Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? I'm just about ready to give up on Mandrake. First time it agressively overwrote a windows dist, and this upgrade joke is even worse. For you, go RED HAT 7.2, as I have experience getting that working on a SIS board with all built-in SIS stuff. The only thing not working is accellerated video. My 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade lost half my prefs, now tries to mount a floppy twice upon bootup, and renamed all my groups from 'users' to numbers, which causes an error every time I bring up a terminal. Has *anybody* had ANY luck with this supposed upgrade? 30-35 packages failed to 'upgrade' without any explanation why, all on disk2. Yesterday I had a perfectly functioning M8.0 dist, with working Xv and Xine, today I have a crap M8.1 dist with holes, and Xine won't even run in Xv mode. I'm disgusted as well, is there a M$ mole on the upgrade team? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, g wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: if you read in linux, then the viri ain't your problem, if you are a M$ user, look for a file called setup.pif. thank you, ed. i use both linux and ms, but do email in ms. i like early version, 4.07, of netscape, and it is not available for linux. I think it's the 4.08 netscape navigator that you use, and yes, it's available for linux too, as I use it now. just an FYI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, g wrote: Manuel Drake wrote: I think it's the 4.08 netscape navigator that you use, and yes, it's available for linux too, as I use it now. actually, i am using 4.06. or are you refering to what is avaiable for linux? I thought I was talking of both. not sure about version diffs between linux and ms, but there was a drastic change from 4.06 to 4.08. Hrmm, unsure, yes, nothing before 4.08 is findable for me. 4.06 messenger is in seperate windows, where 4.08 is all in one. which i do not care for and why i held with 4.06. Ah, messenger... no, never, bit of a security hole letting your browser know your email address. I use the standalone navigator ONLY. i would like to look at 4.08 linux. where did you find it? good question, I'll have to look around, but would start with download.com just an FYI and just maybe what i am looking for. thanks. hope so, good luck. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?
Microsoft did an about-face Thursday by opening the redesigned MSN.com Web site to some third-party browsers. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098823,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02 Supposedly, but the article stated it would work late last night, well... Mozilla still fails to browse their pathetic site. My query, why the hell would anybody wanna go there anyways?? Since I have an agent that gets my one and only msn account mail (which I have ONLY to have the extra IM client), I have no need or desire to every visit that hole in the internet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] shift causes beep?
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Steve Borrett wrote: I don't think that is it, well, didn't, until I tested that theory while I was responding to this post... which crippled my keyboard. Doh. *grin* Yea, shift, as you said, is not supposed to be typematic! Any thoughts on how I can un-map shift as a typematic? I do indeed have a strange keyboard though, a micro inovations keyboard with a built in touchpad, which I've been using for some time (long enough to wear the nub off the 'j' key. I really don't know. Have you tried it with a different keyboard plugged in? Cripes, you expect me to properly troubleshoot this :?) Good call, willdo soon... just lost a fan on my Slack server, so the fun goes on... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shift causes beep?
I don't think that is it, well, didn't, until I tested that theory while I was responding to this post... which crippled my keyboard. Doh. Any thoughts on how I can un-map shift as a typematic? I do indeed have a strange keyboard though, a micro inovations keyboard with a built in touchpad, which I've been using for some time (long enough to wear the nub off the 'j' key. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Steve Borrett wrote: I press SHIFT often to select multiple files, etc. If I hold it down for a few seconds, I get a BEEP from the box. This sounds like your keyboard buffer is filling up. You are effectively sending keyboard actions to the system faster than it can action them, so the PC beeps at you to let you know. However, I have only ever really come across this with the typematic keys pressed, and SHIFT is not normally a typematic key. Perhaps you have a strange config, or keyboard, which has enabled the SHIFT key as typematic? Anyhow, the upshot is that it shouldn't be a problem, just a bit of a pain in the ears ( rearrange letters to form suitable expletive ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] attachments in every message??
procmail mailing list doesn't, and can most likely tell you how to remove it :) On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: yup. it sucks don't it... -Original Message- From: Carl Lafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] attachments in every message?? I recently signed back up to the expert and newbie lists for mandrake in anticipation of the new 8.1 release and find that something is different with the list. It may have been discussed before but now EVERY message I have gotten today has had a 'message.footer' file attached to it. Is this normal?? -- Carl Lafferty Sys Admin Floyd County Public Library www.fclib.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speed up bandwidth for Apache?
Totally correct, as do the rates that you describe, except it's kBps on both. My cable, and I'll just go out on a limb and guess you have cable, is nearly exactly that rate down, but only 35KB/s up, and I hate it. I understand that there are several cracks available to beat this, but I've not been too excited about beating up my cable modem. If it ain't broke... don't fix it :) On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, shane wrote: your download rate and their download rate (which is more your _up_load rate) may be very different. many isp's limit upload. On Wednesday 03 October 2001 14:58, Jon Doe spoke unto the masses thusly: I only have 3 users that do any downloading. One is on a dial up connection, I realize he is slow but that is his problem not my server. The other have cable and say they can only ever get 45 kbps. I just thought that was kinda slow when I can get downloads at 215kbps. Not sure if kbps is the correct term, but I think you understand what I mean. Serving webpages are totally new to me so I don't know if that is normal or not. -- I don't know who said that, but I usually credit Shakespeare. That guy said damn near everything. -me shane http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nimda virus
The Javascript method is only a problem if you use any IE version below 6. Of course, the media seems to think the whole world uses IE too. =) And sadly, my server logs say they're right. Sheep, meet cliff... jump. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kapm-idled?
What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What program for news ??
Thanks! IMHO, PAN is the best for this. I agree wholeheartedly, PAN (Pimp Ass Newsreader) is the best, but mandrake has thusfar fought me in installing the latest version. There's a built in older version in Mandrake 8 if you installed it, just type 'pan' Now to figure out why I couldn't get the latest version installed... Oh yea: error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by pan-0.10.0-1 And when I tried to upgrade glibc, it fought me, and I just don't have the time to update everything... I got work to do :) Good luck, pass back a success story! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need to install all the developers packages
On Friday 21 September 2001 18:45, Robt. Miller wrote: When I did the install I left out the developers packages. Is there a way to install all of them without screwing up my system? urpmi *-devel-* Hrmm, thought it might help me too, but no such luck... seems upgrades elsewhere didn't help it. PAGES of this: file /usr/lib/libldap.so conflicts between attemped installs of libldap2-devel-2.0.7-5mdk and libldap1-devel-1.2.11-2mdk file /usr/share/man/man3/lber-decode.3.bz2 conflicts between attemped installs of libldap2-devel-2.0.7-5mdk and libldap1-devel-1.2.11-2mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu
Yea, save session was my very first thought. As I said, this ONLY happens with launchers that come from the mandrake menu, gnome apps work fine, and if I manually create the launcher it stays as well... Panel Add to Panel Launcer from Menu Mandrake menus ANYTHING added from that mandrake menu leaves after you logout. Please, somebody try it on a fresh 8.0 install :) On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Charles A. Punch wrote: Have you tried to save session before exiting? Sometimes, (probably not in this instance) it helps to specify if you are in GNOME or KDE. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. - Frank Zappa Manuel Drake wrote: I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next. From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing it. Anything I can do to fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu
Gnome, actually, and yes, you're probably right... once I figure out what's what with versions. On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Joseph Braddock wrote: If you are using KDE 2.1, then this is a bug. 2.2 (and 2.2.1) fix it. On Friday 21 September 2001 08:44 am, you wrote: I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next. From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing it. Anything I can do to fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu
Good call, I guess, it hangs here: Can't stat /home/manuel/.kde/share/applnk-mdk: No such file or directory dunno why I'd need KDE though, guess that could be the root of more than a couple of current problemsthough.?? On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Try running update-menus -v. On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 20:02:35 -0700 (PDT), Manuel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, save session was my very first thought. As I said, this ONLY happens with launchers that come from the mandrake menu, gnome apps work fine, and if I manually create the launcher it stays as well... Panel Add to Panel Launcer from Menu Mandrake menus ANYTHING added from that mandrake menu leaves after you logout. Please, somebody try it on a fresh 8.0 install :) On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Charles A. Punch wrote: Have you tried to save session before exiting? Sometimes, (probably not in this instance) it helps to specify if you are in GNOME or KDE. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. - Frank Zappa Manuel Drake wrote: I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a launcher from the mandrake menu directly, it disappears when I login next. From what I can determine, this is a bug, as others have mentioned seeing it. Anything I can do to fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What program for news ??
error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by pan-0.10.0-1 And when I tried to upgrade glibc, it fought me, and I just don't have the time to update everything... I got work to do :) Good luck, pass back a success story! Assuming that you're trying to install a Cooker package, this problem would be because Cooker uses GLIBC 2.2.3, whereas Mandrake 8.0 uses 2.2.2. You have several options here: Correct. 1. You can upgrade your GLIBC. The best way to do this would be to install Mandrake Freq3. 2. Better yet, wait for Mandrake 8.1, which is due early next week. 3. Compile PAN from source. You can get the Cooker SRPM and issue a rpm --rebuild to it. 4. Get a binary package from elsewhere (e.g. Red Hat or Ximian packages). 5. Install Ximian GNOME. I took option 5, because I am a GNOME user as well. I've been looking at it, but I think I'll take option 2 and hope that the upgrade scheme works better than it does in 8.0, which takes a long time to determine what's installed, and then tells me nothing is. I've been loathe to start over with 8.0 this week, had work to do. Thanks for the options. BTW: What's Freq3? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, s wrote: On Friday 21 September 2001 10:46 pm, Manuel Drake wrote: What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU? Please do a search, this has been discussed to death on all the forums. Ok, read up... Hrmm, so I guess it's only an illusion? Eek. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] panel resets every time I reboot
I had this problem pop up from out of nowhere when I was using the GNOME from Mandrake 8.0. The problem went away after upgrading to Ximian GNOME. Ha, great. I'd love a solution now and again that wouldn't force me to upgrade though!! Currently I'm looking at a forced upgrade of XFree. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How can I share files with linux and windows 98
SAMBA is the key to all this, and probably worthwhile to join that mailinglist as the instructions probably go beyond the scope here. If you go it alone, here's a good troubleshooter: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/samba.htm I've got Samba happily connecting 98/95 and linux, and although it's a bit more processor intensive than the nfs connection between the linux computers, it does provide xfer speeds in excess of 500KB/s on a 10BT net. On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Roderick Scotto wrote: I ppl! I have problem.. I cannot manage to see my linux machine in windows network manager. - I do not know how to share files using linux regards Scotto _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating
But at the same time if the extra cost isn't that much, it'd be great to be able to ssh into my computer from work, schedule stuff with cron, etc etc. I got cable to have a *constant* connection to the net, what's the point of having to wait for a PC to boot. I've got two (well, now three) linux computers on my home network, and well, for a year now, I can't say that one of them has been off for more than 72 hours all-tolled. Thusfar my only loss was an IBM drive that was seemingly too stupid to shut down. Look at, as was suggested, the hard drive spin-down info for your equipment and insure that they spin down... or they may die fairly quick... like within a year. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] panel resets every time I reboot
Hi - not too new to Gnome, but a bit clueless. I add apps launchers to my Gnome Panel, to make life easier on me. Everytime I reboot, I lose *nearly* all of my additions, though for some reason, a couple of hanged on. Any ideas appreciated! I tried saving the session before I reboot, perhaps it's not a session issue though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] panels get worse!
Little help please, having trouble with my Gnome panels, they won't save changes I make. When I logged in last, I just got duplicates of my panels, and when I removed the dupes, and logged back in, I lost one of the two. Still not saving any changes I *mean* to make either. Sorry for my stupidity, but any help appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
