Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:51:13 -0700 Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved the same problem by adding psmouse.proto=bare to the append in the lilo.conf. After remember to 'lilo' to reset the boot things worked with the KVM. Well, that works, except that then the wheel doesn't scroll. It works as the third button, but not as a wheel, even in the mouse setup. Wonder if the issue has been resolved in 10.2? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse SOLVED
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:51:13 -0700 Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved the same problem by adding psmouse.proto=bare to the append in the lilo.conf. After remember to 'lilo' to reset the boot things worked with the KVM. Pardon the shout, but fixes excite me. (I lead a boring life) psmouse.proto=bare disables the wheel but: looked into it and using the above parameter disables the wheel, but psmouse.proto=imps does not. Lance DeVooght My append line now reads: append=acpi=ht splash=silent psmouse.proto=imps I do notice that the highlight and click mousewheel copy/paste routine isn't working, but I can live with that. Thank you Lance. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
Thanks all for the input. I'll try Russ's fix first with my fingers crossed. Charles, I had to smile about yours. I feel lucky I had an old mouse kickin' around. Lee On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:51:13 -0700 Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] eng.com wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 04:09 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 07:04:18 -0400 Lee Wiggers wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. Mine exhibits the same behaviour. The workaround I use is that each time I change to a different system I disconnect and then reconnect the mouse from the kvm switch. Mines on an extension cable so that I can keep it within easy reach I solved the same problem by adding psmouse.proto=bare to the append in the lilo.conf. After remember to 'lilo' to reset the boot things worked with the KVM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 06:15:51 +0100 Elwyn York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a MS wireless optical mouse. It used to be plugged into the PS2 port then I needed the adapter for the notebook, so it's now in USB. Does yours burn holes in your desk? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:55:24 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not by default AFAIK. This should go for most if not all of your 'data', depending on how you have your disk partitioned. This is true if /home is its own partition, but what if it's on the same partition as /? Will it not get wiped on a new install? In that case, the whole /home directory, including mail and any saved work, will be wiped out. You really do need a backup of your work and mail before you install. I'm not sure where sylpheed-claws stores your mail, but if you can't find it I'm sure someone will point you to it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels home/yourhome/Mail. AND home/yourhome/.sylpheed or home/yourhome/.sylpheed-gtk2 also needed depending on your vers. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. Win 2k, mdk through 9.2 worked fine, and the other three boxes continue to work properly. The 10.1 mdk uses a different driver and the mouse goes nuts if I switch to another box, then back. Reboot is the only fix I've found, although I'm sure there is a more linux solution. Right now I have an old MS mouse hooked to the one box. Very untidy solution and it burns holes in my desk, but that's another story. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SMC Barricade
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:31:13 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The card is unable to receive packets from the SMC router. I've tried it with and without DHCP, and with or without WEP. The SMC Barricade is an 11Mbps, 3-Port router with a print-server (not in use for now). I am able to get an IP address for the Linksys card from the router (Model # SMC7004AWBR), and KNemo shows that the card is sending packets to the router and that there's a connection at the proper speed, but the card is not receiving from the router. Just to simplify this, the problem doesn't seem related to Linux or Windows, since I'm getting the same problem in either OS. Meanwhile, my wired connection from the same system works fine. Wireless networking was working fine on the router the last time it was in use, even though an occasional reboot of the router was required. I've tried it before and after updating the firmware, and I've reset the router to default settings about 35 times, and still 'No Joy'! Even using the default settings, my wired connection is fine and the wireless card is getting an IP address from the router. But the wireless card can't successfully ping the router. If anyone has had any previous experience with this unit, I'd appreciate any suggestions they might have. I have yet to take my laptop out to another wireless zone to see if it connects and that's probably next on my list of things to try, but hopefully, there's something I'm missing. Personally, I suspect that the problem is due to the RTS/CTS Fragmentation settings, but there doesn't seem to be a way to change them in the router and I can't find the spec's for them on Google or at SMC. Thanks for any help that you can provide Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Have you considered that the card itself may not work? Has it worked with any other router? Mikkel Hi Mikkel. This card is brand new. It might be defective and I'm going to check into that, but I'm going to try connecting to another wireless router before I look at that as a possibility. That way, if I need to return it to the store, I won't be surprised when they test it. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 I have a similar SMC router and have used it for years. Would be more apt to suspect the RJ45 or Cat 5 wiring. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:50:11 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: et wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee let us know how it goes... Lee; I went a few rounds with OpenGroupware and couldn't get it to work. I switched over to Egroupware and SugarCRM and had them both running in about 20 minutes each. Don't know if that helps, but you might want to have a look at them both. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Thanks, This is my second go-around with ogo. Seems like the installation is intentionally obtuse. Paranoia tells me that the Skyrix team is hungry. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:06:08 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:50:11 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: et wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee let us know how it goes... Lee; I went a few rounds with OpenGroupware and couldn't get it to work. I switched over to Egroupware and SugarCRM and had them both running in about 20 minutes each. Don't know if that helps, but you might want to have a look at them both. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Thanks, This is my second go-around with ogo. Seems like the installation is intentionally obtuse. Paranoia tells me that the Skyrix team is hungry. Lee Lee; That's a very 'Politically Correct' way of saying it! Grin! Yeah, I was kinda frustrated with it myself. Sigh! Hence the reason why I ended up with EGroupware and SugarCRM. At least their documentation made sense, and was written in a step-by-step order. Had them running in no time. You might want to consider them as alternatives, since i don't know if there's a major difference between OpenGroupware and Egroupware. Your call though. HTH's -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 ogo Thanks, I'm looking at them. OpenCRX deserves a shot too. I think it is closer to ogo and appears to be open source, although not gpl. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:39:23 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'm looking at them. OpenCRX deserves a shot too. I think it is closer to ogo and appears to be open source, although not gpl. Lee Let me know how it goes Lee. Will do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:38:20 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a suggestion. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Sadly, I have seen this list drop from nearly 150 per day to less than 20. I enjoy the traffic and meeting new people. This has always been a friendly comfortable place to hang out. I can get all the automation that I need with damn telephone answering devices. (Those of you that use them will indeed burn in hell) ttfn Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Ping ogo user
I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6
I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. I thought that the last time I did this I copied the /home/lee/Mail directory to the new box and I was done. So I renamed the existing directory xMail and copied the old Mail directory to the new box, changed the permissions to me on the new box(claws 1.9.6), and started Claws. Didn't work. Where did I go wrong? TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark Aha.Figured it was something simple. Thanks Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark I spoke too soon. After moving .sylpheed and Mail to the 10.1 box, Claws still comes up with the default Mail settings and no new material. Yes, I changed ownership and permissions on the directories. Anything else, perchance?? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark Thanks all. Trick was rename .sylpheed to .sylpheed-gtk2. All is well in 10.1land. Time to try 10.2 and get some more grey hair. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:08:01 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a | picture. Any suggestions? | | Thanks in advance, | | Paul May I suggest ImageMagik? It is on your disks, has lots of features (resize, crop, sharpen, color balance, etc) and has a shallow learning curve. The only thing I don't like about it is saving images is somewhat clunky. e Members have been talking about Gwenview. May be what you need. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble with Nvu 0.90
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:02:24 -0500 Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't strictly a Mandrake issue; and I apologize beforehand if this has been recently addressed-- I've only just rejoined the list. Hopefully, there's someone here who's familiar with Nvu (http://nvu.com). I'm having a heck of a time with any version of Nvu since 0.70 on Mdk 9.2. I've been all over their website, and it appears as though any Linux-specific installation tips have disappaered. When I try running either of the scripts 'nvu' or 'nvu-bin', I get nothing-- no program, no output to the terminal. When I skip straight to 'run-mozilla.sh', I get the following: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The thing is, libmozjs.so is sitting right there in the distribution directory. I thought I'd be clever and take a look at the run-mozilla.sh script fpr myself, and it makes no reference whatsoever to libmozjs.so (though I'm not so naive as to believe that this means anything). Basically, I'm stumped. Can anyone offer any guidance? Thanks very much in advance. I cranked up a new box on 10.1 just for nvu. Also couldn't install it on 9.2. Works great on the new box, though. BTW 10.1 is ok too. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 mouse
I have 10.1 on one box out of 4 on a kvm. The other three, using the old wheelmouse driver work fine on the kvm. The new 10.1 install uses a different driver and will not let me change to the old wheelmouse driver with mcc. Where do I find the working driver on one of the other boxes and what do I edit to cram it down the 10.1 throat. Little things can be a pain in the backside. Thanks, Lee PS I verified that it is not the kvm by switching boxes. Also, the same box worked fine in the same position with the 9.2 install. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cooking
Well, I learned something yesterday. You can't cook a 10.1 on a Dell 1100. Oh well. I also learned that you can gurpmi a club 10.1 community bugfix, security, and normal updates all together, so the exercise wasn't total a waste. I still think they're out to get me. Lee P.S. I know how to turn the numlock off this time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sneaking Software Patents in the back door...
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:48:51 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quote: Europe, are you watching? FT.com has the jaw-dropping story about European futures exchanges, brokers and traders preparing for patent infringement claims from Trading Technologies, a US software company, natch, located in Chicago -- where else? -- which has hit on what it appears to view as a pot of gold for itself by obtaining two patents on its MD Trader software product in August of 2004, patents it is now aggressively enforcing. It settled [PDF] two patent infringement cases [PDF] already, under circumstances some are questioning, for some licensing dough, and it is currently suing eSpeed, the electronic arm of Cantor Fitzgerald. eSpeed just had one of its patents ruled invalid in a patent infringement lawsuit it brought in July of 2003, after getting the patent in May, so it's been playing the patent game too. Game? It's like musical chairs. You may also recall eSpeed's Wagner patent. And they say *Linux* needs to grow up. TT has suggested to the four main futures exchanges ___- two in Chicago and two in Europe, Euronext.Liffe and Eurex ___- that they should cross its palm with silver to keep it from launching patent infringement lawsuits against them. Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050223205453141 Just what Capitalists love to do, sit around doing absolutely nothing and watch the money roll in. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:46:08 up 6 days, 19:48, 10 users, load average: 1.35, 1.41, 1.36+++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson God bless America Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No cooperation at all in this world of ours. For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The laptop is a toy. Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably due to the 256m memory in the laptop. I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 Community on laptop
Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx. Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded. How do I change this? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:13:57 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is shared video memory so to get the install, when it askes hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) linux mem=240M (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M) Thanks Ed. That'll make the next self-destruction recovery easier. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:47:57 + Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:13 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No cooperation at all in this world of ours. For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The laptop is a toy. Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably due to the 256m memory in the laptop. more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is shared video memory so to get the install, when it askes hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) linux mem=240M (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M) I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. Lee Lee has the same laptop I do - I had to use a small patch to increase video memory from 1 meg (wow!) to my current 128 megs, under v9.2. (I've got 512 total though). Amazingly enough, you can't do it from BIOS. (Dell Inspiron 1100). -- /\ DarkLord \/ Ok DL, fess up. That's really my only complaint with the 1100. BTW, 10.1 was really painless as long as I stayed clear of the club dl's. No driver problems, etc. It sure didn't care for an upgrade using the club mirrors, though. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Community on laptop
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:39:53 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:43, Lee Wiggers wrote: Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx. Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded. How do I change this? Try chkconfig numlock off as root. -- Bryan Phinney That did it, Bryan. After logging in and out a couple of times and watching the numlock toggle on and off at odd times, I rebooted. No doubt there was a more Linux-proper way to start over, but it is now a well behaved little box. Thanks, Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Community on laptop
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:48:48 +0200 Duncan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx. Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded. How do I change this? To change it permanently, remove the numlock package using the package manager. To keep the package on the system but disabled, go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure Your Computer) - System - Services, scroll down until you find numlock and remove the cross from the on boot box, and press the stop button. Click on OK and numlock is disabled. If your GUI is broken for any reason, or if you prefer the command line, su to root and type chkconfig --del numlock which will disable the service(or disservice). I had to do this because I have a Thinkpad, and I was going nuts because it was telling me that my password was invalid all the time, until it dawned on me that this silly service was running. (It must have been designed for people who are in too much of a hurry to press the numlock key.) cheers Duncan That's how I noticed. Nothing like a little frustration when you are trying to login on a fresh install. I still think it's part of a plot to get me. Thanks Duncan, for your input Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ntfs
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:09:54 -0700 Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finest list in computerland, I haven't seen an ntfs write question in a year. Has the write issue been resolved? Can I safely share with an ntfs partition now? Lee Last I heard (a month or two ago), they had experimental write capability. But they recommended against using it unless you don't mind if your partition gets trashed. Thanks all. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 Vent
I have, after 4 years or so, finally figured out that mdk is a French plot to humble me. Fifth attempt to upgrade or fresh install 10.1 on my laptop that was happily running 10.0. 14 hours after beginning this exercise I am now at the gurpmi update dl. It named 92 progs, probably fraught with dependencies that will no doubt require my personal approval. I know, gurpmi isn't the update method of choice for an old salt like me, but I've urpmi'ed my last urpmi for the day. We're at a new high of 58/92 without crashing or running out of disk space on a 20gb drive. No more than 6 hours or so before we again have a laptop. Maybe I really need to get a life. Do real beginners really put up with this shite? Well, maybe tomorrow I'll switch the mirrors to cooker... Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ntfs
Finest list in computerland, I haven't seen an ntfs write question in a year. Has the write issue been resolved? Can I safely share with an ntfs partition now? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:39:00 + Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote: How about contacting the one person that can help? The webmaster of MandrakeClub. Thought about that. :-) Just thought I'd see if someone knew an easy way to do it from the website. Thanks Greg. -- /\ DarkLord \/ DL I would be very interested to know if you get a response before your new membership expires. Care to place a small wager? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-Claws
Thanks all. I switched from manual only to never on the error notification and the problem went away. Lee On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:41:53 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List I have one annoying problem with Sylpheed-Claws after months of usage. When it goes out to retrieve pop mail and the server is not available, it leaves an unable to connect pop-up on whichever desktop I have working, many times under the open work. This leaves Sylpheed disabled. Until I realized what was happening, I killed Sylpheed. Seemed drastic, but apparently didn't hurt anything. Now I search like a kid playing hide-and-seek for the pop-up. Feels silly. I can't find anything in the configuration that allows me to disable the message, or let Sylpheed simply go on to the next task. I really don't care if the messages are irretrievable once in awhile. Any thoughts? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sylpheed-Claws
Hi List I have one annoying problem with Sylpheed-Claws after months of usage. When it goes out to retrieve pop mail and the server is not available, it leaves an unable to connect pop-up on whichever desktop I have working, many times under the open work. This leaves Sylpheed disabled. Until I realized what was happening, I killed Sylpheed. Seemed drastic, but apparently didn't hurt anything. Now I search like a kid playing hide-and-seek for the pop-up. Feels silly. I can't find anything in the configuration that allows me to disable the message, or let Sylpheed simply go on to the next task. I really don't care if the messages are irretrievable once in awhile. Any thoughts? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] batch res reduction
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:49:43 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a pile of high res pics to reduce to 800x600 or 640x480 for the website. Anyone have a batch script or prog to do a directory at a time? http://jpgtn.sourceforge.net/ jpgtn -p -f -H -s 400 -q 90 *.jpg Will limit height to 400. I think you can put limits on both while maintaining aspect ratio. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Excellent..Now I'm impressed. Pure simplicity. Thanks Eric. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] batch res reduction
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:01:33 +1100 John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ImageMagick is your friend. Try : man convert. It's a little awkward, but works. Kaj Haulrich. Or if you prefer a GUI, apps like Digikam, Kimdaba or PixiePlus have batch convert options that make calls to either ImageMagick or imlib. John. I have been doing it with the Gimp, one by one. Ok but a pita when there are several to edit. Just want to put the rascals in a directory and zap 'em. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] batch res reduction
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:00:39 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, did you manage to batch-resize with convert ? Kaj Haulrich. Haven't had a minute to myself since your answer, but it sounds like what I was looking for. Appreciate the response. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] batch res reduction
Dear List, I have a pile of high res pics to reduce to 800x600 or 640x480 for the website. Anyone have a batch script or prog to do a directory at a time? TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] batch res reduction
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:53:54 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2005 19:12, Lee Wiggers wrote: Dear List, I have a pile of high res pics to reduce to 800x600 or 640x480 for the website. Anyone have a batch script or prog to do a directory at a time? ImageMagick is your friend. Try : man convert. It's a little awkward, but works. Kaj Haulrich. Thanks, Kaj Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Boxed Set
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:55:57 -0700 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Manning wrote: I can get the Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Boxed Set - PowerPack Edition for $70 even tho I use 10.1. I really just want the manuals.. is this a good idea? Thanks again Scotty I can not tell you from first hand experience, but I know someone got the manual and they were not impressed with it. It may be what your looking for but, you could also try the online documents that come with Mandrake like Howto's,manpages,info pages, Mandrakelinux documentation, Rute Users,... and Google of course for quick answers. Mike Linux Desk Reference has served me well since 8.0 which was the last time I was disappointed in Mdk hardcopy. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache or Mandrake permissions problems?
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:11:47 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er, wouldn't this be better posted on the Apache list than on the Mandrake list? Picky in your old age, Stephen? I bring all my problems here. Where else can you find so many opinions? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:44:12 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 18:06, JoeHill wrote: My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing Queen' and the like. Is this safe? Has anyone successfully copied some Abba to their HD without hosing their system? Are there special precautions I can take in advance? Thanks! Generally the bittorrent sites are safer than the peer-to-peer. But nothing is really safe from Abba. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:28:16 -0500 Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The computer software culture is not comparable to that of pro sports. A culture creates expectations based on generally-accepted values. Expecting support when you have put out money is part of the computer software culture. I was with you mostly, until this, Jack. Here we happily give money for the sport of Mdk, strange as it may seem. I, for one thank you for your donation, knowing that you will get with the spirit. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:35:47 -0500 Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or is more secure because it is being largely ignored by the malicious hacker community? Should have googled this one, Jack. Brace yourself. Lee 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: Is Abba safe?
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:03:20 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 01:51 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:47:13 +1100 Andrewd disseminated the following: Of course down here in Australia it is illegal to make any copies no matter what the reason. So basically all those people running around with ipods cannot legally use them here as Apple do not allow you to use the Apple store here. We have no concept of 'fair use' like in the US It's all kinda moot anyhow. There's no way for the recording industry to stop it. No law, no encoding scheme, will ever turn back the tide. Well, except maybe in Oz, where people are well known for their deep respect for authority figures, eh Stephen? ;-) He can't answer he tried to cool his machine with liquid nitrogen fell asleep during an upgrade now his lips are frozen to the keyboard ;-) -- When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor, he betrays the interest of his country. --Noah Webster. Lips? -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse gestures
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 20:06:01 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using the latest Firefox? (1.0 Preview) It imported my Opera bookmarks perfectly. derek Still no luck on the import, from Opera or .html. Takes the command ok but doesn't appear to do anything. I'll try it from cli and see what what's going on behind the scene, maybe Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mouse gestures
Hi all, Is there a browser besides Opera that offers mouse gestures? I am addicted to the convenience but I would rather use an open source program. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse gestures
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 13:37:32 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2004 07:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all, Is there a browser besides Opera that offers mouse gestures? I am addicted to the convenience but I would rather use an open source program. Lee Yes Mozilla/FireFox with the mouse gestures extension. Explore the extensions. There are lots of great ones. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Thanks again, Derek, Now if I could figure out how to import Opera bookmarks, I would be gold. I got as far as opera6.adr but moz doesn't import it. Probably better if I start over anyway. There is 3 yrs of garbage in there. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse gestures
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 23:35:24 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2004 11:46, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 13:37:32 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2004 07:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all, Is there a browser besides Opera that offers mouse gestures? I am addicted to the convenience but I would rather use an open source program. Lee Yes Mozilla/FireFox with the mouse gestures extension. Explore the extensions. There are lots of great ones. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Thanks again, Derek, Now if I could figure out how to import Opera bookmarks, I would be gold. I got as far as opera6.adr but moz doesn't import it. Probably better if I start over anyway. There is 3 yrs of garbage in there. Lee Are you using the latest Firefox? (1.0 Preview) It imported my Opera bookmarks perfectly. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 1.6 -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
Geoff, I have 10.0 on an Inspiron. 10.0 did not install the proper mouse driver, resulting in the jumping cursor. Have you looked there? Lee On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:05:55 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 20:00, geoff wrote: Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Me too, I recently installed MD 10.0 on an Acer Aspire 1680 and it won't shut down unless I go into verbose mode and hit Power Down. I also have problem with Kontact email in that while I'm typing, the cursor keeps jumping to all sorts of different places and as I am an amateur typer I have to watch the keyboard and find that I've been typing in the wrong place. I don't think I'm hitting any wrong keys which would cause this Other than that the only other thing that won't work is printing through the USB cable. Any fixes for these things? You probably guessed I'm a (very) Newbie but love this OS. Thanks Geoff Queensland Australia I thought that Queenslanders weren't allowed to run linux...only New South Welshman...(g) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer. -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB Camera
Hi List, When I plug in my Sony 717 camera the first time, it automounts as /mnt/camera and when I unplug it, several hours later it unmounts. Then when I plug it back in, it does not mount. I can go to mcc and mount anything config screens and it then mounts without me doing anything else. This only rates as a small pita, but I'm curious. mdk 9.2 Any ideas? Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:18:18 +1000 geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you find and install the right mouse driver Geoff ConfigureConfigure your computerhardwaremouse should do it. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Camera
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:32:58 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 08:26, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi List, When I plug in my Sony 717 camera the first time, it automounts as /mnt/camera and when I unplug it, several hours later it unmounts. If an icon pops up, what happens if you right-click it and choose unmount ? Then when I plug it back in, it does not mount. I can go to mcc and mount anything config screens and it then mounts without me doing anything else. This only rates as a small pita, but I'm curious. Please post your /etc/fstab file, maybe we can find something. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 //lilblack/C /home/lee/Conlilblack smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.lilblack.lee 0 0 //lilblack/D /home/lee/Donlilblack smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.lilblack.lee 0 0 //gold.aeis.tv/public /home/lee/goldpublic smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.gold.aeis.tv.lee 0 0 //tan/homes /home/lee/leeontan smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.tan.lee 0 0 //tan/public /home/lee/publicontan smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.tan.lee 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /idn1 xfs defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,user,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,nodev,nosuid,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,sync,iocharset=iso8859-1, umask=0 0 0 //black.aeis.tv/public /mnt/public smbfs user,dev,suid,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.black.aeis.tv.lee,exec 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 idn2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7 idn3 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb8 idn4 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/camera supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Needs some weeding out, but works except mnt/unmount of the camera. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Camera
big snip Thanks Kaj I'll try that just for sport. Haven't broken the 9.2 box recently, anyway. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Spanish punctuation
Where is my Spanish punctuation on the keyboard? Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] (OT) webcam
Can anyone explain the intricacies of receiving webcam. I am using gaim on yahoo and icq. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Chat Client
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:51:17 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So he found a RH rpm (sorry, I don't know where, but it was rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm, google probably knows where it is) Thanks, Ron. I now have gaim working. The whole chat thing escapes me, but now I can talk to my friend and maybe it'll be useful from time to time. Frankly, I prefer email. It gives me time to extract my foot from my mouth before I send. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Chat Client
Hello all, I have a friend in Mexico who insists that I set up Yahoo chat. She has strange ideas sometimes. Can someone point me to a good client and clue me in on the intricacies that 12yr olds don't have problems with, but I will? And which ports do I need to expose to the universe? TIA Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] gaim
Okay I have gaim installed, I have signed in to Yahoo Messenger in Win2k. Problem is gaim says incorrect password when I try to check in. I have verified password, case, and then checked in successfully again in wink2. Connection is through the same router to the same isp. Any ideas? Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gaim
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:23:24 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 13:52, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay I have gaim installed, I have signed in to Yahoo Messenger in Win2k. Problem is gaim says incorrect password when I try to check in. I have verified password, case, and then checked in successfully again in wink2. Connection is through the same router to the same isp. Any ideas? Lee Do you have the latest gaim? From Charles edwards' site http://www.eslrahc.com/ derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Gotta look. I know he's on my urpmi list, but I also have a contrib on there. Time to play a bit. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gaim-Fixed Problem
The fix is disappointing. I urpme'ed the mdk that urpmi installs, then dl'ed the gaim-1.0.1-0mdk9.2.i586.rpm from sourceforge. It installs and runs properly as far as I can tell. At least I can login now. Thanks to the person who suggested sourceforge in the first place. It would have saved me another couple of hours of mdk frustration had I listened. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenGroupware
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:00:26 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the last of it Bryan, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, let's just get down to the bottom line here, rather than continuing what appears to be a pointless debate. This is the first and only thing you wrote that makes perfect sense to me. I asked the list for help and bitched about OGO and the need to improve it and other Open-Source software. You got your nose out of joint about my comments and that's where it essentially ended. Everything else was philosophy, perspective, opinions. At that point, this conversation should have been sent to the OT list, or we should have both kept further comments to ourselves. So, let's do ourselves a favour and either continue this off list, or drop it. We both have opinions, we both believe we're right, and we work in different parts of the industry. That alone should tell us that we're bound to have different opinions. I vented my frustrations at the piss-poor effort someone made with OGO, and you vented about my venting. I think this ones a dead horse. So the next time you see a post from me on the list and you don't like my comments, just spent a few hours typing GRRR! on your keyboard and leave it at that, OK? No amount of expressing your comments will change my perspective and vice-versa. Let's move on, cause we both have better things to do and I don't want to waste any more resources on this. Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Brian and LM Thanks for the discussion. It helped me understand both my frustration at putting the office back on win2k and reinforced my intention of nailing them with mdk again next year. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenGroupware
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 08:21:28 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any luck getting OpenGroupware to work? I've been beating this thing to death for the last several days with no luck whatsoever. The packages are available from the Contribs list, and they install without a problem, but no amount of reading the documentation, following the install procedures or wading through the mail archives on their site has helped. What amazes me is how the installation of something like OpenGroupware can be this difficult or complicated. Surely, with the power and flexibility of Linux and Open-Sourced software, this shouldn't be a problem? After all, what's the sense of wasting time to create Mandrake RPMs for something that simply doesn't work? If anyone has some helpful advice on how to get this thing working, I'd appreciate any help you can offer. For reference sake, I've tried setting it up on Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0 using Apache 1.3 and 2.0.50 with no luck at all. I'm either seeing blank pages when I try to browse to the initial page (which is used to complete configurations and is the default page when OpenGroupware is first launched), or I'm getting connection errors from the server I've installed it on. Apache is working fine, since it's serving other non-related pages without any errors or problems, and PostGreSQL builds the database for OpenGroupware without a problem. TIA -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 I have been holding this waiting for someone to respond. Guess this means that nobody has made it work, me included. The service is running, but I haven't a clue what to do next. (It's been running since last year sometime. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. 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 and 10.1 mouse driver
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:30:17 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2004 11:18 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hello list Recently my test box in 10.0 Official noted new hardware on boot. With vast stupidity, I followed along and it changed my mouse driver. The mouse hiccups and goes into fits when I kvm to another box and back. I saw it as an opportunity and reformatted, then installed the new 10.1. It does the same thing. I swapped the kvm outputs with another box to make sure it was not a hardware problem (Belkin Omni-view with perfect track record). It is most definitely a mdk thing. Anyone have a suggestion or experiencing the same problem? I have not had satisfactory performance since 9.2 and, frankly, I'm growing weary. Lee Lee, is the mouse a usb mouse? No matter, go to the MCC console and check on hardware and then mouse and redo it as a usb or PS/2mouse. And it should be OK, I have had no problems with my logitech optical scroll wheel mouse. HTH-- Dennis M. linux user #180842 It's a PS2 mouse and works with 4 other boxes without failure. And I've done the mcc thing, both from console and gui. Also doesn't help to logout and startx again. Still rendered worthless or worse with jumping about. Hope 9.2 is still on the mirrors. I foolishly assumed 10 and 10.1 were upgrades and trashed my iso's. Thanks for the help, though. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. 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 and 10.1 mouse driver
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:58:23 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 03:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: Every time I was done in it was an upgrade and that occurs regularly. Upgrade and your sound doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your burner doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your ears turn green. In other words upgrade means fsk-up as much as it means improves. As I've found out (testing on several different boxen) it is always much better to do a clean installation than to do an upgrade; we had heaps of video/mouse/keyboard/sound problems with doing upgrades - so from now on it's purely clean installations...(that also goes for RedHat) -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else. -- Clarence Darrow These were both clean installs on reformatted xfs, as I've always done. Upgrade in the sense that 10 should be better than 9. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. 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 and 10.1 mouse driver
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:58:23 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 03:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: Every time I was done in it was an upgrade and that occurs regularly. Upgrade and your sound doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your burner doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your ears turn green. In other words upgrade means fsk-up as much as it means improves. As I've found out (testing on several different boxen) it is always much better to do a clean installation than to do an upgrade; we had heaps of video/mouse/keyboard/sound problems with doing upgrades - so from now on it's purely clean installations...(that also goes for RedHat) -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else. -- Clarence Darrow Anyway, you don't have to upgrade or fresh install to screw something up. All you have to do is update regularly. What a crock. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spice??!!
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:44:47 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm a bigshot Silver Club member now, so I get this newsletter that I'm eligible to download the MDK 10.1 Community. Cool! Not gonna, cuz I don't have a testing box (yet, workin' on it), but cool nonetheless. rant Now, about the wording of the announcement... 'put some spice back into your computing life'... That is doubleplusungood. I don't want 'spice'. I don't think 'spice' is what people are looking for in an OS. Need I remind people of the last 'product' with 'spice'? They were a blight on the cultural landscape, appropriately and quickly banished. Mandrake, I love you, you've saved me from the hideous world of MS Windows. Your marketing dept, on the other hand, I want to have a little talk with them. With a bat. /rant -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:32:01 up 43 days, 20:18, 7 users, load average: 1.42, 0.83, 0.41+++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. The first and last complaint I ever had was the brain dead marketing and lack of response from the real Mandrake wherever and whatever it really is. If not for this list, I would have been off to other (if not greener) pastures years ago. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver
Hello list Recently my test box in 10.0 Official noted new hardware on boot. With vast stupidity, I followed along and it changed my mouse driver. The mouse hiccups and goes into fits when I kvm to another box and back. I saw it as an opportunity and reformatted, then installed the new 10.1. It does the same thing. I swapped the kvm outputs with another box to make sure it was not a hardware problem (Belkin Omni-view with perfect track record). It is most definitely a mdk thing. Anyone have a suggestion or experiencing the same problem? I have not had satisfactory performance since 9.2 and, frankly, I'm growing weary. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Apache2
Before I stumble into another abyss: I have two registered domains. aeis.tv and americanelevatorinspection.com. aeis.tv resides on my mdk9.2 box served by Apache2. americanelevatorinspection is hosted elsewhere now, but I plan on bringing it home when the year expires. Would there be any problem serving it from the 10.1 box (assuming that I get the pos working) through the same ip so I don't have all my eggs in the same basket, hardwarewise? Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good, Intuitive developement platform?
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:14:52 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Scott wrote: Yo; Though I'm not a proficient or experience developer, I like to tinker with code every now and then and learn what I can. What are some of the best development environments can I run on my Mandrake 9.1 box that have something like the intuitiveness of KDevelop and something in the neighborhood, or at least the same state, as Visual Studio .net? Thanx, ES Eric, For your own good, and for the benefit of others, please don't hijack threads on the mailing list. See here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette If you want to start a new topic, start with a new message - don't just reply to an existing message and change the subject line. Why? Well, if you just change the subject line, your new messages will show up as part of an existing thread in most mail clients. Anybody who is not reading that thread will miss your message - you want to reach the widest audience possible, don't you? So far you have hijacked the tinfoil hats thread 3 times - that thread had drifted into a discussion of Canadian politics, so a lot of people will be deleting it without reading it - and the people who aren't reading it might be the very people who could help you...if they saw your messages. Also, many people use the mailing list archives to see if their question has already been asked and answered - they aren't likely to realise that the tinfoil hats thread contains information about development platforms! -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Mozilla on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-15mdk~~ ~ To err is human, to moo bovine. ~ ~~ I second that motion, as one who has been deleting that thread for weeks (it seems). Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. 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 and 10.1 mouse driver
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:27:36 -0600 Scott Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:18:09 +, Lee Wiggers wrote Hello list Recently my test box in 10.0 Official noted new hardware on boot. With vast stupidity, I followed along and it changed my mouse driver. The mouse hiccups and goes into fits when I kvm to another box and back. I saw it as an opportunity and reformatted, then installed the new 10.1. It does the same thing. I swapped the kvm outputs with another box to make sure it was not a hardware problem (Belkin Omni-view with perfect track record). It is most definitely a mdk thing. Anyone have a suggestion or experiencing the same problem? I have not had satisfactory performance since 9.2 and, frankly, I'm growing weary. My mouse kvm problems usually end with a switch to a USB keyboard and mouse (KVM with USB connections). Different Kernel versions just seem to have some aversion to mice on KVM switches. IMHO it's entirely an Linux Kernel bug that should have been put to rest a long time ago. My final solution was an inexpensive PS2-to-USB adapter cable to make all my keyboard/mouse problems USB problems. Seems USB mice just don't suffer from the same confusion. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) rant Let me tell you what pisses me off. I have been using the same mouse, same keyboard, and same chair since 7.2. They have all worked fine with Generic Wheelmouse until now. And never did the distro detect new hardware and do me in. Every time I was done in it was an upgrade and that occurs regularly. Upgrade and your sound doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your burner doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your ears turn green. In other words upgrade means fsk-up as much as it means improves. I'm sick of it. I burn with Nero on a 2k box. I listen to oggs and mp3s with Winamp on a 2k box. It works...always...period. I keep my files, connect with the net, and serve my site on the mdk 9.2 box. That's all important, but pretty basic crap for a hot shot super distro like mdk. /rant Call me a troll if you wish, but I've tried hard to swallow this shiet. How is a beginner supposed to embrace this crap? The current wheelmouse is a Logitech, BTW, and I was wrong about it living through all. Previous was a Microslop wheelmouse. When I bought the Logitech, I plugged it in and it worked in place of the other. Now it does not, because 10.1 detected a change two years later, I suppose? Let me also say that I can probably fix it by identifying the driver on the 9.2 box and forcing it on the 10.1 box, but why do I have to do this? Is this a computer operating system or a frustration generator? I can listen to my wife and get frustrated, although I'll admit mdk works faster. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:57:34 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:33:53 +0200 Alan disseminated the following: What is the easiest way to update mandrake. I try throught the MAndrake Update program but it finds a list of sites but always fails to download information from the sites. Go here, and follow the instructions carefully: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Then you can either go through Mandrake Control Center, as it appears you have already tried, or do, as root: urpmi --update --auto-select That command will update all packages on your system for which there are bugfix/security updates. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:52:00 up 44 days, 16:38, 4 users, load average: 1.26, 0.65, 0.46+++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Unless you have 10.0 or 10.1, wherein MCC tells you to stuff it. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: hijacking
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:27:04 +1200 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:36:18 -0700, julie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 2004, Todd Slater wrote: Also, please send a new mail to the list if you want to start a newtopic; replying to a mail and erasing the topic and putting in your ownis called hijacking. It messes up threads for those of us who sort bythreads, and your message is often unlikely to be read by those that canhelp because if it's part of an irrelevant thread, I typically deletethe entire thread with a keystroke. Thanks! Thank you for the kind reprimand! I do know better! It seems like every otherweek or so a hijacking reprimand is posted and frequently said with harshwords. Now I'm wondering how a hijacked message line is recognized. I use K-mail inMDK 10 official and looking at all headers, I don't recognize anythinglinking to the hijacked thread. Maybe it's in the numbers which I haven'ttaken the time to figure out. Meanwhile, I've put the newbie address in my address book and vow never tohijack again. -- Julie Look for a References line in the headers. You might also see In-reply-to in the headers. Todd In mozilla all I need to do is right click on the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address and select compose email to'. Surely there is something similar in kmail? -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Doubleclick on the address in kmail and sylpheed. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT Back on 2k
Well, over the weekend I put the office boxes back on win2k. It was a tough decision, but I had no choice. Friday afternoon one of the boxes dropped out of the network. Usually a service smb restart sorted everything out but not this time. Never could get it to see the network printer again, although I did sort out the directory shares. Saturday morning the VMWare on another box borked. I couldn't fix it. I realized that I was the only one working on computers anymore and I wasn't having fun at it much. Now its a mdk fileserver, a firewalled router to the net, and a bunch of win2k boxes again. Maybe I'll have time to play with my own toys now. The files are safe, the boxes can die and be resurrected in a couple of hours with a no-brainer procedure, and I'm not bombarded with hourly questions about every little icon on every little desktop. I know, I dropped the banner. Maybe I'll be smarter next year or mdk will be more lenient on a rookie. We'll see. Meanwhile, I'm comfy with my three mdk boxes on my desk and everyone else breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the old familiar desktop. Sad, I know. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 04:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Thomas Ewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even for old dudes in our fifties and working full-time, $60 is not insignificant. My personal rule-of-thumb is, When does the value of the gain exceed what I've paid? Problem is that I gain more every day than I've paid both mdk and this list. $60 is not insignificant but a very small price, indeed. The two Windows progs I still have to use require upgrades at the tune of at least $150 each per year. That won't get any better. I remember when maintaining the os and the progs was a 700.00 year easily (as a household user). We all accepted that as the way things are. In retrospect, $60.00 is insignificant. With that, I have to add that the commercial progs are usually available elsewhere. If you expect to be buying programs with Club membership, you're barking up the right tree for the wrong reason. $0.02 Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange samba problem
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:32:29 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:51 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:42, Dan Gordon wrote: Hello all, Well it has taken me about a year to get samba to the point where two boxes can see each others shares. The problem is on box a i can see the share on box b but cant mount it the error is bad password. on box b i can see the share locally but cant mount it error is bad password. On box b i can see the share on box a and can mount it. Also can mount the share locally. Both boxes have been set up exacly the same and am using samba 3.0.2a on both boxes. Have tried linneighbourhood, smb4k (which dont work at all) and gnome samba browser with the same results. The only diferences between these two boxes is one has mandrake 10 CE and the other has mandrake 10 official. any ideas would be apreaciated. Oh and if you wondering why it took me a year to get this farwell i could not have cared less untill today LOL. Regards, Dan Gordon Dunno why you're having such major probs with Samba; and sorry to say, have you RTFM? I can get Samba up and running in literally no time at all; either as a normal Windows sharing system or as a domain controller; using SWAT through Webmin and it's interface, or either by manually editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf - it truly isn't all that hard especially if you use SWAT. Why not post the /etc/samba/smb.conf and let someone looksee? (BTW, the Samba mailing list is a great place to bounce things around as well) Found the problem, it seems that I had to log into kde as root go into kcontrol and set the netbios name in the samba configuration section. Now even smb4k works. I will have a look at the samba mailing list though as I now have to get a XP box to connect. Thanks for the help guys. -- Tue Aug 17 10:27:14 EDT 2004 10:27:14 up 11:20, 0 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.04 A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps. -- Robert Benchley Okay people, what the h is logging into kde as root and setting netbios name? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba3
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:55:03 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 18:30, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Can someone compare Samba and Samba3? Is there reason to switch to Samba3. I ask because I'm still having trouble sharing my 10.0 boxes with the network. I'm not ready to elaborate yet because I don't have the whole picture myself, but the problems are centered on the 3 10.0 boxes. I'm comparing smb.conf files now. Lee I actually prefer the speed of Samba3 over 2.2.8a; I did, however, have to recreate my smb.conf for the 10.0 installation; but after using SWAT through Webmin to re-setup the entire thing, it works like a champ; total time was less than five minutes to get it setup properly...-- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Within a computer, natural language is unnatural. Well, 10 min for Stephen and three weeks for me is about right. I have a day or two before I start worrying. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:20:39 -0400 BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my laptop so I will be watching the responses. Question: With all the software that came with Mdk 10 is there a contact management package like ACT or Goldmine? Or a printable table of what all came with Mdk 10? Thanks for the help. bj Take a look at XRMS xrms.sourceforge.net/ HERMES (http://hermesweb.sourceforge.net) and OpenRMS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openres). XRMS is probably ready for prime time. Hermes is still an infant but the author is friendly and accomodating. Open RMS is geared to the hotel trade, but interesting. I've been watching all three carefully. I hate Act worse than dirt. The only reason I haven't switched yet is importing 60,000 records is a pain given the condition of my db. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:52:59 -0400 BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 August 2004 03:28 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:20:39 -0400 BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my laptop so I will be watching the responses. Question: With all the software that came with Mdk 10 is there a contact management package like ACT or Goldmine? Or a printable table of what all came with Mdk 10? Thanks for the help. bj Take a look at XRMS xrms.sourceforge.net/ HERMES (http://hermesweb.sourceforge.net) and OpenRMS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openres). XRMS is probably ready for prime time. Hermes is still an infant but the author is friendly and accomodating. Open RMS is geared to the hotel trade, but interesting. I've been watching all three carefully. I hate Act worse than dirt. The only reason I haven't switched yet is importing 60,000 records is a pain given the condition of my db. Lee Thanks Lee. Speaking of db, is ther a good one out there for Linux? I tmight be easier to just use that. bj urpmi postgresql and go for it. I'm going to sit and wait for a mature front end. HTH Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] (OT) The Bat
Morning all Can anyone tell me what this number is? The Bat! (v2.00.6) CD5BF9353B3B7091 The Bat! (v2.04.7) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 I am corresponding with two people who don't know each other and the same number is in both of their headers. Just curious. TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate! lost all the icons after updating X packages..
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 13:01:24 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, what do you guys use to view/create/modify the pdf files on linux? What is the software for that you would recommend? xpdf for viewing. The only .pdf creation I do is letter attachments to those less fortunate (non-linux). OpenOffice has a automagic .pdf button now. Be sure to proof the output, though. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate! lost all the icons after updating X packages..
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:34:47 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrakelinux 9.2 and ran MandrakeUpdate. Found lots of updates. But I selected the XFree ones. After it installed, I realized that most of the icons in my Main Menu button in the panel were gone. Like all the configuration icons for Drak. Any one know why and how can I bring them back? Try this: su to root and enter update-menus -v then do the same in your user account. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate! lost all the icons after updating X packages..
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 02:50:49 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2004 02:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrakelinux 9.2 and ran MandrakeUpdate. Found lots of updates. But I selected the XFree ones. After it installed, I realized that most of the icons in my Main Menu button in the panel were gone. Like all the configuration icons for Drak. Any one know why and how can I bring them back? Regards, -nabil Hi Nabil. Don't know if this will help your particular situation or not but have you tried (as root): update-menus -v See if it works. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ It's no fun when everyone has the answer. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate! lost all the icons after updating X packages..
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 05:13:17 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2004 11:35 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: It's no fun when everyone has the answer. Lee Nothing wrong with a group consensus (just try to get that on the Mandrake Offtopic list!!!) :-) PS If it makes you feel any better, I didn't mention running it as root, then user. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ I lurk on ot, but it's hard to be THAT opinionated. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] .ogg serial numbers
Hi all Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? I have two gb that I just noticed a sn in the tag. No particular care about it, but it seems intrusive or prohibitive, or something. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:42:32 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:01AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? I have two gb that I just noticed a sn in the tag. No particular care about it, but it seems intrusive or prohibitive, or something. Use something to edit the tags, like vorbiscomment (cli) or easytag(gui). Todd -- Name that tune #16: I've got plenty of java and Chesterfield Kings, but I feel like crying. Serial number doesn't show in easytag unless I'm missing something. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Batch rename .ogg
I just dl'ed a flock of tunes from a site in .ogg format. All have proper tags. Title, artist, album. A sample filename: 02-the_first_ladies_of_jazz_-_those_sweet_words_192_ogg_cbr.ogg Does anyone know of a prog to rename a batch of .ogg's such as this to: NorahJones - ThoseSweetWords.ogg or similar using the tags? I know I've seen it before, but can't put my finger on it. TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatic Reboot Scheduling
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:01:10 +1000 Mark Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Team Thanks to all those who have given invaluable help over the last few weeks. One last item (for the moment) that I need to do is setup my system (which is always on) to reboot once a day. Im doing this to ensure there are no problems while absent from the machine for a couple of weeks. (And will be 10,000km from the machine). The machine will not be logged on as 'root' and my security limit is set pretty high (i.e. the reboot command needs to be looged in as 'root' before it executes). Anyone have any idea of how I should go about doing this? Thanks in advance Yours Sincerely Mark A Rogers Orion Solutions PO BOX 1492 Wodonga Vic 3689 www.orionsolutions.com.au Phone +61 2 6056 5455 I have to ask. Why do you want to reboot? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse sucks in latest iteration of 10.0 community on asus A7V8X
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:12:36 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject says it all. Grpmi got me up and running, after menu upgrade, etc. but mouse goes nuts if I kvm boxes and scrollwheel works sometimes. I'll do the usual, but if someone has been here, same me a day or two. Lee Just thought of something that I did and usually always do: I install GPM (urpmi gpm) which is the console mouse for text mode; as well, I had to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and make sure it was forced to MY mouse (MS Intellimouse) and the mappings were correct - and I set up a cron job that reloads the gpm service every hour... stephen kuhn - proprietor I noticed in mcc that the mouse setting was auto instead of generic wheelmouse. I tried to change it and couldn't. I logged out and entered mcc w/o x and changed it there. On the second try, it worked and the mouse is fine now. gpm sounds interesting. Hmmm, another bit to play with Thanks, all Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] We can close this list - we're all experts now :-))
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:23:15 +0100 Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1st Paragraph - in brackets http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=267 Being more of an abuser than a user, I'd better stay here for a few more years. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:48:20 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 August 2004 17:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a lot of bad signature messages when I try to install packages from the CD's. Should I be worried? Or is this simply a matter of bad packaging? Brenda Bell Henniker (the only one on earth) What is a Henniker. I dont worry about 'bad signature messages. -- Regards; Hoyt Me too. I don't worry about bad sigs and what's a Henniker? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:02:30 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was the module it was loading to USE the ethernet when you were using 9.2? Of course I swore months ago to list (on paper, even) all drivers used with all boards after I had the same problem loading 10.0 in the laptop. And, of course, I haven't done it yet. Anyway, you don't have to be good when your friends are. Thanks, all Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:18:17 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 05:55, Lee Wiggers wrote: Can't find the on board 10/100 ethernet driver. Used the same mb on 9.2 so I know it's here someplace. Anyone save me from the trek through the multitude? Lee Try tg3. I have the same m/bd so any questions feel free to ask. Tried tg3 and the installer asks for additional parameters. Any thoughts, or how do I force it? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 06:22:09 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:18:17 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 05:55, Lee Wiggers wrote: Can't find the on board 10/100 ethernet driver. Used the same mb on 9.2 so I know it's here someplace. Anyone save me from the trek through the multitude? Lee Try tg3. I have the same m/bd so any questions feel free to ask. Tried tg3 and the installer asks for additional parameters. Any thoughts, or how do I force it? Lee Surfing led me to understand that: 1. BCM4401 nic with 2.6 kernel requires b44 driver. 2. Distros other than mdk all have 2.6 w/b44 driver. Conclusion: Mdk makes you stronger. And since my only prob is net access, and I didn't put in a floppy, simple logistics are going to piss me off too. I feel another good day coming on. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:06:30 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the output of lspci? Does it show a Broadcom ethernet device? Yes Also watch when the system boots. On first boot before the bootloader you should see a screen listing the devices on the pci bus. There should be a network contoler listed with its interupt (IRQ). If you don't see a network controller then it may be disabled, check the cmos setup to ensure it is enabled (on my A7V8X it can not be disabled in the setup). do you run windows (ugh), if so, does the ethernet controller work? Yep, ran win2k for over a year before a bad fan fried the cpu last weekend. I just replaced the cpu with a 2.7g screamer and put a real operating system on the drive. I'm dl'ing 10 community now. The driver was discussed in cooker a while back, so it's probably in there. That's just as easy as installing a floppy in the computer. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:52:55 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good luckMy install of mandrake 10 commercial was a breezeall the hardware on the A7V8X recognised first time. However there does seem to be an issue using the board with a Hauppague pvr 350 - get a total system lock when I try and tune any channels (under both MK 10 Win XP Pro)... On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 09:00, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:06:30 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the output of lspci? Does it show a Broadcom ethernet device? Yes Also watch when the system boots. On first boot before the bootloader you should see a screen listing the devices on the pci bus. There should be a network contoler listed with its interupt(IRQ). If you don't see a network controller then it may be disabled, check the cmos setup to ensure it is enabled (on my A7V8X it can not be disabled in the setup). do you run windows (ugh), if so, does the ethernet controller work? Yep, ran win2k for over a year before a bad fan fried the cpu last weekend. I just replaced the cpu with a 2.7g screamer and put a real operating system on the drive. I'm dl'ing 10 community now. The driver was discussed in cooker a while back, so it's probably in there. That's just as easy as installing a floppy in the computer. Lee I was right. Upgrading to community picked up the new driver and lan/net popped right in there. Also grpmi worked for the first time since I started. I was amazed. Only have kvm issue left. Why does the mouse go nuts if I switch to another box and back? Time for another thread, I suppose. Tnx as usual Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 08:20:33 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 04:05, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:52:55 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good luckMy install of mandrake 10 commercial was a breezeall the hardware on the A7V8X recognised first time. However there does seem to be an issue using the board with a Hauppague pvr 350 - get a total system lock when I try and tune any channels (under both MK 10 Win XP Pro)... On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 09:00, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:06:30 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the output of lspci? Does it show a Broadcom ethernet device? Yes Also watch when the system boots. On first boot before the bootloader you should see a screen listing the devices on the pci bus. There should be a network contoler listed with its interupt(IRQ). If you don't see a network controller then it may be disabled, check the cmos setup to ensure it is enabled (on my A7V8X it can not be disabled in the setup). do you run windows (ugh), if so, does the ethernet controller work? Yep, ran win2k for over a year before a bad fan fried the cpu last weekend. I just replaced the cpu with a 2.7g screamer and put a real operating system on the drive. I'm dl'ing 10 community now. The driver was discussed in cooker a while back, so it's probably in there. That's just as easy as installing a floppy in the computer. Lee I was right. Upgrading to community picked up the new driver and lan/net popped right in there. Also grpmi worked for the first time since I started. I was amazed. Only have kvm issue left. Why does the mouse go nuts if I switch to another box and back? Time for another thread, I suppose. Tnx as usual Lee I think you should send me your kvm so that it can be tested in other situations, Lee...once I determine what the issues are, I might send it back to you. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. I'd love to go out with you, but I have to stay home and see if I snore. My wife I might send off to Australia for testing, but not my kvm. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:46:19 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 08:20:33 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 04:05, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:52:55 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good luckMy install of mandrake 10 commercial was a breezeall the hardware on the A7V8X recognised first time. However there does seem to be an issue using the board with a Hauppague pvr 350 - get a total system lock when I try and tune any channels (under both MK 10 Win XP Pro)... On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 09:00, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:06:30 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the output of lspci? Does it show a Broadcom ethernet device? Yes Also watch when the system boots. On first boot before the bootloader you should see a screen listing the devices on the pci bus. There should be a network contoler listed with its interupt(IRQ). If you don't see a network controller then it may be disabled, check the cmos setup to ensure it is enabled (on my A7V8X it can not be disabled in the setup). do you run windows (ugh), if so, does the ethernet controller work? Yep, ran win2k for over a year before a bad fan fried the cpu last weekend. I just replaced the cpu with a 2.7g screamer and put a real operating system on the drive. I'm dl'ing 10 community now. The driver was discussed in cooker a while back, so it's probably in there. That's just as easy as installing a floppy in the computer. Lee I was right. Upgrading to community picked up the new driver and lan/net popped right in there. Also grpmi worked for the first time since I started. I was amazed. Only have kvm issue left. Why does the mouse go nuts if I switch to another box and back? Time for another thread, I suppose. Tnx as usual Lee I think you should send me your kvm so that it can be tested in other situations, Lee...once I determine what the issues are, I might send it back to you. stephen kuhn - proprietor ___ ___ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW ___ ___ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ___ ___ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. I'd love to go out with you, but I have to stay home and see if I snore. My wife I might send off to Australia for testing, but not my kvm. Lee Or maybe my girlfriend, but not my kvm. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] automount smb shares
Okay, I'm one simple step from success. All 7 boxes, mdk9.2,10.0, and win2k are all sharing files as smb shares. One box is set to force and win elections, but if it is down I don't lose the rest. Can I automount all shares at boot, or when smb service starts? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] samba
I'm going to get this unless it kills me. I've been rtfming my butt off on samba. smbadduser as root goes like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lee]# smbadduser lee:lee bash: smbadduser: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] lee]# What have I overlooked? smb daemon is running and I can browse one win2k box from black. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] recording to my hard drive
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:30:20 -0700 drwhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if the input source is green then it is turned OFF as a recording source, if it is red, then it is toggled on, you can click on the button to toggle it on/off Remember, only in Linux would green be off. Took me months to get the point. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
