Re: [newbie] various issues - apology
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:45 +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Hope you got Mozilla handy 'cause I'm not sure if Firefox can handle this site but have I got it easy for you Go to this site : http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz [ note the *.gz bit - Mozilla can handle that - let me know if Firefox can please ] ... At the very top left of this page is this link.. http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/rute.pdf.bz2 Download that - unzip it - and you have a pdf file to print to hard copy. Warning, I have done this myself with rute and that is a book sized printout. UPDATE: Tried the above link in konqueror and not only did it open the site page but when I did a simple left click on the pdf link, konqueror offered to open it for me there and then .. ( it's downloading as I write this.) So from pdf to printer is a snap - Er... I have xpdf and Acrobat5 installed. The later gives me more printing layout options, though if I were to dig further there would likely be something in kprinter that would do enough to satisfy my requirements. Sort of supports my earlier posting in this thread ... I must use what is available first, then experiment with the latest and greatest. The link works in Firefox and Epiphany as well. :) -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:33 -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well my plans are moving ahead and I need to know if there is a user friendly web page design software package for linux that those of you have used and like. I'm using Mandrake 10.0. TIA B.J. Tracy I am a novice at webpage design -*.htm document editing. I've tried Quanta Plus, Screem, Mozilla Composer and just now took a look at Nvu. Mozilla Composer seems the most intuitive and easy to use. :) HTH, Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bash3 install problem
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 21:08 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Safer way: rm /bin/bash2 mv /bin/bash /bin/bash2 ln -s /bin/bash3 /bin/bash Right now, /bin/bash2 is a link to /bin/bash. After running these commands, /bin/bash2 will be the origional /bin/bash file. /bin/bash will be a link to /bin/bash3. (/bin/bash will be highlighted blue now.) If using Bash 3 instead of Bash 2 breaks things, you can fix it by running: rm /bin/bash ln -s /bin/bash2 /bin/bash or rm /bin/bash mv /bin/bash2 /bin/bash ln /bin/bash /bin/bash2 Mikkel Thanks Mikkel - works like a charm! :) -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] bash3 install problem
I noticed that I had bash 2.05b installed on my Mandrake 10.1OE system and that bash3 was available. I also noticed that my software media manager did not report a version of bash as being installed. This is true of a number of other programs as well. Anyway, after successfully installing bash3, my bash version is still bash 2.05b. I can see several versions of bash in /bin/... /bin/bash* /bin/bash2@ -- highlighted a blueish color /bin/bash3* Can I just copy bash3 over bash? TIA, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] speedtouch suite
From time to time people have inquired about speedtouch adsl modems. I noticed an announcement for this driver installation suite on Freshmeat today: http://s1x.homelinux.net/projects/speedtouch_suite -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turn off computer?
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:15 -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote: Andy Yankovich wrote: Hi guys, My computer is used only by me. Never by another person. I have a cable connection that is always on. 1. Is the recommended procedure to turn computers off at least nightly or keep them on all the time? This is really up to you. I keep mine on all the time (1) because I like to convenience of being able to access the Internet any time, day or night without having to wait for the computer to boot and (2) because I am running my own mail server. Andy, I'm like Avi - I like to keep my computer on and online for convenient access. Something about keeping the computer on when it is not doing anything worthwhile strikes me as wasteful so I rationalize my indulgence by participating in one of the many distributed programming projects available on the web. If you are inclined to keep your computer running, I urge you to consider participating in one. Currently, I particpate in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project. You can find more information here: http://folding.stanford.edu/ Essentially, these distributed programming projects allow you to run a program that processes data at the lowest priority rating. I really cannot perceive any drag on my systems performance. Participating in one of these distributed programming projects is one of the easiest ways to make a worthwhile contribution to the commonweal. Sorry, to post off topic. You, or anyone who is interested in more information, please feel free to contact me. -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 06:04 +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: Since installing the XFCE 4.2 official release the mouse wheel now pages through the browser history - that is in XFCE. In GNOME the mouse wheel functions just as before - scrolling up and down the web page. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can change the mouse wheel behavior in XFCE? Thanks in Advance, You can try opening a terminal and typing: xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 ...and seeing if that makes it work properly... Thanks, that worked like a charm - for the current session. I converted that command line to an executable shell script as a stop gap measure while I search for the best way to incorporate that into the startxfce4 script which I can't seem to find for some reason. Thanks again, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] XFCE 4.2 panel crash
I suppose it would be best to get involved with an XFCE specific list or forum about stuff like this... but I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone has any comments or suggestions. While trying to install an a KMess icon for a panel the panel crashed when I clicked on one of the folders in /usr/share/icons/. The panel just fanished - I was still able to run programs from the xfce-menu which responded to a right click of the mouse button. The panel reappeared as normal after exiting and restarting xfce. I have crashed the xfce panel before while running one of the release candidates. Also, under at least one of the release candidates I was successful in installing an official KMess icon. XFCE has probably been my favorite desktop for several years now. But I must say that in recent weeks I have come to appreciate GNOME 2.6. Its not as fast as XFCE and not as glitzy as KDE, but it is very smooth, solid, and dependable. -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:30 -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:53:12 -0500 Kenneth Rhodes disseminated the following: ...and seeing if that makes it work properly... Thanks, that worked like a charm - for the current session. I converted that command line to an executable shell script as a stop gap measure while I search for the best way to incorporate that into the startxfce4 script which I can't seem to find for some reason. Why not just do something like this: #!/bin/bash startxfce4 xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 ...save as your ~/.xinitrc, then 'startx' or alias it to just 'x'. Or do you start from a graphical login? Thanks, Paul.. which startxfce4 worked.. :) Thanks Joe! that works wonderfully. For some reason I always like prefer to log into the console/comand line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling
I just installed XFCE 4.2 from Charles Edwars RPMS - thanks Charles! I am absolutely thrilled, yet I do have one problem. Under Gnome while browsing web a web page in Firefox and Epiphany too, I do believe, I'd scroll down or up the web page with the mouse wheel. Under the the last couple of XFCE 4.2 release candidates this worked the same as in GNOME. Since installing the XFCE 4.2 official release the mouse wheel now pages through the browser history - that is in XFCE. In GNOME the mouse wheel functions just as before - scrolling up and down the web page. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can change the mouse wheel behavior in XFCE? Thanks in Advance, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts too small to see
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:31 -0800, Owen wrote: Even though my eysight is poor I don't have any trouble with my Microsoft box. But data of the same nature on my Mandrake box is so small I am distressed in trying to read it. For example the type of text I have trouble with is: (Opening Screen) Welcome to Mandrake Linux All About Mandrake Linux Mandrake soft offers a comprehensive range... It is this last line I have problems with. The font is too small . I have a 20 inch LCD monitor so the problem isn't screen size. Is there a solution or am I just stuck? Owen Owen, a little more information as to specifically where you are reading that opening screen. It sounds as though you are in Mozilla or some other browser in which case you can adjust the font from the preferences menu. You can also ajust your fonts system wide from one of the KDE, GNOME, or XFCE configuration menus. For example, in GNOME select systemconfigurationGnomeFonts. Hope this helps, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error message when any KDE app starts
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 06:15 -0500, B McKee wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was mucking about with file associations a while ago, now whenever a KDE app starts (like konq, kmail etc) I get #-- # Could not find mime type # application/octet-stream #-- Suggestions on what I did? Brian Brian, I think you did what I did a month or so ago - you mucked up a file association! Try running kcontrol Components File Associations application select add at the bottom of the known types list pick application from the pick menu enter octet-stream leave everything else blank. I believe that is what someone told me when I had the problem. Hope this helps, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:43 -0700, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Thanks! My ritzy NVidia FX 5300 PCI Express appears to be working flawlessly. But for some reason when I run harddrake and select the video I get this: Identification Vendor: (null) Description: Media class: DISPLAY_VGA Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 1 PCI device #: 0 PCI function #: 0 Vendor ID: 4318 Device ID: 252 Sub vendor ID: 5218 Sub device ID: 38529 Misc But when I run the configuration tool the Nvidia GForce FX Generic driver is listed - which is option I selected. Is this something I should be concerned about? When I got the warning, I checked that I wasn't using that module. Check in /etc/modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload for a 2.6 kernel, or modules.conf for a 2.4 kernel), but there was no reference to it. You can also do an lsmod|grep rivafb to check that it's not currently loaded. But you don't need to bother unless you have problems running the driver, in which case this is one of the things to check. Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 07:21 +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: NVidia has the best drivers for any video card under GNU/linux currently; most problems with NVidia cards either comes from overheating or the chipset goes south; if your graphics card has a fan unit on it, check that the fan is actually working and dust-free; GPU cooling fans can be purchsed elsewhere as well - made by 3d party companies - such as Thermaltake. I currently have an NVidia GeForce FX5300 PCI Express running which will only run under the VESA driver under MDK 10.1OE with kernel 2.6.8.1. I have a Pentium 4 3200E CPU and 512mb ram. I gather from the twicki and the NVidia driver page that I may need to install a Linux kernal with SMB support for this CPU, Video Card, and PCI-Express support. However, the kernals with SMP support that show up on my graphic urpmi install program are 2.4 kernels with descriptions that they are for systems with 1GB or more ram. Does anyone know if it will hurt my system to install one of these SMP enabled kernels? The NVidia driver docs indicate that I can compile the driver against kernel source code with SMP support. I'm lost. Any help would be appreciated. I suppose I should have started a new thread. Sorry, if this is poor list etiquette. I would not use an ATI under GNU/linux as the driver support is not there, nor are the other abilities of the graphics cards. The ATI drivers are problematic at best and do not deliver the full capabilities of the ATI graphics card. They literally ARE made for MS Windows or OS/X only. Experience is the best teacher. _ -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:34 +, Ian wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 10:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: You can download a very nice nvidia installer for Linux on the nvidia website. and it also helps if you follow the instructions put up by a user on this forum. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/nvidia.html The instructions certainly helped me! Excellent . Thanks for the links above, I have gotten to the point now where the NVidia installer reports that it has installed a driver for my kernel, but that the driver conflicts with a module called rivafb. Can anyone tell me how to disable the rivafb module in my kernel? Thanks in advance, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] FireFox speedup
The following tips came from this link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts I implemented these procedures and I must say they really makes a difference: Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 1.Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set network.http.pipelining to true Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:55 +, Jonesy wrote: On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:22:45 -0500, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: 1.Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. : : 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves. Do 'we' know what this ...amount of time the browser waits before it acts is measured in? milliseconds, seconds, minutes, yarons? from: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_rendering // Last value in milliseconds (default is 250) user_pref(nglayout.initialpaint.delay, 0); HNY Jonesy Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 01:13 +0100, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've tried it for about a week now, and honestly, I can't tell any difference. Do you have Broadband? Dumb question - of course you do, but I wonder what the variable(s) could be that enables this to work for me and evidently others but not you? Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request to a server in order to get one page. There's enough clogging the net already. But that's just me... I suppose my conscience might restrain my greed for speed too - my ignorance is a key factor here. If the download is significantly accelerated then shouldn't that contribute to less clogging of the net? Ken Rhodes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 18:44 -0600, David Reynolds wrote: This 'scheme' was proposed elsewhere last week to almost universal condemnation. There are pieces in it that are worthwhile (like #3), but as Kaj mentioned, there's a lot that's unethical as well: http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/1065384.html Kaj Haulrich. David Thanks for the link - that information has certainly helped to educate me a bit. I also learned that I need to at least scan all the posts on this list. My apologies for bringing up a topic that has already been thoroughly considered. Ken Rhodes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
Amy wrote: I'M A GMAIL USER, PLEASE BE SURE YOUR REPLY GOES TO THE LIST. THANKS! Hey everyone! I've got a slight problem here... I went to install the hardware I got from my friend... but the gforce card he gave me doesn't work when I Amy, more specific information about the card would help. I recently bought an economy computer from Best Buy - a Medion 520. It has a NVidia GForce FX 5300 PCI Express card - and I have the same problem as you. What I did was choose VESA as the driver option from the Xorg menu. This allows my system to work fairly well. I located the NVidia Linux driver page here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html but I haven't tried installing their official Linux driver yet. HTH, Kenneth Rhodes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Reply to settings?
Thanks for the responses. As near as I can tell Ann is right about my using Web based email. I suppose I should unsubrscribe from this excite mail account and re-subscribe from my ISP account. I will do that now. Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free! ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Reply to settings?
Margot, Dumb question - do you mean I should choose reply to all from email client? Or are you referring to some setting in the actual newbie list configuration that I can change? I have removed my excite mail reply to address setting. So I guess I need someone to reply back to see if it is working correctly. Well, suppose I could reply to myself :) Thanks for giving me a heads up on the problem. Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free! ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Radeon 9200
Thanks for the replies to my inquiry regarding the Radeon 9200. I bought the card - installed it under Mandrake 10.1CE with absolutely no problems. As far as I can tell from the Radeon installation pamphlet it must be easier to install than under Windows. Now how do we get Mandrake to update their hardware database? Summary: Radeon 9200 128mb works like a charm under Mandrake 10.1 CE Thanks again, Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free! Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free! ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] 10.1CE Speedtouch USB ADSL
This may not be what you want to hear. I was able, after much effort, to get my Alacatel Speedtouch USB ADSL modem working under Mandrake 9.2. When I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 registered addition I was never able to connect again, despite a month or so of efforts by support staff at mandrakeexpert.com. I finally gave up and recommended that the Alcatel Speedtouch be listed on the hardware database as does not work. My situation resolved my fortunately when my ISP provider bellsouth.net, graciously decided to send me a Westell ethernet modem at not charge, because I was such a good customer - as indeed I have been. I did have to spend a few bucks on an ethernet card, but installation of the ethernet card and the Westell modem is easy as falling off a log. Perhaps someone on the list will be able to help you install the Speedtouch - my opinion is that it a piece of junk. Good Luck! Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free! ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] make fails cpp sanity test
Greetings All, I'm using Mandrake 10.1 community release. GCC 3.4.1-4mdk When I endeavor to compile some files it aborts with: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check I also seem to be stuck with gcc3.4.1-4mdk because when I try to remove it I get a very scary message indicating that numerous major programs require it. Trying to install a different version of gcc results in an error message regarding conflicts in dependant files. Any help would be appreciated. Respectfully, Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free! ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Way back when...... was some other topic
I bought a Sinclair something or other long before the Times incarnation and couldn't get it to work so I bought a Commodore VIC-20 with 5K and a tape drive for about $500, summer of 92, eventually upgraded it to 32K. Hugh wrote: I had one of those too, You could add extra ram buy pluging it into the back. A whole 16 k On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: I remember the days of my Timex Sinclair T1000. A whopping 2k of ram. - Original Message - From: Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)] Wow, they taught us CPM in trade school, kind of reminded me of DOS, it had a C compiler to build the executables and such. We were trained on the old Z80 microprocessor. I also remember Centix, the old business unix then too. On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: Dating myself, but my first operating system was trsdos on a radio shack model I, back in those days the competition was between apple and trs-80. Rick Keep this up and I'll get my Amstrad 6128 out of the loft and start using CP/M again. John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com -- Normal=boring x 100 -- Boling's postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
