia3-aktion-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdemultimedia3-devel-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ./kdenetwork3-3.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm /home/jdawson/Download/kde301/Mandrake82/kdelibs3-devel-3.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm /home/jdawson/Download/kde301/Mandrake82/libarts3-devel
Re: Re: [newbie]What to do with old CDs
Get out your camcorder, some tape and some string, and you can direct your own 'Ed Wood-esque' cinematic masterpiece, 'Invasion of the AOL 1000 Free Hour CDs'. -Original Message- From: Marc Oestreicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:39:44 -0500 Subject: Re: [newbie]What to do with old CDs From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:15:38 -0500 Subject:Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs Maybe they could be used for shingles on a dog house or bird house roof, if you have enough of them you could shingle your house or at least maybe the garage. If you are going to try that why not siding. Earings for the puter geek gal ? The law requires LOTS of reflectors and reflective tape on semi trailers and trucks. I wonder if CDs meet the DOT requirements. Bicycle reflectors. They are metal coated if you can solder to them they have a lot of potential for ham radio antennas. Any hams out there? A real die hard ham will try to turn almost anything into a antenna. I guess as long as we are on that subject you could bond enough of them togather to form the reflector for a satalite dish. Driveway reflectors. Cover the blades on your ceiling fan with them it would work kind of like one of those mirrored disco balls. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files
chmod is the command to change permissions on files. man chmod will tell you all the specifics of how to use it --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: Working with Redhat 5.2 Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I copied (as root) from a CD. I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the files can be written to and worked with by other users. I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in? ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files
Hey again. It just occurred to me that you'll prolly wanna change the owner of those files to something more prctical than root. That command is chown. So, to change the owner of file.txt from whatever to kenny, you would type chown kenny file.txt Then ls -l will show you owners and permissions of all files, which you can then change with chmod. ie: chmod a+rwx file.txt would give the world permission to read write and execute file.txt. ( a = 'all / everyone' + = 'add the permissions thatfollow' rwx = 'read write and execute' ) I hope this isn't too confusing. man chmod should help if it is --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jim Turner wrote: chmod is the command to change permissions on files. man chmod will tell you all the specifics of how to use it --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: Working with Redhat 5.2 Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I copied (as root) from a CD. I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the files can be written to and worked with by other users. I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in? ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files
Ok, last one, I swear. ;) You mentioned doing this en mass. Just to be clear, wild cards will work with chmod and chown. So: chmod a+rw * will set every file in the current directory to be world readable and writable (if you execute it as root). --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: Working with Redhat 5.2 Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I copied (as root) from a CD. I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the files can be written to and worked with by other users. I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in? ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't find X includes.
Hello. Twice recently I have tried to install a program, and when running ./configure I received this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! This is a brand-new Mandrake 8.2 install, on which everything (else) works fine. What does this mean? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks. --jim ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find X includes.
Problem solved. Thanks. --jim On Mon, 27 May 2002, s wrote: On Monday 27 May 2002 01:16 am, Jim Turner wrote: Hello. Twice recently I have tried to install a program, and when running ./configure I received this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! This is a brand-new Mandrake 8.2 install, on which everything (else) works fine. What does this mean? Install XFree86-devel. -s ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to create a cd from ISO file
With Nero (at least the version I have, which I don't know offhand and I'm not booting into windows to find out), you first have to rename the file image.iso to image.nrg. I have no idea why. But, once you've done that, click File-Burn Image (this might be Create Image, or even just Image, but it's something like that). Then it opens a find file dialog and you just select your image.nrg. It then gives you some options that don't mean anything to me, and I've always found that if I just leave them set as they are, it works fine. --jim On Mon, 27 May 2002, Guy Zelck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the Mandrake 8.2 .iso files and I am having problems getting them to work when I try to burn to a cd. Can someone please provide me with a quick easy way to put iso files on CDs thnks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Use Gcombust, 'Burn' tab : burn from iso image. Piece a cake. ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install connexant modem driver with the .tarextention
On Mon, 27 May 2002, shane wrote: On Sunday 26 May 2002 10:11 pm, Nashib .J. opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Can someone inform me if internet browsing under Linux is quicker than browsing under Windows9X. generally spealing it is, at least in my experience. same connection, same server, same time , (ok one right after the other) when i had a windows machine linux downloaded files both ftp and http faster than win2k. but not a whole lot. if you are thinking your 56k will act like dsl, it ain't. :) When downloading the mandrake iso images from linuxiso.org with Win98, I consistently got 45k/sec downloads. I don't know if it cycles through different mirrors or not, but as I said, they were consistently 45k/sec (and I downloaded several times due to IE temp directory issues). Anwyay, isntalled Mandrake, same machine, same ethernet card, etc, and downloading images from linuxiso.org again, consistently got 100k/sec downloads. It seems a bit far-fetched that linux should handle my ethernet card -that- much better than windows, but like I said, the results were the same every time for several trials on both systems. So, for whatever it's worth --jim -- After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digest version of Newbie available
In general, Linux requires two partitions: one for / and one for swap. I've heard that if you have enough RAM you can do without a swap, but I don't know if that's true. Anyone ever done that? Further, most people install with 3 or more partitions. Mine right now has /, swap, /usr and /home all on their own partitions. PartitionMagic 7.0 is a wonderful thing. You can add, delete and resize partitions without losing data. It's incredibly slow and inefficient, though, (mine took 8.5 hours to repartition a 40 gig drive that was about 75% full) so beware. But in the end, it worked and it worked flawlessly, with no data loss or any problems. --jim On Mon, 27 May 2002, Dwight Hines wrote: I've just subscribed and will only be able to work on the linux on my powerbook G3 firewire after hours and on weekends. I have not yet installed or obtained the software. My plan is to read the digests for a while and then when I have some time go for the installation. First question: I have a 6 gig disk internal and it is already partitioned. Can I just clean one of those partitions and install linux on it so it is not necessary to blow away the whole disk and all my wonderful contents? Thank you in advance, dh ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
I think I found the problem with StarOffice crashing on saves. It seems that the
default configuration specifies directories that either don't exist or I don't have
rights to. I changed all the directories (particularly the temp and backup
directories) to directories that I have rights to and it seems to work fine now.
-Original Message-
From: Dimitris Ioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:07:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Brian hello my friend,
If you insist on keeping OpenOffice, that's OK, but if
you want to give SO 6 another try,I have and I can
send it to you, a small batch file that you put it one
level up from the dir where you have new fonts to be
installed in X and executes the mkfontdir and assign
commands automatically, also it creates a
fonts.dir.txt file that the Xfont server can use to
assign the fonts to itself. Using this and following
the method I pointed previously you can get SO6 to run
without no problems and with Winfonts installed and
working perfectly well. I can assure it's not buggy at
all. I have given it very hard times writing my wife's
documents(she's a journalist) and faced no problem at
all, {I had to transform them later in M$Word format,
put graphics in it, many pages,etc...}, so trust me
it's worth it. After getting it to work its rock solid
and stable as no other. If you want details on how to
I'm always available.
Cheers
Dimitris
--- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε:
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:45, Dimitris Ioannou wrote:
Brian and Jim
Please tell us if you have installed any
additional
fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go
to
the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy
fonts.dir
and paste it to the Staroffice directory
ovewriting
its' own one. Then things should work OK
hopefully.
Also Jim check the permissions of the file where
you're are trying to save your staroffice files. I
mean do yoy have permission to do it there. If not
change the permissions and that should do it. I
had
the same problem with staroffice. In my case it
would
start at all giving me segmentation fault. But
when I
did what I'm advising you everything works fine. I
even managed to copy windows TTF fonts in the
staroffice's directory and I am able to write and
print with them.
Cheers
Dimitris
P.S. Let us know for any progress
Dimitris,
Too late on my system. SO6 is gone gone gone. I
figure, why use a
buggy commercial app when there's an open source
alternative that works
better. So far I can't fault OpenOffice 1.0, and
even the pre-release
that was on my distro CDs worked better than SO6.
The one time so far that I have managed to crash
OpenOffice (with some
pretty strange screwing around BTW), it restarted,
restored the document
to right where it was and continued. If that's as
bad as it gets, I
have no problem staying with the open version.
thanks for the response though. I posted when I
first had the SO6
problem and got nothing back. Maybe it would still
be on my system if
you'd been around then.
cheers
Brian
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[newbie] Can't Save StarOffice Files
Help! When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. First I get a dialog that states: Error saving document Untitled1: Wrong Parameter The operation was started under an invalid parameter Then I get an error that states: An unrecoverable error has occurred All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to save documents? Thanks in advance. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP Server
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 10:19, Ricardo Marques wrote: Hi. This is my first time with Linux. I'm trying to install a DHCP Server in a Mandrake 8.2 without sucess. Please, could anyone help me? How can I install a DHCP Server. I've tryed the expert instalation without sucess. I'd like to add the botton DCHP Server in the configuration wizards (Mandrake Control Center). Thanks in advance for any help. Ricardo Marques Systems Administrator NT/2000. I don't think that DHCP Server is installable from the installation menu.You will need to install the RPM manually using Software Manager. Just do a search for DHCP and you'll find DHCP Server and DHCP Client packages. I believe that the DHCP Server packages are on disk 2. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
(This is a repost, the first copy apparently didn't get posted to the list.) Help! When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. First I get a dialog that states: Error saving document Untitled1: Wrong Parameter The operation was started under an invalid parameter Then I get an error that states: An unrecoverable error has occurred All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to save documents? Thanks in advance. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Glad i don't surf with Windows
How appropriate. I clicked on the link and a pop-up appears asking me to install Flash. Didn't I read about there being possible spyware in Flash the other day? -Original Message- From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 22:43:32 -0600 Subject: Re: [newbie] Glad i don't surf with Windows Michael Adams wrote: Check this out http://www.coolspyproducts.com/ispynow/?code=myo0510 Michael I hate those products with such a passion... they make me think 1984 was being optimistic. :( -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Upgrading memory
I just upgraded my computer from 256MB to 512MB. Is there anything I need to do to optimize the computer for the additional memory? My swap partition is currently 256MB. Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?
No specific drivers are necessary. If it is an IDE drive you will have to enable SCSI emulation if you want to use its burning capabilities. The documentation that comes w/XCDROAST is excellent. Being more of a SuSE user I don't know whether or not KUDZU would set up the proper settings. Just my 2cents worth. On Sunday 28 April 2002 12:07, you wrote: I have ordered a Sony CDRW to install on a windows/Mandrake 8.1 machine. How do I go about getting 8.1 to recognize and use the drive once I install it? Can anyone tell me where I find out this info? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sony 24x CDRW #CRX175A1 8.1 ?
I have a Sony CD-RW (the Sony CD-RW was the only decent one I could find at a reasonable price at the time) and as far as I can tell the closest thing to an anti-copy measure it has is the crappy Windows CD burning software that it came with. Even that will copy audio CDs and allow you to burn your MP3s. On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 13:21, Sevatio wrote: Being that Sony is notorious for putting limits and/or leaving out key features so as to protect their investments in the music industry... How is that burner? Does it work as well as other burners? db wrote: Does anyone know if the Sony 24x CDRW #CRX175A1 cdburner will work for sure with Mandrake 8.1? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video editing using Linux
I want to do some video editing, e.g. record the hour long home videos onto hard drive and cut the 58 or so minutes of boring footage out, then recording it back to videotape. I don't need anything too fancy, just basic edits and perhaps some simple character generator capability. I assume I can do this with the appropriate software if I add a video capture card to my Linux box. (I have a 1GHz Athlon, currently at 256MB but it will probabaly be upgraded to 512MB by the time I aquire the necessary hardware and software.) Does anyone have any experience doing this under Linux? If so, what software/hardware should I use? Or would I be better off dual-booting into (gasp!) Windows for video editing? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Lost messages on VC12 - RESOLVED
List, Just in case anyone else is interested. My problem stemmed from the fact that I must have chosen LOW as my security level, instead of MEDIUM. On msec level 3 or greater the syslog messages are written to /dev/tty12 by default. So to solve my problem of the missing messages, I just ran `msec 3` in a console as root. Afterward I was able then to figure out that the real fix was adding the line `*.* /dev/tty12` to the end of my /etc/syslog.conf file. This is what redirects all *.* syslog messages to /dev/tty12. Thanks, Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lost messages on VC12
List, My name is Jim, and I usually just lurk and search the archives. But I can not find an answer to this one. I have recently reinstalled 8.1, and noticed that my log messages are not going to virtual terminal 12 like they used to. They are being redirected to VC6. I can still get a getty prompt on VC6, by hitting enter. VC 7-12 seem to be blank. My question is - What redirectes the log messages to VC12 (usually)? and - What might I have done to loose VC 7-12? TIA, Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Permissions on directory changing themselves
I created a directory '/home/shared' to use for a shared nfs/samba mount point. (/home is the only partition I have large enough for the shared area, plus I can back up the shared directory along with home directories by simply backing up /home.) I changed the group ownership to 'shared' and assigned the appropriate members to the 'shared' group, and issued a 'chmod 770 /home/shared' to allow the 'shared' group full access to the folder. At first the members of the shared group could access the directory fine, however after a while the folder was no longer accessible and I noticed that the permissions had reverted back to '700'. The directory was accessible again but the permissions reverted back to '700' shortly thereafter. What could be causing the permissions to change on their own? I am running Mandrake 8.2 and I set the security level to 'high' during installation. Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare 3
I answered 'yes' to continue with GCC 2.96 and it seems to have worked OK. I'm re-installing Win2K in my vmWare session as I type this message. On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 17:39, Wayne Petherick wrote: I just installed 8.2 and went to install VMware 3, but it tells me it was not built for this kernel version. It does allow you to try and rewrite the softare for vmware, but it then tells me that gcc v. 2.96 is not supported by the development team. Is anyone else out there using VMWare 3, and does it work OK? There are some windoze programs that I still need to use, but if I cannot get them to run here, it looks like it will be back to a windoze install. Thanks, Wayne __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unisys, Microsoft to launch anti-Unix ads
UNISYS is getting desperate. It seems they aren't selling as many 16/32-way Windows servers as they thought they would. For some reason companies aren't over-eager to replace their well-established big-iron UNIX infrastructure that processes millions of dollars in transactions every day with with a product that hasn't yet been conclusively proven as being reliable from a company that has little experience at the 'enterprise' level. (e.g. Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter. UNISYS has lots of experience there, as well as being, oh, how shall we say it... 'An expensive trap that ties you to an inflexible system that requires you to pay for expensive experts and makes you struggle daily with a server environment that's more complex than ever.' Remember, this is the same company that quietly waited years while .GIF became the predominant graphics format in the web and then all of the sudden announced that they had a patent on the compression algorithm and demanded everyone pay royalties. UNISYS is a dinosaur whose day has long since passed. They have been unwilling or unable to evolve to meet the needs of the changing business climate. They will soon be extinct. I expect this 18 month add campaign to outlive them. On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 23:37, shane wrote: The campaign, called We have the way out, describes Unix as an expensive trap. No wonder Unix makes you feel boxed in. It ties you to an inflexible system. It requires you to pay for expensive experts. It makes you struggle daily with a server environment that's more complex than ever, one ad reads. sounds like my experience with microsoft. On Friday 29 March 2002 04:48 am, Sullivan, Nick opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-870805.html?legacy=cnettag=pt.msnbc.feed.. ne_9506331 -- Followers of tao are nonconformists. The conventional label our behavior erratic, antisocial, irresponsible, inexplicable, outrageous, even scandalous. We hear other voices than they do. -Deng Ming-Dao shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Specifying SMTP from command line
Could you send me a copy of this or post it to a ftp or web site? I've been looking (unsuccessfully) for such a utility for quite a while. Thanks. On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 16:54, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Friday 22 March 2002 03:32 pm, Miark wrote: It's a tad more involved that I had hoped, but if this is the way, then it's the way! OK, I drummed up a rough 'c' program that might help [gerald@gail gerald]$ ./clmail only 5 arguments are supported useage: smtpserver to from subject message Note: Subject and message must be enclosed in Example: clmail smtp.frontstreetnetworks.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] test this this is a test the first arg is the SMTP server, 2nd is TO third is FROM, 4th is SUBJECT, 5th is the MSG. SUBJECT and MSG must be enclosed int copy the executable clmail to /usr/local/bin or someplace so its in your $PATH -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com New Haven, CT, United States of America 5:48pm up 2 days, 2:12, 2 users, load average: 0.91, 1.05, 1.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.2, SB Live Digital Speakers
I have installed ML 8.0, 8.1 and now 8.2 on my Gateway Pentium III. On 8.0 and 8.1, I could not get satisfactory sound from the Gateway OEM version of the SoundBlaster Live Value card that came with the machine. I have the Boston Acoustic Digital speaker set, but the default installation of ALSA 0.5.10(?) sets the master output of the card to analog signal. I have confirmed this with an old pair of speakers. ML 8.2 sets up sound much more reliably than the previous versions -- I even get sound now from my Hauppauge TV card, but the output is still analog. Does anyone know of an option that will turn on digital signal output to the Main output of the SoundBlaster Live Value card? I have asked this question of the ALSA mailing list, but have yet to receive a reply. Thanks for your help. Jim Gentry Charleston, SC Very pleased with ML 8.2, so far. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2, SB Live Digital Speakers
FemmeFatale wrote: *gack!* Digital output? I'd verify a sneaky suspicion I have. Dell sent out Live cards too... With a caveat, they had engineered them somehow so they weren't normal LIVE cards anymore! They lacked certain features. Check gateways site or newsgroups archives for an answer? Femme Jim Gentry wrote: I have installed ML 8.0, 8.1 and now 8.2 on my Gateway Pentium III. On 8.0 and 8.1, I could not get satisfactory sound from the Gateway OEM version of the SoundBlaster Live Value card that came with the machine. I have the Boston Acoustic Digital speaker set, but the default installation of ALSA 0.5.10(?) sets the master output of the card to analog signal. I have confirmed this with an old pair of speakers. ML 8.2 sets up sound much more reliably than the previous versions -- I even get sound now from my Hauppauge TV card, but the output is still analog. Does anyone know of an option that will turn on digital signal output to the Main output of the SoundBlaster Live Value card? I have asked this question of the ALSA mailing list, but have yet to receive a reply. Thanks for your help. Jim Gentry Charleston, SC Very pleased with ML 8.2, so far. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks, Femme, unfortunately I've already been there. The SB Live card produces digital output in Windows and there is a software control panel with a selection button to enable/disable digital output on the Main (green)output jack. The Rear channel output (black) is always analog and also works in Linux. My BA Digital speakers sound great and I really would love to use them in Linux as well as Windows... Gateway support is (less than?) useless. You even breathe the word Linux and the techdroid goes catatonic. We do not support Linux. (click) I expect you're right about Gateway re-engineering the card to save a few pennies on a connector. BUT the switch is there; Windows can access it, why not Linux? Thanks for the response... Jim Gentry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2
WooHoo! Does anyone know if VMWare 3.0 works on '8.2 yet? -Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:01:13 -0700 Subject: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2 Win4lin users: The 8.2 kernel/patches are now available available via the installer. They'll also be posted to their web site by tomorrow morning. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: RE: [newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze?
That's like Osama Bin Laden threatening to kill himself if the US millitary doesn't get out of Afghanastan... -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:51:03 - Subject: RE: [newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze? The funniest thing about all this is that they're threatening to stop shipping it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Davidson Sent: 15 March 2002 17:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze? On Friday 15 March 2002 11:47 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 19:07, Bill Davidson wrote: Anyone think they would do it? http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html Bill It is a smokescreen to scare everybody (snicker) and also an obscenely blatant posture posed to gain sympathy for their case. If the DOJ hadn't been bought off by Republican lobbying by M$, (they spent 24 million on the republicans, btw) it's entirely probable that they would have been broken up by now. There have been three judges on this case; and in every case, Microsoft (through its MSNBC news services and other means) have been able to push the view that these judges were biased. This trend is unparalleled as far as I know. Judge Colleen is probably going to be the last stop; the biased judge routine was old before it started. Actually, I believe that M$ might have tied in the code for IE with windoze so that they could say 'See, look what happens when you remove IE'. They think everyone is dumb and they can just paint their own picture of how things are and that's the way it will be. Of course that's their problem and they'll have to rework windoze if that's in fact true. I think it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop shipping windoze. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze?
Actually, it isn't that hard to remove IE from Windows. The problem is that many *applications* require IE to install, or run with reduced functionality if IE isn't installed. -Original Message- From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:25:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze? On Wednesday 13 March 2002 07:07 pm, Bill Davidson wrote: Anyone think they would do it? http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html Bill Bill: Yeah. Right after pigs learn how to fly and the sun starts to rise in the west. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
Actually, you are safer using a credit card online than a debit card (or a 'check card' type credit card that debits from your checking account) because the credit card company is liable for most of the chares in cases of fraud (assuming you inform them of the situation as soon as possible) however it does not cover overdrafts from your bank account. -Original Message- Maybe they do, Maybe they don't, but the internet is NOT a safe place to be entrusting that kind of information to foreign third parties. I hope debit card acceptance proliferates soon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
- Original Message - From: Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:48 AM Subject: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? starter: Name: Hanan Country: Fairfax, VA United States IP: .. nah ;-) - Hanan AL-Shargi Jim Gentry Charleston, SC, USA Where the Ashley and Cooper rivers converge to form the Atlantic Ocean. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't get Leafnode to start on boot
I haven't been able to get Leafnode to start when Linux boots When I try to start it in Mandrake Control Center, I get a 'unrecognized service' message However if I start it from a shell prompt it works fine Does anyone have any ideas as to why it doesn't start on boot? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] Help! System won't boot!
I had to reboot my Linux box this morning and was greeted with a 'File not found' message in Grub (I didn't get the exact message text as I was on my way out the door but I think the 'file not found' was the kernel) I suspect that I may have inadvertantly updated the Kernel using MandrakeUpdate Is there a way I can repair this without rebuilding the box? (Mental note: Back up system as soon as I get it running again!) Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] email from command prompt
If this message seems familliar, forgive me. I sent out a similar message last week but I didn't see it or any replies to it on the list... I need to send an email message from the command line, either piping the output of a command into a mail program or redirectig the text into it, e.g.: mycommand | mailprog -user [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject results of mycommand or: mailprog -user [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject text textfile.txt I need to be able to email directly to the ISP as I am not running a mail server on my linux box at this time. Does anyone know of a mail program that I might use to do this? I think I once saw the 'mail' command used to send mail to a mail store on the same computer, but I don't know if mail supports sending SMTP messages to a remote mail server. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] email from command line
I need to send an email message to my ISP mail server via the command line. something like: mailcommand [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s message subject message.txt Can someone tell me how I might accomplish this? By the way, I don't have sendmail, postfix, etc. installed and don't really want to go to the effort of configuring them at this time. Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] help with Alcatel USB ADSL drivers
Hi all, i'm having a problem with my new install of Madrake Standfard 8.1 - which i bought cos it runs these drivers out of the box .. but I'm getting two problems: The internet connection wizard reckons I need the second Commercial apps CD - true or not?? The connection script in /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh reckons itr can't see the Alcatel firmware, which is most definitely sat next to in the same directory. I've checked its permissions and it is definitely executable by all. Any help appreciated, Jim -- dylunio ar bapur a gwe web and paper-based design 1 Rhes Trefelyan Stryd Fawr Bangor Gwynedd LL57 1AX Ffôn / Phone +44 (0)1248 371941 Symudol / Mobile +44 (0)7941 794765 Ffacs / Fax +44 (0)7092012614 http://www.hebffinia.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba / Unix Compile
SAMBA is available for virtualy every operating system that has an IP stack (with the possible exception of MS Windows, of course... The only reason I could think of to run SAMBA on a Windows box would be to have Win9x or NT Workstaion computer be a domain controller.) -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:01:18 -0500 Subject: [newbie] Samba / Unix Compile I am downloading the samba binary right now. There was only one file to download. Can this file be complied on a Sco server? Or is it strictly Linux. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0
Uhhh, the 'x' argument means extract. You want 'c' for create. At 09:50 PM 2/2/2002, you wrote: got errors when I tried it see attached mike[mike@linux mike]$ tar -zxpvf /backup/home_dir.tar.gz * tar (child): /backup/home_dir.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: bonus01.jpg: Not found in archive tar: Desktop: Not found in archive tar: earth.jpg: Not found in archive tar: ILINXR.install: Not found in archive tar: lm_sensors-2.4.5: Not found in archive tar: lm_sensors-2.4.5.tar.gz: Not found in archive tar: mad4lg.gif: Not found in archive tar: mad9lg.gif: Not found in archive tar: mandrake-faq.html: Not found in archive tar: mentalic.tar.bz2: Not found in archive tar: mnt: Not found in archive tar: MPlayer-0.60: Not found in archive tar: MPlayer-0.60.tar.bz2: Not found in archive tar: nsmail: Not found in archive tar: openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm: Not found in archive tar: OpenOffice.org641: Not found in archive tar: proton.tar.bz2: Not found in archive tar: tmp: Not found in archive tar: w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2: Not found in archive tar: WindowsMediaPlayer6.tar.bz2: Not found in archive tar: xray-blue.boot: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CAN i be reached with ip :10.2.0.16
Short awnser: No. Long answer: NAT can be configured to map a real IP address to a NAT address, or to map a specific port on the Public side of the NAT device to a specific port on a specific NAT IP address, but the chances of getting your ISP to do so are slim to none. There is nothing you can do on your end to make your computer accessable outside the NAT address space. -Original Message- From: nagaraj.b [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:26:28 -0800 Subject: [newbie] CAN i be reached with ip :10.2.0.16 my ISP has assigned me ip: 10.2.0.16 in our LAN, since this ip adress is not routable in the internet, IS there any client by which i can make my system a web server , and can be reached from any where in the world. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Ogle GUI
Yes, I linked /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd. I never can remember which order to place the arguments in... I *Did* see the Animated version of Lord of the Rings on DVD recently, but I assume you were refering to the live action version. My guess is that they will release it next fall in order to (1) cash in in the Christmas buying season, and (2) so everyone can re-watch LOTR:FOTR before going to see LOTR:TTT. Then I expcet them to release a boxed set containing all three films plus aditional material so we'll all buy it again... -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:07:22 -0500 Subject: Re: [newbie] Ogle GUI Jim Dawson wrote: Thanks, Editing .oglerc did the trick, I'm composing this message with 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' playing in the background. I already had a symlink in place linking /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom, but it didn't work for some reason.. Hi Jim. Glad you got it working... I know this is probably what you did but I'm going to mention it anyways. You didn't want to link /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom but the other way around. You wanted to link /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd... (like I said, I know thats problably what you did - just making sure!). In my case I had to relink my /dev/scd0 to /dev/cdrom to also get CD-Player working again. (my old CD-ROM was an IDE device not a SCSI and when I removed it, I'm assuming I broke the old link). Anyways, as the old saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it so you might just want to let things be... (I would if its working!) grin Catch ya later, and happy DVD'ing! PS Now if they would hurry up and release Lord of the Rings on DVD! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
